Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "Shockingly Biased Media Coverage of Israel Even Surprises Dave Rubin | POLITICS | Rubin Report" video.

  1.  @christoph8365  Yup. She's still a gun-control, nanny-government, economically-illiterate progressive. Sadly, the nanny-government thing is pretty much in the Overton Window, nowadays, on both sides of the aisle. Progressives can see the rot in the military-industrial complex and some of the rot in the media-industrial complex, but they turn a blind eye to the domestic-industrial complex, consisting of Depts of Ag, Interior, Education, and all the rest. I think the feds should handle national defense, national emergency, border control, and maybe the interstate infrastructure. Everything else needs to devolve to the states, and to the extent possible, states should devolve it to the counties and cities. And the cities should be run in such a way that build strong, resilient and self-reliant families. If you want that for your families, then you want government out of the way, and not mucking things up with its wrong-headed help. Look at the homeless debacle in Portland. All kinds of generous citizens wanting to pitch in and convert an old prison into a homeless shelter, and DOING IT for a FRACTION of what city council is doing in a much less suitable place, serving many fewer people, at far greater cost, in a run-down cat-house with a collapsing roof. *SMH*. We pour millions and billions into helping people, and all it does is line the politicians' pockets in places like Portland.
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  2. The alliance that re-created the state of Israel against the will and the wishes of the people living in Palestine is fragmenting, and the will to support Israel is waning in the USA. The Balfour Declaration was carried out by the Allies after cessation of hostilities in WW II. Israel was artificially created and has been a proxy for the USA (and vice versa) ever since. Yes, its neighbors have been much more aggressive towards Israel than conversely, but all concerned need to take a step back and recognize that the decades'-long hostilities are due to a provocation by victorious allies after 1945, creating the state of Israel by drawing lines on a map. What happened to self-determination? That's something the USA, Israel and other NATO (soon-to-be-former?) need to recognize, and instead of addressing the elephant in the room, they've dealt with each flare-up, piecemeal. I don't like what Hamas is doing. I think their leaders are ruthless and greedy scoundrels, who - as Rubin quoted - care more about taking the lives of Jewish babies than in preserving the lives of their own. Things are just extremely tangled. They should have held a plebiscite, years ago, BEFORE Balfour, and let the people there decide for themselves how they wished to organize themselves into a nation. Now that Israel's in existence, the gentlest course would seem to be a 2-state solution, with holy temples held jointly, in some way, shape or form. But there I go, trying to tell everybody else what's fair. My only sure response is the same, lame, piecemeal "Hamas started this one" response.
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