Comments by "" (@TheHuxleyAgnostic) on "Dumdum Left Isn't LEFT, It's Just DUMB" video.

  1. Jimmy has a new video out, downplaying the risks of covid, called "Are COVID death rates WILDLY inflated?". In it, he takes hospitalization rates per total vaccinated (0.01%)and unvaccinated (0.89%) populations and compares it to a 3.4% "death rate", that is clearly a case fatality rate (fatalities per confirmed cases) from a year and a half ago. The case fatality rate is constantly changing, is different for each country, and different for the world. He claimed he couldn't find a newer rate. Only someone who is completely inept, wouldn't be able to find the current case fatality rate. But, somehow Jimmy managed not to. Only someone who failed grade school math couldn't figure it out themselves. 800k deaths is 1.6% of 50m confirmed cases, in the US. But, somehow Jimmy, or his team, couldn't. So, he compares these two sets of numbers, that are based on totally different math, to question whether covid deaths are being "WILDLY" inflated. You know, because a 3.4% "death rate" is so much higher than 0.9% hospitalization rate. The comparable "death rate" he should be using is the population mortality rate. 800k deaths is 0.24% of 330m total population. Again, something that's easy to find the latest numbers for, or figure out yourself, but the Dore knob team couldn't manage to do. There's nothing, at all, incompatible with a 0.24% total population mortality rate and a 0.9% total population hospitalization rate. But, he's using his false equivalency to make out like covid is a lot less harmful than doctors and scientists, worldwide, have stated, and there's some giant worldwide conspiracy to inflate numbers, by over 10x.
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  2.  @markzuckergecko621  So you're not one of those crazy fascist Trumpists who call other Republicans RINOs?
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  3.  @brentnoury7626  How does being on a team that isn't even allowed in the stadium, "brave', or give you a voice? Even if you're unhappy with the current coach and players, trying to change the roster of the team on the field is clearly the better tactic, than being on an irrelevant team that's not even in the game.
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  4.  @edwardrosser938  Dore knob?
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  5.  @markzuckergecko621  On top of not being very bright, and being a hypocrite, you seem to have severe reading comprehension problems. I didn't actually personally call you a fascist anywhere. I asked if you were one of them.
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  6.  @markzuckergecko621  So, yeah, you do call other Republicans fake Republicans, making you a hypocrite.
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  7.  @edwardrosser938  Rofl! Hilarious, coming from a Dore knob. Jimmy slanders anyone who disagrees with him a "fake", "fraud", "sellout", or whatnot. He's a grifting loudmouth, who slanders anyone who disagrees with him, peddles endless bullshit, who throws henchmen (anonymous producers) under the bus for his mistakes, has conned his followers into thinking he "tells it like it is", and it's almost entirely hopeless trying to have a conversation with them. Sound familiar? Case in point, I stated facts about Dore's dishonest take on numbers ... it's clearly just math ... and you still came here to try and defend him. Go ahead and argue against the reality of math. Make me laugh, Dore knob.
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  8.  @daniellove162  Every Republican voted against the $15, in congress. Whatever the hell is going on at the state level is irrelevant. NYC and Washington DC already have $15 minimums, not 5 years from now. Multiple states already have minimums above Florida's current minimum, and it'll take Florida a few years to even catch up to them. Wouldn't your "logic" mean that all the Democratic places that are out in front of Florida, are evidence they can pass minimum wage bills, and do it sooner? Wouldn't the fact that almost all of them voted for it in congress be evidence they're ahead of Republicans on the issue? The $15 would be an important progressive policy, that got a vote in the house, actually passed (M4A didn't have a chance in hell), and also got a senate vote. Weren't you Dore knobs supposed to be doing something with lists of no voters, instead of bitching about, and slandering, those who voted for it?
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  9.  @edwardrosser938  Jimmy promoted Trump (platform: toss 10m of the poorest Americans off of Medicaid expansion) over Clinton (platform: add 40m older Americans to Medicare expansion). He peddled Tulsi (public option) over Bernie (M4A). He slanders progressives who have done more for M4A in a few years than he has in his entire lifetime. He slandered Bernie and AOC, claiming they had abandoned M4A, at the exact time they were on the ground campaigning for Nina Turner, promoting M4A, and trying to add another M4A advocate to congress. Dore, on the other hand, publicly abandoned Nina ... abandoned adding another M4A advocate to congress. He peddles the third party route, that hasn't won the most popular third party a single seat in congress in its near 50 year existence. He has peddled allying with "extreme free market" nutjobs that want to start a civil war, who would outright shoot any leftists trying to enact M4A, after you help them topple the government. Do you know what "grifter" means? It means they're selling themselves as one thing, but they're actually selling you something else. The directions Jimmy proposes going provide zero evidence he actually wants M4A. What he says doesn't match what he does.
