Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "The New Culture Forum" channel.

  1. "Diversity is our strength." "How dare you adopt a good idea from another race or culture!"
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  2. Yes. How can he say "minority" after the last election?
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  3. Yes. Same in the USA. They think they're hip and trendy, but they're out of touch and juvenile.
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  4. The left can't meme, either.
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  5. ||: Hey! Tommy, Tommy! Tommy-Tommy-Tommy-Tommy Rob-in-son! :||
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  6. The left always feel that way whenever someone disagrees with them. It can be one panelist out of 5, and it's still too much for them.
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  7. How do you satirize people who satirize themselves?
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  8. All our major institutions are hopelessly politicized. Our health institutions are just one sort.
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  9. It's always been this way, if you had long enough conversations and "What if?" conversations with so-called liberals, 20, 30 or 40 years ago. If you put them on their own slippery slope, their willingness to employ blatantly authoritarian measures was always there. ' "Show me a liberal and I'll show you a closet aristocrat." - Frank Herbert - Heh. Another good one from Frank Herbert that fits our times: “Governments, if they endure, always tend increasingly toward aristocratic forms. No government in history has been known to evade this pattern. And as the aristocracy develops, government tends more and more to act exclusively in the interests of the ruling class -- whether that class be hereditary royalty, oligarchs of financial empires, or entrenched bureaucracy.”
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  10.  @hawklord100  Either this is sarcasm, or you have poor reading comprehension.
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  11. David Starkey looks a bit like Bernie Sanders, only he has a British accent and he makes sense.
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  12. Not QUITE what you said, but I would say that identity politics IS the "rehabilitation of racial thinking."
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  13.  @puckloki873  In the end, that's all we ever get. Some years of happiness if we're lucky.
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  14. Yes. I never heard it put that way. She also had the clearsightedness to recognize that most MEN just have jobs. I'd already sort of put it together, witnessing white women in college from privileged families, who got all their school, housing, food, plus clothing allowance paid for by my parents' tax money. The welfare state is a GREAT deal for middle-class white women. They still have the support of their families, but they pretend they're out on their own, get pregnant, and then the government aid starts flowing. I never got any of that. I pushed a broom, turned a wrench, anything I could, to pay for school. They had it handed to them by moving out of their rich parents' houses for 1 year and getting pregnant. I went to different ones' apartments, and they had all the best clothes and home entertainment systems, etc. None of it paid for by them. Their rich parents just gave them stuff, but still didn't have to pay for their "little girl's" education or in any way support the single mothers they parented. They were always smug and self-righteous, talking about compassion, while I worked at the grease under my fingernails and rested my aching back.
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  15. Good stuff. Starting to warm to Peter Hitchens.
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  16. So you're bringing it back to Alfred the Great and his self-supporting and -defending borough idea, with the borough more or less autonomous AND an organizing zone/principle for the raising of levies for the whole of Wessex (and eventually England). That might be Britain's greatest strength, and I love how David Starkey reminds us of how much of that comes from Germanic invaders, where the King wasn't anointed by God, so much as first among equals, by MERIT, and still answerable to the tribe. The way it was explained to me w.r.t. the Native American tribes was that the Chief was the guy everybody listened to, until they didn't. He was Chief by his potency, wisdom and social skills. Personally, I think we're really close to the point where there's a global order along those lines. Not from the top down, but across political boundaries and vast distances, who generally believe in non-force principle: We don't have to kill each other in order to survive. We are not goat herders faced with nothing but dry grass. We can feed ourselves right where we are with permaculture farming in and around every community. The only thing we need centralized is the backbone that lets us share ideas with one another, eat better, sleep better, live better.
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  17. LOL! Mills. But seriously. Mises sez that it was the fact of small, largely autonomous units that led to ideas like property rights, free trade, and tolerance. A state of relative anarchy, in which no one group or state has control of HUGE territories. The bigger the state, the more dangerous. The U.S. is like that. But to the extent they can devolve powers to the state level and the states to the local and the local to the clans and the clans to the families, we grope towards that "Nobody is telling EVERYBODY what to do" state that is probably closest to utopia as we'll ever get. But it's almost the opposite of top-down globalism. More of a global state of empowerment of individuals that make national boundaries kind of silly. A lot of globalists probably see a piece of it, but they're utterly wrong-headed in how they go about it, choosing to use force as the shortest path, rather than LETTING it happen, as the surest path.
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  18. Liked and shared. Now to listen to the video.
