Comments by "Tony Wilson" (@tonywilson4713) on "The Majority Report w/ Sam Seder" channel.

  1.  @dudeman5303  Your right - its the whole confirmation bias issue that's the single biggest issue with social media when it comes to social and political issues. One of the big problems for most people is they either they wont take the time to think about issues or they don't have the ability to think through complex issues. So they tend to look for people who will summarize things for them. That leaves them wide open to being manipulated by BAD FAITH ACTORS. History is littered with such people, but what makes our time so more volatile is the BFAs never had a platform like social media. In previous generations people like Tim Poole would have been lucky to speak to several hundred people. In the era of radio he might have reached 1,000s and TV 100s of 1000s. But now people like him can reach out to millions. That makes the possibility of them reaching out to an already disturbed person a lot more likely. This is my real problem with the Tim Poole's of the world THEY DON'T CARE how biased their crap is or who it affects. This is the real flaw in the Ayn Rand "me, me, me, before anything else" nonsense. You end up with people like Tim Poole having influence over disturbed people and when it goes wrong they blame everyone else. And never underestimate that BFAs can come from any direction - left, right, up down and any color of the rainbow.
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  2.  @notaspeck6104  Absolutely. 2 of the things that annoy me because at the very least we don't have answers: 1) John Howard is a lawyer (as are many others in federal parliament) and I find it damn hard to think that he never did a class in international law and as such WHEN did he know the invasion of Iraq was ILLEGAL under International Law? I keep hearing that we prescribe to the "Rules Based Order" but what is that exactly and what treaties and laws are we obliged to abide by? 2) There's footage the ABC showed of one of the "wrongful deaths" in Afghanistan. You can hear the stress in the Australian Soldiers voice. He's all but out of control with stress and its ugly. It has NOT come out just how stressed those guys were due to the time they spent there. Was what happened wrong? YES, but why were our soldiers there for so long that they ended up so stressed they did those things?
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  3.  @Robertlynschultz  Its called spin-off technologies and NASA has been doing it since the Apollo program. The computer you are on right now can trace parts of its history back to Apollo. Actual digital computing was given a giant kick start via Apollo. Many of the manufacturing techniques and methods can trace their history back to Apollo. On local transportation anything to do with aerodynamic efficiency that's prevalent in trains, buses, trucks, modern jets.... etc can trace its way back to NASA and its predecessor the NACA. There's a staggering amount of modern alloys have history in NASA. For American industry and the American economy NASA has been the gift that keeps on giving. It just doesn't advertise it well.
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  4.  @Robertlynschultz  I remember the "NASA Tech Briefs" and the system they had. It was brilliant until it wasn't. So I absolutely agree with your point that that tech pipeline has slowed (and possibly stopped) BUT THEN that begs the question. WHY? If there is something that needs asking is WHY has the tech pipeline slowed or stopped? Scott Manley did a great video on the absurd situation with SLS and the 2 teams doing the same job because 2 senators want to keep those jobs in their states. If they'd stop and think then NOBODY would need to lose their jobs just re-assign them to other tasks. Right now one of the main reasons nobody has been back to the moon is because there are so many technologies that are NOT ready. So does NASA need to rethink what it does and how it does things? YES, YES and YES a 1,000 more times.
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  5. Me neither but then I think I might have been caught on this one too, because its a very fine line between 2 almost identical examples and unless you get BOTH questions up front it could (not would) be easy to jump on a simple answer like JP did and then get caught out. I'm Australian and really proud that Jim Jefferies has asked such a brilliant pair of questions. The British lawyer Jeffery Robertson used to come to Australia and do these hypothetical discussions with panels of people and this was his stock & trade. Ask the first question with the aim to get a simple straight forward answer and then flip it on its head with the follow up question. If you take that first question in isolation and say forcing (through law) a business to serve a particular person is authoritarian. Being honest its the government asserting its authority to make and enforce rules. So such a rule is authoritarian, but the point Jim makes is that Governments can make rules & laws that are good for everyone. This something people on the Right and especially Libertarians can't grasp. When they make a rule or law its NEVER authoritarian because in their mind they are preserving liberty and WILL FORCE that rule on everyone as they are doing in America with the abortion laws (and yes that's a big deal around the world). BUT WHEN other people make rules and especially rules or laws they don't like then Right Wingers scream foul and Libertarians being even further to the right go off their rockers. JUST SO YOU ALL KNOW - American Libertarians are pushing their agenda's across the world right now. Here in Australia we just failed to pass a referendum that (in part) would recognise that Australia's Aboriginal peoples (First Nations) in the constitution. The No campaign which was straight out fee mongering, was lead by people (including Aboriginal people) who are involved in Australia's Right Wing Libertarian Think Tanks and those Think Tanks have links to America's Right Wing Libertarian Think Tanks. FOR PROOF - go and look up the Institute of Public Affairs here on YT. The IPA is Australia's most prominent and vocal and well funded Think Tank. If you scroll down their home page to "Other Organisations" you'll see the links to Heritage, CATO,.... etc.
