Comments by "Tony Wilson" (@tonywilson4713) on "Triggernometry" channel.

  1. Both my parents were high school teachers in Australia and we got to know a number of US teachers who came to Australia. Plus I went to college in America. I have friends here in Australia who are teachers. I have heard this stuff for decades. Lets not be under any illusion BOTH SIDES of politics, the radical LEFT and the radical RIGHT see schools as a battle ground for the future of Western Civilisation. They both fight these battles in insidious ways. It doesn't matter if they are religious fundamentalists trying to force feed ideology or commercial people denying climate science, technology providers promoting various technologies or social theorists using school children as lab rats. THEY ARE ALL WRONG. THEY ARE ALL DISGUSTING. THEY ALL NEED TO BE REMOVED FROM EVERY EDUCATION SYSTEM. Educating the next generation so they can contribute and help grow any society is vital for the future of any society. Allowing ANY group for almost any reason to take over part or all of that process harms the future. Every generation no matter what system eventually gets to an age where they are dependant on younger generations to provide for them. Wrecking the productivity of younger generations eventually ruins your own life. Go and look at history to see how many great empires collapsed. It was never the sole reason or problem but in amongst all of it was a failure of education that eventually caused issues.
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  2. I agree there's a a lot of nonsense in the public discussions on gender issues these days. But I am stopping when the opening remark is so idiotically bad. She said in respect of birth control "so the contraceptive pill is the first transhumanist technology it's the first major widespread, um, social you know biomedical Intervention which aims not at fixing something which has gone wrong with normal Health but upgrading normal." Sorry but that is utter BULLSHlT. People have been practising various forms of birth control going all the way back to Ancient Egypt. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_birth_control
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  3. Agreed. It took less than a minute to realise this might be one of the most important interviews to watch this year.
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  4. Way too many people title videos with words like "destroys" this is one of the very few times a video might have earned that word in the title.
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  5. Agreed. It took less than a minute to realise this might be one of the most important interviews to watch this year.
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  6. Agreed. It took less than a minute to realise this might be one of the most important interviews to watch this year.
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  7.  @lr6477  On some subjects and on others I lean right. I am not ideologically drive and I have no time or respect for ignorant clowns who are blinded by ideology.
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  8. I tend tp agree but I think he's also gliding over some very complex issues very simplistically. Take the Lab Leak. In the early it wasn't just a lab leak it was a weapon either accidentally released or deliberately released. Dr. Michael Osterholm (director of CIDRAP) and one of the few people who's been both accurate and realistic about the whole pandemic, pointed out (earlier in 2021) that between the outright natural occurrence and the leaked weapon there's 1000s of answers but only 1 is correct. Konstantin fails to point out we never got to have a rational public discussion on the origin. There other thing he completely glides over (or outright ignores) was Trumps politicizing of the issue. America is now fundamentally a 2 bipartisan tribal state where people are (by peer pressure) driven into 1 of 2 camps. The moment Trump politicized and the rest of American politics jumped into the fray there were 2 answers and nothing else was allowed to be discussed. There in lies the problem of over simplifying complex problems which is only ever made worse by politics and catastrophic by partisan politics. The number of discussable answers becomes limited because GROUP THINK TAKES OVER and you are either 100% with your group or you are the enemy. I like these guys but he's dug a bit of a hole here which we all do at times. We want or present simple answers to complex problems. Occasionally the simple answer is all we need, but that's the exception not the norm.
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  9. Francis is quite right about one thing. We have had public discourse TOTALLY HIJACKED by a tiny minority on an "ideological crusade" for want of any better description. I absolutely agree with Francis these people have made public discussion of the topic almost impossible. Where Francis is wrong however is there are these very rare cases of people, who for whatever reason are genetically caught between male and female. A famous example is the South African athlete Caster Semenya who has a testable, verifiable genetic condition. So Francis can't just say there's only male & female because there are these rare cases BUT are NOT the people being discussed. What's being discussed are people who psychologically want to identify as whatever they like. This all comes from an ideology that's been pushed before. There's the famous case of David Reimer. He had a tragic accident as a child and a psychologist named John Money stepped in. John Money claimed David would be fine raised as a girl so long as nobody told him. It ended tragically when David Reimer committed suicide. People like John Money were dismissed as fringe lunatics and cases like David Reimer's PROVED their ideas were simply WRONG. How these ideas have made a comeback is ridiculous. Just like happened with the repressed memory cases of the late 1990s that also were found to be manifestations of fringe psychology the few people who were genuine cases got lost on the mess. Others got tragically destroyed in the witch hunts as happened to a friend of mine's family. This is the problem with fringe ideologies. They cause real harm and for whatever reason the psychology community seems to attract fringe ideologies.
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  10.  @lemonblue6282  The basics are he actually knows what he's talking about. Way too often in these forums we have so called well educated people who are often talking about things they have no expertise and no real knowledge of. I'm an engineer and I see it whenever these people start talking about technology. It drives me bonkers at times how utterly stupid they are and yet think they know. What we have here isn't an academic with a theory or journalist with an opinion or some other clown. This guy was born there, speaks Russian as a native, has family there and is in contact with them. Everyone should STFU and listen to him.
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  11.  @chrischestarrow9031  As I said I went to college in America. It was the late 80s but even then there were signs America was in decline. I was very lucky in that I went to a very good school and did aerospace engineering, but even there among the American students there were signs. They had such a poor grasp of the rest of the world. In high school I had read both Orwell's Animal Farm and 1984. Our teachers were of the opinion that we should understand why the Soviet system and totalitarian rule weren't good things. My American classmates knew the Soviet System wasn't good but it was an impossibility to them that America could ever fall into that trap. One hand they were right the US Constitution had mechanisms designed to prevent a dictatorship ever happening. What they never could grasp that powerful people with bad intentions always find ways around those obstacles. The biggest problem right now is that almost every public discussion gets hijacked by people wanting to drag every discussion into the most jet black versus jet white hyper argument. The world isn't black and white, its 7.8 billion shades of grey. Worse is that these people who hijack public discussions often point the finger and just scream about how "the other side does X, Y & Z. The worst things possible," while they do the same basic thing(s). This issue with indoctrination in education is a perfect example. Both sides scream about the other side doing what they do.
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  12. Absolutely spot on. And he's saying some stuff that a lot of Western politicians wont like.
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  13. Very interesting comment. I'm an Australian engineer and I have worked with numerous German companies and their engineering people over the the last 30+ years. I've always seen the Germans as very pragmatic with technology yet that seems to have changed dramatically. I think what your suffering is from people so ideologically driven they will ignore common sense and reality. Both the Left and Right can doit easily. We see the American Right doing it now. A few years ago I heard how the Germans spent €1.3 Trillion on renewables to REDUCE emissions. The Greens then forced the closure of the nuclear power instead of the coal power. Instead of emissions going down they went up. Its insane for a Green party to chose higher emissions over reducing emissions and its a lot of emissions. Most of the worlds coal fired power stations are not only old they are also inefficient which means they pump out a lot more CO2 than newer technology. So the German Greens are either so ideologically driven they're blind to reality or they've been infiltrated. In Australia we've just started passing new environmental that might prevent every project unless they do not damage the environment. The problem is almost every human activity damages the environment in some way. Food production, cotton production, every metal we use including recycling does some sort of damage. The materials we make wind turbines and solar panels out of do some sort of damage. Almost everything we do, does some sort of environmental damage. I love that the Greens want to save the planet. I really do, but unless they are going to behave sensibly they have to start being practical. We need to turn the coal fired power stations off. We need to delay forcing electric cars until the infrastructure exists. We can save extraordinary amounts of energy with building efficiency like triple glazing all the office towers.
