Comments by "Gary Wood" (@garywood97) on "The Rubin Report" channel.

  1. Lauren has more testosterone than most guys.
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  2. The kind of diversity the Left hates.
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  3. I hope I'm capable of talking and thinking this clearly at age 90.
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  4. That difference he mentioned about Cenk is sooooo true. Intellectuals approach a debate with "I think I'm right, so I'm gonna let you test my ideas to see if they can stay standing." Cenk approaches a debate with "I know I'm right and I know you disagree for machievelian reasons. We're just here to find out what they are."
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  5. He's making TYT pay for it
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  6. The Sean Connery of Common Sense
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  7. I get the sense that both your Star Wars and LOTR references meant nothing to Dinesh, Dave. Always worth a try though!
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  8. Just add ?=cock onto the end of the address
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  9. What a stunning beauty......this Rubin fellow is.
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  10. I fundamentally don't understand this need to identify yourself with one of the characters in fiction, and therefore creating a need to writers to include every kind of person in everything. I've always seen fiction as a third person activity. You're not supposed to be inserting yourself into it. You're supposed to be using your imagination to see things from this fictional character's point of view. Most of my favourite books actually have female main characters. I don't suddenly need a man there to be able to enjoy it.
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  11. I swear Gad is growing browner/more oppressed over time?
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  12. Great discussion Dave. Seems a lot of people have a prejudice against him though. He has been like fanatically anti-Trump to an unhealthy degree I guess. But most of this wasn't about that. Judge people on specifics of what they say.
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  13. If I ever become a billionaire, I'm gonna pay NASA to have a picture of Mohammed etched onto the face of the moon. Try getting annoyed at that, you savages.
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  14. The UK has a higher percentage of its population from south asia. So that means absolutely fuck all. The US has more black mayors and media personalities. For the exact same reason. Dumbest point ever.
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  15. She pronounces "years" like an american person mocking an english accent.
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  16. Lol working for TYT is equivalent to doing porn to get a foot in hollywood?
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  17. Who is in the cross-hairs of Trump's policies exactly? Potential refugees, who aren't part of the national debate anyway, and illegal immigrants. That's pretty much it. This idea that he's reviving mass discrimination is pretty dumb.
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  18. You can tell she was a good teacher. Very good speaker.
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  19. She IS a lefty.
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  20. To be honest, most thinking people's barriers should've gone up at just being pressured to adopt a label. You should realise that's not normal. That doesn't happen anywhere else. No-one's running around forcing you to adopt a label to prove you're not racist.
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  21. Has Cenk got enough body fat to survive an entire winter? OF COURSSEEEEEEEE
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  22. Too much white privilege in this back story.
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  23. This comment hasn't aged well.
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  24. Mine has its own pronouns.
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  25. That doesn't throw a wrench into what Friedman said at all. He said economic freedom was a necessary condition for political and social freedom but NOT a sufficient condition.
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  26. You're confusing WHAT someone thinks with HOW they think. Dinesh might be wrong about a lot but he at least reasons and argues like an intellectual. The other guy was just a robot mindlessly spitting out buzzwords.
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  27. He seems quite calm.
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  28. Dinesh argued all of his positions. Michael Ian Black just repeated platitudes. Completely different intellectual level.
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  29. He's got an authoritarian personality. But while you can still vote and still have the first amendment, it makes no sense to say he's actually being an authoritarian. He can try and tell people what to do. And they can still tell him to fuck off.
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  30. Bloody hell, the jew haters really do wait eagerly for the video to release don't they?
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  31. Oh for fuck's sake. Free speech is a PUBLIC concept. It does not apply to employees working for companies, or government institutions, where there are often speech codes for a variety of reasons. That has nothing to do with free speech. Them shutting down Elizabeth Warren was just them being dicks. She still has freedom of speech to read that letter to anyone and everyone she wants to, in any public or private location she wants.
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  32. +Sartious Coulter's hilarious. Do that. She's like twice as insane as Milo and half as likeable.
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  33. Search google images for "European people history". This needs to be spread far and wide. Something bad's happening.
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  34. How's your mum been coping without it?
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  35. When the host of shiny interview show says "motherfuckers" you know you're in the right place.
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  36. He's occasionally absolutely insane. Fairly reasonable most of the time though.
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  37. Ben Shapiro and Sam Harris both spent most of the election criticizing Trump. Dave's had them both on recently.
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  38. Sargon's referring to the difference between positive and negative liberty. Positive liberty is the freedom to have [X]. Negative liberty is the freedom from [X]. Extreme libertarians only really believe in negative liberty. Whereas you might say extreme socialists only believe in positive liberty. Everyone else believes in some mixture in between. Health care is a positive liberty. Freedom of speech is a negative liberty.
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  39. Must've been a big high school.
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  40. We triggered Order 66 though. So that's good.
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  41. If you can't explain it, chances are you're living off political propaganda rather than facts.
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  42. I think the audience responded for him. It got slammed bigtime.
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  43. That's not an argument against libertarianism at all. Libertarians nearly all believe a government should stop something like that.
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  44. The western world desperately needs a left-wing movement that values individual freedom.
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  45. He's the best host sitting in that chair.
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  46. Yeah, that's how clinical psychiatrists classify things. Official and unofficial.
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  47. Dave you really need to get a very smart Leftist/Socialist on the show. I think that's what you're missing so far! The only leftists you've had on have been celebs who can't really think very clearly. You haven't had any Leftists on who are on the same intellectual level as Shapiro and D'Souza. I think that's what a lot of us enjoy. Something that has some actual depth and principle to it, even if we don't agree with it. Most celebrity's worldviews consist of remembering a list of arbitrary positions.
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  48. I don't think anyone's against hearing opposing views in this audience. This guys just isn't a worthy ambassador. You need an intellectual to handle severe disagreements. This guy's just a drone who's repeated everything the Oscars ceremonies have told him to think.
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  49. What on earth will we do?
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  50. Dave looked like he really struggled with that initial blast of Ostraaaalean.
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  51. I went on holiday to Greece about 15 years ago. Didn't even have proper plumbing in our hotel. The country that invented logic. No plumbing. Highly illogical.
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  52. Notice you compared 1 side DOING things with the other side SAYING things? What is it with this false equivalency nonsense?
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  53. He lies all the time. He said just in the last few days that the US was the most highly taxed country. Complete and utter nonsense.
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  54. They said it was for behaviour rather than speech, which was a limitation most people were willing to work with.
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  55. Where did he say Trump supporters would call him out if he lies? That's pretty clearly not the case. But Trump filling his cabinet with rich people and bankers isn't actually against anything Trump said. He said he was against lobbyists buying politicians. He didn't say he was against their skill in politics. Those are 2 different positions. They might be great at the job. As long as they're not buying policies from him, he's not being a hypocrite.
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  56. Thunderfoot evolves into Sargon at level 45.
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  57. I love Glenn Beck. He's like half way between Aristotle and Mr Bean.
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  58. +prateek sriv Most of them are scared to get a target painted on them.
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  59. Louis Gallucci Nope. The commenter was asking for criticism of the Right. Ben spent most of the election criticising Trump. His own politics doesn't change that.
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  60. Sarcasm
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  61. He also seems to want Trump to win. Is your net a bit too wide perhaps?
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  62. They're not winning Blaire. They're massively outnumbered in the general population. Most extreme ideologies always are. They just get a period of control over the conversation before the use of language starts to shift against them and the dam bursts. I think "SJW" becoming a term was an important moment. It was the point at which a large number of people all came together to agree there's a problem here we need to fix. Even just having that happen is an important moment. Muslims don't seem to have really managed that yet with their extremists.
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  63. Is he? How so? He seems fairly normal in most interviews I've seen.
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  64. I love that loads of peole attacked Fry for the things he said in this interview yet almost no downvotes. The fuckers didn't even watch it, did they? Just read about it second hand and reacted.
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  65. Milo you need to do another ridiculous prank to piss off progressives. Your twitter numbers haven't been rising as fast these last few weeks.
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  66. I know right. We still haven't cured cancer. No-one should be able to talk about anything else until that's done!
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  67. A political movement or party gets defined by the people who have the most influence. The sensible people on the Left can't really be expected to be counted that much when all of the democratic candidates are in bed with the extremes and push their lies (e.g wage gap and police racism). Break that influence and then the Left will start getting treated better by everyone else.
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  68. There's this really noticeable difference in outcome between people who commit suicide and those who just attempt it. Can anyone guess what it is?
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  69. Lol "my nigga" being the traditional greeting in India.
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  70. Yes
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  71. Like half of his last 10 guests have been liberal or leftists. He's doing a great job getting people of all views. He just needs some more progressives or socialists. That's all.
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  72. +Mablak If "simply recommending" is all that had happened, that'd be fine. That's not what we've seen. Read the IGN interview when the guy was pressuring Nintendo into having a female Link. You can see very clearly what happened. First he asked the question. That part is ok. Then the Nintendo guy said no, they wouldn't have a female link. He didn't accept the answer and then said "I really feel you owe the female fans a better answer than that" or something along those lines. That's not suggesting. It's pressuring and trying to guilt them into a different answer. Then look at the furore that happened over the joke in pillars of eternity. You can go and read the original tweet from the girl who started the hate campaign. She didn't just recommend they reconsider it. She literally said "spread this around, we need to make a lot of noise". That isn't recommending. Once again, it's pressuring. Then read the Witcher 3 article on Polygon. There's no recommendations to be seen. There's just idiotic slander. None of these count as recommendations. They're all an attempt to emotionally overpower the developers into adjusting their games. Gamergate is largely an attempt to negate that pressure. Completely separate to that is the problem that gaming media doesn't represent the audience very well on political issues. So even if they're just recommending things politely, they need to take into account the differences of opinion in the audience that's paying their salaries, otherwise they'll face inevitable discontent. So for example on the issue of Anita Sarkeesian, not a SINGLE negative article was found on a main gaming site, despite the audience being incredibly critical. Whether it's intentional or not, that's an attempt to set the rules.
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  73. So why does God suck at communicating with such a large number of people?
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  74. He would have no success in proposing such things if the rest of the country wasn't already doing it anyway. The UK gave up on liberty decades ago.
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  75. They don't seem to realise that. They think they can just successfully make the majority of the population follow the commands. No, they're just succeeding so far because it hasn't made a material difference in most people's lives. Once it reaches a certain point, there'll be a very large pushback, and it may turn into violence. At which point, of course, they'll lose almost instantly.
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  76. I'm gonna have to watch Kinda Funny a bit more often I guess. Gotta support any non-progressives in the gaming media. They're like bloody locusts in the industry.
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  77. Hard work more than genius really.
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  78. This guy has a great balance between analytic and creative thinking. I hope you asked him to get Peter to come on too Dave! I know he doesn't do that many interviews but I think he'd appreciate you.
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  79. He's definitely right about the weird hatred of capitalism. The effect of capitalism on the world has been massively positive. It's just been incredibly uneven and unstable.
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  80. I just listen to what Trump tweets and assume it's always 100% accurate.
