Comments by "Jason Dashney" (@jasondashney) on "ReasonTV" channel.

  1. Hard-core libertarians are an inherent contradiction. They get mad when any sort of rule is imposed on anything, yep they don't believe that the world should be legit anarchy. You have to have some rules in a society. You can't have zero rules or nothing functions. It's about where that line in the sand is.
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  2.  @santouchesantouche2873  That's absolutely empirically incorrect. BTW, it's also logically incorrect since birth rates have plummeted yet populations increase which means all the wealth couldn't have inherited it since most immigrants aren't wealthy. Also, to have wealth to leave to your kids you have to earn it first. You act like the original money just appeared out of thin air.
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  3. Wow, this is one of the best quotes I've seen in quite some time. Nailed it!
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  4. I'm in construction safety. My paperwork requirements at my company are SO nuts that I am completely incentivized to turn a blind eye to every incident I possibly can. And at my last company, every time I tried to suggest an improvement to something the boss thought it was a great idea, and told me to look into it and spend all the work to make it happen. It didn't personally benefit me in anyway way yet I was required to do all of the work. I stopped suggesting ways to improve his business.
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  5. Nobody wants a place literally free of regulation. That's when guns come in and then there's nothing but "regulation". Zero people on earth want zero regulation. It's like how absolutely nobody wants. True free-market capitalism. Imagine a world without patent protection. Nobody would spend the R&D money. A world without rules would immediately invite a warlord in, or other form of corruption.
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  6. Yeah her idea literally is "Just make some money up and have them made, problem solved". FFS if it was that easy that's how everything would work. Does she think that nobody has ever had that idea before? Yeesh.
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  7. What a great video. Both sides got a chance to explain their side, and the viewer is left to decide for themselves. It seemed to have a "don't spend" bias, but not by much. Very well done. Why can't all discourse be this way?
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  8. yeah I'm not buying the premise of the video. People are now realizing just how much they want to get out and interact. As for the growing suburbs, that's just cuz the cities are in such high demand people can't afford to be there. Saying suburbs are growing cuz people are sick of cities is ridiculous. I normally like this channel but this video is not well thought out at all and goes against a clear worldwide trend of everyone migrating to big cities. Cities are more interactive and connected.
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  9. It's not just you. Canada was horrific in its lack of logic and reason.
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  10. That's why every economist worth their salt only really cares about one main thing: incentives. Like the expression goes, show me the incentive, and I'll tell you the result. And the left is WAY more vitriolic than the right. The right might roll their eyes and tell you you're a naïve idiot, but they don't go nearly as crazy as the left. The left will try to end your livelihood if they disagree. The obvious tell of that crowd is when they attack you before your ideas (if they even attack the ideas at all).
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  11. Canada: hold my beer.
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  12. Sounds like the 2008 financial crisis.
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  13. The current energy problem is exactly that so it blows my mind that Joe Biden is asking brutal regimes for cheap energy. The Canadian Prime Minister will blame greedy oil companies for high prices when he does everything he can to limit production. It's beyond belief.
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  14. Yet the best city to navigate. It’s a giant grid and when someone tells you the nearest intersection, you know exactly where they are. I miss that. Sidenote: I’m absolutely blown away that Alberta allows automated speed traps. That seems like the least Alberta thing ever.
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  15.  @herknorth  Numbers alone are the answer. Look at downtown Calgary and what a mess that is with numbers. Tell somebody you're at 2nd Street and 3rd Avenue and that could be in four different places.
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  16. Not if they run the place with as much local labour as possible.
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  17. This is rampant nowadays. Just look at the Triggernometry interview with Sam Harris.
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  18. David Feherty, the golfer turned writer said that the biggest difference was that the leaders wear different looking funny hats.
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  19. If Fauci was a republican, they media would be calling for his head.
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  20. Fauci is literally delusional. He believes his own story. If he was trying to hide the fact he was guilty, he would avoid the media like the plague. He honestly has Eric Cartman level self-delusion. I think he's much like Justin Trudeau in that fashion. They honestly don't understand that they are lying evil egomaniacs.
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  21. In Canada, we had a government handout program and so many people used it that a Covid vaccination centre near my home couldn't find people to staff it. They were offering a ridiculous pay because could get so much just sitting at home. They struggled mightily to get people just to be greeters because nobody wanted to work.
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  22. This is nothing new. Remember the Gitmo waterboarding? Not torture to induce the feeling of drowning in someone. OJ didn't do it. If you are powerful enough there's a good chance you get away scott free.
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  23. Giving people accurate views into both sides of an issue is literally the antithesis of propaganda, by definition. Your personal views on meat don't change the meaning of the word. This is why I hate extremists so much (and I'm a longtime vegetarian, by the way). Just because you side with a position doesn't mean that it's not propaganda to show only one side of a debate. In this respect, you are the one with the propaganda.
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  24.  @shoa3199  But that means you have more people to get the money from. Your logic doesn't stand up.
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  25. That makes sense, but I think if these became the norm and everyone around you is succeeding by following a certain formula, more and more parents will fall in line.
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  26. Zach was in a video recently where he was pushing the vaccine narrative so hard I thought it was CNN. Almost all of the comments on that video where people extremely disappointed at the hostess for their new year bias, which was extremely on libertarian and bordering on authoritarian. Wanna channels on viewers are almost exclusively negatively, commenting, the channel should take a step back and evaluate.
