Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "Independent Reporter Rips Russiagate Peddling Journo's" video.

  1. What we could use - and it's already happening to an extent, quite organically - is for you independent journalists and content creators to create some form of consortium or organized co-op, where you share info and divide-up the regions of coverage, for a truly independent media that fact-checks itself, in the natural course of things. Take it all the way down to the citizen-with-a-smartphone level, bypassing and rendering obsolete the kind of big-corporate news models. Something akin to a wiki but more resistant to corruption by a handful of highly motivated asshats, whom we see corrupting whatever chunks of Wikipedia they target. You can go in there on Monday at noon to correct blatant falsehoods or mischaracterizations of history, and it's GONE before 1 p.m. Just a thought. Journalism should be a bottom-up thing and not a top-down thing. It should be raw and uncensored. Messy, chaotic, and mostly truthful, with opposing viewpoints hashing things out publicly, in a format that forces people to take turns.
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  2. Here's the thing: They've staked a claim on a niche audience that buys the conspiracy tripe. For them to change that tune, they lose even THAT niche. As a combine, the MSM (excluding FOX) are still a bigger chunk of the viewing audience than FOX. Worth going after. But they're reduced to fighting each OTHER over that chunk, even as that chunk keeps shrinking. It's long-term STUPID, but they're so caught up, and so tied to TODAY's ratings, and conspiracy theories are their Main Chance at a bigger share of that still big, but shrinking market, they're all fish on the same mouth-bloodying hook. They're all looking for today's "bump" like the Nazis in the Battle of the Bulge, looking for any kind of short-term victory in a losing war. This is also happening in the SJW movement, where they can - and do - employ communist/fascist tactics in the street to steamroll anybody with an opinion that is not THEIR opinion. I think the Berkeley protests and ESPECIALLY the Evergreen "takeover" illustrate this to a 'T.' Yes, Naima Lowe was able to generate quite a following of idealistic but callow youth that she could turn into a hate mob and run roughshod over EVERYbody. Drunk on that power, drunk on that apparent WIN, she and the NPCs she personally programmed basically went on a just-this-side-of-lynchmob campaign to bully and harass everybody else. Total win. Those professors who just wanted to go to work and do science were TOTALLY cowed and humiliated. Heady stuff for the protesters. BUT the idiots were SO lacking in self-awareness that they actually recorded their doings on VIDEO and BROADCAST it, and everybody watching on YouTube who wasn't already up-to-date on their NPC programming could see who the abusers and the haters in that scenario WERE. So, these kinds of people have an unending string of "successes" on their back trail, and every "win" only hastens their eventual defeat. They're like the Celts against the Romans, killing 3 Romans for every Celt killed, thinking they're winning, but there were 10 times as many Romans, and they just kept building roads, establishing strongpoints, and destroying all Celtic means of feeding and replacing themselves, until all of England (up to Hadrian's Wall) was Roman. "Victory" after "victory," but fewer and fewer warriors around the bonfire to celebrate with each passing month, and less food at the victory feasts. I love the fact that independents, like Jimmy Dore and Mike Tracey can make out pretty good - a new middle-class of media - with low overhead and a relatively small, hard-core cadre of contributing subscribers. We see this in entertainment, in particular music, as well. You don't NEED to be signed to a major record label to make out. You don't even need to sell a ton of music in order to have a large enough following to fill a decent-sized venue. I think the Grateful Dead gave all their music away, and it didn't matter, because they had so many loyal fans, their shows were always sold out and they made millions off their live shows. There's a medium-sized level of success available to THOUSANDS of independent content-creators. It's no longer "Get the backing of a major label or be stuck playing in seedy bars forever."
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  3. Sorry for the free-writing I always do. sigh One RELEVANT point, though, is that the MSM had inside sources that USED to be considered scoop-of-the-century SOLID, at the very top of the Obama Administration (Brennan, Clapper, Comey, etc.) who were PUSHING the lie. They had more confirming sources than Woodward and Bernstein had in their wildest wet dreams! And they're going to fall back on that, and claim there was just unprecedented (Yeah right) lying and misinformation being peddled. But YOU guys (and a ton of sources in the middle and on the right, whom you ignore) didn't have to dig very deep to realize that what those highly-placed asshats within our own government just weren't saying things that squared with easily-obtained public-domain FACTS. Reminds me of kooky Christians who insist that the world is 4,000 years old, when the mile-deep Grand Canyon displays thousands of feet of well-graded, 1/2-inch-thick foreset beds that could ONLY occur by slow processes over millions of years. You just don't get a thousand-foot-thick column of well-sorted, finely-bedded foresets (Coconino Sandstone, Hermit Shale, Kaibab Limestone, e.g.) in anything less than millions of years. You have to start making shit up, like a Satanic Conspiracy that dug everything up, sorted everything according to grain size, squirreled-away all the BIG chunks (Where, I cannot guess), and presented this Grand Canyon lie to mislead all of humanity, in order to harvest souls. They're STILL incompetent and dishonest HACKS, but they COULD go after Brennan, Comey and the like, as the agents of a vast hoax. I don't think they WILL, because that's, uh, awfully conspiratorial. It's more likely they'll USE those asshats as THEIR excuse and blame somebody else for how all the lying leakers were, themselves, misled, in a comedy of errors that nevertheless went after the right people for the wrong reasons. So they're still "right," but they just got a "few facts" wrong. And unless I miss my guess, the trail will lead RIGHT BACK to Trump and a GIGANTIC conspiracy involving the Russians! LOL!
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  4. Just keep on keepin' on. You're going to alienate the ign'ants, but you're going to know that the people you meet who see it a lot like you do are going to be true to their word and REAL friends, and not just attention seekers, virtue-signalers, and just plain low IQ. Surround yourself with those people. 'Most any plumber, dry-waller, electrician, cable guy, what-have-you who has a skill and just wants to make a living off their hard-won skill is 99% likely to be a MAGA type. These are the people with actual competence who despise those who just make it harder and harder to live prosperous and happy lives by self-improvement and hard work. Those are the people you want on your speed-dial when you're in trouble. Not the libtards who will happily refer you to social services, and congratulate themselves on their wokeness, and their capable navigation of the bureaucracy skills. You want the guys who're gonna bring you that plate of lasagna or shovel your sidewalk for you, when they know you're laid up or have just suffered a death in the family. You want the guys who are good at actually accomplishing things with their OWN hands, but are all thumbs when it comes to playing the system. You and they miss out on government-provided Free Stuff, but you and they will be a community of competent people who just know how to get things done, and shit will just basically work better than anything provided by a paper-pushing bureaucrat who insists you fill out 10 forms, only to say "Sorry, you don't qualify" with a smug look, when you checked the wrong box on the 10th form. Surround yourself with those kinds of people and life is about as good as humans are capable of making it.
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