Comments by "dixon pinfold" (@dixonpinfold2582) on "The Hill" channel.

  1. Robby, Robby, Robby, I'm so disappointed. You just read CBC's tweet claiming editorial independence without questioning it or thinking it through in the least. My dear boy, government politicians appoint the executives and directors of the CBC. They are free to appoint the people they like. Can't you understand what that means? Are you so naive that you don't suspect they will select people who will support their political interests? Were you born yesterday?
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  2. Because you're witnessing a rapid collapse of character.
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  3. R.I.P. Journalism. Died 2020, After A Long Illness.
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  4.  @JB-pd3ir  Was it a bad idea?
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  5.  @JB-pd3ir  I just thought you were upset I mentioned Partition in India. But thanks for that reply. What a miserable subject, eh?
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  6. Ukraine has taken back more territory than Operation Overlord had after the same amount of time in June 1944. This is just three people pretending to be smart.
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  7. And in a twisted way maybe it wasn't a moment too soon. Scumminess and corruption has been quietly skyrocketing, the scummy and corrupt rapidly consolidating their power. Will we look back on Covid as having saved us at the last possible moment?
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  8. Also, communism has never been tried. We know, we know.... 🙄
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  9. Overstated. Plenty of what is freely made known is news and is worth knowing. I like Bill Moyers, though.
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  10. That's not how it works. Historically, when a government is toppled by force it is replaced by one under a tyrant or group of tyrants. The War of Independence was one of those exceptions that prove the rule. Around the world people's minds are blown by how Americans think revolutions are cool.
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  11. It's not even criticism, for heaven's sake. It's just a low-key and factual heads-up, and it's a good practice. YouTube does it as well. Btw, the hypocrites at the CBC haven't shut down their YouTube channel, as YouTube isn't owned by Musk.
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  12. The ones afraid of this story are the major media outlets. To them, any critical eye turned on China smacks of right-of-center politics, and for that reason they don't want to touch it with a 10-foot pole. They see their proper job as putting and keeping Democrats in office.
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  13. Great news, Wikipedia is available outside the US.. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_action_committee#Super_PACs
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  14. Quite right. This video is nothing more than three people pretending they're smart, two of them very callow young women just out of school.
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  15. She's no Gretzky though. She just came up with the brilliant concept of a non-violent war.
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  16. So did some nameless imbecile.
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  17.  @tacticalcenter8658  Thanks for the official Bill Gates position.
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  18. Or just get better music.
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  19.  @michaelrmurphy2734  Except for army and militia units which used rifles. A church with 1,500 people inside was knocked down with bulldozers.
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  20. That's one of the stupidest haircuts I've seen in my life.
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  21. Why does she have to sound like Drew Barrymore addressing a class of 4th-graders?
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  22. 3:37 Read ousted NYT science and medicine reporter Donald McNeil's defence/indictment on Medium. Depressing and angering, but you'll see just how diseased and twisted the Times is. Unforgettable.
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  23. Crucial point: Modi didn't say "Hey, Elon, do me a favour." Modi said: "In the name of the law you must do this." He passed draconian laws in 2021 to give the govt these powers.
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  24. Some of the most, shall we say, richly imaginative minds are on flaming display in these comments, and anyone in need of a good laugh should read on. Notably absent: any mention of aliens, the Rothschilds, adulteration of the food supply, or con trails.
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  25. Interesting. All businesses --- offices, stores, restaurants of all types?
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  26.  @reddeath5011  Thanks for your reply. It sounds like you're saying 'most'.
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  27.  @cjp1599  Maybe I should visit Texas. I saw a Youtube video and the meal looked like a quality pigfest that would give you a coma. :)
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  28. In the defamation trial, which Musk won, he explained that pedo is South African multi-purpose slang for 'creep'. Anyway, the Epstein saga and the Thai spelunking incident are a pair of vastly spaced dots that could only be connected by a, shall we say, richly imaginative mind.
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  29. She really reminds me of Elizabeth Holmes, the Theranos fraudster.
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  30. Ok, but at that point in the discussion they were on a side point talking about people who 'leave-don't leave' Twitter generally, not him specifically. Speaking of Taibbi, it might be noted that most people who know his name learned it from his Musk-appointed stint on the Twitter Files. 98% maybe. Through Musk he got a chance at immense recognition. So if you ask me, his resentment ought to be tempered with gratitude. Esp. since the Substack thing wasn't personal.
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  31. ​ @BlackhaloZ   I didn't mean to imply he was unknown, but his Twitter followers skyrocketed from 700k before the Twitter Files to nearly 1.9 million. That's 2.7x. And how many paid subscribers on Substack can he add to his pre-existing 30,000 thanks to the sustained exposure to Musk's 135,000,000 Twitter followers? There's having a professional reputation and then there's serious fame. So when I said 98% maybe it should've been 75%. As for me, it appears he was one of the better known journalists I had never heard of a few months ago. There would be two reasons for that: Over the last ten years I've slowed way down on the rate at which I learn new bylines, as I've grown to seriously loathe the field over that time for its revolting decay. And I've studiously ignored Rolling Stone in particular ever since much longer ago determining I didn't like it one bit. I would've thought its readers were mostly the duller sort of over-65 Boomers interested in reading about 'pop culture'. (It turns out their largest demographic is now younger Millennials, which quite surprised me.) Thanks for your charming reply.
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  32. @Lydia Don't be so literal-minded. My point is that a fact-checker is just another source of information, despite its pose that it is the last word. That should have been clear enough.
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  33.  Mark Hepworth  That 's not an easy question to answer, but I can tell you what I don't do: I don't look around for somebody holding up a sign saying "Smart guy, totally honest, will settle all questions"
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  34.  @alexc9372  Some of them are both.
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  35.  @alexc9372  I agree with that. It's the same everywhere—accountant doesn't mean good accountant, newspaper doesn't mean good newspaper, school doesn't mean… well, you get it. Thanks for your reply.
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  36. Bri's opening objection is frivolous. The CBC whined "We aren't 100% govt funded." Yes, 31% of their funding is from ad sales. That leaves 69% govt funding. Live with it. The number represents the salient and germane reality in this matter. Also, government politicians choose and hire the people who run the CBC, all of them. Their president, chairperson and all 12 board members are federal cabinet appointees. How could it possibly be any clearer?
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  37. I come here whenever I want to know what things Millennials do that GenZs consider "cringe." So important. 🙄
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