Comments by "Tony Wilson" (@tonywilson4713) on "Exposing JD Vance's Ties To Shady Religious Organization" video.

  1. Australian here - I went to college in America (late 80s). I did aerospace engineering but one of my humanities sequences was Classical Civilisation. In high School I studied (as many Australians did) Orwell (both 1984 and Animal Farm). My mother was a high school teacher who loved history and taught it when she could, but she loved explaining things from history to me. All those classes and lessons seemed like a waste of time to an engineer AND THEN Donald Trump arrived and then JD Vance and his Opus Dei goon squad added to that. YES in Australia we know who that lot are because there have been several scandals at high schools run by them. So yeah I am 100% in agreement with your comment. And for anyone else in the thread here's one of the greatest comments by any American ever. This is Henry Wallace former VPOTUS in the New York Times, April 9, 1944 “The really dangerous American fascist... is the man who wants to do in the United States in an American way what Hitler did in Germany in a Prussian way. The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information. With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power... They claim to be super-patriots, but they would destroy every liberty guaranteed by the Constitution. They demand free enterprise, but are the spokesmen for monopoly and vested interest. Their final objective, toward which all their deceit is directed, is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection."
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  2.  @AammaK  For someone claiming another person is taking a simplistic understanding of a subject you reply is incredibly simplistic. You're also ignoring that he's not talking about religion in general or belief systems in general but a particular aspect of religion that happens to be TRUE. Many civilisations DID collapse where their religious practices were a contributing factor if not the most important factor. Easter Island is a good example. If you wanted to argue that Religion wasn't the only factor in those collapses then that would be a good point.
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  3. And little did you know (like so many others) they actually existed. The only difference is the real thing is a lot more insidious than anything Dan Brown wrote.
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  4.  @maedesmond2461  yeah that Henry Wallace quote gets mentioned occasionally but never enough.
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