Comments by "Titanium Rain" (@ChucksSEADnDEAD) on "NFKRZ" channel.

  1. ​ @alpha-tomahawk532 "same people" is BS. It's like saying the Portuguese and Spanish are the same people. Or the Dutch and German are the same people.
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  2.  Exeunt Omnes - Alphabetzgruppen Political Prisoner  This is ridiculous. When was the last time you've been inside a prison?
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  3. My favorite is the cutest girl ever being asked if she would drop the atomic bomb and she says "Yes" and when asked why she's like "just because :3"
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  4. For historical context, the legend says that in the Iberian peninsula a province lead by a warlord called Viriato could not be taken by Roman soldiers, so the Romans bribed two trusted men to assassinate him. When those men came to the Romans to collect the bounty they replied that Rome does not reward traitors. This is both a patriotic tale and a cautionary tale in Portugal.
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  5. ​ @NatszymOg  Name a military action by Ukraine against Russia prior to Feburary 2022.
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  6. It's important to remember that the "shock therapy" was disregarded as many Soviet-era apparatchiks just said "Soviet money printer goes BRRRRT" and went against the monetary policy which lead to massive inflation. Then Yeltsin's "loans for shares" controversy sold off Russia's industry for pennies on the dollar. Shock therapy is the scapegoat.
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  7. ​@djwaffle The WNBA just draws less viewers and sponsors. Countries like Russia have a "prestige" and money laundering opportunity so they don't focus so much on profitability. A female league sponsored by local governments and oligarchs can recruit top players, offer much higher salaries, then just have those teams collect trophies. They make the main money off oil and gas so the sports thing is a side hustle they can afford to lose money on or use betting to launder money. A similar thing was seen in Chinese soccer, where western players would compete in China for a few years for the paycheck. And now you see the Middle East getting in on the action.
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  8. Pre-2005 Mercedes, though. Taxi drivers did not feel like paying to get newer ones registered because Mercedes maintenance became a hassle pas the mid 2000s. Nowadays Dacia is taking over.
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  9. Oh you care about Ukraine? Name three of their albums.
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  10.  @fab006  Okay, so if Canada invades Thailand, a British comedian can't do a tour in English in Singapore? Even if Russian-speaking fans were all for the invasion, wouldn't it be nice if he took their money and anonymously donated some to Ukraine?
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  11. ​ @grexseven4864  in 2011, NATO and Russia had joint training exercises.
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  12. I think it is a good idea simply because of the results. 6 months of brutal war, nothing. Suggest taking away the fancy Europe vacations and all the Karens start screeching about it online. The amount of insanity it has provoked is the proof it's gonna work. When a kid needs to be grounded and the child says "take everything but my xbox!" you know that's the thing that will work.
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  13. ​ @AlexanderJohnLee  that's not cognitive dissonance
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  14. ​ @frank1313  "people have opinions" not when they just copy paste what the man on the phone screen says "How exactly is Tate bad?" He literally admits to have groomed women to do cam shows for him while he chatted men pretending to be the girls. Top G was a digital fluffer and turned women onto sex work. I rest my case.
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  15. Winner Winner Chicken Kiyv Dinner
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  16. ​ @bryanrogoff9192  The fudge does that even mean. Supporting Russia is arguing for your own defeat. Supporting Ukraine... even if you have a reason to not care, it pretty much doesn't affect you. They got less money per year than the US was spending in Afghanistan and Iraq.
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  17. Yeah now post what Chomsky said about the Khmer Rouge, the actions of the Serbs in the 90s and now about Ukraine.
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  18. The brain drain is also a release valve.
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  19.  @nyph933  "Plus they are saving the world." - how the fuck is patrolling Afghanistan gonna save the world? "And all the young men and women going into the US Armed Forces simply want to serve their country." - and they ended up in the desert rather than defending their homeland. "How about instead of you having a mental breakdown in youtube comments, you go thank them for their service." - But why, exactly? What did any of them do for the American people?
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  20. ​ @BengVideo  You can get a visa if you have an employment opportunity, and an acting gig would suffice. It just takes time and since they needed the competitors at the same time they didn't risk it.
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  21. Solovyov taught Economics at the University of Alabama.
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  22. ​ @natalieviktorya115  There's Roman architecture in Portugal and Spain, does that mean they belong to Italy? There's also Islamic architecture there because of the Umayyad Caliphate. Does that mean they belong to Saudi Arabia?
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  23. ​ @wederMaxim "explain what's wrong with Stalin" pretty sure Krushchev had a massive speech in front of the Soviet comitte about how bad Stalin was and de-Stalinization was necessary, no neet to repeat
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  24. In the New Year's Eve for the new millenium, when Y2K was on people's minds, he claimed that the Russian nuclear missile systems were automatically attacking America.
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  25. ​ @MegaLol232  But "woke" had a real meaning. It got overused and then it went mainstream. The people who say woke today never read it being used without irony.
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  26.  @nyph933  "Iraqi civilians or terrorists? Barely any difference anyways." - ok, boomer
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  27. The Hummer H1 was based on the Humvee but the H2 and H3 are GM truck chassis dressed up to look like the original H1.
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  28. A lot of 3d modellers focus on American gear rather than the 15 different variants of tanks Russia uses.
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  29. ​ @Radaos  the 1950s is usually picked as the "pre-EMP" era because old electronics are more resistant. Vacuum tubes are harder to induce high current spikes into.
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  30. ​ @itwillbe-itwillnotbe-itis  Canada did that. Not Zelensky. In hilarious Canadian fashion, they tried to surprise Zelensky by bringing that guy as a nice gesture.
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  31. ​ @Girtharmstrong69  Ukraine only wants people with combat experience. Even former military can't join.
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  32.  @weasle2904  in the US armed forces you have a low chance of dying in combat because we perfected combat medicine and ballistic protection to the point it's very difficult to die. You can lose your limbs and get paralyzed but by god, unless you're so close to an explosion you turn into pink mist or you get shot in the head, you're probably going to survive.
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  33. ​ @QWERTY-gp8fd  literally nobody mentioned disagreements, just specific patterns.
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  34. Palestinian TV made a live action show for children where characters wore Disney character outfits. Eventually they stopped because Disney told them to stop. The Mickey Mouse character was called Farfour and in one episode he gets beat up by an Israeli for not giving up the deed to his home.
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  35. Just ask them if they ever watched Red Dawn (1984).
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  36.  @pgm8464  Q was a poster on a chan website who would post "drops" of information. It was about supporting Trump and it eventually lead to people believing JFK's son who died in a car crash would come back and run for VP with Trump.
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  37. I didn't have a phone in the 90s
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  38.  @BatMan-7777  Already a thing. Movies like Valley of the Wolves already used Americans as bad guys.
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  39. ​ @chartreux1532  I'm not acting like people 100 years ago, because I can read what others are saying, I can talk to them. I judge them based on actual interaction. And perhaps 90% of those interactions make it clear - they're beyond saving.
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  40. Meh, Kremlintarians are a thing. The "anti-war" libertarians simp for anyone that the US has beef with.
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  41. ​ @schmittian1313  But Russia accepts foreigners without any military experience, Ukraine rejects everyone without combat experience.
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  42. ​ @BaronUnderbite  Because 99.999% of people can't meet the requirements. I know people who were in Afghanistan who were rejected. They don't want people who haven't been to real war.
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  43. This is common across the old guard leftists. The Portuguese communist party refused to say the word "war" for the first few months. And to this day they say they are for peace because the arms companies are profiting off the war. Not to protect Ukraine. Not because of what's just and moral. But because someone out there is profiting off the munitions Ukrainians fire in their defese. These are known as "tankies".
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  44. He has lived in the US and taught Economics in a university in Alabama.
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  45. The difference is that equivalent music from other countries is just for getting drunk at the small town festivals. This is an emo anthem about everyone hating you (for starting a war).
