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  LostInLoDOS ( profile ), 13 Jun, 2023 @ 02:05pm

  Bro has been a pot smoking joke for many years Other than that? You clearly have the wrong target audience here.

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  LostInLoDOS ( profile ), 13 Jun, 2023 @ 12:22am

  Several hundred did not commit a crime. A few dozen did. That’s the fact. Less than 100 entered the capital without invite. There were between 22 and 28 people (depending on report) in the stairwell hallway when an over zealous officer used lethal force against a veteran. Less than 30 people entered through broken windows. The over all number who violated the law is under 100.

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  LostInLoDOS ( profile ), 12 Jun, 2023 @ 05:12pm

  Your comment makes it clear you can’t separate a few trees from the forest. Feel free to read the legal documentation of the events. How many were outside legally protesting, by those that entered the building (with permission of security), by people who illegally entered. Feel free to come back and re to make your statement when using the actual counter numbers.

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  LostInLoDOS ( profile ), 12 Jun, 2023 @ 05:07pm

  Yes, a few dozen members of a violent group were among the large crowd. And? You want me to point out all the criminal actions during blm protests? I don’t blame the group for the criminals. You (in general those who call a protest an “insurrection”) are quick to say how those criminals were not part of the protests. But of course you can only defend those you agree with.

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  LostInLoDOS ( profile ), 12 Jun, 2023 @ 05:02pm

  No need to protest? To hell with your me-first attitude. I have every reason to protest. Election methods were changed without state legislatures, by criminal governors. Polling locations were closed without notice. Ballots were dumped by the bag full with total disregard in public. Parking lots, road sides, trash bins. I don’t care about the winner here, the process was corrupted! The company? So every one of those BLM protesters were equally responsible for the hundreds of millions of dollars in destruction, vandalism, theft, arson, and assault. Criminal actions of just a few in each location? What the hell bro bro bro fox bro. Maybe you’re trying to be funny, but I have no idea what you are even referencing. Whatever you're trying to bro out, I simply don’t get it.

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  LostInLoDOS ( profile ), 12 Jun, 2023 @ 01:16am

  You may want to look into that a bit better. Remove the lower become protestors who plead to outrageous inflated crimes rather that face expensive trial…. You have a few extremists And a whole lot of trespassing. Nobody (rational) denies a few extremists took advantage. Just like criminals took advantage of BLM to loot and pillage. 99.9% of Jan6 was peaceful protest. Loud, aggressive, but still rather peaceful. 20 people entering the floor of the capital… Hundreds cheering the burning of security and staff in a federal courthouse. Use your damn brain.

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  LostInLoDOS ( profile ), 11 Jun, 2023 @ 12:21pm

  sum

  See, there’s the issue. We weren’t discussing sum. The combination of two quantities in count. You can add two and two, but rare is the result four single likenesses. Or even equivalents. And that is my point. YouTube looked at the crash of CNN and decided not to be a repeat. They decided that swiping discussions with the grit is likely to not only chill legitimate speech but also loose a large group of users. Not the fringe, mind you, the independent voting block that continues to have healthy discussion within itself over the problems of the 20 election and how to solve those problems in the future. Unlike many here, YouTube has realised that there is far more than two political camps. And that the ones outside the two can make or break a platform. Would YouTube survive without independent US voters? Sure. Doe it need to cut off nearly a third of the country? No I’ve made my concerns known about suggestions of content and debated that being or not being a published statement of the company. But reality is you are very unlikely to come across political content on YouTube unless you are, or regularly, search for it. On a rare occasion a local story will pop up on the main page. My location sharing is turned on. Other than that I can’t remember the last time I had anything political on the first few blocks of my main page. Honestly I could not care less about black power and neo Nazi discourse taking place on YouTube. They have a right to discuss what they want. And the chance of it ever coming across my screen is just about zero. The people who see election disinformation, are the people already discussing it. And those people already have their minds set in stone on where they are. But by leaving the majority discussion, there’s a chance that could chip a few cracks into the ignorant far right ideas.

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  LostInLoDOS ( profile ), 11 Jun, 2023 @ 11:50am

  Counting without observers is criminal. The state should have been tossed and a new vote done Every state with observers who couldn’t read the ballots do to distance should have been tossed and a revote done. Every state that closed polling locations without notice should be tossed. Every state that didn’t allow in person voting should be tossed. For a few it’s about Trump. For many more it’s about election integrity. Notice I didn’t say anything about invalidating mail in ballots: infact, more should have been counted. There is zero logical need for 3 signatures on a ballot. This election was full of criminal activity. But dems ignore it because they won and hate the opponent that much. I remind you of two former great states that fell due to voting fraud. Sparta, and Rome. Rome simply desolved the senate. Became a corrupted empire, and well… history. Sparta is more like us in their fall. So busy we’re the people fighting each other, with word and sword, that their neighbours simply walk in and blended. Until they out numbered.