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  6.  @surfwriter8461  I could not have said any of that better, especially the warped sense of individual liberty the libertarians have. If you don't you should watch Thom Hartman on libertarians. He doesn't hold back on discussing where their nonsense came from. The other person to check out is Peter Zeihan. In several of his longer presentations he discusses that this is the 6th or 7th time America has gone through a major political shift. he says its never smooth and usually takes around 8 years before settling back down and we are only at year 4 maybe and maybe it will take longer if Trump gets a 2nd term. From the outside looking in - America's biggest problem seems to be that older generation (over 75) made up of the older 1/2 of the baby boomers and the survivors of the silent generation. They just wont let go and retire. That includes both the political and business leaders.
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  7.  @mckenzie.latham91  Yeah well you pretty much said his mouth is well ahead of brain function because all that sort of stuff is so easy to check. I don't give much of a damn about RB. He claims to care about society and other people but he keeps making headlines for all the wrong reasons.
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  8. Its not a matter of how many brain cells they have its a matter of how many of them actually function. And the answer is - NOT MANY.
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  9. ​ @taranullius9221  Careful because although you are right about many things and that fact our immigration camps left a lot to be desired they were never close to concentration camps. I'll agree any day of the week we could have done better and should have done better. Many years ago when there were similar issues with Ethnic Vietnamese fleeing southern China, by chance I met a lawyer who handled some of those cases. She couldn't tell me anything about any case but I asked the general question of why these cases take so long. I think at the time they were taking 3-5 years. She basically told the single biggest problem is these people carry no identification. The first thing they do when they start to their journey is destroy everything that might link them to anything. That way they can't be sent back to anywhere because NOBODY knows where back is. This is why they get caught in limbo. They can't prove their claims and nobody else can prove or dis-prove anything. I also just checked what I could and Statista has a graph showing that at 2000 the number of displaced people in the world was less than 25 million. By 2014 it was over 50 million and by 2018 it was over 75 million. Its a gigantic global problem that nobody can fix because there's too much money for various people. From the corporations who pillage the 3rd world by supporting dictators to the arms traffickers who supply those dictators to the smugglers transporting people. THEY'RE ALL MAKING TOO MUCH MONEY to want to do anything.
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  10. AUSTRALIAN HERE: Sorry for the length of this comment. YES - we sadly have these types here too, but please note he is basically saying EXACTLY the same sort of nonsense that Larry Summers told Jon Stewart a few months ago and EXACTLY the same thing the new head of the Reserve Bank of Australia (our equivalent of the US Federal Treasury) Michelle Bullock also said her first day in the job, which is we need to RAISE the unemployment rate to counter to inflation. YES - we also know that inflation is being driven by supply chain issues, but just like all over the developed world economists and business leaders like Tim Gurner, Larry Summers and others DO NOT WANT TO ADMIT that the economic policies they pushed for the last 40 years (like off shoring production) lead to this situation. YES - Australia runs very similar economic policies to America because America got very good at exporting its ideas and this is most evident in economics. I'm actually an engineer and have been informally studying economics for a couple of years so that I can make better arguments regarding project management decisions. One of the things I have found is that Chicago School Neoliberal Economics has become the core of all economics curriculums across the developed world. Even at universities that teach some alternative ideas (like MMT). They have at the core of their curriculum Neoliberal Market Fundamentalism and its narratives that government is incompetent, that unregulated markets are the best decision making processes, outsourcing is brilliant, privatisation is best practice and consultants need to run governments rather than governments governing their nations. In various countries these issues manifest in different ways but they all come from the same school of ideas which is America's robber baron based Libertarian movement. NOTE - Chicago School is a reference to the University of Chicago where James McKinsey, Milton Friedman, Friedrich Hayek, Ronald Coase and others all taught. That university was in part founded by John D Rockefeller the biggest of America's robber barons and an ardent Libertarian. YES - America does export things and among them some of the WORST ideas in human history. Right now in Australia our major issue is consultants who have cost us over AU$20 Billion in fees that we know of and badly messed up our government institutions as they have done it. At the core of the current scandal is PwC who while advising our tax office on closing corporate loop holes were selling that information to their corporate clients so they could avoid tax by other means. Basically we are looking at the Australian equivalent of a RICO case against PwC. So far the enquiries into the consulting industry have heard of endemic fraud among the major players including KPMG, Deloitte and EY. McKinsey and Boston Group have so far avoided allegations. SO YOU ALL KNOW - property developers like Tim Gurner are considered among the lowest life forms we have in Australia. When driving a car we might swerve to avoid a snake but always plant the right foot for a property developer. We've had so many scandals in this industry news reports of "another property developer goes bust" are a cultural cliché. They all operate on business models that would make America's Sackler family (Purdue Pharma) proud and just like America is yet to reign in the Sackler's, Australia is also yet to reign in the property developers despite all the things they've done.
