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

  1. I had to fact check that Yousaf quote because it seemed so nuts. Turns out it's on friggin video. He really did say that. Good grief. This is like the leaders of Canada's two political parties in power both praising Castro after he died. These are leaders of western nations. Yikes.
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  2. That would be terrible, showing on both sides. Douglas would quickly become smug and condescending, and Bassem would be yelling and ranting and raving like a lunatic. It would not be constructive. It would be strictly entertainment, because Douglas is a little too fervently on the other side of this issue.
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  3. At Yale, BLM students were chanting “the only thing we have to lose is our chains”. These are the most privileged, lucky people on earth. The one percent of the one percent of the one percent of the world. These are the people talking with communist slogans? I’m willing to bet you dinner at the finest restaurant in town that they didn’t know that they were chanting communist slogans.
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  4.  @CatrionaRuadh  I was in Victoria when they tore down that statue. I wish instead they just put up another plaque that explained other aspects of John A. Educate people instead tearing down the statue. It literally helps nothing to tear it down. At all.
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  5. When I hop onto a YouTube channel I’ve never seen, I immediately go to the comment section. If the comments are thoughtful and rational, even in disagreement, then I’m good to go. If it’s a bunch of people frothing at the mouth and insulting everyone and everything, then it’s not worth my time.
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  6.  @b1elal  Agreed. At least he had answers to questions. Right or wrong, he came with what he believes are facts instead of feelings. He can be reasoned with in the end, the type who could change their mind if given better information.
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  7. So bummed they were able to move the conversation on. He should've held each and every one of them to it.
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  8.  @Attham  bingo. Everyone gets so angry when the interviewer doesn’t pound the table for their side. How about the interviewer just do their best to get as much information out of the interview as possible? Sunshine. Bring their ideas to light and let the chips fall where they may.
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  9. This is most protests most of the time
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  10.  @liam.4454  academics would never believe it, but the trades is where you find the most open-minded people. That’s because you’re allowed to speak freely. It definitely leans a bit conservative but worst case scenario is somebody rolling their eyes and telling you you are a dumb ass. They will make fun of you, and then ask where you wanna go for lunch. How hard you work and how easy you are to get along with matters so much more than anything else to people who do actual real work for a living. In the trades your performance is what matters. There’s no room for bigotry when you get paid by what you actually produce. Your boss doesn’t care what you look like if you outperform everybody else. And if you know your business inside and out then you can start your own company and make good money. It’s a meritocracy.
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  11. Around the 29 minute mark she starts describing everything I run away from in a woman. Those moody, crazy women who lash out for internal reasons and do stuff to push and test you? GTFO. I would immediately break up with a women who was mean to me before I left on a trip because she wanted to "test" me, consciously or subconsciously it doesn't matter. Beat it, lady. Update: yikes, then she goes on about the gift thing and she sounds like a nightmare!
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  12. I seem to be in the extreme minority and that I never ask “who am I?” I never ask “why am I here?” “What is the meaning of life?” . Is it weird that those questions don’t interest me at all? I’m also politically homeless.
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  13.  @mattstiefel4806  You are much like the typical SJW. You insult and demean instead of hitting back with powerful counter arguments. The arrogance of that is incredible. If you have something substantive besides whataboutisms I'm all ears. FYI, being anti-woke is not specifically a conservative thing by any stretch. The politically homeless, and everyone with mainstream liberal views circa 2012 also find the irony of the racism and sexism shown by the regressive left to be frustrating, hypocritical and destructive.
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  14. And to be honest, I'm OK with it. The bandmembers had nothing to do with this. They were drawn into it. It's not their fight at all so I completely understand if they are just like "we just want to make music". I don't think it's right for somebody else to have a cause and then expect you to get on board, especially if it comes at personal expense.
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  15. Agreed. I also bristle at the fact that he claims they are vague about who they think the bad guys are: WEF types, full stop. They are very clear about it.
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  16. You nailed it. This is a really difficult lesson and he reminds me of listening to Louis CK the other day when he laughed at the concept of cancel culture as if it doesn’t exist. He’s probably saying that because of what happened to him but he got away with it because he’s so large. There are untold numbers of people who have to keep their mouth shut in all sorts of industries or they will literally lose their livelihoods. He just lost a couple endorsement deals and already had enough money to retire. Plus he’s self-employed and puts things out on his own platform. Very out of touch
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  17. What's pathetic is that the song has two verses, and the second verse is a girl aggressively targeting a man. Funny how you don't hear about that though. Watch the video, the second girl is damn near unhinged in her attempts to get the man (Red Skelton, BTW). It's all in good fun.
