Ok Bob. Do you want to admit you are a number of agents who post nonsense as bobknight33, or that you are a single person with the memory of a gnat, because I’ve told you a few dozen times what I do. Those are the only two reasonable explanations for you needing to ask. I won’t bother repeating myself again, you won’t remember in an hour anyway.

I’ve got time for news, and the right’s slanted/fake alternative facts…. “If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles….”….sorry, thoughtless of me to think you would appreciate Sun Tzu. I’ll simplify, I get the better of you every time because I’m informed, you fail every time because you don’t even understand your own positions, you’re just regurgitating what you were fed.

I see enough of the hearings to have a clue. I record them. I know you haven’t watched a second as you were instructed not to so your “leaders” can spin it as they choose and you won’t know better. God forbid some evidence or testimony opens your eyes.

A few more for your collection.

“The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

And to reiterate what WOPR said, I think it was Master Po who said "The best way to dodge a punch, is to not be there."...or maybe it was Bruce Lee

Victorious generals can take the tactics of their enemies and use them to hurt their enemies.
~Sun Tzu
*quality tactics *promote

Ok....I hate to be this guy, but I must.

If @bobknight33 is honest about himself when we spoke privately, he's nowhere near the racist he appears to be. The sad thing is, his unthinking support of all things far/alt right, especially Trump, and hatred for anything left of that far right political position/trap makes him support racism and racists.
@Drachen_Jager, that's for your benefit as much as Bob's. “If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.” - master Sun Tzu- The Art Of War

@BSR, the video made clear why that, like the OK hand gesture, are racist. In a vacuum, you're correct, that statement is as true as all your other examples, but we don't live in a vacuum, and that slogan is purely racist and is intended to be just that. Bob would like us to all ignore that and think as you suggest...because that allows his racist brethren to spout their racism and claim morality and righteousness, but privately among the like minded, they're gleeful about cucking the libtards and getting away with public racism, shielded by the intentional misrepresentation of their meanings.

Always enlightening (if rather unpleasant) to hear what some of the extreme voices like Coulter are saying. And to be fair, she was somewhat more coherent than usual.

But I thought Maher did an excellent job of asking very legitimate, logical questions and then giving her enough leash with her responses to get herself into trouble.

If you hate Trump, watch this video. And other videos from his supporters and toadies. And read the Drudge Report on occasion. Because as Sun Tzu said:

“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.”

"If you give a man a slice of pizza, you feed him for a meal.
But if you teach a woman to slice a pizza into twelve slices, you'll feed her for a day and a half." -- Sun Tzu?

Yeah, 'cuz it worked so well when the other Republican candidates did it (attacking him)...

Trump doesn't follow the rules. Attack ads and criticism (however legitimate it may be) don't work. In fact, they have the opposite effect. He's got a cult of personality; anything you say about him only adds to it.

The only curveball she can throw at Trump is to completely ignore him. His rabid supporters aren't going to drop him, no matter how stupid you make him look or how well you can show the logical flaws in his ideas. But ignoring him would rile him up even more -- Trump's ego *demands* to be the center of attention. Ignore him, and he *will* say crazy stuff to try to draw you out. Crazy enough stuff to turn away the sane independents, moderates, and plenty of more level-headed Republicans.

But the last thing you want to do is get into a shit-slinging match with Trump. Sun Tzu: He who is prudent and lies in wait for an enemy who is not, will be victorious.

There is a reason to listen....sadly their viewpoint is not theirs alone, and to understand the position of a large portion of the populace, you have to listen to them (even when they are completely wrong).
Know yourself and know others and you will not lose in 1000 battles. (to paraphrase Master Sun Tzu)

'So it is said that if you know others and know yourself, you will not be imperiled in a hundred battles; If you do not know others but know yourself, you win one and lose one; If you do not know others and do not know yourself, you will be imperiled in every single battle.'
Master Sun Tzu

That's why I took comparative religion classes, and it's also the reason I listen to zealous republicans and democrats.

