Lex Fridman: ''I gave Zelensky every single chance to say a kind word about Putin''

Who the fuck do you think you are dude https://t.co/N6bgSF2ea4

— Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 (@DrewPavlou) January 19, 2025

https://old.reddit.com/r/JoeRogan/comments/1hueys4/lex_fridmans_3_hour_interview_with_zelenskyy_just/

Redditors wrote how the interview was based how cool it was for Zelenskyy to swear and telling he hates every Russian (to an Russian) and Russian language

Kellogg has cancelled his visit to Ukraine after this genius interview since Zelenskyy obviously did this interview not for burger not for Russian and not for most Ukrainian but for specific far right Ukrainians that are 30% of the population. Zelenskyy is betting on them. Huge chunk including Zelenskyy and his team are Russian speaking, lex even mentioned that before the interview Zelenskyy was speaking Russian.

This how Redditors were criticising lex

Please. Lex's conversation with Zelenskyy was such a bait. Zelenskyy would touch on so many interesting topics and lex would just ignore what he says and go back to peace and love, Trump loves his country, why do you admire Elon? Weak butt questions. You have a world leader in front of you who is at war, a very rare position, and the best question you can muster is love and peace?

He should had asked where are the f16, 500+ billions ? Why Ukraine launching stupid butt operation ? Why Ukraine didn't managed to liberate a single town since November 2022, despite getting absolutely everything they asked in 2022 ? Why in 2023 September he was saying Ukraine will liberate 2 cities by end of the year ?

@duck you see when I am saying something I can always back it up.

Why it took over a year to fire Reznikov when in 2022 burgers were saying he is corrupt please fire him.

Why he fired Zaluzhnyy by saying Zaluzhnyy wants lower the mobilisation age and Ukraine doesn't need it to after firing Zaluzhnyy he lowers the mobilisation age ?

There is like shit tons of questions that could be asked to Zelensky but I bet Redditors wouldn't like those questions.

Lex is a conservative, a Russian Jew.

I happen to believe in God, for which I have substantial personal evidence to support my belief, but it still requires faith. So I am a human, on earth and I get to do amazing things, all because of God, the creator of the universe and everything in it.

His quote.

What is important ti conservatives? Love for good and people then selfs are stupid and without God or other kind of authority guidance humans would just be animals so they have concept of moral.

Libs believe in freedom, individualism, rights, tolerance and rationalism. So if you give people freedom they then self will do good without need of God.

So you see, God is important to this guy and love your neighbor is very important concept in abramic religion.

So it wasn't smart for Zelenskyy to say frick the neighbor to such guy.

In regards to the "conservative podcasts" thing, though (firstly lol to identifying Lex's show as conservative), I think Lex is the goldmine in terms of being both passive and uninformed. The ideal conservative interlocutor for Zelensky should be someone exactly like that, and I think he could improve his rhetoric by making use of that weakness through pausing to let the other person answer his questions. I noticed multiple instances in the podcast where it would've benefitted Zelensky more to let Lex respond to something he asked, because the narrow scope of a question forces an uninformed opponent to expose their ideological weakness. When you do a broad ramble covering an array of topics it may be a strength if your goal is to obfuscate, but it's a weakness if it's your opponent's goal to obfuscate. Lex's bias in that conversation was clear but so was his inability to defend any points, so I almost wish Zelensky had shifted his expectations of Lex downwards so his questions, rather than being rhetorical with the implicit understanding that he and his audience are smart enough to agree with the answer, were real questions Lex had to vocally grapple with. In that sense I hope that if Zelensky does more combative media appearances, regardless of how far-right the interviewer is, they have a similar level of temperament to Lex Fridman. Thus ends my analysis.

Redditors legit thought it was good interview

https://old.reddit.com/r/Destiny/comments/1hvsfnr/destiny_shot_his_shot_at_a_chance_of_interviewing/

I would much rather have Zelensky on Rogan than Destiny tbh. People need to remember conservatives only care about what Trump thinks on an issue, but getting the psuedo-intellectual tech centrist audiences that people like Rogan,Williamson, Bilyeu and even Piers has would be way more impactful.

Rogan rejected it because it's now worth it could lead to some unnecessary drama. He did suggested he could talk to Putin because in such case they will spend most time talking about mma without random swearing and emotional pitches.

Like can you name another leader in las 30 years that was swearing in interviews ?

Syrian new leader is more professional than Zelenskyy for frick sake.

