Look at just 2 posts prior to yours: What part of “it isn’t happening and we have a proxy war because no amount of propaganda and sob stories is going to make Americans want to see their family members die in another stupid foreign war across the globe” that you don’t seem to understand?
a priori reasoning
When you see it often enough, it is not “mind reading” that the conclusion is pre-drawn. The evidence speaks for itself.
You’re the one who’s claiming that “a priori reasoning” is inherently fallacious. That’s only when you’re dealing with purely empirical data.
But again, as previously stated: what’s informing dforest’s post? America’s recent performance in foreign wars over the last few decades, and the consequences that our meddling has had in other countries.
You may not agree with their conclusions, nor think that America’s actions have caused as much havoc as dforest may think. But it’s still empirical data.
Using recent history to determine ‘maybe America should back off and stop meddling and let other countries deal with their own conflicts’ is hardly fallacious thinking, no matter how much you lambast others for having “pedestrian intellects.”
Here is what you do not have the capacity to understand. All this crap you post won’t make Americans jump on board for another round of burying our dead for a foreign country.
That is common sense. While many feel for the average people of Ukraine, and so far (we actually have no choice) haven’t begrudged some weapons and aid being sent, doesn’t mean that people want a major war and our troops involved overseas.
You just have no capacity to understand that because you have to be right and cannot accept others do not see it your way. You remind me of a peevish child. Why don’t you kick and scream and hurl some more insults.
That always works to get people to see things your way.