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  11. ATTENTION ALL: I just checked through the last 10 Pakman podcast transcripts here on YT for the word "river" and its NOT THERE. So when was this comment made? I'll agree with a few of the negative comments about Pakman here. He can be smug and at times he has on guests who are there for no other reason but to back up his view of the world, but he also has on people he disagrees with. I can be critical of him in a number of ways including his relentless plugging of sponsors, but then that's his business model. What I did find was a video posted 25 Oct 2023 titled "A framework for Israeli-Palestinian peace." So if you actually want to know what his views are then I suggest you go watch and listen rather than rant about a comment that may or may NOT have been made because there's NO REFERENCE to when it was made.
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  12.  @gametrailercentral3666  That's a very good way to put it. In fact I'd stretch it a bit further to any hero's in the media. Sooner or later they are forced to compromise some aspect or they will simply disagree with your own view on something. Its one of the problems with people lionising and making hero's of people who are NOT perfect.
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  13.  @Junebug89  Yeah but that doesn't mean Seder doesn't make an ass out of himself on a regular basis. I know his fans wont like that but they ALL make asses of themselves at times. The better ones just do it less often. the clowns like Rubin do it so regularly you wonder if its on purpose. I can't say I agree with Sam Harris on a lot of things, but for Seder to take the cheap shot he's taken is unwarranted and leaves him open to the same claim.
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  14.  @leahsander5490  Clearly your a fan of Seder. I'm not but am neutral. I click on him at times to hear what he and his team have to say. I'm not a fan of Harris either and find him to be a bit of a smug prick at times, btu I can say the same of many others these days and would expect some to say that of me. Another person poitned out his view on torture so I googled "sam harris torture" and got a link straight to ho 2006 essay "In defense of torture" AND READ IT. Its a confronting essay that does NOT simply say yes to torture but actually condemns it by pointing out the incredible hypocrisy of warfare. Halfway through it he condemns what happened at Abu Ghraib and other places. What he's actually doing is making people face an ugly reality and think about it. We condemn torture but tacitly support bombing innocent men, women and children and blowing them to bits. Is Sam Harris a smug prick? YES, but so is Sam Seder.
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  15.  @page8301  Oh dang-it that's a vision I will take time and therapy to get out of my brain. But yeah I get where you're coming from on that.
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  16. ​ @dolemites_chain  Its a money thing for some and a power trip for others, but by far the worst are the ego trippers because they can't be bought to do what's wrong and they can't be persuaded to do what's right. They are trapped in their own self importance or their life mission or both.
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  17.  @taranullius9221  Couldn't have said that better. Although I generally point out that WE WARNED the Brits about what Rupert was like when he moved there and they didn't listen. THEN we warned the Americans what he was like and pointed out what he'd done here in Oz and then in Britain. AND the YANKS DIDN'T LISTEN EITHER. One of the odd things for me about Outfoxed is that one of the leads Robert McChesney became a professor at the same university I went to - University of Illinois. Unfortunately he started there after I graduated and long before he helped make Outfoxed. If your wondering he's the guy who explains the scene from the Godfather Part 2.
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  18. Yeah somebody needs to tell MTG about that heretic form Nazareth who not only believed in free health care, free education and feeding the poor and needy BUT ACTUALLY PRACTICED THEM according to his reputation.
