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

  1. Her Name is Palki Sharma and until last year worked for WION and did the Gravitas reports which can be seen here on YouTube. She has since moved on and started her own thing much like Krystal Ball and Saagar moved on from the Hill. I'm Australian and have watched a few of her WION pieces in the past. No doubt she has some biases but then who doesn't. I have always found her very good on facts. She's actually pretty good at going straight at subjects like she does here. If I had a criticism its that in going straight at a subject she tends not to give other perspectives any consideration.
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  2. Just yesterday YouTube recommended a CNN video where world renowned criminal John Bolton was on to discuss the crimes of Donald Trump. It was as stupid as having Ted Bundy or John Wayne Gacy on to talk about Jack the Ripper.
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  3. “There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.” ― Isaac Asimov, News Week, 1980.
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  4. I watched that debate and you have summed it up perfectly. Piers Morgan is a typical Libertarian in that one his core concepts is: "I want what I want and I don't care about the cost to other people." Its straight out of Ayn Rand's "me before society" nonsense.
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  5. I'm Australian and here's something Kyle and all the others DON'T MENTION. As with any major election there's international observers as well as all the normal embassy staff and cultural attaches watching to see what happens. Its part of their job. Many are simply there to see what's going on and see how it might affect international relations BUT MANY are there in official capacities to see how they can run their own elections. This happens in Australia too. When we have a federal election there's 100s of people showed up to see how we do things. The Australian observers and all the others ALL reported WITHOUT FAIL that Biden won fairly, Trump lost fairly, there was no fraud and it was a clean election.
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  6. Her Name is Palki Sharma and until last year worked for WION and did the Gravitas reports which can be seen here on YouTube. She has since moved on and started her own thing much like Krystal Ball and Saagar moved on from the Hill. I'm Australian and have watched a few of her WION pieces in the past. No doubt she has some biases but then who doesn't. I have always found her very good on facts. She's actually pretty good at going straight at subjects like she does here. If I had a criticism its that in going straight at a subject she tends not to give other perspectives any consideration.
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  7. I waiting for when she's announced as Trumps running mate for 2024. After all they don't want that traitor Pence back again do they.
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  8. You forgot the most important criminal thing she's done in their tiny brains. Taylor Swift has promoted thinking and having an opinion and then expressing it.
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  9. Elon's endless BS is about to finally crash his ass. The question is what will he now have to sell to pay for his own mouthing off.
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  10.  @aceocean3450  I'm going to try and step between your comment and andrew bruce's comment. Cornell West said it was a weak response and Kyle says it was measured. How about how LOADED the questioning by Stefanik was? When you consider just how polarised the whole situation and the chances of anyone getting in a measured response you'd almost be insane trying to answer any of these questions because no matter what you say there'll be someone who grabs some part of the answer and tries to beat you to death with it. Just consider how Stefanik was demanding a straight Yes/No answer to a complex question. Just look at how if you miss properly referencing something in a paper that you're considered a criminal. If anything this entire fiasco is just ANOTHER example that illustrates how dysfunctional our media, politics and education systems have become. Around 20 years ago when the very last WW1 soldiers died I remember people commenting how long it would take for us to forget how destructive WW1 was. Here we are now at a similar point where the last of the WW2 veterans are almost gone and we've forgotten how destructive that was and that it ended with nuclear weapons. Because we have people OPENLY discussing the use of nuclear weapons in Ukraine and Gaza. INSTEAD of discussing how we stop that from happening we have this crap.
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  11. Well a while back I said that it was possible that the GOP and DEMs could each split into 2 parts (making 4 parts). 1: The Progressives 2: The new money Corporate Dems 3: The old money Corporate GOP 4: The delusional Trumpists Which 2 of those 4 groups actually fit together as a coalition of likeminded people?
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  12. Other than the fact Hutch handed Kyle his ass back to him on the subject of forcing Manchin with blackmail. Its good to see Kyle get put in his place with that sort of nonsense.
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  13. June, July August, September October, November. WTF this is old news and should be filed under who TF cares.
