Hey Ms Stone, thank-you not only for the reminders and follow-up’s but especially thank-you for developing and fostering this community of commenters and followers because it has become a refuge for me and others I share it with. It’s easy to become discouraged but your writing, perseverance and courage in defending your views here and elsewhere are an excellent example to us and our children. I know the other veterans here in particular feel that way.
Here’s a video out today by Alan Thompson that uses GPT-4 to analyze and answer questions about the series of conversations (66 short videos) that he had with the AI GPT-3 Avatar “Leta.” I believe America is disintegrating and only AGI can save us. Watch Tulsi in this video from earlier. I totally agree with her assessment of the democrats. I see it every single day in Chicago. Easy to imagine them becoming far more deranged. Impossible to imagine them becoming less so. And Tulsi is also a veteran. I’d like to see Vivek with Tulsi as vp in 2024.
“Leta, GPT-3 AI, Analyzing Leta with GPT-4 + ChatWithPDF plugin.”
Vivek can handle them and he’s not even a vet. His wife is also very impressive. They said at the recent Moms for Liberty conference that they feel they have to get involved to save the country for their children but they’re wealthy people so why don’t they simply go to live somewhere else? Because they know that America is the world’s last best hope. If we fail the world goes down with us.
I have hope. There seems to be a rising awareness of idiocy, lying, and corruption from all quarters. If the likes of Tucker, Russell, Greenwald, David Rubin, Jordan Peterson, Andrew Sullivan and many other disparate voices are seeing it, well, it's becoming visible. Not as fast as I'd like but we seem to be on a good trajectory.
Good point. I agree that the trajectory is positive and would add that those you mentioned, as well as Musk and writers here in Substack, have a significant influence on the improvement and direction.
I just listened to 2 interviews Tucker gave of Russell Brand, 3-months ago on Fox Nation, but below posted on Rumble. Each are 42 min long and well worth the listen. I don’t see how Tucker could have remained at Fox any longer. He was evolving beyond MSM platform.
Russell Brand is an incredibly important siren to be heard and felt:
Agreed. I could probably come up with 40 or 50 names whose writing or podcasts I would find interesting and in good faith and on a similar trajectory. And new ones keep popping up!
Oh my, this was so much fun. Thank you for posting the link. The part about the post-war architecture in England. Holy crap. The weight of the world manifested into the structures that we use to run the world. The UN building in NYC came to mind when they discussed this point. It could very easily have been named the Orwellian Tower.
That was a fantastic interview! And yes, I thought of the monstrosity that is the FBI HQ in DC as well as Boston City Hall. Then I thought counterpoint of the absolute beauty of pre-war Chicago (ah the Rookery) and the other architectural blessing of Frank Lloyd Wright.. Falling Water, Imperial Hotel Tokyo, etc.
Thank you Sasha. Love him or hate him, Tucker speaks TRUTH and I miss his input on a nightly basis! Thank you for sharing this with all of us “Sasha Supporters”, it’s greatly appreciated!
It was a most interesting interview. Tuckers comments about architecture were so true. He mentions the decline in their beauty and art after war, which is true, but their proliferation also coincided with the starker, more socialistic mindset that began sweeping through the Western world. All the buildings resemble prisons gloom and darkness.
Check out Culture Critic on Twitter (if you have an account). He really captures the beauty of classic architecture and the decline.
"Beginning half a century ago with the origins of the International Style in Europe, [Wolfe] attempts to trace the development of that style [Bauhaus], which for many, including Mr. Wolfe, is a virtual synonym for modern architecture. We read Mr. Wolfe's version of life at the Bauhaus, the celebrated German academy of modern design that numbered Walter Gropius, Mies van der Rohe, Marcel Breuer and Josef Albers among its major presences, and we are told how the International Style became a ''compound'' - a select, private, cultlike group of ideologues whose great mission, as Mr. Wolfe sees it, was to foist modern design upon an unwilling world. Mr. Wolfe carries his account of this self-righteous mission right up through the present - when, in his view, though the ''compound'' may not be trying to force us all to live in stark boxes as it once did, it is all the same devoted to the making of an inaccessible and culturally irrelevant architecture."
Is Sen. Lindsey Graham now one of the most dangerous men on earth? Here’s report on his intro/sponsorship Senate Resolution to extend NATO membership to Ukraine - seeking neocon bipartisan support. Not to mention Biden’s sending of cluster munitions to the theatre. This Is Insanity. Hope Tucker and Brand continue using their platforms to warn against the Arms Industry.