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  19. NEWS FLASH - The Left wing Labor Party incumbents just LOST tot he Right wing LNP in Queensland Australia (where I live). The LNP ran a shitty "scare the old people" campaign about out of control youth crime and no doubt youth crime is a problem. The LNP had no actual policy they just said youth crime is out of control and pumped it as many times per day as possible. The stupid stupid stupid Labor clowns acted just like the Democrats in America do and FYI I went to college in America. Love the place, love the people, love the culture - HATE the politics. They did this we are so smart and our policies are so awesome that everybody will just see how fantastic we are and want more of us and they will just turn up and vote for us. That attitude was why Hilary lost in 2016 to a narcissistic Donald Trump, why Australian Labor lost to a narcissistic Scott Morrison in 2019 and why British Labor lost to a narcissistic clown in Boris Johnson in 2019. HOW MANY TIMES does the Left have to LOSE by assuming people will just love their policies and vote for them BEFORE THEY GET IT????????
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  20. Somebody needs to tell MTG about that heretic form Nazareth who not only believed in free health care, free education and feeding the poor and needy BUT ACTUALLY PRACTICED THEM according to his reputation.
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  21. ​ @richardferguson6893  I can't disagree with that because if you look at what I am saying I agree with you. YES we (Australia, Canada, New Zealand,....) are NOT doing everything that we could or should be doing and there are some terrible things still going on. BUT COMPARED to other countries we are doing better because at least we are doing somethings. That doesn't give any of us any reason to be proud of what we are doing because there's still so many bad things still happening. Its like saying on test you get 4 out of 10 and the passing grade is 5 out of 10. 4 out of 10 is still twice as good as 2 out of 10 BUT ITS STILL A FAIL. SO I am NOT CLAIMING that Australia, Canada or New Zealand gets a passing grade. I am saying that we are at least doing better than most. Consider the situation of the Uyghurs in China, the Palestinians, the Yezidi's who were massacred by ISIS in Iraq or even the native tribes in the USA. Do you know that some native tribes in the USA and its territories were used medical experiments and nuclear testing? Go look up the Bravo nuclear test for people on the surrounding islands. Even decades later the US government refuses to accept what happened.
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  22.  @TruthrConsequences  I don't know about Oklahoma these days or what drives them.
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  23. American libertarianism is best described as: "We want the liberty to strip you of your liberty!"
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  24.  @sandyunderpants4376  All true to more or less extent but its still a matter of preference. This is my main fault with Libertarians they have there preferences and NEVER consider consequences. Thom Hartman recently read a list of "wants" from the American Libertarians and one of those was for the abolishment of the FAA. I'm an aerospace engineer with a pilots license and that's insanity for insane people. Has nobody learnt from the Boeing Max-8 fiasco. If they got their way no foreign airline or person would buy another American airplane and no country would allow an American Airline to fly into their airspace. I'm sorry but Libertarians are just selfish clowns. After you strip away their rhetoric it comes down narcissism. They want what they want and don't give a damn what it costs anyone else short term or long term. The only difference between Libertarians and 2 year olds is that 2 year olds grow up.
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  25.  @robinsss  yeah so Why don't you next explain what Neil Gorsuch is doing to the EPA???????? Yeah sure they aren't whack jobs.
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  26.  @Imperial-Socialist  yes but we must never forget that we can do better. And also on the flag wavers (and we have so many in Australia) they can stop bashing everyone with guilt trips and help move things forward.
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  27.  @notrombones5041  Lets also NOT FORGET that he took a $4.5 million dollar pre-payment for a book deal with Harper Collins which is owned by News Corp and controlled by Rupert Murdoch. That was the deal that lead to his resignation. Then there's the fact that while going after Clinton for Monica Lewinsky he was having an affair as well. Newt Gingrich is a pure SHlT of a human being. In fact its hard to use the word human with respect to him.
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  28.  @True_you_coming_through  Way too easy these days we are forget what some of the mutts did back in their days. That Harper Collins book deal was so bad even other GOP people abandoned him. It was so blatant that it made news around the World. I don't know how old you are or if you remember it but the whole Clinton-Lewinsky scandal was a 24/7 media frenzy AND then suddenly there was the book deal. What we didn't know about for 20+ years was the Newt was also having an affair with a much younger woman. Anyone who thinks the Murdoch's didn't know about that is a fool. There really is no limit to their hypocrisy.
