Comments by "justgivemethetruth" (@justgivemethetruth) on "UnHerd" channel.

  1. I gotta admit, I really enjoy listening to Freddie's interviews. He has really good interviews, and very good interviewees, and it seems like the more skeptical or resistant he is to the answers he gets, the more polite and soft his tone gets ... very excellent!
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  2. A brilliant condensed and efficient version of the Ukraine war is done on the latest RFK Jr. Podcast with ( weirdly ) former Reagan era Budget Direct, David Stockman. The clarity that Stockman brings to understanding the Ukraine situation is undeniable and really needed. Stockman points out that Ukraine is many times more divided than the US Red-Blue divide, to the point of an 8 year shooting war, and how in all other cases with the exception of Ukraine the answer to ethnic divisions in the US/UN/NATO has been to partition countries and place UN peacekeepers inside, but in Ukraine the US has leveraged the anti-Russian nature of these divisions to foment a war that is killing Ukrainians on both sides and destroying their country - and costing us Americans boatloads of cash at a time when we are supposedly worried about overspending. I'm happy to listen to this lady, but I expect more anti-Russian BS. Let's see.
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  3. Thanks for posting something new from John Mearsheimer. Great to hear him hopefully being heard.
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  4. Maybe paradox or conundrum, but probably not contradictory, certainly not glaring. They are different questions in different spheres of reality to me anyway.
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  5. Yeah, I found most of what this woman said to be weasel words that were almost all dishonest in multiple ways. Like she said she had to work really hard to find ways for people in Donbas to go to University ... when another of her peers was talking about how Ukrainian children would be out and about in the sunlight going to school while Russian children would be cowering bunkers being shelled. The complicitness of the US government in his makes me feel terrible to be an American. Even if all Americans were somehow to benefit from weakening Russia through unilateral war, this is not right, it is not global leadership, and it is destroying America's economy, making life very difficult and unequal for Americans, and destroying the world's environment. It needs to stop and everyone needs to chart a new course without war.
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  6. 35:40 - I'd have to disagree that she is fighting for the survival of her country day by day. She is fighting to expand undemocratic rule which all Ukrainians voted against, or thought they were voting against when they voted for Zelensky for President ... and got a big destructive surprise that I bet if you asked all Ukrainians 90+% of them would not want to have gone to war and would have agreed to Minsk, or dividing the country or anything except what their nationalist military forced on them. Really great job though Freddie did in getting this phrased in as dressed up was as possible.
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  7. 32:08 - She doesn't understand what Freddie means by the ultra-nationalist groups? Is that possible?
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  8. First thing I notice is this lady's young age, and probable inexperience, which points to a political appointment or someone that higher powers are manipulating - much like Zelensky. Dishonesty #1 - Maybe this lady wants to try to imagine what life was like for ethnic Russians in the Donbas getting shelled for 8 years solid by Ukrainian nationalist forces which to get elected that Zelensky pledged he would end. She is completely dodging the question about censorship. Like anyone who spoke for peace or against Zelensky would be shut down in the least or disappeared. What nonsense. The solid answer to national divisions of this kind - basically war - has been from the US/UN/NATO - to divide countries. Yet for some reason Ukraine on Russia's border does not invoke that solution. I think this lady is an opportunist, or perhaps cannot get out of the country and is being threatened or cannot find any other way to survive this situation. This lady seems to be hear to put a pretty Ivanka Trump looking voice to the conflict. As I see it, the answer is to partition Ukraine as the UN would have partitioned any other violented divided country in the world down the line where the demographics change between East//Russian and West/Ukrainian ... there really is no other way - because if Ukraine "wins" for example, there are still all those people in Eastern Ukraine that presumably the Ukrainian military will feel they have to run out of the country or kill. If Russia wins it is slightly easier - Ukraine will turn into a small landlocked rump state - but the war and violence will end.
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  9.  @lauriealach1072  It doesn't matter if he is biased - everyone is, every interviewer, every interviewee. I appreciate his civility, and you even agreed with me. You're just mad because you disagree with him politically.
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  10. Then Zelensky is the current worst leader in the world. ;-)
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  11. 16:18 - Mearsheimer defending the Baltic States against Freddie's constant suggestions that Russia is going to attack.
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  12. The odd thing to me - the thing that does not add up when one listens to Freddie's comment here - 9:00 Ukraine is committed to their independence so much that they want to ethnically cleanse the Donbas and Crimea of what are essentially Ukrainians? What kind of country does that - i.e. declares war on its own citizens? Ukraine is in a war to expand into the Donbas and Crimea, based on the technicality that their current boundaries include those areas - but they are not really Ukrainian. It is sort of like Israel wanting to have its own nation in the middle of raging Islamic Fundamentalists, or even the Kurds wanting freedom from what are basically the same brand of Islamic Fundamentalists. The wars of Liberation are on the side of Israel, the Kurds, and the Ethnic Russians in Ukraine. Russia tried to compromise by asking for the Donbas to be given autonomous status, in the Minsk agreement - but the West has admitted they never intended to live up to the Minsk Agreement - they were stalling to arm Ukraine so it could essentially steal that land from the people who lived there and call it the democracy of Ukraine ... very ugly and cynical of them - at the same time murdering 14,000 people in that war. This is really a total mind-fug of the entire world to justify a war against Russia and to expand the West into Ukraine for resources ... and it's great now because all the Ukrainians are gone or dead. This is massively screwed up.
