Comments by "john" (@Pistolita221) on "Task & Purpose" channel.

  1. GRU has entered the comment section :p Just to clarify, I don't have to work for the government to not want a hostile foreign power to interfere in my government. I didn't make any geopolitical decisions for the USA, that's always done by a handful of people wherever in the world you are.
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  2.  @Robertsmith001  Lol, Robert Smith is pretty anglophone, bro. IDK what Anglophone country the USA f'ed over. You wouldn't be a hired bot from another country, would you?
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  3.  @Taskandpurpose  i think everyone is glad there's some honest journalists left, willing to report on the most difficult situations. Incredible work, Cappy.
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  4. frfr God save us.
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  5.  @jasonnugent963  raising interest rates makes companies cut workers. They like to have ~3-5% unemployment rate so there's always a pool of desperate labor to suppress wages.
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  6.  @chartreux1532  America is a pretty trustworthy partner to EU/NATO members. Nordstream was an exception to the rule, imo. Pretty obvious who has the ability and motive, but if that's all that's happened in 80 years then things seem to be pretty good, better than the Philippines and Mexico for sure, not better than Taiwan, though. imo, NATO members cozying up via trade to Russia while they are a dictatorship is an obvious mistake, and I don't blame the senior partner for correcting it (I hope that's not offensive, I appreciate our partnership, and I don't want to see allies suffer for anything, but strategy and sovereignty comes first, which a close relationship with Putin jeopardizes).
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  7. They own blocks in michigan as legitimate businessmen.
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  8.  @aleksandrs1422  Yes, Turkeye is a dictatorship Israel has a better reason to suspend their elections as long as it's temporary (TBD), as does Ukraine, obviously (much better reasons than Israel) Israel commits a lot of human rights violations, none of them are genocide, though. IDK enough about Hungary to know if they're a dictatorship. It's not a knock against the citizenry, it's an adjective to describe a nations government, not the people who live there. The USA (my country) is struggling to keep a dictator out of office right now. China our enemy and the Saudi's our quasi-allies are also dictatorships. There's been a resurgence in authoritarianism recently, I think technology created opportunities for authoritarianism creep into democracies. I consider the monarchs of Europe to be quasi-dictatorships or having authoritarian/dictatorial power since they usually have their own intelligence agencies/secret societies that function like agencies. That doesn't mean they people who live in those nations are evil, and they're not bad people for supporting their government, either. But do you really want me to believe that Putin, who assassinates his personal enemies, consolidated power for decades, and manipulates election results is not a dictator? Eh. It's not your fault the international community helped install authoritarians from the KGB to lead the new Russian federation, it's more Bush senior's fault, than most anyone else. Nothing was meant as a personal attack against you or the Russian peoples of the world, just trying to have a conversation about geopolitics.
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  9. It depends on where in Europe you are. And it depends on where you are in the USA
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  10. High end organized crime typically seeks employment at those kinds of places, so probably more than whatever you suspected.
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  11. I got a ridge wallet 3 years ago, I was initially worried about the elastic's longevity, but I haven't had to replace it yet.
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  12. It's really decent of you to honor the soldiers at the end. Fubar and Grill is TOP TIER branding!
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  13. the most in depth ukraine coverage is Perun, hour long videos about opensource data and estimations as to how accurate they are. He's even gotten a general on before, to talk shop.
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  14. It's never been publicly acknowledged they built 'Star Wars' but IK they built it, too. To zap ICBM's in orbit, and damage recon platforms like radar, telescopes, etc.
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  15. shout out to the socialists in the thread!
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  16. The Taliban is not as similar to other non-state-actors as you might imagine.
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  17. If you played Ghost Recon Wildlands you'd have heard about this 7 years ago. El Cerebro, the one that got away... $#!†balls.