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  10.  @edwardrosser938  That wasn't Dore's argument for Trump over Clinton. He argued Trump was far worse. His claim was that a Trump presidency would cause a massive progressive backlash, exactly because he was so much worse. He claimed it would "for sure" lead to progressives taking the house (wrong) and senate (wrong), in 2018, and the presidency (wrong), in 2020. He claimed even Republicans would join the left and vote against a Trump presidency (wrong) rather than follow him into fascism (wrong). In his debate with Sam over it, he claimed Trump filling multiple scotus seats was as likely as the moon falling into Lake Michigan (wrong). He was wrong about everything. The very basis of his argument, that things had to get worse to have a bigger progressive movement, wasn't based on any kind of reality. Bernie had just created a progressive movement right after an Obama presidency. “In short, when it comes to the war against terrorists, I’m a hawk. When it comes to counterproductive wars of regime change, I’m a dove.” - Tulsi Gabbard, Hawaii Tribune-Herald, 2016 Pretty much every US intervention, since 9/11 used the war on terrorism as grounds. She was always a grifter, and Jimmy grifter for her. He spent months backing a public option candidate against the M4A candidate, then turned around and made out like not supporting some secondary tactic to get a performance art vote, was the end all and be all, slandering anyone who didn't jump onboard as "fakes", "frauds", "sellouts". All those labels should apply to him, for outright going against the M4A candidate. Yes, he and his wife publicly announced they had stopped donating to Nina, and then promoted never supporting anyone running as a Democrat ever again. The Trump presidency actually hurt Bernie's progressive movement. People went screaming into Joe Biden's "more electable" arms. They didn't want to risk having Trump around another term. It did the opposite of what Dore fantasized. Jimmy is a fringe "progressive". He represents only a few hundred thousand people that voted for Tulsi, and Green party, in the last election. The vast majority of progressives vote for, and support, all the progressives he keeps trashing. His audience has become more and more packed with right wing loons.
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  11.  @markzuckergecko621  But I do.
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  12.  @edwardrosser938  How does him lying about how deadly it is, lying about children and covid, lying about vaccine effectiveness, lying about who a vaccine protects, lying about alternate treatments, etc., help anyone? If it's going to be around forever, all that does is help more people die. There have been vaccine mandates for over a century. Many businesses have had dress codes since forever. Isn't the "hysteria" making out like measures to save lives are some kind of "fascism"?
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  13.  @brentnoury7626  People have been giving up on Dems, and letting Republicans win, for decades. The only change it caused was moving the country further right. Everytime Republicans win they jump further right, then the "moderate" Dems go meet them in the new "middle". What hasn't been done is keep fighting hard in the primaries but, no matter what, vote to keep Republicans out of the majority, and out of the presidency, for good. Vote to say conservative Dems is a far right as you want the country to go. Vote to say you don't want to keep heading into all out fascism. Vote to make the Republican party irrelevant and the primaries the main battleground.
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  14.  @brentnoury7626  What does a 100% guaranteed to fail performance art vote change?
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  15.  @brentnoury7626  How does a failed vote do that? No. Actually passing a bill is all about numbers, not performance art.
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  16.  @brentnoury7626  What are some things AOC has lied about (not made up Dore things)?
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  17.  @dumpsternimrod9927  BJG spewed some bullshit. It is actually true that Jimmy's "plan" would have handed the speakership to McCarthy. Without anyone else amending his plan, what he kept saying was for 15 progressives to simply "withhold their votes for", or "not vote for", Pelosi. That implies abstaining. He never said they should cast protest votes for someone else. For every 2 empty seats, absentees, or abstentions, the threshold needed to win drops by 1. There were already 2 empty seats. 2 empty seats + 15 abstentions = -8 to the threshold, lowering it to 210. If every Dem voted Pelosi, she'd get 207. If every Republican voted McCarthy, he'd get 211, and win. The very fact that Pelosi just won with less than 218 is proof Jimmy saying it needed to be 218, is false. The very fact that Boehner won with less than 218 is proof Jimmy's 218 claims were false.The very fact that you can have a voting quarum with only 218 members present, and only need to win a majority of voting members present is evidence you don't need anywhere close to 218, to win.
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  18.  @KrisH-px2jk  Yeah, I posted a link to it in a comment above. Is it not showing because it includes a link, or something?
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  19.  @edwardrosser938  That's two big hypotheticals in one ... that he's still in office ... and that he wouldn't be on the ban all mandates Desantis side of things, pushing anti-vax nonsense while being vaxxed, like FOX ... and Dore. I'm for getting as many people vaccinated as possible, and taking measures that have worked in countries amongst those with the best covid outcomes. I don't care if Australia's government is conservative, that the leader was a dufus and incompetent when it came to the fires ... when it comes to covid, their response has been great, and should be emulated. Australia's covid death rate would translate into 26k total US covid deaths, instead of 800k. They've done what should have been done. Whoever is in charge of the US, do those things that would have saved 750+k lives.
