why aren't the UK, US, etc. sending their men and women over there to help shoulder the burden of fighting and dying? Increasingly more countries are moving away from using the US Dollar as a primary reserve/trading currency. There's less of a concern/issue for Europe/UK about such a move as only t...

Vnatale if it didn't matter that the FBI was trying to kill the Hunter Biden laptop story on Twitter, why did they do it? Answer: it did matter. Whatever is trending on Twitter is big news that can't be hidden. Twitter reaches a bazillion more people people than the NY Post. The answers to your ques...

What's immoral would be that we in theory have a free press, where the government does not decide for us what we see and hear. So for the government to be in the shadows in fact deciding for us what we see and hear is something of a scandal. Right and wrong aside, this is something that most people...

So did anyone see the movie? I did, and I think it's designed to appeal to a large audience, the average IQ but there's just enough in there if you're smart and "scientific" (whatever that means) that you'll be interested. Lot of testimonials from embalmers and studies and statistics indi...

Xan wrote: ↑Wed Dec 21, 2022 9:49 am From the standpoint of results, is there any practical or indeed moral difference between the "softball" versions of A and B?

Thanks Xan. I was going ask the same question, namely what was KBGs point, but my posts are already too long.

The only thing Taibbi has dug up is that twitter (a media company) is/was liberal. Anyone stunned by that? I'm not. That's the case with most commercial media organizations. You made this post last night KBG. Have you changed your mind on it? Seems like you're now acknowledging the FBI was paying a...

Whether Twitter or the various news outlets, what productive things are we personally expected to do with the information presented (from the perspective of forum participants, not from the perspective of the media)? Mountaineer do you mean with the information of government involvement in Twitter ...

Vnatale, I'm on Twitter and check it daily. This thread isn't about me and personal anecdotes though. It's about the twitter files and what they are revealing of what's been going on there. It doesn't matter what % of the content was affected by government action. 99% of tweets and content are total...

Below is from the NYPost two days ago. I'm sure this is just perfectly normal. It's some isolated incidents, or evidence that a lot of liberals worked at Twitters. It's definitely not a lot of FBI agents working in Sr. roles at Twitter, transferring money to the company from the FBI budget to contro...

Putin is a lovely man, and the U.S. is so, so wrong. I can’t figure out why the Russians got Snowden and a handful of other people, and we get thousands upon thousands leaving (some of them fleeing) Russia. Must be the weather. Anyway, it’s beyond the scope of the thread. I’ll wonder elsewhere. I d...

So did anyone see the movie? I did, and I think it's designed to appeal to a large audience, the average IQ but there's just enough in there if you're smart and "scientific" (whatever that means) that you'll be interested. Lot of testimonials from embalmers and studies and statistics indi...

The bishop of Constantinople granted autocephaly to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine. The one Zelensky is exploring suppressing is the Ukranian Orthodox Church, which is a satellite branch of the Russian Orthodox Church. I believe this issue was behind the current rift between the Moscow Patriarchate...

Does anyone besides Vntale who's been paying attention to the Twitter thing since Elon took over, NOT think it was infiltrated and heavily influenced by government agents? Serious question. Do you think all these "former" FBI in high places deciding the guidelines and who gets banned or su...

Finally, I will ask you a pointed question regarding January 6th. Is there any defending Trump's lack of action for hours? Was there any way he was not guilty of gross dereliction of duty? Is this not a fireable offense, making you ineligible for any future public office? If he had behaved like tha...

Very well said. They certainly do. If you had told me 15 years ago that I would be buying gold coins or mourning a deceased pet bunny, I would have thought you crazy on both counts. Life takes some funny turns sometimes. What was his name stuper1? I just read they can live as long as 12 years as a ...

Finally, I will ask you a pointed question regarding January 6th. Is there any defending Trump's lack of action for hours? Was there any way he was not guilty of gross dereliction of duty? Is this not a fireable offense, making you ineligible for any future public office? If he had behaved like tha...

Yes, my default position is to not assume that people who do podcasts are paid off by any government, unless there is good reason to think otherwise, but some things I've heard lately on The Duran have had me wondering if maybe I'm too naive. I'm not sure what it is about my writing style, but I se...

So did anyone see the movie? I did, and I think it's designed to appeal to a large audience, the average IQ but there's just enough in there if you're smart and "scientific" (whatever that means) that you'll be interested. Lot of testimonials from embalmers and studies and statistics indic...

If we had a king or dictator at least then we could maybe protest it and they'd have to worry about revolution. They'd have to try to maintain at least 50% support of the people. In a democracy the government can have 1% support and there are zero consequences. The problem isn't with democracy or v...

https://i.imgur.com/XXB8Nhx.jpeg It just keeps getting worse... is anyone able to defend any of this? Maybe everyone is out Christmas shopping? I'm sure there's a good reason for it all. I'm sure it was for our own good that large portions of the population didn't hear that the Biden's were complet...

I have no idea whether France and/or Germany would go to direct war in Ukraine. I hope note. When I said US/US/France/Germany against the rest of the world, I wasn't thinking so much of this current Ukraine conflict, but more about the wider balance of power that may play out in coming years. I thi...

In case my image posting is faulty, which is very likely, the above image is of Putin and Jinping appearing quite chummy. I've also heard reports that China and Saudi Arabia are getting friendlier. Pretty soon it's going to be the US/UK/France/Germany against everybody else, and our military is led...

Zelinsky did an interview with French broadcaster TF1 on Sunday, confirming they plan to conquer Crimea and "re-take" it from Russia. He said "the operation itself has not started yet. When it starts you'll definitely hear about it. The re-conquest of Crimea has started in people's he...

I heard but have not confirmed that Zelinsky did an interview with the Economist and stated that Kiev will fight Russia until the 1991 Ukrainian borders are restored. Does anyone think the US government should keep providing military aid until Kiev occupies Crimea as well as the Donbass? I say "...

And you guys probably don't think that the CIA lied to get us into the Iraq war after 9/11 also, right? And they didn't lie to get us into several other wars down through the ages, right? Somehow, people are willing to believe that lies happened 20 or 30 or more years ago, but right now at this mom...