Comments by "nuqwestr" (@nuqwestr) on "Hoover Institution" channel.

  1. Catherine wasn't "Great" to Putin, not because she was a woman, but because she was not Russian born. Condi messed up on a number of historical facts, sad. "The Ukraine" was once a region in the Polish/Lithuanian Commonwealth which was not an "Empire". While right-bank Ukraine belonged to the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth until late 1793, left-bank Ukraine had been incorporated into Tsardom of Russia in 1667 (under the Treaty of Andrusovo).
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  2. "Understanding is outside of Computation" - Sir Roger Penrose, in recent interview with JBP.
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  3. 1920 The 3rd Arab/Palestine Congress told Winston Churchill they would "kill all the Jews". It's all here from a primary source issued in 1921. "Report on the State of Palestine presented to the Right Honourable Mr. Winston Churchill P.C., M.P. by the Executive Committee of the Third Arab Palestine Congress. Jerusalem, March 28, 1921." - Library of Congress PDF, online, easy to read.
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  4. Sergei Kan seems to have forgotten the history of the Ukraine and the Polish/Lithuanian Confederation. BTW, George Santayana was incorrect, we don't repeat history because of a loss of conscious memory, we repeat history because of the evolutionary information contained in the memory system of our DNA.
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  5. China went from 20% literacy in 1950 to 78% literacy in the early 1990s. The "Great Leap Forward" did happen, just not in 5 years, nor in the way Mao expected. This literacy allowed China to "leap" past India and other 3rd world countries as a platform for 1st world manufacturing. We, and they, are now in a double-bind.
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  6. Catherine wasn't "Great" to Putin, not because she was a woman, but because she was not Russian born. Condi messed up on a number of historical facts, sad. "The Ukraine" was once a region in the Polish/Lithuanian Commonwealth which was not an "Empire". While right-bank Ukraine belonged to the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth until late 1793, left-bank Ukraine had been incorporated into Tsardom of Russia in 1667 (under the Treaty of Andrusovo).
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  7. During World War II, in what were the only two invasions of the United States during the war, small parts of the Aleutian islands were occupied by Japanese forces, when Attu and Kiska were invaded. Rice is incorrect on history of US being attacked.
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  8. Or challenge either fact or opinion, which needed to be challenged.
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  9. The Territory of Hawaii or Hawaii Territory (Hawaiian: Panalāʻau o Hawaiʻi) was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from April 30, 1900, until August 21, 1959, when most of its territory, excluding Palmyra Island, was admitted to the United States as the 50th U.S. state
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  10. Mission Statement: Seeking to improve the human condition by advancing ideas that promote economic opportunity and prosperity while securing and safeguarding peace for America and all mankind.
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  11. "Chomsky Bots" = oh, no!!!
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  12. $50K every time Iron Dome fired.
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  13. Have you ever been in a Union? I quit a job with Verizon because the commissars of the Union made my working life miserable after I opted out. There's a difference between organizing for a specific redress and change, and becoming a top down, overbearing bureaucracy that oppresses the worker. The Teacher's Union in my State of California forces employees to align with a DEI statement, which now has the force of a religion, as defined by SCOTUS.
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  14. Perhaps the Palestinians should give back the land they stole from Turkey in WW1. Didn't they fight alongside Christians against their Muslim brothers?
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  15. People of Springfield on on video with their concerns, I checked. I also checked Hattian dietary culture which does include cats, but not so much dogs. Springfield, Oh welcomed refugees in and then found they did not have the resources to support this population. Easy to fact check. NYC having similar issue with resources, why is that not a fair subject for debate?
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  16. Hegel is known for his dialectical method, which involves the development of ideas through a process of thesis, antithesis, and synthesis. Hegelian philosophy emphasizes the importance of history, the unfolding of human consciousness, and the notion that reality is a dynamic process rather than a static state.
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  17. My counter-factual: Oliver Cromwell in America, 1641.
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  18. Small numbers at Courthouse, small numbers in street, lots of airtime on corp media?
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  19. Why are there no challenges to her statements on this thread? I don't get it, this is a political discussion and most comments are from those with a "quiet crush" on her, how sexist. The Japanese fired on California in 1942. The territory of Ukraine was once part of the Poland-Lithuanian Commonwealth which was NOT an imperial power. She made a number of false statements in this "talk"
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  20. Dr. Hanson, did the "Sea Peoples" who came from the West in around 1200 BCE to the East perhaps move back West when conditions improved, like to say originate Carthage?
