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I have a chemical engineering degree, and masters in micro and nano technology, and basically finished my PhD, I have applied for about 200 jobs, and gotten nothing. I dont believe in DEI, I dont complain about my personal life, I am basically begging for any form of employment, I have a good strong work ethic, healthy, and multidisciplinary education. Yes some people are bad workers, but even good workers struggle to find jobs that fit them, the job market in western countries is saturated with workers due to immigration, technology has helped eliminate other jobs. Employer's often "fish" for employees throwing back many while falsely saturating the job offer space. And the baby boomers are working long into retirement instead of retiring, because they screwed up the economy and are poor now.
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One of the errors in the thinking of people is that we have “constitutional rights.” Our rights are not ours because they are in the constitution, the are in the constitution because they are our rights. Actually, the Constitution restricts the government from infringing upon the rights we all receive from our nature.
For instance the Mexican consul in Yuma stated in a June 7th editorial that “Mexico does not intend to limit or curtail the right granted by the Second Amendment to American citizens to acquire and bear arms...” What needs to be understood is that ALL humans have the right to defend themselves, and therefore the right to have the means to that defense. Rights are inherent in our humanity, they are essential for us to live as humans should live, not as slaves or compliant servile entities begging authorities for permission to work and live.
A lion does not eat grass like a cow or sheep, it is the nature of lions to eat the flesh of other animals, the same is true of eagles, vultures, falcons, hawks, wolves, coyotes etc. Their natures cannot be changed by legislatures or politicians with a stroke of a pen. Nothing they could do would change a lion to a ruminant. The nature of men (mankind) is to be free, to make our own decisions about how we want to live our lives, to own ourselves. This is the origin of the idea of rights. We cannot be fully human if we do not own our lives, be at liberty to direct them, and to pursue, therefore, our own self interests. Politicians demanding that we get permission from them to exercise our rights is immoral, they have no legitimate power to do this. Writing legislation that violates the rights of mankind is trying to change our nature by putting words on paper, it wouldn't work for lions, why do we believe that it will work for humans? Man cannot be changed into the equivalent of hive insects where any individual is irrelevant!
This means all men, not just Americans but all humans living in the rest of the world anywhere at all have these rights including Mexicans.
The Declaration of Independence states the above quite nicely and with fewer words, people should read it sometime, especially the governors that have put their people under house arrest, curfews, and ordered other measures that are a fruitless attempt to reduce infection while doing economic destruction that may take years from which to recover. They have not read the Declaration either or they don't care at all about the ideas enshrined in it that have created the most prosperous country the world has ever known. They are after power over people and the destruction that has occurred because of their actions is just a statistic and they do not care about the lives of individual citizens. The ends justify the means, how's that working out for our economy, our liberty, and our prosperity?
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Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the capitalist system was to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens. By this method they not only confiscate, but they confiscate arbitrarily; and, while the process impoverishes many, it actually enriches some. The sight of this arbitrary rearrangement of riches strikes not only at security, but at confidence in the equity of the existing distribution of wealth. Those to whom the system brings windfalls, beyond their deserts and even beyond their expectations or desires, become 'profiteers,' who are the object of the hatred of the bourgeoisie, whom the inflationism has impoverished, not less than of the proletariat. As the inflation proceeds and the real value of the currency fluctuates wildly from month to month, all permanent relations between debtors and creditors, which form the ultimate foundation of capitalism, become so utterly disordered as to be almost meaningless; and the process of wealth-getting degenerates into a gamble and a lottery.
Lenin was certainly right. There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and does it in a manner which not one man in a million is able to diagnose.
--John Maynard Keynes, The Economic Consequences of the Peace, 1920
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@DadSavesAmerica I recommend accessing all the DATA we have on schooling. Religious and private schools 1) spend less per student with 2) students scoring HIGHER on ALL available metrics 3) across all income groups, races and rural, suburban and urban geographies. It's shocking to access the DATA and see this clearly. Metrics like attendance rates, graduation rates, SAT scores, AP scores, sports participation, extra-curricular participation and college attendance rates and college graduation rates. Public schools don't even come close. For k-12 education, we already know WHAT to do and HOW to do it. Private and religious k-12 schools are already doing it. Broadly speaking, our public schools shovel money to MASSIVELY bloated school administrations (more data) and politically connected useless vendors (more data). Americans love emotions, controversies, sentiments, "stories" and the delusion that "more money" will solve our problems. But the DATA we already have makes the failures and corruption in public K-12 education as plain as day.
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I stopped watching the video last night so I could watch it with my kids. Unfortunately my wife took my daughter to an out of town hockey tournament tonight, so it was my 16 year old son and I.
What struck me most was how much my son actually knew. The items we discussed the most (and had to look up to make sure I was getting it right) were the differences between the various types of votes (ie first past the post, ranked choice, etc), the concept of the Constitution being a document that limited majority rule (I’d never heard it put that way, and it really resonated), and the whole concept of “voting with your feet.”
The last point generated the most conversation. Going to the ballot box isn’t enough, when it comes to doing your civic duty. It includes serving your community, engaging with other citizens, taking action when you disagree with something (even if that means changing schools or something more extreme like changing states). All of those actions are ways to “vote.”
All in all, a very valuable 36 minutes. We’re going to watch more of these videos together.
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I've been looking forward to this one, so far it's fantastic.
Makin' copies! Roooob, The Robster, The Rob man, Schneiderino! At the desk by the dad machine, greeting people, saving America. Robarama, Robooooo. The Schneidernater, Robalob ding ding ding dong, the Richmeister, liking the juice, thinking the juice is gooood.
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At the great risk of being insensitive, I could not help but notice that, for someone who is actively encouraging married couples to have kids, that you have "only" one son.
Now, I don't know anything about your medical history: whether there has been infertility, miscarriages, hysterectomies, genetic disorders, etc. If that is the case, I sympathize. I have many friends and family who have suffered from those.
If not, what's the hold up?
You talked quite a while about having kids young, early, despite all the purported reasons not to like family finances, job opportunities, etc.
You have one son. Adorable, yes. But he looks to about school-age already.
If there are so many benefits to having kids, why did you stop?
You and your wife have even reached replacement numbers yet.
PS my wife and i have 4 kids. You're right, it is chaotic. Money is tight, the house is loud, schedules are crazy. But I feel blessed to have everyone of them. Come join us! Giving your kid a sibling(s)is the best gift you can give them. We won't be around forever and when we're gone they will at least have each other.
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By going through the grievance process and being public about the outcome, these parents -- this family -- has made the world a better place. There was of course no way they were going to get school district adults to apologize to a child, privately or otherwise. Litigation fears aside, doing so would have represented to most observers, the kids in their charge especially, a real diminishment of their authority as school leaders, i.e. ostensibly knowledgeable, even wise guides for children, and a huge blow to their egos. Especially in TX where everything's a competition -- the fact of your apologizing means you lost and you even admitted you're the loser, you're the one who 'got taught'; you 'found out'. But this would be so anywhere -- it's how pop culture and the general culture operate now.
But by going through the process these parents have taught every SD teacher, administrator, and board member with even an ounce of integrity to look at their own behavior more carefully and, where needed, to strive for greater thoughtfulness and fairness in their treatment of others, students especially. It's important that this was filmed and put out in the world.
I really liked the mother's final words about appreciating that children are children, i.e. essentially quite innocent. Also liked the observation about adults needing to be less insecure and ego-driven so as to be better leaders.
Great documentary.
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Well to be honest, we brits over here are watching all of this with great awe, and hilarity, but mostly awe, and a lot of jealousy.
It never ceases to amaze me how crooked our leaders can be and the way money is funneled by fake, pointless schemes into all these countries as a method to line the pockets of greedy fat cats, but the scale of which this was done with USAID was criminal.