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  14. I agree there's a a lot of nonsense in the public discussions on gender issues these days. But I am stopping when the opening remark is so idiotically bad. She said in respect of birth control "so the contraceptive pill is the first transhumanist technology it's the first major widespread, um, social you know biomedical Intervention which aims not at fixing something which has gone wrong with normal Health but upgrading normal." Sorry but that is utter BULLSHlT. People have been practising various forms of birth control going all the way back to Ancient Egypt. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_birth_control
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  15.  @rosemaryalles6043  Thanks. A couple of clowns have missed that I think this interview was brilliant except for one stupid remark that was out of step with the rest of it. I have said this might be one of the best interviews I have seen anyone do on YT. But that 1 moment just busted the mood. I don't know of anyone calling themselves progressive in any way shape or form who thinks that way at all. What Konstantin talked about was an ideology prevalent among psychologists and sociologists about nature verses nurture. What's that got to do with progressives. All progressive basically means is that you want to see change, in the form of progress and that can mean many things. That can even apply to people on the right because there are people on the political right who want to see progress on things like the economy and industrial development of new technologies. Its one of the stupidest things that happens in the world these days. People take 1 person or 1 comment or 1 idea or 1 event and use that as the principle description or quality or generalisation of everyone in the associated group. Sometimes its 100% accurate and other times so idiotically wrong its bewildering.
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  16. FARK GUYS - I love so many of your conversations but what I can't stand is this stream of hyper-funded radical Right Wing clowns. I know you have Lefties on every so often like you did with David Pakman AND I know he acted in bad faith to you guys with a short video on his channel. I called out his bad faith on that and I got panned by some of his fans. Because the one thing I cannot stand are people who act in bad faith. Marion presents a lot of facts I agree with but I cannot stand his bad faith or the sneakiness with which he does it. For instance his claim that the energy crisis is from bad policy is 100% true BUT the claim or inference that it is totally due to Green policies is one of the worst lies being perpetrated on the planet. Yes without doubt the Greens have been very vocal on changing the source of energy to green technologies but that is only a fraction of the story. FIRST: Power stations do not last forever. They have a basic lifetime of 20-30 years which can be extended to around 50 years with rebuilds and overhauls. But no matter what is done they reach a point where they are done. So this time period where we need to build new power stations has been coming for decades. The difference in public opinion is over what type of power generation. SECOND: NOBODY has kept up with the power demands in developed nations. I'm an engineer and found out several years ago that my country (Australia) has a huge problem. We haven't built any new large bulk delivery power stations since the 1990s. We've built a few smaller power stations and some wind and solar farms but no large scale bulk delivery. I call these power stations Gigawatt class power stations because they can deliver more than 1,000 Megawatts (1 Gigawatt) of power constantly 24/7. THIRD: The Energy generation issue is 100% an economic issue. Britain is currently building one of the very few Gigawatt class power stations anywhere in the world with Hinkley Point C that has been commenced since the year 2000. Its also an economic lesson that explains the problem. Hinkley Pt. C took 7 years to approve and will take 10 years to build with a planned commissioning date of 2027. At £26 Billion pounds those 17 years are impossible to economically justify to any private corporation. Most CEOs are over 60 with many over 70 and a few very influential CEOs over 80 with a couple over 90. The same can be said for many politicians. How do you justify to people of that age to invest that much when they wont see anything for 17 years. Other large scale power generation plants might not take as long as a nuclear power station but when you're building Gigawatt class power generation NOTHING IS SIMPLE OR QUICK. As an engineer I can't begin to explain how angry people like Marion get me with the economic rationalism and other garbage. They are never the people who have to deal with building a mine or factory or power station or water treatment plant, but they tell people like me to get it done and deal with the issues THEY CREATE.
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  17. I wouldn't say perfect (although it is very good) because he's also gliding over some very complex issues very simplistically. Take the Lab Leak. In the early it wasn't just a lab leak it was a weapon either accidentally released or deliberately released. Dr. Michael Osterholm (director of CIDRAP) and one of the few people who's been both accurate and realistic about the whole pandemic, pointed out (earlier in 2021) that between the outright natural occurrence and the leaked weapon there's 1000s of answers but only 1 is correct. Konstantin fails to point out we never got to have a rational public discussion on the origin. There other thing he completely glides over (or outright ignores) was Trumps politicizing of the issue. America is now fundamentally a 2 bipartisan tribal state where people are (by peer pressure) driven into 1 of 2 camps. The moment Trump politicized and the rest of American politics jumped into the fray there were 2 answers and nothing else was allowed to be discussed. There in lies the problem of over simplifying complex problems which is only ever made worse by politics and catastrophic by partisan politics. The number of discussable answers becomes limited because GROUP THINK TAKES OVER and you are either 100% with your group or you are the enemy. I like these guys but he's dug a bit of a hole here which we all do at times. We want or present simple answers to complex problems. Occasionally the simple answer is all we need, but that's the exception not the norm.
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  18.  @MrAgonizomai  WHEN YOU ADMIT YOU ARE DELIBERATELY TRYING TO AGGRAVATE SOMEONE DON'T COMPLAIN WHEN THEY GET AGGRESSIVE.
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  19.  FPT Bot  Its not that it doesn't exit, but like so many things the people screaming the loudest are opportunists NOT victims. Good example - Ted Cruz, who's Princeton and Harvard Law educated and married to a Goldman Sachs senior manager. He doesn't play the victim but the champion of the victim FOR POLITICAL REASONS. TC's far from alone in that. There's literally 100s if not 1000s of cynical political actors playing the "champion of the victim" routine and when anyone digs a little its hot air, PR and illusion.
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  20. Good comment. You've described just 1 out of dozens of issues people like Robert Zubrin prefer to ignore. I am an aerospace engineer and he's been pretty much dismissed by the entire sector. He created a lot of enthusiasm when he started the Mars Society and got people to start redressing some of the failures of NASA, ESA,... but it didn't take that long for it to revert into a delusional club where science fiction mattered more than actual science.
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  21.  @zxyatiywariii8  Thanks, people need to keep reminding everyone that it doesn't matter which ideology they rant about extremists FK everything they touch.
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  22. Yeah 2 weeks later how do you feel? Go watched the other video where Konstantin Kisin sits opposite his mate Francis and explains Putin's speech where Putin claimed that Ukraine should not even exist. Nigel Farage as usual showed he actually hasn't a damn clue. Remember back when he won his precious Brexit vote. Forgetting if it was right or wrong, the FACT is he immediately resigned from the team. What that meant was that (1st) he didn't expect to win and (2nd) he had NO idea what to do if they won. He had no plan, no ideas and simply threw 67million Brits under his Brexit bus. Like Trump he's another walking talking lump of populist garbage who has no solutions to ANYTHING and creates disasters for other people to clean up..
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  23.  @belladonnahigh9206  Total BS. Like many others I am damn tired of IDIOTIC MORONS claiming their side did nothing and its all the fault of the other side. The Republicans, Democrats, the British parties, the Australian parties, the Canadian parties and ALL THE OTHERS all do the same shite and their moronic supporters all do the same thing. "Your side is corrupt and my side is the savior of humanity." You scream and rant about Biden, MSNBC, CNN and others while ignoring how corrupt Trump, Fox, OANN are. You scream about Hunter Biden and a laptop NOBODY has seen. Fine he used daddy's name to get a job and that's shite. Now when are YOU going to admit Jared & Ivanka are as corrupt as all hell. I've had a gutful of shite people LIKE YOU ranting about the other side while ignoring your own side.
