Comments by "David H" (@DavidHalko) on "Lex Fridman"
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20:00 - The CIA analyst thought Russia would have the whole south of Ukraine, before fall was over of last year… and he was clearly wrong
22:00 - The CIA analyst though Russia would not use artillery against Odessa, due to cultural significant sites, but Russia has used artillery & crushed every city they took. Russia is crushing Odessa UN Heritage Sites now… he was clearly wrong.
29:00 - “lend-lease act… missile shot… bill comes due” is completely incorrect, as per this CIA analyst’s assessment. Months after this interview, lend-lease had not been exercised, but drawdowns & grants have supplied all Ukraine needs. An example quote:
“As our defense stockpiles dwindle, it’s absurd for the Biden administration to sit on its hands and ignore the Lend-Lease authority from Congress,” Sen. JOHN CORNYN (R-Texas), who led the effort to pass the legislation, told NatSec Daily. Using Lend-Lease is “a much better plan than continuing to give them away for free.”
Interesting the CIA analyst said Trump was disinterested in CIA intelligence, and Trump looked for his own private Intelligence.
The CIA guest has made it clear why Trump did not believe him. 30 minutes into a 4 hour video and it becomes clear he did not understand Russia, Ukraine, or even US laws passed regarding it.
Trump is not the first president to be dissatisfied with CIA intelligence. G.W. Bush saw the Intel failure of 9/11 & looked elsewhere. Reagan pushed hard against Russia & saw the Berlin Wall fall, instead of nuclear war other analysts predicted. Carter’s following of Intel resulted in the fall of Iran & expansion of radical International Terrorism.
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2:00:16 - “Trump… most massive tax increase”
Incorrect, everyone paid less taxes with the tax cuts passed”
“Tariff… Chinese…”
If companies moved their production out of China, the tariff would not be paid… so in the end, the cost of the product from China had the cost of the tariff built in, while the same product from Vietnam did not, and price pressures were put on China to be competitive with nations like Vietnam, so yes… China paid the tariffs.
When did China not pay the tariff?
When business people decided not to move their US production out of China, and they decided to raise prices, until competitors provided alternatives at a non-tariff’ed price, and then we are back to condition #1, where China would start paying the tariffs again.
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“capitalists were forced to make concessions for fear of revolution”
You don’t understand Capitalism.
Capitalism is the free, non-compulsive, exchange of goods & labor between free agents.
In the US, during WW2… the Americans discovered, through compulsory work conditions to produce weapons, that too many days / hours resulted in reduced efficiency & less reliable end product.
Capitalists figured out, in America, that the workers have additional value via training & good health [in contrast to short term untrained replacements of a sickly variety] produce a better product & still produces a profit.
Europeans, who did not go through the American Revolution [where absolute freedom was the starting point, vs Europeans wrestling away one right at a time from a monarch/dictator], seem to have gotten confused with pseudo-social science… while the Americans used straight science, with the guardian of God providing individuals innumerable individual rights, to promote the health & safety of humanity in the workplace.
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18:05 - “that is the mission which should have been focused on and supported… Iraq… false pretenses… Afghanistan… blew up into something that became about regime change, governance, the taliban, and less focused on Al-Qaeda & Osama bin Laden”
This was a very long run on sentence, but I can only agree with most of what she said.
Democrat Bill Clinton’s policy of “containment” of Iraq 🇮🇶 required US troops in Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦
Osama bin Laden’s Fatwa to make attacks against the United States 🇺🇸 was due to Americans [unbelievers] stationed in Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦[the nation which hosts the “holy” cities of Mecca & Medina.]
Multiple Al-Qaida attacks on the US escalated during Democrat Bill Clinton’s administration including the first attack on the World Trade Center, which culminated in 9/11 during Republican George W Bush Administration.
The war with Iraq 🇮🇶 had the objective of regime change so the Bush Administration’s goal of removing soldiers from Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦 could be safely done… soldier removal from Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦 was achieved under Bush very early, the capture of Saddam Hussein occurred much later.