But we are utterly jealous because we would love nothing more than a strong, fair, people driven leader like Trump to step in here and start lifting the lid on everything here the way he has, and to start rectifying the issues that are currently ruining our country and breaking the spirit of our people.
And we really do need more Americans to start paying attention to what's happening over here, like the loss of free speech and the ability to have a free and open debate, and everything after..
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Don't worry, there are still GenZers out here were raised Christian and conservative, who are quietly planning on having tons of kids and raising them right. I'm one of them. I'm so grateful I was raised with my head straight on my shoulders, and my values and priorities in line with the smartest and wisest people throughout history. I'm 24 and married, we just bought a house, and we're planning on having 6 kids or more. (And yes, even GenZers absolutely CAN buy a house if they actually budget and save their money). We're starting a garden to have truly HEALTHY produce that's untouched by Big Food and Big Pharma, and I'm making almost all of our food from scratch. And I have lots of friends who are in the same boat as me. We're here, and we're going to repopulate the Earth with well-raised, free-thinking, healthy people. Watch us.
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@magistrumartium As @DadSavesAmerica said, " fascism and marxism to be kissing cousins on the collectivist side of the spectrum."
It's not hard to actually find out Mussolini's background, or any of the Fascist thinkers. Also not hard to find what Mussolini and fascist thinker Giovanni Gentile meant by "Socialism" -- they defined that in terms of the "Socialist International" movement, aka Communism. Not hard to search for Gentile and see his various writings, including the Philosophy of Marx (which was praised by Lenin) before he wrote the Philosophy of Fascism. Oh -- and Gentile, the creator of Fascism, became the MINISTER OF EDUCATION for Mussolini!!
I went and spent $1.99 USD on Gentile's book -- in it he lays out his argument. He cites the works of George Sorel, French Socialist who criticized Marxism for failing to deliver and was obsessed with materialism to the point of fallacy (page 116). As Marxism's failings became evident Gentile describes how young Italian socialists flocked to thinkers like Sorel to find direction. Gentile also speaks to the spiritualism of man which he feels is expressed via nationalism, and while the Right is too obsessed with the Individual, the Left is too obsessed with the State and materialism to the point of being immoral -- and he felt there should be balance, so long as the Individual didn't impede the State's ability to deliver the promises of Socialism on the behalf of society.
Gentile describes how Mussolini left the Socialist Party in 1915 to strike out on this new form of Socialism, and that he had gone through his own thought journey from Marxism idealism to disillusionment.
Gentile states that under Fascism:
1. Individual "Rights" come from the State, and are the source of all social rights and rejects western liberalism.
2. The State is also the center of liberating spiritualism, equated with extreme nationalism, for only through service to the State can man be truly free and connected to the society.
3. The State is the embodiement of the People, and the People are expressed via the State
4. He descibes on page 231 how the State controls the economy via "Corporations of Syndicates," or "Corporatism" as Mussolini called it. Rather than seize corporations and run them from the State, Fascism controlled industry by co-opting and forcing industrial leaders to bend to the will of the Socialist State and become part of the State-managed Corporate Syndicate. The working class was represented by State-controlled Unions. Gentile describes how the State will "reduce" companies "to State discipline and make them an expression of the State's organism."
Gentile goes on to describe how "the individual exists as a specialized productive force…who is brought to unite with other individuals…and comes to belong to the one great economic unit which is none other than the nation."
Gentile goes on to explain how western liberalism is essentially immoral and destructive, and how Fascism resolves "the paradox of liberty and authority."
This is SOCIALISM. The express control of the Means of Production BY THE STATE. The express control of the Individual to serve the State.
This is all in one single book that anybody can read and discuss. But did you know this? Did you know that all of the political philosophers who founded Fascism were Socialists and Marxists? Fascism explicitly calls for the STATE control of the means of production and rejects individualistic capitalism and the close alliance of approved Unions and Corporations to extend and implement the power of the State...Unions like this one...
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I've taught at several universities, including one of the major ones at which protests are happening, so I'm reminded of how immature and uninformed a lot of 18-22 year-olds are. When I see these protests, many of which, as you say, feature laughably horrible public relations and behavior that only alienates the undecided, I consider the fact that many of the protesters are really performing for each other (or for some of their professors) to achieve status within the group. By behaving outrageously, they are proving their allegiance to the cause, even if they don't know much about the cause. Although some of them are true believers, for most of them, this will become an episode of their life, most of the remainder of which will turn out to be relatively normal/boring.
Keep in mind that college students have been protesting for >50 years, so they are competing with that legacy as well as with one another. We see more of it now with everyone having a video camera.
It's also always been the case that any kind of activism or protest attracts a certain percentage people who are seriously mentally unbalanced and who are mainly looking for a way to vent their unfocused rage at the world. Look back at the whole Evergreen debacle, and you'll see it. The Evergreen mess is probably what college administrators are thinking about when they decide to have protesters arrested. Additionally, I know that college administrations are currently under very strong and growing pressure from alumni to protect the school's name and brand value. If your school becomes a national laughing-stock, the value and prestige of your degree declines.
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In his latest book, The Devil and Karl Marx, Kengor points out that Marx loved the line that comes from the devil character, Mephistopheles, in Goethe’s Faust: “Everything that exists deserves to perish.”
Dr. Kengor elaborates: “Friends said Marx would chant this. He would recite this–'Everything that exists deserves to perish. Everything that exists deserves to perish.’ This is a philosophy that's about tearing down, burning the foundation, leveling the house, to where you have Marx standing there in the smoldering embers, saying, ‘Now we are ready to begin.’ So anybody that thinks that this is a philosophy that is just about helping one another or sharing the wealth or redistributing wealth, they do not understand Marx and Marxism.”
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Ah, solid financial advice. I have, lemme check, near as damnit nothing. No, tell a lie, I have a piece of stilton in the fridge. OK, so, step one, I'll get a bank to loan me enough money to buy a tiny flat in this town... that's about £200,000 levied against a piece of cheese, and then I'll rent it out and...
Well, dang. It turns out that no bank considers my cheese to have even nearly the same value as a flat. So I guess the best financial advice coming here is ''.
Nah, I'll stick with Billy Buffet. Some people can make money. Most people can't. I'm in the most people, I get that, I don't complain about it. But people who can make money will do so unless you stop them, so, Billy's best advice to the people who can is that once you have some money your main job is avoiding going to prison.
Got a little over halfway through, and big hugs to DSA for persisting in attempts to make the guy speak in concrete terms, can't help it if it ends up sloughing off like hoisin sauce off a live and angry duck. 🙂
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I can totally understand and respect this.. even as a non-believer, who's closest group of friends are Christian. I think these past 4 years have had us all scratching our heads and reevaluating a lot of things. If that brings some closer to their faith? I think that's wonderful. Me, it's just made me question more and more... "how did we get here" and when you look back, and start examining things, it becomes quite clear that we--and I say that as an agnostic, who embraces those of faith as well--never saw this coming... and we should have. First, academia.. then, the public schools and the the framing of every social issue. You are moral (like us) or if against us, immoral. Really set some bells and whistles off for me, and down the rabbit hole we go. Yes... we have seen all of this before. It's only been weaponized as critical race theory, critical que_r theory, etc., but the goal is all the same; to tear down the structure of society and build something new & "better" in its place.
I am glad for the work you, Bret and others do on this front to raise awareness. We need to all come together if we're going to combat this nonsense... for our nation and our children.
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Thanks for going beyond the curriculum with these kids. You're a great teacher,the way you're talking now without stepping on your nda is still effective, and the honesty in the gaps you don't want to speak is transparent and builds trust. And do look on the bright side, your public dismissal let's it be obvious that you weren't in the worst kind of school scandal. We need more guys teaching, you're almost convincing me to go get licensed.
