Comments by "D Mc" (@dmc8092) on "The Rubin Report" channel.

  1. Saying that gay people shouldn't be able to get married because the government should be out of marriage is just another way of saying that gay people shouldn't be able to get married. No on needs him to go to their wedding. No one can force him to go to their wedding anyway. It's just bullshit.
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  2. It's because children are coming out as trans and conservative parents freaked out because a trans adolescent (usually trans girl) wanted to use the girl's room (because it was actually dangerous for them) so conservatives saw they could use this to generate outrage now that gay marriage doesn't work as well so they decided to pass laws against trans people using the restroom of the sex they identify.
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  3. That would be a swell argument if people actually took the time to do that. Most people--both conservative and liberal listen to ideas and just accept the ones that conform to their beliefs as true and don't bother to find out the truth--like Prager's total misunderstanding of evolution. If the actual facts aren't presented at the time people will just go on thinking what they already did. This is a weakness of Dave's style. If you watched his video you would think those bakers were sued because they refused to bake a cake for a gay couple and not the truth which is that they doxed the couple opening them up to threats and harassment. They would think that liberals just suddenly wanted to pass a law about which bathrooms trans people can use when in reality it came to pass because trans teenagers were being harassed in the bathrooms of their high schools. There are times when there are actually facts. It's funny that conservatives who say so often that they don't believe in subjective morality are all for "both sides say this" when there are actually facts involved.
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  4. Allzumenschliches44 When I read the comments about Rubin's show it's mostly just conservatives barking "Hell yeah". They don't bother to find out what the actual stories were about and neither, really, does Dave so he allows a lot of actually false statements to go unquestioned. And, from what I've heard, he mutes people who bring up the areas where his guests are wrong.
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  5. MRAs are the same way though. They're not so much about correcting the ways men are treated differently as taking the mantle of victim on themselves.
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  6. These voter ID laws aren't really about preventing voter fraud--voter fraud on that level isn't really a problem and even if it happens it would be on such a small scale that it wouldn't matter. The fact is, these kind of laws are written by Republicans with the express purpose of suppressing minority votes. And, like it or not requiring them does amount to a poll tax--which is, and should be, illegal.
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  7. T Stanton Yeah.  Just like men haven't ever really been victims so men's rights organizations have to come up with reasons to whine about how they're repressed.
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  8. Interesting, your description of pundits sounds like Larry Elder.
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  9. My question about MRAs is--do they actually do anything about men's rights issues? All I ever see them do is complain online, I never hear of them doing anything about custody rights, prison rape or stop and frisk--issues that impact men. It seems like there are real issues there but I don't see them do anything except complain about feminists and blame them for everything from circumcision to higher heart attack rates in men.
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  10. It's amazing how little the people posting on this board know about what's going on in the Ukraine.
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  11. Hey Dave, are you going to address the senate shutting down Elizabeth Warren's free speech in the Sessions hearing? This is actual censorship from the government and everything.
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  12. AKSBSU Yeah, those interviews were rough, but usually just the mention of feminism brings a raft of often irrational and irrelevant anti-feminist comments.
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  13. AKSBSU Actually, he had several statements he didn't substantiate (I mentioned a few of them), and because it's Dave's MO not to ask follow up questions he didn't have to--that was rough. Areva Martin is a regressive so by definition Dave's viewership won't agree with what she said, and I found it as revealing as any of his interviews.
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  14. fredguy2 Maybe we should always just think before we freak out every time the word "feminist" is mentioned.
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  15. *****  How many people have you met? This is why anecdotal evidence is just bullshit.
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  16. Witsniper Just wait until you take those anti-socialist people who live in Dixie's medicare away. Suddenly they are all in favor of socialism so long as they benefit because of it.
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  17. I can't agree with her. While we did replace a horrible despot we created a situation with several even more insane religious leaders and left a vacuum in the region.
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  18. +Bad End Happy Left wing extremists deny evolution? How?
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  19. Except that the complexity argument is just not true. It's been disproven over and over again. Including in court https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitzmiller_v._Dover_Area_School_District
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  20. +haloreachisawsome117 So, you don't know much about evolution.
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  21. Bad End Happy Ask who? Psychology itself is not an exact science and neither is evolutionary psychology.
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  22. Michael Burgendy This, at base, shows the bankruptcy of this whole philosophy that you have to come up with just truly mendacious statements like this to justify it. You should really be ashamed of yourself.
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  23. Michael Burgendy And back to your ridiculous defense of child labor--it's very much in the same spirit as the conservatives who claim that slavery was just a steady job for room and board. It's completely mendacious.
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  24. Michael Burgendy Companies can profit in the short term, poison the environment and their customers, go out of business and walk away before anyone is able to sue them. It happens all the time.
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  25. Adam Fitzpatrick States are government too. You realize that, right?
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  26. Adam Fitzpatrick So, you're commenting on things that you're ignorant about. What a shocker.
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  27. Adam Fitzpatrick Being against gay marriage may not mean that you hate gays but it does mean that you think they shouldn't have equal rights.
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  28. Twitter RavennaBonet Exactly. States do not make good laws automatically. The whole "states rights" solution is just deflection.
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  29. What a meaningful statement.
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  30. Your "facts" might be accurate but that doesn't mean the conclusions you reach are always right.
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  31. It might be interesting to have an actual climate scientist on rather than a philosophy major who is paid by the industry.
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  32. I went to a very conservative college. We had James Watt speak, but they wouldn't allow any openly gay speakers. It goes both ways depending on who has the power.
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  33. Well, this interview strengthened my views as a liberal and a progressive. This guy is a libertarian antidote.
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  34. He already has.
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  35. Scott Alampi It is funny that a lot of these people who scream about the advances of "white culture" are science denying idiots who have never read these great landmarks of literature or seen the great artworks they're trying to claim.
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  36. I agree with much of what you say except that I don't think there is a "white culture". There are a bunch of different cultures that don't really have that much to do with each other. The whole idea of white culture is an illustion.
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  37. Geronimo32509 Once again, what you're saying pretty much is that he's a light weight who can't actually handle a follow up question. Got it. And why couldn't he have told Prager that what he was saying about evolution was incorrect? He didn't even need to say "that's not what biologists claim" he could have just said that evolution doesn't deal with the origin of life. That's not really something you need to be a scientist to point out. Prager kept claiming he loved science at the same time showing a deep misunderstanding of the subject. If Dave can't handle the interviews he should stick to talking to comedians.
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  38. Rob Green So, you think it's adult to let people say false things without correcting them.
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  39. I think my thing with Adam Carolla is that he's lazy. His humor is lazy. He doesn't try very hard. He goes for the easy jokes. His humor is very sporadic with me. He's lazy, but loves to criticize people who are actually doing things.
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  40. "Army of Sociopaths". Very well put.
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  41. His argument against abortion is not the argument against abortion. The fact is that women should control their own bodies. Just as we can't force people to donate organs or if an adult man had to be attached to your body in order to survive you should not be forced to do that.
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  42. And he won without getting the majority of voters? That was something.
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  43. Mr Tomato And still lost the popular vote.
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  44. ColonelSandersLite A raqe tweeter who is selling his influence to the highest bidder of any number of Islamic nations.
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  45. ***** That that's not a good thing? Do you think it is?
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  46. ColonelSandersLite No, just democracy.
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  47. ***** You think it's a good thing that we don't have a say in our government. I have nothing more to say to you.
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  48. Wow, she really triggers a lot of your conservative fans.
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  49. Great interview. So important. She is incredibly brave.
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  50. Wyrd80 He thinks money in the political system is okay. 
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