Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "Glenn Greenwald" channel.

  1. Remember, that party gave her everything she wanted, because it was "her turn" and her money.
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  2. That was the weird thing about the Twitter Files. Bari Weiss has this aura of respectability created out of thin air, because she stood up to her bosses at the New York Times. Matt Taibbi is a hopeless big-government progressive. I think it's hilarious that her hackery got exposed on Joe Rogan. She was just parroting the rhetoric of other neocons when she tore down Tulsi. I'd tear down Tulsi for being a big-government progressive. I like her integrity on some things, but she's not going to get us off the wheel. She's one of a long list of people who don't want the power of government to shrink, but just wants her kind of people running that government. That's the whole problem with American politics. No politician wants to reduce the scope and role of the federal government. They just want to be the person who controls it. Only guys like Rand or Ron Paul ever ran for offices that they actually tried to reduce in power once in office. That's my big beef with progressives. They are so right in their criticisms of those in power, but it never occurs to them to reduce the amount of power in the hands of those in office. That's the only real way to manage the harm done by narcissists and psychopaths in government office: Don't give the government office too much power. They want the power to remain, but they just want THEIR guy wielding it, when the only correct answer is NO one should wield that much power.
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  3.  @justgarry5485  THAT is and has been my biggest fear for the last 20 years. If the powers-that-be feel threatened enough, I don't think they'd hesitate to burn it (and us) all down, just so they can rule over the ashes.
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  4. Just like Pirot in '92, RFK, Jr was poised to split the Republican vote and hand the decision to the Democrats. I think he would've won more votes from likely Trump voters than from Democrats, because his hands are clean with regard to COVID-19, where neither Republicans nor Democrats seemed to understand or care about the moral and political stakes of the bum's-rush response that basically got EVERYthing wrong. More Republicans than Democrats got it more right, but the Republican Party was too afraid of the Mass Formation Psychosis to take a firm stand for liberty, actual science (not "scientism"), and morality. RFK also gave lip service to free enterprise and limited government, which is highly attractive to many in the so-called middle, who are disgusted with BOTH parties and what they do to maintain their power.
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  5. Pretty easy to write code that checks for changes to a file and over-writes the file with the preferred text. Doesn't take much of an AI to defeat even the most ardent human individuals contesting what the establishment's riding herd on. CIA et al have undoubtedly had programmers working on this for decades.
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  6. Obama did everything he could to get crony Clinton elected, and, failing that, injected poison into the Trump administration. Obama is a traitor to the U.S. Constitution he swore to uphold.
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  7. Niger wouldn't need money if France paid full market value for uranium, or that's my guess.
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  8. Guys like Greenwald are great at pointing out the abuses, but as a progressive, he will eagerly give institutions MORE power to abuse. Snake biting its tail. But he's right about these stories. Progressives want the right people to have too much power. Americans want NO ONE to have that much power.
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  9. Trump's idea of supporting Israel may not bear much resemblance to what AIPAC and the evangelical vote that helped get him elected thought it would be.
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  10. But Zuck isn't talking to us or trying to win us back. He's only speaking to NPCs.
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  11.  @dbarker7794  But Faustus DOES parrot the "latest CDC guidance" on a daily basis. He is their mouthpiece.
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  12. This is terrible legislation and it should be struck down by the courts. But SCOTUS did nothing about "Communications Decency Act," and they argue all day about Section 230, when there should be ZERO legislation from the federal government regulating communications of any kind. That's up to the states, and even THEY shouldn't fool with it.
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  13. The worst? You could run 'most any t.v. anchor's "lies" reel and get something similar.
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  14. My first thought on 9/11 was there would be bad law coming. I was right. I hate being right.
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  15. Dave is true left: liberty and limited government. Greenwald wants big government that does what he wants it to do, which it never will, because of the nature of Man and the nature of concentrated power. A good socialist/progressive is in a never-ending sisyphean struggle against himself. "Care for me and let me be free." Can't be cared-for and free, simultaneously.
