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

  1. "Far right" = "anything not far left."
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  2. "Labour Party" is kind of a misnomer, these days.
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  3. Doesn't matter if it's truth or not. If it departs from The Message in any way, and it's cogent enough to sway others, it must be elbowed out of the public square.
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  4.  @umiluv  How this is not considered an abomination being committed against children is beyond me. People in 100 years will look back on these times as no different from medieval times.
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  5. They didn't just get a few things wrong. They got everything wrong.
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  6. Andy Ngo gets it. Yes. It would be funny, if they did no harm. This is NOT the interwar period of the 20s and 30s, when socialism was on the rise. Most people in the USA do not live at ALL like Europeans in the 1920s and 1930s, when they were rioting over FOOD! The far left have no sense of historical perspective. When/if people start going hungry, due to leftist disruptions to the supply chain, the anger will be directed at the far left, as the biggest threat. People in the countryside won't be thanking Antifa for setting up deliveries of flour to our villages. That's how the Bolshies and Nazis did it. A gift of a potato to a starving peasant. That ain't what this is.
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  7.  @chrishoff402  The effects were just as toxic on young men, in different ways. Make things too easy on us, and we won't change. We won't increase our value to society (the real solution to the world's ills), if we don't have to. We can be content doing sports and outdoor rec or video games into our 30s, without ever really buckling down and building a practical skill set. We all think we're The Last Starfighter, just waiting to be discovered for our preternatural skill with a PS3.
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  8. Yeah. He's an honest journalist who's clueless about the proper role and scope of government. He's a guy who votes for the very things that make the madness possible. He supports huge government and thinks the only thing wrong with that big government is that the people he wants in power are not in power. IOW, he's a progressive idiot.
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  9. "I make $150,000 a year as a government employee, but I regulate a $50 billion industry, whose CEOs fawn over me. When I retire, I will make millions of dollars sitting on the boards of multiple Fortune 500 companies and giving speeches."
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  10. We're on the brink of a better world, and we are beset by leaders determined to prevent it, in the interest of their own power and wealth.
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  11.  @johndillinger5142  The woke are suffering every day. Even a momentary respite caused by rainbows and unicorns, provides temporary relief, at which they grasp like drug addicts.
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  12. Pretty much. The Pill is not good for women, by and large.
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  13.  @jademermaidmusic  He's a socialist. Of course he doesn't understand the world.
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  14.  @brushstroke3733  Worse than stereotypes. CARICATURES. Dylan Mulvaney is exhibit #1. He has his own gay male understanding of what he thinks a girl is, and it's actually quite demeaning to women.
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  15.  @Panteni87  : The language doesn't fit the reality one bit. Communism is a regression to authoritarian forms in the name of progress. It's an abuse of language from "Go."
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  16. History is a good vehicle for critical thinking skills, if you present opposing viewpoints,
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  17.  @LlibertarianGalt  Yes, but when they perform The Procedure, they can say they feel like they DOING something, and you and I are crazy for standing in their way.
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  18. This period will go down in history - if there are still human beings - as the dumbest, craziest time of all. We had it all and we flushed it down the toilet, because we didn't know how to handle good times.
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  19. Once you "know" you're in the right, it's very empowering. Suddenly the rights of others come in a distant 2nd. See "Stop Oil Campaign." But don't join it.
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  20. I hope this woman's message is heard, and she is celebrated as a great thinker of our time.
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  21. I'm not against female pundits, but it shouldn't be forced, and I think they force it. Football's very much a man's sport, a man's space, if you will.
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  22. Elon's first principle is to invest in businesses that receive government subsidies.
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  23. Very few can lay out the foundations and fallacies in intersectionality like this woman does. Thanks for putting this scholar on YT.
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  24. PC culture has its roots in the CEO pinching the ass of a cute secretary, and stuff like that. In that respect, a little PC was good for society. But it's morphed into something very corrosive, where sociopaths and narcissists wield their supposedly hurt feelings like war axes. They're not offended. They've just got it in for someone, or maybe just want to get a rush from destroying somebody. Some people are pretty sadistic.
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  25. "Woke comedy" is an oxymoron.
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  26. The Invention Secrecy Act was 1951, not 1952, but you are otherwise correct. It's an abomination.
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  27. If you're from UK and want to see how this nonsense developed, Portland and Seattle Most pressing things not being discussed: Intersectionality's capture of the academy, and how it's infected politics and hence policy. Sometimes our intellectuals get it wrong. The war on drugs. Foreign policy and national security policy based on 1945 realities. Honey-trap operations by foreign and domestic intel agencies, Fiat currency. The surveillance state. The inevitable de-centralization phenomenon resulting from the breakdown of centralized controls. The Soviets couldn't run things top-down: exposed by Chernobyl. The Chinese can't run things top-down: exposed by WuFlu. The politically correct term "COVID-19" just proves what the top-down controllers ARE good at: shaping the masses' perception of reality and language to their own ends. The failure of blue states and blue cities.
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  28. YES. THE ESTABLISHMENT MEDIA IS NORMALIZING POLITICAL VIOLENCE. So are Democrat politicians. Their immediate purpose is to subdue anything they consider to the right of themselves. If they win, then it becomes a war between the establishment left and the far left. And the establishment left always end up bending the knee - quite literally, sometimes - to the far left. Case in point: USA, 2020.
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  29.  @william7696  "Trump's a buffoon," for one.
