@UncleIroh @Mongoliaboo @Stahesh That's honestly the best way to put it. There's a level of borderline cuckoldry/knee bending to placate Zee Juice on there. Shit's so open and naked now. I don't mind someone around, but it's getting a bit ridiculous at this point. When he's not on it's almost a totally different show.
He's also got a decent feel on general propaganda shit. I just don't take him as gospel for events and I do trust his broader economic thoughts. A prime example being Iran wants Israel to have their population mired deeply within Lebanon & Palestine as to essentially use their proxies like Ukraine as the Ukraine war begins to wind down. There's VERY little reason for Iran to strike outright at this moment. As TFM says often is: DO NOT LOSE WARS. They have to be careful with the US involved.
@Justicar @Stahesh I feel he's good about talking broader/long term econ stuff & some geopolitics on a broader level. What I don't necessarily trust (as nobody can really be right anyways) is the time scales. What's been funny lately has been him kvetching about nothing happening in September then it is all TOTALLY OVER BROS when consistently he has talked about not asking him about time scales. Like, c'mon man. He's a smart guy for sure and definitely provides a good starting point for news.
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For months now I just think to myself "Oh, TFM's AIPAC guy's here again" whenever he's on. And then TFM proceeds to "Yes dear" for the duration like a bitch who's seen one too many backhanders.
I can tune it out, but It's also a deep insult to this audience's intelligence. Literally no-one buys it.
@houseoftolstoy It is very nice to see the grounded little things on here from time to time. I assume most of us could be much worse off at the moment. Such inconveniences won't be much to us compared to hardship others are dealing with.
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I like many others experienced an outage in cell phone coverage. But I had to remember that it was in reality just a minor convenience to my own life rather than something truly catestrophic. I could be someone living in the Southeast right now that lost their house and family members.
So I have little reason to complain.
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Putin Confirms BRICS Are Working On Independent Payment System https://youtube.com/watch?v=WeeUG4ofIqo&si=7nLafy83UJexNwQX
@Zeb @Based_Accelerationist I still disagree with this take in so far as I believe they are willing to sacrifice proxies to mire Israel & the US in a slurry disaster of a proxy conflcit Lebanon would be.
I don't believe I will be voting. Trump is STILL blaming Iran for assassination attempts and well voting leftist isn't worth anything. Why must we be saddled with actual retards. Shit won't be worth the opportunity cost of taking a morning shit after coffee every morning between now & Nov 5th
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We're quibbling on the definition of respect. A master of the craft should still respect his apprentice. The apprentice frees the master from the tedium of simple tasks to accomplish greater works, but that is no reason to look down on his apprentice. Both have their functions to perform while increasing their knowledge of the craft: the apprentice to learn from the master's example and the master to set the example and increase the overall body of knowledge by pushing his craft's limits.
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Note that Korans that are available in English still have an English side, and the original Classical Arabic side.
A good Bible should have an English (KJV) side, and the original Greek side.
@houseoftolstoy My question at this point is the potential trade off worth to have to deal with further corruption to move somewhere else to be more quiet. They'll still shake you down, but at least your ethnicity isn't preyed/replaced on directly in perhaps Russia. Plus it is far less gay, but none the less not anymore "Free"
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Whenever I hear about how horrible Russia and China are due to their governments arresting political dissidents for their speech, I just realize how ignorant many Americans are. Sure, the US government will not directly arrest you for your speech, but they will engage in every form of lawfare possible and coerce "private companies" into acting on their behalf, and in the end arrest you for something else they think they can charge you with.
That totally makes us a free country, right?
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A few weeks ago Alex Jones covered how Google is helping Ukraine use AI robots and I concluded it was effectively beta testing for domestic use to terrorize Americans
TFM: ROBOT WAIFUS!!
Fucking moron
@Mr_Mister On top of this I believe that much of the middle east (aside from geographical issues) are fully willing to Ukraine these smaller islamic nations. They're more than welcome using them as canon fodder to bleed thwir adversary dry and keep it a proxy conflict so they can war on their terms more effectively. Also internally even Saudis and Iran are VERY divided places. Shit will be messy, but states do not want to throw themselves into war just yet; not until someone comes out weak.
@Mr_Mister Dude, Iran is not going to jump into Lebanon. They want another Gaza/proxy conflict. I've said for awhile now that they want Israel to be stuck in and be bled dry in Lebanon. You're not going to get official Iranian involvement; you are going to get a slurry of Israel, Lebanon, Hezbollah, and a slurry of every single last proxy militia group there fighting each other. The whole purpose is to drain Israel's capacity for war. Lots of Muslims do not like or care for one another.
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A plummeting birth rate in the Western world and east Asia and an excess of births in the shithole countries with sub room temperature IQ savages. And right in the center of the second image is a peculiar country who has managed to reverse its declining birth rate problem. Care to guess what the solution was?
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