Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "Alex Christoforou" channel.

  1. As governments continue to mismanage our media of exchange, we WILL find alternate media of exchange.
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  2. Zelensky's not a con man. He's a pawn man.
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  3. The die was cast during the Maidan Coup.
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  4.  @ReadersOfTheApocalypse  ... by which they mean, "We win every election."
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  5. He's got a point. But remember, he's the guy who hired Bolton and Pompeo in the first place, and they back-stabbed him the entire time, without his doing a damn thing about it. Trump talks tough, but he's pretty limp, in my opinion.
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  6. Russia's sound (self-sufficient) resource and industrial base, its close ties with China and India, its lead in ECM, and most of all, the economically fragile West, already in debt up to its eyeballs, has already borrowed all the money a well-run nation only borrows during war and major conflict. Russia operates more like the USA used to. They still openly control the media; whereas, USA propaganda operates(operated) in secret, and wasn't widely understood to be propaganda by the US public. Since before WW II. (Some say the fix was already in by the Spanish-American War, and they're not wrong.)
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  7.  @jimbobjimjim6500  No, it's not. Sorry, leftie.
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  8. If MSM had ANY integrity, Assange would be free, because of nonstop pressure on Western leaders. Same for Tommy Robinson and many others.
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  9. When the Republican Speaker of the House speaks this way, you know the madness will continue. The only reason you're blocking spending is because you want more accountants? When will it stop? Will the people turn their backs or will the government use its mistakes of the past and the resulting crises on every front, to go full-on Orwell? May we all live long enough to see things change for the better.
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  10. Imagine a world in which USA, China, and Russia are at peace and cautiously and prudently trading with one another.
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  11. Denmark has a lot of problems, right now.
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  12. Pepe was a creepy character, but the MORAL of the story was always him getting punished for stalking the poor kitty. Even in the scene being cancelled, Pepe gets taken down.
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  13. I guess it's time to shut down my TDAmeritrade.
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  14. Yes. As CEO, Matze blew it. He hitched his wagon to Amazon, without any kind of backup plan for hosting services. I think institutions that've hitched their wagon to Google are going to suffer, too.
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  15. Just stop using Amazon for any purchases. I'm cutting them off. I still surf Amazon to find products. Then I find those products OFF Amazon.
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  16. That's not how the citizens of NATO nations think. There's wide divergence of opinion between governments and governed in the West.
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  17. This is the exact same thinking that spawned dictatorship across Africa. "Can't let the Rooskies have access to these vital resources, so any dirty deeds we commit are totally justified."
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  18. "But we can NEVER achieve unanimity!" "Sure we can. We just silence anyone who disagrees! Easy-Peasie!"
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  19. It's like Sunday School teachers quit the church and became full-time censors.
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  20. You misspelled ""collective waste."
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  21. This is why I am so pessimistic about things really turning around. People who should know better do NOT.
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  22.  @King_Cola  Health care shouldn't be run by the government, either.
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  23.  @michaelgnit8476  "Rules-based order" is a phrase they trot out when they want to do something they can't cite international law to justify. ICC is to be absolutely respected and followed, unless NATO doesn't feel like it.
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  24. So is the U.S. The question is, how many other countries they can break on their way down? Sheer madness.
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  25. There are quite a few countries with whom USA should not trade, due to human rights abuses. Russians are no angels, either. But USA is most vulnerable due to its blatant hypocrisy, and one-party rule that neoliberal Democrats have installed, with a handful of traitorous RINOs playing for the Democrat team. It's not officially state-run media, but the media do the bidding of government insiders in return for access to government insiders. Our press has been doing this since it covered-up FDR's affair(s). It's not technically the government that's doing it, but the censorship by private platforms that will do the bidding of state actors - often all it takes is one phone call from Massachusetts or California government official(s) - is the functional equivalent of government censorship. When they'll censor the president of the United States, you KNOW it's a shadow government, bearing little or no resemblance and with no accountability to the actual will of the people. Meanwhile, Julian Assange continues serving his life sentence for telling the truth.
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  26. "Journalistic ethics" is kind of a 20th-Century myth. Before that, everybody knew that Paper X pushed one perspective, Paper Y pushed another, and nobody pretended (or nobody believed) that ANY outlet was "objective."
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  27. She's an overweight Nurse Ratchet from "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest," brandishing the electro-shock cables. "It's for your own good," she insists. No wonder Niger didn't welcome her with a hug.
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  28.  @richardkammerer2814  Always has been. Common sense is actually pretty uncommon.
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  29. "We're placing an embargo on products we can't do without."
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  30. Regardless, the establishment is dead set against the public learning the truth. The entire criminal justice system is in a shambles. The people have no faith in it.
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  31. McConnell and Graham have been in that John McCain RINO Club for many years. Anybody paying attention has known this for a long time. My outrage is many years old. Just been a slow burn for a long time against these oligarchs and friends of oligarchs. Seeing them get re-elected over and over again has really challenged my faith in humanity.
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  32. Both parties appeal to low-info voters for their support. Anything good that comes out of politics is usually for all the wrong reasons. When they have really good reasons, that's when they do all the worst things.
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  33. Bolton wants war? That's so unlike him! Not.
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  34.  @southerncharity7928  I couldn't believe Trump hired George HW Bush's attorney general. When I heard that, my heart sank. Barr put on a good act, but he didn't clean up DOJ, and he had the clout and the knowledge of DOJ's workings to clean it up. On all the big issues, he basically enabled Dems/neoliberals to run out the clock, and did little/nothing to get to the bottom of the RussiaGate hoax, even though it's plain as day what happened.
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  35. Mike Johnson's on record supporting both Ukraine and Israel projects.
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  36. Because of "rules-based order," which is to say "No rules, when the donor class wants something."
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  37. Nobody believes their ratings. Just like Rotten Tomatoes, which will stop at nothing to make Disney movies seem "popular."
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  38. ​ @davidlazarus67  BINGO!
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  39.  @Ratimir101  Yes. The military-industrial complex needs a never-ending source of external threats to justify its existence and its life-ending income stream.
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  40.  @UltraCasualPenguin  What are your sources. How did you research your claims? I'm thinking you're just regurgitating propaganda from your pet echo-chamber/corporate media. You should be very worried to see the Democrats and the billionaires and multinational corporations on the same side. They're NOT looking out for you, although you sound like a very nice and very useful idiot.
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  41.  @HilaryB.  Butt... But... SNOPES SAID!!!! You get it. Janne Laitinen doesn't.
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  42. Read the New York Times to have an excellent idea of what's not going on.
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  43. Long line of presidents before Trump set all this in motion. Don't know that Trump will solve things, but I know for a fact that the establishment will make things worse.
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  44.  @ericsuarez834  If they ran the debates like actual debates, it would be nice.
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  45. That's the trap. Bring the government in. Do you really think that'll turn out well? The only way this BS goes away is to let the market do its thing, in my opinion. I would argue that the Communications Decency Act and especially Section 230, is government over-reach and a violation of the 1st Amendment. The WORST thing is to turn Big Tech into utilities. The BEST thing is to NOT give Big Tech special privileges to behave as publishers while falling under "platform" law. That means LET Big Tech censor, but also expose them to LAWSUITS from private citizens.
