Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "Based Camp with Simone & Malcolm Collins" channel.

  1. The only political in-fighting and back-stabbing I've ever seen at work was between two women.
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  2. The problem with 1st- and 2nd-wave feminism is all the boys who got left out of developing into men that women want/need, due to lack of male role models/leaders in the home. Women thought it was great, until a generation or two later when there weren't as many good men out there, and the "free love" thing just meant that wall flowers stayed wall flowers. Women really loved the free love, because more of them got to hook up with Chad and Tyrone, but Chad and Tyrone aren't interested in a long-term relationship, or being good husbands, with a line of women waiting their turn, thinking that their turn was going to develop into something more than a 3 am booty call.
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  3. Women have a preference for household duties? So do most men. I'd much rather be puttering in my own kitchen than out working for money. Doing laundry is easy. You can put a game or a talk show or good music on and get everything folded and put away. Life at home is good. We only leave in order to be able to continue to have our home.
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  4. "We're acting like Nazis because the other guys are Nazis." Nazi is as Nazi does.
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  5. The more time you give your kids, the more they want to please you. My rule of thumb is not to spank, unless you just caught the kid doing something that could get them (or the tribe) killed. A friend of mine never spanked his daughters until the one time they ran out into the street chasing a ball, and didn't stop when he yelled. I'm of the Horse Whisperer school. You should study his work with horses and later on, children. You might think differently about corporal punishment. Just because violence is bred into us doesn't mean corporal punishment is a good thing.
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  6. I think movies and gaming are proving that "woke" is very much a tail-wagging-the-dog situation, because when they get the movies and games they demand, nobody plays them. They're not movie-goers or gamers. They just don't like people who watch movies or play games. One thing I will say for the wokesters is that the geeks and gamers who oppose them the most vocally are probably way too into gaming and movie lore, in a life that is much too short. I was a big gamer in my 20s, but eventually just sort of stopped, other than a round of speed chess, here and there. There was just too much to DO, and I couldn't do as much as I wanted if I frittered my time away playing games.
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  7. 38% isn't a "vast majority." It's a plurality.
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  8. This explains a lot about why the thought police are out in force protecting this perversity.
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  9.  @Emanuel-t5e  Bismarck brought Germany socialist health care, because it worked so well for the Krupp family (arms manufacturers). Not only did Krupp Steel provide health care, cheap food, and other services in what by all accounts were well-run "company towns" that became the model for national socialism. I think Bismarck really liked the blind loyalty of the workers to the company and he wanted that for his ruling Junker class. Krupp even included a loyalty OATH from its employees. Bismarck REALLY liked THAT. You want people to blindly follow you, just make them dependent on you. That's what the German aristocracy discovered in the 19th Century, so the German people were already primed to go along. That's one of the big reasons I don't like nationalizing health care. The more the government does FOR you, the more it can do TO you, and the less likely it is that you will object.
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  10. Garbage in, Garbage out. These AIs are the product of their creators.
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  11. Ya gotta see outside the bucket to know you're in a bucket. But every time you try to raise your head, one of your fellow crabs pulls you back in, trying to climb over you, and you present a tempting ladder to a loser.
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  12. And the worse things get, the more reason for further government intervention. We're in a death spiral that leads inexorably to authoritarian rule.
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  13. Nationalism is a unifying force that can lead to just as much bad as good. Once you're nationalist, all it takes is being convinced something's a threat to your nation and you will forgive all kinds of extreme actions, because you'll see it as an existential threat.
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  14. It's not love if it's unrequited. It's lust or obsession, but not love. The only "love at first sight" is when you or your wife/partner have a child, together. Immense feelings of love and protectiveness. Instantly. The best love builds over time. One friend put it this way: Love isn't rolling in the hay. Love is your wife making extra good mukluks to protect your feet out on the ice, or making your favorite food for dinner. Love is you busting your ass working on the house, so your wife has a better home, or washing her car without being asked.
