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

  1. On the other hand, some people tend to "disappear" without being immersed in the in-person work force. Some students will struggle to do their work, if there's no in-person meeting and daily work hand-ins, where they see everybody ELSE turning in THEIR work. I just think we need to catch the kids when they're young, and teach them how to use online learning tools, which are WAY advanced, compared to when I was trying to make it work 35 years ago, with the first phone modems operating at 9600 baud. As with traditional lecture, there are students who THRIVE on the remote format. Some, especially adult learners who KNOW how to work, find the remote to be the only way to grow their skill sets while still taking care of family or working a full-time job. The thing about remote learning is that the traditional teaching isn't working any more.
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  2. "Control the currency. Let the rabble have the rest." Emperor Shaddam IV
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  3.  @Boris82  Seems like it, but the establishment has been shifting goalposts for a long time. Still, goalposts are now approaching light speed, causing a real headache for the NFL. They're thinking about eliminating the Field Goal in American football.
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  4. I hope he can set Twitter to rights. He talks a good game, but I know he still banned somebody for hurting HIS feelings, with a contrary opinion to something he felt very strongly. I can't remember the specifics, but he still used his power rather arbitrarily in that case. That's the nugget my brain latched on to. But I do agree with him that Twitter shouldn't be an extension of the existing DOMINANT voices on the paltry handful of major cable and broadcast networks. They all have the same connections, advertisers and 3rd rails. Even - especially - FOX, which beats the war drums and protects corporate clients the exact same way as its competitors. I don't think anybody trusts Sean "See my CIA pin?" Hannity, but he's the face of MAGA on FOX. Openly pro-Trump, he makes some disingenuous arguments that reinforce half the country's dislike of Donald Trump. I'm pretty much opposed to the Democrats' march toward socialism, but with friends like FOX, who needs enemies? They sort of give the populist opposition a bad name.
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  5.  @margyeoman3564  Insofar as "red" means bottom-up and "blue" means top-down, it is better to be red. Top-down visits the smallest mistakes on top on EVERYone. Bottom-up can also go wrong, but it only affects a small locality, while all the successes in any locality can be shared with other localities. Top-down has always failed, throughout recorded history. Bottom-up is the only way humans have actually progressed, and it's usually in SPITE of what the establishment is doing.
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  6. I agree, somewhat provisionally, with what Mike's saying. You see good people who GET IT all the time. And they're the ones who make the trucks roll and keep the power on. The political class is HELPLESS without our compliance.
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  7. Austin is blue. Don't kid yourself that it is somehow red just because the state of Texas is red.
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  8. Yes. The original liberals fought for personal agency against the absolute powers of the state, as represented by the monarch and the aristocracy. Now, the term "liberal" means voluntarily giving up your personal agency to the new aristocracy, consisting of bureaucrats, career politicians, and so-called "experts," whom you can hire to support any position you want, which reminds me of corrupt priests in the middle ages.
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  9.  @Sgt_SealCluber  Submissive and incapable of critical thinking.
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  10. Delta Airlines, where you can't fly without a picture ID. Is Delta saying Delta is racist?
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  11.  @ericcogley457  Don't underestimate how many average Americans are still captured by legacy media, even though they're only watching on YouTube and other social media. The cable news ratings are deceptive, when you factor in how hard YouTube and other Big Tech platforms elevate corporate media in their feeds. It takes a real effort to get rid of CNN, MSNBC and all the rest of the lie-peddlers.
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  12. @Oners82 Name one good thing the Dems are doing. One thing I will agree with about Dems AND Repubs is the LESS they do, the better things are for the rest of us. We need to pull the teeth of the federal government, and reduce it to its original role and scope. Everything they do "for" us ends up being worse than it was, before, and costing us double or triple. Plus, the bigger it gets, the easier it is for crooks to hide behind the law and use government as their shield.
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  13. I bet you are against anti-Asian violence, especially against Chinese-Americans.