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  46.  @kevinmcfarlane2752  Yes. Breakup brings the government, which is controlled/influenced heavily by big-money Big Tech. Everybody will cheer the break-up, and the government will sneak in more regulations that will crush any new competition. Competition is the key, and competition would quickly eliminate losers like Zuckerberg and Dorsey.
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  47.  @thetruth-loveitorhateit7999  You left it out.
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  48. Watergate wasn't enough to bring Nixon down. The cover-up - i.e., the lying - was what the heartland could never forgive.
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  49. I think he was shocked and out of his depth. Like U.S. globalists in the Biden Admin, these people aren't used to facing people from OUTside their echo chamber whom they cannot intimidate, cancel, or otherwise eliminate from consideration for wrong-speak or wrong-thought. It's kind of funny to see. It reminds me of a scene from "Dragonslayer" where the Christian priest, all full of his delusions, confronts the dragon, shouting his "magical incantation" right before the dragon torches him.
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  50. So all the rhetoric was to restrain them from responding to military action WE planned in Ukraine?
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  51. There are already 300,000 missing ballots. 2.1 million November 3rd. 1.8 million the following June.
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  52. @patricksweeney5132 USA drives NATO.
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  53. They remind me of Marie Antoinette.
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  54. That was pretty shocking. I used to think that lady was pretty level-headed, but she was exposed that day.
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  55. Yes. And it's going to blow back on them in a big way. Society's evolving beyond its traditional institutions and leaving the stuffed-shirts behind.
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  56. The G7 are a bunch of school kids having a fabulous time at the expense of substitute teacher Joe.
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  57. Nice comedic short for the opener.
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  58. Trump brought us "We represent U.S. interests, but we can work with you on x, y and z," which is what foreign policy is supposed to be.
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  59. Yes. "Your mask apparently isn't working." "It's not?" "Nope. I can still hear you."
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  60. Unlike fiat currency, Bitcoin's independent of government printing presses. If the people switch to crypto, government will no longer be able to print money.
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  61. Alternative systems exist. Yet here you and I are.
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  62. So far, I still don't see ANY platforms out there with very good user controls. The "free speech" platforms are all pretty polluted by fake (and real) right-wing trolls, who discredit the libertarian voices. Such could easily be weeded out of an individual's feed with better user controls. This is not a difficult programming problem.
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  63. Maybe they just left Twitter. Go to Gab and other platforms. Diversify your offerings. Phase out your participation on Big Tech Trash platforms.
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  64. Heh. Due to a condition, I've been injured (busted bones, torn tendons, etc) a jillion times. Scars everywhere. A former army ranger saw me in short sleeves and said "I see you've been through the wars, too. 'Embrace the suck.' You get it." I told him "I get 'embracing the suck,' but I NEVER got hurt putting my life on the line on behalf of someone else. You're up here and I'm down here," holding my right hand up high and my left down low. "I'm just a stick boy, who does stupid shit. Thanks for your service." I figure if I were fit, I'd've tried for the 82nd airborne, 'cuz that's what Dad did. Anybody in my presence, who's served in combat, never has to buy a drink or a meal or go without a job and some dollars in his pocket. I don't think it makes him necessarily any smarter then me about anything, EXCEPT the combat, but he earned more than just his pay when the bullets were flying and the bombs were dropping, and I always try to do my bit to pay that back. I'm what you'd call a fiscal conservative, civil libertarian, and half-ass-self-taught student of history. I ain't big on federal programs. But our VA hospitals should be the ones civilians WISH they could get into. After all the soldiers are taken care of, VA probably SHOULD be one of - if not THE - biggest charity comprehensive-health service, that does a LOT of good for those in need, when we're not busy gettin' our guys shot at. Not interested in many of the other gov't programs, but ya gotta take care of the guys ya put in harm's way.
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  65. Like all who execute a coup, they're paranoid as hell that the American people will rise up. That's why they see Jan 6th as an insurrection. They're jumping at shadows and it's hilarious. This is probably more fun than having Trump remain in the White House. Without him as president, they're stuck having to govern, and the blatant partisanship of the legacy media is obvious even to Democrats.
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  66. It shows the stupidity of the audiences to which they're pandering. MSM audiences' sense of history is "I forgot what I had for breakfast this morning."
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  67. Memories are fresh in Eastern Bloc and former Soviet republics. They know authoritarianism when they see it. We in the West apparently do not.
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  68. Whatever Parler was/is, it was clearly created by nitwits because they signed on with Amazon Web Services. Amazon was/is a great idea, but it is run by latter-day fascists.
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  69. Size doesn't matter. What gave the USA a huge edge for decades was free-market economy and the rate of innovation and production. If you want to really see how strong a country is, sulfuric acid production is about the best single-variable measure, as everything else is downstream of that number. Most of Asia lives in deep poverty. Most of Asia is pre-industrial.
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  70. When everybody does it, it's like nobody's doing it. It's just self-aggrandizing fluff added to every video at cost of time to every viewer.
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  71.  @zima3181  You don't understand. He must be made an example. These people must always double down, for when they stop, they will lose power.
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  72. I used to fall asleep in church, too.
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  73. Same. But you can still use Amazon to find vendors. Use up their bandwidth to find companies to buy from, direct. Screw Amazon.
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  74. All coverage and half the polling stations were rigged. We all saw it. We all see who insisted - and are still insisting - there's no evidence of widespread voter fraud.
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  75. The biggest shills for authoritarian "solutions" to climate change ALL bought beachfront property. They tell US that the coastal cities will be underwater tomorrow (last week, last year, 10 years ago - the goalposts shift when every prediction is wrong), and then they turn around and buy estates in Martha's Vineyard.
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  76. Neither the betrayed nor those to whom they were betrayed will have any love for the traitor.
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  77. I have. Many times. We've propped up corrupt proxies for decades. And remember, they're being generous with other people's money, which isn't generosity at all.
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  78.  @desertrat4532  And we're closer to the bottom of the cliff we leapt from decades ago.
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  79. I think Russia's always keen on new territory, but I think this whole thing is about security concerns the Russians have that the West refuses to address, or having addressed, refuses to honor.
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  80. She said a bad thing about a Democrat politician. Her life in the USA is definitely in danger.
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  81.  @thomasmacken3152  Most of the "audits" I've heard of did NOTHING to verify signatures on the mail-in ballots. We all know the Democrats (and quite a few Republicans) rigged the election.
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  82.  Phoebe Moody Isaacs  What's the over?
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  83. No surprise Bezos-backed media are hitting Twitter and FB. It's a new market for Amazon expansion.
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  84. Now you know why the majority of Americans are very skeptical about the election last November.
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  85.  @tiktokshorts7356  They used Amazon Web Services, which should not be used by ANYone. Major strategic error, although Parler leaving themselves open to this shutdown amounts to giving Bezos' crew enough rope to hang themselves.
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  86. They may, but that would be very sad if that were all it took. Chris Wallace is just a symptom of a deep, underlying malaise.
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  87.  @richm4848  The Duran's got some good stuff. But they also enjoy giving Vlad his weekly tongue bath. The pro-Russian bias is pretty strong, there. That being said, Russian should be the USA's best friend, but just when Russia starts looking and behaving more like America SHOULD, American starts acting more and more like Brezhnev's Soviet Union! (only dumber)
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  88. There's tons of citizen footage of what went on in some of those big-city precincts. There's over a decade of complaints about Dominion from BOTH sides of the aisle. Why we even use that stuff is beyond me.
