Comments by "Digital Nomad" (@digitalnomad9985) on "PragerU"
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"3-You consider Evil as a thing, a force that cannot be eradicated. Evil isn't a thing, it's a word. Everything you do can reduce it and, with wisdom, the goal of stopping it is possible. This kind of horrors aren't to dismiss as an immutable reality of the universe."
You contradict yourself, the only way evil isn't a thing is if it does not exist. You cannot reduce a word by deeds, only things can be reduced by deeds. There was nothing dismissive about the treatment of evil in the video. Evil is an attribute of man that can only be fully eradicated by eradicating man. The notion that man can be perfected is naivete. Far from resigning herself to evil, she pointed out the clear solution to this sort of thing is teaching men to be men, and all to be moral. We're the ones who are doing something about evil, one person at a time. Lead, follow, or get out of the way!
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@82boulou All religions together (and there is no morally valid reason to consider them all together, but let's for the sake of argument) for all time cannot begin to match the death toll of atheist societies in the 20th century. And the death toll continues in the holdout states to this day.
When and where atheists had all the power, hundreds of millions of their own citizens were killed, not to mention the deaths and property loss in the wars of conquest they started, all the books burned, slander, and whistle blowers shot. But you would do things differently, right? This follows naturally from your avowed willingness to settle a question of fact by the application of force and coercion: "I would ban". If you acknowledge no universal standard off morality, and especially if you attribute murder to your opponents, and are already willing to settle points of fact by the use of force (which makes you an obscurantist), you have all the mental tools you need to "justify" the next holocaust, which will follow like clockwork when you get power.
When and where Protestants had all the power, just before and during the Victorian era, they abolished slavery in the West and on the high seas, established limited government, freedom of speech and religion, democracy, universal education, and a flowering of knowledge, technology, and prosperity. If you are humanist enough to like any of these things banning religion is counterproductive to that goal.
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+Leivve
In both sides of your analogy (personal and government) you throw in things that really do require borrowing and things that do not.
1st level-genuine emergency:
government - necessary war, rebuild after a major disaster
personal - life saving medical operation
2nd time shifting necessity, you need it now, you can pay for it with a loan and pay off the loan:
government - I can't think of anything that fits into this category for government.
personal - a house
3rd routine recurring needs:
government - Maintaining and expanding infrastructure is on the national, state, and local scale a routine expense. If you can't pay for it now, you can't pay for it later. A government routinely borrowing money for this is like a person routinely borrowing money for clothes.
personal - Food, shelter maintenance, transportation. I know it is common practice to borrow money for a car and spend years paying it off. This is wrong. As an adult, I have never borrowed money to buy a car, and I have never been without one. I buy what I can afford with retained earnings. I have never earned more than $30k a year. I spend a minute fraction on transportation of what the average person does. The absurd buying habits of western man with regard to autos is why cars are so expensive new and how auto companies can lobby government to keep cheap competition out of the market (like US makers did to the VW bug in the 1970s, when you could buy a new bug for less than $2k). The only thing I have taken out a loan for in my life is my house. When it comes to routine recurring expenses, if you can't pay for it now you can't pay for it later.
Another place your analogy breaks down is that private borrowers are actually required to repay the loans. When we try to get governments to do the same, you object.
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@IndigoShade "Known" by whom? Here is the Nazi party platform:
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The Program of the German Workers’ Party is a program for our time.
The leadership rejects the establishment of new aims after those set out in the Program have been achieved, for the sole purpose of making it possible for the Party to continue to exist as the result of the artificially stimulated dissatisfaction of the masses.
1. We demand the uniting of all Germans within one Greater Germany, on the basis of the right to self-determination of nations.
2. We demand equal rights for the German people (Volk) with respect to other nations, and the annulment of the peace treaty of Versailles and St. Germain.
3. We demand land and soil (Colonies) to feed our People and settle our excess population.
4. Only Nationals (Volksgenossen) can be Citizens of the State. Only persons of German blood can be Nationals, regardless of religious affiliation. No Jew can therefore be a German National.
5. Any person who is not a Citizen will be able to live in Germany only as a guest and must be subject to legislation for Aliens.
6. Only a Citizen is entitled to decide the leadership and laws of the State. We therefore demand that only Citizens may hold public office, regardless of whether it is a national, state or local office.
We oppose the corrupting parliamentary custom of making party considerations, and not character and ability, the criterion for appointments to official positions.
7. We demand that the State make it its duty to provide opportunities of employment first of all for its own Citizens. If it is not possible to maintain the entire population of the State, then foreign nationals (non-Citizens) are to be expelled from the Reich.
8. Any further immigration of non-Germans is to be prevented. We demand that all non-Germans who entered Germany after August 2, 1914, be forced to leave the Reich without delay.
9. All German Citizens must have equal rights and duties.
10. It must be the first duty of every Citizen to carry out intellectual or physical work. Individual activity must not be harmful to the public interest and must be pursued within the framework of the community and for the general good.
