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As requested, I'm posting the whole video, which makes it even look worse. ➤ He compares guns to cars. False equivalence. Cars are built for transport. Guns are built to injure or kill. Car deaths fell sharply because of regulation and engineering. He argues to tolerate gun deaths instead... of regulating to reduce them. ➤ He sets up a straw man: “you’ll never get gun deaths to zero.” Nobody claims zero. Other rich countries got firearm-homicide rates down to tiny fractions of the U.S. using basic laws. Latest UNODC/OWID data show Western Europe around ~0.1–0.3 per 100k, with Sweden an outlier ~0.4 per 100k; the U.S. is ~4.4 per 100k. That’s an order of magnitude gap. ➤ Country snapshots (firearm homicide, per 100k, latest 2021–2023 window): • UK: typically ~0.02–0.07 • Germany: ~0.05–0.10 • France: ~0.20–0.35 • Italy: ~0.20–0.40 • Spain: ~0.05–0.10 • Netherlands: ~0.15–0.30 • Poland: ~0.05–0.10 • Sweden: ~0.35–0.45; Europe avg ≈ 0.16 per 100k. U.S.: ≈ 4.4. ➤ His core line wasn’t “out of context.” It is the context: “I think it’s worth it to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment… That is a prudent deal.” He is explicitly pricing in dead civilians as acceptable. ➤ “Guns protect against tyranny” collapses under law and force. The president can deploy federal troops and federalize the Guard under the Insurrection Act. That is the explicit statutory exception to Posse Comitatus. Rifles in civilian hands do nothing against armored units, ISR drones, electronic surveillance, and lawful military deployment. This is not theory; it’s black-letter authority and modern capability. ➤ Practical reality: a semi-auto rifle can’t contest air assets, armored vehicles, signals intelligence, or coordinated urban operations. Modern doctrine and tools end such resistance quickly. RAND and U.S. Army War College analyses document how sensors, drones, armor, and comms make small-arms resistance futile against a modern force. ➤ Translation: the long clip makes him look worse because it shows a considered position, not a slip. He equates public-health regulation with tolerating preventable deaths, waves away working policies other countries use, and sells a fantasy about “tyranny” that modern law and military reality render void.show more

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MSNBC reports “BREAKING NEWS” after one of their anchors had a 15-minute phone call with President Trump. Here’s what he revealed to Stephanie Ruhle: • “He said that Iran was two weeks away from having a nuclear bomb and they would use it.” • “He said that we could leave the war right now, we could walk away tomorrow because we have just decimated most of the country and their power. But he said the regime would rebuild. It would take him about 10 years. But that’s not an acceptable situation, which is why he thinks we should stay.” • “He said absolutely none of our allies in NATO have helped with support as it relates to the war. He said we don’t need their help, but they’ve proven themselves to be a paper tiger.” • “He says Zelensky is very difficult to deal with. He says Zelensky is more difficult to deal with than Putin is. And he said Putin has also shown that he’s not afraid of Europe, at this point, or our European allies.” • “He said originally [Republicans] wanted to run against Jasmine Crockett [for the Texas Senate], but Talarico can be easily defeated, whether it’s Ken Paxton or John Cornyn.” • “He referred to Talarico as a ‘whack job.’” • “He said [the ballroom] is under budget and ahead of schedule… They plan to have future inaugurations in that ballroom since it’s going to be drone-proof and bulletproof.” • “I asked him about those comments he made about Gavin Newsom and dyslexia. I gave him the opportunity to sort of take those comments back… He didn’t take the comments back.” • “He said [Democrats] are the ones standing in the way of funding [DHS]. ‘If you don’t like your long line at the airport, look no further than Democrats.’ And that’s not a surprise that he would say that.”

MSNBC reports “BREAKING NEWS” after one of their anchors had a 15-minute phone call with President Trump. Here’s what he revealed to Stephanie Ruhle: • “He said that Iran was two weeks away from having a nuclear bomb and they would use it.” • “He said that we could leave the war right now, we could walk away tomorrow because we have just decimated most of the country and their power. But he said the regime would rebuild. It would take him about 10 years. But that’s not an acceptable situation, which is why he thinks we should stay.” • “He said absolutely none of our allies in NATO have helped with support as it relates to the war. He said we don’t need their help, but they’ve proven themselves to be a paper tiger.” • “He says Zelensky is very difficult to deal with. He says Zelensky is more difficult to deal with than Putin is. And he said Putin has also shown that he’s not afraid of Europe, at this point, or our European allies.” • “He said originally [Republicans] wanted to run against Jasmine Crockett [for the Texas Senate], but Talarico can be easily defeated, whether it’s Ken Paxton or John Cornyn.” • “He referred to Talarico as a ‘whack job.’” • “He said [the ballroom] is under budget and ahead of schedule… They plan to have future inaugurations in that ballroom since it’s going to be drone-proof and bulletproof.” • “I asked him about those comments he made about Gavin Newsom and dyslexia. I gave him the opportunity to sort of take those comments back… He didn’t take the comments back.” • “He said [Democrats] are the ones standing in the way of funding [DHS]. ‘If you don’t like your long line at the airport, look no further than Democrats.’ And that’s not a surprise that he would say that.”

The Vigilant Fox 🦊

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Paul Verhoeven on whether the events that take place in "Total Recall" (1990) are real or just a dream: "It is both. To be honest, that’s what I want. I made the movie in a way that it would be true on both levels, and I spent a lot of time to get that. If you want a scientific explanation, you know, of course, in quantum mechanics there is a very interesting principle, the principle of uncertainty, Heisenberg’s principle. If you have a big object and if you try to measure the place of the object and the velocity of the object at the same time, the more precisely you measure velocity the less precise place gets. So that’s the principle. That means, of course, that there are different realities possible at the same moment. What I wanted to do in 'Total Recall' is to do a movie where both levels are true. I mean for me, of course, the film anyhow has to do with two realities, one being the reality of going as a secret agent to Mars and discovering that there is a problem, and solving the problem, which is starting the nuclear reactor and helping the guerrillas and destroying Cohaagen. The second level of the movie, of course, is that from the moment that he goes into the Rekall chair ‘til the end it’s a dream, and I tried to make that second level work throughout the whole movie. So there’s the dream level which starts when he gets into the chair and the thing is in his neck, and that would go throughout the whole movie, so in the next scene where they say, Oh, there’s a problem, there’s a big glitch here, that would be already the dream, of course. That’s where the dream starts. And the next scene where they are fighting and stuff would be part of his dream, convincing him that it is real, because there is a glitch but that would be part of the program. It would be built into the program to make him accept the fact that it’s real, but it’s a dream. If you look at the movie, if you haven’t seen it, or for the second time, you’ll see that the whole program that’s set up at the beginning when he goes to the Rekall office and he talks to this guy who sells him the program on Mars, you’ll see that he gets everything that he wants: he gets the trip to Mars, he gets the girl, the exotic girl, he ki!!s the bad guys, and he saves the entire planet. That’s what he does. And that’s basically the dream. Even halfway through the movie, you may remember, this other guy comes in, Dr. Edgemar, and tells him that he’s in a dream, that he’s still in the Rekall chair, and then Arnold says, “If I’m there, I can ki!! you.” And he puts a gun to his head and the guy says, “Sure, no problem for me, big problem for you, because you will be psychotic from now on because the walls of reality will fall apart. One moment you will be the savior of the rebel cause, the next moment you’ll be Cohaagen’s bosom buddy, but in the end—you will even have these strange fantasies about alien civilizations—but at the end you will be lobotomized.” And then if you see the movie, you realize that all these things happen. I mean he is lobotomized at the end. That’s why at the last shot, when they are so happy and kissing each other, it slowly fades to white, which for me meant, “OK, there he goes. That’s the end-that’s the dream—they lobotomized him.” And all the other things happened, he finds the alien civilization, he rescues the planet, he finds the good girl, he k!!ls the bad guys, but it’s a dream. Now, of course you can see it as a reality, too. So at the end of the movie, getting to white means either it’s a happy ending or he loses his brains . . . which is probably also a happy ending, I don’t know. That was basically what l wanted—that at the end there would be two possibilities, and they would be both true—for me they are both true—it’s not either one or the other. It’s not that either it’s a dream or it is a reality. It is a dream and it is a reality. And I think they’re both there." (Paul Verhoeven's interview with Chris Shea & Wade Jennings, 1992) P.S: On this day, 36 years ago, "Total Recall" (1990) premiered in Los Angeles, California, USA.