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  30. Gender dysphoria has to be debilitating condition. To be wired female and have male plumbing would suck. I think people try to use the pronoun that fits the gender a person presents as being. If there's some ambiguity and someone gets it wrong, be KIND to them. I'm a smaller guy, and I used to have lovely long blonde hair. 3 or 4 times from teens to 20s, a person got caught off guard, when I turned around and I was clearly male, when they thought I was female. LOL! The "worst" time was a guy doing a double-take in the boys' restroom in high school. He saw me taking a piss at the urinal from behind! Funny as hell. I didn't mind, because the chicks thought I was cute. It was a little embarrassing, though! But to be wired as a female would've been a whole 'nother level. I feel for transgender people, but the SJWs are taking things WAY too far. It's one thing to recognize gender dysphoria as a condition. But to force puberty blockers and transitioning MINOR CHILDREN is ABOMINATION. To COMPEL SPEECH, where you can be arrested or punished for "mis-gendering" someone with the "wrong pronoun" is ABOMINATION.
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  31. It'd just be their own problem if they didn't insist on dragging everybody else down their rat-hole.
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  32. He's right about RussiaGate, but he has this demented belief that it's government's job to provide for our basic needs. Government wouldn't exist if we didn't already provide for our basic needs, with a little left over for the government. he doesn't understand its essentially parasitical nature. He thinks government's the sun source of human well-being.
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  33. @Sinéad L : Maybe it's because a false allegation ruins a man's life whether he's guilty or not. It's terrifying. And who knows how many men are THREATENED by an allegation for blackmail purposes, or job advancement purposes? I had a female student who stayed after class one time and made up a bunch of stuff I didn't say, because she was failing my class. It was the one time I didn't follow the Pence rule, and the classroom door was shut. Luckily, there were a bunch of people standing just outside, or God knows what she would've said about me when she saw the 'F' on her grade report. It's terrifying to be on the verge of a he-said, she-said. Luckily I document everything and save everything. She very carefully clipped one of her graded tests and showed my boss and my boss's boss the note I wrote her on her test "Don't ruin a good thing!" I said to her. Sounded creepy. But I kept a photo copy of her test, and showed the ENTIRE note to my superiors. I also showed them the entire test, which was generally pretty poor. Tests are where you're supposed to give just a summative assessment. I also make them a formative assessment, writing a book, trying to explain what they need to succeed on the NEXT test. I was talking about work that I could barely see underneath her eraser marks, where I said "Yes! This is correct! You didn't trust your first (correct) instinct! Next time, go with your first idea! Don't ruin a good thing!" That girl is toxic. She's going to leave a lot of damaged people in her wake. I barely escaped and consider myself lucky. You know how women are paranoid about men harassing them? There aren't many men like that. But we've all encountered them. Same with some women. Some people are just sociopaths.
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  34. As a boy growing up, I thought action figures were just dolls and never understood boys who played with their GI Joe. I GOT a GI Joe, but never played make-believe with it. I just took the cool box it came in and put my own little treasures (boy junk) in it.
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  35.  @ihategooglealot3741  Channel 4 were his pals, and he was still working for them and hoping for future jobs with them. He's going out of his way to be kind and open-minded, giving every benefit of the doubt. One thing about dealing with ideologues, especially on the left, is that they project their dishonesty on YOU and YOU project your integrity on THEM. That was basically how the Bolsheviks took over the Duma in Russia. It takes TWO to deal in good faith, and there's a huge segment of the population that's been giving the benefit of the doubt without receiving ANY benefit of the doubt, and they're becoming more and more combative.
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  36.  @colly7963  Basically what I just tried to say (a week after you said it). I think that's why Trump was so triggering to the left so-called liberals, because he treated THEM the way they treat everybody else! He'd been rubbing elbows with those high-and-mighty nothings for decades, and he understands them, through and through, and isn't at ALL worried about offending them. They offend everybody else at every opportunity, without any self-awareness, and Trump held up a big, giant mirror in front of them.
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  37. ​ @kerryj2260  Trump's no genius, but it didn't take a genius to recognize that the Democrats are off their rocker and drunk on power. And he made his points very simplistically, in a way that was accessible to everyone. This drove Democrats out of their minds. He was beating them at their own game.
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  38.  @hayleylongster4698  I'm not sure HOW you structure things so that the nation is secure, the people are mostly better off today than yesterday, and the economy is on a solid footing. This cat seems to think Putin's economy is a total failure, when it looks like he's doing more right by people than one almost has a right to expect. Something people don't much talk about is all the territory he has that borders or includes Islamic territories. He doesn't want his country to be Islamified. He also shares age-old territorial ambitions in Crimea and parts West and South. Hillary sold us out on Uranium-1, but she and her neocon cronies worked systematically to deprive Russia its ports on the Mediterranean. If they got too cozy with anybody in the Middle East, well, then maybe it was time for some regime change... But when I look at the big stuff, like living within your means and backing your currency with precious metals, etc., I see a man respecting the property rights of the citizenry more than the USA does! If only we could get economic good sense and EXPLICIT recognition of people's rights, we'd have a great country! Sorry to free-write at everyone's expense.
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  39. There's nothing wrong with free-market capitalism. All of its supposed flaws are from creeping fascism (more and more government intervention and authoritarianism), i.e., things which were grafted on, later, having nothing to do with free-market capitalism.
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  40. With technology and a little training, 90% of kids can learn 90% of the book-learning they need, for pennies.
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  41. Nah. It's scary during paradigm shift, but I don't think the shift is quite what it appears, if you live in Twitterverse or Semi-Riemannian YouTube Embedded in 6-Dimensional, Complex Anti de-Sitter Space.
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  42. 3 years ago, this video would've been pulled, and the channel would've received a strike.
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  43. "You can come out from behind the potato chips, now. Your moment for heroism is long since pahhst."
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  44. The soviets had re-usable boosters, if I'm not mistaken. They used titanium, while we were making clay tiles.
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  45. In the '60s, the feminists FOUGHT for the freedom to go out and kick up their heels on campus, like the guys did. They thought The Pill set them free. 50 years later, women talk about "rape culture" on the campuses.
