Comments by "secretgoldfish" (@secretgoldfish) on "The Jimmy Dore Show" channel.

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  22. No you're right ....if you want to view it with simplicity despite all of the MANY complex realities, nuances and 'diplomacy-of-convenience' speak. The UN is full of self-interested (and easily bought) folks and is a collective-idea/think-tank of diplomacy rather than a government or administration (just ask Israel) and would happily ethnically/racially group all Chinese people into one self-convenient group despite the PRC never controlling Taiwan and despite the fact that the different Chinese folks on either side have massive ideologically-different political views, ideas and systems after having divided when their civil-war NEVER ended.  The US One China Policy is simply a US diplomatic 'acknowledgment' of the PRC's desire to unite Taiwan/the mainland (and to help keep those cheap goods flowing more easily)...... and The One China Principle means two different things to both sides agreeing to it.....the Taiwanese ROC/KMT folks think that they'll run the entire show when 'united' and the PRC/CPC folks think they'll run the show when 'united', like two folks debating abortion where each side ultimately talks about something else while hoping to negate the other....or a bigger, wider (and less self-convenient) discussion. The Taiwanese understandably pay little attention to the UN, especially when the UN so easily negates them out of self-serving, self-convenience (and some financial incentives) while not even acknowledging/valuing them for what they currently are. The W.H.O declared that PRC China would handle Taiwan's pandemic needs.....knowing that the PRC would do nothing......so Taiwan took care of it themselves and far more successfully than most countries, where they were then able to supply medical goods to other countries when items like N95 masks (and ventilators etc etc) became strangely hard to come by (and when hoarded by others like baby powder/formula). Taiwan is one of the most healthy actual democracies in the world with multiple opposing and tolerated views/parties after having fought for their democracy, unlike so many other countries who have now unfortunately become apathetic to their own while strangely looking towards bigger and less democratic/sovereign entities so as to then sadly NOT have to think further/harder unfortunately.
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  58. ​ @redneckscumbags4422  You should try living there more than reading umm 'polls' and then resorting to name calling. I did (before lockdown and before returning to my own country) and I saw a proud and self determined people in a very healthy democracy constantly negated by others and outsider groups who would sadly and simply place them all into one self-serving and self-convenient racial/nationalistic basket despite the actual complex history and reality of the place (or by not exploring the nuances of 'diplomacy' not further or fully considered). There are multiple groups in Taiwan who keep the vibrancy and discussion of their democracy alive far better than most other and unfortunately apathetic democracies and folks elsewhere. Amongst them are some who apathetically accept an inevitable CPC take-over, then there are others who support the One China Principle (but think it means that they'll run the mainland when/if unified) and then there are the rest who don't want their current and democratic situation to change who have voted for the current and independent government ......despite groups like the UN constantly negating and grouping them all together while self-serving their own agendas.....or the CPC chasing their own and creepy, self-serving authoritarian pride (and ghosts of dead people they still have grievances over for a country they have never run or controlled) ......or other self-serving $hit Stirrers like Pelosi who would gladly use Taiwan as a Vietnam-like cold war hotspot (while hoping to make some more easy stock 'predictions') while also hoping to self-implode her own country out of the same cluelessness and over-desire for self-centred control.
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  89.  @Gary_oldmans_left_nut  That's why I suggested thinking a little deeper and wider! I'd probably start with the idea of unfairly leveraging-power, especially the self-convenient part of it when not personally affecting you......where all you sadly have to do is make sure to leverage against a group not you (or a minority of the total) if deciding to so calculate your democracy and thinking like a calculator (and like that old-school greek and mob-rule based democracy.....where everyone below the 51% is likely on the ar$e end of it) as your preference to the 'representative' democracy that we supposedly moved towards instead, where wiser and more thoughtful folks were supposed to represent ALL of us better (before they unfortunately sold their souls to the largest bidder of the latest self-serving umm 'idea' of course!) Smokers and fat people also die earlier.....which is also less of a burden on health systems..... in the 'calculated' long-run! Being led by 'easily-led emotion' (and easily-sold-narratives) rather than the objectivity of further (and perhaps less self-convenient) thought will ultimately just result in the 'majority' telling you that YOU are one day a threat under such simply-calculated umm democratic-thinking (now unfortunately more approximating authoritarianism!) Cow's are now being taxed for farts in NZ due to the resultant scare of ideo-thinking (and unquestioned but sold-narratives) via the same type of 'calculating' instead. I'm just glad I don't currently fart too much or have children because they'll soon be a taxable and power-leveraged item too alongside the growing narrative of fear and self-righteous supposed-'earth saving' (with a whole lot of convenient profit....for some!) at the expense of the more easily-led.....into a dehumanised form of self sabotage! When humans realise that they are simply a binary calculator, they should probably at least aspire to be become better than one, which is probably what makes us human rather than soul-lacking and dehumanised calculators of self-convenience.... while then unfortunately serving something else instead.
