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

  1. ​ @greymanBB  "As if Columbus was a benevolent hero bringing hope and goodness to the Indians he slaughtered and forcibly converted" Once again, you are arguing points nobody is making. Of course recognizing and learning from the past is important. That's why it's universally known that Columbus brought about some incredibly bad things. He's not the celebrated guy he was 50 years ago and that's a good thing. Telling people to "let it go" is very different from me holding onto past icons that did horrible things. I'm not sure if it's actually me you are trying to debate because it seems like your examples are in response to a lot of stuff I never said.
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  2. They hate people who are in the centre who ask poignant questions about their stances MORE than if they were hardline Trumpers. I once called both Antifa and White Nationalists and scumbags, and the only difference between them is that Antifa would throw the first punch. For that I was called a bootlicker and and violence was okay to use on me no matter how many times I reminded them I called the White Nationalists scumbags. Didn't matter, I was in bed with Nazi's and a horrible person. Then this Antifa guy sent me a link to his video when I said Antifa was violent, and in the goddamn video itself there was talk about using violence to get the point across when necessary.
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  3. I'm in the middle of a really long back and forth with a socialist and it's the same old story. "That's not real socialism". "Bezos and Musk have too much money" and the best one was that "Socialism hasn't succeeded because of capitalist countries put economic sanctions on them so it's capitalism's fault".
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  4. I couldn't agree more. Eric is beyond belief smart so I think he's an outlier here, but when I hear people use overly complicated terms, and make very nuanced references, they usually come across to me like they are trying to be something they are not. The people who impress me most are the ones who can convey complex things using words a 10yr old can understand.
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  5. The craziest part by far was that Sam said he agreed with at least half of trumps policies. That’s the thing with Trump, most people that hate him have a hard time finding too many policy decisions they actually disagree with. I am claiming he has no opinion on the Hunter Biden sang with intellectually bankrupt because there’s not a chance he would say that if the literal exact same thing happened to Donald Trump Junior.
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  6. I make six figures in Canada and there's absolutely not a hope in hell I could ever afford a house in the city I live in. Not even in the ballpark. I'm in construction and the superintendent is responsible for $100 million jobs. He makes the day to day decisions, and he's ultimately responsible for the entire building in every capacity, and his salary also doesn't even come close to being able afford a single family bungalow built in the 1970s. It's a joke.
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  7. The guns won't be a problem. There are states where you can carry the craziest looking weapons into Starbucks. There are tons of rallies the gun nuts have and there have been Antifa people starting violence in America, but the gun nuts thus far have had zero gun incidents at any of these things. Not one. It's astounding given the number of people involved. They have absolutely proven themselves to be not a threat even though they sound nuts and are pretty scary looking. I don't care about my feelings though, I care about evidence and so far the evidence is on their side.
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  8. I went to an event in Victoria Canada in 2019 where they shut a bridge down in protest. They absolutely were talking about issues other than the environment which is why they can fuck off. I care deeply about the environment and it drives me nuts that it gets so wrapped up in issues that have nothing to do with the environment like "systemic racism". I'm taking an online class at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver and one of my teachers actually said that Covid was a product of climate change. I asked her to elaborate and I filmed her answer and boy was that a word salad. I'd love to find an environmental organization that didn't have a radical political bent.
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  9. My advice is to get her to logically justify her opinions, then you point out the blind spots and logical flaws in them to keep her honest. Ask her why older people, the ones with the most life experience, tend to fall a little further right on the spectrum. Is it because they are all stupid? Because they get corrupted? Ask her why so many hippies became yuppies.
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  10.  @johnkosi6798  "It comes down to manipulating languages and giving words multiple contradictory meanings. It makes a transparent discussion about these ideas difficult. " No kidding. It's like how I get yelled at for saying Antifa is fascist. They yell at me "It's right in the name, stupid". Oh well then, let's call the KKK the "Kentucky Kids association for the integration of all races and creeds in joyful anti-racist harmony so we can create Krafts". Done! KKK racism solved. I mean it has to be, it's right there in the name!
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  11. @One Race Through Adam No it's not. You haven't figured out what politically homeless means. It means recognizing there's idiocy on both sides. One is worse than the other right now, but that could change in 15 years, easily. It's okay to always objectively evaluate everything you come across.
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  12.  @MandM_IMO  with Trudeau praising Castro, at least that was a personal relationship. Castro was friends with the family and is possibly Justin's dad. That's one conspiracy theory that wouldn't surprise me if it was correct. The resemblance is absolutely uncanny. For Jagmeet Singh to do it is even more reprehensible.