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  46.  @ajb7786  Are you saying you endorse the UN's 17 goals? How about its proposals to achieve them? Do they make sense? What are the trade-offs? What does the planet look like after we've mined all the cobalt and lithium their proposals require? What will their plans do to the mobility and economic outlook for common people? If people fall below a certain line, how much are they going to care about the environment, and most of all, what good can they do if they're broke?
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  47.  @shelleyphilcox4743  Yes. There are a lot of people and property lost on Mt. Everest every year, as people and things float into space.
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  48. For centuries, nationalism was an organizing, centralizing principle. NOW, I think that nationalism is more of a DE-centralizing principle, resisting the many impositions necessitated by membership in super-national bodies, whose interests are not aligned with the interests of the working class. In America, part of the major shift is that nationalist populism resonates in the black community. People getting passed over for somebody who speaks no English, because they'll work for dirt cheap doesn't go over big, when you're looking for work. This is true for working-class whites and blacks, and causing a schism in what used to be a 100% Democrat voting bloc. And - imho - because of the Internet, a lot of red-pilled blacks have educated themselves (like Abraham Lincoln!), and there's a whole new stratum of smart, black voices in the American cross-section.
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  49. Sadly, George Carlin and other liberals, with their nanny-government beliefs, helped create the helplessness and infantile attitudes they now decry. This is what happens when your solutions to the human condition are to make government your parent, from cradle to grave. Anyone who thinks for themselves, supports themselves, and has ANY doubts about Free Stuff for All is pushed to the margins.
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  50. Kind of a weak hit piece.
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  51. MEN'S LIVES MATTER!
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  52. Progress is a never-ending process of balancing traditions and change. But yeah, Marxists seem dead set on obliterating the past in order to control the present and future.
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  53. They're trying to shoe-horn as many as possible through their education system, whether there's any real aptitude or not. "Success" means "I passed," rather than that I have demonstrated real competence. So they aim at the lowest common denominator and teach by rote. Another FACT of our education system in the USA is that it is populated by people who couldn't cut it in the real world. If you're washing out of your math program at school, your best bet for a good-paying, secure job is to teach children! So our least capable minds are shaping the minds of our children. I got degrees in both math and geology and saw this happen in both disciplines. The guy who couldn't get better than a 'C' in Petrology ends up teaching Earth Science in high school. The guy who couldn't cut it in advanced calculus is the "math guru" at the local high school. I teach college, and in the American education system that means I'm expected to remediate all the lack of learning that took place in k-12. The k-12 teachers are heroes, but I'm a bastard, because Johnny can't pass my calculus course, because he can't do fractions. I'm expected to teach him grade-school concepts or I'M the failure. And everybody would LOVE me if everybody passed. Our k-12 schools are failing miserably, and it's percolating up through our colleges and universities. That's entirely aside from the political take-over of colleges and universities by intellectually stunted humanities departments.
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  54.  @morpheas768  : Gee, you really added a lot to the conversation. Dipshit.
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  55. Those interview shows were aimed at the top half of society. Now they're aimed at the bottom half.
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  56. Lovely spam thread.
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  57. Eastern European countries aren't a continent-spanning empire. They're still very authoritarian, but they're small enough, there's a "sense of the people." And not just Eastern Europe, but throughout Central and Western Europe as well. There's more of a cultural homogeneity that you don't necessarily have in a sprawling behemoth like the Russian Federation. I just wish the USA would go back to something just this side of the Articles of Confederation, i.e.. something more like the original U.S. Constitution, where the power of the individual states was greater. But since Lincoln made such a fetish of The Union, with abolition of slavery as the pretext, the USA's been getting progressively TOO centralized. I wish that the Russians AND the Americans would find the proper balance between local autonomy and unity of the whole. USA was very close to that, early on, but the old forms almost immediately re-emerged, with a self-appointed and would-be-hereditary ruling class. A ruling class with imperial ambitions. We, the people, don't want any of that nonsense. We just want to be free and encourage (not force) others to be likewise. I think the world would be a better place if it were easier to JOIN the USA and easier to LEAVE the USA!
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  58. Good stuff. Misha gets it. Russian libertarian. Gotta love that.
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  59. What Kissin (sp?) doesn't get is that the West abandoned the moral high ground and is NOT as strong as it once was. Look around. In debt up to our eyeballs and talking about war? We're in no position to speak in such terms. We're teetering on economic catastrophe, not because of free-market capitalism, but because of falling into fascism while PRETENDING to be a beacon of hope and freedom, while we piss it all away on one stupidity after another. How can we export ideals that we no longer exemplify? And Putin's totally justified in feeling nervous about expansion of NATO into Ukraine. Russia's not a bunch of saints, but look at the last two centuries. Napoleeon in the 19th, Hitler in the 20th, and now saber rattling by NATO in the 21st. And while we're all uptight about Russian troops on the border (is that really more than there were, before? I don't think so.), we don't even consider actions we have been taking to influence politics in Ukraine, how we pour tons of money into Ukraine to prop up corerupt oligarchs from whom a handful of top U.S. officials are extracting millions for their own personal and family fortunes. If they can demonize the Russians, maybe nobody notices how they're feasting on Ukraine's corpse, with the assistance of corrupt oligarchs, there. This has been going on for 30 years, and the Russians have a legit gripe. WE have been destabilizing Ukraine, and obstructing thseir efforts to end corruption, even to the point of impeaching Trump for trying to HELP them fight corruption. Meanwhile, Joe Biden is on video bragging about how he used American aid as a lever to STOP them from prosecuting the company his son worked for. Not a WORD in mainstream media about the BLATANT pay-for-play and quid-pro-quo going on, THERE, but everybody heard a bunch of made-up shit about Trump along those same lines. Putin's holding all the cards. We can still mess things up for everybody’s , if we listen to the war mongers and let them embroil us in another murderous conflict, abroad, with no exit strategy and no real purpose.
