Comments by "Kristopher Driver" (@paxdriver) on "Triggernometry" channel.

@michaeledwardhunter he's written meticulously cited books on the subject, and began the conversation by recommending S. A.'s ICJ filing and recommended all of those citations and references be read, 100's of them. If you're too impatient to look at the evidence that doesn't mean it's not there, it means you're lazy.
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You need to read more if you think that's a word salad. Read the ICJ filing by South Africa and look at each citation. It's clear, concise English.
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If you're not willing to invest in affordable housing or address income disparity then why is declining population such a terrible thing? Are we so wired to anticipate war we want to encourage people who don't want to parent to be parents? Why is that the government's business and the tax payers' liability to encourage pregnancies? We used to also have living wages in the 70's straight out of highschool, and average tenure at a job was ten years. The real reason for chasing population growth is economics. Politicians want gdp lines to rise, but that's nonsense. If you have fewer population then a linear decline in economic output is perfectly natural. The richest gain more wealth by more renters and customers; that's the only reason to focus on fertility rates. To make a small number of rich people richer for the next generation is an asinine reason to be preoccupied with other people's life decisions. The irony is those same people peddling antidepressants and porn are part of that wealthy minority who benefit from maintaining demand to maintain revenues streams. Nothing to do with moral decay or nihilism, it's just not a fact that declining fertility is a bad thing unless it lasts a century or more. It's not a big deal. And discouraging sex before 6 months means people 4 months in who were very invested might be inclined to manipulate partners just for some satisfaction before breaking up, such is the motivation of sexual frustration as you rightly point out. Then there's the obvious issue of people not even knowing their partners' sexual compatibility until after having invested a ton of time and energy into a partner that can't satisfy, or doesn't want to satisfy. And then if they have kids soon after starting to couple some partners might lose interest and the frustration kicks in right when they thought they'd cleared the wait. There are so many reasons it's insane to believe everyone is so uniform we can possibly conjecture it makes sense to make presumptions of dire consequences for society, or what others would prefer if nudged by social convention, or that anyone would be better off just doing and living the way I like to live and do things. Where the acknowledgement of preference and variability and expression? How is that anything but fascist to have the government involved in the sex lives of citizens for the benefit of the nation at the cost of the citizen? That's literally what fascism means lol that's why it's considered a right wing opinion, because words have meaning.
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Although Hamas doesn't put Israeli kids in jail without a civil trial judge, they use military courts to prosecture Palestinian children for the past 5 decades. Do they count?
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13:26 Oct 7th was the worst act of terrorism perpetrated against Israel since the holocaust, but they have perpetrated around a dozen times this upon other ethnic groups since the holocaust. Just for context for all those applause.
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40:59 what Israel should have done: Humility and accountability. "we'll put Netanyahu on trial with your judge, you put Hamas on trial with our judge. Drop the blockade, give equal rights to all people of the region, and both parties collaborate in taking down terrorist from both sides without civilian casualties. None except one-off incidentals like a stray bullet or ricochet, not bombing an apartment to get a militant, you stalk the militant and snipe them. You acknowledge injustice and establish universal accountability and both sides work together to prosecute those who commit atrocities. In the meantime civilians live their lives with equal rights." It's that simple, it would be ugly but not nearly as ugly as slaughtering 30,000 people thusly inspiring a new generation of terrorists. This isn't about anything other than the facts, and the facts are universal accountability and universal justice is the answer. You have to submit your war criminals, we'll submit ours, and in the meantime everyone else is equal in society. Gaza was never equal. They had no ability to trade, to expand, to leave without checkpoints, to earn, to learn, to receive and contribute to the national prosperity. Everyone needs to be equally responsible for the harms they commit. And it's done in one generation with a fraction of the casualties. There simply is no justification for civilian casualties I think Gaza, or Israel, or Iraq, or Afghanistan, or any other country. All you have to do is treat people equally, prosecute equally, and that's it. Hamas would have no support without oppression. Why would I become a suicide bomber except by my family and friends being murdered for nothing without consequence. If I have a life to live and when murderers kill they are jailed, then eventually next generation it's over. A few thousand radicals kill a dozen each over 20 years in the process, but that's nothing compared tk killing 30,000 in 6 months and worsening the issue without end.
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If all of our anecdotes come from the loud people on social media, you have to seriously question your prejudices. Normal people don't scream about loving or hating kids. Normal people just have those thoughts and don't care who knows because they are personal and not really open for debate. Normal people don't even post on social media, the vast majority of users consume content and seldom post. Something like 80% of Twitter content is written by 10% of users who are bots and and loud mouths like me who chase a debate for the stimulation. How can a person make a career and spend all this energy on a subject based off of their impressions of society on anecdotes of disproportionate samples when data are so readily available? She keeps saying "statistically" but remains completely oblivious to correlations-causation analysis. As a data analyst it's a pet peeve when conjectures are presented as scientific when they're entirely and verifiably not that. For the record I've wanted a dozen children since I was a teenager. I love families and kids and have had to deal with girlfriends who didn't want kids in their 20's which I thought was so weird. But I listened to them, and I respect them as humans with personal preferences. They're not broken or selfish people, they're individuals. That's what it means to treat women as autonomous equals
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@DigiDriftZone oh really? A lot of children with no schools or parents are all holding guns and using other people's parents and brothers/sisters as human shields? Based on what evidence? All the dead kids I've seen were in civilian clothes, what is it that you've seen?