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  24.  @christinesmith1499  You are absolutely right, but unfortunately when there are podcasts willing to take money for content then he will have access to public discourse.
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  25.  @hrbeta  Nice try at being logical but Nigel has been found out. In fact for anyone paying attention he was found out when he didn't have the guts or brains to see the Brexit negotiations through. Of all the BS from both sides about Brexit that was the MOST PATHETIC of all.
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  26.  @andrewreaney  I agree with your first paragraph but not the second. The simplest fact is that ANYTMIE any US politician opens their mouth they make the situation political. Trump amplified everything wrong with Western Politics There's so much hypocrisy from all sides. Look at Pelosi's hypocrisy. Last year Kelly Loeffler was caught insider trading and should have gone to jail. This year Nancy Pelosi says its all fine when politicians do it. Trump and the GOP scream about Hunter Biden but wont even discuss Jared and Ivanka. Just imagine how Trump and the GOP would behave if Joe gave Hunter a job in the White House?
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  27.  @davidhenry5128  I'll give the same 2 questions EVERY engineer gets asked for every proposal they have. What's the business case for that? Who's going to pay for it?
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  28.  @dohlecarnett1866  Well Germany did invest heavily in renewables. €1.3 trillion is the number I heard. But they didn't have the energy storage to go with it. Some of the detractors of what happened like Michael Schellenberger have also stupidly missed that the German engineers did learn from what happened. One thing they learned is that of you balance the wind and solar installations better you can save as much as 25% on what you need to install to replace the coal and nuclear that's turned off. That 25% can go into storage and that makes for an even better system. I find it frustrating that so little of this gets discussed, but then that's the big problem. All the vested interests including the Greens are so busy hoggin the microphone that the engineers never get heard. You are right to say its not just the Greens but they are a massive part of the problem because they wont compromise and help with planning the transition. Worst of all they wont listen to the engineers. The nuclear industry isn't much better. I'd slap them if I was allowed. But the coal industry is the worst by far.
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  29. There is one comment in this that I do find insanely offensive and that's the remark by Konstantin Kisin at 1:08:20 when he starts talking about the philosophy of progressives "does not believe in the existence of bad people" would have to be one of the stupidest things I have heard any commentator make in recent years. Other than being wrong it flies in the face of reality. If he wants to deal with the radical far left social justice warriors then fine I'll hand him a club to beat them with. BUT for farksake don't go labelling broad slabs of society as mindless radicals with no grasp of reality. I have never heard any progressive ever claim bad people don't exist.
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  30.  @The1stMrsO  Its still a ridiculous statement and that's what I am really getting fed up with in the woke public discussions. There's just so much hyperbole and bad faith claims from BOTH sides. I don't know about you but I an getting fed up with the endless discussions when we have some far bigger issues to deal with. I'm an engineer and the energy crisis is only going to get so much worse than it is because there's been so much public BS that the real issues are being lost in all this endless cacophony.
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  31. As an engineer I absolutely get where you are coming from BUT just saying if they don't support nuclear they are a fool and liar is being just as ridiculous and pig headed as the anti-nuclear Greenies. Everybody needs to stop making ridiculous claims how this or that technology is the only solution. You mention options which is great. The first thing you need to understand with options is that what works in one place might not work anywhere else or it might work in many places or it might be the WORST option in some other places. This is the basic thing that infuriates me as an engineer. There's all these people who are not engineers making all these claims that might be true in some instances and totally untrue in others. In Canad hydro is great they have lots of water and suitable valleys, but its basically useless for solar. Over in North Africa hydro is useless they don;t have any suitable rivers but they have lots of wide open spaces and endless sun for solar. The most important thing going forward is that all non-engineering people need to SHUT T F UP. Either that or they can all go off to college for 4 years bust there ass learning what they need then spend a decade or 2 learning how to do projects and build stuff and then they might start being worth listening too.
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  32.  @squoblat  I got a blunt lesson in these practicalities circa 2002 from a classmate who at the time was in the ISS construction program. These days she's at a level where if you don't have her signature your stuff isn't going to the ISS. At that time my idea was satellite servicing. There was $14 Billion in functioning satellites being dumped into the ocean each year for no other reason than they'd run out of fuel. At that time I was doing automation systems for manufacturing and the best and most reliable money in that game isn't installing robots and programing them its maintenance. My proposal wasn't new. I was actually rehashing previous proposals. She quite bluntly crushed it with the reality that we didn't have the life support or propulsion to do that task. I know it was circa 2002 because around the same time I also met Harrison Schmitt (Apollo 17) who was here in Australia for the 30th anniversary of his mission. I got to talk to him and told him what I had discussed previously with that friend at NASA. He crushed it with another reality - launch access. if you want to work in space you need launch access and servicing satellites instead of replacing them would smash the launch industry who are the very people you need launch access from. Then he told me something else _"Go have a look at Helium-3. Right at that time Australia was just starting a decade long boom in mining construction. So I had the brilliant (or not) idea that if I combined actual remote mine site construction experience with what I already had the consortium wanting to build a lunar Helium-3 mine they'd see that experience favorably. What I got out of it was a brutal set of practical lessons and to this day (as far as I know) I am the only aerospace engineer to have ever worked in that environment. Remote mines have several stages of life. 1) Remote survey by satellites and airplanes. 2) On the ground survey. Usually a couple of geologists with a 4WD, some shovels & picks. 3) Drill program where they send out a drilling rig, drill rig team, support hardware and do a drilling program. 4) Site construction 5) Operations I can tell you that Apollo was the equivalent of stage 2. A couple of guys doing a site survey and picking up some samples to test back at the lab. I can tell the amount of hardware needed for stage 3 is staggering. At stage 2 you only need something like a Toyota Landcruiser. At stage 3 you need Mack trucks and 3-5 of them at least, plus a few Landcruisers. You need to set up a place for the crew to live for 3-4 months, that includes toilets, showers, food storage, communications, fuel storage,.... AND A SUPPLY LINE because you keep consuming water, food & fuel. Then if a mine is going to be built BEFORE you even start you have to build a camp for the 100s (maybe several 1000) workers to live in. At that point you are now talking things like a power station, air field, fuel dump, mess hall & kitchen, fresh water treatment plant and a sewerage treatment plant. At that point you haven't even started on the actual mine. the actual first thing that has to be built is the workshop, because the moment you start the actual site construction (the hole and the dirt processing plant) you have bulldozers, diggers, cranes and all sorts of hardware doing work that requires maintenance. Nobody has even done a drilling program to actually ascertain what resources are available or even considered how that would be supported. Just a basic workshop to support the basic work means several tons of hardware launched off the planet flown to the moon, and landed on the moon. Just trying to cover these basic concepts with the sci-fi fantasy league is so frustrating. I spent a chunk of my career working some real crap places so I could actually answer questions like "What are the basics of the task of setting up a moon base?" Sorry for the long answer, but I think your one of the few people who can grasp this stuff.
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  33.  @belladonnahigh9206  You just started by contradicting your first comment. You say its not your side and you took a side. People like are so full of shite and you don't even know how full if shite you are. You said I'm from California. What a bullshit assumption. FYI - I'm Australian but went to college in Illinois on a sports scholarship. I utterly HATE what the Dems, GOP and media have done to America. I hate STUPID people like you because you take these idiotic stances of "my side is perfect and their side is corrupt." We have the same stupidity here but NOT YET as toxic despite people trying. I just watched an interview with Rick Wilson on DW where he goes on about how Trump is so corrupt and how toxic the GOP now is. What's foul about his claims is that he was one of the main architects of over 1,000 toxic GOP campaigns and that's his OWN ADMISSION.