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  18.  @aleksandrs1422  That is an important distinction, between a tyrant and a dictatorship, that is especially lacking in the west; El Salvador has raised the question to a few here, though. I agree with you about Israel, completely. Their aggression is going to put the only Jewish state in existential danger, because Syria and Lebanon will use swarm attacks to wear down defense before they send in the real damage. I think Israel will survive regardless, but it will be a painful lesson to the Israeli people that these wars are on their border, not half a world away like Iraq was to the USA, and also unhelpful in Israel building relations with their neighbors. I think, because of the Russian disinformation that has hurt Western democracies (which survive on unbiased information to elect quality representatives), all Democracies have to treat russia (the government) as an adversary to some degree, at the very least keeping a close eye on the media and especially the internet. Not a hot war, more like the cold war. If we can keep Russian influence out, they'll feel less confident in taking any sort of military action, which will hopefully prevent wars and be even more peaceful than the cold war, with upwards of 80% legitimate targets being seized/removed, since it'll be server rooms getting raided not vietnam being invaded. Much, much better than any previous conflict, but it will be difficult for democracies to deal with, because companies want to make money, regardless of where it comes from, and dictatorships have absolute control so they can easily censor our disinformation, or easier than we can censor theirs. It's the biggest advantage to authoritarianism especially in todays world, imo. If Russia were to not interfere in western elections, then there's no reason the NATO nations and the Russian Federation can't be friends, but that is not todays situation. I wouldn't be surprised if NATO instigated it, but regardless this is where we are, sadly.
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  19. "we need to keep unemployment higher to manage consumer demand" -fed reserve chair, Jerome Powell
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  20. ​ @organicwest disappointed more people didn't upvote this. Us oxy epidemic funded French museums
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  21. CAPPY BROKE 1 MILLION!!!!
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  22.  @musek5048  The cartel's are CIA assets (as are ALL organized criminal enterprises from police gangs to MC's to mafias to street gangs), do you think the suites actually get dirty in the powder, risking their agencies PR during the age of BLM? They use proxies, it saves face and is a great excuse to erode privacy rights and build a police state.
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  23. I love the LMG's in Ghost Recon Wildlands.
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  24. hypersonic missile defense, lasers are literally the only option. Maybe a railgun, but by the time it locks it might be too slow. Lasers are the best option, they also can damage EM surveillance equipment even beyond deadly range for FO cover and could probably replace the laser with maybe even a railgun if they can the pulse discharge of energy. Railguns are OP. Artillery with the KE of of a medium-small sized plastic, with the range of a medium range missile (100 miles).
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  25. Based, the takeaway is realpolitik and nationalism, or at the very least patriotism, imo.
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  26. We don't know yet, hopefully he's like Washington, and not like pretty much everyone else. Can you believe how lucky we got with Washington? Absolutely insane odds. People like him are as rare as prophets.
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  27.  @SusCalvin  The taliban is a different sect of extremist islam, a less extreme version. They're also more interested in holding land than they are in armed conflict, something more western (middle east) NSA's aren't as interested in. They're also on more favorable terrain than Western NSA's, and more favorable geopolitically favorable neighbors. I wanna say Task and Purpose or William Spaniel has a video on it.
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  28. Actually, if you look at organized crime as criminal enterprises, then the best way to combat the black market is to make a legal market that out-competes them. It worked for alcohol, why would any other drug be any different?
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  29.  @Destroyer_V0  That's a racist troll not an actual indian, they want you to go off about how dirty india is to contradict the 'obnoxious nationalism' and get people more used to calling indians and other brown people from generally allied nations dirty/uncivilized. Don't feed the troll, call them a troll.
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  30. He needs to pull a George Washington and set a term limit to enshrine democracy as his governments mythic founding and tradition, in stead of authoritarianism. Authoritarianism works well in a pinch, but it isn't a long term strategy for growth and success.
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  31. Tell your superior they need to get better about censoring media figures, up the Google stock holdings, or the bribes to the health and safety team cause this could be a GRUsome's undoing.
