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@Doctor-Phibes said in Tucker talks comedy...:
@Renauda said in Tucker talks comedy...:
I think I have already posted it but I’ll say it again, Peterson is informative and good on topics of human and social psychology. When he wanders into global affairs and economics he lacks any real depth of knowledge and competence. On the topic of the war in Ukraine and US involvement. I can think of several people with expertise who would close Peterson down in a sentence. Stephen Kotkin and Timothy Snyder come immediately to mind. He wouldn’t last five minutes in a conversation with either Condi Rice or Fiona Hill on the topic.
I think JP makes a mistake on seemingly being willing to opine on pretty much anything. He undermines his credibility a bit by being willing to take on all kinds of stuff where he doesn't know any more than the rest of us.
Obviously, the internet is packed full of people doing exactly the same thing - the difference being that JP actually is an expert in his professional area.
He is under contract with Daily Wire for a new video every few days. The quality will lower to meet the quota. He's interviewed his whole family at this point.
@Horace said in Tucker talks comedy...:
He is under contract with Daily Wire for a new video every few days. The quality will lower to meet the quota. He's interviewed his whole family at this point.
OK, so it's a way to make money. He's essentially become a chat-show host.
There's not too many belly laughs, I'm guessing.
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@Horace said in Tucker talks comedy...:
He is under contract with Daily Wire for a new video every few days. The quality will lower to meet the quota. He's interviewed his whole family at this point.
OK, so it's a way to make money. He's essentially become a chat-show host.
There's not too many belly laughs, I'm guessing.
@Doctor-Phibes said in Tucker talks comedy...:
@Horace said in Tucker talks comedy...:
He is under contract with Daily Wire for a new video every few days. The quality will lower to meet the quota. He's interviewed his whole family at this point.
OK, so it's a way to make money. He's essentially become a chat-show host.
He is putting his ideas out there and participating in the public discourse, and making money in the process. Like presumably everybody else you are aware of who's contributions to any political or social topic, you respect.
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@Doctor-Phibes said in Tucker talks comedy...:
@Horace said in Tucker talks comedy...:
He is under contract with Daily Wire for a new video every few days. The quality will lower to meet the quota. He's interviewed his whole family at this point.
OK, so it's a way to make money. He's essentially become a chat-show host.
He is putting his ideas out there and participating in the public discourse, and making money in the process. Like presumably everybody else you are aware of who's contributions to any political or social topic, you respect.
@Horace said in Tucker talks comedy...:
@Doctor-Phibes said in Tucker talks comedy...:
@Horace said in Tucker talks comedy...:
He is under contract with Daily Wire for a new video every few days. The quality will lower to meet the quota. He's interviewed his whole family at this point.
OK, so it's a way to make money. He's essentially become a chat-show host.
He is putting his ideas out there and participating in the public discourse, and making money in the process. Like presumably everybody else you are aware of who's contributions to any political or social topic, you respect.
I think you may have me confused with somebody else. I don't watch any of these shows. This place is as close as I come to engaging in public discourse. It seems to me that JP has upset a load of people by saying things about gender and political correctness, and he's now capitalizing on that fact as the people who like what he said about gender and political correctness want to hear what he thinks about pretty much everything else under the sun.
And good luck to him! As long as he doesn't start doing saxophone mouthpiece reviews or chess streaming, I'm good.
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@Horace said in Tucker talks comedy...:
@Doctor-Phibes said in Tucker talks comedy...:
@Horace said in Tucker talks comedy...:
He is under contract with Daily Wire for a new video every few days. The quality will lower to meet the quota. He's interviewed his whole family at this point.
OK, so it's a way to make money. He's essentially become a chat-show host.
He is putting his ideas out there and participating in the public discourse, and making money in the process. Like presumably everybody else you are aware of who's contributions to any political or social topic, you respect.
I think you may have me confused with somebody else. I don't watch any of these shows. This place is as close as I come to engaging in public discourse. It seems to me that JP has upset a load of people by saying things about gender and political correctness, and he's now capitalizing on that fact as the people who like what he said about gender and political correctness want to hear what he thinks about pretty much everything else under the sun.
And good luck to him! As long as he doesn't start doing saxophone mouthpiece reviews or chess streaming, I'm good.
