Comments by "David H" (@DavidHalko) on "Lex Fridman" channel.

2:09:13 - “not like Hamas attacked because they were a bunch of anti-semites who wanted to kill Jews. This is not Nazi Germany” You are absolutely wrong on this point. There have been ample audio clips of people from Hamas bragging about how many Jews they killed. There have been ample video clips of babies & civilians killed by people from Hamas. The charter from Hamas is filled with Quranic statements regarding killing Jews. The Hamas charter claims Muslim Brotherhood origins, whose organization was bound to WW2’s losing side, where the MB leader was hosted in Germany, and raised 2 divisions of Muslim soldiers in the Balkan. The UN offered two groups to be stood up as two nations. Hamas & others did not want to allow Israel to stand up as a nation. Now they want to destroy them, as per the opening section of the Hamas Charter. No sir, you are objectively wrong, and I am not Jewish. They both need their nations stood up in reasonable safety.
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@Protolamna - “Tucker pretending to be censored” When the Chinese news articles referring to COVID-19, the mobile incineration plant photos, and investigations dating from 2019 through 2020 were all purged programmatically by Facebook, and I was sanctioned for posting them months after I posted them… … we know the censorship in the US is very real, and everyone was affected, except pure propaganda recipients who merely parroted the propaganda.
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@Protolamna - “Tucker pretending to be censored” Well, my last comment was just censored, so I will try it again, but more generic like… On another platform, I posted articles from the far east, including photos of the mobile crematoriums in various locations… and all those native language news articles were purged by the alternate platform, months later, and I was sanctioned for posting them. Since this is my second time at posting this comment, it is V E R Y clear that anyone not parroting propaganda is subject to censorship, even if the articles are documenting true to life events before the deep state decides they are not to be.
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“Biden claiming physically maiming minors is radical?” No, I don’t remember Biden ever saying that physically maiming minors is radical… Biden policies seem to endorse child genital mutilation, and I think Ben correctly identified that.
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1:53:52 — “saddam Hussein was the greatest anti terror weapon in the region” No, he was not. Saddam hosted terrorist organizations in his nation, created the paid suicide bomber in the middle east by paying the families of the bomber, and Saddam issued 2x different executive orders to have terrorist organizations hosted in Iraq to kill Americans throughout North Africa & Middle East. We have those executive order, today. There was video broadcast from soldiers hitting a terrorist training camp along the border in Iraq (next to Iran) where many fled into Iran… and the passports left behind were a treasure trove! I watched the video on television, in a restaurant, while I was away on business! 😮 I don’t know how this statement could have been allowed to go uncontested!
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Huge problem. Every teacher should have mentioned it, once Russia re-invaded Ukraine again, roughly 100 years after the Holodomor
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“Poverty… access to health care” When refugees come, they have only a small number of months of access to the same health care that those in poverty have access to, to get their vaccines 💉 & address illnesses that have been wiped out of North America. Within 7 years, they have jobs & homes & health care, without any additional accommodations. Children under poverty, get 18+ years of health care, with public education, and guaranteed food through government accommodation. Not sure why expanding anything from a few months will tangibly help anything, when 18+ years of expansion had only seemed to hurt?
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“because they couldn’t understand watch others…” 😂 where did you ever get that idea? Read history and people wiping each other out were able to communicate with each other quite effectively!
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@manvbees - “one culture being superior to another is spread throughout history” This is true. Persian Muslims conquered non-Muslims in the caucuses to enslave them & send them to the battlefield. Ottoman Muslims conquered non-Muslims in the Balkans to enslave them & send them to the battlefield. Arabian Muslims enslaved Africans and sold them as Kaffirs around the globe, buying mostly eunuchs for those imported into The Middle East. With the rise of the Islamic State, they reinstated Slavery in occupied areas of Iraq & Syria, in our life time. With the instability of Libya, we see the rise of African Slavery again, in our lifetimes even today! Europeans pushed to ban slavery, so we can see which civilizations felt culturally superior. “Colonial powers did little to integrate into existing civilizations” On the contrary, Europeans clawed their way back from being extinguished by Islamism from the Iberian Peninsula to their West and Balkans to their East, pushing towards the middle. After rolling back Islamic Slavery of their own peoples, they ended global slavery [largely driven by Islam] with the end of WW1. Colonial powers ended slavery as they knew it, enabled global peoples to flourish by spinning off nations, one after another, after introducing literacy to their civilizations, enabling them to have the potential for self-rule. No civilization, in the history of the world, did more to help the rest of the world, than the colonial powers of Western Civilization. That does not mean there were were not big mistakes, significant abuses, but near universal access to water, medical care, education, communication (telco & internet), representative government, and safe & affordable transportation would be impossible without the colonial powers… and my ethnic heritage is not even from a colonial power. We just have to be honest about this all, stop playing the victim card, and start moving forward with what we have been given, for the benefit of the whole world!
