Comments by "" (@jonlittle5032) on "Ian Bremmer on Assad's fall | Quick Take" video.

  1. What happened is you don't understand the difference between prophecy and analysis.
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  2. And you are here ... why?
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  3. There were five; now there are four. So. Yes.
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  4. Who butters your bread?
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  5.  @TheDavidlloydjones  Keep swinging, sport. The cheap seats are on the floor laughing.
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  6.  @alanconway94  Sure, sport. So. We won't be hearing from you again, right?
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  7.  @alanconway94  Explain. Sport.
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  8.  @alanconway94  Why not? You are spending a lot of time making an effort to articulate something. Or is this just an exercise in bathroom voyeurism? If so, close the door; we don't want to watch.
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  9.  @alanconway94  Yes.
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  10.  @leviccas_9294  Nope. Bremmer's analyses have been mostly spot on, because they are analyses and possible outcomes based on the data at hand. You are the one characterizing it as a prediction as if he were Jeane Dixon, so the 'analytical' error is on you.
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  11.  @leviccas_9294  A prediction is "the stock market will break new highs in four days". Bremmer said, "It DOESN'T LOOK like this is the end of Assad", after he spent several minutes presenting the data he used to make that analysis (Turkey wasn't all in, Russia is sending troops, and Iran is sending advisors) and that he had at hand. That is analysis based on available data, not a prediction.
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  12.  @JoeBlow-fp5ng  Yes, he is. The assessment was accurate; the data points upon which the assessment was made, changed. When the data changes, the assessment changes.
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  13.  @leviccas_9294  Sounds like a creationist trying to use the second law of thermodynamics to disprove evolution. Try again, sport.
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  14.  @leviccas_9294  Bremmer is not postulating a scientific theory. His assessment, not prediction, is based on information known at the time.
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  15. Assad's (both) violence was not targeted at Muslims; it was targeted at all who opposed him. USA did not overthrow Assad; those groups you said he killed so many of, overthrew Assad. HTS is a US, Israeli pawn?? Ok, sport. Iran got attacked after launching hundreds of missiles and drones at Israel. Does that clear it up?
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  16.  @dojamimz  We Americans generally prefer truth, not innuendos, sport.
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  17.  @7788Sambaboy  Yes, though I would disagree that is an American attitude; rather it is likely universal. I was countering the identification of the OP, defining 'american' to be an identity that doesn't fit the narrative of the rest of us, but merely conforming to their own self-approval and self-righteousness. But otherwise, absolutely.
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