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  13. Fantastic - Samo is brilliant and so generous to share all these ideas. It is terrifying how stupid the USA has been ... and as the leader of the West, why is the US the worst society, living standard, citizen metrics ... this is the most terrifying time to live as an American. We've been making the wrong choices for so long, and all the trends in the USA are going in the wrong direction - it just doesn't look good.
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  14. I think initially Russia made a grave error by attacking Kiev first thus making this look to the world like an invasion of taking all of Ukraine instead of trying to fix an injustice against a minority Russia population in the Donbas. I don't know - maybe they had to do that, or thought they had to, but I think it allowed the US propaganda - which today is so powerful it is terrifying. There is literally only a small handful of people willing to stand up and broadcast the facts that Americans are not able to hear from the mainstream media, and they are relegated to You-Tube, blogs, and other channels to small numbers of people - and they could easily have been shut up or cut off. The reality we hear in the media, and from major figures in social media, it is so pro-US, there is absolutely no room for facts, discussion, and it has turned dangerous to actually be democratic and free speech in the land of the free - America. WTF?
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  15.  @buzinaocara  A lot of people have criticized the reaction to the pandemia for one reason or the other. There is no real truth in such a political situation, especiallt when social media can create such rifts over stuff. So, on the one hand relgions often get to the point ( and honestly I dislike agreeing with Dawkins because normally I don't agree with him or like him ) where they put religious dogma above the truth ... Copernicus for example. In Covid in the middle of a massive possible plague of death, they have to make a best effort to react to it. In America that is particularly difficult because Americans are in general unruly and ignorant. But also because a huge percentage of Americans do not have medical insurance or any sick days in their jobs. That made the lockdown a necessity because otherwise sick people or people infectious and about to get sick or still contagious would be everywhere. I don't think some people seem to remember the dead bodies everywhere in NYC. Anyway, just my opinion or reaction to what he meant.
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  16. Its it fair to say that Russia, by attacking all of Ukraine initially, allowed themselves to ignite nationalism in Ukraine in a way that would not have happened had they focused their special military operation on just Donbas and had a different strategy to get behind the lines and fortify the Donbas while saying they were doing this for the independence/autonomy of the Donbas, and were allowing Ukrainians who wanted to do leave for heartland Ukraine?
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  17. Straight from Wikipedia about Brett Weinstein: During the COVID-19 pandemic, Weinstein made several public appearances advocating the use of the antiparasitic drug ivermectin to prevent or treat the disease and downplaying the effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines. David Gorski, in Science-Based Medicine, described Weinstein as a prominent "COVID-19 contrarian and spreader of disinformation", and "one of the foremost purveyors of COVID-19 disinformation", citing his appearances on Joe Rogan and Bill Maher.[5][34] Sam Harris criticised Weinstein's advocacy, stating that he "consider[s] it dangerous".[34] Eric Topol, professor of molecular medicine, described Weinstein's position on mRNA vaccines as "totally irresponsible. It's reckless. It's sick. It's predatory. It's really sad."[34]
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  18. The woke Left has dragged the Democrats, Liberals, Progressives, FDR Democrats, etc. These people are an ignorant. Leftist was not Russian or Chinese. This is absurd. When people start arguing the Nazis were Leftists that's when I don't feel the need to bother with them any more.
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  19. It seems like the bottom line here is that US gambled and it came up snake-eyes for Ukraine ... and the Ukrainian people - who voted for Zelensky because he said he would stop the war in Donbas - are the innocent suckers caught in the middle - and this war will go on and on until Ukraine is not worth defending any more. Probably the US will or is working now on another front against Russia, maybe in the "Stans" or again in Belarus?
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  20. 17:20 - ( The wisdom of John Mearsheimer ) Freddie Sayers - On the specifics of Ukraine then, what should we have done, do you think? John Mearsheimer - Well, first of all, in April 2008, when NATO said Ukraine would become part of NATO and the Russians made it clear that was an existential threat and was unacceptable to the, we should have back off right then. We should have done nothing more. Then the crisis broke out on February 22nd 2014, we should have recognized the severity of the situation and we should have backed off and worked with the Russians to create some sort of modus vivendi where the Russians felt that they weren't threatened by NATO in Ukraine and that Ukraine could remain a neutral state. But, instead what we did was we doubled-down. Then over the course of 2021 the situation deteriorated and on December 17th, 2021, the Russians sent a letter to NATO and to President Biden, demanding that they get in writing that Ukraine would not become part of NATO. What we should have done then is backed off and tried to work out some sort of modus vivendi where the Russians were satisfied with the situation in Ukraine and the threat of war was taken off the table. Instead we told the Russians, nothing is going to change. We are going to bring Ukraine into NATO, and we were working very hard to do that - despite the conventional wisdom in the West which says we were not. We were working to bring Ukraine into NATO.