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  27. @That Dude Exactly. In Canada as well. Our last election's Conservative Party platform looked like a Liberal party platform from the 90's.
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  28.  @santouchesantouche2873  If you have an actual rebuttal I'm all for it, but just saying "makes no sense" contributes nothing. At least I made points. And I think you need to read my comment again and truly think about it because it makes perfect sense.
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  29. Facebook labelled a post of mine misleading when I posted direct screenshots from a government website during Covid. Criminal harassment of an individual person should be moderated, and nobody disagrees with that. Everybody says there should be no moderation, except for illegal speech, etc. You are being as disingenuous as it gets because these people are making factual cases. They are being very specific about what they want to see and you're taking it in a different direction and getting mad at them for it. Stop reading between the lines and take them at their word. They could not be more specific about what they don't want taken down. You know damn well that tremendous numbers of people were silenced over things that were absolutely 100% accurate. People lost their livelihoods over it. Moderating "misinformation" is what they are clearly talking about, and moderaters of that can get F'd.
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  30.  @twelvecatsinatrenchcoat  Plastic bags are made of fossil fuels. Make no mistake about it, this was the global warming crowd behind this.
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  31. I like that. Show them the slides in advance. I get irritated when somebody attacks someone else for not having every single perfect answer ready right off the top of their head, especially when it involves complex situations that involve lots of data.
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  32. 5:05 He explains why the bill ISN'T needed. It has to be malicious? If a doctor is spreading information with malicious intent then they can already be punished severely. That's already doable so why the new law? Then he has the stones to say that "misinformation" is VERY specific. Is it now? If it has to be malicious, how do you go about proving intent? That's often as murky as it gets ipso facto: not very specific nor direct. He's saying something that is untrue while introducing a bill to combat people saying things that aren't true?
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  33. "It seems to me that just as the downfall of free markets is greed and concentrated wealth, the downfall of socialism is envy and concentrated power. " An unstoppable force meets an unmoveable object.
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  34. @@stevel6660 "l greed is the very thing that makes it work." Absolutely nobody wants a free market. Nobody at all. Would you invest ungodly sums of money to come up with a new thing to sell if anyone could copy it tomorrow? Imagine all the research and development going into a new drug that you have no ability to patent. Same with the latest gizmo. And nobody wants monopolies, except for the monopolies, and ultimately they destroy innovation and progress because they don't need to innovate if the barrier to entry is too high for competition.
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  35. Nick made Cleese laugh hard a few times and was keeping things well on track. He's the borderline perfect interviewer. Not sure what there is to hate.
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  36. I'm vegetarian and that was my first thought too. Going veggie solves a bunch of the issue.
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  37. And she thinks that a neurosurgeon should live in the same place as a burger flipper and pay the same percentage. A dozen+ years of intense schooling means you should pay way more money for the same place. You're literally being punished for working hard. That's a very different thing than the wealthy paying a higher percentage of tax because they are paying more and also getting more. In the housing case they pay more (because they worked harder) but get nothing more at all.
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  38. Sometimes the obfuscation is in an answer in and of itself.
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  39. It's beyond belief to me that nobody seems to look at unintended consequences for any of the leftist ideas that are creeping up lately. I say leftist because there are very, very few places that are as far right as many cities are far left these days. Almost all the coastal cities are in so much trouble. As a Vancouver and Victoria BC, Canada resident the future here is quite grim as the consequences are compounding here as well. Sorry you guys had such insane lockdowns, even worse than parts of Canada had. Thank god for Sky News so I could keep up with the insanity there. Best of luck.
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  40. ​ @seansingh8862  The right are called conservative for a reason. They are way less prone to change of any sort so they usually aren't the ones to institute new laws that mess things up in unintended ways. They inherently see all change as more prone to unintended consequences which is why they tend to avoid it.
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  41. Because libertarianism is about the individual first and foremost. Unions are not really about that because once a union exists, the individual has no choice but to join it if it wants to work where the union covers. Your comment only makes sense if non-unionized people were also allowed to get those jobs. Unless that happens, the individual is still under the control of a governing body.
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  42. Edmonton might have more pickup trucks per capita than any place on earth. Lots of them are big and loud. He showed a sports car making noise but that’s not what it was. Big diesel F350s for sure.
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  43. I hope these guys read the comments. I scrolled and scrolled and scrolled, and literally didn't find one single comment that supported this channel. Every single one supported RFK..
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  44. Too bad RFK won't be POTUS. He would nail this scumbag to the wall.
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  45.  @claudiotagini1398  I opened a new YouTube window and searched "jordan peterson koonin" and it came up as the first video.
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  46.  @dannysullivan3951  these days logic and reason are synonymous with contrarianism. That said, Jordan‘s innate temperament is not one that goes well with a grandfatherly, diffusive demeanour.
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  47. This almost made me unsubscribe. I really hope these guys read the comments and I understand that on their own channel the comments are 98% against them and how they conduct this interview and how it lacked class and integrity.
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  48. You would like to live in a world devoid of police? What happened to the cities that so much is inched closer to that position after the BLM riots? The outcomes or not good.
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  49. It would be too hard to cull that list down.
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  50. I'm Canadian, and when the government will announce that masks could come off, 75% of people had them off on day one. I don't believe for a second that it's because they trusted the government.
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