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  16. He uncovers the truth very frequently, but he's also part of the big, progressive, socialist lie. He doesn't mind that government is too big. He just wants guys just like him to run it. This is the case with all so-called "progressives." He'll rail all day long against the abuses of our major institutions, and be 100% correct, but never once does it occur to him that the institutions themselves, are the problem. So many federal departments and agencies that should never have been created in the first place. Glenn doesn't mind the big government. He just thinks that, somehow, we're going to elect and appoint only genius-saints to the top spots, and life will be perfect. Stuck on a wheel of his own making, like so many of us, including me.
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  17.  @michaellong9214  Glenn's a big believer in big government. He's caught on the wheel, insisting on trusting politicians and then criticizing everything they do, when a true libertarian would say "I told you this crap would happen when you put the government in charge!"
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  18. Progressives are very obstinate. No matter how many times the government fails, they insist on empowering the government to intervene in society and economy even more than it already does. "We need rules." No. We need companies whose only means of survival is doing right by their customers. The need for return customers is the foundation of moral behavior in a free marketplace. When the government steps in, people who do things the right way get shoved aside in favor of those who do things the government way.
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  19.  @michaellong9214  You are just like Glenn Greenwald, insisting on the idea that you can have civil liberties and big government living side by side. My POINT is that when you create a government that does everything FOR you, it is INEVITABLE that the government will start doing bad things TO you. You're basically feeding the crocodile that will one day eat you, but you tell yourself you're for "civil liberties." That's why I say he (and Jimmy Dore and a number of other good progressives) are trapped on the wheel. They want a utopia in which government makes sure no one suffers, and all government leaders are genius-saints. As a civil libertarian, I know that when you concentrate that much power into so few hands, the eventual result is corruption, mismanagement, and tyranny. There are things that progressives should know better than to ask for, but ask they do, and then they blame everybody else for mucking it up, when the original project itself was doomed, due to human nature.
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  20. The EU's like that Broccoli-headed kid who goes around harassing people with a giant body guard in tow. Can't remember his name. He's very forgettable as far as personality, but he's been all over YouTube. Anyway, they've had the USA as their body guard since 1917, and suddenly, their body guard is gone, and reality's sinking in. They are at least an order of magnitude smaller than needed to carry out any of their threats, and even the economic sanctions are hurting them more than Russia!
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  21. I'll never vote for a socialist, even if they're good critics of the big government they love so much. Government is always corrupt. The only (imperfect) check on that corruption - and the harm caused - is by severely restricting the government's scope and role. Progressives like Greenwald build government beyond all reason and then act surprised when it doesn't do what it's supposed to do. Progressives are their own worst enemies.
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  22.  @unbreakable7633  Unwavering support of Israel has been a bipartisan sacred cow since I can remember first becoming acquainted with world affairs. I was too young to remember the '67 war, but I was old enough to read by the early '70s.
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  23.  @theseustoo  It still is. But it's so deeply ingrained in the American political class that you dare not call it such.
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  24.  @Gee-xb7rt  I agree. It's crony capitalism. And it's enabled by all the do-gooders who think they can vote for a government that will do all their do-gooding for them. The establishment mouthpieces unironically use the term "public-private partnerships" as if it's this great thing, when it is the literal definition of fascism. I think the relationship between Krupp Steel and the German government (since long before and a model for fascism/Nazism) was the inspiration for all that has happened since. The advantages to both parties to the partnership are obvious.
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  25.  @theaterinafire  Easy rule to fix a lot of it would be outlaw corporate donations, entirely. Let the executives and the workers make whatever private donations they wish, but NEVER allow a corporation to make political donations. The Citizens United v FEC case needs to be overturned. There is some nuance, here. I think people should be able to pool their small donations together, to speak with a louder voice, and about the only way to do that is with some sort of PAC. But as long as PACs are forbidden taking money from anyone but a private citizen, that would keep PACs possible and clean up a lot of the George Soros type of nonsense.
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  26. You're a smart, level-headed guy for an unrepentant socialist. Most of what you decry, today, is the result of looking to the state to solve the human condition, like your other progressive pals do. Then you freak out when things run off the rails, oblivious to your own role in creating the fascism you see, today.
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  27. Too bad they're big-government progressives, for that lies at the root of all our problems: People looking to government and politics to fix everything, when government and politicians' primary function is to NOT MEDDLE. We're NEVER going to have perfect leaders. But even if we do, the NEXT leader(s) will be flawed. The trick is not giving ANYONE too much power, but progressives and even conservatives are happy if officials have too much power, as long as they do what the progressives/conservatives/liberals want. The federal government should govern LIGHTLY. Governs less = governs best. Anything not international trade or national defense needs to be left to the states. Full stop.
