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

  1. Brilliant man. Too sensitive for his own good. Praying for him in 2020.
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  2. I've been in a sorta similar workplace environment. Your idea gets shot down at one meeting. A month later, someone else brings up the same idea, and "Gee, what a great idea!" It was great relief getting the hell outta there.
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  3. "The urge to save the world is invariable the urge to rule." - H.L. Mencken
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  4. He's a guy who plays make-believe for a living, and puts on airs about his "process." Only someone living an extremely privileged life would think living on the street was a good idea. Out of touch, pretending to be "down." Not impressed.
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  5. MJW didn't get the movie offers some others did, in spite of being a rare fusion of great actor and martial artist. It's too bad. Wesley got too important to do any of his own stunts. Most of what you see is his stunt double. Still would love to see more BLADE and SPAWN movies. And see them done well, with the kind of blockbuster budgets the Avengers and MCU got, with lesser talent.
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  6.  @Luhzonya  : Pretty eyes. Down-to-Earth. Very attractive. Not super-model beauty. But not at all hard to look at, and a joy to be around. I can see the attraction.
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  7.  @mikejohnson3338  Actually, studies show that mental illness is much greater amongst liberals. That's why they want government to fix everything by force. No faith in themselves or their fellow man. Why that creates such an inordinate faith in politicians to fix things, I'll never know, because politicians, by and large, are the last people you want to fix ANYthing.
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  8. Yes. Seems like he's posing. Very hard to watch. Seems "affected," as in "a man with affectations."
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  9.  K Tipnis  You NPCs make it hard for adults to hold a conversation.
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  10. If you keep your underlings fighting each other, nobody thinks to come after you. It's the leadership model brought to us by A. Hitler.
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  11. 99.9% of the time, making a kill is difficult, and a wolf can't afford to pass up easy opportunities. But just like humans and food or sex, the stuff that you need to do to perpetuate the species FEELS GOOD. That would include sinking your teeth into prey animals if you're a wolf.
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  12. Did you see the burn for that? Some kid munching raw ramen with the 1st Amendment on the screen behind him, pointing to the "peaceably assemble" part.
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  13. That mask on the back of your head thing only worked for a short time. Tigers figured it out and the main result of putting a mask on the back of your head was for tigers to start attacking people from in front. The reason it worked for a while was because in Nature, they only attack from behind, and the mask makes (made) them think you were facing them, even when they were behind you.
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  14. Gender dysphoria is a very rare condition that's getting over-diagnosed and woven in with some creepy sexualization of young kids. Desmond isn't as amazing as the parents who seem to be grooming him to be a sex worker.
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  15.  @frangelelink  He'd be going after the woke religion, if he were still alive, today, tearing into the Democrat establishment. The only difference being that the left would deny him a platform.
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  16.  @gerk7238  The scientific method is a method of multiple working hypotheses. You don't rule anything out, and you lean towards the theory that fits the facts in the most simple way (Occam's Razor - the simpler explanation is preferred/more likely). Wuhan Lab was at the epicenter. They were doing research on this precise strain of bat virus. Early on, we heard of scientists being sent home with corona-like symptoms in November 2019. The prima facie evidence is that it most likely got loose out of the lab, and that theory should've stood as at LEAST as probable as other theories, and more investigation needed to be done. What happened, instead, was the guy who SENT THE MONEY OVER TO WUHAN, Peter Daszak, was the guy whose word everybody took, without fact-checking - indeed, FaceBook made him their head fact-checker! And you know how THEY knew he had no conflict of interest? His word that he had no conflict of interest. And if you have no sense that theories embarrassing to China and Fauci's Funders were ruthlessly and arbitrarily suppressed as "debunked" without ANY real investigative reporting being done, then you haven't been paying attention. The fact that they got it all wrong can NOT be called "an honest mistake." It was pure censorship, implemented by the very person who was likely complicit in the creation of the virus. What YOU do is take the word of ONE GUY you decide to make the arbiter of truth, and then think it's OK to silence all competing theories. That's authoritarian bullshit. That's not how we produce knowledge in the West. That's now how we judge truth in the West. We spent millennia refining how we measure truth and reason to a better understanding of the world around us. Science. You know? All that stuff that made this conversation in the comments section possible? Nope. Once they make it political, nobody cares about truth any more, because to them, the truth is already absolutely known. You make a big show of "following the facts and evidence," but it is clear by the abject FAILURES that our leaders were not following facts and evidence, and many of the measures imposed did more harm than good.