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It would certainly help them understand why it's a ridiculous statement to say "for argument sake let's presume atrocities occurred before Oct 7, but still..." There is no "but still...". Desperate people with nothing to lose get radicalized. You can't just perpetrate a lifetime of oppression then say "let's put that aside for now", that's the entire reason for Hamas. That's the reason for hate and violence. That is the only reason for Oct 7, nobody hated Jews before the oppression, they lived side by side and shared religious venues weekly. It was the oppression that led to Oct 7, and a lifetime of it that led to the recruiting of terrorists. Iran's support of terrorism is also the result of many generations feeling the sting of western oppression for the heinous crime of not wanting to be exploited or have their own democratic government overthrown by Americans who felt entitled to profiteer. It's absolutely insane to not consider recent history, that is literally the only motivation for a suicide bomber, having nothing to lose and hating the people who benefited from your suffering. It's completely baffling to me so many of these commets act like they don't even understand English or common sense. It doesn't take a scholar to relate to Palestinians, look at how USA citizens today justify Iraq: that wasn't me, I was a kid when that happened. That wasn't me, my government lied tk me. We were attacked, we had to respond to defend our freedom. They renegged on a resource exploitation arrangement, they deserve to be sanctioned even though we coerced a completely unfair deal because the corrupt leader we installed signed on the dotted line. When we the west are threatened we respond with force even when we caused it, but when Hamad is born after decades of injustice they never caused in the first place, we demand they had a cooler head. If you want Hamas prosecuted and stopped the water put Bush on trial. If the people "should hand over Hamas" then why isn't America handing over Bush and Biden? The double standard here is astonishingly obvious and all YouTubers have to say is "word salad". Incompetence is so infuriating in situations like these because it doesn't take a scholar to parse the facts. There's very little nuance if you out in the effort to read or listen. Nobody who spent a single day going over the timeline and statistics would have any difficulty figuring out why this happened or how Israel could prevent it in the past and future by e a universal endowment of equal rights. We celebrate when we act like Hamas, and then celebrate when we act like Israel. We're just as insane as ISIS and almost everyonr here js clueless of that fact because knowing things appears to take less effort than promulgation thjngs we never learned but assume we already know. It takes less energy to comment on YouTube in ignorant support of atrocity than it does to just be informed in the first place. Over tijmr it takes less energy to learn than it does to argue ignorantly. Just check norm's citations, and ICJ references, and speak to Palestinians they have group chats on twitter you can just talk to them and ask them anything at all. Make an effort or stop disinforming people, it's more important to get it right than feel an unearned ego boost. These are real people.
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Great conversation, but why does nobody question the word "monkasm" when Eric repeats it? Really confuses me how people get so mezmerized by his poetic tongue lol.
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The distinguishing mark of a sociopath 😂
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@salaciousone by international law, that's exactly right. To prevent genocide and civillian massacres the whole world gathered and voted on the ethics of war (as crazy as that sounds ) specifically for this purpose. If you trap a population, cut off power and water supplies, and then shell/bomb the area with indiscriminate blast zones, that is a war crime. It has nothing to do with Hamas using human shields, there are no other places for people to go because of the IDF, not because of Hamas. Israel is the reason there are human shields in this conflict, that is simple logic to everyone on Earth besides half of Americans and half of Israelis - both of which have prevented peace agreements despite the best efforts of the voting nations of the UN for decades. It's very well documented, my position is clear and irrefutable.
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20:15 here is the most illogical thing I've ever heard: 1) lunatic death cult 2) threat of death will show them not to join the death cult Explain to me how the threat of death will deter the prospective death cultists. I'd love to hear how that reasoning meanders through Oz and back to reality lol
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Careful, calling out "surely" will offend everyone identified by other names and Shirley herself for being singled out...
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. Margaret Thatcher is not the economic model to look up to, any idiot can generate cash flow by selling off public assets. In fact, the skeptic might say an interested buyer whe wasn't allowed to own public resources might want to promote a state which was keen to sell what I wanted to buy to our mutual benefit. That's more mafia than government imho.
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This is classic blame profile kf Liz. If it's hard and you have to compromise too much, just release it as is anyway and show the public what you did and how it was scuttled. Then people blocking legislation need to stop electing useless ministers. Special interests need to have zero impact on whether or not a policy is reviewed as is. Liz is told "oh no, we can't do that that or they'll be mad at me"... Just do it. If it's right and good you'll be fine. I hate this MP whine fest. Just do it til you're stopped then show the public who stopped you and why; it's not complicated, it's just work to normal people.
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If iran is responsible for 1200 deaths on Oct 7, the why isn't USA responsible for the slaughter of 15,000 children. More than 3/4's didn't elect Hamas, and those who did voted for the on the premise of moderate reforms and broadened civil rights, and that was before more than half of the people living in Gaza today were allowed to vote. They voted 10 years ago, under false pretenses of moderation, and they're being armed to reject an occupation. Iran is following international law. USA is maintaining an occupation and that violates international law, caused more deaths of innocents, and is objectively more vile than Iran's part in this conflict. It's just a matter of fact. 1:28:30
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58:37 do you think 2 A-bombs in farmland would've been less motivation to end world war 2 than Hiroshima and Nagasaki? We didn't need to drop those bombs on populated centres to prove capacity for total destruction, it was absolutely unnecessary. Given the atrocities of WWII they wanted to be sure. Insecurity led to atomic bombs on civilians. To suggest that was the only option is entirely ignorant and lacking in basic creativity and context. They did it to be sure, not because it was natural law like thermodynamics and immutable.
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