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  60.  @paulyoward3795  The roots of the madness you so clearly see, today, are in the "government must keep us safe and take care of us" that the Labour Party and statists who hijacked the term "liberal" shoe-horned into what term "liberalism" actually means. Liberalism actually means being tolerant of other people and other views. It means that the people are better suited to control their own destiny than hereditary overlords, which the bureaucratic class has replaced, almost invisibly, although I could've warned the UK that this was where they were headed pretty much since WW II. Now the choice in the UK is between socialists who sort of think it's better to be a nation than to bend the knee to international bodies. But from where I sit, key tenets of socialism/fascism are so deeply ingrained in the political and cultural systems that both "sides" are simply arguing over which variety of statist policies to pursue. In the USA, very few want to actually get rid of a broken, indoctrinating government-run education system. They're just fighting over what form of indoctrination should be foisted on the young. Nobody wants to ABOLISH the FDA. They just want the FDA to agree with THEM. Few in the UK want to abolish NHS. They just want super-duper good care for less than it actually costs to deliver it.
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  61. I know quite a few of those low-info people. And they sneer at us deplorables, based on what they see on MSNBC and read in the New York Times.
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  62. Obama increased division. America loved proving it wasn't racist by electing him, and was looking forward to interracial harmony. But that's not what Obama delivered. He stoked the fires of resentment in the black community when he could've been like Jesus and stilled the waters. But he didn't. He pretty much encouraged it. And as someone who works in education, I never saw as much BS coming down from the federals in the 15 years I taught BEFORE he came alo,ng. And all of a sudden, the college bureaucracy went from one president, one vice-president, 4 deans and 12 chairs, to 8 vice-presidents, the same everything else, and entire new layers of bureaucracy devoted to monitoring and enforcing diversity mandates (from the desk of the president of the USA.). More trainings. More re-education. Even the definitions of words are changing from year to year. Without stability of the language, the language is useless in describing reality.
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  63. Old Jews Telling Jokes is fun.
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  64.  @braedenh6858  Being "edgy" is usually just conforming to your peers, when your peers are acting stupid.
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  65.  @Tri5te55a  : I dunno about "benefit-scrounging immigrants" part, but I imagine there are some of those. Just human nature. But spot-on with regard to how out-of-touch the liberal elites are in America. It's funny, watching the once-dominant t.v. networks push their narratives and see the polling trend in the REVERSE direction. They're at wit's end, because they can't imagine why the general public thinks they're full of shite. They all think the same way, and they only listen to people within their bubble, which makes them tone-deaf with the vast majority of people.
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  66. Hamas was created by Israel, to counter the PLO. What right did we have to create the state of Israel?
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  67. Scorn and ridicule of the current class of cry-bullying self-satirists. It's a personality type to which society is growing more and more immune.
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  68. There's a huge middle.
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  69.  @lolzhammer8281  : That's the only thing about #walkaway that I don't care for. Too many only get red-pilled when the mob turns on THEM. Until that fateful day, they were getting their jollies with the rest of the SJW cancel addicts. They were FINE with the cry-bullying until they became its victim. Then all of a sudden, they realize what they've been doing actually HURTS people. Didn't have one ounce of self-awareness until THEY were in the crosshairs.
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  70. In private, the left has always held the working class in contempt.
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  71. Yes. Reject God and some new faith-based orthodoxy will take its place, because most people (all people?) need to believe in something bigger. Reject the old gods and in a millisecond, you'll find new ones to replace them. And they make all the same mistakes of the old hierarchies, but without consulting the past for hard-won wisdom. IOW, throwing out the baby with the bathwater.
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  72. Women are only different from men in BETTER ways. There's nothing men are better at. That's the new religion.
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  73. I think it's supposed to be insane, and the forced participation in the insanity is a big part of it.
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  74.  @daniellamcgee4251  That's a weak appeal to authority: "neurology, psychology, psychiatry, archaeology, anthropology, sociology, endocrinology, genetics, etc...." "Consensus science" is garbage science. Science is not just the opinion of who happens to be chair of the department and passed down, but is from the laboratory, up. Many claims by transgender ideology that were given the patina of "real science" were nothing of the sort. In case you haven't noticed, academic peer review is broken. Hoaxes abound. Hijacking the term "gender" isn't getting you anywhere. There are men who are more feminine and women who are more masculine. There's a spectrum. Deal with it. Don't destroy the meaning of words. A man with a more feminine brain still will never know what it feels like to be a woman, because he isn't plumbed for it. His body chemistry is male. His genes are male. All that aside, this is about compelled speech, and compelled speech is anathema to free society. If I'm wrong, it's my right to be wrong, as it is yours to be wrong.
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  75. Gen Z are addicted to phones that require MAJOR pollution. They're guilt-ridden.
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  76. Whether you believe Israel is legitimate or not, you have to ask why we are spending hundreds of billions on more war in the Middle East. Israel was created by force of arms 80 years ago. It's been there long enough to have some legitimacy of its own, but it will always be surrounded by hostile nations, and it cannot sustain itself as a Jewish homeland without practicing apartheid. If it ends apartheid, it will lose its identity. That sucks. But is it our fight? Did it declare itself the 51st state and have it ratified? The USA overstepped its bounds after WW II and it's been trapped in a sunk-cost fallacy ever since.
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  77. So you're saying that nothing's changed! The racism has just changed direction, but otherwise, the exact same it always was. What's changed is the Internet has exposed too much of the underbelly. But Hollywood has ALWAYS virtue-signaled whatever the establishment insiders were pushing. Long tradition of this, dating back to World War I, when Charlie Chaplin was hawking War Bonds to pay for the war! Called them "Liberty Bonds," which if you think about it is an oxymoron... Lots of movies got shot down in the old days because they weren't white enough! Bruce Lee couldn't even star in the t.v. show he created (Kung Fu). They had to give it to a droopy-eyed white guy (David Carradine). "Kung Fu" with Bruce Lee was the t.v. series we deserved! Dang! Even as a kid, I remember watching that show and thinking "He's only got one move! He's SLOW! No way!"
