JboneInTheZone comments

This is a bit rediculous when there's so many monopolies here. Do I have a choice of which Shinkansen to use for instance?

Google is an American company therefore it being a monopoly = bad

The Shinkansen is run by a Japanese company therefore it being a monopoly = ok

For its own good X, needs moderation, which it does. However, it should also abide by the laws of the countries that it is operational in.

Australia is free to ban X, but everyone knows they never would

Plus, let a hundred vlogers follow Musk's every move and post that on X and see if he goes "well, thats freedom of speech "

Stalking isn’t free speech

But I am still a liberal democratic humanist.

Its a hard world out there for us

True. But this isn't about free speech. This is about a platform, X, that is spreading hate and misinformation.

”X” isn’t spreading anything, the users on X are.

X isn't a town square. It is an entertainment platform

True, and as such speech rules are dictated by the platform itself. If the platform determines such speech is acceptable, then what’s the problem?

comments are replicated and weaponized in order to cause division.

And debunking these comments through open dialogue and debate will ultimately show how ridiculous their ideas are

Elon likes to think of himself as a free speech warrior, and as soon as someone posts something critical of Elon, it disappears.

Yes, it’s a private company and the owner of that company generally gets to set the rules for what can and can’t be said on it.

Could you clarify your position on this? You seem to take issue with the fact that X isn’t doing enough to erase some posts on the platform, but also seem to take offense when Elon deletes posts from the platform.

Why does he hate fish so much?

And all four of them are intellectually vapid junk-food for the mind.

The Sopranos is arguably the best piece of art to ever be filmed and describes the human condition better than many books.

The US military budget is spent domestically and does not provide significant financial benefits to other countries.

This is not true. The U.S. navy is basically the sole guarantor of free naval passages across the globe.

The only ones who benefit from this military spending are the weapons manufacturers

Im sure the Ukrainian people are so happy they decided not to spend more on their military over the past decade, right?

There is no conflict that cannot be solved with diplomacy and negotiation. 

Diplomacy and negotiation worked so well with Hitler…

The intolerant are happy to exploit tolerance and will even push for "freedom of speech" to give them the pulpit to spread their hate and intolerance. 

You have such little faith in your fellow man. Living in a liberal democracy we have to understand that freedom of speech is the best way to counter bad ideas. The liberal democracies of the west have survived the rise of both fascism and communism. The values of freedom and democracy are enough to counter bad ideologies

good advice-return all of faulty overpriced and unreliable US made aircraft to seller and ask for refund.

If you actually read the article you’d have know the two that crashed were manufactured and modified in Japan

Ukraine does not prevail.

Even if this is true, the message needs to be sent that the U.S. will stand firmly behind it’s friends

High capacity semi-auto pistols and rifles need to be severely regulated on both a Federal and State level.

How so?

There is no legal firerms activity which requires these features.

Yes, there are

I’m talking about the government involving itself in matters of mergers and acquisitions, not safety regulations.

Do you believe the government should do this?

Absolutely. Monopolies for example are a bad thing.

There are still people who believe in free markets in the US.

Biden and Trump clearly don’t.

What in the world makes you say this? It’s so obviously not true. You can have free markets while also having government intervention in the free market. Would you say that having any regulatory body means the market isn’t free? So if there’s a law preventing me from putting poison in your drinks if I’m a business, would you consider that against the free market?

So much for free-market capitalism

You do realize free market capitalism and government intervention in the market aren’t mutually exclusive, right?

Getting out the pirates..

”Getting out”? China literally did nothing except follow them around like cowards

When someone say "Hi" or "Hello" to you, you must reply in the appropriate manner to make the others acknowledge you are a well manner person. This is our excellent traditional teaching in Chinese culture. That fighter jet is how we say "Hi" to old buddy!

This is pretty sad and embarrassing for China. If China believes the Taiwan straight is their territory and they’re just letting the U.S. fly in it without responding they sound like cowards

You never read ' the art of war ' ?

Beware because China is never to be trusted or underestimated !

China has been embarrassed and lost almost every international conflict it’s been involved in horrendously. They’re nothing to be scared of lol

As far as China is concerned it showed weakness by the USA

When are all you gonna realize how China rolls ?

The US literally sent a warship through the strait in January and China did…. nothing!

Taiwan and the United States dispute that, saying the Taiwan Strait is an international waterway.

The whole world disputes that. Everyone except China agrees it’s an international waterway

Yes, it does.

it’s not going to happen despite whatever conspiracy theory website you link

Defaulting to weapons as the key for security means they are recognizing the failure to use more civilized ways to address international conflict.

Having a big stick incentivizes international players to act civilized

Building up arms doesn't deter war.

What a wildly incorrect statement. Maybe you missed a little event called “the Cold War”

How could anyone think this is bad? Russia, Japan’s neighbors, invaded a sovereign nation and China has been repeatedly making territorial claims in the south China see that have no international backing. We also have North Korea, Japan’s other bad neighbor, constantly launching rockets over and around Japan. It would be stupid for a Japan to not improve its own defensive capabilities.

American will never evolved in a civil war,their is all. ways of dealing with the anti government type,like hunting down all the Jan 6, conspirator one by one

In English please

No and not are you. 

True, which is why I hedged my statement with “it’s only my speculation”

But when non western news say the same thing about their governments and sources, most here including you immediately lean towards skeptical or "let's wait and see" or "we don't really know"

When have I said this? I’ve used Al-Jazeera plenty of times as a reference when discussing news on this site

It is as if people think only western news has sources in their western governments and the rest of the world are just not that smart!

Im not responsible for what other people think

Since yesterday I have been told no such thing as a backroom deal!

Are you a government official? Otherwise I wouldn’t expect you’d know. I’m also not saying for sure that’s what happened just my speculation

We hear only how badly Iran would pay if it did attack, now how incompetent Iran is, how it was a failure etc....

Correct. Do you think Iran’s retaliation was an actual attack attempting to do actual damage to Israel?

But after all the Arab and Indian news said a deal was made and so many here said no way

Cool, I’m not a representative for other people on this site and what they say though

You still haven't answered the question!

If I had to guess it’s because there were back room negotiations going on with both Israel and Iran.

The USA didn't say it would participate "if the attack was successful" it said "if Iran attacks"!

Well Iran did and now the USA pulls out of helping Israel retaliate!

Again, this doesn’t appear to be a real “attack” so the US and Israel have nothing to retaliate against

More likely they realized a middle east war was bad for business!

Well yeah, the two are related. Israel is a stable economic partner for a lot of its neighbors in the region. Of course avoiding conflict with them is bad for business. Continuing to support the armed wing of the Palestinian cause is also by proxy bad for business.

Trade with Israel is nothing compared to their oil trade if it was interrupted!

First of all, it isn’t “nothing”. Israel imported about half a billion dollars worth of goods from Jordan in 2022 alone. Countries like Jordan and Egypt would take a significant hit economically if a regional trading partner like Israel was to get bombed to smithereens.