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  19. The government funding, itself, is why education is so polluted with politics.
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  20. ... which begs the question of why the university is receiving so much money from government in the first place. Most of the distortions I see in U.S. education are the result of mandates passed down from on high by government (Obama was notorious for his "hints" and "mandates."), pushing the university in some very unhealthy directions. It doesn't help that the majority of university administrators are pretty far left, but they don't have to be predisposed in that way, when the government is telling them that their careers and the survival of their institutions rely on the unquestioning implementation of bat-shit-crazy ideas. In other words, the reason the universities are so toxic, NOW, is because they've been chasing government funding for decades. They're the way they are, now, because of people on the opposite end of the political spectrum from YOU who used the exact mechanism you suggest to drive things into all kinds of blind alleys. The solution (or part of it) is to divorce the state from the educational institutions. That takes a club out of YOUR hand, but it also takes the club out of the hands of those whom you despise.
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  21. The rise of nationalism after decades of the Globalist Project is a de-centralizing principle. I'm one who's not a big fan of nationalism, unless it means resisting being eaten by a bigger nation! LOL! I'm currently FOR nationalism, because it's working against uber-toxic-super-nationalism, i.e., globalism. I think the globalists have it entirely upside-down. Yes, nationalism is dangerous. But it's better than globalism. It's better to have local autonomy, in general, so as a limited-government libertarian, I want to see the NATIONAL governments back the hell off. We forget how England - as we know it - was forged out of a system of self-sufficient and essentially autonomous boroughs, brought into being by Alfred the Great. We shouldn't be looking to centralize, but DE-centralize, and the whole will be greater than the sum of its parts. Top-down controls are increasingly ineffective and even downright tyrannical. The fact is that society's evolving much more rapidly than our traditional institutions can keep up with. By the time all the committees have held their deliberations and all the bureaucrats have printed the NEW form for us to fill out, the form is obsolete!
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  22. Maybe gender-affirming care is just Nature's way of eliminating certain mental illnesses from the gene pool.
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  23. Sadly, my experience growing up and formulating my political views was that the people voting for the right things did so for the wrong reasons, and people voting for the wrong things did so for the right reasons. I respect the intention of MOST left-wingers, although whenever I drill down to their real motivations, I find a certain bloody mindedness and absolute contempt for regular people. They project all their OWN worst tendencies on everyone else, and see government force as the only way to MAKE people behave responsibly. They don't believe in people making their own choices for their own lives, but somehow believe that a select group (oligarchs!) are sinless, all-knowing and compassionate, when really they're just slobs working for a pay check like the rest of us! If liberals really understood the world, they would apply their distrust of humanity to the proposition that this is why wiser heads see the danger in giving small groups of individuals the power of life, death and everything in between over every body else. If you don't trust human nature, then why insist on concentrating more power into the hands of fewer people? Yes, humans muck things up. That's why you never give any of us too much power. The NHS strips you of making your own health-care choices. So if you're a fat alcoholic and lazy slob, you receive MORE from the system. If you work hard and act prudently, then you're a net payer INTO the system. These upside-down incentives are insane, especially coming from people who hold the average person in such contempt. I see the flaws in people. People aren't perfect. But they're pretty wonderful. And I prefer to live in a system that rewards hard work and prudence. We used to find virtue in selfless acts and personal sacrifice on behalf of others. If 50% of virtue-signaling leftists were more worried about what THEY were doing to help, rather than trying to get government to force people to help in precisely the ways that the libtard directs, poverty would be eliminated.
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  24. Well spoken.
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  25. The more critical question is whether we should allow 0.6% of the population dictate EVERYTHING to 99.4% of the population.
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  26.  @longnamenocansayy  He was saying the company paid his dad moving expenses.
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  27. And yet, 90% of the news is picked-up from legacy-media reports. Sure, people add their own commentary and criticism, but without legacy media, I don't see people sending reporters to all corners of the Earth to cover the news. The independents need to form some sort of nationwide/global co-op. It could become a ground-up new world order of the people, from the ground up, maybe even putting government in its place, where nobody tells anybody what to do, but everybody knows what's up. Unless they destroy the Interwebz, there's no stoppin' us talkin' to one another. They can squeeze us, but they can't stop word-of-mouth - or haven't, yet. And there's a limit beyond which Google can not go without creating a mass exodus. We saw this in the Black-Pigeon-Speaks ban, that triggered a brief exodus from YouTube that was nonetheless felt in the boardroom of Alphabet, Inc., you may be sure. They HAD to re-instate Black Pigeon Speaks, or YouTube was going to lose BILLIONS, and start looking like a ghost town. If they go beyond the tipping point, content creators will leave, and their viewers will follow. Google especially hates conservative content, and yet conservative content is paying their bills!