@Doctor-Phibes said in Tucker talks comedy...:
@Horace said in Tucker talks comedy...:
@Doctor-Phibes said in Tucker talks comedy...:
@Horace said in Tucker talks comedy...:
He is under contract with Daily Wire for a new video every few days. The quality will lower to meet the quota. He's interviewed his whole family at this point.
OK, so it's a way to make money. He's essentially become a chat-show host.
He is putting his ideas out there and participating in the public discourse, and making money in the process. Like presumably everybody else you are aware of who's contributions to any political or social topic, you respect.
I think you may have me confused with somebody else. I don't watch any of these shows. This place is as close as I come to engaging in public discourse. It seems to me that JP has upset a load of people by saying things about gender and political correctness, and he's now capitalizing on that fact as the people who like what he said about gender and political correctness want to hear what he thinks about pretty much everything else under the sun.
And good luck to him! As long as he doesn't start doing saxophone mouthpiece reviews or chess streaming, I'm good.
You can't ignore the culture, you can only pretend to. My point is that if he is going to devote his time to participation in public discourse as a public intellectual, he is going to get paid for it. That doesn't diminish his credibility, as easy as it is to hand wave a case for dismissal. I'm sure some on this forum will nod along with you.
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@Mik said in Tucker talks comedy...:
My sentiments exactly, especially on the lack of a goal. There hasn't been a clearer military goal for the US since Desert Storm.
He distinguishes between Ukraine's goal and the US's goal. From memory I'm not sure how he drew that distinction, but he did mention that obviously Ukraine's goal is to keep its territory under its control. There's some subtlety between that goal and the US goal which he feels is undefined. Anyway don't take my word for it. I was only rising to the herculean challenge of doing a book report for Renauda about a conversation I listened to in the background.
Anyway don't take my word for it. I was only rising to the herculean challenge of doing a book report for Renauda about a conversation I listened to in the background.
I don’t think anyone would consider taking your word for it.
As far as your book report assignment went you deserve at least a few marks for not reducing everything down to pop culture narratives or leftist agendas. A good start or attempt at a start.
I note you also managed not to refer to Putin as an existential threat - something which he demonstrably is, especially to Ukraine and other former Soviet states and Warsaw Pact. I attribute that omission on your part as an abhorrence of being mistaken for a progressive thinker. Perhaps in the minds of occasional lurkers to the forum but certainly not to any us regulars would we misconstrue your thoughts as anything even resembling progressive let alone moderately liberal on the matter.
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Anyway don't take my word for it. I was only rising to the herculean challenge of doing a book report for Renauda about a conversation I listened to in the background.
I don’t think anyone would consider taking your word for it.
As far as your book report assignment went you deserve at least a few marks for not reducing everything down to pop culture narratives or leftist agendas. A good start or attempt at a start.
I note you also managed not to refer to Putin as an existential threat - something which he demonstrably is, especially to Ukraine and other former Soviet states and Warsaw Pact. I attribute that omission on your part as an abhorrence of being mistaken for a progressive thinker. Perhaps in the minds of occasional lurkers to the forum but certainly not to any us regulars would we misconstrue your thoughts as anything even resembling progressive let alone moderately liberal on the matter.
@Renauda said in Tucker talks comedy...:
Anyway don't take my word for it. I was only rising to the herculean challenge of doing a book report for Renauda about a conversation I listened to in the background.
I don’t think anyone would consider taking your word for it.
As far as your book report assignment went you deserve at least a few marks for not reducing everything down to pop culture narratives or leftist agendas. A good start or attempt at a start.
I note you also managed not to refer to Putin as an existential threat - something which he demonstrably is, especially to Ukraine and other former Soviet states and Warsaw Pact. I attribute that omission on your part as an abhorrence of being mistaken for a progressive thinker. Perhaps in the minds of occasional lurkers to the forum but certainly not to any us regulars would we misconstrue your thoughts as anything even resembling progressive let alone moderately liberal on the matter.
The existential threat of Putin is not obviously diminished by participation in the Ukraine war, according to Peterson and Gabbard.
Education is extremely important.
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@Renauda said in Tucker talks comedy...:
Anyway don't take my word for it. I was only rising to the herculean challenge of doing a book report for Renauda about a conversation I listened to in the background.
I don’t think anyone would consider taking your word for it.
As far as your book report assignment went you deserve at least a few marks for not reducing everything down to pop culture narratives or leftist agendas. A good start or attempt at a start.
