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

  1. 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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  2. 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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  3. "We're acting like Nazis because the other guys are Nazis." Nazi is as Nazi does.
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  4. 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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  5. 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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  6.  @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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  7. 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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  8. 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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  9. 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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  10. 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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  11. 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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  12. Yes and no. Defeating the current establishment is pointless, if you become the same establishment in victory.
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  13.  @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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  14. 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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  15. 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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  16. 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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  17. 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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  18. My eldest brother is probably on the autism spectrum.
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  19. 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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  20. 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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  21. 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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  22. 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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  23.  @sameash3153  The computers aren't dumbing us down. The welfare state and public education are dumbing us down.
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  24. 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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  25. 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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  26. 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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  27. 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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  28. 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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  29. 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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  30. 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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  31. Garbage-in, garbage-out.
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  32. 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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  33.  @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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  34.  @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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  35.  @chocobrowniewin  I totally get that.
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  36.  @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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  37.  @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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  38.  @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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  39. 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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  40. 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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  41.  @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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  42. Check my ESG boxes or lose your financing.
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  43. 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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  44. 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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  45. Let your husband finish a sentence, once in a while.
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  46.  @antebellumblackamerican7408  The only thing you'd be reporting is this video, I think.
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  47. It's not really communism if you both agree to how tasks and resources are shared.
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  48. 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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  49. 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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  50.  @digitalnomad9985  True.
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