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  14.  Contented Man  Actually, if you're conservative/libertarian and look for that kind of content, there are so many strong black voices layin' it down that conservatives, especially, don't judge blacks by their skin color. They know too many smart, thoughtful blacks who think more like THEM than ANY white liberal. On the "other side," you have a lot of white people who don't think at ALL like the people they claim to champion. To THEM, blacks are lesser and other, which is the ONLY justification for treating them differently in any way, shape or form! But I see Eric D July, or Barricade Garage guy, ABL, or Jericho Green as guys who are more like me on the big picture, more like my brothers, than any white liberal. There IS a form of "privileged white" pushing the "white privilege" narrative. But it all comes down to thinking blacks need whites to SAVE them, when in OUR society, they mainly need whites to STOP trying to save them and leave them the hell alone! In their "good intention," they set up a system of incentives that couldn't do more to destroy the family, punish good people trying to help themselves through their own works, and put a drug dealer on every corner eager to recruit their 10-year-old son to gangster life in precisely the communities that white liberals "help" the most, if it had been planned! But nobody talks about how the Jim-Crow through 1st Civil-Rights-Act period saw REMARKABLE advances in the black community. Harlem was a Great Place, with Good Schools. HBCUs were taking off, ALL without any government help and quite a few disadvantages. It wasn't until the welfare state kicked in that we went from "guarantee my rights!" to "You owe me a living!" This entitlement attitude captured more whites than blacks, but basically the same percentage of poor in both populations. There were just a higher percentage of blacks that were still poor at the end of the '60s. Add to that the fact that in a lot of those communities, whites and blacks intermingled, but the mixed-race ALWAYS goes in the "black" bucket, which is crazy, so things are skewed that way, too. Everyone should read "Losing Ground." You can see the economic convergence of blacks and whites throughout the postwar period, UNTIL Lyndon Johnson. Then things changed. The gap between whites and blacks started growing again. Some of this is mirrors, because there was generally more cross-breeding in the inner-city communities that are hardest hit by poverty, so it all gets counted as "black," even though it's mixed.
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  15. It works really well in the current era. The main reason for RussiaGate was so that nobody would investigate the Obama admin's many crimes and miscalculations. The biggest crimes were the cover-ups for miscalculations. CIA and FBI are notorious for the kind of gaslighting of which you speak. All government agencies, from the local sheriff's office to the State Department of the USA have this temptation built into them, which is why the Founders envisioned LIMITED government. You CAN'T eliminate corruption, but you can keep it on a strict diet! The less the government does, the fewer the opportunities for abuse of power. That's why people calling for government-paid schools and health care are either insane or ignorant of history and human nature. It's bad enough we give the state the responsibility to defend the national soil, so we can have a society run according to what WE want, and not what some outsider would impose on us. Look how badly they screw THAT up! But at least if defense was ALL they did, we would stand a better chance of catching the worst of the waste, fraud, abuse and atrocities.
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  16.  @videosonyoutube5588  Yes. When facts conflict with faith, facts must give way. "We believe in truth over facts." - Joe Biden
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  17. The elephant in the room is the history of Europeans and especially the British Empire re-drawing the map to please themselves and then getting the usa to do it for them, and keep the resources coming from underdeveloped countries in such a way that they never develop on their own. I don't care how much we love our Judeo-Christian heritage or Christ, Himself. Who were we to create a nation-state from scratch against the will of the people living there? How many OTHER nations have perished over the millennia? Why does Israel get a do-over, enforced by, exploited by and exploiting overwhelming force from lands far away? What the Nazis did ini the first half of the 1940s doesn't justify what we did in the 2nd half, nor what we've been doing, since, to maintain a (mostly) soft hegemony around the world, except when we decide to "go hot" and wreak destruction around the world. Hamas are renegade. We made them renegade, or at the least had a hand in the pathology we see manifest in ungovernable Palestine. Megyn sounds neocon on this issue. It's a knee-jerk reaction in American politics. Nobody asks "What right did we have to carve out a re-born nation by force in the region?" Go back a little farther in your history, Megyn. This is an ethnic/territorial dispute that's gone on for millennia. What business is it of ours?
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  18.  @ancientdunlop  California is very forward-thinking with regard to extirpating nasty carbon emissions within its borders. Of course, it can't produce the electricity it needs, so it's going to buy electricity from coal-fired plants in Wyoming, this winter. Transmission losses over such long distances approach 50%, so Wyoming will be burning twice as much coal as California would, if California weren't so deluded about the actual trade-offs involved. They - as you - just see what you want things to be, and you want to force things along. I get it. But when you use force, things tend to go sideways. Why not instead focus on teaching good science and permaculture principles? Spread the good word. Don't look for a hammer to hit dumb people in the head with.
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  19. After what these authoritarians did to the economy, "fantastic growth" is actually just catching back up to where we were before they destroyed small businesses across the country. We're still not back to where we were, and 2 consecutive quarters of contraction says they can't even get us back to where we were.
