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

  1.  @sushanth262  Where's there's the piece of reality you've half ignored. There are people who do care about their integrity and those who don't. Its there in politics, sport, business and even college where you get people who BELIEVE that cheating and getting away with it on exams only proves they deserve to be granted superior lives. All those people share some common traits. - They love enforcing the rules onto others and scream injustice whenever they are caught. - They squeal about and demand their rights as they trample on the rights of others. Its called hypocrisy and if you couple it with narcissism in the administration of a state or nation's affairs its incredibly destructive. And you have sounded out one of the stupidest arguments of all "admiring their success" irrespective of how they got it. That's pure Machiavellian thinking. I bet you don't even realise that Machiavelli NEVER advocated that the ends justify the means he just pointed out that it as a way others operated.
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  2. As someone who has watched 3 immediate family members die from cancer, this is so bad I wont voice my rage because it will solve nothing. Instead we should assume that there are some decent people in Kansas who will deal with this and simply encourage them to act.
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  3. Lets not lose sight of the fact that at least he's accepting some responsibility for lowering the standards of the media. How many people in the media have actually done that even in the slightest way? Kyle just did a vid on another bizarre outburst from Maria Bartagarbagromo. When is anyone from the main stream media going to accept any responsibility for creating the atmosphere we live in?
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  4. EVERYONE GO LOOK AT HIS BIO https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump_Jr.#Early_life You can consider the private schools that daddy paid for. BUT really note what follows for his career. He spent one year working outside the Trump organisation in Aspen and even worked for some time as a bartender. HERE'S THE REAL POINT He then went back to the family business in a senior role. On 1 year of life experience he goes past all the other people with years of experience into a senior role.
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  5. I suspect that's the least of it. He did pre-law at Harvard and Law at Yale and doesn't seem to know the constitution or how elections are run or how votes are counted and he wants to be President. Maybe the Deans of Law at Harvard and Yale need to check what their professors are teaching.
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  6.  @underworld7148  Will you people just stop with the idiotic bullshit. What utter garbage there is no such thing as a "vaccine court." Anybody can be sued, whether its successful is another thing entirely.
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  7. Here's a link to Chomsky listing the crimes of Presidents from 2003 -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BXtgq0Nhsc For the couple of people mentioning Carter it starts just after 5:12
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  8. And it worked so well that America could go to the moon with the spare change and in doing that they developed (or advanced the development) of a pile of technologies especially digital computers that have changed the world massively for the better. The computer you are on right no can trace a lot of its heritage to Apollo. I am an engineer who works in control systems which include the computers that run industry. Those computers (PLCs, DCS, Robotic Controllers, Engine management systems, autopilots,...) that run the world and provide you with power, water, manufactured goods, GPS,... are all direct descendants of the Apollo computer systems. And Apollo came from the spare change.
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  9. Horrible but true fact of our world.
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  10. Its one of the great contradictions of capitalist business ideology. 1) You have to spend money to make money 2) You have to reduce spending to make profit Try finding a way to make those 2 concepts compatible.
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  11. Best words Kyle has said in a while "the fact that this guy ever had any power when he's been wrong about everything is a true indictment on the system"
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  12.  @cezarcatalin1406  But then she and Jared wont be able to scam like they did these last 4 years. Reports have it they made $400 million. Which makes me wonder why the druggie son making about $600K working in Ukraine is even a story?
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  13. He's just started a channel -> https://www.youtube.com/c/TheProblemWithJonStewart
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  14.  @everforward8651  Good point. I would add that on people's perspectives or opinions its not simply a matter of "a fact" as in a singular item but a collections of facts and that any collection of facts involves filtering. As in everyone filters out some facts while including other facts or they underplay or over emphasize particular facts. And then that leads to the reasons WHY they might include or exclude a fact. And that leads right to their ideology and narrative and motivations. And if you never get that far you'll never really solve anything because you wont understand what the other person actually wants irrespective of whether its good or bad.
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  15. ​ @everforward8651  Thanks. Its pretty simple we aren't going to fix the world unless we own up to a few things. Just the other day I rewatched a Jon Stewart Podcast from a year ago on systemic racism. On the panel was British born American Andrew Sullivan. At one point when it got a little heated he simply blurted out "I am not responsible for anyone before me." Its right here at 10:41 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cmnwbGmu7w The reason I find that so shitty is that he's benefitting from what people did before him. Its part of the American Libertarian mantra. "I have no responsibility to anyone else past or present, but if I need help you have to come to my aid." Its an insanely selfish attitude. Think about the American banks who have the attitude. "The government is not allowed to put rules on me but they also have to bail me out when I screw up." Its the same attitude just with a different slant. At its core they are like 2 year olds - "I don't care, I want what I want and I want it now!"
