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

  1. 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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  2.  @js70371  Ain't gonna argue against you on that.
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  3.  @MnemonicCarrier  Well put!
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  4. This doesn't make me want to believe in sex-trafficking conspiracy theories. Not at all.
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  5. "You must give up your way of life to preserve your way of life." - NATO Leadership
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  6. Stop day trading and speculating. Diversify. Take your time.
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  7. I despise that weakling, who never saw a war he didn't like.
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  8. 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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  9. Putin's no saint, but he's steeped in reality and advocates for his nation.
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  10. I was very sad to hear of Zelensky's suicide next month.
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  11.  @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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  12. 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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  13.  @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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  14. 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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  15. No transparency? Assume the worst.
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  16. 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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  17. Louis Rossman picked up on and reported on that.
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  18. 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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  19. 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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  20. 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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  21. 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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  22. 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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  23. They didn't cut the mic, but they essentially cut the segment short, with a long, uncomfortable silence.
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  24. People of the West are frogs on simmer.
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  25. 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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  26. 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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  27. Gettr doesn't do "dislikes," either. WTF?
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  28. It's a very big number, as a fraction of total views, which are quite low.
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  29. 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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  30. 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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  31.  @georgewilder7423  Gray and dreary, at least it used to be polite.
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  32. Politicians love setting prices. It never turns out well.
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  33. Proving that Jimmy Carter doesn't even know what form of government the USA has.
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  34. 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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  35.  @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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  36. 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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  37. 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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  38. 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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  39. 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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  40. 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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  41. 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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  42. 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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  43. 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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  44. 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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  45. 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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  46. 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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  47. 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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  48.  @icthulu  Isn't Bing Microsoft? Duckduckgo is pretty much the same corporate search results as you see on Google.
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  49. 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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  50.  @jakebullet1731  "Yes, Johnny. Your answer is wonderfully diverse. It doesn't look anything like my solution. A+!"
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