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  17. SPAM.
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  18. SPAM
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  19.  @onefortheroad6186  Liberals have run against the establishment while BEING the establishment for generations. The hypocrisy is thick enough to cut with a knife. "Those evil billionaires (who finance my campaigns)..." The current times remind me of the 1960s, only the roles are reversed, and the liberal elites are MUCH more oppressive than the "right-wingers" they satirized in the '60s. Now they're the butt of the joke, and they don't understand why. They do all the things they campaigned against on their road to power, only they do it more and they do it more blatantly. The hippies protesting for Free Speech in the 1960s are the biggest censors, nowadays.
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  20. People who make it to Yale on grounds of skin color end up feeling VERY out of sorts, because they're not really ready for those courses. I encountered something similar when I went to graduate school, from a small state college. I got one semester of abstract algebra. All my peers got a full year as undergraduates. It was a real struggle for me, but I never got promoted for social-engineering reasons by well-intentioned idiots. I knew what I was in for, and I stayed home working every weekend, while my peers came in every Monday talking about parties and ski trips. Eventually, I caught up. Many of my peers didn't make the cut for a PhD. I BARELY made the cut, but it was because I out-worked everybody else. It never occurred to me to protest my weakish background. I was a rock star at the state college. I was a work-hard nobody in grad school.
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  21. He was competing with criminals who paid for protection. Can't have that. They need the $$$ to go through the proper channels to get their cut.
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  22.  @Gutwrenched  Back when America was a moral country, all the kids were taught spinning back-fist in Sunday School. But nobody goes to church, any more, and people are dying. It's very sad.
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  23. Lots of independents getting great exposure from Joe. And Joe's nice to everybody.
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  24. "I know! Let's go fishing!"
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  25. I worked 7 days a week, going to school and learning hard things, working and paying my way, so I had a good enough gig that I can be the wonderful couch potato I am, today. All due to hard work.
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  26. I read one JFK conspiracy theory by a ballistics expert, who explained away the whole "magic bullet" theory. HIS theory was that it was most likely an unintentional kill shot from a secret-service agent who was the guy with the automatic rifle who sat up on the back rest of the rear seat of a convertible trailing the president. There was the one shot from Lee Harvey Oswald, the cars in the convoy all hit the gas, and in the panic, the agent accidentally squeezed off a couple rounds, as he tumbled backwards from his perch. According to the one author, the "conspiracy" was trying to cover for their own incompetence. It was less embarrassing to assume Oswald was a super-human sniper, who could fire off several well-aimed shots with a bolt-action rifle like it was a lever-action or semi-auto. So without any conspiracy at all to assassinate the president, but with an accidental discharge in the panic from the initial shot from Oswald. He made a pretty good case based on ballistics, just where some of the shots must've come from. His theory didn't require any "magic bullet" or even any real malice. Just a HUGE FUCK-UP by a body guard.
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  27.  @C.S.Sensei  Oh, he definitely spent most of his career going after the right. No doubt. If he were still around, he'd be eviscerating identity politics, CRT and the New Segregation. No doubt. You can already see it in his later material. He was too big-government for my taste in the '80s, but his critiques of the establishment were spot on. He just had no idea what wing of the establishment would turn out to be more authoritarian back then.
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  28. We're programmed to "stick it out," because we fear the unknown. Best thing that can happen in those toxic situations is to be fired or forced out, if you don't have the will to do it, yourself.
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  29. Nobody said it was gonna be easy. The people currently in office are very good at getting and keeping power. That's why they're in power. An endless line of the same kinds of people, and they've made California government their private club.
