Comments by "dixon pinfold" (@dixonpinfold2582) on "1420 by Daniil Orain" channel.

  1.  @Publichouse  Sad that you think half the people being afraid to speak freely is something to brag about. Your eyes are adjusted to the very dim light of a deep basement.
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  2. He'll be ok. He knows pretty much exactly how far to go. To get in trouble you have to stick your neck out in certain ways which smart Russians especially have a clear feel for. There are unspoken rules. So in a way, those who get punished know what they are doing and basically expect it. I'm fairly certain. But that's just my opinion, I could be wrong.
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  3. Fantastic interviews lately, Daniil, especially today.👍 You are a born political genius. Future chief-of-staff to a president at least, but maybe even someone in a more illustrious tradition... 1776: George Washington 1791: Toussaint L'Ouverture 1811: Simón Bolívar 1910: Emiliano Zapata 1917: Vladimir Lenin 1942: Mohandas Gandhi 2033?: Daniil Orain
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  4. People who grew up in the Soviet era are going to be around for a long while yet. The younger ones won't reach age 75 until 2050. Люди, выросшие в советское время, будут рядом еще долго. Младшие не достигнут 75 лет до 2050 года.
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  5.  @TerryMcGearyScotland  I don't know. Orwell was born in India, and so was Spike Milligan. But they weren't Indian.
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  6.  @amlukewarm  I wish you the best.
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  7. This was uploaded seven days ago and the channel has been silent since. Man, I'm worried.
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  8. "Constitutional monarchy" Slightly true, but under a constitution so weak that it's fairer to say Putzin is tsar, except in name.
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  9. ​ @aleksanderchentsov4783  Actually, GDP comparisons done at PPP and GDP comparisons at market exchange rates both have their good and bad points. PPP is helpful for characterizing standard of living; market exchange rates properly indicate standing in the world economic and financial systems. Neither one is complete. I agree about the rise of the ruble: It is nothing to celebrate. For one thing, it has emerged strictly as a result of capital controls and (even more importantly) plummeting imports, the latter indicating serious economic weakness and an imminent fall in the standard of living. For another, it heavily diminishes the value of payments for Russian exports in foreign currency.
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  10.  @YorkerEli  No, Orwell modelled the book on Stalin's Russia in most ways. He also had in mind England's Fabians, which is not widely known. He chose as the year for the book's setting the hundredth anniversary of their Society's founding. Fabians are socialists who advocate for a quite gradual and non-violent overthrow. But as I understand it Orwell believed they would quickly turn tyrannical in the Stalinist manner after taking power.
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  11.  @cba4389  You are throwing around a term you don't understand. You think it means something like American protection, but it does not. (Also, it's not Pax America, it's Pax Americana.) The terms Pax Romana, Pax Brittanica and Pax Americana refer to the relative scarcity of wars around the world because of a dominant superpower. The idea is that wars are far more common when superpowers are challenging one another, or if the dominant superpower simply collapses.
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  12. A people may achieve the freedom to speak freely without fear of repercussions, but it has to be something they consider essential, normal and good, and Russians don't want freedom very much. The few who do, leave. They're like specimens in a museum from another era—the feudal era. The Renaissance came late to Russia (not fully, but it came). Yet the medieval mind persisted, largely owing to meagre contact with Europe (& later, America). A long time after that came communism, but it left a great deal unchanged because it's anti-modern in its authoritarian repressiveness and so it suited the anti-modern Russian soul and did little to root out a medieval frame of mind. The main current there is still feudalist. Most of them would feel grief and unease not having a king. They're not yearning to breathe free. Anyone is welcome to contradict me.
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  13.  @elizabethhenning778  Actually to be geographically neutral, to not cement any region as overly dominant. In other words, the compromise so that nobody got just what they wanted. (London: "Wouldn't advise that, mate." Paris: "Putain de fous!" Moscow: "Выберите самый большой город!")
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  14.  @harrisonbergeron4372  It's hilarious.🤣
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  15. Bad sign: The weirdest-looking guy is the one who says "That's a weird question." It should be an incredibly ordinary-looking and drunken factory worker who says that.
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  16. 👏👏👏 Xi to Putin: "Come to papa." [Thinks to self: "Heh-heh-heh"]
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  17.  @LMB222  In the 2022 UN resolution against Russia in the first week of the war Kazakhstan abstained.
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  18.  @arathortizs28445  Bro, how is this video "one-sided" when the views of multiple staunch Putin supporters are included? I find it funny that you assume the pose of a skeptic here.😂
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  19.  @mdstate829   Subject of discussion: "Which is the better flavour of ice cream, chocolate or vanilla? You: "What about the US treatment of native peoples in the westward expansion?"
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  20. To me, an 'N' is one who believes in the doctrines of the N's of the 1920s-40s. Period. It's not just someone who's intolerant and says "My country is the greatest and to hell with all the others." My respect for the Russian mind is taking a pounding watching this channel. I hope it's just a case of Daniil being ignored or rebuffed by the smarter people on the sidewalks and in the parks of Moscow when he addresses them. However, there are also Neo-N's. As soon as you add 'neo-,' anything goes, no matter what 'ism', school of art or school of economics or philosophy you're talking about. It means 'new' but it really just means 'inspired by the original'. Haven't these Russians heard of the 'neo-' prefix?
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  21.  @brunogaspar3977  Love is simply lust that lasts for months or years, not two hours. After months or years the love is gone, replaced by friendship and attachment. But we keep calling it love because the loss of love is too depressing and embarrassing to contemplate honestly, or admit openly. None of this is really to be lamented, certainly not denied. All of it is normal and impossible to change. It is humanity, it is life, it is the fabric of existence. Best to realize it, though.
