Comments by "" (@snowcat9308) on "Garand Thumb" channel.

  1. Democrats existed decades before the confederacy, and continued to be a largely racist/conservative party until the party swap in the 50s/60s. This is such a dumb conversation to have in the first place, because conservatism is an ideology, while the Democrats are a political party. It would be more consistent to say that "Liberals are the racist ones", but that would still be incorrect, because the philosophies of Racism and Liberalism are fundamentally opposed. Please stop this braindead bit. It goes nowhere and just gives anyone who knows better a colossal headache.
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  2.  @Superstallion1993  The Democrats began to shift leftward after FDR started doing stuff like Social Security and the New Deal, but the shift REALLY happened when the Civil Rights movement came about. And uh... at what other times would the parties swap, if not at the same time? Liberalism and Conservatism fundamentally opposing ideas. I understand the parties have some intellectual diversity, but it's hard to get things done as a political group when one guy thinks segregation is good, and the other guy doesn't. I'm not a Liberal. I'm not running cover for "my team". I think the Democrats are a bunch of losers getting rich off of riding the Status Quo while nothing happens and people get pulled over to Conservative populists. I'm just tired of people forgetting history in some vain attempt to say "WELL UH MY PARTY DIDNT THINK SLAVERY WAS GOOD A BAJILLION YEARS AGO". I. DON'T. CARE. How about you start talking about policy instead of who's team was on the wrong side of history?
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  3. Mr Herrera! What are your opinions on LGBT rights?
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  4.  @Garlicfriedshrimp  I have no intention of characterizing that discussion as "racist". I do think calling it "black on black crime" does miss the root of the problem, though, which is poverty in high-density areas. Any high-density area that is also impoverished will become a hot-bed for organized crime. In the United States, black people are disproportionately concentrated in these areas due to the lingering effects of our racist past (which really wasn't all that long ago, honestly). That's not me trying to go all "raaah all white people did this!!1!11!1!!", but ignoring (white-washing, if you will) the mistakes of our past leaves us doomed to repeat them. Now, if you want to talk about organized crime in urban areas in the context of our history with racism, I think using the language of "black on black" crime is appropriate. But bad-faith actors (racists) will often take "black on black crime" and then start talking about 'the inherent violence of the black race'. Which is why some leftists confuse genuine discussion of the topic with people using that language to say racist things. At least, that's what I understand.
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  5.  @MisterRose90  "Moral relativist" doesn't mean "no morality at all". I believe that we should maximize happiness and minimize suffering. A good way to minimize suffering is to not harm people for core characteristics that they cannot change.
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  6.  @MisterRose90  How is a dude liking another dude "evil"?
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  7. It's not even 13/50 anymore. The latest "Crime in the US" thing from the FBI says that only 26% of arrests were black people. I know its the funny number and all, but I feel like there are a lot of people in this comment section who are taking that number more seriously than they should :/
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  8.  @CaffyPvP  Source?
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  9.  @Garlicfriedshrimp  (racist) People often use this statistic to imply bad things about the race it refers to. Namely, they will state that it's conviction data (as in, they were actually found guilty) and imply that black people are more violent/criminal than other people. It is the funny number, but there's a concerning amount of people in this comment section who seem to take it as more than just the funny number. You obviously aren't one of them, though. Which is cool! Epic sauce!
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  10.  @bigcatdiary08  Please show me where, as I went to the FBI's website and found statistics closer to "13/26" than "13/50".
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  11.  @Thomas-uk5cp  No. It's a word that genuinely means something, but it's been buzz-word-ed to the point of meaning something else entirely in colloquial American conversations. I absolutely hate this corruption of the word, just as much as I hate the corruption of the words "nazi" or "groomer". Liberalism specifically outlines a philosophy that promotes individual rights, civil liberties, democracy, and free enterprise. The "free enterprise" part separates Liberals and Progressives. Typically, progressive leftists share the same values as Liberals, though they don't necessarily approve of free enterprise in the same way (or at all, in the case of more radical leftists).
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  12.  @MisterRose90  Is that how you think your fellow Americans should be treated?
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  13.  @MisterRose90  Being smug won't convince anyone. Moral relativism isn't a moral system where all of its adherents all have no morality. It's just a way of understanding morality. I don't believe morality is objective or transcendent, but that doesn't mean that I believe all moral systems have the same effects/results/consequences. Morality is not objective, but the consequences of our actions absolutely are. It isn't objectively or transcendently immoral to discriminate against someone based on their identity, but that discrimination will have real effects that really hurt the person being mistreated. Do you lack the empathy to say "No, we don't want that. I wouldn't want that done to me, so why should we do it do him?"
