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[MadMojoMonkey]

If anybody has a #1 or perhaps a list of top three problems of Trump, I'd love to hear it.

The only thing I think he really screwed us over on was the gov't shutdown a while back over the budget / border wall.

I'm not saying it was exclusively his fault. I see it as a fault in the entirety of Congress and POTUS, so there's that. Still. That was incompetence fueled by childish arrogance and disregard to the consequences that would be felt almost exclusively by federal employees. Shame fingers all 'round.

I haven't heard in a while, so not sure if anything's changed, but didn't he leave a majority of our foreign diplomat appointments unfilled? As in, the US just walked away from our conversations with many foreign nations. IF true, I fear this will allow anti-US sentiment to flourish in places where we could be helping them in a way that would benefit us both, but we aren't even talking to them to know it.
IDK even what to google search for, though. I can find all kinds of stuff about Trump and international appointments. All kinds of stuff about the revolving door of people in his top staff positions, but nothing comparing the number of international diplomats from past administrations to the current.

Credit to him for the US not being in an open war at this time. ~0% chance this would be the case if Clinton had won. That's a lot more than nothing to me.

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The Syria thing looks a whole lot like he knew full well what would happen if he pulled back the troops, and he pulled back the troops. Does that mean he caused the deaths? No. Definitely not. Even if he knew the deaths might happen, even if he knew that withdrawing our troops would make it happen... he didn't swear an oath to protect and defend the Syrians. That's not what the US military is for. It's great if they can help in that regard, but it's not what we pay them to do.


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Purely speculative, but ... well ...

If it comes out that there was literally no reason which benefits US taxpayers to move the troops, then we have a big problem. If it comes out that Trump moved the troops to open the door for the invasion, then we have a huge problem.
The problem being that he can probably say something like, "They were mostly rapists, murderers, just the worst people," and his base will buy that. Then he literally gets away with murder because of his use of buzz words. How have we come to this?

[wufwugy]

The only thing I think he really screwed us over on was the gov't shutdown a while back over the budget / border wall.

I'm not saying it was exclusively his fault. I see it as a fault in the entirety of Congress and POTUS, so there's that. Still. That was incompetence fueled by childish arrogance and disregard to the consequences that would be felt almost exclusively by federal employees. Shame fingers all 'round.

I haven't heard in a while, so not sure if anything's changed, but didn't he leave a majority of our foreign diplomat appointments unfilled? As in, the US just walked away from our conversations with many foreign nations. IF true, I fear this will allow anti-US sentiment to flourish in places where we could be helping them in a way that would benefit us both, but we aren't even talking to them to know it.
IDK even what to google search for, though. I can find all kinds of stuff about Trump and international appointments. All kinds of stuff about the revolving door of people in his top staff positions, but nothing comparing the number of international diplomats from past administrations to the current.

Credit to him for the US not being in an open war at this time. ~0% chance this would be the case if Clinton had won. That's a lot more than nothing to me.

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The Syria thing looks a whole lot like he knew full well what would happen if he pulled back the troops, and he pulled back the troops. Does that mean he caused the deaths? No. Definitely not. Even if he knew the deaths might happen, even if he knew that withdrawing our troops would make it happen... he didn't swear an oath to protect and defend the Syrians. That's not what the US military is for. It's great if they can help in that regard, but it's not what we pay them to do.


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Purely speculative, but ... well ...

If it comes out that there was literally no reason which benefits US taxpayers to move the troops, then we have a big problem. If it comes out that Trump moved the troops to open the door for the invasion, then we have a huge problem.
The problem being that he can probably say something like, "They were mostly rapists, murderers, just the worst people," and his base will buy that. Then he literally gets away with murder because of his use of buzz words. How have we come to this?

Thank you for your levelheadedness.

[dwarfman3]

FTR is still a community

Is 3 or 4 people sharing Trump propaganda and the like once or twice a day a community?

Black Friday killed this site as an active poker community. 2+2 is still thriving though, so the poker community is still strong.

Ergo, something other than Black Friday contributed to killing FTR (since 2+2 survived it). A community is made by its participants.....

[MadMojoMonkey]

Is 3 or 4 people sharing Trump propaganda and the like once or twice a day a community?

Yes. I think you mean Trump bashing, though.

More than that goes on, here.
Did you miss my complete derivation of the Planck Length in the Randomness thread last week?
I'm still happy to field any questions on the subject, or any other physics topic. It's been a while since anyone bumped the physics monkey thread, but... well... like you've pointed out, the site is so dead that it doesn't seem worth it to keep more than a couple threads active, so I've kinda just moved the physics topics to the random thread.

Ergo, something other than Black Friday contributed to killing FTR (since 2+2 survived it). A community is made by its participants.....

IDK. We had a ton of active members up to Black Friday.
2+2 was always a more toxic community than FTR. The idea that FTR was too toxic to maintain a membership base is almost certainly incorrect.

After BF, the FTR community slowly faded to what it is today. We don't even talk poker anymore, and haven't for years, now, so it's no wonder that the site isn't growing.

We tried to prevent the decline so hard, too. Eric was getting affiliate deals with just about any poker site that he could. He was setting up sponsored online events, and hiring people to expand the FTR site. gmml added the Chinese poker app about that time. We even held an AMA with Daniel Negreanu. Epic times... just too late.

It just wasn't enough.

IDK how 2+2 managed to stay afloat through that, but they were always orders of magnitude bigger than FTR, and maybe size alone allowed them to retain presence through the decline.

Maybe it's something else.