Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "The Rubin Report" channel.

  1. I think "social contract" is a stab at getting to the importance of culture - the DOMINANCE of culture. Depending on the culture, and its uniformity, all kinds of wacked-out schemes can work pretty well. I prefer a system rooted in individual rights, which harnesses greed for the greater good, without the need for victims or force of compulsion.
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  2. You're just butt-hurt because a lot of people believe the facts argue against collectivism and the use of force to impose one's will on others, because of the presumed "rightness" of the (latest) cause or (trumped-up) crisis.
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  3. Yes, there is a basic role for government, for sure. I'm not sure the anarcho-capitalists aren't on to something, though. The true source of neverending wealth is repeat customers, and that requires trust, and trust is not a matter of law or regulations. Trust is good faith in the past projected into the future. This is Adam Smith's Invisible Hand that all the high-sounding philosophers have no answer to, but even ancient Chinese philosophers understood the FACT that order arises spontaneously. Over-control leads to chaos and harm.
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  4. There's a difference between being born into a social contract that guarantees you the fruits of your own labor and provides a setting in which you can improve your worth and thereby gain more fruits. Good things happen for more people if all you do is guarantee that one person can't take another person's shit, without their consent.
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  5. A libertarian would also be looking to wean the national government off its addiction to getting involved in everything under the sun. It's becoming more and more obvious that society and people are evolving far more rapidly than legislatures, courts and executives. California's taken things so far, even the most obstinate big-government types can't deny how foolish it is to micromanage society from central authority.
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  6. Aristotle and Plato are milestones on the road to enlightenment. Surely we've evolved beyond much of the prevailing thinking of their time, but that's no reason to scoff.
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  7. We're talking about guys getting close to some crucial ideas. Put Locke's work in the context of his time and he was pretty forward-thinking. Advanced the science of government. Not an end-all, be-all, just as Magna Carta wasn't. But still important thinking for our time and all time.
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  8. It's always been this bad. What's different is that there's significant push-back. They can't just control 3 (or 5) tv networks and what the AP/UPI/Reuters say. What makes it seem worse - and admittedly may BE worse - is the lengths to which they BLATANTLY go to maintain hegemony over the public square. I hope and pray we're seeing the storm before the calm, but my gut tells me that the elites would rather see it all burn down and rule over the ashes, than be ordinary in an ordinary word where common folk and common sense prevail.
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  9. Raquel Welch, "Hannie Caulder." 1971. Spaghetti Western. Hero's journey. "No such thing as hard women, just soft men." Probably could find some old Barbara Stanwyck that's right up there.
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  10. The original 'liberals' were pretty anti-establishment, and skeptical about the government "helping," because they knew it always came at a cost. Modern-day liberals WANT the government to help them with EVERYthing, and anybody who says different just doesn't have any compassion or "emotional intelligence." Now they're seeing what happens when you give strangers the POWER to do what they asked for, and they're slowly waking up. Very slowly. Most still believe the power should be given, and it's just a matter of having "the right leaders" to run things from the top down. They beg to be cared for as children, and then are the first to complain when the government starts acting like an evil stepmother. Dear liberals: The "evil stepmother" phenomenon will ALWAYS be associated with nanny government. You can't keep all the psychopaths and sociopaths out of office, so you never give officials too much power. Find another way. Help your neighbors and be content.
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  11. John Belushi and Carrie Fisher, under a bridge at midnight. "Baby it wasn't my fault." All that money and never built any flood controls or attempted any water sequestration, to save some of the excess for the dry years that are more common. No planning on the most basic things. What upset your plans during the drought of the last few years? It rained. We weren't ready. It's never ever rained before in the history of man and certainly we didn't expect it would ever rain again, because muh global warming.
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  12. Bud, Modelo. All fruit of the poisoned tree.
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  13. Did it occur to you that you're all wrapped up inside a sunk-cost fallacy? Maybe we should question the original idea of (re-)creating the state of Israel in 1948, when we were all full of ourselves, drunk with power, with the British full of plans for re-drawing the map of the Middle East one more time. WWII saw an extension of British colonialism by other (U.S.) means. I think our leaders got all full of themselves and, guided by the British, thought they were playing the Great Game against the USSR and China, when the plain fact is, their systems just can't keep up if we make them play by the rules and don't let them get a hold of our intellectual properties. We'll always have a lead. Free people just create a lot more and invent a lot more. Instead, we've grown our government and created something very akin to the totalitarian regimes our leaders claim to oppose, which is their reason for acting like Naxis at home, looking for ways to censor speech and control the flow of information, using external and internal threats as the excuse to go after people with dissenting opinions, who speak against their policies. We're basically dragging ourselves down to Stalin's level. People more and more afraid and more and more distrusting of people on "the other side" of the aisle from them, with one side always figuring that the way to win is to seize control of government and use government to suppress the opposition. I think we're seeing that, now, but we're talking about who committed the worst atrocity or made the most outrageous statement. Rather than dwell on the wrong in others, spend more time on the underlying truths.
