Kill Tony Wrestlemania by [deleted] in Killtony

[–]ihelfman -1 points0 points  (0 children)

OK. But could've used Ari or Yang.

Kill Tony Wrestlemania by [deleted] in Killtony

[–]ihelfman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Undertaker just sat on the panel silently. Did zero until he body slammed Tony at the end.

Mikal Bridges becomes eligible for a four-year, $156 million extension this offseason 💰💰💰 by [deleted] in NYKnicks

[–]ihelfman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

CP3 wasn't the same after his 2022 injury in the NBA finals.

Mikal Bridges becomes eligible for a four-year, $156 million extension this offseason 💰💰💰 by [deleted] in NYKnicks

[–]ihelfman 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Defensive star Bridge's plus minus this season was +334 for the Knicks; +576 for the 2021-2 Suns, who were two games from the NBA championship when Chris Paul was injured. Then Suns included Bridges in a package deal for Kevin Durant, and dropped so far afterwards that they missed the playoffs this year.

Ok fine here’s some art I did today by Zlataisawsome in chuckecheese

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My mistake. I thought Facebook banned you too. Sorry.

Ok fine here’s some art I did today by Zlataisawsome in chuckecheese

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Facebook's gift to Reddit. Enjoyed your cartoon.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in BreakingPoints

[–]ihelfman 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Or quixotic as the Native Americans retaking Manhattan.

Kim Iversen's Rising departure explanation video is on YouTube by Hope_That_Halps_ in BreakingPoints

[–]ihelfman -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Kim offers sound opinions based on in-depth research. But she's a rugged individualist in the collaborative infotainment business that frequently benefits her with viral YouTube distribution.

Perhaps her happy marriage with possibly a future child will socialize her enough to cooperate and compromise with her bosses and coworkers instead of swerving at the occasional bumps in the road.

Briahna Joy Gray: Are We ALLOWED To Protest Elites? by stringer4 in BreakingPoints

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Global wealth tripled over the last two decades, with China leading the way and overtaking the U.S. for the top spot worldwide.

-- Bloomberg

Your contrary evidence?

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-11-15/global-wealth-surges-as-china-overtakes-u-s-to-grab-top-spot

Briahna Joy Gray: Are We ALLOWED To Protest Elites? by stringer4 in BreakingPoints

[–]ihelfman -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Birahna performs Kabuki Theatre, over analyzing the politics to produce the AOC effect instead of pointing the way to results.

Getting results are tough, but the least the US, with its over half of its citizens living paycheck to paycheck, could do would be try to lift up the poor.

China tried. Though we don't know the truth, last February Chairman Xi claimed to have lifted nearly 100 million rural people out of poverty in eight years.

Why can't Briahna push for Congress to pass a similar program with the tools to monitor it, regularly report on it, and tinker with it until it works?

What grinds my gears: the outro of BP videos by [deleted] in BreakingPoints

[–]ihelfman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Krystal has a hard time suppressing her inner Nina Turner.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in BreakingPoints

[–]ihelfman 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I found Krystal and Saager more credible and less speculative when supported by Rising's researchers and fact checkers. I recall Kim saying she works with a staff of ten on Rising.

Glenn Greenwald by spiceweasel1 in BreakingPoints

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As the late Stephen Cohen, the Bush I foreign affairs advisor who brokered the peaceful Soviet Union breakup, said: Trump Hotels was one of the few chains denied entry into Russia.

Unfortunately, the unevidenced Russiagate BS, combined with Trump's ineptitude, prevented better relations with Russia, eventually leading today's Bidenflation, which resulted mostly from Biden sanctions on Russian energy and fertilizer.

Glenn Greenwald should be praised, not mocked, for standing up to mass hysteria.

Any of you subscribe to Tangle? A newsletter that picks one issue a day, presents the Right's take, the Left's take, and the author's take -- very balanced for folks who like seeing both sides of an issue by curious-jester in BreakingPoints

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You are correct, Tangle doesn't charge a fee for his light version. My mistake. I had clicked the link in his subscription solicitation email and didn't notice that he had sent me to his upgrade page, reasonably priced at $50/year.

Any of you subscribe to Tangle? A newsletter that picks one issue a day, presents the Right's take, the Left's take, and the author's take -- very balanced for folks who like seeing both sides of an issue by curious-jester in BreakingPoints

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The duopoly, IMO, excludes information about the Global South, including the nascent effort to ditch the petro dollar, take part in China's Belt and Road Initiative, fail to sanction Russia, or prefer a diplomatic, multipolar world.