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  20. The whole country caters to the most emotionally fragile. It makes it impossible for regular folks to get anything done.
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  21. You're TOTALLY missing the point, Joey Koningsbruggen. Objectivist distrust government and would restrict its mandate to the original intent of the Constitution (without slavery and women not having a vote). We have added some nice innovations to the original (some good amendments), but the core truths (inalienable rights, limited gov't.). The idea is that the gov't gets the monopoly for a very restricted set of tasks (defend the territory, uphold the Constitution) has been lost because politicians get re-elected by exceeding the Constitution, using force to benefit one group over another group. I don't think a true objectivist, steeped in Ayn Rand's childhood under the Bolsheviks, and following her reasoning to Capitalism, the Unknown Ideal (not her famous works. Just her basic work, complete with footnotes), has much, if any, trust in gov't. Quite the contrary. You don't seem to be getting the point about free trade between a society of free traders will always exceed gov't minimum guarantees.
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  22. Not buying this argument.
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  23.  @PHeMoX  Meritocracy is essential to progress. But it's not end-all, be-all, and therein lies the conundrum. We also need to make some provision for those who are disabled or just plain stupid and need some help. Clearly the centralized bureaucracy is not the solution. Clearly politicians are not the solution (repeating myself). The best - albeit imperfect - solution is for people who give a damn to step up and help out where and when they can in ways that they deem most beneficial.
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  24. Liberals of the past fought for freedom after centuries of bending the knee in the service of their personal safety and security. They repaid the King with their blind obedience. The ORIGINAL liberals saw that it was all a racket for the benefit and aggrandizement of the king, and those whom the king favored. So the only ones really fighting against a return to serfdom are called "right-wing extremists," even though MOST of them (us) are more liberal than those whom we oppose. I don't consider myself a conservative. I consider myself a libertarian who sees the U.S. Constitution and Declaration of Independence as a profound sea change in our understanding of the PROPER relationship between government and governed.
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  25.  William Burr  : There's a toxic irony in this, because it's because of their utter lack of faith in human nature that they want humans in government to control everything.
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  26. Whoopi proves that being witty doesn't equate with being intelligent.
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  27.  @mikehenson819  Clinton by birth or marriage, the ability to weasel is unparalleled.
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  28.  @ajossi  A distinction without a difference. How far back do you want to go? If the natives had had border control in the 15th Century, North America would be brown and red!
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  29. And here I was, thinking I was going to be watching the NFL, this year.
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  30. You don't have to travel far to see pretty much the whole spectrum.
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  31. Chimfish: You reminded me of Johnny Carson. He was a professional entertainer, but he read every book his guests ever promoted, and it came out in his questions and his jokes.
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  32. Yes, A. Pinochet. Luckily for us, we have free speech imprinted on our chromosomes as a RIGHT, which makes us a little slower to go the way of Europe and our neighbors to the North. And we see the craziness taking place in those places and want no part of it. But we're still well along the path. If the left hadn't shit all over themselves, the Democrats were shoo-ins for the presidency and the same kind of policies would likely have prevailed. Lucky for the country, the working class dug in their heels. More and more people, who try to get ahead by working hard and making sacrifices are finally starting to see those in power as standing in their way. If the "liberals" hadn't overplayed their hand, here, I think the slide may've been unstoppable. But ever-growing numbers see BLM and Antifa as privileged children, lashing out blindly at a non-existent oppressor. They caricature themSELVES by wearing masks and vagina hats.
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  33. I've been calling them latterday Puritans, but maybe Inquisitors is more apt.
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  34. I think that ANYone who so brazenly challenges the group-think is going to raise the temperature, more so if that one wants to effectuate any real change. If you're afraid of that, you'll get nowhere. Things are so far the one way, with outrage being the main medium of exchange, you just have to hold your nose, call things as you see them, and SELL your point of view, which includes (as any salesman) vastly overstating things in order to get ANY movement towards something reasonable (make a sale). I recognized Trump as a salesman from Day 1. Never thought much of salesmen. But the right salesman with the right product was definitely what was needed. It still may not be enough. I know a lot of respected people who are "smart," who are absolutely irrational about politics. And I also know a lot of weak-minded people who won't believe what's reasonable, until they see that "side" as the group for them to blindly agree with on everything (tribe!). We're kind of programmed that way - bred that way - after generations of "my tribe, right or wrong" being the ones whose tribe obliterated the competition and survived to pass on this trait to future generations. Religion kind of the same deal. You can find irrationalities and regressive features in 'most any myth-based belief system passed down from our less-informed ancestors, but also features that made those beliefs a SURVIVAL trait to be passed on.