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  LostInLoDOS ( profile ), 10 Jun, 2023 @ 08:52pm

  Add to that the peace agreements with UAN members and the continued stability of those agreements. And from a more historical perspective, he made the right call engaging North Korea. Nixon set the groundwork with China giving U.S. 40 years of limited concern. Relations with Russia gave us 25 years not worried about “the bomb”. Somewhere along the way people will figure out sanctions and restrictions so NOTHING to hurt a government and everything to hurt the population. There are methods that could reduce tensions with NK, Iran, Russia, But on the latter I won’t expect any progress under Biden. Not with the Clinton and Biden families so deeply tied to Ukrainian money.

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  LostInLoDOS ( profile ), 10 Jun, 2023 @ 03:07pm

  Why can we not return to 2018 and BOTH sides discuss election issues. Would you like the links to Clinton, Biden, and a Obama talking about election issues?? Look, the number of people who think the election was stolen by voting machines is very very small. But there were real issues. States and towns closed voting locations, in many cases with no prior warning. Some states made it very difficult to vote in person even with open polling locations. And vote by mail was a cluster. From people not having a clue how to use them… to lost mail. Want to count how many bags of ballots were found dumped in random places? Parking lots, gutters, in a carrier’s house? And the watchers, I have a serious problem with this. Fuck covid regulations. You have a JOB! You count votes. The watcher is close enough to read the ballot. If either are uncomfortable with the space issue you resign your position before the count starts. Allow a person who puts the country first to take your place.

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  LostInLoDOS ( profile ), 10 Jun, 2023 @ 02:57pm

  The same reason you (and I) assume people who believe they can talk to a “god” are insane is why I believe people who think that elections are honest by default are insane.

  Mic drop

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  LostInLoDOS ( profile ), 10 Jun, 2023 @ 02:48pm

  It’s not called thread jacking. It’s called looping the discussion. 1+1 rarely equals 2 in the real world beyond a few coins in your pocket. The election wasn’t stolen at the machines. Despite what President trump says. It was stolen at the cable channel and the social platform. Fantastic stories about Trump, with little or no basis in fact, were given prime time discussion. Yet, and I reference the comment earlier of if it was so hidden “how did you know?” The media across methods went out of its way to hide Biden’s serious physical and mental degradation. As much as the media ignores it, anyone with either a medical background or experience with his problems knew the signs. The media, and many in the progressive end of the D party, think 1+1= 2 There are less Republicans in this country than democrats. If every single Republican voted for Trump he would not have won the EC. The fact was: l did Trump not have all the Republican votes in 16. What he did do was win over enough independents on individual policies to take the win. In 2020 his focus on religious concerns lost many of us independents. So here is YouTube and your 1+1≠2 CNN lost dozens of reporters from 2019-2021. Their ratings tanked. They mad the partisan decision at the top to lie, or mis-direct. They lost their independent voter viewership. A large chunk of their viewers. They need those viewers. (the progressives are watching MSNBC). YouTube has to be careful. Politics is not their program. Generally it’s a tiny sub percentage point. In the real world people aren’t fed political material to any degree unless their search history dictates interest. Bans are very public. It’s safer to just ignore the nonsense, not dragnet the real discussion, and let a few bits of crap survive. CNN dumped 3 grating talking heads and their ratings are the highest they’ve been since 2018. The fact is not lost on YouTube.

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  LostInLoDOS ( profile ), 09 Jun, 2023 @ 10:54pm

  See on the more liberal economic front (eg Biden’s term and the printing of more money) truly believes what they say. They trust the value of the money that the government says. I’ll take a moment to break down my view: one shared by billions across the planet. The printed paper dollar is worth Apx 3ċ. Based on cost. Or 1/1000th of a cent based on material value. That piece of dead plant and oil is claimed to be valued at $1.00 USD. Because the president and the FR say so. How much I trust the government to actually maintain any real value… is a debate for elsewhere. But the world does NOt trust the USD value as stated. That’s why the value has decreased and the amount needed for exchange has increased. Inflation. I’m a STRONG support of valued barter. I’m not fond of the gold standard. But A standard. Silver has been the most stable exchangeable material. I’ve discussed before the ability to purchase goods from knowledgeable locales with clean silver. Titanium and copper are also good stable value metals. But I really have only passing faith in the value of a piece of paper with no backing. But I’m realistic as well. If the economy crashes I’ll do better with trading canned food and tobacco than any metal.

