X is the King of the Media World.

[BigStar]

7 minutes ago, Hummin said:

Two bad apples, doesn't make ,,,, ,,,, ,,,,

 

 

 

But they'd be good apples IF Harris/Walz won and they supported Harris/Walz. Again, it just boils down to orange man bad because bad. 

 

Seems they're donating a million each to Trump's inauguration. For the 75 million who voted Trump into office to implement the Republican campaign agenda he ran on, the apples who help Trump are good apples. 

 

Are we about done with this silly discussion?

[mokwit]

8 minutes ago, novacova said:

So you’re one of those that turns on the tv and believes everything that is spewing out? X is a media outlet of various types, no different than the television except it doesn’t restrain people from speaking their minds, much of what you are doing here. 

I think you are misunderstanding what I wrote. I was talking about the MSM lying by omission and distortion. The point is that on X if someone lies, omits, or is disingenuous, likely someone will call them out on it.

[Hummin]

Just now, BigStar said:

 

But they'd be good apples IF Harris/Walz won and they supported Harris/Walz. Again, it just boils down to orange man bad because bad. 

 

Seems they're donating a million each to Trump's inauguration. For the 75 million who voted Trump into office to implement the Republican campaign agenda he ran on, the apples who help Trump are good apples. 

 

Are we about done with this silly discussion?

Obviously, a woman is not made for Usa yet, and sorry to say, the bad apples spreads like a pest with politicians who lost contact with the people, the working class and the poor.

 

How many voters living below the poverty line in USA?

[newbee2022]

"X is the King of the Media World"

There are good kings and bad kings. There might be a hype now because of the 2 erratic buddies. Wouldn't last long.

[Hummin]

Bluesky is growing, time will show when new channels take their place.

[Will B Good]

22 minutes ago, Hummin said:

Obviously, a woman is not made for Usa yet, and sorry to say, the bad apples spreads like a pest with politicians who lost contact with the people, the working class and the poor.

 

How many voters living below the poverty line in USA?

 

If the Dems want to stand any chance in 2028 they will have to choose a middle class, middle-aged white male, married to a woman, have a family, attend church and a squeaky clean background.

[BigStar]

21 minutes ago, Hummin said:

Obviously, a woman is not made for Usa yet, and sorry to say, the bad apples spreads like a pest with politicians who lost contact with the people, the working class and the poor.

 

How many voters living below the poverty line in USA?

 

So then we agree that it's fortunate that a pro-business admin is coming in again with a populist base more likely to turnaround the social and economic mess created during the last 4 years. Yes, you can go back to Woodrow Wilson, Roosevelt, Johnson and the Great Society, Obama the Divider In Chief, etc. Hegel, Kant, Marx? I doubt you know anything about the roots and history of the decline that I don't. But historical discussions can be found elsewhere. 

[Hummin]

3 minutes ago, BigStar said:

 

So then we agree that it's fortunate that a pro-business admin is coming in again with a populist base more likely to turnaround the social and economic mess created during the last 4 years. Yes, you can go back to Woodrow Wilson, Roosevelt, Johnson and the Great Society, Obama the Divider In Chief, etc. Hegel, Kant, Marx? I doubt you know anything about the roots and history of the decline that I don't. But historical discussions can be found elsewhere. 

I just find it to easy to blaim the 4 last years only, I would say it started long time before.

 

As long a country developer, people are happy to make money, get roof above their head, and food on table, but there comes a time, where those things doesn't matter anymore, that's when things starts to get difficult 

[GammaGlobulin]

15 hours ago, Lacessit said:

You probably don't realize it, but America is heading down the same path as Russia. Rule by oligarchs. How's that going for the average Russian?

 

Wait.

 

WHO does NOT realize this?

Luigi?  His followers?

 

We have long known that it is those with power, large corporations, and individuals with wealth who make the laws.

Even the lawmakers who pass the laws have no time to actually read the legislation that they are signing into law.

 

Who does not know this, in this day and age?

 

Note: When in doubt concerning what is happening in this world, and when we suspect that injustice is being done, my best advice to everyone is to just listen to my friend, and yours, Noam Chomsky.

 

Chomsky advocates reading, and reading some more, and then still more, in order to become informed enough to know when one, or society as a whole,  is being screwed and treated unfairly.

 

Chomsky does not advocate violence.  However, he understands that violence is sometimes the inevitable result of being screwed, and screwed again, and screwed without end, that can suddenly and unexpectedly cause violence and push-back.   After all, we have seen this happen periodically in France, from time to time.  And, Don't Think "It Can't Happen Here", either revolt or fascism.

 

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_Can't_Happen_Here

 

 

 

[OneMoreFarang]

18 hours ago, theblether said:

the level of high quality information is incredible.

I gave up after that. 