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  14. HEY KYLE - Can you please get it right. NOBODY is sending money to Ukraine they are sending equipment, most of which has been excess stock pile or older stockpile that was dues for disposal anyway. The actual money is being spent in the countries aiding Ukraine. I'm Australian and all of our assistance ahs been in equipment (mostly vehicles and cannons). All of the vehicles we sent have had to be replaced which has meant jobs. Its very much like exporting product except the country to where you are exporting is NOT PAYING because you're gifting the hardware. SECONDLY: As to the GOP. They are quickly becoming a very serious issue to EVERY NATION that does business with America. Here's a couple of serious questions we are now starting to ask. How do we do business with America when none of us can be certain of the deal being honored? How does international trade continue reliably when most of it is based on the US Dollar? Do any of you Americans realise what the Breton Woods agreement actually did to world trade when the allies all agreed to use the US Dollar as the World's reserve currency? Even though Breton Woods is no longer the effects are still there. Almost all international oil is traded in USD with the exception of Russian oil. Most of the cars and many other products traded across international borders is all done in USD. Even when a dela does NOT involve America at all the deal often involves USD. Either the deal is directly done in USD or the currency exchanges involve backing from the USD. That's what being the Worlds Reserve Currency means. Simply put NOBODY on the planet can afford to have the US Dollar destabilize with maybe the exceptions of Russia, North Korea and Iran AND even they can't really let it happen because they have billions tied up in American assets or hidden away in American banks in places like Idaho. YES Idaho, which has become one the best places on the planet to hide money along with Delaware and Texas.
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  15. Go look at her career ->https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candace_Owens She is a narcissistic opportunist who takes advantage of any situation that might further her position. Its behavior she's repeated again and again. if she's successful its by pandering to the worst aspects of selfishness.
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  16. I'm an Australian engineer but actually graduated from U. Illinois (late 80s - aerospace). Ironically this and many other issues is all the fault of one of Chicago person. Sorry for the longish answer. A couple years ago I started to take more serious look at economics. I'd done Econ 101 as an option and regarded the whole subject as a joke. But eventually I had to accept that Economists have incredible influence. As an engineer I got tired of being asked "What's the business case for that?" or "Who's going to pay for that?" and no matter the answer its never enough. I eventually realised its always from people with economics backgrounds. Even those with business degrees have a core of economics education and certain things are hardwired into that education. So I chose to learn about them so I might have a chance of dealing with them. The person at fault is Milton Freidman the famous University of Chicago Professor, who's theories became the foundation of Reaganomics and Thatcherism that we now call neoliberalism. Its been adopted across the entire Western World. His solution to every problem was free market capitalism combined with small government. Its been preached without challenge (or so little its irrelevant) to 4 generations of Western civilisation - boomers, gen -x, millennials and Zoomers. I say preach not teach quite deliberately because anyone who questions free market capitalism is treated like a heretic. If you look at almost any Western Nation right now there are serious issues with basic services and infrastructure. It varies from place to place, but its the same root cause - Milton Freidman's ideology. He had some great lines like "Greed is good" but his line about "Corporations have no other obligation but to deliver profits to owners" that's at the center of these problems. Don't forget that energy, water, waste water, roads, bridges, transportation,... etc are all engineered systems. All the rest of you just assume that us engineers can just deliver this stuff. People are so accustomed to turning on a tap or flipping a light switch they never consider what it takes to make that happen. You all assume we are listened to by management, but we aren't. We constantly get pushback with those 2 questions "What's the business case for that?" or "Who's going to pay for that?" and no answer is ever good enough. Remember Ronald Reagans famous catch cry "Government isn't the solution. Government is the problem." That was pure Milton Friedman philosophy. Another of his lines is "free markets are the most efficient way to run society" has shaped many government decisions IRRESPECTIVE of the the political ideology of those in charge. Don't forget that all the basic economics classes are the same with text books out of Harvard, Yale, Princeton,... etc. So even the most lefty government is riddled with economists all trained in free market economics. In my home state of Victoria it was a Left Wing government that sold off the train system and the power stations. They told us the same line everyone hears: "free market competition will provide better services and lower costs to consumers." * BUT how can that be true when the corporations who have just bought those public assets have "no other obligation than to deliver profits to their owners?"* We now have to subsidise those corporations who bought our rail system. Our power bills are up over 400% and we have our own version of the energy crisis. The problem is Milton Freidman was WRONG and it should have been obvious that he was WRONG, but to question his ideology and its offspring of Reaganomics and Thatcherism is to labelled a heretic. I hate to see this happen to Chicago but it was a Chitown native who brought this shite down upon us all. Sorry for the long answer.
