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

  1.  @live2groove  is it really? We have the rise of facism, are still recovering from the worst economic crash since the great depression and about to hit one at least as bad. On top of that, most Republican voters support many of Bernie's core policies and at least trust the man's character even if they disagree. It wasn't GOP voters that stopped progressivism in 2016, but the establishment by rigging the election, and with people watching the election integrity and the rise of people advocating real socialism, there's only so much of that they can do before the disaffected masses start polarizing even more into fascist and comminist groups yet again.
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  2. I take it you mean more than just a public defense attorney so overworked that he only has the 5 minutes to spare to tell the defendant to plead guilty because effective legal defense is a privilege in this country.
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  3. He's not a 16 year old. He's a spoiled brat of a 13 year old.
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  4. “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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  5. The Rational National it's just a troll
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  6.  @NeoFryBoy  the redpill in the matrix movie was a reference to the estrogen pills the creators were taking because they were trans women
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  7. Look up "gaslighting"
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  8. Gonna answer anyways: The insurance companies are major customers for the "news" corporations creating a huge conflict of interest.
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  9. Look at it this way: Native born Texans live there because they were born there. The others chose to move to Texas dispite/because of its reputation.
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  10.  Cuck Baldson  Jimmy thinks everyone's a fucking sellout. Not a good metric there chief.
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  11. Liberal, by definition, is openness to change, new ideas, and new ways of doing things. Conservativism, by definition, is traditionalism and resistance to change. "Neo-conservatism" is a desire to return to an idealized version of the past that never actually existed. "Neo-liberalism" is neo-conservatism, with a sugar-coating of (mostly empty) rhetoric on social issues to help those that don't hate brown people or gays swallow the poison. Establishment Democrats are not at all liberal. They're about as strongly neo-conservative as Reagan under their rhetoric and occasional bone thrown to people on social issues. While we're on definitions, left vs right is about populism vs establishment power (originally democratic government supporters vs monarchy supporters). Of course, this means the DNC isn't "left" either, whether by the origins of the term or as a coloquial euphemism for "liberal". "Progressive" is the same listed definition as above by its root (though lacking the "pro-freedom" 2nd definition), but was popularised because of the DNC bowing to republicans using "liberal" as a smear. It does avoid the confusion with libertarians saying their economically liberal under the 2nd definition, even though their policies are regressive in terms of the change-spectrum.
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  12. As automation really comes into its own, it's either a job guarantee or UBI. There's really no getting around that reality. As for housing, we already have way more empty homes than homeless but costs keep going up. We need a housing guarantee or to nationalize the banks that are distorting the market. There's no real way around that one either.
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  13. Well, they're real voters, just ones hand-picked to have the right views. 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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  14. Most self-described "conservatives" these days are either neo-cons (which is just a more polite way of saying "proto-facists" or worse) or liberals who have been scared away from using the term out of decades of propaganda using it as a smear and the democratic party caving to it rather than doing something like this: https://youtu.be/zTFp7WG9J-E I am a big advocate of going to the dictionary and finding definitions that are consistent across both dictionaries and contexts (and when that fails, going to the historic origins of their use). This gets you the definition of left and right I already mentioned, and: Conservative: 1-Traditionalist/favoring the status-quo 2-Cautious Liberal: 1-Open to change, new ideas, and new ways of doing things 2-in favor of freedom (especially personal) 3-generous and given the rather recent movements' behaviors: Neo-conservative: attempting to return to an idealized version of the past that never actually existed (students of history will read that as "proto-facist at best") Neo-liberal: Neo-conservative under a thin veil of social progressivism While normally, language's meaning is determined by use, politicians must never be allowed to change the definitions of political terms (or any terms really) or, as you mention, they will quickly strip all meaning from the words so the public ends up talking past each other and they end up with all the power. Basic divide and conquer stuff, really...so if there's ever a time to be pedantic, it's about politics.
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  15. Not as embarrassing as this comment.
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  16. @Padraigh Desmond I can't speak for Emily, but related reading https://the2020progressive.com/andrew-yang-ubi-not-answer-for-progressives/
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  17. R1665 yup, part of that is clinical narcissism, so yes, she is actually incapable of critical self reflection.
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  18. I honestly can't tell if this is supposed to be satire...
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  19.  @MillerIndustriesInc  yeah, being left of fascism doesn't automatically put you on the left. The OP phrased his comment as a relative statement.
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  20. 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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  21. It takes work, courage, and word of mouth for campaigns like these to succeed. It's up to us if we want change.
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  22. As long as corporations are still allowed to pay lobbyists and give former politicians cushy "jobs" after they gat out, this doesn't change that much beyond optics.
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  23. And let's not forget on top of the laundry list of industries lobbying against it, there are still plenty of politicians out there that seem perfectly happy with the origional goal we learned Nixon started the war on drugs for (namely, destroying liberal and minority communities by arresting community leaders)
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  24. And they're correct. Bernie is a left-leaning moderate.
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  25.  @justdontbeadick4096  cryptocurrencies do the opposite of empower 3rd world countries. Even global currencies (as close as we've gotten to them) tend to be bad for poorer and weaker countries whether we're talking about the gold standard, the dollar being a global reserve currency, or even regionally with how the Euro has worked out for countries like Greece. Especially 3rd world nations need soverign control over their currecy to spend it into existance to pay those who work outside the market economy to do things like build infrastructure and create exchange value for said currency by creating demand via taxes. Crypto is terrible for both. Please look up David Graber's Debt the First 5000 Years to start to unlearn some of the myths you were taught in econ class.
