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strunkenwhite said:
It may be true that Zeihan is a China doomer but there's a difference between being wrong about the future and wrong about the present. He admits the deal may fall through but do you disagree that it would be a good deal if it didn't?

Also, it doesn't have to "satisfy" Israel, it's a success if the inspectors get to do their thing unmolested for the world to see.

In any case, I just posted it because I had missed the entire story in the first place. Arguably if the deal falls through then it doesn't matter anyway, but I thought people would like to know.
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I take that I might have sounded differently that what I tried to convey.
He is a China doomer but also very "rosy" when it comes to him talking about the present, he is very much like the "Vaush" of neocons to me, in the sense that all of his argumentations seems excessively and weirdly favorable to his side of a subject or argument and also like Vaush, he never seems to flinch or be able to put his ideas up to discussions...and if you the panels and discussions he did partecipate there is basically no one challenging him or going hard on him.

NOTE : I wouldn't be surprised if he is also an "astrosurfed" Youtuber like Vaush.

I will give you an example out of many but this is like very short and the easiest to find on a smartphone :



Notice how speaks about the Biden administration. He manages to twist even the negatives he can find into something positive.
 
TheRejectionist said:
I wouldn't be surprised if he is also an "astrosurfed" Youtuber like Vaush.

Notice how speaks about the Biden administration. He manages to twist even the negatives he can find into something positive.
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You know, I thought I disagreed with you because it said "Leadership Series" so OF COURSE he's going to focus on the positives and skim over the negatives to get back to what the video's really about. But then I watched one of the other videos and it seems like they're supposed to be a holistic overview. So it's just really bizarre that he'd mention economic policy twice in that video, and both times visibly restrain himself from expanding on the topic.

By the way, what do you mean that Vaush is astroturfed? (Or do you really mean astrosurfed?) Is he really getting bankrolled by some leftist organization(s)? I wouldn't think any would sign on to something that spicy when there are so many others to choose from.
 
Cherico said:
Zeihan really can't be trusted on domestic policies because he uses American media resources to judge it. And that's garbage in garbage out situation. He even admits as such.
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His strength, as I understand it, is in analyzing data like demographic statistics, and however much you distrust the institutions I don't think they're cooking the books on those numbers (in the US). Happy to be shown otherwise if you think there's a strong case for it. (But don't bother showing me stuff like "they advertise these numbers as meaning X, but if you dig in they don't mean what they say it means" because that's not disputing the validity of the numbers.)
 
TheRejectionist said:
I take that I might have sounded differently that what I tried to convey.
He is a China doomer but also very "rosy" when it comes to him talking about the present, he is very much like the "Vaush" of neocons to me, in the sense that all of his argumentations seems excessively and weirdly favorable to his side of a subject or argument and also like Vaush, he never seems to flinch or be able to put his ideas up to discussions...and if you the panels and discussions he did partecipate there is basically no one challenging him or going hard on him.

NOTE : I wouldn't be surprised if he is also an "astrosurfed" Youtuber like Vaush.

I will give you an example out of many but this is like very short and the easiest to find on a smartphone :



Notice how speaks about the Biden administration. He manages to twist even the negatives he can find into something positive.
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I've noticed that material involving Biden everywhere is suspiciously hagiographic. Even left-leaning sources can find plenty to criticize Obama, both Clintons, and other Democratic leadership for, but when it comes to Biden he's always "surprisingly competent". They'll drop an obligatory old age joke, but Biden is consistently lauded as competent, back to basics, able to govern, or other such pablum. Reading between the lines, Biden is such a non-entity inside the Beltway that all the various agencies are free to operate on their own without even the usually nominal oversight and they love it. They then report it to their media contacts who repeat such "insider" info as fact since it had to be picked up on the grapevine.

