Comments by "Mark Pawelek" (@mark4asp) on "andrew gold | heretics." channel.

  1. I don't think so. Try living in poverty. You will not understand it. You will just live it.
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  2. Every secular ideology doesn't have to create a victimhood ideology. Human rights have been highjacked by the juristocracy as a weapon for them to control and rule people wtih. The original human rights of the Enlightenment were negative rights w.r.t. one's governors. For example: the right to vote, right to a trial, to a fair trial, free speech. These were rights which did not impinge upon other citizens. They were really citizens defences against an over-bearing state. The idea of positive rights is where it all went wrong - these were concoctions of legalists, and lawyers, and they are often "rights" exercised against other individuals. Lawyers institute their juristocracy by innovating on, and even inventing, positive rights to divide and conquer society. Positive rights should be called priviliges.
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  3. Ricky Gervais is an experienced comedian. It's hard to bully a comedian because they just brush it off to reply with caustic attacks on their critic.
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  4. Rob Henderson's luxury beliefs are similar to Gad Saad's suicidal empathy beliefs. Except suicidal empathy beliefs can also harm the believer too.
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  5. Barbary pirates were still active about 200 years ago. The US navy - of all people - stopped them.
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  6. Apart from accusing people of racism, does she have any other ideas? if so, what are they?
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  7. You should have Whitney Webb on to talk about Epstein.
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  8. Advice to students. Re: challenging Left dogma in universities. 1. One cannot win every battle. Don't even bother arguing unless you must. Because - see 4 below 2. Don't waste your time doing essays. Avoid those "studies" courses. Learn how to use data. Do some statistics courses so you can legitimately infer correlation from evidence. Do a course on skepticism, or logic, too if you find one. Like Schermer's course: Skepticism 101. One should also master debate. Learn all the logical fallacies. Apply them to criticise everything. Everyone uses logical fallacies - even great people and geniuses. So this can be a great source to make good points for your essays. 3. Evidence, evidence, evidence versus laundered ideas. When reading the left, check evidence they provide in their citations. Is there any? Most likely the Left will cite "laundered ideas". These are untrue claims, nonsense ideas, or theory-laden conjectures published in academia which other activists use as a source to build their nonsense ideas on. Hence: nonsense piled on nonsense. 4. By and large - you cannot change other people's minds. Research in psychology shows this. That led Peter Boghossian to develop his "Street Epistemology" technique. Which, at least, allows people to explain why they believe an idea. Knowing why we believe is the first step to revising our opinions. PB wrote a book on this "How to Have Impossible Conversations" 5. Young people, especially those without responsibilities are going to be mainly left/liberal no matter what. Just accept, & live with that. 6. Prefer Thomas Sowell to Scruton, or JB Peterson. Sowell argues against dogma by directly citing evidence. Evidence-based reasoning is the habit you need to develop which they cannot mark you down on. You may even change a professors mind with it! Thinkers such as Scruton and Peterson are worth reading too, but don't try to cite them when writing your uni-essays. PS: Boghossian on Idea Laudering https://www.wsj.com/articles/idea-laundering-in-academia-11574634492
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  9. Victimhood, victim mentality, AKA victim complex is a known psychological disorder, or mental illness (if you prefer): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victim_mentality It's the basic mechanism of left-wing politics today. Climate Justice, Islam, transgernderism, anti-racism, ... They are all orientated around victimhood. I don't think the victim-mongers see themselves as virtuous. It's far more the case that they see their oppressors / perps as "evil". This adds ressentiment to the victim mentality. There is not reconciliation with perps for the victim-mongers. At the same time the victim-mongers have no positive alternative - they only have their hate.
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  10. She was a marxist feminist.
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  11. But I wish woke government felt guilt over funding porno-grifters.
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  12. Without risking prison we're not even allowed to talk about Islam. They censor everything they want to gaslight us over: trans-people, Islam, climate crisis. There's no proper debate on any of these topics - by design.
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  13. Only the transwoman is "offensive" because they literally are. The go out of their way to be in your face; demanding to be in women's spaces, sports, prisons, jobs, ...
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  14.  @jacquiollard8784  You gave your kid a smack when he was endangering himself.
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  15. Female-identifying-men FIMs? We already have words for them: Autogynephilic men, or Transvestite, or Female impersonator.
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  16. Progressives do seem blind to authoritarianism; but proggies aren't all the left.
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  17. Educated? What does Andrew mean by educated? In conversation, psychopaths can be some of the most persuasive people. Does that make psychos educated? I guess so. But it implies education has a very dark side to it.
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  18. "Elite solidarity" <- I love how BUS takes a word - solidarity - which was associated with a oppositional movement - the Polish working class - to become a by-word for the Western left. Then inverts it against the left - to decribe it as a tool of oppression against the working class: elite solidarity.
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  19. How is Elon Musk deciding who lives or dies? If he really is, can we have a concrete example of a person living (or dying) due to something Musk did? This lefty whining annoys me. Musk didn't put anyone on the streets of 'Frisco. The drug trade does. Likewise for Gates - if you're going to accuse these billionaire philanthropists of "deciding who lives or dies" please back up the accusation with evidence. BTW: I don't think saving Picasso, saves more than one life (his). Saving the life of a doctor, or engineer instead is more likely to be "effective altruism". For me, effective altruism only becomes evil when people use it as an excuse to lie to us; perhaps to gaslight us into "doing good" for the world.
