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@AyJaySimon @RichardHanania @coldxman So you think those points are abolsute and there's no room to pontificate surrounding evidence that might oppose the official narratives that had you banned on old Twitter if you raised irregularities in findings?

@___calico___ @RichardHanania @coldxman "Bret - you claimed that 17 million people might have been killed by the Covid vaccine, and the Jeffrey Epstein is still alive and blackmailing Donald Trump into going to war with Iran." "You're taking me out of context."

This is absolutely beautiful. Weinstein can’t defend his nonsense on the merits. I thought he was genuinely schizo. But he doesn’t respond to Tracey by saying “yes Epstein is alive.” He knows he can’t defend it. At some level he knows he’s full of it.

@AyJaySimon @RichardHanania @coldxman Actually, he came across as quite humble and Tracy conveyed insecurity by highjacking the conversation. For Brett, it was completely reasonable to suggest he was taken out of context and telling people to come to their own conclusions puts faith in himself and the audience.

@___calico___ @RichardHanania @coldxman Whether or not it's a "modern propaganda technique," it did Bret a favor. His actual responses did nothing to answer the claims made against him, and did a lot to make him seem smarmy and evasive ("Just listen to my podcast and form your own opinion.")

@AyJaySimon @RichardHanania @coldxman Wow, I had no idea my comment would be that challenging to understand. It didn't matter what his response was. Showing a video criticizing someone's response (or inability to respond effectively) and cutting it out of the video is just a modern propaganda technique

@___calico___ @RichardHanania @coldxman Even Bret said he didn't understand why he should be expected to respond to anything. I doubt that anyone crabbing that Bret's response were edited out actually wants spend the 20 minutes needed to hear them, but here's the link: youtube.com/watch?v=8XALSh…

@MFactologist @caitoz Ok, good luck with that

@___calico___ @caitoz I don't need to answer that question because we see it all the time with public services.

It’s not impossible to solve our world’s problems, it only looks that way because we’ve created systems which cause human behavior to be driven by mindless mechanisms of our own making rather than by human interest. We allow the blind pursuit of profit to govern the way the human species behaves on our planet. Corporations which are legally compelled to do whatever maximizes shareholder value are exerting more and more control over the state and its people. And now we’ve got AI being prepped to do whatever it’s going to do. These are unthinking beasts of our own creation. And we let them rule our world. Our lives are dominated by gods without brains. And we made the gods. We are being driven to extinction by the headless horsemen of the apocalypse. And we built those headless horsemen, bolt by bolt, with our own hands. War. Militarism. Ecocide. Exploitation. Imperialist extraction. These things happen because they are profitable, and we are led by systems and institutions which consistently cause the most profitable thing to happen. They continually slant all movement toward the most profitable outcome, regardless of the negative impact it can have on human beings and the other organisms with whom we share this planet. That’s why the military-industrial complex exists. That’s why the rainforests and ice caps are vanishing while sprawling data centers spring up all over the place. That’s why ordinary people are getting poorer and more miserable while those who own and operate giant corporations get richer and more powerful. These things aren’t happening because it’s the way things need to be. They’re not happening because of human nature or because of some immutable characteristic of the way human civilization has to unfold. They’re happening because the mindless forces we put in charge of our society made things that way. We can dismantle capitalism and set up systems which center human interests instead of profit. We do have the power to unseat the plutocratic institutions which rule our nations and put the people in the throne of power. All we need is the will to do so — which is why so much propaganda indoctrination has gone into undermining our will to do so. You can tell how unthinking and indoctrinated someone is by how willing they are to go along with the rule of the headless gods. People who reflexively defend the status quo, who defend police brutality and government warmongering, who make excuses for capitalist abuses and inequality. They’re just small reflections of the mindless gods they serve. They are as unthinking and unconscious as the corporations that are devouring our world. Mindless NPCs marching to the drumbeat of mindless corporate power. Humans do this because it's easier to give over our power than accept responsibility for the outcome. We're scared of getting the blame, so we hand power upwards. We keep handing it up and handing it up until there's no one to hand it to, so we make empty automatons to hold our powef for us. It is a grave sin for us to abdicate our authority in this way. Humanity does need to take responsibility for the self-destructive trajectory it has set itself on, and reverse course. It is absolutely within our ability to transcend our propaganda indoctrination and force a dramatic change in the way human civilization occurs. It is absolutely within our ability to make peace, feed and clothe everyone, and move into a collaborative relationship with each other and with our biosphere. We only think it’s not possible because we’ve never done it before. But we’ve done lots of things we’d never done before until we did them. We’ve just got to stop letting ourselves be whipped around by unthinking, unfeeling, amoral mechanisms of our own creation. We made them, so we can unmake them.

@MFactologist @caitoz Another lame attempt at guilt manipulation. What about the people that will die of dehydration because you don't know how to distribute water to them? Oh you're such a horrible human!

@___calico___ @caitoz See not a normal human.

@MFactologist @caitoz You still can't answer a basic question which explains how people will get access to a basic human need and how it will be distributed. Communism isn't a serious system.

@___calico___ @caitoz Communism has never existed at a state level. Communism is equal power and equal authority so can't exist in any oligarchy. System that aren't capitalism fail because of bombs, regime changes, starvation with sanctions and blockades, capitalists stealing resources, etc...

@MFactologist @caitoz Sorry, but your childish communist attempts at manipulative propaganda are laughable. You think you can guilt people by putting the words "Epstein class" next to "capitalism" as though I'll think "capitalism and Epstein are the same thing". You need a new script.

