Comments by "Digital Nomad" (@digitalnomad9985) on "JD Vance's Warning to Europe: You're Turning Totalitarian" video.

@MaxJ. "Europe needs to take back North America and start all over" You don't have the will do defend yourselves, let alone the power projection to punch through the US Navy and overcome our geographic barriers, armed populace, and the strongest military in the world.
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@713Tankbuster The "power of the purse" is a budget ceiling only. Congress can't force the executive branch to spend money.
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@esqueejy "exceptions" That wasn't a clerical error. Nor exceptional. That was POLICY. They publicized it to make an example of him.
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@TrojanGoat-d9u "he said that Europe was a greater threat to democracy" He never said that Europe was a threat to anything. He spoke of internal threats to European freedom. You twist words clumsily.
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@maxns7733 "badly recieved"? He's calling them out for turning authoritarian. That's going to offend some perpetrators. We could see how badly it was received on the faces and in the response of the audience. What is your point? That he should have "let sleeping dogs lie" for the sake of diplomacy? Western civilization and freedom is worth preserving and worth spending some diplomatic currency to preserve.
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@spunj "USA is an awful country" I challenge you to compare how many Americans are seeking to migrate to your country compared to how many from your country are seeking to migrate to America. Lenin had a lot of dumb phrases, but the phrase "vote with one's feet" was right on the money.
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@andybrice2711 He's citing a UK government publication. He never claimed the woman arrested was in her home. He's saying the UK says in certain areas that's illegal. Of course, THEY may have got it wrong, but that's not his fault.
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@andybrice2711 "I think it’s perfectly reasonable for police to confront people if they claim to be “praying” but are acting suspiciously." The police actually ASKED the woman if she was praying before they arrested her. She didn't want to answer, but they said she had to. THEY INSISTED the prayer was the reason for the arrest.
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@owennoad-watson2820 "This is first year sixth form law. Burning a flag= expression. Blaming a race=hateful speech. If you can’t spot the difference" We can spot the difference. The partizan goals of your overlords are in line with one and opposed to the other. Why can't you? It is fatal to place the government in the position of the arbiter of truth, despotic by definition. And none of this has anything to do with prayer and suppression of Christianity. That's not hurting anybody.
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@jonatanedgren9522 "only the courts can convict a person." Maybe we're having a language barrier problem here. A court convicted the person described for violating a law passed by your legislative body. That's all government from top to bottom, and hate speech laws defeat the purpose of free speech. Free speech is supposed to defend criticism and words the majority find distressing and disagreeable. That's the whole point. You are confessing he's right while claiming he's wrong.
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@vincentluong7550 "harris also spent millions of dollars on advertising." Way over a billion on the campaign as a whole, nearly three times as much as the Trump campaign.
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@maxns7733 "stop pretending that he understands EU politics or opinions" Calling out authoritarianism has nothing to do with "understanding EU politics or opinions". This is not about nuance, this is about PRINCIPLE. I don't understand the ins and outs of Wiemar Republic politics, but that's not necessary to discern that Hitler was bad. He was most profoundly bad because of what he DID. The lesson is don't do that. All the specific evil he did was a consequence of the enabling evil of totalitarianism. Avoid it.
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@maxg5623 "An American hypocrite talking about censorship" How is that hypocritical? We're fixing our censorship and it never got as bad as yours.
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Bronson-j9m "Russia is not thr thread" That is not a quote, yet you place it in quote marks as if it were.
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@Ben-f4c4w "adolf socialism was an answer to stalins communism pretty much opposed" Fascist and Marxists (two flavors of socialism) have been playing this game since the 1920s: "If you're not one of us you're one of them". BS. Occasionally they fight each other but most of the time they cooperate against liberty. It's a false dichotomy. All of their worst attributes they share in common.
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@Andy_Sidaris "Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed." We held out for one more election, and our prudence was vindicated. If you pine for more destruction and death than was necessary, shame on you. If the 2nd Amendment was as toothless as you insist, they wouldn't keep attacking it. I suspect you wanted a different outcome than the restoration of the Republic. That's the only reason why I can imagine that you're still bitter. (Also, show me your bullet wounds, if you did something different.)
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@itspeeezn4220 "in germany especially people say whatever they want and being assholes towards another, even to politicians, the only thing you cannot do is hate speech, for what you should go to jail anyway." Typical leftist doubletalk. "It isn't happening, and it's a good thing that it is." "Hate speech" is a hypnotism trigger word that conjures free speech away. Free speech is supposed to be the freedom to criticize. That's the whole point.
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@TrojanGoat-d9u "he didn't even mention ukraine/russia once" He mentioned it at the start of the speech. "he said that Europe was a bigger threat than Russia to the democracy." He warned of internal threats to democracy. He said nothing remotely resembling "Europe is a threat" to ANYTHING. I know gaslighting has become a way of life but what is the point of lying to listeners about a speech they JUST NOW HEARD? Folk are paying attention now. The old lies won't work any more.
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@yvontchissambo8307 None of these issues were permanent for the left. The only constant thing for the left is POWER. They change positions on transient issues as it suits their pursuit of the main goal.
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@bluelantern9 "the department of education where free speech begins" That is the diametric opposite of the truth. The DOE has become the most oppressive and censorious arm of the federal government. They called the feds when parents complained in school board meetings. He's encouraging school choice on the state level. That is the most radical form of diversity in speech our education system has ever seen.
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@IntergalacticDustBunny "Do you even know what the Dept of education is for" It's a vehicle of oppressive control for the teachers unions, the same power bloc that has effectively controlled the education systems on the state and local levels since Jimmy Carter legalized public sector unions and ushered in the federal DOE. The US education system was more effectively administered on the state and local levels before with better performance and less cost. What purpose could possibly be served by adding a superfluous layer of administration above the working system?
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@Holdmypocketlol "A smaller state while advocating to expand the military?" I don't see the contradiction. The US active military is mostly stationed overseas, it's not like it's a domestic oppression threat.
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@daniel4647 Small government has never led to fascism. Tax cuts are not authoritarian. Deregulation is not authoritarian. Downsizing government is not authoritarian. Free speech is not authoritarian. The right to keep and bear arms is not authoritarian. Freedom of religion is not authoritarian. Criticism of a government lapdog corporate media is not authoritarian. Speaking the truth to power in the face of persecution is not authoritarian. Opposition to the firing of employees, the cutoff of their access to funds or commerce, violence against their persons and property, and the restriction of their communication on the basis of their political beliefs is not authoritarian. All of these things are the diametric opposite of authoritarian. Conservatism is anti-authoritarian fundamentally and point by point. Leftism is authoritarian fundamentally and point by point. We're on the freedom side of every issue except harming children.
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@FritzSchober No, of course not, particularly the period we're all dancing around to evade the YouTube sensors. That is not a meaningful response to the OP. That past isn't on the table, or at least only from the establishment and the censors.
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@tonypringles2285 "maybe worry about your own country first" Obviously we did, otherwise we wouldn't be having this conversation. Your turn.
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@Lars210688 "I don't get what this kind of finger pointing is good for?" Our finger is pointing at the cliff you're walking off of.
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@S.Longstride He is a hillbilly Yale graduate. Your stereotypes of "flyover country" are blinding you.
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@bigman6424 "Time to reconsider the US as an ally.." You're EMBRACING a descent into totalitarianism? Why?
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