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  22. Really good random fact re: the 1937 census. 👍Something to think of when we hear official Russian stats. "Trust but verify."
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  23. Direct democracy requires an especially solid electorate and populace. It's a bad idea nearly everywhere.
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  24. It seems half the country is just waiting in frustration for Soviet times to return. Ah, the good old days of mindless chest-thumping and cheerleading for empire, mindless submission to absolute rule.
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  25.  @silverletter4551  Withholding aid to Ukraine won't do much to affect the course of things in the US. Other things might improve the situation, though. In addition, considering what the aid does towards securing the future, prosperity, and a stable, peaceful and freer world, and considering how many trillions all of that is worth, the aid going to Ukraine is like lunch money. In 2022 it was 5% of the military budget.
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  26. Always love the stats, even though sampling in public opinion is a complex matter. Thanks as always, Mr. Orain.
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  27.  @johanswede8200  Da. Vranyo.
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  28. Poland, at 37.7 million people, is the world's largest city. A lot of people don't know that.
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  29. The woman at the 5-min mark claims to be 96 years old. Who believes her?
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  30. You're close to the reality there, namely that the government and most Russians want it to remain exactly that way: a category of people, not an organization of people.
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  31.  @biscaynediver  Good point. For my part I wasn't thinking of red lines like that, just a general restraint.
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  32. The value of Robux vs. the dollar and Rouble isn't important or interesting, because there are few Robux compared with the number of Roubles. It's funny, but that's all. I'm enjoying the laughs though.👍 Russia's economic downfall isn't going all that swiftly, but it's certainly under way.
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  33.  @tracyfarnath2270  That's a common view, and if you want my opinion I think it's utterly correct.
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  34.  @gerri577  If that's true to any extent it's still on Russia because Russia traumatized Ukraine so horribly in the 1930s that many Ukrainians welcomed the Nazis as liberators, which in some ways they were. That's how sick a situation it was. And since mass starvation at the hands of the Muscovites really turned them on the Muscovites, Ukrainians may then very well have associated Jewish people with communism and therefore Russians. Awful things of many sorts are all part of life as a people within marching distance of the Russian border. Ask the people of dozens of lands.
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  35.  @volkerr.  👍I get your (sarcastic) joke because I've been reading your posts for months, but I worry others don't, even with the emojis. Generally speaking, sarcasm is hit and miss in comments.
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  36.  @xXKillaBGXx  You're fn kidding. NATO is not a country. It's an alliance which countries join freely. All the European countries that used to be ruled by Russia wanted to join it, except Belarus. Ask yourself why. Then ask yourself why Russia gained no allies over that time. Why does everybody turn their backs on Russia?
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  37.  @madrooky1398  Good comment, but "What about ..." is a good response to hypocrisy. E.g.: Person 1: "That guy is terrible. He cheated on his wife." Person 2: "What about you? You cheated on all three of your ex-husbands!"
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  38. And the gap has widened since 2021. US crude oil production has risen another another 1m+ bpd, while Russia's, although not known with certainty due to wartime Russian govt secrecy, is universally believed to have fallen. "No oil"!😅😂🤣
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  39.  @cornucopia8591  Dude, I think Russians know the world's most famous hockey player ever. He was born in 1961, not 1861. I guess you're a youngster.
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  40. Who is this 🤡 demanding to see our guy's papers? He looks like a drunken garbage collector, not a police officer. (Our guy should have said 'No, I demand to see your papers.') Overall it appears rural, provincial Russia is where the difference between drunkenness and sobriety diminishes to nothing.
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  41. This housetrained poodeel writes for The Putin Times under the byline Sasha Peskovchik 😄
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  42. Suggestion for a (two-part) future question: "Would you join an outdoor protest against Putin if it already had 50 people?" [Everyone will reply No.] "Would you join it if it already had two million people?"
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  43.  @Caldera01  Oh come on, it was never "an active conflict"! 🙄😅 It was a friendly discussion and both sides had a great laugh over it. Besides, Canada stopped the Russians from steamrolling right through Germany and conquering Denmark in 1945, and Danes remember this. ---> See the Mark Felton video: "Canada Saves Denmark."
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  44. It is generally understood which things the government tolerates and which it does not. This understanding can be used to guide actions and stay out of trouble. 1420 knows what they are doing.
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  45. In India there has been a remarkable surge in public support for Ukraine. Support for: Tough sanctions, 47%. Providing weapons/air defense to Ukraine, 47%. Sending troops to Ukraine, 43% (!) Importing less oil & gas from Russia, even if it causes "steep increases" in prices, 47%. Search: IPSOS Poll Ukraine Jan. 20
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  46. He was right, though. He meant the western Sahara.
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  47.  @MI4ME  Fairly clever approach to harming this channel. Say hi to Mr. Peskov for me.
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  48.  @1midnightfish  Let's leave lonely fantasizers to their lonely fantasies.
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  49. Yes, insane Ukrainian Nazis are bombing themselves. Eventually they will nuke themselves, just to wickedly make Russia look responsible for an atrocity. Meanwhile, Russia is only trying to liberate the country, making great sacrifices in the name of ordinary Ukrainians, who greet them with bouquets of flowers and tears of gratitude. Also, Ukrainian women are raping themselves. 🙄
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  50.  @migrationsforschermitbreit6744  Your middle sentence needs re-writing to make it clear. I suggest writing it in German and then putting it through Google Translate. But I can say already that I disagree with your saying "This is not correct." I have heard numerous accounts of Russians slavering to nuke the UK, saying it on Russian TV. I have heard no Americans saying the US should make war directly against Russia.
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