Comments by "" (@jmitterii2) on "David Pakman Show"
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Ancient Greek, Ancient Rome, and Europe in the middle ages filled themselves with childishness of various entertainment to the point of harm too, and the aristocracies/rulers and theocracies used it to control the masses... theater and track games, chariot races and gladiator fights, jousting, fencing, sword, and archery matches.
Today we include the ball sports, concerts, movies, and video games.
When entertainment becomes too extreme holding too much attention and taking more time than other things in life happiness and means of fulfillment we're in trouble.
My experience thus far in my mid 30's, having traveled on business around the US including several southern states, western states, mid-west, and eastern states as well as abroad in Europe... people in general are dumb. We're not born with brilliance in general. Some are naturally curious... but most just think they are, but aren't. So in short, people are inherently stupid, and never go beyond trying to fill their stupidity with non-stupid.... instead often they do the opposite... digging that hole of stupidity deeper instead.
Just look at some of the woowoo youtube channels and flat or young earth or other such channels. Ideas that evidence already exists, and methods to examine evidence that exist that they apparently haven't the time. And critical thought and understanding how to be skeptical appears to not exist with a large number of people... its usually a minority, but a large minority... about 37% to 40%.
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Wasn't actually super low interest rates. But the principle amount borrowed was much smaller, because housing was inflated in schemes of get rich quick gimmicks.
Homes depreciate in value as they require upkeep, and often need remodeling, and in some cases complete demolishing and rebuild. Just as vehicles depreciate rapidly after their sold, you lose 25% of the original price paid.
So prices weren't super inflated. And to ensure people could afford homes, many various subsidies were provided to build the roads, sewers, water, electricity, and other utilities so developers couldn't racketeer off their building them then charging the racketeering prices; basically our tax money actually benefited the people. We didn't depend on privatized utilities or development rackets.
People understood how to determine what sectors are competitive and contribute well via a for profit motive, and those sectors that don't, and require various regulation or outright collective ownership and operation as well as how to spend tax money on such operations to get the best price, supply, and quality.
Thatcher/Reagan dogmas are utterly failed. And the boomer generation are clinging onto the hopes that it hasn't as they're heading toward retirement and whatever they've accumulated; their interest is to keep it. Fuck everyone else. They're desperate too.
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People naturally dislike going to the doctor for check ups and dental visits even in universal medical nations. Because people dislike being poked, jabbed, scraped, etc. So part of what many of those nations do, is promote their system to ensure they do get check ups; to catch anything early.
The hair brain notion that people would start using universal medical system as if free upgrades to mansions for all is insanity. That's one of the jokes in Germany and UK, if I had to pay the prices to have them take blood, drill my teeth, rip my skin off, etc. I certainly wouldn't bother to go the doctor until I absolutely was at death's door.
Unless your a hypochondriac, normal people dislike going to the doctor/dentists; its just a necessary annoyance so you catch things early before they become chronic, or terminal.
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And even when they're in dire straights within their own family, they deflect or irrationally ignore it. Case in point, a coworker who has over $50K medical debt, due to thinking he had insurance at the time, but didn't and a member of his family need hospitalization and a surgery... he may file for bankruptcy... he even worked for our state's welfare department, and with his 3 kids and low income has subsidized housing.
Yet he dislikes welfare, despite the fact it's the only thing keeping him afloat. He doesn't like the idea of universal healthcare because he's afraid the "government" will take over everything, despite the medicare single payer model doesn't imply this at all. And despite the fact he's over $50K in medical debt likely to declare bankruptcy on it. He doesn't think medical care is a right despite he thinks people needing medical treatment should get it.... here I'm at a loss, there is no logic in the void.
What I think makes him think irrational ways is that he's highly religious, his family conducts some church with his father as preacher, his wife "works" at the church, and his extended family are all right wingers politically, at one point he mentioned his uncle called him a bleeding heart liberal because he voted against a proposition that would allow slot machines if horse race tracks were built in association with any casinos. He doesn't like how horse race industry historically treats most horses.
He almost didn't want to pass medicare expansion despite the fact he's in dire straights of needing good such to cover himself, wife, and 3 kids.
Again, there is no logic in the void.
These people are utterly brainwashed.
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No its not. For two main reasons:
The good news, this only accounts for about 25% or less of the population. Keep in mind 45% didn't vote in the presidential election and last mid term 63% didn't vote.
And last election it was split almost 50/50 with the loser somehow getting the prize between those two they have about 25% or less of the population. And major reason many don't bother to vote, is media dogma decry certain states are always this and that, becomes as self fulfilling prophecy, along to the fact that many seats in the locality have uncontested candidates... that's starting to change a little recently, but we'll see if that has staying power.
And about democracy, we don't have democracy or the loser wouldn't have won via an insane electoral method, something that effects us all shouldn't be done in the manner that represents the least the most... that's anything but democracy.