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  29.  @True_you_coming_through  Yeah, Yeah, Yeah and Yeah. Newt Gingrich is one of the greatest hypocrites in history. He represents everything that's wrong with politics and organised religion. There are plenty of people who can do 1 or the other, but good old Newt can do both AND do it with a multimillion dollar sized slab of of outright corruption easier than you can put 1000 island on a side salad.
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  30.  @patrick9445  Which if these is more likely to be fake - bravo561 or patrick9445???? Yeah a claim of being fake from something just as likely to be fake??
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  31. Australian here. Not certain where you are from or if that is a quote but its a damn good summary of these people.
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  32. ​ @janecreek681  I though it sounded Orwellian. As an Australian kid who went to high school in the 80s I studied BOTH Animal farm and 1984 and hated both at the time. NOWDAYS I want to go back and thank my teachers for making us understand how democracy dies. Interestingly even though I did engineering (U. Illinois) a bunch of my friends were pre-law and they used to drag m into their discussions. I think it was because I could be relied on to put in odd or unusual ideas. One thing I used to always argue (mainly because it was all I had) was the Orwellian idea that ANY democracy could fail. They used to argue back that America could NOT fail because of how it was structured under the constitution. There are the 4 pillars (The House, The Senate, SCOTUS & the Whitehouse) and as such it was impossible for anyone of them to gain enough power to overrule the others. So I have had the American system of "Checks & Balances" explained and argued by a bunch of people many of whom are now practising lawyers. *What we never discussed, because it was never considered possible, was what would happen if a Mitch McConnell type simply refused to do his job like he did with BOTH Trump impeachments. the first impeachment was more obvious that Bill Clinton's penis being in Monica Lewinsky's mouth. The 2nd Impeachment was even more obvious than the first and BOTH time McConnell simply refused to do his job and Merrick Garland has since refused to step up and do his job as well. On Jan 6th. If anybody tried that in any other country they would have been in prison that day and in many countries executed shortly after the very short trial. So these days I am pretty amazed because the one argument I used to make and always had shot down is now what's happened.
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  33. Fun fact Ted Cruz, Ron De Sanctimonious, Barrack Obama, Bill Clinton, Hilary Clinton, Josh Hawley, Vivek Ramaswamy, Ben Shapiro and a whole bunch of others are Harvard, Yale, Princeton,... LAWYERS. Plus on SCOTUS there's 4 Harvard and 4 Yale trained lawyers who are mostly their because of the Federalists Society which was formed by Harvard, Yale and U. Chicago students. Americans need to realise that America is run by a club of Ivy League brats.
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  34. Sooner or later worthless candidates will wreck any political party or movement. It does not matter which country, ideology, policy or anything else bad candidates are a bad idea.
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  35. CAN YOU AMERICANS PLEASE TAKE A BASIC CLASS IN WORLD GEOGRAPHY AND LEARN WHERE PLACES ARE. The Australian base for submarines is over 4000 nautical miles form the South China Sea. Its in Perth way over on the far south west (lower left on a map) of Australia. The Philippines where America is re-establishing its naval base BORDERS the South China Sea. The Solomon islands is NOT in the Indian Ocean and you cant have a small island that's in the Indian ocean or the Pacific. There is an island that has shores in both the Indian and Pacific oceans. Its called Australia and its not small. In fact its almost the same size at mainland USA (as in the lower 48). We all know Americans are geographically challenged but do you have to be this bad. I did my degree in America and every time you clowns do this you make my education look bad. FYI - I did aerospace engineering and it was awesome.
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  36. ​ @taranullius9221  I'd agree the whole AUKUS thing is a clusterf*ck. But then even before AUKUS the submarine program was a disaster in the making and almost as bad as the Collins project had been back in the 1990s. Our Navy's procurement program is out of control. The submarines are just part of it. The patrols boats and frigate programs have some insane costs Just to try and work out the sub costing I've done an alternative project costing of 6 nuclear powered subs built in Britain with an Australian task force of 6,500 and 6 German non-nuclear subs (1 built in Germany and 5 here). I have added in some staggering costs, incentives and bonuses and I am still over $115 Billion under the smaller estimate of $268 Billion. I have spoken to other engineers about it and we all agree the costs are insane. One of the best is the dry dock upgrade in Perth that was AU$4.3 Billion that's now AU$8 Billion. We've all worked on the large mining projects and can't understand how its costing more than AU$1.2 Billion. Oddly yesterday I watched the channel Sub Brief and he talked about the insane costs of the American dry dock program and pointed out how some of their costs have magically TRIPLED. He called it criminal. Somewhere someone is making a lot of money. I don't know if we'd spent billions on the French option but its certainly cost a staggering amount of money to get nothing done. You are right there's more posturing than practicality to the whole Navy subs and boats thing.
