Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "Democrats Backtrack On Taking Fossil Fuel Money" video.

  1. They've gotta do something. You can't BUY good memes, these days. You're at the mercy of the creativity of your side. And I think that's what's happening, now. You can't just win with money and boots-on-the-ground machine. Some dipshit will come along and Kekistani your ass, and all that money gets flushed down the toilet, NOT because some quiet conservative respectfully and calmly tries to reason with you as you become more and more offended and louder and louder. Instead, what the right (which REALLY should be the LEFT, because libertarians and their like have been the ONLY ones who've consistently spoken truth to power, and warned our neocon and neoliberal friends that beyond Life, Liberty and Property, government really has no role in our lives, and we're increasingly freaked out by all that's wrong with the world, because we made the mistake of asking government to help us with EVERYthing, and NOW we wonder why government is EVERYwhere and shit don't work right and we're off killing people in foreign lands we don't even KNOW. What up with that? Say "No" to those who would make us serfs. Don't want to be lorded over? Don't ask for help on every fuckin' thing under the sun, from welfare to health care, even to food (Since when does the FDA have YOUR best interests at heart? Nah. But Monsanto's in good with 'em, I understand.) . PROGRESSIVES actually ASK for the NEW SERFDOM. They no sooner threw off the chains of the monarchy than they started scheming to put us under iron rule of civil-service oligarchy. High-level government officials are the new princes and dukes and kings. They bestow favors on those who give them money. The regulatory agencies are run by the industries being regulated, or rather, the most ruthless and most powerful big companies IN the industry, thereby preventing any new competition from breaking into the free market. People bitch about capitalism run amuck and the fact is that our system is very fascist, with government giving unfair advantage to big companies at every opportunity. And it's not because people are bad. It's just the nature of the thing and the nature of the power to destroy (Power to tax is the power to destroy (when you don't pay your taxes)) that is vested only in government. Government is the ONLY institution in the nation that has the right to use force. As such, why the HELL do we want it to run ANYthing other than what it absolutely MUST (National sovereignty, Life, Liberty and Property). Jimmy Dore thinks everybody should make $15/hour no matter how worthless (inexperienced) of a worker they are, and everybody should get free health care. These were BOTH the primary features of FASCISM that made them it popular (along with COMMUNISM) in their early days. I think Stalin converted close to a million people by hooking them up with black-market potatoes! LOL!
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  2. Don't like big oil making big donations. But I also doubt that fossil fuels are a significant factor in climate change. CO2's just too weak of a greenhouse gas, and its effect on climate is PROBABLY far less than the damage to the poorest and weakest and most backward among us done by raising the cost of energy. I want it as cheap as possible for that woman who cooks inside her home on an open fire, made of the wood she gathered from the nearby forest, to get a Dad Gum Propane Service. FAR cleaner and cheaper, if we can get that supply chain going. Send 5,000 Antifa to 3rd World Countries to teach Mass Heat Rocket Stove technology to every person who burns wood for heat. There's a 90% reduction in CO2 emissions and deforestation for heating purposes (if the EPA would get their head out of their ass and approve these Green-Tech devices that harvest virtually 100% of the heat in the wood and emit ONLY CO2, CO, H2O, because they reach refractory temperatures in an insulated riser pipe and burn it down to the simplest form (No tars, creosote. No waste.) and then run the exhaust through a heat sink. Burn in the morning. Place stays warm all day long. The average person is well aware of environmental concerns and trending away from dirty living, like burning lots of gas, for example. That's the solution. Green Tech will be as good as the free market can make it, and get there, faster, if we leave government out of it. But the EPA can't even find a place in their regulations to approve the technology! By EPA Regs, the air going up the chimney needs to leave the pipe at the roofline at 300 degrees, Farenheit. But you can put your hand in front of a mass heater setup. Maybe 150 degrees? 120? Last I checked, that reg remained on the books, so if you want a rocket stove mass heater, you basically have to build it yourself, because I don't think you can sell them, commercially, without running afoul of the EPA. And that's kind of the way things are, nowadays. The people are miles ahead of the government, but the government keeps trying to run everything. We can't just come up with great ideas and use them, if government has its way. The elite technocrats are simply less competent about everything than the people they want to boss around. We're transitioning to cleaner alternatives. Western Civ has curbed its population growth. Everybody's crying about it, but it's what we WANT. Climate change = CO2 is pretty flimsy. But burning fuel does add dirt to the air, so we want it to be curbed, somewhat. The questions are "How severe is it?" and "What's the cost-benefit analysis tell us?" Short term, the biggest effect of CO2 in the atmosphere has been additional greening of the planet. More uproarious growth. Bumper crops in different places. Now this is not to say that CO2 emissions and deforestation aren't good bellwethers for our likely impact on the environment in all sorts of ways. Probably not a bad measure of man's net level of activity and pollution. But just going after CO2 emissions without addressing bigger problems, such as overpopulation putting the actual strain on the closed planetary ecosystem. We just generally need to think a little greener, and, instead of importing people from the 3rd world to OUR world, we need to teach people in the 3rd world how to put a lid on THEIR population growth. And I think we'll come to find out that the best way to bring those folks UP is to SPREAD fossil fuels to THEIR countries, until THEY get to a critical point in prosperity, to where THEIR population stabilizes and maybe shrinks. Hey, let's worry about too FEW babies when mankind becomes endangered. Until then, the least harmful way to bring the most people up is to raise their standard of living. And not in fake ways like setting Jimmy Dore's $15/hour on the price of sweeping the floor. No. If you're making a career out of floor-sweeping, then your only hope is to one day be the boss of 20 other floor-sweepers, because floor-sweeping is just not worth $15/hour. You can find a kid who'd spend 3 hours and be overjoyed at his first $20 or $30. But as ABL would say, "... I digress." I hope some folks will think about this. Western Civilization achieved its goal of 0% population growth, but the means by which we achieved it were with government control systems and fascist feedback loops between government and favored businesses (crony capitalism) that require an ever-growing economy and population, to pay for all the boondoggles they've thought up. We're in a pretty good place, right now, and we just need to tweak welfare into work-fare, and a couple things like that, and I think we're golden, if we can avoid adding too many people, HERE, just when we got our shit together. Instead of importing a kazillion people, how about we look for ways to teach people in shithole countries (I'm not afraid to say it!) the path to prosperity, rather than let our good intentions tear down OUR prosperity.
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  3. Maybe we should wait until other countries treat their people as well or better than we treat ours, before we just leave the door wide open. Only then, will folks more or less move both ways across the border, in more or less equal measure.
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