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  81. The entire left SHOULD be thrown under the bus until it deals with its extremists. You're in the exact same position as moderate muslims in the middle east. Of course not everyone is an extremist, but the extremists are running the fucking show. So you need to get judged by their actions until you boot them out.
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  82. The video is about free speech. What has Trump lying or attacking the media got to do with that?
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  83. What potentially devastating thing is happening exactly?
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  84. I agree there're non-physical aspects of the human mind. The problem is they're all dependent on a particular physical system to be instantiated. Exactly the same as a computer. A computer algorithm isn't a physical thing. It's a set of linked concepts that could be copied between substrates that have no physical aspects in common. But you still need something to actually do that copying, or an explanation for how it could happen.
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  85. I don't think they do it on purpose. They just expend about 0.001 KJ of energy trying to actually understand other people's views.
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  86. That'd be great. Try and get him to smile.
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  87. +Damian Louden Vaginas are better lubricated than arses.
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  88. Lol those fucking rape regulations.
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  89. So you don't falsely conclude that people are enemies when they're really not?
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  90. I like Phil but he hedges so much that he could own a gardening store.
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  91. The Super Nintendo was a perfect system.
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  92. Ner, I don't think so. Plenty of people manage to debate without trying to imply their opponents are evil. That's all I'm talking about. The attacking of people's character instead of just the content of their arguments. Cenk did it about 10 times in their debate.
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  93. Has been growing pretty fast over the last year. Give it 5 years it'll be a million subscriber channel, I have no doubt.
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  94. Or it's just easy to get attention in general as an attractive woman?
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  95. Douglas pulls some great faces while he's listening.
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  96. To be fair, Marxist is a term many use to self-describe.
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  97. He doesn't speak exclusively to people with right-wing views. You people seem to just ignore reality. His guest list is about 50/50.
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  98. I think I started following you at about 50K! Looking forward to seeing the 1 million milestone in a year or 2.
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  99. They clearly do. They're the ones who've engineered this whole "whenever anyone says 'racist', just submit and do whatever they want" culture.
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  100. Where are the threats on the Right?
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  101. The ACLU had to apologise for posting a picture of a white child on twitter. It may not be all leftists but those that DO have a worrying influence.
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  102. Lol "My neighbourhood is so white, it's embarassing...." 1 minute later "So after I shot this hooker..."
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  103. Damn, closest to first I've ever been.
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  104. Listen to one of the videos where he explains what he did. It was really hardly anything compared to what people like Clinton do. It just happened that one form was illegal and the other isn't.
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  105. It's the default backup solution to the fact that these problems just haven't been addressed. It would've been very easy for western governments to put much more rigorous integration policies in places like France that could've stopped these problems occurring. They didn't do that. Nationalism and lower immigration are the plan B.
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  106. He gained respect with every interview that was different from the last.
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  107. How is that different that progressivism? Idiots are all over the political spectrum.
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  108. He's making the very valid complaint that a large number of environmentalists are actually just the hippies from the 60s who hated all industrial civilzation and wanted us to all move back into the forests. That's why they hate nuclear too, even though the statistics suggest it's one of the best.
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  109. Billionaire who's never actually said anything racist and is running in a country that is set up to make dictators impossible.
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  110. Why are there so few conservative black women?
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  111. But US presence in the gulf since 1950 has made Saudi Arabia, UAE, Bahrain, Qatar, all incredibly rich and hasn't involved bombing any of them. The presence has been entirely in their favour. The US built the Saudi oil industry for god's sake. They wouldn't even know they had oil if it wasn't for the west.
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  112. +Arran Titchmarsh How would the person banning them achieve the authority needed to do so without nuclear weapons themselves?
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  113. I enjoyed this.
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  114. +Cloe Jarozenski Congratulations! Women are needed very much to help beat this nonsense and replace it with actual equality.
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  115. Dave equally does/doesn't criticize all of his guests. He's not going easy on the Right at all. He's just not overly confrontational in general, and prefers to look for common ground.
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  116. It's quite hard given that most of them are completely incapable of interacting with those who disagree!
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  117. Cloe Jarozenski I know, just playing around :-)
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  118. His point was just that something that seems reasonable doens't always end up with empirically good results (because reality is complicated and humans are dumb). Monarchies are a ridiculous idea in principle. And yet for some reason, they seem to work just fine in Europe today. He wasn't making an argument about monarchies per se. He was making an argument about trusting empiricism over rationalism.
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  119. Harrison Kyle No, that sounds exactly like donating a little too much money. How does that remotely compare to what ALL of the presidential candidates tend to do? It doesn't at all. One just happens to be illegal and the other doesn't.
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  120. Mostly just cos he got arrested for some silly reasons. He's a fairly generic conservative christian intellectual.
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  121. +phil v There's a slight difference between ignoring them as people and ignoring what they're doing and the people they're influencing. We can do the first without doing the second. The second is where the problem is. No-one until recently was watching them to see how they work. That's why they've been so successful.
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  122. Almost no movement or belief system is a monolith. However plenty of them act effectively as if they are because one particular interpretation usually seizes all of the institutional power. That's what's happened with feminism in the US. Similar to Islam in most muslim countries.
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  123. The BBC is generally ok for mainstream politics stuff. But when it comes to those social issues sub-sections on the site, those are entirely written by leftists.
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  124. Because the movement he started looked like a group of nationalist thugs. He should be credited for leaving it though.
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  125. Mike does a fairly good job of explaining why Trump probably isn't as bad as his worst detractors want you to think. He didn't really make an argument in the positive sense for why he's good though. Except the nationalism thing.
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  126. +The Great Lurk This is youtube though. Shorter videos do better in general.
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  127. He does have quite a lot he doesn't agree with. He just doesn't disagree with them that much in the interviews because that's not his style. He's doing the Larry King approach.
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  128. ***** I wouldn't worry about them giving too much special treatment to muslims, they're pretty much doing with any group they can paint as being disadvantaged. The so called "social justice" movement is one of the creepiest and most disingenuous things I've ever come across and seems to have almost nothing to do with justice and almost everything to do with forcing their political ideology on society.
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  129. Aha finally someone else who watches liberal rape porn.
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  130. Haidt has claimed that anthropology as a subject is completely lost for this reason. It was in one of the essays on the heterdox academy site.
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  131. Great interview. Despite Richard's annoying snobbery, I still love him and his brilliant books. Every should read the Seflish Gene. Easily the best popular science book ever written.
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  132. Wasn't that Vader?
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  133. Gary Johnson
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  134. MrOrtloff At no point is this useful. Wikipedia line 1:Socialism is a range of economic and social systems characterised by social ownership and democratic control of the means of production;[7] 
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  135. +MrOrtloff "That's literally the definition of socialism."- Someone who reads.
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  136. I don't think Dave actually accepts the libertarian fantasy of magical thinking. So how could it be pushed back against? He's said repeatedly there needs to be a welfare state.
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  137. Sargon, you probably know more about this phenomena than anyone else on earth right now. Quite the claim the fame. I imagine Dawkins and Harris probably learned some things in this, if they watched it. A question I'd love to have answered in another inteview: Why did this happen now? 10 years ago the regressives didn't really exist. Is it maybe because it's the first generation that's lived entirely under the political correctness that came about in the 90s? Those of us born before the 90s at least had something to contrast it with so it didn't appear as just our base reality.
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  138. Dave's too nice though. Him interviewing such people will be so easy for people to frame as him supporting them. Or "giving them a platform".
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  139. +OnionsAndPaste It's not a debate, it's an interview. You change it to a debate show, you're gonna completely lose half of your potential guests because not everyone's comfortable with confrontation like that.
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  140. Pinker especially would be great.
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  141. Why does Trump create such diverging delusions in people. Scott thinks he's some kind of mastermind and the far left think he's Hitler. He's really neither. He's an incredibly mediocre narcissist who is ok at a few things are quite bad at most others.
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  142. Where is the evidence that the other planets are warming at the same rate?
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  143. All I know about hindu fundamentalism is that it rather interestingly doesn't exist in europe. Whereas Islamic does. Suggests one is connected to the religion, the other is connected to a particular place.
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  144. He wrote an entire book on the Rothschilds. He's not someone who would deny Jewish influence. He just doesn't have a machievellian narrative about it like you do.
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  145. TestMeatDollSteak Trump's administration hasn't done anything yet! And the things that the Left have got right were all done by Liberals who've been largely eradicated from most left-leaning spaces.
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  146. No it's not. It's a straight forward distinction between 2 different things. Someone who worked from Goldman Sachs working for you is entirely different than you working for Goldman Sachs.
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  147. Of course. And black supremacists would have got behind Obama. Doesn't mean much when they're a tiny minority of people who are completely marginalised by everyone.
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  148. Private companies are equally accountable. If they provide a bad product, people stop buyin it and bankrupt them in favour of their competitors.
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  149. Except the countries where we haven't done that at all, the countries that we've actively made rich, like the gulf states, are all extremist backwaters too. What's Saudi Arabia's excuse?
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  150. +MyLostTemple Dude, that's like a tiny percentage of games. Play the other 95%.
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  151. "Dagach" sounds like a Star Wars villain though.
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  152. "We're gonna diversity-quota the fuck outta this" - Dave Rubin, behind the scenes.
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  153. Scientists are very good at noticing when someone is using a way of thinking that will depart from an objective and empirically testable answer. That involves most people's world views.
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  154. Great interview Dave and Phil. I remember watching Thunderfoots channel all the way back when he was interviewing southern baptists and being told he was satan. My one disagreement was with the brexit thing. Surely the benefit of making your own trade rules instead is that it's entirely in your power to make them as simple as possible if you want a quick and easy transaction. Whereas the EU rules were leading to some trade deals to take years to sort out. Like the India one.
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  155. +Babak G About half of his guests have identified as liberal or left-wing. You're making things up to justify your dislike.
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  156. Ross McGuinn And in a system that doesn't have the appropriate safeguards, that'll just lead to the tyranny of the majority. All you need is 1 group of people who value their tribal allegiance more than any of the exclusively individualistic values and they'll see no problem with infringing on the rights of others for the sake of their tribe.
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  157. He did say TODAY. The IRA doesn't cause much problems today. And when it did cause problems, it was only for Britain. Islam causes problems globally.
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  158. To be fair, sometimes they do just fall out of the sky. Sometimes it is just that one person has serious problems with their bad temper. But sometimes it's just a manipulative person who was trying to fuck with someone and they pushed them too far. You can't generalise about it. Both happen.
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  159. Midichlorians actually. Close though.
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  160. The volume and irrationality of the current debate just makes me stop listening and do non-political stuff instead.
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  161. That's not particularly racist. It's just seriously fucked up.
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  162. Very accurate. We need to reframe the idea for the internet age in a way that actually fits the way people encounter these issues.
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  163. Most of the arguments against death penalty seem to be rationalisations because people just feel it's wrong.
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  164. I don't want to defend veganism but it's hardly impossible to achieve. Plenty of vegans in India.
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  165. America doesn't do that nowadays! It deliberately divides people for the sake of pandering to racial minorities. Which is why America isn't that great for lots of people.
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  166. Libertarians ARE liberal on social issues. Then far-right on economics.