I note you also managed not to refer to Putin as an existential threat - something which he demonstrably is, especially to Ukraine and other former Soviet states and Warsaw Pact. I attribute that omission on your part as an abhorrence of being mistaken for a progressive thinker. Perhaps in the minds of occasional lurkers to the forum but certainly not to any us regulars would we misconstrue your thoughts as anything even resembling progressive let alone moderately liberal on the matter.
The existential threat of Putin is not obviously diminished by participation in the Ukraine war, according to Peterson and Gabbard.
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There you said it. Putin is an existential threat. In fact he has been an existential threat for sometime regardless of his “special military operation” on Ukrainian soil.
You didn’t need Peterson and Gabbard to tell you that.
@Renauda said in Tucker talks comedy...:
There you said it. Putin is an existential threat. In fact he has been an existential threat for sometime regardless of his “special military operation” on Ukrainian soil.
You didn’t need Peterson and Gabbard to tell you that.
Indeed I did not need to be told that Russia is in possession of plenty of nuclear weapons.
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Anybody who's curious about the conversation as it pertains to this thread can go to 35 minutes in the video and watch for 10 minutes.
@Horace said in Tucker talks comedy...:
Anybody who's curious about the conversation as it pertains to this thread can go to 35 minutes in the video and watch for 10 minutes.
I listened to the 10 minutes.
A couple of observations.
One: Gabbard says that that the US is fighting a proxy war against Russia in Ukraine. Where on earth did she get that argument? I know and I have heard it made several times now. Each time by confirmed socialists who believe the US is the sole source of all the world’s trouble and evil. To the person each one of them believe that Zelenskyi is on the CIA payroll and the Ukrainian regime is a puppet of Washington. That makes Putin and Russia the victim in a war of aggression. Any enemy of USA is de facto my friend.
Yes, Col. Gabbard there is a proxy war going on. However, it is Putin, not the USA who is waging that proxy war. In fact, that proxy war is against NATO and the US on Ukrainian territory. Russia is not the victim, never has been so get it out your head that it is.
Two: Regime change? No one in their right mind is talking regime change or carrying the war into Russia to affect regime change. The war will be contained to territory that is internationally recognised as sovereign Ukrainian territory. That does include Crimea and all territory presently occupied by Russian forces. If Putin deems it necessary to resort to WMD then he must and will face military annihilation of all Russian ground, air and sea forces found in or on Ukrainian territory, airspace or waters. Putin’s coveted Black Sea Fleet based in Sevastopol will be destroyed. NATO can and will do it with conventional forces alone. Putin also isolate himself entirely from the rest of the world. The only friends he might retain are North Korea and Iran. China and India will drop him and his regime the moment he launches. Peterson’s argument is the same straw man argument that is promoted by Putin’s propaganda machine with the aid of Western sympathisers and championed by the lunatic fringes primarily on the the left but also among the right wing populist reactionaries in Europe and North America. Very sloppy thinking on Dr. Peterson’s part.
Strange bedfellows Gabbard and Peterson do make with the left on this issue. The two make a host of unsubstantiated criticisms against the US and offer nothing in the way of alternate policy or actions to stop Putin’s aggression against Ukraine.
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Received this in my email this morning. A rebuttal to the undefined “dire consequences” of defying Putin and supporting Ukraine as espoused by likes of Peterson and Gabbard:
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Received this in my email this morning. A rebuttal to the undefined “dire consequences” of defying Putin and supporting Ukraine as espoused by likes of Peterson and Gabbard:
@Renauda said in Tucker talks comedy...:
Received this in my email this morning. A rebuttal to the undefined “dire consequences” of defying Putin and supporting Ukraine as espoused by likes of Peterson and Gabbard:
So a Ukrainian thinks the West’s goals should be exactly aligned with Ukraine’s goals. Duly noted.
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@Renauda said in Tucker talks comedy...:
Received this in my email this morning. A rebuttal to the undefined “dire consequences” of defying Putin and supporting Ukraine as espoused by likes of Peterson and Gabbard:
So a Ukrainian thinks the West’s goals should be exactly aligned with Ukraine’s goals. Duly noted.
So a Ukrainian thinks the West’s goals should be exactly aligned with Ukraine’s goals. Duly noted.
Good catch and I trust you have no issue with that fact.
Now that you have duly noted it and brought your astute observation to the attention of everyone here reading this thread, I encourage you drop a letter to the editor at Atlantic Council of your discovery.