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  18.  @mattstiefel4806  Evidence of "secret police" "abuducting" protesters? It's called regular police, and they are supposed to take people off the streets who are burning things down. That's their job, silly.
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  19. If he is guilty, I hope people don’t collectively forget that like this video says, nobody cared until he challenged the mainstream media.
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  20. Exactly. They got him fired from Fox even though he had the most popular show in all of mainstream media.
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  21. It's almost as if they're judging you on the content of your character...
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  22. It helps to have the kind of money he has because then it only affects friendships etc., not your ability to make a living because you have to pay your bills. If you make 50K it would be much much harder.
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  23. You've hit the scary nail on the head. Today's young ones will know no different. It's the only thing they've ever known, unless they have parents that teach them how to think objectively. They've grown up with rules for everything, and that disobeying isn't an option. I went with my nephew to the local public pool and they have a climbing wall over water. I tried to climb next to my nephew and was told I had to stagger over with a full panel between us. Not a covid rule, but a safety rule. I had to stay a good 7' from him. Over water. I questioned the rule since I wasn't ever below the kid, only beside him, just not a full body length away and the kid lifeguard looked at me like "But...but it's a RULE!". Kids are absolutely programmed to know that there's a rule for absolutely everything and they don't need to think. Their teachers, the government, or guards or signage will tell them what to do. Now try telling these kids that they should question the government and media and big tech because they are often dishonest. They look at you like you need a tinfoil hat. This will not end well.
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  24. Give her time. She may see the light one day.
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  25. I have great respect for my father, and he's usually amazingly rational, but I just found out yesterday he legitimately has TDS. He is truly honestly worried that if Trump wins again, it could literally ruined democracy in America. It might be over. I never in my life thought I'd hear my father makes such a crazy statement.
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  26. When he first came on the scene, he was enthusiastically, talking about science, and all of the benefits the space race gave us. I loved every second of it. I would still love every second of it if that's what he still did. He has lost it. Everything he does is in-service to whatever the narrative currently is and it is so sad. Malcolm Gladwell is someone else who I used to really like to absolutely fell off recently. It kills me to see people who are used to think were objective, clearly showing extreme bias, in sake of an agenda
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  27. I was hoping that if there was one person that could get this guy to calm down and stop trying to put on a show in every interview it would be KK. I was wrong. This guy is an absolute lost cause and does not deserve to be interviewed ever again. This I think is bad enough that in a world full of sane, people would cost him his career as a pundit and commentator. He should go back to just doing stand-up.
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  28. He's such an interesting cat. I agree wholeheartedly with about 75% of what he says. I'll pound the table for about 75% of what he says. The other 25? Irrational lunatic that's out of his mind.
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  29. I am really against this entire comment section. The people who I am really against this entire comment section. The people who were the most awful before are the very people we need to be the most welcoming and most encouraging to. Nobody flips on a dime. These things take time. Help her chip away at what she's done and bring her into the light. Most people in this comment section or acting exactly like hard-core leftist. They're furious that she isn't 100% on their side already, and others are saying they would never except her no matter what. Well, how does that can I help? Attitudes like that are literally no different than the hard-core woke. We need to encourage anyone to stay on the path of discovery. So long as she's trending in the right direction we should be applauding her. Don't drive her types away. Nobody wins that way because she'll just end up back where she started but even more convinced we're truly the bad guys.
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  30. I am not very far into it but this guy surprises me with the fact he’s this educated and experience because he certainly doesn’t come off like it because most of his answers so far I’ve been very unscientific. KK talked about how people act on alcohol and cocaine towards other people and this guy talked about how Bad incidents are in the minority, but how many people drink and cause problems? It happens every day in every town and every city and it’s so widespread. Because of the sheer volume of people doing it, it absolutely is a problem if only 5% of the people go down a dark path with it.
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  31. The other side is who you should want to talk to most. That's "change their minds" 101. These people have thought zero of this through.
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  32. Men's Health is ultra Woke. GQ is as well. WTF?! It's beyond belief. GQ did a massive hit piece on Jordan Peterson. Disagree with the guy all you want, but be honest about what JP's positions are, and no rational human could paint him as dangerous in the least. It's disgusting. To hell with GQ and Men's Health.
