Comments by "aleksis-kivi" (@aleksis-kivi) on "Econ Lessons" channel.

  1. The most interesting bot or whatever found me here. Seemed like a real Russian person based in the US. Important to look out for saboteurs these days.
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  2. @canadiangirl826  well, I think that is common in Europe too so people don't take the carts around town. Not common in the US, so that's maybe why shopping carts end up along the highway
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  3. I am so impressed by Ukraine's drone technology. Million drone army!
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  4. My family moved from Finland partly to the US to get away from Russia's shadow. How awful to see our new home become like RUSSIA!!
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  5. I am a Finnish American, and my mom visited Ukraine several times, and I've known people from Ukraine since elementary school. Feb 22-24, 2022 were very dark days I will always remember, but then the Ukrainian army miraculously held up and seemed to immediately adopt the same guerilla tactics that Finns used to turn the terrain of Finland against the Soviets in 1939. There indeed is hope, both physically and spiritually.
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  6.  @TuskForce  🌉🌉🌉 💥💥💥💥🤯
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  7.  @singamajigy  Agreed. Finnish American here. Parents left Finland to get away from Russia's shadow. What a disgrace this is. Have to vote BLUE from now on. I am ex-GOP too. NEVER AGAIN after this shiiiit.
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  8. Hyvä! Alas Putin
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  9.  @0nFoot  agreed! 👍
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  10. ​​ @9Pivo I like to tell Z bots that they would love living in the US. I can't imagine anything else that would actually make their circuits overheat
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  11. I really appreciate your positive portrayal of capitalism as allied with creativity and joy and having the freedom to be all that you can be to make the world a better place. It's rare but golden message!
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  12. ​ @TheFrewah a relative of mine sold red Case equipment for about 40 years. He knocked green tractors whenever we happened to see them, lol!
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  13. ​ @jimjiminy5836 anyone who can't hear criticism has a personality flaw.
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  14.  @_Epsilon_  What are the top 3 things NATO did to provoke Russia? Also, is there any chance Russia will return territory to the Swedish Vikings, or would force be required?
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  15. I used an American sickle just last week. It looks about a hundred years old. Got it from someone in Pennsylvania.
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  16. I think Zelenskyy might be calling Trump's bluff. Trump said aid would continue if Zelenskyy goes to the negotiating table. Zelenskyy can go to the table from a position of strength by saying, "Hey, Putin, you clearly can't keep this up--let's at least talk." Then Zelenskyy doesn't have to agree to anything but he can tell the US, look, we gave Russia a chance and they rejected Ukraine's terms. It is good to do this BEFORE the election, and then Trump looks like an idiot.
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  17. ​ @rochcarothers-ts3jx love it! 😂😂😂
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  18. YouTube is definitely suppressing this channel. I have to look up updates even though I'm subscribed. Shows you must be doing something right!
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  19. I recommend making a Russian translation of this video and linking it to places Russians will watch it
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  20. Reminds me of the Matrix too. In a way, we all have some level of propagandizement, but definitely a lot of us really do penetrate and perceive more than what others see
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  21. I was watching that too. I can't stand Trump, but I try to be politically objective in my investment decisions. But this week I wish I had been just a little more like Buffet!
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  22. In other words, we could easily see a retracement in the ruble/USD to 0.95 before continuing the downward trend. All part of the journey.
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  23.  @bbdj2779  definitely. Can't stop the support ever. Ukraine is basically the poorest country in Europe, and we are commanded to share extra resources with those who are less fortunate.
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  24. I hope some Russians are watching this!
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  25.  @lewisdoherty7621  yeah, I can definitely imagine that. Russian music is amazing. Hoping for a more peaceful world where we all can share this great art.
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  26. Well said, my friend! Enjoyed hearing your take
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  27. Germany, Finland, Poland, Sweden, etc---the local countries ought to be sending troops to Ukraine already. Who will take the first step?
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  28. Thanks for the encouraging words in an otherwise depressing time. Freedom cannot be defeated. It is the desire of every human soul.
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  29. Serious question: wouldn't it be more fair for a society to try to keep interest rates low and to tax the rich progressively? We keep being told to keep taxes low on the rich so they boost the economy with their spending. But what if we tax them more, and then let everyone have more access to credit?? Wouldn't the net result be similar? The rich could just borrow more if they want to invest in their businesses more, and it would be easier for the poor/middle class to go into debt to pay for cars, houses, education, and small-business loans.
