Comments by "DeoMachina" (@DeoMachina) on "ContraPoints" channel.

  1. Hoooly shit I had no idea how bad rowling was Why do you do this to yourself though? Moderate r/jkrowling I mean
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  2. It's a big thing to come out and admit when you've done harm, good work and congratulations for ditching transphobia
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  3. So I looked into it and..no. Not only is this not true, it's OBVIOUSLY not true. Like, so obvious that it's starting to look like none of you Althyp goons even watched HIS video.
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  4. The main difference here is that Contra was portraying a character that represented neonazis on the internet.
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  5. +kakibackup2 Koujo I mean they literally admit to it They're not hiding their hate my dude
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  6. +Afroplasm As a white supremacist, alt-gype must necessarily consider anything that stands in the way of systematic oppression of minorities to be "anti-white", because by oppressing others, his ethnicity stands to gain. (The irony that white minorities will lose out because of this is lost on him, which is equal parts sad and funny)
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  7. "There's absolutely nothing wrong with my easily exploited and misappropriated economic system! It's those CRONIES at fault!" Tell me, what system do you think allows crony capitalism to exist? That's right, capitalism. Where we live now? That's the late-game for free markets. All paths lead here.
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  8. False. Alt Hyp made an ass of himself.
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  9. +Alf Mikael +Jekyll Fair enough. One of his first fuckups is questioning the effect of lead on the brain, and using a graph to 'prove' that different ethnicities recieved the same exposure but had different effects. However, as we can see here - https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/figures/s210a1f4.gif That's not even close to being true, and HIS graph doesn't even claim what he said it did. So..he's a liar.
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  10. Did you miss the part where I just said that he did? Yeah, read that again.
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  11. Those with wealth own the basic things everybody needs to survive, the prices they set determine if people live or die. The same class are the ones who set the terms and conditions of employment. For the working class, not being in employment means being homeless, starving or dead sometimes. When the stakes are that high and the pay is that low, you cannot argue it is anything but coercive.
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  12. No, it's not a joke, despite the fact it is slightly funny. There is a reason why contra is dressing up as a nazi and saying nazi things, and its so that she can directly respond to their arguments and rhetoric. Does Bill Nye become a creationist just because he presents a creationist argument before refuting it? Of course not. You're being silly.
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  13. It's not misrepresenting his view when...it's actually his view.
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  14. Coercion is not consent. Whoosh, just like that, with four words I've undone your four paragraphs. You want to talk about personal failings? How about your utter failure to make an argument?
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  15. "the overton window has been moved so far to the left" Holy shit, when was the last time the UK even had a left-wing government? The 1970's? About forty fuckin' years ago? It's been a constant march to the right-wing since then. You absolutely cannot deny this, and it's completely jaw-dropping that somebody could write so much and not even get some of it correct on accident. The only way you can say what you just said is either by being under 20 and knowing absolutely nothing about the past, or you're just so far right that you think anybody who disagrees with you is a communist. Either way..dude..sort yourself out.
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  16. I guess the main difference I'm seeing is that Contra uses sources to back up what she says? And althyp...can't. Or rather, is pretending to. If you check it, you see he's lying.
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  17. The fact that the term refers to something else Is WHY it's a dogwhistle.
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  18. Blows my mind how Shapiro literally makes a call for genocide and he just Gets to keep his career
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  19. Incredible that people still use the butcher's apron unironically
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  20. Are...are you just copying and pasting your responses regardless of what I wrote? Did I not literally just get done explaining this to you? Coercion is coercion regardless of if commodities naturally exist or not. That entire paragraph is a red herring, and 'people died in 3000BC so its ok' is absolutely not an argument. And blaming wealthy people is not without just cause, for somebody that claims I lack historical context, you sure do seem ignorant of who has been calling for and funding the wars that dominated Europe for centuries. Here's a hint: It wasn't the working class. By the way, you can't argue with numbers, and the number of people in poverty is skyrocketing in places where capitalism has the most influence. But go on, tell me 'yeah but Somalis have it worse'. That'll convince me.
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  21. It's just a COINCIDENCE that all fascists are bigots then?
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  22. Yeah I checked his sources. They contradict what he says. That's...that's why he's lying.
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  23. +Ungulate Junction Only Sargon could watch something so obvious and on-the-nose and still not understand the point. Ahahahaha fucking hell
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  24. Most inventors are uncredited, unrecognised and unrewarded. So what's the difference? A faceless entity will appropriate your work, what does it matter if it's a corporation rather than a state? Here's the crucial difference as I see it: A corporation will only ever fund development for projects that a boardroom of people think are going to be profitable. They don't even need to be correct, this is all based on their opinion. But state-funded projects are free and open, amazing things are newly discovered all the same because of this.