You might not put much weight on that, but I was expelled by my media broadcast teacher in my senior year. In my four years, I had six years of math, six of English, fi years of chem through physics, and in my senior year I was teacher's aide for two classes and the only elective I took was broadcast. This class was the opposite of yours. Videos with worksheets were 80% of the work, there were a couple booths with equipment from the eighties, half of the time in class was literally socializing with the other kids in there while the teacher was detached. I had talked to him about the lack of direction one on one and he gave me the impression he would help bridge the gap. That just meant I was assigned to make programs in the one of the booths and help as much as I could with questions the other kids had. I didn't mind, I spent my lunches aiding my former favorite teachers and had taught a lot of the freshmen in my senior year so it wasn't the responsibility I had a problem with. What I really didn't like was his near total absence from class. I wrote a letter to him in the next essay test we had about... I don't even know, I can't remember a single thing from that class beyond 'office politics" because this was the only teacher that I had a problem with or had a problem with me. Either way, he gave me a zero on that test, maybe deservedly. However, the work I turned in after that had very low grades for the same level of work as I had put in before. Having been relegated to staying in the booth, I had a couple guys come in who were just skating on an easy a class who were happy to let me take over their video presentation to make a hit piece on the teacher, and I did. I gave them full technical credit and took only the script and on camera role for myself and making it look like they didn't know what was going on until we were at the deadline to record. I recorded a news story on "Coach Bennett, the man who can't teach and can't get a victory for the girls volleyball team." He was displeased to say the least, once he started paying attention to what was playing. Over the next couple days he had put together enough to get me expelled, he still had a copy of the letter I wrote him, which was no longer asking to teach but just a criticism about him not teaching and how he would get especially angry with some of the girls in class, and I had said they were the hottest girls in class which didn't work in my favor. The video was truly scathing, and I understand how I got expelled with whatever backstory he gave.
I was very resentful, did a bunch of drugs (the irresponsible kind, not the ruin your life ones), became irreverent at work and went from the top salesman to not being noticed and on to having terrible numbers and going above my bosses head and asking for control of the outlet I was in and quit when they refused, I sold my El Dorado and got a souped up early nineties sports car and moved in with my girlfriend, and then was irresponsible for a decade. Basically I knew I wasn't going to a decent school after expulsion and just let go. Two years after I left school, I did get the satisfaction of finding out that he was caught with two female students, with a bunch of former allegations.
To be fair, I had been part of a well organized drug ring at school. I was involved from plant and fungus to end user, we had an informant in the principal's office who was just as clean and well preforming as I was, she would let us know when dogs were going to come and who was going to be shaken down and have their lockers searched. We only sold to kids who asked, if you didn't know, you would have no idea who we were, aside from being popular with every clique. The highlight is how I found out about the scandal, I had a roommate who also sold and one of his customers came to out house one day and it was my senior math teacher who I would cut up with in class. We played a bunch of madden and tiger woods and he was there pretty often before I moved in to a new place with my girlfriend.
So hold your head up high. You did the right thing and you helped more kids than you think. A good teacher can change someone's whole life, and I can tell you were changing how a lot of people would go into the world. Sorry about the novel, hopefully it gives a bit of perspective. BTW I'm a tradesman doing well and living comfortably with plenty of spare time and a good clean income, plus a couple retail stores that I sold off. I have friends who are still paying off college loans. I've basically retired before many of my friends have committed to a career.
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Moral clarity lies in addressing ambiguous questions. Consider a scenario where a victim kills their perpetrator. Are we, the so-called good people, in support of the victim? Yes.
Now, let's draw an analogy with the current situation in the Middle East, where morality has been eroding. In this analogy, the victim was brutally attacked, forcibly taken to the perpetrator's home, and while defending themselves, killed not only the perpetrator but also anyone aiding the criminal.
However, instead of condemning the criminal, we, the so-called good people, begin discussing the cause of the attack. We conclude that the victim might have provoked the attacker. Then, our focus shifts.
We, the so-called good people, start talking about the perpetrator's personal life—mentioning their family, financial struggles, and obligations. Suddenly, the criminal act loses its focus. It becomes vague, and we begin feeling sorry for the criminal. We argue that they didn't deserve to be killed. It's unfair because the victim comes from a better-off family, has no debt, and has lived a comparatively good life. So, maybe, the victim even deserved to be attacked because he or she might not have been such a good person (we don't know for sure, but there is no smoke without fire).
This is where morality vanishes, replaced by ideology. The ideology that has been slowly occupying western minds for many years. This ideology has given rise to a generation of neo-communists or neo-marxists who eschew debates or free speech. They don't value human rights and they don't use language to communicate, but to indoctrinate, confuse, or shut down their opponents.
Interestingly enough, this ideology has always aligned with radical Islam.
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I get I'm probably not the core demographic of this channel - I was more drawn to the material on how education is failing boys. I agree with Mr Zitelmann that comparisons to Hitler or Mussolini are less valid than many on the left think they are: both had well established ideologies that were a vision for nations.
Despite the demonization of our history by 'deconstructionists', we should be proud of the great things Western civilization has established or cemented: the social contract, equality (think French revolution rather than 'equity'), individual rights/liberty , the rule of law - basically what we think of as freedom. People have died to defend these concepts from tyrants (including against Mr Hitler), and it is important that we continue to fight to uphold these. That means respecting that people can have different opinions, it means treating people equally despite their vast gulf in wealth or experience, it means disagreeing as much as we can but still respecting the consensus reached, it means being persuasive rather than using force, it means accepting election results we don't like. Why? because that is what we would want people to do for us - it is the Golden Rule, the basis for a social contract.
There are innumerable things I find frustrating and politics and policies, but when I stop and consider it, I do have to think that the system we have (democracy) is as good as any the world has found. I appreciate it is difficult - I don't think it's our default nature to see the world from perspectives outside our 'village' - but the results of the last 150 years have proven that democracy is worth it, and I think it's worth keeping that in mind when faced with those who do not conform to its values.
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I love your show. I agree with you about 99%, but this issue is like if Nazis had still occupied France or Poland and were arguing to have "free speech rights" to oppose the bombing of Nazis in Germany during WWII, lamenting that German citizens died by the hundreds of thousands, and that "Nazis are people too and desrve all the rights of citizens of France and Poland."
The problem goes much further back than when the US military went to the Middle East, Asia and
N Africa.
Thomas Jefferson had the same problem with the same group. Ask a Hindu Historian what happened during the 900 years of genocides against Hindustan. Ask a Persian historian about the genocides against them 1300 years ago. Ask a Greek Historian about what happened when the Ottomans committed genocides
What happened to all the Christians, Jews, Yazidis, Hindus, Buddhists, B'Hai, Druze Sikhs and others in the Middle East, Asia and Africa and Southern Europe and Eastern Europe during Caliphate invasions.
What they are trying to do here and The UK and Europe proper, was done successfully to 56 other countries.
1400 years ago, Khalil's group invaded and took control of Israel. Israel was reestablished back in 1948. Sharia countries purged all the Jews from their countries and made most of them walk all the way to Israel. They have been committing genocides against Christians, Hindus, Yazidis, Jews and all non- 'slims for hundreds of years, and still are doing it. The current leaders of Syria is CURRENTKY committing genicides against any and all Christians, Druz, B'Hai and Yazidis that are in Syria and Iraq.
This issue is so much larger than western college campuses.
The same group even wars against opposing sects that interpret differently. As they say, there will be no peace until all the world follows 'Slam." Bit by bit they took 56 whole countries. Don't think they are not trying the same here. They took Indonesia and mow are after taking the Philipines.