There was a long list of reasons for the Iraq 🇮🇶 war, they were all delineated in the law passed by a Democrat controlled Congress, but the War on Terror required the removal of soldiers from Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦 in order to remove the Islamic Legal Framework for Islamists around the world to attack the United States 🇺🇸
Some us think a different path could have been chosen by America 🇺🇸, but to suggest Iraq 🇮🇶 was a distraction is not entirely truthful, or the comment is made in ignorance.
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Teddy spoke of loyalty & not convenience —
He went a little farther and fell on His face, and prayed, saying, “O My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from Me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as You will.”
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Again, a second time, He went away and prayed, saying, “O My Father, if this cup cannot pass away from Me unless I drink it, Your will be done.”
Matthew 26:39, 42 NKJV
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Hey @Hunterchuck - “doesn’t have all the answers… being humble… not lying in your face”
I never thought anyone way lying, but making a system where people can not attempt to live in 100% freedom (self sufficiency, take care of own needs, take care of own security) and voluntarily participate academically, is really awful.
If there is someone who should be able to personally volunteer in society, it SHOULD be the person who has it all together, because they solved problems many have not.
“doing away with capitalism” is really a nightmare. When people can not buy what they want, sell what they want, as long as there is no coercion / deception, everyone suffers, because there truly is no freedom.
Capitalism & Freedom was a great set of essays, that should be required reading for anyone getting out of middle school.
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@Hunterchuck - “not 100% free right now right?”
Yep… socialists censor what we want to say, under the direction of socialists in government. Sometimes the socialists virtually kill someone off, by removing virtual entity from virtual public forums.
Socialists weasel their way into everything, then apply principles of coercion & death ☠️ upon minorities. Socialists love the power of the Government Gun, to physically or virtually kill off those they do not like, or get in the way of their power.
“Take care of needs and security… privileged”
Everyone has this opportunity, unless they are compelled by socialists to remain in a contract which disadvantages them.
I have friends under Union contracts.
One lady will have to work for a certain number of years or lose all their retirement benefits, even under horrible working conditions. (For me, I gradually build up my retirement & it is portable, where I get it no matter if I am terminated or if I leave.)
The Union boss’s first job is to create a group of people which can be manipulated, then show the Boss’s value to an employer, then the Boss can keep the money 💴 flowing to the bank by sending a portion of the group’s wages to politicians to keep the Boss in a favorable legal position, when the workers are suffering & can’t escape without incredible detriment.
Unions are sexiest, using women unfairly.
“Working class constantly getting screwed over”
This is the result of unholy alliance between Unions & Politicians. (Poli-tic’s… multiple blood 🩸 sucking ticks 🕷️.)
Real wages went up when the supply of workers slowed. Real wages went down when the supply of workers increased.
Just look at the past 10 years. Union Bosses helped elect a government where workers were diluted, their wages were diluted, and there is no outcry against the workers getting screwed, because the executive politician of the current US government is in bed with big business, they want cheap labor, and the politician the Unions supported with workers wages 🩸opened the border to destroy worker wages and increase worker housing 🏠 & food 🥘 costs by creating a huge drain on those limited resources in an uncontrolled way! (ie number of government permitted southern border crossers have been roughly 2x the number of government permitted housing, creating inflation, destroying the real wages of workers.)
It is a form of National Socialist Fascism, or Socialist Communist gulags, which the Union Bosses control the workers to keep them on their concentration camps or forced work camps.
“workers wouldn’t feel the need to fight for Unionization”
Few fight for unionization in the 1st world, except for the extremely privileged (ie Starbucks employees recently) who already get a great wage for what they do, but have become complacent & greedy.
Once employees are in a Union, they are often screwed.