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  46. ​ @mpr9419  When consevatives were the status quo they whined about metal music, videogames, etc. The same forms of media being targeted today for not being progressive enough.
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  47. Check out the Center for Political Innovations 2022 Chicago opening ceremony too.
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  48.  @razumskiy  They speak the language just like many Finns and Estonians speak the Russian language - the proximity promotes it. Ukraine was Russified during the Russian Empire and on-and-off during the Soviet Union.
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  49. For the lack of a better descriptor, I am right wing. I support sending Ukraine more artillery/shells and ATACMS missiles to bring down the Kerch bridge for good and leave the Russian army no escape.
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  50.  @joeshmo4892  You can have an opinion but the MO of many people is always the same. They find a video that criticizes anything Russia did and post "but America/the West does it too". Like, okay? Two wrongs don't make a right.
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  51. Western Europe is liberal on abortion because we impose limits on it. You can do it, but every country has their own limit. Some 16 weeks, some 20 weeks, etc. In the US there's states with looser regulation on abortion than Europe. We're "liberal" about it because we put our foot down, you can do what you want but don't push our limits.
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  52. Contrast that to Ana Kasparian's experience - one of the kindest people she met was her Trump-supporting neighbor. She didn't find out until a couple of years into their friendship. You only know the political opinions of those who broadcast them overty and guess what - people who tend to do that aren't typically nice people.
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  53. ​ @TheBoss0110101001  Plenty of people do. Half the shills say Zelensky banned Christianity in Ukraine ahahahah
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  54.  @goodrobot1  They may wait until the DPR or LPR get attacked.
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  55. Big brands bring foot traffic to places like malls. That makes rent expensive. If foot traffic declines in a mall, either the operators reduce the cost of renting or the smaller stores leave for cheaper locations. It indirectly targets the richer businessmen by tanking the value of their assets. It's not pretty, but there's a point.
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  56. Out of all the Russians, you are certainly one of them.
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  57. If I were Indian I'd be legitimately mad at people doing this. But hey, it's your country so feel free to ruin your reputation.
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  58.  @Latbirget  Right now the right-wing is very sensitive so isolationist/anti-war sentiment because of the shift that occurred during the Obama administration, and let's face it rural conservatives are probably more likely to have seen the human costs of the wars. But this has lead to propaganda being easy to inject into right wing circles.
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  59. Did you watch the video?
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  60. He was given every chance to be a free man.
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  61. During a controversial process to select a new location for the Lisbon airport, a Portuguese official claimed in a speaking engagement that it would never be built south of the Tejo (Tagus?) river because anything south of the river is a desert.
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  62. ​ @sh0werp0wer  Urban, more liberal people have less kids on average, so it's not like they're a huge contribution.
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  63. ​ @coyotelong4349  in 4chan it's /pol/ that supports Russia. 4channers in /k/ (the weapons and military board) support Ukraine.
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  64. The counter argument that losing freedom means eating better than dirt is simply not based on material reality. You can be a slave and still eat dirt.
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  65.  @starstencahl8985  That's the joke.
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  66. ​ @NsyShwl  Crimea is known for its beaches and resorts.
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  67. ​ @Zz_Mike-Hawk_zZ  define "help". Russia fired Grads from residential areas so that counter-battery fire hit civilians. Russia arrived, conscripted the men and used them as cannon fodder. Is that "helping"?
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  68.  @ThisHandleWasTheOnly1Available  intervention in Libya was asked by the Arab League and conducted with a UN resolution declaring the no fly zone. NATO already had peacekeeping forces in the region and Serbian forces had a pattern of holding peacekeepers hostage in the past.
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  69. It's important to remember that the defecting pilot had a crew inside the helicopter and when they discovered about the defection they tried to resist so the pilot had no choice and shot them. The pilot didn't just defect, he had to kill 2 or 3 of his comrades to survive. So the Russians were veeeeeery pissed off.
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  70. The biggest issue with for example "youtube alternatives" everyone wants to jump into due to censorship/demonetization is precisely that, it's a whole world with 15 years of content. Not only can I watch my favorite content creators, but if I need to watch a recipe, a videogame review, change a tire, learn to code, etc everything's on YT.
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  71. During the Cold War we sort of defaulted to the Russian way of saying it. I was a kid in the 90s and I remember being told that saying "the Ukraine" should be avoided out of respect, most people do it out of habit because it still "sounds right". Some actually say it because they're on the side of Russia but those are mostly on online alternate news.
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  72. ​ @blackcountryme  "80% of statistics you read on the internet are made up on the spot" - Abraham Lincoln
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  73.  @alexkozliayev9902  Yale School of Management put out a paper regarding that. Russia depleted their foreign currency reserves pretty heavily. Loans to small businesses took a nosedive. Many production sectors collapsed. Tracking of retail purchases shows consumers are tightening their belts. Goods and services dependent on imports suffered 40-60% inflation. Superficially, Russia is holding fine but the rot goes pretty deep.
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  74. Prior immunity.
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  75. ​ @warbossgegguz679  To be fair the average congressman and college professor is just there to make money and probaly failed upwards to where they are so it's a risk listening to them. Does anyone remember the dude who thought a military base would cause an island to capsize?
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  76. You do realize that WW2 started because Germany started annexing land, then after it ended the USSR refused to give independence to nations they seized from the Germans, right? So Western countries had to protect themselves from being gobbled up. Saying the West should have let the Soviet Union into NATO makes less sense than saying the Soviets shouldn't have kept control of land that wasn't theirs.
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  77. Not to mention that video of aluminum isn't much. Like 7075 T6 aluminum is aircraft grade, almost as tough as mild steel. Mystery alloy Chinesium? Could be soft as hell, you try to make aircraft or cars out of that and they'll fall apart.
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  78.  @irabakri2662  Hasan Piker is a streamer who became popular thanks to his uncle Cenk Uyghur, who runs The Young Turks. He is famous for being a political streamer who dishes out hot takes and leaves other people's videos on to keep the audience entertained while he cooks.
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  79. It literally is, though. Major geopolitical rival taken out with a 7th of the yearly DoD budget. That's cheap as chips. You'll never get better returns on any government program ever. For as long as you live.
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  80. Private businesses doing these things "voluntarily" is common in Russia. Like the companies who were told to "volunteer" to convince their male employees to sign up for the military.
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  81. If you watched the video you'd have heard him explain the reason whythe exchange rate is misleading.
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  82. Remember when he rolled down the parade in a three wheeled motorcycle?
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  83. Russia stagnated under Putin. And Ukraine was slowly but steadily "Westernizing" their government, their economy was held back by the separatist regions being plunged into conflict and poverty.
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  84. ENEMY. RIFLEMAN. 100.
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  85. Russia cut spending on other government servicesvto pay for the war. Oligarchs are forced to pitch in for the conflict, they can't just make off like bandits.
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  86. It wasn't Russian territory.
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  87. ​ @JOONGARIK  the military megachurch had stained glass windows with Stalin, almost like a religious saint. After pictures leaked they may have been removed, but Stalin's image had been rehabilitated.
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  88. ​ @KaitenKenbu  No, you could see it on Carlson's befuddled face
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  89. That's just to keep you distracted. The real sanctions are the aviation sector, the equipment used in oil and gas extraction, optics for military aircraft and drones, etc.
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  90. Russia actually invaded in 2014, they just pretended they were Donbas militia. The war has been going on for 8 years, just simmering.
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  91. But the media stopped reporting on it and the restrictions were lifted.
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  92. It's selectively enforced. Keeping people afraid of saying war is enough.
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  93. Just so happened that a bunch of anti-war people were on Russia payroll via Tenet.
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  94. But the money was spent decades ago. The US foots the bill for fighting Russia even if no war happens. US troops are stationed in NATO countries, they donate and sell at a discount military hardware. Actually using Ukraine to destroy Russia's armed forces would save money in the long run. Not to mention a lot of the equipment is 30-40 years old. You can't get the money back to spend elsewhere. Old tanks and armored vehicles are literally tossed off ships into the bottom of the sea to help regrow coral reefs. If unused, military equipment goes to waste.
