Comments by "Tony Wilson" (@tonywilson4713) on "Piers Morgan Uncensored" channel.

  1. Did you notice that Piers asked in his pinned comment if people agreed with Gary or Dave? Its like watching a priest from the dark ages argue the flat earth with Einstein.
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  2. ​ @jjamo1225  You need to put a fire extinguisher emoji on the end of those sorts of comments or you risk frying computer chips from the burn.
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  3. Australian here: These days YES absolutely YES. However - YOU mentioned at 19:40 the issue with virtue signalling and then immediately attached it to the "woke" arguments. 1) I deplore the people on the LEFT who hijacked the word "woke" in the first place. The word "woke" came out of African American blues music in the 1950s and until around 3 years ago it was singularly a reference to whether or not people understood (as in awake to) the ECONOMIC plight of African Americans. Then it was hijacked by a pack of Radical Leftists who as usual made a mess of public discussions with a potent combination of idiocy and ignorance. 2) I deplore the fact that people on the RIGHT have picked up the word "woke" to use as a club to bash anyone who does not comply with their views of the world on every subject. The hypocrisy of the Radical Right is so unbelievable. What ever they do is justifiable and whatever anyone else wants or does is a crime. They howl about political interference in courts and then interfere in court cases themselves. They howl about cancel culture and then cancel people. They demand they rights as they strip away the basic rights of others. So lets be clear VIRTUE signalling does not just come from the Radical Left but it also comes from the Radical Right and BOTH SIDES accuse the other of doing it while denying they do it. The reason we have these issues with Virtue Signalling is simple. The Entire media landscape from the Radical Left through the centre all the way to the Radical Right now has it its core activity VIRTUE SIGNALLING and they do nothing but use it to drive wedges between people on every issue possible. As Professor Robert McChesney said a few years ago "presenting facts doesn't make money anymore." As Scottish American Professor Mark Blyth (Brown U.) said of the Murdoch Media empire "Their product is outrage." The only thing that's unfair about Mark Blyth's statement is that it singles out the Murdoch Empire when it applies to the media landscape in general. There are very few media services commenting on political, social, and economic issues that aren't divisive virtue signallers and the human race must face the future united or it will fail.
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  4. The problem is the MEDIA keep putting microphones in front of people for no other reason than they will generate OUTRAGE. A while back (before all this began) Prof. Mark Blyth (Brown U.) said that the "product" that the media now sells "rage" and he specifically noted the Murdoch empire. "Rage" and "Outrage" are the 2 main products of opinion media. The problem with it is they will keep putting microphones in front of these people because it generates money for everyone involved. Right now as I type this YouTube has 6 recommended links to the right. 5 of them are about climate inaction, Tucker Carlson calling DeSantis supporters stupid, UK political gaffes, a republican railing against women having the right to vote and a Fox host melting down over a guest challenging them. The 2 above and below those 6 are 2 more political rage stories. The one odd link was for a short 35 minute documentary on an obscure Soviet Bomber on a channel I watch regularly because I'm an aerospace engineer and pilot who finds Rex's Hangar has some good historical material on a wide variety of aircraft including aircraft you don't here about much. I checked - out of the first 20 links from looking at this page only 2 were not some variation of "political outrage" the other one was another Rex's Hangar probably because I've watched a couple in recent days.
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  5.  @speccwolf  Are you that much of a total M0R0N to say something like that? You have to be some sort of philosophy major to believe in that crap. They are labels we put on things to describe them. One of the most fundamental aspects of language is to describe the things around us. That's WHY we get things like adjectives, adverbs, nouns,... etc and why I can call you a M0R0N because your comment is M0R0NIC because those are the noun and adjective we have created to describe YOU and what YOU say.
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  6. That's a great observation and its indicative of the era we now live in which I'd call Selective Reality. For most of human history reality has NOT been selective the one major exception being religion, BUT NOW in this time period we can select which reality we like because we not only have freedom to believe whatever we like but there's people who will supply whatever SELECTIVE facts we want to reinforce our beliefs. There's even parts to what John Mearsheimer says which are SELECTIVE. He says Putin does not want to re-create the Soviet Empire and YES I know Putin's famous quote: "Whoever does not miss the Soviet Union has no heart. Whoever wants it back has no brain."BUT Mearsheimer is also SELECTIVELY IGNORING the fact Putin has demanded being able to write the security policies for all the nations around Russia's borders. That's 18 or so countries with a combined population of almost 280 million and they would have NO SAY in their security if Putin get's his way. It would be dictated to them by Moscow. So I would partially agree with Mearsheimer that Putin is NOT trying to re-create the Soviet Empire, but that does NOT rule out that he is trying to gain control over a massive slab of the former Soviet Empire. There are people who'd say America does similar via NATO and other treaties AND I WOULD AGREE. I'm Australian and I just had someone this weekend tell me that hidden in the depths of the AUKUS treaty is that America gets to decide or have veto control over our Uranium production and sales. I haven't found confirmation of this, but it sounds typical of Australian government behavior. In case you didn't know we not only have the largest Uranium reserves in the world but 1 of our mines (Olympic Dam) has over 30% of all the known Uranium on the planet. So giving America control or veto power over Australia's Uranium is pretty massive and the Australian people have (so far) had NO SAY in it.
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