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  33. I’m 12 minutes in and came to the comments to see if this whole thing was a train wreck and apparently it gets better so I’ll keep watching
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  34. LOL. Nailed it!
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  35.  @wiseonwords  He did in the most literal way. It caught me off guard too. Listen again. He did say there were some ideas right now that should be prevented from being heard.
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  36. That's because a comedian gets to speak like this without it affecting their day job. It's ironic that most politicians do them themselves in some ways by refusing to speak the truths we all know. It costs them a lot of respect.
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  37. I’m only about five minutes in and this guy is absolutely insufferable. What an intellectually dishonest thing to totally avoid the first question. I wish KK would’ve asked him what he would’ve done as Israel’s Prime Minister if he was elected into power on October 7. if he suddenly found himself as the leader of the country, because a wizard made him so, what would he do. To not even want to come close to answering the question just shows how intellectually and morally hollow he is. Constantine was obviously trying to play a game of theoretical, but he was having none of it. How do you take someone like that seriously?
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  38.  @colinslant  One can dream, eh? Nobody wants objectivity. They want winners and losers, heroes and villains, oppressors and victims.
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  39. Or it'll say "Cancel culture is real, but it's an unfortunate necessity for the greater good".
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  40. Canada ranks dead last or next to it in every single ranking by every single independent source. It's gone WAY downhill in the last 20 years. I work with tons of recent immigrants, and most of them say they would go back home if they had a serious health crisis. I have so many stories of how awful it is here now.
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  41. I bet it feels like somebody lifted the weight of a car off of your shoulders being able to openly think freely. We are happy you made it through!
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  42.  @greymanBB  You're arguing a point nobody is making. It's disingenuous and you know it. Nobody is whitewashing anything. We all know what happened. Zero people deny it. People holding on to what happened in the past and letting it define them today are hurting themselves. If it was hurting people on the scale you guys claim it does today, then please explain all of the exceptions to the rule today. Explain how the people who take it upon themselves to get ahead, do. Blaming other people for your problems is a low state of being.
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  43. ​ @mattstiefel4806  I didn't read anything in peanut butter's post about racism. You brought it into this conversation. That's the type of stuff we're so sick and goddamn tired of. Nobody says racism doesn't exist. They just say the whole goddamn (white) world and everything in it isn't racist, FFS. You had people crying about racist cops in a predominantly black city with mostly black cops, a black police chief, a black mayor, up and up to a black president. It's beyond belief.
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  44. It's extraordinarily rare that someone who does evil things on a mass scale doesn't think they are morally justified. There is no right or wrong, only consensus. The only difference between you and the absolute monster is the number of other people who agree with you.
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  45. I’m 20 minutes in and I’m blown away I just how many clichés and academic speak this guy has put out. Isms, post this or that’s, it’s very reminiscent of a kid who is barely a year into their philosophy classes and they suddenly feel grown-up and intellectual even though most of what they do is just quoting other people and referencing this and that author just so you will know how many books they’ve read. I’m really hoping this conversation gets more interesting. Oh man, I had to come back to this comment several days later and I saw that my text to speech did not translate with grammar, that's for sure. Fixed. Also, he does get a bit better. He still doesn't really answer the question about monarchy in a cohesive way. Still, it ended better than I thought it would.
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  46. It was productive and so much is it exposed Bassem for who he really is. In other interviews he was always trying to put on a show. I thought if anybody could actually get him to sit down and really truly talk about the issue in a serious manner it would be on this podcast, but this guy showed he’s absolutely incapable of it. That’s not nothing.
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  47. EVERY protest is like this. Seriously. The vast majority of people at every single protest of any large scale can't answer fundamental questions about it.
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  48.  @mechanomics2649  Right wingers are far more likely to call you stupid and roll their eyes, but they'll defend to the death your right to say it and they are far less likely to ex communicate you for your views.
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  49. The world needs more people like you. You're listening and trying to understand people even if you disagree with them. For me, this interview started out painfully cliché and boring, and I don't like when people just quote this or that author and try their hardest to sound uber intellectual but I find it does get better towards the end, and he does come out things with an interesting perspective.
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  50. His latest stand-up special has some extraordinarily bad takes. It's weird that a guy that loves to push buttons and see things differently can simultaneously be so insulated and naïve as to how the world works. He is all for "the machine" and woke Ness, which again is really weird for someone with his type of comedy
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