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  15. You just never know. These kids have very strong tribal instinct and they've had teamwork and collaborative work drilled into them. They've also been taught to be good socialists. It can work if they can extend their notion of family to a larger clan, and gobble up all the clever curmudgeons with survival on their minds, doing things "the right way." They're more followers than leaders, but that's true of every generation. In a pinch, they'll latch on to someone who knows what they're doing and prosper, or rather, IF they latch on to someone who knows what they're doing, they'll prosper. We're pretty clever monkeys, with a deep understanding that there is strength in numbers. Why do you think mass formation psychosis still takes us over so easily, even when a good 1/3 or 1/4 of us know it ain't right? Stupid people are very smart about conforming to what they perceive as the winning team. That perception can create a winning team of sorts.
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  16. It's called the "Soap Opera Syndrome." Modern, stay-at-home housewives, with dishwashers, clothes washers and dryers, automobile transportation, and the luxury of staying at home, have a lot more leisure time. Time enough to waste 2 hours a day (or more) watching Hollywood's idea of glamorous living, and they felt their lives were drab, by comparison to the rich and powerful career women on "Days of our Lives." It's weird how the 20th Century played out. Comfort = Discontent. In all seriousness, I think it's all about how high you are on Maslow's hierarchy of needs. When food, shelter, and clothing aren't a struggle, you have time to contemplate the meaning of life and examine your own life. Mass media and now social media give you endless of examples of people who are living more glamorously or prosperously than you. Comparison to that cultural projection of inordinate prosperity leaves you feeling left out. People with wealth and leisure time have entirely new things to worry about, like saving the planet, or looking for more fulfillment from their work. They're looking for self-actualization. "Is this all there is?" I think there's another aspect to this as well: As technology makes us more prosperous, we also have more crap to keep track of. Every business wants you to waste time with THEIR app and to fool around with THEIR rewards program. It's amazing all the different things that you can get sucked into wasting time on. All these labor-saving devices, and we working longer hours than ever before! Projecting forward into the post-scarcity era, with AI looming, people are going to be cared for, but they won't be able to find work... Or WILL they? Imagine if you had a guy who organized all your apps and managed all your different rewards programs at all the different stores, and on and on. I can see "life manager" becoming a trade until itself. "Let us worry about this. You go do what you want to do."
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  17.  @Issabelle46  Whatever my bias, I'm relating the facts. I think it's relatively rare to see any kind of in-fighting, but the one time I saw it happen, it was between two women.
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  18. Hmmm. Schzophrenia is the opposite of autism? It does seem like autistic people experience reality much more acutely; whereas, schizophrenics are divorced from reality. It kind of makes sense.
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  19. Yes and no. Defeating the current establishment is pointless, if you become the same establishment in victory.
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  20. Woke is nothing new. It's just Puritanism with a face lift and a marketing campaign to re-brand itself. There's a personality type that always latches on. Mostly mediocre people whose only skill is conforming to accepted norms, and who take glee in enforcement of the reigning orthodoxy.
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  21.  @joemerino3243  You should check out the OLD cartoons, back in the '30s and '40s. You'd probably be shocked at all the dirty jokes and innuendo there was, in cartoons that were truly for all ages. The adult humor went over the kids' heads, but the kids were also very entertained.
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  22. You don't need an AI to track outcomes. And an AI's measure of "success" or "job completed" is entirely at the whim of the programmers. AI is only as good as the people programming it and giving it data. If you've ever worked on a government project or even in a factory setting, where you're testing a new production method or developing a new product, you know that assessing results can be very slippery. All government programs are basically new products, only without any real quality control because it's up to a bureaucrat to define what success means, i.e., check a box.
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  23. Not buyin' it. And where do you think "Easter" came from? A bastardization of Pagan fertility rites in the Spring. The 4 corners of the year, especially the 2 solstices, have been celebrated since people figured out that there was a longest day and a longest night. Pagans celebrated these days long before there was a Christian Church. As I recall, the best evidence suggests that Jesus was probably born in the spring.
