Comments by "dixon pinfold" (@dixonpinfold2582) on "The New York Times" channel.

  1. Absolutely. Like when Trump cut taxes. Remember the outcry?: [crickets]
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  2. I'd be more impressed if this had been uploaded in early October, or two weeks before the California recall vote.
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  3. Just wander over to the Times site right now and spend half an hour. See what happens to your flickering candle.
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  4. True. A life as a homemaker is below a woman worth her salt. She should be working, and hire various women not suited to other work, to bring up her children.
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  5. Liberal: "Humans are terrible. Other humans. Someone should do something about it. Someone else."
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  6. Such an update — due to the vast increase in the extent and intensity of efforts from the several countries of the Authoritarian Axis — would take a staff of hundreds if not thousands to research. I don't expect one for that reason.
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  7. Problem: I'm a well-off, high-consuming, brand-loving, selfish snob completely full of myself, and people can tell. Solution: I say I'm a liberal. Problem solved.
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  8. What a perfect specimen of active measures that post is. Do you teach the subject in Peterburg?
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  9. ​ @k_tess  There was sweet bugger all in the NYT. I watched for it, because I was appalled by the effect cuts would have on wealth disparity. I submitted comments pointing this out which were not printed. Every one was rejected. Liberals do not accept criticism. They think 'Conservatives have horns growing out of their temples, and cloven hooves. I hate them, so how can there be anything wrong with me? The very idea is ridiculous.' I also watched Judy Woodruff every night at that time. Zero from her, zero from her chummy underlings. Of course: she and her staff like money as much as anyone, and have quite a bit of it. As I understand it she makes a couple of million a year thanks to taxpayers, advertisers and donations. I no longer watch. What world do you live in? Many liberals—most, perhaps—consider themselves very morally upright simply for putting on a hat that says 'Liberal' on it. You sound like one of them, and I suppose you think this video is right-wing nonsense, since that's the point it makes. If so you are deeply deluded. My experience as a Times subscriber and on social media elsewhere (comments far friendlier than this one, carefully composed to scrupulously meet rules, are routinely reported and scrubbed wholesale by obliging illiberal-liberal moderators)—this experience, I say, tells me you'd delete this comment if only you could, by pressing a button. Clicking away with indignation yet?
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  10. Ok, but even many who have never heard of illiberal liberalism have no problem spotting it and are sick to death of it. A facility with terms can only help, but it is not strictly necessary. Good points nonetheless.
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  11. That would amount to a multi-billion donation from a Canadian company to the people of the US. I am shocked to see this coming from a person who clearly knows how to read and write. Btw, what is a doctor doing selling pills at retail?
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  12. No it most certainly is not. But unlikely things do happen in life and this is a really good documentary.
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  13.  @mrbrainbob5320  Not anymore. It's importing 7-8 million barrels a day. Just over 50% comes from Canada, but it could be more if not for the more soft-brained Americans. And yes, Saudi Arabia, which despises the US with a passion, from its people up to its shockingly comic-book-evil ruler, provides some of it (and in fact always did, even during that vanishingly brief period when the US stopped being a net importer).
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  14. Zat working yet?
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  15.  @deadtome44  My point was that this video comes conspicuously just a little after important state races. It could have fed a great deal of discussion during the campaigns. And your reply was...that you are skeptical of the value of Republican governments. Oh, ok. What was I thinking, making a comment irrelevant to your unrelated response to it?
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  16. It's a bit confusing to me, being from elsewhere, trying to reconcile his saying that he kept his accent, but also saying (my paraphrase) "This is a general London accent and if I spoke Cockney you wouldn't understand a word." How can both things be true? Are they both simply somewhat or half true, and I should accept it on those terms?
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  17.  @mattd5073  Then why didn't he say that? Is he an inarticulate and nervous boy? I wouldn't say so.
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  18.  @Bee-tj8gc  I'm so glad someone said that.
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  19. You failed to notice the video is 7+ years old.
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  20. For what it's worth, I take strabismus as a sign of high intelligence. JFK had it, my doctor has it, Sartre had it, Streisand has it, Michael Burry has a touch of it, and every other person I've ever encountered in real life or the media who has it seems either bright or strikingly bright. I'm fairly sure Elon Musk's gaze shows it at times, too. I have one slight reservation about the video but overall it is outstanding and entirely up to the good standard of the NYT video section.
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  21. ​ @philippedefague3835  … and their every man a chamberlain, manservant, guard—or, by analogy to the beehive, drone.
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  22.  @brendanjames2687  Yes. I was being bitterly ironic.
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  23. You made that up. The Canadian oil sands are not leased to anyone. Even if they were, I'd like to see the Koch brothers lease an asset worth over $10 trillion. Stick to comic books, which portray a world you can understand.
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  24. I came up with three rail companies: Canadian National, Canadian Pacific, and Kansas City Southern.
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  25.  @terrygartner8367  Prof. Gartner, you seem to be the only person on Earth who thinks crude by rail is safer than by pipeline.
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  26. Wow. Going to all this trouble to announce to the world that you're better than your dad. You're not. And you're ghoulish. And dragging your resentments out in public is cringe af. Thanks, New York Times!
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  27.  @IANinALTONA  Good point. That saying actually sounds like something a high-strung German neo-Marxist might say about ordinary decent moderates.
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  28. Cocaine Socialism by the wonderful Jarvis Cocker and his band Pulp is worth at least one listen.
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  29. Agreed. Elon Musk says X-AI's chatbot, named Grok, is founded on a commitment to seeking truth, for which I applaud him. It's a dismally novel concept once again.
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  30. "The mindless abstract banner of freedom and liberty" Wow, that phrase itself could easily be copied and put to highly effective use by hostile foreign gov'ts. If I were Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping, Kim Jong-un or Ayatollah Khamenei, I'd send you a handsome cash reward for devising it. Professional quality.
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  31. Storage? There would be 800,000 barrels of oil running through it daily. How is that storage? What are you smoking?
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  32. Nice, but this was just a single little one-off...20 months ago. Nothing since. And just try making the same sort of points in the Times comments. It's the same as it's been since I started subscribing six years ago: they won't publish them 98% of the time. Meanwhile one wades chest-deep in self-congratulatory reader swipes at conservatives. (Oh, and there's an Elon Musk hit piece every other day since he gave the Dems the finger.)
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  33.  @deebingham5338  False. It is simply diluted with a small amount of very light crude or other light refined petroleum liquid ('condensate'), both of which are long proven to be right at home being moved by pipeline, and then moves at the same temperature as ordinary crude. Look at this research from the Transportation Research Board, a division of the National Academy of Sciences: https://onlinepubs.trb.org/onlinepubs/trnews/trnews290sr311.pdf In future, please try not to make things up.
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