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  34.  @Angel-te2jt  Thanks and your right its all gone tribal. Have you listened to Mark Blyth? In writing the book Angrynomics with Eric Lonergan they both talk about sports fans and in particular football (soccer) fans because when they're in the UK they go to matches. Apparently at one such game they realised where the anger was often aimed. It wasn't at the other side or the other fans or the referee or even their own team. Most of the anger is fans against other fans in their group for insufficient loyalty. He talks about it often here's one example at 29:35 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJH0LIKdC-A What are we seeing right now among Trump supporters and the way they react to each other and the rest of the conservatives? Look at the threats they throw at each other and usually its over loyalty to "the team."
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  35. @Hellig Usvart I haven't copied or pasted a single thing DK-HED. Like all your soft cok kind you can't handle facts.
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  36.  @menzicosce  Great way to describe them "anyone whose dream in life is to be in power over others should be naturally suspect." I wonder if that is considered an characteristic of narcissism or a consequence of narcissism?
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  37.  @menzicosce  I had to check the reference. I like PF a lot but never had that album. And you are dead right - the opening verse. Take all your overgrown infants away somewhere And build them a home, a little place of their own. The Fletcher Memorial Home for Incurable Tyrants and Kings.
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  38. Yeah and maybe somebody should ask this clown why he didn't have a plan for Brexit? If he is so damn smart why didn't he step forward and help negotiate WHAT HE MADE HAPPEN? You should wake up that this clown has a lot of answers but NO SOLUTIONS. FYI - I'm Australian and this clown was here recently speaking more of his crap and nonsense. Do the world a favor and keep this clown in your back yard and keep him out of other people's business.
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  39. Go watched the other video where Konstantin Kisin sits opposite his mate Francis and explains Putin's speech where Putin claimed that Ukraine should not even exist. Nigel Farage as usual showed he actually hasn't a damn clue. Remember back when he won his precious Brexit vote. Forgetting if it was right or wrong, the FACT is he immediately resigned from the team. What that meant was that (1st) he didn't expect to win and (2nd) he had NO idea what to do if they won. He had no plan, no ideas and simply threw 67million Brits under his Brexit bus. Like Trump he's another walking talking lump of populist garbage who has no solutions to ANYTHING and creates disasters for other people to clean up..
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  40.  @liinav.3808  Moron, his job is to question people and get answers. Idiots like you are so wrapped in the tribalism you can't see reality.
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  41.  @djknox2  Bottom line is Dj they aren't correct and a lot of us are fed up having to repeat the same evidence again and again. Here's the data from NOAA that actually counts along with the NASA page on this: NOAA: https://www.climate.gov/news-features/understanding-climate/climate-change-atmospheric-carbon-dioxide NASA: https://climate.nasa.gov/evidence/ I'm an aerospace engineer not a climate scientist. These days I work in control systems which are the computers that run processing plants, factories and mine sites. Part of my job is setting up the alarms so that operators are alerted when something isn't right. Just like the little warning lights in your car. I can tell you for a fact that if this was any sort of industrial plant we would have already shut down about 70 or more years ago because it was so far outside normal. To give that perspective how far CO2 is out of normal its like running the 100m in about 7seconds flat. Can you imagine of somebody just appeared and ran that fast. Would everybody stand back and applaud or would they start demanding drug tests? Imagine if one of the Formula 1 teams was suddenly 20-30seconds faster than everyone else. Do you really think the other teams would just go "wow" or do you think they would be screaming for the stewards to inspect the car? Well that's what people like Patrick Moore are asking us to all do. They are asking us to ignore the data and ignore all the other scientists and ignore the extraordinary state the planet is in and just accept what they say.
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  42. Yeah and maybe somebody should ask this clown why he didn't have a plan for Brexit? If he is so damn smart why didn't he step forward and help negotiate WHAT HE MADE HAPPEN? You should wake up that this clown has a lot of answers but NO SOLUTIONS. FYI - I'm Australian and this clown was here recently speaking more of his crap and nonsense. Do the world a favor and keep this clown in your back yard and keep him out of other people's business.
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  43. Your part right. At the moment in America the violence is certainly from the right, but even then its not all from the right. Further if you look outside America there's certainly radical left wingers who are violent. Jordan Peterson makes the point that its pretty easy to spot right wingers when they go to far - they become racist. Its far harder to put a similar metric on the left. Go back and look into the left wing terrorists that rampaged across Europe. Some of them were insanely violent. One of the odd differences between the right and left is their steps into violence. Its not always true but the right tend to do it gradually or in stages, property damage then physically hurting people and then killing. The left tend to just snap and simply start destroying everything in their path. Go look at historical leftist revolutions and how destructive they were - like the French Revolution, its was insane.
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  44. Yeah how do you feel 2 weeks later. Go watched the other video where Konstantin Kisin sits opposite his mate Francis and explains Putin's speech where Putin claimed that Ukraine should not even exist. Nigel Farage as usual showed he actually hasn't a damn clue. Remember back when he won his precious Brexit vote. Forgetting if it was right or wrong, the FACT is he immediately resigned from the team. What that meant was that (1st) he didn't expect to win and (2nd) he had NO idea what to do if they won. He had no plan, no ideas and simply threw 67million Brits under his Brexit bus. Like Trump he's another walking talking lump of populist garbage who has no solutions to ANYTHING and creates disasters for other people to clean up..
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  45. She also nailed the biggest issue the left across the entire Western Developed World have. The Left DON'T have clear answers or plans for working class people. That's staggering considering the left are historically associated with the working class. Ideas like coal workers simply retraining as coders doing apps is bullshit. I'm an engineer and know how much that's BS. On the flip side she completely regurgitated the right wing bullshit on Obama Care, which was actually a rebadged Mitt Romney policy. On that subject she behaved like any other right wing partisan hack. She was also consistently against the left as if they are ALL far left. I agree on most of what she says about the FAR left, but they don't represent a lot of left leaning people just as the far right don't represent a lot of the right. She never compared the far left to the far right or what they do that's very similar and equally revolting. Its possible her work as part of Fox makes her NOT want to acknowledge that. She's very right about being able to talk about things. If you go back to Jordan Peterson's famous outdoor speech about the freedom to use words its similar. He said you have to be able to use words and discuss things even if they are uncomfortable or you'll never solve the problems that exist. On the rest of it she's pretty much spot on considering I'm commenting 9 moths later. It has stayed tribal and it has stayed ugly. The Afghanistan evacuation just ended (or the main part of it did) and the GOP hacks are screaming about how bad its been as they forget and ignore that Trump did the deal with the Taliban. There's one thing I absolutely agree on. Joe Biden is NOT the solution to America's problems. He's too tied to the other side of America's corporate establishment. He hired economic advisors out of Goldman Sachs and Blackrock just like Trump did. That stuff is really at the core of Americas wealth and division issues. And that's been covered up by the failed media empires of which she has been a part.
