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If plan B doesn't work out he can always go to plan C and build his own social media platform. He can then start from scratch and build it the way he wants and hire nobody but free speech enthusiasts. How hard can it be compared to colonizing mars?

Musk is 'registered as an independent and is a political moderate'. If not his politics, what is it then? The left either wants total control over all social media or is against free speech. Or both. I would place my trust with Musk more than I would Trudeau or the Biden administration.

Good for Elon Musk! You can't help but admire the guy. If the deal goes through it will be in good hands.

Biden and Putin both have to go. Biden's weakness is mostly responsible for Russia invading Ukraine and if China ever gets around to invading Taiwan. Why argue about it?

According to Pew Research Center, 31% of all U.S. adults claim they regularly get their news on facebook, 22% get their news on You Tube, and 13% on twitter. It's common knowledge that at least facebook and twitter suppressed the New York Post's Hunter Biden laptop story (which implicated Joe Biden). They did it by such means as not allowing the story to be shared with others. The point is that you don't require total coordinated cooperation from media outlets, government institutions, and political parties, to sway presidential elections which are usually fairly close. If the story hadn't been suppressed could Trump have won? That we'll never know. https://www.pewresearch.org/journalism/2021/09/20/news-consumption-across-social-media-in-2021/

Russia with 6000 nukes invades a much smaller sovereign country that voluntarily gave up their nukes. If God is with the one with the 6000 nukes He must be playing a joke on us.

How would you compare US states to Canadian provinces? Or better yet, how would you compare US federalism to Canadian federalism?

A weak president can handcuff a whole country. 62% of US voters say Putin wouldn't have invaded Ukraine if Trump was president. 59% say Putin saw weakness in Biden which is exactly what many were suggesting would happen after the Afghanistan debacle. https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/595919-62-percent-of-voters-say-putin-wouldnt-have-invaded-ukraine-if-trump/

According to the UN's Office for Disarmament Affairs, biological weapons consist of 2 parts. 1) a weaponized agent such as a bacteria or virus, and 2) some type of delivery mechanism. There's not much difference between a 'weaponized agent' which enhances the deadliness of whatever organism is being weaponized, and gain-of-function research which also enhances the deadliness of the organism but only for study purposes. Intent might be a difficult thing to prove.

You're purposely trying to confuse the matter. For example ...... In 2013, vice president Joe Biden went to China on official business and took Hunter with him. As Joe was discussing China's militarization of the South China sea with Chinese officials, the Bank of China was in the process of depositing $1.5 billion with Hunter Biden's investment firm. Did the $1.5 billion have any affect on the South China sea talks? You tell me. I agree it doesn't matter who does it. It's wrong. Where we disagree is with your idea that there are never any consequences.

Hunter Biden has been enriching himself (and likely the entire Biden family) through his influence peddling schemes with foreign governments. If these foreign governments include the likes of America's enemies, then his actions become a major national security risk. It raises serious questions concerning what Xi or Putin might have on the office of the presidency and its implications.

They know a phony when they see one.

I'm going with the theory that the only reason the NYT's ran this story is because someone from the Justice Department tipped them off and indictments are on the way. The important thing is how the laptop implicates Joe Biden in all this. It's also possible that the powers that be have decided that Joe has become a liability/embarrassment to the Democratic party and has got to go. Or it could be that this was the plan all along.

And speaking of just how 'reliable' the media is.... how reliable were all those researchers and scientists associated with these same labs when they lied to everyone 2 years ago? They claimed it was impossible for covid to have escaped from a lab because they were afraid of losing their funding. Not to mention all the lies Fauci has told. I'm convinced you can't believe a damn thing you hear or read nowadays.

There are literally hundreds of bio-labs in the world today handling the most deadly pathogens. Most are located in urban areas. Only a relatively small number (60) are rated BSL-4. We have no way of knowing what goes on in these labs. What kind of gain-of-function research they're playing with. What would it take? A gas leak? A fire? A terrorist act? A stray missile? An act of God? Is this how civilization as we know it ends? The big picture is we're playing with fire here folks.

It's the Saudis who are rejecting Biden's calls and not the other way around. I'm not particularly fond of either the Saudis funding of radical Islam in other countries, or Iran's attempt to get nukes and start a Mideast nuclear arms race. Great leader's responsibilities lie in doing what's best for the country they serve. Jeopardizing the USD as the world's reserve currency is a bad move in my opinion.

Are you going to argue that Biden's not mentally unfit for office? Or are you implying that Saudi leaders are just as mentally unfit? What is your point exactly?

You can't blame Nixon for the Vietnam war. The spending/inflation involved with the war decoupled the USD and gold at $35/oz. Countries wanting to trade in their USD reserves for gold at $35/oz created a threat to US gold reserves, and that's what killed Bretton Woods.

Biden's 'continuing legacy of disaster' is right. Playing softball with Saudi's sworn enemy Iran isn't helping matters either. Everyone should know by now he's unfit for office.

For the first time in their history there's a majority of Swedes and Finns who want to join NATO.

You're right about US action in Iraq but as has been pointed out Afghanistan is a completely different story. The US warned the Taliban government they were illegally allowing terrorist organizations to train in Afghanistan and would be held directly responsible for any attacks against the US. So tell me what this has to do with Ukraine?

Yeah, it was a clear case of collusion between the Ukraine and the Democrats. But i can't really blame the Ukraine government as they needed all the help they could get and figured the Democrats were going to win.

Nato could park missile systems in any of the 3 Baltic states and they would be just as close to Moscow as if they were situated anywhere in Ukraine. And if (as some believe) that Russia's war in Ukraine is a legal one, then it should be just as legal for Ukraine to send in teams to destroy key Russian infrastructure, and target Russian hospitals and schools. I mean who's more afraid of who here?? What Putin really desires is a greater Russia, while Ukraine and the Baltic states see Russia as a threat to their very existence. That's the reasoning behind joining NATO.

Thank you. So basically, (1) War crimes are undoubtedly being committed on a large scale. (2) An illegal war is underway with the sole purpose of undermining Ukraine's right to self-determination. (3) Ten's of millions of people may likely be displaced as most of Ukraine's infrastructure gets targeted and destroyed. (4) Nobody is likely to ever be held accountable (5) While the world is watching with their thoughts and prayers and little else. (6) With China paying close attention and readying itself for Act 2. Is that about right or have i missed something?

The World Health organization has recently confirmed that at least 18 hospitals in Ukraine have been hit by enemy fire. The latest being a maternity ward. Isn't it sort of a high number to believe that all were done unintentionally? How is this not a war crime?