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

  1. Also one. We will join you as soon as we get democratic representation back in our government and cast off oligarchy. Every year we get closer to casting off the yoke of corporate rule which prevents us from standing proud next to you, our northern brothers and sisters, but know that most people here are with you. We may tease a bit in good humor, but if asked who to side with between you and the Saudis there would be no hesitation in our answer.
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  2.  @joolzvega7298  you greatly overestimate the man, he's not an idiot, but there are lots of people as smart as him right where you live I'm sure
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  3. Glad to have you on board and free from the red-scare propaganda that poisoned our country.
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  4.  @MillerIndustriesInc  unfortunately, I think you'll find if you read through Umbero Eco's list of 14 characteristics of Ur-fascism that the GQP response to Covid does, in fact, line up with exactly one political ideology at the extreme right of the political spectrum.
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  5. Give all his wealth to the poor and turn the other cheek, the pacifist commie.
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  6.  deharleyva  Fact: likely Bernie voters were systematically disenfranchised through (at _least_) targeted closing of polling places and illegal voter roll purges Fact: there was collusion with the media Fact: the DNC broke its own rules about not favoring candidates Fact: when a lawsuit was brought against them, the DNC argued that it was legal for them to rig their primaries to the point where they could just choose whoever they wanted in a smokefilled back room All of this is easily verified and proven, so how about you STFU until you actually inform yourself on the issue? Btw, what I listed is just the stuff that's absolutely true (which is damning enough on its own), but there's circumstantial evidence of even more, such as initial exit polls being widely off of the results (several times what would have forced many other developed nations to automatically void and redo the entire election), but only on the "democratic" side of the ticket and only in areas with electronic voting. Get your head out of your ass and stop thinking like a serf debating which tyrant is better. One may be better than the other, but neither is acceptable.
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  7.  Richard Busby  don't vote for Trump. Vote 3rd party instead in that case and I'm right there with you. Election riggers should never get support no matter who they run against.
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  8.  @tciesla  fuck that BS. Break the cycle boomers intensified instead.
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  9. Categorically oppose ethnonationalism ✊
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  10. If you see a group of facists beating someone on the ground, that's when it's time to crack some sculls at least. I'm all for free speech, but as soon as facists get violent, the gloves need to come off immediately, and if they fight back, back off and pull out the guns. I don't give a shit.
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  11.  @TheGroovyJones  kinda yes, but not as much as you may think. For example, in 2007, Republicans blocked a bill that would have given shareholders a yearly non-binding advisory vote on their executive compensation packages...so in some ways, shareholders have a lot of power, but in others, they have remarkably little and our country is so corrupt that even giving them a non-binding vote to check their executives' ability to decide what they're paid is too much for DC. The thing to keep in mind is that the conservative ideal is to have businesses run in a form of neofeudalism, so too much accountability on consolidation of power kinda butts heads with that, unfortunately (so much so, that they're willing to oppose something that would increase their own profits)
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  12.  @ikexbankai  Bernie is the only one who has a real strategy for moving the country left from the current insane Overton Window: Put forward very popular, strong, progressive policies to get a movement behind you, and use that pressure to force politicians to work with you and primary out of office those who don't. FDR did it, and it worked. The "Democrats" have abandoned the strategy for decades and now we have a protofascist in the Whitehouse.
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  13. Even though it shouldn't, not voting reads as "do whatever you want" apathy, not outrage. Never vote for bigoted, anti-democratic war-criminals, but there are other ways to constructively use your vote (I expect I'll be using mine to boost the prominence of the green party or DSA depending on who's in the lead because we need to be setting up options for ourselves to get a win by 2024 at the latest or the climate, and by extension all the younger generations, are completely fucked)
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  14. He also thinks our capitalist system adequately socializes human aggression dispite all evidence to the contrary. He doesn't understand postmodernism with reguards to psychology either, and his overt disdain for anthropology has left him with massive cognitive blind spots. He's just another person using his very articulate way of speaking and his sizable education to argue for his initial biases rather than actually challenging them and expanding his mind.
