Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "Secular Talk" channel.

  1. Jordan Peterson's reasoning is more deeply rooted in fact, human behavior, and biology. I don't agree with him on everything, but he understands the collectivist lie underlying all the good intentions of good progressives.
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  2. In a post-Christian era, we still haven't found a way to live good lives without it. You mis-characterize what Peterson's saying. Your critique is a bunch of cherry-picked nonsense. Stop your mouth for a second and do some research.
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  3.  @vm4569  You don't disprove "God" by criticizing man-made dogmas. You can't rationally argue for atheism. It's every bit as much of a faith-based belief system as any other. No truly rational, scientific argument can be made either for or against. $cience and reason are silent on the subject of "Is there a Creator?" or "What is the meaning of life?" As long as a person has, at root, the axiom "Life is good" will arrive at something very like the moral philosophy common to Abrahamic law. I can work with anyone who reasons from that one axiom. Another axiom I like is "I am not God." It may be a necessary 2nd axiom. Whether you believe in God or not, it's an axiom anyone can accept (if they're not a megalomaniac). You think he got COVID right? (shake my head)
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  4. You're defending TYT who are often over the top with the exact same defense a person might make for Alex Jones. Anyhoo. Progressives are likable lefties, but they make the same mistake over and over: Hate the abuse of power? Great. Turn to the government to fix that? Stupid. Hate poverty? Me, too. Turn to the government to fix it? Stupid.
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  5. I'm sure he's receiving some guidance. And the minute he branches out on his own, he reveals how ignorant he is of the larger issues and all of history. IOW, he's an archetypal representative of the public school system.
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  6. He's been going round and round with Alan Dershowitz for decades. This is Finkelstein's big opportunity to rub Dersh's nose in it.
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  7. No, Bill. It's not really socialism, when the gov't orders up tanks the Pentagon doesn't even want. It's fascism. But yeah. Little difference. Came late to this video, but I think there's BROAD support for the U.S. military to have a smaller footprint, worldwide. I'm open to the idea of nation-states agreeing to live by our constitution and join us as semi-autonomous states, but unless they do, and become tax-paying Americans, we have no business putting our boys in uniform on their territory.
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  8. Good to see a young fella who sees the hypocrisy of the Great Game others believe they are playing on our behalf. I think we can be both strong AND principled, and without the latter, we end not being the former. Maybe that means you pay a higher price for rare earths, but you also place a tariff on products containing rare earths obtained from tyrant states. I really wish we had a moral trade policy, rooted in human rights and human dignity. And I don't see how the U.N. can be used to help in any way. Of 29 human rights offender nations, 9 are on the Human Rights Council, with Congo recently being added to "... Burundi, Egypt, Rwanda, Cuba, Venezuela, China, India, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates." (https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/politics/un-human-rights-council-members-saudi-arabia-china-venezuela-abusers-violators-a7958271.html)
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  9. Best ex-president, ever. As president, he put together a failed rescue mission of the hostages in Iran. They didn't fire a shot because they didn't even make it to the target. Men died, but due to mishap.. I THINK he got the Taliban going in Afghanistan to fight the Soviets. And his military budget request was more than Reagan GOT.
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  10.  @jakegetrost4690  Alex Jones is pretty solid on fundamental liberal principles of liberty and limited government. But he has 3 hours to fill, so he resorts to hyperbole and theatrics. I think he's pretty solid when he's laying out those Enlightenment principles, but then he gets "wound up" to keep people's interest. His favorite tactic is to start out with "We're not sure this is true, but if it is, ...." Then he starts down the road of "If it is true..." and 10 minutes later, he's breathing fire and acting like it IS true. Big turn-off. Kind of like all the guys in politics and sports who appeal to a segment of the population of love drama. I hate drama. I love truth.
