Paul

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[The Vigilant Fox 🦊 @VigilantFox]

Hasan Piker hits a wall when he tries to tell a man born in the Soviet Union that Americans are just as controlled as people under communism.

Konstantin Kisin shuts down the comparison and lays out the difference.

When he’s done, even Piker admits he’s right.

HASAN PIKER: “A lot of people think, well, as long as I can eat a Big Mac, you know, as long as I can watch TV, as long as I can consume porn [...] then, you know, things are probably fine.”

“It’s a different mechanism of control that makes you think that you are actually an active participant in this.”

Kisin isn’t buying it.

KONSTANTIN KISIN: “The difference between those countries is not that they can’t eat a Big Mac.”

“The difference is that if they criticize the government, in Russia today even, but of course in the Soviet Union previously, you’re going to get killed, right? In America, that’s not what happens, right? In America, you don’t get put in jail.”

HASAN PIKER: “We don’t know yet.”

That’s his whole defense: what MIGHT happen in America.

So Kisin makes it personal.

KONSTANTIN KISIN: “You in China or in the Soviet Union would be killed if you were critical of that regime.”

HASAN PIKER: “I would definitely be jailed, for sure.”

And there it is. Piker makes Kisin’s argument for him.

KONSTANTIN KISIN: “So that’s the difference between these countries and America. It’s not a Big Mac, it’s freedom.”

Only in a free country can you build a career telling people they aren’t free.

CONTEXT: Communist regimes don’t just jail their critics.

Under Stalin, the Soviet secret police executed 681,692 people in two years, by the regime’s own records. That’s more than 900 a day.

Under Mao, the Great Leap Forward killed at least 45 million people in four years, per historian Frank Dikötter.

Under Pol Pot, nearly a quarter of Cambodia’s population was dead within four years.

[Paul @pfcates]

@joe_mussatto Campbell already came out and said Joey isn’t going anywhere. The quality of journalism these days…..

[⚡️David Blackmon⚡️ @EnergyAbsurdity]

This story about a potential $5 billion economic development project being blocked by a functional midwit backed by Chinese money is the perfect metaphor for America's utterly insane society today. Incredible.

[Rand Paul @RandPaul]

There were warning signs for Venezuela. There are warning signs for America but voters won’t listen when they can’t afford gas. #endtheIranWarnow

[Paul @pfcates]

@goddyfx01 What app is this?

[Paul @pfcates]

Lmao- Slayer

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Massie: "I hope Hegseth addresses the 8 articles of impeachment, and doesn‘t get up and misquote the Bible in Quentin Tarantino fashion and do some pull-ups and call everybody fat and gay. I may have just given you half his speech, I don't know."

[Paul @pfcates]

@zylerbuchanan It’s 24. He’s the worst at pass defense. Ben saying it since conference play started.

[Paul @pfcates]

@GillyGillz1185 I think the mandatory P4 in non-conf kind of solves that.

[⛄️ F r o g m a x x e r ⛄️ @anurarespecter]

Originally a Trump proposal that died in Congress btw

[Rogue1-the Jeff Faria Project @PatriotsOfMars]

Democrats literally voted this down two months ago.
Are all Democrat voters truly this fucking stupid?

[Paul @pfcates]

@ironfbstats Night-and-day for Texas Tech

[Paul @pfcates]

This is all you get for 2 years.

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

BREAKING: Democrats vow to impeach Trump officials and investigate Republican donors, per FT

[Paul @pfcates]

@barstoolttu I like it. Bowl games weren’t getting any better once a team found out they didn’t make the playoff.

[Paul @pfcates]

@Rickcpjp @RaiderSports How much time did each of those 80-yarders take?

[Paul @pfcates]

@BrennanBaxt They will beat Tech with that terrible pass defense

[Paul @pfcates]

@Ruffinonjoeshow He’s made Leftwich’s offense start to work.

[Ron Nehring @RonNehring]

I just bought a $1999 refrigerator.

It would have been about $1649 if not for the federal tariffs tax which I (not “South Korea”) paid.

I also paid $155 in sales tax.

Total cost $2154. Of which 25% is tariff tax and sales tax.

To pay for it, I had to earn $3,420 in gross salary, of which $1266 went to fed and state taxes.

So for $3,420 in labor I got a refrigerator worth $1,649 (48%).

52% went to the government in taxes.

[Paul @pfcates]

@RCMB323 It should be -14.5

We don’t have a pass defense against the best QB in the country…

[Anna Ivie🌵 @AnnaGIvie]

Every game