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  26.  @MrKhushrenada  _you say unironically after being humiliated with a thorough fact check in this comment thread by the very person you're implying doesn't back up what he says with facts? This is your reality check. You're going out and shit-stirring on Jimmy's behalf, unquestioningly taking his information while automatically discounting anything that disagrees with the narrative you've been told to believe while you hate who you've been told to hate and provoke conflict that isolates you from everyone inside the group (and starts to border on self-harm) Behavior control Information control Thought control Emotion control B.I.T.E. I'm not being hyperbolic when I'm saying this behavior is becoming cult-like. I'm being completely serious. Jimmy's fanbase is shifting from normal parasocial behavior towards a decentralized cult of personality.
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  27. If you hadn't said it, I would have. Typical fiscal "conservative"
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  28. Nancy Mesek yeah, dude, get some consistency. Your double speek is about to reach critical mass.
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  29. Yup, if 60% of the county wants medicare for all, and you oppose it, you're not centrist.
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  30. This is good, but <1% of what needs done.
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  31. A better reason to exist than most of the people on the stage
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  32. Welcome to the remaining Cold War propaganda poisoning this country where people equate everything left of anarchocapitalism with totalitarianism because of fear of the USSR (which no longer exists).
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  33.  @donHooligan  please look up Debt: the First 500 Years (hell, even watch the youtube video of a lecture on it) I don't agree with all of MMT, but the basic idea of the government spending money into existence and then controlling inflation with taxes is correct (and even applied to when money was coins made out of precious metals). And to be clear, by "correct" I mean "an accurate depiction of reality" not just "what we should do".
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  34.  @donHooligan  I am pointing you to economic theory from an anarchosocialist...you really need to work on being less closed minded because you're so busy attacking the right that you can't even tell who your allies are. Hell, the author is likely closer to your economic positions than my more social democratic ones (even dispite my leaning more socialist than most social democrats)
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  35.  @brianjacobsen5762  Malcolm X AND MLK...for those who might want to dismiss Malcolm X due to the propaganda they've been brought up with.
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  36.  Don P  unlike Pete though, they work hard and benefit their community.
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  37. @CosmicDamian the fact that this is being driven specifically by divestment dispite solid returns is absolutely key here. The fact that people are investing in renewables dispite the lower returns is meaning that the market will behave differently than is typical and effectively work as a form of subsidy of renewables. In game theory terms this is a bunch of people in a prisoner's dilemma switching from defecting to cooperating in mass, which is starting to upset the entire balance of power in the energy market (and could threaten the cost/benefit calculation of fossile fuel investment if it goes much further). Keep in mind also, that as more renewables get produced, more of the costs of producing them will be based on the prices for renewables, so we just need to push things past a tipping point to flip the system (after which, fossile fuels will become an increasingly niche market for where renewable sources aren't yet practical).
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  38. Yeah, but she's probably a compulsive liar so...
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  39. Starteller which is kinda showing that the original apology was a lie too, and showing that taking so long to get legalization was, in part, the dems dragging their feet.
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  40. Forget about faith in humanity. Just be stubborn enough to prefer to go down fighting.
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  41.  @yeetskeet7234  Sanders is an independent and the most popular politician in the country (especially with independents) He's the only one who has any chance of winning as an independent, and has way more experience and name recognition than Gabbard. Bernie/Gabbard 2020 Gabbard/? 2028
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  42.  @rogerdavis149  youth turnout is low, yes. If you have an actual argument, make it.
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  43. Koala to top it off, I'd bet that a huge portion of that 45k is people wanting to get entirely elective procedures without the wait time by cutting in line in countries like the US where their money lets them bypass the waiting list. Another huge portion are people just getting cheap plastic surgery in some country where a dollar buys a lot.
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  44. Honestly, almost anyone BUT Hillary would have won in 2016.
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  45. It's always been a war on progressives. That's why once they're out of the race, the election is treated like a gentleman's game by the establishment.
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  46.  @woodstream6137  yup, the entire system is built on lies as much as feudalism. Whatever they think they can say to excuse consolidating as much power in as few hands as possible. Replace the divine right of kings with the invisible hand of the free market and keep the game in the corridors of power going.
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  47. Hardly a control group. It was an unrepresentative group picked to say what they wanted to say.
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  48. You feel revulsion because no establishment politicians here are actually liberal. They're right-wing extremists dressing up their filth in slightly less right wing rhetoric and pretending that makes them liberal.
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  49.  @julieannmyers8714  nailed it! Even possibly without dirrect cooperation they all can get on the same page too just by trial and error.
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  50. As much as Jesus himself may have preached otherwise, most of the religions dedicated to him teach that people deserve what they get and build a moral code on obedience and guilt rather than compassion and love. Just look at the mark of ash on his forehead. Matthew 6:5 & 6:6 has Jesus saying some pretty harsh things about flaunting your faith in public, but still many do it and think they're honoring a man who said not to because traditions and their church tells them so. Sorry to say, but this isn't at all abnormal for Catholics or many other Christians (though thankfully not universal).
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