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

  1. Hollywood hasn't really changed. It's always pushed the agendas of the donor class and the government. What has changed is that the messaging from the establishment is so alien to what people know and believe that it's created huge backlash. This doesn't explain everything that's going on, but the liberal messaging that's dominated since the 1960s, with your John Wayne and Clint Eastwood outliers, resonated pretty well, and could even be argued to be helping move the culture in better, more open-minded directions. Anybody born before 1970 knows how homophobic society used to be. I think the Tom Hanks movie "Philadelphia," (I think), where Hanks played a gay man who was sick with AIDS, marked a real turning point for society. Jesus teaches care for the sick and unconditional love. Christians are also instructed that departure from hetero norms is a sin. But when they put a face and a back-story to a good man to an AIDS victim, the unconditional love, which is the Highest Level Teaching of Christianity, trumped the homophobia. That was a turning point in our history, where AIDS had real potential to generate huge backlash against gay people. Instead, the media complex hit us with "Philadelphia," and a lot of Christians couldn't bring themselves to hate Tom Hanks. Major culture shift towards tolerance and acceptance.
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  2. When I was first looking for work, I loved the idea of project-based learning, and teaching math in the context of larger interdisciplinary work. Kid WILL learn Fourier Transforms, to finish his signal-processing project. Teach basic calculus through Newtonian physics... Looked like a good gig, with all kinds of openness to different teaching and learning models. It was a little intimidating, because I'd have to mind my p's and q's in more than one discipline, but looked like a fun place to ply my trade, if there were buy-in from the student body. Bridges basically created an institution of higher disruption, and his success was manifest in the campus takeover.
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  3. These people have no moral compass.
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  4. Even if they don't get the surgery, the puberty blockers keep their bodies from developing, so they're chemically neutered. I feel so sorry for Ellen Page. She looks sick as a dog on The View. Just a very unhappy person.
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  5. Speaking of over-fishing, Ronald Reagan, a sacred cow of conservatives, wasn't above intervening in the economy to the detriment of the environment. They over-fished the New England fisheries after Reagan made it easier for fishermen to get low-interest loans to "own their own boat." This was ruinous to the ecosystem off the Atlantic coast. The best intervention is NO intervention. Give people maximum flexibility and they will find better solutions than well-meaning (debatable) bureaucrats and politicians could ever dream of. But you've got to get out of their way. That way, the ONLY systems that will rise are systems that are provably sustainable.
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  6. They tolerate zero diversity and judge people based on immutable physical characteristics, when they're not busy discriminating against religion.
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  7. Calling this "Durham Report" is low-IQ. We're tracking INDICTMENTS. He's not giving up a "report." Quit being lazy.
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  8. Aliens looking down on Earth: "We observed the rise of a new religion, worshiping some kind of sex god, led by priests in clown outfits. We'll continue to monitor. It appears to be some sort of death cult that despises children. We anticipate an extinction event."
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  9. As an NFL fan, I just want to say that this guy looks like and sounds like Nick Wright, without the giant proboscis.
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  10. No worries. I don't listen to what this admin says. I see what they DO, so I started positioning for big inflation right away.
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  11. 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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  12. I'm not sure he was standing up against it. I think he was confessing to an apparent flaw in policies he was implementing.
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  13.  @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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  14.  @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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  15.  @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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  16.  @aubrywoksonsommers13  You sound like a good woman with common sense.
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  17.  @floydholder597  I bet their mean-spirited comments get lots of likes in their Twitter bubble.
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  18.  @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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  19.  @bjrneileras2534  Gain-of-function research farmed out to 2nd-raters in China, and changing the very definition of the term in order to circumvent the law. Using his position to push lockdowns, masks and most of all The Jab, when he either didn't know what he was talking about or deliberately prescribed the most harmful response to COVID possible.
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  20.  @tootieramsey9766  Rural electrification and Internet was a major subsidy for the rural population. If they want those freebies, they gotta bend the knee. They want the freebies and then talk like they're conservative on everything. There's a disconnect there that bodes ill for rural areas.
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  21. People looking for religion.
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  22. Dr. Drew was part of the problem, at first. With his training, he should have known better, but he went along with the insanity until Fall, 2021, when the damage was already done. Don't lecture us about social contagion, you incompetent and malicious fool.