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  166. Jimmy has been easily-led to (justifiably in many ways) over hate his own country (like many others also led-by good intentions) while strangely not as critical of the 'just as creepy (or creepier)' control ambitions of the nasty and also massively dehumanised PRC. Anti-war is good but can also be easily manipulated unfortunately like many other manipulated ideas/concepts into ideo-based/less-questioned (non) think......... Like with folks over led by the idea that there are 'sides', when all the 'sides' strangely and happily work WITH one another when self-interested .......and at the same time AGAINST one other whenever the current (and manipulative/self-serving) ideological non-think is in a conflict (of self-convenience). Hot war with the PRC would be terrible but we've been in a soft war (which will inevitably lead to a nasty hot war) the moment folks over-prioritised cheap commoditisation but not holding folks to the principles of the supposed free market like the protection of IP or the protection against monopolies......then there's all the other manipulative warfare elements at play like an enemy being easily divided and then half won already,.......where the end (or final) solution will sadly end up being a umm 'choice' between a communist controlled authoritarian world, a corporate based fascist one ........OR a bit of both while we 'own nothing and are supposedly happy' as those mutual interests are pursued as the primary while the masses are easily distracted by the self-righteousness of emotion and an apparent (but also self-serving) WAR! Oceania is at war with Eastasia.....this week....in the meantime enjoy your Two Minutes of Hate venting to help compensate for your loss of sovereign/independent thought and self-determination which is ironically THE primary cause of your anxiety and frustration while your eyes are unfortunately held wide shut......often by a 'choice' of your own umm 'making'.
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  236. This woman is an idiot but Jimmy, like many others, has unfortunately been over-led/manipulated to hate himself and his own dodgy system (understandably so in many cases) via those (lighter than the fully ideo-devolved) left-leaning and ideological-based 'good intentions'......at the expense of not equally criticising the other dodgy ideological player (and partner) while far too easily led/manipulated to pick a dodgy/halfwit binary-side....... as manipulatively intended (where BOTH 'sides' are sadly against us while also ironically in partnership against us too when self-convenient) where he then unfortunately loses better/more considered objectivity (and some further critical thinking too) in the process (like taking the jab of a needle, despite the manipulation at play while also over-led by fear and emotion). Probably worth focussing on ALL forms of control and manipulation instead......and looking further into what is simply and unfortunately a PRC version of the umm 'polite' (but creepy) soft-power 'initiative' of IMF based debt-servitude/control/modern-colonialism....... as much as understandably hating hard-war. He should probably also look a little deeper into the history of Taiwan too and the history of what the PRC actually IS and how it actually works/manipulates (and sadly dehumanises) while so obsessed with creating its own self-serving reality...... which can strangely never be questioned at home (and increasingly abroad strangely enough now too). Yanis is also often his own worst overly-left-led enemy while confusing 'non-interventionist' or 'humanist' via his supposed ideo-led 'good intentions' (but inability to look deeper into manipulation past his own political leanings).....which is why.he's both loved and loathed for good reason by folks on ALL sides of the ideo-divide and devolvement.
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  293. Sad to think he's supposedly the protege of Carl Sagan....... "Science is more than a body of knowledge; it is a way of thinking. I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time—when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness." "We’ve arranged a global civilization in which most crucial elements- transportation, communication, and all other industries; agriculture, medicine, education, entertainment, protecting the environment; and even the key democratic institution of voting- profoundly depend on science and technology. We have also arranged things, so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for awhile, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces. For much of our history, we were so fearful of the outside world, with it’s unpredictable dangers, that we gladly embraced anything that promised to soften or explain away the terror. Science is an attempt, largely successful to understand the world, to get a grip on things, to get a hold of ourselves. To steer a safe course. Microbiology, and meteorology now explain what only a few centuries ago was considered sufficient cause to burn women to death. Avoidable human misery is more often caused by not so much by stupidity, but by ignorance, particularly ignorance about ourselves. I worry that…pseudoscience and superstition will seem year by year more tempting, the siren song of unreason more sonorous and attractive." Carl Sagan
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  366. China have easily bought off most smaller and supposedly developing countries in terms of thinking it owns Taiwan, (like how they buy off US corporations, politicians, film studios and actors like John Cena) with carrot-on-stick 'development' money competition to the dodgy imperialist/colonising IMF system....or threats of non-money. What the China-siding countries (and all of us beholden to cheap stuff from authoritarians) will ultimately get in the long run is probably the bigger thing to consider like with those controlling IMF 'loans'. Jimmy should look into both how China runs (a even bigger passive-aggressive and self-serving communist bully system than the scummy US war-bully corpro-serving system) AND also look into the actual History of Taiwan..... and not necessarily the one decided by the hopeful power-leveraging UN (who would like to conveniently box all Chinese folks into one convenient box) otherwise he'll just tard himself by being more critical of his own country's scummy 'power leveraging' and its dodgy system than the dodgy China-purchasing and 'leveraging of power' one too......all due to a 'Trump Derangement Syndrome' like distraction via those cluelessly nasty folks like Nancy and the war monger co (who all deserve the same scorn too!) I think you have to hate ALL power leveragers equally Jimmy as much as hating war......and ask which supposed lesser evil you'd like to live (and individual free-think) under which might end up being the one who does at least let you run a Youtube show despite doing their best to dismiss you. I hate warmongers too, but the biggest supposed evil in this world is actually the control of others while power-leveraging and the apathy of far too easily accepting it while unfortunately being easily (and deliberately) distracted.
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