Paul Verhoeven on whether the events that take place in "Total Recall" (1990) are real or just a dream: "It is both. To be honest, that’s what I want. I made the movie in a way that it would be true on both levels, and I spent a lot of time to get that. If you want a scientific explanation, you know, of course, in quantum mechanics there is a very interesting principle, the principle of uncertainty, Heisenberg’s principle. If you have a big object and if you try to measure the place of the object and the velocity of the object at the same time, the more precisely you measure velocity the less precise place gets. So that’s the principle. That means, of course, that there are different realities possible at the same moment. What I wanted to do in 'Total Recall' is to do a movie where both levels are true. I mean for me, of course, the film anyhow has to do with two realities, one being the reality of going as a secret agent to Mars and discovering that there is a problem, and solving the problem, which is starting the nuclear reactor and helping the guerrillas and destroying Cohaagen. The second level of the movie, of course, is that from the moment that he goes into the Rekall chair ‘til the end it’s a dream, and I tried to make that second level work throughout the whole movie. So there’s the dream level which starts when he gets into the chair and the thing is in his neck, and that would go throughout the whole movie, so in the next scene where they say, Oh, there’s a problem, there’s a big glitch here, that would be already the dream, of course. That’s where the dream starts. And the next scene where they are fighting and stuff would be part of his dream, convincing him that it is real, because there is a glitch but that would be part of the program. It would be built into the program to make him accept the fact that it’s real, but it’s a dream. If you look at the movie, if you haven’t seen it, or for the second time, you’ll see that the whole program that’s set up at the beginning when he goes to the Rekall office and he talks to this guy who sells him the program on Mars, you’ll see that he gets everything that he wants: he gets the trip to Mars, he gets the girl, the exotic girl, he ki!!s the bad guys, and he saves the entire planet. That’s what he does. And that’s basically the dream. Even halfway through the movie, you may remember, this other guy comes in, Dr. Edgemar, and tells him that he’s in a dream, that he’s still in the Rekall chair, and then Arnold says, “If I’m there, I can ki!! you.” And he puts a gun to his head and the guy says, “Sure, no problem for me, big problem for you, because you will be psychotic from now on because the walls of reality will fall apart. One moment you will be the savior of the rebel cause, the next moment you’ll be Cohaagen’s bosom buddy, but in the end—you will even have these strange fantasies about alien civilizations—but at the end you will be lobotomized.” And then if you see the movie, you realize that all these things happen. I mean he is lobotomized at the end. That’s why at the last shot, when they are so happy and kissing each other, it slowly fades to white, which for me meant, “OK, there he goes. That’s the end-that’s the dream—they lobotomized him.” And all the other things happened, he finds the alien civilization, he rescues the planet, he finds the good girl, he k!!ls the bad guys, but it’s a dream. Now, of course you can see it as a reality, too. So at the end of the movie, getting to white means either it’s a happy ending or he loses his brains . . . which is probably also a happy ending, I don’t know. That was basically what l wanted—that at the end there would be two possibilities, and they would be both true—for me they are both true—it’s not either one or the other. It’s not that either it’s a dream or it is a reality. It is a dream and it is a reality. And I think they’re both there." (Paul Verhoeven's interview with Chris Shea & Wade Jennings, 1992) P.S: On this day, 36 years ago, "Total Recall" (1990) premiered in Los Angeles, California, USA.

DepressedBergman

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I spoke with Prof. Arora (Pooja Arora) about how the postwar norm against aggressive war drove decades of declining violence—and how today’s “might makes right” politics, embraced by leaders like Putin and Trump, now threaten that hard-won peace. Me: The norm that countries do not go to war except in self-defense and with authorization of the UN Security Council has been rejected both by Putin and Trump. Of course, there were often violations of that in the past, including the United States invading Iraq, for example. So it’s not as if that norm was always followed. But still, it was a change from hundreds—maybe thousands—of years of history, and that norm, I think, does deserve credit for the decline of interstate and great-power war since World War II. In my books The Better Angels of Our Nature and Enlightenment Now, I’ve plotted the rate of battle deaths since 1946. I don’t know if my image is reversed or not—whether it goes left to right from your point of view—but it goes down. It has ups and downs, and in the last couple of years, because of the wars you pointed to—Ukraine, Gaza, and even more so East Africa, in Sudan and Ethiopia—there has been an uptick. Still, that uptick has not wiped out all the progress we’ve made. We are still at a more peaceful time than in the 50s, 60s, 70s, or 80s. We’re back to around the late 1990s level. But it has gotten somewhat worse, and it could get worse still if that norm is permanently shattered. It is certainly being threatened. We don’t know whether it will reassert itself—given that Ukraine has been very costly to Russia, and given that Donald Trump says a lot of things he doesn’t do. I still think it’s unlikely the United States will apply military force in Greenland. But there’s no question the norm is being threatened, and I do think it’s a serious risk to world peace. Pooja Arora: It just appears that realism is back with a bang, and that “might makes right” may win. Me: Well, it is back, certainly. And the Trump administration is very explicit about that. They have basically said “might is right.” The question is, will that prevail? It might. On the other hand, there were good reasons to have the liberal international order—namely, that it prevented war. And wars, as the bumper sticker from my childhood said, are not healthy for children or other living things. There are huge disadvantages to war. Countries get tired of them. People revolt against governments that engage in them. We’re seeing that in Iran right now. One grievance is that the ayatollahs have wasted national resources on proxy wars across the Middle East at the expense of their people. There could very well be a backlash in the United States if it gets involved in wars and American soldiers start losing their lives. So yes, there is a definite movement toward what’s called realism. I think it’s a bad term, because I don’t think it’s particularly realistic. It’s actually quite realistic to believe that avoiding stupid wars is a much better path to prosperity and well-being. Still, cynical, zero-sum competition is being embraced by major world leaders. The question is whether the disadvantages will ultimately bring the liberal international order back. The European Union is still committed to it, as is much of the rest of the world, East Asia. So it’s not dead—but it is certainly threatened.

I spoke with Prof. Arora (Pooja Arora) about how the postwar norm against aggressive war drove decades of declining violence—and how today’s “might makes right” politics, embraced by leaders like Putin and Trump, now threaten that hard-won peace. Me: The norm that countries do not go to war except in self-defense and with authorization of the UN Security Council has been rejected both by Putin and Trump. Of course, there were often violations of that in the past, including the United States invading Iraq, for example. So it’s not as if that norm was always followed. But still, it was a change from hundreds—maybe thousands—of years of history, and that norm, I think, does deserve credit for the decline of interstate and great-power war since World War II. In my books The Better Angels of Our Nature and Enlightenment Now, I’ve plotted the rate of battle deaths since 1946. I don’t know if my image is reversed or not—whether it goes left to right from your point of view—but it goes down. It has ups and downs, and in the last couple of years, because of the wars you pointed to—Ukraine, Gaza, and even more so East Africa, in Sudan and Ethiopia—there has been an uptick. Still, that uptick has not wiped out all the progress we’ve made. We are still at a more peaceful time than in the 50s, 60s, 70s, or 80s. We’re back to around the late 1990s level. But it has gotten somewhat worse, and it could get worse still if that norm is permanently shattered. It is certainly being threatened. We don’t know whether it will reassert itself—given that Ukraine has been very costly to Russia, and given that Donald Trump says a lot of things he doesn’t do. I still think it’s unlikely the United States will apply military force in Greenland. But there’s no question the norm is being threatened, and I do think it’s a serious risk to world peace. Pooja Arora: It just appears that realism is back with a bang, and that “might makes right” may win. Me: Well, it is back, certainly. And the Trump administration is very explicit about that. They have basically said “might is right.” The question is, will that prevail? It might. On the other hand, there were good reasons to have the liberal international order—namely, that it prevented war. And wars, as the bumper sticker from my childhood said, are not healthy for children or other living things. There are huge disadvantages to war. Countries get tired of them. People revolt against governments that engage in them. We’re seeing that in Iran right now. One grievance is that the ayatollahs have wasted national resources on proxy wars across the Middle East at the expense of their people. There could very well be a backlash in the United States if it gets involved in wars and American soldiers start losing their lives. So yes, there is a definite movement toward what’s called realism. I think it’s a bad term, because I don’t think it’s particularly realistic. It’s actually quite realistic to believe that avoiding stupid wars is a much better path to prosperity and well-being. Still, cynical, zero-sum competition is being embraced by major world leaders. The question is whether the disadvantages will ultimately bring the liberal international order back. The European Union is still committed to it, as is much of the rest of the world, East Asia. So it’s not dead—but it is certainly threatened.

