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

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  10. 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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  11.  @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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  17. ​ @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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  22.  @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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  31.  @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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  37.  @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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