Champion of Truth
The F-35’s Class A flight mishap rate at this point in its history is quite good compared to other aircraft at that point in their history!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLuxM5lg8Jo
Picky Princess Tries Asian Snacks and Drinks!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plMdU0UzraQ&t=30s
Tucker Carlson had Andrew Tate on and acted like criticism of him was all about wokeness and people being anti-man and censoring, and Tucker even said that it’s not like he was accused of rape or selling anyone or pimping, when he had been! Tucker didn’t even do basic research on his guest and said false things about him.
Tucker had a soft interview acting like Tate’s message was just about traditional masculinity, when Tate advocated women being simple-minded lesser humans who should be used, and advocated manipulating them into online sexwork where the man keeps most of the money. Tucker didn’t do basic research into what his guest was advocating and mislead his audience about Tate’s message.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrMaemo7bMk
When it comes to all things politics and religious, but especially Israel-Palestine…people are prone to black and white thinking, as well as horrible evidence cherry picking, as well as blowing up evidence to be bigger than it is, and even citing evidence
Israel and the settlers make life in the West Bank difficult. Random attacks, difficulty getting anywhere, disrespect.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdxgsCrEDY8
Private credit is supposed to be people taking risks with business ideas and investments, and if it doesn’t work out, they pay the piper. But, Private equity is using insurance companies to take advantage of laws meant to bail out insurance companies to make it so the public is still on the hook for their risky investments. If the investments go well, private equity keeps those gains, if the investments go poorly, they offload the losses on an unwilling public.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UdWViZgGHk
The CATO Institute’s index that people use to say how capitalist Norse countries are includes mostly things that have nothing to do with distinguishing capitalism from modern democratic socialism.
Even looking at the economic freedom indicator, only four percent of it is looking at the state’s ownership of assets, which is core to what socialism is.
Yet, this is used again and again to say how capitalist these countries are.
In the US, the state owns around 4% of total national wealth, for Denmark, Sweden, Finland, and Norway, this is: 11.2%; 24.1%; 31.7%; and 57%.
There are many different types of Socialism. Just determining that a country isn’t a fully topped down planned economy, doesn’t mean it’s not Socialist.
Low-wage workers in the US pay HIGHER taxes than the Nordic countries if you count healthcare premiums as taxes. Healthcare premiums come right from your paycheck and go a bureaucracy that pays for healthcare. It’s the same in the US as Nordic countries, except in the US it goes to a private company and in Nordic countries, it goes to the government. In both cases. health insurance is provided…except out of pocket costs are also lower in the Nordic countries.
If you need a family plan, then the US average wage worker also pays more!
The focus on taxes is silly. What matters is what are the cost burdens on Americans. Whether it is a tax from government or a healthcare premium from an insurance company, it’s a burden! Only looking at taxes is highly misleading, especially when taxes are instead of a premium, so when you look at the US, you ignore the cost of that premium.
That the US is a larger country, means we have more economies of scale, meaning it should be easier for us to provide healthcare for its people. We don’t do it based on ideology.
The problem with childcare fraud in Minneapolis wasn’t simply a problem with Somalis, but with private companies providing government services while being paid by the taxpayer. That wouldn’t have happened if the government did it itself.
The Nordic countries have universal welfare states and high levels of state ownership. They are examples of more successful “socialist” policies.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4He0ceUFvI
Nolan’s central trick: “Nolan has smuggled the core of Judeo-Christian ethics into the center of The Odyssey.” Zeus’s Law in Nolan’s Odyssey is more similar to the Christian and Jewish golden rule than ancient Greece’s Xenia. The problem with the modern right isn’t that they haven’t obeyed the golden rule, it’s that they detest it. Cruelty toward the weak, the poor, the stranger, the immigrant…is glorified. Trump’s policies are built on the logic of tribute, not compassion, love, or reciprocity.
To Homer, Odysseus’s trick, using their common religious beliefs to fool the Trojans and to destroy Troy and slaughter its people…to Homer, Odysseus was a hero, but to Nolan, it was a great crime and that Odysseus needed redemption.
In Homer’s time, slaughtering innocent people wasn’t bad as long as they were the other. After Jesus and eventually the enlightenment and eventually applying these principles to societies…we don’t believe slaughtering people is okay just because they aren’t us. Using our common moral principles to trick each other is not heroic. We believe that from a long chain of history, but that chain’s strongest seed was Jesus.
Nolan made the Odyssey about the values of Jesus. Not the values of the ancient Greeks. Not the values of Homer. Not the values of Trump.
The modern right cares about power and the need for cruelty. Jesus cared about love.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=livIbni7x7o
Too much of the Russian psyche is the belief that Russia is uniquely great and this greatness is defined by empire. Russia is the light of culture and should benevelonly spread its culture to its neighbors and to its already subordinated ethnicities.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_w9qsi6efo
The Trump administration keeps claiming how well they have degraded Iranian capabilities, but US bases keep getting hit. Iran isn’t going to surrender due to air strikes. The best way to win the war is a full land invasion, with the massive costs that that would entail.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgn9dL9T_cI