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  17.  @gianthills  You are quite right in pointing out that Trump has had SOME business success, but that is NOT what people are talking about. They are talking about the overall success. Go watch the interview I pointed out in an earlier comment.
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  18. He's simply like so many in the less talented people in the entertainment industry, he's an attention seeking narcissist who thinks every time he gets attention its good.
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  19.  @PauloBerni699  Yeah but what it does is tell just how he views at other human beings. We are nothing but stuff to be trampled on.
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  20. I'm Australian and been to Texas a few times and it was always great. So it saddens me to see Greg Abbott NOT get tossed out on his ass. BUT what it highlights is this bizarre thing that EVERY society in history does. People actually chose to ignore the FACTS regarding political leaders no matter what we know they do and will do again. I hate to admit it but we not only have Greg Abbott types in Oz but we keep re-electing them. We have our crass billionaire Trumpist in Clive Palmer who even ran the same election strategy as Trump. We have a clown named Pauline Hanson who you'd swear is Marjorie Greene's long lost crazy Australian aunt. We have a guy named Craig Kelly who walks, talks, and acts like a hybrid between Ron Johnson & Joe Manchin with an Australian voice track. We have our version of Andrew Cuomo a guy named John Barilaro. Look at the similarities. He's from our biggest East coast city - Sydney. He's corrupt and had to be removed from office. He even tried to move to New York and have the government pay for it. Although it's not a reflection of Italian people, like Cuomo he's of Italian descent. Whatever you have in America, everyone else has them too. The only difference is how much noise they make. If you look at Britain they have a guy named Nigel Farage who led the Brexit campaign. There's famous footage of him (with supporters) proclaiming how the British "got the country back!" Almost immediately after the Brexit vote he resigned his official posts and refused calls to help negotiate the exit. Forget whether Brexit is good or bad, he created the greatest mess in recent British history and then dumped it onto others to clean up the mess. So you might ask how would anyone give a clown like Nigel Farage any time other than to tell him to FK-OFF? Farage just did a tour of Australia and people actually PAID MONEY to listen to him talk. Steve Bannon does talks all over the world and people PAY MONEY to hear him talk. Never underestimate human stupidity or ignorance.
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  21. I'm Australian That is simply a world class reply to a journalist. Can we just forget who asked the question or why and lets just admit the USA Captain is awesome. I actually went to college in America and I have had to constantly explain to people ever since that the clown brigade of celebrities and politicians we see via American media are NOT TYPICAL of most Americans. Most people who deal with Americans know they aren't like the clown brigade. So thanks to Tyler Adams for showing a better side of America. By the way American needs to be proud of this team. They are playing great and made it through to the knockout stage and that's way harder than you might think. Argentina almost missed out. Tunisia beat the current world champions France and still missed out. Germany missed out while Spain only just got in on goal difference. Mexico missed making the knockout stage for the first time since 1978.
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  22. Its not due to blatant corruption its blatant mismanagement that stems from idiotic economics policies. I'm an engineer and this is the shite we are trapped in. Across every industry and area that we operate in there a clowns with business, accounting and economics degrees who interfere in everything. It stems from a couple of things. First is there own self importance. They think that titles like manager mean they have to micromanage everyone and everything. Second They are trained to avoid spending and costs and it unbelievably pervasive. Have you ever heard how the Left have infiltrated universities and education??? Well its true, stone cold motherless true and most noticeable in humanities. Its also just as stone motherless true that the Right have infiltrated business and law schools. Its a system where they certain sacrosanct principles are to be leant NOT questioned. One of those is the principle of lowering costs. That gets practised as "spend as little as possible and delay everything possible to future dates when they are someone else's problem." This is also known as "kicking the can down the road" and it is practiced EVERYWHERE. No joke, they go to college and for 4 years they are told - lower costs & cut spending, lower costs & cut spending, lower costs & cut spending,..... as if it is some form of mystic mantra that will fix the world. And the easiest way to do that is DELAY & DELAY until its someone else's problem. I'm Australian but did my degree in America, I live in Oz but have worked in Canada and I can watch the news from anywhere these days. ITS THE SAME STORY EVERYWHERE and in EVERY INDUSTRY. Failures through spending cuts to maintenance.