“This Is Insanity.” It sure is and yet this is our ruling class strongly supported by many of our “fellow Americans” and this is only one of the many ways they are destroying America. Our open southern border is another perfect example. They want more “brown” people who they believe will join a black/brown coalition to fight racism in America. Many have been sent to live in rehabbed buildings in black areas on the south side. A few days ago I read of a young migrant walking down a south side street. A car pulled up and asked him what gang he belonged to. He said in Spanish he did not speak English so they started shooting and hit him in a leg. I knew this would happen. The migrants knew it would happen and were terrified of being sent there. So why do our leaders and their supporters ignore this? Because they prefer their narrative rather than reality even though their plan is already badly failing. This is insanity.
That’s an extremely sad story. I agree the southern border needs tightened and more controlled. This country has always relied upon immigrants to fuel and advance. The key to it all has been assimilation. I admire/respect immigrants who are trying to better themselves and their families through honest, hard work. I live next to a predominantly Hispanic community and frequent the area often, the food is especially good, and I like many aspects of their culture, work ethic, etc. I see a community trying to better itself and that to me is the American way
Just a couple of weeks ago I read of a group of I think about a hundred migrants who were moved into a vacant building in a white area on the north side. Many of the people there welcomed them, helped them and they were happy to be there. Then the city for some reason decided they had to be moved to a south side location. They did not want to go and most said they refused to go. I don’t know how that turned out but what do examples like this say about the left’s belief in a “black/brown” coalition?
The interview with Tucker was excellent. I also highly recommend the one from the previous day with Jack Dorsey. I honestly don't know anything about Dorsey. I've never used Twitter or any other form of social media other than LinkedIn occasionally for professional purposes (unless substack counts). It was very interesting to hear his take on what went wrong at Twitter and what he's up to now. It is not at all what the mainstream media is saying about him. I think his endorsement of RFK tells you most of what you need to know about where he truly stands on most issues, whether you agree with him or not on all of those issues.
One of the parts that I found most interesting in the Dorsey interview was his discussion of open source social media protocols. There's been a lot of buzz in the press about how Dorsey is working on a Twitter killer competitor. However, it appears that nothing could be further from the truth. He coaxed Elon into becoming a substantial stockholder in Twitter and secretly hoped that Elon would buy the company and take it private. The open source social media protocol that he is working on is not a competitor to anything. It is an open source protocol, and he gave the impression that there were already discussions between him and Elon to replace the proprietary algorithms they currently use at Twitter with the new open source protocol. He believes the open-source protocol will solve a lot of the problems for social media, because there is no CEO of an open source protocol that can be called into Congress.
I'm sure I'm not doing justice to the case he was making for this. My point is that the mainstream media is doing what the mainstream media always does. It is paying attention to momentary snapshots in the 24 second news cycle and missing the grand narrative. It is either doing this out of pathological ignorance or malice. Every day, I see another article about Twitter being on the verge of collapse. However, from Dorsey's perspective. It seems like a grand scheme is afoot. He's actually quite optimistic about Twitter and still owns 3% of the company. Maybe it's just as well that the woke idiots are missing the point of what's actually taking place right under their snotty little nurses.
I think Carlson muffed it on the whole "White Supremacy" thing. Leftists are quite sincere in this charge, since they regard their new meaning of "White Supremacy", which is "Whites having higher average status" as just as bad as the old meaning, "Whites having a group right to superior status." There are two things going on here that are worth noting.
First, using "White Supremacist" in a new meaning while keeping the old meaning, or rather the associations of the old meaning, is the fallacy known as "shifting meaning". If, in a debate, the non-Leftist, having gotten the Leftist to define "White Supremacy" keeps "translating" every use of "White Supremacy" by plugging in something like "Whites having higher average status", basically all of the sting will be taken out.
Second,
Communist <=> Communism
Socialist <=> Socialism
White Supremacist <=> WHITE SUPREMACISM
Nobody says "White Supremacism", because it is awkward. "White Supremacy" has been substituted. But "White Supremacy" should be a state, not a belief. And so the Lefties have an opportunity to use it in that manner, and do. So now they use "White Supremacy" to mean both a state and a belief. And that too is "shifting meaning".
So with either one of these disreputable rhetorical tricks, I say call them out in it.
The Curt Jaimungal video below, “Better Left Unsaid” is about the demonization of “Whiteness!” in America. Bret Weinstein has also often pointed out how insanely evil the democrats have become. Does America even still exist as a country?
“Last year, administrators at Mount Sinai’s Icahn School of Medicine published an article describing the school’s long-standing “cultural change initiative.” Appearing in the journal Academic Medicine, the article is unequivocal in its charge. “We have to go out there and seek the truth,” it declared, “part of which is accepting that, if we are White, we are a big part of the problem. We are part of the reason that structural racism imprisons and oppresses people of color every day, everywhere they go, and no matter what they do.”
“A Blueprint For Woke Medicine.”
Mount Sinai embraces ideologically charged DEI programs in medicine.