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  25. I pronounce the name "peep" and none of you can stop me
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  26. I know that's what your argument is. I'm saying that this is not a strong argument to make. If wild hoodlums were tearing up your neighbourhood every weekend, and you asked the police to do something about it, would you be satisfied if they told you "Hey dude, it's worse in Detroit"? Probably not. If you got badly ill and the doctor told you "Eh, I could help you but..there are people out there with cancer so you're not even that ill", would you think that was ok? Doubt it. So..why use the same logic here? We're not here to talk about how racist it is elsewhere in the world.
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  27. So what's the link? Why is it always the case that a rise in fascism correlates with minorites being targeted?
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  28. Wasn't the example of Lauren using footage of her talking about "replacement"? Sounds pretty fascist to me.
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  29. Considering how every character on Contrapoints has a distinct appearance so that the viewers can tell each character apart, no. Please stop being this easy to refute.
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  30. What I'm saying is especially true of technology. Gates isn't rich because he invented something, he's rich because he owned a company that invented something. If Gates had just been a random employee who happened to invent the exact same things, he would not be a billionaire. All technology companies have a clause in the contract that says something like "If you invent anything while working for us, we own it forever". Hell, that's in my contract and we don't even do that line of work!
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  31. Founding a company isn't the same as inventing or innovating. Gates is one of the more infamous examples of earning money unfairly, countless smaller companies and individuals were forced out of the competition because of Microsoft's ruthless business practices. It can safely be said that computing as a whole would be more advanced were it not for Microsoft's attempts to make itself a monolith. You're possibly correct that he wouldn't have the same recognition under the USSR, but we can't exactly name any of the other geniuses at Microsoft eitehr.
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  32. This is a lie, he lied about the contents of C-16. Don't believe what he says.
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  33. The fact both of these nothings are (edited) makes them so much funnier
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  34. Racism is not inherent within ethnic groups, and can be learned/unlearned. By reducing racist behaviour in our society, we necessarily create a fairer and superior place to live.
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  35. If your response to coercion is to simply deny that it exists, then we're already done, and you have lost the argument. People live or die based on their employment status, you don't get to pretend that employers don't have a responsibility. It's also a pretty sick joke to make bring up UK's NHS, which incidentally was doing just fine until the current wave of privatisation. In other words, the NHS is an argument AGAINST capitalism, as this is the end result. People dying in order to make other people more money. Don't believe me? The Scottish NHS has avoided this selling off and is still 100% state-funded, and is performing much better as a result. You know what else is publicly-funded? The Scottish Water supplier, which again, is of far higher quality than the private water companies.
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  36. "most of Marx's criticisms have been solved" This is a lie.
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  37. Did you miss the part where black men are jailed more often and for longer compared to white men who did the same crime? That's racism keeping black men from raising kids. Isn't it?
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  38. This is completely false. Even if there were no differences between us in terms of personality, intelligence and timing, there would necessarily have to be an underclass. The lower-level jobs would still need to be done. It doesn't matter about the traits of individuals, they're all still negotiating for the same things. Worth noting that millions of people also died because of capitalism, it's just that they were considered 'foreigners' so it was okay and doesn't count towards the national death toll. It's laughable that you're trying to take some kind of empathic high ground on this, as if people aren't going hungry right now because of capitalism. As if people aren't forced to live in poverty. You don't get to lecture others on morals.
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  39. How did you go from >poor people are desperate and turn to crime in order to get by To >money purifies the soul That's incredible, I'm not even mad that you're insane
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  40. Very well. Early on in the video he flashes up a graph and claims that it shows that white and black people had almost identical lead contamination, therefore that cannot be used to explain why black people are more negatively affected. However, he knowingly puts up a graph of lead levels of contaminated individuals, not incidence of lead contamination. Here is the graph he chose not to show you: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/figures/s210a1f4.gif And while we're at it here's another link about lead and health, just a bonus: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26896114
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  41. Tell us more about all these fascists you hang out with
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  42. Damn, you guys would actually be a serious force to contend with, if you weren't all preoccupied with conspiracy theories based on 2000-year-old memes about Jewish people.
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  43. Could you get any more vague? "Stop talking about thing, instead have the conversation! No, not that conversation! The important one!"
