Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "There are ‘150 things’ more important for children than correct gender pronouns" video.

  1.  @shawnaweesner3759  That's not true. The poor are very much on the radar of the rich. How else can they swing elections in favor of the donor class? It's the MIDDLE CLASS they fear and hate. It's the MIDDLE CLASS from whence all competition is likely to appear that might threaten the big oligopolies. It's the MIDDLE CLASS who must be taken down, or tyranny will never prevail! We don't NEED them. That TERRIFIES them!
    2
  2.  @rocketman3565  It's functional freedom with zero constitutional protections little different from Western European nations. It can be snatched away at the whim of Putin or whoever succeeds him as dictator. In the USA, those freedoms are guaranteed by the Constitution, but are being encroached upon by the inexorable march of incestuous corporations and government. Is it "government censorship" when media and government insiders collude to "de-platform" dissenting viewpoints? People speak as though this nonsense is "new," but really it's only been exposed by a proliferation of media. There've been invisible controls placed on major media outlets for decades. The Dice Man recently mentioned the Hurst and Pulitzer print media cabal that falsified reports to get us involved in the Spanish-American War in 1898! Then of course there's the Gulf of Tonkin false flag, "yellow-cake uranium and WMDs" in Iraq, and "chemical attacks" by Syria a couple years ago. The only difference between now and 30 or 40 years ago is they are proven to be liars, sooner. But there are never any consequences for it. They just keep peddling the same BS, while most of America prides itself on its "free press."
    2
  3. Thank God my mother didn't "validate" my fantasies about being SuperMan when I was 5!
    2
  4. I was spared ALL of this nonsense as a boy, for which I'm eternally grateful. Time enough for all that sex stuff when you're old enough to take responsibility for the consequences. That's something we forgot along the way. I'm no big religionist, but there are obvious survival mechanisms EMBEDDED in tradition, and we meddle with tradition at our peril. That's why I'm such a Jordan Peterson fan. I end up treading dangerously close to being accused of social Darwinism, but the fact is, what works is what persists to be passed on to future generations. Things that don't work don't last. As an evolutionary psychologist/sociologist/biologist, you HAVE to account for the persistence of religion through the millennia. Peterson is one who tries to get to the heart of that. Not too much into the Jungian "collective unconscious" as a sort of mystical connection, but I DO believe there are explicit and also largely HIDDEN assumptions built into people on the day-to-day level that can lead to better or worse outcomes over time. I just wish the Christians, who get so much RIGHT, didn't insist on superimposing "God Said" on top of everything. It's a paradox. Maybe an inescapable one, but probably not, if some schmuck like me can sort of abstract these notions and reason from them to some interesting conclusions that appear to hold up under scrutiny and tested in the laboratory of history. These "liberals" can be as correct as they want to be. It's the Christians and the Muslims who are going to out-breed them and eventually start calling the shots again, as they have for millennia, with all the good and bad that entails. But I don't think the liberals are very "right." I think they throw out the baby with the bathwater and never ask themselves the right questions about how to proceed, having exposed another obsolete or regressive aspect of Bronze-Age traditions, little altered since Medieval times, when we KNOW a lot of THEIR culture - for good or ill - was embedded in our understanding of ancient texts. For some reason, we just assume that the loudest person complaining about a wrong is more qualified than anyone else as to how to set things right. Slaves who overthrow their masters make terrible rulers. The American revolution was unique in that it was an aggrieved Middle Class who threw off the shackles of European imperialism, and set up something pretty cool that lasted for damn near 200 years, more or less as intended, for the vast majority of people. The rot set in almost immediately, with rich dudes "having a word" with politicians, who were only too happy to exceed their writ to benefit their pal and themselves. Every time the CULTURE was undergoing a shift, somebody made it political, and the government got a little bigger, stronger, and farther removed from its intended purpose and scope.
    1
  5. Billionaires and captains of industry, in collusion with a parasite class of champagne socialists who eagerly do their bidding.
    1
  6. No government worker or school teacher missed a single paycheck.
    1