I have another friend, different Union, different locality of the US. She must work where she is at, and her health benefits will be bound to the locality where she is working. This means, when she retires, she can not move to a lower cost of living area. In the end, the Union screwed her, giving her a carrot 🥕 and guaranteeing her to a life of poverty in her retirement, and she did not realize that they would do that to her in her negotiated package.
“Capitalism has many problems and socialists point those problems out”
The only problem that Capitalism has is when Socialists figure a way to assume the power of the Government Gun and removes freedom of individuals.
In another region, my mother told me the story of watching when a particular Interstate Highway was being built, as trucks were lines up to deliver asphalt, they gave the Union reps $100 bills for each truck, for the privilege of delivering their asphalt load.
Did the Workers get that money 💰? Nope. They did not. The coffers of the Union Bosses were filled, so they could influence politicians.
“unsatisfied with an answer a socialist would give you”
Then it is likely because the socialist has not been around long enough to see how their actors corrupt the system, or they are one of those actors profiting from corrupting the system.
I personally suffered under unions, in my first job out of College. I was a contractor, servicing my employer renting space in a building where the dominate employer was a Union shop. I moved my PC from one desk to another. A Union Grievance was filed, the Union employees did not work for our company!
The Union boss tried to compel a different company, to file work requests, to be billed back to the primar company. Unthical. In the end, I set up a bank of computers 🖥️ on a table so the Union Workers could get their Union email, without asking them to move computers, and they stopped their issues. It was just another form of graft, sucking the blood 🩸 from another company.
In the end, the Union Bosses are leeches, sucking the blood 🩸 from the workers, indirectly through wage deductions, or directly through cash 💰 payments from the worker’s own pockets, and then leave the worker destitute when they can no longer work (retire.) Blood 🩸 Suckers 🦟 bosses.
“Fix the problem”
End the Unions, Union unholy alliance with rich politicians, Union graft, disemploy Union bosses, and give workers freedom to carry their retirement to where they want, including their health benefits accrued.
We have contract companies today, unions are obsolete with the way Union Bosses act like little Tzar’s controlling their serfs
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1:11:00 - “nations… in relation to each other, nations that are anarchic, it’s an anarchy”
When anarchy reigns, without rules, it is hell. For example, Somalia 🇸🇴, Libya 🇱🇾, Yemen 🇾🇪, etc.
There must be rules, agreed upon by all parties.
We don’t need centralization… but we do need heterogeneity where we are abiding by the same basic rules.
The internet was developed like this, using RFC process, with small expert groups in control of small data sets. Larger systems are RFC’s based upon underlying RFC’s.
In the end, centralization fails, democratization fails, but multi-layer federalization is where civilization has been successful in bringing The West to this point of amazing advancement unparalleled in humanity.
This being said, centralization & democratization must not be applied to AI. We have seen where this goes - horrible human devastation.
We must move AI towards federalization. We saw where large centralized learning went (ie Microsoft old bot which went Nazi genocidal online, in a short period of time.) Small datasets with small groups of experts can feed their data upstream. Federalization.
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@nickidaisydandelion4044 - “Vladimir Putin is…”
- a war criminal, authorizing bombing of civilian infrastructure & admitting it on television
- psychopath, involved in the murder of expatriates in foreign nations, sometimes using WMD
- sociopath, isolated & shown to not even touch many Russians, sitting long tables away, with huge rooms between him & others
“rescues whales” and bombs theaters labeled as having children inside, as they hide in a bomb shelter… and then sends contractors in to just cover the bodies with concrete, covering the war crime, instead of giving them a decent burial
“Biden… who” warned Putin was planning invasion for months
“Zelenskyy who” publicly refused to believe Putin would invade, until the invasion started
“keep pushing for war” is what Putin is doing, by continuing to attack Ukrainian cities, to this very hour, from Ukrainian land temporarily occupied by Russia
“news media lie”, and Russia is still occupying Ukrainian land
“freedom of speech”, which Russians do not have, since they will be thrown in prison if they publicly speak against the Russian war against Ukraine
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1:50:40 - “fiber… cable to node, copper to house… dreadful”
Actually, this is not a bad plan, because this is what the US did, to get fast internet in the beginning!