Steven Pinker

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Iran war, day 89! Trump keeps breaching the ceasefire! Just how compromised is Oman? -4 American vessels, attempted to cross the SOH without coordinating with IRGC security forces -They were warned, and following their disregard, warning shots were fired at them, forcing them to turn back. -4 drones were fired as warning shots Meanwhile, Kosher media lies as usual and claims: -that IRGC fired 4 one-way drones at a U.S. commercial ship! -The U.S. military shot down all the drones and attacked another Iranian drone launching unit on the ground before it launched in Bandar Abbas, the official added -no mentions of the 4 invader vessels attempting to breach iran’s control of the SOH, and failing miserably! Per Reuters, the U.S. military has executed new strikes on an Iranian military facility that “posed a threat to U.S. forces and commercial vessels in the Strait of Hormuz”. -no mention of the U.S. military invasion of a sovereign territory. However, -U.S. official told CBS News the Iran ceasefire holds following tonight's strikes. -interesting how no accusation was made against Iran breaching the ceasefire despite kosher media’s bs claims. Analysis: The U.S. is testing out Iran’s ability to strike U.S. ships with limited breaches to gauge where Iran is striking from each time. Iran isn’t providing a predictable pattern and is sticking to its protocol of warnings, warning shots, and then on standby to escalate. Ynet Hebrew news on Iran’s demand for compensation: Tehran sets new conditions - the US must pay $300 billion in compensation! -Trump/Israel keep raising the price for a peace deal How is Trump’s bs blockade working out? Per WSJ: Despite the naval blockade, Iran continues to sell its oil! -The ship-to-ship transfer of oil in the middle of the sea reveals Iran's main strength and the main reason for its ability to resist US pressure for a long time. -Per the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission, Tehran earned about $31 billion in oil revenues from China last year. -this is conservative figure as most of sales are unaccounted for -The Chinese government explicitly ordered local companies not to comply with US sanctions against five Chinese refineries. And now Iran is selling its oil and maximum capacity, at higher prices. Pre war oil was at $70/b. It’s around $100/b. Trump did that! Nobody fears Trump’s bs blockade, sanctions and tariffs! Trump keeps barking anyway! Trump reserved the right to now wipe out Oman and finish off Iran! -I thought Iran was already beat according to Trump! As for Oman: Oman can be considered the most staunch supporter of the U.S. presence in the Persian Gulf region. The first military agreement between the two countries was signed in 1980. Currently, 26,000 American air force units are stationed on the territory of this Arab state. In addition, U.S. military aviation units assigned the private security firm DynCorp International to guard various parts of the base, including aircraft hangars, fuel storage, ammunition depots, automobiles, and administrative buildings. Oman hosts multiple US military bases: -the bases of the Navy in Rycote, Sit Lahsa and Muscat. -the U.S. air force bases are in al-Hasib, Siba, Markaz Tamarid, and masir. -the air force base in masir and the port of Matra are permanent bases of the US armed forces. -Oman hosts the command post of the US air force. -From American air bases in Oman, drones (UAVs) are periodically flown over the territories of many countries, up to Afghanistan. Iran for whatever reason trusted Oman as a mediator state at one time. Trump said he is not sure the U.S. should sign a deal to end the war with Iran if Saudi Arabia and other gulf slave states don't agree to join the Abraham Accords! They owe it to us he says! Kosher media calls out Netanyahu’s bs! "Haaretz" quoting an Israeli field officer: Netanyahu's claim of killing 600 Hezbollah fighters in recent weeks is laughable

Iran war, day 89! Trump keeps breaching the ceasefire! Just how compromised is Oman? -4 American vessels, attempted to cross the SOH without coordinating with IRGC security forces -They were warned, and following their disregard, warning shots were fired at them, forcing them to turn back. -4 drones were fired as warning shots Meanwhile, Kosher media lies as usual and claims: -that IRGC fired 4 one-way drones at a U.S. commercial ship! -The U.S. military shot down all the drones and attacked another Iranian drone launching unit on the ground before it launched in Bandar Abbas, the official added -no mentions of the 4 invader vessels attempting to breach iran’s control of the SOH, and failing miserably! Per Reuters, the U.S. military has executed new strikes on an Iranian military facility that “posed a threat to U.S. forces and commercial vessels in the Strait of Hormuz”. -no mention of the U.S. military invasion of a sovereign territory. However, -U.S. official told CBS News the Iran ceasefire holds following tonight's strikes. -interesting how no accusation was made against Iran breaching the ceasefire despite kosher media’s bs claims. Analysis: The U.S. is testing out Iran’s ability to strike U.S. ships with limited breaches to gauge where Iran is striking from each time. Iran isn’t providing a predictable pattern and is sticking to its protocol of warnings, warning shots, and then on standby to escalate. Ynet Hebrew news on Iran’s demand for compensation: Tehran sets new conditions - the US must pay $300 billion in compensation! -Trump/Israel keep raising the price for a peace deal How is Trump’s bs blockade working out? Per WSJ: Despite the naval blockade, Iran continues to sell its oil! -The ship-to-ship transfer of oil in the middle of the sea reveals Iran's main strength and the main reason for its ability to resist US pressure for a long time. -Per the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission, Tehran earned about $31 billion in oil revenues from China last year. -this is conservative figure as most of sales are unaccounted for -The Chinese government explicitly ordered local companies not to comply with US sanctions against five Chinese refineries. And now Iran is selling its oil and maximum capacity, at higher prices. Pre war oil was at $70/b. It’s around $100/b. Trump did that! Nobody fears Trump’s bs blockade, sanctions and tariffs! Trump keeps barking anyway! Trump reserved the right to now wipe out Oman and finish off Iran! -I thought Iran was already beat according to Trump! As for Oman: Oman can be considered the most staunch supporter of the U.S. presence in the Persian Gulf region. The first military agreement between the two countries was signed in 1980. Currently, 26,000 American air force units are stationed on the territory of this Arab state. In addition, U.S. military aviation units assigned the private security firm DynCorp International to guard various parts of the base, including aircraft hangars, fuel storage, ammunition depots, automobiles, and administrative buildings. Oman hosts multiple US military bases: -the bases of the Navy in Rycote, Sit Lahsa and Muscat. -the U.S. air force bases are in al-Hasib, Siba, Markaz Tamarid, and masir. -the air force base in masir and the port of Matra are permanent bases of the US armed forces. -Oman hosts the command post of the US air force. -From American air bases in Oman, drones (UAVs) are periodically flown over the territories of many countries, up to Afghanistan. Iran for whatever reason trusted Oman as a mediator state at one time. Trump said he is not sure the U.S. should sign a deal to end the war with Iran if Saudi Arabia and other gulf slave states don't agree to join the Abraham Accords! They owe it to us he says! Kosher media calls out Netanyahu’s bs! "Haaretz" quoting an Israeli field officer: Netanyahu's claim of killing 600 Hezbollah fighters in recent weeks is laughable