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  89. Looks more like early-stage Parkinson's shuffle to me.
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  90.  @brucecampbell6578  American leaders have always chafed at the letter and spirit of our founding documents. And every time we depart from them, we fail to live up to the principles we, the people, expect, believe in, and abide by. It's a shame how leaders use fear to manufacture consent for policies that are contemptuous of life, liberty and prosperity at home and around the world.
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  91. I love it! Twits are so addicted to rage that they're going to turn on each other! Stock up on the popcorn, folks!
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  92. I like you, Alex, but let's not kid ourselves about Biden, OK? Biden's HANDLERS want this. Joe Biden wants ice cream.
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  93. Got a full belly? A place to stay? Don't define your happiness by what a bunch of puffed-up politicians are doing. They want to take over your life and grab your attention. If you want to obsess, get involved in local politics. Volunteer to work for the NEXT election. I think that's where it all starts.
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  94. Siberia.
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  95.  @mazza4190  I vastly oversimplified. I agree it's about control.
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  96. If Macron's heart and actions were in the right place, this arrest never happens. If the people are free to act and speak, this arrest never happens. Durov's arrest is an attack on all of us, everywhere.
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  97. They're more authoritarian than we are. Our government has to obey the law.
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  98. I don't think India or South Africa are on NATO's side wrt Ukraine. OK. You get it. Abusing power associated with SWIFT banking system is pushing most of the world to abandon SWIFT and the U.S. dollar as reserve currency for the world. BRICS couldn't ask for "better policy" from the USA to break free of the USA, if the USA's goal were to destroy itself. "Secession" is not the same as "cessation." You used the former when you meant the latter.
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  99. Yellin', Blinkin', 'n' noddin'.
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  100. They're getting a good testing ground for war. They hold out hope for a magic bullet that will break the stalemate. Ukrainian people are their lab rats.
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  101. Yes. #1 in a field of 6, where the other 5 are squabbling over everybody who would never watch FOX, which is close to 4 or 5 times more audience than FOX will ever have. But such discussions are moot in light of the fact that they'd all be overjoyed to pull 4 million. 4 million times 6 is 24 million. The U.S. population is over 320 million. Their reach is not that great. We're only obsessing on them because they obsess on themselves.
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  102.  @js70371  Ain't gonna argue against you on that.
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  103.  @MnemonicCarrier  Well put!
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  104. This doesn't make me want to believe in sex-trafficking conspiracy theories. Not at all.
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  105. "You must give up your way of life to preserve your way of life." - NATO Leadership
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  106. Stop day trading and speculating. Diversify. Take your time.
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  107. I despise that weakling, who never saw a war he didn't like.
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  108. Everybody freakin' about Roe, when all the decision says is "It's not the SCOTUS's job to settle this. It's not the federal gov't's place." There's also no federal law against murder. That's all handled at the state level. But this is how progressives roll. They can't ram their ideas down the throats of the people at the local level, where they actually have to FUND all their programs, so they try to force their ideas on everyone else at the federal level, where there's functionally no limit on how much they can rob from the taxpayer INdirectly, with inflation. EU/NATO preach about democracy, while ignoring the will of the people. They preach about peace, while prosecuting illegal wars of regime change around the world. They preach about human rights, while crushing free speech at every turn. They preach about misinformation and disinformation, while being the biggest disinformation peddlers on the planet.
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  109. Putin's no saint, but he's steeped in reality and advocates for his nation.
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  110. I was very sad to hear of Zelensky's suicide next month.
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  111.  @margomargo898  Being a clumsy advocate for one side isn't helping the one side. I don't mind if an outlet is open about its bias. I prefer that kind of honesty. But I've been around long enough to see through the spin for whatever side.
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  112. Use Amazon to FIND products. Very useful. Also saps their bandwidth. Then buy direct from the manufacturer, after you've done your comparison shopping. Or just buy through another platform. That'd turn the tables on Amazon,
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  113.  @johnnyrvf  USA is WAY bigger than Russia. But projecting that kind of power that far would be an economic disaster for the USA. It's like the Russians or Chinese trying to invade Mexico. Russia's also on a sound financial footing, which the USA is not.
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  114. If you're a nanny-government leftie, who's just upset at how they're abusing their power, then you're part of the problem. You're VERY late to the game to call out this bull. The agencies you helped grow into monsters are part and parcel of the nonsense you're calling out, now. You feed the dragon then act all self-righteous about getting scorched.
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  115. No transparency? Assume the worst.
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  116. The farther you go back in time, the more "privileged" the great thinkers are. The farther you go back in time, the less likely it is that the average person had any education, let alone the leisure to contemplate questions not immediately related to that day's food, clothing and shelter. It takes something above and beyond mere survival for us to make progress.
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  117. Louis Rossman picked up on and reported on that.
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  118. The more they cripple viewer interaction, the more they'll chase away viewers who LOVE the interaction. It's a big key to viewer engagement.
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  119. A lot of this BS will collapse without Trump in the Oval Office as the sacrificial goat. Now they'll turn on each other.
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  120. Except that the uni-news world doesn't have NEARLY the reach that it once had. It's trying. Lord knows it's trying. But the old way of getting news is dying and there's nothing they can do about it. And we see that they were never as smart or as hip as they acted, anyway.
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  121. They're not perfect. But they offer a vitally important alternative to the moribund Cold-Warrior neocon/neolib malignancies infesting our intel and foreign-policy agencies. It ALWAYS blows back. It ALWAYS erodes USA's moral high ground. After Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan, Bosnia, Kosovo, Syria (and that's just RECENTLY), it's impossible to see the USA as the good guys. We BECAME our enemy(ies). We're fascist imperialists, trending to communists, as we speak, while condemning both with our forked tongues.
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  122. Nobody in our government or on the media talking about a negotiated settlement and the FACT that previous negotiated settlements were IGNORED by the West.
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  123. They didn't cut the mic, but they essentially cut the segment short, with a long, uncomfortable silence.
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  124. People of the West are frogs on simmer.
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  125. Yes. And the way Biden "won" is going to hamstring everything he does and cause the destruction of the Democrat Party. They drank their own Kool-Aid during Obama Admin and think nothing can stand in their way. Nothing IS standing in their way. They're face-planting all on their own..
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  126. Government action against Amazon is very unlikely to end up the way you would wish. Much better for us customers to simply stop using them, and let them wither and die. SHOW them how free markets correct things much better and with much less harm than any group of technocrats.
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  127. Gettr doesn't do "dislikes," either. WTF?
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  128. It's a very big number, as a fraction of total views, which are quite low.
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  129. Not surprised. But I'm not celebrating broadcast/cable ratings, because broadcast and cable t.v. are trash and the viewers are a shrinking minority that become less relevant every day. They're pretty easy to dance around, though. You can tell in less than 5 minutes where they're getting their news from the low-info opinions, and avoid triggering them. It keeps them in their echo chamber, which is sort of sad, but it makes your day easier. It's very similar to dealing with cultists of any sort. Don't argue with the skinhead on the merits of fascism. Don't argue with Antifa on the merits of socialism. Don't argue with an ABC viewer on the merits of any Democrat talking points.
