Comments by "DynamicWorlds" (@dynamicworlds1) on "Parkrose Permaculture" channel.

  1. "Historians have a word for Germans who joined the Nazi party, not because they hated Jews, but out of a hope for restored patriotism, or a sense of economic anxiety, or a hope to preserve their religious values, or dislike of their opponents, or raw political opportunism, or convenience, or ignorance, or greed. That word is "Nazi."" -A.R. Moxon
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  2. And terrifs on construction materials is definitely going to help the housing crisis. Mhm. I forsee no problems there!
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  3. It's never been about protecting fetuses. If it was, they would support things like comprehensive sx ed and assistance to poor mothers as those actually lower abortion rates. No, they just want to punish women for sex.
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  4. If I were Christian, I'd be so offended about the prosperity gospel types calling themselves "Christian" that I would never, ever be quiet about it.
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  5. Social murder IS murder
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  6. They see Israel as a sacrificial alter.
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  7. I'd also point out that sugar, fat, and salt are cheap nowadays and that it's real nutrition that's expensive. I can get a wide variety of chips, soda, and candy at the dollar store and in decent-sized quantities, but not a bit of fresh produce and even the canned goods section is severely lacking.
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  8. Tankies have been called red-fash for a LONG time and for good reason. Right vs left is about hierarchy and concentration of power vs egalitarianism and distribution of power. Tankies are "left" in the same way that North Korea is a "Democratic Republic": in name only. 'Authoritarian left" is just as much of a non-existent oxymoron as anarcho-monarchism or "libertarian right" PS, if you're not familiar with the term, look up "state capitalism" because the USSR and China have never been "moneyless, classless, stateless societies"
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  9. He knows what his job is: keep people like AOC and Crockett away from the levers of power.
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  10. By making them afraid again.
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  11. At the end of the day, they are the final enforcement mechanism. They swore an oath and it covered threats foreign AND domestic. The big question is if they will keep it.
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  12. ​ @zoyadulzura7490 if only our "representatives" didn't have contempt for human life or find fulfillment in our suffering.
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  13. "be not like the hypocrites. . .pray in your closet" -Jesus Don't trust anyone who makes a public spectacle of their "Christianity". They may believe in the monstrous god of Abraham, but they prove they don't care for the teachings of Jesus.
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  14. They know. They just don't actually WANT to oppose Trump
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  15. Reminder: we cannot wake up MAGA by making their kids suffer. If they cared about their kids, they wouldn't be MAGA in the first place.
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  16. I had political views separate from my parents by the age of 11. I agree with the sentiment and ethics, but on a matter of fact, children absolutely have political views.
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  17. Nah, TYT was never extremely far left at all. They just sold out. Simple as that. TYT is actually an example of how this happens to ALL parts of the political spectrum.
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  18. Reminder that it would SAVE the government money to just GIVE every homeless person a roof over their head than to have homeless people around, but that we pay more so we can have homeless people to abuse as a THREAT to keep everyone who works for a living showing up at jobs paying them poverty wages. ALWAYS take how they treat the homeless personally, because it's all done with the very loud subtext of "if you don't stay in line, you're next".
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  19. The problem is not that they don't have a spine. They do. The problem is that they are COMPLICIT.
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  20. Cowardice has defined this country since AT LEAST 9/11. We haven't been "the home of the brave" for a LONG time.
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  21. I've literally worked at places where company policy explicitly only protected against age-based discrimination for those over 40 and it's so normalized in our society that no-one seemed to find anything wrong with that, even if they were under 40 themselves, and believe me I heard plenty of stuff that I would have been able to take to HR before I left that job if the policy had been different. Every other demographic divide is set up where you can't discriminate on EITHER side of the divide except for age, where explicitly only one side of the divide is both protected and allowed to discriminate as much as they want. I am so fed up with being treated as "one of the good ones" by almost EVERYONE from a generation older than mine and I'm well into my 30s. It's disgusting how prevalent it is even in "progressive" circles. We desperately need youth liberation.
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  22. Won't help as much if we end up being the epicenter of the outbreak, though
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  23. ”Never believe that [they] are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. [They] have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.” -Jean-Paul Sartre speaking of something true of all fascists (edited to try and keep YouTube from suspiciously censoring it) See also, the alt-right playbook' "the card says moops". It's not just that they are fact-free. They are ideologically anti-truth.
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  24. Hmm, his approval ratings are in freefall right now but also at 53%? Yeah, that doesn't pass the smell test.
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  25. The unfortunately the enemy of my enemy would rather loose to MAGA than work with people like me. We shouldn't put all the blame on the left for this.
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  26. ​@Georgina602that is a temporary state of affairs
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  27. Everything that they CHOOSE not to fillabuster they are complicit in. They are NOT allies.
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  28. Someone gets it!
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  29.  @DannyBowen25  argue how personhood can predate brain development.
