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

  1. Yikes. Psychopaths will psychopath if given a free pass.
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  2. I just spit up my drink all over my keyboard, you asshole!
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  3. You can easily become numb to it when you see it all the time. It's good to sometimes imagine that it was your life. You were living like that, a zombie hunched over in the middle of the street staring at who knows what because your mind is far, far away. It's not a pleasant thought and really helps with the compassion.
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  4.  @timurgri  "So you recommend us to feel empathy and compassion for him?" Yes. What he endured as a child and what he did because of it are related, but still independent things. If you can't feel empathy for someone who had a rough go, then what does that say about you? I saw a TED talk once about a guy who planned to shoot up a school because he was in so much pain, but then ONE person was kind to him and it turned his whole life around and he's now married with a kid and gives talks about it. Sometimes compassion is the greatest weapon against tragedy.
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  5. These days at universities and at that CHAZ occupied zone during the George Floyd riots in Seattle they had segregated spaces...in the name of tolerance. What?! It seems as though a certain faction of the population actively tries to turn back all the racial tolerance gains we've made. I am Canadian and went to school in the 80's and 90's and race wasn't an issue. It didn't really ever come up and there were tons of Arabs and Asian and black people and absolutely nobody I knew gave a shit in the least.
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  6. It's interesting to me when people see all conflict in terms of race, especially when everyone involved is the same race. I saw young men fighting young men. Of course I noticed they were black (I have eyes and ears) but it's the same as noticing they all dressed more like businessmen instead of like modern day gangbangers. It's an observation as opposed to an opinion. I really hope when you say "all we got is each other" I really hope you mean humans, because to think of your race first as a means to exclude the rest of humanity is just sad. And if you do, then you can't get mad when the exclusion is thrown back at you.
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  7.  @andrewhooper7603  the people that you got fired, were they saying or doing anything that was work related and hurt other people? If not, then, you and I have very different views. I think all kinds of people have views that are absolutely abhorrent, but I would never try to get them fired from their jobs if their views were unrelated. If these people weren't doing anything other than expressing views you disagreed with then I don't see how that's any different than a 1984 I thought crime. You wanted them fired from a factory job. That means you believe they shouldn't have any form of employment at all. Then what? They're forced to go to the streets and become criminals? I'd rather have people have terrible thoughts that they share with their friends as opposed to taking them out of society where they will be forced to take much more drastic measures.
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  8. That is incredible to me too. Young fellas here telling the people who actually lived this era that they have it all wrong. The arrogance is breathtaking. That's what being force-fed an ideology will do to you.
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  9.  @brittybee6615  Because Victim Card. These days on job postings, even with the government, you see "We especially encourage women, Native Americans, and POC to apply". That literally means "white man only if we have to". It's not the end of the world, but to say that white people can't understand what it's like to be discriminated against is nuts. I'm trying to find a basement suite where I live and as soon as I started replying to ads with my full name, my responses dropped by at least half. 95% of the units are in Indian households and I've been specifically turned down because of my race. I've had Indian girls say their dad would lose it if they brought a white boy home. Again, not the end of the world, but I'm so sick and tired of hearing that white people don't know what discrimination feels like (when I've received it, in no uncertain terms, with my access to a partner, a place to live, and a place to work).
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  10. Nothing has changed since the caveman days. This is human nature. It's absolutely everywhere, and I wish I understood this when I was a young man. My life was apples and oranges. I took the world way too much at face value, and it cost me.
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  11. "It’s worst in 3rd world countries" Only in major centres. Poverty only really upsets people in this way when they see rich people right next to them. In rural areas people don't degenerate to violence and theft in the same way because everyone is in the same predicament as you so you feel equal.
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  12.  @CARBONHAWK1  You're telling the person who actually lived the life talked about in the video that they are wrong? If you aren't the same age as they are, it's best to defer to the people who lived it.
