Joel3102

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  1. Destiny is a great example of someone who moved up the spiral throughout his life. 
    He grew up as a very conservative Iraq War supporting Republican given his family upbringing in Nebraska. Then he become a Ron Paul libertarian in his early 20s. Then during the 2016-2018 period he was a pretty hardcore leftie who just wanted to shit on conservatives and now he’s more interested in understanding and bridging different perspectives.


  2. 16 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

    The Europe and Canada examples actually undermine your point because those countries do not have 1st Amendment protections yet they are more developed and people there are happier than in the US. How come Canada manages just fine without a 1st Amendment if the 1st Amendment is so important? Why is Canadian society not some Orwellian hellscape?

    https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/2022/9/13/arrest-of-uk-anti-royals-raises-questions-about-freedom-of-speech
     

     


  3. @Leo Gura There are real costs to free speech. But you don’t seem to appreciate the value of free speech either. I think it’s cool that in the US you can speak your mind, unlike in many European countries you can actually get arrested for speech as they don’t have the same protections.

    Also when you censor too much you further fuel the conspiracy theories.


  4. 53 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

    It is a good thing. Rumble is a cesspool of toxic content.

    There will never be mainstream unmoderated platforms. Mainstream platforms suffer from too little moderation, not too much. It takes a lot to get banned from YouTube. If you cannot make it on YouTube, you should think twice about the toxicity of your content.

    I dunno man, it’s going a bit too far. Channels line Sneako and MrGirl were recently completely banned. They may have some toxic views but it seems to be going too far.


  5. 40 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

    Rational doesn't mean you can't miscalculate. His calculation was that the Russian military would overwhelm the Ukrainian military. This was a reasonable calculation.

    Even if it went well, still don't think it's rational for the wellbeing of Russia. NATO is stronger now than ever regardless, there would still be massive sanctions in return for some extra land?

     

    42 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

    Because NATO would start installing nuclear missiles sites in Ukraine.

     

    Don't think they would. NATO could already station missiles on Russia's border via the baltic states and they don't. I believe the closest is Romania and Poland. Regardless, the nuclear missile site location is kind of a red herring anyway, the tech is so advanced that Russia and America could obliterate each other regardless of where the missiles are stationed.

    All this talk of the West and Russian motivations, what about Ukraine? The countries sovereignty itself gets overlooked in these geopolitical conversations. Pretty sure the people in Ukraine now aren't happy about being massacred by Russia and wish they were in NATO right now.