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  21. 75 F-35s, Hundreds of F-16s and modified, longer range F-15s, even a submarine.
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  22. Media full-court press against Elon Musk. Propaganda sirens screaming out against him.
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  23. We have failed with deterrents at our own borders, and our Drug Stores, for that matter
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  24. Another "Club of Rome" rabbit hole for those who don't have brains which model the behavior of the majority. He was born an elitist. Not his fault.
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  25. President Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. to head the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in 1934. Kennedy was tasked with cleaning up the securities industry following the stock market crash of 1929.
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  26. Zelenskyy something more than an "actor", he wrote and produced his own material and was on the board of Inter and a Producer for that TV channel. He was educated as a lawyer, but never practiced, however, his history shows a smart guy. But it should be said he's something of an "oligarch" himself, with offshore accounts and property in the UK. I'm not making any moral judgements, just in search of a clear lens. At this point Putin could turn Russia into another North Korea, or the sanctions would work as they did against Japan in the 1930s, a comparison I've yet to hear mentioned.
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  27. HR, the middle said your name in the same sentence as Kelly and Mattis, say something about that.
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  28.  @atulvaibhav5376  Matthew Perry's appearance in 1854 led to the Meiji restoration and the militarization of Japan, hardly a democracy.
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  29. Private corporations like Lockheed-Martin, who employ 116,000 Americans, receives the money which taxpayers give in aid to other countries, and then circles back here.
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  30. "Malinformation" would be a better topic, and closer to home for Stanford alum
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  31. "Word should be gotten to Nixon that if Thieu meets the same fate as Diem, the word will go out to the nations of the world that it may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Kissinger Without that narrow context, the quote is wildly misunderstood.
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  32. Bored in a few minutes, bye bye.
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  33. ahistorical comment.
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  34. From John Yoo's Claremont Amicus Brief: “This principle,” Chief Justice Chase affirmed, “forbids a construction of the amendment, not clearly required by its terms, which will bring it into conflict or disaccord with the other provisions of the constitution.” Id. Trump did not receive "Due Process" in Colorado, which was stated in the dissent by Colorado Chief Justice Boatright. The Colorado decision created discord with the Constitution and did not harmonize with the intent of Section 3.
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  35. mimicked Seinfeld is not Seinfeld, and never can be. No matter the size of a large data model, it is still a computation, and as Sir Roger Penrose says, "Computation is not Understanding".
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  36. John, what do you think of Private Activity Bonds (PAB) Private activity bonds are municipal bonds that are used to attract private investment for projects that have some public benefit; however, there are strict rules as to which projects qualify.
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  37. "Anti-individualistic, the Fascist conception of life stresses the importance of the State and accepts the individual only in so far as his interests coincide with those of the State,... [fascism] It is opposed to classical liberalism ... Liberalism denied the State in the name of the individual" - Benito Mussolini, Doctrine of Fascism 1932
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  38. Boomer Axiom from the Movie "Easy Rider" - "We Blew It" - Captain America
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  39. HR, both Hillary and Kamala are quoting you. PLEASE get out there and create some balance to that narrow rhetoric.
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  40. Nebraska for the Nisei (University of Nebraska @ Lincoln) In the Japanese Internment Camps, there were hundreds of Nisei students whose education was interrupted. By the end of the war, UNL had the third largest number of Nisei students in the country. A willfully forgotten piece of history.
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  41. You make the case that Sinwar assassinated Haniyeh, not Israel.
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  42. "repressive tolerance" - Herbert Marcuse The practice of discriminating tolerance in an inverse direction, as a means of shifting the balance of power.
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  43. Obama: "I come Chicago, so, I want to be honest, its not as if its just Republicans who monkey around with elections..." (Sept 2008)
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  44. Kissinger was not surprised.
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  45. Then why were more total votes cast than ever before? Both the Dems and GOP broke records in vote count. The vote was not suppressed, not even in Georgia, as some claimed. Nonsense. We're talking about massive amounts of individual votes. Perhaps Ben should do a show on number theory to explain.
