Comments by "Bruce Tucker" (@brucetucker4847) on "JRE Clips" channel.

  1. I think you mean Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. Once Upon A Time In America is a gangster movie by Sergio Leone starring Robert DeNiro and James Woods.
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  2. I've never understood why people seem to think it's fine to drop napalm on villages but avoiding the war by quietly assassinating the guy who's causing it is a no-no.
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  3. GODDAMMIT YOU STOLE MY IDEA FOR A SCAM CULT BIGGER THAN SCIENTOLOGY!!!!!
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  4. Better yet, how about not having sex with people you don't know well enough to know if they're actually on the pill? Crazy idea, I know...
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  5.  @viktorisaksson7573  That depends on a lot of things, but mostly what kinds of deaths you count and how you define "capitalism". Do tens of millions of Native Americans who died from European diseases before Europeans even had any idea they existed count? Do the Pizarros count as capitalist? How about Hitler?
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  6. Charles Manson never shut up for a day in his entire life. That is always the weakest point in these stupid conspiracy theories - imagining that anyone in their right mind would pick someone like Manson or Oswald or Ruby as part of their Big Seekrut Conspiracy or imagine that they could possibly keep their mouths shut about it fir 5 minutes.
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  7.  @dickdiamonds3410  That is the fundamental logical fallacy of conspiracy theories - because the government did one bad thing, any bad thing anyone imagines the government did must be true. COINTELPRO and Iran-Contra had evidence backing them up. The conspiracy to start the Iraq war was done openly. Those aren't crazy conspiracy theories.
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  8.  @brianjacob8728  Manson had nothing whatsoever to do with MKUltra. There is exactly zero evidence to say he did. And Internet conspiritards like you make MKUltra out to be about a thousand time bigger or more significant than it actually was. It was just the CIA playing stupid games. They ultimately concluded that brainwashing was mostly a myth and LSD had little or no potential as a weapon or mind-control drug.
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  9. So, for instance, a religion that mandates the death penalty for apostates is actually a cult?
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  10. The problem with this and every other conspiracy theory is, how the hell would anyone ever feel they could trust as unreliable and crazy a guy as Manson to do anything according to any plan? Polanski must have known any number of biker drug dealers who'd be happy to do the hit without having to trust a narcissistic nutjob like Manson to keep his mouth shut. Which brings us to the second problem: if Manson had even the slightest inkling of any larger conspiracy he'd have blabbed about it 50 years ago. One thing that man was constitutionally incapable of doing was keep his mouth shut.
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  11.  @timhowell6929  It was a long shot, but I think they had a shot in 1941. They weren't fighting the US then, the UK had very little capacity to take the war to the Germans at that point, and the USSR was very near the point of collapse by that autumn. I think a scenario where the Wehrmacht performs just a little more efficiently, the Bolshevik government collapses and Germany gets control of all the oil and grain it needs, Japan takes advantage of that and invades Siberia instead of going after the British, Dutch, and US colonies, there's no Pearl harbor and the US has nothing to galvanize its public into joining the war, and Britain is left without allies and without any realistic way of ever invading the continent is a plausible one. After the failure of Barbarossa and the losses Germany took and the entry of the US into the war I would agree that a German military victory was impossible.
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  12. ​ @cybervoid8442  And Soviet partisans love to ignore how heavily dependent the USSR was on American and British aid - not so much for weapons (although the amount of those transferred to the Soviets was enormous) as for trucks and other transportation equipment and food, including packaged rations. The food was particularly critical after the Soviets lost the breadbasket of the Ukraine. After 1942, and arguably after December 1941, the Germans had no chance of knocking the Soviets out of the war, but without that aid the Soviets would have had little chance of pushing the Germans back as far and as fast as they did. Their offensive would have bogged down due to logistical problems the same way the German offensives did.
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  13. And that night Kim's dogs feasted well.
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  14. Spoken by a man who has never flipped burgers or washed dishes or collected garbage for a living.
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  15. Reacher is in no way Noir. The bad guys get what's coming to them, there's never a real femme fatale, and Reacher always comes out fine in the end. In a Noir either the protagonist dies (DOA, Out of the Past) or is left emotionally devastated by his complete inability to protect the innocent or see justice done (Chinatown). It's the latter that sets noir apart from all the themes Malcolm discusses: in all of them the system does work or at least get reformed and the good guy wins in the end, if only a moral victory; in Noir the system is irretrievably broken and the idea of a just order to the world in which bad guys get what's coming to them is a sad and sick joke. Also, in Noir the female lead almost always has a dark secret and either turns out to be evil and duplicitous (The Killers, The Maltese Falcon, Double Indemnity) or comes to a tragic end (again The Killers, Chinatown, and Double Indemnity).
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  16.  @emilio2647  If she was on a diplomatic passport it wasn't dangerous at all - embassy staff don't get prosecuted for spying, they just get expelled. Same for Soviet-bloc spies in western countries on diplomatic passports. The people in real danger are the ones spying on their own country.
