pilowsky Posted September 17, 2021 Report Share Posted September 17, 2021 I'm only allowed three questions - add your own below. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LBengtsson Posted September 17, 2021 Report Share Posted September 17, 2021 Donald Trump has had his day (4 years) in office. politics is about engaging people, not crushing them. he will not return. it will take many years before electric cars outsell fossil fuel cars. they are still more expensive to buy than petrol/diesel cars even if the USA does not want to enter another war, the world is not a safe place generally. I guess that its going to have get involved in some military involvement at some time in the future in some place in the world. even if it is not directly involved, it will behind the scenes in some way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gilithin Posted September 17, 2021 Report Share Posted September 17, 2021 Q2: Over what time frame? Per year or cumulative sales? Sales by $ or number of units?Q3: Over what time frame? The odds of the USA never again in history engaging in a major military action must be close to zero, even if it is just China invading a defeated country devastated by civil war. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnu Posted September 18, 2021 Report Share Posted September 18, 2021 politics is about engaging people, not crushing them. Some say this should be the comment, "politics is about enraging people, not crushing them." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenberg Posted September 18, 2021 Report Share Posted September 18, 2021 I don't have a confident answer to any of the three poll questions. Partly I don't know, partly it depends, as others have said, on how the question is interpreted. Yes, sooner or later the US will engage in military action. One could ask: Will it be sooner than, say, some middle east country takes military action against some other middle east country or will it be later? I don't know the answer there either. My guess would be later. Here is another question that I don't know the answer to: When, if ever, will the US acknowledge that there are more people who would like to leave Guatemala, Honduras and Haiti (and of course many other places) than the US is willing to accept AND THEN come up with a practical answer as to what we should do about that? I take it as obvious that the US sure as hell hasn't yet done, or come close to doing, the second part of the question. And equally obvious that we will not suddenly decide to take in everyone, or almost everyone, who wished to come. "Give me your poor and huddled masses" was always a poem, not a plan. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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pilowsky Posted September 19, 2021 Author Report Share Posted September 19, 2021 It is notoriously hard to predict what will happen in 5 years.Fortunately, in 1973 some clever people at a little technical college in Massachusetts made an attempt.It looked like this http://bit.ly/EndOfTheWorldMITI was 15 years old.Three years later, I bought my first computer - an HP-125.It was much better than the logbook I was using in 1973 and somewhat better than the slide rule I had the following year.My abacus still works fine. A tournament, a tournament, a tournament of liesOffer me solutions, offer me alternatives and I declineIt's the end of the world as we know itIt's the end of the world as we know itIt's the end of the world as we know itAnd I feel fine, I feel fine Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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