Comments by "Matthew Ingerson" (@matthewingerson) on "JRE Clips" channel.

  1. What Joe is really concerned with -- and maybe he knows it, maybe he doesn't -- is people like Jamie Metzl. Asking the corrupt, warmongering corporatists at the Atlantic Council for opinions on values and morality is like asking a proctologist for their opinion on neurology -- they might be smart enough to give some information, but at the end of the day they are the ones with their fingers meddling in the shit.
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  2. What Joe doesn't seem to understand is this: The problems he brings up are the result of unregulated Capitalism driven by unfettered Authoritarians and bought into by uneducated simpleton-Libertarians. Capitalists say; "Pay us to help you." Libertarians say; "Help yourself." Both are exploitative and ignorant. They don't want to be on a big-American or a big-society team. They want to be on the team that includes their own high standard of living, and they don't care if that means other people have a low standard of living, and they don't care about the environment which other people have to dwell in. They certainly don't want to sacrifice anything and they certainly don't believe in equality or egalitarianism. The Capitalist-Authoritarians want to capitalize on the weaknesses of others for profit. In the case of Libertarians, they want the freedom to not concern themselves with the weaknesses, problems, or deficiencies of the plights of others. All of the solutions to the problems have been monetized and put behind a pay-wall by Capitalists. If you don't have the money to pay the Capitalists for the solutions to your problems, then you're screwed. Then, when you have finally hit rock-bottom, the Capitalists have a place for you in the form of for-profit cages (prisons). Privatization is a Capitalists dream. Whenever you hear the words 'privatization' or 'Capitalism' or any of a number of other code-words, you need to immediately recognize what that entails. What those words entail is turning the topic at hand into a profit motive. Homelessness, for example. We could use the government (which is OUR government) to collect taxes (as the Constitution allows) and we could use our government to administer programs to root out homelessness. But since our government has been taken over by Capitalists (as Larry Lessig tried to explain to Joe in a previous podcast) we have been tricked to believe that the government is incapable of solving problems. So we outsource our problems to Capitalists who want a minimum of 30% up to thousands of percentage points in return on their 'investment'. The Capitalists want to get rich from doing the moral and ethical thing. In reality, there are no strictly Capitalist or Socialist governments in the world -- every country and society has a 'mixed-economy' and each of them has varying degrees of Capitalism and Socialism. In countries with a better mix of Capitalism and Socialism, they have less homelessness, less poverty, less drug abuse, and fewer people in varying positions of desperation. I can't take credit for this, but I recently read the following: "We need to take the profit motive out of... 1. Healthcare 2. Prisons 3. Education Each of these three things directly correlates with... 1. Life 2. Liberty 3. The pursuit of happiness" I could go on, but it's sad that people, including Joe, don't understand these concepts.
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  3. @North Georgia ​Yes! Like the conservatives, neoconservatives, liberals, and neoliberals, all claiming to be Christians while promoting anti-Christ policies domestically and internationally: Voting to exclude and persecute specific people or particular lifestyles, when Christ taught that we are all equal sinners. Voting to allow children to be mistreated, when Christ taught that it would be better to be dead than to harm His children and that we all need to be like children to enter the Kingdom of Heaven. Voting to bring harm to people who have done wrong, when Christ taught us to turn the other cheek, to love our enemies, to pray for those who persecute us, and to do good to those who hate us. Voting to label certain humans as illegal, when Christ said to welcome the stranger. Voting to privatize and profitize as many things as possible, thus exploiting weaker people for their labor, thus rendering the weaker people as slaves and keeping them from Christ. Voting to enslave the masses, when Christ taught that we should treat those who do the manual labor with the same respect that we would show to God. Voting for proftized wars and violence, when Christ was anti-war and anti-violence. Voting to take the lives of other people in the name of our country, when Christ taught us to give up our own lives for our friends. Voting to prop up the for-profit healthcare industries, when Christ healed people for free. Voting to prop up the for-profit food industries, when Christ fed people for free. Voting to prop up the profitized and privatized education industries, when Christ taught people for free. Voting to cage human beings for profit, when Christ taught us to forgive those who have done wrong. Voting to allow homelessness to persist, when Christ said He was going to prepare a new home for us in Heaven for free. Voting to allow money-changers to exist, when Christ threw the money-changers out of the temple. Voting to elevate rich people while degrading and devaluing poor people, when Christ said that the way we treat the least fortunate among us is akin to treating Christ the same way. Voting to prioritize personal-wealth, when Christ and his disciples had a public community-purse. Voting to prioritize individualized-wealth, when Christ taught that it would be easier for a camel to fit through the eye of a needle than for a wealthy person to enter the Kingdom of Heaven. Voting to promote private-property and the ownership of mansions to store all of the private-property, when Christ taught us to sell our possessions, give the money to the poor, and then take up our crosses and follow Him, and to go into all the world and preach The Gospel. Voting to keep secrets from the masses, when Christ taught that the truth shall make us free. I could probably go on... But yes, never conflate the self-aggrandizing people who call themselves 'Christians' with the actual self-deprecating Christians who desire to practice what Christ preached.