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  95.  @Ass_of_Amalek  The technology absolutely isn't there. We still haven't figured out trucking or air travel. Even if we go all in on "green hydrogen"/"green nitric acid" we'd still need to build more generation capacity because those are energy intensive processes with low efficiency.
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  96.  @Rosiestoned  It's not just money. You're asking for a large quantity of resources and wealth to be devoted to this major plan, and by the time it's finished we may have better technology. We won't get that time, human effort and sacrifice back. You're asking for a ton of suffering for a pie in the sky.
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  97. ​ @raygoodspeed2382  The Warsaw ghetto uprising was a last ditch effort as they would be sent to the gas chambers. There was no intent to have a long term plan to build military infrastructure in civilian areas, the ghetto simply refused to surrender and had to fight to end it on their own terms rather than be loaded into train cars. Hamas spent deecades digging tunnels so that Israeli attacks would have to go through civilians. There's an interview with a Hamas leader where he is asked if they could build tunnels why didn't they build bomb shelters for civilians. They didn't because they want tunnels to fight, not protect civilians. They need the meat shields.
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  98. Were the Uyghurs building rockets inside the reeducation camps? Hamas had such a free reign inside Gaza they managed to turn it into a fortress and build up arms.
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  99. ​ @connectine  Completely decontextualized. "Stay woke" is much more recent as it dates to the 20th century and it was brought back as both a legitimate slogan and as a meme. In the early 2010s you'd see tumblr posts and twitter screencaps of parodies of conspiracies punctuated by "stay woke my brothers".
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  100.  reform-revolution  I can clearly comprehend better than you, which is why I'm engaging the argument and you're seeking a cop out.
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  101. Well, it's not necessary. When people refuse or fail to comply, the system will do something like invalidate the driver's license. So if they're asked to provide license and registration when stopped by traffic police and they check the database, the license will appear as void. So without a list of people who got emails, they still catch them.
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  102. "The allies worked with Palestine" you mean Britain. Palestine was a territory under British administration, which had previously belonged to the Ottoman Empire.
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  103. You didn't pay attention. This is like gamestop last year. People were prevented from buying to stop the share prices from increasing. Here you're prevented from selling to stop prices from falling. The real exchange rate can only be found by looking at how much get for your ruble in a truly free market.
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  104. But the war isn't about the Hungarians. That's like saying WW2 isn't black and white because of the Native Americans or slavery.
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  105. He already did: "The Russian Alex Jones" - 2 years ago.
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  106. Ever watched a Marvel movie or played Call of Duty?
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  107. ​ @atomharcos99  Oligarch is used in the West in specific cases. In the West we have people who made a fortune last year and trust fund kids who were born into families that were wealthy a hundred years ago. The Russian system is 30 years old and essentially designed for oligarchy to absorb new money. If you make a bunch of money in Russia you either join the oligarchs or become one.
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  108.  @wokeaf1337  Galileo is the example everyone reaches for, but he almost got away with his heliocentric model being published. He had already made enemies and had also attacked Aristotelian philosophy so Pope Urban was most likely pressured into prosecuting Galileo as he was also under accusation of being too lenient on heretics. Plus, Galileo was born in 1564 which was already considered the Renaissance period. So basically I wasted my time here because this has nothing to do with the Dark Age. To reinforce the Dark Age myth you have to bring up an example from the Renaissance. Huh. Funny how that works.
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  109.  @wokeaf1337  I'm saying that you have one example, and that example is filled with political intrigue plus it happened outside the Dark Ages. You made a claim about the Dark Ages and then used evidence from the Renaissance era to back it up. The church wasn't suppressing science, in fact a lot of early science was done by monks in monasteries. The problem is that after the collapse of the Roman empire it look a long while for trade and lines of communication to allow the Renaissance.
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  110.  @KiNGGAMESgr  how is it the same thing? NATO didn't have a referendum to steal Kosovo.
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  111.  @KiNGGAMESgr  there was no massacre in Odessa, Russian simps fired an AK at a crowd then threw molotov cocktails from the rooftops.
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  112. ​ @antonlevkovsky1667  lmao patriotic boost, if people weren't signing up for 1.5 million rubles they're not gonna sign up for patriotism
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  113. Tucker literally once said "why shouldn't I root for Russia? Which I do"
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  114. ​ @ayrat7410  unless a party can get absolute majority, we get a two party system too. They're called coalitions.
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  115. Look into the Doctor's Plot in the 1950s. Beria and Malenkov tried to engineer a non-existent conspiracy against Stalin and blame the Soviet Jews. Arrests were made but Stalin's death meant the plan had to stop, so it is not known if they wanted deportations to the Jewish Autonomous Oblast. It was right after WW2.
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  116. ​ @j.w.213  in real life people lie and agitate. What happens? At most you can try to speak to others and try to convince them you're on the right, but sometimes people will simply side with the other person. There's hardly any consequences in real life, why should there be online?
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  117. ​ @Foche_T._Schitt  Whataboutism. Stick to the topic. Also, presume most people against this war were also against the Iraq war because 9 times iut of 10 you'd be right.
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  118.  @Foche_T._Schitt  You're posting on a public forum. Expect replies.
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  119. Finland has been West-aligned for years and has trained with NATO troops.
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  120. "The West isn't free" okay even then I wouldn't prefer to live under the current Russian system.
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  121. No, he got fired for costing Fox News tons of money with lawsuits.
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  122. Because you're not anti-war, you're against Ukraine defending itself. If you were anti-war you'd want the Russian defeat to happen quickly as a punitive measure and warning for any future belligerent nations. If your anti-war position rewards those who start wars, you're only begging for more wars to start.
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  123. Peterson's problem was the benzos addiction lol
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  124. That's sound bouncing off the wall. There's panels you can mount on the wall to reduce that effect.
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  125.  @peterg.8941  There wasn't a revolution, the German government was partitioned by the Allies.
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  126. You can have that and no freedom. I don't know how being poor and lose freedom is any better, because losing freedom doesn't generate wealth.
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  127.  @nevimnereknu5623  Try to call your boss the r-word anywhere in the world and see your free speech options.
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  128.  @u0000-u2x  That's a very "hollywood" way of thinking about Nazism. There's plenty of racist people who have outdated beliefs, but don't want genocide. There's Nazis who aren't concerned that much about race. If I'm not mistaken Nazi Germany did consider Persians as another Aryan people and even had Indian volunteers fighting in their foreign volunteer units because they wanted to fight the British Empire.
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  129. ​ @MrFruttexiq789  People hate on those goobers but don't realize the irony of being the opposite face of the same coin.
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  130.  @alexeyamosov664  He's right. I have been following the Mises Caucus debacle in the USA Libertarian Party and knew about the Kochs, Rothbard and Hans Hermann Hoppe lineage. The video filled in the gaps and structured the timeline for me, so I am now realizing how Libertarians became paleoconservative in a very "logical" progression by being exposed to the hypothesis that libertarians must oppose liberalism and ally with paleos (who hate libertarianism anyway). I was thinking about Kremlintarians but that's a slightly different thing, American libertarians who have stood against American imperialism to the point that they go "America bad" by default. Often they believe Russian talking points without even understanding that Russia is behind it. Many libertarians read Grey Zone by Max Blumenthal, who famously switched support for Assad in Syria after visiting Russia Today's 10 year gala.
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  131.  @flx2525  state duma is adding language refering to those who refuse to fight during times of war to the laws
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  132. Opposing communism is now fascism, got it.
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  133. ​ @9iht6ihgt43rzhijj  two more weeks?
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  134. Liberalism back then is today called "libertarianism". Liberals in some countries are conservatives, because they didn't stop using the naming convention.
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  135. It is actually clear cut. Nearly all of the "open mind" stuff was either caused by Russia or falsified.
