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

  1. It used to be common among many Western Christians too with that whole "brotherhood of man" outlook. Not as much talk like that since the rise of "prosperity gospel" theology, it seems, if I may gesture towards a correlation.
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  2. And let's not forget that a VAT tax is regressive, or that it would just raise housing costs if done without massive reform there, meaning if you're poor enough to have to choose between Yang's "Universal" Basic Income and other assistance programs, you get fucked!
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  3. Not uncommon...at least your cousins aren't out of their minds.
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  4. Aside from corporate interests like the prison industrial complex and competing industries I can shed some light on it. “You want to know what this was really all about? The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.” -Nixon aide John Ehrlichman Notice how Biden (a really ageist person) used it to target young staffers?
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  5.  @PapiCthulu2  yeah, my first thought was "um, you sure you want to be confessing this publically, Ms?"
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  6. "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 Republican Party, official 2012 platform
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  7.  @emhu2594  the biggest problem is he set himself up for a ground-based campaign and then the virus hit.
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  8.  @TheHesseJames  or the metaphorical kid just fucks up his life all on his own and needs someone to blame...the US is both a huge problem for the world and a potential key to fixing it, but either way, we need to take its problems seriously, whether we live here or not, because the successes and failures of the US almost never are contained within its borders, for better or worse, especially now that the corporatocracy that controls our government is a fairly global institution.
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  9. As terrible as the internment camps were, what we are doing now is So much worse. Taking meds from people, seperating families, forcing people into life-threatening living conditions, and generally being deliberately punitive. For as much as the internment camps were concentration camps and a violation of the rights of the Japanese, more people came out of the camps than went in, and we talk about their harm in terms of the financial, psychological, and social damage done, not in terms of deaths. Once we're talking about deaths and seperated families, to use a term other than "concentration camps" is to downplay the severity for the sake of actual politically correct language. This is the real face of the #resistance(tm)
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  10.  @NikNeil107  the irony of saying that while believing politicians over scientists and doctors is thicker than the dirt they're burrying the covid victims people like you are killing.
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  11. Blood may be thicker than water, but not maple syrup. :d Seriously though, my sympathies (my entire family had to disown one of our blood relations over a certain unrepented incident) and agreement that people put way too much emphasis on blood ties. Unbreakable blood bonds are an archaic concept to begin with.
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  12. These monuments need to be treated with the respect they deserve. I know of a high power cleaner that is very effective at getting rid of filth: C4 A demonstration of the technique https://youtu.be/PzEBp9EV2pg
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  13. I've been telling myself that since Columbine and making plans on how to deal with such an event (tactics, places of cover, where to get improvised weapons, keeping track of who was most likely to become a shooter, etc) since then, and for 20 years, the problem has just been getting worse.
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  14. ISPs have: 1- engaged in anti-compeditive collusion to create regional monopolies and price fixing. 2- bribed congress to destroy internet privacy 3- subverted democracy to destroy net neutrality. 3-strikes, you're out, time to make it a national/municipal utility and utterly destroy these companies. They've proven without doubt that they simply cannot be trusted with a utility vital to the information age.
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  15. Either you're dishonest enough to be ok with it, dense enough to not realize it, or you're fired/sidelined. That is how corporate "news" media works.
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  16. The establishment dems project just like real republicans now. They must be so proud.
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  17. *60 going on 14
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  18.  @zammmerjammer  I don't think he should be trusted as a trashman
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  19.  @richardg1917  oh, you're one of those morons who think taxes are theft. Your "ancap" religion isn't bought into here.
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  20. Even if he wasn't military trained he would know what he was doing. Anyone who keeps choking someone 50s after they go limp is just a murderer. Normal people stop whatever they're doing once they notice the other person has gone non-responsive whether it's a chokehold or they're just punching. I'm never going to buy the "I didn't notice him going limp in my arms" BS.