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  167. General intelligence is measured and used for predictions from childhood onwards. The evidence is well collected on the wikipedia page for "g factor". It's definitely not down to just learning things. It's predicted well ahead of time.
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  168. Almost nothing. The only real benefit is that it undermines people who think every part of society should represent the entire population. It shouldn't. You shouldn't expect the same ratios of blacks, whites and asians in computer science as you do in law or in publishing. A lot of people on the Left constantly push that expectation. You don't need the IQ issue to undermine it. But it helps.
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  169. Naturalism and supernaturalism are both incoherent positions because what counts as natural keeps changing. If you went back to the dark ages and showed them a really powerful magnet, they'd probably call that supernatural. Which it obviously isn't. So we shouldn't call things natural or supernatural either because we can't know what that even means ahead of time.
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  170. It's an interview show Jessica.
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  171. Giving someone a platform to validate their bullshit means almost nothing. If someone's ideas are bullshit, giving them a platform does not make those ideas more likely to succeed. People still ultimately decide what they believe and follow.
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  172. If it was seriously an attempt to do so, don't you think they could've done better than 10% of muslims? I mean for god's sake, you could just do Indonesia and Pakistan alone and it would've been more people in total. And people would've only thought of 2 countries instead of 7.
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  173. +Ullrich Fischer Well they're just seizing on an ideology that they think they can use in a way that puts them at the top of the pyramid. It's a way of trying to destroy their main competition. It's exactly the same as men who "white knight" with women, and defend women against almost any criticism. It's just about trying to position yourself as superior in some way. A great test of this is just to ask them to make an anonymous $100 donation to a charity of the cause they claim to care about. That completely cuts out the reward factor in the whole process and makes it purely about the cause. 90% of them wont do it.
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  174. Those are 2 different groups of people saying those things.
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  175. Dude first order calculus is taught at high school level. Don't make silly assumptions.
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  176. I have a standard Oxford english accent. I think this guy has my accent turned inside out.
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  177. He means that Corbyn agreed with that but has been wrong on nearly everything else.
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  178. Eero Haapala It's probably just that that's the sort of comedy that comes naturally to him more than him deliberately trying to avoid certain things.
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  179. This is easily the most annoying of the misrepresentations. Some of his other ones can be explained through just confusion about a very subtly worded position. But this one is just outright lying with the hope that idiots won't check on it.
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  180. It's certainly impressive how successful they've been given how small a minority they are. But I think people are underestimating just how hard it is to enforce an ideology on society that most people disagree with. I mean, Saudi Arabia and North Korea have to constantly execute people just to keep the population in check. While we live in a free market system, which they're very unlikely going to have the ability to change, they'll inevitably be forced out by people's buying choices in the long run. Yes Buzzfeed and MTV were completely overtaken. But both are in decline. They're not growing in popularity.
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  181. Lol they already do teach false claims in gender studies and ethnic studies classes. The government doesn't do shit.
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  182. In response to the victim mentality. I love this quote that I don't know the source of: "You be a successful after having been a victim. You will never be successful whilst seeing yourself as a victim."
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  183. +louie wallenberg A lot of the viewers see it on the Ora website instead. It's also quite new. You don't get a million viewers just instantly.
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  184. +kainedamo It's true. We've entered this weird era where you can get a better understanding of most situations by looking at how many upvotes or downvotes they get. For example, go and look at the Colbert video with Sarkeesian on youtube. That's an awful lot of neckbeard cis scum who seem to watch his show :-)
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  185. Mablak Well I never said that was itself authoritarian. But I think the general personality trait that feels the need to change things it doesn't like (rather than just avoiding them like normal people) IS typically a sign of an authoritarian attitude. Sarkeesian wasn't technically authoritarian UNTIL she went to the UN to try and get them to censor the internet in her favour. But if you know what the warning signs are, you can generally spot these types of personality from a mile off (the most common is a desire to avoid giving opponents an equal platform, which she practically has written on her forehead)
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  186. Big tech companies CANT AVOID swaying public opinion to some extent based on how they design their services. If you are aggregating news, any algorithm you choose will give more space to some issues over others. It's not all just machievellian attempt to mind control the public. Although that may be some of it.
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  187. Absolutely. It's entirely fine to generalize the current Right as being in favour of whatever Trump is doing. Because that's what they voted in. But this logic only applies to people who are trying to distance themselves from that on the grounds that it doesn't represent the whole of the Right. I'm not sure who's currently saying that?
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  188. Can you point me to where Bannon telling them to shut up lead to the abolishment of the first amendment? If not, it's not worth covering.
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  189. +Serah Wint He's had a pretty good variety of people on recently who all massively disagree with each other in general.
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  190. Most republicans probably don't give a shit about Britain's status!
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  191. Lol so literally anyone as long as they're black? Or just more smart and interesting black people? Cos if that's the case, you can just focus on smart and interesting and they'll naturally be included.
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  192. I don't think that makes him impressed. He did say he didn't like either of them in terms of policy. He's just saying that his understanding of Trump makes him worry less about the bigger fears people have.
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  193. Not really. He has quite a few center-left liberals and also quite a few social conservatives. He does need more socialists though. Haven't had many of those.
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  194. Probably. I watch a lot of stuff but don't bother subscribing in general.
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  195. +Ross McGuinn In general: it's a bit overly idealistic as an actual practical philosophy. It seems a bit like the mirror image of communism in that it kinda sounds good on paper but probably wouldn't really fit with human nature. Humans just don't work naturally as a collective as a species. That's why communism never works. But we don't entirely work naturally as individuals either. We naturally form tribes and naturally want to help other people. It seems like, as with communism, you'd need an awful lot of protections and systems in place, to actually maintain it as a practical philosophy.
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  196. Quite an impressive girl. You should try and ask Rogan to have her on Dave. His audience would be quite receptive and it'd get her a lot of exposure. We need more women like this. And I don't really care about the MRA stuff. She's just someone who's interested in understanding reality.
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  197. Why don't you people understand how interviews work?
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  198. A nobody? He has like the 3rd most twitter followers of any UK politician
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  199. There aren't really agreed upon definitions of things like spirituality. It's vague basket of nonsense.
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  200. Anna W "Being socialist just means you think taxes are justified" So we're up to about the fifth definition then. This one would include Milton Freidman and Ayn Rand.
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  201. +raidkoast How can you be a socialist and not an SJW? Or do you mean social democrat? If you're a socialist, you want the state to claim ownership over people's businesses (some people's at least). That's inherently anti-liberal.
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  202. He's already said it's being changed.
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  203. He definitely hasn't had speakers for every ideology.
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  204. Conservativism isn't a constant though. It's relative to a context. So various different forms of conservatism don't naturally align.
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  205. I would've taken his side if he didn't respond by calling everyone who'd attacked him "alt-right" with no evidence. The guy's a prick. It shouldn't have happened but he deserves to be the one who it happens to if it does.
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  206. I thought it was about the winter solstice and then christians nicked it?
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  207. He has had plenty of left-leaning people on. He just hasn't focused on left-wing policies with them much.
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  208. Even if you don't post that, people can make a vague guess based on how many patrons you have.
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  209. Why does this matter less than more policy-based stuff?
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  210. +j lawrence Ben would be a great guest. He's a bit more hardline on conservative principles than any of the other guests he's had on. Insanely clever guy as well. Just wrong.
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  211. +Jaccobtw Online harassment was ultimately caused by the Iraq war. This we know.
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  212. He didn't say Newton's theory. So he wasn't technically wrong. He probably meant General Relativity.
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  213. Yep. That's always annoyed the fuck out of me because it's so manifestly false. When I was on a tiny budget, I did rotations 3 main meals: baked beans on toast, pasta with mixed vegetables and cous cous with beans. All 3 meals cost under £1 in the UK.
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  214. That's a completely ridiculous claim. Victorian capitalism didn't CAUSE that. That already existed. The life expectancy in 1800 was under 40 years old in Britain and the GDP per capita was absolutely tiny. The victorian era saw a huge jump in life expectancy AND GDP per capita. The evidence points to the exact opposite of your position. Of course there were some terrible conditions. Just as there are in every underdeveloped country that hasn't yet reached the stage where it can easily deal with simple problems like starvation. But none of that is CAUSED by capitalism. That's just the default for every human society.
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  215. What caused the crash is the fact that the banks are too big and too opaque. You have no idea what each of them actually does differently, so you can't choose between them and punish their bad behaviour. And then they're so big that if one of them fails it ruins the economy. Wanting them to be immune from failing is delusional. We should want them to be able to fail without crashing the economy and in a way that allows us to choose the banks that make better decisions.
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  216. It's true. But as long as he does it to everyone and has plenty of people of all political persuasions on the show, it's not a problem.
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  217. Rush Limbaugh is the personification of anger.
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  218. Lol the scandinavian countries are functioning perfectly well. Except Sweden is currently committing cultural suicide because it's the most PC country on earth and you're allowed to say almost nothing in public. I'm all in favour of higher levels of secularism. But I'd suggest countries like Japan and Switzerland as better examples. Neither has given in to political correctness and actually knows how to defend itself culturally. Both also have very high living standards.
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  219. Aren't the arguments from the other side essentially arguments from authority at this point too? None of us can really check the data for ourselves. We're just trusting the people who've collected it.
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  220. Well he's undeniably right about 1 thing at least: the environmentalist attitude to nuclear is a pile of wet dicks.
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  221. James Gordley That's exactly what I'm asking for. Taking an extra 10% off the rich through taxes and giving it the poor is very different than taking an extra 50% off the rich and also completely controlling everything people are allowed to do.
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  222. Last time I looked at the data, it seems like the american problem is largely because of a very rigid lower class, which doesn't exist as much in most european countries. But if you're born as lower middle class in the US, income mobility is just fine. It's a problem with people at the very bottom, often african americans, who're born into crime heavy neighbourhoods with awful schools. That's what biases the american data.
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  223. Anyone know who the guy hassling him on twitter was?
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  224. Try "american scientists". You seriously don't think that's been rigged?
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  225. Yes I'm sure it's a random consequence of those specific words. It definitely won't also work with "white woman with white baby", "american scientists", "american inventors". Google are definitely doing something. They changed the autocomplete search results for Clinton during the 2016 election too.
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  226. Would you prefer he massively changed his personality between audiences?
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  227. Geoff Ozzy No it's not. An ad-hominem is where you say someone is wrong about something because of something about them as a person. An insult is just something bad about them as a person. e.g: Insult: That guy's a fucking idiot. Ad-hominem: That guy's wrong about this because he's a fucking idiot. One is a logical fallacy, the other isn't,
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  228. +Erik Munoz Pissing ON them would be better
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  229. He really didn't seem like he'd come to any of these opinions himself. It was just the kind of "what someone who works in entertainment is supposed to think" list of positions.
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  230. Well feminists do it constantly. And they're not even disadvantaged. Every group has been trying to do it since they realised what political correctness had done to how we discuss things. Everyone wants that protected status of not having to actually defend your position because people who challenge it are just practicing "hate speech"
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  231. TestMeatDollSteak You might be right. But Trump's a leader, not a follower. I doubt he'd accept policies that don't fit what he wants to do. Just have to wait and see.