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  24. The original "Progressives" were eugenicists. Margaret Sanger wanted black women, especially, to have abortions.
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  25. The communists won when they grafted the welfare state onto the liberal movement.
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  26. Regulations drive up the overhead on large organizations, and crush Mom & Pop. WalMart can hire a drone to run around, uselessly spraying sanitizer on everything during COVID. Mom & Pop have to shut down, because adding a drone to do nothing (in essence) will destroy their bottom line. So, they can't comply. Big businesses can hire as many "compliance officers" as they need to. This is why they like regulations. This is why taxi cab companies hate Uber and Lyft. This is why Hotels hate Air BnB.
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  27. "I underwent a transformation to break free of being a wallflower, only to find that I was still a wallflower."
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  28. My eldest brother is probably on the autism spectrum.
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  29. People who use the term 'evil' seem to create in their minds some malevolent force at play, when I see it more as missing something. For instance, you're not "attacked by thirst." You feel thirst because you're lacking water. Thirst isn't an active thing. It's something that occurs when some other element is missing.
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  30. From the beginning, I thought Ben was a great antidote to feelings over facts, but he had a sort of neocon/Zionist way of thinking that was a bit troubling. Since October 7th, the Zionist side of Shapiro and Daily Wire has been on full display, and the contradictions are eating them alive. I actually bought a subscription to Daily Wire after Jordan Peterson joined the team. Not long after that, I started thinking Jordan Peterson lost his way. He's doing better content, lately, but I think the blush is off his rose, and he's getting lumped in with the neocons to some extent. I also think his wardrobe choices make him look stiff and uncomfortable. He's made for a college professor's ratty blazer and blue jeans, not a 1970s idea of a suit and tie.
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  31. A major part of our evolution is tied to the 24/7/365 sexual availability of human females. Breasts are a huge piece of it. Other mammals only develop breasts when they're nursing young. Human females have boobs all year long. Talking to my sister about this, we both find male-on-male sex disgusting, but woman-on-woman sex seems OK. Men are built for function. Women are built for seduction. That's how they tame men. That gives humans a huge survival advantage over primates, who are only aroused by females when the females are in estrus, and it's the only time females are interested in sex.
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  32. My take on the factions: 1. The "God Said" crowd. 2. The "our tribe" side. (Bending the knee on big government to win elections crowd.) 3. The "classical liberal" side. This is where I'm at. I want liberty and limited government. 4. The "security-state" side. This is uni-party, Dulles-brothers side. We won the Big War, and now we run the world crowd. There's a lot of slopover between the factions, but that's kind of the coalition. Faction 3 is Republican-voting, by default, because the Democrats are openly hostile to principles of liberty and limited government. Republicans are less hostile to those principles, but they have to be watched like hawks and called out when they show they like big government, as long as it does what the donor class wants.
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  33.  @sameash3153  The computers aren't dumbing us down. The welfare state and public education are dumbing us down.
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  34. You make a good case against giant institutions, like the APA. Anything big enough to wield that much power is very dangerous. Hopefully, we'll arrive at a more de-centralized way of doing things, from government to education to health care. It's the old "all your eggs in one basket" trope.
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  35. Yeah. To Antifa, anyone who's not a communist is a fascist. They've so overused the term and behaved so badly that nobody really notices that the system is actually very fascist. But all of its fascist features are features that communists want to expand and build upon, rather than beat back like the scourge to peace, prosperity and liberty that looks much the same, whether it call itself fascism, socialism, or communism. "Take care of me" is equivalent to "Do to me what you will."
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  36. "Voter ID is racist" (because black people aren't smart enough to get a driver's license.) Yes.
