Comments by "Brandon" (@gravoc857) on "NBC News" channel.

@ezioauditore3128 Which is fine if true justice is carried out. America has proved incompetent for decades now regarding equal and fair justice. So you’ll have to excuse the countless people who don’t trust & feel angst for these courts.
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@ezioauditore3128 .... Classism transcends political orientation. Why are you even wasting your time talking about Republican talking points? Both Democrats and Republicans are cancerous to the United States. Choosing one poison over another is still a poison. Drop the political teams. We live in a Kleptocracy. All of our institutions are tainted, including the justice system. Both Republicans and Democrats hold some responsibility for the corruption of our country and establishments.
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@ezioauditore3128 Applying preconceived biases to another persons comment is so 2021... The outcome I don’t like is when justice isn’t fair or equal. We’ve been seeing quite a lot of that lately and it stretches far beyond ethnicity. At this point, our justice system has a bias to classism. The more money and influence you have to throw at the court. The less likely you’ll face true justice.
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@hwoods9773 It has to do with my original comment about people not trusting and feeling angst against the courts. It’s not about protesting the courts, per say. It’s about a more inherent part of the human condition. This woman saw something very impactful. Something she feels went wrong because of the officers. This is her perspective. The court is asking questions that challenge her perspective, and in better words, her reality. Done so in a tone and manner to paint innocence on the officer. While yes I understand this is the duty of law to equal representation & a honest attempt at pleading the defendants case. It’s a very hard pill to swallow for those doubtful of the legitimacy of the legal institution, or in the witnesses case the reality to what she knows she saw. You may call it stupidity, I call it challenge of perspective. I’m asking you to understand the perspective of the doubtful in the same way you would ask to understand the perspective of the advocate of the justice system. I’m not asking you to change your position. I’m merely attempting to point out that both the legal system & humanity are complex. That its difficult to develop and maintain a system that can unequivocally ask/demand of its participants & receive participation. That the human instinct and human condition are much deeper. That these things cannot be reduced down to “just do it or she’s stupid”. That to develop a more fair and just system is to understand both perspectives. I understand your perspective. I spent the majority of my life as a patriot who held the institutions of the United States in high regards. I used to once fill your shoes. My perspective (my reality) has challenged that belief. Because I’ve now filled both shoes, I have a better appreciation for both stances, since I’ve experienced them personally. I now know that both are wrong, and that our system can be done better. Our system as currently stands is a system designed by humans, but does not incorporate the human condition. It is our societies best current attempt at ascending and holding ourselves to a higher and more just standard. It worked for a while, but it’s not working as intended now. We can do better. I see the flaws in the establishment and the flaws in human testimony while watching this trial. I don’t blame corruption. I blame the issues of scalability to both the human condition & the human constructed centers of establishment & control. It’s why I’m very excited for the possibility of AI-ran government. It’s apparent that our complexity is surpassing the capability of humans. We humans are very smart. But individually we lack the required perspectives and knowledge to be sufficient at managing society. It’s a strange problem to have. Being so successful as a species that we outpace our physical evolution. This overburdening of knowledge we now face tends to make people resort to reductionist conclusions, in order to feel we sufficiently understand the overwhelming complexity we find ourselves in today. It’s how a brain whose design surpasses its capability copes with that. It’s how we hold sanity in a world we do not understand. It’s the limitation that leads to the flawed human condition. It’s what makes us, us. We’re special but we’re really bad at managing things. We could use some help.
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@ZeroOskul Assuming they are restricted by the speed of light. The taboo and stigma is beginning to wear off of warp drives. Alexey drive managed to correct the issues with the Alcubierre drive. The Alexey drive is still too unpractical for humans to build. We probably won’t ever build aj Alexey drive because the physics and engineering required is just too massive. Like beyond this Earth kind of massive. The Alexey drive does stand to serve as a proof of concept. It’s the first time ever that someone scientifically proved that a warp drive is possible. Now the real question is can science build upon the proof of concept and find a more practical solution for building a warp drive? It’s no longer science fiction. It’s science fact. Just because we humans are incapable of building one, doesn’t mean one isn’t possible within the laws of this universe. We just have to think bigger to reach our potential.
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@God_of_Calamity I’ve been following the Luis/Pentagon/Navy story since it blew up to the mainstream. Over the last few months of following this. I’ve seen comment sections EXPLODE with religious people preaching about cataclysm, judgement day, the second coming, that these UFO’s are demons in disguise, etc. Then I heard Luis say that a large reason for the coverup is that these UFO’s challenged the religious beliefs of senior pentagon officials. They also believed they were seeing the devil in these craft and decided it would be best to look away. At this point I don’t even think our government fears public outlash. I think the dinosaurs that run our government and military institutions are afraid themselves, because they are god fearing. I cannot wait for the day the mantle of power is shifted to a fresher generation. So tired of the boomer status quo that refuses to adapt.
