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

  1. Free speech IS a left/liberal value. Would-be aristocrats hijacked the left a long time ago. Everything about the left, today, is aimed towards a creepy paternalism on the part of the state, supposedly on our behalf, but it just looks like old-fashioned serfdom with new slogans and dogmas justifying itself. "We will make you safe from everything, and all we ask is everything you own and your unquestioning, undying obedience."
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  2.  @di-.-ib  That's me! I drop my bombs and move on! LOL! Every once in a while, maybe once month, I'll take a day and just go through all the notifications and read what few replies there are to my comments.
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  3.  @bullyboy131  Because those who currently call themselves "the left" are actually protecting the status quo and trying to push things BACKWARDS towards serfdom, in the name of safety and security. The "left" are, in real historical terms, quite reactionary. All the hallmarks of aristocrats from 3 centuries ago, and now as then, reacting violently and hysterically against liberal ideals of liberty and limited government. You are NOT of the left, by definition, when you are the establishment. Air quotes are exactly the appropriate way to say "left" when speaking of what is generally understood to be "the left" in today's parlance.
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  4. I don't want to see media regulated. I want to see slander and libel laws apply to all citizens, equally. I want to see defamation suits that impose BIG cash penalties on shit-stirring liars. Rachel MadCow shouldn't be able to duck defamation lawsuits by saying "Oh, I'm just giving my opinion. I'm an entertainer, not a journalist." Then she's right back at work, telling the most damaging lies possible, the most dishonest slanting of the news, the more out-of-left-field conspiracy theories that cause real people real harm.
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  5. The public didn't realize how powerful MSM was until MSM's power started to wane.
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  6. I know McCarthy's a neocon war pig, still under the Dulles banner, like all of Washington. He's also a big spender, like all of Washington. We have a mere 8 Republicans with some idea of first principles, and how far away from them our nation has drifted: Liberty and Limited Government have become dirty words.
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  7.  @outaandabout4041  It's Whoopi who claims to care so much. Oncoming Storm is pointing out her hypocrisy.
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  8. There's never a shortage of people in need or a shortage of people who exploit that need to gain more power for themselves.
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  9. ... because people who work for a living OUTside of the government know the Democrats aren't their friend.
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  10. Waste of time distraction.
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  11. All political/economic systems are capitalist. What matters is whether or not the markets are free of government intervention. We don't have free markets. Our markets are hopelessly distorted by intellectuals in and out of government, who never made anything or had a real job.
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  12. I seem to recall Biden being the only Democrat on stage who was skeptical of defunding the police. He's also quite eager to get the feds involved in local law enforcement, which Psaki relays to reporters as a virtue. It's not. The locals need to handle their own law enforcement. Federal funds are how you weaponize local law enforcement against the local community.
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  13. 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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  14. College is GREAT if you don't hide from the upper-division math, science, and even history. Throw in some economics. Hope your history and economics teachers aren't deluded (or malevolent) communists. If they are, then drop the course. I took upper-division lit, while I was at it, but there was nothing there that isn't taken to a whole new level by the greats in science fiction, which however pulp it is, it's still informed by Shakespeare and all the rest, without fucking with the iambic pentameter. Take as little of the humanities as possible. Teach that to yourself on YouTube from many sources. Don't settle for the fat asshole that landed a teaching gig at the school you end up at, because chances are good that they totally don't understand human progress.
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  15. We're hyper-focused on politics because we've made government bigger than we are, and every small decision made thousands of miles away affects each and every one's life in profound ways. You don't WANT to be involved in politics, but the Federal Reserve, in a fit of generosity, can turn everything you worked for all your life absolutely worthless. You HAVE to keep track, even though it's 100% futile, because 50-percent-plus-1 of us think it must be a good idea.