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  136.  @enotsnavdier6867  The Iraq war didn't kill a million. The civilian casualties produced due to the war were about 8,000. You're padding the statistics with the sectarian violence and terrorism that happened when the Ba'ath party decided to be sore losers and sow division among the Iraqi people. The US shouldn't be blamed for Iraqis killing Iraqis, and foreign fighters coming over to Iraq to kill people.
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  137.  @alexkozliayev9902  Gas and oil money? They're selling at a 35% discount to China. There's infrastructure that needs to be built to replace the European market. Several Western companies that contributed to resource extraction have left Russia, and the machinery used by Russian companies will eventually need parts that are dependent on global trade.
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  138.  @alexkozliayev9902  Not "years". You can skip maintenance for a few weeks. But after months, the machines start to break down if you keep using them without maintenance.
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  139.  @alexkozliayev9902  Months passed already, and several Russian industries have stalled. Yes, we'll keep supplying ourselves with the gas we critically need, while the rest of the industries we don't need will have to beg for scraps.
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  140.  @l3ddy  I don't have to cope with anything, I'm not under sanctions and I don't depend on Russian gas. Those people, they will have to cope.
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  141.  @engin3ar  there's videos of 50-60 year old boxing coaches wrecking guys in their 20s to teach them a lesson when they're unruly.
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  142.  @engin3ar  It's not an exception. Skill, experience and wisdom go a long way. Mirko Cro Cop retired at 45 so it's not uncommon for people to have fight in them until late in life. It's also worth nothing that boxers tend to do better in boxing than people who do kickboxing or MMA (no surprise there). Save for some kind of health problems, in a boxing match I'd put my money on either of the Klitschkos.
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  143. ​ @belstar1128  That's purely academic. The core of a warhead is the most difficult part to produce. You need huge facilities to enrich fissile material, and physics PhDs to design the implosion core. A rocket? Ukraine actually refurbished Russia's rockets prior to 2014. They had the tech to repurpose the warheads by putting them on domestic weapons.
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  144. ​ @scottwillie6389  the government was not overthrown, the Verkhovna Rada had a vote
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  145.  @dimadima9693  They used the army in Donbas to stop Girkin and his band of FSB war criminals.
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  146.  @sigmaputin6888  We don't live in Siberia like you, I'm wearing short sleeves right now, no heating on.
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  147. Yes, it's a slippery slope. Everyone should be allowed to say anything towards anyone. Picking and choosing who gets to say something will lead to the opposite happening to us one day.
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  148. Pretty sure the Baltics are for it.
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  149. Death Star was an inside job. Look up the Dancing Ewoks.
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  150. Did you miss the entire video where he addressed that?
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  151.  @YamnayaSintash  So you didn't watch the video. He literally brought receipts on how Russia was not antagonized. The victim mentality was a re-writing of the events to fit the new Putin regime. He didn't say "Russia bad". He quite literally went back to show Putin saying "West isn't bad" at the time those things happened.
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  152.  @galacticupfan7386  Most of those interviews are about the people who joined literally on the first days. This was prior to the restrictions. Those who couldn't hack it were told to go home. Those who proved their worth were allowed to stay as they already had combat experience. I'm not saying there's no secret handshake and door knock method of getting in, but they hate wasting their time with random nobodies knowing that 90% of them will quit. People don't even know the language, how are they going to fight alongside TDF units?
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  153.  @Nerffle  As a person who I guess falls on the """conservative"""-adjacent part of the spectrum, there aren't a lot of Putin supporters. It's just that a ton of people feel like they want to see the Biden administration lose. Remember when Bill Maher said that he hoped for a recession so that Trump looked bad? A lot of common people said "whoa you want me to suffer just so that you can get rid of orange man?". So now they want payback. There's very few people who know Putin outside of the shirtless bear-riding meme photos. The ones who legitinately look up to Putin are full blown schizos.
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  154. He doesn't tell the truth. Did you not see the leaks?
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  155. ​ @jairoherrera4040  Sweden already joined a unified air defense pact with Finland and Norway. Probably because they're still modernizing their fighter fleet.
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  156. Country music post 9/11 "muh truck muh freedom muh troops" Country music back then "I'm on the run from the law because I shot an officer and I regret my life choices"
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  157. The point isn't the tax on the 60 bucks. It's how these companies are used to evade sanctions. It's just 20% here, a million changing hands there... put several of these companies together and you have a neat money laundering operation.
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  158.  @jacksmith-mu3ee  Moving the goalposts
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  159. lmao
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  160.  @Plsub-tt8gm  It's not independent, and shell companies are used to bust sanctions.
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  161. Alex Jones is a saint compared to Tate.
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  162. That doesn't make any sense, especially since the original redpiller was Curtis Yarvin aka Mencious Moldbug, a person who clearly enjoys making arguments for the high IQ crowd as a result of his Silicon Valley days.
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  163.  @statostheman  Seems like you're trying to overanalyze everything to sell your NLP agenda. If you're crazy, it's NLP. If you're calm, it's NLP. You did a NLP course and now you see it everywhere. Yes, the wonders of where if you want to live in a society, people don't want you drunk or high 24/7. This isn't "capitalism", you think the Soviet Union also didn't crack down on anti-social behavior that tore the fabric of society? The prison industrial complex does not create law and order. Right there your conclusion fails due to a massively flawed premise. The prison industrial complex benefits from the US being crime-ridden. How do you make a profit from crime when the streets are safe? Okay, now go to California and try to implement those changes. See how that goes. And if you actually had read or listened to Curtis you wouldn't be saying things like "he'd call me a socialist" when he's in favor of massive state programs. You just have a pre-conceived notion and used it without even checking if it's correctly applied on the person you're talking about. Give them a home first. That's great. You have such a big market in California. Why aren't you there and making tons of money out of the California state budget by promising these revolutionary solutions? I'm being sarcastic in calling them revolutionary, by the way - they've been tried again and again. I just want to see you fail. I urge you to stop taking courses, you're like a stereotypical college freshman who takes a psychology class and now tries to psychoanalyze everyone. Nobody told you to listen to anyone. Jesus. Learn reading comprehension. God. The only "argument" is that you got challenged on NLP by being presented with the fact that many people do not fit the mold you created, and now you've confirmed that you just seen NLP everywhere. There's no mold. Just NLP boogeymen everywhere, in the walls, under the bed, under the skin, behind the fridge.
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  164.  @statostheman  And I told you, simply, you shouldn't listen to Curtis Yarvin. I simply used him as an example of someone who doesn't behave the way you described. Once countered, you started claiming all types of behavior are NLP. You've massively changed the subject and strawmanned my point by making this about Yarvin and why should anyone listen to him, when it's completely meaningless to drive the point home. I never said you needed to be taught, I never recommended anyone's teachings. You're incapable of reading basic English, I assume the Finnish language also requires people to understand the context of what they're being told, so speaking English as a second language doesn't excuse you. If you're told, in Finnish, that someone who behaves like X is evidence that they don't behave like Y, I assume that if your retort is asking why listen to X that other Finn is just going to think you're crazy. But that's just me, I've never been to Finland.
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  165.  @statostheman  I said that he didn't act the way you described. No, you need to comprehend. You took words to mean praise when I simply described the history behind him. You took praise to mean recommendation rather than a simple counter. This isn't double talk. This is you making stuff up in your own mind and now tried to backpedal. I'm not forcing anything. I described someone's history and behavior, which was counter to the way you described NLP, and you somehow forgot this was about NLP and thought you were getting a recommendation. That's more double-talky than anything presented here. I'm not saying you're incapable. I'm suggesting you're probably behaving like this on purpose.
