Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "The Left Doesn't Get You" video.

  1. Acquaint yourself with as many facts as you reasonably can, and don't back down when they try to steamroll you. Don't lower yourself to their level, when they get hysterical. But don't allow yourself to be bullied, either. Christians were rare and very much abused in 1st-3rd-Centuries. They offered no violence and died, bravely with God's name on their lips in the Coliseum and other arenas. The Roman people saw that and were IMPRESSED by that. Their PERSECUTION was what won the hearts and minds of the Romans, until the Edict of Milan (313 A.D.), when Constantine decriminalized Christianity, and Christianity eventually became the official religion! Of course, they warped and twisted it to serve the goals of the elites at the time, but it's STILL an object lesson in how to win hearts and minds. The more obvious it becomes which side is actually fascist, because "our side" continues to fight with ideas (and humor!), while the other side uses bullying tactics and censorship to silence dissent, the more people we win to "our side." We'll never win an argument with a religion whose claims are unfalsifiable and even superficially true. But their own members will see how abusive and deranged "their side" is, and #walkaway. Sometimes it's when the mob turns on THEM. Sometimes it's when the mob turns on somebody that did nothing wrong. But they red-pill THEMSELVES when they've seen and heard enough bullshit. I hope and pray we don't have to be fed to lions in the Coliseum before the other side starts to change its mind. But people are getting martyred on a daily basis by having their lives destroyed by lies, smears, and violent threats. It's more way-of-life threatening, today, than it is actually life-threatening (although this too will come, if things continue on the current path). But Antifa's doing its level best to create martyrs like Andy Ngo and the little old lady crossing the street. They're not dead, but the harm done is plain for all to see.
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  2. It's an ironic return to God's Word, only it's Government's Word or Media's Word that they take on faith, a return to a doctrine of Original Sin, and HERESY POLICE whom George Orwell called "thought police." Then they take it a step farther, and act like pretentious Puritans, who think THEY'RE smarter than everybody else because THEY memorized the Holy Bible, and have an answer for everything, even when the answers don't make sense, because to THEM, that book is the Revealed Word of God. Revealed Truth. And any who disagree must be of Satan.
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  3. Don't dive from any significant height, because the pool is not very deep.
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  4. It also puts them on the wrong side of history. What succeeds is what is sensible. And eventually, countries falling under their sway will become more and more non-competitive. 3rd-wave feminists are breeding themselves out of existence. MGTOW (the reaction) is also not producing families. So people who think in those ways are going to be less and less present in the society of the future. That's why Christianity prospered for so long (among other reasons). The Church (Mosque, Synagogue) wants you to make lots of babies because that's God's Will and God's Plan. But to an outsider looking in, human interpretation of what THEY think God's Will is, serves to grow and expand the Church (Synagogue, Mosque) and the power that institution has on the worldly plane. Plenty of religions don't push those values. They may be better religions, but the politically savvy hierarchical churches (mosques and synagogues) out-compete those belief systems, and so we see what we see, today. Darwin applies to religious institutions. One of the big innovations in Christianity was changing their Torah-based doctrine to allow the eating of pork and shellfish, to grow their Church. They could convert a lot more gentiles if there was suckling pig at the Church Potluck!
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  5. This is one of the great ironies of America in the 20th (and now 21st) Century. The very same "anti-fascist" thinking justified our turning to very authoritarian, fascist-looking policies to FIGHT fascism in its NAZI form. For top-down economy - for the war effort, of course - they came up with this big Leontief input-output matrix for war-time production. It was all very top-down and very satisfying to people whom Adam Smith would call "System Men." It's also very satisfying to war planners who want X number of tanks and Y number of planes. It's also just complicated enough for them to feel smart that they understand it, even though they're WAY oversimplifying reality to a 10x10 or 100x100 matrix, when in reality, the entirety of the economy is essentially an infinite-dimensional beast, by the time you get anywhere close to the individual-exchange level, especially if you're trying to make it run for any period of time, with many factors varying over time, such as the wheat yields, cost of transportation, condition of roads and the markets. And other products that people also need that may cut into the price of bread, e.g. To this day, so-called "liberals" see the economy in much the same way, and they want to be the people deciding what the inputs need to be for the desired outputs. They THINK they're being compassionate and fair, but they reduce reality to a vastly oversimplified, mechanistic view of society. That may be useful for making predictions in the large, but it's far too complicated in REALITY for any person or agency to fully encompass. Adam Smith knew this in the mid-18th century! He talked about the "invisible hand" that guides people to behave morally in order to enjoy the benefits of the efforts of others. The idea is you don't MAKE them make 100 loaves of bread for 100 people, but if there are 100 people with something of value to offer for bread who were at the market yesterday, the baker will make sure there are at LEAST 100 loaves of bread for sale in the market, tomorrow, in order to receive that value from the expected 100 people. Nobody TELLS her to make 100 loaves of bread to fulfill the expected "need." She wants those schillings! And SHE will make it HER business to bake enough bread to get as many schillings as possible, without making much MORE than that, because that's wasteful and costs HER money. What we get is a market that miraculously (the invisible hand) that produces just enough bread and not too much, with far greater accuracy and efficiency than ANY government agency could do. They'd waste a lot one day, and not make enough the next, and, because nobody really pays the cost of waste other than some taxpayer nobody really sees during the decision-making, nobody (except the taxpayer) is punished for their inefficiency. Furthermore, if they believe that what they are doing is "right," then the individuals who are damaged by their control of everything are just "collateral damage" that is part of the cost of providing more justice to more people. The sad thing, to me, about the state of liberal thought, today, is that these principles have been well-understood for 300 years (give or take), but our education system does everything it can to paint freedom and free trade between free people as a bad thing. In actuality, it's what brought us up to the level of economic prosperity and free thought to 1. end slavery 2. end discrimination on the basis of gender, race or sexual orientation (Except for pedophiles. Acting on their preferences is and shall always be criminal.) 3. create an industrial and technological revolution that brought more people up from abject poverty than ever before and in an amazingly short time. But liberals don't understand this. They think government led the way. But true conservatives' (classical liberals') take on the march of human progress sees the direct connection between people finally being free to make their own choices and own their OWN property, in a world where ALL such things were dictated from on high for centuries. The so-called "right" sees betterment of society trickling UP from the people at the BOTTOM. Give us freedom to make our own decisions, and more of us will improve our circumstances. And when it's just us schmucks at the bottom the only way to climb the rungs of Maslow's ladder is by being TRUSTWORTHY and providing REAL VALUE to our equals in a free market. It's not a perfect system, but it's more fair to more people than any other system yet devised. And liberals (so-called) are taught to despise this engine of prosperity and social evolution.
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