'So it is said that if you know others and know yourself, you will not be imperiled in a hundred battles; If you do not know others but know yourself, you win one and lose one; If you do not know others and do not know yourself, you will be imperiled in every single battle.'
Master Sun Tzu

@MilkmanDan One of the examples they used in the book was ice hockey. Unlike your example of the multiplier, in many cases, it is winner takes all. So, in hockey, tryouts are in January. Leagues are typically by age group. So, being the absolute oldest you can be for the group naturally entails an age gap that makes you just a bit stronger, faster, more mature, ect. That edge means you are more likely that someone who is born, say, in July-August. That half a year of aging ends up that most of the oldest players edge out all of the youngest players, even in, given apples and apples of age, those younger players might be better overall players; the "skill" gap, however makes that edge not more so than the age gap, and therefor many will not make the team.

This cycle will continue; so, the younger not only will ALWAYS be younger, but usually miss out on being on the team, not getting the necessarily experience needed if he wanted to make hockey his job. He is, in effect, crowded out of the best training and experience not based only on his skill, but his age. So, he is implicitly left out in the rain. I can't remember the exact number, but some statistically significant (like 70+%) of hockey players are born near the normal tryout date for hockey. It would seem doubtful that this be some genetic inheritance of being born in a time of year more than a man made occurrence of time conditions.

So you could apply a multiplier to that, I guess. It just isn't quite as simple as "I have a bigger multiplier in this one spot". There are many "lucky" factors like time of birth, personality, family life, sociability, and random circumstances beyond your control that have huge effects on the overall outcome of your life. And moreso, beyond your raw ability to make up for that difference. One of the great examples (which the book uses) of life getting in the way is Christopher_Langan. He is the only person to score a perfect result on the IQ test, which has never been done, and such, is touted as the smartest man in the world, ever. However, the conditions of his life, broken home, and various others, resulted in him loosing his scholarship, working in a bar, and a relatively unremarkable life. No one knows his name (except for savy sifters, he's on here) even though he should have every opportunity to make use of his great mind. The point of the book, and I think most people would agree when they consider it, is that talent isn't enough. You have to be in the right place, at the right time, and know the right people to make that talent count for something. That even applies for science, it isn't immune to irrational bouts of favoritism and unreasonable circumstance. Everything has its, as Sun Tzu would call it, rules of heaven and earth.

The books main point is that the best of the best aren't in that spot based on merit alone. They had several other, equally important, factors determining the fate of their empires of awesome. The arc of the messages is that many great people in history have been forgotten, and many of the greats that we know weren't really that great.

Sun Tzu would be proud.

>> ^entr0py:

It took him a while, but he did claim responsibility for the Sept. 11 attacks. Not just that al-Qaeda did it, but that he personally recruited the hijackers.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2004/10/29/binladen_message041029.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/
08/27/AR2006082700687.html


i'd suggest that the audio confession tape is as curious as the likely fake videotape confession. could be wrong of course. but lets look at the rather impractical nature of both recruiting, training, and running an urban airport operation from the hills of afghanistan.
Note that the tape surfaces on the eve of an election.

2nd, rather trite reasons for the 9-11 attack are given. a fairly large red flag. as to why the operation was carried out in the first place, it was unlikely anything but an operation designed to create a predictable response. A terrorist operation cannot defeat the U.S. militarily. However, history is full of empire's that crumbled partly as a result of military over-extension, and the election of bush and his cabinet of warhawks presented an incredible opportunity to goad the U.S. into stretching itself thin. Which it did, and continues to do. Basic Sun Tzu: entice your enemy into an un-winnable battle.

or fuck me, maybe i'm just crazy. maybe i'm just overly suspicious because we never get the straight story from this government: i'm pretty sure we dropped nukes on japanin WWII because of the soviet threat, that Vietnam had nothing to do with democracy and everything to do with markets/labor/raw materials, that Oswald wasn't the only Kennedy shooter and he was killed to keep him quiet, that Iraq was about oil, and that we sure as hell haven't been in Afghanistan for 10 years because of one guy.

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