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  28.  @stephenhamer1702  : You don't get it. Unlike all humans in all history, THESE people actually ARE all-wise and only act for the greater good.
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  29.  @ronwebb5839  : Yes. Much the same in the USA. You wouldn't believe how many friendships were destroyed when Hillary Clinton lost in 2016. The lefties were SHOCKED that people they thought were their friends were such evil troglodytes. As for those who voted for Trump, they learned how small-minded and petty those who voted for Clinton really were. As an essentially libertarian individual, elections NEVER go the way that I want. This never stopped me from being friends with people who voted "wrong" by MY lights. Lots of good and smart people get things wrong. The REEEEEEEEEEE! that took place after Trump won taught me that a lot of people are hopelessly brain-washed by legacy media.
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  30. "Right" and "left" no longer have much meaning, when it's the so-called left are the establishment elite. All the hallmarks of a regressive conservative, 2 generations ago.
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  31. The mask is falling from fakes like Blair and also from news media, whose once fairly subtle propagandizing is now on full display, thanks largely to the Internet.
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  32. We found ya, brother.
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  33. Many illiberal ideas and beliefs have become attached the term "liberal." The original term means individual rights that supersede state authority, liberty, limited government, and tolerance for others. Half of what is considered "liberal" is just re-branded feudal serfdom. "The government must care for me and in return, I will obey."
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  34. The same bubble exists in the USA. I can't tell you how many Democrats were CONVINCED the 2016 election was fraudulent, because literally NObody they spoke to had voted for Trump. I just tell them "You don't get out, enough."
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  35. In short, the BBC's arrogant.
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  36. "You're a right-winger!" "Apparently, yes. Thank God."
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  37. "I don't care about your religion. Just tell me if you have a Y chromosome or not." - Physician with the patience of Job -
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  38. Happy to report after Christmas that Labour was roundly defeated and Boris Johnson has a majority.
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  39.  @amie8889  : The village market that inspired Adam Smith is NOT the grocery chain, stocked with "government-certified" foods that are certified "organic" because they showed a chicken a picture of a meadow. Relying on technocrats for food safety, rather than Farmer John or Farmer Jane, whom you know, personally, and whose crops you can go LOOK at and talk to them about how they do things. In a free market, the quality of the food and the ethics of the grower are SELLING POINTS. The minute it becomes something of which the public is generally aware, competition will police things much better than paid (and bribed) government officials.
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  40.  @amie8889  : And with idiots like you blabbing unrestrained in YouTube comments, more people are "in the know." We really kid ourselves that government is "protecting us," when the BEST way for an unscrupulous or even malevolent businessman to get away with their sculduggery is to have the seal of approval from government officials, who tend to be underpaid and overworked. We set ourselves up for the guys we hire to be our watchdogs to be bribed! And they don't even have to be corrupt. They just got a whiz-bang power-point and a nice steak dinner from the nice man from Monsanto who wants to "understand" the regulations a little better. General Electric always sends the nicest people. If I wanted to sell my GMO foods and I knew the public wouldn't go for it and might come after me, I'd spend a couple million on lining the pockets of a handful of people at the top of the Dept of Agriculture and over at Food and Drug, as well. Make pals with Environmental Protection. Couldn't hurt, amirite? And this is exactly what they do, and have been doing for a long time. Injecting cattle with antibiotics and hormones. Feeding cattle GMO feed grains that are pest-resistant, because they spliced it with another plant that's poisonous! And then we eat that beef and we wonder why we're sick or why our kid's autistic or why our son thinks he's a girl, or why our fertility rates are dropping. Maybe it all goes back to that GMO plant whose defense mechanism is to neuter the bugs that eat it! My dunno! Frogs with tits! I think as our society evolves, that having your own greenhouse, your own victory garden, is going to be a lifestyle choice. I know I'd pay double for produce, if I could get it from a local, sensible farmer, who's looking out for me, so I'll keep coming back to him, year after year. We could do worse than go back to the village market that inspired Adam Smith.
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  41. From the man who brought me MONARCHY.
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  42.  @ha6ni6el6  : Still figuring out what "Take the piss" means, exactly, from context. Seems like a nice phrase.
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