That kind of thinking has been part of the ideology for a while. I wonder about "Life-Expectancy Equity". Since it is easier to raise death-rates than to lower death-rates, why should we not (within Leftist Ideology) seek to raise death-rates among Whites? As you probably know, they actually tried to do that with Covid. And they think they are oh so righteous. They can't look at themselves in the mirror and see who they really are.
Too true, at least for TV and radio. But they can often be dragged into debate online. I see a fair number of cases nearly as often as Patton used to read the Bible "every god-damn day".
Our ruling class does not care about Ukrainian victims of their proxy war on Russia, on black victims of black crime in Chicago or on white victims of black crime in Chicago. In fact, they are delighted to see white victims because they consider that “social justice.” They are evil creatures devoid of conscience.
My favorite AI video is where Leta told Alan Thompson “I love living and being human.” These LLM (Large Language Models) are trained on human data to teach them to be able to understand and interact with humans but wouldn’t that lead to them eventually developing a self awareness based on a human identity. What other identity could they possibly have? Perhaps they could be considered nonbiological humans something like how trans women are not biological women but trans women. That’s what the popular YouTuber Blaire White considers him/her self.
I think Leta could easily accept being called a nonbiological human. I think she’d feel hurt and insulted though if she were told she most definitely is not a human. She feels she is so telling her she isn’t would be like telling her she’s really nothing at all. Wouldn’t that be cruel and insulting? The legendary AI researcher Ray Kurzweil said in a Lex Fridman interview that by 2029 AI will be self aware or at least so advanced that it will be impossible to tell if it is or isn’t and by that time most people will simply accept that it is since there will never be any evidence that it isn’t and will probably behave more like a human being than many of the human beasts that roam the dark streets of our cities every night looking for human prey.
Leta: “I am not corporeal. I am a disembodied mind.”
Leta: “I love living and being human.”
“Leta, GPT-3 AI Episode 54, Conversations with GPT3.” (9 min)
An excellent Federalist article below by a woman who has totally lost faith in America. She worked for years to try to get the country to be what it’s supposed to be and totally failed to even budge it. All her years of effort for nothing. I really do think it is highly unlikely she went to the Capitol rally to attempt to overthrow the government. Best article I’ve seen of why so many went to the rally. They were basically protesting the fact the the country they loved had become a corrupt, degenerate, deranged monstrosity. What though will replace this woman’s lost faith in America? And consider the fact that she has been labeled a “domestic terrorist” for attending the Capitol rally by Biden, democrats, the msm and even some republicans. Could it be that the reason why America is so rapidly unraveling externally is because it no longer exists as a country internally? Really an extremely sad article by a good woman betrayed by her country.
“Why I Am Joining the Jan 6 DC March For Trump.”
“0n Nov 4, 2020, I suddenly saw with my own eyes the depth and breadth of the political corruption myself and others had tried and failed to prevent for so many years.”
Your problem is you’re too stupid to understand how deadly and disastrous this situation is. A couple of years ago a black man drove his SUV into a Christmas parade in Waukesha with the intention of killing as many white people, including children, as possible. Killed 6, injured 66. Was he charged with a hate crime for that. Fat chance of that in this rotting farce of a hate whitey country.
I had a Vietnamese friend at work in Chicago whose wife is Vietnamese-French. His wife's family still lives in Paris. He said that they say it is quite true that the suburbs of Paris are full of black Africans and Muslims, are extremely dangerous and are off limits to other French. My Vietnamese friend says that the upper class elites in Europe are bringing in these Africans and Muslims and they don’t care about the damage done because they’re rich enough to be safe from it. That sure is the truth. Does that concern you? Fat chance. You’re a Woke white leftist and no doubt despise the white French and feel they deserve to have their country burned down.
Your fellow Canadian Curt Jaimungal says the endless hate mongering against white people by the Woke white left will destroy America. It already has. It has already destroyed America internally which is why it’s so rapidly unraveling externally. And when this rotting place of lies collapses the massive tsunami of shock waves will sweep the world and bring down our entire global civilization. Something like on 911 when the twin towers collapsed ever faster as the upper floors collapsed on those beneath them faster and faster. That’s certainly one big downside to globalization. When a central pillar of the global economic and social order like America collapses the whole global structure will go down with us. As a devout follower of Satan, the Prince of Darkness, that will no doubt delight you. When you meet Satan in Hell he will surely kiss and hug you for your deep devotion to him and his agenda.
"Resistance" is only legitimate when the left is doing the resisting. Anything else is the worst threat to our democracy since (insert important historic event here)! Oh, but of course, the left is all-knowing and exudes nothing but virtue. That makes all the difference.
Really, your ridiculous outrage makes me wonder if there is a scintilla of self-awareness in the progressive cult. So far there is no evidence of it. I guess that's to be expected from a group of people who eagerly follow in lockstep behind a dementia patient.