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“Social media… we have no filter” The gatekeepers are the filter, the people building the tools are experimenting with billions of people, and the recent results [since pandemic] had resulted in increased entitlement [unlimited deficit spending to sustain humanity without their investment], increased theft [across cities in the West where no prosecutions occur], increased violence [across cities of the West where arrest & release occur] “sense of limits… decency… moral values… something more important than destroying everything… talking about politicians” And she is absolutely right. “we have to improve a lot of that side” Without limits, destruction of others & self destruction follows.
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2:50:00 - “wide spread voter fraud… how easy the base are it up… no compelling evidence that I saw” WSB TV News in Atlanta 11pm live news aired video of someone stuffing a drop box with ballots with a knapsack sack of presumably ballots… using security camera footage, in Georgia. They were counted and not set aside as provisional. People were thrown out of ballot counting location for identifying boxes of ballots which did not have the security locks & stickers guaranteeing their secure handling. They were counted & not set aside as provisional. I watched the hearings in the Georgia State House with legal observers who were ejected. They showed their photographic evidence that they presented to security, for which they were ejected. A leaking bathroom knob was used as a precursor to ejecting legal state observers & other legal observers, before a small number of people started to tally votes from we don’t know whether they were from boxes with valid security locks & paperwork demonstrating proper handling. Those ballots should have all been counted as provisional. Security camera footage was made available of what happened during the illegal counting of what we don’t know since the Georgia State Observers were ejected with a lie. The Georgia State House public hearings went on for days, even weeks… weeks of different witnesses & experts presenting evidence to the Georgia State House, presenting evidence, demonstrated wide spread tampering to the people who watched it live. I was one of those live watchers for Georgia. There were other states, going through similar activities. Honestly, Lex needs many many many hours of interview to deal with all of these issues, plus the many other state issues where these types of ejections were occurring. Another state, an observer was ejected because the observer noticed that ballot people were repeatedly mis-reading ballots and putting the same wrong candidate on the official ballot which would be recorded (while the old ballots would be destroyed.) This election was just so crazy, so corrupt. I don’t think Biden had more people vote for him than Obama. I don’t see it as possible.
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47:00 - “question of polarization… us vs them… Democratic Socialism is a resolution to… division of humanity… we organize workers to…” It is pretty clear from the interviewee’s own words that Democratic Socialists create the class struggles & divisions, that would not exist without them. As soon as one declares “us” and “them”, that is a class division. Such things do not exist in Capitalism, where it is me, my boss, and us as a collective working in competition against other collectives providing competing products & services.
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Lex: “robots” Humans using UAV Drones to target other humans, is just the start. Go to the borders of nations & see the effectiveness of shooting crossers, without human intervention, driven by AI. With pervasive surveillance within nations & locale finding within small units within the world, the results are unfortunately limitless.
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I would have been more interested in Ben trying to explain how Joe taking inappropriate showers with his little girl was being a good father. I am having a hard time reconciling what Joe’s family members write & what Ben is talking about.
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Watch him at 0.25x, like normal people 😂
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1:29:10 - “[capitalism] is such a contradiction to part of our nature… that it never quite make it… there is always going to be people who never go along with it… humanity is contradicted by what they are being asked to do” And those who opt out must find something that brings them joy. Capitalism offers people the option to leave, which increases the wages of those who remain, in order to increase retention… or results in changes to the working conditions create increased worker retention. This is how capitalism organically creates better working conditions for all people in society.
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“Leisure” Interesting that the guest or Lex did not consider Faith pursuits, in better knowing the intangible, but only concentrated on the tangible. Socialism seems to be about the tangible, ultimately some might argue being greed.
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The Spanish also aligned themselves with persecuted tribes, who had people kidnapped to sacrificed for their hearts… sometimes the results of the persecuted experiencing a degree of genocide, becoming elevated, does not work out well for the majority in power. Another V may pick a small group & elevate them… perhaps it had already occurred in the history of humanity.