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  35. You need to go a lot farther back than that.
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  36.  @MrClassicmetal  She doesn't have to understand to relay the literal words.
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  37. The first classical liberals were products of their time, as are we. They were largely far more repressed about homosexuality. A lot of the good that comes of classical liberalism is inspired by Biblical teachings and there is some Divine Authority that creeps in on random subjects in inappropriate ways. But hey. Bronze-age + Medieval authors will do that to a book. Doesn't mean they're bereft of wisdom or good intention.
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  38. I just don't understand why free markets and respect for civil rights of individuals hasn't caught on South of the border. Seems like if our presidents of the past were so smart, the entire continent would be pretty much free, freedom-loving, safe, and prosperous.
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  39.  @DerekWilliamsMusic  : Milo's just unapologetically honest, warts and all. He defended the relationship HE was in as a minor. He was glad he had that relationship with an adult. I'm OK with his sharing his lived experience, and that he turned out OK. But the man who had a relationship with under-age Milo should go to jail. And if Milo does something similar with a minor, he should go to jail. And if Milo defends the man who molested him, he's dead wrong.
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  40. I would add that the people who abuse their positions of power because they think they know better than everyone else, usually do NOT know better than everyone else, and are the least competent people in the administration they seek to subvert. Brennan, for example, is a political hack, promoted FAR beyond his station by OTHER political hacks, who kind of adopted him as a mascot, because the one thing he was good at was kissing ass and doing what he was told. Brennan's a classic "climber." He got his foot in the door and based his entire career on personal advancement, at the expense of the job he was hired to do. Comey's the same way. People who aren't too bright always think they're the smartest person in the room. I know, because I'm the smartest person in the room! LOL! None of us are immune, but the dumber you are, the further you run with such nonsense. If you're actually smart, you have some appreciation of the possibility you might be wrong. Idiots and narcissists operate under no such handicap. Hence, Brennan. And I doubt you'll see (m)any people in high places who don't believe they're there because they are The Anointed. They're special. They're more wise and well-intentioned than everybody else. Narcissism is everywhere in Washington. Even Trump is a narcissist. But he's OUR narcissist, fighting fire with fire.
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  41. On the bright side, when they do this to pre-pubescent children, the kids won't know what they're missing. sob How demented/malign must you be to torture your children in this way? This is like sending your child to the top of a skyscraper and telling them "Jump, baby!" because they think they're Superman.
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  42.  @sandragoswick2628  I've been a libertarian since I was 17, and I saw this shit coming from the "15 days to flatten the curve." Nothing I've seen since has changed my opinion. As a trained scientist and mathematician, I'm pretty brutal about ferreting out any and all facts that contradict my opinion. My desire to be "right" includes a desire to change my mind if I'm wrong, so I can be right from that point forward. Trained by some really good people, I thought that was how everybody was, but it turns out that most people would rather sweep uncomfortable facts under the carpet than admit they were wrong.
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  43.  @tompain2751  POLITICIANS AND POLITICAL ACTIVISTS POSING AS TEACHERS WHO ARE TERRIFIED THEY MIGHT CATCH THE COOTIES FROM CHILDREN.
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  44.  @LittleOrla  You could lie to them about whose DNA they're testing...
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  45.  @sumthingwickedly  I agree no good will come of it. Well, SOME good. Not for us. But for those who come after. They will be inoculated against the same mistake for a couple generations.
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  46.  @sumthingwickedly  The free stuff comes first. The dictats follow.
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  47.  @sumthingwickedly  Well, socialism is essentially dictatorship. You give up your individual rights for the "greater good," as defined by the leaders, whom we may as well call "dictators." It's all the same.
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  48. On the bright side, not many people watch CNN.
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  49. Math and English standards. Geography standards. Teachers hate standardized tests. They create a huge smokescreen, but the fact is that if they upheld decades-old standards in their courses, standardized test results would be just fine.
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  50. As a geologist and mathematician, I know he spreads misinformation. Outside his specialty, he's very mediocre. He's mostly just a good talker and a good blusterer.
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