Comments by "Digital Nomad" (@digitalnomad9985) on "Imagine If America Disarmed | Short Clips" video.

  1. Finland: "Yes, do YOU?"
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  2. And you make a face at us as though to jeer with the oppressors. Do you know what happened in Vietnam when the South Vietnam fell? What sort of monster jokes about that? The North Vietnamese and their Soviet overlords invaded the south with more tanks and troops than landed on Normandy on D-day, and the murder spree began, not only killing our old allies, but the few Viet Kong who survived the Tet Offensive (since there was no need in the new regime for trained insurgents). There is every reason to believe that if we had only kept our treaty promise (in the peace treaty Nixon finally got North Vietnam to sign) to support South Vietnam with equipment, South Vietnam might by now have developed as South Korea and Taiwan have, into a vibrant democracy and an asset to the world economy. But the Democrat controlled congress blocked the appropriation, because they weren't going to allow Nixon to successfully conclude the war that 2 previous Democrat administrations had fought in vain.
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  3. Worldwide unification would mean worldwide despotism, a perpetual war of the state upon the people, and a return to the stone age.
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  4. Until all our allies are overrun, then the most expensive military we can afford won't save us. And we will deserve our fate.
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  5. Then our allies get overrun, we get hit more by terrorists because we lose the ability to strike back at their sanctuary, and eventually we create a strategic situation where the biggest military we can still afford can't save us (because the bad guys command the resources and personnel of the whole world). And we will deserve what comes next, or at least YOU will.
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  6. The school system is not rotting because we aren't spending enough money on it. We spend many times as much as we did when it worked, even adjusting for inflation. The school system is rotting because the teacher's unions control the whole system and run it as a career and pension program for teachers (as well as a political indoctrination center for students). The mess is a result of two pieces of legislation introduced by Jimmy Carter, and passed by the Democrat congress. First, the legalization of public sector labor unions and second the establishment of the federal Department of Education. The first of these in addition to messing up US education, paved the way for the entrenchment of the deep state throughout the bureaucracies, as well as myriad inefficiencies and pension bombs at every level. JC & co. also established the Department of Energy and the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the latter of which paved the way for the savings and loan crisis in the early 80s and the housing loan crisis late in the Bush administration. Later presidents might well have exceeded his spending, but Carter created the bureaucratic apparatus that made it possible, and all but inexorable. Unless the Carter legacy is completely reversed, we will never get a handle on education or spending; or reestablish effective democratic control of "our" government. Yes, the military/Industrial complex is a big problem. We need to do away with "cost plus" contracts and drain the swamp of our broken procurement system, particularly but not exclusively in Defense and NASA. That is the remaining quarter of our overall spending problem, after regulatory, administrative, and entitlement reform. Why talk about disarmament? To reject it, because there are those that advocate it, of course! A rejection of disarmament is by no means a rejection of procurement reform (though the MIC might wish to conflate the two). It is not fair to criticize a 5 minute video on the basis that it doesn't address all the world's problems.
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  7. If you feel that way, nobody here will miss you. How does your ethnicity enter into the discussion? What are you afraid of? Nobody is drafting you here, though someday in Tijuana, somebody might draft you to attack us.
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