Comments by "Owen Shebbeare" (@owenshebbeare2999) on "Biographics" channel.

  1. Meh, the US has spent the last 80 years or so striving to become an empire, while maintaining a fiction that the US is anti-imperialist and against interfering in other countries.
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  2.  @jaketaz2848  These are just some points against Marxism, but here goes: 1. It requires force to implement and maintain. 2. Marxist systems are exclusionary, for all their claims of being unifying, leading back to needing force and indoctrination to implement. 3. If I choose to work harder or invent things I receive no benefit from that. It all goes to the State, benefitting the inevitable ranking Party members. 4. It is inefficient as it removes incentives to work. 5. It is highly bureaucratic, and relies on an intrusive State to control people. You will disagree, I am sure, likely with the old refrain of "but those were not REAL communism/socialism.", but Marxist philosophy is inherently flawed and cannot work.
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  3. True, but it is also bad manners to criticise a country's government when you are a guest there.
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  4.  @bmac4  Democrats at that time were far from anything approaching "liberal", given the sheer strength of the KKK in the Democratic Party at the time. Most true liberals at that time were Republicans.
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  5.  @Iamtheliquor  The team is American, so anything not American cops the " meh, good enough" attitude.
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  6.  @tasosdiaforetico7377  Neandertals would likely have had the common sense to line up for vaccination. Oh dear, my comment will trigger loonies.
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  7. Good to see metrics, not cave-man units.
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  8. FDR is dubious too.
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  9. Or Americans pissed that they are irrelevant in this video.
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  10. ​ ieatwaytoomuchass Hmm...FDR, Kennedy, LBJ, Clinton, Biden...all morally upstanding Democrats! At least by your standards. Plus Hoover was an equal opportunity blackmailer.
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  11. Pity he was still a monstrous, communist thug! Better than Mao, definitely less kooky, but still a thug.
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  12.  @darkman80723  Not necessarily, there are plenty of non-religious groups that qualify as cults.
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  13.  @dudeidontcare3430  You mean after Germany indiscriminately bombed Britain and the Low Countries? They started it, we finished it with more bombs, so tough crap, you virtue-signalling nazi apologist!
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  14. The way Americans say many words is similarly hilarious.
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  15.  @SuperPope69  Do you feel the same about other religions, or do you just go for the easy target? Have the courage to similarly criticise Islam, and you might show some intellectual honesty.
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  16. Alec Guinness was correct about how James Dean would die, and the car he died in.
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  17. Many of the supposedly serious media have done the same, often creating stories, not just reporting them, doesn't matter where or when.
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  18. Also FDR, Buchanan, Johnson, JFK, LBJ, Harding, so many more. A list of US prez's not linked to actual scandals (as opposed to mere controversy), is still shorter than the list of prez's who were not. Recent times have seen Iran Contra, Free Willy Billy, Libya and the current fiasco as demonstrable, linked-to-the-man cases. Then again, leaders tend to be susceptible to dodgy behaviour.
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  19. Probably won't, they don't want to be considered racist.
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  20. I am sick of endless videos on Americans, especially gangsters, which seems to be an obsession...I suppose we all have our crosses to bear.
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  21.  @frankieseward8667  Well bad governments do tend to claim they are on the side of a majority, and will even claim the people "are the government", when in fact governments, and their bureaucrats do all they can to instill a sense of separateness between themselves and most of the populace. Biden recently made one of his many gaffes with this "we are all the government" claim, but he wasn't the first, won't be the last either.
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  22.  @truth5705  As much as you have a right to campaign for a video of this topic, it is unlikely there is any fear behind it not having been done, rathe most of his videos seem to be geared to his American audience. Also, pasting your campain spiel to a lot of other people's comments, often several times or more is rather disrespectful as it just makes you look like a fanatic.
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  23. That applies to every dogmatic person, most obviously communist/left-wing leaders in recent history, living the high life as their economies stagnate and people starve, or at least are rigidly controlled as we see in China. Oh well, beer time for me!
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  24. Not a new idea, but appropriate whenever it comes up.
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  25. Nah, more from less well-known places, the US is boring. Sorry, but it is.
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  26. Just remember that "When a man soils a Wellington, he puts hid foot in it!".
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  27. The publisher of a particular translation. There are many.
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  28. Lockheed has a long and rich history of corruption, whether it was the F-104 or the L-1011, and others.
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  29. Read the title of this presentation, the clue is right there. Mary Shelley definitely wasn't "modern".
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  30. Even that wasn't the first use of that literary device.
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  31. The Extreme-Left and supposed Far-Right are opposite sides of the same coin.
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  32. Meh, this was the Carter time, a man with a habit of excising limp-wristed responses to monsters.
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  33.  @london_james  Turning 50 this year. Hydrocephalus since birth, diabetes, blood pressure is low, and joints are good too, but my teeth are like yours too.!
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  34. His speeches go against a lot of modern "liberalism", which pigeonholes people into groups without regard to them as individuals.
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  35. OK, I will give you advice that every American needs: learn English!
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  36. These loonies also try and maintain the myth that they run democratic regimes.
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  37. The channel, its scriptwriters and editors are American. Simon is just the narrator. I agree with your view, but the Trump reference is not any British man's fault.
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  38. You might want a reliable source, not the same half-arsed racial claims we see polluting every Ancient Egyptian threadl
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  39. That's ok, we Brits get slightly annoyed about American mispronunciations.
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  40.  @killerbern666  The Soviets were only nominal Allies because FDR was an apologist for the monster that was Joseph Stalin. At least FDR had the decency to cark it, pity he lived as long as he did.
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  41. Haven't looked through the comments yet, but I wonder if there are any cases of the two fallacies usually present on these threads, as irrelevant as they are: that the Falklands beling to Argentina, and that the sinking of the Belgrano was a war crime.
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  42. Er, right.
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  43. I had a lot of my early upbringing in a similar cult...the Roman Catholic Church, and their history is probably just as much a whitewash.
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  44. @14.30, describing Petain's decrepitude, applies to Biden too.
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  45. As with all the others who make such claims, you offer no actual evidence beyond guesswork and being forceful in your pseudoscientific views does not add credence to your trite conspiracist views. "Age of Libra", as but one example, means nothing in scientific, historical or archaeological terms, and just screams New Age claptrap.
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  46. Is that some pop-culture reference?
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  47. The autocratic Wilson has been done, and Quisling Pétain is better forgotten.
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  48. Most narrators (and actors) don't intimately remember every detail of their work.
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  49. Consider that nobody's vision of utopia, certainly none of the popular ones, is palatable as they all require some sort of force to implement, are highly exclusionary if you stray from their dogma.
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  50. The argument against foreign aid, while there are starving people at home, continues in many countries today.
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