Comments by "Jack Haveman" (@JackHaveman52) on "JRE Clips" channel.

  1. Those migrants came to Paris to find a better life.....and they didn't find it. They're living in the streets and turning the destination of hope into the destination of despair. Just showing up doesn't guarantee a better life.
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  2.  @ISirSmoke  You just made an assessment of his "smart" neighbour, who's a stranger to you. However, you're making a statement that implies that Batman shouldn't assess you because you're a stranger to him. Not too logical.
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  3. chris daren Columbus reached the Caribbean. That's right and it's a part of North America but he didn't know that. He thought that he'd reached some islands off the coast of eastern Asia or India. He thought that because he knew that the earth was round. What he didn't know was that North and South America lay between Europe and Asia if you sailed west. No one did. There was a lucrative spice trade with India and the other eastern Asian areas in 14th and 15th century. This was monopolised by the Arabs in the middle east, so the Portuguese tried to find a route around Africa so they could go directly to eastern Asia and cut out the middle man in the middle east. Columbus thought there might be a better way if a person sailed west, not realising that the Americas were in the way. That's because no one knew that, otherwise it would have been a good way. He wasn't after gold at all. He only went after it when he was some of the natives in the Caribbean with some gold. He was after the Asian spice trade. Pizarro was the first European to reach Peru, where the Incas had all the gold and silver. He conquered Peru in 1530, 16 years after Columbus died. So how could Columbus have depleted all the gold in a decade if it took 30 years for Pizarro to reach Peru after Columbus first reached the Caribbean. In fact, Peru is 6th in gold production today. The United States is 4th and Canada is 5th. As for silver, Mexico is STILL the number one producing country, with Peru 3rd and Bolivia 6th. That doesn't sound like a depleted gold and silver resources to me. You're not very well informed on the subject at all. You're entire post is based on a dislike for white people and is nothing more that a personal bias. A simple google search could have gotten all this information, but it would appear that you like your version better because it backs up your own personal prejudices. Before you make these comments a little fact checking might help you a lot because you come off as a 12 year old and it does you no credit.
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  4. Jojo McMudak He's mentioning that he's black because the left has this idea that being black makes him, automatically, one of them. He has to be. He's black and a victim. He's fighting a preconceived belief, a bias, of what others believe he should be. For that reason, it's more meaningful when he says that he's not a part of the obsession people have with identity politics instead of Dan Heronneau, the human being and a unique human being at that who only will allow his own being define who he is. It's what the left politics is all about.
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  5. History? She's 29 years old. She's been an adult, if 18 is adulthood, for 11 years. How much history is that? She's only changed her political views once and being black and the political leanings that are expected of black people, she was, almost guarantied, to be a liberal growing up, until she started to learn about it, anyway. Education changed her mind. One change isn't exactly a pattern.
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  6.  @DZ-hh5dw  Or maybe it's because Thomas Sowell is one of the most intelligent and insightful academics of our age. Now....instead of doling out sneering remarks, let's see why this quote bothers you so much. That would be helpful and could even become educational.
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  7.  @philcollins7269  Peter Gabriel is the heavyweight. Phil Collins is pop-lite......comparatively speaking.
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  8.  @mikeoxlong3676  I don't like Trump, either but I'd vote for him. In what reality to I have to love the people that might do the best job as president or leader. It's about realising what's best for the country and has nothing to do with my ego.
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  9. + Tarek El Derbas Why would a round earth take away from the existence of God? Can't he make round earths? I find no fault with your or anyone else's spirituality, as long as it doesn't come with the ego of moral and intellectual superiority and I'm afraid your displaying both in full force. The world is round. That's the way God made it. A man I once knew who was both an astronomer and a devout Christian was once asked how he reconciled his job with his Christianity. He said that his job demonstrates to him just how magnificent God actually is. That the Bible is God's word but it poorly reflects God's presence because it is meant for the extremely limited understanding of man. God is so much bigger than what can ever be described in any book, even if it is the Bible. His study of the universe have brought him an even deeper understanding of God and what is meant by the Biblical quote from Job describing Man as a worm. Modern astronomy shows just how much of a worm he really is. It's all a matter oh how you look at it. This entire idea of a round earth rejecting the possibility of a creator is nonsense.