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  16. It's not worse than it's ever been. We just know more about ourselves and each other. Why do you think liberals have been hyper-ventilating for 3 1/2 years? They're finding out that their comfortable little reality isn't the larger reality. It's just like 50 years ago, when a Christian nation realized that half the country hadn't accepted Jesus as their Lord and Savior. Still a LOT of Christians who're convinced that half the country is under the Spell Of Satan. Well, now that other half of the country has discovered to its shock and horror that half the country actually voted for Donald Trump! DEPLORABLE! Such periods are traumatic for some people. For other people, these times of paradigm shift are very consciousness-raising. I know my father was dragged into the 21st Century, kicking and screaming, railing against Walter Cronkite and rooting for Archie Bunker back in the '60s and '70s, and finally coming around to agreeing with me that the War on Drugs is just Al Capone with a deep tan. Legalize, regulate and tax the stuff. Dad was offended by The Jeffersons and Good Times; whereas, we kids were ALL about KID DIE-NO-MITE! Acceptance of gays was HUGE for my parents' generation. I grew up during that paradigm shift, starting on the regressive side, and finally figuring out that there's only one person whose sexual preferences you should care about other than your own, and that's your partner's. The only exception is if you're attracted to citizens below the age of consent, and then it's a matter for your psychiatrist and, if you act on your preference, law enforcement and the courts. Now the people who are freaking out are the Boomers who used to watch "Friends," and still do on re-runs, FAIK. The hip, well-adjusted middle-class yuppies are all very chic, very up-to-date on the latest dogma, and they're no different from my Methodist preacher extracting the meaning of life from the verse "He fed the dog."
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  17. I've had GamePass for years and stream the games. Don't have to sit through any woke nonsense, but I'm thinking it's time to cut the cord, just to let them know they lost one more customer due to delusional and divisive BS. That being said, I wasn't too fond of all the flag waving during Desert Storm or Iraqi Freedom, either. I support our troops, but I don't support the way we put them in harm's way at the drop of a hat, without a declaration of war. So I was kind of turned off, way back during the Bush administration. All the rah-rah shit over an unjust war, thousands of miles away.
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  18. Mix of truth and lies. There ARE oil magnates with politicians on speed dial. You might be surprised how deeply embedded in the Green New Deal they are, managing its wording so that they can take maximum advantage of government subsidies and keep millions of small projects from ever getting STARTED, by controlling the regulations that will come with it. "We're going to have to take down your windmill, ma'am, because it doesn't have wheelchair-accessible entrance" or some shit like that. That's the main reason I oppose Green New Deal, because I think the CULTURE is going green faster than a handful of eggheads in industry and government can even keep up with, and the last people we want in charge of how the changes are made are idiots like AOC, following the advice of the "experts" who are most accessible (and generous) to them. Arguably the biggest obstacle to EarthShip construction principles is government regulators. The guys preaching to us about environment are the same guys who won't let you build more green-conscious in an organic way. No. To THEM it means a more efficient gas furnace hooked to their grid. A cracker-box wood-frame construction on top of the ground that's so tight you breathe your own effluvia. Can't have a house that breathes. You need to buy disposable air filters from an outfit in China... Green tech and living in balance with nature is a ground-up phenomenon, and the people on the ground can share their successes and failures, INSTANTLY, with other people just like themselves, across broad spans of climate, altitude, culture, and resource settings, informally, over the Internet. We need more Kirsten Dirksen's, not more government programs that are just big money-makers for the people writing the fine print and first in line for the benefits. The internal combustion engine is a fantastic asset to humanity. But driving 40 miles to work every day in a car is just a stupid way to live. People are figuring that out, but you don't need to punish them or use force on them. Living greener is already seen as a "good" in this culture, so let it play out! And when I hear "shovel-ready" out of a politician's mouth, I about blow a gasket laughing and crying at the same time. They're the last people we want deciding how to clean things up.
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  19. Carson Smith: Methinks he's coming out with the book, now, because it's timely, and he's hoping to cash in.
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  20. Whoa! You certainly have a right to have an opinion, no matter how stupid and ignorant it is and you are. What you SHOULD say is "If you don't understand the other side of the argument, you don't really understand your own," which is a paraphrase of an old saying. Just be careful when you say "have no right to an opinion." That's patently false, at least as long as the Bill of Rights survives!