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  166.  @statostheman  Noticing that you're backpedaling and changing subjects as it suits you isn't a suppression technique. If anything, you're the one using techniques. I don't need to have the last word. I see something incorrect, I call it out. Say something not worth addressing, I won't reply. So far, you've been a pathological liar and I think it's beneficial to call it out so that anyone reading this can truly get how manipulative you are. You don't know what gaslighting is. You're just using a trendy buzzword. I didn't change the topic. You did. It's not that I'm always right, it's that you're always wrong. You claimed NLP techniques worked one way, then you claimed they worked the exact opposite. That just sounds like a lie. Or "gaslighting" as the trendy buzzword users call it.
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  167.  @darenzy  This is whataboutism. If you want to start a task force so we can arrest Bush, Cheney, Clinton, Obama, etc I'm all for it. But they got secret service around them, we'll need a lot of people willing to get shot to get them.
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  168. The US military is having trouble recruiting because kids would rather work at McDonald's or Amazon. Meanwhile the Russians in the army often come from areas where there's no McDonald's, no Amazon warehouse, not even a farm to work in.
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  169. But it requires the user to go into settings and allow unknown apps. They don't want to do this because scammers will share fake links and teach people to disable the phone safety features and install scam apps that steal the bank details. In an app store it's safer.
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  170. They throw people off windows now.
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  171.  @Kikuchiyo7  Can't pay teachers and feed the homeless with 30 year old Bradleys. All hail powerpointer Perun.
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  172. Tupac alive in Serbia.
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  173. They countersignal anything the western establishment says. When Obama was in office RT promoted libertarians like Vesse Jentura and Adam Kokesh. When Trump got elected they brought in those kooky economists who say China is great because of communism.
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  174.  @robertsmith4681  There's also an old video of him saying that instead of threatening its neighbors Russia should develop itself and become friendly so that other countries want to join them. He most likely did a "deal with the devil" and now acts as an ultranationalist for money.
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  175.  @scottwillie6389  Again, Ukraine lagging behind isn't a secret. You're comparing Ukraine, which was under strong Russian influence until 2014, not holding up to countries which had decades worth of advantage. No, "Westernizing" didn't ruin Russia. Russian oligarchs told you that lie and they laughed all the way to the bank. Where's the Russian oligarch called "John Smith" or "Derek Brown"? Russians with connections bought the nationalized industries for pennies on the dollar. They stole from the Russian people, and created the lie that the West stole from them. The perfect heist.
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  176. From Optimus Prime to Liberty Prime.
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  177. You're joking, right? The former Soviet apparatchik ignored the West and kept making decisions as if Russia was still a socialist republic. Yeltsin and his gang used the loans for shares schemes to secure the election and make their friends rich. The West did not buy out Russia for cheap. Russians stole from the Russian people and sold it to themselves for cheap. How many Western oligarchs and siloviki? This is the power of Putin's propaganda. His friends prostituted the country and told you the West did it.
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  178.  @kulbir18  They keep their wealth. It's not ours. It's theirs. They kept it. They stole it. Not us. So Russians stole from their own country, and you're mad at us? All the things you said, you need to say about Russians. Say again how Russian daughters and sisters sold their flesh... because of RUSSIANS like you just admitted it. Edit your post, so that it reflects the truth. You're mad at RUSSIANS who betrayed your country, who rule over you, laugh at you and say we did it. You see a robber with gun in hand and blood on the floor of a house he just robbed, and you're mad at the pawn shop that accepted the TV. Then you let the robber bark orders at you and tell you to die for his gas profits. Yes, Julian Assange. Totally related to the topic. The topic is that you accused us of robbing you... then you admit you robbed yourself. But still you blame us. You want cooperation? Cooperate with us first. The people who robbed you have names and addresses. Want to set things straight?
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  179. There's ITAR regulations on weapons trade. Plus he was trafficking more than guns.
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  180.  @nikolayyelesin3150  "All it's gonna do is give our propaganda the biggest trump card in history" - How? Russian media already claims we're sending 20.000 special forces into Ukraine and how we helped them develop viruses that target Russian DNA.
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  181.  @konstantins7165  If they don't have travel passports, then what's the problem? Almost nobody will be affected by your own logic.
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  182.  @nikolayyelesin3150  Not even true. I've tried to convince many people. It's impossible. Bucha was fake, 100 HIMARS have been destroyed, Azov was abusing women at Azovstal (why?), the boxcutter incident, etc. It's "easy to debunk", but people will not believe the debunking, they'll call you stupid, they'll joke and say "to work for Bellingcat". And forget the TV channels at this point - telegram is a major source of propaganda. They don't need confirmation. Have you looked at what these people say? The online space says similar things to TV propaganda, but makes it more credible.
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  183.  @alexev1795  And so what? The oligarchs have travel passports. The sons and daughters of oligarchs have passports. They are supportive of Putin, even if passively. The people who visit the EU and don't support the government are not doing anything. We're allowing them to live double lives. Why should we allow it?
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  184.  @SuperAndrey152  Roman Abramovich may lose his Portuguese citizenship because he could have faked his Sephardic ancestry.
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  185.  @JT-ct2bn  Doesn't matter. Now that those who couldn't flee Russia and are forced to serve are brought by train into Moscow so they can be deployed to Ukraine, they'll repeat 1917.
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  186. It's both virtue signaling but also preventing Russia from replenishing their munitions spent on the conflict.
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  187.  @PettyBlue1  people coming outside the EU would apply for visas. You can't take long vacations unless you have some kind of shell company giving you work contracts to justify a work visa.
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  188. America spends trillions on itself. 53 billion is a drop in the bucket. Also, you might look into other countries getting foreign aid every year. We bribe countries to play nice, essentially.
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  189. They used to put stuff on metal cans but they probably switched to save weight. The US designed their own bags, the Russians just picked what already existed.
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  190. Based.
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  191. No airplanes yet.
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  192. ​ @1nONLY_DRock  from what I gather it's multiple Hummers cut and stitched together with chassis welding.
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  193. ​ @athank3509  The Battle of Karbala isn't the reason for the Iraq-Iran war. There's a difference between going into the entire history of a region and explaining the reason behind an event.
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  194. I've seen people with Yuri Bezmenov profile pics going "waaa the war is a distraction" my brother in christ you were already demoralized by KGB/FSB psyops
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  195.  @bingbong6127  Not true. The casualty figures are online. Even in 2019 (after Maidan and before 2022) the opinion about independency in the Donbas was split. About the same percentage wanted independence from Ukraine as the ones who wanted from Russia, and about the same percentage wanted autonomy inside Ukraine as the ones who wanted autonomy inside Russia. The Azov battalion were stationed in Mariupol because they were recognized as the defenders of Mariupol. People not under the spell of Russian propaganda loved them for saving them from Russian invasion. They were even all Russian speakers when they formed.
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  196.  @lanxy2398  A civil war is by definition not against Russia. Either way, Russian troops entered Ukraine so it wasn't even a civil war. Russia invaded covertly.
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  197. "War has changed..."
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  198. The US medical industry is over regulated, the regulations protect the companies. That's why something that costs 2 dollars to produce is sold to hospitals for $700.
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  199. The issue is that Activision didn't have to give money back to the US military. They created a game they wanted to make, and even made a US general a villain.
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  200.  @TheBanana93  No, it wasn't. I criticized the war, and the critique of the war was very well represented by the media. In the early days if you were against the war you were a terrorist sympathizer because people were still seeing red after 9/11, but feelings subsided. Obama was elected partly because of the promise to end the wars and close Gitmo. Trump also hinted that he was against the wars when he began his "twitter campaign" in 2015. People criticized movies like Zero Dark Thirty and American Sniper.
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  201. ​ @canesvenatici4259  there are two Russian movies, Brat and Brat 2. Brat Z would be a sequel made today because Russia has to be Z everything.
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  202. Funny how the recent events have caused people to recontextualize WW2 as a race war against The Eternal German.
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  203.  @hanSolo508  It's funny because I used to think people like Curtis Yarvin were nuts for saying it, but now I see they have a point. You think the anti-German sentiment wasn't propaganda too?
