Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "ReasonTV" channel.

Republican voters in the '60s, '70s and '80s are kind of where Democrat voters are now. The establishment was very conservative, and the news media parroted what the security state told them to, nobody outside the business really knew about it, and those in media were bought-in. What's different is the establishment is now largely Democrat and the stranglehold on news was unchallenged by independent news. There were still independent left, right, and in-between rags out there, but their circulation was never very great. Curation of U.S. news is not new. Only thing new is more people are aware of it.
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@Justin_Beaver564 I don't think the voting blocs changed, fundamentally. The fact is that blacks have voted Democrat since FDR, but were much slower than whites to embrace abortion. They also had higher marriage rates than whites until some point in the 1970s, after Lyndon Johnson's Great Society destroyed a huge proportion of black families.
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On YouTube, the first 100 links will be to MSNBC and other dreck.
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Send a guy over for $20 an hour to spend 20 minutes looking at your place. Have a $20/hr clerk fill in details on a form (takes 5 minutes). Send a bill for $5,000. What's wrong with that?
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They pretend like they're helping low-income workers and all they're doing is turning them into welfare recipients. But that's good, right? More votes for more stupid Democrats, right?
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@todd8398 I guess it's "more fraught" for some people. For me, and millions, and maybe even getting to the billions of others, it's "less fraught," because we access a wide variety of viewpoints, and free media, like Free Media, are springing up faster than centralized whack-a-mole specialists can keep up with. Mass media was a huge step forward for humanity. Not all of it was good, though. Peer-to-peer communications spell the end for mass media as once it was known. It's far more difficult for a few to manufacture the consent of the many. Liberty beckons. Let it be through peaceful means.
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I'd argue for legalization of all drugs, and society taking an "Addiction is a health issue" stance. Shouldn't be a police matter unless you commit crimes to support your habit, or do harm to another due to intoxication But the legalization of marijuana has cut the ties to drug cartels that used to exist when everybody bought their weed from someone with "a connection." Put you right in contact with the coke, crank, LSD and even heroin, when weed was under prohibition. All the same people, although heroin wasn't as common outside the city.
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Most of what's considered "left" harkens back to divine right of kings times. "Do what we say and we will take care of you."
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Institution authorities lost all respect by allowing this radicalism to permeate their institutions. The girl was acting exactly the way she was trained to act by that institution.
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Good companies set far higher standards and enforce them far better than government bureaucrats with no reputation to protect.
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We can't have natural market forces alleviate a problem.
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Eating breakfast is key for me to get to sleep at night. I tend to skip it, coffee-up, and not eat until much later. I'm GONNA get my calories in a day, and if I don't have them by bed-time, then I'm eating a huge bowl of cereal or something sweet, when my day should be winding down. I eat late, and then I have a hard time getting to sleep, which makes me really tired the next morning, craving COFFEE, and I'm caught in that loop. For me, I just need to "gut it out" and EAT something in the morning. Then I'm really hungry at lunch and really hungry after work, and I'm ready to go to bed at a reasonable hour. Coffee is my nemesis. But I LOVE IT! sigh
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This is so foreign to me. I don't get it. Citing references ADDS to the strength of your arguments. It shows your thoroughness and scholarship.
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EXACTLY. It happens in EVERY industry on which government casts its greedy eye. A consolidation of big companies whose leaders set up permanent offices in Washington, D.C., to "advise" legislators and regulators. Monsanto's the biggest expert in GMO foods, for example, and "helps" write the rules governing itself.
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YOU ARE EXACTLY RIGHT. POLITICIANS PROTECT US FROM NOTHING.
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@temslink2000 The monarch has always been responsible for the infrastructure, since the king realized he could move his armies around better if he had roads. But in my opinion, you shouldn't put the stuff in unless there's someone can make an honest profit out of it, and finance it themselves, accountable to their creditors. There wouldn't be as many roads if you did things my way, but everything would grow, organically, and more sustainably, that way.
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@Seabass-a This funneling of wealth into big at the expense of small was never so nakedly exercised than during the Pandemic. Biggest transfer of wealth from the people to the big corporations in history, for as short a time as it was. Actually, come to think of it, I'm not sure how it stacked up against the Obama bail-out after the '08 crash. TARP may be on the same order as COVID. Maybe TARP was just a trial run, and COVID is the well-oiled machine.