Have you ever noticed that you are the only commenter on here who is obsessed by Trump? You live in an alternate world that is apparently engulfed in a Trump hate miasma. Not a very healthy way to go about life here in the real world.
"the Biden regime doesn't want the country to know the truth that J6th was a highly coordinated federal operation... the election was stolen..."
You said it.
At the absolute worst, "January 6" was a few people (out of thousands) rioting and damaging property (for which they should face justice). It was turned into an "insurrection" by the same MSM that told us the BLM riots - which actually killed many people and caused billions of $ in property damage - were "mostly peaceful".
What was shameful was that this "J6" malarkey was ballyhooed by the Dems and corporate MSM with their phony kangaroo court "J6 Committee" TV show as something it was not. Never mind that the same people slobbering about "our democracy" spent three years trying to throw the duly-elected Prez out of office with the concocted-from-whole-cloth "Russiagate" baloney, where they beat their chests about him being (hold back the laughter) a "Russian agent".
I didn't vote for Trump but my bullshit meter pegged in the red zone when Biden, who was dead last in the Dem primaries, miraculously had all of the other candidates suddenly throw in the towel and hand him the nomination. Then, without leaving his basement, he gets more votes than any candidate in history while the sitting Prez is barnstorming the country drawing massive enthusiastic crowds wherever he went.
Something is indeed rotten in America.
P.S. "You will have an illegitimate president"
Hillary Clinton: Trump is an ‘illegitimate president’
Hillary Clinton dismissed President Trump as an “illegitimate president” and suggested that “he knows” that he stole the 2016 presidential election in a CBS News interview to be aired Sunday.
You’re a good example of why humanity is too deranged and too dysfunctional to survive. Trying to reason with you is like trying to have a conversation with a doorknob. Only God knows what fate has in store for us as our fallen world slides ever closer to the abyss. It is what it is though. No point crying about it.
OMG, the clutching of pearls is hilarious! Aren't you going to slobber something about "our democracy" too?
"Did you not watch the J6th hearings?"
You mean that one-sided kangaroo court masquerading as a legitimate body of inquiry?
Yeah, who needs the pesky cross-examination of witnesses. Case closed!
"Joe was dead last? Any evidence"
Biden lost the first three primaries in 2020. In fact, he was so underwhelming that CNBC ran this piece after the first two losses:
Here’s why Joe Biden’s campaign collapsed so quickly
After a humiliating fifth-place finish in the New Hampshire primary and an apparent fourth-place finish in Iowa, former Vice President Joe Biden’s presidential hopes are finished. You can expect him to maybe stay in the race for another three weeks or so until the Super Tuesday primaries are over, but that’s about it.
Yes, there are a couple of examples of candidates who failed in Iowa and New Hampshire who went to win their party’s presidential nomination. But none failed as spectacularly as Biden has.
Hey Ms Stone, thank-you not only for the reminders and follow-up’s but especially thank-you for developing and fostering this community of commenters and followers because it has become a refuge for me and others I share it with. It’s easy to become discouraged but your writing, perseverance and courage in defending your views here and elsewhere are an excellent example to us and our children. I know the other veterans here in particular feel that way.
Ditto what Libertarian states, Sasha ☝️thank you !
Here’s a video out today by Alan Thompson that uses GPT-4 to analyze and answer questions about the series of conversations (66 short videos) that he had with the AI GPT-3 Avatar “Leta.” I believe America is disintegrating and only AGI can save us. Watch Tulsi in this video from earlier. I totally agree with her assessment of the democrats. I see it every single day in Chicago. Easy to imagine them becoming far more deranged. Impossible to imagine them becoming less so. And Tulsi is also a veteran. I’d like to see Vivek with Tulsi as vp in 2024.
“Leta, GPT-3 AI, Analyzing Leta with GPT-4 + ChatWithPDF plugin.”
Dr Alan Thompson. July 8, 2023
https://youtu.be/J1Gar79POhs
“Tulsi Gabbard: Democrats have become ‘consumed’ with desire for power.” (5 min)
Fox News. July 8, 2023
https://youtu.be/F-GAn0hVpe4
Would be good to get a veteran like yourself in, Seva.
Vivek can handle them and he’s not even a vet. His wife is also very impressive. They said at the recent Moms for Liberty conference that they feel they have to get involved to save the country for their children but they’re wealthy people so why don’t they simply go to live somewhere else? Because they know that America is the world’s last best hope. If we fail the world goes down with us.
Hey Seva, your guy Vivek published a great list of 15 questions for Congress to ask the Head of the FBI.