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  232. Well sure but their personal preferences might not mean much once they're working under Trump. We've already seen Pence's views magically change. If they're just doing Trump's bidding, it doesn't matter what their personal preferences are. All that matters is how well they can implement his policies.
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  233. Highland Chicken So what? Are they directly funding him?
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  234. Yeah the Right was quite bad with Obama. But there's an important difference. Republicans actually did genuinely disagree with him on most things. Whereas a lot of people on the Left agreed with stuff like protectionism to help american jobs.
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  235. No-one ever taught me the importance of consent. It was assumed to go without saying.
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  236. I bet you're making the studio look like Jabba's palace or something.
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  237. Complete nonsense.
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  238. I think the thing that leads to some people becoming intolerant of someone's views to the point that they happily misrepresent them, whereas other people never do that, is simply whether they're an empiricist or not. Empiricists always remain open to counterargument, even to ridiculous extents. Other people don't. Other people really do just decide on things and are incapable of revising them.
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  239. I'm not buying Skyrim now.
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  240. Yes. To counter this, I liked the video without watching it :-)
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  241. That's a bit silly. There is a general lack of agreement about what the like/dislike bar should be used for. That's youtube's fault for giving us ambiguous buttons, not necessarily people being sensitive.
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  242. Dave, you should just do a video explaining how you want the like/dislike buttons to be used. There seems to be no consensus at all on youtube about whether they're supposed to be used to denote agreement or a mark of quality.
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  243. This guy would make a good accidental super villain.
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  244. That's absurd. Some generalisations are true. E.g Men are generally taller than women. That's statistically provable and biologically understood. Being a generalisation is not automatically being incorrect.
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  245. Felicia's point about it's good to be PC can be countered with a simple question "What is the person's intent?" If someone is intending to be racist or sexist, great. Lets complain and make life hard for them. That's the kind of first 10% of political correctness that makes sense. However, the last 90% is just narcissistic people deliberately ignoring intent so they can play the moral authorities. Seinfeld's joke about the gay king is the perfect example. There's just no malice there at all. You have to work your ass off to find bad intention in that joke.
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  246. Democrats do that much more around elections than they do normally though. She might be fine.
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  247. Yep. Although the self-driving cars thing is apparently already working up to a good enough standard. They just need to look into the issues of displacing all of those taxi drivers and truck drivers. Can't just steal their jobs and do nothing about it.
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  248. Whether there's a problem with police brutality is entirely separate from whether it's done in a racist way. Most people would agree the police have problems with their use of violence. It's less clear they're racist because it's incredibly tricky to do the statistical analysis to demonstrate it.
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  249. Yes but in countries where there aren't massive racial divides, those tribes become a lot more malleable and dynamic. Something like 90% of blacks voting for democrats in every election for 30 years is a kind of result you can only achieve when it's race-based tribalism. You don't get something like that in white majority countries at all.
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  250. What if you look like a man but don't have a penis?
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  251. +Brendan Brown Diarrhoea rarely sticks!
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  252. +Youngimperialist Not all of them. But the culture at a lot of these sites is very much oriented in this direction. Those who disagree on some of these issues mysteriously never express their disagreement. The Sarkeesian issue being a key example. I know lots of games journos who disagree with her views. I've asked them all why they don't write about it, as she's received almost no criticisms from the press. They never seem to answer the question.
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  253. +Mablak The key difference there is the word "private". If you own the space, or if you own the game developer, you do whatever the hell you want. However, in a context where you're affecting other people too, you don't get to set the rules.
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  254. Trump's administration has done nothing to stifle free speech. There's nothing hypocritical in what Dave's saying. He just understands different concepts, instead of lumping them all together under the general "bad" category and acting as if they're all the same.
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  255. Yeah get Kyle on!
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  256. None of that has anything to do with free speech. That'd be why.
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  257. Good list!
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  258. That's not a free speech issue. For god's sake everyone, free speech applies to the public only. There are speech codes in lots of companies and government institutions. Stop deflecting discussion by not understanding these distinctions.
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  259. It's not all of the Left of course. But the authoritarians have enough influence that it becomes the norm.
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  260. +Birch Williams Nope!
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  261. +Deep Zepp I'd be very interested to see that. I like Peter a lot though I imagine his worldview would be utterly bizarre to an american. He considers himself a conservative but has almost nothing in common with US conservatives.
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  262. Lol it was a briefcase with a number display on it. It looked exactly like the stereotypical movie bomb.
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  263. I want one that specifically targets women's rights in my basement.
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  264. ***** But unfortunately given that humans have a wide range of values, values often conflict with practicality. If only for the reason that there are so many mutually exclusive values. Her philosophy seems to be predicated on the idea that most people would actually buy it, given the right situation. Exactly the same assumption communism made.
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  265. +Plague Doctor You're confusing the ultimate outcome with the personal intent. The idea of lots of right wing thinkers, all the way back to Adam Smith, is that people intending to just serve themselves, can very often end up serving everyone. Whereas if you try to shortcut that by telling them "well you should just try and serve everyone then", that the effect will fall apart.
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  266. Yeah that guy's great. I suspect his admirable belligerence will keep him hot for quite a while though.
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  267. Yep, that's possible. Although I don't know how much that would help with the afterlife idea. Because every individual is so different, that would have to mean that everyone is getting a completely different broadcast, or that the different configurations in people's brains determine the nature of how the broadcast is received. That position is indistinguishable from the functionalist theory.
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  268. The thought itself is an abstract concept. It's just dependent on a particular physical instantiation. If you subscribe to the functionalist theory of the mind, then it's at least possible that a human mind could be transferred to another instantiation upon death. The problem is much more that we have no understanding of how or why that might happen, as opposed to that it couldn't possibly happen.
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  269. He could. But he'd have to do it with people he agrees with as well if he wants to try and keep the show a neutral platform for ideas. The natural tendency is to just put more pressure on people you disagree with. That doesn't lead to a good environment for finding truth though.
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  270. Haha I've never met ANYONE who doesn't assimilate information into their pre-existing beliefs. That really is just how the human brain works I'm afraid. 
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  271. Groucho M It's almost as if people on the right are deliberately doing what the Left have done with terms like racist and sexist.
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  272. Groucho M It's a buzzword connected to an actual idea. Where a term came from means almost nothing. All that matters is what people mean by it.
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  273. Groucho M That's literally what the definition of ad-hominem is. Where you disregard an argument based on who it came from, rather than having a good reason for why it's wrong. You're probably confused because a lot of people incorrectly use ad-hominem to be synonymous with "insult". Which it isn't at all. Go and read the wikipedia article.
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  274. Groucho M That's just an ad-hominem. Doesn't matter who made it up. It's an accurate description.
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  275. Why do you hate it? It's a pretty accurate description of what the left tries to do. Breaking people down into separate classes and then trying to enforce equality between those classes by removing people's freedom. That's pretty much what Marxism is. They just try and do it through culture rather than economics.
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  276. Well that's a shit reason then isn't it.
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  277. +Martin Rayner I think what it ultimately is is a biological predisposition to react very negatively to certain situations. I think we're all here because we have an almost visceral dislike of authority (in the context of wider society anyway). That doesn't always lead to the same politics because your individual background and the ideas you're exposed to play a big part in how you turn out. But when it comes to these core TRIGGERS, we will naturally all collapse downwards onto this biological preference.
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  278. So you agree that the large amount of taxes that you DONT get something in return for, are theft.
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  279. What an ironically idiotic confusion. Politics isn't comparable to science. It's not a system of facts based on commonly agreed upon premises. It's a set of conflicted premises. One isn't true or false. They're just different sets of emotional and psychological priorities. You can definitely say that some political attitudes are better suited to certain situations. But neither is better suited to every situation (and therefore cannot be said to be true in any sense). The reason silicon valley tends to be more left-wing is because areas of high amounts of wealth tend to be more left-wing.
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  280. He had another democrat about a month ago.
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  281. Another great one Dave. Can you talk to some smart conservatives about trying to work towards a centrist movement? We need it to beat the progressives and they need it to beat the nationalists (they also hate the progressives obviously) Some smart moderate conservatives: Jonah Goldberg or Charles Cooke from the National Review. Ross Douthat from the NYT. All very smart and not too right-wing.
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  282. Ner, he's just trying to lose his reputation as a wacko
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  283. +MrOrtloff Not sure how exactly. Social and democratic control sounds like the state to me. After all, a business is often owned by just 1 person. If 99% of the population vote to make that business publicly owned, that's still democratic.
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  284. If the republicans ditched the anti-science stuff, the anti-gay stuff and the anti-abortion stuff, I'd vote republican every single election.
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  285. Probably true right now. But that's the problem. This is an unacceptable average!
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  286. Depends on the white man! Being a black guy in a rich family is significantly better than a poor white guy. These people just take averages and treat them as universals. It's retarded nonsense.
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  287. Lol best saying ever.
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  288. That might be the reason Trump temporarily overtook Clinton again. Trump fans should just spend the next month trying to trigger Gary Johnson about "illegals" if they want to steal his numbers.
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  289. What causes it?
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  290. Politifact actually rated that "open borders" thing as "Mostly False", not "Half True". It's a brilliant display of why you can't even trust the fact checkers. He was literally quoting what she said for God's sake.
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  291. You shouldn't eat them, I tried.
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  292. He said he was coming next week I think.
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  293. You've given up on entire countries a bit too quickly.
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  294. Republican is just the name of the party. It's not inherently anything.
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  295. Well done you. You get a gold star.
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  296. Lol you were like this below the age of 10? That's pretty freaky.
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  297. +msalgadosp Quite a lot of asian immigrants in the US too. Who also are generally good contributors to society.
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  298. That's because you seem to have almost no influence on the democratic party. Which is half corporate globalists and half anti-white identity politics.
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  299. +Tyrion Lannister Maybe try just arguing against people's positions rather than trying to label them with something that you think is a surrogate for an actual argument. Zionist? Neocon? Don't care, don't care.
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  300. Alex Leaud No, jews are massively over-represented in highly academic and intellectual fields. A lot of the alt-right people suggest jews are also behind the far-left movements trying to ruin western civilization. It can't be both if you want to claim it's some kind of jewish agenda.
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  301. Are you suggesting that people ARE happy now? Of course they're not. People are unhappy no matter what. People's happiness doesn't really scale very much with the reality of the situation.
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  302. People who don't have the money, shouldn't be worrying too much about a custom wedding cake then.
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  303. Which is why he said freedom is messy sometimes. It's not nice but it's better than abandoning liberty.
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  304. Who are you playing devil's advocate for exactly?
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  305. Muslims are mostly non-white and mostly less wealthy. They correlate those things and then decide how to act completely independently of the causes and issues.
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  306. Sounds like a good anime.
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  307. He's a libertarian clearly.
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  308. The first 2 of those are false by definition given that they've both have talked to Dave, who takes those positions.
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  309. Well those angry vagina pictures are pretty damn creepy. He's right there.
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  310. +The Rubin Report Well said Dooku.
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  311. John Thursday It hinges on what you mean by "political". I mean it in the more narrow sense of "overtly taking contentious stances on contemporary political issues". That's very different than saying something like "oh your game contains a kingdom that's ruled by a monarchy, therefore politics."
