Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "Tim Pool Gets Schooled On His Own Show" video.
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@wickedAberration Tim TRIES to be objective, and the most obvious lunacies are coming from the left. Oh, there are plenty of right-wing Bible-thumpers, but they don't own the public square like the SJWs, who despise ANYbody who appears to be happy, well-adjusted, or shows any sign of enjoying themselves.
Tim's just plucking the low-hanging fruit, and he does a news crawl every day. His problem is he mistakes a gift of gab for an actual in-depth understanding of the issues. If he continues doing his daily news crawls, he will have built up enough history, experientially, to actually have a sense of how things work... in about 20 more years.
But I could say that about most people. Read your Adam Smith. Read your Locke and Hobbes. Read your Blackstone. Figure out how things REALLY work and start understanding the REAL sweep of human progress, which is NOT in the history books. The REAL human progress is in the inventiveness, hard work and good will of the common people. But none of THEM own newspapers or have press agents (i.e.. historians) on the payroll.
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@Dandokee You'd be surprised at how many Trump supporters oppose the War on Drugs. As far as I can tell, the only people insisting on its continuation are those who profit from it, like drug lords, prison corporations, the CIA, law enforcement, and politicians.
Of course, any time you support nanny government, you invite and perpetuate authoritarianism, because the hand that gives is the hand that squeezes and punches. That's the paradox of so-called "liberalism," which wants to be "free" and at the same time insists on being "taken care of." If you care about the disadvantaged, then HELP them. Don't virtue-signal with MY money! I give plenty, in addition to paying my taxes. More than most so-called liberals. Yeah. The same liberals who lecture me about global warming with their clothes dryers running, on the phone during the hours-long commutes to work, every day.
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@spookrockcity I was 100% with you, until the "civil war" stuff. The way history works is things get bad before they get better. Biden winning will just accelerate the anti-establishment sentiment throughout the country (and the world). We want prosperity from the bottom up, and all liberals do is knock the bottom rungs off the ladder of advancement, and say "Here! I'll throw you a rope!" while the downtrodden remain downtrodden.
It's a very mechanistic view of the world, where they think they can plan everything out, from the top down, with "elites" calling the shots for everybody, when the REAL mark of human progress is people sustaining themSELVES, organically, through voluntary transactions and voluntary action.
As H.L. Mencken said, "The urge to save the world is invariably the urge to rule." I see this from progressives all the time. They INSIST on more and bigger government programs and regulations and then act all surprised when the people running those programs are corrupt. THEY think that it's OK to give the government virtually unlimited power and then they spend all their time complaining about how the power is abused. It's the NATURE of power to attract those who will abuse it. Even those who otherwise would NOT abuse their power will be constantly pressured to abuse it, "for the greater good."
The "greater good" is to be free and do what you can to make YOUR corner of the world a better place. If everybody thought this way, then most of the world would be a MUCH better place than it is, now.
"Show me a liberal and I'll show you a closet aristocrat." - Frank Herbert -
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