Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "The Rubin Report"
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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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Almost since our nation's birth, there have been robber barons eager to influence the government to tilt the playing field in their favor. It's called crony capitalism and it seeped into our system very early, with such things as land grants to robber barons and thieves to build the transcontinental railroad. The pesky natives obstructed this "noble goal," and so the robber barons got the U.S. Cavalry to back their play.
This and other corrupt/fascist plays by our government throughout its history are what fuel the Howard-Zinn characterization of American history. We didn't CURE our ills by asking government to solve them. We made them worse, or just created OTHER problems, also 'requiring' government intervention (i.e. force) to "fix." Zinn gets some things right, but totally mischaracterizes things to fit HIS state-centric world view.
Free-market capitalism is good. Crony capitalism is bad. Progressives claim that the latter is the former "run amuck,' when the only problem with free-market capitalism is it creates so much wealth that even idiot socialists can survive long enough to destroy it. Where America went wrong was NOT with free markets. Where it went wrong was when it DEPARTED from free markets, in the name of whatever latest lie they were feeding the public.
Not a HUGE Ayn Rand fan, but her book, "Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal" gives chapter and verse on regulatory capture and crony capitalism dating back to the 19th Century. This isn't about Reagan and Thatcher, although they both did little to slow the march towards a peculiar, fascist-flavored form of socialism.
If we just stuck to our limited-government principles in the first place, we wouldn't be ruled by multinational corporations, today. Government isn't the scourge of the robber barons. It's their partner in crime, and the most powerful partner the corporations could have hoped for.
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@PHeMoX European nations never enshrined free speech as a right. In different places, people may speak more or less freely, by custom, but the government can snatch it away at the government's pleasure. The U.S. government is the ONLY government in the WORLD that is explicitly constrained from infringing on the right to speak freely and voice your dissent, and the U.S. government chafes at the restriction and has done everything possible to control speech, without being caught doing it.
The Twitter Files show beyond a doubt that the U.S. government regularly censors the news on Big Tech and legacy media alike. There's no way they wouldn't ALL behave exactly as Twitter, FaceBook, the New York Times, cable news, and report the exact same things, with the exact same wording, inclusions and omissions if it weren't all coming from one place.
I'm done giving the benefit of the doubt. Any lack of transparency. Any redaction. Any suppression of stories. Any de-platforming of critics and dissidents. I'm just done. I am henceforth assuming that every bit of corporate-sponsored media are lying. I assume that any media for children published in the last 10 years is something I wouldn't want my kids to watch, until proven otherwise.
In the words of a system administrator: Hosts Deny: All is the default until personally vetted by me.
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