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  312. He clearly just gave an example of where Milo is a serious discussant. Did you just stop listening as soon as you heard his name?
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  313. You should get Douglas, Milo, Guy Benson all together and retake the idea of gay pride parades.
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  314. He did say for himself
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  315. He's dangerous to a lot of stuff.
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  316. Blocking people for trolling you is hardly a crime.
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  317. Fuck knows, I haven't played whatever Adrian Shepard was in!
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  318. You're missing the "part 3" from the title.
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  319. She is. A lot of middle-easterners are considered to be an extension of the caucasian ethnic group though.
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  320. He didn't say it shouldn't allow you. He just said you shouldn't do that. It shouldn't be about that. He was talking about morality, not legality.
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  321. I laughed out loud.
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  322. Watch some of Jordan's videos of his college class if you haven't yet. He's a brilliant teacher!
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  323. The word should be Muslimophobia. They deliberately choose a word that confuses between ideas and people so they could blur that line.
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  324. She set the site up a few years back. It's hardly a new project for her.
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  325. The video has a majority of likes. Clearly not remotely a circle jerk. Stop trying to stereotype everything.
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  326. He's retired at this point. Was always quite hesitant about media interviews anyway.
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  327. Just vote for a third party for the sake of trying to make it a 3-party system.
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  328. I don't buy this argument that regulation will automatically stop all competition and give government complete control. You can simply regulate based on the size of a company. If they own a majority of a particular market, like youtube, facebook, google and amazon, the government gets involved. Otherwise, they don't. That wouldn't stop any competition or innovation, because competition by definition starts out small.
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  329. +Aaron Botton Lol they tried. Luckily they're fucking mental so not very good at such things.
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  330. I'd love to see Ben Shapiro sit down with Sam Harris. The 2 best arguers I know, with very different worldviews.
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  331. +The Continental Regressive left is better. Cultural Marxism implies there's some kind of great theory behind how these people operate. There isn't. They're just idiots who've been conditioned by our victim culture to behave this way. There is no higher motivation beyond basic selfishness.
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  332. +Craigzy Well part of it is just a numbers thing as well. If you have like 1 muslim family moving into a village of western europeans, they'll have to adapt in order to fit in, and they probably won't be that much of a problem and if their kids go to a secular school, they'll pretty much grow up like everyone else. However, when you import large numbers of peoples, they form little ghettos and you have you muslim area of the city, your hindu area of the city, etc etc. That's where the problem lies because it allows them to sustain negative cultural elements.
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  333. Importing muslims wouldn't be a problem if western countries actually did a good job of integrating people and making them understand what values are and aren't acceptable here. And schools that remove any kind of medieval and tribal thinking from kids that their parents have forced onto them.
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  334. +Damian Louden There are differences yes. But there are quite a few commonalities too. Which Muslim majority country has anything remotely approaching free speech for example?
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  335. Ignopius Objective news should steer towards political correctness? What about when the facts of the matter are considered politically incorrect? E.g jews are much wealthier than muslims because they have a much more intellectual culture.
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  336. It'd be better to find someone who can represent those ideas who can argue them rationally, rather than put on a theatrical show whenever they don't have a good argument.
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  337. Tommy Zarate Well his answer is that these are just the best people for these roles.
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  338. D Mc No, he blocks people who try to tell him who he can and can't talk to. It's the opposite of what he's trying to do. Talking to people with extreme views is not necessarily a bad thing.
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  339. He probably blocked her because she's a control freak. Listened to her podcast with Sam Harris. About 70% of the entire thing was just her trying to police who people speak to.
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  340. D Mc What are you on about? None of them are a threat.
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  341. The main thing I'm curious to see is how the Left deals with the fact that Trump doesn't end up doing anything at all Hitlery. Obviously some will just maintain that saying some controversial things is just as bad as a holocaust. But some will definitely reflect and need to explain themselves.
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  342. Attitudes to healthy eating arise quite organically as well, due to various factors. Scotland for example eats much more unhealthily than the south of England. None of that was down to good teaching or bad teaching. It just so happens that people learn to value different things.
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  343. You should really go into a bit more detail about your beliefs on some of these matters Dave. Clearly a portion of the Left side of your audience are reacting to you like you're an extreme libertarian. From what I've heard from you though, you believe things like education and healthcare should be universal? Can you clarify to at least shut up these people who constantly make strawmen in your comments.
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  344. Lol free market in healthcare? If there was a real free market, you'd never have those insane prices, because there'd always be a competitor offering less.
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  345. Where did he say trickle down economics was good? Or worked?
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  346. Oh god, even you're going with silly strawmans too Cloe? Dave clearly doesn't support any of that, so why should he call himself conservative? You people seem to just assert that it's impossible to have any reasonable example of a smaller government. Well, the Australian government is significantly smaller than the French. France spends about 50% of GDP, Australia only about 35%. What horrors is Australia suffering because of this evil conservatism?
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  347. You people seem to almost entirely react to things he hasn't said. When did he say they waste all your money? He just said smaller government is better in general.
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  348. Being nice only works with other liberal democracies. Dictatorships don't understand niceness because in their own system, niceness is something that's immediately exploited as equivalent to weakness. Dogmatic ideologies don't understand niceness because it's completely independent of whether you accept their dogma.
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  349. The banner ad appearing on this video for me is for an Islamic charity appeal. Lolololol
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  350. ***** "preferences including a disdain for degenerate behaviour" is a nice way of just saying "I don't like the stuff I don't like." but making it sound more legitimate.
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  351. I'll give you the upvote to counter-balance the instinctive negativity but I'm afraid I just can't bring to myself to pretend that there's a positive reason for voting for either of these candidates so I'm officially closing my mind to anyone who says otherwise.
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  352. To be fair, what is sounds like Trump was doing can probably count as ACTUAL oppression of women too. It's certainly not as bad as elsewhere in the world though.
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  353. Good idea for future guest: Dan Carlin. Both Sam Harris and Joe Rogan have had him on. Interesting guy and good talker. Would be a nice change of subject too since he's a historian.
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  354. 123MrHurbert Dave does do that. He maybe doesn't do it overly forcefully but he does do it.
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  355. Problem is, it's pretty hard to push back strongly with the guests you agree with. So he'd probably end up doing it only against some guests. And the sense of neutrality would have been lost.
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  356. +PeterK1984 Nearly every country in the western world has different tax rates. You're massively overexaggerating the fragility of the system.
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  357. I meant Michael. When has he touched on it? As far as I know, he gave a written statement when it happened and then has avoided discussing it. 
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  358. +Horny Rebeeca Chambers I somehow doubt it's something he's eager to discuss.
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  359. "Outrage industrial complex" is brilliant and such an accurate comparison.
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  360. I don't think I've ever said this about gay people before, but you 2 are actually quite a cute couple.
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  361. +Funaru It's NOT the public consensus though. That's part of the problem. The number of people who identify as feminists is less than 20% based on the NYTimes poll.
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  362. People do bring that up! Constantly. The feminist movement on the whole refuses to really contribute to those issues. They spend more time trying to "free the nipple" than getting saudi women the ability to drive.
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  363. The thumbnails for the 3 parts of this interview make it look like Dan starts out angry and slowly gets happier throughout the interview.
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  364. I figuratively did.
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  365. The seating arrangement in this is awkward. It looks like Jimmy is the main guest and Felicia is just some random chick who joined in at the last minute.
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  366. Audiobooks maybe?
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  367. +Eric Sharp I believe there's a lot of disagreement on that!
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  368. You should have Eric Weinstein return at some point. He was great. Even with the "Trump is a next-level player" rubbish. Also, love to see Alex Jones turn some of the pepe the frogs gay.
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  369. I think some people confuse the fact that Dave likes to search for common ground with people with the idea that he just talks to people he agrees with. His last 10 guests have all had very different positions on things. There's just a lot of overlap.
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  370. You really need to get some socialists on Dave! You've had hardly any.
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  371. Both would make sense but I think you're right. Although I've genuinely never fantasized about killing someone. It's definitely not 100%
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  372. Jordan Peterson DESTROYS the atmosphere at the wedding with FACTS and LOGIC
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  373. Pretty good description of what's happening actually. I think he probably did it because he wanted to use the issue to favour the democrats before the election. Debating the issue would probably mean it wouldn't be solved until after the election. And I'm not even necessarily in disagreement with Obama's position. I just don't trust the way they're operating.
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  374. +Chrissy Hammerer I think he just means defeated in the sense that they'd expected their lies and narrative to just close the issue down. That didn't happen. It just made the gamergate movement louder and while a lot in the mainstream media didn't pay attention, an awful lot of big people in the games industry are fully aware of what happened now. Various developers and media personalities went on to either support it or at least acknowledge the serious side of it, for example people like Notch saying to his 2 million twitter followers that he agreed with GG on some issues. That's what made it a victory. If they'd just crushed the resistance with their shouting "harassment", they'd have a much easier time pulling the same kinda crap in the future. Instead, it's gonna be a lot harder for them to in the future.
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  375. +jack sag93 That is a 100% accurate description of the current scientific view on abiogenesis. Well done!
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  376. +Brendan Beckett It's connected in a number of ways. Mostly it was just the catalyst that lead to it happening. The gaming media has en masse supported feminist critics of gaming like Sarkeesian. You won't find a single critical article of her on any of the main gaming sites (yet many have helped promote her kickstarter, her videos, and reported on whenever she gets a death threat). Whereas the majority of the audience really dislike her and think her criticisms are a bit of a joke (go and look at the number of downvotes on Colbert's interview with her on youtube for an example of this). Gamergate might have happened without the feminist issue because a big gap was developing between the gaming media and their audience. But feminism drastically accelerated it.
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  377. +Jamal Karim I agree with this. I think Dave is slightly enjoying finding these people who agree with him on this issue cos he obviously cares about it a lot. He should try and play devil's advocate a bit more though. It's better for everyone to be given tough questions.
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  378. Good cause but I don't think I'm the only one who worries how much these people's biases will end up intruding once they grant themselves such powers. We've already seen how selectively facebook censors certain opinions and how they essentially define their neutrality to be extremely left-wing (by saying that criticizing immigrants is hate speech for example)
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  379. Keep up the good work Rubin. Although it's not really a hit to pay for an interview like that from time to time. Your patreon surely covers that (doing interesting interviews is why you've got so much support in the first place!)
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  380. Of course punching a Nazi is a free speech issue. It's an attempt to intimidate people of certain opinions into silence.
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  381. The reality is that both democratic candidates in the 2016 election completely towed the line on the identity politics bullshit. If the people on the Left who don't agree with that stuff can't actually get heard by their party, their positions aren't going to count for much!
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  382. At this point, they clearly invite him mostly to piss off the opposition as a statement of defiance. As they should when that kind of response exists.
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  383. That's not free speech. Congress has rules on appropriate behaviour that she breached. Free speech is a PUBLIC concept. Them silencing her was just them being dicks. Nothing to do with free speech. They've done it to Ted Cruz before too.
