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

  1. Agree. It's an "off" year, and the results have galvanized the left. I wouldn't get at all complacent. And look at the margins of victory. Very small. People with common sense face an uphill battle against the lunacy epidemic.
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  2.  @Sgt_SealCluber  Submissive and incapable of critical thinking.
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  3. if the South had sold their cotton to the North instead of England, I doubt there'd've been a war.
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  4. If Jimmy Dore applied the same disdain for government intervention, domestically, that he feels for our foreign policy, he'd be a libertarian. He KNOWS they're screwing things up around the world, based on lies and misinformation, but he can't see that the same exact people are screwing things up at home in the same way and for pretty much the same reasons. Jimmy's half-smart. He sees through the military- and media-industrial complexes, but what he doesn't see is the reason things are screwed up is because of too MUCH intervening by the state. He wants MORE intervention. Totally wrong-headed, there. Is there some diverse Space Jesus who knows all, sees all, and will run everything by diktat? No. But when you believe there is (like a religion), you're just setting yourself up for tyranny and social and economic ruin.
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  5. "Control the currency. Let the rabble have the rest." Emperor Shaddam IV
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  6. 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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  7. 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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  8. You don't have to travel far to see pretty much the whole spectrum.
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  9.  @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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  10. Go to his channel. These clips are from a full interview that was already recorded.
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  11. The whole country caters to the most emotionally fragile. It makes it impossible for regular folks to get anything done.
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  12. Because he didn't stay in Washington for 3 decades like an actual swamp creature would.
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  13. Meanwhile, Apple's slaves in China are refusing to work in their sweatshop. Anything Apple virtue-signals for is not virtue. It's a mask. If I'm in Elon's shoes, I couldn't care less about Apple's faux moral outrage. Apple removing Twitter app from their app store is a good reason to never use their apps or app store, ever again. They want to play power games. It will cost them all their power. This is similar to the USA and EU trying to sanction half the planet. The 'other' half of the planet is being forced to build its own financial system, if it wants to stand up to the fascists in the West. The West is wielding SWIFT and the petro-dollar to coerce nations. Those nations are busy creating and expanding BRICS, so they can stand on their own withOUT the petro-dollar (U.S. dollar as world reserve currency). I live in the USA. I'm a citizen. I despise what our leaders are doing at home and abroad.
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  14. It just goes to show how long they've had it their own way and had total domination of the public square, that they could be so blatant and clumsy about it. I think they miscalculated after unqualified success in mobilizing the population in the Iraq War, to where George W. Bush was even temporarily quite popular as Commander-in-Chief, for the simple reason that nobody wanted to cross the president when our boys were in harm's way, overseas. It's what the insiders wanted, so it was what all the establishment media pushed, and it was an unqualified success. Just drum up enough hysteria about Weapons of Mass Destruction, paint Hussein as the Devil incarnate, and then all the rest of the violence, bloodshed and wasted resources were justified. You see it in case after case. War. Character assassination. "Crises" justifying infringements on liberty and confiscations they could never justify under ordinary circumstances. But the people are forming an immunity, thanks to the "fool me once" phenomenon and independent media insisting on putting forward a dissenting point of view. Thank goodness there are people like Robert Barnes around to cry bullshit on this, and have a big enough stick to back it up. Guys like Barnes (and Rubin) are our best hope.
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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. @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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  17. The people who are asleep aren't watching Dave Rubin or anything outside of legacy media. Beware of being caught in the echo chamber outside the echo chamber. The people in the larger echo chamber aren't getting the word. So you FEEL like people are waking up, but are they really, or are the already-awake people just talking to each other?
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  18. 9:30 : The 'backlash from the planners (elites)' against the people getting too independent dates back (at least) to Bismarck, although you see its seeds in Machiavelli's "The Prince." In the 19th Century, the ruling class of Junkers in Germany was being pushed aside (ignored) by common people as a result of free markets and the industrial revolution. Bismarck's brilliant idea was to institute socialized medicine, to keep the ruling class 'relevant.' And Germany fell for it. Very small step from there to "planned economy," and government picking winners (big, centralized) and losers (small and de-centralized). Very small step from that to Hitler, who portrayed the geopolitical situation as an existential threat (much as the ruling class in Japan at the time), and therefore it was everyone's "duty" to support the war effort for "the Fatherland." It's a sad, sordid cascade of errors that leads us back to poverty and serfdom. Check out sexy China for more.
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  19.  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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  20.  @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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  21.  @mikehenson819  Clinton by birth or marriage, the ability to weasel is unparalleled.
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  22.  @evorider3689  He got everything wrong, and went along with the crowd at the crucial moment. I have zero respect for him. He is part of the problem. Now he's just trying to ingratiate himself, when he should retire from the public eye in shame.
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  23. They're not losing money. The decision-makers get their cut and their cut comes off the top and is virtually guaranteed the instant financing for the production is secured.
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  24. "Nobody told me" is a euphemism for "I didn't do any research."
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  25. Back when everybody believed the Earth was the center of the universe, smart people like Bill Maher constructed no end of complicated theories for the observed motions of the stars and planets, because a simple explanation based on their theory didn't exist. Rather than questioning the original assumptions, they just came up with more and more fanciful explanations. This is where Bill Maher is at. He has all these deep-seated beliefs about the proper role and scope of central government that are simply wrong. So when government intervention proves toxic - as it always does, eventually - people like Maher scramble to find explanations that align with their world view, and they just end up giving more power to the same clowns who messed things up to begin with.