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  16. But they were NOMINATED by the parties to work for the DONORS!!!!
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  17. James Comey compared Trump to a mafia boss. There's plenty of interviews to look up. What he explained was in the Mafia everything is about the Boss and what the Boss wants RIGHT NOW. What the boss wanted yesterday doesn't matter. Wat the boss wants tomorrow doesn't matter (until tomorrow). The only thing that matters is what the boss wants RIGHT NOW. Look at how Trump's behaved since.
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  18. Well actually Comey didn't say anything but "consider" and that might be just a warning that Joe Biden needs to have an answer ready. Those millions of Trump supporters aren't simply going to disappear or be silent. They will likely be demanding pardons in future. But in the American system pardons have a catch and that is - accepting a pardon is an admission of guilt. Glenn Kirschner (retired JAG & Federal Prosecutor) just today did a vid on this catch with pardons. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baWkPCQzgoQ
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  19.  @derekfoulk4692  REALLY - You're claiming the rest of us have "too much abstraction in life" AND THEN YOU CLAIM "Zero sum is the only truth. It's why wars are fought and it's always our fate." Who's the abstract person here???????????
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  20.  @darex0827  If there is a significant difference these days from 10, 20 or 30 years ago its how much harder it is to pay off student debt and its only getting harder. But that's also a symptom of the wider debt driven economies almost every western nation is running these days.
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  21. To all you Americans who care. This was just shown Australia regarding Rupert Murdoch and Fox -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsBqU1RzV7o Its the 1st of 2 parts and the 2nd wont be shown until next week. It includes interviews with ex-Fox presenters who detail what happened inside the Murdoch/Fox Empire with regards to Trump. Its been done by ABC Australia (our equivalent of PBS) on a program called "4 Corners" (our equivalent to PBS Frontline). You can expect the Australian Right Wingers to go completely unhinged. Murdoch's Australian operation is called "Sky News Australia" (if you didn't know). Their Equivalent to Hannity is a guy named Alan Jones, but he's just one of a group of narcissistic liars. So watch out for ANYTHING done by Sky News Australia. Murdoch has been trying for more than 20 years to get the ABC dissolved (as in completely annihilated). The right wingers claim the ABC is leftist and the left wingers always claim they are pro-right. The fact is the ABC is publicly funded but under its charter its programming is independent, including its news and current affairs. SO it reports what comes across its desk. Does it get shit wrong at times? ABSOLUTELY, but its also a place where we can still get HONEST in depth investigative journalism. We can never let the ABC go just the same as America must never let PBS go. If you doubt that watch this Frontline from 16 years ago when all this idiotic shit in Iraq and Afghanistan started. For that question of how did this all happen? Here are the answers. For anyone who's forgotten what people like Paul Wolfowitz did to make this shit storm happen. Here's what he and others said -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byu9Yhr0Q_0
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  22. 2500 Wall St. bankers dying every day is not a tragedy its an underachievement. What do you call a Wall St. banker with a conscience? A contradiction in reality. What do you do if you see a WSB limping? Reload and don't miss with the second shot. Why wasn't Voldemort a WSB? He wasn't evil enough. What's the difference between a WSB and porn star? One claims what they do is a respectable job that everybody approves off. The other one makes films. What's the difference between a WSB banker and burglar? One believes that they can come into you life and stealing what ever they can get their hands on without impunity. The other one expects to go to jail if they get caught. Some New York Mothers were comparing the children's achievements. The first said "My son just graduated from Law School because he has such a fine brain." The second said "My daughter just graduated from Medical school she has such a fine heart." The third said "My son just joined the peace corps because he has a good conscience." The forth said "My daughter just joined the military because she has a sense of honor to uphold and defend the constitution." The last one said "So what, my kid didn't need a brain, a heart, a conscience or any honor the be a Wall St. banker and get millions in bonuses."
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  23.  @callidusvulpes5556  Actually calling Tucker a rich brat is an insult to other rich brats. At least they have the discretion of not displaying it the way he does. I love the fact that the CIA rejected him, because just imagine what a shit like him would have done with CIA resources. It might just be one of the very few things the world can thank the CIA for getting right.