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  37. An atheist living by two principles: Life is Good. I am not God. will arrive at a moral/ethical framework that's pretty acceptable and untainted by religious dogma. The RNC is NOT reading the room. They're appealing to a regressive right that they already own, rather than making any attempt to appeal to a broad middle that rejects authoritarianism from BOTH major parties. They're not rejecting authoritarianism. They're promoting authoritarianism that agrees with them. You see this in the public schools. They're not rejecting public school indoctrination. They just want to CONTROL the indoctrination. Rainbow flags bad. Pledge of Allegiance good. "Woke is crazy; therefore, believe in my interpretation of Sky God's Will." Most of us are neither woke nor "Believe in Sky God or you're evil."
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  38. Most people classed as "conservative" are actually classical liberals, especially the young ones. Many people classed as "liberal" are actually conservative to the point of being reactionary, in defense of an establishment that most call "liberal," but which really isn't very liberal at all, from clinging to the neo-serfdom of nanny government to the equivalent of witch trials and heresy accusations if you get out of line with the not-so-new-anymore orthodoxy. I realized this when I was immersed in college culture. So-called liberals acted just as judgemental and were just as big of pearl clutchers as "old fogeys" in the 1960s. The hippy generation became what it rebelled against in the 1960s, and lives in denial of this fact.
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  39. Arguably, Big Tech is the last gasp of mass media, and it won't be able to cope with AI incursions like a decentralized web, where there will be tight-knit communities without anonymity.
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  40. You don't get it. They'll be happier married to the government. That way they can take men's money without having to actually deal with a man. Perfect world. Great for middle-class white women, too, because they can get pregnant, marry the government, and get free college.
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  41. I don't doubt that Putin's embrace of Orthodox Christianity is part of a strategy to prevent the Islamification of the Russian Federation. Modern women don't have big families like traditional women do, and if Russia doesn't do something about it, Muslim demographics will be the downfall of the Russia-led federation. The problem with Muslim domination of the political sphere is that the most motivated, regressive factions of Islam eventually rise to the top. Same with Christian countries, to be honest. I love most of the values in both religions, but I don't want religious zealots running my country. Most Christians and Muslims are gentle folk, who value love, learning, and tolerance. But they always get pushed aside by more fanatical, power-seeking minorities within their ranks. You're endorsing the Maidan coup in 2014? You're endorsing the expansion of NATO eastward? NATO countries are notorious for regime-change foreign policy. The Russians didn't and won't forget the bombing campaign in Kosovo by Bill Clinton. Anyway, our foreign-policy brain trust don't need to invade Russia if they can topple its government. They're also encouraging the forward deployment of nuclear missiles, which would scare me, if I were Putin, especially since Trump pulled the USA out of the INF Treaty (Intermediate-range nuclear forces = INF), no doubt on the advice of the neocons in his cabinet that he was fool enough to appoint. Anyone who looks at the strategic basics know that Russia is not in any shape to attack Europe. Anyone who knows history, knows that Russia's been invaded twice in the past two centuries from the West. Anyone who knows history knows that the USA tried to overthrow the Bolsheviks in the late teens and early twenties of the last century. Not a fan of Lenin or Mao, but their rise to power was the direct result of incompetence, corruption, and general misrule by the regimes they replaced.
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  42. "I use women's bathrooms all the time, because I identify as... a pervert." - Quinn Dale comedy routine.
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  43.  @jonnystoffel  "Largest percentage of any group by a large margin" is a good description. People throw around "exponentially" all the time, when it's not at all exponential. Just big and growing. y = x can be very big and grows. y = 3^x grows exponentially. There are other quantifiers that are misused. To say that a whole village was wiped out, people say things like "decimated." "Decimate" means 10% losses, which is pretty bad, but it doesn't mean totally wiped out, when that is what people mean. It's just a word that has a ring to it.
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  44.  @off6848  The part that you don't get about individualism is to make the most of it, you need to keep others in the game with you, without any coercion. They have to want to come back. So, you offer fair deals. You go the extra mile to build brand loyalty. All these good things you end up doing without being told by some bureaucrat. Technocracy is the inevitable end game for any other way of doing things. Disinterested 3rd parties making decisions on your behalf, constrained by government budgets and political winds.
