Merv's Politically Incorrect Audio Blog

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  1. YMO

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    Who is getting the political calls for polling and text surveys as well?

    I just got hit with two. One is clearly a Pro-Biden Call Survey and the other is a Students for Pro-Life making me consider being Pro-Life.

    Most of the time I get survey texts that are neutral, but I love the bias ones. My favorite bias one was about five months back where a caller from overseas called me to ask me questions. Some of their questions:

    Them: Are you going to vote for the Socialist agenda of Bernie Sanders or Joe Biden? Or you will vote for economic freedom of Donald Trump?

    Me: I vote Third-Party

    Them: You have to pick one.

    Me: I vote Third-Party again, I'm not picking one.

    Them: Next Question: Are you going to vote Anti-Police Joe Biden who will bring crime into your house? Or you will vote for law and order hard on crime Donald Trump?

    Me: When did policing became a federal issue?

    It's stuff like this that I jizz on a lot. I love these bias surveys, they are a hoot.
     
  2. Senorx12562

    Senorx12562 Case of the mondays

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    I used to derive entertainment value from such things, but I no longer wish to waste time on the stupid/ignorant (choose one).
     
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    Lmao, I like how they were low-key threatening you with loaded questions. Not an ounce of subtlety. Even doublespeak is becoming something of a lost art.

    Ive just been getting a kick out of the Trump/Biden campaign ads running back to back.
     
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    I was speaking to a friend about books, and I remember a story in my apartment with my GF. Yes, I experience "shut down culture" upfront. In matter of fact, I was scared as f**k.

    So I tend to read books from different perspectives, even the ones who I can't stand personally (Elizabeth Warren). This is due to my long-term goal of getting out of my bias zone.

    One day my GF and I was talking books, including this one book that I picked up. As soon as I said what book that I purchased, she flip her shit on my ass. She was like why you are giving this guy a platform? This guy is the Alt-Right, why give him any time of the day? This hates women, etc.

    I was like I don't really agree with him but did you read his book? GF was like no this guy does not deserve a platform. I was like well I get your point but I was told growing up to avoid judging until you research/read something on. I said well I did read the book in full and the author has some good points and plenty of shitty points. Still, I said it was worth it for me to read it since I was curious. GF was like you are supporting nazis and stuff. I was like can you show me an article where this author supports nazis? GF never gave me that article.

    This is what happens when you date someone 180 degree difference from you, I don't mind it at all. It's this judging shit without research/evidence crap that is annoying. I can't stand really strong viewpoints from the right/left, but I'm willing to get nutjobs the time of the day on their books if I'm interested. I just don't see the BS in this. Hell, even some conservatives gave me shit for picking up Rahm Emanuel's books about his concepts that Mayors are powerful (I think more due to well to O-B-A-M-A). Shit, Emanuel's book gave plenty of positives to Republican mayors.

    I dunno, I'm just sick of this blind following shut this shit down crap. Honestly I really need to stop caring about Federal elections, not like they affect me that much if I have to be honest (I can make a bet that for the majority of Americans their decisions mostly don't affect the overwhelming of Americans). Ugggghhhhh....I kind of wanna go back to my hole because I think people aren't thinking carefully.



    Anyhoo, what's the book that I pissed off my GF so much about. The book where I don't really like the author but his book gave some good points but I disagree on most things?

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    I wish I was kidding, but I'm not.
     
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    @YMO, I don't know the guy, and from what your partner says, I'd probably not go anywhere near the book. But I wouldn't set fire to it either.

    I'm sure you've noticed that book burners never actually read the thing first.

    But I've had the opposite conversation with a good friend who was representing book burning as the ultimate sin, as if none of them ever deserved to be burnt. I remember asking her, look, how abut if it was full of evil pornographic torture? No, it's a book: it mustn't be burnt. Well no, trash can, shredder or bonfire, if something is crap rubbish, it's, simply, crap rubbish
     
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    That's right., we can never solve every moral dilemma with appropriate dogma.
    When Guttenberg invented the printing press, the book that got the widest circulation was this bestseller, Hammer of Witches.
    Essentially, it was a detailed manual how to, legally, set a live human being on fire, and feel good about it.
    So would we burn it or not?

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    Milo's substantive opinions are always drowned out by his obviously deliberate desire to provoke rather than inform or persuade. He is by no means the only one, but he is a pretty loud one. Of course he made his name on the internet, where provocation is more remunerative than education or persuasion, but such obvious trolling tends to sour me before I can even make a judgment about the substance. But of course, I am clearly not his target market.
     