When telco was socialized with a monopoly in the US, people had analog 56k modems and we had to spend super high $$$ for 128k digital ISDN.
Once it was broken up, the US quickly killed it, moved to DSL where copper to the house was able to increase speed 100x & 1000x… which is basically what AU did.
Moving to full fiber is an easy process, after that, change node to edge equipment later, which is simple in comparison to ripping up streets to run the significant initial fiber.
This interview is the perfect reason why a philosopher does not understand technology enough and then looks like an idiot when criticizing a political group he does not like.
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@manvbees - “one culture being superior to another is spread throughout history”
This is true. Persian Muslims conquered non-Muslims in the caucuses to enslave them & send them to the battlefield. Ottoman Muslims conquered non-Muslims in the Balkans to enslave them & send them to the battlefield. Arabian Muslims enslaved Africans and sold them as Kaffirs around the globe, buying mostly eunuchs for those imported into The Middle East.
With the rise of the Islamic State, they reinstated Slavery in occupied areas of Iraq & Syria, in our life time.
With the instability of Libya, we see the rise of African Slavery again, in our lifetimes even today!
Europeans pushed to ban slavery, so we can see which civilizations felt culturally superior.
“Colonial powers did little to integrate into existing civilizations”
On the contrary, Europeans clawed their way back from being extinguished by Islamism from the Iberian Peninsula to their West and Balkans to their East, pushing towards the middle.
After rolling back Islamic Slavery of their own peoples, they ended global slavery [largely driven by Islam] with the end of WW1.
Colonial powers ended slavery as they knew it, enabled global peoples to flourish by spinning off nations, one after another, after introducing literacy to their civilizations, enabling them to have the potential for self-rule.
No civilization, in the history of the world, did more to help the rest of the world, than the colonial powers of Western Civilization.
That does not mean there were were not big mistakes, significant abuses, but near universal access to water, medical care, education, communication (telco & internet), representative government, and safe & affordable transportation would be impossible without the colonial powers… and my ethnic heritage is not even from a colonial power.
We just have to be honest about this all, stop playing the victim card, and start moving forward with what we have been given, for the benefit of the whole world!
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2:50:00 - “wide spread voter fraud… how easy the base are it up… no compelling evidence that I saw”
WSB TV News in Atlanta 11pm live news aired video of someone stuffing a drop box with ballots with a knapsack sack of presumably ballots… using security camera footage, in Georgia. They were counted and not set aside as provisional.
People were thrown out of ballot counting location for identifying boxes of ballots which did not have the security locks & stickers guaranteeing their secure handling. They were counted & not set aside as provisional.
I watched the hearings in the Georgia State House with legal observers who were ejected. They showed their photographic evidence that they presented to security, for which they were ejected.
A leaking bathroom knob was used as a precursor to ejecting legal state observers & other legal observers, before a small number of people started to tally votes from we don’t know whether they were from boxes with valid security locks & paperwork demonstrating proper handling. Those ballots should have all been counted as provisional. Security camera footage was made available of what happened during the illegal counting of what we don’t know since the Georgia State Observers were ejected with a lie.
The Georgia State House public hearings went on for days, even weeks… weeks of different witnesses & experts presenting evidence to the Georgia State House, presenting evidence, demonstrated wide spread tampering to the people who watched it live. I was one of those live watchers for Georgia.
There were other states, going through similar activities.
Honestly, Lex needs many many many hours of interview to deal with all of these issues, plus the many other state issues where these types of ejections were occurring.
Another state, an observer was ejected because the observer noticed that ballot people were repeatedly mis-reading ballots and putting the same wrong candidate on the official ballot which would be recorded (while the old ballots would be destroyed.)
This election was just so crazy, so corrupt. I don’t think Biden had more people vote for him than Obama. I don’t see it as possible.
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