Next thing you will recommend Breitbart or something like that.

[KhunLA]

16 hours ago, Lacessit said:

You probably don't realize it, but America is heading down the same path as Russia. Rule by oligarchs. How's that going for the average Russian?

Couldn't say, as don't know any Russians to ask.  Do you, or you just going by anti evil RU, fed to you by ... western MSM ? 

[BigStar]

1 hour ago, Hummin said:

As long a country developer, people are happy to make money, get roof above their head, and food on table, but there comes a time, where those things doesn't matter anymore, that's when things starts to get difficult 

 

Yep, there comes a time when the elites decide that what matters is tampons in men's bathrooms, never mind the inflation, border, drugs, homelessness, and crime. Things did then get difficult for them, but they haven't yet figured out why.

 

 

Sky New really should interview some of our authoritative ANF lefties known for their self-proclaimed high intelligence, esp. in comparison to those idiots Trump, Musk, Vivek, Bezos, Zuckerberg, and Altman. Perhaps send in videos? Post on TikTok and send the link?

 

 

[BigStar]

@naval on X weighed in and Musk himself responded.

 

 

[alex8912]

16 hours ago, Lacessit said:

 

Musk can afford to lose money on X, with what he has made on Tesla.

 

It's his toy to preach to the converted. As another poster has said, X lost 33% of its users.

 

How does it make him more powerful? It's the money he funneled to Trump that achieved more power.

 

You probably don't realize it, but America is heading down the same path as Russia. Rule by oligarchs. How's that going for the average Russian?

Spoken from an American? Dude grow some. 

[Hummin]

8 minutes ago, BigStar said:

 

Yep, there comes a time when the elites decide that what matters is tampons in men's bathrooms, never mind the inflation, border, drugs, homelessness, and crime. Things did then get difficult for them, but they haven't yet figured out why.

 

 

Sky New really should interview some of our authoritative ANF lefties known for their self-proclaimed high intelligence, esp. in comparison to those idiots Trump, Musk, Vivek, Bezos, Zuckerberg, and Altman. Perhaps send in videos? Post on TikTok and send the link?

 

 

Once there where hippies destroying the world, before that commies, there will always be stupid gullies interrupting societies, and power who willing to execute power on those lost souls, and create a stirr up. 

 

Idiocy at both ends, very often post wars and distraction becomes destruction 

[Lacessit]

1 hour ago, GammaGlobulin said:

 

Wait.

 

WHO does NOT realize this?

Luigi?  His followers?

 

We have long known that it is those with power, large corporations, and individuals with wealth who make the laws.

Even the lawmakers who pass the laws have no time to actually read the legislation that they are signing into law.

 

Who does not know this, in this day and age?

 

Note: When in doubt concerning what is happening in this world, and when we suspect that injustice is being done, my best advice to everyone is to just listen to my friend, and yours, Noam Chomsky.

 

Chomsky advocates reading, and reading some more, and then still more, in order to become informed enough to know when one, or society as a whole,  is being screwed and treated unfairly.

 

Chomsky does not advocate violence.  However, he understands that violence is sometimes the inevitable result of being screwed, and screwed again, and screwed without end, that can suddenly and unexpectedly cause violence and push-back.   After all, we have seen this happen periodically in France, from time to time.  And, Don't Think "It Can't Happen Here", either revolt or fascism.

 

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_Can't_Happen_Here

 

 

 

It's not hard to understand if one looks at readily available data.

 

The Russian population is 144 million. It has 120 billionaires.

 

America has a population of 330 million. It has 801 billionaires.

 

The combined wealth of Zuckerberg, Gates, Buffett, Musk and Bezos is approximately $1.1 trillion. Russian oligarchs are pikers in comparison.

 

As Lord Acton said, power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. The same could be said of money.

 

russia

[impulse]

2 hours ago, Hummin said:

Bluesky is growing, time will show when new channels take their place.

 

Wouldn't surprise me a bit if Bluesky becomes huge.  Because lefties can't stand a venue that allows divergent points of view.  So they'd naturally gravitate toward Bluesky.  Because echo chambers are comfortable for some.

 

[Hummin]

8 minutes ago, impulse said:

 

Wouldn't surprise me a bit if Bluesky becomes huge.  Because lefties can't stand a venue that allows divergent points of view.  So they'd naturally gravitate toward Bluesky.  Because echo chambers are comfortable for some.

 

Where there is different opinions, there is different lies and propaganda that suits each groups far left and far right. Unfortunate the middle liberal  conscious center has less, because nobody is interested anymore, and creates no drama or clicks. 

[BigStar]

5 minutes ago, Hummin said:

Where there is different opinions, there is different lies and propaganda that suits each groups far left and far right. Unfortunate the middle liberal  conscious center has less, because nobody is interested anymore, and creates no drama or clicks. 

