The Media is Propaganda

[Berzerker]

Imran Khan was arrested in Pakistan, Karine Jean Pierre was asked about it and after fumbling thru a binder looking for the answer she said the USA believes in democracy and does not take positions on candidates and parties.

[Dauphin]

If you want evidence of who we armed in Syria, watch a time lapse map of Syria as ISIS takes half the country and what happens to ISIS after Obama was out of office. Quite illuminating...

I refer you back to my previous comment.

[Berzerker]

The USA sent weapons into Syria, we just disagree on the intent of the people sending the weapons. Apparently you believe we never meant for ISIS/AQ to get our weapons. Why? I believe their expansion is a result of our help, the moderate rebels were a conduit for those weapons. And we kept shipping weapons even after we knew ISIS was taking the country, we wanted Assad gone and they were our army. Sullivan told Hillary in Feb '12 AQ was on our side shortly before we started shipping weapons into the country and ISIS conquered half the country. What is "our side" if not a conspiracy?

We were arming Nazis in Ukraine and Al Qaeda in Yemen and probably Libya, and ofc AQ had its origin with the Mujahideen in Afghanistan who we also armed. Thats quite a pattern of arming the people you dont think we armed in Syria, people on our side. How does it feel having ISIS on our side? Obama could shoot someone on 5th Avenue.

[Berzerker]

https://youtu.be/hsEV2MfaofM

29% of the world's GDP is under US, UN, or EU sanctions

[Dauphin]

That figure is being used disingenuously, when you consider most sanctions are on targeted sectors or persons. Only four countries are under general embargo by the US: Cuba, Iran, North Korea and Syria. That 29% figure, the report it comes from doesn't even list out which countries it is referring to but does imply it includes countries like Mexico due to sanctions on the cartels . I also suspect it includes China due to human rights sanctions, and the Military-Industrial Complex restrictions. If it doesn't you would never get close to such a high global percentage. To say all of CHina's GDP is under sanction as a result is laughable.

Figures 1 and 2 are based on data on the number of countries targeted in sanctions regimes imposed by other governments or international organizations. Yet sanctions are now increasingly leveled at persons, entities, or groups rather than at countries as a whole. For example, as we discuss in section 5.2 in greater detail, neither the United Nations nor the United States have sanctioned the government of Afghanistan; rather, they have issued sanctions on the Taliban, the religious and political movement that holds de facto control of state institutions. There are also cases like Mexico, where the US has imposed sanctions on persons for specific reasons, such as alleged links to drug trafficking, without there being any open hostility between the governments of the two nations.

[Berzerker]

https://youtu.be/o7JDZsEHWXc

The Arab League will let Syria back in... Two top Congressmen (McCaul R-Tx, Meeks D-NY) have threatened sanctions in response

[Berzerker]

Linda Yaccorino has been appointed CEO of Twitter

She has quite a resume, NBC, the World Economic Forum...

oh joy... Is Elon tossing the establishment an olive branch?

[Dauphin]

Who were your hoping for that isn't 'establishment' (for whatever definition you are using) and would be able to run the enterprise effectively?

[Berzerker]

I wasn't hoping for anyone in particular but Elon is establishment and he ruffled some feathers recently

[Dauphin]

I wasn't asking for a specific name, but the type of person. Anyone competent would likely have a resume that would be fitting with 'establishment' credentials. What characteristics or credentials did you want in a resume to demonstrate they aren't 'establishment'.

I am trying to understand what point you are making beyond throwing out words with ill-defined meanings.

[Berzerker]

I made my point, Elon hired someone from the establishment to run the business to gain their favor. A resume including NBC and the WEF will do that. If he had hired a "rebel" or critic that would have pissed off the establishment more.

[Geronimo]

I made my point, Elon hired someone from the establishment to run the business to gain their favor. A resume including NBC and the WEF will do that. If he had hired a "rebel" or critic that would have pissed off the establishment more.

You wanted an insincere liar like Tucker?

[Berzerker]

I doubt he's qualified or wants the job, but insincere liars populate that landscape like a herd of cows. If Trump and the GOP base were neocons I'd expect Tucker to fall in line like he did for Bush/Cheney and the Iraq war. But he did just sacrifice his job at Fox for criticizing the war machine so maybe he is sincere. Dominion has been accused of requiring Tucker's dismissal as part of the settlement. Seems strange, I'm sure Fox could afford to pay more to Dominion to keep Tucker.

​​​​​​https://youtu.be/U-3VHtfT5kc

Shareholder at Berkshire Hathaway ran down a list of reasons to create distance between the business and Warren Buffett. Bill Gates relationship with Epstein was one. The speaker ( Peter Flaherty) also accused billionaires like Buffett of funding a social agenda involving wokism, CRT, defunding the police etc. He was invited to speak and then censored and arrested for criminal trespass by an off duty cop. He said the Budweiser fiasco is a warning to the corporate world.

[Geronimo]

The Budweiser fiasco is an example of a movement truly motivated by hate. Budweiser did not in any way inflict the offending paid representative on anyone but millions of Budweiser consumers apparently felt the need to retaliate against Budweiser purely out of spite towards the offending paid representative.

Am I wrong? Were the boycotters in any way exposed to anything they could feel offended about that they wouldn't have to go out of their way to be exposed to?

​​​​​Will companies only be able to work with people who have never said anything that some fraction of their consumers could feel offended by?

Sad.

[PLATO]

The best strategy for companies is to be socially neutral. That way everyone can hate them equally.