Comments by "nuqwestr" (@nuqwestr) on "John Anderson Media" channel.

  1. Hutu and Tutsi engaged in a race based war and genocide founded on perceived physical differences. Yes, World History tells us it's endemic to human behavior.
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  2. They are relegated to a small bubble by the academic left that holds power. They rarely get published, graduate students are steered away, and they are not invited to conferences in their field. It's the Inquisition reborn.
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  3. Joe Biden is a place setter for Harris, since the Dems will take out Joe with either the 25th Amendment or Impeachment. Harris is NOT an ideologue, she is a political predator interested in power, for power sake. Very dangerous times.
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  4. Martin Luther picture behind him is a "tell". I am a non religious supporter of Trump.
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  5. ""Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."
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  6. "Back then, the tourism industry hadn’t exactly taken hold. It was pristine — untouched by the grubby little clutching paws of Western society." - Gerry Lopez, legendary Surf Bum and exploiter of reefs around the world. The sound of incoherence is deafening.
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  7. RFK Jr believes that, and perhaps Gabbard, too. I don't think Rubio and Waltz think that, though.
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  8. "Butterfly Effect" comment disingenuous and outrageous, so not going to listen further. I get the same creepy feeling from Craig as I do from rabid atheists, the hyper-pridefulness of their certitude is offensive.
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  9. genocide, the population has increased 7X, weirdest genocide I've ever heard of.
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  10. 10 September 2021 China prepares to test thorium-fueled nuclear reactor. We are behind this curve, and it threatens our security more than military or technology, it is energy, clean, cheap, safe, and ever present. Both of you need to get on board this train, as it prepares to leave the station.
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  11. Social Media AI Capitalism (Open Source) "Objective Function = Maximize Revenue, Maximize Engagement, Maximize Outrage on All Sides" - Eric Schmidt, former Google chairman and CEO and coauthor of the newly released The Age Of AI: And Our Human Future. Objective Function may also be designed for political outcomes. I call them "Chomsky Bots"
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  12. Epicurus was not a Christian, and lived before that time, seems irrelevant since his conception of G-d is not yours, not in the least?
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  13.  @honestjohn6418  Yes, and I wish we could expand the dimension of our understanding on how, what you so eloquently described, is being turned into a dogmatic ideology at best, and an alternative religion at worst. We can't solely blame Marx, it's not the tip of the spear, what you just described, is. I am 65 and watched this regressive "Back to the Garden" message flower since Woodstock. We are faced with several generations now believing there's a Unicorn Utopia just waiting for them if this, that, and the other occur. Their foundational precepts are flawed, so the framework will collapse, no doubt. I'd like to see John focus on this, perhaps with an anthropologist and social scientist. Go for it, John. Pandora needs a spanking.
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  14. "No Trust, No Peace", Justice is just one part of that equation.
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  15. If you don't value logic, you will not value a logical argument. Jonathan is being too polite.
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  16. No, that is not necessarily true. Islamic law of Dhimmis. Do some research, unless you already know, so being disingenuous. .
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  17. California Registered Dem here, not afraid to say did not vote Trump in 2016, but he has my vote 2020, neighbors and family will not engage me on it. If moderates are moving to Trump, look out!
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  18. short clip, search for the long version, Hanson has done rigorous work on the subject at hand.
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  19. I'm an anti-Marxist, but non-religious citizen of America. I often find it difficult to ally with other conservatives because I do not identify with Christianity. Many non-religious moderates look to the Greco-Roman philosophies of Stoics and Epicureans, something the early Christians did as well. To make the "Tent" larger, we should start a discussion addressing this difference, I think it would be a productive measure toward our mutual goals.
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  20. Marx is only the hammer, the true leverage in Academia came from anthropologists like Franz Boas and Margaret Mead. Love to hear Loury engage on that thread.
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  21.  @honestjohn6418  I want to more fully respond to you later, but quickly, I lived in a prosperous suburb of Los Angeles, and at 15, in 1970, our household included a Jewish mother and black step-father, so I don't have the "guilt/shame" nexus of my white peers, drives them crazy. In 1971 Jazz became sort of a religion to me, and through the 1970's to the year 2000, I made my living at it, not as a musician, but in the business. The "hipster" friends you described is not new, and predates the Carnaby Street of even your parents youth. Check out this essay by Norman Mailer from 1957, "The White Negro" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_White_Negro
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  22.  @erosmangr74  I am not disagreeing with you, and Marcuse was a Marxist, as is Chomsky, but they have morphed into different flavors. Gramsci and Marcuse saw that America would not have a violent worker revolution, and change would come only from inside the institutions, taking a long time to bare fruit. That's the major difference, and the one we are confronted with now. Cultural Marxism as a host virus.
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  23. Technically not convicted until sentencing, which at this point may never happen.
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  24.  @Steve83B  Exactly, I read that "ear shape" was one of the "tells" used before they chopped them off. Often in extremely homogeneous groups, the people in them, find other ways to differentiate themselves, like they way they part their hair, or pattern of cloth they dress in. It's endemic to human behavior. We are just afraid to ask the question, WHY, why do we ALL do it?
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  25. Jordan not officially called that until 1960.
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  26. Isn't the Bell Curve a bit passé? The 80/20 rule has been supplanted by the Pareto Distribution, which makes things look even more dystopian. Neither equity or equality should be the goal. It's better to flatten the curve between perceived inequality than anything else. Once the perceived division reaches a certain point, humans go to war. Don't know how, but humans need something other than equity or equality to remain peaceful and productive.