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  23. “There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'” - Isaac Asimov
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  24. Lets be crystal clear about this. It involves CERTAIN people who are neither representative of bulk of Israeli people or the bulk of Jewish society world wide and that's evident by the number of Jewish people speaking out AGAINST what the Netanyahu government is doing. I'm NOT Jewish, I'm Australian, but went to college in America in the LATE 80s and had several Jewish friends. After an incident at a party where I was accosted and threatened by a couple of Jewish students one of my Jewish friends explained it to me. Note - This was ~35 years ago and he referred to them as Ultra-Zionists. He did NOT call them Zionists but was very specific about the term Ultra, which these days we generally use with the term *Ultra-nationalist. Like we have with certain people in Russia and Ukraine. Back in the 90s we used similar terminology with certain elements within the Serb and Croat communities as well as in Rwanda. 35 Years ago that friend told me something very important. EVERY tribe, cultural group and nation has these people. We just don't like admitting it. They are most easily identified by their claims to be "protecting their culture" or "protecting their cultural heritage." We saw that with the Nazis and their claims of protecting Aryan culture. We see it with Putin and his claims of protecting Russian culture. We saw it during the late 90s with the Serbs, Croats and Albanians in the former Yugoslavia. We saw it with the Hutu and Tutsi in Rwanda. We have people here in Australia who claim time and time again they want to protect Australian Culture from immigration. Occasionally we even elect them to Parliament. What we are seeing right no in Gaza is what happens when Ultra-Nationalists get enough political power to unleash on who they blame or identify as the threat to their culture.
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  25. Lets be crystal clear about this. It involves CERTAIN people who are neither representative of bulk of Israeli people or the bulk of Jewish society world wide and that's evident by the number of Jewish people speaking out AGAINST what the Netanyahu government is doing. I'm NOT Jewish, I'm Australian, but went to college in America in the LATE 80s and had several Jewish friends. After an incident at a party where I was accosted and threatened by a couple of Jewish students one of my Jewish friends explained it to me. Note - This was ~35 years ago and he referred to them as Ultra-Zionists. He did NOT call them Zionists but was very specific about the term Ultra, which these days we generally use with the term *Ultra-nationalist. Like we have with certain people in Russia and Ukraine. Back in the 90s we used similar terminology with certain elements within the Serb and Croat communities as well as in Rwanda. 35 Years ago that friend told me something very important. EVERY tribe, cultural group and nation has these people. We just don't like admitting it. They are most easily identified by their claims to be "protecting their culture" or "protecting their cultural heritage." We saw that with the Nazis and their claims of protecting Aryan culture. We see it with Putin and his claims of protecting Russian culture. We saw it during the late 90s with the Serbs, Croats and Albanians in the former Yugoslavia. We saw it with the Hutu and Tutsi in Rwanda. We have people here in Australia who claim time and time again they want to protect Australian Culture from immigration. Occasionally we even elect them to Parliament. What we are seeing right no in Gaza is what happens when Ultra-Nationalists get enough political power to unleash on who they blame or identify as the threat to their culture.