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  23. We'll never do away with any of these agencies as a direct act of Congress or the president. Politics got us into this mess. Politics will not get us out. We're in an era of sacred dysfunction. Everybody knows it doesn't work, but everyone wants the piece of it that benefits them, personally, so the entire edifice will remain intact until it falls apart, because every piece of it benefits someone. You know why the French are always striking and rioting? Because they got their way, and their way is always going to fail, and leave them angry. "Why's everything so expensive? We're going on strike." The reason everything's so expensive is because this was what you asked for the last 100 times you went on strike. "We don't want to lie in the bed we made, and it's the politicians' fault!" There's a critical number of people who want things this way, and there's f-all we can do about it. All we can do - all we can ever do - is make the best of our own particular situation.
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  24. Here's the thing about "leftism" and "liberalism," to me: The left believes in redistribution at its core. And this puts the left on an illiberal philosophical path, because the only way to redistribute is to water down what individual rights ARE. We forget, every time that government does ANYthing FOR us, that we're opening ourselves up to JUST the kind of illiberal liberalism that you guys so clearly see, but which Brendan (and every liberal I know) fails to see is the LOGICAL consequence of their belief that government is good for anything but defending our soil and defending our BASIC HUMAN RIGHTS, which do NOT include a full belly or roof over our heads or medical care out of somebody else's pocket. And I don't wanna get too mystical on y'all, but there's a yin and yang thing going on, here, where the more successful the left is in making everyone economically secure, the more resentment builds up on the part of those putting in more than they get out. And it's dangerous to just lump everybody (all those Atlases shrugging out there) as right-wing idiots, but the (so-called) left INVITES Hitler to rule, by ginning-up the (so-called) right to DO something about all the parasites living off their hard work (in their view). Government is like Sauron's Ring of Power. Oh, the GOOD you can do by use of compulsion, but it destroys both compeller and compelled, in the long run, every... bleedin'... time. I could go on (obviously) just drivelizing, but if you want a compassionate society, YOU be compassionate. Redistribution by force DESTROYS liberal values on the street. "That's what we pay taxes for. It's our gov't's fault that guy's livin' in a cardboard box."
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  25. So you canceled Disney+. Shows how behind the times you were to even buy it in the first place.
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  26. I want her made whole. I don't want to support her putting up another store where neither the community nor the local government are on her side. She needs to take her gofundme money and get the hell outta NYC.
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  27. 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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  28. 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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  29. You appartly weren't listening very closely to Jordan Peterson. He's not against helping the poor. He's just against federal anti-poverty programs imposed nation-wide in one-size-fits-all fashion by a HUGE, out-of-touch and arrogant bureaucracy. Charity starts at home and filters out from there. If you want a kinder nation, you act locally and pray that the feds never get involved, because they will pervert it or they will be perverted by the most powerful special interests. It's not about not being compassionate towards the weak and underprivileged. It's about saying "No" to huge, centralized institutions "corporatizing" the act of human generosity. If all the liberals who VOTE for big spending would just open up their wallets and help as many people as they CAN, and be SATISFIED with that, and maybe influence others to be similarly kind and generous, the world would be a much better place. Instead, they vote to MAKE everyone pay for whatever charity some stuffed-shirts in Washington, in collaboration with the Bill Gateses of the world decide should take over. Even that wouldn't be so bad if not for the fact that those institutions encroach more and more into everyone's lives and make less and less sensible decisions, with the only end-game in sight being the kind of authoritarianism that even assholes like Bill Maher can see. He's an asshole because he doesn't see his own hand in the creation of these authoritarian structures, ripe for the takeover by a very small number of people, affecting policies across the nation and across the world. We need to be more DECENTRALIZED so that the corruption and incompetence only reach so far and last so long before they're stopped. But at the national level, where they even control the money supply, they can make promises they can't really keep and muddle on for GENERATIONS. You try that shit at the state or local level and you run out of money in a couple years and people throw out the idiots and can recover in a couple years. When it goes on for decades, the hole is just too deep. The feds argue not over whether we should go DEEPER into debt, but by how much more. Every year.