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  20.  @edwardrosser938  Oh geez, missed this nonsense "fascism" comment. Tons of people warred against fascism to out an end to, and silence fascism. Denazification tried to silence fascism. To strip down the definition of "fascism", to simply mean silencing a political opponent, turns everyone who fought against fascism, fascists. It's a ridiculous use of the word. Plenty of businesses require shirts and shoes, others require suits and ties. Governments pretty much everywhere require you to, at least, cover your junk. Are they all "fascists There have been vaccine mandates for over a century. There are dozens of vaccine mandates for public school kids and immigrants. If that's fascism, then pretty much every developed country is already "fascist". You should, seriously, read up on what fascism actually is. It's a totality of characteristics, not a single characteristic.
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  21.  @edwardrosser938  Now you're going full blown stupid. Cancer and heart disease aren't contagious. Something that is a leading cause of those things though, smoking, is treated much the same. Countries have extra healthcare taxes on cigarettes. Insurance companies charge more for smokers. Pretty much all public places have banned smoking. Want to smoke? Step outside. Don't want to wear a mask, or be vaccinated? Step outside. Multiple places are also trying junk food taxes, to discourage, and help pay for, things that lead to obesity and diabetes. A 1% covid infection fatality rate is 2x the polio paralysis rate, and 20x the polio infection fatality rate. Plus, it is far more contagious than polio. I assume you want to ditch polio vaccine mandates. There are about 6m reported automobile accidents, per year, in the US. There are also an estimated 10m unreported accidents. There are about 40k deaths. Covid's 1% death rate is 4x that of automobile accidents. Plus, again, far more frequent. I assume you want to ditch licensing mandates, insurance mandates, speeding laws, seatbelt laws, all signs and lights, etc., because it's far less deadly than covid.
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  22.  @edwardrosser938  Good for you. We should run society based totally on anecdotes from your life.
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  23.  @dumpsternimrod9927  Holy crap. You have severe reading comprehension problems, as well. Can any of you Dore knobs read? "Without anyone else amending his plan, what he kept saying was for 15 progressives to simply "withhold their votes for", or "not vote for", Pelosi. That implies abstaining. He never said they should cast protest votes for someone else."
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  24.  @edwardrosser938  You want to question and resist life saving measures, just for the sake of resisting? Should we stop treating unconscious people brought into emergency rooms, in case they want to resist the "fascist" attempts to save their lives, without their permission?
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  25.  @jakes658  Nope. You failed math.
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  26.  @edwardrosser938  No. You are being extremely hyperbolic, comparing health safety measures to fascism, ffs. Australia's covid death rate would translate into about 26k total US covid deaths, instead of 800k. Their style of "fascism" would have saved 750+k lives.
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  27.  @jakes658  Nope. No "or". You clearly tried to argue the numbers showed something they don't, and failed at math.
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  28.  @edwardrosser938  It's called an argument absurdum, not "hyperbole". If you're argument doesn't hold up, that means it was garbage to begin with. "Hyperbole" is equating the government doing stuff to "fascism".
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  29.  @edwardrosser938  I did. I questioned Dore's math, and he clearly failed at it. At best, it shows he's a complete and utter moron. At worst, it shows he's a dishonest grifter, who's encouraging people to die, by intentionally spreading misinformation, for money.
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  30.  @edwardrosser938  Yeah, and pneumonia is caused by other things ... like covid. Reducing covid is reducing pneumonia.
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  31.  @edwardrosser938  Are reading comprehension problems a requirement to be a Dore knob? "Cases" are up.
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  32.  @knob3887  No, you dimwitted Dore knob. The Gallup article clearly stated it was using hospitalizations per total vaccinated and unvaccinated populations (how many people hospitalized for covid in the total population). The comparative "death rate" would be the covid population mortality rate (how many covid deaths in the total population).
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  33.  @edwardrosser938  That "authority" being the advisories of the vast majority of doctors and scientists, from around the world? That "authority" being the evidence of vaccines working, worldwide, and 75-90% of those dying being unvaccinated? That "authority" being the evidence of covid measures working in countries with the best covid responses, that could have saved hundreds of thousands of American lives? Much better than hanging on the words of a complete and utter moron "comedian", sitting his garage, I would think. A moron, btw, who isn't simply "questioning", but who is spreading misinformation that could kill people.
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  34.  @edwardrosser938  For the same f*cking reason it is hard to get patent wavers on all kinds of life saving drugs. Seriously, how did that question stump you?
