Comments by "Scott Charney" (@scottcharney1091) on "KGW News" channel.

  1. Rest in Power, Michael!
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  2. A large minority of homeless people have jobs of some sort.
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  3. This report left something out. An armed protestor stopped the rampage by shooting Smith.
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  4.  @ernstthalmann4306  Yeah, there are a bunch of bootlickers in here.
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  5.  @karlabritfeld7104  It's cheaper to provide it than not.
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  6. Wouldn't guaranteed minimum income, unconditional cash transfers, etc. ameliorate this?
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  7.  @kommisar.  Actually, yes. The pilot programs around the world have seen mostly good results, and often very impressive results. There are many different variations and sub-types, and while it's not actually the particular solution that I find ideal, that's neither here nor there.
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  8.  @marcschaeffer1584  I should have seen this coming. Yes, I've long known about the Frankfurt School, and the conspiracy theories and other canards that people attach to that. The only philosophy that necessarily defines Antifa is opposition to fascism. It's common to equate this with Anti-Racist Action's Points of Unity from 1988, and I think that's perfectly valid. Keep in mind, of course, that militant anti-fascism long pre-dates that; the term "Antifa" was first applied to those who battled against the Nazis (and their predecessors like the Freikorps) in Germany between the World Wars, and similar things happened on this side of the Atlantic, such as the IWW fighting with the KKK. "How the Midwest Was Won: The Bloody Rise of Anti-Racist Action" is a superb presentation by a couple of ARA veterans. https://kpfa.org/area941/episode/midwest-won-bloody-rise-ara/
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  9.  @marcschaeffer1584  Free speech refers to constraints on the government's ability to restrict speech or punish someone for engaging in particular speech. Congress shall make no law. I agree with that. This does not mean that any of us have any obligation to give any platform of any kind to dangerous oppressors. The ARA veterans you just listened to knew that intuitively; as they mentioned, free speech per se never occurred to them, as they feared for their lives! It was the same thing between the wars, and not just in Germany & Italy. Besides those examples, I always mention Oswald Mosley. His British Union of Fascists wasn't defeated by open debate, nor by peace rallies in a park on the other side of town. No, the BUF creeps were smashed in the streets, by a broad spectrum of Londoners who weren't going to look away. Of course, most of the fighting involved counter-protesters and the police (as usual), but the point is that the BUF realized that they were not getting anywhere without a fight. They could have never have taken power, but can you imagine Mosley's acolytes in Parliament, and in the governments of major industrial cities? He remained an irritant in British politics for the rest of his life, and his successors restarted the violent fascist movements that continue until this day (with Antifa opposing them), but the point is that when it mattered the most, people didn't decide that they should just ignore those goons, or respect their "free speech." Hitler openly admitted that the same thing could have happened to the Nazis in their early days. There's an ARA sticker/poster that shows a hand ripping weeds out of the ground; said weeds have swastikas at their tips. The caption reads "Yank 'em up before they take root!"
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  10. Ban pit bulls.
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  11. You don't know what you're talking about.
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  12. A sizable minority of homeless people have jobs.
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  13.  @HuntEthical  Were they actually defunded?
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  14. They haven't followed the Portuguese model. It's a problem of half-measures. Just end Prohibition.
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  15. What are you trying to say?
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  16. Don't say you want me, don't say you need me. Don't say you love me. It's understood. Don't say you're happy, out there without me; I know you can't be, 'cause it's no good.
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  17.  @thistleskeptic  A large minority of homeless people have jobs. The shelters often have curfews and such that make it impossible to keep a job, or even to get one.
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  18.  @kommisar.  Are you familiar with such initiatives?
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  19. That's not what karma is, but in any case, it was an extrajudicial execution by the feds.
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  20.  @coolerammo724  The feds killed Michael Reinoehl in an extrajudicial execution.
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  21. No, not literally.
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  22. That's not what happened.
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  23.  @wonder7798  This is partially off the subject, but there's no such thing as fighting for one's country. People fight for their governments.
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  24. Ngo is, among other things, a grifter who collaborates with fascists.
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  25.  @marcschaeffer1584  Fascism is an authoritarian rightist political tendency which, among many other things, scapegoats powerless minorities for a country's problems, supports strict sex roles, embodies belligerent nationalism, etc. Ngo is a naive grifter who collaborates with people like this. I collaborate with people who fight against this sort of thing.
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  26.  @marcschaeffer1584  I've never had any involvement with the Open Society Foundation, but I've been involved in plenty of Antifa activity. (If you're promoting a Soros conspiracy theory, come off it.) No, I don't ascribe to any of that theory business, so I'm not sure why you're so interested in it.
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  27.  @marcschaeffer1584  No, the continuity is clear.
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  28. Crime rates were much higher in past eras. The Great Crime Decline that began in the early '90s is mostly still with us.
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  29.  @FlixCreEightR  *whose
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  30. This report is not about that.
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  31. Bootlicker.
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  32. *its
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  33.  @club4ghz  What would conservatives do for affordable housing?
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  34.  @RiverRatWA57  What would Republicans do differently? They're no fans of affordable housing.
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  35.  @Ryan-rp1es  *their
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  36. Did they also steal your punctuation?
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  37.  @JUNGLESTRIKEOFDOOM  We don't have general lawlessness and disorder. The peak of crime in the US occurred around 1990 or so. For the most part, the Great Crime Decline that followed is still with us. You know how TV news works. Don't live in fear.
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  38. This sort of thing was far more common in earlier eras. Lurid TV reporting gives the wrong impression.
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  39.  @kaiserpuppydog7174  That's a canard.
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  40. Considering how dangerous mambas are, I find this hard to believe. Plus, stuffing snakes into boxes is cruel to the snakes.
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  41. Shelters are dangerous, and they have curfews that make it extremely difficult to find/keep a job.
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  42. It was an extrajudicial execution on the part of the feds.
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  43. That depends on the elevation.
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  44.  @tomstiel7576  *you're
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  45. Ever again? This situation won't go on forever.
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  46.  @katemoon7476  The feds performed an extrajudicial execution. They're the murderers.
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  47. *its
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  48. Lots of homeless people have jobs. Curfews make it impossible for many of them to hold down these jobs.
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  49. Voted for?
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  50. Bootlicker.
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