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  46. Great comment and you are right all across the board. I'm an aerospace engineer and I hate to break it to you but the bulk of this audience don't care for scientific facts. I beta my head against the wall at times with the nonsense some of these people push. Robert Zubrin has been dismissed so many times that serious people aren't interested in his nonsense any more. The things he's right about he is right. NASA did lose its way after Apollo and many technologies we did need to develop either stalled or died. I loved the initial enthusiasm of the Mars Society to do stuff because it started to redress that. But then he and the Mars Society just reverted into this delusional science fiction fantasy nonsense. There was NEVER a serious Mars mission planned for 1980 or Saturn by 1990 or Alpha Centauri by 2000. I can barely believe some of the nonsense he's said here. That claim about matter not being able to be made or destroyed. Sorry but Einstein not only worked that out he gave is the formula E=mc². Then he claimed the moon has no carbon or nitrogen and yet IT DOES, its just in very small amounts. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_resources#Carbon_and_nitrogen. You've pointed out that nobody has worked out how to make a stable self sustaining ecology with enough plant life so we can process waste and produce food, clean water and breathable air. Yes people have been at that but nobody has come close to cracking it. Its not that its impossible its just that its so damn hard because biologival systems are incredibly complex. I find it very frustrating that he's found a way to grab the microphone again and again. I don't mind him talking about the things that need saying but peddling science fiction as science fact helps nobody. It's why NASA and others want so little to do with him these days.
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  47.  R D  Yeah like so many other scammers and the Trig boys have too many of them on and NEVER challenge them
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  48.  @diatonicdelirium1743  Please don't be yet another pompous clown. Its quite simply a bullshit claim that's more hyperbole than fact. And to be sure I don't give a damn which side of the woke argument she's on. I am tired of the bad faith FROM BOTH SIDES of the woke discussion.
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  49.  @diatonicdelirium1743  Yeah and the same thing back to you. Your the same as so many clowns on social media. You think your a whole magnitude smarter than you actually are. Its a BULLSHlT comment in yet another BULLSHiT waste of time public discussion on a subject that has no place when there are REAL ISSUES worth discussing. Go watch Konstantin's debate on the channel Unherd about Ukraine. THAT'S WORTH YOUR TIME, not this woke and anti-woke nonsense.
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  50. ​ @MrAgonizomai  Don't try that smug self righteous crap ON ANYONE. The only people that ever need that sort of advice are the smug arrogant clowns handing it out. On the basic premise of how feminism conned women I actually was interested in hearing what Marry Harrington had to say. Just over 20 years ago Australian journalist Virginia Haussegger let fly at the feminists with a landmark news article titled "The Sins of our Feminist Mothers." It caused a shitstorm when published, because she told a number of very hard truths. She ended up writing a book about it. Clowns like Germaine Greer went nuts because a number of their lies were exposed. SO I WAS INTERESTED in what the next take on this subject was and instead Marry Harrington opens with stupidity and more of this woke/anti-woke culture war BULLSHlT. So welcome to some enlightenment you ARROGANT SMUG SHlT
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  51.  @ironmonkey1512  I wasn't discussing efficacy I was pointing out that the very first comment in this was just another BULLSHlT lump of hyperbole in a culture war between 2 groups of M0R0NS who have completely lost site of reality. You anti-woke clowns are just as ridiculous as the woke clowns you rage about.
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  52.  @MrAgonizomai  Because anyone with a brain can spot yet another FULL of SHlT woke/anti-woke culture clown in an instant AND NONE OF THEM ARE WORTH ANYONE's TIME. AND THE ONLY PEOPLE who spend time listening to them are lDlOTIC CULTURE WARRIORS WHO HIDE BEHIND ANONYMOUS TAGS.
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  53. ​ @jeffk464  Its staggering how people claim that the mainstream media should not be listened to because they have agendas and narratives AND THEN THOSE SAME PEOPLE TURN to Bloggers, Facebook, Tik Tok, YouTuber outlets as if those outlets don't have agendas or narratives.
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  54.  @madeinengland1212  I NEVER SAID THERE WASN'T Do any of you culture war clowns EVER listen?
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  55. Here's something for all you culture war clowns to consider since one of you question if I am an engineer or not. According to the title of this video "Progress is Bad for Women." As an engineer let me ask all of you culture war clowns. Do you think that since progress is bad for women that us engineers should turn off the Tampax, Star Free and Libra factories? Because I know a lot of men would be grateful if they didn't have football games on TV interrupted with adds for tampons. Maybe there's another item of progress we can do away with - the washing machine. It only unburdened women enough that it allowed them to go to school and be educated. I'm fairly certain there are a lot of men out there who'd like to see women a lot less educated and they'd see putting women back in the laundry doing everything by hand for day after day would be a good start. On the other hand I tend to think the progress has been pretty good for women. Its just the some are too stupid to realise it.
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  56.  @MrAgonizomai  NEVER TRY and tell somebody what they are and what they aren't is the ultimate in arrogant hubris. But then while the woke live in their fantasy realm of delusion the anti-woke live with the comfort blanket of arrogant hubris. What's common to both is insane self righteousness. DON'T complain when people tell you and the woke clowns FK-OFF. The rest of us have real work to do.
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  57.  @MrAgonizomai  You call someone a piece of crap 20 times in a row and wonder why they want to P⋃NCH you in face and tell you to F⋃CK OFF.🤦‍♂🤦‍♂ Next time you and any other from the woke-antiwoke brigades want to call someone ignorant look in the mirror.
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  58.  @MrAgonizomai  And so we are getting through this. Being a pedantic self righteous smug arrogant ignorant M0R0N who thinks they play people like violins IS BASICALLY THE ULTIMATE in being a pedantic self righteous smug arrogant ignorant M0R0N. Psychologically speaking being someone who thinks the way you do is called SOCIOPATHIC NARCISSISM
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  59.  @dohlecarnett1866  Then who spent €1.3 Trillion on renewables? And who chose to shut down the German nuclear power stations?
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  60. Its sad to say that David's acted in bad faith on this and I think its because you dented his American self superiority on a few points. Calling you guys right wing is utterly stupid on his behalf and he really should apologise. FYI - I'm Australian but went to college in America and Americans have a ridiculously skewed concept of what's right and left in politics. I did engineering but ended up in lots of political discussions surrounded by other university students as I was. Like most things American its NOT simple and my apologies for the longish answer. Due to being told for multiple generations that America is the Greatest Nation on Earth and now finding out that's NOT true. Remember they won 2 World Wars (just ask them) and have now lost or failed to win almost every conflict since. They've been humiliated in both Iraq and Afghanistan just as they were in Vietnam. They are having a hard time dealing with ANYONE from any other nation that challenges them intellectually and you guys pushed back hard and refused to concede some points. I don't think he's bad guy but I think he's acted in bad faith on this and does need to apologise. Further to trying to explain part of his reaction. Part of it comes from the very American centric education he's been brought up with. Typical of many Americans he has no real understanding of how the rest of the world views LEFT & RIGHT politics. One of his college Professors is noted teacher of Marxist Economics Richard Wolff. So David sees himself as very LEFTIST. The problem is America has no real LEFT and never did. It actually has 2 competing versions of right wing capitalism. Americans talk about left and right but they are more like opposite sides of the same coin. Like all coins no matter which way its up it still has the same value. There's American Liberalism which is based on the idea of a sound set of regulations so that everyone has a fair chance at making it rich. Then there's American Realism which is based on the concept that people are selfish and will do whatever they feel is in their best interests as in "I might as well forget rules and just do whatever makes me rich." Make no bones about it both sides of America consider being rich the #1 thing. The liberals just think they are doing it playing inside the rules they believe everyone should play by, while the realists don't care so long as they win.