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  384. You have to generalize to some extent in politics though because that range of opinion ultimately gets condensed into 1 political party. When people are generalizing the Left or the Right, they tend to just mean the current dominant narrative amongst those groups that we can assume will be put into action should the party get in power. Of course there are plenty of Bill Clinton democrats still in existence, but they don't control the party anymore. Hilary was completely pandering to the regressives.
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  385. It's not the entire Left obviously. But the extremists have a massive influence over the dominant narratives on the Left that controls the people in power. Look at the Berkeley protests. The MAYOR of Berkeley tweeted out that "hate speech isn't welcome here". That's why the Left as a whole gets judged on this. It's not a extreme fringe. It's an extreme center who's in control.
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  386. None of those have anything to do with free speech. Can't you people read and understand concepts? It's just constantly "but there are other bad things too".
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  387. Trump's allowed to police the behaviour of his own departments. That's got nothing to do with free speech. Except the libel issue. Don't know if there's any serious intent to do that though?
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  388. Political parties effectively end up being single minded monoliths though. So you have to treat them like that to some extent.
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  389. Milo doesn't have to act with responsibility if he doesn't want to. People don't have to go and listen to him. The ONLY reason people go and listen to him saying ridiculous shit is because of how much it pisses off the SJWs. That's it. If he didn't get a reaction, Milo would get much smaller crowds, and his "irresponsible" approach wouldn't count for anything.
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  390. Well when "saying" becomes doing, I'm sure Dave will be the first to jump in!
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  391. How is Trump attempting that?
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  392. Well if it ends up being successful, then I'll endorse it. I just think people like Dave and myself think that this particular cancer has infected the Left much more than you guys do, and I think it'll likely tear apart any new Left-wing movement you create. I know Kyle is good on this stuff but he's pretty much the only one as far as I can see. Bernie got completely "cucked", as it were, by the race baiters and gender activists. Didn't stand up to them for shit.
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  393. It should become a joke when people start a sentence with "I don't agree with this guy on everything, but....." That does go without saying.
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  394. How is Sam lying about Mohammed being a warlord exactly? That's pretty well established historically. One of his battles is even in the Quran.
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  395. Remember to upvote the video and complain in the comments if you dislike people! Upvotes help the videos get shared by youtube.
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  396. I like this guy but he seems a bit simplistic on the difficulties of assimilation. People aren't worried about the next decade and the short term. People are worried about the next 100 years. What happens when a western country becomes 25% muslim? I think a lot of us worry that there'll start to be a slow erosion of our rights and our ability to dissent to islamic culture, which tends to assert itself quite aggressively and very rarely seems to respect disagreement. Hell, an olympic gymnast in Britain just got suspended because he mocked Islam. And that's with muslims being less than 5% of the population. What happens when it gets to 25% or more? If the Left wasn't capitulating to this sort of thing so reliably, maybe the natural dominance of the majority culture would force muslims to assimilate in the same way Hindus tend to (or Muslims in the US have tended to). But so far, I just don't see the evidence.
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  397. Rudyard Kipling Boy, am I convinced now.
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  398. +Vadim Newquist is Creationist Cat Brilliant avatar pic.
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  399. +Birch Williams Peter Hitchens is a great idea. He's not too high profile (so easier to get). And he completely disagrees with Dave on nearly everything except the SJW issue. I like Peter a lot. He's not as charming as his brother was but he has an interesting and quite unique worldview (i.e economically left wing but very culturally conservative)
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  400. +dogcow666 It seems almost certain that SOMEONE existed. He may have been nothing like the Bible version but it's pretty insane to think that would've been just invented. You don't get followers by just inventing people.
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  401. 1) I have a bad stomach ache. 2) Last night I ate a curry which likely caused this stomach ache. 3) Curries were massively imported into Britain (where I live) because of Britain conquering India. 4) US imperialism was massively helped by the fact that Britain had already spread english to most corners of the globe. My stomach ache has a Chomsky value of 4.
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  402. The Koch brothers prefer Dolphin to PCSX2
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  403. +Federick Hohenzollern Rubin will force you to just resort to force lightning.
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  404. Well Dave doesn't have a background in science, so I'm guessing that's why. If you want just interviews and discussions on science, entertainingly presented, I would recommend the Very Bad Wizards podcast and the Infinite Monkey Cage podcast. 
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  405. Lol Sargon deconstructing the sociological definition of racism with maths was quite smart. Lol they made their own definition nonsense.
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  406. Lol "upper class" means something different than in the UK. I always forget that little divergence.
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  407. Aren't there like 0.01 of those right-wing religious movies every year?
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  408. You make it sound like those are the only 3 aspects of someone's worldview. That's not at all true. Dave's had a big variety of people on, just not on those 3 issues.
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  409. Lol
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  410. That was weird to see an obviously smart guy fall into silly semantic arguments like that. There's a 90% chance it was just down to his GF/wife.
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  411. +vikipoyta You answered your own question! You can measure success with self-reported happiness.
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  412. I'm not disputing the value. I'm disputing it's practical tenability. I don't think a society set up like this would be stable. Not without a huge amount of safeguards. The collective was just an analogy. Humans aren't naturally a collective, like ants are. But we're not naturally that individualistic either.
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  413. Depends on your frame of reference from which you judge capitalism. From the point of view of whole societies over periods of decades, I think you can make a pretty good argument that capitalism is a very good thing. It's when you narrow down to look at individuals over shorter periods that there's a lot of bad, for which it's probably good to have government fill in some of those holes.
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  414. I was quite surprised to hear you say you'd consider a flat tax Dave. I think there would be some benefits to that. But ultimately I have to stick with the idea that people who CAN pay a higher percentage SHOULD. It shouldn't be that much more, because we need to make sure there's still a big incentive to get rich. Something like 15% for lowest, 30% for highest sounds about right to me. That would be a fairly small government and I think what they should do is focus almost entirely on fixing the inequalities of birth (mostly by schooling) So as many people as possible have equal opportunities. That would do so much to fix the massive differences in outcome, without the government ever needing to intervene and force anything.
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  415. Aanthanur DC No-one said anything about magic. But the algorithm itself is not physical. The instantiation of it is. But those are not the same thing. If you implement the same algorithm in a thousand different places, on a variety of different machines, we still say that's only 1 algorithm. So the algorithm can't be identical to any 1 physical instantiation. The algorithm is purely conceptual.
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  416. The algorithm is not that series of 1s and 0s stored in the RAM of a computer. The algorithm is that particular pattern ANYWHERE it can be found on ANY substrate that behaves equivalently. The algorithm itself is 1 particular thing. Whereas there could be millions of different instantiations.
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  417. Scruffy And why do the jews want that land in the first place?
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  418. Scruffy Yes but those religious divisions were along national lines. So if you remove the religion from that conflict, a lot of those problems are still there. You can't say that about Israel/Palestine. That really is just down religious lines.
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  419. Scruffy When has anyone denied that people other than muslims can show sympathy for extremism? Dinesh went out of his way to say this is just a current problem. Not necessarily a permanent one.
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  420. Scruffy The IRA was 90% nationalism, 10% religion. The problems with Islam are much more religious imo.
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  421. Over the broad span of history, Capitalism HAS been a global engine of prosperity. It's just very messy on the short term.
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  422. The afterlife question should be informed by what our understanding of the human mind is. If you think we really need something like a soul or spirit to explain things, then it's fair to assume that their might be an afterlife of some kind (although still quite silly to assume it's the version in any of the holy books.) If you think we can pretty much explain the mind in terms of physical processes, the default should be to assume that when those processes stop, you'll probably cease to exist. You shouldn't really assume either version without bringing in this understanding of the mind.
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  423. You don't have to. But he was saying a lot of atheists DO. Which is largely true.
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  424. I agree some politicians see it like that. What bothers me is that their voters have come to as well. It's not in their interests to be wrong on this subject at all. They're just morons.
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  425. 5:35-6.50 Dinesh perfectly describes the problem with Islam today in just over a minute. The Left have been incapable of making this description in over 10 years.
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  426. +Thomas McGrath What makes you say Kyle is a left-wing version of Alex Jones?
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  427. Dan TheOracle I don't have the data!
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  428. Is that an agreed upon distinction between the terms? Can you link to some kind of reputable source that agrees with that please?
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  429. Yeah and then you get millions of people trying to be actors. Which is way more than we need.
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  430. All of those were cases where you're fighting an actual enemy over agreed upon principles. Who do you wanna fight? The police? Most of them just do their job. There aren't really problems with police shootings in lots of the country. It's mostly just a few problem areas.
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  431. In a tree with some binoculars?
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  432. Trump did say gay marriage is settled.
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  433. +Samael527 Ha. You have experienced Senpacity.
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  434. No it's not. When you're convinced someone is wrong, you need to protect their right to be wrong even more. Not less.
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  435. +Serena Smith It's quite unusual for what I assume is a man over 40.
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  436. It was re-released recently.
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  437. I struggle to see why you wouldn't be in favour of some kind of progressive tax. It's not about whether it's "fair". It's about what will create the better society. I'd like to see a fairly small state where the lowest income pays 15% and the highest pays about 30%. I don't think that would be so bad that it would discourage business but it would allow enough money to be collected from millionaires to provide a good safety net.
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  438. And you think putting more money on it would somehow increase his freedom to get a specific response? Cos that's normally what we call the lottery.
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  439. Reduce the power and size of government so there are fewer ways it can be corrupted?
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  440. Jon south Maajid's not that Left wing. He's fairly centrist. Certainly not a socialist.
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  441. Yeah Cornell West is great. Some of the NYT guys perhaps? Kristoff or Krugman? Owen Jones in the UK is a fairly reasonable socialist to talk to.
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  442. Nope. Seems fine.
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  443. Salmagundiii It's not unverifiable. You've just overexagerrated what he was claiming.
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  444. Salmagundiii "Empirically illogical" is a meaningless phrase.
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  445. maverick buckley Yeah I know but it does mean at some point he would have been deliberately saying the opposite.
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  446. Just realised when Fry was ranting about people watching superhero films that are for kids, he was actually in the movie Stormbreaker, which was quite literally a superhero movie aimed at kids.
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  447. Gad's been getting severely oppressed at the beach by the looks of it.
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  448. Dave, make sure you listen to Sam's most recent podcast. You'll appreciate it. A lot of what you've been trying to say but said by someone a lot smarter (than any of us).
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  449. Dave, you should've asked Milo to reflect on the fact that a lot of the people he's finding himself aligned with on the SJW issue just happen to be "New Atheists" (probably because we see similarities in authoritarian worldviews quite quickly)
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  450. 2017: when Glenn Beck became a wise sage by comparison.
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  451. Lol "you people" as if it's always the same people.
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  452. America has a lot more variation and is a lot bigger than every other first world country. Lots of places in the US are absolutely on par with all of those other countries. There are just a lot of parts that aren't. So that average is misleading because it's not equally distributed. It's some parts of the US being great and some parts being awful.
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  453. Atheists don't stop asking questions. We'd just rather have no answer than a wrong answer.
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  454. Producitve societies, says "doomslayer".
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  455. This one looks more mature. He used to look like an out-of-work actor.