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@God_of_Calamity Yup the cult of religion is going to cause so much chaos. They can’t handle losing their centric view of humanity. What a selfish lot. They believe this entire universe is just for us.
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How do you propose we stop? America has played global police for decades. Our country has overthrown and destabilized more countries than all the other countries have combined. We’ve exerted our influence over the globe. How do you propose we stop that, without jeopardizing the stability of the nation? We have made countless enemies and the only thing holding them back is our immense military might and intricate diplomacy and geopolitical maneuvering. To pull back to a policy of isolation, is to allow those enemies WE created to become tangible threats to the American continent. At this point, US citizens are just collateral damage, just like the rest of the globe. So how do you propose America to focus on American’s? The only way I see the status quo changing is for America to collapse. America reaped what it sowed. American’s are really wanting to return to isolationism. I don’t think it’s practical, or even possible.
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@Aidan Hand What does alien mean to you? Do you believe the universe is empty, other than us?
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@hwoods9773 I wouldn’t say I’m leaning towards conspiracy. I’d say I’m leaning towards losing total faith in human-ran centers of control. For the simple reason of the human condition and the lack of scalability with our ever-increasingly complex world.
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Nice finally some news worth watching.
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@kidddogbites The Alexey drive has me so excited! It’s a proof of concept that FINALLY has taken warp drives from science fiction, to science. The Alexey drive is too reliant on gravity. It’s a proof of concept, but it’s too massive for us to build. My hopes is that the Alexey drive finally washes away the taboo and stigma that comes along with warp drives in the scientific community. It’s a neglected field of research and study. The Alexey drive not only proves it’s possible to build a warp drive. But it also proves that massive objects warp space time all around the universe. Confirming a theoretical assumption of Einstein. My hopes is that we begin finding a more viable alternative to warp space time. We have anti matter, dark matter, dark energy, the electromagnetic force, and the strong/weak nuclear forces. Could any of these forces warp space time? What about a combination of them? Can they be used to make a more practical warp drive? I’m excited for the future!
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@uncletrashero 🥴 Is that what you really believe? I’m so tired of this mainstream popularization of human pessimism that’s occurred in the 21st century. Humans are a product of a finite world. Same as possible intelligent extraterrestrials out there. We haven’t even reached the post-scarcity era for energy and resources. We are still finite creatures competing on a finite planet. An extraterrestrial that has existed for eons as a post scarcity species will still understand the trials and tribulations of a species currently existing with scarcity concerns. Because those extraterrestrials were once finite species living on their own finite world. Murder, greed, and selfishness just comes with being a survivor. Those traits assisted us in conquering our natural predators 300,00 years ago. Those traits allowed us to ascend to alpha omega of Earth. Those traits lost their purpose once we achieved alpha omega. They take thousands of years to naturally select out of our genetics. We’ve spent a couple thousand years building complex civilizations. Our brains are hardwired for what modern humans spent 80% of our existence doing; hunting and gathering. Our brains are not wired to be successful in these complex civilizations we’ve built for ourselves. It’s a unique problem to have. Our civil intelligence and technological capability is vastly outpacing or biological evolution. It accounts for many of the issues we see in society today. We humans are so smart we literally outpace evolution. Yet you think that’s deserving of being quarantined away by other galactic species?
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West West Lol so says you.
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Putin is an enigma. He carries and presents himself very formally to the globe. He’s no doubt rallied Russia back from the fall of the Soviet Union. He’s certainly right in some regards to the tension between US/Russia. He’s also not innocent. Putin is clearly dirty. So are many American politicians (and presidents). It’s just so bizarre watching interactions between US and Russia. Feels like a high stakes game at all times, and at times it just feels pointless. All in the pursuit of geopolitical leverage and power.
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America has been a regime for a VERY long time. The public face of the regime changes every 4-8 years, but institutional power exists behind the veils of public power. That institutional status quo is America above all else. Even deeper than that, it’s capable Americans above all else. The rich, the mentally savvy, the high profile and connected individuals. True American democracy was hijacked decades ago. Our true American democracy was also flawed from the beginning. The founding fathers recognized this and stated the constitution was supposed to hold America over until a more fleshed out version was released. There’s a reason that never happened. The flaws were intended features.
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Just because you disagree with the expert doesn’t mean the broad conclusion is wrong. A hot war over Taiwan will mess up the global economy. Are you disputing that?
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@hem495 Quoting movies as your reason for disagreement isn’t a good argument.