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  24.  @JamesDavy2009  Oh yeah Stalin was a maniac to put it mildly. Way back at the start of the Soviet Republic they used to hold elections each year to confirm or change the party leadership. At that stage Russia was Communist Democracy and yeah I know that sounds almost contradictory to what most people know. It worked well at first and then one year they decided they'd had enough of one Joseph Stalin and VOTED his ass out. He didn't take rejection well and promptly had his Bolshevik maniacs kill the entire party off after which he took over and the USSR became what we got to know it as a totalitarian dictatorship.. Does that sound familiar? Its interesting that Trump got on so well with that fat little maniac from North Korea because he too claims his country is a "Democratic Republic" when its actually a Stalinist Dictatorship. The comparisons between Trump and Hitler are wrong. Trump's way more like Stalin than Hitler.
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  25. NOTE TO ALL: This clown fails in his own admission at 1:48 "the attack by Hamas would not have happened if Iran did not okay it Maria and that is the link that has to be established" (that's a direct cut & paste from the transcript except for the capitalization of names) WHY DOES A LINK HAVE TO BE ESTABLISHED? If he is such an expert on Iran & Hamas and so certain that Iran is sponsoring this violence then how come he needs to establish a link?
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  26. I saw part of this interview and it was such a train wreck. I actually had a go at Lex in the comments for even airing it. I'm tired of people letting Kanye and people like Kanye access to a microphone. If you keep giving microphone access to clowns you well hear nothing but stupidity.
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  27. So you all know this story has gone around the world and with it the stories of how Trump has pushed through 2 executions and scheduled 3 more. What's odd about that is that its the first time in 130years that a President has gone forward with executions during a transition. For 130 years Presidents have let the incoming president handle it. So there is a massive double standard going here and the WHOLE WORLD KNOWS. I'm Australian and all our news services have reported this. The BBC have reported this. Just Google it and you'll find just how big of a news item this is.
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  28.  @PseudoSpaceMarine  Buddy forget the rules they don't even understand the first page of the bible let alone the rest of it, but that's a longish discussion. In fact its incredibly common among most religious people irrespective of the religion that they have almost no understanding of their own sacred writings. As in where it came from, when it was actually written let alone the language it was written in. In part that's because they were written in languages that are no longer even spoken although many of our modern languages are derived from them. In some cases we don't even really know how those languages were spoken or specific words were spoken. And if you think that language doesn't matter then go watch a TED talk by Lera Boroditsky titled "How language shapes the way we think." I lost interest in TED talks a while back because too many were laughably stupid and inaccurate but occasionally there's a great one and that talk is one of the great ones. And when you back track what she says about language it goes a big step to why so many religious people are so clueless.
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  29.  @mbg4681  Canadians are always welcome here, just remember it gets hot, damn hot. And we don't tend to have big dangerous animals that are obvious like polar bears. Ours tend to be smaller and poisonous.
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  30. Its the basic answer all those with wealth give for the problems of the poor -> Its their fault for not working hard enough or its their fault for not going to the right school.
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  31.  @thecanadianempire8767  Your right banning American oil exports hurts the American companies that export sweet crude and hurt them heaps because it sells for a lot more than heavy sour. But in terms of the worlds energy crisis you are misunderstanding the issue. 1) The energy crisis is a complex economic problem that has been coming for about 25 years. Its got a lot more to do than just Russian Gas, American light sweet and Saudi heavy sour. Most of the worlds large nuclear plants as well as many large coal fired power stations are rapidly approaching their end of life. I am an engineer and I can tell straight up this is a monster issue nobody is talking much about. These big large base load power stations are not easy to replace under any circumstances. They take years to design, years to get approved and years to build. Hinckley Point C, one of the very few that's been approved let alone started took 7 years to design and approve and will take 10 to build and wont be ready before 2028. Meanwhile Britain is farked for the next 6 years. Others might be farked for a lot longer than that because at least Britain is building something. 2) If America doesn't export sweet crude it also doesn't need to import heavy sour either. So the supply of crude isn't going down. The problem is where do you process it. If you have a plant that's been set up for American light sweet crude you can't switch it over to process heavy sour at all. Again I am an engineer and this is another fact very few people understand. Also America has its own heavy sour supplies from Alberta and Mexico so it can mix that with light sweet and process it Texas. Its not ideal but its better than being farked.