Truth_teller 🇷🇺

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Andrei Tarkovsky on Ingmar Bergman's Shame (1968): "Let us look at Bergman's Shame. The film doesn't contain a single 'actor's piece' for the performer to 'give away' the director's purpose, to play the conception of the persona, his attitude to it, to assess it in relation to the overall idea; and the latter is entirely hidden within the dynamic of the characters' lives, at one with it. The people in the film are crushed by circumstances; they act only in accordance with their situation, to which they themselves are subordinate; they make no attempt to proffer us any idea, any perspective on what is happening, or to draw any conclusion. All of that is left to the film as a whole, to the director's vision. And how superbly it is accomplished! You cannot say in simple terms who amongst them is good or bad. I could never say that von Sydow is a bad man. They are all partly good and partly bad, each in his own way. No judgements are passed, because there is no hint of tendentiousness in any of the actors, and the circumstances of the film are used by the director to explore the human possibilities which they test, and not for a moment in order to illustrate a thesis. Max von Sydow's character is developed with masterly power. He is a very good man; a musician; kind and sensitive. It turns out that he is a coward. But by no means every bold man is a good human being, and cowards are not always scoundrels. Of course, he is weak and irresolute. His wife is far stronger than he, so much so that she can overcome her fear. The hero lacks that strength. He is tormented by his own weakness, vulnerability, lack of resilience; he tries to hide, to cower in a corner, not to see and not to hear; and he does this like a child, naively and with complete sincerity. But when circumstances nevertheless force him to defend himself, he instantly turns into a scoundrel. He loses all that was best in him; but the drama and absurdity of his situation is that as he is now he becomes necessary to his wife, who, in her turn, looks to him for protection and succour instead of despising him as she always had. When he beats her about the face and says 'Get out!' she goes crawling after him. There is something here of the age-old idea of passive good and active evil; but its expression is immensely complex. At the beginning of the film the hero cannot even kill a chicken, but as soon as he has found a way of defending himself he becomes a cruel cynic. He has something of Hamlet: my view is that the Prince of Denmark perishes not as a result of the duel, when he dies physically, but immediately after the 'rat' scene, when he understands how irreversible are those laws of life which have forced him, a man of humanity and intellect, to act like the inferior people who inhabit Elsinore. Von Sydow is now a sinister character, afraid of nothing: he kills; will not raise a finger to save his fellows; pursues only his own interests. The point is that you have to be a person of great integrity to feel fear in the face of the foul necessity to kill and humiliate. And by shedding that fear and apparently acquiring courage, a person in fact loses his spiritual strength and intellectual honesty and parts from his innocence. War is the obvious catalyst for the cruel, anti-human elements in people. Bergman uses the war in this film exactly as he uses the heroine's illness in Through a Glass Darkly: to explore his view of man." — "Sculpting in Time" by Andrei Tarkovsky (translated by Kitty Hunter-Blair, 1987)

Andrei Tarkovsky on Ingmar Bergman's Shame (1968): "Let us look at Bergman's Shame. The film doesn't contain a single 'actor's piece' for the performer to 'give away' the director's purpose, to play the conception of the persona, his attitude to it, to assess it in relation to the overall idea; and the latter is entirely hidden within the dynamic of the characters' lives, at one with it. The people in the film are crushed by circumstances; they act only in accordance with their situation, to which they themselves are subordinate; they make no attempt to proffer us any idea, any perspective on what is happening, or to draw any conclusion. All of that is left to the film as a whole, to the director's vision. And how superbly it is accomplished! You cannot say in simple terms who amongst them is good or bad. I could never say that von Sydow is a bad man. They are all partly good and partly bad, each in his own way. No judgements are passed, because there is no hint of tendentiousness in any of the actors, and the circumstances of the film are used by the director to explore the human possibilities which they test, and not for a moment in order to illustrate a thesis. Max von Sydow's character is developed with masterly power. He is a very good man; a musician; kind and sensitive. It turns out that he is a coward. But by no means every bold man is a good human being, and cowards are not always scoundrels. Of course, he is weak and irresolute. His wife is far stronger than he, so much so that she can overcome her fear. The hero lacks that strength. He is tormented by his own weakness, vulnerability, lack of resilience; he tries to hide, to cower in a corner, not to see and not to hear; and he does this like a child, naively and with complete sincerity. But when circumstances nevertheless force him to defend himself, he instantly turns into a scoundrel. He loses all that was best in him; but the drama and absurdity of his situation is that as he is now he becomes necessary to his wife, who, in her turn, looks to him for protection and succour instead of despising him as she always had. When he beats her about the face and says 'Get out!' she goes crawling after him. There is something here of the age-old idea of passive good and active evil; but its expression is immensely complex. At the beginning of the film the hero cannot even kill a chicken, but as soon as he has found a way of defending himself he becomes a cruel cynic. He has something of Hamlet: my view is that the Prince of Denmark perishes not as a result of the duel, when he dies physically, but immediately after the 'rat' scene, when he understands how irreversible are those laws of life which have forced him, a man of humanity and intellect, to act like the inferior people who inhabit Elsinore. Von Sydow is now a sinister character, afraid of nothing: he kills; will not raise a finger to save his fellows; pursues only his own interests. The point is that you have to be a person of great integrity to feel fear in the face of the foul necessity to kill and humiliate. And by shedding that fear and apparently acquiring courage, a person in fact loses his spiritual strength and intellectual honesty and parts from his innocence. War is the obvious catalyst for the cruel, anti-human elements in people. Bergman uses the war in this film exactly as he uses the heroine's illness in Through a Glass Darkly: to explore his view of man." — "Sculpting in Time" by Andrei Tarkovsky (translated by Kitty Hunter-Blair, 1987)

