Comments by "" (@TheHuxleyAgnostic) on "Sam Harris on Trump Voters" video.

  1.  @ajaxaceofaces  So Jews and Muslims fleeing the Christian Spain, where they were given the options of conversion, death, or exile, fled to the Ottoman Empire, which took them in. Where Jews lived for centuries. An empire that okayed limited Zionism. An empire that decriminalized homosexuality when many Christian countries still considered it a crime or mental illness. Etc. An empire that was as, or more, liberal than a number of Christian empires. The West took that empire and carved it up into little countries. The Brits handed most of their bits to backwoods ultra-conservative Wahhabi dictators. No, they didn't create the ultra-conservatives, but they did put them in power. The French left a democratically elected government in Syria. It voted against an oil pipeline, so the US backed a coup to take them out. In Iran, a democratically elected PM was taking power away from the puppet dictator Shah, and was going to nationalize Iran's oil, so the US and UK backed a coup to take him out. In Iraq, a popular revolutionary had overthrown their puppet dictator, and was going to nationalize Iraq's oil, so the US backed a coup to take him out. In Afghanistan, communists overthrew their puppet dictator, and wanted to increase education and women's rights to the poor, so the US backed and trained religious extremists, including Bin Laden, to take them out. Etc. Etc. The problem with being more liberal, is that liberals will also tend to lean more left economically. The West has been taking out the more liberal Muslims, backing the more conservative Muslims, and poking their noses in ME affairs, pissing many of them off. You, seriously, don't think the US has fueled any hatred against itself? Supporting an Israel invasion of Lebanon wasn't what pissed people off, and got them bombed in Beirut? Bin Laden didn't list US intervention as a reason to declare war on them? Iranians didn't blame the US for decades of support for the dictator Shah?
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  2. “Given a choice between Noam Chomsky and Ben Carson, in terms of the totality of their understanding of what’s happening now in the world, I’d vote for Ben Carson every time,” Harris stated.
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  3. But Sam can speak out both ends of his ass. Like saying Ben Carson is an idiot, but then side with Carson over Chomsky.
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  4.  @6MikeJones9  Yep. http://www.loonwatch.com/files/2015/11/sam-harris-id-vote-for-ben-carson-over-noam-chomsky-every-time/
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  5.  @Bolaniullen  Aside from that being bullshit ... Chomsky says to stop supporting Saudi, who spreads their ultra-conservative Wahhabism around, while Sam justifies supporting Saudi ... Sam said "in terms of the totality of their understanding of what’s happening now in the world" and Carson proved to be absolutely clueless about what's going on in the world, multiple times.
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  6. Except Sam likely idiotically thinks Trump understands what's going on in the world better than Noam Chomsky, like he does with the absolute moron Ben Carson.
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  7.  @RaitoYagami88  link above
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  8.  @ajaxaceofaces  Isn't the brightest bulb? For example?
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  9. Harris constantly criticizes liberals.
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  10.  @Bolaniullen  “Given a choice between Noam Chomsky and Ben Carson, in terms of the totality of their understanding of what’s happening now in the world, I’d vote for Ben Carson every time,” Harris stated.
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  11.  @bernhardriemann2700  He, basically, thought one side of the Cambodia story was being exaggerated, and another side of the story was being minimized. https://chomsky.info/20090327/
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  12.  @danyalkazmi1400  I just quoted and linked it. He exactly said that.
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  13.  @CausalityLoop  I didn't say "on everything" moron. You're dishonestly misrepresenting what I said.
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  14.  @mariev3821  Already linked and quoted, above.
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