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  13. Wow. This was an educational film that definitely gave you it’s slant but then told you that going in a different direction is OK as well, provided you go into it with open eyes and have thought about it carefully. I’m not used to seeing new ones in an educational film. Usually they just beat you over the head with their message.
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  14. This video says more about how the world works in two minutes 14 seconds than some people pick up on their entire lives.
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  15. An unequal distribution of representation in a debate is a good thing?
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  16. You're not wrong, but I look at that as a badge of honor. These people are trying to keep a level playing field and they're not asking for compensation to do it. These aren't victimless crimes. The cheaters are taking the spot of somebody else who would otherwise actually be doing the work and learning and taking that knowledge out into the world.
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  17. You want the masses to grasp complexity? Let me know how that goes. Nuance isn't dead, it's a figment of your imagination.
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  18. Yeah I was poor as shit when I was little, and it was just expected that you'd get a dose of corporal punishment if you talked back to elders, skin colour be damned.
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  19. #1 with a bullet is that back then damn near any job bought you a house and a car, with family. In many places, this isn't possible for 95% of people. I live in Vancouver and the average home price is almost $2 million whereas the average wage is $75,000. A regular married couple could never save enough for a house. Ever. Not even close.
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  20.  @HI-jf6nj  That's okay because he's not white, therefore he can't be racist ;-P (and it's mind blowing how many people truly believe that)
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  21. Yes. By literal definition it's racism. If you put your race above the other races, that's racist. It doesn't need an edgy term. It's racism.
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  22. The tone conveyed here is borne of true frustration from plainly being lied to and dehumanized. It's very different from the Ivy League BLM folks who pretend they have conditions that even come close to these people. The new class has a smugness to them that's palpable. These folks in the video display none of that.
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  23. Please elaborate. I'm curious as to exactly what you mean by that. I'm honestly interested. Thanks. @twentyoneoo 
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  24. The thought that black athletes had been celebrated, going back decades (Jesse Owens etc) and there were movie stars and jazz stars and all of that, yet those same people couldn't sit down in a restaurant blows my mind. A soldier is someone who is basically out of sight, out of mind (the wars are always overseas) but the entertainers and athletes? They were heroes. Then again, these days I've seen lots of videos of people getting yelled at and denied service for wearing a MAGA hat. They wore a hat with the slogan of the sitting POTUS and were treated like shit. Unfortunately, people will always find reasons to be dicks to each other.
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  25. I'm a far from a Social Justice Warrior as it gets, but the way vets felt about keeping quiet about their feelings and what they went through is "toxic masculinity" at it's worst. People need to be able to open up about this shit. I can't imagine bottling up thoughts of killing families because there was a chance one might be an enemy. No wonder they snap. It's good that you can objectively look at why your dad was an asshole because it's not a black and white thing. You seem like you have a lot of compassion and that's wonderful. Sounds like dad had a great kid.
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  26.  @ivok9846  "one party wastes more money, other steals more money. you know which is which". I could make a great case for both sides of both sides.
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  27. He's still around and still featured in documentaries so I'm sure he does know.
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  28. Maybe that's an added layer to this video. This video is kind of like a bait and switch, and so is the thumbnail. The video is about a student who is supposed to be properly studious and doing right by themselves and the education system, but was disingenuous. Putting attractive people in the thumbnail, and then not having them in the video is certainly a similar concept.
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  29. 100%. Hearing that stuff really worries me. Lots of people think terrible things. Do we thought-crime everyone? And even then, what are those people supposed to do once they are deemed unemployable? @RaptorFromWeegee 
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  30. Great man.
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  31.  @blackholeentry3489  nothing impresses my father. He's a really nice guy but he takes everything in stride. When I went to Wyoming in 2017, it was a family affair. My dad drove and he took my mom because he figured she would like to see the eclipse. During totality, he was just spinning in circles looking at the horizon and was blown away. That's just not something that happens. I really wanna see that again and now I'm really sad again that I'm not going there in a week, haha. As I get older and my body breaks down, I need different reasons to go on vacations, and I think chasing eclipses is as good a reason as any to go somewhere. That's awesome you've chosen to do it so many times. I sense you don't regret a thing. Plus, the disappointments make when it does work out so much better.