So this isn't necessarily a perfect example of democracy with a majority stupid.
We have minority of oligarchs with all the money who select puppets as it takes lots of money to run for office, puppets who gerrymander districts, and fomenting a minority that's less than the plurality let alone a majority to bother to vote among a bogus hedged candidate selection, again many seats that go uncontested.
Several decades ago, even our major media outlets would have reporters and anchors reporting in the US, and currently many other countries, about a government with the same obvious government would say that nation has no actual democratic representative government, but a kleptocracy oligarchy, and they would make that preface every time they spoke about that governments name.... "the Kleptocracy of America today declares it will...."
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"To deny God is to deny reason, logic, morals, justice, meaning, truth, certainty, values, virtues, sacredness, dignity, honor, or anything immaterial, abstract, universal, and absolute. These attributes don't fit into the atheistic worldview of empiricism."
Nice circular argument. My turn!
"To deny the great and almighty unicorns, and rubber ducky is to deny reason, logic, morals, justice, meaning, truth, certainty, values, virtues, sacredness, dignity, honor, or anything immaterial, abstract, universal, and absolute. These attributes don't fit into the atheistic worldview of empiricism."
Hope I demonstrated why your argument sucks.
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+Nicholas Zounis Constitutional democracy ensures the majority doesn't run rough shot over the minority. Checks and balances in such constitutions ensure mob rule of barbarism doesn't get out of control.
I think that's what you're major concern is over majority rule.
With a constitution to protect the minority, majority rule in most aspects is much better than other alternatives have utterly failed including oligarchy of a few aristocrat merchant mobster rule, or ministers of some nepotistic government like essentially all communist governments functioned, or theocratic authoritarian government either direct theocratic or monarchy.
As far as anarchy no government, that never works. The wild west of the US including many other places even today don't work well, look at Yemen and Somalia and other places where anarchy has and some places still exists. They're shit holes often without running water, sewer systems, other basic essentials.
You're bark raving mad.
You won't be considered too mad once humans have technology that eliminates all scarcity. But even then, you'd have some judiciary and legal system for people who do terrible things to others like murder.
A person isn't an island unto themselves. Unless they're stuck on some island in the middle of the ocean, in the middle of some forest, desert, or grass plains. And when they find themselves adrift in such places, their standards of living are diminished severely to the point they're concerned about where they'll find the next meal and water to drink. If they end up breaking their leg or having an illness they're overall prospects are bleak. Essentially, they have no standard of living, they're then too busy just trying to survive; its akin to the stone age. Fuck, even feudalism has a better standard of living.
Hence why you are stark raving mad about your libertarian anarchism horseshit that only results in creating a vacuum to be quickly filled with worse governmental types.
The very computer, clothes, water you use to shower and drink and cook with, the toilet you shit and piss in and that shit magically disappears, isn't unto your magical individual self, sure you pull the lever that takes that shit away, but that shit goes into a pipe that the rest of society takes care of as well as makes your clothing, provides the water that is safe to drink and shower, and everything else. Everyone running around doing their own thing without some type of rules generally creates a vacuum of necessity of needs of setting the rules judiciary, executing the rules, judiciary of the rules, economic distribution of the rules will always exist ( and better to be collective rules with constitutional rules protecting minorities) ensures it's not anarchy.
Otherwise, you'll be like so many currently other places that do exist under anarchy who exist without literally a pot to piss and shit in, and certainly no toilet paper to wipe the shit off their ass. This is why so many often refer to libertarian philosophy as childish; they can't reflect beyond their own egotistical self absorbed self-centered universe of their self.
"Don't register your car, try to avoid using governments services, which can be difficult I know." No kidding. Because it's impossible. Because you're brilliance of your self centered universe doesn't provide essential services or needs that make up a meaningful advancing standard of living. And thanks for freeloading of the roads the rest of us do register our vehicles and pay taxes, you fucking self centered freeloader. Even bitcoin requires the internet which the backbone of the internet is actually provided via major university hubs, and US universities and many around the world are government subsidized. Whoops. No bit coin can't use that, that's there be goberment LOL! Gold and silver? Most gold and silver stashes are actually held by governments as well, whoops. And most businesses will not accept silver or gold as their prices fluctuate fairly extreme per traded units.
"Take a stand and help free this world from fuckers like the non human entity in this video." And yourself centered universe has just condemned someone into not being human so you can now feel the authority to treat that person as a non-human possibly non living creature. "Put the lotion on its skin or it gets the hose again." You're already passing your own egotistical legislature and judicial review appointed by your own fiat ego. You're already trying to fill the vacuum created by your own idiotology (SIC).
Please reflect on your philosophy as it's self refuting, so much so, it's childish at worst it psychotic.
In other words: grow up.
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