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  15. Left vs Right, originating from republicans (as in literally supporters of republics) vs royalists has come to refer more broadly to collective, democratic power VS hierarchical, establishment power. If someone's not a real populist, they're not a leftist by definition, nor are you if you support mega-corps in an effective oligarchy. Even if you use the twisted economic version of boiling the whole thing down to communism vs capitalism (which you REALLY shouldn't) the establishment Dems and the corporate media are still way far right. While we're on the subject of definitions "liberal" means "open to new ideas and ways of doing things &/or pro freedom" so the Hillary camp isn't that either. (I know this all seems pedantic, but if we allow politicians to constantly redefine political terms, they become meaningless and all discussion devolves into screaming empty buzzwords at each other, while they get to do whatever they want) Corporatist, oligarch, neo-liberal, neo-conservative, right wing, or hell, regressive (which as a parallel of "progressive" has come to mean someone who pretends to be about progress while taking us backwards), all are much better descriptors of those like Hillary. What YouTube is actually doing, at the behest of advertisers (who are used to their dollars buying control of the public narrative) and old media (who want to continue to exist despite people not liking to watch their content anymore), is trying to crack down on all alternative media (regardless of political slant) to make way for the giant media conglomerates to step in and make YouTube the new cable TV. (I can dig up specific companies and related agendas for examples if needed) It's all about power and money, as usual, and to be honest, I'm surprised they didn't hit this channel sooner.
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  16. Election integrity is non-negotiable. It's what seperates citizens from subjects. Election fraud should be legally reclassified as treason, as it is effectively stealing the government from the people.
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  17. Of course it's been experienced before....back when the same ideology reared its head in Germany last century. Today's enemy is nothing new, and we better not kid ourselves about what it is.
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  18. It's political because politics is about the distribution of power. Women, workers, or really anyone who's not a rich, white, straight, cis-gendered, far-right man having rights is about power and so political. One side of the political divide there is simply pro-evil, just like EVERY civil rights fight.
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  19. The racist vote always goes red. If Trump was about racism, we would have expected to see a bump in the proportion of the total population that voted GOP. Instead, we had completely normal (even slightly low) turnout, meaning Trump turned more people off by the overt bigotry than he dragged off their couches by not being subtle about it. The anomaly we do see, however, is that between election and taking office (a time when a president's approval numbers normally go Up) his approval numbers dropped sharply. What was the only significant thing to happen in that time? He picked his cabinet, proving to everyone paying attention with 2 brain cells that he wasn't going to "drain the swamp". Basically, non-racists voted for Trump because they knew that Hillary was 100% corrupt and going to work against them, so they took a gamble on the wild card. You want to know why we have president Trump? Stop looking at Trump. Look at the 2nd most disliked candidate in US history who rigged the dem primary, overtly scorned those she stole it from, colluded with the media to push Trump through the GOP primary, and ran such an incompetent campaign that (among many other failings) hit Trump with attacks so incompetently that it helped a compulsive liar seem like a straight-shooter. Hell, even just looking at the polling leading up to the election (where they leaned towards Trump when Hillary was speaking publicly and away from Trump when she was out of the public eye) shows that the election was just a reaction to her and what she represented, not a favoring of Trump (the most disliked presidental candidate in US history). The only part of the 2016 election results that can't be traced back to the establishment "democrats" is interstate crosscheck, and even that voter disenfranchisement program is something they ignored for years and pulled something similar in their own primary, so they had no room to suddenly complain about. Sure, racism is a problem and Trump emboldened them to be more overt and violent, that's all true, but if you want to understand the 2016 election, you need to look no further than the cover of Hillary's book: What Happened? Hillary Clinton
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  20. If you're expecting corporatists to stop playing appeasement with the far right before it's too late, don't hold your breath.
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  21. So make it closer to an actual debate rather than a curated question-and-answer session?
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  22. The kind of self assurance and acting/speaking on incomplete information the media demands (and public has come to expect) would be considered pathological in any other context. Until we change that expectation and say "you know, I think we've had a few too many overconfident idiots. Maybe it's time to check our preconceptions" we're going to continue have an insane asylum for a government.
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  23. ​ @newbieprepper8451 blatent lies.
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  24.  @fitawrarifitness6842  the right traces its roots back to the royalists opposing the enlightenment and democratic government in the first place and is fundamentally about consolidating power and building heirarchy. It is right vs left.
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  25. Fascists don't care about truth. They just care about power. Saying whatever is useful in the moment is both a flaunting of power in the face of basic morals and a tool for further concentrating power, so they just eat that shit up. For more, see Innuendo Studio's "The card says moops" video
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  26. Probably not as many as you think. Most people that get up to a federal court level are smart enough to not act like that.