 

Yawn.

 

 

[Hummin]

1 minute ago, BigStar said:

 

Yawn.

 

 

Really,😄

 

 

[theblether]

1 hour ago, OneMoreFarang said:

I gave up after that. 

Next thing you will recommend Breitbart or something like that.

 

BS. I dont read that drivel. The problem with people like you is that you can't engage without hitting the gutter. 

[theblether]

The level of stupidity is astounding. More Democrats use X than Republicans. Anc yet some of you think it's a right wing dominated platform. Utterly clueless. 

[Thailand]

4 minutes ago, theblether said:

The level of stupidity is astounding. More Democrats use X than Republicans. Anc yet some of you think it's a right wing dominated platform. Utterly clueless. 

X has been dominated by myriads of MAGA influencers whose posts are usually enhanced /reposted by Musk or one of his aliases.

Democrats and Republican representations are almost an even split. 

[GammaGlobulin]

44 minutes ago, Lacessit said:

As Lord Acton said, power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. The same could be said of money.

 

Recently, I have been dwelling upon just this same thought.

 

American corporations are now even further into this territory of corruption than they ever were. They have become completely non-responsive to the well-being and the humanity of almost the entire US population.

Decades ago, we were already aware of this never-ending trend toward ever-increasing concentration of money and power in the hands of fewer and fewer entities, meaning the few individuals and corporations and investors that possess this power.

 

It's not strange that so many more people have now finally begun to speak of this much more openly.

Perhaps, a tipping point has now  been reached among the non-intellectuals? 

 

This condition cannot be changed in a pseudo-Democracy through voting, since there are no issues nor candidates that represent the real needs and wishes of the US population.

Therefore, a democratic solution is not available in this type of warped false democracy.

 

So then, your solution is?

 

 

[mokwit]

24 minutes ago, theblether said:

The level of stupidity is astounding. More Democrats use X than Republicans. Anc yet some of you think it's a right wing dominated platform. Utterly clueless. 

That's because it no longer censors along political lines like other social media, so they see posts from  normal people.

[OneMoreFarang]

32 minutes ago, theblether said:

BS. I dont read that drivel. The problem with people like you is that you can't engage without hitting the gutter. 

 

I was told X is very much the gutter. 

I almost didn't use it when it was Twitter, I never used it now. The word is just fine without it.

[riclag]

18 hours ago, BangkokReady said:

Word Salad Harris could have gone on Joe Rogan.  Trump didn't have any kind of monopoly there.

 

She didn't, because she knew how awful it would make her look, as she had no real policies, zero charisma, could only read from scripts prepared for her by others, and didn't stand up to any kind of scrutiny.

And she ran out of new pandering 

accents ! She used up the Jamaican, black

ghetto, Pastor’s sermon voice!

[Lacessit]

48 minutes ago, theblether said:

 

BS. I dont read that drivel. The problem with people like you is that you can't engage without hitting the gutter. 

IIRC you were calling anyone who did not agree with your views on X halfwits.

 

Perhaps you should consider lifting your own game.

[Lacessit]

34 minutes ago, GammaGlobulin said:

 

Recently, I have been dwelling upon just this same thought.

 

American corporations are now even further into this territory of corruption than they ever were. They have become completely non-responsive to the well-being and the humanity of almost the entire US population.

Decades ago, we were already aware of this never-ending trend toward ever-increasing concentration of money and power in the hands of fewer and fewer entities, meaning the few individuals and corporations and investors that possess this power.

 

It's not strange that so many more people have now finally begun to speak of this much more openly.

Perhaps, a tipping point has now  been reached among the non-intellectuals? 

 

This condition cannot be changed in a pseudo-Democracy through voting, since there are no issues nor candidates that represent the real needs and wishes of the US population.

Therefore, a democratic solution is not available in this type of warped false democracy.

 

So then, your solution is?

 

 

I really don't know. IMO America has gone too far down the path of greed is good. Any suggestion there of more equitable distribution of wealth, is automatically met with the leftist label.

 

I have seen Tiger Woods play, accompanied by a phalanx of bodyguards. I suspect, like Putin, high net worth individuals will increasingly have to employ large contingents of security staff, for protection from the Luigis of the world.

 

It's not relevant to me in Thailand, as I will be gone in the next few years anyway.

[GammaGlobulin]

2 minutes ago, Lacessit said:

It's not relevant to me in Thailand, as I will be gone in the next few years anyway.

 

Yes.

Same exact thought as I have had many times.

We can choose our environments.

And, we can choose whether or not to buy from, or be influenced too much, by huge investment firms that control corporations.....to some extent.

 

I will do my best to not become exposed to the oligarchs you speak of.

This can be done.

Also, try not to become sensitized by reading about sensational stories in the news.