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  21.  @espera_2192  My plan is to not antagonize anyone and carry a gun.
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  22. The welfare state is not liberal. Government-run health is not liberal. Government regulation of speech is not liberal. Government-run education is not liberal. These are all top-down, authoritarian enterprises, systems of CONTROL implemented by fascists and pre-fascists in Germany in the 19th Century. It's all just a way of securing unquestioning loyalty from people whose ability to think and ask questions are systematically eroded by government taking responsibility for individuals' well-being, which ALWAYS means giving the state authority over every aspect of your life. True liberals understand that limited government is the key to liberty, prosperity, an even playing field, and equal opportunity. To be a true liberal, you will be demonized as a right-wing, racist white supremacist. And homophobic, transphobic and misogynistic.
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  23. I like Dreyfuss a lot more than I did 30 or 40 years ago, when he was a knee-jerk, big-government liberal (which isn't at all liberal, by the way). Now he's educated himself, and is a true liberal, which society now says is "MAGA Republican."
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  24. DeNiro should stick to acting.
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  25. This begs the question of the corporate censorship embedded in the legacy media. It's actually the same thing as what's happening with Big Tech. Their whole rationale for beginning their censorship protocols was to monetize content thru advertising. Even though big corporations aren't the only advertisers, they're the biggest purchasing blocs.
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  26. My 8-year-old asked me about absorbing neighborhoods of zero as a basis for general Hausdorff spaces. I had to explain to the numbskull that T2 is a far weaker condition than that.
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  27. Niall = Neil? I always thought it was NIE-all.
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  28. There are different kinds of intelligence. Not all kinds revolve around oratory. Most of the most gifted people I've known in any area lacked the ability to articulate things in a way that is most pleasing to others. Most of the best people, I really have to sit down with, ALONE, and give them time and space to "get it out," often with much necessary prodding. And THEN there are the people - I think Trump is one - who deliver things in a way that is absolutely unappealing to many intellectuals, and certainly anyone who doesn't like his ideas - who can nevertheless reach people I never could, even with my absolute BEST attempts at combining truth, humor and precise word choice. The larger the crowd I'm trying to reach, especially on technical matters, the more pleasing I am to the top-level learners/intellects, but the less real meaning I seem to get across to the vast middle. Even people who LOVE the way I put it across, because I worked in something funny, miss the essence of what I'm saying. I've walked out of some of my absolute best math lectures, where I had entire auditoriums filled with students hanging on my every word and rolling in the aisles at every little joke, and glanced at the notes of random students, silently noting that what they put down was NOT the point I was making! I saw every hook I inserted, with the wrong - sometimes the OPPOSITE - idea dangling from it. One of the amazing things about a perception-driven reality is how often people are right for the wrong reasons and how often they're wrong for the RIGHT reasons. In my college days in the 1980s, as a staunch libertarian-principle kind of guy, I found many of the people who were on "my" side of an issue, were there for the wrong reason. They would agree with me that the welfare state was destructive, but it came from a "DESTROY THE PARASITES!" place, rather than a "This is the velvet glove on the iron fist" place. The people stuck in the poverty cycle weren't evil, but the ones who kept them on "the plantation" with Free Stuff were demagogues. Since the Reagan era, this has expanded to much of the white middle class, who are so afraid they won't be able to afford health care that government intervention has made more and more ridiculously expensive for individual consumers and taxpayers, that they yearn to be on the federal tit just as much as the poorest person who can't even afford a checkup. Jesus spoke in simple parables. Ayn Rand, whose fiction leaves me yawning, reached more people with Atlas Shrugged than she ever reached with MY favorite, "Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal," a skinny paperback that is extremely dense and extensively footnoted. Character development isn't her thing. Donald Trump actually got himself elected president of the USA with little more than choppy sequences of repeated sound bites.
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  29. Gender dysphoria is a disorder that shouldn't be kept from the parents. That's like not telling them their kid puked or got beat up at school.
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  30. Referring to yourself in the 3rd person in the title is very off-putting.
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  31. Well, duh.