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  13.  @LetsTalkOnePiece  the family says no but the resemblance is definitely uncanny and it wouldn't surprise me.
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  14. Bill Mahar is another guy that can say something very reasonable one minute and then something completely insane the next
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  15. He is insufferable.
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  16. "I'm still just trying to understand why someone's ancestral homeland is where they have a right to live." It's ridiculous. The worst are people born in another country who claim the "homeland" as a birthright. Beat it. And I don't give a damn what happened to your ancestors. Everybody's ancestors faced hard times at the hands of invaders. That's how all the borders in the world were created. That's how all of the cultures in the world got to be the way they are today. Everybody seems to think they are exempt from it, even though their own ancestors were complicit, because that's just the way it was for the entire history of humanity
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  17. I can only get 20 minutes into this. I was really hoping that this interview would get Neil back into being a fun, upbeat, science, communicator, but oh boy was I disappointed. I hate the term, but he is as much of an establishment shill as it gets these days.
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  18. It's amazing what happens when you stop having to think of the "right" things to say, and just speak honestly.
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  19. It's so great that you chose the only path that could possibly give you a sense of satisfaction at the end of it. Not nearly enough people do. They hit a brick wall and don't realize that if they walk far enough along it, they will find a hole in it just big enough to crawl through.
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  20. I can't imagine what it would take for Americans to rise up and really demand change. I guess the people just don't bother digging. If you don't know, you don't know. The last few years have really brought to light how incredibly uninformed the average person is. These are the same people that vote. That's terrifying. They couldn't be bothered to dig even the slightest little bit into anything. My opinion of fellow man could hardly be lower..
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  21. It's amazing how many people shit on the politically homeless. We get called "people with no principles" etc all the time, simply for being objective and recognizing gray areas (i.e: almost everything).
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  22. They never seem to speak from personal experience.
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  23. It's not playing the victim when simply showing something like this can cause you to lose your job in certain fields. Cancel culture is psychotic and malevolent. I hate the SJW mentality with a passion, but I'd never fire someone because they are one. If they show up to work and do their job, their outside-the-workplace views are none of my concern.
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  24. Nailed it again. Just let people speak and show the results as truthfully, and faithfully as they happened. I hope you show a reasonably accurate cross-section of the people that are at these and you're not just cherry picking.
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  25. Canada is about to do a massive 180 on it also.
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  26. What scary is that if you tried to show this in some Canadian universities you could face discipline. There's a famous case of a girl, Lindsay Shepherd, getting in trouble for showing a clip of Jordan Peterson that she got off regular Canadian television.
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  27. Exactly. I'd rather live in a world full of desperate warlords. Then I would one filled with mega corporations, and the world economic forum. The amount of electronic control. The next generation of tyrants will have will make it almost impossible to overthrow them. If there's a kill switch for your electric car, and all of your money is in electronic form that they can cut off, and you could be tracked literally everywhere you go, that's legit dystopia. I saw a device that can remotely scan your heartbeat, and apparently everyone has an individual heartbeat like a fingerprint so you can wear a disguise, and the authorities can still know when you walk through a doorway. And that's not to mention the insane resolution satellites have now. No more privacy..
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  28. The ends justify the means is the basis for all authoritarianism, and not coincidentally the new modern left. I see it’s so clearly because I can’t stand it when the right does it either because I’m politically homeless. It’s just way worse than the left right now because they have all the power
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  29.  @Arphemius  I had never seen the word deontology before. I learned something today. Hooray! As far as deontology itself, it seems to be how a ridiculous percentage of the world operates and that scares the shit out of me. Reason and rationality go right out the window. I'm pondering your claim that authoritarianism can be amoral. It's at least brought in under the guise of morality every time. I'm trying to parse that one.
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  30. I'm amazed he was able to refrain from talking about Trump. Going back to the early days of the IDW, I never understood the appeal of Sam. He talks about objectivity and rationality, but he only uses it himself on a cherry picked basis. Reminds me of Bill Maher that way.
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  31. You believe all people are blank slates and chose every aspect of their social makeup?
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  32. Be weary of anything you aren't allowed to question. Keep thinking for yourself and let your own conscience guide you. Do not ever tow the party line and say things you don't mean deep down.
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  33.  @tablescissors  On the sites we often laugh at the white collar workers who work in a meanial job in some depressing cuble, for less money than we make, yet who still feel superior because "at least I don't wear a hardhat". Many of them truly believe that the reason we don't wear white collars is because we simply aren't capable of getting an education.
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  34. The commenters are people who see this all around them and have may be experienced themselves. Especially given that the vast majority of the comments or against the speaker who is on a podcast the listeners love, speaks volumes. You never hear people complain about anecdotes if they support their opinion. Funny that.