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  14. In the USA, you give an inch, they'll take a mile, from late-term abortion to grooming children.
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  15. This is all pretty much the case; however, the currency, to a great extent, is as good as people believe it to be.
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  16. I think the use of coercion and force will succumb to the law of diminishing returns. This is going to motivate millions to donate to the truckers.
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  17. Class. Integrity. Discernment.
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  18. I fear that by the time Obama came along, it was too late. But better late, than never, they say. Just understand that Democrats got the big government ball rolling. Republicans only stopped opposing the unchecked growth in size, role, and scope of the federal government in the late '80s and early '90s. Now, it's very much uni-Party, but the MAGA/Liberty side is still concentrated under the Republican umbrella. But the Freedom Caucus wing of the party isn't calling the shots for the party. MAYbe it's changing, with the ouster of Ronna McDaniel, but that remains to be seen. If you're for liberty and limited government, you will end up voting Republican more often than not.
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  19. As long as you avoid Israel, you're not too bad, Dave. But you kind of lost me on Israel.
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  20.  @InVerSemusic93  : I'm more libertarian. I feel that a strong nation that operates on principles of freedom is kind of a necessary evil in a world that mostly doesn't operate that way. Good folks kind of have to band together to preserve that. But if the world mostly operated on principles of individual liberty and civil and especially property rights, then local government to get the snow off the roads would be about as far as government would need to go.
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  21.  @jdg9999  : The left can't meme.
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  22.  @bodeandigs  : I think we can draw from our religious traditions, but yeah. You really want to win on the facts, and not with a numerological analysis of some 15th-Century scholar's idea of what some 12th-Century monk gave as his best recollection of the story his daddy told him about the words of Saint Peter.
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  23. The system is corrupt in the extreme. The regulators work for big business.
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  24. Nah. I don't think AOC has enough depth to hold her own in one of these open-ended discussions. Even keeping it civil, I can see Rubin saying "But given the facts, what you just said was incredibly stupid."
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  25. Yes. School choice would solve a LOT of our problems. Now, the fake history and blatant government-centric indoctrination that we fear is not as dangerous as it seems. The kids see right through them, for the most part. There are a few who buy in, just like there were kids in crewcuts in the '60s supporting the Vietnam War. Things have flipped. The "establishment conservatives" are now rabid, so-called liberals, whose demented support of postmodernist ideology is no different from the Christian fundamentalists freaking out in the '50s and '60s about The Pill and homosexuality.
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  26. Section 230 is bad. But so is the entirety of the Communications Decency Act. Defining "decency" is none of the federal government's business. It needs to remain SILENT on matters of free speech. I say let these tech publishers should be allowed to die by their decisions. I think they're going to lose their relevance by abusing the inordinate powers they have. Yes. Fascism and Communism are just different brand names for the same top-down organization of society under a handful of unelected elites.
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  27. So it's OK to be authoritarian if you're on the side of the angels. What, then, distinguishes us from the authoritarian left? You're wrong on this, Knowles. You want to win, today, which will only ensure that we all lose, tomorrow. There's already a massive shift in public sentiment that could never have been achieved by resorting to the same abuse of power to which the other side resorts. This is why I consider myself an original-intent Constitutionalist or just generally a classical liberal or libertarian. Conservatives have this sense of rightness that deteriorates into dogma that is easily dismissed by lefties. "God said..." is not an argument. Also, Knowles was obviously bloviating when he touched on the "indecency" parts. He didn't actually present a cogent argument for censorship of obscenity. Maybe HIS idea of obscenity is MY idea of keepin' it real. If there's a majority of Michael Knowles's in power, then maybe they decide my questioning of claims made in The Good Book is "obscene," or profane, or they'll decide that heretical remarks are obscene. The thing about Christianity, itself, is it needs to evolve with the times, while remaining in keeping with core principles. I really like having the "Jesus Archetype" embedded in my world view. I think it's highly beneficial to an imperfect person inhabiting an imperfect world, to have that idea firmly in mind. When you're about to bite the head off of somebody, a quick "What would Jesus do?" is even better than counting to 10. I'm not sure it would have the same beneficial effect on my character, if it weren't hammered into me with a "Believe or die!" hook. It's quite a motivator and a bulwark against human tendencies to despair and devolve into hedonism/nihilism when faced with the fact of their mortality. This descent that is all too common amongst non-believers is why Religion has always been - and probably always will be - a prominent feature of surviving cultures. Why? Because without it, civilizations start to crumble. Tribes go extinct. The reason there's religion everywhere you look is because the tribes that lost it perished! They were RIGHT and they just kind of died out, petered out, or got outbred! You can talk all day about how backward, ignorant and regressive Christian/Muslim faithful are, but they're having big families and everybody else isn't even reproducing at replacement levels! Anyway, I think things are a lot more nuanced than Knowles is capable of conceiving or is willing to concede, because he's got a nice, tidy world view, and he can blather over the rough bits, like "Who decides what's obscene? The most vocal Muslim on the block?" The only kind of censorship I agree with is keeping things G-rated if the kiddies are around. But is that the job of the people creating and posting the content or the job of parents to filter out everything except those things of which the parent approve?