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  45. Sort of off/topic: A niche was opened up in the ecosystem by the extinction of a particular bird species. Within a few generations, a sub-species of bird that filled that niche evolved.
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  46. I had a "spiritual quest" phase, and concluded after enough dabbling that there's great wisdom in the old stories, which undoubtedly grew out of oral histories told around the fire before the written word. I'm not an evangelical, looking to secure a place in Paradise upon my passing, although it would be great if my respect for the (reported) teachings of Jesus did so, because he's the archetype for being a good person that was drilled into my head as a young person. Use the brains God gave you to see the world as it is, and use the love in your heart to chose how to behave and what to believe. Love tells you what is good, and reason tells you what is. If that's your takeaway, then all the other jazz is just bedeviling, unnecessary detail. I'm not God. The people around me aren't God. So we're all in this, together, and should treat each other right.
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  47. Garbage-in, garbage-out.
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  48. They want to use force to make the world a better place; whereas, conservatives understand that the world will only get better if you let it.
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  49. Keep your pantry stocked!!!
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  50. Conservatives go to social media and learn they're not alone. Progressives go to social media and learn that not everyone agrees with them.
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  51. Hitler was a leftist. There are more parallels between his model of government and the liberal establishment's model of government than anything MAGA stands for. Government-run health, education, welfare, and media were essential features of Hitler's Germany. Why would we want to follow down that path, like all "good democratic socialists" want? The government that can do anything for you is a government that can (and eventually will) do anything it wants TO you.
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  52.  @lordsneed9418  ruling by fear is very effective, until you lose one battle. Then everything disintegrates. But you can control a lot of people that way for fairly long spans of time, as long as you keep winning. Eventually, though, the wheels come off. I think we see that starting to happen in western countries. It may be too late to do our children any good, but maybe our grandchildren will have a shot at pushing the Human Project forward.
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  53. Take turns, you two.
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  54.  @MeanBeanComedy  Normies aren't immune to viral videos. The nuttiness breaks through, even to normies.
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  55.  @ajclarke9189  Let them create their own ecosystem. If it's viable, good on them. As long as they're no longer able to hijack Twitter, with tail-wag-the-dog tactics of flagging and canceling ideas they don't like, it's probably a good thing. I think there are enough honest libertarians to check fringe elements of the MAGA spectrum. I think the bottom line is that progressive ideas just aren't competitive, unless someone puts a thumb on the scale. I wouldn't be surprised if there weren't just as many unhinged so-called lefties on X as ever, but their signal's not being artificially boosted and especially, voices on the so-called right aren't being systematically de-boosted by the 'druthers of the platform and a small fringe element who share the same 'druthers. So-called "progressive" ideas have a much harder time getting traction and followers, when their ideas can be destroyed with a single tweet. I think X still has some work to do on its Community Notes, because there are some holes, there. I think a small, motivated group of powerful people can tamp down Community Notes by various maneuvers. It's just a lot harder than it used to be to cancel somebody for speaking truth.
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  56. It is interesting how college protests are suddenly being scrutinized. As long as the target was Trump, it was hunky-dory, but now there are true anti-Semites emergent in traditionally far-left circles, because the far left (center and right) are appalled by the genocide in Gaza. Apparently, anti-Semitism trumps Trump derangement.
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  57. I trace it back to "kinder and gentler" under George HW Bush, and the Gingrich-led House under Bill Clinton, where the Republicans stopped arguing against the massive welfare state and entitlements. At the same time, the Democrats switched to full-on neocon on questions of war and peace. The result was Uni-Party, with both parties continuing policies of massive social spending, massive military spending, and forever war being enshrined. The way to get re-elected is to promise Free Stuff and keep bringing up danger overseas.
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  58.  @michaelkistner6286  The non-force principle that is so dear to libertarians is easily derived from "Life is good." If by non-conformity, you mean acting against the life or property of another human being, that is the only exception to the non-force principle: Someone who has used force to deprive another person of life, liberty or property is subject to the use of force against them.
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  59.  @chocobrowniewin  I totally get that.