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  27. You want mean tweets check the end of this video to see the toxicity coming from other campaigns' supporters https://youtu.be/r8z3qTGL7R0 (though the whole thing is good)
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  28. Or clean water for all Or sewage for all Or actually maintains its infrastructure Or doesn't sell out its children's futures for extra profit Or Or Or ...
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  29.  @robingourde9366  that is the point of the rhetorical question, I expect.
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  30. @Fred Freddy go away DNC bot
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  31. You think the death of a black man is going to shock the Maga croud to their senses? No, to them, he was a useful tool to oppress minorities, nothing more.
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  32. The answer is simply the logical reverse of what you described: because he wants Canada to become like the US.
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  33. To elaborate: The very concept of elections is to have voters choose politicians. The notion of politicians stopping any adult citizen from voting for any reason undermines the very foundations of our entire form of government. That's how you get things like the war on drugs and Jim Crow. Voting must be an inalienable right for the system to function at all. Just like gerrymandering, politicians cannot be allowed to choose voters or the whole system collapses (just with even more collateral damage when disenfranchisement is done through incarceration).
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  34. Their loyalties aren't to Israel. Their "loyalties" are to money. Israel just so happens to give them a lot of it.
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  35. The audacity of talking about white nationalism while defending an ethnostate!
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  36. To evil men, religion is simply a tool to hide their actions and intentions behind the reputations of saints. Make no mistake, if you are known as a virtuous believer, evil men are cloaking their deeds in your good reputation. Until either there is no evil in the world or religion and morality are no longer conflated, this will continue.
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  37. No, it amounts to a legalized gang.
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  38.  @markitgeek  Secular Talk first, but also Humanist Report and here and a few others now and then. It's good to get your news from multiple honest sources.
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  39.  @French-Dutch-English-blooded  thanks for proving that the Bernie Bro narrative is pure projection.
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  40. Same situation I was thrust into after 9/11 where, instead of a speach about courage and not relenting on our values and freedoms in the face of violence like we would have gotten from most historical leaders I'd read about we had the president basically stand up and say what amounted to "everybody panic and give up your rights" and the adults listened! It was at that moment that I realized I needed to grow up very fast because the "adults" were still scared little childern. This kind of inability to have a childhood seems to be just part of what it means to grow up under the kind of politicias that certain generations consistently vote for.
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  41. But the current system pays for advertising time, and a lot of it
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  42. David Owens imagine walking into a shady used car dealership and saying "give me the best deal you have, but I'm not leaving this lot without a car." What kind of deal do you expect you would get? Any situation where you're not willing to stand up, say "no deal" and walk away is a situation you should expect to be taken advantage of in. Not only is accepting a loss in withdrawing support as part of a demand for fairness the entire basis for a strike, but we even see monkeys go out of their way to demand fair treatment because we have an evolved sense that when we don't demand fairness, we won't get it. It's just that we've been conditioned to ignore the evolved sensibilities that enabled our survival and held together our social groups since before we were even hominids. This is why voting for a "lesser of 2 evils" every election cycle keeps resulting in a worse choice of evils every following election cycle. In short, the worldview you have been tought to accept is how we got Hillary vs Trump in the first place.
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  43. Oh she bent....the knee
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  44. Before or after the trials for treason for knowingly supplying weapons to our enemies via intermediaries like Saudi Arabia?
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  45.  @R_A_3000  if they just buffed the floor, the floor is fine. Buffing is a step in applying a protective coating. You're just proving that you have no clue what the job actually entails. Also, being inconvenient IS part of the point of a great many forms of civil disobedience. If you're against inconvenient protests, you are against protest, full stop.
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  46. Empathy (just none for millennials)
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  47. Counterpoint: FDR
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  48.  @Mike-mc3sh  catching yourself in your phone screen there Dore fan?
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  49. Apologies, but until we retake our government and make it actually responsive to the will of the voters, you can't expect anything more than citizen support from the US (and even that will be limited as we have our own mess to deal with). Unfortunately, the most I can say is that we're working on the problem and should we succeed, we will not be beholden to foreign dictators any longer. Again, apologies, but the mess the boomers left us is not an overnight task to clean up.
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  50. Just because it's legal, doesn't mean it's right. There's a good chance what's going on behind the scenes does break laws designed to protect competition and prevent collusion, but good luck getting the hard evidence to prove it.
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