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I am subscribed to both of you so any criticism is meant to be constructive, and in no way hateful or hurtful. You spend a lot of time discussing your teaching experiences, particularly in video/film production and where that can lead to in the future. IMO, there is a glaring hole in your lessons: managing the money. I see this as one of the main causes of our world's problems that people do not understand a balanced budget, Income vs expenses . You can teach someone how to edit and promote a video, but that does nothing to help them understand the managing the money necessary to make anything happen and where the money comes from that they want to spend. It was brought up that so many young people aspire to be an influencer/content creator. I think it is negligence, on the part of educators, to not teach real world personal finances. The lack of this knowledge bears out in "tax the rich' mantra, support for the $20/hr min wage for fast food workers, personal indebtedness, student loans and the sentiment that the debt should be "forgiven". If we applied critical thinking to finances America would be in a better place. I think Warren is a little too philosophical and cerebral to find huge success as a pod caster/vloger.
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So I work a simple job in a metal factory, anyone can start working this job and they teach you to work the different machines as you go.
We have people from wherever we can get them, and as long as they do a good job they are welcome. One colleague doesn't speak ourfirat language but speaks english just fine, as do we all. Another came here 6 months ago from a wartorn country and learned an impressive amount of our language and to understand it spoken, just from interaction with people, and a phone can nowadays always be a translator.
We hire and welcome these people from all over and expect them to do a good job and to fit in. There's rules of conduct, and nobody gets special treatment. I myself when I started, man I was not used to such a physical job. To this day there are times when I just want to say "alright I'm absolutely beat, I'm calling it a day" well... I imagine they'll be sympathetic to my please once or twice and that's about it, rightfully so.
What I'm getting at is that diversity is a source of workers... and that's it. It comes with some complications, but this obsession the US has with it was never gonna work out
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I agree with you, at least I think I do. I’m not sure of 100% of what you’re saying. You go back and forth, and I get why you do that, but it’s confusing. Lay it out first. Say what you believe, rather than making us distill it ourselves from what you’re saying. There are reasons for that, but I don’t want to write a thesis here. Basically my impressions of what you say are influenced by where I think your loyalty lies. Politically, that is.
You may be 100% right, or not, but it does not change this very important thing: we have to defeat Donald Trump, first. THEN we work on stopping the Trojan horse in the democrat party. These new things: LGBTQ stuff, and I’m not talking about protection for gays, but the unnatural stuff, should go back under the rock from which it came and let doctors and parents deal with unusually formed births. The equality stuff should be mitigated by ability, determination, and dedication, not “everyone gets a gold star.” But it’s very hard to find the balance. Instead of shouting “communism” every time the pendulum swings a little too far left, try being more specific. Explain that we have to move back toward the center. And don’t even get me started on religion. I want nothing to do with religion. It’s gone off the rails and is seeking power again. It has to be stopped, and that’s one reason to stop DonaldTrump (among thousands).
Saying it’s all communism is extreme, and if you want to be effective, be specific. But don’t risk our getting tied up with a maladjusted misanthropic narcissist like D Trump.
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Regarding taxes:
1. The top 1% of earners in the US pay over 40% of all the income taxes collected. The rich ARE paying "their fare share".
2. Businesses should NOT pay taxes. Businesses don't really pay taxes; they collect the money from customers, then pay it into the government. PEOPLE pay 100% of the taxes in this country. PEOPLE, not businesses. If corporate taxes were eliminated, that money would immediately be available for re-investment into the company (adding equipment, expanding, etc., which creates more business for other businesses), and/or be used to hire more employees or pay their existing employees more. And yes, some businesses will simply choose to keep it, and there is absolutely nothing wrong with that, either.
We do not have a revenue problem in this country; we have a spending problem. And there's one group of people (leftist socialist Democrats) who think that the US government can better spend your money than you can, hence you need to send more of it to the government in the form of more and more taxes.
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The trial was not about adultery, it was about Accountant recording the payoff as a legal expense. Brags theory is that by recording payoff in this manner somehow Trump committed fraud against voters of NY, no one felt Trump had any chance in Hell of winning NY 2016. Cohn made the payoff without Trumps authorization. From Trumps prior art of the deal, he felt his backers/voters would believe him over a Porn Star. She and ancient "rape is kinda cool" lady just wanted to shake down a billionaire or be popular with High Society. Until either lady can provide a cigar or a dress with DNA evidence we have a "He said, She said" case. When Trump paid off Cohn, he did it with his own money, not voters money. The Hillary "Steele dossier" a fake slander of Trump was recorded as a legal expense and she was using voter donations, she got a $9,000 fine. The statue of limitation's ran out on Trumps case/s Alvin Bragg & E. Jean Carroll, but not Hillary's. Status of limitations is integral to our legal system, by delaying your claim against someone you put the defendant at huge disadvantage, it's hard to find witnesses, tapes, DNA samples and exculpatory evidence. With this Bragg case Trump actually may win NY,,, payback is delicious. John P. I'm slightly disappointed in you lack of research and wisdom, perhaps bow out next time? I'm a Democrat, who may be a DINO, now. Trump 2024
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Malthusian here. Before I watch this, full disclosure: I have yet to hear a convincing argument in your favor yet, but I'll give the video a fair shake.
Going in, I'm guessing that your argument stands on two legs: for 1), the economic incentive to procreate is so strong that it becomes unethical for a person to not have kids. This one is the old Ponzi-scheme idea that the foundation of a global economy can be based on labor, rather than resource. More workers will make more value? Maybe. But workers require sustenance, and that means gathering (finite) resources. Value can only be derived from scarcity; we can go "to the Moon" today on future projections of fuel for only so long. Harboring faith in as-of-yet unknown technologies is, well, childish. No matter the amount of money we 'make,' energy, food, water, air, and space are nevertheless still finite.
And of course, there's leg 2), that a certain book-based old morality has found the act of child-making to be inherently good in and of itself, because, well, more of us is better. This idea is as myopic as it is selfish, because it fails to consider quality of life as a factor because of the deep shadow quantity of life obscures it with. Meanwhile, the Earth has become a concrete-colored hellscape of endless mini-mall and suburban sprawl. Find a person who's willing to say that we haven't become culturally estranged from our nature, and there you'll see a pair of glassy eyes that have become completely deranged from rationalizations.
Benefit of the doubt, though: in I go. Again. Maybe this one will finally show me the light, or at least find a way to get me to forget all those ecology classes.
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Like Just because he ain't Black doesnt mean I can't Relate to him. I relate to Ryan Reynolds, Adam Sandler, All these funny Charming White boys🤷🏾♂️😂 my Daddy Resembled that a lot when I was younger. But I am Bkack, I am a Unique Human Being to who I am the way GOD made me, I am Charming, and yeaa I am Black, I'm gunna sound a Certain way, Doesnt mean I cant relate to Adam Sandler. he's funny as heck. GOD Bless em. (Also I know he aint white, he's Jewish, and Itailian or sum)
And ay, if you a Black Person out chea, thinking you have to sound ✌🏾More Bkack✌🏾 RETHINK THAT, GOD made you the way you are. Be Joyful Blessed, and Let go you are Blessed to sound and Look the way you do. You are Unique.
And if other people treat you different cuz of it, that messed up, Buut uhhhhh They can kicks Rocks, homie😂😂🤷🏾♂️ Tell em "Ooops Sorry bout dat I Look this way cuz GOD made me Beautiful, so you gotta take it up with HIM."
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As a soon-to-be father, I find this very encouraging. Thank you for sharing. I personally wish I could have more father mentors, guess that’s where “Dad Saves America” comes in!
Personally, I believe that as men, it was our God-given purpose to strive to lead the household and help establish and grow the next generation, to make them BETTER. Too often, we see our culture say, “Live for yourself,” but they don’t know that dying to oneself (i.e., giving up that “all about me” mentality) brings an unexplainable joy and meaning that goes far beyond living for fun and pleasure.