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  61.  @michaelk.jensen1611  For starters try writing clear sentences. If you go over to David's channel here on YT he has a video titled "Progressive Double-Teamed by Right-Wingers, DISASTER" ->https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_KO72BIfEU What's the disaster? There's actually no commentary by David or any of his people explaining anything about what was disastrous. What there is a 20 minute EDITED version of their discussion. If you go back a year David didn't do much click baiting, and I've been watching him for a couple of years. He's done some click baiting BUT that title is really bad as such with that title acting in bad faith. In the past he's done the occasional "it doesn't end well" title and some of those have nothing controversial, but then as far as click baiting goes David's a 1 out of 10 on a platform infested with 10 out of 10s. Do I think the guys at Triggernometry are completely innocent in this? NO - I think that whole discussion on transgender people in prison was handled badly by BOTH sides. They were BOTH trying to win points and make the other person "concede" something. It was a stupid stance by both of them because it SOLVED NOTHING. There is an idiotic behavior among some people that dictates they have to dominate others and score points. IT DOES NOTHING and IT SOLVES NOTHING. As I said I am an engineer and I see the same types of arguments between the pro-wind/solar people and the pro-nuclear people with respect to clean energy solutions. I'm tired of them. They cherry pick all sorts of information and come up with specific cases to make points that have no real basis for generating a solution. I'm tired of people making bad faith arguments or spinning arguments around in circles that SOLVE NOTHING. If you look at their transgender argument. Does David have a point that a 5'3" effeminate trans-male is likely to be brutalised in a male prison? YES, and we have only 1 other option so what do we do? Konstantin - no answer except denial. Did Konstantin have a valid point that only having that 1 other option is bad? YES, and did David conceded that only having 1 other option isn't acceptable? NO he just pushed the you must concede line. ALL BOTH of them wanted was to win a point without conceding anything. AND THEY SOLVED NOTHING. And while they continue this spat they will SOLVE NOTHNG.
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  62.  @michaelk.jensen1611  If your going to argue points do it clearly or wait until you get to a computer. Going to your top point here about the transgender argument there is an answer, but all both wanted to do was NOT CONCEDE anything to the other side AND THAT SOLVES NOTHING. I deal with these sorts of problems all the time as an engineer. No matter what anyone wants you mostly have to do with what's available. Best example ever was Apollo 13 and the CO2 filters. Nobody cared squat about what would be best. They had to make a filter with what they had or they died. That's the bit where Konstantin's I wont accept those options was idiotic bad faith and it really was idiotic bad faith. David's point: I have this prisoner. In Prison A they will be beaten, raped and possibly murdered. In Prison B they will be alive and safe. What do we do? Konstantin I don't accept those options as if he gets to make them. That's stupid and arrogant. David's insistence on getting a concession was just stupid. Then click baiting it as a disaster was childish at best idiotically stupid at worst BECAUSE IT SOLVED NOTHING. The correct resolution (and this is taught in any basic resolution class or exercise) is: Fine we need a 3rd option but that will take time. Between now and then do I put this person in Box A where they will die or in Box B where they will be safe until Box C is ready? That gets an agreeable answer with a future even more agreeable answer.
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  63.  @nevbarnes1034  Yes I got that but its still a ridiculous statement to label millions of people according to what one person wrote. This is one of the biggest problems with almost any public discussion these days. idiots rushing to label and box people into very tightly cramped pigeon holes. BOTH the Far Left and FAR Right are so quick to stamp labels on people and suddenly it crunches the discussion. Todays discussion is one that needs to happen and Coleman's insight is so great that suddenly trying to stamp such a stupid label on millions of people is simply idiotic. Even worse is that Konstantin is usually well above such ridiculous stuff. When Russia first invaded Ukraine he was one of a few voices anywhere in the world who spoke common sense. Its really disappointing to see someone who's normally so sharp to be so stupid.
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  64.  @OoO-rf2gt  I watched the lot. So what's your point?
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  65.  @OoO-rf2gt  What am I wrong about smartass? He's quoted a single person and attributed a grandiose generalised claim that does not hold true to millions of people and that's stupid. And what have you done other than been an arrogant clown who can't even back up his own claims except put up an emoji? Its people like you why the world is so FKD these days. You think arrogance and self righteousness is a solution when its not even an answer answer.
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  66.  @KhorneBrzrkr  Yeah but that's NOT progressive. That entire nature versus nurture thing is a psychology or sociology discussion it has NOTHING to do with anyone's politics. Its one of the worst generalisations I have seen anyone do.
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  67. ​ @godsrevolver9737  Hey DlCKHEAD he said what he said and the reason why I cannot stand DlCKHEADS like you Konastantin AND the Radical Left is you all either hijack language or you wait until the other side hijacks language and then exploit it. And so you know one of Orwell's main themes in 1984 was the hijacking of language. That's what doublespeak is all about. First example - the word woke only applied to the economic state of African Americans since it was first used in the blues music in the 1950s. THEN out of nowhere the radical Left (who I can't farking stand) hijacked it. to mean anything the Social Justice warrior brigades wanted to apply it too. It had nothing to do with LGBT anything, or environmental issues or energy transitions or education. It was purely an economic term as it applied to one group of people - African Americans. Second example - the word progressive meant 1 thing and 1 thing only. It applied to anyone Left, Centrist or Right who wanted society to make progress and not just on 1 thing but across the broader spectrum of society by allowing opportunity and NOT restricting it which the radical Right do or forcing equality which the Radical Left do. The reason I hate what the Radical Left has done is they claim to be progressive but want the world to GO BACKWARDS and try again at that Marxist/Socialist/Stalinist nonsense. That's NOT progressive that's regressive because they want to GO BACKWARDS to something that already failed catastrophically. This is why the Radical Right are just as pathetic they want the world to GO BACKWARDS to some robber baron theocratic form of feudalism. This is why I hate what Konastantin has chosen to become. 2-3 years ago he was someone who wanted a better world. Now he's just another cheap punk on the payroll of the American Libertarians and there's no shortage of those DUMB PRlCKs or the money supply they feed on. If you don't like that for reasoning then FCK OFF.
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  68. I'm an engineer and my favorite subject is what do you have in your life that's not had an engineer involved? I'm Australian and the only product I can point at and say "that has no engineering in it at all" is traditional native Aboriginal arts and crafts. If it has metal, plastic or was in a factory of any sort then it needed engineering for you to obtain it. Even food - think about the tractors, processing machinery, refrigeration,.... etc. The thing is ALL OF THAT STUFF involves blue collar workers, building, maintaining and operating the machinery. I'm one of those people who truly hates the rest of the White Collar classes. In particular the PMC (Professional Managerial Class) who I see as nothing more than worthless, arrogant, ignorant scum who actually think they know what makes modern developed societies FUNCTION. If we took most of the Lawyers, Accountants, PMCs (especially HR) and other similar types and loaded them onto the SS Titanic 2 and sailed it straight towards the nearest iceberg it would be a good start.
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  69. I get the sentiment but one of the fact is that many of the people who preach free speech and rage against cancel culture also cancel people or call for them to be cancelled. Another fact is to many producers allow themselves to be used by people to preach utter garbage WITHOUT IT BEING CHALLENGED. Just remember that there are time when people in your position MUST CHALLENGE the person you have allowed on your channel or all you are is a vehicle for certain people to preach their garbage. Never forget that there are people who will seek any opportunity for publicity to promote their views. If there is one massive fault with all of the media these days its all those outlets that NEVER CHALLENGE or allow anyone to challenge the narrative of that media outlet. And they exist in every variation of politics and public discussion.
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  70.  @biocykle  AS I have said to others its just another chunk of worthless hyperbole in a BULLSHlT public discussion where BOTH SIDES seem to think that if they scream louder with worthless hyperbole they are somehow champions. I'm tired of BOTH SIDES in this worthless woke garbage pile of crap. There's some real issues to deal with that are worth discussing. You know just some minor things like: The Energy Crisis The Climate Crisis The Refugee Crisis The start of World War 3
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  71.  @priapulida  Yeah well WTF is your qualification on energy issues? I'm actually an engineer by the way and just so that we are clear I started with a degree in aerospace but work in industrial control systems and automation which includes a lot of dealing with energy systems. So take your ignorance and shove it, because its the ignorant clowns LIKE YOU who keep these culture shitfests going WHO ARE THE PROBLEM.