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  26. Dr. Michael Osterholm (Director id CIDRAP and an expert on pandemic responses) pointed out 12 months ago that there are 3 groups. 1) The people who will just get vaccinated. 2) The people who will never get vaccinated 3) The people who are undecided. Dr. Osterholm is one of the most pro-vaccine advocates and yet staunchly against mandates. When U. of Minnesota (where CIDRAP is located) went to put in a mandate on students he opposed it. He pointed out that in his experience mandates have the bad effect of pushing undecided people into the anti-vax camp. They also tend to make anti-vaxxers dig in harder. He basically said don't engage in pointless arguments with anti-vaxxers, just tell the facts. Most importantly inform the undecided with FACTS and don't pressure them. Let them decide when they will get vaccinated.
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  27.  @lurx2024  The other favorite line I have for them is: "I demand the liberty to strip others of their liberties!" another variant of that is "I'm here to protect my freedoms NOT yours!"
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  28. Like so many others we have been exhausted by their garbage. We don't have any sympathy or empathy left to waste on these people.
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  29.  @Marta_Lledo_Video_Channel  She's walking talking proof that greed has no skin color.
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  30. AUSTRALIAN HERE: I've seen some of the reports. Like the Canadians, Japanese, Brits, Japanese, South Koreans and a bunch of other countries we are supposed to believe that America is a reliable security partner when these clowns are your best options??????
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  31. KYLE If you want to have this discussion then DON'T drink 25 cups of coffee beforehand AND STOP SCREAMING AT EVERYONE. Fine you believe in in almost absolute free speech almost irrespective of how idiotic it is or HOW PUBLICLY IRRESPONSIBLE IT IS. I believe that you have every right to responsible speech PARTICULARY if you hold a position of PUBLIC RESPONIBILITY. People with public positions DO NOT have a responsibility to those who voted for them they have a responsibility to their ENTIRE ELECTORATE. If MTG was raising these points as questions As part of RESONIBLE public debate then fine, BUT she isn't and people are dying.
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  32. AUSTRALIAN HERE: I have been trying to ell Americans for over 35 years they they DO NOT have an actual Left like the rest of the Western World does. What you actually have are 2 right wing parties with one of them being MORE to the right than the other. You DO NOT have a party like Britain's Labor Party or the similarly named parties in Australia, New Zealand and a few other places that STARTED out of their Labor Union movements. Here in Australia the Labor Party was the political wing of the ACTU (Australian Council of Trade Unions). You do NOT have anything like the Socialist parties in mainland Europe. The American Democrats started in the American South and were the party of the Confederacy and the Klux Klux Klan were a militant offshoot of the Southern Democrats. It was the Republicans under Lincoln who were the progressive party and freed the slaves. How do I know this never having taken a single class in political science or American History? I went to college in America in the late 80s in a time when they still taught CIVICS and I was surrounded by 100s of other WELL EDUCATED intelligent students who KNEW American History and HOW the American Governmental system worked and they explained it to me time at great length. What staggers me more than anything these days is how little American's seem to know or understand of their own history and how their government actually works. THAT USED to be one of America's GREAT STRENGTHS. It blew my mind a couple of years ago when I asked someone what changed and found out Bush had defunded Civics in American High Schools. Years later having seen the pro's of teaching Civics and the cons of NOT teaching civics I am absolutely convinced that ANY Democratic society, INCLUDING Australia, that wants long term stability should tech their version of it and that it should made available to EVERY citizen so that they can go back and check or review things. I remember moments of feeling embarrassed that I didn't know as much about HOW Australia functions as my American classmates did about America. I think American's should now feel embarrassed for what they have thrown away.
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  33. AUSTRALIAN HERE - the way more disturbing thing is NOT the crap about Haley or Pomposity. Go back to around 0:40 and look at what's just above Kyle's head on the right hand side of the screen. Seriously does Trump think the rest of the world is going to deal with Elise Stefanik? Do any of you think THE REST OF THE WORLD doesn't already know who that psycho is or how she behaves? Yeah that's NOT gonna work out well for anyone.
