Comments by "dixon pinfold" (@dixonpinfold2582) on "The Wall Street Journal" channel.

@Cardioid2035 Legitimately nearly everything you say has something seriously wrong with it, including using the word 'legitimately' to splash around generic emphasis. The exception is your assertion that China is heavily polluted. It is. (But to blame Covid-19 on Chinese pollution is to heap too much responsibility on the powers of your imagination. Save some for blank canvasses and pots of paint.) And it would evidently (legitimately?literally?) shock you to learn just how little one needs to spend on Chinese goods. I put my mind to it beginning four years ago—I was mad at China and still am—and succeeded wildly. Ever tried?
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Ok, Raj. Is that why it's a metropolis of 9 million people?
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Most shocking of all, this rich high-consumption city generates just one pound of solid waste per person per day.🤯 US 4.9, Canada 4.1, Germany 3.8 😮 (Are vastly different measuring protocols used?🤔)
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@Raj-gr6dy Don't whitewash every instance of sub-standard usage by invoking "evolution." In any era, any innovation may be beneficial, neutral, or represent degradation. The idea that all change to language is evolution, is improvement to it analogous to generations of the cheetah getting faster and faster, is false.
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That's so kooky. He's been almost the exact same type of 70s/80s/90s mainstream liberal forever. But like many liberals over 35 he's so alienated by outlandish and illiberal liberalism trends that he's sheltering in the center-right (which itself has moved left). Most liberals despise radicalism and are tolerating it at present in the fear that it's the only bulwark against right-wing authoritarianism. It's not. There's no bulwark needed beyond reliable centrist liberalism. They're deluded.
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I wonder how Party members are eating. Quite well, no doubt.
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@merovingian688 Same reply as always from Party loyalists: "Other government just as bad! West bad too! Taiwan bad too!" (No, they aren't. The CCP has been the champ for 70+ years now.)
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Yes, in a way there is one: the United States Department of Defense. But it's not time yet. Not sure what can be done today, besides the CCP releasing the immense China food reserves.
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@MarxStevens And are you posting from the front lines yourself, azzol?😂
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@billmeeker774 I agree with around half of that, but the problem there and then was radicalism, violent radicalism, not liberalism. The separatists at that time especially were shot through with real communist pieties. They would rob banks and put bombs in mailboxes and then take off for Cuba. The prime minister at the time (Pierre Trudeau) was a thoroughgoing Robert Kennedy or JFK-type liberal (like the Kennedys, inspired by Harold Laski at firsthand) but his response was sensibly enough to arrest the lot of them (some 400) and order patrols of heavily-armed soldiers in carefully-chosen areas. He was required to pass a martial law provision in Parliament, which a large minority of people, especially well-off liberals, opposed. Trudeau could probably be impressed by gentleman communism if he were to witness it, but he had no use for low-class rebels. His dad was a Montrealer of pretty humble roots who married above his station on the way up, made a total mint in gas stations, and afterwards lavished all there was to lavish on his son's very classy upbringing. I think all that made his son's response to the October Crisis quite predictable (not to mention decently solid).
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@billymacktexasdetective5827 Oxford Dictionaries notates 'penny' as "North American," not British. "A one-cent coin equal to one hundredth of a dollar." Surprised me slightly, but no one seems to disagree that they're the leading lexicographers of our language.
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@billymacktexasdetective5827 If you're in Texas, maybe that's the explanation, because there are 49 other states. The penny loafer came from Maine, btw.
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'Right' is what the Party says is right. And if you want to support and strengthen the Party right from your own neighbourhood, just drive to the mall and pick up some China-made merchandise. It's been working fantastically well for a good 35 years now.
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Reserves ≠ Unlocking the reserves to feed the hungry (I can't believe that didn't cross your mind. I literally don't believe it.)
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You are watching inept, very silly and very corrupt journalism, that's the point.
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@JNF-SATX Yes SpaceX and Twitter can have ESOPs.
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@lavellelee5734 I suggest you look into that carefully yourself if you want to know. Carefully. The amount of Musk misinfo and slander going on these days is just immense. (I think the pay compared to market rate depends a lot on the position, but yeah, check for yourself.)
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Imagine if you had any neurons.
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It has been widely reported that the man seated next to Putin on Victory Day is not a WWII veteran. (Rumour has it that he is a distant relative who was only 9 when the war ended, and that for 20 years he has been employed taking Putin's dirty clothes to the launderers in the basement and cleaning his shoes twice a day. Could be a false rumour I suppose.)
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I prefer newer style news production where you don't see or hear the reporter very much. I don't want to see her posing and pouting, nodding, squinting and all the rest. Too many reaction shots. I don't want to see her interviewing subjects and seeming to assert she's just as important as they are. She should also get rid of that slight Drew Barrymore from 1992 accent. Serious material shouldn't be covered with that chirpy delivery. I'm outta here and it's not halfway through.
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Versions of those are going to be on helicopters and the larger loitering drones pretty soon, I would imagine
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@PhilipEason Note that I said "versions." Did you miss where the narrator said "this mini-laser" while showing a compact model? And by "larger loitering drones" I meant big things the size of Predators.
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The first person onscreen in this video (name: Hardy Green) calls such provision of housing "Big-Brother-like control." That's kooky and I can't let him get away with it. Big-Brother-like control would entail such things as denial of human rights, mind control, ubiquitous and constant surveillance, thoroughgoing dishonesty, and a host of other immoral and criminal behaviours. Elon Musk and SpaceX have never done anything like that. Has this rear-end of a man ever read 1984 ?🤨
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@Funglutton I find you're all over the place, very uncertain about what to do about viewpoints far from the centre. So is Musk, but one thing he knows for certain is that—while some things will always need to be censored, as a glance at the laws will confirm—the world's premier English-language discussion platform mustn't block viewpoints from far out in one direction and not the other.
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@paper plane Incorrect. In the US, inflation took off in the spring of 2021. There's no room for interpretation there. It's simply a fact which you cannot refute no matter how hard you try. Sorry. You're wrong on oil, too. Many factors influence oil prices and Western importers "moving to fewer suppliers" was a very minor one after a quick adjustment period. Vastly more important is global supply-demand, and it's been rather stable.
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@vittoriosecreto6346 👍You're correct. GDP based on market exchange rates grossly underestimates Russia's economic heft. Anyone with even a basic understanding of the subject—including people who (like me) feel a burning enmity for the Russian state—will unhesitatingly agree with you. The fact that 101 people upvoted a reply to you labelling you a Russian propagandist reflects only their total unfamiliarity with the facts.
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@Crashed131963 Please see my reply (to another person in this thread) just above and prior to yours.
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@cable30 HFS man, what a disorganized shambles of expression. I don't have half an hour to sort it out.
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@SoCalFreelance China's holdings of US debt are peanuts compared to its exports to the US. It does not buy treasurys to enable the US consumer. You read or heard that somewhere, but it's the idea of someone who just doesn't know. The mindlessness of the US consumer needs no encouragement from abroad anyway.
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Yes he has. I'm alarmed to see the exotropia, though. I hope it's nothing neurological, but just strain that should pass. According to Wikipedia, "intermittent exotropia is a fairly common condition." Oddly, it seems to me to often be a mark of high intelligence. JFK had it. It doesn't seem to affect dull people very often.
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People care where they live. You didn't know that?
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@dasikakn How is it not working out well for them?
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