Comments by "Tim Bucks" (@TimBitts649) on "Why Are We More Divided Than During the Civil War? | Dennis Prager | POLITICS | Rubin Report" video.

  1. Why I support Putin: countries are more than just hotels, with temporary guests on holidays. Countries are memories and traditions including religious traditions, including the Judeo-Christian Western heritage. It's like Jordan Peterson's order and chaos. But it's about balance. It's about how much. We need order. We need change, a bit of chaos. Change is needed, but with limits. The core problem: Technology puts change on steroids. Like in Brett and Heather's recent book on evolution. Too much change is bad, it brings too much chaos, like at the southern border. Too much order, brings stagnation. No chance of that happening nowadays, with endless change brought by technology. Problem: Too much change just brings chaos. Even things like marriage are changing too much. Only rich people get married now, claims Jordan Peterson. Our sexual roles have changed beyond recognition. Family? What the heck is that now? Progressives now say there are dozens of genders, they want to remake the Supreme Court of the U.S. No thanks. Too much change. AOC wants open borders, Hillary once said she wanted 600 Million new Americans to be brought in. No thanks. We have enough people. We're good. Eventually with too much change, there is nothing holding us together, any more. Justin Trudeau said the same thing about Canada, it supposedly has no core identity. Justin hates the truckers because they interfere with his agenda to permanently change Canada beyond recognition. They interfere with his fascist level of control, he uses to transform everything beyond recognition. Progressives have no intention of reflecting the values or interests of those people they govern. They intend to dominate those people, then replace them, bring in new people to subjugate. George Soros wants the same thing for Europe: bring in a new population to replace the current one, open borders forever, with progressives managing the chaos. Putin says the opposite: slow this down, history and tradition still count. Globalists wont' control Russia, nor China. I don't see any open borders in China either, no endless immigration. Which concept will survive? Will countries survive? Or will progressive Globalist elites run everything? Their vision is simple: "In the future you will own nothing, and be happy". No thanks.
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  2.  @TheHigherVoltage  Authoritarian dictator? Who do you mean? Justin Trudeau? 😅 The problem is not freedom and democracy. The problem is, the lack of freedom and democracy. George Soros and other rich people buy and sell politicians, destroying democracy and freedom. Justin Trudeau's dad Pierre was Prime Minister of Canada, back in 1968. He used to work for globalist super-rich billionaire elites at Power Corporation of Canada, with ties to globalists like George Soros. You can find all this on Wikipedia. Easy. Other past employees of Power Corporation of Canada: Paul Martin, Brian Mulroney, Jean Chretien, as well as Justin Trudeau's dad Pierre. Between all of them, this handful of men been Prime Minister of Canada for 65% of the time, since the Beatles era, when Hey Jude was #1 song worldwide. Justin Trudeau is not a patriot. His deputy Prime Minister is Chrystia Freeland. She wrote a book on the super-rich billionaire globalist class, she's part of their social circle. This is not reported on Canadian TV because their national news stations and newspapers can't compete in the free market, so they are given billions of dollars by Justin Trudeau. Fake News, Canada. You and I both support freedom and democracy. Wish we had it. 🤷‍♀
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  3. My guess is most Jewish people are leftish and often so called "progressive" because they have been persecuted a lot in the past. Deep emotional scars last generations. Bernie Sanders once said his parents were victims, he remembers them talking about. So, there are people around, who lived through this. I've met a few. Very painful. We still carry cultural trauma that needs healing. Dennis Prager is a big help. So is Dave Rubin. The left emphasizes emotion over logic. People who go through trauma, that's what they look for: relief from the pain, for healing emotion, making the world better. It's the same reason a Jewish guy Marx invented communism, which is emotionally based, it tries to make the world a better place based on sharing. It failed miserably, relying on emotion too much is a trap, in of itself...just like denying emotion is. Emotion must be balanced with logic, reason and evidence, or it leads people to very dark places. David Horowitz is a conservative Jewish writer who used to be a progressive, so he really understands this mindset. Mike Huckabee interviewed him. David wrote Dark Agenda. 3 choice quotes from David's book: What feminists are actually demanding is not, in fact, the freedom to choose. They are demanding to be free from responsibility for their choices. When Soviet Communism collapsed in 1991, progressives didn't give up their illusions. Instead they changed the name of their utopian dream. Today they no longer call their earthly redemption "Communism." They call it "social justice." In the twentieth century alone, Communist atheists slaughtered more than 100 million people in Russia, China, and Indochina. Not even the bloodthirsty jihadists of radical Islam have killed innocents on anything close to such a scale.
