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

Better to lose your job than to lose your soul.
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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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The adults who approve and enforce this nonsense are despicable.
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@ohmightywez My "religion" boils down to 2 articles of faith: 1. Life is good. 2. I'm not God.
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@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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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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@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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Hey! Don't knock it 'til you tried it.
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Mediocre people always overestimate their abilities. Gifted people are more humble, usually.
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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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Seems like he was pretty dumb about that, not backing up his work.
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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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True since Medici times.
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@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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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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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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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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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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Wow. I can't believe you didn't keep backups of everything. Live and learn, I guess.
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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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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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"Everybody knows" or "It is said" is a way to give authority to a claim that has no provenance.
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WW II is fascinating, because what the Allies learned from the Nazi propaganda that swept Germany, was how to control the media from the top. We basically became Nazis in a lot of ways, in the name of fighting Nazism. Many control systems were trotted out and remain in place to this day.
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Watching two idiots make each other look stupid.
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This was all instigated and led by faculty and administration. Any faculty not in on it were literally driven off campus.
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It's not her feelings. It's her STRATEGY. People are sick and tired of "I'm the most offended" strategy.
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He should go peddle this $hit with his fellow pseudo-intellectuals in the academy, before they all get laid off.
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@Eric-uy7ee Maybe I just don't know the details. Struck me very odd he'd talk about losing a bunch of his work. Everything I do is duplicated on a separate cloud service, as well as my own private server.
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Nonsense. A job with no guarantees is better than no job. Then hope for the best and prepare for the worst. I worked on 1-year, pleasure-of-the-institution contracts for years. I wasn't bad, but I wasn't perfect. Eventually, I was made to know in the fall that my annual contract wouldn't be renewed the following summer. The one thing I got that you didn't get was a heads-up, in advance, and NO one suspended me without pay, or terminated me out of the blue. The thing that you have that I didn't was a YouTube channel with 10s of thousands of subscribers. Join and/or build a private school, online. Put together the right team, and you could make a very good living offering high-quality and inexpensive learning products, with a blend of archived and live teaching.
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