This idiot justifies Putin!!! on video Zaporizhzhia city Ukraine in 2025 pic.twitter.com/6edUlFcsLd

— Andrew (@kyivukraine2024) January 20, 2025

jfl imagine showing an industrial area getting hit

He sat there for the first 20 minutes telling Zelensky to speak Russian...the language of the country that is killing his people....Pretty clear Lex is a Russian asset

— Jenny 🇨🇦 (@shindig101) January 20, 2025

Somehow absolutely vast majority of local Ukrainian refugees speaking Russian

Elon prob encouraged him to push this narrative in an attempt to "character assinate" Zelensky in the public eye — after what was a successful interview for Zelensky. This method of personal attack is a classic Elon tactic.

— Michael Hickin (@hickinmichael) January 20, 2025

So Elon set a trap to Zelenskyy and Zelenskyy wildly opened his bussy for it ?

If someone killed someone close to Lex Fridman, I'm curious how Fridman would use his chances?

— Igor Skalik (@igor_skalik) January 20, 2025

Literally nobody got killed in Ukrainian elite circle

Klitchko sons that are 25+ are chilling in Germany getting ready to lead later Ukrainian gov

Oh there is an extended edit

The full 4 min of this diatribe is even worse. Lex is preparing the ground for his Putin interview release. https://t.co/SvJNR3JrFH

— Oleg Kostour 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇺🇸 (@OlegKostour) January 20, 2025

Dude, stop calling Ukrainians bots @lexfridman.

Millions of us dislike you for what you’ve said.

We don’t want to hear hogwash Kremlin propaganda in English.

Anyone who goes to the Kremlin on friendly terms is a traitor to America.

Stop the charade and admit you love Russia. https://t.co/BZcPeRs5xz pic.twitter.com/fuI7akJ7xR

— Oleg Kostour 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇺🇸 (@OlegKostour) January 19, 2025

Nooo you can't attack the greatest leader of all the time

TLDR: it's bad etiquette for politicians of that calibre to swear

The following 4 years will be a great teaching opportunity for those who will be self-aware enough to swim out of the conspiracy whirlpool, and actually realize that the prices of everything will double because of their own credulity that made them vote for a scam artist, who promised to stop inflation by implementing one of the origins of inflation, namely tarrifs. They will have to endure through many inconvieniences, like when they step into the human feces on the street that the saar who just took their job shat there, the same saar that was just invited in by Trump, when our dumbass with the shitty boots thought he was voting for the orange saviour who promised to get rid of all the undesirable aliens, and not bring even more in. And when our hero won't even have to worry about which game franchise's new entry he won't buy that the blue haired DEI pronoun lady ruined, because he will have to scour the garbage cans for food, because even food he won't be able to afford. It all will be a struggle and hard confrontation with your past guilible self, I hope you will be capable of it.

Born in , South Ayrshire, Scotland

Elon Musk, the richest guy in the world, is going after USAID, which feeds the poorest people in the world.

Next, he’ll go after the programs that impact you: Medicaid, Medicare, community health centers, Pell Grants, affordable housing.

We can stop him. pic.twitter.com/rchI5Ltdt0

— Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) February 8, 2025

Oh vey

“USAID in 2016 gave $310 million of your taxpayer money to a Palestinian cement factory.

What did the Palestinians in Gaza use all that cement for, paid for by your taxpayer dollars? Any ideas?

Oh yeah, that would be the 300 miles of terror tunnels that Hamas built underneath… pic.twitter.com/ZcLSC7aXJO

— Jews Fight Back 🇺🇸🇮🇱 (@JewsFightBack) February 7, 2025

Anonymous is super lame

Anonymous is mad USAID was cut? 😂😂😂
It is a CIA tool pic.twitter.com/nbvGEPcGCR

— Angelo Giuliano 🇨🇭🇮🇹🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻 安德龙 (@angeloinchina) February 8, 2025

Michael Moore

🚨Well, well, look who had his chubby fingers in the USAID cookie🍪 jar🫙$$$ pic.twitter.com/0C3CLOdLQ5

— Giordano Bruno (@GioBruno1600) February 8, 2025

I hope this is true because it's really fricking funny

🔥 EXPOSED: Doge uncovered that USAID funneled $84 million in Haiti relief funds to Chelsea Clinton—and guess what?

🤔$3 million went to her wedding
👀$10 million bought a luxury mansion

Meanwhile, Haiti got next to nothing. Who else is sick of this corruption? 🤬 pic.twitter.com/OlnX0QCiwH

— Desiree (@DesireeAmerica4) February 8, 2025

Funny bit from a repub

Ilhan Omar: “USAID is the reason I am here and not in Somalia.”