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  78. Oh yeah. The guy who claimed to be a woman so he could hang out in women's restrooms and make women touch his dick.
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  79. So you install "accountability watchers." Then they become corrupt. "Who will watch the watchers?" The key is the divorce of authority from responsibility. People spending other people's money on yet other people. The problem is creating one central place where all decisions are made for everyone. Good and bad. How do you get promoted in these institutions? By pleasing your superiors. That turns everything political. After that, all it takes is one sociopath in the hierarchy to twist the institution. A climber like Fauci, for instance. But don't focus on Fauci as a bad guy. Focus on Fauci as another example of how things will go off the rails when these large, powerful institutions inevitably will go off the rails. You can't guarantee that all high officials will be saints, so you never give any of them that kind of power, because a Fauci will always rise to the top.
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  80. It's not the companies' fault. It's the parents'.
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  81. i think that BANK should be afraid. This $hit's gone on long enough. PayPal, GoFundMe, banks, ... These so-called "liberals" are the least tolerant bigots we've seen since the 1950s.
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  82. Gender denial. Yes.
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  83. Liberal men are just as bad. The dumber they are, the more they think they appear clever and virtuous with empty platitudes that lead to authoritarianism and deprivation. Both sexes are afflicted by what they're told is liberalism, but is just repackaged serfdom. I'm glad you see it in women, but it's a mind virus that strikes all sentient creatures. They know the world is imperfect, and they want to "solve" it, but it can't be solved by force.
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  84. I don't think it can currently be proven or disproven by means of our senses. We can't imagine timespans of billions of years nor can we replicate all the different atmospheric and chemical conditions of the past. Not in full. We can sort of study early life near ocean vents, where anaerobic bacteria apparently still exist. We may never know what first life was or what it looked like. One thing I do know is that things that can persist will persist. I'm no chemist, but I can imagine conditions we may only be able to half replicate in laboratories. Throw in millions and billions of years of chance, and the improbable can become a near certainty, and once 'life' occurred, it would tend to re-occur. Living as we do in a pretty stable intermezzo between cataclysmic changes, we really have little idea of just what evolution can do. At the same time, science remains silent on the meaning, let alone the beginning, of life.
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  85. She's the nice lady that would hand out cookies and milk during a color revolution, like Victoria Neuland. See how earnestly and gently she talks about how important NATO is, without mentioning its disastrous interventions around the world, at great cost in life and wealth to all of us.
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  86. The NHS is a sacred cow that is basically destroying health care. It's a death spiral of big government, playing out in slow motion. The worse it gets, the more resources it will take and the worse things will get, and all people will want to do is throw more money at it, while wait times continue to grow and the quality of service - and what services are covered - will continue to shrink.
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  87.  @mattygino  The problem with the moderate left is it sits idly by while the extreme left hijacks the public square and every single policy position.
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  88.  @halv3165  Same for the Republican Establishment, which offers zero alternative to Democrat insanity. Trump shook all that up with some very simple, very common-sensical positions that the establishments of both parties can't abide. He threatened the incestuous relationships between politicians and the donor class that enriched both at the expense of ordinary working people.
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  89. Been a long time comin'. It's utterly disgraceful how the British government and authorities have behaved for the last 10 years.
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  90. So does suppressing free speech, and we're all taking names and keeping score.
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  91. So-called "liberal" critics of Jordan Peterson are invariably less well-informed than he is. Watching him in his conversations with Sam Harris, it was like a grown-up instructing a reluctant child. Harris is full of assumptions and presumptions of which he isn't even aware. This is true of so many, nowadays. I suppose this has always been the case, but the arrogance of the ignorance...
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  92. I'm lefter than Scott Adams on prohibition. Legalize and regulate all drugs. If you want to be a heroin addict that's your business. And if you break any laws against persons or property, well, those are the laws that our police would be enforcing, rather than peeping in people's windows and subsidizing the most vicious crime cartels in HISTORY.
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  93. No. Because in the '60s-'90s, so-called liberals created enormous engines of oppression, masquerading as "help." They set things up for what we're seeing today, and they refuse to admit their role in it. Federal agencies in America have all been hijacked by the donor class, which anyone who knows a little history could've told you - and probably DID tell you - over and over, since the 1960s. But you wouldn't listen. "There is no slippery slope!" Now, broken at the bottom of the hill, they still won't admit there ever was a slippery slope.
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  94. Vanity of small difference. To a historian, SJW fragmentation is just protestant fragmentation all over again.
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  95. Good points about how the rejection of left parties in UK and across Europe isn't because people everywhere are red-pilling against big government and lavish government programs the way conservatives or libertarians have. People still want their Free Stuff, unfortunately, even though they can plainly see that these large, top-heavy institutions are not in it for the people at all. But some people are truly going full-on red-pill, after being shocked out of it by oppressive, humorless, and arrogant leftists. There are SOME real philosophical turn-arounds, but most people just think the establishment's getting one or two things (Bending the knee to the EU in the UK. Open borders in the USA.) wrong. They like the big establishment. They just want it to do what they tell it and for everything to work, properly.
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  96.  @mightyirish  Yes. I agree. Socialists wrecked that economy.