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  32. *in russian* thumbs up to russia
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  33. That's a good question. Possibly, if the US and Taliban have more-or-less stable lines and the fighting has declined, it's in the oppositions interest to not pick a fight, sometimes. It also encourages bolder actions, since there's material gain to success, even small scale success. That's the same reason south-Lebanon's regional Non-State-Actor rarely picks a fight with Israel, and is generally eager to sign a peace agreement compared to Palestinian NSA's. The Afgan NSA is more interested in (theocratic) governance than they are in losing soldiers, which other forces (usually in Iraq) don't care as much about, for their own specific regional reasons.
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  34. Don't hate the player hate the game.
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  35.  @riotbreaker3506  You kidding? The war on drugs was a RAGING success. They broke up POC community networks, they broke up hippy networks, they kept the poison in the hoods they wanted to suffer, and they stripped tens of millions of people of their right to vote. The people signing the bills made out like bandits with their intelligence buddies, and the Sacklers even made enough to get a wing of the nicest art museum in Paris named after them. It's a failure if you think they wanted to help us, but if you look at their wallets the war on drugs was a raging success. It's only not working out perfectly because the chinese are trying to get the cartels unhooked from american financial institutions.
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  36. And now the whole world is blind, it would seem.
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  37.  @captainnutt2995  Lujan wants YOU... to work for Uncle Sam!
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  38. direct energy would be more specific in a way. We should use the acronym DEW, Direct(ed) Energy Weapon, Directed Electromagnetic Waves/Weapon, either way it's pronounced dew.
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  39. Isn't most organized crime in latin america funded by the US/Northern markets? If the north legalized, taxed and regulated these substances the violent criminals would be forced to shut down due to lack of funding, making your governments much more capable of dealing with the issues. The US Fed has really not been a friend to latin american nations.
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  40. weren't there literally italian mobsters on the CIA's payroll in the 1950's and 60's? it's not the police organizing inter-state/multinational rackets. Hasn't the USA been caught working with cartel's before? The rot is deep, deep in the USA. What would an intelligence agencies first goal be upon its creation? To ensure its continuation by seizing the seat of power in the nation. Erode education, pump in drugs, diminish trust in institutions. Their strategies work best in destabilized and desperate communities, they don't want to hold power in name, they were built to exist in the shadows.
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  41. @8:36 they say they're using EOIR already.
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  42.  @lukebable  I'm pretty sure there's a 0% chance they don't already have some form of EM ID to deconflict friendlies on all airborne craft. They may have a IR code they flash, or some other EM frequency, or maybe a variety of rotating frequencies across the whole network (to make duplication that much more difficult) but the USA loves adding tech to stuff, sometimes even when it's not necessary.
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  43.  @indiasuperclean6969  You may as well name yourself anti-semitic troll if you're going to be this obvious.
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  44. Directed Energy Weapon acronym, dew. You don't have to keep saying "directed energy weapon" D.E.W. is a very smooth way of initializing it.
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  45.  @indiasuperclean6969  lmao, committed to the bit.
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  46.  @indiasuperclean6969  get a new shtick.
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  47.  @Nexalian_Gamer  lol
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  48.  @noncog1  For the laser systems providers, to get grass roots support for funding a new weapons system that could become a standard part of FO/general defense. And the army is DESPERATE for recruits, and claiming that they won't be droned ever again/highlighting the cool toys you get to play with is a more powerful marketing gimmick than you might expect. Is it like.. news to you the military is trying new recruitment techniques? Have you not seen the military E-girl craze on the internet? You thought that was organic?
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  49.  @noncog1  Whoops, I assumed you didn't think they were advertising. But my other reply does somewhat answer a question you asked.
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  50. If you think about it, there is no market with less government regulation than illegal smuggling. No embargos, tariffs, duties, standards, regulations at all, not even a court to settle disputes, just free agents operating within the confines of the markets demand. Legalize, tax and regulate these substances and the organized violence will disappear while adding tax revenue.
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