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  34. There was a Dutch guy that was interviewed by Tucker (it never went to air) and he called it "millionaires funded by billionaires"
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  35. Try being an AUSTRALIAN. We've signed up to this SHlT with submarines and jet fighters and all sorts of stuff. A few months ago it turned out we hired a bunch of ex-ES Navy admirals to "consult." They are being paid between AU$1.2 and AU$2 million a year, and some of them have been here for over 10 years. SO FAR - Nobody has explained why we, the people of Australia are paying several billion dollars to fix one of your shipyards. - Nobody has explained how we are going to crew these submarines which require more than double the number of people than our current submarines. - Nobody has explained the costs which are a staggering AU$268 Billion. For each sub there's over $20 Billion unaccounted for and that's on the lower estimate. On the upper estimate its over AU$35 Billion.
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  36. Is it just me or can you see the day when some of these people like Hannity, Tucker Carlson and others step out their front door and something very ugly happens when people finally say they have had enough of having them screeching this garbage? The sad part is I can also see some poor dude going to jail for a very long time.
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  37. It helps (or doesn't) when 74million delusional people think he's the savior of America. Maybe with these events that number is finally coming down. I'd like to see some of those Trump supporters explain how storming & trashing the capitol, killing a cop and tearing down the American flag was justified.
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  38. Aussie here: I can't believe that after how Trump treated her PERSONALLY in 2016 that Megyn Kelly would ever support him without some sort of apology (and Trump never apologises). All we have heard from women for the last few decades is how WRONG it is when a man patronises or down talks a woman or treats them disrespectfully LIKE TRUMP DOES and yet people like Megyn, who Trump personally attacked, support him. Does Megyn NOT understand the concept of "mixed messages?"
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  39.  @Cthulhu4President  Here's some suggestions DW - Germany BBC - Britain ABC - Australia (my country) France24 - French WION - Indian, where Palki Sharma was. You'd need to check to see where she is now. Any Canadian News Service. I was there a few years back and they all seemed fairly decent. Most important thing anyone can do is check a story against how other nations report it. Sometimes it sucks but at least you'll see how others perceive something.
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  40. Henry A. Wallace, Vice President of the United States in the New York Times, April 9, 1944 “The really dangerous American fascist... is the man who wants to do in the United States in an American way what Hitler did in Germany in a Prussian way. The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information. With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power... They claim to be super-patriots, but they would destroy every liberty guaranteed by the Constitution. They demand free enterprise, but are the spokesmen for monopoly and vested interest. Their final objective, toward which all their deceit is directed, is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection.” FYI - I love to claim I found that all by myself but somebody told me to look it up a while back. Its arguably one of the most important warnings the entire Western Hemisphere should take to heart. Its not just applicable to America.
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  41. I'm Australian but went to college in America. So I have a fairly reasonable understanding of both American politics and its effects on the rest of the world AND YOU HAVE SUMMED IT UP PERFECTLY. Hilary lost because of her own stupid arrogance. Maybe I could see it because I was on the outside looking in, but to me it was so damn obvious. And the fact she is still around being idiotically arrogant is a blight on the human race not just American politics. For those interested here's an explanation of what I saw from the outside looking in. America is unusual in that it has voluntary voting, in that you can chose NOT to vote at all. In Australia we have compulsory voting. You have to be on the electoral role and you have to show up, but because we also have preferential voting rather than first past the post we tend to get fairly decent results (but not always). America's problem is that you can basically vote DNC, RNC or NOT at all and if you chose to NOT vote then the selection is left to those who are politically motivated to either the DNC or RNC. So its incredibly important that candidates motivate people TO TURN UP AND VOTE. I told people here in Australia months out from the 2016 election Hilary was going to lose because I knew she'd lost the rust belt. There was that moment when she said she didn't need to campaign in Michigan because they'd vote Blue anyway and instead she stayed in New York doing campaign dinners to raise money. She completely forgot that it was those same New York elites at those dinners who'd made the decisions to shut down the rust belt and send their jobs to China, Mexico, Texas,.....etc. So rather than motivating people Hilary discouraged people across the rust belt. Go and look at the results and Hilary became the first Democrat to lose all 3 of Michigan, Ohio and Penn since Dukakis lost all 3 to Bush Snr. Even Gore and Kerry each won 2 of those states. She lost all 3 and it was all because of her arrogant dismissal of people. If she'd won those 3 states she'd have won. It might have been easier to see form the outside looking in but from my perspective it was obvious that Hilary waving the middle finger to Michigan was idiotic.