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  32. Its hard to figure out if he's an American Nero who'd party as Rome burned to the ground or an American Caligula who thinks he's an untouchable god OR is he some freakish combination of the 2.
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  33. You might have Libertarian and Liberal mixed up. Libertarians are the extreme version of Reaganism. In fact Reagan had to run against Libertarians in his primary. They are into small government, de-regulation (where the liberty things comes from) and most of all TAX CUTS. These are the business class side of the American right who think any regulation is an affront to their freedom and any tax is robbery by socialism. If they had their way there would be no corporate taxes AT ALL and no regulations AT ALL. Liberal (the American version) are from the American left (which is not to be confused with any other nations left) and what the religious conservatives think of as those immoral free sex baby killing heathens from places like California. Libertarians believe in freedom for corporations to do what ever they like and Liberals believe in freedom for individuals to do as they choose. Rand Paul is a Libertarian not a Liberal and that basically comes down to his supporting tax cuts.
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  34. Absolutely - I'd only be surprised if it was a Ted Cruz story labelled something like "Surprise - Doctor Finds Ted Cruz's Heart." And you all know if this happened in ANY other Western Country he would be dragged out of the House. Only in shit dysfunctional countries does this get tolerated. I'm Australian and for sure our politicians aren't angels but they aren't this bad. This is proper 3rd world banana republic style corruption.
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  35. I did aerospace engineering and back in 1987 we had an alum from NASA who did a guest lecture on Friday. He'd just completed a preliminary study into terraforming Mars and the answer was forget it. Here's a slightly longer explanation. Sorry for the math. What this NASA guy introduced us to was what I now call "Planetary Mechanics" which is how much stuff do you need. The sister to that is "Planetary Dynamics" which is how do you make stuff like water cycles and gas cycles and ocean currents work. So how much Earth normal air would you need? Sorry for the math. Mars has a surface area of 144,370,000 km² If you just wanted a 1 km thick layer of Earth standard air on an object that big its easy to approximate it as enough big cubes of air to cover and that's easy because you just change area to volume and you have 144,370,000 km³ of air. Earth standard air weighs 1.2kg/m³. To work out what that 144,370,000 km³ weighs in metric tons you add 9 zeros to convert m³ to km³ and then take off 3 zeros to convert kilograms to tons. Yes this is why engineers like metric. Finally you multiply by 1.2 because its 1.2 kg/m³ And then you get 173,244,000,000,000 tons of Earth standard air. Yes that's a bit over 173 TRILLION tons of air. The simple question is where are you going to find that much air. That's before you ask anything like how are you going to get it there or keep it attached tot he planet because Mars has only 1/3rd of Earths gravity and n magnetic field to stop the solar wind stripping it away. There was this one bright spark who recently told me we'd only need the Oxygen (as in 1/5th) 🤔🤔 So I asked him where he thought he could get 34.6 TRILLION tons of Oxygen? Now I will grant its not technically impossible, but unless you really do have God like powers, it is like trying to build a 1 to 1 scale model of Mount Everest out of Lego.
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  36. I'm waiting for him to console himself with some Jerry Falwell Jr words of wisdom on how to avoid getting caught.
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  37. That's priceless, incredibly sad and 100% accurate. And if you are wondering how TF she got elected you only have to go and look where the 14th district of Georgia is. Its the far north west corner (hillbilly country) of Georgia. Go have a look at the results she won by long long long way.
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  38. ​ @dustinsindledecker154  Agreed. And that's what blows my mind. When I was in college in America, Americans were PROUD that they knew how there country functioned. I'm being honest when I say I used to feel embarrassed that I didn't know how Australia worked as well as they knew how America worked. I'm being honest when I say I want Australia to have its version of the old American civics class BECAUSE I know what the benefits are.
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  39. FINALLY Finally a journalist has called out the bullshit being spoken by our governments (as in not just America). I'm Australian and only a few of our journalists are willing to call out our people often enough like this.
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  40. Really I thought he would have been one of the prosecutors in the Sanhedrin???? We know on thing for sure - he would NEVER have been among the disciples unless you are talking about that one particular guy named Judas.
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  41. What did the CIA hitman say to the MI6 Hitman? A: Your tying the knot wrong! What did the MI6 Hitman say back? A: Shut up and hold him still! What did the MOSAD Hitman say? A: Will both of you just shut up and get it done, I only paid the guards to be gone for 30minutes!
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  42. No its like when a piece of shit rolls its nose up at a turd and claims "it smells bad"
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  43.  @johnsviewsonspewtube  Awesome assessment of TC.