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  97.  @flaneur5560  I see huge government as part of the infrastructure underlying the manufacture of consent that drives the war machine. Progressives SEE the problems with the military adventurism, but fail to see similar forms replicated here at home and invisibly HELPING the establishment SELL its narratives to ignorant, indoctrinated masses. Progressives can clearly see the problems with the military, but they don't see how toxic the government agencies themselves are. Progressives want to give these agencies more and more power to fight the evil corporatist plutocracy, when in actuality, those agencies are working FOR the corporatocracy, directly and indirectly. Progressives are the first to call out abuses of power, but they're also the first to grant more power to strangers. ALL institutions take on a life of their own, driven by the petty motivations of the most feckless officials in high places. And the fecklessness proliferates the bigger it is and the longer it exists. Progressives race to give one guy power to change all things everywhere and then gnash their teeth because he doesn't do what they want, or worse, hide from the consequences resulting directly from his doing exactly what they want. I'd call it "unintended consequences" if such careless use of power hadn't led to the exact SAME consequences many times throughout history. That reduces it to either malice or willful ignorance of the past.
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  98. A man with common sense.
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  99. Cathy Neuman was relating to Jordan Peterson EXACTLY the way liberals relate to anyone they disagree with. They have their talking points and they trot them out. What was DIFFERENT about the Jordan Peterson interview was that Peterson had an answer for every single one of her weak talking points. MOST people know in their heart/gut that the liberals are pushing nonsense, but the liberals are expert at dragging them down to their level and beating them with experience. I guess there WAS a difference, because USUALLY when a liberal is not getting the acquiescent surrender they seek, they resort to temper tantrums and rage.
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  100. They know how they've weaponized every agency and institution at their disposal to obtain and hold power, and they're terrified that someone else could swoop in and take over control of weaponized agencies. Imagine a DOJ under the control of a vengeful Donald Trump, who knows he's been wronged and knows where the bodies are buried. They fear the same 3 am door knocks they so gleefully delivered to Trump and his associates. And they've got a lot more to hide than Trump or his associates ever did.
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  101. She has common sense, which is in short supply.
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  102. Do you really believe the Democrats are going to run Biden in the general election? I don't. I think he'll step aside at the time they feel is most advantageous and rush through their golden boy or golden girl, who suffered no slings and arrows of a lengthy campaign, and they will run on "I'm not Joe Biden and I'm not Donald Trump. Hope and change, blah blah blah." I really don't expect Joe to make it through to November. One way or another, he'll be withdrawn from the race, and somebody with zero record to run on will be anointed.
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  103. "Intersectional lens" This is where ivory-tower geniuses divide and sub-divide us into smaller and smaller, unique groups, because they'd prefer to ignore centuries of wisdom that culminated in the Enlightenment and notions of individual rights. I think it's kind of cute that they're trying to de-construct Western Civilization in this way, but it's alarming/disappointing/utterly boring that our supposedly best minds can't see the obvious logical end-point of these endeavors: There exist inalienable individual rights that existed before and that supersede any human-organized temporal authority (government). What makes it cute is how smart, yet willfully obtuse, these geniuses are. What makes is sad is that this level of obtuseness is detrimental to society. But this is what humans do from time to time. Stupid ideas take on a life of their own and sweep through the culture. We look back and see this repeated, over and over, throughout history, but we never can see it when it's happening in real time. I don't know why. I see it. But I'm a mathematician, and so I'm trained to follow a line of reasoning to its bitter end. One of the first things they teach you is that if a premise leads to an absurd conclusion, the premise is false. I see absurd conclusions all around me, but I see no one questioning their original assumptions that led them inevitably to this "surprise ending" or "unintended consequence." No. Either you're stupid, lazy, or you intended that consequence.
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  104.  @Maelli535  : The entire "peaceful protests" are being held culpable by the majority of the public, because they devolve to looting and rioting. The more this nonsense continues, the less patience people have with the "peaceful protesters" standing by and doing nothing when people start acting up and acting out. By contrast, CONSERVATIVE protests were armed and PEACEFUL. Nobody acted up. Anybody who tried would be crushed.
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  105.  @Maelli535  : Millions living under government overlordship, in government-paid housing, with government checks and government food assistance. It's definitely feudal. Anyhthing you want you get from a representative of the overlordship.
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  106. Authoritarians always sow the seeds of their own destruction. I'm white-pilled on that. But I'm black-pilled on the masses ever recognizing the rise of authoritarianism or the horrific damage caused by authoritarians. MOST of what is GOOD about society are things that you have to LET happen. No person or group can POSSIBLY order the affairs of every individual. But they will always try, and the society and economy always break down, usually with a major war to keep the Ponzi scheme going and the leadership in power, despite their obvious failures. Yes. Hitler's economy was a MESS. It looked good the same way a Facebook braggart does, going into debt so they can post videos of all their new toys and extravagant vacations. It's all on borrowed money. The Nazis exported their inflation to conquered nations, maintaining the illusion of prosperity back home, by pillaging those countries, "paying" for what they took with paper money that was worthless. Napoleon did similar things to retain the backing of the people. When he was still conquering his neighbor countries, the French people enjoyed a false prosperity at the expense of millions dead and impoverished in the conquered lands. It's all of a pattern. We're following that same pattern in the USA. Everybody with a smart phone is an implicit participant in slave labor, environmental destruction, and horrific working conditions for people in other countries. SELLING phones to us that will break or become obsolete in a year just adds insult to injury.
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  107. "You can come out from behind the potato chips, now. Your moment for heroism has long since passed."
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  108. We have the words. We've always had the words. "He's a man who's got feminine traits. She's a woman with some masculine traits." What trans-ideology seeks to do is make it a crime to say things like that. Yes, there's a spectrum of personality traits and characteristics. But a man who feels like a woman is just that. Nothing more. And that's OK. That doesn't give him a license to visit the women's restroom or compete against girls in sports.
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  109. Person is smart. People are dumb.
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  110. Want danger in your life? Make sex more important than it actually is.
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  111. Individualism + Responsibility to the whole = good. Individualism with NO responsibility compels the collective to provide the needs of the individual. In order to run the collective, you must CRUSH the individual.