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  72.  @priapulida  When people are as ignorant as you are there's no point in discussing anything BUT FOR EVERYONE ELSE HERE'S WHY YOUR ENERGY BILLS ARE WHAT THEY ARE. So everyone knows the main reason I hate the culture war nonsense is that it sucks all the oxygen out of public discussion on everything else and nobody can discuss REAL ISSUES - LIKE ENERGY OR ARE YOU ALL HAPPY WITH YOUR POWER BILLS? IF YOU WANT TO HEAR THE TRUTH SORRY IF THIS IS LONG. I first became aware of the real energy issue about 7 years ago while working on a small consulting project for a Taiwanese solar company. They wanted an Australian engineer to explain the Australian situation and what I found shocked me. When I looked around I found ITS THE SAME BASIC PROBLEM EVERYWHERE and we aren't discussing what needs to be done because culture war clowns like wont STF⋃. HERE'S WHAT HAPPENED When governments built power stations they built them with future population in mind. By the time more was needed the next power station was ready. So there was always an OVER SUPPLY of energy to drive growth. Anyone who's ever done even a basic economics class (and yes I did one) knows If supply is ahead of demand (even when its growing) the prices go down and/or stay down. That's how energy prices were reliable from 1945 until the early 2000s and IT DROVE GROWTH. Mega projects like Tennessee Valley, Britain's nuclear industry and Snowy Hydro are examples where national governments drove growth through energy investment. Then the world got the Milton Freidman inspired Reaganomics and Thatcherism that we now call neoliberalism. Part of that was privatising energy infrastructure. A privatised energy sector doesn't exist to provide national growth its there to provide profit to share holders.*Milton Freidman* made it perfectly clear. “There is one and only one social responsibility of business—to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits.” The private sector BUYS power stations, they rarely build them and the ones they build are either small or highly subsidised. For example, in Britain, Hinckley Point C took 7 years to approve and will take 10 more to construct with first power planned for 2028 at a cost of £26 Billion and they will not see actual returns on investment until at least 2045. Do you think any of the private investors are going to wait another 20+ years before they break even or do you think the British Government is funding their profits already? This is where Milton Freidman was utterly wrong. Governments don't have to care about financial returns from specific investments because their metric is GDP not profit. HERE'S THE PROBLEM RIGHT NOW Nations now have a lot of very old power stations and basically no replacement strategy. These are not easy to replace because they take years to build. Don't bother me with various technologies because they *ALL HAVE ISSUES. For this there is no quick or easy fix. Nations are going to suffer horribly. It will be like Ukraine but stuff will just fail instead of a maniac blowing it up. The main hold up has been the constant culture wars that have raged for the past 25+ years. ALL OF THE SIDES involved say time and again that they "don't want that in my backyard." Irrespective of whatever "that" is there's always some culture warrior screaming about it with some absurd "whataboutism." Anytime engineers do speak we get screamed at by clowns claiming we are unqualified. 3 Weeks ago this channel hosted Michael Schellenberger going on about world domination with Davos and the WEF. Sure there is a case to say that but Michael is also another culture warrior except his preferred platform is TEDx and through it he has said some ridiculous stuff masked behind a few truths. Either these culture war shitfests STOP and people start LISTENING or one day you will flip the light switch and nothing will happen OR if it does turn on it will cost you a fortune to keep it on. You have a choice you can listen to clowns like Mary Harrington, Michael Schellenberger and Pria Pulida or you can have the lights work. EITHER WAY DON'T COMPLAIN BECAUSE YOU HAVE BEEN TOLD.
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  73.  @squoblat  Its not so much pie in the sky but willful ignorance. People like Zubrin have enough background and education that they should know better. That's what I don't like about him and I know others don't like him for similar reasons. I get he wants to raise money for his Mars Society but not this way because its so misleading. Just look at some of the comments on this page to see how badly they have sucked in some people. There is way too much of that in technology fields already and the media are just brainless dupes. I feel like about 80% of all media stories about technologies are PR stunts trying to raise money. At least Zubrin's not the complete charlatan that Bas Lansdorp (Founder of Mars One) was. When that collapsed he somehow walked away with about $10 million.
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  74.  @trajan098117  Look through the comments. Its almost diametric opposites between the people who can't tell the difference between science and science fiction.
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  75. To andrew joyner I don't know if you found it, but the comment starts at 1:08:20 where Konstantin says I have cut and pasted this from the transcript. The italics, punctuation and bold text are mine. _"The thing is that philosophically speaking the progressive ideology doesn't believe in the existence of bad people. There are no bad people in the Progressive mindset there are people who've been failed by the system."_ Its a statement about social psychology that he's attached a political label to. Yes it can be related to politics, but to suddenly claim that anyone who believes "we need to make progress" believes in this philosophical nonsense about good and bad is ridiculous. I get that Konstantin doesn't like people on the left and I can't blame him. David Pakman (who claims to be a progressive) took a real cheap shot at both Konstantin and Francis recently, after he was on Triggernometry. It was a really cheap shot and I (and others) vented on Pakman's channel. I watch Pakman quite a lot and it was by far his worst ever video. He's normally good but on couple of times he's tried to click bait the "Progressive ...... it didn't go well" theme and its backfired every time. And that time it didn't just backfire it was just pure shite.
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  76.  @wessexmom  I just noticed that 8 months ago the guys interviewed a real POS named Christopher Rufo. He's the guy who set of the whole CR thing in America. John Oliver did a video on CRT recently and he pointed out how this guy just chose a topic to dog whistle and ignite a storm. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EICp1vGlh_U It doesn't matter if they are from the LEFT or RIGHT we need to get all of these radicals out of the schools everywhere. Not just America but everywhere.
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  77.  @BasedYoga  Thanks I am getting so tired of the politicians and commentators screaming at the "other side" for doing the same things they do. This is why no matter how people vote the same stuff keeps happening. They call in the consultants to justify how they will cut services, sell anything and privatise everything while spending more and more on the military.
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  78. Go watched the other video where Konstantin Kisin sits opposite his mate Francis and explains Putin's speech where Putin claimed that Ukraine should not even exist. Nigel Farage as usual showed he actually hasn't a damn clue. Remember back when he won his precious Brexit vote. Forgetting if it was right or wrong, the FACT is he immediately resigned from the team. What that meant was that (1st) he didn't expect to win and (2nd) he had NO idea what to do if they won. He had no plan, no ideas and simply threw 67million Brits under his Brexit bus. Like Trump he's another walking talking lump of populist garbage who has no solutions to ANYTHING and creates disasters for other people to clean up.
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  79. WTF has happened to this channel. 2 years ago you had the label "Interesting conversations with interesting people." Now you just another pair of clowns playing and endless stream of culture war crap. Do I think there are people on the Left who have completely lost the plot and hijacked public discussions on fairness and equality and opportunity? ABSOLUTELY there are people on the Left who are so idiotic that nobody should listen to a word they have to say, but screaming "woke" at everything is equally stupid and equally pathetic.