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  21. What an unusual voice she has. Interesting idea, but conventional physics very, very unlikely that aliens can get anywhere close to us.
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  22. 15:00 - It is really over the top scare mongering for Freddie Sayers to talk about Russia invading countries like Sweden or the Baltic states. It is not in the same universe as what is happening in Ukraine, yet when he pushed the conversation in that direction it's just another propaganda game to vilify Russia. I'm so sick of this kind of rhetorical mind game.
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  23. >> Been reading the comments for 60 minutes and yet to find anything but praise for both Brett and Freddie. Yeah, funny that, huh? Almost like they are all fake.
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  24. This lady is a pretty face on a very ugly groups of bad dudes ... and equally bad are the neocons in America who have been working with them. The internationally recognized borders of Ukraine contained about half and half Russians ... and the minority Nationalist militant have been genociding them and ethnically cleansing them for years now, and have American dupes to put a pretty face on it, as well as a BS narrative that Russia attacked unprovokedly. The story is getting out and all this death and destruction will have been for nothing - except for the people who have gotten rich on it. One global solution to this BS would to be to confiscate of claw back all profit and monies made on war - everywhere. Human society, the planet and the climate cannot take this anymore and it needs to stop. Down with the Ukrainian nationalists - partition the damn country if you want Russia to give back territory, but they will never give back Crimea because it is about 100% Russian, important for Russian martime activity and security.
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  25. Weinstein is a totally creep, along with all the other intellectually dishonest dark web. I have to wonder why anyone would cling to this ridiculous ideas.
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  26. The lockdown gave a chance to those who wanted to avoid C19 to be able to do so. Did anyone define "lockdown", or what reasonable policies might be? It made sense to me, and of course there are stupities in its implementation as there always are with anything people do. I wore my mask and stayed as distant as I could from people I don't know. I still have not gotten C19 3/5 years later. Meanwhile people online tell me I am going to die in the next 2 years because I got vaccinated. Someone, far from censoring the public, is putting out so much noise and BS that it seems like they want people to die.
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  27. 47:00 - This is the crux of the Ukrainian Invasion that we in the West are being lied to about. Russia did not "invade" Ukraine per se, with the intention of taking over Ukrainian, and Mearsheimer pretty well proves this. Russia's special military operation was a gesture to force the West to negotiate over Ukraine, which we refused to do.
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  28. Nice interview with Dr. Zaius ... it's a shame that Charlton Heston was not able to attend. ;-)
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  29. LOL, yes, a great writer ... he must have written all the comments below, except mine.
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  30. Measure the problem - why wouldn't it be?
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  31. If you are a Republican, especially if you are a Republican still ... I'd say your "friends" were right to question you and think poorly of you.
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  32. I disagree with Peter Hitchens. We do not have experience yet as a species with this new found level of social interaction, and I think it is very reasonable for the government, or academia, or a citizens panel, or some body to technically analyze what goes on and how social media works. The problem comes with the fact that when an organization is set up to do such a thing, the people in it, and the people around it will always be trying to leverage it for their own means - and no one is watching and auditing them. In the same way that a virus like C19 can blaze through the global population, we call ideas or proganda viral, and it can have a huge effect before governments have idea what is going on if they do not monitor social media. Why do virtually all countries have censors on their TV shows? Why do bodies have defenses and immune systems? So, does the question then become - how is this to be done or implemented, and should it be hidden from the public that anything is being done at all. Because if we do not know that something is being done, and we are being manipulated to some extent, we become nothing more than lab animals or cattle.
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  33. Who cares? How else do you get to some kind of justice in terms of education and class? I hate these people who go on and on about how unfair affirmative action is ... when you look at the world what we have is massive unfairness - and the total incompetence and destruction that it has brought about. This unfairness in whatever way it might be a little unfair is the least of our problems.
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  34. I don't buy this is all from Ukrainians. The Ukrainian people are cowed by their government, the CIA, and their Nazi/Nationalists. This is a totally corrupt country taken over by massive foreign powers that are exterminating their own people. Why does the Country of Ukraine want to rule over, and even kill, the people of Donbass and Crimea when they want to be autonomous or independent? This is really Ukraine invading itself to suppress its Russian population in the service of the US and what are essentially Nazis.
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  35. 23:20 - Freddie Sayers sounds like he is really uninformed about world politics and international relations. How could he think that China was going to function to ensure Ukraine's security. That is so off the wall.