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  21.  @ubuu7  if Biden gets the nomination you can kiss 2020 goodbye anyway
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  22. 1ronin is a cryptofascist troll, btw, so there's no point trying to convince him of anything, but for anyone else interested in learning more: Denial as a Tool of the Radical Right https://youtu.be/HOHthnsuhPw Steve Bannon (and fascism) https://youtu.be/wO6uD3c2qMo The Philosophy of Antifa https://youtu.be/bgwS_FMZ3nQ (important context even if you disagree with some of the things done by antifa activists)
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  23.  @sylviewalker7560  Bernie gave his endorsement unconditionally (to be fair, as he promised he would), so he has no leverage. The DNC doesn't care if Biden looses, so there's more leverage gone. Workers will always have leverage, though. All we have to do is put our tools down as one and we hold all the power.
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  24.  @jethroneemo2150  it's sad when you need to lie to engage in enough whataboutism to even try to defend a fascist manchild. No, the problem with liberals is they idolize the golden mean fallacy as a virtue and subscribe to an ideology that is a bastardized mix of discarded left-wing ideas and conservative propaganda (and that they're way too soft on fascists like Trump)
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  25. Who is also ageist af and using the pretence of drug use to go after a demographic he's bigoted towards. Sounds like Nixon huh?
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  26. This! We need this!
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  27. "The retired Air Force four-star general wholeheartedly concurred Wednesday night with an Aug. 12 Twitter post by Financial Times associate editor Edward Luce that read: “I’ve covered extremism and violent ideologies around the world over my career. Have never come across a political force more nihilistic, dangerous & contemptible than today’s Republicans. Nothing close.” “I agree,” Hayden wrote. “And I was the CIA Director.”"
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  28. You're assuming that their main goal is to win the general. It's not. Their first priority is to protect the corruption-fuel gravy train, which means the real election to them is the primary where they take on their #1 enemy: real progressives. They'd much rather pass control of government back and forth with the GOP who are just as invested in the status-quo than ever allow real progressives to have a voice. Since they consider us their main enemy, we need to respond in kind, because until we do, we will continue to find knives in our backs with the establishment dems pretending they don't know how they got there. Sure the GOP may be worse, but until we either take over or destroy the "Democratic" Party, there's nothing effective we can really do about that.
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  29. And the last page And every other page in between. The overwhelming majority of boomers are incredibly ageist.
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  30. ​ @golDroger88 he DID intentionally kill him. He felt the man go limp in his arms and kept choking him despite an unconscious man not being a threat. You're just trying to excuse a murder.
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  31. Fear of change, fear of people who are different, etc Fear tends to be the core of right-wing ideology. The hatred and anger displayed typically is just the flip side of the fight/flight response.
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  32. Fascists: the term is "fascist" Tucker is a fascist and a white nationalist. We know how this ended last time. It can happen here.
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  33. Like Bramble mentioned, there's a lot of reason to HIGHLY suspect his statement being extremely sketchy. We need to actually know what's going on before we eat our own.
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  34.  @morphkogan8627  ah, yes, all the charity he gets a tax break and a boosted public image for, but which hardly dents the problems he is actually going after like it could if he would throw more than the equivalent of pocket change for him at it. He's such an altruist. /s Charity is a well-known tactic the rich use to invest in trying to keep the people from trying to seriously deal with inequality. It's a trick older than feudalism and you fell for it.
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  35. Even though one did it with a political manifesto echoing Faux News talking points that were being used while the news came in and the other was just because he was a rare, left-leaning incel, not a shooting motivated by left-wing politics.
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  36. You know, the one who put people in prison by withholding evidence proving their innocence, and kept people in prison past their sentences to get nearly slave labor from them. #KamalaForJail2020
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  37. They're not being stupid. "What is the cost of lies? It’s not that we’ll mistake them for the truth. The real danger is that if we hear enough lies, then we no longer recognize the truth at all. What can we do then? What else is left but to abandon even the hope of truth and content ourselves instead with stories? In these stories, it doesn’t matter who the heroes are. All we want to know is: Who is to blame?" -the opening lines of HBO miniseries Chernobyl. They are waging a war on people's ability to recognize truth because they are ideologically opposed to truth.
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  38.  @BlaqueCzar  if Biden gets the nomination, don't be so sure about that.
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  39. I was stunned that the interviewer even asked her "What do you mean occupation of Palestine?" The question being asked is what the controversy should have been about.