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  28. I want to listen. I really do. But after 2 minutes of every sentence ending in a trendy question mark, it's just too annoying to get PAST. You know what I MEAN? I mean it happens all the TIME. It doesn't sound SMART. It sounds juvenile, uncertain, and NEEDY. Sorry pet peeve. But if you want a larger audience, learn to deliver declarative sentences in a declarative tone and intonation.
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  29. It's obvious that the establishment censors, de-platforms, and demotes material that is damaging to its narratives. Anyone who doesn't understand this, yet, is living in an alternate reality.
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  30. Because Biden's ineptitude is getting people killed and squandering the wealth of all nations.
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  31. "That's p- known about her." Weiss wanted to say "proven" but then realized how far out over her skis she was with that opinion, which is just parroting neocons like Bolton.
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  32. Journalism's always been this way. The mask just slipped enough for more people to see it.
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  33. LOL! Before they "downsized," there was a lot more misinformation going unchallenged than there is, now. Why don't they do what Twitter's doing with Community Notes, so that One Narrative doesn't go unchallenged, which is what Big Tech has been pushing for YEARS. Forbidden to speak the truth by FaceBook and YouTube in the name of "Community Guidelines" and to "combat misinformation." Well, we all know who the biggest liars are, and they're the ones who were censoring and "fact-checking" the actual truth into oblivion, and banning the people who told the truth. Everyone knows this. Nobody admits it. It's disgusting.
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  34. Democrats love the security state because it's run by Democrats.
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  35. "That gal is pure pizen." - William Tell Sackett
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  36. I'm mostly angry. I never voted for any of this nonsense. I'm pretty disappointed in my fellow Americans for voting Democrat all these years, and I'm mad at the Republicans for dropping all their principles to try to out-pander the Democrats, while the Democrats are just as bought-off by the military-industrial complex as the Republicans. "Compromise" in Washington, D.C., is when both parties agree to the worst proposals of the other.
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  37. These women all remind me of Elizabeth Holmes (of Theranos fame (infamy)).
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  38. I see George McGovern as half good half bad. Good for confronting the war machine. Bad for wanting to grow the welfare state. I see both as 2 sides of the same coin. People who want to concentrate too much power into the hands of too few people.
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  39. No matter how bad you think it is, the truth is much worse. This is why you guys are so great, but the fact that you still think government should be bigger and do more "for" us, is just insane.
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  40. The Republicans aren't really against wasting money on Ukraine. They just want to use it as leverage to get their border-security money. "Compromise" between Republicans and Democrats means spending money on EVERYTHING.
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  41. Democrats are like 1950s Republicans, from their religious beliefs (only it's a New Religion) to their red-baiting.
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  42.  @memyselfandi593  Israel was created by force of arms in the flush of victory after World War II. The people who already were living there weren't given any choice. They were forced off their lands by outsiders. They didn't like that. The entire Arab world didn't like that. All of the non-Christian world and a big chunk of the Christian world didn't like that. Israel is set up to be a lightning rod and draw violence to it. The land was taken and as soon as it was taken, Israel just wanted to be left alone. Can you see how that might not go over with a lot of people? Imagine a mafia boss who murdered and terrorized his way to power, and now he has a little empire carved out. Now all he wants is to be left alone to run his empire. It's so unfair that he isn't left alone. The violent acts he commits in order to survive - clearly documenting how his empire's under threat from without - are entirely justified. He's fighting for his very existence, so it's OK if he wages war to preserve himself. That war stretches on for decades, with atrocities on each side justified by the atrocities on the other side. People forget that Jewish terrorists of 80 or 100 years ago saw themselves as freedom fighters. People don't even remember the terror campaigns waged by Zionist extremists. War has been waged on every single one of Israel's enemies by the USA. Israel has bombed enemies of the USA. Each is a proxy for the other. I always go back to a Sci-Fi trilogy called "Deathworld." Colonists to a new, dangerous planet have been fighting for generations against a planet that acts like it hates humans. The humans hate right back. New species evolve almost overnight, with adaptations that seem aimed at making life more hostile to humans. It turns out that the planet IS adapting to rid itself of humans, because humans acted like a natural disaster and were perceived as a natural disaster, which meant that all the creatures on the planet declared truce when it came to humans, and joined forces to kill humans. There was no way for humans to win this fight with confrontation. But there WERE humans who broke away from the colonies and learned how to live WITH the creatures of the planet. It being sci-fi, it turned out that all the creatures of the planet were telepathic to some degree. If you didn't hate, THEY didn't hate. But the humans in the colonial compounds couldn't get over their hate, and so it was a never-ending war against the planet. A war that humans could not win. And yet, humans were flourishing AWAY from the "hate centers."