One of my biggest regrets in life wasn’t moving out of the big city sooner so that I could have felt better about having children earlier. So, my tiny piece of advice to those who felt uncomfortable having children because they lived in expensive California (looking at you, SF): MOVE OUT! City life is OVERRATED!
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We are human Beings, We are not Different races, we are One Race, the Human Race, GOD Created us all to be equally HIS Children, to have the Oppurtunities HE wants for us, and For each one of us, there is a Unique Oppurtunity, a Unique Occupation.... A Life Passion and Careeer.... But we Have ONE Purpose which all Purposes Flow to, Naturally. To Glorify GOD and to Bring the Nations to HIS Heart, to come togather as one People. Who Love GOD and GOD Who Loves is First.
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Could somebody please explain to me how i too can embrace religion when i just don't believe it? I see how it helps others, wish we could all feel so connected and with answers that sooth. Have that community and if finding oneself alone in life can use religion and church to bond and find new people and friends.
But to me it really really helps the vast majority of you who i like and want to bond with...it really really helps you believe and be able to believe due mostly to being born into a family that believed.
So those of us not born into faith in gods, what are we supposed to do? I see how many today are connecting the terrible woke Left and lack of faith. I have a great distaste for anything woke Left and yet i don't "replace religion with Woke Leftism."
Just food for thought, and really honestly if anyone reading feels my pain and has any advice i'm open to it. Please, advice telling me god is all and the answer and all of that, i feel you and can appreciate your good intentions, but no offense, it's circular in my opinion. We want to believe, it makes us feel better. And since we are social animals, and life is too short to care about ultimately what is actually factually true or not, happiness is what we really want and for us human mammals who know we're going to die it just ultimately leveled out that way where we care more about what we want being true than actually bravely sitting in the pocket and dealing with what is the much more likely truth. That we are just a life form that got big brains over time, puts this concept god to things, then that feels good and voila, better to live life feeling good and connected than being diligent to what is more, much more likely to be the truth (and i don't think it's that ugly, it, the truth just is. I actually feel it would be healthier for us to all move forth that way, not assuming god. But most disagree and tell me i'm assuming just as much when no, that isn't true. Believers are the ones making the outstanding outside our five shared senses remarkable claim about the nature of the things by claiming this god. And then all the different gods coming and going over time, at that time believed in just as much as you do yours now. And then the fact only 1/3 of all 3 major ones can be correct yet they all claim to be the one god. And god made itself and then also everything and everyone else and knows them and that is more easy for you to buy than it's all just nature and we're in it?
Is it some sort of semantics thing? Is it "hey man, don't take it literally, just form it to your spirit, feelings, god is what you need it to be" or some such? I know it's allegory or what? What are the mental gymnastics i need to do being somebody not having this put into me during my most formative early years to believe it? I don't think i can because it's just there's no reason outside of human subjective wanting for god for there to actually be a god.
Peace. I really mean it. All this hurts me way more than you. I really want to know how i too can just decide to believe in god?
Kennedy?
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What a terrific essay! I've just subscribed.
I agree with everything you said, except for one minor point. My only point of disagreement is on Chauvin / Floyd.
Cops are taught that the knee-on-neck restraint which Chauvin used on Floyd is only for use while subduing a resisting suspect, to get handcuffs on him. It is known to be dangerous, so as soon as the suspect is handcuffed, the neck restraint should be released, and the suspect should be rolled onto his side, to mitigate the risk of positional asphyxia.
But Chauvin didn't do that. Floyd did not resist being handcuffed, he only resisted being put into the car. He had been acting crazy, but he was not aggressive or threatening. He was already on the ground, handcuffed, when Chauvin applied the neck restraint, and Chauvin continued applying it long after Floyd went silent and limp. Chauvin recklessly and needlessly put Floyd's life at risk, and he deserves to be in prison. (I do not think the two rookie cops should be in prison, though.)
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The biggest frustration that I have is with the G.O.P. is their inability to connect the dots and then explain what that means to the average person. The Left in this country has done a masterful job of demonizing Fascism (and associating Fascism with the Right) while at the same time minimizing the evils of Socialism. And when someone on the Right tries to make that association the Left screams McCarthyism and censorship, the result being the G.O.P. going on the defensive and having to explain themselves (they are not Fascist, they are not racist, they do care about the little gut, etc.). From Elon to Zuck, being "Red Pilled" simply means the crap you learned in college was just that, a load of crap. The Left cares about one thing and one thing only, power for themselves. In "Ye Old Days", kings and queens felt that they had a "right" to rule because they were destined to rule by the grace of God, these days the Left feels they have a "right" to rule because they are bestowed by genetics to be a superior human in every way, like intelligence, empathy, understanding the world, etc. (hence the press refers to these people as the "elites"). Anyone, and I mean anyone who claims that they "just want to make the world a better place" is a force for evil and is a useful idiot for the Left. The ONLY way to make the world a better place is to treat those you come into contact with respect and decency. Be a force for good, do an honest day labor, pay your bills, treat neighbors nicely, be humble, act as if God were watching you every second of everyday and judging whether or not you have earned the right of eternal life.
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Finally someone says it. I've been saying it for a long time: if we could snap our fingers and magically be in commietopia (collective ownership, no state, no money), it would turn into tyranny in no time, because people disagree and people want to do their own thing in their way.
Random Joe would want to build his own factory and would take some followers with him, but then there would have to be a collective (a state) empowering itself to punish them for it, or else lots of Random Joes being free to do their own thing would turn it all into capitalism and quickly erode the communist system.
You wouldn't even be able to have your own hobby farm at home. The newly formed state wouldn't want to run the risk that you might start free trading. That would be very dangerous.
There's also the matter of scarcity in a money-less society. People's needs would have to be rationed. If there's no money, there's no prices balancing the market, so the only way they could balance production and consumption, would be through rationing, so they could predict how much to produce.
Those predictions would also be jeopardized if people could have their own farms at home, and that sort of thing, and enacted trading.
Real communism has been tried. Every single time it led to tyranny, that was real communism. The utopian communism is the one that hasn't been tried, and never will be.
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Gosh, that was brave of the reporter to tacitly acknowledge his own cognitive dissonance regarding circumcision. Two cut guys, one who acknowledged circumcision harmed the bonding with his child and the child’s other, one who acknowledged it is a religious tradition but gave no real medical justification, and a mother of four boys who did not speak up regarding the harms of circumcision on both the mother baby unit and on her sons’ future sexual experience and ability are not an authority on circumcision. Circumcision does have similarities to gender ideology because it is permanent, irreversible harm to a minors’ reproductive system with no medical justification.
So, I’m trying not to let that issue detract from what is a good interview with interesting opinions from a doctor, lawyer, and journalist. And it’s a great whistleblower story. I think the way to tie in the blip they had about circumcision is to say: let’s make sure that we don’t allow medicalized gender treatments to become a tradition, where three smart and accomplished people sit in a room and hand wave it because it’s what we have always done. Gender ideology and medicalization is also worse than circumcision because it does have more risks, more permanent effects, and it makes paitient for life, with real physical problems and mental issues that will require a lot more medicslization, that was all unneeded in the first place.