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  4. @Dixie Rect Get real? It seems that you're the one living in a fantasy. You've invented a manipulated-outcome by manufacturing an unnecessary false-choice where evenhanded truer-options realistically exist. In the realm of 'developed' and 'industrialized' nations, America is more akin to a shithole than it is a bidet. We don't need to go back into the caves to provide a more equitable standard of living for all humans. However, we'll certainly need a less-vain and more-selfless, less-addicted and more-educated, populace. Equality and equity can't exist so long as the majority of people are rendered mentally-ill with addiction-disorders which comes with striving for and obtaining the dopamine-high associated with money-hoarding, material-acquisition, social-status, and easy-living. This lifestyle of habitual pizazz-distractions is exactly what keeps humans divided. While the addicted slave-people within the poor, debtor, and working-classes are continually fighting to out-do and one-up each other, the addictions of the wealthy-master lifestyle are enjoyed by a few suits who make mega wads. Stop kicking-down at those less fortunate than you. Start punching-up at those more fortunate than most. Stop elbowing side-to-side at those who are most like you. Start reaching down and lifting-up those who are more like you. We don't need to go back into the caves, but we don't need everyone, or anyone, living in mansions. We don't need anyone having multiple homes when some people don't have one home. We can meet somewhere in the middle. I don't have the worst standard of living, but it's not great either. I'm not the poorest, but I'm not rich either. But I know there are millions, if not billions of people who have it harder than I do. Despite my struggles and low-standing on the socioeconomic scale, I'm still willing to make sacrifices to my standard of living for those who have it worse than I do. Some people are just too addicted to their suits and mega wads. They've become too sickened with mental illness. That is what prevents them from making sacrifices for others. Perhaps that is you.
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  5. LOL! Someone doesn't like comments that are anti-ignorance, anti-fear, anti-anger, anti-hate, anti-violence, anti-murder, anti-war, anti-genocide. My comment has been censored a dozen times. Fuck the technocrats and plutocrats of the oligarchy.
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  6. America morons: "ChiNa iSs dOinGgG wHaT wE'vE bEeN dOiNgGgGgGgG beTtErRrR tHaN uSsSsS!!!!!!! 😭😭😭😭 🤣🤣🤣🤣
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  7. Joe should be careful. You can stand up for all of the correct and righteous social-justice efforts that you want to (like global warming/climate change), but once you go after the people who wear unnecessary makeup and wasteful jewelry (like the Kardasians and their minions wear), the attacks from hypocrites can intensify. They'll definitely lash out at you if you critique their addiction to makeup and jewelry (as I have). But the backlash can be even greater for questioning the integrity of wealthy-class hoarders (as Joe did, by making implications about Kim/law school). Ain't nobody got time to deal with the responses of wealthy-knaves, nor the poor-fools who worship them.
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  8. "The world" (presuming you're referring to the more-democratic countries of the world) is just as fed up with the authoritarian government of China as they are fed up with the authoritarian government of the USA.
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  9. ​ @BBDumfuk  I was thinking something similar. People like you are the reason some folks take the option. But you likely don't care about other human beings. This is why people like you end up on the losing side of the Paradox of Tolerance: For ye who first utilizes intolerance becomes he who is no longer tolerated. For example, the Nazi-majority; they didn't tolerate minorities, and eventually that Nazi-majority became the Nazi-minority, right after the world-majority decided to no longer tolerate the intolerance of the Nazi-majority. People like you -- the kind of person who would rather see their fellow humans murder themselves -- you always lose. In the end, hate always loses.
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  10. If you want "common sense" in a society/community, then people need to have things IN COMMON: common rights, common responsibilities, common goals, common opportunities, common education, & common outcomes. All of those things are exactly the opposite of what the wealthy-class-RWers strive for with their hierarchical RW-politics. So, if you really want "common sense" you're going to have to stop voting for the RW-extremist Repubs & moderate-RW Dems, both of which parties are bought, owned, bribed, and controlled by the wealthy-class. Otherwise, expect more of the same "common nonsense." Vote RW-extremist Repubs for the fast, open-road to fascism. Vote moderate-RW Dems for the slow, disguised-road to fascism.
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  11.  @jakmckay1957  Just found my way back here -- thank you for taking the time to read it, and for your compliment.
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