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  37.  @taranullius9221  DON'T YOU FARKING DARE claim I said things I didn't say. I never said a damn thing about being able to or not patrol anything off the coast of Northern Australia.
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  38. I'm Australian and you just pointed out one of the major issues facing EVERY Modern Liberal democracy. The election of DISRUPTORS who get elected because people have lost faith in the establishment parties. The establishment parties are failing EVERYWHERE because they just don't get anything done. They have policies for everything and PLANS for NOTHING. People are simply exhausted and they do impulsive things like elect Trump or they do Brexit. When Trump labelled them the "Do Nothing Democrats" he wasn't wrong, BUT THE SAME CAN BE SAID of every major political party in the world right now INCLUDING the GOP. Both sides of Australian politics suck. All they do is argue, debate, point fingers and harp on and on about this policy and that policy but in the end NOTHING HAPPENS. The rich get richer and the rest of us pay for it and if we complain too much they start another war to thin out the herd while making even more money. The REAL PROBLEM is the interference of BIG MONEY through their Lobbyists and their sponsored Think Tanks who write all these BULLSHlT reports that are specifically written to promote something. The problem is when people protest against this at the ballot box its a coin toss if they vote for someone with a functioning brain or a brainless clown like Marjorie Taylor Greene.
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  39.  @DarkPuppy9  Yeah and which rules are those??? And who get's to enforce them???
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  40.  @DarkPuppy9  Why what are you asking about? If you need something more clear then ask, but don't be some sort of smartass.
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  41. Australian here and this has to be some of the most bizarre garbage I have ever seen the American Right go with. I actually went to college in America in the late 80s and beck then there were a bunch of sex scandals among the Far Right Christians and the bizarre part of it was how dismissive of their own fallibilities they were and how their supporters gathered around them. Now that same section of America is doing this sort of thing. In a way I am not surprised because they have a history of this sort of vile behavior and it is vile. I know that for MOST Americans Simon Biles is a national hero and considered a role model for other girls. She would be a national hero and role model in almost any country, but not these sorts of people. What America needs to realise is that every country has these sorts of people AND YES Australia has them too. What we all need to realise is just how quickly these people can drag ANY society into a deep dark hole that's damn hard to get out of. I'm an engineer not a poly-sci but I did study Orwell in High School and that was the real message from Orwell. If you are not careful, people like this will steal your country out from underneath you in the guise of benevolence or patriotism or some other value and then put you under their boot.
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  42. EVERYONE: To give perspective of the hypocrisy of what Dave Rubin is claiming someone pointed out recently that of the 21 most recent appointees to SCOTUS the Republicans picked 16 and the Democrats 5. That's a ratio of 3:1 from a movement that preaches "fair and balanced." The main fault of the political right isn't so much their victim mentality but the insane childish selfishness of "If I don't get what I want then its NOT fair."* Because out of that insane childish selfishness stems everything else with their behavior.
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  43. Actually we know the original host of the virus - its a bat from Laos. And yes they had at least one of those bats in Wuhan. The record of it was found in a copy of the data base that foreign researchers still had. And there are researchers with incredible understanding of how viruses move from the natural environment to humans. That's been part of the problem. That sort of research has risks and the pathogen research establishment has been divided for over a decade on supervision and oversight. Back in 2011 a Dutch researcher announced he had made the worlds deadliest virus in his lab. It was a version of bird flu that's not normally contagious to humans but when it is its the worst thing - killing over 60% its more lethal than Ebola. He wanted to tell the whole world how he did it but the Dutch government shut that down before someone stupid got a hold of it. That's why there was a moratorium. Well before Wuhan there were people doing very high risk things without any oversight and the general public was oblivious to it.
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  44.  @diegomagellan  Yeah, I don't think that as many people who need to be very seriously concerned about this are actually concerned because its still seen as an internal to America issue and think that America will sort it out. The problem is that SCOTUS appointments are for life or until they choose to retire. So people like Kavanagh, Gorsuch and Barrett could be there for decades. In the meantime they can either block or enable all sorts of crap. This is not a trivial problem and will take a major effort to fix. Its taken decade for the FS to do this and it will take decades to fix it.