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  112. I think it's called "ideobabble." Hegel would be proud.
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  113. #walkaway
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  114. LOL! COVID-19 banner? Really? Give it up, YouTube!
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  115. "Political correctness" is nothing more than new-wave Puritanism dressed up as logic and fairness.
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  116. Debbie's one of those transgens who'd help others into the lifeboats, but stay behind with the men, as the Titanic sank! Socially, day-to-day, she's female, but she knows that "Women and children, first!" doesn't apply to her.
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  117. Disagreeing with the majority is what the majority love calling "extremism."
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  118. Not many understand the true march of human progress. A true sense of proportion.
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  119. Hard to say. You can't tell until you see it and we'll never see it.
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  120. Not only that, but when the conservatives win outright, conservative governments are just a dumber version of Labour.
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  121. I think that birth control and horny men convinced the feminists that it was more important to have fun and be independent than it was to be serious and raise a family. Technology has enabled many things, but at least for the time being, women still risk a lot more than men when they have sex. There's still no getting around it. I'm not going to go Biblical on people and say it's because "God Said," but there's a reason all those "God Said"s persist in the culture to this day: People who followed what (a small number of people said that ) God Said went on to have families and be successful down through the generations, so whether God Said or not, those prescriptions for living lasted over long spans of time and space. If it didn't work, people who lived by such nonsense would have perished from the Earth, per Darwin. As Jordan Peterson has said, meddling with tradition is perilous. Something silly to us and defended by mere dogma, could be one of the keys to human progress. As something of an iconoclast (or so I'm told), I'm not averse to poking holes in Christian dogma. But being the court jester who criticizes what better people have built, I'm the last person you should ask for solutions. So let me fill you in before you ask. For the time being, traditional modesty and withholding sex from men who are not wholly committed to your offspring and able to back it up are still what's best for most women. Just because you think Chad is a high-value man doesn't mean revealing all your mysteries to him without a proven commitment is not going to make you a high-value woman in Chad's eyes. Just because you can get Chad into bed doesn't mean Chad's at all interested in putting a ring on your finger. The fact that you let Chad into your bed disqualified you, on the spot! Of COURSE he told you that you're special, and he wasn't lying. That doesn't mean he has any intention of spending his life and his fortune on YOU. There are a LOT of average and above-average women out there with broken hearts, because Chad ghosted them. I think women are waking up, though. I think if you look at the economy and the monetary system, a wife who stays at home, grows a garden and does her canning and coupon-clipping is worth her weight in gold, nowadays. That's how my grandma was. And you better BELIEVE she was the BOSS of that household. Grandpa gave her his check and took out enough allowance to go bowling, and that was about it. When my mother was 10 years old, Grandma said "Let's go for a ride. I want to look at houses." To Grandpa's shock, she directed him straight to the place she intended to buy and paid cash for it, out of the house fund she built up for over 10 years. Grandpa doled out all the whoopings, but always with a rueful smile, and always on Grandma's orders. It wasn't perfect. She could be pretty domineering. She was a TRULY strong and independent woman, and a LADY. You didn't dare defy her DIGNITY. IOW, not at all like today's strong and independent women who shout it from the rooftops, while tears stream down their cheeks.
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  122. I think the left will find their love of the state as agent for their good intentions is at the root of the lunacy that thinking liberals rightly decry - and get pushed into alt-right categorization for opposing so-called "liberal" orthodoxy.
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  123. Grievance Studies - How to achieve a perpetual state of outrage in 3 easy steps.
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  124. Everyone thought artisans would go on welfare because of manufacturing and the interchangeable part. What Weinstein leaves out of his analysis is all the jobs that currently go un-done or are currently not even imagined. There are so many services and lifestyle and living options opening up as a result of every bit of progress we make. Do we cry about unemployed flint-knappers? Are we adrift because we no longer have wise men, who alone among us, know what day the solstice is? Are we lost because we can no longer track wounded animals or scent a predator? It won't be the same. But we won't run out of things to do. This whole line of thinking is Luddism re-branded.
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  125. Smart girl.
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  126. The obviously contradictory beliefs are clashing. Bill, himself, a lover of liberty, is up against his own inner contradictions. His side thinks the government should take care of everyone from cradle to grave, but at the same time thinks that they're on the liberty side. They talk like they're jealous of their freedoms, but their entire political philosophy leads inevitably to unquestioning and unwavering obedience to the state. The person who's responsible for something has authority over that thing. Do you really want the U.S. Government "helping" you with your health care? Did COVID and the animal-fat hoaxes teach you nothing? This is the government that told you sugary cereal is a part of a balanced breakfast and that red meat is bad for your heart. No. What's clogging everybody's arteries are the man-made polyunsaturated fats that turn chemical GLOP into something you can cook with. What's the U.S. Government done for the forests under its stewardship? It's burned them down! What's the U.S. Government done for the auto industry? Made it so that they can sell a gigantic SUV but can't sell you a compact pickup truck. For the environment. Seriously. That's your EPA at work. I could go on and on. From banking and finance, to real estate, to the airline industry. And don't get me started on the USDA. Force everyone into chemical farming and then tell everybody chemical farming is bad, and cut them off, cold turkey.
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  127. "Non-dementia policy" is racist!
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  128. Rich liberal says "spend," because they know they'll have plenty left over to buy their yachts, with no further responsibility. You know? They tip as MUCH as 20%, but deduct for a long list of pet peeves. I tip like a peasant who got a bonus on Friday night. But I don't go out as much as a rich person, either. I don't get the delivery pizza 'til I've got enough to really help the driver.
