Comments by "nuqwestr" (@nuqwestr) on "Triggernometry" channel.

  1. In the US, I ask young adults "When did the Atlantic Slave Trade End" and I almost always get a date in the 1860s, when it was actually made illegal by both England and the US in around 1808. I also ask if women and blacks were allowed to vote in the US in 1789. Young adults always say no, but voting rights were by state in the US and some states allowed widowed women of property and free blacks who paid taxes to vote. History is being taught with an agenda, kids are being lied to by omission.
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  2. Bill, lost all respect, Hillary made a speech last year repeating the "illegit" claim about 2016.
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  3. “You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” ― Buckminster Fuller
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  4. "Woke" is a religion and we need to evoke the separation clause in the Bill of Rights.
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  5. Sam's AIRPLANE analogy was made into a movie "NO HIGHWAY IN THE SKY" (1951) with Jimmy Stewart. There was an EXPERT on the airplane, he DID announce the danger, and DID save everyone's lives. Sam should watch it.
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  6. Pre-Columbian Western Hemisphere was as terrible in its inhumanity as any place on the planet. Less than 50 years after Columbus, Cabeza de Vaca was captured by Indians and sold into slavery by them. The concept of selling humans to other humans existed before Western Europeans arrived. The English version was a bit more formalized and powered by technology, but no different in human character. Believing so would be racist.
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  7. KK, the radical Left and radical Islam have one primary alignment; both believe it's their moral right and obligation as the oppressed to lie to the oppressor. There can be no good faith negotiation under that framework with either of those two factions.
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  8. "Global Village" - Marshall McLuhan. He predicted the "Tower of Babel" 60 years ago, and his description of the "Global Village" was dystopian, as he saw tribalism would return with the proliferation of mass media. Many videos available of McLuhan describing exactly what we are now experiencing.
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  9. “There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feelings as “moral indignation,” which permits envy or hate to be acted out under the guise of virtue." - Erich Fromm
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  10. I'm an American in California and learned the word "taqiyya" a year ago. We are learning.
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  11. 24:50 No question if Nazis took over Cairo in 1943 the Muslim Brotherhood would have set up extermination camps in Gaza and the Negev.
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  12.  @rupafitzgerald3124  "high quality"? Wootz steel was pretty, but not durable, and steel not made in mass until the Chinese process, but true mass production of high quality steel came with the Bessemer process in England.
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  13. Cesar Chavez, the influential labor leader and civil rights activist believed that illegal immigration undermined the bargaining power of labor unions by providing a pool of cheap labor that could be exploited.
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  14.  @jwsuicides8095  She also straight out lied about the Columbia protests of 1968 and 1972. She also appeared to not know "woke" is real, even the former education minister in France was concerned about it coming in from the US.
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  15. Taxes well spent, money comes back in the form of jobs for those working at places like Lockheed-Martin. The "Tax" ploy is Taqiyya by Hamas supporters.
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  16.  @garveycampbell80  In 1807, Congress enacted a law to “prohibit the importation of slaves into any port or place within the jurisdiction of the United States ... from any foreign kingdom, place or country.” The ban took effect on Jan. 1, 1808. While the US federal government ratified the 13th amendment in 1865, Massachusetts became the first state to abolish slavery in 1783. Our children should be taught this timeline of history, and not the 1619 project version, which is anti-historical.
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  17. Makes sense, she sounds like a royalist seeking authoritarian power for her clan.
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  18.  @TheMattTrakker  WW1 created new nation/state boundaries all over the world, and why we call it a World War. The Ottoman/Turk controlled the region of Palestine and ceded the land to the Allied powers. From that point on new history was created by setting the boundaries of the British Mandate. Arabs fought with the Allies to free the land. Jews fought with the Allies to free the land. Jews were willing to share, the Arabs were not.
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  19. I'm in the U.S., and yes, we've exported behavior, no question, as I rode the train into Nice, France, I saw "Crypts and Bloods" gang graffiti on walls and railway bridges, I recognized them from my neighborhood in the 1980s, This export is now world-wide, reaching Brazil and East Africa, sorry for the export, even worse than the Disneylands.
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  20. 1958 Mike Wallace interview with Aldous Huxley available on YT. Prescient on both tech and pharmacology. 66 years ago.
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  21. Trump just came out with a positive, winning message about Big Pharma, one the Dem RFK, Jr is running on. Brilliant strategy which speaks to the educated class and women.
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  22.  @squatch545  name a "fascist law"
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  23.  @posoleesgood  jobs are created in the US at Lockheed-Martin, they employ over 100,000 Americans, taxes well spent.
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  24.  @Drewster86  No, am not being sarcastic. I'm in California, looked into the tax question, and we are well served by how the money is allocated, most of which comes back here in the form of jobs. Israel is purchasing weapons with that tax money. Where do you think those weapons are manufactured?
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  25. There are 22 Arab states in the Arab league, add to that Iran, the power differential goes to the Arabs. Why don't they use it?
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  26. 21% of Israeli population is Arab, majority related to the Nakba, which they did not flee. Gaza has a 40 km beach on the Cote d' Azur, could be a paradise, and Israel would help, if asked nicely.
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  27. In Los Angeles, recently arrived refugees from Venezuela, have been hired as strike breakers in Los Angeles hotels. The unions claim to be in solidarity with the refugees, but at the same time are blocking their access to work. Very complicated stuff. I grew up in "progressive" California, saw first hand what Sowell described in his book, those who think anything is possible, and those who believe possibility requires limits. The limiting factor is the moment we all have between impulse and action. Children take time to grow this skill and self-knowledge, but the progressives promote the value staying childlike in the world, and to embrace your "inner-child". That policy has failed, and must be pushed back on.