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@ailanifeather2320 Imagine the Westward Expansion if we had had to NEGOTIATE with the native people... I try to. It would've been slower. But the mass invasion from Europe was pretty inevitable. The settlers were coming. Much of what our government did was just scramble to protect the settlers who were going to march West, no matter what the government did. Back in those days, people made no bones about taking any land they could, by force, natives and Europeans alike. The lands were ruled by warrior societies before the white man came, and the white men, with their firearms, were all citizen-soldiers, themselves. Go back a millenium (-plus) and it's Saxons committing genocide on Britons. Until the "Modern Era," the world map was a pure expression of who could hold what, by force. It still pretty much is that, although in the 20th Century, we tried to change that, with the failed League of Nations and the currently failing United Nations. With the exception of the Westward Expansion of the USA and the conquering of Australia, there isn't a single nation that doesn't look on its imperial beginnings with great fondness and pride.
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@Seabass-a Been that way for a long time. Ever hear the Legend of Stone Soup? Sometimes the value of the currency defies reality, simply because people keep using it as if it does. Meanwhile busy beavers are all the time figuring out smarter, cheaper ways of doing things, and the thing holds together due to a quirk of human nature, perception creating reality, and invisible gains. By rights, the policies of the postwar period should've sunk our boat many times over in the last 70 years. But we've gotta stop what we're doing. The magic printing press is about out of spells.
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The way our system works, anything new that gets traction will be appropriated by one of the two major parties.
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"Just because something doesn't work doesn't mean that we end it." LOLz
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Gonna see it more and more. Democrat-run state can't run its own offices. Have to contract it all out and extract it from the people. Rent-a-cops will become the norm, too, as people will be obliged to hire private security to protect neighborhoods that the cities, counties and states can do. Increasing crime and less $$$ to fund police. Wait and see.
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California's the anaconda that just swallowed a tapir. I have little doubt that the existing Central and South American transplants will eventually be a net plus for the state. I just know too many good people from those parts. But Cali's really bitten off more than they can chew, short-term. They need to be serious about border security and make sure they can handle the people they have, now. You're not helping those people if you're plonking them in neighborhoods dominated by the exact same cartels they fled to the U.S. to escape. They think they're compassionate, and maybe they are, but well-intentioned incompetence is still incompetence. When feelings > facts, we create extra catastrophes, as if life were already tough enough.
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Pin-setting in bowling alleys used to be a great job for teenagers until the minimum wage was invented. There haven't been human pin-setters since the 1940s. And the lesson was never learned. Willful ignorance of history. Those jobs weren't great money, but they were MONEY that those teenagers could earn and learn how to work. We drive out the entry-level jobs, denying poor and young people the first rung on the economic ladder.
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A Harvard education now implies you're dishonest, lazy, and stupid.
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Maybe the "left," which wants government to do everything and then complain because government does everything poorly, is "insane" because the original assumptions put them on a slippery slope to dysfunction. Tom spending Jane's money on Susan is never going to be good for anybody but Tom, who of course earns a salary and a pension for spending Jane's money. They either find themselves back outside the establishment, complaining, or worse, end up "dictating to the proletariat" from within the establishment. Face it, progressives: Nanny government is re-branded feudalism. An aristocrat is an aristocrat, whatever political labels they sling. You always run out of other people's money and then the blame game and hate speech take over. Look for scapegoats. Look for "parasites." The only parasite is the bureaucracy!
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Why don't the homeless shelters work WITH this dude? Just think of the houses as an extension of the shelter with a little added security. A little space of your own. But then, maybe this is just altruistic treatment of a symptom.
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The urge to save the world is invariably the urge to rule. Every force has an equal and opposite force.
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Those stadiums can and are used by the public for other purposes. Still, would they be football stadiums if the city, itself, were building a multi-purpose facility? I doubt it. Most of the owners could afford to build and maintain their facilities. In my opinion, if they're viable as a sport, they should carry their own weight. If they can't carry their own weight, well, this is AMERICA. Let them go under!
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@eemoogee160 Matt's a big-government progressive. Med-4-All run by guys like Fauci. sigh
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Public school spends 12 years teaching about 2 or 3 years's worth of real content. And they do it, badly.
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Listening to the virtue signalers is sickening. No understanding of economics. No understanding of the plight of the little guy, in spite of their supposed "compassion." Fuck them. I'm sick of them.
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Imagine the private schooling parents could provide their children with the money the taxpayers pay, per pupil. But no. Poor people MUST send their kids to the local, failed public school, that taxpayers pay for many times over. The national average is about $13,000 per year per student. And they cry about it not being enough! Give me 10 kids in k-12 for that kind of money, and my job would be easier and I'd make far more money than I'm making, now.