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  129. The pandemic was a testing ground for new/old ways of imposing totalitarian rule. We're a lot closer to totalitarianism than people think. Do you think the degree of government intervention and surveillance is LESS than it was in Soviet Russia? Look at the tools they have, now! During the pandemic, I could definitely feel the Cossacks circling. It was DANGEROUS for me to even ask common-sense questions in any public setting. People who DID ask very simple questions were systematically un-personed. They weren't as direct as the Nazis and Communists were in the 1940s, but in a way, that makes it more terrifying. These authoritarian systems inevitably fail. I'm white-pilled on that. But generation after generation remains susceptible to re-branded versions of power plays that pre-date the Romans. We always think OUR generation is facing something totally new, that justify otherwise intolerable government interventions, and before you know it, we have all the trappings of absolute rule by monarchs. All this collectivist nonsense leads inevitably to imperialist forms at home and abroad.
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  130. In the British Army and Navy, it was possible to earn officer rank and advancement by merit. The aristocracy HATED this, but SO DID THE RANK-AND-FILE. They didn't want to be led by the dregs of society, as they considered themSELVES, so an officer who didn't know his Latin and use flowery speech and exhibit noblesse oblige wasn't respected.
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  131.  @grant1133  State-run health, education and media is pretty Marxist/Fascist, two brand names for the same marvelously murderous idea.
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  132.  @jeremysmith8035  Just shows your lack of understanding of the fascist (i.e. socialist) tripod on which your society already rests: State-run media, health and education. Give government those three things and you're in the bag. Neoliberalism is nothing more than fascism with a facelift. And before you start in with your uneducated "fascism is right wing," I'm gonna tell you what your virgin ears can't handle: Hitler and Mussolini were SOCIALISTS.
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  133. When "liberals" gained power, they ceased being liberal.
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  134. Our government is way to big to call our country "capitalist." Our system is socialist, along fascist lines (You can own your business, but the government controls every aspect.).
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  135. What you call "liberalism" isn't liberalism. True liberalism is about liberty and limited government. Modern "liberals" want government to be their parent, and then cry to the heavens when their liberty is infringed as the inevitable consequence, or worse, embrace authoritarianism. That's not liberal or progressive. It's illiberal and regressive, dragging us back to a new form of absolute rule by kings.
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  136. Solar panel subsidies only help people who are well-off enough to own their own home, to take advantage.
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  137. There's more to it than just telling truth. As a private citizen, you have a right to get things wrong. In a public forum, people then get to shoot your ass down, rhetorically.
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  138. ... or "closet aristocrats" or "authoritarians."
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  139.  fynes leigh  : Why do they have a special term like "trans woman" for a female hypnotist? Isn't that a bit sexist?
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  140. DeSantis backs the war in Ukraine, or did, last I checked. That would explain why the Neocon running Daily Wire supports DeSantis over Trump. Trump made many blunders. He also refrained from real transparency, when he could've ended all doubt. His admin locked up Julian Assange. He didn't pardon Julian Assange. He should also pardon Eric Snowden. Whistleblowers - REAL whistleblowers - are despised by Democrats AND Trump, it seems. Frankly, I'm black-pilled on the lot of 'em. But Trump's the only one of the lot who is against these endless wars. I'm just not sure he has the knowledge or the right people around him to put a dent in the neocon/neolib establishment. He was elected president in 2016 and the unelected Deep State has grown MORE powerful and MORE bold. He makes Democrats think it's their duty to thwart his policies, by fair means or foul.
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  141.  @hannahsonix469  When I was growing up, our parents were much more worried about what we boys might do TO people than what some stranger might do to US. I befriended an old guy with his old dog and his old pickup truck, just knocking around an old quarry. The old guy, named Ray Howell, had asthma, but he could slowly wedge flag stone out of that quarry and make some extra money (likely for booze, in hindsight). My parents, learning about this old guy, didn't once worry about "stranger danger." The first thing they said was "You're not tormenting him, are you?" LOL!
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  142. I went to school in the '70s and we were taught My Country Right or Wrong, Manifest Destiny, the Union side of the Civil War (and Lincoln) were without sin, and it was entirely over slavery, and NOTHING was mentioned about robber barons in cahoots with the government to rape the South after the Union won. It wasn't perfect before the woke religion. It was a different form of government indoctrination, and we were lied to every day by MSM without knowing any better. When Walter Cronkite said "And that's the way it is, this 3rd of November, 1972," it was NOT how it was, but we all thought his word was passed down from God, himself. Woke needs to be criticized. But don't blindly defend some fictitious golden era from our past. Don't defend the bullcrap. Nobody then or now questioned the wisdom and compassion of LBJ's Great Society in the mainstream. Ardor for Vietnam had cooled by the late '60s, kind of like our ardor for destroying Russia is cooling, now, but it took YEARS to get the government to give up its "domino theory" narratives. The $hit we did in S. America and Africa was as un-American as you can get, but we were "fighting communism." Dirty tricks, coups, and mass murder were OK, if the dictator in question was "a key ally in the fight against totalitarianism." Things aren't really that different now except more people have access to more information and the ideology has shifted to anti-family, pro-socialism, and "I'm a victim, he's a victim, she's a victim. Wouldn't you like to be a victim, too?" That's bad. But the reason we're vulnerable to this stuff, now, is because of the excesses and blindness of leaders 50 and 60 years ago. I see a lot of conservatives yearning for the good old days. I'm a libertarian, and I don't want the future dominated by a small ruling-class elite, like it has been my entire life.
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  143.  El Matadores  : I'd ask when you worked out that you were an idiot, but being an idiot means you can't work much out.
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  144. I think the war on drugs erodes community support and erodes police's opinion of the community.
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  145. I would argue that rolling all power into the state, by nationalizing industries, is about as far right as you can get, dragging us back to the days of Divine Right of Kings, when everybody had to do what the king said and all was under the king's purview. "Leftism" to me, is reactionary in the extreme. Give up everything to the state? Have the government run everything?
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