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1:19:45 - “employees don’t elect those individuals [management]… not democratic” Employees can hold stock, get a share of the profits, and share holders can democratically organize to legally force change in a company. The employer can have accountability.
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It would be interesting for Lex to interview Ben post October7, Putin’s Birthday
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1:12:00 - “new machine… get the same output with half the workers… says your fired” Honestly, the employer now increases the number of widgets that are being output, leading to increased wages for everyone. The increased number of widgets results in decreased prices for the general public in the market. “Alternative path… pay them exactly the same for half a days work” This case for Socialism really sucks. And that alternative path sucks because only a few workers are helped, instead of all workers and help the general public [market] By not increasing the output, the public never experiences decreased prices due to the lack of expansion of the original factory with better machines.
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24:54 - “how gold bugs think about money… money is an object… both willing to go to a mine somewhere… dig a few holes… get a few specs of gold out… no competition… no interaction between you and me if money is gold… money is not a commodity, it is a claim on someone else” What this man is fundamentally misunderstanding is that the gold is a claim on the person’s labor, who dug it out of the ground, so both individuals are in competition with each other to how much good either can produce with their labor. Labor saving machines will produce more gold from the same mines. Therefore, money is not the gold, but money is the perceived & aggregated labor of the value of the labor for the tools/machine and the use of the tools/machines to mine the gold. The scarcity of the gold & human labor to mine it gives it value. The fact that gold is a non-renewable resource (like a hydrocarbon or heap of wood) gives it value, as well. Monopolies on a renewable product like Chinese silk creates chaos with gold based object economies. So far, this thinker clearly has not thought through his own examples.
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2:07:48 - “we are not a democracy we are a republic” This is true. When democracy is applied from the top down, we get Hitler & Stalin, where the mob is used to do whatever they are told they want. The force their will upon all the people. A Constitutional Republic like the US provides for guard rails to keep the power of the mob under control and distributes the power of individuals to representatives who work on their behalf, and allowing the people to vote with their feet to other areas when their rights are stepped upon. This saves people’s lives. Judges keep the individuals from being stepped on, before they have to move. There is a big difference between Democracy & Constitutional Republic.
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1:10:43 - “mass enjoyment of a rising standard of living is built into capitalism” is absolutely correct. If people do not have a good standard of living, they perform less well, are less efficient, and produce less or inferior products. A happy worker is a good worker, capitalists understand that by taking metrics and balancing costs & benefits.
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50:38 - “workers are… treated as a commodity… workers will demand more than their value… subjective value… objective value numbers of hours” This person misunderstands that certain people are more efficient than other people and certain people provide a higher quality of work (lower failure rate of worker [injuries], lower failure rate of product [being produced].) Machines make people more productive & produce lower failure rates [lower failure rate of product], and lower failure rates of people [injuries]. Larger number of higher quality products demand a higher wage, otherwise the factory will suffer. We saw the result of this in the failure of the Soviet Union.
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“We are like teenagers… don’t understand the consequences of what we are doing” When we invest incredible amounts of human efforts & money (which is a tangible representation of human effort)… it is not because we don’t know the consequences, but rather we know EXACTLY what we are doing. Creators & Investors understand the consequences of what is being done. Consumers who buy something for disposable use, they may not understand the consequences of what was done.
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1:13:00 - “Capitalism… short term investment… dividends… state… long term investment” Actually, investors decide through the stock market today, if they are investing into companies today. EV’s through Tesla is an example. “Centralized bargaining unions… benchmark worker wages” This is serfdom. Another type of slavery. The Union Boss is basically the slave owner. Democratic Socialism is looking a lot like regional Feudalism.
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1:03:27 - “you allow people who have a lot of money to bid up the price of whatever short, that solves your problem… the poor people drop out… it goes to the people with the most money” No, it does not quite work out that way. People who would normally buy that product at the cheap price turn to other products, and the people who REALLY need that product pay a slightly uplifted price. We saw this in the US when President Joe Biden’s government shut down 1 of 2 artificial baby formula factories over the suspicion that a contamination discovered in a baby but could not be found in the factory after exhaustive testing… until some months later. People were forced into a government shortage of 50%, for many months, and people had to find alternatives for their babies. People who really needed the formula, due to allergies, could still get it due to the uplifted price encouraging people who could find other alternative product to use those other products. My nephew was one of those people who needed such a product, and others with more money bought that product that was still available due to uplifted price protecting that scarce resource from being needlessly wasted. The higher prices saved my nephew’s life… not because the rich could buy it, but because those would could use alternatives were encouraged to do so due to the higher price. It was completely objective.