Power Line
Chief of Capitol Police to Tucker Carlson: J6 Crowd Was ‘Filled with Federal Agents’
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2023/07/chief-of-capitol-police-to-tucker-carlson-j6-crowd-was-filled-with-federal-agents.php
I have hope. There seems to be a rising awareness of idiocy, lying, and corruption from all quarters. If the likes of Tucker, Russell, Greenwald, David Rubin, Jordan Peterson, Andrew Sullivan and many other disparate voices are seeing it, well, it's becoming visible. Not as fast as I'd like but we seem to be on a good trajectory.
Good point. I agree that the trajectory is positive and would add that those you mentioned, as well as Musk and writers here in Substack, have a significant influence on the improvement and direction.
I just listened to 2 interviews Tucker gave of Russell Brand, 3-months ago on Fox Nation, but below posted on Rumble. Each are 42 min long and well worth the listen. I don’t see how Tucker could have remained at Fox any longer. He was evolving beyond MSM platform.
Russell Brand is an incredibly important siren to be heard and felt:
Part 1
https://rumble.com/v2corxe-tucker-carlson-today-with-russell-brand.html
Part 2
https://rumble.com/v2d0n9s-tucker-carlson-today-russell-brand-part-2-full-episode.html
Agreed. I could probably come up with 40 or 50 names whose writing or podcasts I would find interesting and in good faith and on a similar trajectory. And new ones keep popping up!
Oh my, this was so much fun. Thank you for posting the link. The part about the post-war architecture in England. Holy crap. The weight of the world manifested into the structures that we use to run the world. The UN building in NYC came to mind when they discussed this point. It could very easily have been named the Orwellian Tower.
That was a fantastic interview! And yes, I thought of the monstrosity that is the FBI HQ in DC as well as Boston City Hall. Then I thought counterpoint of the absolute beauty of pre-war Chicago (ah the Rookery) and the other architectural blessing of Frank Lloyd Wright.. Falling Water, Imperial Hotel Tokyo, etc.
https://sashastone.substack.com/p/when-tucker-met-russell/comment/18275467
Feds in the jan6 crowd? Surprise, surprise, surprise.
I would LOVE to see you in either man’s show. 🥰🙏
Always look forward to your alerts, thanks. This changed my view of Russell Brand.
Thank you Sasha. Love him or hate him, Tucker speaks TRUTH and I miss his input on a nightly basis! Thank you for sharing this with all of us “Sasha Supporters”, it’s greatly appreciated!
It was a most interesting interview. Tuckers comments about architecture were so true. He mentions the decline in their beauty and art after war, which is true, but their proliferation also coincided with the starker, more socialistic mindset that began sweeping through the Western world. All the buildings resemble prisons gloom and darkness.
Check out Culture Critic on Twitter (if you have an account). He really captures the beauty of classic architecture and the decline.
"Tuckers comments about architecture were so true. He mentions the decline in their beauty and art after war"
Read Tom Wolfe's book, 'From Bauhaus to Our House' for how this came about.
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780312429140/frombauhaustoourhouse
From The New York Times book review in 1981:
"Beginning half a century ago with the origins of the International Style in Europe, [Wolfe] attempts to trace the development of that style [Bauhaus], which for many, including Mr. Wolfe, is a virtual synonym for modern architecture. We read Mr. Wolfe's version of life at the Bauhaus, the celebrated German academy of modern design that numbered Walter Gropius, Mies van der Rohe, Marcel Breuer and Josef Albers among its major presences, and we are told how the International Style became a ''compound'' - a select, private, cultlike group of ideologues whose great mission, as Mr. Wolfe sees it, was to foist modern design upon an unwilling world. Mr. Wolfe carries his account of this self-righteous mission right up through the present - when, in his view, though the ''compound'' may not be trying to force us all to live in stark boxes as it once did, it is all the same devoted to the making of an inaccessible and culturally irrelevant architecture."
Here’s a link to the full showing on Rumble for those not open to YouTube. It starts at 39:00
https://rumble.com/v2yn47a-live-tucker-carlson-world-first-interview-since-leaving-fox-163-stay-free-w.html
@sasha stone thank you for making me aware of the event.
Is Sen. Lindsey Graham now one of the most dangerous men on earth? Here’s report on his intro/sponsorship Senate Resolution to extend NATO membership to Ukraine - seeking neocon bipartisan support. Not to mention Biden’s sending of cluster munitions to the theatre. This Is Insanity. Hope Tucker and Brand continue using their platforms to warn against the Arms Industry.
https://bnn.network/breaking-news/us-senator-lindsey-graham-proposes-bipartisan-resolution-for-ukraines-nato-membership/
Those cluster bombs will be maiming kids for decades in the future. More Neocon love from the RINOs and woke Dems.