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  28. His "libertarian" doesn't sound very libertarian. Non-force principle doesn't prohibit border safeguards for sovereign nations. I hate being lumped into his definition.
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  29. The one candidate who's not a neocon and he can't get out of his own way.
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  30. He's the most racist president since Woodrow Wilson.
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  31. The Boomers were given more and we take even more than that. Now we're old and we're worried about our health, so the rest of society's expected to take care of us in style. No procedure is too expensive. Not for us. And we want to taxpayers to foot the bill for all of it, meaning our children and grandchildren, because our self-indulgence demands it.
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  32.  @DerekWilliamsMusic  : if you use paragraphs, I might read what you wrote.
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  33.  barack obama  : So you're basically a liberal with a brain, which means you can't call yourself a liberal, any more. The statist left appropriated the term.
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  34. This is what happens when you slap lipstick on sexist and racist pigs. Competent people recognize competence, regardless of superficial appearances over which a person has no control. People who think it's all about skin pigment and which way you swing are doomed to defeat.
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  35. What does she care? She owns that seat in the House in perpetuity.
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  36. People looking for religion.
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  37.  @Xani13  He's just mad because his pedo pals at CNN are in hot water, I'm guessing.
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  38.  @msabccbscnnoanfoxnews  Give me one example where Project Veritas got it wrong. I can name at least a dozen MAJOR stories in the last 20 years, where the legacy media got it ENTIRELY wrong, and assassinated the character and deplatformed truth speakers. Quit shilling for an establishment that hates you.
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  39.  @opqrt75  Standing in line seems like a really dumb thing to do if you're worried about a highly contagious, airborne virus. What we should have done from the start is spread the word about the treatments that were working the best. We did the opposite. We should've made home/outpatient treatments the main focus and made medicines like Aitch-see-queue and 1v3rm3c1n available. The fact that I'm altering spelling to keep from having my comment removed by AI should tell you everything you need to know about the establishment response to this virus that was created by the public health establishment.
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  40.  @floydholder597  I bet their mean-spirited comments get lots of likes in their Twitter bubble.
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  41.  @aubrywoksonsommers13  You sound like a good woman with common sense.
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  42.  @Debra_Hasatheory  If I got a cold, I might get tested. That's how the coof presents, initially, and I'd want to get treated, right away. Of course, my odds of getting proper treatment, right away, in the USA are slim to none, since all the off-the-shelf medicines that WORK are problematic for doctors to prescribe, and having been prescribed, are problematic to obtain. The health care establishment has gone off the rails, and it's 99% due to government intervention.
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  43.  @ouiroc  It's been and continues to be an info war. They can control MSM all they want, but NOBODY'S WATCHING.
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  44.  @paulgaasenbeek4943  Nobody in the media BORG wants to talk about T-cells, which I think are damaged/retarded by the jab. All they want to talk about is antibodies, which may or may not be conspicuously present in a person with robust immunity. My gut tells me the vaccinated will have lowered immune responses to just about everything in the years to come, by which time it'll be far too late for an "I'm sorry" or "I didn't know." Sheeple are terrified of just one thing at a time, and all else must give way to that one thing, whether it makes sense or not. It's one-variable approach to a multi-variable universe.
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  45. The people buying into their nonsense are generally good, conscientious people, who only have an hour or a half-hour a day that they give to the news, and they watch the news that is most easily obtainable, which is corporate/government news on the legacy networks. I wish they drilled deeper, but they're otherwise leading more balanced lives than geeks like me, who spend far too much time digging and listening to all points of view.
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  46.  @murph3001  He's not perfect, but he's a giant amongst midgets in Washington.
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  47. Ben Shapiro was good for about a month. After that, I pretty much figured out what he had to say, what I agreed and disagreed with him about, and I moved on to Jordan Peterson, who has a lot more to say and has had more years to let things percolate than Shapiro. Maybe younger people would like Shapiro more. I dunno. He's very bright for his age, but he's still pretty young.
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  48. Hey Dave! We sorta lost touch when you went full-on Zionist.
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  49. When she's talking about cronies, she's projecting. Ukraine's all about Biden's cronies.
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  50. Where's the same courtesy being extended to Texas? But her party were cheering this in 2020, and we were all racists for saying it was out of control and hurting our border states.
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