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  130. Nazi Germany had something similar. "Autarchy" was their reason/call for expansion. Heck, self-sufficiency was why the Mongol hordes devastated most of the known world. All it took was a prolonged drought, too many people, and too little grass.
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  131.  @georgewilder7423  Gray and dreary, at least it used to be polite.
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  132. Politicians love setting prices. It never turns out well.
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  133. Proving that Jimmy Carter doesn't even know what form of government the USA has.
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  134. Yes. And while I'm struck by the root-level incompetence of the Establishment, the libertarian/conservative opposition is even MORE inept.
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  135.  @mysterymachine6858  There are a lot of "libertarians" who aren't very libertarian. Especially the capital "L" Libertarians. The trouble with a libertarian mindset is you tend to be too contrary to put together any kind of unified political movement. A bunch of actual libertarians would get together, agree on the non-force principle, and go home, because organizing would be against their (our) nature. There are probably some pedos who like to talk libertarian, but as a liberty-minded person, I see that shit as an infringement on the natural rights of children. But maybe that's not where you're going with the "degenerates" remark.
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  136. As a math prof, I've been making videos for years, because students learn at different rates in different ways. I have thousands of short videos providing theory and examples that I wouldn't have time to deliver in the face time allotted. I used to win awards for my live lectures, but while I was winning those awards was probably my low point in terms of faith in live lectures as primary teaching method. But everything I do in ZOOM gets recorded and posted in public domain. I also make a PDF of everything I write during the session. In my traditional face-to-face classes, I was already going non-traditional, turning the face-to-face into an open work session, with students making use of any of my resources at any time, while I just HELP people when asked. I have to train them where the resources are and how to use them. Usually what ends up happening is they first look at the transcripts of my short videos, which are just the notes I put on the SMART notebook. If they need the voice-over, they can watch the video. If they don't, they can find what they need really quick by scrolling through the notes. Some students just slurp up all the videos. Some only watch the videos when the notes and the book aren't enough. Basically every student gets through as fast as they are capable, without me making them listen to me, live. It was a bit trickier in ZOOM, when all my classes went full-on remote and online. Now that the school's opening back up, they're keeping me "remote" and "online," because other instructors are so in love with the traditional "I'm the high priest and you will be quiet and listen to me." My approach is "I'm the facilitator. I hope the videos and notes work for you. If you need me, I'm here. If you don't, then just don't pester your classmates and turn in your homework." I try to give marching orders at the beginning of class as to where we are on the schedule and what they should be working on. But if they fall behind, they can catch up, with on-demand help. If they're ahead, I can accelerate their progress. So, basically, I have 30 INDIVIDUALS in class, all receiving a custom, on-demand product. Some students HATE that the clever priest doesn't entertain them every lecture for the full period. Other students LOVE that I don't waste their time, and have anticipated virtually every question with a video, and freed up our "face" time for their questions. I can talk to more students at THEIR level than I ever could in the traditional setting. There are also fewer mistakes in the videos, because you can re-record or edit them, to eliminate time-wasting blunders. Fewer mistakes than the ego-gratifying but inefficient live lectures.
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  137. Big Tech used the drug-dealer's business model, starting out free and thinking that their sheer size would give them an unbeatable advantage in the social-media marketplace. But to keep their doors open, so to speak, they dabbled in different corporate-sponsor models, from selling data to selling advertising. The ironies abound. They should have kept their independence by charging a small fee to users, but they couldn't get all the users if they charged ANYthing. It's kind of a Catch-22 for Big Tech in the long run. They can't GET the user numbers if they charge people for it, but people are so disgusted with their pandering to the corporate and Karen class that they can't get people to PAY them anything after all the BS they've pulled.
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  138. Covering their asses is the only thing the intel agencies are good at. Manipulating public perception is their main job, now, not understanding what's going on in the world.
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  139. C'mon now, Alex. You argue on the one hand how powerful Twitter is and then you scoff at them taking down accounts for swaying public opinion in a "wrong way." That's not the argument you should make. It's more "partisan" or "pro-Russian" position than principled position. Yes. Twitter is trash. Yes. Twitter is in it for the globalists and the stuffed-shirt, white-collar liberal elites and not for the common people. These platforms really should do more to ensure that the accounts on their platforms are actually held by real people and that those people don't have multiple accounts. I think that BOT accounts are a problem that could be solved very easily. But that still wouldn't address the thousands of 50-cent soldiers that any country can hire to spam their propaganda far and wide. It only takes a few HUNDRED to make it appear there is a groundswell of public opinion one way or the other, if they target certain things and say certain things, catalyzing thousands more goofballs to fall in line. That's the problem with the stuffed-shirt/white-collar elites. They don't MINGLE with regular people. They just use a bunch of electronic tools to test the political waters, remotely, which doesn't really tell them what's happening, let alone how to solve any problems. They see a "mob" of a few thousand people and conclude that's what everybody's thinking, which is why policies coming down from elite circles make absolutely zero sense to the vast majority of people. As always, the "elites" see which way they THINK things are headed, and rush to the front of the parade with their giant batons, pretending to LEAD. You see them proudly marching and brandishing the baton, and they get that wonderful photo opportunity for which they seem to live. Then 5 minutes later, they turn around and they're all alone waving a baton, while the actual parade is marching off in another direction.
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  140. The trouble as I see it is that government really wanted these social media platforms to exist, and followed a drug-dealer's methods: Give the stuff away for free, and extract money, later. The trouble with that model is that people balk at paying for something they're used to getting for free. And so to make the platforms economically viable, they sold user info to advertisers and started censoring content to please those advertisers. Everybody complaining about FB, Twitter and YouTube needs to think about their own role in creating these monsters. You want it for free AND you want it to be perfect. Good luck with that. When you're taking charity, you get what you get, and you're grateful. People who are pissed-off at Big Tech platforms need to support alt-tech platforms. I used to think that buying Premium on YouTube would help separate them from the corporate BORG, but about a year into my wonderful Premium YouTube, they pulled some of their worst shit, and so I canceled my premium. When/if they wise up and become a true platform, I will gladly pay for premium. I just don't see that ever happening under their current leadership and their current business model.
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  141. I just got a phone survey from Comcast. They didn't like what I had to say. First phone poll I've responded to in my life. Just fed up with what all those big cable and tech companies are doing.
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  142. Hearing that, my big fear is neocons at the top staging a false-flag tactical-nuke attack, when it becomes clear they can't match Russian forces, conventionally. Guys like Graham really creep me out. Guys like that should be issued a rifle and sent to the front lines.
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  143. He knows he'll get away with it just like he got away with everything else. He can commit the most blatant of crimes and just accuse Trump of something else, if not the very same thing, and it will all go away. That's a man who knows the fix is in.
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  144. When American media aren't accusing anyone who opposes the takeover of their country by commies, eco-fascists, groomers, and public-health fascists, they're ignoring the actual Nazis the USA's supporting in Ukraine.
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  145. Russian Orthodox is a counter-weight to Islam. Putin's support of the church can be seen as a purely political move. Cheering for traditional, Christian families is part of his antidote to Islam.