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#41 "WAR PIGS" BLACK SABBATH (SIP OZZY) 🧵ON JANUARY 6, 2021, AT EXACTLY 4:03 P.M. (16:03 MIL) DONALD J. TRUMP WALKED ONTO THE ROSE GARDEN AND ADDRESSED THE NATION... THIS WASN’T JUST A SPEECH IT WAS A LEGAL SIGNAL A PROCLAMATION AND HE WENT "OFF SCRIPT" TO DELIVER IT! 🔥 THIS WASN’T FOR THE PUBLIC... IT WAS FOR THE DEEP STATE AND THE MILITIA! THOSE OF US PAYING ATTENTION, PICKED UP ON IT RIGHT AWAY AND BEGAN DIGGING! AFTER RECEIVING A REPORT FROM DNI JOHN RATCLIFFE (MADE KNOWN TO PUBLIC ON 1/7), TRUMP DID WHAT THE LAW REQUIRES: HE ISSUED A PRESIDENTIAL PROCLAMATION EXACTLY AS OUTLINED UNDER 10 U.S. CODE § 334: A MANDATORY NOTICE BEFORE FEDERAL FORCES OR MILITIAS CAN BE DEPLOYED UNDER THE INSURRECTION ACT. READ THAT AGAIN: THE PRESIDENT CANNOT DEPLOY MILITARY FORCES UNDER THE INSURRECTION ACT WITHOUT FIRST ORDERING THE INSURGENTS TO DISPERSE PEACEFULLY. TRUMP GAVE THAT ORDER! “GO HOME IN PEACE.” THOSE WORDS WEREN’T JUST CALMING LANGUAGE. THEY WERE A LEGAL TRIGGER! ACCORDING TO U.S. MILITARY LAW (10 U.S.C. § 334) THE PRESIDENT MUST FIRST “BY PROCLAMATION, IMMEDIATELY ORDER THE INSURGENTS TO DISPERSE AND RETIRE PEACEABLY.” HE DID THAT! ON CAMERA! AT THE ROSE GARDEN! AT 4:03 P.M.! AGAIN... TO THOSE WHO NEEDED TO KNOW, THE MESSAGE WAS RECEIVED: WE ARE AT WAR. I KNOW WHAT YOU DID. STAND DOWN. HE DIDN’T HAVE TO SAY “INSURRECTION ACT.” HE DIDN’T HAVE TO ANNOUNCE THE NEXT MOVE. HE COULD HAVE SIGNED A PRESIDENTIAL EMERGENCY ACTION DOCUMENT, A 'P.E.A.D.', WHICH IS PRE-WRITTEN FOR EXACTLY THESE SCENARIOS. AND IF HE DID, THEN YES... CONTINUITY OF GOVERNMENT UNDER THE LAW OF WAR MAY HAVE BEGUN THAT VERY DAY! SOME STILL ASK: “IF TRUMP TOOK ACTION, WHY LET IT ALL HAPPEN?” REMEMBER THIS: WASHINGTON, D.C. WAS AN OCCUPIED TERRITORY. WAS IT CHINA? ISRAEL? RUSSIA? OR JUST THE DEEP STATE? DOESN’T MATTER. THE ENEMY WAS IN CONTROL. AND TRUMP KNEW IT! HE TOOK OVER CONTROL OF D.C. AND THE UNITED STATES AND GAVE THE POWER BACK TO YOU! THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA! FINAL THOUGHT: TRUMP OBEYED THE LAW. HE GAVE THE PROCLAMATION. HE TOLD THE MILITIA TO STAND DOWN. HE CHECKED THE BOX REQUIRED BY 10 U.S.C. § 334. THE REST? CLASSIFIED. SHARE THIS. ARCHIVE THIS. THEY NEVER THOUGHT YOU’D UNDERSTAND THE SIGNAL. BUT NOW YOU DO. READ IT YOURSELF... 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽 ⚖️ LEGAL BRIEF: PRESIDENTIAL PROCLAMATION REQUIREMENT UNDER THE INSURRECTION ACT BEFORE THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES CAN INVOKE THE INSURRECTION ACT AND DEPLOY THE MILITARY OR FEDERALIZE THE MILITIA, HE IS LEGALLY REQUIRED TO FIRST ISSUE A PUBLIC PROCLAMATION ORDERING INSURGENTS TO DISPERSE. 🔹 CITED LAW: ▶️ 10 U.S. CODE § 334 — PROCLAMATION TO DISPERSE “WHENEVER THE PRESIDENT CONSIDERS IT NECESSARY TO USE THE MILITIA OR THE ARMED FORCES UNDER THIS CHAPTER, HE SHALL, BY PROCLAMATION, IMMEDIATELY ORDER THE INSURGENTS TO DISPERSE AND RETIRE PEACEABLY TO THEIR ABODES WITHIN A LIMITED TIME.” THIS STATUTE IS PART OF CHAPTER 13 OF TITLE 10, WHICH COVERS THE INSURRECTION ACT. IT SERVES AS THE MANDATORY PROCEDURAL TRIGGER THE PRESIDENT MUST FOLLOW BEFORE DEPLOYING MILITARY FORCE. 🔹 RELATED PROVISIONS: •10 U.S. CODE § 251 – WHEN A STATE REQUESTS FEDERAL AID •10 U.S. CODE § 252 – WHEN LAW ENFORCEMENT IS OBSTRUCTED •10 U.S. CODE § 253 – WHEN CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS ARE DENIED •10 U.S. CODE § 254 – TO SUPPRESS REBELLION THESE DEFINE WHEN THE INSURRECTION ACT MAY BE USED — BUT § 334 DEFINES HOW IT MUST BE INITIATED: WITH A PUBLIC PROCLAMATION TO DISPERSE! IT’S MILITARY PROTOCOL! THE SPEECH WASN’T FOR CNN OR CBS OR ABC IT WAS FOR THE RECORD! FOR THE LAW! FOR HISTORY! AND NOW, YOU KNOW! WWG1WGA

#41 "WAR PIGS" BLACK SABBATH (SIP OZZY) 🧵ON JANUARY 6, 2021, AT EXACTLY 4:03 P.M. (16:03 MIL) DONALD J. TRUMP WALKED ONTO THE ROSE GARDEN AND ADDRESSED THE NATION... THIS WASN’T JUST A SPEECH IT WAS A LEGAL SIGNAL A PROCLAMATION AND HE WENT "OFF SCRIPT" TO DELIVER IT! 🔥 THIS WASN’T FOR THE PUBLIC... IT WAS FOR THE DEEP STATE AND THE MILITIA! THOSE OF US PAYING ATTENTION, PICKED UP ON IT RIGHT AWAY AND BEGAN DIGGING! AFTER RECEIVING A REPORT FROM DNI JOHN RATCLIFFE (MADE KNOWN TO PUBLIC ON 1/7), TRUMP DID WHAT THE LAW REQUIRES: HE ISSUED A PRESIDENTIAL PROCLAMATION EXACTLY AS OUTLINED UNDER 10 U.S. CODE § 334: A MANDATORY NOTICE BEFORE FEDERAL FORCES OR MILITIAS CAN BE DEPLOYED UNDER THE INSURRECTION ACT. READ THAT AGAIN: THE PRESIDENT CANNOT DEPLOY MILITARY FORCES UNDER THE INSURRECTION ACT WITHOUT FIRST ORDERING THE INSURGENTS TO DISPERSE PEACEFULLY. TRUMP GAVE THAT ORDER! “GO HOME IN PEACE.” THOSE WORDS WEREN’T JUST CALMING LANGUAGE. THEY WERE A LEGAL TRIGGER! ACCORDING TO U.S. MILITARY LAW (10 U.S.C. § 334) THE PRESIDENT MUST FIRST “BY PROCLAMATION, IMMEDIATELY ORDER THE INSURGENTS TO DISPERSE AND RETIRE PEACEABLY.” HE DID THAT! ON CAMERA! AT THE ROSE GARDEN! AT 4:03 P.M.! AGAIN... TO THOSE WHO NEEDED TO KNOW, THE MESSAGE WAS RECEIVED: WE ARE AT WAR. I KNOW WHAT YOU DID. STAND DOWN. HE DIDN’T HAVE TO SAY “INSURRECTION ACT.” HE DIDN’T HAVE TO ANNOUNCE THE NEXT MOVE. HE COULD HAVE SIGNED A PRESIDENTIAL EMERGENCY ACTION DOCUMENT, A 'P.E.A.D.', WHICH IS PRE-WRITTEN FOR EXACTLY THESE SCENARIOS. AND IF HE DID, THEN YES... CONTINUITY OF GOVERNMENT UNDER THE LAW OF WAR MAY HAVE BEGUN THAT VERY DAY! SOME STILL ASK: “IF TRUMP TOOK ACTION, WHY LET IT ALL HAPPEN?” REMEMBER THIS: WASHINGTON, D.C. WAS AN OCCUPIED TERRITORY. WAS IT CHINA? ISRAEL? RUSSIA? OR JUST THE DEEP STATE? DOESN’T MATTER. THE ENEMY WAS IN CONTROL. AND TRUMP KNEW IT! HE TOOK OVER CONTROL OF D.C. AND THE UNITED STATES AND GAVE THE POWER BACK TO YOU! THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA! FINAL THOUGHT: TRUMP OBEYED THE LAW. HE GAVE THE PROCLAMATION. HE TOLD THE MILITIA TO STAND DOWN. HE CHECKED THE BOX REQUIRED BY 10 U.S.C. § 334. THE REST? CLASSIFIED. SHARE THIS. ARCHIVE THIS. THEY NEVER THOUGHT YOU’D UNDERSTAND THE SIGNAL. BUT NOW YOU DO. READ IT YOURSELF... 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽 ⚖️ LEGAL BRIEF: PRESIDENTIAL PROCLAMATION REQUIREMENT UNDER THE INSURRECTION ACT BEFORE THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES CAN INVOKE THE INSURRECTION ACT AND DEPLOY THE MILITARY OR FEDERALIZE THE MILITIA, HE IS LEGALLY REQUIRED TO FIRST ISSUE A PUBLIC PROCLAMATION ORDERING INSURGENTS TO DISPERSE. 🔹 CITED LAW: ▶️ 10 U.S. CODE § 334 — PROCLAMATION TO DISPERSE “WHENEVER THE PRESIDENT CONSIDERS IT NECESSARY TO USE THE MILITIA OR THE ARMED FORCES UNDER THIS CHAPTER, HE SHALL, BY PROCLAMATION, IMMEDIATELY ORDER THE INSURGENTS TO DISPERSE AND RETIRE PEACEABLY TO THEIR ABODES WITHIN A LIMITED TIME.” THIS STATUTE IS PART OF CHAPTER 13 OF TITLE 10, WHICH COVERS THE INSURRECTION ACT. IT SERVES AS THE MANDATORY PROCEDURAL TRIGGER THE PRESIDENT MUST FOLLOW BEFORE DEPLOYING MILITARY FORCE. 🔹 RELATED PROVISIONS: •10 U.S. CODE § 251 – WHEN A STATE REQUESTS FEDERAL AID •10 U.S. CODE § 252 – WHEN LAW ENFORCEMENT IS OBSTRUCTED •10 U.S. CODE § 253 – WHEN CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS ARE DENIED •10 U.S. CODE § 254 – TO SUPPRESS REBELLION THESE DEFINE WHEN THE INSURRECTION ACT MAY BE USED — BUT § 334 DEFINES HOW IT MUST BE INITIATED: WITH A PUBLIC PROCLAMATION TO DISPERSE! IT’S MILITARY PROTOCOL! THE SPEECH WASN’T FOR CNN OR CBS OR ABC IT WAS FOR THE RECORD! FOR THE LAW! FOR HISTORY! AND NOW, YOU KNOW! WWG1WGA

