Comments by "wvu05" (@wvu05) on "NowThis Impact" channel.

@andyroubik5760 Not when science is used to justify oppression.
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@andyroubik5760 Indeed. Sadly, any institution where humans act can be used for evil. For me, there is a Reinhold Niebuhr quote that sums up humanity perfectly: "I believe democracy is possible because of the potential of [humanity]. I believe democracy is necessary because of the limitations of [humanity]." (Word changed to reflect neutral language.)
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"All of you fascists bound to lose." Woody Guthrie
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@treybrannon4964 Four years ago when we were in lock down, thousands were dying every day, we had to ration toilet paper, and unemployment was at record highs? [In Archie Bunker voice] Those were the daaaaaays.
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@treybrannon4964 If you call letting dictators have whatever they want "world peace," yeah, sure. I prefer Presidents who support democracy at home and abroad, and your boy supports neither.
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@elliottbaker201 And you died at twice the rate of us city slickers. Interesting strategy, Cotton. Let's see how it plays out.
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@elliottbaker201 I never got it, and my anti-vaccine brother in the hills caught it three times, getting hospitalized the second, and he gave it to my niece twice after refusing to let her get vaccinated. If there wasn't testing where you were, how do you know how you didn't get it. And the areas that took it seriously (both social distancing and vaccines) died at much lower rates. Counties that were at least 60% red were far less likely to get vaccines and got the virus worse, and they died at twice the per capita rate of those who lived in counties that went 60% blue.
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Jacinda Ardern just may be the best current head of government in the world today.
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@deepdish2034 So, when looking at blatant housing discrimination and redlining where black people are kept in poorer areas of town that, because property tax funds schools, is wildly underfunded, there is nothing to be done because that is "artificially forcing people together"?
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Ironically, my extended family didn't start switching until the turn of the century. The first to go was one who refused to get married for years so she could get an AFDC check (she lived with the man who is now her second husband for 13 years before they married). For some, the only thing that seems to explain it is either fear of "taking away my guns" or giving them permission to hate. My parents are still baffled by the turn, because they're still true blue.
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@missrose0077 I totally agree, and corporate welfare gets my goat far more than welfare for the poor. I was mainly talking about the irony of someone who was the first to switch in my family who was voting for people who wanted to end any program she got, and the way her kids (whose childhood was paid for in no small part by those benefits) look down on those who get it.
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@szarosfavefive Indeed. Knowing Better had an interesting chart on the voting patterns for the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Republicans love to point out that a higher percentage of Republicans than Democrats voted for it in Congress, but when you break it down by region, defining Southern as any state that tried to secede a century earlier and Northern as everywhere else, Northern Democrats voted Yes in greater percentage than Northern Republicans, and Southern Democrats voted Yes in greater percentage than Republicans (the latter was a nice, round number). The overall percentages were distorted because the Solid South was still largely solidly Democratic at the time.
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The Democratic switch on civil rights actually started in 194i8, with Truman integrating the army and insisting on a civil rights plank in the party platform. This so infuriated Southern Democrats that they formed the Dixiecrats and ran Strom Thurmond in several states.
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It matters because he still thinks he was right.
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@mattjohnson1775 I guess you've never heard of Mondragon.
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@maxlu9573 I'd like to see some evidence that 91% of black people opposed it.
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@ortegazs Would you accept that she is less bad than Biden?
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@ortegazs I don't think we disagree with strategy, I think we disagree with tactics. I'm only saying that the best time to criticize her isn't when her criticism of Biden is the main thing that people are hearing, because I worry that it muddies the message about Biden's horrible record. I have seen a lot of Biden supporters bring up her record to try to distract from his bad record. If she starts to rise, or she starts to turn her fire toward someone with a good record, I will be right there with you. But for now, I want to focus on Biden's awful record first and foremost.
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@jimbrown4640 Inflation is down, the reason interest rates haven't dropped is because Powell is trying to sabotage economic growth, and it was your boy Trump who killed a border bill that was only enforcement that a lot of the left hated because he wanted the political issue. Nice try.
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@rifledepot6067 Define socialism, and let us all know how Harris plans to seize the means of production.
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Tulsi Gabbard isn't bought? After she courted Sheldon Adelson and did his bidding to try to get rid of his competition? And Andrew Yang told Dave Rubin that his ultimate goal is to get rid of the existing social safety net, so he's a hard pass. My top three are Bernie, Inslee, and Warren in that order.
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[Citation needed]
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@lovestodesign Then, you're voting against democracy, against women, against health care, and for the person whose incompetence killed a million Americans and led to record unemployment. Great plan!
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VictorNieves-u9y You are clearly missing the point. Science was used to justify eugenics. There are always evil people who will use anything they can to justify the perpetration of their evil.
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VictorNieves-u9y So, you want to pretend that eugenics wasn't a thing? That Social Darwinism wasn't?
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@narutodssunny Hopefully, enough people realize that in time that we don't make the same mistake again.
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Threatening the lives of workers because your 11-figure net wealth isn't enough for you is the textbook example of a psychopath. While I am not a socialist (because it feels like "meet the new boss, same as the old boss"), we cannot have capitalism as we know it and survive as a society.
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@shredmaster1049 Unlike Der Orangestraflingfuhrer, Biden doesn't knowingly host superspreader events and kill his supporters.
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So true about for-profit banks and sabotage. Dennis Kucinich recently wrote a book about the banks in Cleveland throwing the city into default over $15MM in debt when he was mayor in 1978 because he refused to sell the city's electric company. He was run out of town on a rail, but 15 years later, the city praised him for making the right decision because the residents of the city saved hundreds of millions over that time period.
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Not second generation. Second year.
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@deepdish2034 Nobody mentioned forcing people to move. The policy was whether or not schools should be segregated based on race. It was clearly happening, because the very people who had no problem with sending black kids to another neighborhood or another town to keep schools segregated suddenly cared about community schools when black kids being sent to white schools to integrate them. Not buying it.
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Safir Doesn't take away from the fact that she was right on this issue and Joe Biden was and continues to be wrong.
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Safir Well, if you try to increase the funding for the poor and minority school districts, the rich people in the white part of town (because of redlining) will say that it is unfair that their tax money goes toward other schools. Until you deal with those, integrating schools does not inherently cause "racial tension."
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Safir Which level of school? I have two master's degrees, and the school where I got the first one was majority black. Your argument is circular. There will always be people who don't get along in every circumstance. "Natural segregation" is not natural, nor good. We had the "separate but equal" doctrine for 58 years, and it just didn't work. School districts willfully ignored Brown for decades, and the charter schools are contributing to the regesgregation of public schools. If local schools ignore the Supreme Court and the federal government, what is the solution?
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@ortegazs Agreed about the former, not so sure about the latter given things like defending torture and courting of Sheldon Adelson and did his bidding to try to get rid of his competition, among others.
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@ortegazs Yes, she is. That being said, if she's taking down the worst of the bunch, I'm not going to stop her.
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@maxlu9573 White flight had gone on long before busing. Levittown came long before 1973, and they only allowed white families in.
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