We therefore demand:
11. The abolition of all income obtained without labor or effort.
Breaking the Servitude of Interest.
12. In view of the tremendous sacrifices in property and blood demanded of the nation by every war, personal gain from the war must be termed a crime against the nation. We therefore demand the total confiscation of all war profits.
13. We demand the nationalization of all enterprises (already) converted into corporations (trusts).
14. We demand profit-sharing in large enterprises.
15. We demand the large-scale development of old-age pension schemes.
16. We demand the creation and maintenance of a sound middle class; the immediate communalization of the large department stores, which are to be leased at low rates to small tradesmen. We demand the most careful consideration for the owners of small businesses in orders placed by national, state, or community authorities.
17. We demand land reform in accordance with our national needs and a law for expropriation without compensation of land for public purposes. Abolition of ground rent and prevention of all speculation in land.
18. We demand ruthless battle against those who harm the common good by their activities. Persons committing base crimes against the People, usurers, profiteers, etc., are to be punished by death without regard to religion or race.
19. We demand the replacement of Roman Law, which serves a materialistic World Order, by German Law.
20. In order to make higher education – and thereby entry into leading positions – available to every able and industrious German, the State must provide a thorough restructuring of our entire public educational system. The courses of study at all educational institutions are to be adjusted to meet the requirements of practical life. Understanding of the concept of the State must be achieved through the schools (teaching of civics) at the earliest age at which it can be grasped. We demand the education at the public expense of specially gifted children of poor parents, without regard to the latters’ position or occupation.
21. The State must raise the level of national health by means of mother-and-child care, the banning of juvenile labor, achievements of physical fitness through legislation for compulsory gymnastics and sports, and maximum support for all organizations providing physical training for young people.
22. We demand the abolition of hireling troops and the creation of a national army.
23. We demand laws to fight against deliberate political lies and their dissemination by the press. In order to make it possible to create a German press, we demand:
a) all editors and editorial employees of newspapers appearing in the German language must be German by race;
b) non-German newspapers require express permission from the State for their publication. They may not be printed in the German language;
c) any financial participation in a German newspaper or influence on such a paper is to be forbidden by law to non-Germans and the penalty for any breach of this law will be the closing of the newspaper in question, as well as the immediate expulsion from the Reich of the non-Germans involved.
Newspapers which violate the public interest are to be banned. We demand laws against trends in art and literature which have a destructive effect on our national life, and the suppression of performances that offend against the above requirements.
24. We demand freedom for all religious denominations, provided that they do not endanger the existence of the State or offend the concepts of decency and morality of the Germanic race.
The Party as such stands for positive Christianity, without associating itself with any particular denomination. It fights against the Jewish-materialistic spirit within and around us, and is convinced that a permanent revival of our nation can be achieved only from within, on the basis of: Public Interest before Private Interest.
25. To carry out all the above we demand: the creation of a strong central authority in the Reich. Unquestioned authority by the political central Parliament over the entire Reich and over its organizations in general. The establishment of trade and professional organizations to enforce the Reich basic laws in the individual states.
The Party leadership promises to take an uncompromising stand, at the cost of their own lives if need be, on the enforcement of the above points.
Munich, Germany
February 24, 1920.
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Replace every instance of "Jew" with "Wall Street bankers" and you have the new radical Democrat party platform. No "free market" planks here.
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Leftists are always complaining about authoritarian corporate power, here it is on display and they are silent, or supporting the bad guys. Here is what separates the leftists from the liberals. “This is not a left/right issue. It is a free speech issue, which is why prominent liberals, such as Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz, are supporting our lawsuit,” (Prager)
Concerning the "private property" dodge, quoting from the complaint:
http://www.bgrfirm.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/PRAGER_U-_v_GOOGLE-YOUTUBE_complaint_10-23-2017_FILED.pdf
Defendants believe that they have unfettered, unbridled, and unrestricted power to censor speech or discriminate against public speakers at their whim for any reason, including their animus toward and political viewpoints of their public users and providers of video content, because Defendants are for profit organizations rather than governmental entities. Google/YouTube, you are wrong.
As the California Supreme Court has stated: “[t]he idea that private property can constitute a public forum for free speech if it is open to the public in a manner similar to that of public streets and sidewalks” has long been he law in California. Fashion Valley Mall, LLC v. N.L.R.B. (2007) 42 Cal.4th 850, 858. The United States Supreme Court also recognized more than a half century ago that the right to free speech guaranteed by the First Amendment to the United States Constitution can apply even on privately owned property.
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Folks, the venue (California courts and/or California juries) may well militate against their winning (due to the bias of California courts and juries), but they wouldn't have brought the suit if they didn't have a case. It is not as simple as you're trying to make it. And as for taking sides, do you want to keep your free speech?
Martin Niemöller
First they came for the Jews
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for the Communists
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists
and I did not speak out
because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for me
and there was no one left
to speak out for me.
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