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I enjoyed his short law clips (he called them VLAWGs
) before Canada went to shit 
. His coverage of the truckers was really good, but it also set him down the path of being a streamer. No more fun little clips, just long ass rambling with your co-dependent fans. I remember him saying he liked the interactions better. It was downhill from there.Viva and Barnes were some of the earliest to get exclusive deals with Rumble (predates the Steven Crowder deal by a few years). Barnes has a vested interest in defending all things Rumble, even though it gets investment money by that PayPal Mafia fuckwad Thiel (who owns Palantir, the company that sells spy software to world governments). Barnes has written (or at least gave input on) parts of Rumbe's terms of service.
This is what pisses me off so fucking much. There are some valid points Barnes is making. We just left the fucking Scamdemic era. The RT-PCR tests uses were terrible, and "false-positives" somehow got rebranded to "asymptomatic." There was a researcher on The American Vagabond podcast, Jay Couey, who talked about how you can't even get the test assays they used in 2020 today. No one sells them, and so there's no way to do a randomized study with them today. I do worry about the dangers of a testing-culture where people have a biblical faith in tests:
That being said, anyone who's followed any of the threads on here realizes that his kid tested waaaay high, far above the cutoff. Viva/Barnes doesn't talk about what the tests actually say! If Rackets thinks he's being setup, he'd get his lawyers (he's got more than one right? It's not just Barnes?) to get independent tests done. If he knows how that will go, it's in their interests to say no to any and all testing on constitutional grounds. It's an insane gamble.
Banes has gone on and on, on both pay-walled and public live streams, about how bad CPS is and how bad forensics evidence is. Let's start with the second. Years ago I heard this Citation Needed podcast about how terribly inaccurate forensics evidence is. They bitched about fingerprints and gun ballistics. They had on a guest who provided no evidence, agreed with them while giving no specifics of details, and the entire podcast screamed bullshit:
They cite the FBI "Black Box," study claiming fingerprint matches could be 1 in 300; that are prints are not as unique as people think:
I think John Oliver parroted this too. I don't know how valid it is. If you start searching on the accuracy of gun basaltic forensics, you'll find stuff all over the place, and it's not clear which groups are funding which studies. The inaccuracy of forensices seems like a big leftie-talking point. Take that for whatever it's worth.
Next let's talk about CPS. .. I don't entirely disagree with Barnes. I've know a social worker who had a full scholarship for university paid for so long as she aggreeded to work for family services. After she graduated, half a year in, she asked for a payment plan to break the contract. She complained about how the rights they violated, how many people were just churned though the system forever, how she had a mom pull a knife on her and drag her into a bathroom ... I've know contracted social workers and I wouldn't trust them either. The people who last the longest .. tend to be the shittiest. That being said .. I've met some really good ones who do seem to care.
I'm on the fence about CPS/DCFS/whatever your state calls it. A lot of social workers don't want to remove kids ever. Kids are almost always worse off in the foster system; it should be a last resort. I can somewhat agree with Barnes the kids should go to a next of kin instead.
But Barnes's arguments are also crazy liberterian. (In that crazy liberterians are okay with abolishing DCFS and allowing child labor, selling your kid, child brothles and infantacide because who owns your kid: you or the State?) Hard-liberterians are fucking retardid in this regard. Barnes sounds crazy retardid.
So why is Barnes taking these abolsutely insane stances: he wants to show to what lenghts he'll go for any client. He's fighting in the court of public opinion. He's convincing his audience. He's ignoring any and all facts that show his client is not on any legal/moral high ground here. He'll even throw other lawyers under the bus, and say things that are a hair before defimation.
Barnes dreams of the big cases, but he's been snubbed from most and his claim to fame is being a body guard lawyer for Wesley Snipes.
Insert the /you'll never be a real lawyer/ copy-pasta.