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  60.  @zxyatiywariii8  I got TOO into games, I think. Like a guy who can't control his drinking, and the only way he can live a good life is by not drinking at all. I'm not that way with alcohol. I can take it or leave it, and so I have no qualms about tipping a few at the appropriate time. It just doesn't come up very often. I know if I still played video games, I would play them too much.
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  61. One of these days, people are going to start freezing their own fertilized eggs. Emancipated women will have a refrigerator powered by their backyard nuclear reactor. Around age 40, most women will open up the archive, and select the man whose child they want, from all the men in their rearview. Think of the headlines! Think of the legal disputes! Interesting times.
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  62.  @MidlifeCrisisJoe  Even in divorce, I think you still enjoyed a 2-parent family. I think traditional marriage is still probably the best way for men and women to team up to produce the next generation, but the "till death" part may be a bit old-fashioned. If things between the parents aren't working out, it's probably better for them to part ways and STILL share the child-rearing responsibility. Better than watching endless control dramas and a cold relationship between your parent role models. A lot of why I never married was because I have a personality much like my father's, and the way he treated my mother and rode rough-shod over everybody in the house was something I didn't want to do to anyone else, but I could see it in me to become just like him, if I were working long hours and coming home tired and a bit angry every night. The younger generation, now, doesn't seem as obsessed with the marriage vows. As long as they fulfill their responsibilities to the children and provide a stable, loving, and supportive home life, why should they stay in a relationship that isn't working? Maybe 100 years or 200 years ago, the 100% traditional marriage was crucial to long life and general prosperity for more people. But society isn't as binary as it used to be. It's not the end of the world for a woman to separate from her husband. We need to be more fair to husbands and their parental and economic rights, but it's better than it was a century or two ago, for all parties concerned.
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  63. They can't imagine that anyone of intelligence and compassion could possibly disagree with any of their big-government "solutions." This means that conservatives are either unintelligent or uncompassionate.
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  64. I'm a man who thinks GMO foods aren't a good idea.
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  65. It wasn't civil rights. It was entitlements that destroyed the family. Lyndon Johnson's Great Society followed on the heels of civil rights. Free Stuff became conflated with equality.
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  66. Progressives hold on to everything except the facts.
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  67.  @Neoteny-j4z  What are you? A woman who wishes her life were as exciting as the women on the soap opera?
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  68. Same thing happened to churches that happened to Hollywood. They went "woke" for "modern audiences" and lost their whole audience. As with Bud Light, it was a dying brand, and rather than stick with its strengths, it tried to widen its tent, just like Saint Peter did with "I guess pork is OK at the pot luck."
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  69.  @skylinefever  Very true. But the thing driving it, originally, was a need to re-brand in order to grow sales/membership, on the "grow-or-die" theory of modern business. Corporate execs follow that theory, and in this case, instead of presiding over a slow decline that was still immensely profitable, and would remain so, they went to the focus groups and PR people of whom you speak. It's kind of like the Japanese bombing Pearl Harbor. It was their best shot at knocking out the USA in the Pacific, and they KNEW from the previous centuries that if they didn't do something to change the trend, they were going to become a vassal state to the USA, or worse. It's kind of like the Japanese in WW II, because the desperate attempt to reverse their fortunes only hastened their demise. I think Emperor Hirohito consulted a focus group or PR firm or something! LOL! But the point is, businesses that are going broke or just going downhill think they can reverse their fortunes with a re-branding, and end up destroying themselves.
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  70.  @Livewyr7  Did I miss an amphibious assault on Greenland? What an historic event! What a scoop! What's the weather like in Greenland this time of year? Pretty cold, I imagine. I hope our boys are keeping warm, but the invasion seems a little reckless, don't you think? Well, of course you do. But maybe you were being hyperbolic, and the USA hasn't actually invaded Greenland. How do Greenlanders think? I'm all in favor of self-determination.