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  10. + Tared El Derbas If you're a scientist, then I'm the Emperor of the Galaxy, Andromeda. The only science degree you'd possess would be one you've paid for through the mail. Those links on that page you posted are all over the place in their claims. The only thing they have in common is the claim the earth is flat and that were're all a bunch of brainwashed sheep. Basically, using a fallacious claim to boost their own ego. I'd say they could barely get the first year of university in even if they combined all the educational levels they've achieved to piece together some kind of coherent level of education.
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  11. Another use of the word shill. Rather limited in your vocabulary and ability to carry on a conversation aren't you?
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  12. Fuckboy Spray No....as in how life for Europeans, Amerindians, Africans and Asians changed in the most profound way, more than in any point in human history. Nothing compares to what happened due to Columbus's first journey. The only thing that comes close is the invention of the printing press by Gutenberg.
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  13. Joe Steel Advocating liberalism just for the sake of liberalism is short sighted and possibly dangerous. Liberalism implies the willingness to consider new ideas and balance against ideas in place. It does NOT imply that every new idea should be accepted because all conservative ideas are bad and harmful. Conservatism holds, as the highest principle, the autonomy of the individual. That includes the freedom to choose to live, belief and work as the individual wishes, as long as those choices do not inhibit the choices and freedoms of others. That's at the root of conservative thought and it's non-negotiable, no matter how liberal or progressive one believes that they are. Does that mean that conservatives will always be correct on specific issues? Of course not not more than a liberal would be. You take each issue and you examine the details and let the facts stand for themselves. From there, you come to a conclusion and you don't wait to see on which side the liberal or the conservative might fall on. That's not thought or self determination. No conservative or liberal will tell me what conclusion I must draw on any issue, be it gun control, health care, taxes, climate change, racial issues or any other issue that happens to be under consideration and I refuse to be labelled left or right due to my stand on any specific issue. I value my life and my autonomy too much to allow myself to be boxed by anyone, liberal or conservative.
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  14. I went to see the Dead but I don't remember it. I do remember seeing Janice Joplin and Buddy Guy, who played the same show. I'm guessing that they were pretty good though.
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  15.  @joeclaridy  Excellent explanation bringing the history of this metaphor into clarity, Joe. Right now, we must destroy democracy in order to save it. That's the Democrat platform. It's funny how the Roman Republic was never re-installed AFTER Caesar crossed the Rubicon. Is that what's going to happen when the Democrats "save" democracy?
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  16.  @Swampcheeks  Which is exactly what happened. Caesar crossed the Rubicon to end the Republic and it was the end of the Republic. Once you do something like that, you can't undo it. There will always be another existential threat that must be dealt with.
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  17.  @focusfilms4300  That's a good one. You sure showed him. Replace "left leaning media" with "Fox News"....that's BRILLIANT. This is why I love comment sections.
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  18.  @MyMusicSosa  So....Andy Ngo, a gay Asian man, is a white supremacist. That seems likely. LOL. Incredibly, the so called "white supremacists" have embraced this gay Asian man as one of their own and the group, Antifa, who claim to support the gay community and immigrants, reject the gay Asian man. I gotta say the your logic is astounding......convoluted and confusing.