@___calico___ @caitoz A normal human would ask why people are still being forced to work themselves to death so the pedo capitalist Epstein class can live lavish lives but instead you defend that pedo Epstein class. Interesting. theworker.news/2026/04/26/ama…

@MFactologist @caitoz This is why communism fails. Y'all have this wonderful high level idea in your head but when it comes to the realities of running a society, you have no practical way of solving something so simple as, who gets fresh water and how much.

@___calico___ @caitoz Stop equating wealth to resources and stop defending the pedo capitalist Epstein class then start asking questions.

@MFactologist @caitoz You can't answer the question, can you? You really have no way to answer, how does someone get access to something as basic as water? How is water distributed in communism?

@___calico___ @caitoz There again you equate wealth with resources but claim you aren't equating wealth with resources.

@MFactologist @caitoz Even with the bad actors in capitalism, the wealth of society is immensely improved. Russia, China, Vietnam, all lifted their people out of poverty once they opened up their economies to private business ownership. These capitalists only make money by creating value for others.

@___calico___ @caitoz Compare rewards? Under capitalism it would take thousands, even tens of thousands of years spending nothing and working long and hard for workers to save a tiny fraction of the wealth created by workers and exploited by the non working capitalist Epstein class.

@MFactologist @caitoz I never said wealth is a resource. I said resources are a measure of wealth. Among other things like time etc. I ask again. How is wealth distributed in communism? How is it decided who gets 10 gallons of fresh water for personal use and who gets 20 gallons?

@___calico___ @caitoz Wealth isn't a resource it is the result of the work people do with resources. Resources are the natural things people use to create wealth. Under capitalism that wealth is exploited by the non working capitalists at the expense of the workers.

@Johnschiff551 @MattWalshBlog It's possibly more disrespectful to rewrite cultural mythology than it is history. It would be incredibly disrespectful for white people to be cast in indigenous Australian Dreamtime stories or for a white person to be cast as Sundiata Keita in the Epic of Sundiata.

I would almost agree with you, save for one thing...Helen of Troy was neither a real person in history or based on any actual historical figures. She is a fictional character. There is absolutely no reason she can't be black, and yes; saying anything else is cope and blatant racism. Oh, so you say you're "not racist, and you just don't think the character fits the part"? Okay. So go ahead and name a black woman who would "fit the part". I'll wait.

We're told that we shouldn't object to Helen of Troy being portrayed as a black woman. And yet if a major Hollywood studio made a film set in Africa and cast a white woman as "the most beautiful woman in Africa," those same people would literally riot in the street. If, say, Sydney Sweeney was cast in the role, they'd be driven to murderous violence. We all know this is the case.

@themarketear @zerohedge Except Alibaba is a case study in how the Chinese government can intentionally wipe out wealth of a company at any time. It's a casino.

Nobody owns enough China tech if this breakout starts accelerating. zerohedge.com/the-market-ear…

@MFactologist @caitoz The human mind works through the positive and negative effects of comparison. If you think humans don't compare their reward with their effort and compare the reward and effort of others, you need to deepen your understanding of the human psyche and evolutionary history.

@___calico___ @caitoz Your comment goes from the equal distribution of resources and equates that to equal levels of productivity then goes on to equate that to the measurement of wealth then call it nihilism without actually adding anything to the conversation.

@MFactologist @caitoz How do you think wealth is distributed in communism?

@___calico___ @caitoz Communism isn't the equal distribution of resources it is the equal ownership of resources.

@HealthRanger @DowdEdward Claiming humans are bad at prompting is what we call blaming the customer for poor product design. If AI delivered value, it wouldn't require prompting gymnastics. It's greatest value so far has been to improve search efficiency because accuracy loss is acceptable for that use

@DowdEdward I've noticed that most humans are STILL horribly bad at prompting. The AI engines are fully capable, but the prompting the project direction by humans is still the chokepoint.

Hype: Will replace all white collar workers in 18 months. Reality: You need to hire consultants and engineers to make this shit work.

@DFBbear @caitoz You sound like Israel, going back centuries to a time that means nothing now. The wall was there because people were fleeing East Germany to get to West Germany. No one was trying to get to the failed socialist state of East Germany. That says everything we need to know.

@___calico___ @caitoz All I see is one Germany. An occupied Germany. And yet, you're a fool if you think that Germany is united just because a wall fell. I could go back centuries in history to explain why your historic reductionism is pointless.

@MFactologist @caitoz You conveniently left out equal distribution of resources. But not everyone has the capability of contributing equal levels of productivity. It's the measurement of wealth (resources, free time etc) compared to effort (of self and others) that allows nihilism to break the system.

@___calico___ @caitoz You are confusing communism with Neo-Feudalism (Oligarchy) and that's what the pedo capitalist Epstein class want. Communism is the distribution of power with everyone having an equal say, equal authority and equal power. Capitalism is the pedo capitalist Epstein class.

@victorywiilcome @caitoz I know how things work in China. It's an authoritarian dictatorship. Not a workers state. You're basically saying the government is great because they use invasive means to shut down any possible opposition to their power. It's all they're doing.

@___calico___ @caitoz No, it's not vage. You have to know history and how capitalists have strangled the working class. Then understand how things work in China. When you do, you will realize that what Marx warned about is not happening in China. Capitalist hold exatly ZERO power. Ask Jack Ma!