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  35. They punch way above their weight. Nobody wants the hassle of standing up to these idiots so they just run amok. It's so gross to watch people "fall in line" when you know goddamn well they don't actually agree.
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  36.  @thanksfernuthin  I'm an oddball because I'm both very emotional and prone to outbursts (I yelled at Google Maps in my car today because it made me cross a bridge I didn't want to cross in rush hour because the instructions were wrong), yet entirely objective so if I'm losing it in an argument and the other person says something I can't refute it's like "Yeah, good point. You're right". It's not at all in my nature to continue to defend my position that was soundly defeated. I'm not aware of many people who are both sides of the coin like I am so it makes it super double extra triple hard for me to relate to people's inherent way of being and I find it frustrating.
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  37. Canada was just about to fall off a cliff just before this started. We were showing the types of numbers and overnight lending rates that happen just before a major crash last fall. They end was already neigh, and then Covid which is unfortunate because it gives the government an excuse as to why things are so bad.
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  38. I get what you're saying, but that argument goes both ways. When people refuse to look at Oct 7 it's equally infuriating. That whole war is a joke. I wish my tax dollars stayed away. "I kill you because you killed mine because I killed yours....." going back 2 thousand years? Good grief. It's a battle of book clubs with deadly consequences. Leave me out of it please.
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  39.  @KatanamasterV  thanks for that fantastic summary. It would take me a tremendous amount of time to figure out if you were correct or not, but you sound like you know what you're talking about so I will definitely store that in the back of my mind.
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  40.  @scratchpenny  I get the concept of quoting people etc, but it seems like he has almost nothing but that. Not much in the way of original thought.
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  41. It's like when people in the west say that a democratically elected leader is a tyrant. A dictator. I always invite them to travel a little bit. Go to a country with an actual dictator and then come back and tell me that the democratically elected person you don't particularly like he's a dictator. The very fact that you can publicly say that the leader is a piece of shit dictator means they are not a piece of shit dictator.Go try that in Venezuela or in the Middle East or North Korea.
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  42.  @AfroGaz71  very few people are willing to be honest in this argument? That implies that there are indeed, people willing to be honest. Can you point me to one? I literally haven’t seen a single one this entire time from anyone who is knowledgable and to me, it just shows that both sides are the bad guy. i’ve never seen an issue quite like this or absolutely nobody wants to have an objective discussion. Everyone pounds the table for one side or another and it’s as far as I’m concerned, they can take their battle of the book clubs, and leave it where it is and North America should stay the hell out of it. Thousands of years of conflict and it will continue forever as long as you have religious extremists.
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  43.  @Torquemadia  Very well put. Nobody wants to live in a purely free market society with taxation = theft blah blah blah. These hardcore capitalists still hire teams of lawyers for patent protection, trade protection, copyrights, NDA's and all sorts of things they want the government to help with. We all want a bit of both worlds and where that line is, is up for debate. Very few truly would want a society were you CAN'T get ahead, and few would want full out Lord Of The Flies capitalism.
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  44.  @borderlands6606  "Bright people with low empathy and high ambition - what could possibly go wrong?" Haha, I love the sciences but this made me laugh. The hardcore science junkies "because science" every bit as much as religious zealots "because God".
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  45.  @tomblade  He's a weird one because he absolutely goes after the Woke in some ways but totally joins them in others. I actually found the whole interview much more palatable than I thought it would be but good lord I hope he never becomes a politician.
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  46.  Amerikan Idiot  It's not equality when you are kept down, forcibly and openly, for things your forefathers did. Are all white men kept down? Of course not, but I know several people who have been subjected to it even on a small scale, like being forced out of being a yoga teacher after several years because "We're trying to become more diverse". A person who didn't get their job because they are white gets sent packing because they are white. That's not equality. That's literal hypocritical racism.
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  47. I can't count how many interviews I've turned off because of this.
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  48. He wrote a book? Funny he didn't mention it.
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  49.  brinbrin62 62200  But for good reason. You are putting a product out on the marketplace so yes you should have a level of understanding before you do. It's also extremely simple to use regular consumer, even free audio programs to drastically improve the sound in post. Before I started doing video work I first spent a few days learning about mics and sound quality etc and was blown away that you can get legit "good enough" sound with a $60 boom mic and cheap or free software. There absolutely is room for criticism about video/audio basic production techniques when the product literally is basic video/audio.
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  50.  @amystand7799  There's a video of the Babylon Bee guys going over all kinds of their insane articles that get fact checked. Kills me deep inside.
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