Comments by "justgivemethetruth" (@justgivemethetruth) on "David Pakman Show"
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Matt Tiabbi, Tulsi Gabbard, Glenn Greenwald ... are not people I agree with much on.
I would not call them any kind of Left, but they do talk about and accept many of the
facts about the Ukraine-Russia situation that I agree with.
I am totally against this war, because I think it as provoked by Western/US/NATO
expansion. Cynically planned out and provoked and has cost hundreds of billions of
dollars, and probably much more than we know, brought the European economy to
its knees, kills hundreds of thousands of people, destroyed Ukraine ... and the reason
given is to weaken Russia.
I've heard the comment, if we can spend $100 billion dollars and destroy Russia's
military that is a win? That seems incredibly backwards twisted logic to me because
it's only a win if we were going to actually go into a hot war with Russia.
I assume you do not support that, but correct me if I am wrong.
Meanwhile all this destruction and reconstruction and burning stuff up is negatively
affecting climate change, and setting any efforts to reverse it back who knows how much.
I think this is probably mostly about an economic war to prevent Russia from integrating
itself into the Western/European economy. That is an argument - but it was not the one
that was made - and no one asked for votes for this war? The Ukrainians surely did not
want it, nor the Europeans or anyone but US oligarchs and corporations.
So ... how is it you seem to support this war? Or do I have that wrong?
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I think you stepped in some politically correct muck David.
I hear your argument, but I submit that in view the world today,
we must distinguish between prayer from different religions,
because the of existence and behavior of Islam.
I am no so much saying this is true, but expressing and idea to
which I'd like to hear people's response, and of course what their
affiliations are if they respond.
The main thing I see is that Islam gives up its right to be see as
a religion or purely as a religion when it takes political power in
some 25% of the countries in existence today, about 50 countries
in the world and behaves politically in that regard inside other
countries. Islam is not really a religion.
The other aspect of this is when you look at the basis of most
religions and boil it down, for Christianity and Judaism, the root
of the philosophy is "do unto others as you would have others
do unto you" or some variation of that ideal. In Judaism a
Rabbi once told me "do not do unto another that which you would
not want done to you".
Islam is not anywhere in the neighborhood of that, and in fact was
invented by a military general basically, and is more of a low-tech
totalitarian recipe for expanding a way of like in all levels of struggle,
in peacetime, in conquest time and in wartime.
I think there is good reason to differentiate and exclude Islam from
being considered as a religion in the West as Islam, its core, in the
two base countries of the sects, Sunni ( Saudi Arabia) and Shia (Iran)
these countries are very active in warmaking and expansioinism and
very intentionally use the Liberalism of the West to infiltrate and
take power.
We had better inderstand this, and there is some evidence that we
do, and I think Bernie Sanders does as well. Anyone of Jewish
extraction sure ought to, and Christians should just because of what
they say they represent, and I think most do.
Islam is a military challenge to the West, so allow it space of hide
in the void of religious freedom we allow in the west is like providing
a place for the palque to hide in your body.
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As one might expect from its history, Islam, for the Islamic elite is expert at the strategies for manipulation and propaganda. Reza Aslan came on the scene with this book about Christianity, raised a lot of interest and made lots of "fans" by appearing moderate and somewhere almost between dispassionate observer and downright atheist, like Cenk Uyger does as well, but the reality is they both seem to me to be more like deep cover propagandists. The way Reza and Cenk are always supportive of Islam, casting it in the victim status and they just cannot help themselves to fail to see a non-Islamic point of view.
Maybe this is where they both get the impression that the West is anti-Muslim as people, because that programming is so deep they understand in ways that Westerners just cannot how saturated they are in the mindset of Islam. Islam is religious, it is political, it is social, and there seems to be no way to really change it, it is what it is, and therefore seem inimical to any other way of life and it has not had to be tolerant anywhere in the world for hundreds of years. That plainly shows.
The whole FGM thing is also a dodge, as if by saying that FGM is not part of mainstream Islam, as if there was a mainstream Islam, that Islam is not problematic with women. The point is that Islam of course does not think it is problematic with women, because that is the way it is. Mainstream Islam my be hard to pin down but the tributaries all have to do with abuse and oppression, starting with Muslims.
Look at just back a century or a little more in the Middle East they were raiding Jewish and other non-Muslim towns all over the place. Jews had to pay a Dhimmi tax every year to the local islamic authority, and they got struck as in a beating when they paid the tax to remind them of their dog status in Islam.
This is a political system that thinks it has the ability to fool the world even though there is plenty about it that we all already know. It like a kid that pretends if they deny and lie enough that their parents will believe them, because they want to believe.
Reza's image was particularly manicured to appeal to white American Christians. No beard boyish look, and very pleasant and funny when interacting with Western media. Go back and look at I think it was 2007 on the Bill Maher show he was pretending to be gay, and like there was a huge gay underground movement in Islam that was OK.
Aslan is like a spy propagandist.
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I think Wolff is wrong to emphasize any "central planning" aspect of socialistm, socialism is not intrinsically anti-market or based on central planning ... it is about regulation of the market for social, and today environmental purposes, it is the extention of law and justice to economic relationships.
This whole thing about central planning just sets the nutcases on the right off, which is odd because all corporations exist as, Noam Chomsky assests, mini dictatorships run by central top-down planning.
So what we have really is not a capitalist-socialist dichotomy, we have a oligarchical - democratic problem with no solution ... no negotiable social contract possible ... and as long as there is no debate and no solution, force and money prevails.
Really you simple cannot call the Soviet Union or China socialist ... there must be some kind of democracy, as Britain's socialist minister Tony Benn said, socialism is democracy. That excludes any country but the European social democracies. Wolff's inclusion of the USSR and PRC as socialist paints himself as a philosophic dinosaur in a way.
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