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  32. Right in the feels....
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  33. And look at the reception she gets. It's fine if people disagree with her, but for her to be this vilified person is insane.
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  34. Don't be stupid. I didn't hear one single "cocksucka" out of this guy. He's no Joey Diaz.
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  35. I love the point about how condescending race talk can be. It's no different in 2022. The BLM movement was such a great example of this. BLM was a total fraud. The self professed Marxist founders left and bought millions of dollars worth of homes, and many millions are unaccounted for. They were condescending in their message. Then there the corporate and government voice about victimhood and those poor, poor black folks we must step up and save, as though they are incapable of doing anything themselves. It was gross and condescending on both sides. I love this channel because it keeps my feet planted firmly on the ground by reminding me that what I think is novel and out of control is just an extension of things that started generations ago and I need to relax.
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  36.  @tomdalton4293  I don't know if I've ever met a single person who doesn't think black lives really do matter and doesn't think the playing field should be level. I also don't think I've met an intelligent person who's looked into it who thinks BLM the organization is legit. I couldn't agree more.
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  37. Were his economic policies sustainable though? He was in power for such a brief period before WWII. The lasting economic implications of socialism can take many years to emerge.
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  38. Amen. The last time America was truly threatened by a foreign power was when exactly...?
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  39. No it won't. Unless big tech goes fucking bonkers with censorship, we are connected enough to know that a big % of us haven't lost our goddamn minds yet. Makes resistance easier.
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  40. I wish there was a way defined out what slave life was like on aggregate. I wonder often if stories like this were the norm or the exception. Let's be honest, the most extreme versions of everything are the ones most likely to be told. I want to know about the good, bad, and the ugly. It seems we mostly hear about the ugly. Since slavery, historically, was just an accepted fact of life all over the world and slaves were taken as a result of conquest, not because one group thought the other group was inferior, I have a hard time believing that every slave owner was an unfeeling psychopath. Some of the founding fathers of America were slave owners themselves, while also advocating for the end to slavery. I'm willing to bet that the experiences of slaves and slave owners was more complicated than we are being led to believe.
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  41. What makes you say that?  @ConvictedRaypistTrump 
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  42. Are you basing this on assumptions, or do you have special insight and knowledge into what it was like throughout slavery throughout the world in all different types of situations?  @texasd1385 
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  43.  @carelgoodheir692  "carefully avoid pointing out that the racial nature of slavery in the Americas was not the norm in the other slave owning societies " Do you have evidence that slaves elsewhere were treated better? Also, IDGAF what the reasons were, I just want to know what life was like as a slave from a broader perspective.
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  44. It's extraordinarily hard to find anybody who wants to faithfully present all sides, but it does exist.
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  45.  @Michaelpalmer4k  he gets a little goofy now and then, but he is pretty good at giving the devil his due. The fact that he seems to anger both the left and the right means he's probably one of the better ones out there.
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  46.  @the81kid  What does he say that he doesn't believe?
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  47. News is the least fake now than it's ever been because it's easier to call people out on the bullshit. If news was legit fake, like the gulf of tonkin stuff, for sure America would've discovered WMD's in the 90's, and today it's even harder to fake stuff. We get told about shit that doesn't matter, and it's all editorial now, but that's a different thing than actual fake news.
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  48. It's funny to me that people complain about wealth inequality these days by presenting it as some sort of new concept. Great video.
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  49. That comes as no surprise. They sent him out there with a specific narrative already built in. Go ask scientists how that is these days. Ask somebody who truly wants to delve into something related to climate but comes up with findings that don't necessarily represent the main stream narrative. It does not go over well.
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  50. 2:04. History repeats itself.
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