Comments by "justgivemethetruth" (@justgivemethetruth) on "Lex Clips"
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The Godfather was a good movie, but it was a violent, murdering, depiction of organized crime, and to say it was a GREAT movie classic is really to say that the United States version of capitalism is organized crime. I give it, the only version I ever saw was the combined version on TV a rating no higher than "Rich Man, Poor Man" which was good as well, but not an American classic, or maybe a low-level one.
2001: A Space Odyssey was also a good movie, even a classic, but it is so dated and slow that once I saw it - and it was my favorite movie for many years when I saw it as a kid when it was originally released. I love it, but I just cannot sit through it again. It was the technologicaly maximum eye candy experience until maybe "The Matrix" or maybe Star Wars which was a joke.
Anyway, great if she can see 2001 again and again, it;s just a bit boring.
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8:41 - When you look at certain institutions, has the institution suffered such capture that there is no hope to fix it.
Maybe talk about the Republican party Ben.
With all the hyperbolic rhetoric, there is a process that the Right, whatever and whoever the Right is, that they pick on something and find some individual case that is obviously a problem and they rip it, and then say the whole institution is like that. Then they echo chamber picks it up and they formulaicly build on that, and even conflate it with other issues through their name calling ( a thing that Trump picked up with the slogans and name-calling ) and work it into a kind of brainwashing, and anyone who questions that or disagrees is face with having to attack a whole mountain of what is basically artificially made up and constructed BS - in the midst of a media space that is full or noise and chaos.
They do this to bring about the preferential discrediting and tearing down of institutions that represent certain points of view, and then they use that to discredit and attack anyone who they can associate with those institutions for life.
So, Fox News for example does this to enforce their view of the world, while it is not really true that the legacy media does this, at least not to the same extent, but in the tools Fox and the Right uses the falsely equate the two branches of media.
Then to make matter worse the channels on the Left are always of the extreme Left, like Democracy Now!, and all regular media trying to do a job or reporting news get branded as Leftists and equated.
The dyfucntion in my opinion is pushed by the Right for a reason. That reason might even be justifiable ( if it could only be objectively debated ) - but they don't go to any route to justify it is war at all costs, and the end result is to destroy the whole system - exactly as how the RIght wants to destroy the government ( they call the administative, or deep state ).
This makes the Right toxicly dangerous because it inevitably allows holes where people like Trump can weasel his way into the government and make a mockery of everyone under the rubrick that as Ben says - oh it is so bad the sky is falling and nothing can be saved. It's always very rich people who say this because they don't seem to care or active sometimes want to destroy American society, with no path to recreating it. That is totally against the Constitition or all the Western value they say they believe in so fiercely.
This is how "communism" took over. Instead of a ordered civilized process of defect detective and improvement you get miltary or gangs taking over.
Folks we have a pretty good thing in our American government and system, that some people want to dominate and that system gets in their way - they are the ones who want to destroy it. It happens by substituting vague generalities and emotion for orderly government and Constitjtional goals - in order to form a more perfect UNION!
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@MH-ro1lg
The BLM movement, as all the "movments" we've seen, like Occupy Wall St., or #MeToo get so much push-back from the "establishment" and are lost or distorted or just plain corrupted by the media or bad management.
The "Left" does not know how to manage, or use business practices to organize and focus their efforts, and then always seem vulnerable to attacks and criticism from the "Right" in these broad terms that trying to engage with is like being trapped in a giant paper bag.
I agree, Michael Brown the guy who was shot was no one that anyong should want to defend - especially that case. But then late there was "Trayvon Martin" who was basically followed and engaged with to the death by George Zimmerman who had been called off by the police, and yet followed and engaged with and ultimately shot.
Then it became a war over who was justified, or had the right to defend themselves.
Then there was also Kyle Rittenhouse who shot two men and wounded another because he was marching along with an assault rifle and forced some kind of a confrontation that I doubt we will ever really know what happened.
No question that some police with the qualified immunity laws behind them kill people for no good reason.
Then there was Sandra Bland also who was sarcastic and disrespectful to a cop who killed her for not signalling a turn.
And this happens all the time.
I wonder why some people seem to have to be smart-alecs to the police instead of just taking the ticket and listening to them, but looking at the cases that are made public it is almost 100% black people who are killed. The cases of white people doing the most outrageous things and not getting shot for it, when a black person in the same circumstances would have scores of bullet shot into them is sickening. At least to me.
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Sam Harris has really evolved over this career.
However ... I think he is wrong about 7:00 where he says that he has resisted expressing opinions on stuff he knows nothing about.
The issue is, or should be, judgement. I think Sam has the judgement to know whether his opinion is relevant in a vote on something, whereas some - say Trump supporters, they have no judgment because mentally they are howling in psycho pain and are barely human reacting to random stuff they see in the world that they have never had the intelligence to process or the judgement to reality-check.
So, in order to make democracy work we have to have a way to sort people as to the value of their opinions.
And saying we should not do that and allow everyone to vote - that is one solution - if everyone voted or were required to vote, but if not and we have to choose an elite to run things, what we have chosen ends up empowering a certain elite, like criminal mob bosses. Our society and economy selects for people who can manipulate and manage power, like kings, which getting rid of was the entire reason our country came into existence ... at least that is what we are told to get us to buy in.
What is real, what is gaslighting?
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