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  30. Every one of those adult males was RIPPED. Imagine 130 lbs of sheer ferocity coming at you, with its fur standing on end to make it look bigger. Just terrifying. It'd look as big as a man to you, I bet. I feel just as bad when it's chimps hunting monkeys as I do when it's chimps warring with one another. I also root for the seal vs the orca or the polar bear. Have you ever seen a weasel take out a hare? There's a YT clip of weasel taking on a monkey many times its size. That monkey didn't stand a chance, from the minute it was in the weasel's crosshairs. No, I always root for the prey as an observer. I only root for the hunter when I'M the hunter. I'm a total hypocrite. But at least I thank and praise my quarry. I'm kind of primitive that way. "Sorry, but this meat will feed me and my family. Thank you."
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  31. Facebook's "trust and safety board." Reminds me of Comcast's "Loyalty Specialist." You know. The person you have to talk to in order to cancel your cable.
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  32.  @alexanderroche3928  Yes, and every major government institution and all its departments and sub-departments are petty fiefdoms. Unlike your traditional fiefdoms, however, they grow their domains by incompetence, because they get more resources and staff by making problems worse.
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  33. I've been a Hotep Jesus fan since he cry-bullied Starbucks for a free coffee, just to show how idiotic Starbucks is. It worked.
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  34.  @SamHainScott There've been other studies that show how people will do bad things when immersed in a bad culture. There was also a study where they told participants that they were trying to use biofeedback to bring out "psychic powers" in 'test subjects.' If they guessed the wrong figure on the card, they administered a small electric shock. Before long, the participants were administering what they THOUGHT were dangerous or even fatal shocks. They could even hear the 'test subjects' screaming. But they really wanted the experiment to work, and so they were just doing their duty. It was all faked, and the test subjects were the people who thought they had a shock button. The people who herded Jews onto trains were normal, well adjusted members of society. When society goes off the rails, people rationalize atrocities.
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  35. ​ @Cybergrindin INC Let's talk about the genocides committed by the Commanche, when they took over huge chunks of the North American SouthWest. White people's main sin is feeling guilty about their past. All other cultures around the world celebrate their imperial past and yearn for the good old days when THEY were committing genocide on THEIR neighbors. Ahhh, the good old days. We are ALL descended from people who committed atrocities against other people. That's why we're here and their descendants are not. The question is "What's the best way to move forward?" Demonizing one race is not how it's done. It's regressive. It's small-minded. It bespeaks a willful ignorance about human history and human progress. "Things were so much better when most of the people were serfs and only a handful of people were allowed any reasonable degree of prosperity and security." This is the establishment's world view, at present, and you buy in.
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  36. No. It's socialists who keep re-inventing and saying "THIS time, 100 million people WON'T die!"
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  37.  @MrRhys103  YES. IT'S A SPAM THREAD.
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  38.  @randomuser1596  I've only hung out with rock and artifact hounds in and West of the Rockies. I don't keep track of it, but I went to some digs up in Gunnison, and got an earful of the political in-fighting over competing theories. Seemed like if there's room for disagreement, everybody should just work together to find out as much as possible, but it sounded like the two schools of thought were in contention for grant money, and it got political. MY main takeaway from rubbing shoulders with the anthro/archaeo crowd was how extensive the trade routes were. Obsidian points showing up 1,000 miles from their source, etc. Flint and obsidian sites were widely known and people traded finished products and raw materials far and wide, as far back as you'd care to go. That came as sort of a shock to me, at first, but not every valley's gonna have a handy source of flint or obsidian. But people were pretty much everywhere and most were using stone tools. They almost certainly traded furs, too, but there's no record of that. The stone tools last forever in the ground.
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  39. Nobody's perfect. Diversify your sources and fact-check all of them. EPOCH Times, Hoover Institute, American Thought Leaders, and others make a good counter-balance. There are some who make a real attempt to be objective and report the facts, but the press has always had its slant, one way or the other, either in the way they spin the stories or more importantly, how they cherry-pick what stories to report. It's always been this way, but since Hitler, the entire West has pretty much done what Hitler did, in the name of fighting what Hitler did. "Fairness Doctrine" and other myths created to give the impression that the major news outlets are objective, when they're not. Just see who pays their bills and who owns them, and you know who they will lie for. I just watched a thing on the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and it's spent something like $320 million on media all over the world, and is the single biggest non-governmental funding source for WHO and FDA.
