Comments by "DynamicWorlds" (@dynamicworlds1) on "The Rational National" channel.

  1.  @French-Dutch-English-blooded  thanks for displaying even more how all the Bernie Bro narrative was projection.
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  2. “Courage is being scared to death… and saddling up anyway.” -John Wayne “I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.”⁣ -Nelson Mandela⁣ 'Courage is doing what you are afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you are scared." -Eddie Rickenbacker "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear." -Franklin D. Roosevelt "It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare." -Mark Twain Whether someone thinks this was the best way they could protest or not, those claiming it wasn't brave show that the concept of moral courage is foreign to them.
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  3. She won't live long enough to matter and say's "I have grandkids" like a racist says "I have black friends"
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  4. Don't be disappointed. This group isn't representative of voters, Democrat or otherwise. Bernie gets only 1/3rd of the voters dispite being the most popular politician in the country with about 2/3rds support, and both of his supporters are men and appear to be the oldest on the pannel dispite Bernie being most popular with young people and women. Then they throw on only women who, statistically, don't represent the views of most women. This is a pannel curated by CNN to push an agenda, not a real reflection of voters. Standard Corporate News Network fare.
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  5. For those who don't understand, I would like to recommend one of CGP Grey's multiple videos on Brexit (though the others are informative as well) https://youtu.be/J1Yv24cM2os
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  6. "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action" ☝️same energy.
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  7. If we had free and fair elections, President Sanders would be the incumbent right now and there would be a whole lot fewer people dying.
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  8. Shelly seymore yes, because flying in an often unreliable tin can through flak and often outside the range of fighter escort was so safe /s Fuck off Nazi sympathizer. https://www.quora.com/What-was-the-most-dangerous-military-service-in-WW2-the-Army-the-Navy-or-the-Air-Force
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  9.  @Wanderer25  considering the track record for voting eligibility tests, we can't really trust a government (or probably anyone else) to decide which adult citizens are allowed to vote. Too much conflict of interest to have the people being voted on select the people to do the voting, so it always gets abused (hell, wanting to abuse such a test is almost, if not always, why it gets put in place in the first place)
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  10.  @live2groove  Donald Trump isn't a full fascist, no, but he's an authoritarian, bigotted, oligarch with sympathies towards fascism and Nazi supporters (or as others have put it: a proto-fascist) That all said, I wasn't talking about Trump exactly. I was talking about the rise of fascist political movements domestically and globally. (That said, Mussolini and FDR both had definitions of fascism that were pretty close to oligharchy as the merger of buisness and state and the growth of private power such that it becomes more powerful than the democratic state, so that should tell you how close we are) As to your other question that is a false dichotomy, but of course I'll be watching and voting on the whole ballot as well.
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  11. A German Viewpoint true, but censorship and fashion police is not how to move forward. It's how to move backward. Rome persecuted the fuck out of the Abrihamic religions and it only strengthened them.
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  12.  TJ B  I mean, a fair number actually are ....and that's before we get into what fascism does to someone's cognitive functioning.
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  13. This isn't about trying to get people to support action on climate change. It's definitely not about trying to move those over who oppose it. What it IS is an attempt to shock the (white) moderates out of their complacency and try and move people from indifference and tepid support to "this issue is NON-negotiable" and treating anything but the most aggressive programs to combat climate change with at least the moral outrage that they would have at defacing a priceless work of art. To borrow a phrasing from MLK "Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and foster such a tension that a community which has constantly refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue. It seeks so to dramatize the issue that it can no longer be ignored." I don't know if this was the best way to go about this, but the amount of people even nominally progressive people on this channel who have decided to be more outraged by the form of protest than the thing being protested against proves how important sending the message they are trying to send is. If you prefer "a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action"; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for" future generations' salvation, then you are part of the problem. Don't be the "white moderate" MLK spoke of. Not on racial justice. Not on climate justice. Not on anything. Complacency KILLS And as a side note...the number of people who don't understand such a simple protest AFTER THE ONES WHO DID IT SPELLED IT OUT is incredibly depressing. In a better world, this would have been a great form of protest. Unfortunately, people are idiots.
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  14. ​ @bonsummers2657 not after he passed out he wasn't.
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  15. ​ donvitocoreleone7666 and yet everyone knows exactly what they are doing if they keep choking an unconscious person.
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  16. Leo T it's a shame that we've forgotten that taking the best ideas from everywhere we could is how we built this country in the first place. Throughout all of history, that strategy leads consistently to the rise of great nations, and we turn our back on it at our peril.
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  17. Let's not mince words here. Bolsonaro is a US-installed fascist burning the lungs of the world for corporate profits. Brazil needs to remove him ASAP.
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  18. ​ @LilFeralGangrel yeah, I accepted that truth partway through the pandemic. Unfortunately my mental health isn't doing the greatest since...
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  19. It's not even just racial. The youth are tokenized. The lgbtq+ community is tokenized. Lots of crocodile tears over how bad they get treated, nice pedestals when they find ones willing to tow the line, but when it comes to policies that would actually help people? "Well, the thing is...."
