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He did a series of interviews with Putin a few years back. Probably the closest any westerner has got to Putin. I think they were on SBS a few years ago. I remember watching bits and pieces of them.

www.theguardian.com

Oliver Stone: ‘Putin is a great leader for his country’

The firebrand director talks about his new documentary on nuclear power, his distaste for Joe Biden and his continued support of the Russian president
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..........The last time the Guardian US profiled Stone, he had just completed a strangely sympathetic 4 hour-long documentary about Vladimir Putin (at the time he said “the Russian people have never been better off”). Have his feelings about the Russian leader changed in the especially troubling years since? “I think Russia is doing a great job with nuclear energy,” he says after a moment’s thought. “China is also a leader in that field, although I never was able to penetrate into China, which was a shame for the movie I wish we had. But Putin is a great leader for his country and the people love him.” And that is as far as he is willing to go. He’s gone far enough already......

I mean it is the Guardian, so bias drips from every word, but this would probably explain the cucktoid outrage.
 
An entire course in… so many things…in one little series of tweets.




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Portology said:
An entire course in… so many things…in one little series of tweets.




On iPhone using recycled electrons, via BigFooty.com mobile app
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Excellent thread.

Sadly most of the people who should read and understand what it says about misrepresentation of data won't be bothered reading beyond the first tweet.

And that E.Musk in a single line response to the original misrepresentation of data demonstrates he is incapable of critical analysis of 'odd' data tells its own story.

As you say - a lesson in many parts.
 
The question has probably been posed before but, what sort of country has a legal system in which someone can be found guilty of a sexual offence in a civil court and not face criminal charges? Trump is found guilty in a jury trial but not guilty enough to charge. Trump will settle out of court and the plaintiff will take the money and then Trump will go on and gladly accept the Republican nomination. In the US if you are rich enough you can get away with anything.

www.abc.net.au

'Today the world finally knows the truth': E Jean Carroll sexually abused by Donald Trump, civil jury finds

Donald Trump is found liable for sexual abuse, but not rape, in a civil trial brought by writer E Jean Carroll, who accused the former US president of raping her in the mid-1990s.
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Festerz said:
Excellent thread.

Sadly most of the people who should read and understand what it says about misrepresentation of data won't be bothered reading beyond the first tweet.

And that E.Musk in a single line response to the original misrepresentation of data demonstrates he is incapable of critical analysis of 'odd' data tells its own story.

As you say - a lesson in many parts.
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In summary the graph is entirely accurate but the author doesn't like the data!
 
raptalia said:
The question has probably been posed before but, what sort of country has a legal system in which someone can be found guilty of a sexual offence in a civil court and not face criminal charges?
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Pretty much all of the legal systems.
 
Portology said:
An entire course in… so many things…in one little series of tweets.




On iPhone using recycled electrons, via BigFooty.com mobile app
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It's a graph on interracial violence and it shows that blacks commit violence against other races at a disproportionately high rate. The fact that intra-racial violence is much higher is irrelevant. He's a data scientist that is ignoring the data and focusing on 'underlying causes'.

The point of the graph Musk retweeted is to point out that the interracial crime the media shoves down our throats is the least likely to occur.
 
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Mikey13G said:
It's a graph on interracial violence and it shows that blacks commit violence against other races at a disproportionately high rate. The fact that intra-racial violence is much higher is irrelevant. He's a data scientist that is ignoring the data and focusing on 'underlying causes'.

The point of the graph Musk retweeted is to point out that the interracial crime the media shoves down our throats is the least likely to occur.
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The point is musk is a giant piece of s**t troll who spends his time trying to stir up RWNJs like yourself on twitter.
 
Mikey13G said:
It's a graph on interracial violence and it shows that blacks commit violence against other races at a disproportionately high rate. The fact that intra-racial violence is much higher is irrelevant. He's a data scientist that is ignoring the data and focusing on 'underlying causes'.

The point of the graph Musk retweeted is to point out that the interracial crime the media shoves down our throats is the least likely to occur.
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Which is pretty much the entire way the media works and has for ages.

They don't report news and then that news creates a narrative. They create a narrative and then handpick the stories that will fit that narrative. It applies to pretty much every push they've had since news media began.
 
Mikey13G said:
In summary the graph is entirely accurate but the author doesn't like the data!
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If you bothered to read the full discussion and made even a small attempt to understand it you will see that the author, a qualified data scientist, has zero problems with the data. Their issue is how the data has been manipulated in a graphic form to produce an inaccurate impression - an impression and conclusion in relation to the incidence of black on white crime that, surprise surprise, you have repeated.

Here is the original data on which that graph was based:
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As the data scientist highlighted, it communicates clearly the fact that the rates at which white victims experience violent crime involving black offenders is very similar to the overall percentage of black people in the US population (14.6%). Which is NOT the perception immediately gleaned from the (carefully constructed to suit a particular narrative) bar chart.

There are other misconceptions that the data scientist highlights in his series of tweets that are worth reading to get a full picture of how graphic presentations can lead to false conclusions and, worse, used for disingenuous or nefarious reasons by media outlets and actors to promote a particular narrative.

But, as I said in my previous comment, the people who really need to go back and read the full series of tweets to understand the incorrect messaging being presented or at least inferred from that colourful bar chart don't have the capacity or desire to do so.
 
Festerz said:
If you bothered to read the full discussion and made even a small attempt to understand it you will see that the author, a qualified data scientist, has zero problems with the data. Their issue is how the data has been manipulated in a graphic form to produce an inaccurate impression - an impression and conclusion in relation to the incidence of black on white crime that, surprise surprise, you have repeated.

Here is the original data on which that graph was based:
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Fvnsnd1aUAAdRuf

As the data scientist highlighted, it communicates clearly the fact that the rates at which white victims experience violent crime involving black offenders is very similar to the overall percentage of black people in the US population (14.6%). Which is NOT the perception immediately gleaned from the (carefully constructed to suit a particular narrative) bar chart.

There are other misconceptions that the data scientist highlights in his series of tweets that are worth reading to get a full picture of how graphic presentations can lead to false conclusions and, worse, used for disingenuous or nefarious reasons by media outlets and actors to promote a particular narrative.

But, as I said in my previous comment, the people who really need to go back and read the full series of tweets to understand the incorrect messaging being presented or at least inferred from that colourful bar chart don't have the capacity or desire to do so.
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Mikey13G said:
It's a graph on interracial violence and it shows that blacks commit violence against other races at a disproportionately high rate. The fact that intra-racial violence is much higher is irrelevant. He's a data scientist that is ignoring the data and focusing on 'underlying causes'.

The point of the graph Musk retweeted is to point out that the interracial crime the media shoves down our throats is the least likely to occur.
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Oh Mikey, you didnt read…. or understand…. the whole thing at all, did you.
 
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