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  27. A gun was not necessary, the economic framework was changing in the US, as it did in GB, and slavery would have ended the same way, save the extremist like John Brown and others who forced the issue, and used the gun. If not for the minority of extremists, the civil war would not have happened. The burgeoning industrial age did not need slave labor, it needed trained labor, and consumers to purchase its products. That's why we need to now moderate the extremists who are again pushing for violence.
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  28. China Nuclear test site for Thorium Reactor went online in Gobi desert last October. We are all behind the curve.
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  29.  @erosmangr74  "Organizing" and " Appealing" to animal "base" instincts were born from the precepts of the Enlightenment. Marx followed a synthesis he found in the Enlightenment based writings of both Darwin and Malthus. I think Anderson was thinking in those terms with his comment on Marx. Fundamentally, we agree, the current virulent form of Marxism is destructive to the collective good and progress of humanity, and there needs to be push back, but we should not regress into other destructive myths, many of which exist in the Judaeo-Christian lexicon of history. Take the good from both, but then move on... that's progress.
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  30. "The Gospel According to Pontius Pilate" - James R. Mills [MARK 7:6]
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  31. "Truth" even if you've never read the Bible, that's also "stunning".
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  32.  @Steve83B  Had not heard of Hutu 10 commandment, thanks. I think ours is the baseline from where a real discussion on differentiation should begin. We must also recognize and call out those who weaponize and monetize the black/white issue for status and power. It's funny listening to them rail against hierarchy when all the while seeking top ranking in one themselves. That's why I call them predators.
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  33. ​ Fela George  Sorry, you need to go back further than it being economic or political, especially when during the genocides decisions were made to kill based on physical characteristics. There are "political" reason to make the claim you do, but the ethnic/blood origin of both the Rwandan and Burundian genocides have a race component. It's easy to do even a superficial online search to know that.
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  34. "The state of California never offered, let alone actually paid, cash bounties for Native American scalps, heads, or other body parts. And, despite numerous similar claims to the contrary, neither did any county—nor, with one possible exception, did any incorporated town or city.:: - The California Indian Scalp Bounty Myth: Evidence of Genocide or Just Faulty Scholarship? Michael F. Magliari
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  35. "Atheists", if you discount, or are unaware of, the influence of Aristotle, Plato, the philosophies of Stoicism, Skepticism, Cynicism, and Epicureanism, on the early Christian Church Fathers, including St. Paul, and later St. Augustine, then you have no real understanding of your own faith, and little business criticism others who do.
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  36. The balance between moral indignation and humility requires tuning.
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  37. "as before"? When?
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  38. One in a Million chance: https://scholar.harvard.edu/fryer/publications/empirical-analysis-racial-differences-police-use-force
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  39.  @jamesw17  Both the US and GB ended the Slave Trade at the same time, legally, in 1807/8. GB slaves were held outside contiguous national borders, primarily in the Caribbean. US slave holders and slaves were within the contiguous national borders, so it's apples and oranges. If the slave holders and slaves were in England, and slaves out numbered the citizens by 3 to 1, I would assume a different outcome for GB, wouldn't you?
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  40.  @jamesw17  If 4 million slaves had been in the British Isles, you think there would have been a universal agreement to free those 4 million and make them citizens of England, Scotland, and Ireland? I don't think so. LOL, and I can imagine those 4 million hooking up with the "Young Irelanders" in 1848, how the world would have been different. What GB did was expedient, along with a dash of virtue and morality. You are of course leaving this out: https://caricomreparations.org/two-hundred-years-since-the-heroic-barbados-slave-rebellion/ Also, Mexico abolished slavery in its constitution of 1824, almost a decade before GB. So slavery was abolished in North America before GB did it, sorry.
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  41.  @jamesw17  GB/US apples and oranges, false equivalence when it comes to ending slavery. The "point of a gun" was forced on the North by extremists. We need to remember that, and guard against those elements now. That was my point. Coleman Hughes is a good voice in that regard. Don't throw the baby out with the bath water, lot's of bad history behind that.
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  42.  @jamesw17  Mexico did it at it's birth in 1824. That doesn't matter to you?
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  43.  @jamesw17  Great question! I've been thinking about writing a counter-factual novel like Phillip Roth's "The Plot Against America" about that very subject. If John Brown, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Frederick Douglas were of different mind, and instead of Lincoln, a Quaker had been elected president, what would America have been like. But I realized the novel would have been really, really boring. Perhaps if John Brown had spent time with the shamans of the American Southwest, partook in the Peyote rituals, and then brought a transcendent, mystic message to the slave states instead of a Jeremiah, hum.... that might work.....
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  44.  @jamesw17  I didn't call you any names, but you are incorrect, I am the descendant of Litvak Jews who came to the US in the late 19th Century escaping the slavery of Russian conscription. The Civil War was a lost cause before it began, and was only a side-show. Just look at the advancements made by the North during the Civil War. If not for the extremists, on both sides, a more peaceful resolution would have been possible. My point is that the extremism of that period is a cautionary tale for us now. There's a lot of history still to know, but even more to unknow.
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  45. Civility is rarely more important than humility.
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  46. NO TRUST, NO PEACE, is the truer mantra of our time.
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  47. Systemic Anti-Racism ALSO requires a bureaucracy of exclusion to be administered by power brokers, political predators, and blackmailers. I don't see a difference. Why do we so freely and easily give up our human agency to others?
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  48.  @plaidpaisley5918  SORRY, pulled the trigger too fast, I'll delete, please do too
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  49. An evolutionary biologist would never use the terms "good" or "bad" about random mutation, or assign "intention" to DNA as if it could see the future. Nonsense
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  50. "Power", Not all about that, you are one of the acolytes in the new church of Michele Foucalt. Good new, most grow out of it after age 30, so there may be hope for you yet.
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