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Far out. Brilliant stuff. Sounds like he can get some nice functionality, at some level, with spin-offs for the physically handicapped and visually impaired, maybe. Love his attitude. Except for wanting to be Bill Gates, instead of Steve Jobs. The GUI brought tech to a lot of non-techie people, which may be hard to see from a hard-core-techie perspective. I love the way he sees the forces at play. It's driving the Establishment crazy, but the people are evolving faster and faster, and the government is, by nature, a creature of the status quo, and they can't stop themselves trying to control, but gov't just keeps falling farther and farther behind. Bad actors get tripped up by the technology they would weaponize against others. And the beat goes on.
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I don't think anybody has any idea of how many people are self-educating themselves with free content available online. I've learned a ton of history, philosophy, evolutionary psychology, physics, natural history, ... in the last 5 years, alone. I put everything from intermediate algebra to calculus III online, for free. You just have to dig for it. Ask for it. Your curiosity trumps EVERYthing being done in brick-and-mortar institutions filled with un-curious students, just going through the motions, dragged kicking and screaming through new knowledge, seemingly against their will!
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They're not. Their "liberal" teachers push ideology all day long. They're responding to their training, and their training sucked.
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Doesn't matter what the city council says it's about. It's clearly being ramrodded through by the hotels and hotel union workers. Just like taxi companies that can't compete with Uber.
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@TechTehScience : Let me put it simply: government participation in the economy invariably puts the squeeze on small, would-be competitors.
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Been looking for this to manifest. It may be inevitable, for the same reason(s) there are so many independent content creators competing with legacy media. The independents don't NEED 5 million views to make their nut. When I look at the programming task of creating competing platforms, I see no real barrier holding it back. It seems inevitable. Just look at the functionalities of the dominant platforms, they don't seem that hard to match or beat. Set out to duplicate the functionality of sbnation.com for asynchronous chat. It's proprietary. I wish those platforms had been more aggressive about licensing that chat client to all comers, for a small fee, rather than pursuing legacy-media strategies of sanitizing content and wooing the legacy advertisers. Heck with that. Just a one-man operation hooked up with a good company that checks all the ethical and best-practices checkboxes for the CONTENT creator, rather than the content creator having to sanitize THEIR content to please every single snowflake who might by accident view their content, get offended, and go crying to big brother. Nah. Be a content creator that a few righteous business owners really like, and they'll want to spend a few bucks for product placement and such, and the independent is THRILLed to have a very modest income stream from several (local) vendors. Also, a culture of person-to-person support of content creators, where large numbers of people also contribute small amounts to help support the content they want. The future is best, cheapest connection you can find, and direct support of the stuff you love, whenever you can afford it. Shows won't live or die based on getting MILLIONS of views, but good stuff can be supported for $40 or $50 thousand, total, coming in by 2s and fews, all year long. Throw in some merchandizing, and an individual can make a decent middle-class income by doing their own thing. It's not something you can immediately quit your day job, but if you can put together a half hour of content once or more times per week, and it's good stuff, you can build a following and make money on the side.
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Every problem you see in the world around you isn't an enemy to be vanquished by force through government. It's an OPPORTUNITY for some smart person to offer a better alternative, to which all sane and rational people will turn, VOLUNTARILY, because it WORKS BETTER. That's why everybody in the USA eats tacos. That's why we drive cars instead of horse-and-buggies.
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"But we're right, and therefore anything we do to win is totally justified."
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I get you owned the laundry for 20 years. Can't you sell it? You're a fool to want to put up new housing in San Fran. Unless you know whom to bribe.
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Total sociopath.
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You're never going to get that. It can't be legislated. All you can do is leave it wide open and CHOOSE better sources. Be skeptical about all sources. One general rule that sort of works is "The left lies about itself and digs up dirt on the right, and the right lies about itself and digs up dirt on the left." Anyway, we're already seeing free market destroying the most obvious liars, because the Internet gives us choices that are not (yet) homogenized. Jimmy Dore's great on some things, but he still believes in many socialist precepts, which keeps him on The Wheel. You're never going to get genius-saints in the top positions in government, and THAT is why we need to keep government to an absolute minimum. Progressive thinking is what builds The Machine against which progressives love to rail. They never question the base assumption that the federal government needs to be our parent. They just criticize its mistakes and expect to be totally free and prosperous when they vote away their agency to 3rd parties in government, which everyone knows is populated by the worst kind of power-seeking and incompetent people.
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At some point in their lives, they will run up against reality, and they will fail.
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