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  146. I never saw the attraction in Twatter, when I saw how Tweets were limited to x-hundred characters. Heck, I have a hard time staying under 200 characters in realtime chat. And almost nothing I want to weigh in on and say can be said in a few hundred characters. You can float witty one-liners and post memes, I suppose, but you're not really being informed or informing anyone with one-liners. As for FaceBook, it was a wonderful platform for putting people in touch across the country/planet. Then its ownership saw how the free thinking libertarians and anti-establishment conservatives were DOMINATING, quite organically, because their IDEAS were dominating. Since then, FaceBook's been wanting to suppress conservative/libertarian ideas, and looked for any and every excuse to justify doing so What SHOULD be happening, now, is these platforms need to restrict themselves to PLATFORM duties. Instead of policing their own content, they should be creating and marketing content filters from which their clients may choose, to customize their feeds. The minute they start policing their own content FOR their customers, they SHOULD be held to the standards of publishers and LOSE all the special protections in Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. I personally think the entire CDA should be abolished. It's not government's job to enforce "decency," and it is DEFinitely not government's job to give a handful of Big Tech companies special protections not afforded to the rest of us. Equal Protection Under Law is a principle pre-dating the U.S. Constitution, and explicitly a part of the U.S. Constitution, in the form of the 14th Amendment.
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  147. Instead of a "Report Abuse" that goes to the FB/Twatter/YT gods/parents, there should be a button for one-click blocking of assholes, and a variety of filtering apps from which to choose, so that custom-ers can custom-ize their feeds. For kids, I'm reminded of my primitive hacker-fighting days on an early Linux server. There's a hosts:allow and a hosts:deny. For adults, basically allow all until the customer decides on what to get rid of, with a free or almost-free filtering app. For kids, parents should just deny:ALL and then add the sites they deem appropriate for their children.
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  148.  @icthulu  Isn't Bing Microsoft? Duckduckgo is pretty much the same corporate search results as you see on Google.
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  149. The double standard has served the West well, for decades, but it's built up a lot of resistance and blowback, around the world. You have to understand these people are meddlers, and their actions and policies always create blowback, but the decision-makers are always one step ahead, on to their next extortion/regime-change operation. This is fine, when you dominate militarily and industrially. But the West has exported its energy and industrial capacity, and done everything it could to destroy its social cohesion (and coherency) at the same time. It's about to catch up, and it's not going to be pretty. I don't think the masses of the people at home are going to back their next few plays. I just hope we survive it.
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  150.  @jakebullet1731  "Yes, Johnny. Your answer is wonderfully diverse. It doesn't look anything like my solution. A+!"
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  151. They're not afraid of Vladimir! They're afraid of Joe! Biden would be humiliated by a joint press conference with Putin. "Being There" was a farcical comedy starring Peter Sellers. Nobody imagined it was prophecy in film.
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  152. That's OK. I'm never using the apple store ever again, anyway.
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  153. They need her to rescue them from too much freedom and happiness, apparently.
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  154. It will all be handled by Joe's, uh, handlers. They are also clueless, but they're not obviously senile. It amounts to the same thing for foreign leaders dealing with the USA. Trump was a lot easier to get along with, because - like all leaders everywhere - he had the interests of the USA foremost in his mind. It's the Cold-War-Mindset policy wonks who act like weaklings today, and are dropping bombs on you, tomorrow. Ignorant, mercurial, and very much disconnected from reality.
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  155. Bitcoin is the opposite of government-destroyed currency.
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  156. The so-called "left" is just re-branded authoritarian socialism, which is just old-fashioned Divine Right of Kings re-branded. "We know better than you, and so you must do as we say." That's not "left." It stopped being "left" when they started the Free Stuff in the '40s. Social Security recruited a lot of Democrats. But that was nothing compared with Great Society of the '60s. And with each new hand-out, the surveillance state and the authoritarianism got a little bit bigger and more intrusive, and the more eagerly weak people voted for them. Now we are treated like ignorant peasants, and they still think this is "libralism." It's not liberalism. It's a "nice" way to drag us back into the serfdom liberalism emerged centuries ago to combat.
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  157. I'm too old to be enraged. I'm numb. Propping up corrupt regimes for strategic/economic/imperial purposes has a LONG history in U.S. foreign and security policy. The Shah of Iran, numerous dictatorships in Africa, tinpot dictators in Central and South America. It's always for short-term gain, and it's always absolutely TOXIC over the long run: bad for the USA and the nations we meddle with.
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  158. Honestly, I don't think Trump much cared about Nordstream 2. It just was a total contradiction of all the security arrangements we have with NATO to defend Europe from Russia (actually, the Soviet Union). You don't depend on your enemy for gas and oil. Regardless of all the green-tech propaganda, Europe has an insatiable appetite for fossil fuels, as do all the liberals up and down the Eastern seaboard of the USA who FREAKED when the Colonial Pipeline got hacked. I think it's FINE if the Euros want to buy gas and oil from Russia. I also think we should pull all our troops out of Europe and quit paying billions every year to protect them. We use our support of NATO to coerce NATO countries into supporting our military adventurism everywhere, especially in the Middle East. Our foreign-policy and national-security apparatus are still living a 1947 reality that hasn't existed since the 1980s, and even THEN, they were over-estimating the Soviet military threat by a factor of 10. I was a hawk in the 1980s, and I believed the intel community's estimates. It turns out it was all nonsense, just a narrative to keep weapons manufacturers fat and happy.
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  159. COVID and any other excuse our leaders can find to wreck our economies.
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  160. All those networks are fighting over a shrinking - mostly low-info-liberal - pie.
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  161. In fairness to Joe Biden, his handlers made him the point man for hypocritical and harmful policies. I don't think Obama himself can find and apply the proper lipstick to this pig. Joe got elected because he could just mumble his way past key questions without giving a clear answer. Worked well in 2020, when Demokkkrat open-borders policy was canon, yet utterly indefensible outside the think-tank echo chamber.
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  162. One thing about bending the knee is it puts your hand closer to that rock on the ground next to you.
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  163.  @fredk9999  So you like big-spending Republican RINOs?
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  164. Watching Hannity is like watching a soap opera. If you want to keep current, just tune in once a month.
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  165.  @ccahill2322  That's an odd interpretation of history. Government-run health care is mainly good for the government. Builds loyalty and obedience in the population. But as far as health outcomes go, you're never going to get the best outcomes when the people making the decisions have no stake in either providing care nor in keeping the cost of that care under control. It's not their body, so they don't really care if you are healthy. It's not their money, so they don't really care if it's affordable. You think it's great until you discover that your particular condition is either not covered or there's a waiting line of 6 months or a year to get that service. If you want best service at the best price, you go private. If you wan worst service at highest price, put the government bureaucrats in charge. It also leaves out the most basic consideration which is when the government's paying for it, you are penalized for all the people who make bad choices. That's bad enough, but when things get tight, then the government will be able to punish people for bad health practices, like denying service because you're overweight, drink alcohol or smoke tobacco, etc. All that stuff should be at your own risk and you pay the full cost of the consequences. Government intervention divorces the individual from individual responsibility.
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  166. "We're disabling the features you love for your own good. You're welcome." - Every software company and Big Tech platform in existence
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  167. Sounds like the Chinese people know what's up and the CCP is scared. CCP is scared all the time.