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  32. Who'd've ever thought that bankers wouldn't like Free Speech?
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  33. A populist feature I hadn't noticed:s The content creators who rise up out of the oyster grass to become major YouTube presences have more than their share of patrons, but ALSO more than their share of the $1, $2 or $5 contributions from us "small folk." To stamp out the voice of the "small folk," it's easy to see who's getting all the 2s and fews, and I imagine those small donations are more cost and less profit from the payment processors. They don't like us small folk. We say mean things about bankers and our petty transactions cost more to process for what they pay. And there are so damn many of us. Anyway, just by tracking the pain-in-the-ass channels that have many SMALL contributions, they can zero in on most of the subversive voices after they start getting traction. The trouble from the banker's side is that as soon as they use this tactic, there are 2 more to take the last guy's place. They're in their own self-made version of Zombie Apocalypse, with all us small folk representing the zombies! It's like we are H.Y.D.R.A. Chop off one head, and 2 more appear. But they're doing everything they can to plug all the holes in their dam against free expression. And their contrrol of "process" is very tight, and we haven't heard the last of them, nor shall we. The best we can do is marginalize/minimize their effect. I think the FreeThinkers are only just beginning to realize how deeply embedded this perniciousness is and what it will take to keep the power in the people's hands. As we peel away the layers of the Patreon onion, we see that there will also be every obstruction possible set in the way of free speech, now by banking laws, regulations and so-called "best practices." Best practices are more about the culture of banking and culture tends to trump the formal rule sets (or quickly be codified in rule sets).
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  34. Just understand that the ESTABLISHMENT IS AGAINST YOU. Democrats and libtards have given up on POLICY,. Their POLICY is always aimed at controlling PROCESS and the unbelievably lame Jacqueline Hart's references to invisible "payment processors" (Note the root word "process.") and invisible reasons therefrom in the Matt Christiansen phone call show the tip of that iceberg. It sounds like Patreon's basically just complying with "processors" for their own survival. These people are too drunk on their own power to check themselves. Yes. This shit will boomerang on the leftists, but they're SO tribal and SO bent on winning every battle that they're setting themselves up to lose the war. But there's still a helluva struggle ahead for those who believe in Free Speech. This is basically Free Speech versus Free Stuff.
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  35. Bureaucrats build entire careers on not taking any risks and not offending anyone. That approach leads to bloat and eventually, total stagnation.
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  36. All that's gonna happen in the long run is the mass public will DESPISE big business and go out of their way to support local business.
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  37. ZEROISM RULES!!! YOU WILL ALL REMAIN SWATHED IN COTTON AND KEPT IN A PADDED ROOM FOR ETERNITY! BECAUSE WE CARE!
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  38. Lock-downs are going to back-fire against Democrats and teacher unions, big-time.
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  39. Good convo.
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  40. Dismissing Plato is rejecting scholarship. A scholar knows everything that's been done or written about the subject, and Plato's a big, early part of the subject. A music scholar knows that they didn't always tune pianos (clavichords, harpsichords) like they do now, but that doesn't mean you throw out the Baroque period of music.
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  41. Where do you start but at security of one's person? And after that, security of one's property. You secure those 2 things and freedom of action quickly manifests in higher and higher levels of self-sustaining complexity and better living. That's what saddens me about so much of Africa. Too many folks whose rights ain't bein' respected. Natural rights. And we aid and abet a lot of it, because in the minds of some, natural resources > natural rights. They need an American-style revolution to take place. The good people need to stand up and say it ain't right to take other people's stuff. We don't want anybody else's stuff. Just leave us to do our own stuff, and maybe do some trading with us.
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  42. It doesn't necessarily take a governing body to shun any business or person who didn't honor a contract. Your reputation would be ruined. You'd be shunned from the market, because everybody'd know you and nobody would trust you. Government should be reluctant to legislate on specific matters. It's not. The market changes faster than gov't can legislate. I'd rather put whistle-blowers on a pedestal, with all kinds of protections - even rewards thru donations by grateful citizens. Transparency could possibly take over where regulations must leave off. Still, it's a reasonable thing to have a local police force and local, state and federal courts to adjudicate civil and criminal matters, but especially criminal matters. The law and the courts are so the citizens don't just settle their own matters with whatever weapons come to hand.