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  80.  @haroldpearson6025  HEY SHIT4BRAINS NOBODY anywhere is trying to flip any western nation into a Marxist state or impose Marxist economics. Yes there's a few incredibly ignorant clowns who ignore what Pol Pot, The Kim's of North Korea, Stalin, Mao... did and saying some damn stupid stuff. AND YES I will agree with you any day of the week that those people are incredibly ignorant of history. AND YES I will agree with you any day of the week there are some incredibly disgusting bad faith clowns who have hijacked public discussion on things like gender, education and the environment. BUT for FARK SAKE will you people just stop screaming and screeching "socialism," "Marxism" and "woke" at EVERYTHING you don't like. People have had enough of BOTH the Far Left and the Far Right.
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  81.  @brettcohen2832  If you are a right wing neoliberal clown who thinks Ronald Reagan was a genius and Margret Thatcher was a goddess then I'd agree its one of the best interviews of the past decade. On the other hand IF you know a few things like where this guy has worked for the past 20 years as in The CATO Institute and you know who funds that place and what their goals are you'd realise this guy is a snake. I actually agree with about 90% of what he says. Its that other 10% that's an issue. He's one of these people who's adept at hiding 1 lie among 9 facts. He's 100% correct that the energy crisis is the result of bad government policy. He's 100% right that the Greenies have an unrealistic view of nuclear power. HOWEVER the bad government policies that have caused the energy crisis have come from people like Charles Koch and Robert Mercer funding campaigns and lobbying through places like the CATO Institute to stall and interfere in government energy policies. They have also been double funding the nuclear issue. On one side they get people like Marion to say its not so bad and then through back channels fund radical Greenies to scream yell and rant BECAUSE that prevents any sensible public discussion on the subject. Marion's also 100% right that there has been no proper planning for the energy transition, but then the billionaires funding him have prevented any sensible planning through political lobbying to protect the fossil fuel assets. Sorry mate but this guy is incredibly good at telling 9 facts to hide 1 lie.
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  82.  @guidedmeditation2396  Can people like you just STOP LYING. I MEAN REALLY JUST STOP LYING the average CO2 is over 415 PPM. There is no discussion on that. There are monitoring sites all over the world. Just like it was with tobacco we have had enough of the lies. I am an aerospace engineer and NASA sets their CO2 limits by partial pressure not parts per million PPM https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/co2_technical_brief_ochmo.pdf NASA like NOA is quite clear on the current state of CO2 in earths atmosphere. https://climate.nasa.gov/climate_resources/24/graphic-the-relentless-rise-of-carbon-dioxide/
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  83.  @philsandele  Go do a background check on Tupy. He has a reputation for being very selective some data, ignoring other data and out right lying. He is by his own admission at the start of this and employee of the CATO Institute a Right Wing Libertarian Think Tank. That's actually an understatement. CATO is one of the big 3 of billionaire funded RWL Think Tanks. The other 2 are the Heritage Foundation which is famous for running the tobacco cancer denial campaign for Phillip Morris and the Federalist Society famous for funding the promotion of RWL judges throughout the American Federal court system. I'm actually very annoyed with both Konstantin and Francis because they never challenged this guy at all, which makes me wonder how much they were paid for this.
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  84. That's a good way to put it because the one grievance I have with Konstantin's argument is that one is worse than the other AND THAT'S INCREDIBLY DANGEROUS because that feeds the "we aren't as bad as them" mantra that fanatics OF ALL TYPES have used through history to justify atrocities. I'm somebody who cannot stand it when people let their ideology (political or religious) override logic and common sense and deny the evidence that's right in front of them. I have that issue with Lefties as much as with Right wingers - they both do it. They like to talk about nuance and then throw nuance out the door like Konstantin did with this argument. There's a great line in the film "Enemy at the Gates" where Joseph Fiennes character says something like "Does it matter if our men are shot with German or Russian bullets?" It was in reply to the fact the Russians machinegunned any of their troops who retreated. There is no worse between Facism and Communism or any other "ism" when you let it go unchallenged because when it goes unchallenged you get the maniacs like Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, Mao, Pol Pot,.... etc. and all the misery they bring.
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  85.  @guest4888  Professor Mark Blyth (Brown U.) who is someone these guys need to interview on a regular basis, often refers to a paper written by Michael Kalecki in 1943 "Political Aspects of Full Employment." I finally got round to looking at it this morning while the Internet was down. Its an odd paper by any discipline. It has no graphs, no charts and no formulas it just explains some concepts regarding economics, employment and politics. Its mainly observations and one of them is "But obstinate ignorance is usually a manifestation of underlying political motives." So when you compare these guys and others to main stream media. What you have these guys NOT pushing a political agenda versus main stream media owned by billionaires ALWAYS pushing political agendas. So you have these guys being open and enquiring versus the pig headed obstinance of main stream media that ignores anything they don't like. Your comment struck me as "I was just reading about this a few hours ago" because its right in line with what a Kalecki wrote almost 80 years ago during WW2 about public information and political agendas.
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  86.  @pippo-1073  Its amazing how idiotic people like you are. You point the finger at anyone and everyone you can accusing them OF WHAT YOU DO. Trump politicized EVERYHTING. The Dems politicized EVERYHTING. The GOP politicized EVERYHTING. MSNC, FOX, CNN, OAN they all politicized EVERYHTING you ignorant moron As for Hunters laptop - Where is it? Simple as that who's got it? How nobody including Rudy Giuliani has stepped forward INFRONT of TV camera and said "See, here it is." and shown everyone the serial number and proved its actually Hunters laptop. Its called EVIDENCE moron.
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  87.  @benzemamumba  I agree to a point that they are at least at times partisan hacks. But the question is are they doing it deliberately like the "opinion as fact" hacks at MSNBC, CNN, FOX, OAN,... etc. He's definitely failed here by trying to be a serious journalist and simplify a complex problem. I know how complex it is because one of the worlds leading experts talked about this in detail this time LAST YEAR. Dr. Michael Osterholm (who Joe Rogan interviewed right at the start of the pandemic) did a great explanation on mandates and hesitancy. Rogan's interview with him was gold, because Rogan kept his opinions out of the discussion. He asked questions and listened to the answers. Why Rogan hasn't had him back defies logic in my mind. Anyway what Dr. Osterholm described is that there are actually 3 main groups. 1) the pro-vaccine people who just get vaccinated as soon as they can. 2) the anti-vaxxers who just won't and can't be reasoned with. 3) the hesitant who can have an array of reasons and degrees of hesitancy making it a complex subject. Dr. O has decades of experience explained that mandates are meaningless to the first 2 groups. They're simple because their minds are made up, but the hesitant aren't a simple answer and mandates are an added pressure that doesn't help. Often leading to them being even more hesitant. Konstantin has put this all down to 1 simple answer of failed trust, which is just plain WRONG. Good to see someone else spotted it for the failure it is.
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  88.  @menzicosce  I found this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDDzR2zSgsM
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  89. Of course England is less English. The Royal family are German, the only smart guy in this conversation was born in Russia and the Scots actually want to leave. I'm grateful my great great grandparents left this madhouse behind and moved to Australia.
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  90. That's simply idiotic Right Wing BS. That's exactly the sort of tribal partisan stick a label on something and start screaming garbage she's talking about. Biden's issues are simply that he's part of the political establishment that wants nothing to change. Both Obama and Trump campaigned on change, but in different ways. Obama was "Hope & Change" Trump was MAGA and BOTH FAILED. Obama never really delivered and Trump was simply a wrecking ball when America needs rebuilding. The real issue America has is breaking the control of the establishment and that's not just an American issue its across the entire Western Developed world. We all have these monstrous political establishments that are failing us all. Its why I call COVID "Acid Flu" because its stripped away the veneers we all have and exposed the underlying issues of wealth division, environment, education costs, job & financial security,.... etc. and that list is damn long.
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