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  168. TikTok sucks, but its one redeeming feature is that the U.S. Government doesn't have a back door to censor it, like it does EVERY Big-Tech platform.
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  169. I see little difference between the prayer-in-school conservative types and the med-4-all progressive types. Neither would mind imposing THEIR ideas on everyone else by force, if they only had the political clout to do so. The trouble with the libertarian types is that by our nature, we abhor the use of force!
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  170. 3 minutes. You gotta jump to 2 minutes to get past the commercials. He sneaks 'em into the middle of his shows, now, too. I think he's good at what he does, but he's a semi-grifter, who'll show you the tippy-top of a graph a mile high, zoom in on a 2-inch drop, and shout "Stock Prices Imploding!" He really likes the word "implode" in his headlines. Still, a person who's not up on the storylines can get up to speed on some of them from Dr. Steve. He exaggerates everything, but he is correct about the underlying socio-cultural trends that run in the exact opposite direction of the establishment elites. There is a sea change taking place in the collective consciousness, and the Great Reset taking place in the highest places are nothing in comparison. He calls it "nationalist populism," and to an extent that's true, but I think it goes a lot deeper than that. It's back to family first, then neighborhood, then town, and the top-down stuff, dictated by establishment elites, is fighting a desperate rearguard action, which can be seen by the ENDLESS doubling-down on more and more outrageous nonsense that leaves more and more of the population saying "WTF?" Meanwhile, Yankee ingenuity is sweeping the planet. There are so many people in so many places around the world sharing ways of thinking and ways of doing things, that I think the people are changing faster than the legacy institutions who rule them. This has actually always been the case, or the Roman Empire would just be the world government. Or the Mongol Empire. Or the Chinese Empire. Or the British Empire. We just don't notice this, because all the history books talk about are the (increasingly) irrelevant actors at the top.
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  171. Actually, it was started by physicists who wanted to share data.
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  172. What Poland's doing will ultimately be bad. The last thing we want is to impose new regulations. What we should do is REMOVE special protections. That's what they're hiding behind. Big Tech and Corporate robber barons will most certainly use/twist the regulations aimed at them as a vehicle to crush any up-and-coming platforms who would compete with them. Just ditch the Communications Decency Act, entirely, including the infamous Section 230 that protects Big Tech platforms from the consequences of their blatantly political actions. Nobody's forcing you to watch ANYthing. You've always had the choice of reading whatever tabloid or conspiracy-theory rags you wanted, since publishing was invented. Let people filter their OWN content, by choosing from a wide array of filtering products. Want to protect your kids? Find parental-controls products. Otherwise, the government needs to step off and BACK OFF. There are plenty of laws on the books regarding defamation, incitement of violence, and libel/slander. Clean up THOSE laws, including the ones that allow you to libel or slander public figures. One law for all. Period. If a regular citizen can block a troll, so can the president or any politician or other public figure. Equal protection under the law. It cuts both ways. Usually, the politicians get special privileges they shouldn't. But under the current system, anyone challenging the establishment - even from within the establishment - can be crushed in the public square. That's BS. Trump is the poster child for this. Instead, we will make laws/regs that are messed-up and too complicated, and re-visit them over and over, adding MORE fine print, to the delight of the lawyers and the dismay of ordinary citizens. Sick of it. Make up a crisis. Then ram through bad law and bad regulations, while you've got everybody's attention and an apparent (rarely real) threat.
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  173. You have no idea.
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  174.  @WornOnlyOnce  U.S. Deep State is very confident.
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  175. I'm gonna fly to your city and lecture you on how sinful you are for driving your car and trying to stay warm in winter.
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  176. FaceBook or Twitter or YouTube grandstanding on Free Speech is the richest irony.
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  177. Yes, but there's a limit on how many people they can set on how many other people at the same time. As a rule, you see countries like Turkey get ahead of the curve, because of despotic rule. Erdogan can outlaw a company and they're done. That's harder to do in the West, usually. But countries the size of an average state in the United States can all be of one mind much more easily than a nation made up of 50 states that same size.
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  178. My institutions is all Google Suite. But that's OK. They're more woke than Google.
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  179. Trump resisted. All other presidents since Reagan were part of the machine and either went along or led the charge.
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  180. Amazon and Google should have been prosecuted, long since, for violating anti-trust. This is racketeering, plain and simple.
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  181. The new white saviors are going after the old white saviors. Heh. Yeah. Politics is polluting STEM.
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  182. It's made quite the splash. Last few days, it's been head to head with that Time article about election rigging.
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  183. Total mouth-breather. At least they captured that part.
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  184. Lindsey Graham's a stain on the Republican Party. All the old guard are big-spending war mongers. In the current theater, it's the NATO side who are more likely to resort to tactical nukes, because they can't win a conventional war, there. Strong anti-war sentiment is simmering in the general public. The manufacture of consent - and popularity of bloodthirsty politicians like Lindsey Graham - is waning. "There's strong bi-partisan support for this" means the Uni-Party has come up with another way to blow things up and steal more money from the citizenry.
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  185. You're not a serious person if you take a jet to a climate conference and come back telling me I'm going to have to walk everywhere in order to prevent global warming.
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  186. Dems will soon ditch Brandon for following their directions. Biden's just another useful idiot.
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  187. Abolish Communications Decency Act and its Section 230 that protects the censorious Big Tech at the expense of any new competitors. Government stepping in will just make the problem worse, the same as it has done to numerous other industries. You wonder why Big beats Small? Because that's the nature of government regulation. Right when the public thinks the government is sticking it to the big corporations, it is HELPING the big corporation. Complex regulations destroy small outfits that can't afford to comply with all the complicated rules. Small outfits can't hire a "compliance officer" whose only job is to keep the regulators happy. Small companies aren't big enough to hire anyone who doesn't actually PRODUCE something. Liberals and progressives do the bidding of big corporations while spending all their time complaining about big corporations. When CONSERVATIVES start screaming for the government to step in and "fix" Big Tech, then we are lost. If government just backed off and let everyone compete, the bad practices of Big Tech would destroy their bottom line. These PLATFORMS should just be PLATFORMS. Like the phone service has no right to monitor and censor phone conversations. There are already plenty of laws on the books. If YouTube's business model says they should censor content on their platform, then let them. And because they choose to censor, they become publishers. Because they are publishers, they should fall under all the same rules and regulations that apply to publishers. They should not have it both ways. It's bad for the public and it's bad for them, too, in the long run. You want to protect children? Have a KidTube to which access is totally under parents' control. Instead of worrying about filtering OUT bad content, let the parents decide what channels they will ALLOW, with a default door lock on everything else. On AdultTube, anything should go, consistent with the traditional standards of libel, slander, threats of violence and inciting violence. Communications Decency Act and Fairness Doctrine (created when regressive Christians were afraid somebody might use a cuss word on-air) end up meaning the opposite, in actual practice, because NO ONE should have the right to decide these things. If someone is blatantly breaking the law, then there are courts for that, already.
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  188. Yes. "Non-profit" means one biliionaire's money being laundered on a massive scale.
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  189. Embracing fools like Cardi B is where the establishment makes it very clear they're out of touch.