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  71.  @justinmiller947  I just think it's hilarious that Trump, the best salesman America ever had, is always probing, always setting people up for The Deal, and nobody ever seems to see it coming. He's turned liberal screaming into an endorsement. The more they hate on him, the more love he gets, at home and abroad, which makes them scream even louder! We'll just have to wait and see how violent the Democrat side becomes, and how it is handled. We're still pretty much under surrender-to-the-violent-mob rules in blue cities. Protesters getting locked into the library they stormed was a possible watershed. I think a lot of the protesting and hooliganism that came with it, is not being tolerated by the mass public, like it was 5 years ago. The stranglehold MSM used to have on the news cycle has greatly eroded.
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  72. Simone really needs to learn to wait her turn. Both of you need to realize that your most efficient communication 1-on-1 is gibberish to some of us. Take turns. Let the other finish their thought, for the sake of people listening.
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  73. The woke despise everything about life, liberty and prosperity. They're not buying anything. They just want to hurt people who do.
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  74. Weird. You could be scholarly if you made the darn attribution. It's OK to use the words of others. Just give them credit!
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  75.  @michaelwellen2866  That's part of the trick. The other part of the trick is keeping the institution smaller, so it can cause less harm. Give it less to do, rather than more, based on the principle: "Every problem the government solves today, morphs and metastasizes into a problem that's 3 times worse than the first, tomorrow." Every thing the government does for you, today, is just one more bad thing it can do to you, tomorrow. We see this in food. We see this in medicine. We see this in education... These are problems many times worse than the problems the government supposedly solves.
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  76. Check my ESG boxes or lose your financing.
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  77. It might help, a little, but it doesn't solve the fundamental problem of the sprawling federal government with its finger in every pie.
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  78. I would be classified as "far right" for simply being a classical liberal. Big government is far right. Liberals who push for big government are illiberal. Big government is the modern equivalent of Divine Right of Kings: "I will care for you. In return, you will obey me in all things."
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  79.  @mistersharpe4375  There's Magna-Carta monarchy and Divine Right of Kings monarchy. The latter form sticks its nose into anything it wants. The former type has its authority strictly circumscribed by the rights of the people and responsibilities of the monarch. Monarchies didn't have the technology of today, or they would have become just as obtrusive (and just as hated) as the technocracy of the current era. It was less a philosophical difference and more of a technical means difference. Even the most totalitarian states of today are essentially free-market capitalist. In China, you still bargain with the street vendor for your fish and produce. There isn't some CCP official standing there, overseeing every transaction. That's the biggest joke about communism. Yes, they take over anything they want, but the top-down stuff has practical limits, beyond which, transactions are the same as they have ever been. Every time a socialist American goes to the grocery store, they're admitting that free-market capitalism and voluntary transactions are the way the world actually works. Intrusions by the government, however heavy-handed they may seem, are really only a sticky, gooey, overlay. A distorting force, but not really a controlling force.
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  80.  @kevinchang1371  You should maybe watch that old British dude. David... Starkey! That's it! Starkey argues (correctly) that the American president is our monarch. I would argue (correctly?) that the monarch of whom you speak is in fact the American president, constrained by a constitution inspired in large part by Magna Carta, but also Germanic and Native American tribal traditions and attitudes. "Yes, you're the chief. For now. Until you break our law or do something stupid or we simply think you have bad medicine." "After 4 failed raids, his followers melted into the forest, and only 3 of his closest friends remained."
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  81. I recommend David Starkey's "Monarchy." A history of Britain. It's a video series on YouTube.
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  82. Let your husband finish a sentence, once in a while.
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  83.  @IPetGhost  "Significantly high" is not a majority. 100,000 people all being vocally for or against something is a lot of people, but not even 1% of the population. Words and quantities are important. Remember when they said that you were 10 times safer if you got the jab than if you didn't? It was relative risk, not absolute risk, but nobody explained that. It sounded scarier of you said "10 times better/worse," when the absolute risk was about 0.4% with the jab and about 0.04% with the jab. Something like that. You were still 99.6% not at great risk without the jab. The tiny amount of "improvement" was lauded as "life-saving," which, when you factored in the risk of taking untested medications wiped all of the benefit out, with ease. Oh. And your tie is crooked. Let me fix that. There. And the picture on the wall. Just allow me to... There. All fixed.