Everyone else: “That’s why we want to get rid of it.” pic.twitter.com/wEyZcGtBYq

— Juanita Broaddrick (@atensnut) February 8, 2025

Not looking good for Gaza

This is where the three hostages released today were kept just before their release… a tunnel paid for by UNRWA and USAID pic.twitter.com/2SCsK3PQKL

— Cheryl E 🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱🎗️ (@CherylWroteIt) February 8, 2025

Liberal twitter still a thing

Who else thinks Chelsea Clinton and Ben Stiller should sue the ever-loving heck out of any MAGA spreading lies about them taking money from USAID?

🙋‍♀️ pic.twitter.com/AcrwXu8rNO

— Art Candee 🍿🥤 (@ArtCandee) February 8, 2025

The tinfoil hat crowd supports this

https://x.com/liz_churchill10

USAID=Crimes Against Humanity pic.twitter.com/PjTGVa2YwI

— Liz Churchill (@liz_churchill10) February 7, 2025

Usaid employees need better pr. No one likes faceless bureaucrats

USAID employee Christian Gil tears up as he says Elon Musk fired him after 20 years at USAID.

The Democrat Party has been SCAMMING America for DECADES by using USAID.

Dems laundered countless billions, if not trillions, to artificially prop up the Democrat Party.

It’s over. pic.twitter.com/rqYglwYKzy

— Paul A. Szypula 🇺🇸 (@Bubblebathgirl) February 7, 2025

Soros!!!!!

The target of the USAID purge, was George Soros.

The USAID slush fund was how he financed his global Left-wing influence machine.

It’s how he bought politicians, MSM, newspapers, radio shows, judges, prosecutors, etc.

Elon and Trump just cut off the head of the snake. pic.twitter.com/pNlLzAEsJ2

— Clandestine (@WarClandestine) February 7, 2025

Unfunny woman comedians

Now that USAID isn't propping up unfunny female comedians I hope we see a bloom of funny female comedians pic.twitter.com/hm3DtM5qc0

— Guy (@nosilverv) February 8, 2025

Usaid's defenders have had a pathetic showing

Trump's USAID shutdown: the real motive pic.twitter.com/41GWDTa4FD

— Richard Angwin (@RichardAngwin) February 8, 2025

Chemomics international

The top recipient of USAID funding seems to be a company called Chemonics International inc. and they’re not up to anything good.

Though I have yet to find them funding trans operas, they seem to just fund Hillary Clinton’s friends stealing our tax money.

Podesta even came up🤷‍♂️ pic.twitter.com/D7EQxqjXIM

— Ian Carroll (@IanCarrollShow) February 7, 2025

South Africans are pathetic

Beijing 🇨🇳 offer 🇿🇦 R16b in aid to replace R8b 🇺🇸 #USAID

"We'll not be bullied" pic.twitter.com/hXRfPBC54t

— Thuso™ 🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦 (@ramalokot) February 8, 2025

Gloating

USAID offices soon: pic.twitter.com/PTxrVJYbt7

— DogeDesigner (@cb_doge) February 8, 2025

God I hope this is true because it would be so fricking funny

BREAKING: The U.S. government funded the education of an al-Qaeda leader

Anwar al-Awlaki received financial aid straight from USAID.

Washington “unknowingly” paid for his college degree, only for him to become one of the world’s most notorious terrorists. pic.twitter.com/2DM9cPlfyi

— ADAM (@AdameMedia) February 9, 2025

Chemtrails

This man claims that ever since Donald Trump and Elon Musk cut off USAID funding, the skies above him have completely cleared—not a single chemtrail in sight.

Can anybody else relate to this? pic.twitter.com/PajaRr1SaA

— Shadow of Ezra (@ShadowofEzra) February 7, 2025

Defense is losing

Trump's dismantling of USAID, a humanitarian program delivering aid globally for decades, is almost complete as thousands of employees are put on forced leave and the signs are being removed and covered.

It's a gift to our enemies and competitors.pic.twitter.com/aY2sEd0w3y

— Really American 🇺🇸 (@ReallyAmerican1) February 7, 2025

Still funny

Sindh Before Sindh After
Billions in USAID. Billions in USAID pic.twitter.com/piHaMf2cm4

— Mir Mohammad Alikhan (@MirMAKOfficial) February 8, 2025

Judge

🚨NEW: U.S. District Court Judge Carl Nichols has blocked Elon Musk and the Trump Administration from firing USAID employees.