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  20. More than human approach : "A more-than-human approach is a theoretical concept that acknowledges the interconnectedness of humans and non-human entities, such as animals, plants, technologies, and natural systems. It's also known as a post-humanist approach." AKA - it's anti-humanism given a fresh gloss of paint.
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  21. No. It's been said that the purpose of woke propaganda is to corral their own people into promoting woke mind memes To keep them thinking inside the box. Woke can only do that if they dominate the conversation on woke and trans issues. They can only dominate by monstering and cancelling their critics. The quiet and nice majority avoid the issue because they know nasty words will be deployed against them if they step out of line. We see this in spades with "climate change". An army of online activists will descend on anyone who counters the climate crisis narrative. Activists routinely deploy nasty words. They don't want a conversation. They want to reduce everything to simple memes; to dominate meme production. Once an issue has been politicised: climate change, transing, BLM, police brutality, ... then the woke will attempt to shout down voices contrary to them. Quiet, nice people know, instinctively, what issues to avoid. They will, mostly, avoid all the Left's culture war causes.
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  22. Richard Grannon is crazy. "Consensus" has nothing to do with science. Evidence is all that matters. Legit evidence - real-world observation and experiment.
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  23. Sissy's first kid is a narcissist. But a nice one. It dawned on me about 3am New Year's Day. When she told us how important her imaginary friend was to her in childhood; after she's already monopolised the conversation for about 2 hours. Hey narcissists - don't tell us about your imaginary friends. It's a tell - classic symptom of narcissism.
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  24. Dave Rubin said: "the Left know what they want" No. Wrong. The Left don't know what they want. They know the world we live in is evil. They know they want to change it. They don't know what they want to change it to. Yet, following Marx, they want to tear everything down, so that they can start argain. This is partly why so many of their modern ideas are crackpot beyond belief. "Women born in men's bodies". No, they're not joking. They took a Monty Python comedy script from decades ago but believe it's real!! Unless we believe their same madness - we're supposed to be "evil" people (Facsist, transgenocidal, extreme right, ..., blah) I guess we know why they think the world is evil - because most of us disagree with them, on their crackpot ideas.
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  25. Anti-semitism and, also anti-Americanism. Ask a Muslim about anything happening in a Muslim country; especially about politics. Within a few minutes they'd find a way to implicate Mossad or the CIA over some random evil. How does this Manichaean anti-semetic worldview originate? Is it Islam itself? The story goes: at Islams birth, the prophet fled for his life to Medina. There were 3 jewish tribes there. One by one, his enemies from Mecca attacked. One after another a Jewish tribe sided against the prophet. The first 2 Jewish tribes were expelled from Medina for their sins. The 3rd were exterminated after the 3rd attack from Mecca was repulsed. It's no dount a 'hate crime' to complain of anything narrated in the Koran justifying such mass murder on the basis of religion. Yet muslims accuse Israel of mass murder (genocide) in Gaza everyday. Sickens me.
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  26. Now that there are so many politically orientated charities - many of them woke - it's getting harder to argue that giving to charity is better altruism than creating a new charitable foundations - as Gates seems to have done.
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  27. "May be a minority" <- people who researched it seem to think AGPs (autogynephiliacs) are the majority. 60% or so, of "transwomen".
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  28. Q: What's wrong with saying "transwomen are transwomen", or "transwomen are women"? A: In reality, "transwomen are men". I'll side with TERFs on this. It's unnecessarily confusing to call men women or to label women as men.
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  29. What supermarkets will be selling trans milk?
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  30. I don't think they get beaten up. If you think it's a serious problem, show us the statistics.
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  31. It's a bandwagon. Groupthink manufactured by grifters to scam a living by mining academic grants.
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  32. Rockefellers, Carnegies, and Nobels of this world have been doing it for over a century. Some of it is more social engineering than charity. A video of Rockefellers who've promoted green ideology and trying to control energy infrastructure would be fascinating.
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  33. We look on human rights as a good thing. But many people don't realize how different human rights became in the last 45 years. In 1979, positive rights were invented. Such rights are actually privileges, which in practice, impinge upon other people. In contrast: human rights prior to the modern era were 'negative rights'; and did NOT impinge on others they protected people. 'Negative rights' = civil and political rights such as freedom of speech, life, private property, freedom of religion, habeas corpus, a fair trial, and the right not to be enslaved by another. 'Positive rights' = economic, social and cultural rights such as food, housing, public education, employment, national security, military, health care, social security, Internet access, and a minimum standard of living, ... Difference between Positive and Negative rights. To take an example involving two parties in a court of law: Adrian has a negative right to x against Clay, if and only if Clay is prohibited to act upon Adrian in some way regarding x. In contrast, Adrian has a positive right to x against Clay, if and only if Clay is obliged to act upon Adrian in some way regarding x. A case in point, if Adrian has a negative right to life against Clay, then Clay is required to refrain from killing Adrian; while if Adrian has a positive right to life against Clay, then Clay is required to act as necessary to preserve the life of Adrian.
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  34. I'd add - be consistent. When father scolds so must the mother and vice versa.
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  35. Anyone who ever has a conversation with a Muslim man will understand that by now.
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