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  84.  @antebellumblackamerican7408  The only thing you'd be reporting is this video, I think.
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  85. It's not really communism if you both agree to how tasks and resources are shared.
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  86. With leaders who hate prosperity and human life, itself, it's easy to lose hope. The future looks very dark. Insane people running the world's governments.
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  87.  @ATXRobot  They're adjacent to one another, but jingoism is more just belligerent chauvinism. Nationalism can make questioning the government about anything a crime or just socially unacceptable. Jingoism implies a kind of disdain for other nations and peoples.
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  88.  @SolidBobbyKorwin  What a nonsensical, unsupported statement.
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  89. So is "community." That's when you know they're going to trammel the rights of someone in favor of some preferred group of people.
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  90. Normal LGB are largely MAGA. "T" can't be considered "normal," because they have serious issues, but actual T's just want to be left alone. Activist TQIA+'s want to ram their ideas (and other things) down our and our children's throats. The Great Depression and events leading up to WW II are NOT obscure. The big Nazi rally in MSG in the 1930s is a pretty big blip on history's screen. But these people using that piece of history and trying to characterize the Trump campaign in the same light is like the Devil quoting from the Bible to take your soul. I think Gina Carano drew the/a correct parallel between 1930s Germany and the USA, but it puts the establishment so-called "left" in a bad light. Let me clue you in on something: Cradle-to-grave Nanny Government is a fascist innovation with its roots in "Bread & Circuses" in Rome and early experiments by monarchist Bismarck to lure the peasants back into their feudal state of somnolent obedience. There's nothing liberal about it. It's all about centralized control and manufacturing consent for whatever the political elites feel like doing at the time.
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  91. You're putting a lot of things together, on your own spiritual journey that I was on 30 years ago. You're better scholars than I was at your age, but I've got a 30-year head start. Thoughtful MAGA and thoughtful Progressives aren't that far apart on the big issues. They see eye-to-eye on war (bad) and peace (good). The main gripe between the two is that MAGA sees the same ills of society as the progressives, but progressives believe that more control by people who think like them is the way to go, while MAGA believes that the least harm is through the most liberty. I think the compromise is some of the socialism the progressives want, but closer to home, and voluntary, which the MAGA want. Upset about the state of health care? You have control. Don't cry because somebody else doesn't do it or doesn't want to pay for your version of it.
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  92. Liberals know they're more enlightened, generous, and compassionate than conservatives in their heart of hearts. This is why liberals take extremely illiberal positions, because they know that the only way to build the utopia they see in their mind's eye is to FORCE them to conform to liberal standards and to donate against their will to liberal causes, beginning with the welfare state, but extending to authoritarian (and usually counterproductive) regulatory webs that constrain evil conservatives from their diabolical behaviors. Conservatives insist on pushing back, and when liberals get their way, and their top-down schemes are exposed as wasteful, corrupt, and actively counterproductive, they are in a perpetual state of frustration. "Don't trust 'The Man'" is juxtaposed with "We must BE The Man and impose our will on our inferiors." It's a strange form of "New Puritanism." Only progressives do the recycling, protest against pollution, and a million other conscious acts to make the world a better place. Only progressives compost their food waste. Only progressives think 'green.' I've known quite a few progressives who appear to live the life of a saint. I also know quite a few conservatives who fit many of the stereotypes progressives despise. Since the '80s, I've held the view that liberals frequently vote for the wrong thing for the right (on the surface) reasons and conservatives vote for the right things for the wrong reasons.
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  93. It manifests as an especially sinister form of eugenics.
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  94.  @digitalnomad9985  True.
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  95.  @Herbit-k4j  Liberalism is a male concept. It became a female concept when it stopped being liberal.
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