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  30. Happy Thanksgiving, Prof! How about looking at Fibonacci levels and Elliot wave analysis to analyze any bounces? ...as today we see a bounce.
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  31. In a way, America has never been stronger or richer. Sure there are problems. But don't believe the cynics.
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  32. The die has been thrown
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  33. Two girls, one Trump. Seriously! Pee tape Donny's behavior PROVES the Moscow pee tape is real!
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  34. Would you say that simultaneously every employer is underpaying their employees and every employee is overpaid? Thus a benefit for both?
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  35.  @knopkaplay0507 Putin is pretty apathetic to the fate of that region. Russians have been fleeing that region and will tell people in central Russia that this war is real and very serious, and it is time to end the war. But you already know that I am sure.
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  36. I guess Pubin is ultimately some kind of socialist or communist, and why again does MAGA think he is such a genius??? MASGA: Make Adam Smith Great Again!
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  37. Thanks for the analysis. The single most important idea underlying all history is that we are indeed accountable to an omniscient and omnipotent Being. If any piece of physical matter can be integrated atomically into the human body/brain, and thus into our human consciousness, think of how an infinite consciousness is boundlessly aware of the fine details of this universe.
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  38. I'm reading Clan of the Cave Bear--incidentally it takes place in prehistoric Crimea!
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  39. ​ @MrVizzle Kam tu Amerriki!
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  40. I remember there was a creepy crow in Orwell's Animal Farm
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  41. Admire your decision to get out of the stock market. I took half my chips off the table recently, because I am young and am thinking about opportunity cost (i.e., it is more risky for a young person NOT to be invested in some equities long term.) Three weeks I thought about selling everything but felt my motive would have been fear and panic. I don't like to make emotional decisions. But TODAY, I wish I did act in panic three weeks ago!
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  42. I still think some Russians achieved a kind of inner freedom of the soul over the centuries. Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Alexei Navalny, and even Volodymir Zelensky, a Russian-Jewish man born in the Soviet Union. Navalny is now dead, but Zelensky is now the leader of the Free Peoples of Middle Earth.
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  43. @diegoyanesholtz212  looking like a dead cat bounce on the intraday
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  44. If Trump wins, Ukraine still has the rest of NATO, South Korea, Australia, and many others on their side. Ukraine just has to survive the next couple years and Russia will fall of its own "wait"
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  45. ​ @dr.williams5251 Ukraine should get free oil, gas, raw materials, etc. from Russia for the next 50 years.
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  46. The dwarves delved too greedily and too deep. You know what they awoke in the darkness of Khazad-dum... shadow and flame.
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  47.  @EconLessons  Amen to that brother! (I was born in W. Palm)
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  48. Happy Earth Day! Mark, can you make a video on why capitalism is actually good for the environment? That'll blow a lot of people's minds and I am sure you would have a lot to say on that.
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  49. Prof. Biernat, serious question here. It seems to me that the GOP is spreading a misconception that there is only one way to do capitalism--cut regulations. I love capitalism, but I also really admire the mixed Nordic model, which fundamentally succeeds due to the free exchange of labor and capital among the Nordic nations and others. I think the GOP overemphasizes the benefits of cutting regulations and taxes. I would argue we can still be capitalist in the US while also maintaining taxes and most current business regulations. Smart regulations are what we need, not less regulations. There are many business practices, which if allowed to play out naturally by the invisible hand, would stifle innovation and stifle competition among businesses for recruiting labor on the job market. Things like monopolization and cutting wages, and ultimately instituting the equivalent of slave labor--this all seems logically inevitable in a completely unregulated capitalist system. In other words, in a COMPLETELY unregulated economic system, I would argue the rich are destined to get richer and the poor are destined to get poorer. Any thoughts?
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  50. My grandfather was born in the Porkkala region and lost his childhood home in Finland. But in the 50s the Soviets suddenly gave it back earlier than expected, maybe because the Soviet government was so poor it couldn't maintain the Porkkala base. I am more afraid for the Baltic region too than ever before with the Russian hybrid activities. Many more people will die before this ends.
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  51. ​ @EconLessons Good idea, sir. I hope you get a lot more subscribers!
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  52. No such thing as bad weather, only bad sweaters.
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  53. Duuude! How did they dye the water so bluuuue? Whoaaaa 🕶️
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  54. Mushroom cloud. Not what you think it is. The post-fungal flatulent wisp of an all-natural trip.
