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

  1. I'm glad to say I've never touched it. He started it as a program to "rate chicks". What a putz.
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  2.  @thaguyKarlos  Writing is just about the best way to find out what you think! Cheers
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  3. If there were a political party that championed these views, I would dedicate my life to it. Great channel.
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  4. It doesn't have to be the sun. A relatively small nuclear blast in the very high atmosphere or low space creates what's called an EMP or electromagnetic pulse, which fries all electronic devices over an area of millions of square miles. Basically knocks everything back to the 19th century. Something properly shielded might still work, but the electric grid would be gone. Possibly really old cars could be repaired, but that's about it.
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  5. My screen says 664k views, 46k likes.
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  6. Thumbnail of the decade.😂 High-impact.
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  7. 'Vaccines are bad'? I missed that. I think you heard what you wanted to hear.
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  8. Pretty good summary.
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  9. No contradiction there. They're trying to maintain a healthy society in many respects but keep it completely under Party control, not destroy it.
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  10.  @thaguyKarlos  You and I know it's a dystopia, but it would still have healthy aspects, just like North Korea does today. North Korean society is no doubt quite harmonious and smooth-functioning, with stable and quiet family life and high educational attainment (in the sciences, reading and writing skills, music, etc).
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  11. It's not over, dude. But thanks for the Global Times point of view.
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  12. Nah. It's all of the above. The billionaires are setting us up to be handed over to China (and their little buddies, Russia). Except Musk. He's a centrist libertarian, a civilized human being, and not cool with any of this. I think he cultivates business with China intending to use the position to defend against them. Crypto, by the way, is a last line of defence against China. It won't be hackable until quantum computing.
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  13.  @AmateurishAstronaut  What? China are pushing against this kind of thing, yes—but in China, not in the West. They're thrilled it's happening in the West. In the end Zuckerberg will side with China because people like him always, always want to be on the winning side. You already see this with people like the hedge fund manager Ray Dalio.
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  14.  @AmateurishAstronaut  China are already de-industrializing like the West and Japan. It happens as you become rich; it's just happening to China while it yet has many poor. Look how much low-skilled production has moved to Vietnam and Bangladesh, for example. Factory to the world is just a stage for China. So is billionaire capitalism, by the way. It's all just the fastest way to get to Superpower Maoism (my term, but the idea is not mine). And they're happy to see manufacturing go away. It pollutes their country, for one thing. For another, robots are going to hollow out manufacturing anyway, which can then can be domiciled in any country, not just low-wage ones. China is thus turning away from exports and converting to a situation more like the US: limited but high-value exports in a service economy focused on domestic demand. Sending consumer products to the West will be so 2010; sending the People's Liberation Navy all over the place and spreading superior Chinese culture and the CCP model will be the new order of business. ——————   Bezos' comments on India ring false to me. I think it will miss the superpower boat and play 1980s Cold War Russia to China's 1980s Cold War US. They're already so far behind China in economic and military development and China seems set to totally sew up the region. Even rich and well-connected Australia is in danger, so India with all its problems will be busy trying to advance at all, let alone to the status of master of the globe. Bezos is probably just trying to puff up Indian pride to encourage Indian industrialization for selfish purposes. Amazon could be desperate not many years from now for somewhere to source its crap from. ——————— Oh, but why, you asked, does China relish the West sinking into the metaverse? Simply because if the West allows it to happen it will stupefy, impoverish and weaken the West socially, economically and militarily. It will speed up the whole process of the CCP ascending to total world rule. But I guess that practically went without saying.
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  15. Nietzsche said the western hemisphere has been all decay since the medieval rise of Christianity, which preaches how losers are actually the best. But civilization was so strong it's taken 1500 years for the poison to work.
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  16. No, but the means to put it in place are getting incredibly potent.
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  17.  @sadetwizelve  Our narrator calls a spade a spade and insists on honestly calling people who want all this "losers". Bully for him. It has to be said. We have to own up to the fact that people are being shaped to be losers, even if some of that reflects back poorly on our own selves. We're weaker than those who preceded us by ten years, they were weaker than those ten years before them, and so on. It has to stop now, or our whole civilization will be taken over by the CCP, perhaps without a shot needing to be fired. I said to a friend of mine not long ago that, even with all its major faults, Russia could end up being the last half-decent country, thanks to so relatively few of its people being total losers. Unless we do something, and I don't know what. I'm politically homeless.
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  18. Quelle surprise.
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