Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "Warren Smith - Secret Scholar Society" channel.

  1. Better to lose your job than to lose your soul.
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  2. It didn't change how I saw the world, but it was world-changing to see a true adult responding to juvenile questioning from yet another half-educated news personality.
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  3. The adults who approve and enforce this nonsense are despicable.
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  4.  @vecernicek2  Yup. I've known this since his first, wildly acclaimed, Joe Rogan interview, where he got basic facts and terminology in math and science wrong.
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  5. She can't. Obstinacy and bluster are her only weapons.
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  6. No, they didn't. They didn't DARE mess with a Muslim baker. Muslim baker chased people out for making gay requests, and nothing happened. It was the Christian they went after, because the Christian wouldn't kill them for trying to make them make a gay wedding cake.
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  7. Journalism/Communication is one of the easiest degrees to earn. You don't need math, science, history, or even very good English.
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  8. "Why do you feel that Nazis are attracted to your content?" That question was so loaded, it passed out before it got its car keys out of its pocket. It's "When did you quit beating your wife?" level of disingenuous argumentation. She absolutely steamrolls anyone who's not ready for that kind of dishonesty.
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  9.  @ohmightywez  My "religion" boils down to 2 articles of faith: 1. Life is good. 2. I'm not God.
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  10. Bigger profit margin if there's no doctor involved.
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  11. He pivoted away from free speech. He changed the subject. He was unresponsive to the question about compelled speech. Gender pronouns on housing applications is a non-sequitur response, plain and simple. He failed to provide a single instance of anything Peterson said that caused harm or made anyone unsafe. He might make mentally ill people feel unsafe, by asking questions or pointing out facts that contradict their world view. That's not Peterson's fault, nor is it his responsibility to craft his speech in such a way as to comport with the beliefs of every person in attendance, let alone any one person in attendance. This guy wants to exclude any speech that diverges from his ideology. Imagine the harm you cause a person who believes the Earth is flat, when you explain the Solar System.
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  12. This is how a narcissist gets their way. All it takes is giving them the slightest benefit of the doubt, and they enlarge that benefit like the Allies enlarged the Normandy landings. It works against people who are demonstrably more intelligent, because they fight fair.
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  13. He's a product of his environment. His environment tells him lies. University isn't raising him above it. It's keeping him trapped. He's young enough, I don't blame him. I blame the so-called adults entrusted with his upbringing and training. They all let him down. I don't start blaming people for their ignorance until they're in their 20s or 30s and have been in the world long enough to truly understand cause and effect, and a little bit of history. Most people don't learn history, and most who DO learn history do so after they're done with their formal schooling.
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  14.  @AnthonyL0401  A very small group cares deeply about it and the rest of us don't really care or just don't want to argue over petty shit. We start caring when the inch given turns into the miles the small group had in mind the whole time.
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  15. The same people also think that raising taxes always creates more revenue, when it actually kills risk-taking that creates the wealth in the first place.
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  16. Nothing crueler than raising a kid to believe the deck is stacked against them and there's nothing they can do to improve their situation.
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  17.  @CanalPSG  Think of it less as winning an argument and more about perfecting your own thinking by writing. Be selfish. If you feel you can step in with a rebuttal, give a comment. If you get roasted, maybe it reveals the holes in your argument. You're not really in a debate. You're refining your own thinking and writing.
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  18.  @mhug86  I think this explains, in part, why they're always so angry and aggressive. It's either to distract you or themselves from the obvious contradictions in their arguments. It's either deception, cognitive dissonance, or both.
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  19. Hey! Don't knock it 'til you tried it.
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  20. College is post-secondary. Junior-high and high school are "secondary." Grades 1-6 are "primary."
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  21. Mediocre people always overestimate their abilities. Gifted people are more humble, usually.
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  22.  @ree2251  His audience is juveniles and young adolescents.
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  23. There's nothing that says our government is too big than to have the outcome of a mere presidential election be so divisive that people get divorced over it. This is because the stakes are so high. The federal government has so much power that it makes a huge difference to "your side" if one party or the other wins. The stakes shouldn't be that high. The number of things that the federal gov't can muck up should be pared to a bare minimum, and that minimum be overseen by Congress with a microscope, and Congress be overseen by the people with a microscope. There shouldn't be so much going on that it's overwhelming to keep track of everything. There should be a handful of basic things that really don't need to change much, year to year. They can meet in January and be home by March. That's how it should work.
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  24. Seems like he was pretty dumb about that, not backing up his work.
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  25. Narcissist 101.
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  26. How many fingers do you have to lose, reaching under your running lawnmower, before you admit the truth? Postmodernist response: "Running lawnmowers are a social construct."
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  27. The officer is just as bad. This is an insane conversation that actually takes two idiots for it to last more than 5 or 10 seconds, tops. If it's an emergency, ignore the crazy lady. If it's not an emergency, then just leave.
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  28. Transgender women: A vanishingly small number of people who are winning all the trophies and setting new women's records every day.
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  29. @docsavage8640 He apparently has quite a following of teenagers, who are too young and stupid to realize how immature he is.
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  30. True since Medici times.