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  36.  @mccanncollection  You sound so uninformed. Why cruise these videos if you insist on not informing yourself? Because to me it sounds like you are just trolling. No normal person does that, only a propagandizing troll. And, yes, it is an invasion now, but it started out as a SMO. Russia blew it by feinting towards Kiev and turning this into a full on war. The problem is that the US was spoiling for this fight for 8 years, and even before. But I doubt you know or care as long as you can make your stupid comment ... and insert a "ha ha" into it. Now, that is funny that you think this is something to laugh about. Thousands of people on both sides getting killed, and Ukraine getting levelled, and Europe and American falling into the grip of military oligarchs while the world burns. Guess I miss the humor in that and kind of feel anyone who would laugh is a total idiot.
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  37. BUT, the real question about Crimea is -- WHY? Why would Ukraine ( the so-called democracy ) want to hold on to a place by force that voted to leave Ukraine, whose people Ukraine hates, and who Ukraine would have to find some way to deal with after they supposedly recpatured Ukraine? This makes Ukraine the side that is expansionist and empire building doesn't it? Please ask her ( I guess it's too late now ) but what would her government do with all the Russians who live in Eastern Ukraine and who vote the exact opposite on almost every issue? Why do you want to make 1/2 the country miserable under a repressive military violent terrorist regime? Why lady?
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  38. The vaccine is bad because the Pharmaceutical Industry is corrupt - and he calls himself an intellectual. More like he can make this twisted case to ignorant people based on fear to follow him on Social Media. I have to wonder if BW looked at the people who his ideas influenced and at any point it dawned on him what it was he was really doing; and I also wonder how many people his anti-vaccine advice actually influenced and how many he might have killed based on this mealy-mouthed nonsense.
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  39. I think Russia's initial attack, it's Special Military Operation ... like America's Police Actions ... were to stick with the idea that this was a police action to assist defending Ethnic Russian minorities in Ukraine that were being Ethnically Cleansed and Genocided in order that the Ukrainian oligarchs could expand Ukraine's land and domination. To me this makes Ukraine a lying, hypocritical country, and a greater threat than Russia in the region. Ukraine is just pretending to be a democracy to fool us Americans into helping them, when it is killing its own people, and then NOT following the promises of those elected either. Zelensky promised to end the hostilities in the Donbas, but the OSCE reports indicate that shelling from the Ukrainian side to the Donbas increased radically. Ukraine also said it was trying to defend its territorial integrity, when in fact Ukraine never had territorial integrity because it was trying to conquer and subdue a population that wanted at least autonomy if not independence if not to be part of Russia.
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  40. Freddie seems to be constantly pushing the fear of Russia, which seems to be me to be more a product of decades, almost a century of our Western vilification - mostly for the purposes of ginning up support for war of aggression against Russia instead of just defense against Russia based on any actual historic evidence that Russia is expansionist. On the other hand is what Russia did and what many perceive Russia as having done during the Cold War. But then the rational though and argument fades off before we go into the history of the number of times Russia has been attacked from the West and the scale of the damage that has caused in terms of Russian lives and the Russian cultural consciousness. I don't like that tack from Freddie because it seems at least disingenuous.
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  41. I think Russia sound like it will nuke Ukraine before it gives up Crimea, but this girl has to say what she has to say. Is she willing to die and have her family and city incinerated for a possible future where Ukraine keeps Crimea .... BUT, the real question about Crimea is -- WHY? Why would Ukraine ( the democracy ) want to hold on to a place that voted to leave Ukraine, whose people Ukraine hates, and who Ukraine would have to find some way to deal with after they supposedly recpatured Ukraine? Please ask her ( I guess it's too late now ) but what would her government do with all the Russians who live in Eastern Ukraine and who vote the exact opposite on almost every issue? Why do you want to make 1/2 the country miserable under a repressive military violent terrorist regime? Why lady?
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  42. I guess I don't understand why anyone's messages would go out to any but their followers - or per some algorithm - which always sucks - to some group of people who were computed to be interested in the same things. I am newer to Twitter than this guy and I already get too many messages from the people I follow to really follow them - and much of what they say is kind of useless patter. So, if I were to get a message from this guy showing up in my Twitter feed, the odds are that I would ignore it. So, what did this really mean? To me it means that there are hidden proprietary means of promoting and demoting people and their messages and points of view. In certain respects i think that is a good or necessary thing - considering the old saying that a lie can get around the world before the truth can put its shoes on. The social media stuff is dangerous, and what is more dangerous is having the workings of these algorithms be private and proprietary - and not known about or understood. So, my next question would be - what was it this guy was saying that was getting so much negative attention that he was talked about, and that action was taken against him. Then if that is true - what was the effect, and why should be get promoted any more than I should or anyone else. Why is he complaining?
