Comments by "Digital Nomad" (@digitalnomad9985) on "PragerU"
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Not one of the things you attribute to the West started with the west (the Holocaust was an act of a regime rebelling against the foundational values of the west); and compassion and wisdom, joy and happiness didn't start with India.
Protestantism created the modern libertarian west. We (Protestants) ended slavery; implemented religious freedom, political freedom, academic freedom, freedom of speech, freedom of the press FIRST, and thus caused the academic, scientific, technological, and material progress that followed; and most of the rest of the world hasn't caught up with it yet. John 8:32 "You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”
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" Once the reserve runs out "
There is no reserve. It is an accounting gimmick. It has government IOUs in it.
"You are supposed to have pension and savings with social security. "
Is there an echo in here. That's what he just advocated, except that pension plans per se are gone, you get 401Ks.
"Once you survived childhood you could expect to live to a much older age than 65."
As my grandmother used to say "No, not so much." Here is a quote from a Social Security website trying (and obviously failing) to make the point you are making:
Life Expectancy for Social Security
"If we look at life expectancy statistics from the 1930s we might come to the conclusion that the Social Security program was designed in such a way that people would work for many years paying in taxes, but would not live long enough to collect benefits. Life expectancy at birth in 1930 was indeed only 58 for men and 62 for women, and the retirement age was 65. But life expectancy at birth in the early decades of the 20th century was low due mainly to high infant mortality, and someone who died as a child would never have worked and paid into Social Security. A more appropriate measure is probably life expectancy after attainment of adulthood. "As Table 1 shows, the majority of Americans who made it to adulthood could expect to live to 65, and those who did live to 65 could look forward to collecting benefits for many years into the future. So we can observe that for men, for example, almost 54% of the them could expect to live to age 65 if they survived to age 21"
https://www.ssa.gov/history/lifeexpect.html 54%!
Gee whiz! And they go on to admit that it was worse for women. A current life expectancy FROM BIRTH of 75 for men and 80 for women (the adult life expectancy is , of course, higher), means that there has been significant change in this demographic, which is a significant contributing factor. Probably at least as significant is the decrease in family size. Anyway, what is your point? We used to have many payers supporting few retirees, now we have few. That's all he needs to make his central point. Are you denying that?
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@EdoardoB-xz1jp
"A difference that MAKES no difference IS no difference."
Both commies and Nazis will:
Divide the public and foster hate along class/religious/gender/class lines
Segregate
Central plan the economy
Nationalize the press
End freedom of speech
Confiscate weapons
Persecute all non state sponsored religions
End all civil rights, including the rights enumerated in the US Constitution (and the Magna Carta).
Evict innocent citizens from their homes
Mobilize the apparatus of law and tax enforcement against their political enemies
Slander, imprison, and murder their political enemies
Eliminate or absorb all public organizations
Replace commercial entertainment media with a boring stream of propaganda.
The minor, insignificant differences between communism and Nazism are only important to communists and Nazis, not to anybody who loves freedom. You won't distract us from our fight for freedom with your internal socialist squabble over who should be our master.
"He is in great fear, not knowing what mighty one may suddenly appear, wielding the Ring, and assailing him with war, seeking to cast him down and take his place. That we should wish to cast him down and have no one in his place is not a thought that occurs to his mind."-J.R.R. Tolkien, "Lord of the Rings"
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Here is a quote from a Social Security website trying (and obviously failing) to make the point you are making:
Life Expectancy for Social Security
"If we look at life expectancy statistics from the 1930s we might come to the conclusion that the Social Security program was designed in such a way that people would work for many years paying in taxes, but would not live long enough to collect benefits. Life expectancy at birth in 1930 was indeed only 58 for men and 62 for women, and the retirement age was 65. But life expectancy at birth in the early decades of the 20th century was low due mainly to high infant mortality, and someone who died as a child would never have worked and paid into Social Security. A more appropriate measure is probably life expectancy after attainment of adulthood. "As Table 1 shows, the majority of Americans who made it to adulthood could expect to live to 65, and those who did live to 65 could look forward to collecting benefits for many years into the future. So we can observe that for men, for example, almost 54% of the them could expect to live to age 65 if they survived to age 21"
https://www.ssa.gov/history/lifeexpect.html 54%!
Gee whiz! And they go on to admit that it was worse for women. A current life expectancy FROM BIRTH of 75 for men and 80 for women (the adult life expectancy is , of course, higher), means that there has been significant change in this demographic, which is a significant contributing factor. Probably at least as significant is the decrease in family size.
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@Techgunius Giving moral advice is not the same as trying to police. If you don't have the gumption to try to preserve society while it exists, you won't have the gumption for the much harder task of rebuilding it after it falls. Trying to awaken the moral sense of those who mock unselfishness is a waste of time. What is morality but unselfishness? Morality begins where self interest leaves off. Calling gentlemen feminists is just slander. Feminism depends on chivalry, it is true, and if ever as they are trying to do they kill chivalry (as they have done in you, which makes YOU their conquest, not us), then feminism will die as well. But chivalry is not feminism any more than a host is its parasite. And a physician who kills a patient to kill his tapeworm is a quack. Chivalry is mental hygiene.
I have some sympathy for those who have been led to MGTOW by crushing personal experiences with evil women. They were once men, and have been broken. But those who embrace it themselves unassailed are beneath contempt. They seek and find an excuse to behave the way they always wanted to behave in the first place. Such creatures never were men to begin with. The meme known as "Men Going Their Own Way" is misnamed. It implies making a personal choice and respecting the different choices of others. Instead, you attack folk for choosing another way, because the chivalrous alternative SHOWS YOU UP.
"Mgtow; go fall on your own sword."
We are defending life, you are surrendering to death.
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Tanks need infantry support to protect them from Molotov cocktails, and secure supply lines to keep them running with fuel. Planes need runways that are not overrun. "The Government" doesn't drive tanks. Americans who swore a loyalty oath to the US CONSTITUTION FIRST drive tanks. If there is an opposition to an oppressive government to rally around, the majority of the US military will join it. The first rule of military leadership is "Never give an order you KNOW won't be obeyed." There are about a million men serving in the military. That's not just soldiers, that's all in uniform: aircraft mechanics, sailors, staff officers, intel, logistics, nurses, chaplains; a significant portion of whom are stationed overseas. Against a significant fraction of 320 million under arms? At present, despite the worst efforts of the statists, the balance of power remains where it should be for the proper functioning of a free republic.
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"selective"? You accuse me of being selective, then demonstrate that you are by telling me who you are selecting. Life expectancy counts EVERYBODY, you just want to count SOME.
"who in the their right mind believes anyone over 35 (another study showing hiring personnel ditching resumes of people over 35) but certainly 50 can secure employment"
I was hired by my current employer at 44.
"r trust private investment companies especially after the Wall Street heist of 2008? The government is dirty, dirty, dirty"
The real estate theft of 2008 was the upshot of the crisis caused by Carter era laws which forced lenders to make real estate loans to "customers" who couldn't pay them back. They then, through certain agencies, promised to guarantee the loans. This is certainly dirty government, and taints the business that went along, but they had to go along or go out of business. An even simpler and more obvious case of theft is the General Motors "bailout". Instead of letting GM go bankrupt, the Obama administration cut off the creditors, who were entitled to the balance of GMs assets, gave the government and the unions (who caused the failure in the first place) in for a cut of stock they had not bought, then took over the company. The only point of the video is that SS is a scam, and is insolvent. You have not refuted, or even contradicted, this point.
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