OK there is one more tie in that I think was glossed over that matters for both circumcision and gender medicalization. Gender medicalization and especially Lupron being used as a supposed “puberty blocker” impairs normal physical AND social development. When the doctor said “you don’t get that time back”, it can be added that an adolescent needs to go through puberty at the same time as their peers or else they will be stunted. Can you imagine having to go through puberty at the same time you’re going off to college? It’s just weird. Any child with a chronic illness knows that the time spent away from school or peer groups became a challenge later on for their social development. The doctor could have also elaborated that it is true, if you’re on lupron too long the risk gets higher and higher that you will be sterilized and never be able to go through natural secondary sexual development. That means no tits and dicks, ladies and gents. And to circle back, circumcision also impairs normal sexual development too. The men who are circumcised will never get to a certain point of sexual development and never will be able to have a full sexual experience without having their foreskins. They can have sex, but it’s not the same and never will be for them. We as a society are also impaired collectively because we, in the US only thankfully, no longer know basics of penis care like “if intact don’t retract” and how to manage yeast infections, which are not just a women’s issue, if men are uncircumcised it’s an issue for them too,, but an easily managed issue that does not require cutting off normal healthy body parts. Least invasive treatments can be tried first, but we don’t even know how to do that in the Us
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Dad Saves America..... again! Thank you for this. Such an important conversation. Also, and sorry to have assumed, but it is nice to hear about your Italian heritage because I did think you had Jewish background due to the fact that you have discussed anti-Semitism on your channel, which I both want to thank you for and point out further proves your crucial argument in favor of a more just and joy-filled world. I did watch this strange movie on Netflix, and while I did not like it I do think it is a decent film in so far as it sparks important conversation. I thought the dialogue and everything felt too scripted, and I'm sure as a filmmaker yourself you probably found it annoying at times. I do love Mahershala Ali, though, even if Obama had a say in the casting and is a bit jealous of Ali's good looks. Ha ha!! Anyway, good effort on the part of the Obamas for putting out content like this, arguably if not for anything more than helping spark conversation. Unlike you, I did vote for Obama, but like you I also smiled at the result of his success in winning the presidency. It was undeniably historic. Sad that even the most inspiring leaders are vulnerable to becoming corrupted by politics, but it is always 2 steps forward and 1 step back when it comes to human progress. Keep doing what you're doing here, I think it's of great value and am very appreciate of your work!
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I agree with what you're saying about open trade, but I can't help but think about the exceptions. I don't think Trump's 100% tariff is a good thing, but we do have to address these issues to be persuasive:
Companies that were American and produced excellent quality goods have moved overseas and the quality has plummeted.
When American companies are purchased by foreign investors, the business model often switches from building a quality brand that encourages long-term customers to a model of maximizing profits which cut costs until the brand is eroded.
The market is overwhelmed with lower quality goods driving consumer expectations down. Compare the average build and material quality of furniture over time, for example.
When global markets are stressed due to pandemics or natural disasters, dependency on companies that operate in other government systems leaves us vulnerable.
Once Americans have lost the knowledge, manufacturing equipment, and infrastructure to produce goods for ourselves, it isn't easy for a startup American company to undercut established overseas high volume competitors.
As tech gets to monopolize and manipulate markets, the ability for true competition in any sector plummets. Big corporations decide what vendors to show you, removing consumer choice.
Good paying, low skill, factory/ manufacturing jobs are an important component to a robust middle class.
It might be troubling to imagine that we can't honestly compete globally, but it might also be true. What do you do then, let the American middle class die because other countries can out compete us? I'm a lifelong libertarian so I want free markets and I know that competition makes everything stronger, but I don't know what to do about these concerns.
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@DadSavesAmerica I like the way you think and the work you’re doing in the education space. I taught in public and private schools 1st-3rd grade. Back then my primary reason for getting out was the pay here in South Carolina. I could not pay my student loans, taxes, rent, etc. I started my tutoring business and that’s been over a decade ago. Over a decade plus I’ve experienced the uselessness of the current loud noise that is the American educational system. That is, children’s curiosity and imagination being destroyed, their innate talents and abilities being disregarded, and their desire for learning to be fun and practical being discouraged. The biggest problem as I see it is leadership. We have a leadership problem in education. Leaders do the real and hard work of human inspiration. The American public education system is the opposite.
Having observed, interacted, and tutored students and connected with parents and teachers in almost every state (tutoring children online exploded for me in 2020), the subjects that are the biggest problem for elementary age children are reading, writing, and math. Some of the most important mediums/subjects, in my view, for the early development of critical thinking and reasoning skills. The Prussian prison system as you call it, does not teach children how and why to think.
That said, however, I am excited about
the many new ways parents are taking responsibility for their children’s education and good people are unifying together to create schools and the like. Thank you for the chat you had with Hannah Frankman outlining a lot of this activity.
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As a former (and unrepentant) member of the Communist Party of Great Britain, I surprised myself (and will no doubt surprise you, if you read this) by how many of the details of your presentation I agree with. Where we part company is around the statement: "This is actual communism." In our minds, it is not "actual communism", but a travesty, a perversion, a parody of real communism.
Real communism, whatever else it may be (for good or ill), is rooted in physical reality, indeed in a fundamentally materialistic understanding of both the natural world and human affairs (as indeed is "pure" capitalism, as I understand it). "Thinkers" (to use the term generously) like Judith Butler seek to snatch us away from material reality into a fantasy realm of "identity politics" in which physical embodiment is, to all intents and purposes, shaped, indeed created by human language, held to exist on some "supra-material" quasi-mystical plane. Many of her acolytes espouse an extreme form of individualism which few even avowedly right-wing intellectuals would admit to.
Some members of the American (pseudo-)left may indeed regard themselves as "Neo-Marxists", but whereas you may lay your contemptuous stress on the second part of that hyphenated word, we would place ours on the first.
Did Kamala Harris really campaign to fully ban private health insurance? No Western European country, even those most commonly regarded as "socialist" by Americans, has ever imposed such a ban, nor was it ever forbidden in any of the "real socialist" countries of Eastern Europe to pay (out of one's own pocket) for private health care. Indeed, a friend of mine was a private dentist in the German Democratic Republic throughout the 1970s and 80s.
The current American "left", having never been called upon to provide realistic solutions for even moderate socialization of community resources, lives in a fantasy world of "pro-Hamas gender politics" (that's a pretty stark oxymoron right there), and it behoves (or behooves, as you say) us all to drag them back to some kind of reality. While that should, in justice, fall more to us than to you, I don't hold out a lot of hope for either of our chances.
Extreme circumstances make for strange bedfellows, and while I don't imagine we can ever be true "allies", I hope we can recognize the validity and sincerity of each others' efforts in this regard.
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Maybe the chilling "smiles" are really what's known as "duping delight" -- the body's way of revealing that the person actually thinks they are getting away with duplicity. They KNOW where they are coming from, and they know if they are 100% bold and honest about it, it won't "fly" - so they have to couch their thoughts in what they think will protect them from consequence. If they were truly committed to stopping the calls of genocide for Jews in their homeland, that would come through in one plain and clear sentence. They're not, or they would have acted immediately when it was occurring. Civil debate is one thing, and it's always needed, especially on campuses. But mobs chanting for emptying Israel of the Jews (or any peoples in any land!) is altogether another. AND they would have opened their campuses up to REAL free speech even when it went against their own personal politics. Their words ring hollow. This was The Moment and that's what they did with it. But I do hope it leads to real and honest reflection, because we've all had to come to honest terms with things about ourselves that aren't admirable. Because we're all capable of being led astray by bad ideology, I do hope they face it, walk out of it, and go on to do better things with their lives.
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This was a great breakdown. I don't see anything inaccurate. Though, I believe the most important take away from it all is that even in a federal/constitutional republic, the education of the electorate is paramount. Because while we're absolutely not a `democracy,` we still operate based on democratic principals when it comes to electing our representatives. As George Carlin so aptly put it "If you have a country of ignorant selfish people, you're going to get ignorant selfish leaders." While the constitution does protect us from all out mob rule, it's subject to interpretation by the judicial branch, and the only remedy to their decision is a formal amendment. At the moment, especially, you couldn't get a formal amendment through congress if all our lives depended on it.