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  43. It's funny how when we discuss Universal Health Care that Sweden is claimed by the Right-wing to be too different a population from the US to be a valid model for the US. Yet when it comes to school lockdowns a study in Sweden was being used to justify lifting lockdowns in the US. Again ... the Right-wing dementia enters social media, and the argument is free speech - or the freedom for a massive troll army to be used to manipulate public opinion. So - again it boils down to either doing moderation by imperfect but competent people, versus leaving the moderation up to the loudest most numerous troll voices.
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  44.  @THINKincessantly  Ron Paul and his son both are useless negative drags on this country. Ron Paul would not know the truth if he opthomologist son could give him perfect vision, he is a vicious elitist Libertarian-fascist.
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  45. The thing is that this "Great Barrington Declaration" might have been a great idea, or there might have been a lot of reasons for why it it might not work and would be a gamble with people's lives to implement. There is a whole thing about this in business Six Sigma, about process improvement and all the factors that go into that. It could have been too complex, or too much for people to actually do, or all kinds of things. Instead of having a reasoned discussion thsee things turn into food fights on Twitter - so again - yeah, I come down against this guy, because you need to prove your case, otherwise all you do is to create noise. Sounds like he created a lot of noise, amplified by the right-wing nuts who were not posting very rational fact-based science on lockdowns, but instead doing the equivalent of rioting ... like Jan 6th.
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  46.  @coachduke9323  The problem with what you say, and the way you say it is basically you are covering for people who just wanted a plague to run through society so the oligarchs' lives and profits would not be disrupted. It was a death cult that thought of the pandemic as some kind of Darwinian test that would get rid of the weak, the sick, the older, those who had bad health and nutrition. The real problem is that there is really no way they could say what they really wanted to bring about - because no one would agree to it ,and they would see the Elitists for what they are and having proven themselves to be every time we have a social, economic or military crisis.
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  47. What I have heard is that the lockdown is computed to have saved the lives of about 3 million people. So, why was he criticizing it? Because when you look at what happened with various places like China lifting lockdowns how fast Covid took off. Wasn't the time frame this guy is talking about condicindent with the second massive wave of infections and deaths?
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  48.  @coachduke9323  You just tried to make up your own numbers. It was not all just about first order death rates, it was about destroying our hospital networks to serve people. You don't know what you are talking about. I am quote experts who have studied the issue, you are just claiming they're wrong and dismissing any result of statistical modeling. You apparently do not get how ignorant that is.
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  49.  @dixonpinfold2582  Yeah, well people agree with me, so go pound sand you whiner.
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  50. Here is a funny story about the AI suppressing of tweets. This is from the chat forum company Disqus. I was posting a comment and was getting repeatedly censored because I was using the term Nazi - while talking about Nazis. Then another time the discuss was about guns, and I was talking about automatic guns or pistols that needed to be cocked. Those comments were refused because presumably the term cock was pornographic. If this is the AI Elon Musk says we have to fear, I'd say he doesn't know what he is talking about.
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  51. There were massive amounts of Covid disinformation out there ... and the Covid death toll in the US was the worst in the world. All this guy's rhetoric about disinformation and Russia and whatever doesn't cancel that out.
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  52. You "osked" those difficult questions purely to views and clicks ... there was no sense in your coverage of Covid. Period.
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  53. So he was anti-lockdown - and went against his profession and the government - and got picked up and promoted by a bunch of trolls to get more than his share of attention , and then Twitter turned that down. Without knowing that much about it - I think that is OK. though I would like to see both - 1. What it was he was saying and citing to be anti-lockdown. 2. What was the makeup of the audience who was promoting him. I'd bet it was BS. I think anti-lockdown and anti-vaccine folks should have been shut up - or rather toned down in some way. I think this guy is a whiner, and he is being used as a tool to push censorhip by troll, as opposed to what is not an imperfect moderation system.
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  54. Varoufakis has sound logic and some good ideas, but I think the problem is - long term can either side of this, the Americans or the Russians be trusted to stay the course on any commitment they make. For example the commitment the West made not to expand NATO, and Russia's acceptance or losing influence and economic and industrial ties with Ukraine. I read that Ukraine was 1/3 of the Russian economy. I also read that since having these connections to the West, the EU, much of Ukraine's economy has been hollowed out, and shuttered, because the EU does not need Ukrainian heavy industry to compete with Western European corporations. And that in recent past years a million Ukrainians have left Ukraine because the economy is terrible, and there are no good jobs. Forget mansplaining, or Westsplaining, what if Ukrainians have been convinced to go against their better interest by lies from the West? These connections to the West are not going to pave the streets of Ukraine with gold, more likely it is to exploit resources, and in typical Western pattern the people of Ukraine will not benefit one bit from the exploitation of their country's resources. So, if the compromise position is one where both sides are unhappy to a similar degree, why would we ever think that they both will settle for that in the longterm and that one or the other will not either decide to unilaterally change the terms, or one or the other will not deliberately provoke the other side to military action so they can claim moral superiority?