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  31.  @AlenAbdula  To you. But there could be assumptions built into it that you take for granted, but someone else might not. It depends on where your Overton window is.
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  32. Guerrillas in the Peninsular war were repugnant and behaved reprehensibly, but they were a consequence of the brutal French occupation. But without them, maybe Spain is still under French rule.
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  33. Evidently, earning a PhD means nothing.
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  34. Guy's obviously making it up as it goes along. He's really good at saying stupid things with great force and certitude. I'm just immune to the theatrics and parse his words for true meaning, and he's more trappings than substance. I'm no great geologist or mathematician, but listening to him stumble through those subjects on Rogan made me extremely skeptical of anything he says about anything outside of his specialty in astrophysics. The man seems to know nothing about the philosophy of science. His pronouncements during COVID made a fool out of him. He simply can't be taken seriously on anything except maybe physics.
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  35. If you went to college and were taken in by this charlatan, you don't belong in any kind of liberal arts program, because you either don't know what "liberal" means or you detest the very notion, outright.
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  36. He didn't say "On the side of Israel or the side of Palestine." He said "... on the side of Israel or wild critics."
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  37. It was good while it lasted, wasn't it, lady? Now, it's time to move on to worse pastures. You've been exposed and your current gig is hereby terminated.
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  38. BWA-HA-HA-HA!!!! A self-entitled product of the American education system.
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  39. I was very disappointed when Elon chose her as one of the "Twitter Files" reporters. In my opinion, she has a clever way of saying things, but she's not very clever or diligent about the truth, sort of like Jon Stewart.
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  40. Wow. I can't believe you didn't keep backups of everything. Live and learn, I guess.
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  41. "Trans is rooted in brain structure. Just because we can't prove this with brain scans doesn't mean it isn't true." I like how he puts the burden of proof on everyone but himself.
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  42. It takes a really smart person to make these insane arguments with a straight face.
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  43. CNN can't have it both ways. Either they got hacked or the volume was so great the servers locked up. If you deny one, you have to accept the other.
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  44. But let's be real. They're not broadcasting for us. They're broadcasting for the political class and its NPC audiences who still cling to illusions of the past.
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  45. I read a book back in the '70s about psychics and psychic networks. They were a pretty connected bunch and kept extensive files on "whales," who were known to spend money on psychics. They used tricky but nonmagical techniques, including going through people's trash, burglary, and most of all a database shared by and between psychics to keep people convinced they had ESP. Famous physicist, Richard Feynman used to amaze people with psychic tricks and safe-cracking exploits. He spent chapters explaining how he broke into a guy's desk and stole the combination to the uncrackable safe, and then announced he could crack it. He also talked about how he practiced for hours and hours just picking locks, and so on and so forth.
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  46. Guy's not very smart.
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  47. It's weird how some people are natural learners and others are willfully ignorant. "Don't engage," the protesters say. "You don't want to be polluted by their ideas." Nobody who cares about the truth says that. People who believe in their truth LOVE to share that truth and destroy the falsehoods held by others, with better arguments.
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  48. It's pretty easy to fool Everyman, Joe Rogan.
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  49. NDGT is trying to make the argument that because a lot of people suddenly popped up expressing gender dysphoria that his "side" is just doing "science" to explore that phenomenon, a point that everybody seems to be missing, because it is never directly refuted. Yes, people reporting 'I'm dysphoric" or "dysmorphic" is a piece of data that bears explaining, and therefore bears investigation with the scientific method. NDGT's trying to say he's on the side of science, and he's saying that the science favors gender-affirming care. He can point to a plethora of peer-reviewed, establishment articles that say what he's saying. Where he gets it wrong is that the "authorities" he trusts, implicitly, are getting it wrong. They're getting it so wrong, even a random person in the street knows they're getting it wrong. Yes. Maybe if small, weak men and strong, sturdy women start hooking-up in droves, and this continues for a few thousand or maybe only a few hundred years, maybe the realities of the present day will not apply. But that doesn't justify taking one small idea and running with it to the ends of the Earth. We all know that transgender men shouldn't be allowed to participate in women's sports. Glad you're open-minded about some possible future, Neil, but for Pete's sake, don't live in denial of present-day reality. He's actually saying it very poorly, which he almost always does when he's ad-libbing on technical subjects, except maybe astrophysics. Anyway, there's always a kernel of truth in what NDGT says, however poorly he expresses it. I saw this on his Joe Rogan interview, where he was trying to explain some well-known facts in Earth science, but he mixed up the terminology. He did the same thing in mathematics, trying to explain countable versus uncountable infinity. There are uncountably-many positions along any line segment. But the counting numbers N = {1, 2, 3, ... } embody the definition of countability. You can count up to any number in that set, yet it is an infinite set. Any set that can be put in a 1-to-1 correspondence with the natural numbers is, therefore, also countable. The set of all fractions is a classic example of a countable set. Anyway, he mixed-up the terms in that discussion.
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  50. Pocahantas's arrogance, and that of the rest of the senators "grilling" RFK, is off the scale. They live in glass houses but can't resist throwing rocks. It always worked for them, before, with MSM back-stopping every lie.
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