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Hobbies & Entertainment / Re: TV Show Popularity in Your Neighborhood
Last post by ersi -
Remember the good old times when Joe Rogan used to permit his producer to google up stuff to build context and to fact-check the conversation? The good times are conclusively over.

When I say that Marc Andreessen, the co-creator of the web-browser Mosaic, now another Trump crony from the Silicon Valley, lies about absolutely everything, I am exaggerating only to a negligible extent. Nothing in this conversation is true, except for a few dangling clauses.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ye8MOfxD5nU

At 1h34, Andreessen says, "There's now a category called a politically exposed person, PEP, and if you're a PEP you're required by financial regulators to be kicked out of bank."

Rogan, "What if you're politically on the left."

Andreessen, "Well, that's fine because they are not politically exposed."

The reality of PEP status among bank customers is that everybody with important political *position* is designated as PEP in the customer database. Your political *position* makes you a PEP, not your views. All government (cabinet members) are PEPs. All members of parliament, regardless of party or "independent" status, are PEPs. All leaders of political parties, i.e. when you are a leader of any officially registered political party, be it left or right, are PEPs. It's kind of similar status when above certain wealth level you get automatically allocated among Private Banking customers, i.e. VIP segment, with their respective privileges AND extra controls.

Knowing this, how can one say that banks are required to kick PEPs out of banks? One can say it when one does not know it or when one is deliberately lying their head off. And Joe Rogan's producer is not googling around any longer to verify information.

Trump won, so truth no longer matters. Anybody can say anything now and Americans are completely free to choose their narratives.
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DnD Central / Re: Nonsense from the West over Ukraine
Last post by ersi -
Wouldn't that be nice, except for a few things...

When did he say it? Maybe he changed his mind by now, as seems to be required for everyone in the Trump gang. Remember when JD Vance said that Trump was Hitler? Was not too long ago, but now he has turned 180 degrees. When having to deal with Parkland high school shooting in 2018, Trump talked about taking guns away first and then following it up with court orders, not the other way round, but soon afterwards when fundraising with NRA he talked about eliminating all gun regulation, any sort of government interference with gun ownership. In reality he has done neither. All talk, no walk, because the matter does not concern him personally at all.

Another thing seemingly required in the Trump circle is to have some past or ongoing sex scandals, so that instead of talking about professional qualifications the confirmation hearings are about the candidate's sex life, occasionally ending up in somebody else getting confirmed when everybody is too exhausted to get into another sex life, not to speak of qualifications.

The news assortment in USA is insane. Right now everybody talks about Trump's tariffs so much that real politics is not in the picture. Trump is not the president. Biden is. Trump is making zero tariffs and cannot make any right now. To talk about Trump's tariffs is taking a misdirection bait from Trump. Even the president of Mexico took it, starting to explain how tariffs work and threatening counter-tariffs. At the same time Mexico may be missing out on some actual necessary policy decisions right now. Can't you people, as a matter of your routine professionalism, tell the difference what is relevant and what is not?