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  4.  @williamayers4295  thank you
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  5.  @TheHigherVoltage  Russia has a bunch of rivers that flow northward, into the Arctic Ocean. And they have a big land mass. Very big. This meant for their history, Russians were largely cut off from the rest of European life, especially the Enlightenment and Renaissance. A few Russian Czars tried to integrate Russia into Europe, bringing in French and German engineers to build Petrograd. (Also called Leningrad or St. Peter's) The point is, for geographic reasons, Russia was cut off from the rest of Europe for a very long time. It's really not at all like the rest of Europe. It's on a different timeline. Your comment reminds me of George W. Bush wanting to introducing democracy into Iraq, nation-building, while being completely ignorant of the vast, long and complex history of that region. Doesn't work. Democracy is one of those things that works best, develops best, in a slow and organic way....if at all. Neo-cons were fools. $7 Trillion dollars later, most Americans can see that John Bolton is a fool. Leave people alone. Stop bothering them.
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  6.  @TheHigherVoltage  You claimed: Russia was, and still is, comprised of a wide variety of peoples and cultures. No, Russia is 80% ethnic Russian. It's largely an ethno-state, like China. Wiki on Russian demographics: Some four-fifths of the Russian population was of European descent according to the 2010 census,[21] counting Slavs and with a substantial minority of Finnic peoples and Germans. The 2010 census recorded roughly 81% of the population as ethnic Russians, and rest of the 19% of the population as other minorities belonging to over 190 ethnic groups across the country. You claimed: Russia was never cut off from Europe geographically. Look at a map. West European countries are smaller, closer to the Atlantic, rivers sometimes flow between European countries. Geography has a big effect. One thing that made the U.S. was we have a huge Mississippi River system, connects the middle third of country, made developing it easy, as water is cheap to float stuff on, move people and goods around. Plus we had the Great Lakes. Russia is huge. Till recently the technology to move things and people, relied on boats. That's hard for Russia since it has rivers emptying into the Arctic Ocean, not connecting it with Europe. You claim quoting me: "Democracy is one of those things that works best, develops best, in a slow and organic way....if at all." Your claim about me: Huh? Every time democracy has been introduced, it's been done as a 'flick of the switch' between authoritarian rule into a democratic rule. A simple example is the US and French revolutions." end quote My answer: Flick of the switch? No. Read Winston S. Churchill's book series "A History of the English Speaking Peoples". It took England about 800 years to slowly and organically, put in place and develop, the basics of democracy. America was a colony of Britain, so it was relatively easy for the Americans to take what they were given from the Mother Country, fine tune and make it better. The French Revolution? It was covered in blood. No thanks. I am in favor of democracy, I just don't push other people, to be like me. You do. Russia is none of our business. Go make your own life better, before improving the world. And I'll make mine better. Do something, for your own town or city or family.
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  7.  @TheHigherVoltage  Horses? Mules? Carts? You rely on those for your argument? You want to throw in a bow and arrow while you are at it? A stone axe? When Napoleon and Hitler tried to invade Russia, they both learned geography the same country: Russia is a big country, with a very nasty winter. You would have thought Hitler would know better, he had the fool Napoleon to follow. Both tried to fight the Russian winter and lost. Turns out, snowflakes are quite powerful. ❄☃❄ Russia got excited about Crimea and the Black Sea during the Obama years, because they wanted to keep their only fresh water port alive, for shipping goods, as it connects to the Mediterranean. Again, geography rivers and transportation. Rome has a Mediterranean climate. Good for moving stuff around in boats. Trade. Moving people. Moving armies. All roads led to Rome because roads can be built more easily in warm climates. That's why civilization tends to start in warm climates, not Siberia near The Arctic Circle. Just now in this day and age, China is getting around to building The Silk Road, connecting China to Russia, Western Europe, the Middle East. Kind of late, huh? No not really. For various reasons it took this long for it to happen. All your comments on Mongols are a waste. That happened long ago and no consistent large trade took place between Western Europe, and Russia. This was important in the big picture because it is the countries of Western Europe who more or less invented the modern world. Russia was on the periphery of all that. Helmuth Nyborg from Denmark catalogued all that technical scientific development, put a map on it, where it happened. The map fits with what I wrote: the modern world came out of Western Europe, Russia was cut off from that history, was on the periphery, due to geography. You ever actually tried to ride a horse? I have. Damn hard. That's why most invasions, tend to be as local as possible. Germany attacks France, or England attacks Scotland, that kind of thing. Easier to do, that's all, if it's local. Less energy. Takes a lot of energy to ride from Mongolia to Budapest. Walking? Forgetaboutit...For a Russian to get on a horse and end up in France, seems very unlikely. That's why it almost never happened. Same with moving goods. Try moving some stuff in an ox cart, you'll find out. That's also why people make comments here. Easy to do. 😆Try writing a book. Old saying: "Americans learn geography by invading countries and blowing them up.".....you American? 😂
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