SirOliverPollock(KAIZER)😎 🧐 🤫

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Trump frames putin’s refusal to stop killing people as a tactical "position" that’s totally understandable because “starting a war back up is hard work”. Reporter: Did Russia agree, or did putin agree to a ceasefire to allow a referendum to take place? Trump: Not a ceasefire, and that's one of the points that we're working on right now. No, not a ceasefire. He feels that, look, you know, they're fighting, and to stop and then to, if they have to start again, which is a possibility, he doesn't want to be in that position. I understand that position. The President feels strongly about that, or something, but I think we're finding ways that we can get around that. But I understand President putin from that standpoint. You know, you have to understand the other side. And, you know, I'm on the side of peace, I'm on the side of stopping the war. So, but I think that's, uh, that's a problem that's going to get solved here.” Trump is effectively acting as putin’s press secretary, explaining away Russia's refusal to stop the killing as a reasonable "business position" rather than a violation of international law. 'The President feels strongly about that, or something.' OR SOMETHING?? 😂 'It’s a problem that’s going to get solved here.' Yeah, right after we figure out what the 'something' is. He sounds like a guy trying to explain the plot of a movie he only saw the trailer for. In high-stakes diplomacy, "feelings" aren't usually a substitute for policy, and "or something" suggests the details are irrelevant to him. By ending with "it's going to get solved," he uses his classic "trust me" closing. This is a tactic to avoid explaining how it will be solved, especially when the "how" involves agreeing with the "other side”.

Trump frames putin’s refusal to stop killing people as a tactical "position" that’s totally understandable because “starting a war back up is hard work”. Reporter: Did Russia agree, or did putin agree to a ceasefire to allow a referendum to take place? Trump: Not a ceasefire, and that's one of the points that we're working on right now. No, not a ceasefire. He feels that, look, you know, they're fighting, and to stop and then to, if they have to start again, which is a possibility, he doesn't want to be in that position. I understand that position. The President feels strongly about that, or something, but I think we're finding ways that we can get around that. But I understand President putin from that standpoint. You know, you have to understand the other side. And, you know, I'm on the side of peace, I'm on the side of stopping the war. So, but I think that's, uh, that's a problem that's going to get solved here.” Trump is effectively acting as putin’s press secretary, explaining away Russia's refusal to stop the killing as a reasonable "business position" rather than a violation of international law. 'The President feels strongly about that, or something.' OR SOMETHING?? 😂 'It’s a problem that’s going to get solved here.' Yeah, right after we figure out what the 'something' is. He sounds like a guy trying to explain the plot of a movie he only saw the trailer for. In high-stakes diplomacy, "feelings" aren't usually a substitute for policy, and "or something" suggests the details are irrelevant to him. By ending with "it's going to get solved," he uses his classic "trust me" closing. This is a tactic to avoid explaining how it will be solved, especially when the "how" involves agreeing with the "other side”.

Yasmina

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🚨BREAKING: An ICE agent threatened to kill a U.S. citizen for driving through a neighborhood, in Cold Spring, Minnesota. In the video, a woman is in her car when an agent walks towards her, with his hand on his gun, in the middle of the street. He tells her that if she comes near him with her car, it will be “the last thing that you do.” In other words… a federal agent just threatened to execute a U.S. citizen for driving down a public street. She immediately points out that she wasn’t even close to him and tells him to get out of the road. Instead, the agent escalates. He stands directly in front of her vehicle, hand still on his gun, and tells her she cannot reverse or leave the street. Except there’s just one problem… He never identifies a crime. He never states a lawful order. He simply blocks her car and starts issuing threats. That’s an illegal detention. Then, he contradicts himself… He told her she can’t back up… and seconds later screams at her to “back the f*ck up.” The agent then walks to the side of her car and begins shining a flashlight directly into her face, with his hand still on his gun. When she tells him to get the light out of her face and back off, he moves directly in front of her car again and repeats the threat: “Do not hit me. This is your first and last warning.” Again… she hasn’t moved. Her car is still in reverse, and she repeatedly tells him to take his hand off his gun. She even says: “I’m not going to hit you!” And yet, the agent keeps escalating, screaming the same accusation over and over… as if he’s trying to manufacture a justification to shoot her. This is the exact same tactic we’ve already seen in multiple shootings involving ICE/Border Patrol… where federal agents step in front of vehicles and then claim they feared for their lives when the driver tries to leave, like they told them to do. Blocking a vehicle, threatening deadly force, illegally detaining a citizen, and creating a scenario where a shooting can be justified after the fact… Is not only dangerous, it’s illegal. Because when armed federal agents start threatening to kill people for driving down their own street, more people are eventually going to end up dead… And they will call it “self-defense.” And removing Kristi Noem isn’t going to change that.

🚨BREAKING: An ICE agent threatened to kill a U.S. citizen for driving through a neighborhood, in Cold Spring, Minnesota. In the video, a woman is in her car when an agent walks towards her, with his hand on his gun, in the middle of the street. He tells her that if she comes near him with her car, it will be “the last thing that you do.” In other words… a federal agent just threatened to execute a U.S. citizen for driving down a public street. She immediately points out that she wasn’t even close to him and tells him to get out of the road. Instead, the agent escalates. He stands directly in front of her vehicle, hand still on his gun, and tells her she cannot reverse or leave the street. Except there’s just one problem… He never identifies a crime. He never states a lawful order. He simply blocks her car and starts issuing threats. That’s an illegal detention. Then, he contradicts himself… He told her she can’t back up… and seconds later screams at her to “back the f*ck up.” The agent then walks to the side of her car and begins shining a flashlight directly into her face, with his hand still on his gun. When she tells him to get the light out of her face and back off, he moves directly in front of her car again and repeats the threat: “Do not hit me. This is your first and last warning.” Again… she hasn’t moved. Her car is still in reverse, and she repeatedly tells him to take his hand off his gun. She even says: “I’m not going to hit you!” And yet, the agent keeps escalating, screaming the same accusation over and over… as if he’s trying to manufacture a justification to shoot her. This is the exact same tactic we’ve already seen in multiple shootings involving ICE/Border Patrol… where federal agents step in front of vehicles and then claim they feared for their lives when the driver tries to leave, like they told them to do. Blocking a vehicle, threatening deadly force, illegally detaining a citizen, and creating a scenario where a shooting can be justified after the fact… Is not only dangerous, it’s illegal. Because when armed federal agents start threatening to kill people for driving down their own street, more people are eventually going to end up dead… And they will call it “self-defense.” And removing Kristi Noem isn’t going to change that.

