Comments by "Geeky Radical" (@geekyradical4985) on "Biographics" channel.

  1.  @AveSequoia  Folks like you and J Edgar Hoover were always trying to dig up dirt on him. You go to such lengths to oppose movements for equality based on skin colour simply because you don't like the idea of equality based on class.
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  2.  @chipremel8594  Who's 'anti-white'? John Lewis, Martin Luther King's friend and fellow civil rights activist, who vocally endorsed the BLM movement before his death? Yeah, he was definitely 'anti-white'. LOL.
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  3. For his time, Johnson was certainly open-minded.
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  4. @Uncle That's what made Lyndon Johnson's civil rights activism so important. If not for his forceful personality, segregation probably would have maintained for much longer. I mean, other Democrats ( like JFK ) generally preached civil rights, but were incompetent in that area and the Republican Party at the time was just beginning to become obsessed with earning support using racism and support for segregation. It was Johnson's meanness that allowed him to do so much good.
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  5.  @mopar_dude9227   Johnson's war on poverty with his social welfare programmes alIowed millions of Americans to overcome poverty. If only he hadn't been so committed to an unwinnable war, he could have achieved universal health care for the United States and been remembered even more fondly as US President.
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  6.  American Paisa   More Democrats in both the north and south had support for it than Republicans. There's also the fact that it was Democrats who pushed the Civil Rights Bill through the House and Senate, and that it was a Democrat who signed it into law.
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  7. I know, right?
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  8.  @ThorfinnSkullsplitter-fz7ff  It cost money, but Johnson still introduced Medicare and Medicaid. Folks can risk their lives by not seeking private health care out of fear that they won't be able to afford it and those significantly lowered that possibility for senior citizens and the less well off in society. Without the drastic military spending for the Vietnam War, they could have been more easily achieved. That was one of Martin Luther King's reasons for criticizing the Vietnam War effort. Johnson also ushered in the Economic Opportunity Act and the Food Stamp Act, stuff for which government funding should exist. The war on poverty is generally accepted as a landmark achievement in the area of American public expenditure and social welfare.
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  9.  @djbeezy  Even after he's cut funding for the WHO in this crisis and campaigned for the removal of pandemic restrictions that protect lives? I mean, really? I also don't even live in the US.
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  10.  @djbeezy  Even if one disagrees with the WHO in some ways, is that really an excuse to gamble countless lives by cutting funding for it when there's an international pandemic? Holding grudges in times like these is pretty childish which is consistent with Donald Trump's other behaviour.
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  11.  @djbeezy  Cutting funding for the WHO isn't gonna make it any more capable of saving lives.
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  12. Lyndon Johnson, a Democrat, ended segregation. He worked pretty closely with Martin Luther King Jr and also introduced the Voting Rights Act in 1965.
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  13. @Uncle Well, Lyndon Johnson was a pretty radical civil rights reformer. He famously waged a war against racial discrimination, and was pretty passionate and aggressive in gaining support for his reforms to say the least, despite massive political opposition. Specifically in the case of the Voting Rights Act in 1965. He also worked pretty closely with Martin Luther King Jr. His battle against poverty with his social welfare programmes allowed millions of Americans to overcome poverty. If only he hadn't been so committed to an unwinnable war, he might have achieved universal health care for the United States and he'd be remembered even more fondly as US President.
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  14.  @2017NSDQ  How would stuff like universal background checks and licenses for gun ownership be 'gun grabbing'? How are Democrats more 'rights infringing' than the folks who oppose the legalization of abortion and marijuana, support states' powers to execute people and deployed the military against overwhelmingly peaceful protests across the US?
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  15.  @chrisoleary9876   The fact that you're so desperate to paint Democratic Party as racist sort of gives the impression that you're on the run.
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  16. Well, Johnson's forceful personality allowed him to succeed where Kennedy failed.
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  17.  @Alex-dc3xp  There's not much of a comparison there. The Soviet Union and the Confederacy were both oppressive but at least the Soviets didn't just own and sell human beings for profit. Women were treated much better in the Soviet Union than in the Confederacy, and everyone in the Soviet Union was guaranteed health care, education and a place to live. It wasn't perfect, but it was a far more equal society than the Confederacy. Sorry you don't like the truth. You might rather live in a society in which folks who aren't white men are enslaved and given sub-human status, but I'm afraid you're part of a very distinct minority.
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  18. You lot would definitely be condemning him as a bloodthirsty Bolshevik for his socialist beliefs. I mean, you reactionaries would label him as a woke SJW for his civil rights activism alone.
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  19.  @mapesdhs597  Yeah, but she'd still support BLM
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  20. What do you mean? Lyndon Johnson was a pretty radical civil rights reformer who famously waged a war against racial discrimination, despite massive political opposition.
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  21. He was pretty passionate and aggressive in gaining support for his reforms to say the least. Specifically in the case of the Voting Rights Act in 1965. He also worked pretty closely with Martin Luther King Jr.
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  22.  @oslang1   There's also the fact that it was Democrats who pushed the Civil Rights Bill through the House and Senate, and that it was a Democrat who signed it into law.
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  23. LOL, well if helping folks=slavery, who am I to argue?
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  24.  @acfacf4657  You lot would definitely be condemning Martin Luther King as a bloodthirsty Bolshevik for his socialist beliefs. I mean, you reactionaries would label him as a woke SJW for his civil rights activism alone.
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  25.  @mopar_dude9227   Goldwater was in favour of 'states' rights' not to recognize the rights of African American people, similarly to the Confederacy and sort of like the current Republican Party which believes in the right not to recognize people's rights with social welfare and the liberty of folks to flaunt the flags of an army that fought to conserve slavery and white supremacy.