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@adamarzo559 “Nothing of relevance” is not a good way to start a discussion followed by your own wall of text. My post is relevant to the mass distrust we see to the legal system. You don’t see that as relevant? I don’t see how it’s relevant to go read though the rest of your post based on literally your first sentence.
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When American’s decide they are ready to overthrow the institutional status quo that transcends red and blue politics.
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You type like you get paid to type.
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Lol loser comment.
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We were given a choice of a malignant narcissist and a dementia patient for our presidential nomination. Both were a joke. Both served to discourage participation in Democracy. America is a subtle regime. It uses excessive military force beyond our borders and it uses manufactured consent to control American’s. It’s not just this clown. The whole system is a circus.
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@Amidat One China policy is doomed to fail. Why? Because it’s forcing 60 ethnicities native to China to assimilate under the Han ethnicity. One thing history has made abundantly clear is suppressing your native ethnic peoples is a fast pass to a failed nation state on ontological timescales. Yes, this includes America as well. 50 years of peace can be viewed as 50 years of the pressure cooker building up.
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@ZeroOskul The Alexey drive requires a mass the size of the earth, to be condensed down to the density of a proton star. One teaspoon of a proton star weighs 1 billion tons. So yes, I would say that warp drives are currently beyond humanity. Your claim that they exist in laboratories is an extraordinary claim. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. If you can provide me conclusive evidence of this, I’ll eat my own shoe.
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@kidddogbites Oh? No I haven’t! Thanks! Something new to research now 😁
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Unlikely. We live in a dualistic universe. Peace is a moral ideal that isn’t practical based on the laws of physics. Conflict is an inevitable consequence of consciousness. Peace on earth is not possible, because peace leads to chaos. Conflict leads to order. The two live in a perpetual state of balance, ebbing and flowing through time.
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Putin uses Iran as a puppet for its own geopolitical leverage. It is in Putin’s interest to keep Iran denuclearized, but under the thumb of Russia. A nuclearized Iran significantly elevates the chances of WWIII. Putin cannot win in a strait up war. That’s why he’s working on diversion tactics and playing a long play. Both Russia and China are thinking long term. A nuclearized Iran is not a long term play.
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It’s not in America’s interest to resolve the critical human rights abuses happening in America. That’s all people need to know about the state of affairs in America.
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@zacklee5168 It’s also not in Russia or China’s interest to resolve the critical human rights abuses happening in their countries. It’s not just an American issue. It’s a humanity issue. It’s not new either. This self-interest serving has gone back as far as civilization itself. It’s a biproduct of being a species that evolved in a finite world. Living beings on Earth have quite literally had to fight for their right to exist since abiogenesis. Our evolution is best summarized as crawling up the bloodbath known as Darwin’s ladder. The things that sets humans apart from other species is also some of our strongest modern day vices. These behaviors will exist in humans for a very long time. We will need to exist as a post-scarcity species for thousands of years before greed, warfare and selfishness naturally select out of our evolution. As currently, those traits are responsible for humanities ascension to alpha omega species of Earth.
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Pretty much. The list of things these could be other than alien mega structures is rather big. I mean alien mega structures certainly is the most exciting and scary possibility. But it also is the most unlikely. We got a lot of ruling out to do before we can say crazy advanced aliens share this cosmos with us.
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So was Trump. Where does that leave us? Our politics is a circus through and through.
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Sounds awefully similar to Putin and Russia. It’s like both are the same entity (their desired interests), and each country is just wearing one of the shoes.
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Fermi Paradox and the Great Filter. We live in a cosmos that appears to offer an abundance of life-bearing conditions. Yet the only known example of life in the whole known cosmos is right here on Earth. So, where is everyone? The Great Filter hypothesis offers a candidate possibility by suggesting that something prevents species from reaching a certain level of civilizational intelligence. If the Great Filter hypothesis is true. It suggests that the filter is either ahead of us or behind us. Either we’re one of a very select few who survived passing through the filter. Or the filter is ahead of us and we’ll be destroyed. One doesn’t have to be incompetent or self destructive to self eliminate. Perhaps the filter is something unsuspecting that even the most advanced of civilizations can’t predict until it’s already too late. Filters could be anything. Maybe going multicellular is a great filter that weeds most life out before it can become complex. Maybe a great filter is having life sprout on a planet early enough to give it enough time to evolve before the sun dies a heat death. Maybe asteroid bombardment acts as a great filter by constantly impacting celestial bodies in other solar systems. Maybe humans accidentally create a black hole that eventually consumes the whole planet.
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Why are you crying? Didn’t y’all mock lefties for crying under Trump?
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