Comments by "k98killer" (@k98killer) on "PragerU" channel.

  1. It's amazing what a difference good headphones can make.
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  2. The term "liberal" should not be confused with the terms "communist" or "leftist". Liberals believe in individual rights and supplying a safety net to empower the disenfranchised to exercise those rights. Leftists and communists want to destroy America and fundamentally reshape it as a nation without individual rights in which everybody is equally destitute: they would applaud the poor getting poorer so long as the rich are less rich. Liberals want everyone to own a home; communists would rather see millions of starving people die in the streets than let people own the houses and businesses they've built. Liberals want to make sure everyone's voice is heard; communists want to silence their opponents. Liberals believe we all have moral obligations to fulfill for the unilateral betterment of society; communists believe that any casualty count is morally justified so long as the government can crush individual thought for the supposed benefit of the collective.
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  3. The most ludicrous and idiotic lie put forth in this video is that internet companies like Netflix were ever customers of these ISPs to begin with. Netflix pays the operators of higher-tier networks for bandwidth, e.g. Cogent and Level3, and these network operators have peering agreements with other networks so that data can flow between them efficiently and uninhibited. The ISPs that charge consumers for access then decided to blackmail companies that did not even use their services by breeching their peering agreements and blocking traffic to the ISPs' customer bases. Comcast purports to provide an internet connectivity service to their customers, which Netflix was not, so specifically blocking access to Netflix through peered networks in an attempt to boost sales of their own competing cable service is blatantly monopolistic. If Comcast's network and peering interconnects were insufficient to provide the service they sold, they should have simply upgraded their equipment and fulfilled their obligations to their customers. But because ISPs are already monopolies/oligopolies, they are able to extort arbitrarily-targeted companies and hold customers, who have no other choices, hostage. This is nothing like electric utilities; it is more analogous to a railroad monopoly cutting off access to a city to extort the citizens of that city for access to shipments for which transport costs had already been paid. It is like double taxation. Net neutrality was intended to enforce peering agreements and prevent these ISPs from arbitrarily blackmailing companies and throttling the traffic that was already paid for by the ISPs' customers.
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  4. This is like a Jerry Smith vs Rick Sanchez dilemma: on the one hand, Jerry's bitchness ruined his marriage and family life, but on the other hand, Rick created a universe just to power his car battery through slave labor.
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  5. This argument is historically uninformed and has nothing to do with what is actually in evidence in the texts and archaeological artifacts of Israel and Judah. Yhwh is a male because he was a son of El, the Canaanite high deity (Psalm 82); he was also a warrior storm god like Baal (the hymn in Job, which is an adaptation of a hymn of Baal). After Yhwh usurped the divine council and threw out his siblings in the Israelite religious myths, he then usurped and was syncretized with his father, El, and married his father's wife, Asherah. Asherah was then removed from Judaite worship as part of the cult centralization program under King Josiah. This stuff about children growing up fatherless in modern America has nothing to do with the historic reality of the development of the mythology of this deity. It is utter nonsense.
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  6. Stock investments mature? I think you mean bonds. Or perhaps some preferred share series? The vast majority of stocks do not "mature" in any way.
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  7. Incorrect. Democratic representation in government, trial by jury of peers, rights for women's self-determination, and individual liberty in general were all part of heathen Germanic civilization long before the advent of Christianity ended those traditions. This lie perpetuated by Christians to justify their absurd beliefs is pernicious and annoying. Christianity was only mildly less toxic 500 years ago than Islam (a 500 year younger Abrahamic religion) is today, and it almost wiped out the Western civilization for which modern Christians pompously take credit. You can't even truthfully claim that your religion brought peace to Europe, so why are you ascribing to it the success of all things it tried to destroy?
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  8. More importantly, it has literally nothing to do with the historic reality of the development of the Hebrew deity and surrounding mythology. "Go slaughter all the women and children, but save the virgin girls for yourself" isn't exactly good fatherly advice.
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  9. "Dick and Hairy"
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  10. The nutcases who perpetuate this lie also believe that free speech is being "weaponized" and that words are violence. Gods help us through these delirious times.
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  11. "Capitalism: God's way of deciding who is smart and who is poor." -- Ron Swanson, from his Pyramid of Greatness
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  12. Everytime I read or hear something about Sweden, I think "jävla, jag är en viking."
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