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  40.  @rishabh5750  It's so funny when a bot pretending to be a real person says "here," admitting they work for the investment instrument they're pushing. It's unintentional truth in advertising.
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  41.  @richvail7551  Do what ya gotta do and look for good people with sense. They're out there. Sometimes, just getting out of the big city or even bigger towns changes EVERYTHING. I'm an hour North of Denver, and it's like night & day, here, compared to Denver. We didn't lock down last year. Most places didn't require masks. The ones that did went on my shit list. The ones pushing the masks at work are the ones who get sick a lot and in the past, considered themselves heroes for coming in sick. "See how dedicated I am?" Pffft. You're giving everybody else your creeping cruds, you asshole! People didn't exercise common sense, before, and now they're overboard in the opposite direction, with zero common sense being the only common denominator.
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  42.  @oiitzME1266  : Meh. Textbook publishers set their prices according to orders already taken, before they eaven move one book. Every book they sell, new, after that, is at that same price and is immensely profitable to the textbook company. BUT they're not in the business of printing extra copies just in case somebody randomly comes along, later. There are some, but not a whole lot beyond what they originally had contracts for. Or that's the way it used to be. They're going through some tough times, right now, with everybody going to open source. The best deal is probably the online license, because it comes with a teacher who's always awake, always ready to take your questions, and who grades your work, instantly. Learning management systems aren't perfect, but they can do a lot of the heavy lifting in education, with very little human interference. IOW, for free.
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  43.  Gui Tard  He has good reasoning powers, but a very weak grasp of the fact set.
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  44. There's always a tension between the collective and the individual. Pakman fosters the illusion that all we need is a sufficiently competent, ethical, and enlightened leadership telling the collective what to do and allocate resources on the collective's behalf, for the benefit of all individuals. The trouble is, you rarely get competent, ethical and enlightened leadership. And it's always the duds who want the most control, just the like the worst driver in the room wants to show you how good their reflexes are out on the road. See? We're DRAFTING! Great fuel efficiency! *CRASH*. Everything would've been fine if that asshole in front of me hadn't slammed the brakes. It's that other guy's fault. Pakman's totally shilling for Democrats. So Trump's not a great speaker. He gets his point across. And if you watch him fence with hostile reporters (like Obama never did) off the cuff, he comes off better, thinking on his feet than any of the Democrat candidates. And no, you're not going to explain away how out of it Joe Biden is by micro-analyzing Trump's body language. I'm about 30 minutes in, and all I'm hearing are Democrat talking points. Give it up. Join Jimmy Dore, who's at least honest about what he sees in a very common-sensical way. He's a hopeless lefty, but he's not makin' shit up to fit his narrative. And I bet he can find 100s of Democrat 'experts' who'll spin you all the things that are wrong with Trump. Use your eyes and your brain and not your hopes and wishes, dude.
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  45. But you're supposed to believe the ones who work for the government or are t.v.-network approved. The government health officials are driven by politics and money. So are the t.v. networks. But believe them or you're a science denier. It's a neat little trap.
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  46. Goes on a camel trek supported by motor vehicles. Makes sense.
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  47. Term limits aren't the answer. You're treating a symptom. The ridiculous size and scope of government itself is the real problem. Even if they wanted to, Congress couldn't possibly oversee all the agencies and programs it has created, willy-nilly, over the years. All the pressure has been in one direction since before the Great Depression. "Government needs to do more" is the non-stop message handed down for over a century. And it's only gotten stronger with the passage of time, and government has only gotten bigger, and taken a bigger and bigger bite out of the economy.
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  48. You're too late.
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  49. That ain't why Parler's been deplatformed. It's the EXCUSE to silence speech Democrats and Socialists don't like. Big-government liberals have been on a slippery slope for decades. Now they've slid clear off the edge of the cliff, and they STILL don't get it.
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  50. Greenwald was a home run, even though he's a delusional leftie, economically.
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