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

  1. Kind of a weak hit piece.
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  2. MEN'S LIVES MATTER!
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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5.  @YouCensored  : Gee, you really added a lot to the conversation. Dipshit.
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  6. Those interview shows were aimed at the top half of society. Now they're aimed at the bottom half.
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  7. Lovely spam thread.
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  8. 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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  9. Good stuff. Misha gets it. Russian libertarian. Gotta love that.
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  10. 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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  11.  @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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  12. 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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  13. 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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  14. Old Jews Telling Jokes is fun.
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  15.  @braedenh6858  Being "edgy" is usually just conforming to your peers, when your peers are acting stupid.
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  16.  @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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  17. Hamas was created by Israel, to counter the PLO. What right did we have to create the state of Israel?
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  18. 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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  19. There's a huge middle.
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  20. In private, the left has always held the working class in contempt.
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  21. 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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  22. 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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  23. 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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  24.  @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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  25. Gen Z are addicted to phones that require MAJOR pollution. They're guilt-ridden.
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  26. 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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  27. 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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  28. 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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  29. 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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  30. It's not the companies' fault. It's the parents'.
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  31. 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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  32. Gender denial. Yes.
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  33. 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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  34. 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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  35. 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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  36. 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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  37.  @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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  38.  @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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  39. 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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  40. So does suppressing free speech, and we're all taking names and keeping score.
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  41. 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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  42. 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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  43. 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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  44. Vanity of small difference. To a historian, SJW fragmentation is just protestant fragmentation all over again.
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  45. 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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  46.  @mightyirish  Yes. I agree. Socialists wrecked that economy.
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  47.  @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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  48. A man with common sense.
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  49. 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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  50. 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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