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  42.  @Oniijh  NO - that does not mean he's good at public office that could mean many things. It could mean the Dem candidate was so bad they made De Sanctimonious look good and considering how bad the Dems are at campaigning that's as realistic as anything.
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  43. I'm Australian and have been trying to point out how ridiculous the whole January 6th event has become. IN ANY OTHER COUNTRY - all those who spoke at that rally and told that crowd to go down there and "Stop the steal" would have been rounded up the next day and NOT GIVEN BAIL before their trials. In most countries those trials would have been the day after the arrest and for some of them their execution the day after that. Consider what happened in China after Tiananmen Square? You can also ask what the Saudis or North Korea (2 of Trumps favourites) would have done.
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  44. Because none of them want to admit that she lost, because they hold onto the fact she won the popular vote. But they keep forgetting that's NOT what its about. Think of it like a football game. One team keeps marching down the field again and again. Out of 10 possessions they get 1 touchdown, 6 field goals, but throw 1 interception. The other team truly sucks. They are a rambling mess of bad calls, penalties and fumbles. They struggle on D giving up yards, 1st downs and points, but somehow they turn that 1 interception into a pick 6. Their O is even worse than their D. They can't move the ball, they fumble and get called for holding again and again. Their QB is sacked 5 times and gets picked off 4 times but somehow they manage to score 3 touchdowns off some gimmick plays and Hail Mary's. They suck so bad their kicker not only missed a couple of critical field goals but also missed 2 extra points on bad snaps, bad holds and bad kicking. WHO WON THE GAME. Was it the team with more first downs, more yards, more interceptions, fewer mistakes, better kicking and a flashy superstar QB? Or was it the team with 26 points instead of 25?
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  45. Oh shit dude there you go having to spoil all the fun we could have with this by using FACTS. Noam Chomsky termed the phrase the "United States of Amnesia" and lets face it most of America has forgotten about its Cuban gulag. I agree with Noam, but I would describe FACTS as "America's allergy," because lets face it every time somebody points out a FACT all the American's present turn their heads away as if they are about to sneeze.
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  46. A couple of Weeks ago Konstantin Kisin (YT Channel Triggernometry) said almost the same thing on BBC Question Time. He actually argued with people and said NO we need to negotiate with Putin, because to force him out of Ukraine or force him out of power in Russia would be a disaster. -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DXwlqoSF70 Then on Mar 25 Yanis Varoufakis said almost the same thing again on Democracy Now. Only a few minutes in he pointed out Chinese military philosopher Sun Tzu said to give your opponent a way out when to trap them means utter destruction. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=su4czYxGYxo So why are people going nuts at Chomsky, while other people are saying the same stuff? I think this is more of the petty ignorance of Americans who think they understand the world AND JUST DON'T.
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  47. Yep. and its just like your other comment. American Conservatism is the right to be free so you can deny others their freedoms.
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  48. Everyone should go and look at the map on the Wikipedia page for "Greater Israel" Because Greater Israel would include ALL of Lebanon and massive slabs of Syria, Jordan and Iraq. This is NOT going to end well.
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  49. I agree. I'm Australian but did my degree in America. I started informally studying economics a couple of years ago because I got so frustrated with clowns waving economics degrees interfering in projects. It lead to me what we now call neoliberalism which was introduced to the world as Reaganomics and Thatcherism. Reagan wasn't the architect of neoliberalism. That was people like Freidman and Hayek and the rest of the Chicago School clowns, but Reagan was the clown who made it policy. When you consider all the crap that has happened since it all traces back to the fact Reagan put neoliberalism first into policy and then into practice.
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  50.  @ThePoliticrat  if your only considering abut 500 years ago "as recent" when people like Copernicus and Galileo were challenging the Catholic church then yeah its only recent. The real problem is that Rubin thinks he's an intellectual and simply isn't. I wouldn't be surprised that the real reason he switched to the right was they said he was smart and Rubin is that kind of person just begging for anyone to reassure him that he's as smart as he thinks he is.
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