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  204. On economics, it's Yeltsin that deserves the blame. He wouldn't enforce the required reforms to align the economy which allowed Soviet-era politicians to continue to apply their antiquated policies and going money printer go BRRRR as a way to solve their problems. And most importantly, he sold off nationalized industry for peanuts in a fraudulent privatization scheme.
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  205. What a weird metric. If he had a real job he'd have been fired. He only had "success" by thriving on something you can't take away. Easy test - James Gunn getting fired by Disney. Was he "cancelled"?
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  206.  @jacksmith-mu3ee  Because you can repair stuff with common parts. It's not uncommon in the car world for different models to use the same parts. For example while the Smart ForTwo was designed from scratch, the Smart ForFour was based on the Mitsubishi Colt chassis.
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  207.  @spicylemonade  Yeah but Tate didn't say the virus was literally cured and went away. He said "Putin cured the virus" in a tongue in cheek way, it stopped mattering. I mean we have a saying that goes "out of sight, out of mind" which is precisely about this phenomenon, when you're not aware of something it's like it doesn't exist even though it does.
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  208. No. The USA saved the Soviet Union. Stalin would have effed it up on his own.
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  209. That's all network television. You can get away with free speech if you are just entertainment, so everyone claims to be entertainment when in court.
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  210. CARLOS!
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  211. ​ @chaosgamer016_5  Russia loves painting all rebels as terrorists. Conservatives in onine spaces tend to back Assad.
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  212. He did gave ride-alomgs with private military contractors in Iraq. There's an article from 2004 I believe he wrote for GQ.
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  213.  @Rosiestoned  I don't understand why you're changing the subject. You want to talk about slave labor, make sure it won't be necessary to produce batteries and solar panels. Sustainability is profitable. Okay. Can you actually guarantee any sustainability and that we won't have to rebuilt everything after 5 years due to changes in technology that embarrass us for being complete morons and investing too early in unproductive tech? Sustainable economy. Okay. Can you guarantee things won't have to be rebuilt and reconfigured? Because if we build things and tear them down, that's not sustainability. How many millions of tons of CO2 are your projects going to require? Probably a lot. If we have to do everything all over again because we plunged head-first into bad technology, we've essentially done more damage to the environment. While you set your sights on the ultra rich, you forget that they promote these changes and it's gonna be us suffering. They won't lose their lunch or champagne. It's us who are going to lose. They'll be eating pancakes made with real eggs, real flour, real milk, etc. It's us who'll be eating things made out of insects. Because of your grandiose plans.
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  214. Well you can tell who doesn't agree with the war because they play dumb and say "I don't follow politics" or "I don't watch the news".
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  215. Don't let me discourage you from playing, but it's not just some game from years ago. The connections are there. If you still want to play don't feel guilty about it, but I think it's legitimate to raise the issue.
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  216. civilization_cultural_victory.mp4
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  217. They'll switch sides in the US too. During the Obama years they backed the Tea Party and libertarians. After Trump they started bringing in people like Wolff, economist who says China is successful because of socialism, and Stone, the filmmaker who was friends with Hugo Chavez.
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  218.  @nathandrake5544  If you have to ask, it's because that's clearly not what I said.
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  219.  @robertjenkins6132  You're spending a lot of words to say something that doesn't contradict what I said. Give control of economic policy to a toddler and everything will break apart. The reason money supply needs to increase in a "real economy" is precisely the same reason why Russia needing to reform and Soviet-era nonsense peddlers saying "DON'T CARE, SOVIET ECONOMICS TO THE RESCUE" will wreck the economy. The Soviet economy was collapsing before the breakup.
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  220.  @konstantinkelekhsaev302  Crashing oil prices and difficulties in chip manufacturing in the 70s.
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  221.  reform-revolution  It's not used for the same reason, awakening is a very generalist metaphor. For example the Anbar Awakening during the Iraqi war. Were Iraqis "woke" for halting the warlord infighting and focusing on helping the United States root out the insurgency?
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  222. I could sense those trailers years ago were 100% "bullshots". Thanks.
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  223.  @VsevolodSidorenko  PayPal is known for blocking/restricting accounts belonging to activists/human rights organizations out of nowhere, and in some communities for banning accounts if they think that what you're doing is gun related. Like airsoft/cosplay. They wanted to implement a 2500 USD fine if you were caught spreading disinformation. One thing is getting banned from twitter, another is gobbling 2.5k from your bank account. They backtracked on that. On the business end, many small businesses are screwed over by chargeback frauds.
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  224. Marx, Lenin and Stalin were hilariously wrong. War steals money from a country and turns it into craters. Huge sums of money that go up in smoke. Tell me all about the capitalists in Ukraine happy that their stores and factories got bombed out. All the capitalists in Russia wondering if they'll have to close down if their workers are called for mobilization.
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  225.  @Kongongongg  The military is what, maybe 1-3% of the economy? For defense corporations to profit, everyone else has to get paid less or taxed more. The war doesn't save economy. It damages the economy. Lend-lease was a very forgiving deal and the US didn't profit.
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  226. That's what I've said about propaganda posters and murals using Johnny Depp as a WW2 veteran and American aircraft carriers. It's easy for someone working in media to just say they don't know anything about the military and just pulled pictures from yandex, make it silly so that it's sabotaged but also low key.
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  227. People straight up got psyop'ed into blind rage.
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  228.  @Unstable_constant  It's not. There's been Russian restaurants attacked in Portland.
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  229. Nah, there's a ton of "can't tell me nothing" types who back dictators because they think dictators agree with them or they secretly would like to be dictators. A lot of people are even content with being part of the enforcers or intelligentsia as long as the dictatorship matches their values. Precisely because they can afford independent thought when the state would approve of what they think.
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  230. Germany's opposition is simply their MO. They've tried to delay everything.
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  231. Putin said the collapse of the union was the greatest tragedy of the 20th century. Their tanks still fly Soviet banners into battle.
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  232. In America there's the term "glown***ers" which means CIA or an undercover federal agent.
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  233. Speech should be free. Now Russians get that propaganda, but we can't see what they're saying. We've changed nothing, except now we have even more trouble debunking the lies.
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  234. ​ @kaneru8593  Sticks the dumbbells in his pants.
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  235. ​ @TheBLGL  Freedom Fries was done by like one restaurant and a comittee leader managed to change the name in the government cafeterias because he had the power to do it. Freedom Fries was a nothingburger, pun intended, that got out of hand. Public opinion thought it was riddiculous.
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  236. ​ @comradeconrad3636 the Dark Age is a myth by Ancient Greece fanboys, and religion did not suppress scientific progress.
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  237.  @wokeaf1337  It was called Dark Ages because of biased historians. This is known to be historical fact. Meanwhile, during the Dark Ages monks were the primary pushers of science because they had the highest literacy rates.
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  238. They have a café/snack bar, usually.
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  239. The funniest thing was - he asked when he was going to be invited to join. The answer was that there's a process to apply and there were several countries waiting in line, they wouldn't get a seat at a table simply for existing.
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  240. ​ @zkf5448  Russia will arrest you for your opinions. If you need a way out, you take it.
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  241. ​ @Drybones195  And Russia wouldn't have done the same? They arrested people for holding blank sheets of paper in protests.
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  242. ​ @sboinkthelegday3892  People incarcerated in the US have comitted crimes. The US has high crime rates.
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  243. Whataboutism. Why do you defend this?
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  244. ​ @antarcticalol1031  "waaa waaa war with Russia" buddy Russians got merked in the Battle of Kasham, what did they do about it? Nothing.
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  245. Russia fires missiles at residential buildings just because. Israel is being forced to target an enemy who tunneled under civilians to use them as shields.
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  246. "Stock white people" are like Jared Leto, Orlando Bloom, Luke Evans and Matt Bomer, those are white guys I'd put on stock photos and clone and they all look kinda like each other. I wouldn't put CPG on any ads nor clone him, lol.
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  247. What does he know?
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  248. That's how bad everywhere else is.