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  46. 22:30 I looked at those surveys and he is being disingenuous. Question: How much do you trust the Hamas-Led Government 15% A Great Deal 18% Quite A Lot 25% Not a Lot I'd say the majority supported Hamas in Gaza on Oct 6th, at least somewhat, 58%, while only 44% said not at all. "Our most recent interviews were carried out between September 28 and October 8, surveying 790 respondents in the West Bank and 399 in Gaza. (Interviews in Gaza were completed on October 6.) The survey’s findings reveal that Gazans had very little confidence in their Hamas-led government. Asked to identify the amount of trust they had in the Hamas authorities, a plurality of respondents (44 percent) said they had no trust at all; “not a lot of trust” was the second most common response, at 23 percent. Only 29 percent of Gazans expressed either “a great deal” or “quite a lot” of trust in their government. Furthermore, 72 percent said there was a large (34 percent) or medium (38 percent) amount of corruption in government institutions, and a minority thought the government was taking meaningful steps to address the problem." - Arab Barometer.
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  47. Income disparity, whether the Gilded Age or today, is perception based on frame of reference, like the Universe appears flat, but is it? Cosmological crisis: We don't know if the universe is round or flat. Bjorn Lomborg does a better job in creating a framework showing all boats rising in both the Gilded Age and today. For those like Moyo, the glass being half-empty serves her a priori agenda, not very scientific.
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  48. 5:04 Spain and Portugal gave right of return to Sephardic Jews from expulsion of 1492. This allowed Brexit Brits with proven Sephardic ancestry to obtain an EU passport.
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  49. "Exploit human biases, emotions, and preferences". Walt Disney did that with Bambi and Thumper in 1942. Easy to hack the human brain, perhaps we can use AI as a tool for defense against these hacks.
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  50. Stephen Kotkin is the Richard Feynman of Political Historians.
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  51. Eugene, look forward to more from you on "Good Fellows", welcome.
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  52. Etymology. African-American Vernacular English (General American would be baby's daddy) 1990s, popularized 2000s; compare baby mama. Possibly from or influenced by same term in Jamaican English, from Jamaican Creole baby-father, alternatively due simply to grammatical similarities between AAVE and Jamaican Creole.
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  53. My father was shipped by force of law to the Aleutian Islands to defend America against a Japanese invasion in 1942. The Japanese had an A-Bomb program, a biological warfare program, and even a death ray program using microwave technology. Yoshio Nishina, a close associate of Niels Bohr and a contemporary of Albert Einstein. Nishina established his own Nuclear Research Laboratory and built a cyclotron in 1936, In 1938 Japan also purchased a cyclotron from the University of California, Berkeley. Most of this info was kept secret after WW2 as we allied with Japan against the Soviets.
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  54. Christiane Amanpour just said McMaster will not be supporting Trump in 2024. True/False?
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  55. 14:37 In 1941, director Frank Capra and scriptwriter Robert Riskin, a passionate New Dealer, created "Meet John Doe" starring Gary Cooper and Barbara Stanwyck, which heavily aligned with FDR's description of "The Forgotten Man".
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  56. "No One Expects the Spanish Inquisition" - Monty Python.
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  57. But true, Hattians have a dietary culture of eating cats, not so much dogs, and the people of Springfield, OH are on video record of their concerns and the stress the refugees have caused on local resources, including the police.
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  58. Oy a "settler colonialist" in the thread. Russia. In California there's a "Russian River" with a history of colonialism, only turned back by another colonial power, Spain. "Killed", check out the ethnic cleanings in Tajikistan during collectivization by the Soviets. WTF?
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  59. Nuclear electromagnetic pulse by China, Iran, or other enemies would NOT hit cities, but explode in low earth orbit which could take out communication and electric grid for days, weeks, months. No direct civilians deaths or property destruction. Drones are in the mix for WW3, but the real weapon is EMP. The US and the Soviets tested this outcome in the early 1960s
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  60. It's also a large "image" model, as it was recently used to create a photograph entered into an Art competition and won.
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  61. Yoo's Amicus Brief makes a compelling argument that a private litigant, like Norma Anderson, has no legal standing to use Section 3, and cites the Griffin decision "almost" precedent. John, loved reading about Chase and the Giffin case. I wonder if I could disqualify any judge using Section 3? Perhaps Trump should claim it against Jack Smith?
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  62. The Bank Term Funding Program offers loans of up to one year in length to banks, savings associations, credit unions, and other eligible depository institutions pledging any collateral eligible for purchase by the Federal Reserve Banks... These assets will be valued at par. The BTFP will be an additional source of liquidity against high-quality securities, eliminating an institution’s need to quickly sell those securities in times of stress.