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  43. You are correct, ArtemiaSalina. "The market never lies." But government can lie to itself all day long and impose its will where it can. The bloated monstrosity that sits atop us, now, is unable to respond to the kinds of rapid changes taking place. There are too many new things popping up that haven't been legislated on, yet. At some point, on some level, at all times, society is well ahead of government in the realm of "What's possible?" Thing about Uber and Couch Surfing and how established businesses tried to use gov't to lock those innovations out, even though they're a more efficient way to allocate resources, and just a way cooler way to interact with the culture you're visiting. Kids with their noses in their smartphones can spread info nationwide in seconds, one text message or phone call at a time. As long as that infrastructure's up, there's just too much for gov't to process (in my uninformed opinion), and way more advantage in individuals having such coms available, as long as the stuff works. Ideas. Good ideas. From rocket stoves to backyard vacuum-tube production.
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  44. Yes. We became fascist in the name of fighting fascism. End justified the means in order to fight the end-justifies-the-means people. I heard somewhere that we're still in a state of emergency stretching clear back to FDR that gives them the loophole to run a command/crony economy. Free markets didn't see to it that our beef were injected with antibiotics since WW II. And can I get some non-homogenized milk, out there? Pasteurization is only common sense, but homogenization is a hoax on humanity. Maybe I want to skim the cream off my milk, once in awhile.
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  45. So are you talking Austrian School, here? Sometimes those dudes go so far down the rabbit-hole, they seem to turn themselves around. I think they're leaving something out of their theory, else their anarcho-capitalism thing would be in full swing, already. They haven't accounted for the mobilization of many against one or two cases of bad abuse that were ended by being exposed, and institute an authority of some sort to police those kinds of abuses, just when the light of day ended the worst of it and put other would-be assholes on notice. Voluntary shunning is underrated as a force for good in a free market. Get caught out, you're out of business. No government agency to cushion the blow or prop you up, because you're too big to fail.
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  46. it's funny how religions will ally themselves with science on the one hand, and then align against science on the other. And it's interesting how belief systems have evolved. Even though fewer affiliate themselves with any specific religious affiliation, there's still a strong residue of "reason to what is" and "strive for what should be, in love." It's kind of an Orange Catholic sort of thing we should all be able to agree on.
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  47. I don't think any of those guys got things perfect, but they were pointing towards my own version of "imperfect," so I'm grateful to 'em. Hobbes is interesting, too. Kind of a rational Christian, reasoning honestly from some good (and some not-good) assumptions. But still pointing towards a different understanding of the proper limits to the authority of government over the individual. Important milestones in the history of modern thought.
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  48. I adore Jimmy Dore, but like all my adorable progressive friends, he sees a lot of the symptoms and obvious abuses, but doesn't see to the root of the problem, which was putting government in charge of too much. We do need a central government for the common defense, as long as there are other countries that would otherwise hurt us. But we don't need to police the planet, so gov't's gone too far in that direction. And there's nothing in the constitution about the federal gov't doing charity work. That's the job of us in our communities, and we should take pride in our communities. Keepin' folks fed ain't the feds' job, except in national emergency, but to be in a state of national emergency - on a war footing since December, '41 - perpetually, for decades without end says that the feds have been totally unable and unwilling to declare victory and leave the petty stuff to the folks at home. It's debilitating to our states, towns and neighborhoods, imo.
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  49. And how does that differ from the current state of things?
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  50. Those who honor contracts will be the only ones getting 2nd contracts. A voluntary system - a MARKET - quickly corrects itself towards sustainability. Only sustainable practices persist. But as long as other states practice government, we are obliged to do so, also. The trouble with unfettered capitalism is we've rarely seen it. There's always some fascist who wants the rules bent in their favor, and always someone in government or bureaucracy willing to oblige them.
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