Comments by "Walter Burton" (@WalterBurton) on "GZERO Media" channel.

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  3. I was put in Twitter Jail for saying that Nate Silver should be tarred-and-feathered. I appealed. My appeal was rejected. My account was eventually restored, after 12 hours. First infraction, now they say I'll be permanently banned if I mess up again. I'm terrified. For reasons apparent and maybe not-so-obvious, this seems like a good place to put this comment.
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  5. The problem with clipping parts of these out and turning them into "shorts" is that subscribers can never be sure if the short shows something new, or if it's just a re-run we've already seen.
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  6.  @purcitron  : No, I'm definitely not.
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  7.  @purcitron  : Not sure what to tell you. 🤷 Far more plausible that UKR with the help of POL and maybe ELL blew the pipeline to limit GER/EUR calculus. That scenario is much more explanatory than any alternative I've heard. If West has evidence of RUS sabotage, why haven't they revealed it? Most likely they would. If West has evidence of UKR/POL sabotage, why wouldn't they reveal it? We can imagine several reasons the wouldn't; reasons that don't require any rhetorical gymnastics.
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  8.  @purcitron  : I don't believe the public "has a right to know everything." Quite the contrary. So we're left to speculate. The most likely NS saboteurs are some combination of UKR/POL/ELL. No need to invoke Cortes analogy or otherwise attempt to fit a square peg into a round hole.
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  9.  @purcitron  : Tsk. You're still taking the contrarian position. COULD it have been extraterrestrials? Sure. Was it most likely UKR/POL? That's what the evidence suggests.
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  16. Russia WITH PUTIN AT THE HELM needs to be thrown out of the G20. IMPORTANT DISTINCTION.
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  25. Whatever your critique of the substance, you have to respect the content. Nobody else is doing this. Not that I know of, anyway. I guess i should tweet this. Sigh.
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  28. It worked from the WEIRD (Western, educated, industrialized, rich, democratic) perspective. That was the point.
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  29.  @MegaAssface  : His commentary at that point is specifically about the state of advanced wealthy democracies. The panel almost immediately pivots to the looming consequences of global inequality, health and wealth. So, what the fuck are you even talking about? Really chaps my ass, this constant forsaking of the forest for the trees. This willful self-righteousness that muddies and sullies and amounts to nothing but waste. So fucking sick of it. If you're just a naive ego-tripping student, know that, contrary to popular misconception, empathy doesn't automatically garner sympathy.
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  30.  @MegaAssface  : Who do you think is the audience for the product that is the subject of this discussion (the risk assessment report)? Who provides the best standard of living in the world? A lot of us want to see the entire globe prosper; we're trying to figure out how to accomplish that. Trying to learn lessons and formulate predictive models that can spread health and wealth. Just stop with the aggressive stupidity. It's exhausting. Yes, I am "triggered" by your wasteful vitriol. But only because I see you as a potential agent for good.
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  31.  @MegaAssface  : The rest of the world is lost without the advanced democracies. I hope you see that. I hope you center your efforts around this fact.
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  34. Yep. After he was acquitted the first time in the Senate, it was over. We just didn't realize it, yet.
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  35.  @farhanrizkiahnafa7404  Talking about the US.
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  40.  @billturner6564  : Ditto.
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  41.  @PPEcon  : Wrong. This (the current state of American politics) is what you get when you abandon the primacy of the law. This should be an example to you. Do as we say, not as we do. Reality TV politics. I wouldn't wish it on any nation state. Even Canada
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  42.  @PPEcon  : The lady doth protest too much. You rely too much on custom and tradition, as we did, you open yourself up to populist thugs like Trump. Semantics aside, what we're talking about is accountability. Integrity. Those expectations have to be enforced.
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  43.  @PPEcon  : Yeah, OK. 🙄
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