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  17. Turn Dionysus loose in society and then act shocked, SHOCKED when murder and madness ensue...
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  18.  @anaseymour4556  I was only born at the tail end of that decade so I'm not the one to ask that. But my impression is that it was a minority but a very visible minority.
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  19. Maybe not the pilot... but what about the ground crew? Sure, we'll still need brain surgeons, world-class athletes and artists, and entrepreneurs, but how much of the population does that comprise?
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  20.  @viktorisaksson7573  Well, except for the tens of millions of people murdered by those two communist governments. For them, communism was not a success.
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  21.  @viktorisaksson7573  Only if you leave out all the children who died of preventable causes under communist rule. But commies have never known how to play fair or be honest.
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  22. They did a lot more of it and with less oversight back then, but yeah, they've never stopped playing those games. You'd have to be pretty naive to think otherwise.
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  23. There is no race war.
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  24. I wonder if he and Phil Spector ever got the chance to get together and compare notes.
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  25. Your source can get reservations at Dorsia? He must have a fantastic business card.
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  26.  @JustinR941  I agree with all of that. I don't think Manson believed his own BS, he was a narcissist and it was his way of getting attention and idol-worship. I've known plenty of guys like that in the subculture, Manson was just more evil and violent than most. (Although a guy kinda like that in the Richmond, VA goth scene - where I lived at the time - ended up raping and murdering a college student about 15 years ago - you may remember the case, it was on Greta Van Susteren's show every night for months.) You can tell from his behavior after the murders that what he always craved most was attention - he got off on being the boogeyman, the devil, the thing every suburban housewife feared the most. These seemingly pointless murders guaranteed that he'd get that for the rest of his life. I think that was the main reason for them - just to feed Manson's narcissism. I suspect Bugliosi understood that, but he needed a better motive to sell his case to the jury.
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  27.  @troywalters125  "The issue seems to be, Why did Manson keep getting released from prison in the years leading up to the murders?" Because bleeding heart California had a revolving door criminal justice system?
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  28.  @davem7173  Doing what, cleaning toilets at the state hospital?
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  29. I don't think Manson actually believed any of the nonsense he told those girls.
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  30.  @bighands69  You know what he never said? Anything about the CIA, the FBI, COINTELPRO, or any of the rest of this nonsense. If a shred of it were true the chance that Mason wouldn't have blabbed about it at some point in the last 50 years is ZERO.
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  31. Because Wikipedia actually wants sources and evidence.
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  32. That was a lot easier done when it took weeks to get to the US from anywhere but Canada or Mexico.
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  33. They have spoken about it at great length, and never said a word to support any of this nonsense.
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  34. XENUDAMMIT, YOU JUST GAVE EVERYONE HERE PNEUMONIA!
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  35. He didn't expect the Spanish Inquisition.
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  36. I mean, he DID swear that he didn't have a gun.
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  37. You might be surprised. Government agencies are like corporations: made of people, some good, some bad, but the morality with which the agency acts may not be the same as the individual moralities of its functionaries.
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  38. Why subsidize people to live in Manhattan or San Francisco? That's a luxury in itself. If you're going to subsidize their luxurious home site then why not subsidize my premium cigar habit out here in Otsego County?
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  39. OJ getting acquitted proved one thing: you may be white or you may be black or you may be brown, but the color that REALLY matters in this country is green.
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  40. You can't argue with dead people.
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  41. Somebody had to stop me I'm not the same as when I began I will not be treated as property
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  42. There was no CIA op.
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  43. Conspiritards are always big on motive and very short on actual evidence of any kind.
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  44. Right, because every country that had a communist leader turned into paradise on earth. Anyway the CIA had little to do with Lumumba's execution, that was Belgium's party. And it was Belgium that turned the Congo into Hell on Earth to begin with with its horrific colonial government.
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  45. How is it that "skeptic" has come to mean "people gullible enough to fall for the silliest conspiracy theories without a shred of evidence to support them"?
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  46. Why would anyone use a nutty blabbermouth like Manson for anything?
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  47. I was on a ship with a SEAL team off Beirut in the mid 80s and they were doing the same thing. Untraceable guns from all over the Warsaw Pact and no labels on any of their clothes, most of which were civvies. They used to take their little speedboat over the horizon to the east and we knew better than to ask what they'd been doing when they got back.
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  48.  @PremIndi  There are a few very ancient continental cores (eastern Canada is one) that may have existed before most of the earth was covered in liquid water. No one's entirely sure exactly when the crust was first covered with water and whether that was before or after plate tectonics got going. Both processes required the crust to cool from its primordial molten state.
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  49. According to my neighbor's incessantly barking dog, that's nonsense.
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  50. The state is not legally required to provide a motive, but it's hard to get a jury to convict without one.
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