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  43.  @yasminc7827  To an Israeli, the current setup is the obvious consequence of necessary decisions to ensure their survival as a nation of, by, and for Jews. "Extremism is no vice" when confronted by extremists, and they can trot out a long list of extremists who've done bad things to Israel. The region is trapped in a cycle of violence and retaliation, with foreign powers only too happy to inject more weapons and money into the conflict, for their own purposes.
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  44. There's way too much secrecy on matters about which the public has a right to know. In the Bannon and Navarro cases, the Jan 6th Committee was definitely on a witch hunt. I don't know all the ramifications, but it seems to me that if Congress makes a criminal referral to the DOJ, the DOJ should be obliged to follow through with the same vigor, regardless of who's president. Clearly that's not what is happening, today, and as Glenn reminds us, is not how it worked during prior administrations. There are "customs" and "common practices" like this that seem to subvert Constitutional checks and balances.
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  45. The Trump Admin will have to fire a LOT of people before it will be taken seriously by the rest of the world, imho. Trump will do some good things that surprise us, and will miss the mark, badly, that will disappoint us. That's much better than the alternative under Harris.
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  46. Rodgers plays for the Jets, now, not the Packers.
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  47. You have to understand the hostility of left-wing activists who are given carte blanche to disrupt and disrespect. I can see people wearing yarmulkes being targeted by some rude and aggressive people, because that's cancel culture on college campuses. It's somewhat unusual to see these left-wing activists at odds with the political persuasion of college faculty and administrators. What we're seeing is Zionist-vs-leftist, and it's actually somewhat amusing, because the leftists aren't used to being slapped down by college or municipal authorities. They (rightly) saw Israel's response to October 7th as all the excuse they needed to start acting up and acting out. I say "rightly," not because they're necessarily right, but because they're immersed in a culture that tells them the atrocities in Gaza are exactly the sort of thing that will be used to forgive their unruly behavior. What makes it all the sweeter is that the lefties are hitching their wagons to Hamas, which is triggering to half the country. And it's a very odd half, neither right nor left, but the half that is committed to the Zionist project, which cuts across party lines. So strange to see colleges getting authoritarian against leftists activists. Unlike BLM and anti-Trumpers, they are not sanctioned to proceed by the Democrat establishment, which makes most of its money off big donors.
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  48. Uh, Glenn. Big media and the government have been hand-in-glove since before World War II. Manufacture of consent far pre-dates the Internet. But because of the Internet, youngsters like you are more aware of these facts. That's why old farts like me tend to be more libertarian than progressive.
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  49.  @kylewatson5133  Please refrain from such comments. You prevent me from making them, first. They'll make a brilliant speech decrying the technocrats and globalists and conclude their speech with a commercial message for "Med-4-All." They build a beautiful logical structure and they finish it up by demolishing it. "We need the power to change the world." That's why the world doesn't change. It was the concentration of power into the hands of a few that caused the problems in the first place. It's like Tolkien's One Ring. "Give ME the ring and I will create paradise! You obviously don't know how to use it right!" Greenwald and Dore don't really have a firm philosophical grounding or an understanding of actual human progress, which continues in SPITE of what governments do.
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  50. The only reason this is a story, now, is because Democrats want it to be a story, because they know what we all know: Joe Biden is unelectable. It took a lot of censorship and shenanigans for his non-campaign on the worst platform in history to emerge victorious. He's the most notorious liar and plagiarist in Washington, DC, which is why his earlier bids for the presidency failed. So, of course, all you hear is what a big liar Donald Trump is.
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