Comments by "David Ford" (@davidford3115) on "How the World Cup Has Changed Qatar" video.

  1.  @mohamedosama7  Nice moral relativism argument. That is a logical fallacy, BTW. Also, most Middle East oils and gas goes to East Asia, not Europe genius.
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  2. Yeah, not much has changed since the famous article described the city as "Disneyland with the Death Penalty".
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  3.  @Miinecraftserver  I visited that "FINE" city once. I have no desire to visit it again. "Controlled Pandemonium" is the best description I can give it. I felt like I was walking on eggshells in that simply sneezing could get me 20 lashes with a bamboo cane. And that was in 2011.
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  4. I tend to agree. It "normalized" Qatarian culture and sensibilities as mainstream, even if those "norms" would be considered civil rights abuses in Western nations.
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  5. Which was rather common during the Arab Slave trade, but the wokistas don't ever want to talk about it.
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  6.  @alexsveles343  Yup, the Barbary Coast Corsairs. Not even the Sultan of Morocco's declaration of protection for American sailors could keep them safe from the Berbers. Word is that the Caliph of Algeria's favorite slaves were young American boys. Supposedly he found their screams form being lashed for the first time in their life to be particularly exquisite. That should tell you how messed up those people were (and still are in many cases). All of this would lead to the famous line in the Marine Corp song "From the Hall of Montezuma to the Shores of Tripoli". Steven Decatur is a man more Westerners should be familiar with.
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  7. Please watch examples of how human rights get worse AFTER those colonial powers leave. Colonialism is bad, but the anti-Colonialist movement that comes to power afterwards is often far worse. India is the best example of things going right (but not perfect). Somalia shows what happens most often.
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  8. Sad but true story. There is a reason why diaspora populations exist from Filipino to Chinese to Turkish, and everything in between.
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  9.  @danieleyre8913  I think he is referring to abortion. It is a stretch, and something of a non-sequitur, but I understand his angle.
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  10.  @danieleyre8913  After 24 weeks, it IS infanticide. And that is NOT Fundamentalist Christian, that is how Europe classifies it under their laws. So don't say it is not killing babies. I don't disagree that he is choosing to side with Salafist Wahhabism, but they are NOT allies of fundamentalist Christians. If anything, the hard-core left is who regularly allies with the Jihadis.
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  11.  @danieleyre8913  In Europe, that is correct. In the US, late-term, is the norm in States like Illinois, California, New York, Viriginia, Massachusetts, and Oregon. Don't forget the Ralph Northam (aka governor Blackface) said that abortionists should let a fetus from a botched abortion die on the table. Then you have the fact that Robert Gosnell was actually the norm, not the exception when it comes to abortion.
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  12.  @arslanrauf3641  It is funny how you choose to blatantly ignore anything that does not comport to your myopic view of the world.
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  13.  @danieleyre8913  Militant atheism shares many of the same values and fatal flaws as religious fundamentalists. Don't pretend that only the religious has a monopoly on incoherence.
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  14. Yeah, it irritated me how blatantly bad he mispronounced it. It's not like we in the West has had some 20 odd years of familiarity with the word.
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  15. Was it the UK or was it an evolution from the Arab Slave trade? Not everything is the fault of the English.
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  16.  Handsome T  Most freedom loving people were against the Wuhan Virus lockdowns. Only the jack-booted totalitarians and wannabe despots and their apologists believed that locking people in their homes was a good idea.
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  17. @Ghost Rider "Looking at someone wrong gets you shot"? Nice strawman argument. "Gun nut capital of the world" Plano, Texas is THE SAFEST city in the world BECAUSE of all of the guns. But I get it, you prefer the comfort of slavery over uncertain liberty. You would rather submit to a fascistic dictator rather than trust in free will. As for Singapore, only its history as a former Crown colony prevents it from becoming just as monstrous as the Tyrants in Beijing.
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  18. Wow, chronological snobbery is strong with you. No problems with slavery and human rights abuses? Have you not heard of the Arab Slave trade? No enemies before Israel? Have your forgotten the Western Power's Mesopotamia Campaign of 1917? How about the American presence in Iran in 1942, running supplies to the Soviets via Persia? Keep parroting anti-West hatred.
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  19. The UN is a playground for tyrants and despots. The last time they ever did anything of consequence was in 1950 during the Korean War. After that it became nothing more than a symposium for grandstanding by world leaders.
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  20.  @sabbasdsouza  China does as well. Beijing and Moscow are cut from the same Marxist cloth.
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  21. Nobody believed the Iraqi Olympic Stadium built by slave labour under Saddam was a good thing.
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  22. In other times that would have been an excellent solution. With the war in Ukraine, that is a less viable option.
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  23. The West didn't have the example to follow that everyone else does today. You are making the presentism chronological fallacy.
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