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  63. The Westphalian Peace, a concept and structure which predates the USA.
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  64. "Native Land"? Where was Yasser Arafat born? How did the British Mandate's influx of money affect migration in the region. Is Tel-Aviv occupied land? The Hashemites failed, they lost the Hejaz to the House of Saud, there's been no peace since then. Report on the State of Palestine presented to the Right Honourable Mr. Winston Churchill P.C., M.P. by the Executive Committee of the Third Arab Palestine Congress. Jerusalem, March 28, 1921.
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  65. Stacey Abrams just set the stage in a recent campaign speech to again create doubt by saying even as record numbers vote in 2022, there's still "voter suppression" in Georgia.
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  66. Must read "Report on the State of Palestine presented to the Right Honourable Mr. Winston Churchill P.C., M.P. by the Executive Committee of the Third Arab Palestine Congress. Jerusalem, March 28, 1921." - Library of Congress
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  67. LOL, the will of Allah means all non-Muslims are 2nd class citizens under the Law of Dhimmi, something my family lived under for 500 years. Dhimmi. a member of any of various non-Muslim communities to whom conquering Muslims offered protection and the right not to convert to Islam in exchange for surrender, loyalty, and the payment of annual tribute. Hamas wants to bring that back in spades.
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  68.  @bsmithhammer  NO NO I'm all in, the new laser IRON BEAM is a great addition, too, and the amortized cost is a lot less. Great Stuff
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  69.  @andersrasmussen5015  Agreed!
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  70.  @samwise1790  Price well paid, but Israel does make decisions on when to use it based on the projected hit. If it's farmland they may not pull the trigger.
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  71.  @bsmithhammer  Agreed, the info was just info, nothing implied.
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  72. I was using Wordstar in the early 1980s at a law firm in San Francisco. Didn't think you guys were that old, huh.
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  73. don't think they are "freebasing" anything but facts. "Based" is a drug culture term.
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  74. Stephen, try Vaseline for the lip smacking, please.
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  75. Niall, not 1968, but as Newt said, it's 1972. I worked the McGovern campaign in SoCal and agree.
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  76. Engage with argument, not character assassination.
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  77. Putin's "brick wall" is coming, he's past the age of 70. We need to concentrate on "Russia".
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  78. 40 kilometers of Mediterranean coastline in Gaza, could be a rich Paradise. Choices have consequences.
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  79. However, there is a billionaire in the West Bank. Bashar al-Masri
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  80. Show me a trusted judicial democracy in the region, and I'll have that conversation. Jordan still has a medieval King? Turkey and the UAE are backing genocide and ethnic cleansing in Ethiopia, and take a look at Syria, Lebanon and Yemen. Conversation? With whom?
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  81. Guidance from Biden admin said inflation "transitory", SVB made all in bets on that guidance, did not hedge, then panicked. We could all see the inverted curve?
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  82. If someone believes their one vote is at risk of not being counted decides not to vote because of that fear, I'd say that's a good thing. That person is most likely not having coherent thoughts about other things, too.
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  83. 1.8 million Arabs are Israeli citizens, 21% of the population, they serve in the Knesset, the Supreme Court, and the IDF. One Million Jews were displaced from Arab and Islamic countries in the region, what reparations for that "ethnic cleansing".
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  84. She won't go down "in" the polls, she will go down "on" the polls.
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  85. HR, the press is saying you agree with General Kelly. Do something about it.
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  86. SVB CEO Becker on board of San Francisco Fed Reserve tasked with oversight and guidance, also major donor to Newsom and Schumer. Both asked Biden for bailout.
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  87. The Education of Carey McWilliams (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1979). (autobiography)
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  88. "Teach Real Labor"? No, have them get up at 5am to deliver those newspapers by bicycle like I did in 1966.
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  89. Xi is a monarchist, he's grooming his daughter to take over the heraldry. Only those descended from those who swam with Mao in 1956 across the Yangtze will be chosen. That's how the hierarchy of the CCP works.
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  90. How Ironic, Jews and the Hashemites war against Turkey with the Allied Powers in WW1, now Turkey wants to "administer a mandate" in its former region of Palestine. LOL. In mid-October, following the UN Security Council’s failure to pass a Russian resolution calling for an immediate humanitarian truce in Gaza, Turkey proposed a “guarantor system” to end the fighting in Gaza and to secure a lasting Palestinian-Israel peace. Turkey’s initiative envisions foreign governments—including Turkey—serving as permanent mediators in the conflict and keeping Israel and the Palestinians in check over possible violations of any peace agreement that is reached.