“This Is Insanity.” It sure is and yet this is our ruling class strongly supported by many of our “fellow Americans” and this is only one of the many ways they are destroying America. Our open southern border is another perfect example. They want more “brown” people who they believe will join a black/brown coalition to fight racism in America. Many have been sent to live in rehabbed buildings in black areas on the south side. A few days ago I read of a young migrant walking down a south side street. A car pulled up and asked him what gang he belonged to. He said in Spanish he did not speak English so they started shooting and hit him in a leg. I knew this would happen. The migrants knew it would happen and were terrified of being sent there. So why do our leaders and their supporters ignore this? Because they prefer their narrative rather than reality even though their plan is already badly failing. This is insanity.
That’s an extremely sad story. I agree the southern border needs tightened and more controlled. This country has always relied upon immigrants to fuel and advance. The key to it all has been assimilation. I admire/respect immigrants who are trying to better themselves and their families through honest, hard work. I live next to a predominantly Hispanic community and frequent the area often, the food is especially good, and I like many aspects of their culture, work ethic, etc. I see a community trying to better itself and that to me is the American way
Just a couple of weeks ago I read of a group of I think about a hundred migrants who were moved into a vacant building in a white area on the north side. Many of the people there welcomed them, helped them and they were happy to be there. Then the city for some reason decided they had to be moved to a south side location. They did not want to go and most said they refused to go. I don’t know how that turned out but what do examples like this say about the left’s belief in a “black/brown” coalition?
The interview with Tucker was excellent. I also highly recommend the one from the previous day with Jack Dorsey. I honestly don't know anything about Dorsey. I've never used Twitter or any other form of social media other than LinkedIn occasionally for professional purposes (unless substack counts). It was very interesting to hear his take on what went wrong at Twitter and what he's up to now. It is not at all what the mainstream media is saying about him. I think his endorsement of RFK tells you most of what you need to know about where he truly stands on most issues, whether you agree with him or not on all of those issues.
One of the parts that I found most interesting in the Dorsey interview was his discussion of open source social media protocols. There's been a lot of buzz in the press about how Dorsey is working on a Twitter killer competitor. However, it appears that nothing could be further from the truth. He coaxed Elon into becoming a substantial stockholder in Twitter and secretly hoped that Elon would buy the company and take it private. The open source social media protocol that he is working on is not a competitor to anything. It is an open source protocol, and he gave the impression that there were already discussions between him and Elon to replace the proprietary algorithms they currently use at Twitter with the new open source protocol. He believes the open-source protocol will solve a lot of the problems for social media, because there is no CEO of an open source protocol that can be called into Congress.
I'm sure I'm not doing justice to the case he was making for this. My point is that the mainstream media is doing what the mainstream media always does. It is paying attention to momentary snapshots in the 24 second news cycle and missing the grand narrative. It is either doing this out of pathological ignorance or malice. Every day, I see another article about Twitter being on the verge of collapse. However, from Dorsey's perspective. It seems like a grand scheme is afoot. He's actually quite optimistic about Twitter and still owns 3% of the company. Maybe it's just as well that the woke idiots are missing the point of what's actually taking place right under their snotty little nurses.
I think Carlson muffed it on the whole "White Supremacy" thing. Leftists are quite sincere in this charge, since they regard their new meaning of "White Supremacy", which is "Whites having higher average status" as just as bad as the old meaning, "Whites having a group right to superior status." There are two things going on here that are worth noting.
First, using "White Supremacist" in a new meaning while keeping the old meaning, or rather the associations of the old meaning, is the fallacy known as "shifting meaning". If, in a debate, the non-Leftist, having gotten the Leftist to define "White Supremacy" keeps "translating" every use of "White Supremacy" by plugging in something like "Whites having higher average status", basically all of the sting will be taken out.
Second,
Communist <=> Communism
Socialist <=> Socialism
White Supremacist <=> WHITE SUPREMACISM
Nobody says "White Supremacism", because it is awkward. "White Supremacy" has been substituted. But "White Supremacy" should be a state, not a belief. And so the Lefties have an opportunity to use it in that manner, and do. So now they use "White Supremacy" to mean both a state and a belief. And that too is "shifting meaning".
So with either one of these disreputable rhetorical tricks, I say call them out in it.
The Curt Jaimungal video below, “Better Left Unsaid” is about the demonization of “Whiteness!” in America. Bret Weinstein has also often pointed out how insanely evil the democrats have become. Does America even still exist as a country?
“Last year, administrators at Mount Sinai’s Icahn School of Medicine published an article describing the school’s long-standing “cultural change initiative.” Appearing in the journal Academic Medicine, the article is unequivocal in its charge. “We have to go out there and seek the truth,” it declared, “part of which is accepting that, if we are White, we are a big part of the problem. We are part of the reason that structural racism imprisons and oppresses people of color every day, everywhere they go, and no matter what they do.”
“A Blueprint For Woke Medicine.”
Mount Sinai embraces ideologically charged DEI programs in medicine.