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  190. They're definitely leaking users. We'll see if that leak becomes a river. I hope so.
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  191. I'm fine with embargo. I'm not fine with blockade.
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  192. At least they got the mouth-breather part right.
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  193. It's all pretty much in your face. Mueller appointed special counsel, with HIS track record of parallel construction and blurring the lines between criminal and terrorist to weaponize the intelligence services against drug dealers or anybody else somebody wants to classify as a threat or a terrorist. "We were justified because these are really bad people." Well, sometimes they are, and sometimes they're just people some high official doesn't like or feels threatened by. I can't believe we have the same party that weaponized federal agencies against partisan foes back in the White House after only one Republican term. The Obama alumni ran out the clock against Trump and are back in force. They have no idea what they're doing, but they're really good at obtaining and abusing power to KEEP power. These are pretty dark times, and I don't know if even a Republican president can put a dent in one-party rule of federal agencies.
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  194.  @JohnPap21  Yup. If you don't put all your eggs in that basket, its volatility can work to your advantage. You just hold it until it spikes, and sell it off. The trick is never being in a position where you must sell.
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  195. ... and illegal immigrants living rent-free at the Hilton.
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  196.  @corylombard  Very measured. Sound strategist. Only objectives he's failing to achieve are ones NATO mistakenly projects on him. It's like Democrats in the USA, lashing out with allegations and prosecutions whenever they've been exposed for committing the crimes of which they accuse others. NATO is the thief who's certain everyone else must also be a thief, because that's how they think. There is no benefit of the doubt with these criminals for anyone else.
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  197. I think Russia's still operating in the black, as a government, and in trade. If Putin can simultaneously keep a lid on inflation at home AND experience devalued ruble abroad, there's no stopping him. For the first 150 of the USA, we borrowed in war, and re-paid in peace. The finance-based US economy is about to drown in worthless paper, with its once-enormous, resource-and-manufacturing base in tatters. Its fundamental world view is rooted in fallacy and delusion, a world view based on 50-year-old assumptions that no longer apply. It would be easy to right the ship and change course to a sustainable future, but to the politicians, "sustainability" is a battery-powered pipe dream, whose reality would cause far more bad than good, just like the nanny state, just like the COVID response. They're deluded. Some of them must also be quite mad. Certainly many of them are senile.
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  198. I pray not.
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  199. The meeting only brought a dose of reality. Exposed the hypocrisy.
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  200.  @andreimoutchkine5163  My little sister had a guinea pig for a while. Never understood why that was even a thing. I don't know much of anything about Navalny. I know that Putin's pretty authoritarian, but that's what most countries seem to want: an authority figure who is strong, wise and has the best interests of the country in mind. USA used to be different, but human nature has most people yearning for a 'great leader' who will 'save us,' when what people mostly need is to be left the hell alone.
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  201. Just so you understand that in Turley's vocabulary, a 2% drop is an "implosion," you'll be fine. He spins real hard for his nationalist-populist holy grail, and he's not above extreme exaggeration to pump the sunshine. If you got back a couple years, you'll see that he's always laying a smokescreen between today's optimism and yesterday's failed prophecy.
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  202.  @Rocketed12  And both parties are part of it. The politicians have their own incentives and goals and they have little to do with handing a better future to our children.
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  203.  @ogunsiron2  Yup. They'll create a crisis and people will demand that the government(s) step in and it'll all be over.
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  204. Ain't you ever seen an Asian flying to the grocery store? Why do you think they're such bad drivers? They don't get much practice behind the wheel.
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  205. Russi's alliance/detente with China could be a sticking point for India, down the road. But for now, the lunacy of USA/NATO/EU is enough to keep fence-sitter nations from backing USA/NATO/EU.
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  206. Russia isn't above destabilizing its neighbors. I can see where Ukraine, Georgia and Rumania might want some muscle behind them. I just think NATO and the EU are a bunch of clowns, and Austin is on a list of admin officials and generals, some or all of whom should've been sacked for the Afghanistan debacle.
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  207. By NOT fighting a pre-emptive war against Hitler, we ensured his eventual defeat. By restraining ourselves, Hitler overreached and the good guys versus bad guys line was clearly drawn. Hitler was never going to obtain his goal of autarchy. The Caucasus oil fields were simply too far away. The USSR was simply too big. And we wouldn't even have had a Hitler at all, if the USA hadn't stuck its nose into European affairs and done the British Empire's dirty work for it in World War I, which was basically a war between the British and French empires and allies and the Germans and Ottomans. We don't need to involve ourselves in their pissing matches. We never did. George Washington warned against this, and almost every president in U.S. history, except Calvin Coolidge, chafed at such restrictions, seeing themselves as God Kings and Emperors and seeking glory and popularity by being "strong" in the traditional, monarchical sense.
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  208. For FOX News, zero Fox given.
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  209. Watching Tucker supports big corporations that are the reason cable news is such trash. All those big advertisers, car companies and the like. There's nothing those networks say that doesn't have the go-ahead from every one of those big advertisers.
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  210. Can't fire the Deep State.
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  211. I see what you're saying, but government taking a bigger cut of the economy NEVER helps the little guy who would otherwise be just fine if their government weren't intervening where it had no business interfering. A pox on governments on "both sides."
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  212. Yes. People can still make free choices in the market that are less invasive.
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  213. I saw a headline that said Elon's taking over Twitter on Friday. Didn't read it. Haven't seen anything else about it.
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  214. Hiring Donna Brazile left no doubt in anyone's mind.
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  215. We're BROKE! We're WORSE than broke! Mike Johnson and his Democrat allies are insane and irresponsible. Is it malice or is it greed or is it just stupidity?
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  216. It puts things in a totally different perspective, when you see how the health-care mafia views its own dictates.
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  217.  @marque22ful  "This time," it looks like the West is on an unsound footing, in debt to its eyeballs and relying on imported energy and food from countries they insist on antagonizing.
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  218. The PR team at the White House is no more oblivious to the symbolism than the small audience to which they pander. Yes, it's ridiculous from the outside, looking in, but millions are inside, and never looking out. Let them remain in their echo chamber, and may the echo chamber shrink to the vanishing point, as the rest of the world moves right on past them.
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  219.  @okelliesfarm  Yeah. Fake.
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  220. Those fines should be rescinded and the people imposing the lock-downs should all be fired.
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  221. Never fear. The American political class is sufficiently bought off. USA will remain UK's and Israel's proxy for the foreseeable.
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  222. Summer begins on the Solstice, about 3 weeks from now. Officially.
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  223. The next t.v. contract negotiations are gonna be a hoot! All the NFL's salary structure is based on big money from the networks. It just went up in woke-smoke.
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  224. We still have 80% of our uranium reserves to sell to them, while we berate them.
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  225. You're damning him with faint praise. He cured cancer. He kept the Earth spinning on its axis. He saved us all from being trampled by elephants (See any elephants in your back yard? That was Biden.).
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  226. They're upset that Africa will get cheap grain (and they won't).
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  227. I think EU/NATO/USA think it's 1946.
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  228.  Pinnedby Alex Christoforou   Oh Alex. I'm so excited you noticed little old me, and were so taken by me that you changed your signature, just for me!
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  229. Biden couldn't even win a primary until the Democrat hierarchy anointed him and everybody else dropped out.