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  456. Great point by Jonathan toward the end. We should be seeing this as an opportunity for selecting tough people who like intellectual battles out from the sensitive weaklings. This climate makes it easier to notice that distinction. Once these groups are created, the difference in productivity and usefulness between them and the norm, will start to become clearer and clearer. That's surely the way to go.
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  457. The definitions are all a bit michievously used nowadays. I'd always used socialism to mean state/collective ownership of the entire economy. The original definition was the "means of production" (which obviously means different things today than it did 100 years ago). But whenever you argue with "socialists", they always seem to use it to just mean public ownership of SOME things, which as you say should be called social democracy. The mischievous part is that that leads to you wondering how many people ACTUALLY believe in social democracy, and would want some things to remain private, and how many of them are really socialists, who just social democracy is a good first step, because fewer people will object to it (but their ultimate aim is for everything to be public).
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  458. Hong Kong and Singapore are pretty damn happy about having been european colonies. They're richer than anywhere else for a thousand miles
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  459. Jessie's analysis of the middle east was a bit terrible. Just taking as an assumption that shias and sunnis would naturally be trying to kill each other. Yeah well protestants and catholics used to do that. Then they grew up. No dictators needed. Science and reason forced them to behave. The same needs to happen in Islam. The europeans didn't create that. The middle east was already way behind Europe culturally in 1919 when europeans went in there after the Ottoman empire fell. And the most extreme country, Saudi Arabia, wasn't colonized by europeans at all.
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  460. I just spoke to China, Russia and Japan. They don't remember ever being colonized by Europeans.
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  461. It's time we tried a Alt-Delete on our current culture.
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  462. Kathy's reaction was worse than her "joke"
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  463. This guy looks like he's insecure about his height.
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  464. Probably because almost nothing good can come of discussing it in a multi-racial country.
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  465. He's not an equal, he's fulfilling a different role.
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  466. You don't settle for 3 million unless you know you are going to lose anyway. It's a distinction without a difference.
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  467.  @stxejn  That's because when Sargon moved to Subscribestar, a whole bunch of people moved at the same time. So the SPLC activist types had a data point to show to Paypal and Stripe where they said "this website is now hosting the alt-right". Paypal and Stripe are operating on a very low burden of proof for such claims so pulled out as soon as they were provided any evidence at all. Sargon still has his own personal paypal account.
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  468. I seriously doubt the payment processors care enough about someone like Sargon for this. It's far more likely that Patreon just got a series of left-wing activists working for them who pushed this.
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  469. Peter is a conceptual penis.
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  470. Lol the guy who got famous for saying boobs is quite smart and interesting.
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  471. Good person to talk to on climate change would be Matt Ridley. Member of the house of lords in britain who accepts the science but has a drastically different approach to the solution that annoys the Left.
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  472. Dave Rubin turns the frogs gay.
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  473. Hope at some point soon you'll do some stuff on where you disagree with the Right. You seem to disagree on some areas like abortion and progressive taxes, but you haven't really gone into it very much. What about healthcare? Given that it's very topical, it'd be good to hear a good representative of the best Left vs Right arguments on healthcare.
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  474. He has probably had more people on the Right overall but plenty of center-left liberal types too. He just needs more Leftists. Only had 1 or 2.
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  475. True. But taboos are very different than laws. Conservatives have too often used laws, which don't actually work at maintaining taboos, and are unnecessarily oppressive.
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  476. Please yes!
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  477. So basically Michael broke up with a disabled woman. That's what I took from this.
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  478. Not really. People who are biased can at least have productive discussions that can help themselves and their audience. People who argue by demonizing contribute absolutely nothing to the issue. It's like trying to open a door by farting on it.
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  479. Pacific Alliance Everyone is biased. This comment was about people's approach to argument, not how well supported their positions are.
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  480. Ironically you insist on critical thinking in a comment where you didn't actually offer a criticism, but just made an assertion. You sir, have just torn a whole in spacetime.
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  481. oaxacachaka You learned mind-reading before grammar?
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  482. Sam changed his mind on the FBI phone thing too.
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  483. It sure would've been interesting if Dave had asked if Dinesh had brown skin and he'd said something other than yes. What kind of weird-ass question was that Rubin?
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  484. Who wouldn't?
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  485. Has anyone considered the theory that this stuff was deliberately kickstarted by the corporations themselves? Apparently the identity politics stuff was very successful in breaking up Occupy Wall Street. It seems plausible that the corporations all noticed this and started recruiting their own versions of it, as a kind of weapon they could deploy against attacks on them. It's a weapon that works quite well against both the right and the economic left.
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  486. Just keep doing your thing Dave. Enough people know what you do and dont represent so you'll survive the slander. I think you do need more far-left types on the show though. You've had plenty of center-left types on. Don't think you've had any socialists though. Celebrities who are too dumb to understand what it means don't count!
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  487. There have been quite a few people on the Left who've acknowledged that politics needs to maybe be more than just shouting "diversity" at white people. Whether it actually turns into a new movement on the Left is anyone's guess. It's quite hard to really start a new principled movement like this. You need to really get grassroot support. I suspect we'll have more luck trying to operate from the center because it necessitates open-mindedness and tolerance by the fact that you're regularly talking to people on both sides.
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  488. I wonder how many people will watch Part 2. Lololol
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  489. Ashe Arko No, people didn't like that he generalised anime avatars with a particular kind of behaviour. I've had people criticise me using a particular avatar before because they thought it was anime, when it actually wasn't.
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  490. +Koen van Amerongen Pretty easy solution though. Vote out anyone who's in favour of open borders. A few countries already have. Didn't Hungary just pretty much say "fuck off"? I know Britain's also taken a tiny number compared to Germany. As it should have.
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  491. Because it doesn't help to criticize Trump when there's no reasonable alternative. If it's either Trump or SJWs, I'm going with Trump and just hoping he doesn't fuck too much up.
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  492. I agree more with the policies on the Left. But I like the people on the Right a lot more.
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  493. I think Douglas murray called himself something like that on Sam Harris' podcast
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  494. +Islet of Langerhans I entirely agree. Insults denigrate arguments. Be as nice to them as possible while making them look as stupid as possible.
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  495. +Shawn Gunnison There were plenty of similar problems in the past though. The civil rights movement, the vietnam war protests, etc etc. Seems like the same thing could have developed from that.
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  496. +gerbill13 I think those are probably largely synonymous.
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  497. They misrepresented about half of what Harris and Murray actually said. Listen to their interview. They didn't say most of those things.
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  498. Gad and his genital based honorifics.
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  499. That's not just interpretation at all. When you have specificity of predictions and a large number of them that all end up being correct, and which can't be predicted by any other theory, it means your theory is very likely right, or some other theory that's functionally identical is right. I recommend David Deutsche's TED talk on scientific explanations where he goes into the detail of this.
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  500. Reliably predicting the age at which certain fossils will occur in the fossil record is a fairly convincing test. If they suddenly found dolphins existing 200 million years ago, that would falsify the theory.
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  501. People are right to over-emphasize islamic terrorism as a threat because it's not just a background constant. It's part of an ideology that's actively looking to spread their influence. 2 entire countries in the last 40 years have fallen to religious extremists (Iran and Turkey). If people drowning in the bathtub was a phenomena that was somehow looking to spread to encompass the entire country, we'd treat that seemingly trivial problem a lot more seriously too.
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  502. Was there supposed to be a meaningful point there?
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  503. What utter nonsense was this? You need to go and read some Adam Smith my friend. By your logic, the total wealth of humanity could never really increase. Which it has done, exponentially.
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  504. Loved that cheeky grin when he suggested a voluntary tax system as if to say "yeah, I know no-one's buying this bullshit, but I wanna have some fun."
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  505. Aanthanur DC I seriously doubt it could lead to the extinction of humanity. And you may have noticed that various billionaires just announced a $1b fund for energy innovation. So it's not just about Trump. And besides, he'll likely on get 4 years. That's a fairly limited amount of damage.
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  506. Those are entirely separate problems. What's the point of comparing them? One is a form of mass intolerance and ideology amongst a large group of young people. The other is a form of ignorance amongst a small group of old people who may not even act on it, and will probably be gone in 4 years time anyway. They're just entirely different kinds of problems.
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  507. Social justice as far as I can tell just means "assuming all inequalities are a form of injustice". The obvious problem being that plenty aren't injustices at all. They're just reality being random and uneven.
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  508. What a nice Giza.
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  509. Dumb point. It's only identity politics when you think your point has more weight BECAUSE you're an X. Simply noting that you're an X, isn't identity politics.
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  510. This is really important and everything Dave, but why didn't drop the interview so you could complain that Trump was attacking a clothing store on twitter instead?
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  511. It's not really comparable to those other channels because it's a completely different format. TYT and Secular Talk are just news presented through a particular opinion. Pakman is more of just an impartial reporter. Whereas Dave is trying to just encourage more and more discussion across the political spectrum.
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  512. Lol, an endless stream of mohammed based memes would probably actually help tbh.
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  513. Western countries are partly to blame for the fact that we're terrified of asserting our own values.
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  514. He's right to point out you shouldn't call all of these parties "far-right". Quite a few of these anti-immigration parties in Europe are probably more centrist than the Republican party is. They get called far-right purely because of the immigration position. Try and get Nigel Farage on Dave. He's pretty moderate on most things.
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  515.  @okiepita50t-town28  What on earth is a conservative libertarian. Libertarianism is about economics and the scope of the state. Conservatism is about social attitudes. Which of those attitudes is Dave conservative on?
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  516. So were the Jews. I'm sure he wasn't ignoring it.
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  517. "They have problems in other areas therefore they can't be good at this particular thing" - RandomGuy
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  518. The best thing about Niall Ferguson is playing the game: Drink a shot every time he tilts his head from one side to the other
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  519. One of the casualties of identity politics is that it pushes a huge number of identities out of the picture because people want to think of the world in simple terms. 3 or 4 categories people can deal with. 1000 categories they can't.
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  520. I'll become a patreon in the near future but don't have the money right now. Make sure you keep the channel alive Dave, this has genuinely been one of the best places online to turn to for guidance and openness in the last year. I really do worry about how many echo chambers the internet is creating. We need to beat back this trend.
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  521. When Trump tries to suspend the 1st amendment for only 1/10th of the population, will you just mindlessly pretend that's been for everyone as well?
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  522. I can't remember such rules.
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  523. +Ullrich Fischer And slightly more importantly, it also happens to be bullshit.
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  524. I don't have a smartphone. Way to personally harass me Dave :-D
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  525. Whenever someone like Kyle Kulinski or David Pakman says SJWs are just a fringe problem and we focus too much on them, just show them this video. They're not a fringe problem. This is a very large chunk of the modern Left.
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  526. Dave got seriously triggered by being compared to Reza Aslan. Being a hardcore fucker, he managed to find his mental safe space quickly, instead of requiring a physical one.
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  527. Dude, change your thumbnail back to trollface!
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  528. Jorge Martinez Where are you getting the data on "most environmentalists are young people"?
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  529. Dave you need to come up with some kind of standard guideline about if you want us to upvote or downvote based on disagreement. People confused!
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  530. I think Chris Pratt is a conservative. Dunno if he's officially stated it but from just following the things he says, it seems likely.