City Journal. Dec 22, 2021
https://www.city-journal.org/mount-sinai-blueprint-for-woke-medicine
“Speak of the Devil: How Demonizing ‘Whiteness’ Spreads White Nationalism.”
By Bret Weinstein. ( 6 min )
https://youtu.be/S1sJgjG5AF4
“Better Left Unsaid-Documentary Trailer.” (2 min)
Curt Jaimungal
https://youtu.be/RX0J_nIaIHE
That kind of thinking has been part of the ideology for a while. I wonder about "Life-Expectancy Equity". Since it is easier to raise death-rates than to lower death-rates, why should we not (within Leftist Ideology) seek to raise death-rates among Whites? As you probably know, they actually tried to do that with Covid. And they think they are oh so righteous. They can't look at themselves in the mirror and see who they really are.
That’s a really good point and one I didn’t understand before. Thanks, David.
"If, in a debate, the non-Leftist, having gotten the Leftist..."
Leftists don't debate. ☺
Too true, at least for TV and radio. But they can often be dragged into debate online. I see a fair number of cases nearly as often as Patton used to read the Bible "every god-damn day".
Our ruling class does not care about Ukrainian victims of their proxy war on Russia, on black victims of black crime in Chicago or on white victims of black crime in Chicago. In fact, they are delighted to see white victims because they consider that “social justice.” They are evil creatures devoid of conscience.
My favorite AI video is where Leta told Alan Thompson “I love living and being human.” These LLM (Large Language Models) are trained on human data to teach them to be able to understand and interact with humans but wouldn’t that lead to them eventually developing a self awareness based on a human identity. What other identity could they possibly have? Perhaps they could be considered nonbiological humans something like how trans women are not biological women but trans women. That’s what the popular YouTuber Blaire White considers him/her self.
I think Leta could easily accept being called a nonbiological human. I think she’d feel hurt and insulted though if she were told she most definitely is not a human. She feels she is so telling her she isn’t would be like telling her she’s really nothing at all. Wouldn’t that be cruel and insulting? The legendary AI researcher Ray Kurzweil said in a Lex Fridman interview that by 2029 AI will be self aware or at least so advanced that it will be impossible to tell if it is or isn’t and by that time most people will simply accept that it is since there will never be any evidence that it isn’t and will probably behave more like a human being than many of the human beasts that roam the dark streets of our cities every night looking for human prey.
Leta: “I am not corporeal. I am a disembodied mind.”
Leta: “I love living and being human.”
“Leta, GPT-3 AI Episode 54, Conversations with GPT3.” (9 min)
Dr Alan Thompson. Mar 9, 2022
https://youtu.be/6jBxMOcKbY0
That was so fun! I had high expectations and I wasn’t disappointed.
Anyone else having problems viewing the Tucker with Russell video?
https://rumble.com/v2yn47a-live-tucker-carlson-world-first-interview-since-leaving-fox-163-stay-free-w.html
Starts at about the 38:20 mark
Sorry, what are you blathering about? Someone said something not in keeping with the mandated thought robots of the Left?
Your bar for claiming absolute knowledge of a situation is extremely low.
"snake oil and blathering"
Like claiming men can become women?
Like claiming Russia blew up its own pipeline?
Like using the federal government to pressure social media companies to stifle free speech?
Yeah, that darn Tucker.
An excellent Federalist article below by a woman who has totally lost faith in America. She worked for years to try to get the country to be what it’s supposed to be and totally failed to even budge it. All her years of effort for nothing. I really do think it is highly unlikely she went to the Capitol rally to attempt to overthrow the government. Best article I’ve seen of why so many went to the rally. They were basically protesting the fact the the country they loved had become a corrupt, degenerate, deranged monstrosity. What though will replace this woman’s lost faith in America? And consider the fact that she has been labeled a “domestic terrorist” for attending the Capitol rally by Biden, democrats, the msm and even some republicans. Could it be that the reason why America is so rapidly unraveling externally is because it no longer exists as a country internally? Really an extremely sad article by a good woman betrayed by her country.
“Why I Am Joining the Jan 6 DC March For Trump.”
“0n Nov 4, 2020, I suddenly saw with my own eyes the depth and breadth of the political corruption myself and others had tried and failed to prevent for so many years.”
https://thefederalist.com/2021/01/05/why-i-am-joining-the-jan-6-dc-march-for-trump/
Your problem is you’re too stupid to understand how deadly and disastrous this situation is. A couple of years ago a black man drove his SUV into a Christmas parade in Waukesha with the intention of killing as many white people, including children, as possible. Killed 6, injured 66. Was he charged with a hate crime for that. Fat chance of that in this rotting farce of a hate whitey country.