RETWEET to thank Judge Nichols for standing up for our democracy! pic.twitter.com/rIU8troeoG

— Protect Kamala Harris ✊ (@DisavowTrump20) February 7, 2025

The wewuz people hate usaid

https://x.com/DavidHundeyin/status/1887964867044221405

Destiny sucks

USAID paid streamer Steven Bonell (known online as Destiny) 6 million dollars to perform oral s*x on several men pic.twitter.com/wOYkvJl2Ez

— Kaguya’s Top Gal (@hayasaka_aryan) February 6, 2025

DON’T WATCH IT !!

The Superbowl is an orgy of red-white-and-blue vulgarity. It is a non-stop celebration of black people that starts with their Black National Anthem.

Last year’s game was the most-watched TV broadcast in US history. It got half the adult population—123 million… pic.twitter.com/Sg5gSMEy8C

— Jared Taylor (@RealJarTaylor) February 9, 2025

Basically this:

Slipped and sprained my ankle.... RIP, productive Juju

I'm watching medicinal cyraxx content. OHHH GAWDDD... Bless up, Marty. !ranchers !animalposters !cats

So my wife (29f) and i (28m) have been together with the exception of a long break when we were 18 and 19 for 10 years. (She left me for another guy) and every year or two since we've been back together i keep finding things on her phone. The first was a fetlife account where she was chatting with multiple men. The second was a coworker she was speaking explicitly with. Third she asked a random neighbor out for coffee in our apartment complex in a flirting manner. And finally this. I found nudes of her that I'd never seen before, and looked in the deleted pictures on her phone and found pictures of another man's nudes.

We've had some rough patched with my finances and depression as well as hers. I must admit I was feeling sexually frustrated last year and went to a "massage parlor" but didn't go through with the end part. And she found out. She's insists that nothing has become physical any of these times and would leave if she were going to go through with it, because she did when thats what she wanted.

Our relationship is great except for this horrible bi annual ritual of her seeking attention. She makes the money In the relationship and I'm very limited in my capacity to support myself for any sort of trial separation. I don't want to leave. I love her. But I feel I need to advocate for myself despite my own wrongdoings. I feel so trapped and hopeless.

Came across this amazing post. But what's even funnier is if you visit his profile and see the only other post he's made:

This might be the dumbest man on Earth.

Oh, he's from Portland? She's not cheating on him; he's just unknowingly in a poly relationship.

pic.twitter.com/irYGaVAiqm

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 7, 2025

https://www.yahoo.com/news/ny-judge-resigns-claiming-defendants-010731112.html

its over

Unrelated, here's the author:

What do los angeles redditors think about californians leaving the US?

To be fair most of the comments are pointing out how r-slurred that would be

Please destroy reddit inshallah

The embargo for reviews of Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 has lifted. We don't have a review on the site here at Polygon. This is not an editorial decision; we had hoped to review the game. On Jan. 2, Polygon requested a code for Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 from Warhorse Studios, the studio behind the game, and received no response. On Jan. 7, we reached out to the PR firm working with Warhorse, who told us they were "not able to provide access. We'll let you know if this changes." We reached out to parent company Plaion on Jan. 9 as well — no response. On Jan. 10, we saw our peers publishing early previews for the game. We re-upped our request and were again told we would not be given access.

This was very unusual. But this was the situation that transpired with Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2. It can be difficult to tell when a studio's decision to withhold a code from a publication is intentional and personal. That's due in part to the fact that the process for getting advance review codes is about as rote and administrative as it gets. Sometimes, PR firms working for studios send us codes unsolicited in hopes we'll cover the game in question. Other times, we request codes from the game's representatives ourselves, several weeks ahead of the release date, and we get those codes when and if they are available.

As part of our final request for code on Jan. 10, Polygon's editor-in-chief Chris Plante contacted Plaion and Warhorse's PR firm to get a comment as to why we were denied advance access to the game. He stressed in his message that our hope is that this decision wasn't due to any personal bias against Polygon, nor motivated by any of our previous coverage of games made by Warhorse or any other. In short, we wanted to know: Was Polygon being blacklisted?

On Jan. 10, we did receive a response to this request stating that we could get one code for the game on launch day, Feb. 4. We did not receive any clarification as to how this decision was made. Nor did we receive the requested clarification on why the developers of Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 declined to provide Polygon access to the game.