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  531. With Larry's ranting about the bias in Hollywood, you missed a great chance to point out to him the issues in the games industry Dave. The game's industry remains largely free from Left wing messaging, despite a lot of people trying to push it that way. The best selling games ALL remain completely apolitical (and there are a lot of us spending money in the places that will keep it that way). It's AS important an industry as Hollywood, if not more. If you compared the amount of time the average kid spends on each, I imagine gaming comes out on top. It just gets ignored by people who were too old to get caught up in it themselves.
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  532. annojance Which issue are you actually referring to?
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  533. +Utracia1 Well at least if it's done at a state level, you can always move to a different state if you have a massive problem with something.
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  534. Tucker and Gutfeld are the only people I can stand at Fox.
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  535. Still got ads at 3pm UK time 19th Jan.
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  536. You have a right to protest a democratic vote. But it's fucking pointless and stupid given that you're protesting against the very thing that allows you to protest in the first place.
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  537. I think he just means he's in favour of less inequality and having some redistribution of wealth to achieve that. He's said that quite a few times in videos. He just doesn't emphasize it much. It's not his fault that most of the Left is incredibly illiberal at the moment.
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  538. I don't see how the Left's ultimate aim of just confiscating all guns (ala UK and Australia) could possibly work in a country that is incapable of stopping 10 million illegal people from staying. People are a lot easier to track and stop than guns.
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  539. I've completely flipped on the gun issue after looking into the data more. Used to be massively against all guns across the board (i.e the UK model). Now I'm much less convinced that it's simply the presence of guns in the US that are a problem, and it's much more about certain high crime areas that are the problem.
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  540. Most social narratives are the product of multiple converging motivations.
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  541. If you can't see how important it was that this guy replaced Bill O'Reilly, you need to rethink it.
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  542. Harrison Ivaz That's socialist. Leftist is generally just someone who wants more equality of outcome. And no, not the freedom to exploit others. Freedom as defined by someone like J.S.Mill.
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  543. Maybe there's an inherent contradiction with a far-left position. I mean more center-left though. People who believe the government should do a bit of income redistribution but not too much. And after that, they should protect freedoms.
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  544. I know it's not. But it should still be possible to have a left-wing movement that values freedom. It doesn't really exist at the moment.
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  545. "Get on the train or who cares" - Milo 2016
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  546. Some excellent points on where the attacks on liberty come from. Western Europe has fallen to this stuff completely. Everything is legislated in some way or another. It's ingrained in the population at this point. The idea that a government should maximize freedom is completely alien to a large number of people.
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  547. There was an ad on this! And it says Islam in the title!!!!
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  548. I weirdly enjoy the fact that Jerry can't pronounce any words entirely properly.
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  549. This show keeps me sane nowadays.
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  550. No it wouldn't make 1000 dollars worthless. You're not really giving it to everyone. That's just a kind of superficial gesture of egalitarianism. You're only really giving it to the people who aren't paying for with their taxes. So taking 50,000 in taxes from a rich person and giving them 1000 in return is obviously different from giving a poor person 1000 and taking nothing in taxes.
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  551. I've seen politicians in the 21st century seriously debating issues regarding the limits of free speech without any knowledge that all of these issues were debated by people like John Locke and John Stuart Mill hundreds of years before. Especially given that I think John Stuart Mill fairly conclusively settled the entire issue, it's very disappointing that this ignorance of political and philosophical history is allowing the same problems to pop up again.
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  552. Yeah she's great. Hot too!
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  553. Everything in that quote is true.
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  554. Given that young people are overwhelmingly left-wing, that story's much less common.
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  555. I have trouble distinguishing race-based nationalists from culture-based nationalists. A lot of the underlying reasons are quite similar. They're just taken to point to 2 different conclusions. Culture-based nationalism I'm generally OK with. In other words, it should be entirely reasonable to say "people who move to this country have to make a very dedicated effort to assimilate into this culture". Whereas race-based nationalism is much more along the lines of "no-one else can move to this country". Those are very different positions but I think they're both motivated by the realisation that "multiculturalism" (or ethnic ghettoisation) is a terrible thing everywhere it's happened in the west.
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  556. I only have objective opinions :-)
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  557. He's not a war hero Dave. He got captured. We want people who didn't get captured :-D
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  558. He didn't mean you wouldn't be able to. He just meant there'd be various restrictions so it's not the same as buying milk.
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  559. When these absolute fucktards are finally destroyed and beaten to the extremes of society, someone should probably come up with some way to avoid something similar happening again. There seems to be quite a few ways that a culture can rot from within.
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  560. ***** I get that. But below that, is he well intentioned or not?
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  561. That'd be great. I still haven't figured out if he's an asshole or not.
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  562. In 4 years time, at the end of Trump's epic upset / potential apocalypse, maybe your channel will be big enough that he'd pick up the phone. I'm guessing you'll definitely have crossed 1 mil by then.
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  563. Find some more like this and prove that it's just a coincidence!
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  564. Yeah, that's a good analogy. Harvard's motto after all is "the college where IQ standard deviations are constant".
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  565. What Larry Summers actually said was that the higher variance in male IQ meant that there are gonna be more men in the absolute elite positions, when those positions are IQ-dependent. Which is quite clearly true. And he got fired for saying it.
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  566. Dave is. Niall is married to Ayaan Hirsi Ali.
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  567. Interesting listening to this 3 years later. I think we did pretty well out of Brexit given how pessimistic he sounded at this point. Corbyn is gone and the conservatives are just as strong as ever. Probably stronger, because Boris is more popular than May was.
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  568. Speak for yourself dudez. We're not all americans. I'm just pretending it's not happening!
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  569. When you getting Steven Pinker or Neil Tyson on Dave?
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  570. I like this crazy woman. Although she's wrong about critical thinking. You don't need to learn a lot about a subject to engage in critical thinking. You just need to understand basic principles of logic and statistics. That allows you to evaluate most evidence and arguments about anything. They're subject-independent.
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  571. Good stuff. Although she doesn't sound like she has any solutions so far. There must be some. Why isn't everything already a bureacracy in this way? Why is the university education system in europe significantly more free from admin bloat than in the US? Surely you economists should have answers to this?
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  572. One of your best interviews.
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  573. TYT truly is off course.
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  574. +Jon Melancon I think he means more than the value of liberalism is one which sides more with open debate. Conservatism was traditionally about preserving the status quo, and therefore had a natural dislike of debating new things. That's still very true in the conservatism of the middle east, for example. You're right that this no longer applies in the west though. Given that the world conservatives want no longer actually exists, they're just as open for debate as anyone else.
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  575. Sneaky fucker! This was a welcomed surprise. Turn ya bloody lights on though!
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  576. That's only because it gets reported more by Leftists in the west because they want to point out the evils of capitalism. Japan has an insanely high suicide rate and people killing themselves at work. The Left don't give a shit about that because it's not a poor country so they don't report it.
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  577. What do evolutionary biologists have to say about multiculturalism?
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  578. That was an insult, not an ad-hominem.
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  579. Cool. Pretty much identical to my position. He can't win but we need to threaten the 2 parties from the middle of the road and remind them how many people they're alienating. If everyone sticks with the "wasted vote" logic, nothing will change for next election. They'll still be polarized cults driven by extremists.
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  580. Great guest and interview. You really need a bigger variety of subjects though Dave.
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  581. +Paul Anderson Is that true? Who's Farage been caught having beers with?
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  582. Just realised when you mentioned it Dave that neither Trump or Sanders are remotely religious. Both of their responses when asked about it are so blatantly revealing about their actual positions. They're either agnostics or atheists. Trump's done an awful job at pretending and Bernie's just given garbled metaphorical answers when asked about it.
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  583. Is this audio really low or is it my computer?
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  584. "In his little man cave". Christina hadn't been in so dark an environment since she left feminist theory.
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  585. Just realised Ben compared something to The One Ring in both of his interviews. Lol
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  586. I feel like we've just lived in an era where people look back and see figures like Hitler and Stalin as the stereotypical dictators. We've forgotten that for every successful totalitarian, there were 100 people who might have liked to be in that position, but weren't remotely capable of pulling it off. Trump is in that latter category. Even if he wanted it, he's not remotely capable of achieving it.
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  587. Police don't even shoot them with bullets. They shoot them with the concept of racism and that usually does the trick.
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  588. ***** Well it's independent from whether they have a racial bias. The police in the UK kill almost no-one. But they were still shown to have a racial bias back in the 90s, which they've since improved on (and even gone too far the other way)
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  589. ***** That's a completely independent issue though. Most people would agree the police have problems with their excessive use of force. But that could be being misused on all races equally.
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  590. You might as well have just replaced this guy with a big sign saying "What they said on The Daily Show"
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  591. Milo said "sorry to interrupt you" in this video.
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  592. +The Turbanator Haha wtf!
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  593. jmcg1010 How did Nazism use christianity? They used the anti-semitism that had been a part of christianity for a long time. But that antisemitism isn't really prompted by anything in the Bible. It was more just general religious tribalism. That's the stuff that's pretty much inevitable between groups. Whereas stuff like killing cartoonists and spreading AIDS because of no contraception is very avoidable.
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  594. +jmcg1010 A list of terrible analogies. Some of those ideas are not even contained in those ideologies. Atheism isn't even an ideology. It has no contents. You cannot logically derive stalinism from atheism at all. Zionism and Islamism are good analogies though. You CAN get both of those by just reading the holy books.
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  595. Damian Louden Mmmm, that's a bit of a weak explanation. I don't think it's entirely wrong. But it misses a lot. For 1, the holy books are massively different. I mean 1 just fairly simple aspect is that the Bible is something like 10x as long as the Quran. It has a lot more room for interpretation because there are so many conflicting ideas, so you can just pick the versions you like. And while I agree that how they choose to interpret it matters, they're not going to interpret something as meaning the literal opposite of what's being said. The Quran ceaselessly demonizes unbelievers. There's just no-one who's going to read the quran and think you need to be nicer to atheists than to other muslims. It reiterates on nearly every page that you shouldn't.
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  596. Damian Louden "A version of Islam which is incredibly sexist". Might I point you to Quran chapter 4?
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  597. The enlightenment philosophers and founding fathers knew more than we do because there was a lot less TO know. They knew more relative to the total amount of knowledge available to them. But knew less in absolute terms. The term "polymath" used to be used to describe someone who knew a lot about every subject. It doesn't really exist anymore because it's an almost impossible thing to do today.
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  598. Lol, I see the subject, see the downvotes, guess the rest.
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  599. Dave, when you have Jon Haidt on (I seem to remember you mentioned him), can you please ask him what percentage of academics are on his side in terms of absolute free speech. My hunch is that the majority of people in the hard sciences are but most of them are too timid about speaking out.
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  600. I think it really should come down to how easy it is for you to find an alternative. If you were a black person living in the racist south amongst a lot of whites who didn't like you, I can understand that you need some government protection. It wouldn't have been very easy to just move elsewhere. But a wedding cake? That's something you're getting once in a lifetime and have a lot of time to plan. No-one buys the idea that you couldn't find an alternative.
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