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    @Senorx12562 yeah IRL he is a troll. However, his book is some what decent and not fully in his troll mode. I sometimes find that you can understand someone better in book form. Not a random video or news article if that make sense.
     
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    @YMO without the trollish bluster, his politics are pretty conventionally conservative. I'd wager your buddy William F. said most of it more convincingly 50 years ago.
     
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    Agreed, no argument there. Still a good read since I was curious.
     
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    I made it through 3:30 seconds. Dr. Reiner Fuellmich, lawyer extraordinaire (two countries!) is the fraud. SARSv2 a "crime against humanity"?! Not in the way he means. Does he mention the "6%"? Would not surprise me.

    Facts are facts, and excessive mortality (a remarkably stable statistic through time) in the USA this year will be about 300,000. That's a nuclear bomb on an average midwestern city, say Tulsa. Yet frauds like Fuellmich want to bitch about, even litigate because someone told them to wear a mask...
     
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    I think this is the third link @squishware posted from Bitchute. Maybe redirect those links to Pornhub?
     
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    I (probably) never been there until I clicked on @squishware link, and quickly Googling I see many are claiming that it is a far right wacko haven. I have not idea about that, but I do know Fuellmich is a fraud and ambulance chaser. As a conservative I resent the hell out of the willingness of these wacko right wingers to suck up any and all conspiracy claims around SarsV2. The right (as opposed to a real conservativism) always puts an "economy" of conspicuous consumerism first, second, and last. It is the highest and only virtue.
     
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    Odd coincidence that the people that believe the corporate line on things are the same ones that cannot watch any other view. The conspiracy theorists that I know gather data and opinions from all views and use critical thinking to determine what to believe and think.

    Youtube is censoring or de-platforming all other (quality) viewpoints. In one day this week they de-platformed enough channels to effect 7.5 million subscribers. I recently read that by manipulating search results they could skew 15 million votes. This is why I post Bitchute links.
     
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    You know YouTube/Google is a private company, right? Not like I agree with their moves, but it's their right to do what their want with their platform.

    Edit: Bitchute is "fun" for crap like this: https://www.bitchute.com/video/r04qXKRSSIeg/

    Yes yes yes, tons of Anti-Jewish videos and look at the uploader of the video: FucktheJews.com. However, it's pretty mild stuff for Bitchute.

    How about some white power on top of the Covids?

    https://www.bitchute.com/video/JGHyYjysYups/

    Conclusion: Bitchute can do whatever they want with their platform. But for those who don't know what Bitchue is, there's some examples that are only the tip of the iceberg! I would question anyone who post Bitchue stuff in general.
     
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    Affect. Now I definitely won't check your links

    :sail:
     
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    Straw Man arguments are for children. How about a posting a link to a Peer Reviewed study that shows that PCR tests are effective at Diagnosing Any Disease. Surely they have one, since they are locking down a planet due to PCR test results.
     
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    Entirely abstracting from the bitchute, never been there, this line about Twitter/Youtube/Facebook being a private company is becoming tiresome in the context oft almost total control of information flowing through internet those companies have.
    And I do not remember private companies having "election integrity" units, speech policing departments etc..

    It is essentially saying that Jack Dorsey and Zuckerberg have a God given right to suppress, amplify, annotate, and edit any information on their platforms, to chock the distribution of any news outlet depending on their platform. Without actually being responsible for the content. That right is worth hundreds of billions of dollars.

    Pretending that we can have one or two companies controlling close to 100% of the market and we are still living in a free market , capitalist society, well that's just another dogma.
    T-Mobile is a private company but it is not allowed annotate my comments about fossil fuels or masks, whatever they are. Or replace every "f**k" with a beep.
    CNN, Fox, CNBC, NYT can do that because they have editorial responsibility and that's fine. Give Dorsey and Zuckerberg the same status, and keep them private.
    In the world that exists today, not in the past, the "Private company" argument, irrespective of intentions, is simply calling for unlimited, unchecked censorship.
     
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    @YMO , I'm with @wormcycle here, in that I suspect that the "new media" of Google/Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, and the like have grown to be such a large part of not only "the interweb" (even though technically your right in that they are not the interweb) but of media in general that's time the FCC step in and regulate them in a manner similar to how they regulate newspaper, radio, and TV markets.

    One thing is fur sur, the ease into which they all have flowed into regulating political speech on their platforms reveals they are not the classical liberals of yesteryear...
     

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