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  30. Everything that was un-redacted, after court fights and so on, was revealed to be EMBARRASSING to the people who were claiming "national security" and talking shit about "methods and sources." None of the redacted materials contained anything damaging to anybody but the people hiding behind national security.
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  31. Lock-downs are going to back-fire against Democrats and teacher unions, big-time.
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  32. Pure sophistry by these transgender activists. We all know the score. Clinging to their delusions paints all transsexuals with one crazy-brush.
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  33. Centralized, top-down command economies are created on the assumption that the elites know what's good for us and WANT what's good for us. But in practice, the task of managing everything from on high leads to destruction and the elimination of civil rights for the individual. It's for our own good, so we should accept hundreds of millions dead by firing squad and starvation.
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  34. People still watch SNL? It was bad when there was no Internet.
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  35. How about going back to Gulf of Tonkin propaganda? WMDs in Iraq propaganda? Heck, you could go all the way back to the Hurst (Hearst?) newspaper empire starting the Spanish-American War over 100 years ago.
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  36. Not only don't they work, but the harm caused by wearing them is indisputable. Fauci is a total fraud. Over-the-hill bureaucrat trying to be relevant. He's a bigger danger to me than COVID-19.
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  37. He's a charismatic narcissist.
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  38. It's more simple and direct to say "... the Fed PRINTS the money."
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  39. It was Democrats who openly supported political violence on the left. For years. Now they're shifting blame. Standard operating procedure for those whose lust for power has no bounds.
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  40. 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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  41. No. Not "seeped into the university space;" rather, is seeping OUT from the university space. Academe is what's been hijacked, and academe is seeking to hijack the rest of us. But it's running out of steam, now. Good stuff, Dave. Isn't it cool that once you figure out the principle of non-violence/non-force, that it becomes EASY to make rational judgements on political matters with little trouble. Any other system of logic is so fraught with epicycles, you have to be a genius to really understand everything. "No, lad. The Earth is a spinning globe revolving around the Sun, and that's why the planets and stars move in the sky as they do." Libertarians are actually stupid people, just trying to sort the world out.
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  42. Nothing happened when he blatantly violated the Logan Act to undermine Trump, abroad, telling the Iranians - among other things - that Trump would be driven out of office, so they didn't have to worry about him or change what they were doing. Kerry's buddies would be back in power very soon. Just hold the line... Nothing will happen to Kerry. He's a Democrat establishment insider, and he can do as he damn well pleases, as long as he doesn't use the 'n' word.
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  43. Niall = Neil? I always thought it was NIE-all.
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  44. What right did we have to create the state of Israel by force, at the expense of everybody in the region? You don't have to like Hamas to question Zionist aims.
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  45. 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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  46. Obama's been talkin' nonsense since he was in college.
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  47. Oddly enough, "Harming none, do as you will" was the benediction at the end of every Wiccan gathering I ever attended (as a hippie in grad school).
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  48. Trumpsters are a pretty broad coalition, with some of the loudest being the most deplorable, mixed in with lefty provocateurs and lefty-bots saying outrageous things they imagine anybody who didn't vote Hillary must think.
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  49. I was brought up Christian, though I'm no longer practicing. Well, I dunno. Actually, I do thank the Creator when I eat, quietly to myself. But I'm beyond the whole "Come by faith to live forever" dogma. I just see a lot of good in the creation of an archetype that I believe is all good and all knowing, and try to get to that "What would Jesus (or a good guy) do?" when facing moral questions. But I don't believe, per sê. Not beyond the occasional superstitious twinge that God saw me flip that field-stripped cigarette (no filter) into the weeds. It's built in by years of indoctrination that I've grown beyond, in the "fervent belief" sense. Anyway, I started this rant to say that a sincere Christian will just modify his understanding/interpretation of the wisdom in ancient scripture. You learn, if you live long enough, that it ain't all to be taken literally, not to mention the version of it that I was raised on was re-written by King James's court. And the 10 commandments are pretty good, especially if you alter that 1st one from "I am the Lord they God...." to a humble admission "I'm a human and I didn't BUILD this world. I inhabit it and rejoice in it."
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  50. Who cares about Jim Accoster's show?
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