That's my read of it at least.
 
f1onagher said:
I've noticed that material involving Biden everywhere is suspiciously hagiographic. Even left-leaning sources can find plenty to criticize Obama, both Clintons, and other Democratic leadership for, but when it comes to Biden he's always "surprisingly competent". They'll drop an obligatory old age joke, but Biden is consistently lauded as competent, back to basics, able to govern, or other such pablum. Reading between the lines, Biden is such a non-entity inside the Beltway that all the various agencies are free to operate on their own without even the usually nominal oversight and they love it. They then report it to their media contacts who repeat such "insider" info as fact since it had to be picked up on the grapevine.

That's my read of it at least.
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I was going to say that I've observed fairly widespread criticism from the left of Biden to the effect that his immigration policy/execution is insufficiently different from Trump's ...

... but then I realized that this doesn't exactly contradict your bottom line.
 
strunkenwhite said:
You know, I thought I disagreed with you because it said "Leadership Series" so OF COURSE he's going to focus on the positives and skim over the negatives to get back to what the video's really about. But then I watched one of the other videos and it seems like they're supposed to be a holistic overview. So it's just really bizarre that he'd mention economic policy twice in that video, and both times visibly restrain himself from expanding on the topic.

By the way, what do you mean that Vaush is astroturfed? (Or do you really mean astrosurfed?) Is he really getting bankrolled by some leftist organization(s)? I wouldn't think any would sign on to something that spicy when there are so many others to choose from.
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With (potentially) astrosurfed I mean that the guy seems to be artificially popular on media like YT and similar.
Vaush was, if memory serves me right, was proven to be astrosurfed (meaning promoted) by mainstream establishment in one of Jimmy Dore's panels because many of his talking points coincidently coincide with mainstream talking points.
Zeihan has the added bonus he can articulate his points charismaticly. As @Cherico put it , his sources are of doubtful and overly optimistic origin (if not outright manufactered, but to prove that is a fucking can of worms that even with a pc would be difficult to prove).
My best advice is to be careful with sources such as Zeihan that have views that are just paraphrased opinion of the mainstream, because it is likely they were "promoted" for the same reasons as Noah Yuval Harari or Vaush were.

Just to give you a more practical example of my suspicion of him : I actively search for opinions that contradict mine on various platforms and actively pursue English speaking unaligned media because it is the most varied, YET Zeihan never showed up on my recommendations BEFORE the war in the Ukraine and it wouldn't surprise me if we would notice a pattern of unlikely sudden growth to his channel since the start of the conflict.
 
TheRejectionist said:
Vaush was, if memory serves me right, was proven to be astrosurfed (meaning promoted) by mainstream establishment in one of Jimmy Dore's panels because many of his talking points coincidently coincide with mainstream talking points.
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I don't suppose you could point me in a direction where I can find that? It's just interesting because I've actually been hearing a lot about Vaush (including a lot of criticism) in the last couple months for some reason but him being astrosurfed was definitely not something I'd heard a peep of until now.
 
strunkenwhite said:
I don't suppose you could point me in a direction where I can find that? It's just interesting because I've actually been hearing a lot about Vaush (including a lot of criticism) in the last couple months for some reason but him being astrosurfed was definitely not something I'd heard a peep of until now.
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@strunkenwhite

Sorry to reply so late. I can't find the one about Vaush specifically however there is one about Breadtube
 
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So seems like Biden trying to reinstate Wu Flu lockdowns/mask mandates is increasing in likelihood, if whistleblowers are to be believed.
 
Bacle said:
So seems like Biden trying to reinstate Wu Flu lockdowns/mask mandates is increasing in likelihood, if whistleblowers are to be believed.
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I will consider my predictions disproven if this expands to the general public again instead of being limited to employee mandates.
 
Bigking321 said:
They have to.

There's elections coming. The only way they can win is to have people automatically enrolled so they have a huge list they can "find" mail in ballots from on election night.
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It sounds like you're assuming they need lockdowns to do a major push of mail-in ballots. Why?
 
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