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  26. 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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  27.  thomas anderson  : So kill the messenger, even though he's NOT saying the same shit that all the other ones we KNOW are corrupt are saying. Listen to the guy. Fact-check the guy. I'd rather listen to 2 hours of this guy than 30 seconds of Anderson Cooper, ALSO ex-CIA, and working full-time as a fake-news anchor!
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  28.  @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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  29.  @HotRefuse  Of course she supported the Iraq War.
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  30. They'll admit they were wrong, 5 or 10 years from now, and laugh it off, just like George W. Bush laughed off WMDs after killing half a million Iraqis and displacing/beggaring millions more, with many more deaths and much more hardship that will never EVER be fully reported, because none of these people care about the common man, here or abroad.
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  31. 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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  32. 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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  33. 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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  34. If you're pulling the weight of others and nobody's noticing you or promoting you for doing so, then do your damnedest to find a different place to work. A young person like yourself should look for a BUSINESS to run, so all that energy benefits YOU, instead of propping up a bunch of drones. You can get off the ground just by your own efforts. To grow that business, you have to get really good at finding good workers and rewarding them. That's the hardest part for one-man operations: delegating tasks to others. You've gotta find a way to scale what you're doing, unless you're satisfied just being a self-employed tradesman, which is also a pretty good gig, although you should always be on the lookout for a good apprentice or two.
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  35. I bet you are against anti-Asian violence, especially against Chinese-Americans.
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  36. I think it's pretty self-evident that we could be smarter about living with nature, rather than opposed to nature. But what that means is an open question. When you look at middle-class Westerners, you see a birth rate that's actually curbing population growth, so maybe the answer is a world-wide middle class. And, it turns out, fossil fuels are very much the short path for upward mobility. As for the doom-and-gloomers who suddenly realized that climate changes, I haven't heard a single proposal that is anything but authoritarian.
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  37. Well, except for the fact that the climate models they come up with have overshot reality, every... time. Predicting imminent doom and gloom and then nature disagreeing. I think climate change is largely driven by the sun and freak astronomical events/disasters. A period of andesitic vulcanism (highly explosive acidic rock) and we're back in the dark ages, those of us who are dependent on large acreages of grains. Maybe if it's more of a Hawaii thing, with basaltic (more basic) vulcanism, which is not explosive, so it doesn't throw a bunch of particulates, like a Mt. St. Helens or Krakatoa event. If we had an increase in basaltic eruptions along the spreading centers along the midoceanic ridges, that would inject a LOT of heat into the oceans, and it's something over which we have no control at all. Best to remain quick on your feet. Limited gov't. Citizens who plan.
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  38. Jobble top: There does seem to be an up-tick in autism, and I've listened to parents of autistic children talk about how the kid freaked or got a high fever and a lot of discomfort when they got vaccinated and went from above-average to barely able to form words, overnight. So just in people-off-the-street, I've naturally stumbled across a couple families with autistic kids who were normal until they got vaccinated, and now require 24-7 supervision. Basically the end of life as their parents once knew it.
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  39. Yes, but when the money is all in the one interpretation and censure and disrepute attach to any other, some get the impression that the one-note outcomes are political/ideological. And there is pretty strong evidence of some number-cooking and an abject failure of the climate models to align with the data as we get 5, 10 and 20 years into this foolishness. It's becoming painfully obvious their model is exaggerating the effect of man-made CO2. That doesn't mean we all don't want to live cleaner. It's just that most of us are skeptical that government is competent, not COMPETITIVE, with the ideas the ordinary folks are coming up with, like Mass heater rocket stoves that use 1/10 the wood, with near-zero particulate emissions. The EPA can't approve them, because what comes out the pipe is only warm, by the time you run it through your mass. The people are evolving more rapidly than a government bureaucracy can hope to keep up with. I think we, as people, know that it's better to live cleaner than dirtier, and probably not have too many babies. Let that percolate in society. Middle class want to source their food closer to home. We don't need laws to go local. Just some good advertising from the guy that put up the greenhouses on the North side of the canyon. Yeah, the distribution network is marvelous, but sustainable living is all about import replacement, and that includes things like truck vegetables, and in my case, local grown, grass-fed beef or venison. I can see communities growing in that more sustainable direction, without any prodding. It's something that's high-value that most middle-class are more than happy to pay extra for. Love to see Farmer's markets running year-round, where you the lady who grows the stuff you eat, and you've been out there, and it's totally sustainable, organic goods.
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  40. You should listen to everybody, do some research, decide who's level-headed. Yeah, Paul's one. For me, the big put-off is when someone agrees with me right down the line, and then goes on to say something about how only being saved through Jesus Christ (or submitting to Allah) is why they agree with me. LOL! I am kind of a Jesus freak, though. Reason and Love is what I take away from that cat. I don't need the immortality hook (which I disbelieve) to try to keep my head where Jesus would have his. I don't have to believe in a savior to put a literally perfect archetype to good use!
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  41. Yes. I bought a membership after seeing snippets from the CNN Town Hall.
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  42. I get my internet thru the local cable company. I'd rather be on fiber-optic network. I never watch cable t.v., though. Netflix and such for entertainment. HBO. NFL GamePass. Never watch live t.v., although when I have guests, I often turn on the morning news for them, if they want it. I'm more likely to have "The Campaigns of Alexander the Great" on YouTube than anything from the 24-hour news cycle. I saw bad things coming when Obama gave leftist anarchists a wink and a nod.
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  43. I think it's easy to think of the atomization of the workforce into interest groups is what's happening, but what's really happening, underneath that very visible diversity, is a common ideology that encourages the atomization. In other words, they're all thinking exactly the same way. There's no real diversity in these outfits any more.
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  44. 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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  45. 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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  46. 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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  47. 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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  48. 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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  49. 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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  50. 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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