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  249. The child-free thing started decades ago, it's a niche brand of copium that has nothing to do with the economy. Those people are like "argh my career, children hold me back". We're like "what career lol?"
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  250. The problem is that they'll use the Cypriot accounts to handle the money.
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  251. The difference is, buying the games did not somehow allow the US to continue the wars.
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  252.  @SUMOWRIGLEYBEATS  Because the investors are Russian oligarchs (aka the informal government), because the company is sanctions busting by having access to western banking (Russia is supposed to be cut off). Of course that they're not reliant on a videogame. But their sanctions busting is reliant on Russian companies pretending to be from Cyprus, Georgia, etc. The money is whatever can be laundered through companies with access to Western banking. Sell a million dollars worth of games, put 20 million through the Western accounts.
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  253. Lots of criminals.
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  254. Putin was picked by Yeltsin and his cronies.
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  255.  @lettucesalad3560  I also want to rise against the people stealing my country but if I do it I get called an "insurrectionist".
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  256.  @lettucesalad3560  Name your country, then. Let's see how many thieves you've managed to rise against.
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  257.  @lettucesalad3560  LOL so you think Trump was the biggest thief? What have you done about Mitch McConnell? What about Pelosi? What about Gov. Newsom? What about Michael Bloomberg? Bezos? You've done nothing. You voted against a president in a country that allows you to do it. In Russia the votes are rigged. Putin owns even the opposition parties. The "real" opposition faces corruption charges and goes to prison. Your votes for them get "lost". Remember Yanukovych? The pro-Russia president in Ukraine? Look at 2004 - he won the Ukrainian elections. Through ballot stuffing and voter intimidation. That's how Russia rolls. But they didn't control the Ukrainian supreme court. In Russia? Putin controls everything. You can't vote him out. You talk a big game but you've done nothing to the American oligarch class. They steal from you, and you think voting against a clown and putting another clown in charge changes anything. You've done NOTHING. They still have their billions.
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  258.  @lettucesalad3560  No, just the ones stealing from you like Russian oligarchs steal from Russia. You got up one day, got your "I voted" sticker in a free country and pretend to be some kind of revolutionary. Next time try doing it in Russia instead of bragging about your slacktivism behind a keyboard.
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  259. These people are not 2001 Republicans, they actually criticize the MIC for starting wars and having Pride parade floats. Yeah, BAE Systems, Raytheon and Lockheed Martin have participated in Pride parades.
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  260. They probably wouldn't, because Tsarbucks was a visual gag in the Simpsons when they went to the Ukrainian district to meet the Ukrainian mafia.
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  261. No, it is boring to have history retold. The more you comprehend a subject the less you want to be lectured on it.
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  262. Russia has nukes. There's no reasons to worry when you can wipe America and Europe off the map.
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  263. He was going to lose control of Wagner with the new MoD contract. This was his last resort and he got what he wanted.
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  264.  @mrvk39  He was about to get sidelined entirely. If the Russian government doesn't go back on their word and assassinate him inside Belarus, he bought his own survival with this stunt.
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  265.  @engin3ar  Bullied? It's Russia that constantly bullies its neighbors. NATO on the border can't do anything against Russian nukes. Russia is reacting? Against a non-NATO country?
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  266.  @engin3ar  That's not bullying. NATO isn't expanding onto Russia. Russia's neighbors are afraid of Russia and need protection, so they ask for it. NATO having nuclear powers doesn't mean they wouldn't be destroyed in an invasion. A neutral Ukraine is inherently a Russia vassal state. To be truly neutral, Ukraine should have the power to make its own decisions without influence from either side. This means either being militarized to the point that they would be able to equal the Russian military, or having their own deterrence capabilities. So war it is. And now Russia will be humiliated. The West asked, and Russia obeys. They do what they're told.
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  267. ​ @picklejuice4638  Yeah and what happens when nobody uses the anonymous social media? It's like shouting in the park, technically you still have free speech by being allowed to make speeches but almost nobody will listen to the crazy guy ranting.
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  268. Adam Ragusea did a video on teflon. Use of teflon is not toxic, the factories that make them are.
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  269. But as birth rates raduce, we'll always have more older people around.
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  270. Remember when Elon Musk was asked about the low number of immigrants in SpaceX and his response was that they do defense contracts, which means having to get security clearences for foreigners to make sure they're not spying on the US military? Woke isn't "not hating minorities". It's when you need to perfomatively "not hate minorities" so hard you throw your brain out the window and imply xenophobia out of ignorance on a subject.
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  271. What was he saying?
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  272. If you give up freedom for money, you end up with neither.
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  273. Oh no, death threats against a man with 6000 nukes. So scary!
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  274. I'm 99% sure Donald Duck wears a sailor uniform because he served in the US Navy in Disney cartoons made during the war.
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  275. It's not cover because satellites and ISR aircraft saw everything. Plus 7 aircraft were downed.
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  276.  @fordwrc2006  What values? That's just veneer.
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  277.  @fordwrc2006  How? They have drugs, they have abortion, they have HIV, they have cam girls, they have IG models, they have low church attendance. They're just like the West, but we pretend they're the land of chastity and Orthodox faith. In terms of values, they are no different from us.
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  278. Sorry, but that's the usual copout. I've seen a lot of people go as far as concern-troll by saying that the sooner Ukraine surrenders the less lives are lost. Yeah, they want less people to die, by just opening the gates to the "liberation force". I know it's a good thing to see the kindness in others, but here you have to be cynical. For example the Portuguese Communist Party has stated they're against war, but when the secretary-general was asked if Ukraine was being invaded he refused to answer and insisted on calling it a conflict. Obviously only a true nutter wants war. People say they wish there was no conflict, but refuse to condemn Russia.
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  279. All critics will be challenged to a boxing match.
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  280. ​ @igors1234  That's like saying everyone in Africa is rich because they have diamond mines. Having fuel reserves doesn't mean you're extrating a surplus, having fuel doesn't mean heating boilers are working, and boilers working doesn't mean the steam is being piped into buildings without issues.
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  281.  @igors1234  Again, you can produce. But what if you can't get the product to where it is needed? The Soviet Union produced grain, but needed to export it to finance their industry, which lead to food shortages. By your logic a food producer can't have famine, but the Soviet Union did. And again, pipes are bursting and the water freezing in several cities and towns in Russia, the infrastructure is in need of repairs and a lot of people who could fix those issues were forced to go into Ukraine.
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  282. But then Russia would lose the Ukraine war. That was Progozhin's play. He bet Putin would negotiate instead of risking giving Ukrainians victory.
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  283. You're talking about a few billion. When the rubber meets the road we'll probably chalk up the cost of this war to be in the trillions.
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  284.  @PierreMiniggio  Everyone loses. The ones profiting will be losing elsewhere.
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  285. But it isn't. They're 100% wrong.
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  286. ​ @maikumei  the UK left the EU when it didn't get what it wanted, that's a pretty big detail to miss
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  287.  @Zz_Mike-Hawk_zZ  They were still using Soviet guns/ammo and rockets, which have dubious accuracy. This is all besides the point. Russia caused more deaths in the Donbas than Ukraine. The argument they're protecting anyone is completely insane.
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  288.  @FloofersFX  "US made NATO to fight the communist threat, that threat is long gone" - There's still threats. Have you checked the news lately? "I'm guessing Yemen is a peacekeeping operation too right" - Tell Iran to knock it off. I'm not happy about Yemen either, but your alternative is trying to convince the Saudis that Iran gaining a foothold in Yemen is okay. The war in Yemen stops when Iran stops fueling it.
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  289.  @AlexCats  I don't care what Clinton thought. It was asked by the Arab League. The UN obliged. You can't back a modern economy on gold. There's not enough gold to support the value we generate.
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  290. Russian investors pool money to finance game, devs get paid in Cyprus, investors use Cypriot banks to collect and evade sanctions.