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  LostInLoDOS ( profile ), 09 Jun, 2023 @ 04:15pm

  I simply point out that you have lost base. I’m not denying that basic arithmetic tendencies are important. I state that they are inappropriate to apply to discussion that is, entirely, a study of the mind. 2+2=4 is exactly what is wrong with the processes of our republic. See, many here are dead set on 1 or the other. You’re democrats or republicans. Yet for a large population here, neither is true. How I lean at any given point in time, in practicing my independent vote, depends on which candidate supports more things that are important to me. That is the method of most voters. Dozens of polls done the last 12 months have the number of pure party line voters under 30%. So much for your 1+1

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  LostInLoDOS ( profile ), 09 Jun, 2023 @ 09:19am

  A simple example I like to use for comprehension: If you have 2 dollars and a two dollar bill, you have 4 dollars. But only three bills. In that case two plus two equals both 4 and 3. This is not a math site. It is, in practice, a political site. Understanding that 2+2 often does not equal 4 is an easy first step to comprehension of political existence. The biggest flaw most people make is defining the world as 1+1.

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  LostInLoDOS ( profile ), 09 Jun, 2023 @ 09:10am

  Deeper knowledge of math does not negate the simple arithmetic of 2+2=4.

  True, but basic sociology and psychology often do.

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  LostInLoDOS ( profile ), 09 Jun, 2023 @ 09:07am

  I find it almost funny how self defeating some far-left voters can actually be. You are so hooked on your lest we forget page of nonsense. A list of whatever’s and not-his-fault peppered with the rare negative actions of the president. How much of the first term Biden reversals are, being reimplemented. The border? Looks like Biden changed his mind (too long) and decided maybe security is a good thing. Separation, oh, wow. Reconsidering that too.ok at the NYT review of the child labor issues going on. As well as the BW report of sex trafficking. You bitch about Covid? Let’s see how that works. Fuck ups? We had both New York and Washington sending Covid positive seniors from the hospital to Senior living. An action that directly lead to thousands of deaths. I remind you Trump didn’t do that: Democrat governors and legislators did that. How did the extremest reactions work out? The highest death rates are in blue cities. Ones that took extreme and detrimental actions. New York, Philadelphia, LA, Chicago. Funny how that worked out? Cities that forced large congregations of infected to huddle together had higher rates? Wow. Mind you cities like Orlando generally stayed open and active including amusements. Yet had rates of infection well below national averages. More people died in new york nursing homes than the entire state of Florida. This country was built on freedom and you have the freedom to protect yourself. Or not. You did not then or now have the right to force someone to use a relatively useless piece of paper to cover their mouth. Yet the cities and states that forced that have the highest death rates. What he did do, despite his personality flaws, will be looked upon in the future with dignity. He brokered a continuing and expanding peace agreement in the Arab league with Isreal. He attempted to formalise relations with North Korea. An act that could have helped reduce suffering if it worked out. (See Nixon/China) He maintained a strong hand on Russia that kept them from invading their neighbours. He revoked the Iran bounty deal. Something the country didn’t live up to on their end. He reset trade agreements fairly. He spearheaded the largest rise in stock and economic rates in history through reasonable policy. What has Biden done that is beneficial to this country? Feel free to take your time. I can’t think of anything It was never Trump’s justice department you fool. It is supposed to act independently though it has long been Obama’s justice dpt. Funny how now that Biden is clearly a lame duck president investigations are moving forward. I won’t kowtow at trumps feet but he was far from the worst president. Biden on the other hand?

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  LostInLoDOS ( profile ), 08 Jun, 2023 @ 04:09pm

  You place yourself with that term, gaslighting. There is a very small group of shared idea politically active protest that uses that word in regular conversation. Is interesting today how certain terminology can identify a person’s beliefs. But on the approach to 2+2 when you get past the 100 level of study you begin to understand that addition is only one tiny practice in mathematics. The congregation of two pairs does not necessarily make for a group of four 2+2 ≈4 is more accurate as 2+2=1+3 if one is simply a bystander. There is also no assurance the original two or new two remain bonded. You may wind up with 1A 1B 1C and 1D

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  LostInLoDOS ( profile ), 07 Jun, 2023 @ 06:12pm

  Biden was unhealthy during the campaign. He’s a disaster now. The media knew this. They spent time with him. Biden’s son had a laptop with evidence of foreign dealings across the entire family the media knew this. One he apparently forgot about in a state of perpetual delirium They ignored it. Biden couldn’t remember major facts about his time as vice president. And filled them I. With fantasy. The media ignores it. But Russia Russia Russia. Blah. YouTube has to walk a fine line. There may be a few thousand people who thing the actual voting was rigged. There’s over 150, million that believe that the media intentionally presented their completely fake narratives about both Trump and Biden

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  LostInLoDOS ( profile ), 07 Jun, 2023 @ 01:58pm

  2+2=22 But that’s besides the point. ;)

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