Because we will not receive access to this game until its public release, our review is nonetheless forthcoming but will not be published in time for its release date. We look forward to telling you more about this game in the weeks to come.

KIA Gloats

And now, for the why. From Charlie Hall's review (12 February 2018)

https://archive.is/WqcZl

"The game is also not without its controversies. Warhorse is a team of more than 150 people, but the game's creative director has gone out of his way to rationalize his support of G*merGate, a loosely knit hate group that has devoted time to harassing women, people of color and journ*lists in the past. So outspoken is the studio's leadership on cultural issues that they have found it necessary to work with a German outlet to publish anti-fascist, anti-sexist and anti-racist statements prior to their game's launch."

Thank you for that completely unnecessary bank-shot that turned a poor review into a politically motivated hit piece. And you wonder why they weren't lining up for more of that?

https://old.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/1igwh0w/polygon_whines_about_not_getting_prerelease_code/

!g*mers !chuds @kaamrev its G*MER GATE REVENGE TIME!

Stolen from @misterwigger because I need to make sure everyone sees this. It's that good.

Kind of like his Christian album only, you know, a Nazi album. Instead of Chik Fil A you've got "My girl like Auschwitz, she open 7 days a week".

Previous post this is a follow-up to

https://rdrama.net/post/338283/man-gets-executed-for-flirting-with

Today had a bit of an interesting development.

Quick reminder for those who forgot because a flew a helicopter into your cerebral cortex

Hermitcraft, upon receiving the proof that Iskall dared to flirt with adult women in private, gave the man 90 mins to respond before axing him and scorching his career

Several Hermitcraft members have come out to post on Twitter, and Twitter in response to Iskall's video talking about his "cancellation"

All of these are vague and nebulous, but very obvious what they are referencing.

Welsknight Gaming

That didn't happen.
And if it did, it wasn't that bad.
And if it was, that's not a big deal.
And if it is, that's not my fault.
And if it was, I didn't mean it.
And if I did, you deserved it.

-Dayna Craig, "The Narcissist's Prayer"

— Welsknight Gaming (@WelsknightPlays) January 31, 2025

What an interesting thing to say...

He's essentially saying that Iskall deserves to have his income and reputation uprooted without even caring to hear what his side of the story.

Also interesting to note that Welsknight is barely even part of Hermitcraft as it is, his last upload being over 6 months ago. Only uploading dogshit 2012 lets plays nobody gives a shit about.

ZombieCleo

Never argue with someone who believes their own lies.

— ZombieCleo (@zombiecleo.bsky.social) 2025-01-30T19:15:40.548Z

>Replies disabled

I guess even blue sky wasn't safe enough.

Interesting that she calls him a liar, but I have no idea what he even arguably lied about in his video when he straight up confirms that he did flirt with women, and he just says it's my private life.

ImpulseSV

Great quote from a great movie:

“It's funny how all living organisms are alike...when the chips are down, when the pressure is on, every creature on the face of the Earth is interested in one thing and one thing only. it’s own survival.”

(In the voice of Skizz) Name it!

— impulseSV (@impulseSV) January 31, 2025

>Quote is from film "Liar Liar"

Once again calling him a liar, but not sure what the frick he lied about....

Also very interesting to pick a quote which frames you as the one trying to destroy the "organisms life". Thats a bad look sweaty

GoodTimesWithScar

Old movie posters hit hard. pic.twitter.com/qxoUDY3wpx

— GoodTimesWithScar (@GTWScar) January 31, 2025

Film poster of the film Gaslamp

Yeah that awful thing Iskall did by flirting with women.... He's gaslamping you into thinking it's normal....

Additional reply from GeminiTay to above tweet

hehe were so quirky!!! Lucky movie references cant be used in a deformation lawsuit against a public figure teehee

And as all these tweets came out at the same time, it's very obvious this is coordinated and not just me being a schizo

In fact people mention this in the comments to Scar's tweet as well.

... I thought scar already had a steel chair

All of this vague posting is like a Teenage girl posting "deep" lyrics on her Facebook after a break-up

Genuinely pathetic. I'd respect them a lot more if they just straight up tweeted "Iskall keep yourself safe"

But yes this continues to be crazy how big of a response and attempt to erase the mans reputation of seemingly nothing.

I kind of want to believe there's some truly horrid stuff we don't know about that is the cause behind this awful behavior.

But the Minecraft space is filled with the worse people possible that it's entirely likely they are all just backstabbing snakes all the way through.

Socks is such a good big sister as a former feral herself, this cannot be easy

!animalposters !cats