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  19. + El Dacnomaniac I've read the Bible, cover to cover, on my own volition. I was raised in a strict Christian fundamentalist background and even attended our Church's elementary school. The man that I referred to was the fiancee of one of the teachers at that school. I've also read the Koran. .....and I'm an atheist. I realised I was an atheist in Grade 6, while reading a creationist type essay written by one of my classmates. I still learn a lot about Christianity later on as I got older but learned more as a student than a believer. Regardless of one's spirituality, it is still the most important piece of literature ever written. Tarek El Derbas is making all his assertions on anomalies that lend credence to his very narrow belief system. I was merely trying to point out that one can believe in God and the teachings of modern science. He will not accept this, I would think, because to do so, he'll have to relinquish his certainty of his moral and intellectual superiority of the majority of people on earth. Humility isn't his strong point, even though it's a virtue highly praised by Jesus and he uses his religious beliefs as a weapon against all those he thinks are his inferiors.
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  20. + El Dacnomaniac Well, I felt as if I did because I used religious ideas in an effort to show that belief in God and science isn't mutually exclusive. It made it appear as if I might believe also. Part of reading the Bible is knowing when and where the writers would be coming from. Those writers wouldn't know the things we know now and would be using old legends and poetic licence to convey the messages of their beliefs. The Bible says things like that rainbows were put in the sky to remind him never to destroy the world with a flood again, yet, at a very young age, I could make rainbows in the spray of a garden hose. You take the book with a grain of salt.
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  21. + El Dacnomaniac I read this in your link. " one quickly finds that the notion of a spherical world is the theory which has the burden of proof and not flat earth theory." Wrong and REALLY wrong. Every idea proposed has to meet the burden of proof. There are no exemptions. If you can't meet the burden of proof and you still believe then you're operating on faith, not science.
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  22. El Dacnomaniac "cause hypothetically if nasa is faking" Hypothetically? Really? Doesn't sound like very good evidence. Let's try to get away from the hypothetical world in the real world.
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  23. These guys are obsessed with NASA. It's like they think it was NASA that first proclaimed a round earth. Ask them about the European Space Agency or the Russians, or Chinese, India, Japan and on and on, they either go away or claim they're in on the big con, too. They're nuts.
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  24. Real Eyes Realise Real Lies I've just went through everyone of your comments in this thread and you've basically said nothing of value. All you've done is call people shills and stupid. I don't think I've ever seen a person use the insult "shill" as often as you've used it. You know, it would be beneficial if you'd actually discuss the topic instead of just name calling and insults. At least we'd know that we might be dealing with one of at least some intelligence. Any 8 year old can call people names. They do it all the time in the school yard.
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  25. El Dacnomaniac You're wrong about the meaning of theory in science. In science it has a different meaning than what the ordinary person would use in day to day conversation. According to dictionary.com, a scientific theory is "a coherent group of propositions formulated to explain a group of facts or phenomena in the natural world and repeatedly confirmed through experiment or observation:" http://www.dictionary.com/browse/scientific-theory It would also help to read this from Berkeley department of science. http://undsci.berkeley.edu/article/howscienceworks_19 Basically, a theory is science is a broad set of well tested ideas that have yet to be refuted. It gives a theory in science a very high status of acceptance as fact.
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  26. El Decnomaniac I've been away on holidays and I had to review his comments to refresh my memory on what he was all about. I wasn't impressed.
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  27. Kathy Griffin does feel bad, at all. She doubled down, a few days later, with a picture of the Covington basketball team holding up the 3 point sign and then she told everyone it was a white supremacist sign. She didn't want to give up the narrative.
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  28.  @makerstudios5456  In some ways, Catholics are correct. We are prone to doing wrong things. No one is immune to it. Show me someone who's lived their lives perfectly, never doing wrong, never lying, never fudging on their taxes, never saying a bad thing about others, never acting out of resentment....I could go on and on. Even when one tries to do the right thing, we can make mistakes that take us and others to bad places. It's not easy to live a good life. By the way, I'm not Catholic. I was raised Dutch Protestant and was taught that Catholics are evil.