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  35.  @edwardrosser938  Isn't corporate power and greed exactly why patent exemptions aren't supported for all life saving drugs, dumb dumb? Exact same reason, exactly like I said. Some idiot corporation marking up insulin 1000%, and the government doing nothing about it, has zero bearing on whether insulin is effective and saves lives.
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  36.  @edwardrosser938  You: Strawman. Strawman. Strawman.
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  37.  @edwardrosser938  Already answered, long ago.
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  38.  @edwardrosser938  Btw, not only has Dore dishonestly promoted ivermectin as an effective remedy, he dishonestly promoted it as an effective preventative. The average price of a bottle of 20 ivermectin pills is $100, that you'd have to pay for yourself. The Pfizer vaccine, on the other hand, is $15 a shot, paid for by the government. J&J is even cheaper. Dore is the one peddling a more expensive, and more privatized, route for dealing with covid. He's clearly a grifter.
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  39.  @edwardrosser938  Did you miss Matt reporting that he's not doing hard investigate reporting for a year or two?
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  40.  @edwardrosser938  Rofl. What math doesn't add up?
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  41.  @edwardrosser938  It's "terrifying" to wear a mask and/or get a needle? Get a grip.
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  42.  @edwardrosser938  Too late. I already said it was pointless talking to Dore knobs, from the get go. You proved me right.
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  43.  @edwardrosser938  Nope, but I did just run across someone spewing a stream of them.
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  44.  @newcoatresurfacing5477  You tell me. You're the one with a cult leader. Hard to tell a Dore knob from a Trumpist.
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  45.  @edwardrosser938  No, he doesn't. If he actually encouraged you to research what he has said, and you actually researched what he has said, you'd find that he's full of shit. Trumpists are constantly telling people to do "independent research", when what they mean is ... don't listen to the consensus of the vast majority of doctors and scientists, across the world, and find that fringe loon who's telling you what we're telling you. They're constantly telling people to "think for themselves", and calling others "sheep", when what they mean is "think exactly what the cult is telling you", and they're the biggest bunch of sheep going.
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  46.  @alabamaman9476  There are literally registered voter numbers, genius.
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  47.  @alabamaman9476  The registered voter numbers are new data, dumb dumb.
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  48.  @alabamaman9476  The way things are trending, there won't be enough Republicans left to make any laws.
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  49.  @edwardrosser938  He did it on Joe Rogan, dimwit. Ironic last sentence. Hard to tell Dore knobs from Trumpists.
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  50.  @edwardrosser938  I completely understood him to say ivermectin was an effective remedy, and preventative, on the Joe Rogan show. You didn't even seem to know he said it. You keep saying shit like this, but who is "conforming without questioning"? I just get my questions answered by the vast majority of doctors and scientists, across the world. An ability to do math, that Dore seemingly lacks, and reading comprehension skills, that Dore seemingly lacks, also help. Oops, looks like a Freudian slip, there, "I'm beholden to Dore".
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  51.  @edwardrosser938  You've shown zero evidence of thinking for yourself, or being objective. Someone actually "thinking" would get their answers from the vast majority of scientists and doctors, not fringe loons verifying their subjective feelings. And you've shown zero evidence you question what those fringe voices are telling you. I'm responding to what YouTube is notifying me about. I haven't been scrolling through the entire thread, everytime. I'm in favor of paying people, instead of giant corporations, during lockdowns. I have also been in favor of following safety measures better, so there would be fewer lockdowns. Unlike you, I also support not having thousands of business owners dying and never being able to run a business again. So, you're wrong.
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  52.  @edwardrosser938  "October 30, 2020 -- A new study conducted by researchers at Imperial College London found the COVID-19 infection fatality ratio is about 1.15% of infected people in high-income nations and 0.23% in low-income nations." So, 1 in 100 people with covid die, in developed countries, and you're all worried about a 1 in 100000 syndrome ... that is also caused by the virus, as well?
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  53.  @edwardrosser938  Those hospitalization numbers in the op, that Dore himself cited, shows that the unvaccinated are being hospitalized at 89x the rate of of the vaccinated (a fact he didn't seem interested in). All the overwhelmed hospitals and hospital staff, are primarily their fault. Why should we care about someone who doesn't care about spreading the virus more easily? Why should we care about someone who doesn't care about overwhelming hospitals, increasing deaths due to other reasons? Your friend could be killing other people, right now, by taking a hospital bed due to stupidity.
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  54.  @edwardrosser938  I must be pretty lucky. I don't have any family and friends that need shaming. Are you related to, and friends with, a lot of stupid people?
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  55.  @edwardrosser938  Their "different views" are stupid, which contradicts the "intelligent", and people with those views are, again, spreading a deadly virus the most and taking up hospital beds the most, helping to kill other people, which contradicts the "nice".
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