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  230. FOX's audience was bound to shrink, anyway. All those commercial-interrupted legacy networks are fighting over the low-info people who still watch legacy-network t.v. If you're higher-information conservative/libertarian, FOX didn't represent the best and brightest, with the exception of Gutfeld, and even he and his crowd were careful what toes they stepped on. I know Tucker Carlson's some kind of cult figure, but he kind of a tradition-for-tradition's sake kind of commentator, too. There's no room for a real, hippie-type and well-informed libertarian like Styxhexenhammer666, and certainly no room for YoungRippa59, Dave Rubin or Matt Christiansen, to name a few. And I think they're all doing just fine without going to work for an outfit like FOX.
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  231. In other words, the Fauci model of public service!
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  232. London has fallen.
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  233. Joe McCann doesn't know the difference between "who's" and "whose."
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  234. It's all by design. Destroy our lives and present themselves as our saviors. It's like our government(s) is(are) run by Baron Harkonnen.
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  235. It's much cheaper to support refugees before they become refugees. The BEST help for Ukraine is an end to hostilities.
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  236. Doesn't matter if you're buying at the bottom, as long as you're not buying at the top.
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  237. Musk is a shameless self-promoter, but he's the only "oligarch" I've seen who's taken a contrary, public stance on matters COVID and Ukraine. Musk is new money. He wants a future to make more money. He doesn't want to rule over ashes, like so many elites seem bent on doing.
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  238. More whistling past the graveyard.
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  239.  @mars54mars54  It's not "U.S. mentality." It's the mentality of a small group of supposed elites, who can't see the world around them from their ivory-tower penthouses.
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  240.  @cathere9631  Yes. They couldn't make more disastrous policy decisions if their PURPOSE were to create crippling disaster. We're under water in debt, and they act like money is a limitless resource. This was always the danger from our framework of government. They fought it off for a while, but eventually the people would figure out they could vote themselves a living, and the politicians are always happy to oblige. It's not their money. We give them money for some basic functions and they spend it on everything BUT those basic functions.
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  241. American presidents SHOULD be blunt. We've been shocking the world with our plain speech since our inception. It's the elites and would-be elites that clutch their pearls at "decorum," which is basically "You should smile and lie, rather than speak plain truth." I'd rather have a president who speaks plainly and doesn't go out of his way to kill people, than have a president who purrs like a kitten while he's bombing people.
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  242. Zelensky's appearances never carried much weight with me, from the get-go.
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  243. It'll be news if Joe actually engages in a give-and-take, live, like Trump did on an every-day basis. This is not news.
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  244. Twitter needs competition. Hopefully, enough competition to bankrupt it.
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  245. It's pretty much always been this way. Just fewer people noticed. That surreal feeling will go away in 10 years or so, when you get a better sense of how people are perceiving things, rather than wasting your time trying to explain how things really are and pretty much always have been. We have better toys, but the human condition hasn't changed all that much in 10s or 100s of thousands of years. It's all the same stuff. If it ain't one religion, it's another. When religion is abandoned, political ideologies fill that "god hole" in the human consciousness, that seeks for a greater meaning, a True Purpose to make sense of a temporary existence bereft of an Ultimate 'Why?'
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  246. Do you think the dollar will mean anything if electricity isn't around?
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  247. Serves US right for expecting all these free platforms to actually be free. It's our own stinginess that has them following big corporate dollars. We're their product, not their customers. It's the big advertisers who are dictating content on Big Tech platforms, turning them into the same quagmire as cable t.v. Ironically, we're still buying products from the companies that advertise on corporate media.
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  248. If I had that kind of salary, I'd be set for retirement after a year or two, and I'd say what I wanted and work for whomever I wished after that, assuming I'd even want to work, which is highly doubtful.
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  249. To me, this is nothing new. The U.S. Government has never been the kind of government I was raised to respect (limited, constitutional republic). This is how it's always been. Always disappointed with every budget and the allocation of every budget.
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  250. CNN is just a whipping boy, at this point. Nobody watches them. They get more play by conservative critics than anywhere else. Biden's gonna be a whipping boy, too. He's only doing what his puppetmasters direct him to do, but he'll be kicked to the curb in the next election cycle, and the Demokkkrat machine will say it was all his fault, but their NEW candidate is PERFECT.
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  251. Yes. The establishment hates truth-speakers.
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  252. It's not about Joe. It's about a failed policy platform and an unchecked and corrupt permanent state. Joe's just a symptom. The guy who mumbled his way through the 2020 debates got the nomination because even though the Democrats were fervent in their woke platform, they all had to know that a president who ran on and followed through on that platform would never get re-elected. Now we'll have to see if the Dems carry on with Joe or decide to dump him. I've always had a suspicion that they'd try to dump Joe at the last minute and Newsom or Michelle Obama ride a wave of euphoria that lasts through the first week of November. It'll have to be timed just right, if that's their intention.
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  253. Since when did the facts stand in the way of Pentagon narratives?
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  254.  @DieselRamcharger  Actually, it's all capitalism. It's just not free-market capitalism. Even socialist countries raise capital and invest it in various projects. They just don't have FREE markets. Free-market capitalism is good for everyone. Fascist/socialist capitalism is good for the elites and bad for the common man.
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  255.  @davidotness6199  That formerly destitute majority also threatens the CCP. If China takes a step backward, there are millions of educated people who're going to be angry/disillusioned. Russia is still authoritarian. Its advantage is the West keeping the threat level high enough to keep the Russian people more or less of one mind. Their democratic institutions are only skin deep, but for the time being, Putin has been highly competent and immensely popular. Very ruthless, some would say "as needed," but the vast majority have had their personal needle pointing up for most of Putin's presidency. A truly free America would swamp Russia in every way, economically, but the USA is busy cutting its own throat, experimenting VERY clumsily with top-down economics. It's creeping in, gradually, but the growth of agencies and the sheer volume of regulations amount to a pretty bad copy of planned economies once associated only with tyranny. Of course, they're STILL associated with tyranny, but the America people are slow to wake up to it because they, like the Chinese, have enjoyed economic prosperity for a pretty long time, now. When the top-down governments start failing, that's when they're in jeopardy. China's already got that figured out. The USA? Not so much.
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  256. Work on "Poilievre."
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  257. FOX alienated the audience it once had. But they're ALL fighting over a shrinking number of people who still watch legacy-network news in the traditional way. Those of a more libertarian or conservative persuasion were already a small and shrining piece of the overall pie. FOX was the single biggest player in news, but when you factor in the fact that all the other networks were pumping out virtually identical content, you see that the vast majority of brain-dead, legacy-network viewers were low-info Democrats, who're inoculated against FOX, anyway.
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  258. The clip was cut up. Would like to see it un-cut. Nevertheless, you can always count on Lindsey Graham to be the tip of the stupid spear.
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  259. They were desperate when they signed Minsk I, and only agreed to the terms to extricate themselves from a hopeless position. But they never liked the agreement.
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  260. The REAL trend to track is the steady decline in viewership for ALL those traditional t.v. networks. They're not the only game in town, any more. What's more, they're not even very competitive, in spite of all the advantages of Big Tech boosting them and the fact that they were here, first.
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  261. Now you know how we Americans feel.
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