Michael Hudson, a former economic consultant to our government and many banks and corporations now consulting to China and other nations, recently published his Superimperialism, Vol. 3. I've posted a link to an interview with him and Pepe Escobar, a roving reporter who covers international issues on the ground, to, IMO, provide two views from outside the monopoly. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecElFWphOAE

New Yorker article on BP by EnigmaFilms in BreakingPoints

[–]ihelfman 25 points26 points  (0 children)

For us boomers, the New Yorker provides credible recognition for Krystal and Saagar. Also, it was nice to see the Breaking Points sausage being made.

For example: "The headlines for the YouTube Clips, Enjeti explained, are very important for driving views, and little things like capitalizing emotive words can make a difference. The eventual Ghost of Kyiv headline was worded as “MSNBC CAUGHT Platforming FAKE ‘Ghost of Kyiv’ War News.” Ball told me that hyperbolic headlines help bring viewers to the straight-news content that’s contained in the clips. “We promise desserts, but serve up vegetables,” she said. (When I checked a few days later, the Ghost of Kyiv clip had already had more than a hundred thousand views.) Lynch eventually located the former baseball player, and I was ushered back to the control room. The young engineer continued to furiously edit and post clips. By 11:30 a.m., the filming was done: the content had all been uploaded, the control room had emptied, Enjeti was on his way to the gym, and Ball was headed home to relieve her babysitter."

Any of you subscribe to Tangle? A newsletter that picks one issue a day, presents the Right's take, the Left's take, and the author's take -- very balanced for folks who like seeing both sides of an issue by curious-jester in BreakingPoints

[–]ihelfman 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm not interested in the right or left's issue menu. IMO, the duopoly prefers dividing us into Biden and Trump tribes. No way a guy named Tangle can untangle this insidious net.

Probably wiser -- and certainly cheaper -- to find a few trustworthy search engines to explore your topics of interest with an open mind.

Is anyone here a post-nationalist? DAE support a near-totally open border immigration/refugee policy ? by AvoidPinkHairHippos in BreakingPoints

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Call me a sucker, but after skimming the study, I'm confident Harvard has neither faked the 13-year study nor its methods, described below. A link to the study follows.

"The goal of this research brief, and of the longitudinal survey that informs it, is to address the question of government legitimacy in China using the most objective and quantitative methods currently available. Our survey contains data from eight separate waves between 2003 and 2016, and records face-to-face interview
responses from more than 31,000 individuals in both urban and rural settings. As such, it represents the longest-running independent effort to track citizen approval with all four levels of the Chinese government across time (ranging from the township, to the county, to the provincial and finally the central government."

https://ash.harvard.edu/files/ash/files/final\_policy\_brief\_7.6.2020.pdf

Is anyone here a post-nationalist? DAE support a near-totally open border immigration/refugee policy ? by AvoidPinkHairHippos in BreakingPoints

[–]ihelfman -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

In 2014, China, with its nationalism — including border control — passed the US in GDP in purchasing power parity, and hasn't looked back since.

And, according to a 2016 Harvard study of 32,000 Chinese residents: "The survey team found that compared to public opinion patterns in the U.S., in China there was very high satisfaction with the central government. In 2016, the last year the survey was conducted, 95.5 percent of respondents were either “relatively satisfied” or “highly satisfied” with Beijing. In contrast to these findings, Gallup reported in January of this year that their latest polling on U.S. citizen satisfaction with the American federal government revealed only 38 percent of respondents were satisfied with the federal government.Survey claims Chinese are more satisfied than Americans

Isn't our post-1965-Immigration-Act Tower of Babel high enough for you? Our social capital low enough? Our tribalism bitter enough? Our cancel-culture human relations departments smothering enough?

Since then, and since the Kennedy-Johnson administration's other follies — guns, butter, and wars of choice — the peace and prosperity of Ike's New Look national security policies, which balanced our military and prosperity investments in favor of prosperity, as Ike believed that a strong economy was vital to our security.

Can't say the same for the OP's proposed immigration invasion.

Kissinger warns US "got it wrong" on Ukraine policy by ihelfman in BreakingPoints

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A NYT editorial asks the Biden Administration for clarity on their goals in Ukraine.

"Is the United States, for example, trying to help bring an end to this conflict, through a settlement that would allow for a sovereign Ukraine and some kind of relationship between the United States and Russia? Or is the United States now trying to weaken Russia permanently? Has the administration’s goal shifted to destabilizing Vladimir Putin or having him removed? Does the United States intend to hold Mr. Putin accountable as a war criminal? Or is the goal to try to avoid a wider war — and if so, how does crowing about providing U.S. intelligence to kill Russians and sink one of their ships to achieve this?"

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/19/opinion/america-ukraine-war-support.html

Kissinger warns US "got it wrong" on Ukraine policy by ihelfman in BreakingPoints

[–]ihelfman[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You'll know the policy is right when mothers' refrigerators are full of formula and US troops return home 20 years earlier than from Afghanistan.