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  55. ​ @EconLessons Amazingly, the resource curse is true in Appalachia too with all the fossil fuels in the mountains. But hopefully even this region can transition to a knowledge economy in the near future.
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  56. Beautifully said!
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  57. I love all the old stone structures you film near. You probably think I'm a weirdo, but really I'm not.
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  58. Wow interesting. It reminds me of how in the early Middle Ages, perhaps the medieval church did not bring the gospel to the Norse fast enough. The Viking raids started. But those slowed down as Vikings came around to start learning about the humble carpenter / fisherman dude from Galilee.
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  59. Thanks for clarifying your use of resistance vs. support! ❤
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  60. ​ @oldguy1030 Thanks for heaping flaming coals with your patient response.
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  61. ​ @Notrusbot Russian athletes systematically used performance enhancement drugs in recent Olympics. Going to the Olympics means agreeing to the terms of competing clean. There's one agreement Russia broke! And we're just getting started here.
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  62. ​ @Notrusbot honestly, do average Russians enjoy living in a society where the top-most powerful people constantly demand bribes, have no respect for the law, and systematically fail to fulfill their business commitments according to contract?
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  63. I miss panschkii. Stupid colon rejected gluten eventually.
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  64.  @jefferyjeffery1707  I somehow remember the Russians stole some Ukrainian farm equipment, probably John Deere, but corporate in the US remotely disabled them. 😆😆😆 At least the anti theft software worked when needed!
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  65. Thanks for the painful reality check---for the cynical idiots!
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  66. Wow--it should be the Volga Riverboat Song. Ee-ee-yuk, nyem. Ee-ee-yuk, nyem. Yee-ee sho, rrasazik, ee-ee-yuk, nyem. Blue and white--sky. Blue and white--sky. See the flag, waving high, blue and white--sky!
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  67.  @lewisdoherty7621  Interesting point. The Red Army Choir has an interesting performance of it. As a Finnish American, I can feel a little bit of the intimidation that a great powerful culture like Russia is able to project as superior over us little Finns. Except I am nearly 200 cm tall. Well, my point is that the song has an intimidating feel to it and could be repurposed to exert the powerful draw of democracy while showing that real freedom requires very hard work and is laborious, disappointing at times, but a sublime blessing. But you make a good point.
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  68. I once had a Russian classmate in a graduate linguistics course who worked (perhaps still does) as a Russian-English translator at the UN in NYC. He was very interested in studying English to make his writing sound as natural and native as possible. He openly condemned the Russian invasion in Feb. 2022. But I am sure Russian spies of a high level have authority to say things like that in order to blend in with us normal folks in the population. I still wonder whether he is a spy or not.
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  69. Knock knock. Who's there? Puu. Puu who? Puu huu. Puu huu who? Puu huu huu Putin.
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  70. Could this be reposted with Russian subtitles?
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  71. Brilliant! Now this is the kind of thing Florida Public Schools don't let their students learn about these days!
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  72. Capitalist hippie vibe?
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  73. Moral inversion or not, I actually admire President Zelenskyy's shrewdness with trump. Zelenskyy knows this fellow is purely a man of transaction.
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  74.  @_Epsilon_  One day, maybe it will be the CIA telling China the top 3 reasons why Russia provoked NATO to retake the Swedish Viking territories.
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  75.  @knopkaplay0507  China is definitely investigating Russia, including cyber vulnerabilities. Now that the West has softened up Russia's defenses, China is eyeing historical Manchuria.
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  76.  @knopkaplay0507  Hello, my counterpart. Are evacuees from Kursk telling Muscovites it is time to end the special military operation in Donbass? What percentage of the evacuees just want this whole operation to be over?
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  77.  @knopkaplay0507  I hope this message gets across. Ending the special military operation now is not a loss for Russia as a whole. It is better for everyone. Time to rebuild the medical and educational system to make life better for the average Russian.
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  78.  @knopkaplay0507  That's a pretty boring thing to say. What the Russian government is saying is neither creative nor pragmatic.
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  79.  @knopkaplay0507  If you really do work for the Kremlin, you are deeply sick and demented. The earth shivers in disgust with your every step.
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  80. Patience! 😃⚡🇫🇮💙🇺🇦
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  81. I like the technical analysis. Usually I would say the ruble broke below support, not broke through resistance. But if it broke below the support level, you are right that now the level of a penny has become a resistance level.
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  82. Proof that capitalism, as done by Americans and Europeans, is weirdly better for the environment than radical Marxism. What happened to the Aral Sea, Mr. Lenin?