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  26.  @mopar_dude9227   Goldwater also abandoned civil rights just to gain support from white southerners by appealing to racial discrimination. Lyndon Johnson, on the other hand, was a hardcore civil rights reformer who famously waged a war against racial discrimination, despite massive political opposition ( including from Goldwater ).
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  27. He was a socialist.
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  28. @Gipsy Danger What do you mean? Lyndon Johnson was a pretty radical civil rights reformer who famously waged a war against racial discrimination, and was pretty passionate and aggressive in gaining support for his reforms to say the least, despite massive political opposition. Specifically in the case of the Voting Rights Act in 1965. He also worked pretty closely with Martin Luther King Jr. His reforms weren't just going with the flow. Goldwater, his Republican opponent was in favour of segregation.
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  29.  American Paisa   While it's true that a larger percentage of the Republican Party voted for the Civil Rights Act in 1964 than that of the Democratic Party, that was 'cause a larger percentage of the Democratic Party consisted of southerners ( who largely opposed the act ) at the time.
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  30. They mention that in this video. Didn't you watch the whole thing?
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  31. You lot would definitely be condemning him as a bloodthirsty Bolshevik for his socialist beliefs. I mean, you reactionaries would label him as a woke SJW for his civil rights activism alone.
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  32. Yeah, it was Johnson's meanness that allowed him to do so much good.
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  33. Well, Lyndon Johnson was a pretty radical civil rights reformer. He famously waged a war against racial discrimination, and was pretty passionate and aggressive in gaining support for his reforms to say the least, despite massive political opposition. Specifically in the case of the Voting Rights Act in 1965. He also worked pretty closely with Martin Luther King Jr. His battle against poverty with his social welfare programmes allowed millions of Americans to overcome poverty. If only he hadn't been so committed to an unwinnable war, he might have achieved universal health care for the United States and he'd be remembered even more fondly as US President.
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  34. Also, what do you mean, Lyndon Johnson 'reluctantly pushed forward' Kennedy's work? JFK preached civil rights, but he was hardly active in that area. Johnson, on the other hand, was a hardcore civil rights reformer. He famously waged a war against racial discrimination, and was pretty passionate and aggressive in gaining support for his reforms to say the least, despite massive political opposition. Specifically in the case of the Voting Rights Act in 1965. He also worked pretty closely with Martin Luther King Jr.
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  35. That's also a fake quote that surfaced during the 1990s.
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  36.  @backcountryme  I guess there's discrimination within all of us, but for his generation, Johnson was certainly open-minded. He obviously wasn't perfect, but you gotta respect his achievements as US President, right?
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  37. Well, he obviously wasn't racist enough not to put an end to segregation or not to give minorities the right to vote. He was a great US President, regardless of how good a person he was.
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  38. Martin Luther King literally endorsed and famously worked pretty closely with Lyndon Johnson, a Democrat. He also said that he voted for him in 1964. What are you even talking about? LOL.
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  39.  @Kurtlane  Socialism obviously isn't the only political system that can lead to a totalitarian state. There's also a significant difference between socialism and the national socialism of Nazi Germany which put great emphasis on nationalism, a traditional value and was extremely right wing. True socialism, like communism rejects nationalism, because of its potential to blind and spread distrust among people.
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  40. Yeah, if only he hadn't been so committed to an unwinnable war, he might have achieved universal health care for the United States and be remembered even more fondly as US President.
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  41. Well, Lyndon Johnson's forceful personality allowed him to succeed where JFK failed. Kennedy preached civil rights, but was hardly active in that area. Johnson, on the other hand, was a pretty radical civil rights reformer. He famously waged a war against racial discrimination, and was pretty passionate and aggressive in gaining support for his reforms to say the least, despite massive political opposition. He also worked pretty closely with Martin Luther King Jr.
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  42.  @oslang1  Well, Lyndon Johnson was a pretty radical civil rights reformer. He famously waged a war against racial discrimination, and was pretty passionate and aggressive in gaining support for his reforms to say the least, despite massive political opposition. Specifically in the case of the Voting Rights Act in 1965. His battle against poverty with his social welfare programmes allowed millions of Americans to overcome poverty. If only he hadn't been so committed to an unwinnable war, he might have achieved universal health care for the United States and he'd be remembered even more fondly as US President.
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  43.  @oslang1   While it's true that a larger percentage of the Republican Party voted for the Civil Rights Act in 1964 than that of the Democratic Party, that was 'cause a larger percentage of the Democratic Party consisted of southerners ( who largely opposed the act ) at the time.
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  44.  @oslang1   More Democrats in both the north and south had support for it than Republicans.
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  45.  @sirwilliam51  So, you'd prefer if a government would just turn its back on the less well off in society?
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  46. Yeah, if only Johnson hadn't been so committed to an unwinnable war, he might have achieved universal health care for the United States and been remembered more fondly as US President.
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  47.  @joelmc4811  Just ask yourself the question, which is the party of the KKK now? That statement from Biden is a joke centred around the fact that his support among African American voters is overwhelmingly greater than Donald's. If you're suggesting that Biden's nearly as racist as the bunker boy, you've fought a lost battle.
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  48. The Fourth International has already outlived all the others. It'll be here long after we're both gone! The roots are strong and the tree will survive
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  49.  @pylianpbappe8898  The war on poverty is generally accepted as a landmark achievement in the area of American public expenditure and social welfare. Folks can risk their lives by not seeking private health care out of fear that they won't be able to afford it and Johnson's introduction of Medicaid significantly lowered that possibility for the less well off in society. Johnson also ushered in the Economic Opportunity Act and the Food Stamp Act, stuff for which government funding should exist.
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  50.  @oslang1  Haven't you heard about the work he did for civil rights? Give this video a watch if you haven't. I recommend it.
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