Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "Gutfeld: I'm calling for a 'keep the peace' movement" video.
-
5
-
4
-
4
-
2
-
2
-
2
-
1
-
I think in social media we're seeing people expressing themselves who, a generation ago, probably couldn't read or write, much, at all. And here you see them in all their glory, saying stupid shit, getting shot down, hearing other viewpoints. It's messy and it's beautiful. And we're all learning.
We all have our trigger buttons, and somebody out there who is eager to push them. Does it go off the rails, sometimes? Heck, discussing the Red Sox at the local oasis is something that's brought SOME to blows for generations.
What I see are a lot of people kind of working things out for themselves. And when you're in learning mode, you're in child mode. Again, it's messy, as children are messy. But it seems to me like people are growing up. People are developing thick skins against trolls. Slowly but surely. We're learning to tune out some of the noise.
Yeah, there are some who're going to take social media down a rabbit hole, like the 60-foot nephelem they see in satellite photos, or Sasquatch in yet another jiggly, blurry video. This kind of shit's been going on since there've been people.
But I think the overall tide is rising. If I can argue with a Swede about Nanny government, and we both keep it civil (if crude and irreverent), that's probably a good thing. Just for a Swede to know that there are people out there who think differently, when maybe everybody around him in Sweden is afraid to hold certain opinions, for fear of cultural marxists destroying his social life and his standing in the larger (very conformist) community.
1
-
1
-
1
-
3331: As with most things, there's a Yin and a Yang. Dark-Age Christianity was pretty foul, and yet the Roman Catholics kept the classics alive for future generations to rediscover in the Renaissance. Yeah, the leadership at the top of 'most ANY church is all about survival of the church in THIS world, which they pretend to measurer success in saved souls for the NEXT. How do they measure THAT success? Sadly, by the amount of money in their damn collection plate.
But if CO2 is a leading indicator for climate change (It isn't), it's worth keeping track of, and does correlate fairly strongly with all types of man-made pollution. CO2 ain't the only stuff we're pumping into the atmosphere, and as it has risen, so have levels of other pollutants, which are much stronger greenhouse gases. Don't get me wrong. I haven't heard a single solid, climate-remediating proposal from ANY of the "believers." All they seem to want is more government interference in everything, and especially in the U.S., while other major polluters like China and India get a free pass.
But in the larger sweep of things, folks who try to be Christ-like tend to be pretty good people. That's how churches keep 'em in line. They appeal to the BEST in people, but sometimes (often) for all the wrong reasons.
1
-
1