Jesus Freakin Congress

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🚨BREAKING: Border Patrol agents violently pulled a U.S. citizen PASSENGER from a vehicle, slamming him to the ground… Then shouted that he had a gun, even though he didn’t. In Tucson, Arizona, state troopers pulled over a vehicle. While they were stopped on the side of the road, the state trooper called Border Patrol because the PASSENGER appeared to be Hispanic. When Border Patrol arrived, the situation immediately escalated to agents smashed both passenger-side windows. One agent tried to hit the phone out of the driver’s hand, who was recording, as they violently ripped the backseat passenger out of the vehicle, and threw him onto the ground, while multiple agents pin him down. Then, an agent ordered the driver out of the vehicle. She responded, “I didn’t do anything.” The agent replied, “Step out or you are going to get tackled.” At that point, at least three agents already had the passenger pinned, with his hands behind his back, when another agent suddenly yelled, “Gun!” A fourth agent responded, “He has a gun?” The driver immediately yells back, “NO! He has NO gun. WE HAVE NO WEAPONS!” The agent, closest to the car, was startled by this, appearing to forget the driver was still inside… and filming. That’s when he reached into the vehicle, grabbed her phone, threw it from her hand, and attempted to pull her out of the car. There is a lot going on in this video, so let’s break this down… First… you don’t get to detain people based on how they look. The Fourth Amendment requires individualized, reasonable suspicion. Not “he looked Hispanic.” Second… a passenger, during a traffic stop, is not automatically required to identify themselves, or hand over ID. Law enforcement needs a lawful basis… like reasonable suspicion that that specific person committed a crime… to demand identification. Third… even when someone is lawfully detained, they are only required to comply with lawful orders tied to THAT detention. A passenger doesn’t lose constitutional protections just because someone else was pulled over, while driving. Fourth… the First Amendment protects the right to record law enforcement, in public, while they’re doing their job. Knocking a phone away, or throwing it because someone is filming, is violating that constitutional right. And finally, any use of force… breaking windows, pulling someone out of a car, and restraining them… has to be objectively reasonable under the Fourth Amendment. That requires specific, articulable facts, not assumptions about identity. This wasn’t a checkpoint. It wasn’t a border stop. This was a traffic stop where a PASSENGER became the target because of how he looked. And if that’s enough to trigger federal agents breaking windows, and violently pulling U.S. citizens out of cars… then every single person should be demanding answers, and accountability. Because this could’ve ended with another U.S. citizen dead… And next time, that U.S. citizen could be you.

🚨BREAKING: Border Patrol agents violently pulled a U.S. citizen PASSENGER from a vehicle, slamming him to the ground… Then shouted that he had a gun, even though he didn’t. In Tucson, Arizona, state troopers pulled over a vehicle. While they were stopped on the side of the road, the state trooper called Border Patrol because the PASSENGER appeared to be Hispanic. When Border Patrol arrived, the situation immediately escalated to agents smashed both passenger-side windows. One agent tried to hit the phone out of the driver’s hand, who was recording, as they violently ripped the backseat passenger out of the vehicle, and threw him onto the ground, while multiple agents pin him down. Then, an agent ordered the driver out of the vehicle. She responded, “I didn’t do anything.” The agent replied, “Step out or you are going to get tackled.” At that point, at least three agents already had the passenger pinned, with his hands behind his back, when another agent suddenly yelled, “Gun!” A fourth agent responded, “He has a gun?” The driver immediately yells back, “NO! He has NO gun. WE HAVE NO WEAPONS!” The agent, closest to the car, was startled by this, appearing to forget the driver was still inside… and filming. That’s when he reached into the vehicle, grabbed her phone, threw it from her hand, and attempted to pull her out of the car. There is a lot going on in this video, so let’s break this down… First… you don’t get to detain people based on how they look. The Fourth Amendment requires individualized, reasonable suspicion. Not “he looked Hispanic.” Second… a passenger, during a traffic stop, is not automatically required to identify themselves, or hand over ID. Law enforcement needs a lawful basis… like reasonable suspicion that that specific person committed a crime… to demand identification. Third… even when someone is lawfully detained, they are only required to comply with lawful orders tied to THAT detention. A passenger doesn’t lose constitutional protections just because someone else was pulled over, while driving. Fourth… the First Amendment protects the right to record law enforcement, in public, while they’re doing their job. Knocking a phone away, or throwing it because someone is filming, is violating that constitutional right. And finally, any use of force… breaking windows, pulling someone out of a car, and restraining them… has to be objectively reasonable under the Fourth Amendment. That requires specific, articulable facts, not assumptions about identity. This wasn’t a checkpoint. It wasn’t a border stop. This was a traffic stop where a PASSENGER became the target because of how he looked. And if that’s enough to trigger federal agents breaking windows, and violently pulling U.S. citizens out of cars… then every single person should be demanding answers, and accountability. Because this could’ve ended with another U.S. citizen dead… And next time, that U.S. citizen could be you.

Jesus Freakin Congress

226,000 Aufrufe • vor 11 Tagen

THE "CONSISTENTLY PROFITABLE" SKILL GAP & THE MYTH OF SUPPLEMENTAL INCOME FROM TRADING For many new traders or part-time traders, there is this pervasive belief that with some time and effort, they'll be able to make "just" a few grand per month to supplement their income. Or they "don't want to aim big, they just want to replace their current salary via trading so they can have more freedom." This is because people mistakenly believe that trading is like most other jobs, rather than it being a winner-take-all performance endeavor more akin to becoming a professional athlete. 99.9% of athletes will never make a dime professionally. There is no market demand for your average high school or college player. To even make league minimum in the NBA, you are still in the .0001% of basketball players. There is no such thing as just deciding to casually make a few grand as a pro athlete. Think about what it takes for someone to make $50k/yr as a golfer? The skill gap to earn an income or make the league minimum is crazy to comprehend. The analogy I gave with AT09 was the story of Brian Scalabrine. Even though Brian Scalabrine “sucked” in the NBA, he would absolutely annihilate 99.9% of the people calling him trash. He once said the famous line that he’s closer in skill to LeBron James than his haters are to him, and that line perfectly explains trading. The gap between unprofitable and elite looks massive from the outside, but the real canyon is between unprofitable and making any amount of money consistently. People look at a trader making $1M a year and think that’s a different species. They assume someone doing $100k a year is basically the same as the guy still blowing accounts, just with better luck. That’s like saying Scalabrine and your friend who plays pickup on Tuesdays are basically equal because neither is LeBron. Going from $0 to consistently profitable is the hardest jump in trading. You CANNOT just casually make a few grand per month or supplement income part-time. The skill level needed to consistently make ANY AMOUNT trading is the equivalent of being in the league. A trader who can pull $100k a year out of the market is not “kind of good.” They have competency in finding edge, executing trades, handling their psychology and risk management, and are competing in the league. From there, scaling to $300k, $500k, even $1M is usually a function of size, capital, and refinement, not a complete identity shift. But the trader still stuck at breakeven or red? They’re not one tweak away from $100k. They’re not “basically there.” They’re still trying to prove they belong on the court at all. The uncomfortable truth is this: the distance between $0 and $100k is far greater than the distance between $100k and $1M. One requires becoming a professional. The other simply just requires becoming a more refined one. My confidence in taking a trader from $100k to $1m is probably 10x higher than my confidence in taking a trader from $0 to $100k.

