Comments by "Digital Nomad" (@digitalnomad9985) on "The Left's Intimidation Game - Kimberley Strassel" video.

  1. "She’s speaking to an audience I’m sure of predominately white affluent kids who attend an exclusive private school." Exclusive in the sense that their academic standards are high. Affluent in the sense that they don't take government money, so the tuition is high. By including "white", I presume you are willing to leave the impression that Hillsdale is exclusive with respect to race. That is not the case. "Her words ring hollow to someone like me." Someone who is willing to see the methods of authoritarianism take root in our society and government, so long as the oppression favors your views. "Hurtful. Divisive. Cruel." For example? "Until that discourse changes I’ll continue to read her opinions but wonder about her character." What reflection could someone else's discourse possibly have on HER character? " I wonder if this speech would connect with a diverse audience." You are implying that minorities are OK with political intimidation. That they are as authoritarian as yourself. That is racist, sexist or whatever depending on which minority you're slandering.
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  2. "The left right divide is fake, it has no nexus to reality whatsoever." Agreed, it is a socialist construct to equate the dissimilar and separate the identical. "the demise of every living creature on the planet." There is no scientist who believes that. There are some fairly absurd apocalyptic predictions coming from pseudoscientists, but none predict the extinction of life. "There is no gun debate." Agreed, facts an figures on the NRA side, victims in wheelchairs and special pleading on the other. This is not a rational debate. " Unlimited funds for the manufacture of weapons of death while there is no money for essential social services" Discretionary and non-discretionary social services spending 70% of the budget, interest on debt 6%, military spending 16% of total budget. "no value on life whatsoever." So you're pro-life? A more reasonable test of who has his heart in the right place is who voluntarily gives charitably as a percentage of their income and who volunteers. That would be the US leading as a percentage of GDP, with Israel as second and UK as third. Among the citizens of the US it is the conservatives who contribute most as a percentage of their income and volunteer the most for charity. Who cares about his fellow man? He who volunteers himself or he who volunteers somebody else (tax and spend)? As Mark Twain observed “To do good is noble. To tell others to do good is even nobler and much less trouble.” Idiot revisionist historian shilling obvious bollocks. If the west wanted to conquer the world, the world would be conquered. After VJ day the US had the most powerful naval and air armada in the world, a vast army, and exclusive access to the atom bomb. We could at that point have conquered the world by ourselves. In all these wars the idiots say are for oil, how is it that we neglected to seize the oil? The conquest ethic once indeed ruled the world. It is the west, and in particular the US, that came up with the alternative of making wealth by technological and industrial innovation, as a replacement for the conquest paradigm. Some non-western nations haven't gotten the memo. "Half the country may live in poverty" 12.7%. You should stick to vague outrageous hyperbole. This is the age of the Internet. When you make up FIGURES you get fact checked. A vague general narrative takes longer to debunk. "our civil liberties may be taken from us" Yes, this video documents your buddies doing this. "militarized police may murder unarmed citizens in the streets" That was the media narrative, but it has been proven false. "we may run the world’s largest prison system" That's because China and Russia kill a larger percentage of those they arrest. "but all these truths are studiously ignored." All these distortions and slanders are trumpeted from the rooftops by the mainstream media, Hollywood and government funded broadcasting, and government funded colleges, and that is where you learned the party line.
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