So, while I agree it's important for people to understand the system they live in, the truth is, the more you understand, the more depressing it becomes when you look around at the current state of things.
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Children with gender dysphoria need to be able to access mental health professionals who will treat their comorbidities and help them accept their bodies. A number of states have blocked medical interventions for gender dysphoria, but no legislation has come about stopping professional and licensing sanctions against professionals who do not support "affirming care.". We will see more suicides if youth with gender dysphoria cannot access appropriate mental health care and family therapy, yet cannot transition, as transition generally delays, but does not reduce suicides, if they are going to happen. Also, many of these children need a " life coach" who can help them with social skills, dress and grooming to decrease the dysphoria. Both classes and individual help with social and physical awkwardness can really help when parents do not know how to be supportive or the teen stubbornly resists parental guidance. The cost of such a program would be money well spent compared with the high costs of hormonal treatments and complications. However, as long as we have mental health professionals who encourage transitioning and conservative students are driven out or discouraged, religious people will largely avoid mental health treatment, and conservative voters will hesitate to fund mental health programs, as they may perceive the mental health programs as doing harm to patients.
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I'd love to dig deeper into the thoughts you present here, though I doubt I'd ever get a chance even though we live fairly close to each other. I find various forms of "hero worship" befuddling. Perhaps I'm a Forrest Gump-esque dolt unaware of feelings I'm supposed to have. To me these admirable people such as you've noted are just that, admirable, but not demigods. Similar to your Jobs exiting the elevator story I met Bill Gates at a Charity auction once. While I genuinely appreciate all that he's accomplished with his time on this earth, I don't feel that he is all that special as a person. Special in his accomplishments, but not in persona. When in the military in Southeast Asia our base had a visit from President Johnson. Our meeting was as a large group so not anything close to a personal interaction, but again I saw nothing special in him. In his case I was very aware of his political ascension tactics so may have been colored by that. In school some of my classmates were children of Hollywood elites so maybe those experiences dulled my awe capabilities.
To bring current events to the discussion, I have great hope that DOGE can accomplish what it has as it's goal. The realist in me is skeptical, I've seen how difficult it is to change entrenched political systems. Still, I'm hopeful, but not naive. You referenced the lessons of the bible, I've made reference here on the channel to Aesop's fables, and we might as well include Greek and Roman mythology..................lessons in human behavior are pretty much timeless.
To sum it up, I have great respect and admiration for people who can achieve far above the norm, for their use of abilities that are uncommon. I enjoy analyzing their use of skills they've acquired and honed to excel in the face of adversity. If they are able to devise items that improve the life of our fellow humans or can rally a group to a common cause with leadership that is possessed by few, I see that as very admirable, though not elevating them above others in a human sense. To afford them "hero" status of some form or other can result in a spectrum of danger ranging from blind loyalty to something resembling Trump derangement syndrome.
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Enjoy your show.
Service industries that have highly educated people (banks, Insurance, tech companies), are in the 33% - 40% of expense recorded on their income statements.
Hospitals average just north of 50% of their expense on labor.
So the elephant in the room since Marx is the risk of capital and the value add of:
Telco, computing power, utilities, warehousing, shipping, offices and manufacturing facilities, machinery, etc.
Further socialist talk about all the money that owners make when the financial results are often measure in a few percent more than the total costs and a boat load of risk😮
Ask the socialists/ Marxist why they don’t properly represent the value equation by leaving out the majority of value categories ?😮
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I think it is important to point out how the public school model is also a toxic environment in terms of education. Children, especially elementary aged kids, need to feel safe & secure to be their best learners. They are generally becoming more dangerous. The constant shuffling around of kids between subjects as young as kindergarten, and the turnover rates of teachers, makes for a much less structured model. We have moved away from play, and exploration. Instead, they move toward busy work, and memorization over mastery. I learned fast after sending my oldest to kindergarten at a popular charter school believing I was doing the best by not sending my child to the neighborhood school. The local district has a poor reputation. He was more anxious than I had ever seen a child, and his behavior there and at home suffered immeasurably. When we finally withdrew him to homeschool, it took him several weeks to get back to a place where learning was easy and organic again. He was exhausted, and emotionally wiped too. Yeah…it’s a sacrifice but it was the best decision we have ever made.
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Loved the video. I often think in terms of distribution graphs, and I think that plotting social acceptance along two dimensions was a powerful illustration.
To give a response to the last question you posed in the video, I think there's a lot to chew on, but I'll try to give a high level "forest" view of what I think are some of the major factors that got us into this mess.
Premise 1: Humans group themselves in tribes/groups (This is essentially the same premise your video is based off of)
Premise 2: Tribes become less cohesive with scale. (Groups tend to splinter after reaching a certain size)
Premise 3: Proximity amplifies a person's feeling towards another person. (proximity of distance, proximity of frequency, proximity of traits... these things amplify whether people like each other or annoy each other).
Premise 4: Technology decreases distances, both temporally and geographically.
I don't have the mental clarity right now to make a rigid Aristotle argument to tie these things together, but I think the pieces paint a picture of how our once high-trust society eroded into a low-trust one. Here's my take on how they fit together.
Before railroads, communities were small and interactions were infrequent, which allowed people to focus on local issues without being affected by distant political divides. With the advent of railroads and telegraphs, geographic distances shrank, increasing interaction but still maintaining physical proximity.
The digital age changed everything. Geography no longer matters in communication, and social media creates echo chambers by connecting like-minded people. Digital tools have reduced the need for face-to-face interactions with those nearby. We now engage with virtual communities, but these connections are less grounded in real-life, physical spaces. This disconnect leads to stress and division when people from different "tribes" meet in person.
Technological change has been rapid, making it easy to find virtual communities but harder to connect with people nearby. The lack of physical communities is a key issue. Online communities often lack real-world consequences, unlike interactions in physical spaces, where differing norms and priorities are more apparent.
Restoring societal norms is going to be a huge challenge. The internet is powerful, but it’s hard to recreate the trust and cohesion of physical communities. It's also hard to give up conveniences once you become acclimated to it. I can't imagine a future without the internet, but I also can't imagine the type of social cohesion we enjoyed before it.
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The mere idea that "Conspiracy" = "Fantasy" (which is how most people seem to use the word these days) is ENTIRELY False! Like George Orwell's 1984, we've LOST a word from the English vocabulary by this false conflation. But what is a conspiracy?
conspiracy n. -- A conversation between 2 or more people for the purpose of doing something unethical or illegal.
I agree that people are inherently selfish, for this is a survival attitude. In a tragedy, virtually everyone will lash out, steal food when starving, etc.
If a street thug can steal pocket change, a Billionaire Thug can just as easily cheat, steal or murder for their own benefit. And because everyone is inherently selfish, and many goals cannot be done by one person alone, then conspiracies are inevitable. In fact, during the research for my book, Dirt Ordinary, I discovered that there are at least 489 NEW conspiracies starting Every Second, on average, every day, all year long.
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"And this is eternal life, that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent" (John 17:3, ESV).
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I'll order 6 copies of the CD, 3 copies each of the albums (with each variant cover), 12 shirts, 15 sweaters, 9 coffee mugs, 5 sets of glasses, 12 shot glasses, 14 baseball caps, 6 scarves, 9 pairs each of the red & green socks. Oh, and I'm willing to pay triple for dump me up in line expedited shipping.
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I'm at 15m 45s, and this is so good! Leftists LOVE big government, regulations and "safety." But what they never tell you is that when you give governments more and more power, you create LESS safety for everyone. As Lord Acton so aptly put, "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely!" This includes "power TO the people" -- a Communist Slogan which led to the MURDER of over 100 million people in the 20th century. Democracy leads to Communism or other forms of Totalitarianism. Always! Underneath the surface of the warm-and-fuzzy feelings we get from "being consulted," we find that democracy ultimately becomes an Oligarchy of "experts" who tell people what to think; and the majority always tend to go along with them (see Milgram Experiment, 1963 for proof of this -- 2/3 [67%] will follow experts up to the point of MURDER).