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  20. Austin Zappas what they call the far left IS the center
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  21. Journalist? Lmao!
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  22. While perfectly logical in a literal sense (how early you die doesn't change your funeral costs), that one does hit hard and make people pause which is good.
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  23.  @lisanavarro2641  you say "evolved as far as political affiliation" I say "infiltrated the workers' party"
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  24. (Non-Islamic) Right wing terrorists have committed more attacks within the US than even Islamic terrorists in this millennia. All other terrorism combined from ecoterrorism to Antifa to black nationalists doesn't even come close. There is no equivalency in hate or unreasonableness when the worst the worst the left has is antifa sometimes falling into the "he who fights monsters" problem by using facist tactics, and the right has actual NAZIS! I'm getting really tired of making the distinction between Nazis and those spreading propaganda/providing cover for them due to money/lolz (rather than ideologic agreement) only to be called unreasonable by those same people.
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  25. Rajen Panikkar I keep telling people not to look for leaders in elections. Serfs look for leaders. Citizens look for representatives. As long as we have a population going into elections looking to find someone to follow, rather than going into elections with things they want and trying to find the best person to do the job THEY want done, we will continue to be treated like serfs. Nonetheless, every election, pundits and TV "journalists" keep salivating over "leadership qualities" like they're the most important thing. It tells you all you need to know about the politics of anyone that spouts that BS that you need to know.
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  26. Yeah, when you look into the cumulative costs to mental health, physical health, and non-health related matters (from productivity to energy use) that hour shift costs quite a bit.
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  27. That's the thing though. We literally can't wait!
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  28. Let's be honest, he would just be an open and registered Nazi instead of a closeted one.
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  29. Outside the US, "Liberals" are on the right and seen as basically moderate conservatives.
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  30. Because Ben Shapiro isn't even a conservative; he's a reactionary. Conservatives fear change and want to preserve the status quo. Reactionaries fear both change, and the status quo, so seek to "return" to a version of the past that never actually existed. If that sounds familiar in an alarming way (especially when put beside his ethnonationalism), it should.
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  31. von Wabbit when people can't eat, that's historically when heads tend to roll, but the narcissism and psychopathy are so strong they can't even see the danger they're putting themselves in.
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  32.  @letsomethingshine  except all they have to do is not re-up funding for this. They don't actually have to make the Senate do anything. Just like they didn't have to keep reauthorizing the Patriot Act or expand Trump's domestic spying powers, or vote to give him more of an increase in the military budget than even he asked for. Face facts: the establishment "Democrats" are complict in this. Btw, let's not forget that Trump came to power because Hillary colluded with the MSM to push him in the GOP primary while rigging the "Democratic" primary.
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  33. Now? Dude they were already habitually rewriting history by the start of this century. They've been called Faux News and compared to the Ministry of Truth from 1984 for a long time now and with good reason.
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  34.  @bolee3339  verbally he only said that he'd been told that they had, not that they had. Getting a written statement that he actually had is 2 levels up from that as he needs to say that he had and by giving him time which reduces room for him to say that he said what he believed to be true at the time. Just tightening that screw on him
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  35.  @boughtbot2639  nah, but I do appreciate good wordsmithing and try to attribute it when I can.
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  36. He leaves you in a fog because he sounds like he's starting with reason and evidence, but is actually starting with a conclusion and twisting logic and even language itself to support it. If you approach his arguments the same way you would those of an intelligent and articulate theocrat, it becomes much easier to see the logical fallacies.
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  37. Can someone explain to me why so few people seem willing to accept a 2-pronged strategy of fighting to take over the party and fighting for 3rd parties in the instances where that fails?
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  38.  @sethtedder3173  I'm sorry, is my username Hillary Clinton or DNC? No? Didn't think so.
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  39. No, but a Sanders/Gabbard ticket might shake things up depending on how the primary goes
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  40. Bernie tepidly supported Clinton mainly because he promiced to stand with the nominee, and he's nothing if not a man of his word.
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  41.  @wek33  worst than the worst of both worlds.
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  42. And would be if we had a fair election system. We need to work on that.
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  43. See, there's that word "think" in that question....
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  44.  @zyrrhos  we, the people, progressives voting in primaries. Also, while it is not enough of a difference, there is a difference between the center-right "Democrats" and far-right (increasingly fascist) GOP and you sound rediculous when you claim otherwise.
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  45. The fact that they're not as close as they looked may have had something to do with it.
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  46. Saagar is a crypofascist, light on the crypto.
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  47.  @Julian-rp4gc  it's not human nature. Don't pretend everyone is like you just to excuse your own nad behavior like an angsty tween
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  48. The corporate press is owned by the comfortable and its job is to sell advertising space to the comfortable, and the customer (read: corporation) is always right. Why would we expect any different? We designed a system that produces predictable outcomes and expect it to do anything but what it was designed to do?
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  49. No Media be like: "Bernie is just like Trump but Biden will be the one who appeals to moderate Republicans." Because, you know, they can't even have their narrative congruent with itself, much less reality.
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  50. When your goals generally run contrary to the people and you look at everything as a zero-sum game, that's not an option, sadly.
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