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  44. The identities of those involved in the trial were not public knowledge, Lennon broadcast them to the world. The Jury are permitted to know the details of a case (shocking, I know). You cannot win this argument. These are black-and-white facts. Other media outlets were waiting until after the trial was over before releasing the information, that is allowed because you cannot retroactively affect the case once it is over. No other outlets leaked names beforehand, as they were not public knowledge. You are lying again. I still don't know the identities of anybody involved with the case, it was not reported until after the case was over, in accordance with the law. So you are factually incorrect again. Regardless, the alternative is letting a criminal break the law with impunity, do you think that's how a country with laws should operate? Just let famous people get away with things because they have influence? People are hardly suppressed by "pc culture" (A term you cannot define). If we were, I wouldn't have to endure constant whining about brown people existing in the media and from politicians. Only one media outlet claimed Hillary would win with 95% confidence, and provided they did the maths, they get to say whatever they like about her chances. But that has nothing to do with PC culture. The Brexit vote was extremely close, it's not odd that people would assume either side was going to win. Regardless, the media is almost wholly owned by right-wing interests. I can only think of perhaps one or two newspapers that print anything left-of-centre. Don't pretend you're the one not being represented. I have already corrected you on the overton window, there has not been a left-wing government in 40 years. Stop being wrong. You seem to think that because you get called a racist a lot, it cannot possibly be true. But guess what it looks like when you ignore all the data that indicates immigration is positive? Yeah exactly. People do not "hide their true feelings" about immigration. Anti-immigrant rhetoric is plastered over every single tabloid, every single week. Over 33% of Question Time episodes feature UKIP members, despite the fact that they haven't won a single seat. The Tories are even deporting people seemingly at random. Stop lying, anti-immigrant rhetoric is mainstream and always has been. Nobody is hiding anything. Stop lying. There is nothing inherently left or right wing about LGBT, marriage or human rights. Bernie Sanders is maybe the only elected socialist in US history, stop panicking.# You cannot point to things like welfare or immigration and say that any nation with these two things is leftist, that is totally asinine. What next, any nation with an army is left-wing, simply because it's state funded? Even right-wing parties agree that state healthcare is better than simply letting the population die horribly from preventable diseases. The irony here is that you keep whining about being called racist, and yet you think it's inherently left-wing to allow foreigners into your country. But that's something you could only believe if you WERE a racist. Pure conservatism would allow people the freedom to move as they pleased, after all, that is the basis of commerce. But that cannot be what you are, so what are you? Exactly. Stop lying.
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  45. The idea that members of minoritised groups aren't going to sell out their own kind in exchange for feeling like they're not a minority is actually hilarious, the only hard part about making a counter-argument to 1. is that I'd be laughing too hard. Ever since Get Out though, we can just say "the sunken place". 2. Democrats are not left-wing.
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  46. Mark JK Rowling has explicitly said that trans people should not be presumed innocent before guilty
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  47. "Hey, you think there's a PROBLEM with how something is? Well is it as bad as MURDER? No? Then shUT UPP11!!" That is childish. By your own logic you shouldn't even be here whining, because this video isn't as bad as murder. "Other countries are racist so its ok" really isn't the amazing counterargument you think it is. Weird how you would cite starvation, mass deaths, wars and drone killings and climate change as being far worse things...when we're talking about capitalism, which has undeniably made all of those things much worse. You think Republicans are just pretending climate change isn't real for fun? No, it's because of private interests. And if pointing that out just made you move further to the right, you were a lost cause anyway. I'm sorry your feelings are repellent to my facts. Nice job with the classy "homeless vet" comment by the way. No, you don't look even remotely deranged by inventing a story just to get mad at it or anything.
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  48. Your counter seems to be "any problem can be blamed on the state, we're clearly not capitalist enough", and it's really not the clever get-out you think it is. What you just did is essentially make the "REAL communism has never been tried!" argument, but for capitalism. Yeah cool, your 'real' definition is a paradox and cannot exist, therefore you can freely hide from any criticism by pretending it doesn't apply to you. But that's utterly transparent, nobody is fooled here. In regards to this "temporary efficiency", explain why the USA cannot get high-quality internet provision after decades? You'd think the lazy, inefficient and expensive ISP's would be pushed aside by keener, more competitive companies, but the reality is that they are ALL lazy, inefficient and expensive. It's more profitable for them to be so. Going to blame this on the state again? Healthcare is literally the right to exist, the idea that human beings have an inherent dignity and their lives are worth protecting. If you're not willing to admit that much, then you have lost this argument, and your humanity. There is no way for you to argue your point without agreeing that this basic fact has some weight to it. As for education, it is no longer possible to have even a simple job without one. Your ideal society could not function without the provision of education. There would have to be some way of making the working class suitable to do their jobs. They wouldn't be able to pay for it themselves, and businesses would have to leave for other countries. This is now the third time I have corrected you on the state of the NHS, people are only dying because of capitalists that want to rid the nation of socialised healthcare. Listen to yourself, "no motivation to improve"? Huh? You realise that companies literally pay people to improve organisations, right? This is true in both public and private sectors. How is getting paid NOT a motivation?
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  49.  @nima16042  "ok so why do you think women’s sports were created genius" The answer is literally "so that men didn't have to suffer the indignity of losing to a woman".
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  50.  @almond9225  'white' isn't a biological classification though
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