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  291.  @LardoAG  If you invest in Company X and Company X is paid by Company Y, then the dividends of Company X go to you. Doesn't matter if Company Y doesn't like you and doesn't want to pay you - once the money goes to X, X has to pay back the investors. Games don't have publishers at the start a lot of times, especially with new studios. They require investor capital to start, make a game, and if the game is interesting a publisher picks it up.
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  292.  @Philemaphobia  "revolution"?
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  293. Nah 12% feels right. People will typically not be rude about it but they do the bumping your shoulder and whispering "that's a man".
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  294.  @commiesquid4620  The Soviet people were staring down the barrel of collapse. The wars, a byproduct of the Soviet times. Authoritarianism, a byproduct of the Soviet times. Poverty, a byproduct of the Soviet times. The poverty was coming. All Gorbachev did was try to steer a ship that was sinking. And Yeltsin inflicted far more damage for the benefit of the elites. Yeltsin put a bomb in the cargo hold and let the water flood in even more.
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  295. Crying about it on the internet doesn't do anything.
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  296. It's all still state run or owned by personal friends of the head of state.
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  297.  @Dragoncam13  I don't see how that proves that most people in prison are peaceful political prisoners.
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  298. Anarcho-tyranny. No good deed goes unpunished.
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  299. 1. The USSR kept control of territory Germany annexed. Europe fought WW2 to liberate those countries. Then Moscow says "nah the communist party is in charge"? The USSR essentially undid the sacrifice of millions. 2. After communism Russia was still involved in Transnistria, Chechnya and South Ossetia.
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  300. The separatists started because of FSB agents like Igor Girkin. Russians without any links to Donbas entered the region with weapons and started seizing goverent buildings. Later they captured comms towers and made sure most of the population watched Russian language news produced by Russia or pro-Russian oligarchs like Medvechuk (arrested at the start of the war).
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  301. And after Gaddafi was killed, Libya became a hotbed of terrorism and had open air slave markets.
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  302. There's pictures of Castro being visited by American schoolchildren wearing military caps and fake beards. It sounds insane until you see them.
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  303. It's unsafe. People will have to go into settings and allow unknown apps, which is fine for some things but dangerous for bank apps. People will create fake bank apps that steal information.
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  304. ​ @freakishuproar1168  But they also used the O and V. The Z just happened to become more symbolic.
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  305. ​ @NovajaPravda  Meanwhile if they let China take over, they'll lose their dignity anyway and a lot more.
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  306.  @frank1313  How does that make it better. So there's this guy who convinces girls, without forcing them, to do cam work. Now think about all the decent guys trying to find a girl, and they find out they did cam work prior. They're going to be uncomfortable, right? If you really are trying to help young men with the redpill and exiting the Matrix, why would you support a man who asks women to do things the redpills don't want their women to do and plugs them into the Matrix?
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  307. Because there's a ton of trained workers, store managers, branch managers, etc and a Russian corporation that already operated many McD's locations. So it's just a matter of taking over the remaining locations and removing logos, everything had been set up for them.
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  308.  @reav3rtm  It's possible that there was an under the table deal or they paid hackers to reverse engineer it. They passed a law that said it's now legal to hack software that was pulled from Russia if it's needed to keep things running.
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  309. He had his life turned upside down, how is he shitting on Russia by wishing how it should be better?
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  310.  @rowaystarco  First, you have to understand how the federal system works - whatever isn't a federal issue has to be handled by the states. That's how it works. But even if that wasn't the case and the federal government imposed a 24 week limit, you'd still see people screeching about it. The promise that everyone's going to play cool afterwards is just too optimistic.
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  311.  @KateeAngel  I said the limits were looser, not that limits didn't exist. Also, ironic how the algorithm suppressed your comment.
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  312.  @rowaystarco  No, it's not problematic. It's how absolutist state power is prevented. There's other federal systems in existence in modern societies too. It's also easy to cross COUNTRY lines in the EU. You're subjected to different nationwide laws when crossing Europe. No, doctors shouldn't have control over the law. We don't give police control over the law. We don't give the military control over the law. There's a reason for powers to be separated. Like it or not, one side of the political aisle in the US made abortions a goal. Tell those people that. Abstinence was not mentioned in this conversation so I don't know why you're ranting about it.
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  313. ​@wurm6635How did the West take advantage? The oligarchs robbed Russia blind and say the West did it. It worked so well, even Westerners think we have the money.
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  314. In most of the world it's like that.
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  315. Imagine having principles being something with a time limit.
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  316.  @FBI-fedburofinv  Blind to what crimes? Also, Whataboutism.
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  317. Aggressive neutrality Swiss style is covering the mountains in bunkers and rigging every bridge. Not making satire hit pieces. How can your "Switzerland" criticize Ukraine for defending itself like Switzerland would?
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  318.  @puhelimentili805  I actually completely stopped watching those. And I do recommend people stop watching them too, if they want to keep making them relevant they're free to do so. But I think RT, CNN and Fox all deserve the same, which is cease to exist.
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  319. I remember I celebrated that one with a rum and Coke.
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  320. Thanks for recommendation. We used to call those "Kremlintarians" in libertarian/ancap circles.
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  321.  @alexeyamosov664  Glad to exchange some ideas and thanks for the video recommendations too!
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  322. People who plan the construction don't operate it.
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  323. Nobody who likes Putin understands why he started the war.
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  324.  @byMxqa  Forget about liking or hating. The motives for the war are clear once you ignore all the chaff and made up excuses. Ukraine would have crippled Russia economically if allowed to exploit their reserves and sell to the EU.
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  325. ​ @waaagh9730  Reality has an anti-Soviet bias.
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  326. Big whoop, Ukraine already expected a Belarus incursion since last year and prepared accordingly. Those hundred kilometers are a bunch of ambushes, kill zones and minefields. And reportedly only 8,000 Wagner will stay in Belarus, accommodation is being built to house them. You don't build barracks for men about to invade.
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  327. China has 10x the population.
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  328. ​ @alexkozliayev9902  The difference is that buildings in the frontline are evacuated. So the concrete is the protection, not the civilians.
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  329. He was originally going to make tea.
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  330.  @dominikmackovic5453  I'm not sure because I haven't watched in a while but Steve1989MRE also uses warm water for the juice because the granules are sometimes hard to dissolve.
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  331. The psyops have been going on since 2014. We only call it "Z" now because that was the IFF marker in vehicles that became te symbol of the war. But prior we just called people "vatniks".
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  332. They're using conventional weapons.
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  333.  @chromeuserisme3551  It was 13k killed on both sides.
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  334.  @chromeuserisme3551  It was 13k killed on both sides.
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  335. ​ @WLM1212  What problems?
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  336. lel literal BRICS flag profile pic
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  337. ​ @esbenm6544  "I know writers who used subtext, and they were all cowards!" (This is a joke from a show pls no bully)
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  338. lol cope
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  339. A few were liberated in exchange for Putin's friend, Medvedchuk, but many are still POWs. Former Azov guys who were not in service when the war started formed Kraken, which is a unit under the command of Ukraine's intelligence services. There's Azov SSO which is a spec ops unit in the national guard and the Azov 3rd Separate Assault Brigade, but these are not the same Azov as the ones stationed in Mariupol. In fact 3rd Assault Brigade was formed with new recruits who volunteered to join after the war started.
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  340. To be fair, 2015 Trump laid the ground work for his campaign by criticizing the wars on twitter.
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  341. Ukraine did not threaten its inhabitants, the territory was seized by force of arms. Russia threatened the inhabitants by creating a war zone. That's like saying the Normandy landings in D-day threatened the inhabitants of France.
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  342. >problems in the West Whataboutism. The topic is Tate's support or "feigned neutrality". Not "West is best".
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  343. That's a total lie, though. Both the US and European central banks printed massive amounts of currency during lockdowns. They managed to hold off the consequences until the war gave them an excuse to go balls out, like a fat man finally breathing out and popping the buttons on his undersized shirt.
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  344. The sitting president was removed by the sitting parliament.
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