Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "JRE Clips" channel.

They teach whatever the political establishment wants them to teach.
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That's the trouble with judging history by our own modern values. Higher standards are the product of pretty universal prosperity. Throughout history, human life was filthy, brutal and short. The "evils" of industrialization, of which much has been made in the last 50 years, invariably leaves out the fact that child labor was often the difference between a child starving and a child surviving. By our standards, it's NASTY. By the standards of 100 or more years ago, the alternative to that "awful" exploitation was DEATH by starvation, or heavy manual labor from sunrise to sunset for kids of all ages, out in the countryside. Those kids were in the cities working in factories, because their parents couldn't support them in any other way and HAD to move to the city, or die.
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That was a major feature of Manifest Destiny. "God approves what we're doing, because we WON!"
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Frank Herbert, in his DUNE series, made much of the Bene Gesserits' ability to access their genetic memories, recalling everything from their ancestors' lives up to the moment of conception of the next generation. By that knowledge, the "witches" knew for a fact that we are ALL descended from people who committed atrocities. Just had to go back far enough, and you'd find an ancestor who knocked somebody on the head and stole his goods and his woman.
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Equality of opportunity is the best we can do. What individuals do with their opportunities is not my fault. You go from believing the world is imperfect to the conclusion that that makes it OK to tell everybody what to do and how to think.
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I think it's the perfect confrontation. The hipster just got a dose of reality. They learned at least one lesson, but I doubt it moved the needle on their politics.
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The Golden Horde of Genghis Khan took over most of the known world primarily because of drought and lack of fodder for their herds. It was "expand or die." Most of history is like that. We're entering a post-scarcity era in many respects. That eliminates a lot of the incentive to kill, which is why politicians and media spend so much time gaslighting us to make us afraid of mirages. We've gotta be scared - really scared - to think that going to war is a good idea.
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@jsjones418 I once knew a woman in Washington, who grew her own poppies and self-medicated. She never became an opium addict.
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It took on a life of its own when Antifa were using violence and intimidation with the tacit approval of local police, and a lot of people - especially young alpha males - wanted to defend the people being bike-locked, especially the scenes from Berkeley and Portland. And they were smart about their crowd control and quite a few vets with some police training joined up, and they were very smart in how they protected the helpless, by not starting the violence, but acting like herd bulls, which made the Antifa look violent and weak at the same time. Then it became a habit, and guys who like adrenalin were brought into the circle, and things seem to have gone downhill.
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@Edd-zq5my : It's good to speak your mind. Sometimes. Sometimes it's better to remain silent than to stir up shit for yourself. Everyone should review their own words, and ask themselves "What was the purpose in saying that? How did that help the/my situation?" This isn't about always being self-serving, but learning to think that way BEFORE you speak, so you do no harm.
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If you look at U.S. history, that's exactly what happened in World War II. Federal intrusions into the private sector, confinement of Japanese, injecting beef cows with antibiotics (which continued for many years after the war), weaponization of media and entertainment for the war effort (which continues to this day), ...
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Many generations of aristocrats abusing their subjects for CENTURIES. This brief period of enlightenment is very much the exception, historically, and the so-called left is doing everything they can to tear it down, and return to serfdom, because freedom doesn't come with guarantees. Just freedom. That's all you get. And you should be grateful for THAT, because ALL the alternatives are WORSE!
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What bothers me is how many cannibals arrange for their caravans to be stuck in the middle of nowhere.
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It's a natural-enough consequence of the prevailing conditions. Ridiculous prices everywhere else, somebody wanting to start something swoops in on a depressed neighborhood at an affordable price. The hate is also understandable. For some of us, it just shows how people can get in big cities (and states) that have governed foolishly. The politics of entitlement and the unfairness that flows from it creates a kind of craziness in regular folks.
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So-called "liberal" ideology is anything but liberal and it is toxic. It's class warfare, group warfare, anything to make anybody productive feel guilty and anyone on the tit to feel superior. It's all upside-down and it's the result of an ignorant marriage of resentment with government power.
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Katherine Wilson For the same reason women fantasize about vampires, werewolves, pirates, and big hairy barbarians. I'm told it's the top-selling sort of porn for women.
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@dannybruce4142 Yeah. He gives a taste of how utterly outclassed the whites were.