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  83. Nice jacket. I almost thought you were dressed in a suit of chain mail. Would you have a bow or a pike in your hand?
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  84. I wonder if Russian soldiers get addicted to blowing stuff up and don't think about anything else (except vodka and drugs).
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  85. Two girls, one Trump. Pee tape Donny's behavior PROVES the Moscow pee tape is real!
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  86. I suspect stocks will be on a sugar high for the next two years, but I will be sniffing for smoke constantly. As soon as I see any sign of the fire, I'll be switching to a higher proportion of bonds and other assets.
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  87. YouToob "sensors" r gonna scratch their AI heads on that one....
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  88. The Russian Internet Research Agency definitely is afraid of you, Mark, and this message you are sending. Russia is incredibly racist and even don't allow Asian Russians to rent normal apartments in Moscow. Then there's Russian champagne bottles.... something the police use for dissidents.
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  89. White blue white!
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  90.  @knopkaplay0507  eh? I am a rich, privileged American. I guess I shouldn't harshly judge the poor peasants of Russia who didn't have the same opportunities I did. Shame on me!
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  91.  @knopkaplay0507 Zemlyak, I hope you try to make a difference to bring Putin to his knees. Only then will Mother Russia have any chance of being free again.
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  92.  @knopkaplay0507  I am an American who likes to troll the Kremlin trolls by pretending to be a pro-Svoboda Rossiyi troll, even though I doubt such a thing exists. Sovoboda Rossiyi is not that coordinated. Sorry if I assumed you were a Kremlin-based troll.
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  93.  @knopkaplay0507 cool. it just says свобода России in 4 lines: сво бода Росс ии I think it makes it easier to read, and Kremlin trolls seem to notice it sometimes, usually on Denys Davydov's channel. Mostly I try to get them anxious that Russians might not be so unified in support for Putin after all. But you're right that I must be a chthonic character. I'm still sore about what Russia did to my family/ ancestors in Finland.
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  94. And white blue white is the flag of the Freedom for Russia Legion, and also an anti-war / peace symbol in Russia.
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  95.  @knopkaplay0507  wow that's really interesting! Thanks for sharing about what you experienced in DC. I've always been very polite with Russians in person when discussing these issues, both before 2022 and after. Yeah, I remember that there is quite a range of opinions. I used to volunteer to teach English somewhere and about half of the students were adult immigrants from Russia and other post-soviet countries like Ukraine. Had a couple interesting conversations. They depended a lot on Russian news sources, and back then the propaganda was not really as aggressive. Now I fear for their sanity since they probably still watch Russian media online even though they live here in the states.
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  96.  @knopkaplay0507 I doubt they are better off. All sides are full of it, but some sides are definitely fuller of it than others--and actually I do mean that.
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  97.  @knopkaplay0507  Did you ever come to the US to study? I apologize if anything we did ticked you off. We do want peace with Russia long term, and always have. I know you get paid for every reply I give. You are going to need the rubles, so I don't feel bad. I am not interested in any Russian propaganda. I know Denys is propaganda too, but he is so pessimistic about Ukraine's performance I find him pretty reliable.
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  98.  @knopkaplay0507  alright, peace dude. I'm glad I at least come off as human. So do you. It turns out there is always light at the end of the tunnel.
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  99.  @knopkaplay0507  Putin is angry in his bunker right now about this? Why? He's safe.
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  100.  @knopkaplay0507  I said, Putin is apathetic to their plight. Their suffering doesn't matter to his goals. Sorry it has come to this, but everyone in Russia needs to wake up about Putin's responsibility for this situation.
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  101.  @knopkaplay0507  Putin reported that the situation is under control. That is easy for him to say as he has no empathy for the average Russian person and their hardships.
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  102.  @knopkaplay0507  in case you are curious, some of my main sources of information are Konstantin (Inside Russia), Vlad Vexler, and Denys Davydov. All three men are ethnic Russians, native Russian speakers like vi. Kak potom! Why don't you look inside yourself and see you have more in common with these three men than more than 60 percent of Russians.
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  103. ​ @stuartmcconnachie 😂😂😂
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  104. I bet you can do quite a few pullups!
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  105. I'm a bit concerned investors will treat Ukraine the way they treated Appalachia. How can resources be extracted while the government makes sure the profits are used to strengthen education, income, and healthcare for local people?
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  106. Given the situation, would it be playing with fire to incite these wayward "protestants" against the competing but definitely demonic denomination, the Russian Orthodox Church?