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  29.  @mikeoveli1028  It didn't happen to you so it doesn't happen. That's NOT a very good argument. I've never been shot at, yet I'd never claim that people don't get shot at. I would think a more positive response would be something like this. "It's never happened to me or anyone that I know but if anyone has been pressured into apologising along those lines, that's appalling" You can still respond as if it were a hypothetical scenario, let people know that you believe it to be hypothetical but, as an idea, you oppose it.....unless you think that it's okay if it ever did happen. Then you'd have to shape your response to reflect that belief.
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  30. Joe Steel Conservatives do change. However that change is measured and change isn't done just for the sake of change itself. Maintain the systems of the past that have worked well until, as long as the issues are fully understood, ideas show that change would be a good thing. I know conservative minded people who are very religious on the one hand and highly innovative in their businesses or workplace. It's not so much that they refuse to change but they believe that change should be slow and only implemented when positive results seem inevitable. Also, there is no such thing as complete autonomy. We still live within the structures of our family, our workplace, our church or belief system, our circle of friends and the community in general. "No man is an island" is a truism not just a cute saying. The autonomy comes in when we're allowed to choose if we stay within our family, stay at a specific workplace, change our belief system, find new friends or even change the community we live in. It's the freedom to be who we wish to be within the society that we, as a social creature, must live to survive. It is the freedom to change or not change as we see fit as an autonomous human being. When Thomas Paine said "If I see something that needs change,why should I wait until you see it." I see a support for autonomy. That I, as an individual, have the right to change something, without the approval of anyone else, so long as my actions don't infringe on the rights of others.
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  31. Joe Steel Edmund Burke believed in the importance of religious institutions in order to maintain a high sense of morality in society. I'm not religious at all but do believe in a person's right to believe as they wish, even their right to believe in stupid things, like a flat earth. However, you're taking my points to the absurd and that's not much of an argument.
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  32.  @ryanpotochnik1374  It's a game that reflects human nature. Religious fanatics will say that you're a "child of Satan" and you'd deny it, of course. However, they'll say that's exactly what a "child of Satan" would say. You could ask if they're a Fascist and when they deny it, you'll respond with that's what a Fascist would say. A dumb game that in reality is a dumb game people play all the time in real life.
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  33. I get where you're coming from. Years ago, it struck me that Fascism was NOT a right wing movement. It didn't make any sense to say that when you looked at it closely. I thought that this just couldn't be and that I was the only one who thought this way. So, I kept learning about it and had to conclude that I'd made the proper assessment and, to my surprise, that I was NOT alone. It sure took a load off my shoulders.
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  34.  @mainnevent515  You knucklehead. The fifties are over. WW2 is over. We don't have to fight the Mongol horde, anymore. You're living in a make believe world.
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  35.  @barefootman7569  Putin love. LOL. Stop being a troll and speak like a mature adult. Grow up.
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  36.  @OutdoorCanadians  What happened to your grandma was wrong. Of course it affects the family. However, I'm not getting your point. What are you trying to say?
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  37.  @ISirSmoke  Great comeback. It's right up there with "Oh yeah....says you".
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  38.  @mortenfrosthansen84  Who said thank you? I didn't see it.
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  39. I'm pretty sure the government has these platforms connected to and hanging from underside of the the dome that covers the earth. That way they can look down at us and watch what we're doing. Then if any country screws up and pisses them off, they can rain destruction down on them from above and there'd be nothing to stop them. That's why NASA has this big budget. One thing that bothers me though. Hot air rises. In an enclosed room, it's always hottest near the ceiling. If the earth is in an enclosed dome, why is the air up there not hotter than on the surface? There's snow up on those mountains and the sun is up there, too. It's gotta be awful hot up there. Yet, they keep telling us it gets colder as you go higher and it seems right if you look at mountain tops. I hope some flat earther can explain this to me.