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  28.  @garveycampbell80  Congress passed the Homestead Act of 1862, which provided 160 acres of federal land to anyone who agreed to farm the land. A freed black woman was allowed to register a claim in the Oregon territory, it required improvements be made or the land would revert back to the government, only 50% of the claims succeeded, I've seen the deed of this freed black woman, she succeeded. While anecdotal, it proves your claims of oppression were not universal, human behavior rarely is.
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  29. Agreed, Stephen R. Hicks researched how Nazism at first had great support in academia, and among women. We live with so many distorted myths about the past.
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  30. "The *French Mandate for Syria and Lebanon* originated from the aftermath of World War I and the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire. The League of Nations established the mandate system to administer former Ottoman territories until they were deemed ready for self-governance. In 1920, France was granted the mandate over Syria and Lebanon, formalized by the League of Nations in 1923. The mandate system was intended to differ from colonialism, with the governing country acting as a trustee until the inhabitants were considered eligible for self-government.
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  31. I'm in America and for years depended on the BBC for a counter-view to American media, but I've listened to that degrade over the last 4 years, no question, and now have to fact check the BBC the same way I've been forced to fact check American networks. The DW and France24 is suffering the same tautological derangement meant to alter culture, not to inform it.
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  32. Taqiyya. Do a show on Taqiyya.
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  33. Heightened female "compassion" leads to a higher tolerance for lies, something we've seen explode in our social and political environment. The "compassionate" Platonic lie, or, "mommy knows what's best for you", attitude needs restraint and mitigation.
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  34.  @UltraTrev  I'm a Jew in the Los Angeles area of California. In memory of Paul Kessler. Paul Kessler was a Jewish American man who died at the age of 69 after being fatally injured in an altercation on November 5, 2023, between dueling pro-Israel and pro-Palestine demonstrations in Thousand Oaks, California, United States. Ironically, the anniversary of his death is also our national election day.
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  35.  @mattblack118  Bashar al-Assad's regime has been found to have used chemical weapons multiple times during the Syrian civil war. Investigations by the United Nations, the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), and other organizations have confirmed several chemical attacks carried out by the Syrian government. Notable incidents include the 2013 sarin attack in Ghouta and the 2017 sarin attack in Khan Shaykhu
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  36. You were lucky it wasn't the Belgians.
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  37. "God gave you a face, yet you make another" - Hamlet to Ophelia All human character is expressed in either Shakespeare, or Star Trek (the original).
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  38. California Department of Education has injected CRT into NEW MATH curriculum saying that only reason students unable to do higher math is due to "white-ism" and "structural racism". It's not a secret, but posted on the CDE website, and clearly stated in the introduction to the proposed curriculum. Go to schoolboard meetings.
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  39. In California, a new law would mean if there's a custody dispute in a divorce, if one parent does not agree to gender affirming care, custody would automatically go to other parent.
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  40.  @flashgordon6670  Oy, Jews and Arabs fought with British to free the region of Palestine from the Ottoman. Jews willing to share, Arabs were not. Still are not.
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  41. I'm a California Democrat who did not vote for Trump in 2016 but did in 2020, and I am not alone. My decision was based on the soft-coup perpetuated by my own party against a legally elected President, and my policy agreements with the Trump administration. Pakman is an ideologue first, and a free will agent second.
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  42.  @tmapache  Sure, I vote for world peace, too. When do you think we will have that vote?
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  43. 1972 took journalism in Los Angeles, CA community college. The teacher said right out objectivism is not possible, so don't even try. The personal is political and will always be part of the story, you don't have a choice, so fully accept this reality and be the story. The "new" journalism is more than 50 years on, fully baked into the profession.
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  44. Los Angeles just elected a new councilwoman who ran on a platform to defund police, open jail doors, and is from a low-income "people of color" section of the city. They voted for it. Eunisses Hernandez is her name.
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  45. Jews fought with British in WW1 to free the region of Palestine from the Ottoman/Turk. The Jews were willing to share, the Arabs were not. Proof" "Report on the State of Palestine presented to the Right Honourable Mr. Winston Churchill P.C., M.P. by the Executive Committee of the Third Arab Palestine Congress. Jerusalem, March 28, 1921." - Library of Congress
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  46. Frankism is a Sabbatean religious movement of the 18th and 19th centuries, created in Podolia, named after its founder, Jacob Frank. Frank completely rejected Jewish norms, preaching to his followers that they were obligated to transgress moral boundaries. At its height Frankism claimed perhaps 50,000 followers, primarily Jews living in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, as well as in Central and Eastern Europe.
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  47.  @OskarBosco-o2w  "attacking Palestine"? There is no "Palestine" to attack.
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  48.  @MTx485  I understand the history, some still aspire to regain Al-Andalus, the Islamic version of manifest destiny. There are many aspirational stories in this mix, including Peter the Great's aspiration for a Russian warm water port in the Midi. Erdogan cannot have one foot in the West, and one foot out, not with Nukes. I'm still waiting for the West to push him out of Northern Cypress or demand the Hagia Sophia not be a Mosque, but returned back to only a historical site. Too much perpetual chaos in The Levant.
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  49. I'm an American citizen and on the surface it appears the Presidential election will make a difference in support of Israel. Not substantially, we are much to intertwined internationally with Israel for that to happen. Trump/Vance 2024
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  50.  @tmapache  Tax Billions go to Jordan and Egypt, too. Should we end that?
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