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  44. You have to remember that when it comes to the concept of ethics all lawyers see ethics the same way they play golf - the goal is to get the lowest score possible. This isn't an American thing either. I'm Australian and our legal profession is almost as bad as America's and when you go looking around the world its the same all across the developed world. Whenever any of our lawyers are in the same position its the same stuff, the same deflections, the same avoidances, the same gish gallop nonsense and every other tactic they can dream up. I know everyone laughed at it but the one time Rudy Giuliani was 100% right in recent times was when he said "Truth isn't truth." because we now decide what's truth. Yeah its a totally Orwellian doublespeak statement, but its also 100% correct regarding current society where narrative is currency and facts are meaningless in political discussions.
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  45. ITS ACTUALLY WORSE THAN KYLE IS SAYING I have been trying to highlight this report for over 6 months ago when RICHARD WOLLF mentioned it. The report was published in SEPTEMBER 2022 nearly 10 months ago. Anyone can find the report just google "congressional budget office family wealth" and the actual home page for the report should come up. On that page you can not only download the report but an Excel spreadsheet with all the data in the graphs. Here's some facts from the data of the very first graph in that report which is the one shown by Kyle at 4:26. From that graph you can not only get the effect of the 2008 GFC by comparing the 2007 data to 2010 but also the recovery by comparing the 2007 data to 2019. Adjusting for population and averaging the data on a per person value: The Top 10% LOST 11.1% of their wealth in the GFC but by 2019 were 21.1% ABOVE their 2007 value. The Middle 40% LOST 13.3% of their wealth in the GFC but by 2019 were 4.6% ABOVE their 2007 value. The Bottom 50% LOST 49.5% of their wealth in the GFC but by 2019 were STILL 21.8% BELOW their 2007 value. So after the GFC that they caused the Top 10% got around US$4 Trillion from Bush and another US$4 Trillion from Obama and have since recovered and by 2019 were US$20 Trillion ABOVE their 2007 value. Estimates have them at least US$8 Trillion above that during the COVID Pandemic. The current collective value of the Top 10% can be estimated to be above US$90 Trillion compared to an estimated collective value of US$2.5Trillion for the 165 million people who make up America's Bottom 50%. This is neoliberal economics in overdrive. FYI - I'm Australian but went to college in America on a scholarship this is my gift to you all. Apologies if its blunt, but I do love America and the American people. I do want to see America back at its best and right now America is NOT at its best. And so you know this sort of neoliberal brain virus is doing just as much damage in Australia. We are in the midst of a full blown double crisis of housing and energy and our genius economists have said things like "its just the markets adjusting."
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  46. Although the Dems are far being actual Lefties by any other standard, they are to the left of the GOP. More importantly this is exactly what Left Wing parties do all over the world. They are the most self destructive idiots EVERYWHERE with maybe the exception being New Zealand but then Jacinda Ardern actually has a functioning brain. I bet most of America does not realise that after the Hilary 2016 debacle that some of her campaign consultants and staff ended up in Australia WHERE THEY LOST and then ended up in Britain WHERE THEY LOST both time running similar styles of campaigns. I'm Australia and it was somebody I met from Britain who told me about that when I asked why British Labour used the same strategy as Australian Labour who seemed to use the same strategy as the Clinton campaign. These same people keep losing with the same sorts of campaigns - We are intellectually superior with all these ideas while the other side are RW fanatics who don't care about the planet. No matter how many times they lose they don't ever seem to get that shaming and belittling people and then confusing them doesn't work. AND EVERYTIME they lose they start the blame game. The whole world saw Hilary on the Howard Stern Show blaming Bernie Sanders for her loss 3 years after the fact.
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  47. AUSTRALIAN HERE: 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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  48. Bullshite as someone who IS AUSTRALIAN he got caught playing games with his status. We gave him every an exemption and gave him a chance and like so many spoiled brats he abused that status. LIKE AARON ROGERS ALL HE HAD TO DO WAS BE HONEST AND HE WASN'T. I have no sympathy for any of these spoiled brats and its about time some of them WTFU.
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  49. 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.”
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  50. HEY KYLE I agree with your assessment of this in that these tribal politics are basically bad, but what this guy has really pointed out in this article is quite accurate. Certain groups respond very predictably to specific buzz phrases and its called mob psychology. Morally & Ethically what George Santos did id repugnant, but in todays politics, he played it close to perfection.
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