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  91. Too late
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  92. CEO of Bank America suggests a tiered insurance program be instituted as a hedge against bank failures like this.
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  93. General McMasters, the media, across the board, has matched you with General John Kelly's remarks. What are you doing about it?
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  94. Goldberg, the siloed fantasy of the faculty cafeteria.
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  95. California Lithium mining GREEN LIT by both Fed and Gavin Newsom. Salton Sea, easy to fact check.
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  96. Careful, think why the NYT likes this guy, and look at a different view of post 60's "stagnation" with Peter Thiel and Eric Weinstein https://youtu.be/nHXEjdYwoYE
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  97. Trump is a product of the media elites. He did movies with Whoopie Goldberg, appeared on Oprah and Phil Donahue, and was even featured on an episode of Seinfeld. Trump is their "post-truth" Frankenstein, and now they are with torches and pikes in the village attempting to kill him.
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  98.  @RN-lo6xc  Which version, ChatGPT 3.5 or 4.0+
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  99. History does not repeat itself, but DNA does.
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  100. Trump is not "an existential threat" to the founding institutions, but to those who insist reality is a social construct, framed by personal truth and "stories". The fantasy will be destroyed by reality.
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  101.  @archetypex65  Free markets exists on the streets of my community, they are criminals selling drugs and other contraband.
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  102. fire and hire, then take another vote, free enterprise.
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  103. Santa Monica Mall turned into a trash dump due to crime and mental health issue of homeless, same as Market Street in San Francisco. I lived in both places, a registered Dem now voting straight RED ticket.
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  104. How did the flood of "Sisterhood" into the CIA change its intelligence gathering culture?
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  105. Witch hunt: the revival of heresy by McWilliams, Carey
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  106. Hamas leadership is on record calling for civilians to be killed as "necessary", not comical at all but material fact.
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  107. When aspirations ignore endemic expressions of human biology, only pain an suffering will follow. The more we infantilize each other with institutional frameworks of hyper-empathy and emotionalism, the more we remain dependent to the State. We've been doing it to ourselves for 50 years, that momentum is huge, and not easily turned.
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  108. New Nuclear is being developed all over the world, it is safe, and burn unsafe materials used in older reactors. Here's a video which will lead you to others, so adaption already has "boots on the ground" making change. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-J70XaXbmws
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  109. Claudine Gay's goal is to destroy the framework of Harvard and higher ed in this country. It appears you agree with her and complicit in its destruction.
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  110. What's the difference between bias and opinion?
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  111. US Department of Energy investment in new reactors https://www.energy.gov/ne/articles/southern-company-and-terrapower-prep-testing-molten-salt-reactor
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  112. Same poll: What Party do you feel closest to? 36% Said Hamas or Palestinian Islamic Jihad 30% Said Fatah These numbers have not changed in almost 20 years. Why? Source: arabbarometer "what-palestinians-really-think-of-hamas" 2023-10-26-08-494 pdf
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  113. The Soviet Union officially ended in 1991, I'm confused by the attribution of the good Dr. being a journalist in the USSR? In fact, I am not going to listen to this any longer.
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  114. Salmon P. Chase's GOP doesn't exist anymore, either, neither does Wilson's Democratic Party.
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  115. One of the best post-WW2 anti-war films about WW2, Carl Forman's "The Victors". Title is meant to be ironic, almost sardonic.
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  116. Islamists "America big Satan, Israel little Satan" Wokesters "America big Oppressor, Israel little Oppressor"
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  117. To many of a certain age, hearing the phrase triggers a musical memory from the late ‘90s. Over a treble-heavy drum machine, a woman’s nasally voice insists to her suspicious lover that that phone call, that door knock, that person she was with the other night is no real threat. In the accompanying music video, the woman, who is Black, rolls her eyes and looks at the rapper B-Rock with annoyance as he grills her about her whereabouts and allegiances. She says again and again: 'That’s just my baby daddy.'
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  118. Yes, every bootlegger in the 1920s "“engaged” in “insurrection” “against the Constitution,”
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  119. KFC smugglers bring buckets of chicken through Gaza tunnels Gazans with a hankering for the Colonel's secret recipe can call up a delivery company and get some finger lickin' food smuggled hot from Egypt in just three hours.
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