Fun Fact: Civilization got its initial kick-start from the tragedy of Global Cooling! Temperatures during the Holocene Optimum were at least a degree Celsius warmer than today (average global temperature), and led to the Sahara being green for nearly 3,000 years. When Earth cooled, there was less evaporation, and thus LESS RAIN, so the Sahara dried up! The nomads left the Sahara, invading the periphery, setting off a chain reaction which required the Egyptians to Get Organized! Et voila! Civilization was born.
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Marx on Class Struggle is an example of the Lowest form of Intelligence -- namely recognizing IDENTITIES. And this level of intellect frequently creates the most problems because it lumps the good in with the bad. For example, compare:
Identity by Race (Leftism, Collectivism) versus Identity by the Content of One's Character (what Christ called, recognizing a tree by the fruit it bears).
Identity by Race is easy, like biblical literalism; it requires very little intelligence. Identity by Character takes a lot of work and humility, like that required to SEE the Spirit of Scripture.
The higher forms of intelligence allow for recognizing differences and similarities. They allow the individual to see "implication." (And I know, because I struggled with this decades ago when first dating; the girl would say one thing, but would mean something else entirely!)
Fact: No one is omniscient; thus, we will always have more to learn. And even those with the highest of IQs, when they remain humble, can make the most of their gift. The problem with Certainty is that once a person achieves it on any topic, they stop looking. And this narrows the person's focus so they can rarely, if ever, see the evidence which would prove them wrong.
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I went to an alternative high school. If kids caused problems they were sent there. But they were more flexible and gave these kids multiple chances. This way they werent distracting everyone at the regular school where they couldn't hack it or fit in.
At our school, if you were causing problems, you were asked to leave for the day. You could come back tomorrow, fresh start, try again. So everyone else could keep working. If you were having a rough day, emotionally, problems at home, you could ask to leave and come back later. Kids actually appreciated this and didnt abuse it.
But they did not just allow violence. Kids had fights, they were given multiple chances but they still had punishments. The main goal was to give kids a second chance but also to provide a place where they could finish school isolated, able to focus, in an environment that helped problem kids. We had small class sizes so teachers could keep control, pay attention, help everyone.
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Health Insurance doesn't kill patients. Government regulations kill medical patients. Healthcare and health insurance is heavily regulated by our government. In 2012, Obamacare mandates forced my mother into palliative care while in the ICU of a hospital when she had colon cancer. What this meant was that a hospital committee following the new Obamacare law conducts a review of all critical patients filling out a calculation table for such patients as to whether or not they will continue to receive treatments and care. Marks against patients such as age, signed DNR, refusing any tests, current status or condition, etc determine if patients will be placed on palliative care. My mother refused a 3rd unnecessary colonoscopy test at age 80 and signed a Do Not Resuscitate when admitted to ICU. The result was a planned radiation therapy treatment was also cancelled even though it would have made it possible for her to walk out of the hospital. But once on palliative care, you cannot be removed from it, and you cannot go to another hospital for treatment either.
Even though hospital was refusing to treat her leg pain from the cancer, they still had 5 or more doctors visiting her everyday and charging her account even though she wasn't being treated at all on palliative care. So I had her moved to hospice even though the cancer had not spread to any organs but only affected her left leg with pain which the radiation treatment would have resolved. My mother refused food and water in hospice, and within 3 days, suffering from dehydration, she drowned as her lungs filled up with fluid. I forgot to mention she was still working as a real estate agent at the time and even closed a sale while in the ICU. All she needed was treatment for the leg pain so she could go back to work again.
Anyone who thinks that completely government controlled healthcare will be better than what we have today is a complete imbecile. We will only get more of this palliative care death panel for the elderly and not so elderly. Canada and parts of Europe has included euthanasia in their palliative care programs even for the mentally depressed. So don't get depressed about have to wait over a year for cancer treatments or they may just off you.
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Hi John
I appreciate your insights.
I don't know if you're still reading comments 5+ days after releasing a vídeo, but here's a thought or two:
IMO - the personality characteristic that many, if not all, "movers and shakers" and these kind of leaders have, is OCD. There is this crazy, maniacal attention to what 99.999% of everyone calls trivial details. It's especially true in the arts and entertainment. Film directors, lead musicians, photographers, famous athletes - many of them had/have OCD.
There are too many stories to share about this. One example was the composer Brahms, who reportedly threw away many of his compositions that didn't meet his high standards. Paul McCartney drove the other Beatles crazy in their later years with his constant corrections of minute details (1. Correcting George on his solo in one of Paul's songs in "Let it Be"; 2. The multiple retakes of "Maxwell's Silver Hammer"). Ted Williams constantly fine-tuned his hitting a baseball to be one of the greatest in the game's history, but towards others he was a jerk. Film directors have many times been called crazy.
Of course, being OCD is important in areas like aviation, for example. One missed "trivial" detail could kill hundreds of people on one flight.
A great example is the TV show Monk. The character was a brilliant man, but drove everybody crazy.
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America's Founding Fathers knew that their experiment could fail if certain flaws were allowed to creep into their system of government:
* Erosion of Property Rights (like now, no one truly owns their property because they always owe taxes and can lose their property to the state [Groan!]).
* Gun control
* Censorship
* Perpetual War (and America has been near perpetually at war since World War II).
My current book project, Warmongers and Peacemakers, explores the notion suggested by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. in a recent discussion, that the "Democratic Party" has always been the party of peace, at least until recently. I took up that challenge to affirm or debunk this idea. And I found that this has not been true! In fact, the two largest wars of all time were joined by Democrats -- Wilson for World War I, and FDR for World War II.
AND the most Warmongering president in history is -- surprise, surprise!!! -- Obama! The ONLY president ever to receive the Nobel PEACE Prize! Oh, the irony!
What seems to be quite telling is that Democrats in Congress and state legislatures have the poorest voting records, almost always. One huge exception is Mitt Romney, who, during the 117th Congress had a JBS Freedom Index of 15% (that's 85% Betrayal of his Oath of Office), which is about average for Democrats! Sadly, too many Republicans have voting records in the 60% to 40% range. Even popular Ted Cruz, during the 117th Congress went as low as 50%. Only a handful of Republicans have voting records better than 90%. These are the Patriots.
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Great show, I subscribed!
There’s plenty of extremism on both sides, and the elite universities are the roots of the rot on the left. The next generation has already been propagandized to be Marxist and anti-American. The fact that that woman could even get that ridiculous thesis statement approved as real work pretty much says it all.
The fundamental problem is that none of these young “adults” have ever faced adversity (beyond micro- aggressions or being thirsty at a rally), known real hardship, worked a job, helped consistently in the home, etc. They’re way beyond “everybody gets a trophy”, most schools have done away with grades, it’s now just pass/fail and it’s very difficult to fail.
Real self-esteem comes from real work and accomplishment and their parents and society have not required anything of them. They are desperate for some sort of meaning and belonging and the Marxist structure provides that. Sadly work and accountability are very out of favor today.
This is the tip of the iceberg, I don’t even know if it’s possible to turn it around at this point, but considering that AI and other technologies are likely to diminish employment and people are talking about universal basic income, we need to try hard to make some positive changes. In my opinion people at all levels do well when they work and are responsible for something. Low expectations and Too much free time is not good. People are not built to be self-actualizing.
Dads are essential for kids to gain real self esteem. So we need to fix society for dating, sex, family marriage too. And more.
Dad of two 20-something sons who are thriving.
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