Had a conversation with an acquaintance who lives in Russia

I tried to watch the video Dan sent you but it was not!!! created for people with visually triggered migraines. 🤕

I did, however, watch his video about companies leaving Russia. The video begins as he and his wife are driving to a mall. He starts by saying: "Today we are going to show you what brands or companies are leaving Russia or have already left our country. We don't watch news, we don't know about this, just people in Russia, they said that some companies have left or are leaving our country. And we're going to see this by our eyes." ...He's really dumbing it down compared to his OP message to you... He's playing to a different audience on youtube ...the ones he calls 'Adorables' :ROFLMAO:

On into the video, they're in the mall and stop at each closed store where there's a standard mall placard that says something like "This store is temporarily closed..." He films inventory still visible through the windows of each of the stores. Based on the "temporarily closed" message on the placards and the merchandise still in stores, he ends up by saying the companies are hypocrites ...that they haven't really left Russia but are waiting "on something."Then he asks: "What they waiting? It is the key question." He's very indignant at this point, looking straight into the camera. Then goes on to say the stores will be replaced by Russian companies.

That's the last video I'll watch since each click on a youtuber's video earns them money.
It's hard to watch Dan and other Russian youtubers complaining about or dismissing the closure of businesses like Ikea and McDonalds while their Ukrainian neighbors are fighting and dying, losing all their worldly goods, and in some cases even their children. I understand that a huge majority of the Russian people are uninformed, but it's still repugnant.

I sent Dan an *informative* email and he wrote back "My friend, you must not talk about this kind [of] things. This can make very serious troubles for me and for my family. ... We love you."

I sent him my love and told him I will write again when the "troubles" are over. We've always only written each other 3 to maybe 5 times a year, on holidays or other special occasions, so I'm sure he was cool with that. Plus a lot of their internet messenger services are supposed to be shut down soon.
 

Have you guys look at this?


Dan never talks about his real daytime job, and where the money to build his new house on his parents land came from.
He Shure know enough English to make granted, a small part of his income from his website.
It was interesting to see the breakdown for monetizing his YouTube videos. Thank you for posting.
 
Have you guys look at this?


Dan never talks about his real daytime job, and where the money to build his new house on his parents land came from.
He Shure know enough English to make granted, a small part of his income from his website.
If you don't mind bothering, go to his channel and watch his first several videos. It's obvious he's just a down to earth guy living a simple life.

It's very possible the Russian gov't made him an offer he couldn't refuse (I'll watch the video later)
 
I like Dan, there also is life in Russia, Svetlana from Russia etc, etc.
I still enjoy everyone's videos, and I am sure everyone makes a buck or two from 'em, my only complaint is "how come it doesn't occur to me in the first place!"😁

A long time ago I decided better not to find out what's behind and how much they make, as long as I just watch, no need for me to be a patron or donate, charity behgings at home and I have a lot of relatives older ones that can use my help directly rather than subscribe to others I don't know anything about.

My 2 cents.
 
Somewhere we went from having opposing views to calling other side fake news.
Eventually people find out it is all fake news, both or all sides. On purpose.

Just like the lawyers etc etc et al decades ago who had videos online for previous private/local disclosures -
even at court, EVERYONE LIES. The point is just don't get caught. Everyone knows and expects everyone to lie.

When someone , rare indeed, comes along who does not lie, everyone else is either disbelieving, or in shock that someone would dare to expose the lies. Then the one telling the truth is , one way or another, silenced.

As for financial institutions controlling much of the world ...sure they do.
Yes, known for centuries now. Not new news, but forgotten conveniently, or people brainwashed to not know this.
For all that's wrong with it, it's still better than anything anyone else has going.
Well, there is a better way, but so few ever see, it is rare on earth for centuries, actually hardly ever has anything else better been realized; but just knowing something better is available, truthfully, may help some, to start searching.
I can't thing of any current form of government that isn't controlled at the top by some sort of elite or the other, nor can I think of one throughout history.

The whole world does not want you to know , so like everyone else, you won't know, ever, unless thru diligent and honest searching you happen to find a famous pearl in an overgrown weedy lot.
 
I like Dan, there also is life in Russia, Svetlana from Russia etc, etc.
I still enjoy everyone's videos, and I am sure everyone makes a buck or two from 'em, my only complaint is "how come it doesn't occur to me in the first place!"😁

A long time ago I decided better not to find out what's behind and how much they make, as long as I just watch, no need for me to be a patron or donate, charity behgings at home and I have a lot of relatives older ones that can use my help directly rather than subscribe to others I don't know anything about.

My 2 cents.
I finally watched the video. I thought it was going to say he earns $$ from the Russian gov't to "lie" sometimes.