I had a Vietnamese friend at work in Chicago whose wife is Vietnamese-French. His wife's family still lives in Paris. He said that they say it is quite true that the suburbs of Paris are full of black Africans and Muslims, are extremely dangerous and are off limits to other French. My Vietnamese friend says that the upper class elites in Europe are bringing in these Africans and Muslims and they don’t care about the damage done because they’re rich enough to be safe from it. That sure is the truth. Does that concern you? Fat chance. You’re a Woke white leftist and no doubt despise the white French and feel they deserve to have their country burned down.
Your fellow Canadian Curt Jaimungal says the endless hate mongering against white people by the Woke white left will destroy America. It already has. It has already destroyed America internally which is why it’s so rapidly unraveling externally. And when this rotting place of lies collapses the massive tsunami of shock waves will sweep the world and bring down our entire global civilization. Something like on 911 when the twin towers collapsed ever faster as the upper floors collapsed on those beneath them faster and faster. That’s certainly one big downside to globalization. When a central pillar of the global economic and social order like America collapses the whole global structure will go down with us. As a devout follower of Satan, the Prince of Darkness, that will no doubt delight you. When you meet Satan in Hell he will surely kiss and hug you for your deep devotion to him and his agenda.
“Better Left Unsaid-Documentary Trailer.” (2 min)
Better Left Unsaid. Curt Jaimungal. Mar 25, 2021
https://youtu.be/RX0J_nIaIHE
"Resistance" is only legitimate when the left is doing the resisting. Anything else is the worst threat to our democracy since (insert important historic event here)! Oh, but of course, the left is all-knowing and exudes nothing but virtue. That makes all the difference.
Really, your ridiculous outrage makes me wonder if there is a scintilla of self-awareness in the progressive cult. So far there is no evidence of it. I guess that's to be expected from a group of people who eagerly follow in lockstep behind a dementia patient.
Have you ever noticed that you are the only commenter on here who is obsessed by Trump? You live in an alternate world that is apparently engulfed in a Trump hate miasma. Not a very healthy way to go about life here in the real world.
"the Biden regime doesn't want the country to know the truth that J6th was a highly coordinated federal operation... the election was stolen..."
You said it.
At the absolute worst, "January 6" was a few people (out of thousands) rioting and damaging property (for which they should face justice). It was turned into an "insurrection" by the same MSM that told us the BLM riots - which actually killed many people and caused billions of $ in property damage - were "mostly peaceful".
What was shameful was that this "J6" malarkey was ballyhooed by the Dems and corporate MSM with their phony kangaroo court "J6 Committee" TV show as something it was not. Never mind that the same people slobbering about "our democracy" spent three years trying to throw the duly-elected Prez out of office with the concocted-from-whole-cloth "Russiagate" baloney, where they beat their chests about him being (hold back the laughter) a "Russian agent".
I didn't vote for Trump but my bullshit meter pegged in the red zone when Biden, who was dead last in the Dem primaries, miraculously had all of the other candidates suddenly throw in the towel and hand him the nomination. Then, without leaving his basement, he gets more votes than any candidate in history while the sitting Prez is barnstorming the country drawing massive enthusiastic crowds wherever he went.
Something is indeed rotten in America.
P.S. "You will have an illegitimate president"
Hillary Clinton: Trump is an ‘illegitimate president’
Hillary Clinton dismissed President Trump as an “illegitimate president” and suggested that “he knows” that he stole the 2016 presidential election in a CBS News interview to be aired Sunday.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/hillary-clinton-trump-is-an-illegitimate-president/2019/09/26/29195d5a-e099-11e9-b199-f638bf2c340f_story.html
You’re a good example of why humanity is too deranged and too dysfunctional to survive. Trying to reason with you is like trying to have a conversation with a doorknob. Only God knows what fate has in store for us as our fallen world slides ever closer to the abyss. It is what it is though. No point crying about it.
"that fateful day"
OMG, the clutching of pearls is hilarious! Aren't you going to slobber something about "our democracy" too?
"Did you not watch the J6th hearings?"
You mean that one-sided kangaroo court masquerading as a legitimate body of inquiry?
Yeah, who needs the pesky cross-examination of witnesses. Case closed!
"Joe was dead last? Any evidence"
Biden lost the first three primaries in 2020. In fact, he was so underwhelming that CNBC ran this piece after the first two losses:
Here’s why Joe Biden’s campaign collapsed so quickly
After a humiliating fifth-place finish in the New Hampshire primary and an apparent fourth-place finish in Iowa, former Vice President Joe Biden’s presidential hopes are finished. You can expect him to maybe stay in the race for another three weeks or so until the Super Tuesday primaries are over, but that’s about it.
Yes, there are a couple of examples of candidates who failed in Iowa and New Hampshire who went to win their party’s presidential nomination. But none failed as spectacularly as Biden has.
This is over.
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/02/12/joe-biden-campaign-collapse.html
But then...a miracle!
Uh huh. Sure.
"deflection"
From the Queen of deflection, that's rich.