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Ideology has taken over some schools, and they're pushing it in the more "backward" schools, without any regard for the toxic foulness from Berkeley and Evergreen that flows from that nonsense. There are out-of-their-mind "liberals," who STILL think it's forward-looking. There are academics who want to tear shit down and tear shit up, and they're conditioning students to be helpless shills for the ideology. We're in the middle of the fight. Evergreen shows where their thinking leads. This nonsense must be opposed.
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"You can't mis-gender someone." I think it's getting harder and harder not to, these days.
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@salt-ernativemedia1018 : Ya gotta pick your spots - and your fights - carefully. Personally, I'd kinda like to see Rogan get banned from the "big" social media platforms. I'd follow wherever he went, and he'd end up taking a big bite out of YT, FB, etc. I love the way he plays it.
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I had the same attitude towards older folks who don't get around good, any more. 20 or 30 major/minor injuries later because I wanted to LIVE that active life, and I've come to terms with my physical limitations, and it's OK. Be grateful all your parts still work well. The rest of us are grateful for what remaining parts still work.
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You're a mountain lion and so I gotta pay to support you.
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LOL! The house I bought was built in 1961 and IT has the pink and green bathroom. Nice tile job. Has stood the test of time. If I ever get a woman in here, I don't expect it to last long, but batchin' it, I just care that the plumbing works, and it does. Let the NEXT owner drag the place into the 21st century. I'm just pleased it's a thick brick house, with full basement, built to keep itself pretty warm in winter and pretty cool in summer, even if the power goes out. You can always retreat to the basement as needed.
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Critical reviews can save you a lot of time filtering out things you won't like and locating things you WILL like. You just have to find critics whose preferences align with your own. Rotten Tomatoes and other outlets clearly have their audience that likes what they say. It's not a very big audience. Apparently 1% of the users on Rotten Tomatoes, for example. What this Dave Chapelle story tells us is that 9% of the public is out of step with one outlet. So find another outlet. There're more of them out there than ever before in history, thanks to social media on the Internet. Legacy media have been in an inevitable decline for a couple decades, now. Their entire business model is wrong for the current era, and they're scrambling to secure a stable niche for themselves. It's just that people are controlled by their habits, and so the legacy media have a lot of inertia. For now and the next few years, people that grew up on commercial t.v. are still at the top, with more money than the generation after them, and we're still conditioned to watch that crap. Younger people, not so much. They can buy a game that entertains them, tirelessly, for hours, with zero commercial interruptions. They can binge a t.v. series on Netflix or Amazon. I'm binge-ing the Australian-produced "City Homicide," right now. I don't think many people watch any series premieres, any more. Why watch a series that ends in shit? And when you're in a mood for movie/series entertainment, part of making it more fun is being able to watch it for 2 hours straight, without commercials. Make the product fit YOUR preferences, in a sufficient amount to keep you going for days. Maybe your hour or two of t.v. each day that week is the first couple seasons of "Arrow," and you spend the rest of your time outside or reading books. And there's enough good historical content out there on video, that you can give yourself a pretty good liberal-arts education for free. You won't have a teacher grading your written work, but you can go to a brainiac channel and spout your nonsense, and they will tear you to shreds better than any teacher with a red pen. You can compare your writing to the better writers in the comments. You can learn like crazy on the Internet, and plainly a lot of people out there are doing just that.
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@dannyfirst6544 : Actually, it is. There's just such a ruckus, right now, because those who once dominated the entire public square are being reduced to just one more voice among many. They can't keep the independents from talkin'. They can't stop regular folks talkin' like regular folks to one another. If advertisers don't like dissent or cuss-words, that's their problem. You see, those fools work for us, they forgot that fact, and they're getting their comeuppance in lost revenues, audience and prestige. It's actually happening very quickly, if you take a step away from the 24-hour news cycle and compare to a year or two ago. These "assaults on free speech" are very strong, but their "victories" just mean their retreat is slowed, slightly. The trend is down for legacy media with legacy business and advertising models.
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4 or 44? What's with 4 4?
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Institutions make the calculation that it is cheaper to capitulate than it is to stick to your guns with a reasoned argument. But I think the calculation is shifting over time, because the culture created by never-ending capitulation to cry-babies is ultimately bad for the product/service you're offering (such as education).
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@Elementleanring Along the border right behind her house.