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  40.  @Freedom_is_essential1  You have to consider that he's a mathematics professor but is now commenting on social issues and is extremely well read on the subject. He has a YouTube site called "New Discourses" and he outlines all the influences on Progressive ideology. He knows his stuff and presents it in a coherent manner so anyone can understand it. Remember, this is a mathematician speaking on the humanities, ideology and culture. What impressed me is how he went from a hard line atheist, as a young man, to an atheist who understands how the religious narrative is and was essential to human history and how we see the world. An incredibly perceptive individual who would have been recognised as a Renaissance man a few hundred years ago.
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  41.  @Viceroy11011  It applies to everyone except, according to Christianity, the one who originally said it...Jesus. It's a fact of the the human soul, NOT a judgement and is not meant to used that way.
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  42.  @mik3ymomo  What does it matter on how factually true it is? What matters is the truth in the message. Orwell's "Animal Farm" and "1984" are most definitely not true stories but we revere those works of literature on the truth of the message.
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  43. Wrong Joe. Maybe it was only 3 or 4 guys that hit him but there were dozens who allowed it to happen. Dozens, maybe over a hundred, watched and never tried to stop it or help Andy. Not one of them detained the violent ones that were doing the hitting. As far as I know there still hasn't been any arrests. This was a group attack approved and urged on by a mob.
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  44. I'm a Dutch guy from Canada. Go back to the old country and they're all beautiful. Like.....BEAUTIFUL. What happened to me? Good thing I had personality, no one would have talked to me. I did cheat a little. I told them I was from Canada. They love us Canadians....even the ugly ones.
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  45. Why do I always have to show you nobs this picture. This is the southwest corner of Building 7. Notice that this corner has a huge chunk missing out of it, starting at about the 18th floor and running diagonally down to about 1/4 of the way into the building. It's completely gone. That's only one corner of the building. You can see char marks near the top as well, facing west, which indicates there must be damage on the south side, the side facing the north tower, as well. In fact, that entire south face was damaged that badly when it was struck by the thousands of tons of debris from the North Tower. Then the fires burned for hours after this damage was done. LOOK AT IT. I guarantee that you wouldn't rent a room in that building at no price. http://conspiracies.skepticproject.com/images/articles/911-images/wtc7-side-damage1.jpg
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  46. Deckard Oh yeah, the no jets theory. That one really makes sense. At least 3 million people within eye-shot of the burning North Tower and you're trying to tell me that no one watching it burn. Not one person. There are more live witnesses to the plane hitting the South Tower than almost any event in history. Literally hundreds of thousands of people with their eyes glued to one of the biggest events of New York history, watch the second plane come from the south to hit the tower. Not TV audiences either. Actual eye witnesses. That has to be the most ludicrous of all the conspiracy theories involving 9/11 and it makes NO SENSE, at all. Add to that, 2 missing planes with passengers and crews that no longer exist. They got on a plane and were never heard from again. I'll bet in this "great" film, they never even attempted to talk to anyone who had friends and relatives on those planes, who dropped them off to fly away or who were expecting them to land. No talks with travel agents, airport staff or families of crew members. Absolute nonsense.
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  47. Deckard "Jack Haveman Oof" That makes sense too. LOL.
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  48. Deckard A great way to never have to address points being made. Assert bias on the part of the other person and then commit to never engaging with biased people. That way, you make the discussion about the other person and not points being made of facts being presented. You do realise that's bias, don't you. But at least you don't have to explain the ostriches with their heads buried in the sidewalks of New York on 9/11. I wouldn't want to have to explain that one, either.
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  49. John Fashanu Another "Oof" response. Maybe he has some kind of disorder. A literary form of Tourette's.
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  50. John Fashanu It would be like claiming that 50,000 people were at the Super Bowl and they all watched CGI players. A family friend that I've known since 72 watched the second plane hit live. He was in his office in New Jersey, watching the smoke from the North Tower from his office window, when a plane flew by overhead and flew straight into the South Tower. He said he heard people yell and scream all through the building when it happened. It must have been quite the experience to see it.
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