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  30. While cash assistance is good, there is the concern that it opens the door to landlords knowing they can just jack up the rent and resulting in people being right back where they started.
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  31.  @LLL-v5k3m  it's a troll that calls everyone else trolls. Don't bother trying to reason with it.
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  32. They're not weak. They show that when it comes time to oppose progressives. What they are is complicit!
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  33. And sentenced
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  34. Long term? Income-based affirmative action and lowering the costs of housing so they're less likely to end up in a situation where they're dependent on awful parents well into their adult lives. Just throwing out ideas, though, not pretending to have an exhaustive list.
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  35. "We oppose the teaching of Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) (values clarification), critical thinking skills and similar programs that are simply a relabeling of Outcome-Based Education (OBE) (mastery learning) which focus on behavior modification and have the purpose of challenging the student’s fixed beliefs and undermining parental authority." -Texas GOP official party platform 2012 "2. Traditionalism implies the rejection of modernism. Both Fascists and Nazis worshiped technology, while traditionalist thinkers usually reject it as a negation of traditional spiritual values. However, even though Nazism was proud of its industrial achievements, its praise of modernism was only the surface of an ideology based upon Blood and Earth (Blut und Boden). The rejection of the modern world was disguised as a rebuttal of the capitalistic way of life, but it mainly concerned the rejection of the Spirit of 1789 (and of 1776, of course). The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity. In this sense Ur-Fascism can be defined as irrationalism. 3. Irrationalism also depends on the cult of action for action’s sake. Action being beautiful in itself, it must be taken before, or without, any previous reflection. Thinking is a form of emasculation. Therefore culture is suspect insofar as it is identified with critical attitudes. Distrust of the intellectual world has always been a symptom of Ur-Fascism" Umberto Eco's 14 Characteristics of Ur-fascism
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  36. ​ @MP-db9sw my comments keep getting deleted no matter how I phrase them so I'll just say "well said"
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  37. Looks like another plague predicency
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  38. And would have a third time if they weren't actively stopped.
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  39. The plot is hurting the people they hate, which is anyone different from them.
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  40. Pure projection. We're not like you.
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  41. "2. Traditionalism implies the rejection of modernism. Both Fascists and Nazis worshiped technology, while traditionalist thinkers usually reject it as a negation of traditional spiritual values. However, even though Nazism was proud of its industrial achievements, its praise of modernism was only the surface of an ideology based upon Blood and Earth (Blut und Boden). The rejection of the modern world was disguised as a rebuttal of the capitalistic way of life, but it mainly concerned the rejection of the Spirit of 1789 (and of 1776, of course). The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity. In this sense Ur-Fascism can be defined as irrationalism. 3. Irrationalism also depends on the cult of action for action’s sake. Action being beautiful in itself, it must be taken before, or without, any previous reflection. Thinking is a form of emasculation. Therefore culture is suspect insofar as it is identified with critical attitudes. Distrust of the intellectual world has always been a symptom of Ur-Fascism" Umberto Eco's 14 Characteristics of Ur-fascism
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  42. See the alt-right playbook's "always a bigger fish" to help understand what's going on. Seriously, I cannot recommend it enough.
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  43.  @julietfischer5056  that's not really practical to enforce as you're trying to outlaw charging "what the market will bear" while keeping a profit-driven market structure. The better answer is to just provide housing as a public service rather than leaving it up to markets to handle.
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  44. This is actually why it's so important to be using the correct definition of right vs left, which is hierarchy and consolidation of power vs egalitarianism and distribution of power. Top-down power structures are ALL right wing, no matter what aesthetics and justifications they wrap themselves in. Taking up nominally left wing positions on some issues while keeping a right-wing, superiority-driven mindset is really easy to fall into because it takes more work to actually deconstruct those right wing modes of thought. The real left and tankies share nothing but aesthetics in common. Even on economic issues where the political compass puts them on the same position on that axis, they take completely different stances on how an economy should be organized with the real left centering economic democracy and tankies promoting what's called "state capitalism". That's part of the problem with the political compass. It treats people that want everything to be worker coops as having the same economic positions as people who want the economy managed by a dictator, which is obviously absurd.
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  45. Respectfully, while I agree we should absolutely be calling and mailing our representatives, I think you are being a little naive. Republican politicians do not care about getting reelected. They care about remaining in power. In a situation where they are being offered the end to democracy, we need to be very clear that those are NOT the same thing.
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  46. Legally or extralegally?
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  47. It didn't have to be but Dems were more concerned with stopping progressives than stopping this, and we're all dealing with the consequences of that choice.
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  48. ​ @TravisHRF16CC YouTube deletes most of my comments answering questions like yours but it involves the fact that free speech doesn't cover conspiracy.
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  49. Especially for reasons like "it looks better"
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  50. Tankies get called "red fascists" for good reason. Totalitarian state capitalism (the technical term for what their ideology ACTUALLY builds) is a far-right system.
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