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  40. Correction: politically correct grammar is more important to him This is what real political correctness looks like; policing correct use of language to insist on euphemisms that protect the established political class. Remember; when push comes to shove, corporatists support fascism over anything leftist and fascists are happy to ease them into things one violation of human rights at a time.
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  41. Bernie Sanders isn't even a full socialist, just a social democrat. In other words, he's an economic moderate. He's basically FDR, who's explicit goal was to "save capitalism". I guarantee you that anyone who's more afraid of that than Trump will not only refuse to make the compromises needed to stop total economic collapse, but will end up siding with the facists after it happens.
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  42.  @zerefdragneel2289  you're missing the big picture for the next decade. We will literally not be able to automate ourselves out of the pile of work that has been growing for decades before the deadline to deal with climate change. Even when things are developed, there is rollout time to consider. There's simply too much work to be done that the market won't pay for to allow automation to make human labor unnecessary during that time period. As things get automated, that would just free up labor to put to other tasks that have been going undone for decades. This process will push back the threat of automation by increasing the amount of work being done in the economy by getting to work on those tasks that markets don't incentivise the doing of. After that sure, we absolutely should be looking into a (better) UBI plan, but the immediate problem isn't a lack of work for human so do, but markets not putting labor to tasks that need doing. (Side note, the jobs guarentee would also greatly increase workers' negotiating power vs their employers)
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  43.  @gnome3928  BS, Bernie's plan is way better than Canada's and Yang's won't get us any closer to a public plan than Warren's for many of the same reasons. While you fuss over how quickly the festering bandaid is being pulled of to be replaced with M4A (which itself is already a compromise plan that leaves the hospitals and big pharma private instead of nationalizing them too) 10s of thousands of people die and the market failure of privatized healthcare continues to exponentially raise costs (as it always will with how market forces act on healthcare in the real world).
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  44. Well he makes a living off of "alt-right" propaganda so...
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  45. I can settle this pretty solidly. Look up the origins of the "War on Christmas" scaremongering. Spoilers though, it's literally Nazi propaganda created by Henry Ford. Faux News just put white out over the part where they explicitly blame Jewish people....much like they did with "Cultural Marxism" and the "great Replacement" BS Tucker keeps going on about. It's all just whitewashed antisemitic Nazi propaganda. Look any of it up if it sounds like I'm exaggurating. I promise you if anything I'm underselling it.
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  46.  NNA S  why should a rich person want to vote for someone who would distribute economic power to the poor when that would be against his interests? Why should a white man have voted for anything in the civil rights movement when that meant sharing social, political, and economic power? If "because it's the right thing to do" how about because the alternatives to a tax increase are pitchforks and guillotines or fascism? But no, let's sympathize with the short-sighted whining of a billionaire going "oh no, if they take just several percent of my wealth, what will I have left? I may just have to vote for the unstable, moronic, protofascist manchild who's agenda will do more damage to the world in 8 years than my lifetime of philanthropy (which this waffling reveals my less than altruistic motives for)" /S Come on dude, do you have no self-respect?
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  47.  @GSP-76  or, you know, if the people took back the country from the oligarchal usurpers, reinstituted a democratic government and tried them ourselves (you know, those that survived the treason charges for sending weapons to our enemies for personal gain, of course).
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  48. Nevermind that part of Congress's explicit responsibility is to "provide the the general welfare" or that the government dirrectly paying privately owned hospitals is about as moderate a position as the government paying private civil engineering companies to maintain roads and bridges. But sure, going with the will of the people to do a completely moderate thing that the Constitution arguably demands is anti-American and extremist, but using legalized bribery to override the will of the people is fine... Fuck these rich assholes. If we can use tax dollars to save American lives from fire, dangerous products, dangerous working conditions, murderers, foreign threats, etc we can use it to save Americans from things like cancer. Them arguing otherwise is to drench their hands in our blood and take the stance that the Government only exists to preserve US power and business interests.
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  49. This, Secular Talk, and Humanist Report are my main 3
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  50. He's already been involved in politics for a LONG time. Hell, his hyperloop idiocy was a con to kneecap California's plans for highspeed rail.
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