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  45. AEROSPACE ENGINEER HERE: I did my degree in the late 80s and during my senior year we had an alum who gave a special guest lecture on Terraforming Mars. We were all very excited to hear what he had to say. He started with "Sorry its impossible and here's why!" He then went on to explain just how big planets are and how much stuff you need to a job like Terraform Mars. The numbers are so large that its near impossible for people to grasp. Here's 1 simple thing maybe people can grasp. Imagine a dome (1/2 sphere) on Mars with a volume of 1km. Its about 1562 meters in diameter. So its not a small dome but is the sort of size you'd need for a colony its people, plants and animals. Other than all the materials needed to build that dome (which is substantial). You need 1.3 million tons of air to fill it. Most people don't think of air as weighing much. 1 cubic meter of water weighs a metric ton. 1 cubic meter of air weighs 1.3kg (sea level). There's 1,000,000,000 (billion) cubic meters in a cubic kilometer. So 1 cubic kilometer of air weighs 1.3 billion kilograms or 1.3 million tons. Now considering there's almost NO atmosphere at all on Mars let alone much Oxygen or Nitrogen to make Earth standard air from you have to ask: For the Mars startup colony where are they going to get 1.3 million tons of air from and how are they going to get it to Mars or produce it on Mars? Sorry to bust everyone's Elon Fantasy with math but then WTF I'm an engineer!
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  46. Scott Galloway had this great comment a couple of weeks ago. "The only thing Biden is owed is to be buried in the same hole as Ruth Bader Ginsberg and Diane Feinstein." he went on to explain how these selfish geriatrics and their supporters did damage that will take decades to recover from. Remember Ginsberg was replaced with Amy Coney Barrett who was 48 when appointed. Barret is not only a nutcase member of a fundamentalist Catholic offshoot but she could easily be on SCOTUS for another 30+ years. The whole Feinstein case should have resulted in criminal charges for elder abuse and impeachment for the officials involved in covering up her state. More importantly going forward the Clinbamas need to be given their marching orders. If you look at the early days of the Kamala Harris & Tim Walz campaign it said more than anything else "CHANGE." This is the change form the old guard to the next generation. THEN the Clinbamas stepped in and hijacked the campaign doing things like bringing the Cheneys onboard AND THAT SCREAMED LOUD AND CLEAR - there will be no change, we're still in charge and it will be "More of the Same." They all forgot that Hilary lost in 2016 with "More of the Same" as her campaign theme. This is the real appeal of Trump to his voters. Even though the hard core of them are deranged many of them are just fed up with "Status Quo" economics. They are so tired of getting nothing and having no hope of change that they will vote for the Orange Gorilla and his wrecking ball. The real question is: What comes after Trump tears the system apart?
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  47.  @AntoineLavoisier-y3e  have you seen the debate hosted by David Pakman with Destiny & Cenk Uygur?? You'll be amazed at what Destiny's position BEFORE the election was and WHAT it still is after the election.
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  48. @ Just search "destiny cenk" its the one titled - Cenk EXPLODES vs Destiny: "You represent the LOSER WING!"
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  49. I'm Australian and I absolutely agree. If anything what really aggravates them is that Taylor Swift has had enough brains NOT to have any scandals and repeat the mistakes of so many other celebrities. She hasn't gotten involved in any POLICY or the IDEOLOGY. Her crime right now is telling younger people be involved in your nations future. I think the real reason they hate her for what's she is doing is because she's too intelligent for them to rationally handle. When they say "guys aren't into girls like her" what they mean is they want a "Keep your mouth shut and have sex with me whenever I want it. Now go and cook me diner and do the laundry. " type.
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  50. They got Al Capone on tax evasion and that was all they ever got him on. Despite all that he did they could never get him on anything except what they had in a couple of ledgers. This was also on of the main themes of the John Grisham novel "the Firm" that was made into the film with Tom Cruise & Gene Hackman. They had NOTHING on the actual firm and its dealings which included money laundering, tax evasion AND MURDER, but they got them on mail fraud because they sent fraudulent bills through the mail and did it so many times it fell under the RICO statutes. A while back I heard someone point out that Trump has squealed about "How they are out to get him!" and that its true. YES its true WE ARE out to get Trump because he's a PIECE OF SHlT who's scammed so many people and lied so many times and done so much damage that I like many others don't really care what they do SO LONG AS THEY GET HIM THE F*CK OUT OF OUR LIVES.
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