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  107. ​ @EconLessons Is my name hate speech? I am a protestant by the way and I will vote for Harris in an area that will probably vote 70 percent for Trump.
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  108. Prof. Biernat, serious question here. It seems to me that the GOP is spreading a misconception that there is only one way to do capitalism--cut regulations. I love capitalism, but I also really admire the mixed Nordic model, which fundamentally succeeds due to the free exchange of labor and capital among the Nordic nations and others. I think the GOP overemphasizes the benefits of cutting regulations and taxes. I would argue we can still be capitalist in the US while also maintaining taxes and most current business regulations. Smart regulations are what we need, not less regulations. There are many business practices, which if allowed to play out naturally by the invisible hand, would stifle innovation and stifle competition among businesses for recruiting labor on the job market. Things like monopolization and cutting wages, and ultimately instituting the equivalent of slave labor--this all seems logically inevitable in a completely unregulated capitalist system. In other words, in a COMPLETELY unregulated economic system, I would argue the rich are destined to get richer and the poor are destined to get poorer. Any thoughts?
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  109. Maybe C.S. Lewis' White Witch was a Russian
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  110. Hey, does anyone here remember which of Mark's videos discussed Rand Paul's lack of understanding of monetary policy? I really want to send it to a friend of mine who supports Ukraine but is also a Rand Paul fan.
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  111. Most Russians in online videos seem to waddle, being overweight and/or full of alcoholic joint inflammation. I can't imagine today's Russian working out in the fields with sickles like back in the 1940s.
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  112. Don't go on about who is trapped and who is not trapped. Stick to the main point.
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  113. My place of birth! Swampland and beaches.
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  114.  @EconLessons Ayla is a fairly Finnish-sounding name. The author is a Finnish American, and Finland was covered in ice at the time, but surely a large percentage of Finnish ancestors lived in Ukraine and southwestern Russia relatively recently (the last 10,000 years). I see that region as my second ancestral homeland.
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  115. In the fall I had the chance to speak my mind on Ukraine directly to Ron Paul during a Q and A. His answer was pretty inane. He said something about how he had spoken to Americans who said they'd like more federal money to build ditches, etc. And thus we cant afford supporting Ukraine. Can you believe it??? He also rode his moral high horse about how peace is better than war so we should just push for peace. I smell silyodka!
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  116. I used to have a bike lock since childhood, and was still using it at age 25. A friend from Kazakhstan was surprised and told his friend, wow, not like things built in the Soviet Union. (By the way, someone must have cut the lock 5 years later and stole my bike. But at least the lock and key were working normally for 25 years!)
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  117. Mark Beer-not. Then who is Luke Vodka-yes?
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  118. Troika troika troika!
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  119. Thanks for the words of light and encouragement. Coming to your video after being scared nearly out of my wits by Trump's incredibly smooth and deceptive debate performance. No matter how dark the forest of Mirkwood, the sun shines above.
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  120. Terrifying
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  121.  @Surfer-727  well there is also Saudi Arabia, pumping a ton of oil. If global warming really is happening, the average temperature there is gonna be like 115 degrees. Hadn't anyone wondered about that?
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  122. ​ @marthamadrid6100 In a YouTube comment context, you are using too many apostrophes. Don't the linguistics professors at Moscow State University know that??😂😂😂🇷🇺💩🚽
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  123. ​ @antonl1409 hakkaa päälle Ukrainan pojat! 🪓
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  124. ​ @kallepoukkula hakkaa päälle! 🪓💵💵💵
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  125. @maxheeringa753  excellent! Thanks for the update! I expected it would go down linearly, but this broke below the linear trend!
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  126. Let's get the US and Canada selling oil to India.
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  127. I like your point that "real" Russians need to stand up against their government. Americans don't see the Loyalists of 1776 as real Americans. A new identity had to be born. A new Russian identity that is friendly to global cooperation clearly needs to be born. Plenty of Russians already display this new identity: people like Konstantin from Inside Russia and Julia Navalnaya
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  128. A drumph calls it "Truth Social." Whack
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  129. I didn't know you were ethnically Ukrainian! I'd be interested in hearing more about your family history.
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  130. ​ @paulfelkner6749 Zemlyak, you think you are safe working for Kremlin, but remember Bolshoy Terror. You can make one mistake, be called traitor, and your whole family suffers. Putin not worth supporting. Join struggle for free Russia.
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