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  55. If this was some kind of solar sail ... why would it be tumbling every eight hours? It is was under intelligence control seems like it would not be tumbling like that.
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  56. If there was ever any format that is the worst for trying to publish news or tell a story - it is trying to tweet it in little chunks in a horribly confused and broken up story on Twitter. Matt Taibbi is an idiot for doing that and he's lost all credibility with me anyway.
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  57. Beast ... yeah, a grey haired chimpanzee looks like. ;-)
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  58. He just has an opinion. He is not always right.
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  59. The US good reasons for wanting to win and knock down Russia, but we are doing it in an ends justifies the means way, killing thousands and thousands of people and ruining countries and economies. 1000 years from now if it works maybe people will look back on it like the splendor of the Roman Empire - or maybe not. But I think from listening to Mearsheimer that it will be a huge hurdle and a huge gamble to know over Russia's government, and that it is more likely than not that they will nuke Washington as signal that the end of the world is on. First if they are losing as JM says they might use nuclear weapons Ukraine, and then as we say we will come in with our trillion dollar military budget with conventional forces and engage with Russia, and Russia will at that point have to prove they are not going to go down without a fight, and to signal that they will fire a hypersonic nuclear missile on some American target. DC would be a natural symbolic target ... and then what. The end of the world, miserable end of the world for most, and then anyone left over will be about killing each other to survive. That's why I think this is insane.
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  60. There are so many of these Right-wing narrative transporters and distributors since Reagan - like this guy. Listen to his narrative of the Middle East - he has to inject socialism into it, and not a frickin' word about Islam, or the Arab fascists, or Islamofascists - because his purpose to not to explain. The American and Western Right-wing is as someone said a while ago are only about communicating to manipulate, not to explain or inform. That is why we have among us in the West now the same kind of Taliban/ISIS vicious nuts on the Right. They use these terms to keep people just out of being able to discuss social justice .... and probably most of these stories are fake,
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  61. What a boring out of touch guy. I sure hope he is wrong about Trump. I mean, Trump did not bring peace to the Middle East. Why interview sufferers from dementia?
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  62. While America might need a miracle to survive, I don't think Americans will vote for someone who teaches a course in miracles. I'm glad she is running, maybe people can learn something from her.
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  63. 13:32 - The government is always trying to get back all the powers that have been taken away from it in the last several hundred years. Right on, Peter ... what a radical! Democracy has always been the right against the abuses of capitalism, because the economy is one of the basic ways people are controlled. Economics mediates society and can be used to control it. We have an understanding ( some of us anyway ) of the defects of our systems, but no one is institutionalizing any of the ways to fix them - as the US Constitution began to do, and said in its text would have to be refined and changed over time.
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  64. Assuming the US is going to continue to decline and perhaps collapse ... where is the best place for an English speaker to move to?
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  65. Isn't the bottom line of this really that the Ukrainian Ukrainians live under no threat of military action from the Eastern Russian Ukrainians and that the Russian Ukrainians in the East of Ukraine have had to undergo all kinds of hate and violence and legislation against them, their language and their culture. So the plain truth is that this is a war of genocide and expansion by the Western Ukrainian Ukranians against the Russian Ukrainians in the East who just wanted to live in peace without being under a government that when controlled by the Nationalists and the US CIA hates them and takes military action against them?? Rebut that please someone?
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  66. A moral and cognizant person should be able to see their society for what it is, what it was and how it go to be what it is, and then fix it. That has not been done. Why are white people so resistant to seeing reality. He talks about putting truth above all, but the truth is something that is adjudicated between people, and provisional.
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  67. 5:11 - "It might be possible to get fithy stinking rich and to be a good person." I think the trend is that if you do hit some way to get stinking rich as she says, that your interactions and peers will ensure that you are not a nice person - except to your peers. The filthy stinking rich people unify to avoid paying taxes, and the positive feedback loop of that allows them to take over and dominate everything - and to keep others ideas or demands out or reach.
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  68. The only reason one would be in favor of a Russian victory is if you looked at the long history since 2014 at the latest, but could go back to 1992 when the Cold War DID NOT END, and the West continued to war on Russia while lying to it that they were going to help them. If the West is to blame, and was the long term offender - against their wills of knowledge of their people ... they a Russian victory would be justice. Were Americans in favor of a Vietnamese victory in the immoral and illegal war in Viet Nam? Well, no one said such a thing, or could say such a thing at the time, but a victory of the North Vietnamese nationalists saved their country. Yeah, so I am not against my country - AMERICA - I am against the never ending war policies that we have that deprive Americans themselves of a decent life, education, health care, safety net - all constantly being denied or threatened. The American government is wrong - and what is not right is for them to triumph with global miliaristic bullying.