For youtube income, he's not really making that much. Some successful youtubers make 6 digits annually, some much, much more. But his money goes far in Russia....or, it did until recently. Viewers send him gifts, too; mostly clothes, books, and supplies for his daughter, but also teas, kitchen gadgets and t-shirts and stuff for him and his wife. That helps a lot, especially now.

I watch some of the other Russian youtubers you mentioned and a few others, too. It's really interesting.
 
I like Dan, there also is life in Russia, Svetlana from Russia etc, etc.
I still enjoy everyone's videos, and I am sure everyone makes a buck or two from 'em, my only complaint is "how come it doesn't occur to me in the first place!"😁

A long time ago I decided better not to find out what's behind and how much they make, as long as I just watch, no need for me to be a patron or donate, charity behgings at home and I have a lot of relatives older ones that can use my help directly rather than subscribe to others I don't know anything about.

My 2 cents.
Respectfully,by the way, how much is this blog making? Lol!
 
I finally watched the video. I thought it was going to say he earns $$ from the Russian gov't to "lie" sometimes.

For youtube income, he's not really making that much. Some successful youtubers make 6 digits annually, some much, much more. But his money goes far in Russia....or, it did until recently. Viewers send him gifts, too; mostly clothes, books, and supplies for his daughter, but also teas, kitchen gadgets and t-shirts and stuff for him and his wife. That helps a lot, especially now.

I watch some of the other Russian youtubers you mentioned and a few others, too. It's really interesting.
I know right, think about it; the entire world would be much better (or boring) (take your side) if we all could get along, and lately if a 5 foot 3 troll (but, whose measuring?) who has a Napoleon complex ( who by the way was, according to wiki 5 foot 7 and taller than Vlad the mad) (ok, I am leaving Napoleon out of this comment) spoiling it for everybody! 😇
 
Eventually people find out it is all fake news, both or all sides. On purpose.

Just like the lawyers etc etc et al decades ago who had videos online for previous private/local disclosures -
even at court, EVERYONE LIES. The point is just don't get caught. Everyone knows and expects everyone to lie.

When someone , rare indeed, comes along who does not lie, everyone else is either disbelieving, or in shock that someone would dare to expose the lies. Then the one telling the truth is , one way or another, silenced.


Yes, known for centuries now. Not new news, but forgotten conveniently, or people brainwashed to not know this.

Well, there is a better way, but so few ever see, it is rare on earth for centuries, actually hardly ever has anything else better been realized; but just knowing something better is available, truthfully, may help some, to start searching.


The whole world does not want you to know , so like everyone else, you won't know, ever, unless thru diligent and honest searching you happen to find a famou
 
Jeff you are right!

Thanks to all predecessors of fake news and fake this and fake that, it's harder to navigate our own personal life without hitting a wall that's going to bounce you lord knows where.
Ah, lies.

"It's a wonderful lie, I still go by on those".
 
The animators did an excellent job of visualizing their message. I don't agree with the message, but it's really well done.

With everything that's happened over the past few years I've been thinking about this thing called The Great Reset.

Contrary to conspiracy theory, I don't think it's contrived; the outcome of planning, finagling, and decades of waiting. Social and economic resets have happened repeatedly throughout known history. Great and less than great societies have come and gone due to natural disasters, disease, wars, cultural changes, and mismanagement, but extremely unlikely due to the well thought-out plot of a group of elites.

It won't surprise me if, here in the US, within the next few years, everyone below a certain income will be issued an EBT food card (Food Stamps on a debit card). And kicked around for several years now is the idea of a Universal Basic Income program (UBI), where every adult American gets a set amount of money from the government each month. I can see that happening soon, too. Initially it might be for homeless people only and become universal pretty soon afterward. In fact, I think the homeless issue is one of the things that's kept politicians from pushing for a UBI program more aggressively. Now, after everything that's happened the past 2 yrs, they might be thinking a lot of Americans are open to the idea....younger ones, at least.
 
We are getting closer to a "Soylent Green" scenario day by day......cookies everyone?
fwiw, fifty and more years ago pharmpuke in europe was buying stillborn or killed/dead fetuses from hospitals in the usa,

processing the bodies, and putting parts of them

in LOTIONS, CREAMS, SKIN SOFTENERS, etc etc ectctct sold in the united states. It is likely still going on, only more.
 
We are getting closer to a "Soylent Green" scenario day by day......cookies everyone?
That depends on people, doesn't it? (reference intended)

Societies and their governments have come and gone since man's beginnings. A few were lost due to some cataclysmic event, but most self-destructed before reaching any sort of Soylent Green stage.
 

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