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Lex — I normally like to listen to you, but dropping the F bomb as much as you’ve done in this video really detracted from you & your guest
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It was very hard for Americans to experience the US administration: - aligning the US with the Muslim Brotherhood (MB), who was formerly aligned with WW2 Germany’s Hitler - pressure Egypt to submit the Islamic Fascist MB - fund the Syrian Civil War, foster the Islamic State with the MB support & watch the Arab Slave Trade restart - overthrow Libya to divide it between MB & other local actors & watch the North African Slave Trade restart - watch the US attack Egypt for their rejection of the Historically Fascist MB & rejection of Obama/Biden wars across North Africa & Middle East Yes, it is very difficult to not blame the people in the US for aligning with WW2 Fascist allies, as Germans did during WW2… but a sizable quantity did vote for Fascism, War, and Genocide with Hitler’s Fascists & repeated it again with Obama/Biden’s historic WW2 Fascists.
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3:27:00 - “value tethering function” 2001 Space Odyssey
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2:25:40 - “the first thing humans must do is respect life” If he really meant that, he would be a pro-life advocate and not be so avant-garde regarding cracking a few eggs & looking for ways to compel people to doing what he wants.
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2:27:45 - “after 9/11… turn the other cheek” This is the Christian command for individual responses, love your enemy. The Government role is to bear the sword, to not show favoritism for the rich or poor. The dominate groups in Palestine or Israel are not Christians.
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2:21:15 — “I don’t know how we went from Marxism to Stalinism to ecology… best form of government” These are all inter-related because those prone to coercive behavior on others use these 3x topics to force other people to obey them… there will be something else, tomorrow.
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Lex: “Aliens… talking to us through processes we don’t understand” Nathalie: “Extraterrestrial message… no way to pick it up” We have hints of this in the metaphysical world, and human observations have been recorded for thousands of years, words created like: God, Angels, Prayer
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At least for the first half, it lightened up later
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@mariakuncheva7702 - Ukrainians built much of the nuclear weapon infrastructure, the port infrastructure, manned the naval ships… and the Russian air craft carrier was stolen from Ukraine by a mutinous half crew of Russians, while the Ukrainian crew members did not participate in the theft. The situation was so crazy, Russia did not even build proper port docking facilities, for decades, and the engines are always failing on the ship to the point where a tug boat has to follow it everywhere. Even today, Russians steal everything from Ukraine, even their toilet bowls. What a mess, called Russia
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2:55:22 - “Soviets were realists to the core… ideology did not matter much…” Soviets offered aid when nations implemented socialist reforms. Those reforms resulted in starvation in places like Ethiopia, Egypt, etc.
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I was surprised that Lex did not seem to be aware of “the bends” and other common subjects she was talking about… he is driving the questions, but did not seem to know about things she would reply with. Very odd.
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3:09:37 - “God exists in our minds, created by selection… I don’t think that is necessarily solely the reality… and not being an “angry atheist” benefits this limited argument. When we go back to texts like The Hebrew Bible and The Christian New Testament, there are things which don’t fit into contemporary “boxes” of knowledge, but are shared experiences which occurred over time, and occur cross culturally & pan-geographically, and demonstrate similar patterns of human observation & experience over the past ~2000 years (since the writing of the last text compilation previously mentioned.) This being said, God truly exists in the proverbial “mind” of individuals, but when the patterns exist pan culturally & pan time… God seems to exist outside solely the mind due to observations & experiences recorded across countless domains.
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54:30 - “successful model of socialism… micro… first… fire people… slower process… second… firm failure” Ironic, socialists eliminate both today by empowering unions to slow firing and compensate them “Partner… have equity… have to… buy you out… cooperative firm… period of getting fired quickly… be able to… process… progressive discipline… strong state sector… social welfare” The US has this today, not sure what else he wants. He indicate countries which have very strong energy sectors & privatization that the US does not offer or is discouraged.
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Seems to be accurate. And questions seem to be more adversarial, rather than inquiring to draw thoughts out. Lex tried, but the start was a hard start.
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