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  69. I think China is too smart to engage in war - it's not what they want to do, and the US knows it, so it is the US that is pushing China, and China trying to look mean. The US has been out of control since the 1970's and Vietnam ... maybe even before, and we are not taking care of business with Americans at home. We picked the fight with Russia over Ukraine over a stupid accounting error that put Crimea with Ukraine before the USSR collapsed. The world can absolutely not afford war.
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  70. But then he always has to push it too far and claim the liberals are in power fighting liberals wars instead of Conservative wars ... but the Ukrainian war has been bi-partisan ... in the works for 20 or more years. He just cannot get his senile old head out of liberal-conservative and realize that blather is used to manipulate people because it is a great tool for dividing people - over nothing.
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  71.  @dixonpinfold2582  > I'd like to see your face, standing in front of your house, if gangsters were barricaded inside holding your family, and the police told you to get on the phone and negotiate. You're so simple, that is exactly what Western Ukraine did to Eastern Ukrainian ethnic Russians since 2014. Open your eyes and you mind. In the cases of other countries that are so divided they break them up - partition them, but in the case of Ukraine, since it was on Russia's border, the CIA saw a tool to get at Russia.
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  72. It's not Russia that has been launching military attacks ... until forced to by geometrically increasing shelling from the Urkainian side of the Donbas border. She is just lying. It was her nationalist side that went to war and discriminated legally against the Russian citizens of Ukraine .... for 8 years. A lie with a soft voice and pretty face on it is still a lie.
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  73. 2:30 - "The power of the enemy" What a moron. And his moronic followers are still posting fake comments wherever he appears like he actually has some point or something to say. There's just something wrong with both Weinsteins and their creepy endeavors.
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  74. And what would a Ukrainian "Nazi" state be like as the biggest country in Europe? Why wouldn't they turn on their neighbors and claim even more land. I think Ukraine is better broken up for everyone's best interests, even Ukraine's
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  75.  @FreddyRangel85  I guess you folks criticizing me for criticizing the guess for still being a Republican just don't seem to be up to speed about what Republicans are doing, or totally just morally and spiritually bankrupt. There are enough of you to affect the whole country ... like a cancer - either that or tech automation is good enough at this point to make a lot of people think there are.
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  76.  @amandamcgonagle869  Just cause a goofball like you says it, doesn't make it true, in fact, the opposite.
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  77.  @amandamcgonagle869  Hah, France is waking up, while you people sleep thinking how smart you are to use American slang. You should get used to a lot of American stuff while we rape your NHS for our profit and you right-wing goofballs fight for it.
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  78.  @patricksullivan1827  The top 20 cities that have the most crime are in red states, but all you mf'ers on the right constantly claim it's the blue states that have all the crime? Derangement ... look to your own brain defects, you are people are sick. But then again you're probably not a person just bunch of programmed troll-bots to make people think there are more deranged idiots out there than really exist.
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  79.  @bonysminiatures3123  People who start or end with an LOL have nothing to say.
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  80. Don't use the word PROGRESSIVE. You guys are being disinforming just to dump on Progressivism.
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  81. 23:00 - censoring a sitting governor talking to leading scientists. that is as misleading as it would be if you have those leading scientists talk to a totally ignorant and even malevolent idiot and then AI'ed the video to sychronize DeSantis into their place and replace the voice. It has negative value to society. plus, on these Twiter feeds it is not really censorship because some people still hear it, and they can broadcast it out to their networks. This is just Twitter decided not to over-amplify this or let it get out of hand until it meets certain criteria. Like - for example if De Santis actually learned something or had some un-cherry picked people weight in to show how incompetent he is - or isn't. If DeSantis, and by extention you malefactors on the extreme right actually ever had a point or engaged in a fair, honest, argument without media or rhetorical tricks it would be major news and it would have been amplfied to the world. Or could have been. In any case - to make this whole twitter files thing - a thing - there has to be something ... not just some amorphous suspicion, but a clear output or even output(s) of more questions of solutions. Or polls to people. The best thing, though kind of sad, is the best thing Elon Musk did was to end his CEO position by poll. That is an example of the kind of thing Twitter could be tuned to provide. But every organization is so courrupt and criminal that no one wants a real measurable veriable peer reviewed truth to come out - they don't want truth - they want to push the agenda of a warlike minority in the alternate universe of business, but which is still as destructive and toxic as war.
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  82. There is - what I could call a defect in social media - a lot of social media sites where someone - or a bunch of unspecified people acting in concert can flag someone and get them shut down or kicked off. I have posted contrarian about the Ukraine war trying to post alternative views and history that have never been reported on by the media - and I get a swarm of the same people replying, harassing me, and flagging my comments ... just one is a massive sea of trolling establishment-centric narratives that have gotten me 3 or 4 times suspended from posting for hours to days. I did not use profanity, or violate any sites terms of service. I am careful to be precise and cool about my comments - even though I might be angry at the time of posting, but it never helps anyone to read ones post if they are just name-calling or insults. I stick to the facts - always willing to hear if I am wrong or missed something. That is not what social media seems to care about. All social media sites seem to be about amplifying their own values and priorities - or in following the government's or military's releases. I am not really sure how to look at that. I can see on some things it might be valid and useful, but so far I have not seen it. Perhaps the thing i can most agree with is the establishment's take on Covid and masks and lockdowns - having seem the trolls attacking it - based on purely made up lies and false claims. I don't know if the answer to any of this is to allow anything and just leave it up to free speech, which we are already seeing on Twitter, it is hard to say if there is even such a thing as free speech.
