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Re:US Ends Support For Ukrainian F-16s by CoastalCoder on Sunday March 09, 2025 @11:10AM (#43309692)
Please don't use sweeping generalizations like this.

The hyperbole interferes with construction discussion.

Re:US Ends Support For Ukrainian F-16s by bad_haircut72 on Sunday March 09, 2025 @11:12AM (#43309725)
Are you a LLM? This is what the rest of the world feels mate!! Its a part of the discussion.
Re:US Ends Support For Ukrainian F-16s by CoastalCoder on Sunday March 09, 2025 @11:23AM (#43309847)
There are lots of sites you can visit to vent your emotions by making inflammatory, inaccurate generalizations to a receptive, cheering echo chamber.

Let's not do that here.

Re:US Ends Support For Ukrainian F-16s by bad_haircut72 on Sunday March 09, 2025 @11:27AM (#43309892)
Its an accurate generalization
Re:US Ends Support For Ukrainian F-16s by CoastalCoder on Sunday March 09, 2025 @11:38AM (#43310030)
> Americans all have this attitude

...

> Its an accurate generalization

I'm American, and I don't have that view. So it's clearly not literally true.

So perhaps you mean that it's "mostly" true. Then I'd ask, what evidence do you have to support that? Is there some poll of public opinion you can refer to? That's something we could meaningfully discuss.

Re:US Ends Support For Ukrainian F-16s by tehjoker on Sunday March 09, 2025 @12:04PM (#43310389)
You are incredibly insulated. Read some books about the world and world history.

Here's one for you: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/vincent-bevins/the-...

Re:US Ends Support For Ukrainian F-16s by CoastalCoder on Sunday March 09, 2025 @12:12PM (#43310478)
I wonder if you've misunderstood the topic of this thread.

We've been discussing whether or not certain views are held by nearly 100% of current Americans.

IIUC, that book focuses on evils done by the US government in 1965. I'm not seeing the connection.

Re:US Ends Support For Ukrainian F-16s by nthingtohide on Sunday March 09, 2025 @03:02PM (#43312462)
Actually, your view is true even if there exists even just one person with your view. In reality what matters is the distribution of views. Furthermore, what matters is the distribution of views by the decision makers because those will be divorced from public distribution and informed by other secret plans or information unknown to public. So in a sense, it doesn't matter whether he is right or you are.