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Yeah, I learned about BLM land as a rock hound. I feel like the organized camp grounds with restrooms and hookups and such are for when you get older. But if you're more self-sufficient, primitive camping/boondocking in National Forest and BLM land is where it's at. It totally changes your approach to road trips out West, because you don't have to do a ton of planning to be CLOSE to an access point, so you kinda start lookin' for 'em when the Sun starts gettin' low in the sky. I used to love that in my younger days.
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Don't look at women at work, or it's a hostile environment. Avoid looking at women at work, and it's a hostile environment.
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Treating the Outsider like shit is a pretty universal human trait, mainly because we are the descendants of the tribes that were the most ruthless (in most cases) and so survived to pass their genes on to the next generation. It's not that nice guys finish last. It's that nice guys are finished. One of the main exceptions to this that I can think of is the early Christian martyrs, who converted the Roman Empire with conspicuous passivity, and praises to their God on their lips as their bodies were ripped apart by lions.. Maybe another is the Christians who were raped and pillaged by Vikings. Starting in the 5th Century with the Anglo-Saxon invasions, a lot of British got raped or were more or less willingly married to the invading heathens. Both races got stronger, and the emerging culture was Christian, because Mom, and because the written word was a huge advantage to those who understood it. This is the flip side of the invading rapist. The invaded get new vigor, a less effete society, with a better idea of how to survive. However it turns out, in whatever era, the "winners" end up more poisoned by the losers' culture than the other way around, sometimes, although it may be that Christianity was more patriarchal through the middle ages, because of the war gods brought over on Anglo-Saxon boats, glorifying battle prowess and might making right. Not some twisted Druid who gets maybe 50% of it right, and the other 50% is oppressive, institutional craziness. Humans are pretty cool. Sucks we have to fight, but the survivors are generally pretty eclectic and the resulting culture tends to take on superior aspects of both. Like a really insane gene-mixing that everybody knows the race needs, but nobody can express in words. Just looking around, seeing things are getting soft or stupid, and herding up to go do something stupid, like invite an invader.
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Tim's on the left for his belief in a larger role and scope for government, which classical liberals/libertarians disagree with. I think the "left" should define the limited-government side, but it means the opposite, nowadays.
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@Jackaroo. : Unless you're scrawny, like me. Joe looks bad-ass. I'd look like a death-camp refugee or Sinead O'Connor.
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@tisf0 : What? So THAT'S why climate is changing. All that heat from the sun. Nobody ever told me. I thought it was from eating too many beans.
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Good old Bob "This is worse than Watergate" Woodward.
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... not to mention the rightness of taking money, by force, from anybody, to benefit anybody else.
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If the kids on stage had any kind of diversity of opinion, they would receive less scorn. If they debated each other instead of making attention-getting speeches to partisan-packed yes-crowds, some of the holes in their one-sided rhetoric would be exposed. If they want grownups to listen to them, then they should stop speechifying like wind-up toys. But you make a good point. It's like commenting on a video that has some serious collectivist fallacies to be disputed. JUST when you've absolutely, positively DESTROYED the fallacy, some asshole will come along and AGREE with you, and then go on to talk shit about Jews, while singing your praises. So this wonderfully-crafted argument you make gets swept off into the "another Nazi sub-thread" bin by any leftist looking for an excuse not to really THINK about what you just put all your creativity - your life's blood - into presenting, and just take a shit on it, with a brush-off "Another Nazi" remark, for the "win" that is a loss. Also, the back of your hand isn't designed to deliver blows. It's not stressed for it. Exerting force sideways on a long bone is hitting it at right angles to the direction in which it was designed to do all its work (pushing is what bones are for. An octopus can pull.). A solid punch from a tightly-closed fist, in a forward direction puts all the forces in a line that the body is designed to handle.
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They wanted to see how brave you were. Amtal rule: To know the true limits of something, you must test it to destruction. Also the motto of Underwriters' Laboratories."
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@monsterwatchtruecrime "Cheyenne!" holds up pretty well.
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SRS doesn't seem to have a significant impact on suicide rates in dysmorphic individuals. It is a medical condition, but nobody really has figured out how to treat it.
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SRS has not really proven to improve their lives. We've got people dying of heart disease and cancer, but we think it's a good idea to spend other people's money on a treatment that really hasn't stood up to the facts.
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So it's the new-found happiness that's driving so many to suicide after the SRS?
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Paid actor.
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