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  83. You deleted my comment about why people might wear masks in public? Any particular reason other than censorship? I totally did not expect that from you. My comment had no profanity, name-calling, misinformation, insults ... just a list of why people would wear masks in public.
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  84. Who is this guy and why does anyone listen to him? He looks to young to have any legitimate political point of view, so it seems like he is probably just a mouthpiece (paid) for someone else's political message. And, like so much of what I see that masquerades as this - always embedded in it is a pro-Trump message, or at the very least a Trump-is-a-victim message.
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  85. The biggest sausage that is getting sliced in the UK that I can see from the US is the destruction of the NHS, and the mass manipulation of Brits for things like BREXIT.
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  86. Is it fair to say that "disinformation" is the same thing as "gaslighting".
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  87. Russia has never claimed ALL of Ukraine. The fact that they are on the defensive holding the buffer strip they have to protect the Russians in the Donbass, and Crimea. Ukraine ought to settle while they are ahead.
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  88. 13:25 - Bzzzzzzzztt - Oh, it is absolutely BS to frame what Elon Musk has done or is doing at Twitter as being "restoring free speech" that is a vicious propaganda, spinning lie - at the very least something that has not been proved or understood to be true. It is being rammed down our throats with social media - so, really, by definition, it is not free speech and what he is doing is hardly free speech. it is right-wing BS talk.
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  89.  @elangelyt7738  Completely irrelevant to my comment. What were you trying to say?
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  90. Not really the place to write a book, but I look forward to reading it when it comes out! ;-)
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  91. Tiptoeing around Hamas terror ... the hell with this guy.
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  92. The real reason this conflict is frozen is that the US is still fighting the Cold War against Russia - without the knowing support of Americans - with a huge budget deficit that we cannot afford, for reasons that don't make sense, and because they see they can create a wedged situation based on lies and propaganda. The real permanent solution is for Americans to be told the truth, and for the US to realize it loses nothing if NATO doesn't expand to completely surround Russia, that the world cannot stand any more war, and that Ukraine should be divided like any other country undergoing such internal strife and division. It is easy except for the military industrial complex in the US and those industries that make money off the death and destruction of people all over the world - and that these policies are not stable for the US, or anyone else.
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  93. So, destroying Russia as a state is not a Ukrainian goal, it is an American goal - and in the service of that goal the US has destroyed the whole country of Ukraine and killed hundreds of thousands of people, crippled Europe's economy, affected the whole world, and put the US in even more debt, as well as set back goals of global warming. Who accepts an America who would do all this? it's insanity.
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  94. 14:35 - Seems like that is why a big chunk of the rationale behind Russia moving into Ukraine is to get rid of the Nazis so they do not threaten both Russia and a Ukrainian government.
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  95. This sounds like a statistical nightmare.
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  96. So, isn't the question of this guy - what it was that he was saying that Twitter was unsure of expanding out to a massive audience? is that what he is complaining about. Is there some guarantee that he should be given that right - and on what do you base that on? Reason or just votes, and if votes can be trolled, then the only thing you have to go on is how you interpret what people will get from certain tweets. Like say the Sandy Hook denier guy, Alex Jones ... is it censorship that perhaps that someone say Alex Jones' content and said this should be promoted - and yet still he is very well known for his sandy hook denial - so it does not mean a message cannot get through - it simply means it has to be consciously thought about by non bot or troll accounts. The thing is that moderation, particularly automated moderation is just a poor product, and we do not really know what we are doing with it.
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  97.  @pfacka  Russia is not at war with itself. You travelled the country and faied to see a war going on, and I bet totally missed the most corrupt country in Europe that it is called. You make your fake "guess" because you have no real argument and need to make your speculation sound authoritative because you travelled to Ukraine as a tourist once. Whoopee.
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  98.  @dawidkozowski5048  If you are going to make a case, try complete sentences and ideas. I don't know what country you are talking about and hand-waving generalities are just more of what we are getting from the mainsteam media.
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  99.  @Blanka1100  > Russia refuses to admit its dark sides. What country does admit its dark side ... except for Germany? You're unloading a bunch of emotion here, but I don't hear you saying anything, just anti-Russian pro-Ukrainian war. No one is better off from this war, but least of all the Ukrainians. Why do they want to hang on to territory that they have only had for about 100 years and whose people do not want to be part of Ukraine - since they are being killed by Ukrainians. Some democracy, huh?
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