THE "CONSISTENTLY PROFITABLE" SKILL GAP & THE MYTH OF SUPPLEMENTAL INCOME FROM TRADING For many new traders or part-time traders, there is this pervasive belief that with some time and effort, they'll be able to make "just" a few grand per month to supplement their income. Or they "don't want to aim big, they just want to replace their current salary via trading so they can have more freedom." This is because people mistakenly believe that trading is like most other jobs, rather than it being a winner-take-all performance endeavor more akin to becoming a professional athlete. 99.9% of athletes will never make a dime professionally. There is no market demand for your average high school or college player. To even make league minimum in the NBA, you are still in the .0001% of basketball players. There is no such thing as just deciding to casually make a few grand as a pro athlete. Think about what it takes for someone to make $50k/yr as a golfer? The skill gap to earn an income or make the league minimum is crazy to comprehend. The analogy I gave with AT09 was the story of Brian Scalabrine. Even though Brian Scalabrine “sucked” in the NBA, he would absolutely annihilate 99.9% of the people calling him trash. He once said the famous line that he’s closer in skill to LeBron James than his haters are to him, and that line perfectly explains trading. The gap between unprofitable and elite looks massive from the outside, but the real canyon is between unprofitable and making any amount of money consistently. People look at a trader making $1M a year and think that’s a different species. They assume someone doing $100k a year is basically the same as the guy still blowing accounts, just with better luck. That’s like saying Scalabrine and your friend who plays pickup on Tuesdays are basically equal because neither is LeBron. Going from $0 to consistently profitable is the hardest jump in trading. You CANNOT just casually make a few grand per month or supplement income part-time. The skill level needed to consistently make ANY AMOUNT trading is the equivalent of being in the league. A trader who can pull $100k a year out of the market is not “kind of good.” They have competency in finding edge, executing trades, handling their psychology and risk management, and are competing in the league. From there, scaling to $300k, $500k, even $1M is usually a function of size, capital, and refinement, not a complete identity shift. But the trader still stuck at breakeven or red? They’re not one tweak away from $100k. They’re not “basically there.” They’re still trying to prove they belong on the court at all. The uncomfortable truth is this: the distance between $0 and $100k is far greater than the distance between $100k and $1M. One requires becoming a professional. The other simply just requires becoming a more refined one. My confidence in taking a trader from $100k to $1m is probably 10x higher than my confidence in taking a trader from $0 to $100k.

Lance Breitstein 🇺🇸🌎

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Telling the Truth in a Post-Truth World — John MacArthur There is a kind of insanity that says, “I can do anything I want. I can live any way I want.” And because the consequences are not instantaneous and immediate, although they well could be, because the wages of sin is—what?—death, because God is a God of mercy and God allows sinners to survive and even enjoy common grace, they somehow come to believe that they can continually store up wrath against the day of God’s judgment—as Romans 2 says—and there will be no consequences. Everyone understands and everyone lives—let’s put it this way—under the all-encompassing, all-sovereign authority of natural law. It is sovereign, it is without mercy, and it will bring consequences, mostly immediate, to its violators.But because people think they can get away with sin and evil behavior and immorality, and they can live with lies and deception, our society is drowning in that. This has become, frankly, for us a comfortable norm. In fact, it’s so normal to violate the moral and spiritual laws of God that our nation is making laws to protect those violations. Moral and spiritual law is violated, starting with children who are being told at the ages of four and five that they may not be a girl when they are a girl, they may not be a boy when they are a boy, and they need to have some transgender treatment, all the way to the unbelievable advocacy of abortion from an entire party in the United States. The real terrorists in America didn’t hit 9/11; the real terrorists in America are people who advocate abortion—they massacre the creation of God continually. The whole society, I think, has sort of arrived at the cynicism of Pilate, who say, “What is truth?” cynically, and then walked away before he had an answer. The Russian grand chess master by the name of Kasparov made an interesting statement. He said this: “The point of modern propaganda is not only to misinform or push an agenda, it is to exhaust your critical thinking so as to annihilate truth.” This culture is making critical thinking an exhausting battle. They just continually hit us with a barrage of lies and deception with the notion that they can wear out our will to fight; and it works. It works in the culture for the unregenerate, who are falling into that kind of insanity. It even works in the church as supposed church leaders and pastors cave in to the demands of certain sins in the culture. This post-truth ideology really, really flourishes—and this is an important thing to note—when it is empowered by a group identity. If you have one sort of loose cannon running around like Chicken Little, “The sky is falling, the sky is falling, the sky is falling,” you sort of laugh at Chicken Little. But if Chicken Little has a group identity, if he’s empowered by a whole lot of other people who are saying the same thing and there’s a collection of liars committed to this, they’re empowered. So you have the LGBTQ community, you have the trans community, you have cults, you have false religions, you have aberrations of all kinds. And the individuals involved in those things are not alone; they are basically empowered because they have teammates. And at that point, they become ensnared in the immoral, deceptive lies, and the web captures them. They are being mutually affirmed by their other teammates, and then they are being even more mutually affirmed as the culture affirms them and the nation makes laws to make sin righteousness, and to make righteousness a violation of law. You come along or I come along and confront that, and we find it’s impossible to convince them of the dire deception they are in and its terrifying consequences because we’re on the outside. And what do they say to us? “You haven’t lived my life. You haven’t walked in my step. Who are you to tell me what to do.” These groups, as they get stronger and stronger and larger and larger, insulate each other in their lies.

Telling the Truth in a Post-Truth World — John MacArthur There is a kind of insanity that says, “I can do anything I want. I can live any way I want.” And because the consequences are not instantaneous and immediate, although they well could be, because the wages of sin is—what?—death, because God is a God of mercy and God allows sinners to survive and even enjoy common grace, they somehow come to believe that they can continually store up wrath against the day of God’s judgment—as Romans 2 says—and there will be no consequences. Everyone understands and everyone lives—let’s put it this way—under the all-encompassing, all-sovereign authority of natural law. It is sovereign, it is without mercy, and it will bring consequences, mostly immediate, to its violators.But because people think they can get away with sin and evil behavior and immorality, and they can live with lies and deception, our society is drowning in that. This has become, frankly, for us a comfortable norm. In fact, it’s so normal to violate the moral and spiritual laws of God that our nation is making laws to protect those violations. Moral and spiritual law is violated, starting with children who are being told at the ages of four and five that they may not be a girl when they are a girl, they may not be a boy when they are a boy, and they need to have some transgender treatment, all the way to the unbelievable advocacy of abortion from an entire party in the United States. The real terrorists in America didn’t hit 9/11; the real terrorists in America are people who advocate abortion—they massacre the creation of God continually. The whole society, I think, has sort of arrived at the cynicism of Pilate, who say, “What is truth?” cynically, and then walked away before he had an answer. The Russian grand chess master by the name of Kasparov made an interesting statement. He said this: “The point of modern propaganda is not only to misinform or push an agenda, it is to exhaust your critical thinking so as to annihilate truth.” This culture is making critical thinking an exhausting battle. They just continually hit us with a barrage of lies and deception with the notion that they can wear out our will to fight; and it works. It works in the culture for the unregenerate, who are falling into that kind of insanity. It even works in the church as supposed church leaders and pastors cave in to the demands of certain sins in the culture. This post-truth ideology really, really flourishes—and this is an important thing to note—when it is empowered by a group identity. If you have one sort of loose cannon running around like Chicken Little, “The sky is falling, the sky is falling, the sky is falling,” you sort of laugh at Chicken Little. But if Chicken Little has a group identity, if he’s empowered by a whole lot of other people who are saying the same thing and there’s a collection of liars committed to this, they’re empowered. So you have the LGBTQ community, you have the trans community, you have cults, you have false religions, you have aberrations of all kinds. And the individuals involved in those things are not alone; they are basically empowered because they have teammates. And at that point, they become ensnared in the immoral, deceptive lies, and the web captures them. They are being mutually affirmed by their other teammates, and then they are being even more mutually affirmed as the culture affirms them and the nation makes laws to make sin righteousness, and to make righteousness a violation of law. You come along or I come along and confront that, and we find it’s impossible to convince them of the dire deception they are in and its terrifying consequences because we’re on the outside. And what do they say to us? “You haven’t lived my life. You haven’t walked in my step. Who are you to tell me what to do.” These groups, as they get stronger and stronger and larger and larger, insulate each other in their lies.

Terri Green

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