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  11.  @justatiger6268  Greenwald's still a liberty-and-economics illiterate, as a big-government progressive. He's like Jimmy Dore, bringing receipts on the ineptitude and even malevolence of federal agencies, and in the same breath say the government should run everything. All we need is to find Mr. Goodbar to give all the power to. That's why Russell Brand, who started out progressive, but now beats the drums for de-centralization. Letting the feds run ANYthing is putting all eggs in one basket, and leaves the entire nation vulnerable to the bad decisions of a handful of people at the very top. Leave everything other than national defense up to the states, and then watch the defense budget and the military like hawks. If our country was "run right," Congress would meet for a couple weeks and go home. There really shouldn't be that much on the federal government's plate. National security, tariffs and excise taxes, and that's about it. Only the federal government can deficit-spend for decades on end, keeping promises it really never should have made in the first place. We need to devolve federal powers and responsibilities to the states, and for the federal government to stick to the small list of responsibilities granted to it in the constitution. Want socialized medicine? Prove that it works on the community level. See what that looks like. Maybe a state will experiment with it. If it gets it right/better than other states, maybe other states will adopt it. Ramming one policy down the throats of all 50 states is stupid.
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  12.  @ChicagoMike85  Ben Shapiro only debates lightweights and college kids, who don't know anything except what their historically illiterate professors tell them.
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  13. Whatever the law is, when you're in an asymmetric situation, the weaker side is going to resort to any and all means at its disposal.
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  14. C'mon, guys. Jones said Hitler was just like Stalin or Mao. He started right in with the 1st and 2nd Amendments, which are the 1st and 2nd things all would-be dictators eliminate.
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  15. Hitler was a socialist whom socialists are determined to cast as a right-winger. He was - in today's terminology - a far-leftist. I disagree with modern terminology, because I feel that socialism is just feudalism with a facelift. Very regressive. Trying to drag us back to the day when every benefit accrued by the masses was just the crumbs off the table of the lords and ladies who owned all the land the serfs lived on and worked. We changed the labels. Now they're not lords and ladies. We call them "civil servants." But it's the same thing. They even tell us "You will own nothing and be happy." That's EXACTLY what a robber baron would tell the serfs working his land! "See all the great things I DO for you (when I feel like it and it doesn't cost me too much)." Well, maybe I want to do those things for mySELF, with my OWN money, and I know I'll do it a lot better than you will! I know I'll look for the best product at the cheapest price, and the people providing the service will work for ME and not the local lord or lady. And look at how those bureaucrats pose and parade themselves around, as if they're saving everybody with the money they TOOK from everybody. I could do a lot more saving of myself if I just got to keep the money I worked for, but that's a separate rant. The point is, they're nothing more or less than a new, emerging aristocracy. Same condescending attitude towards their clients. Same pearl-clutching theatrics when actually confronted by the "unwashed masses," when they'd much rather be drinking champagne with their fellow lords and ladies somewhere we commoners will never be represented.
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  16. Dad used to call it "Beating the drums" when mass media and government would ally themselves to push another crazy agenda. We're in a transition period between legacy media manufacturing consent like it has for the last 80 years and the death of legacy media. In this transition period, even though legacy media has been utterly discredited, it still has momentum and the trappings of legitimacy, which is all the federal government needs to go ahead with whatever the hell it wants, and pretend it's doing the will of the people. Still very dangerous times. Old systems of control are crumbling, and the erstwhile controllers aren't giving up without a fight, and these are people who live ABOVE the consequences of their policies. This presents the grave danger that people at the top will burn it all down before relinquishing that control. Look around you. Look at the de-industrialization of the West and the crushing national debt. We're already burning. Look at the insane ideologies springing up like new religions.
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  17. Maybe Hayes is just signaling the May pivot everyone's been anticipating.
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  18. Credit to Dershowitz for taking on Glenn Greenwald. The rest of the Zionist crowd sticks to debating unprepared college students.
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  19. She's precious! I love her idealism! But at the core of it is she 1. doesn't think she can afford her own health care. 2. wants government to pay for everybody's health care. It's a rational position, until you look at the history of government-run enterprises. I feel like if you want better health care for the poor, volunteer some of your time at hospitals and care homes. DONATE to the places you think do right by people. Encourage others to do the same. But the last thing she should want is bureaucrats running the deal.
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