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  14. 9:10 Using the heat guard as the heat sink? Definitely sounds like some smekalka to me LMAO
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  15.  @Superstallion1993  What did I say that's contradictory? I would love to clarify if you tell me where I confused you.
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  16.  @Thomas-uk5cp  For the same reason that I disagree with the misuse of terms like "nazi" and "groomer", I don't think using "liberal" and "conservative" in place of "left" and "right" is a good thing. I feel like you're legitimizing the colloquial use of those terms in that way instead of just simply pointing that out. If you're not doing that, sigma cool chad epic 100. If you are, stop that. We need words to mean things if we want conversations to move anywhere.
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  17.  @Thomas-uk5cp  I think a lot of Democrat politicians are ideologically Liberal, but I also think they're more interested in money and maintaining the stats-quo (neo-liberalism). That's why a lot of progressive leftists (including myself) vote blue begrudgingly.
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  18. "Nazi" is derived from "Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei". The way "National" is pronounced in German is "Nah-tzee-oh-nahl". The "Nah-tzee" part of that is where the Nazis get their name. This was a popular term used by everyone at the time. From the Wikiepedia on Nazism: "The first use of the term "Nazi" by the National Socialists occurred in 1926 in a publication by Joseph Goebbels called Der Nazi-Sozi ["The Nazi-Sozi"]." The cited source is literally a translation of Der Nazi-Sozi, so I encourage you to read the words from your glorious Goebbels, himself. Or hey, pick up some German and read the original!
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  19. Of course Garand Thumb's fans would have a problem with the fact that he's platforming Jews, and not that he's platforming soldiers from a country currently engaged in genocide.
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  20.  @patrickhenry8425  He's a politician (or an aspiring one, at least). I wanna know what he thinks!
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  21.  @turbocateyeS475  I've actually never had a BLT before, mostly because I'm not big on tomatoes
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  22. And remember kids, "Russia has a large and modern army. However, the large army isn’t modern, and the modern army isn’t large."
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  23. I'm almost sure that's a myth. I think it had something to do with people freaking out about it being made of plastic instead of metal, but I'm pretty sure we sorted that out. Don't take my word for it, though. Google is your friend!
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  24. It's just a silly little guy
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  25. Dude it happened like 4 years ago. That's like 2 eons in internet years. Why are you still on this??
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  26. I feel like machine pistols should not be easily available to the average person. The combine the lethality of automatic fire with the ability to conceal a pistol. Probably one of the rare gun control Ws tbh.
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  27. "PSG" stands for "Präzisionsschützengewehr", which means "Precision Marksman Rifle"! The more ya know c:
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  28.  @honkhonk1555  [citation needed]
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  29.  @Garlicfriedshrimp  Are those arrests for violent crimes, or convictions for violent crimes? And what do you think the data implies?
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  30. ​ @johnjay1147  this is the only acceptable response to my question
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  31.  @Thomas-uk5cp  Right! Which is why I made a comment clarifying the difference between what he thinks being a "Liberal" means, and what being a Liberal actually means. Which, I think, is especially important when you're discussing things like the Party Swap. To abridge the point I made in that comment (and shed some light on why I'm having this semantic discussion), slavery is necessarily an anti-Liberal idea. So, at some point, the Democrats went from being anti-Liberal to Liberal. Hence, the Party Swap!
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  32.  @MeanBeanComedy  I wouldn't know that, because I just see it gestured towards without anyone really helping me understand the context of the number. That's why I'm asking questions about that. I'm not trying to be hostile when I say "source 🤓" lol
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  33.  @Lugghandle  ​ Could this possibly have anything to do with the fact that large cities tend to be more progressive, and so they vote blue locally? I'm not trying to apologize for the democrats, but saying "All these cities have high crime rates and are also run by dems, therefore dems bad" is extremely reductionist and fails to recognize the simple fact that population density + poverty = high crime. (And also + the drug war, which some democrats ostensibly wanna stop.)
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  34.  @DarenMiller-qj7bu  What are you even asking? Are you asking a serious question?
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  35.  @DarenMiller-qj7bu  what 😭
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  36. ​ @isomchapelle2956  No, actually. They like to be offensive with their humor, which I'm all for, but this episode is a little weird and it comes off a little strong. Though I think I have some bias, because there's a LOT of actual sincere racism in the comments for this one, which is not something I've ever seen before on this channel.
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  37. STOP 😭😭😭
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  38. U.S. Military: Okay we finally all switch to 6.5 Creedmoor now we're all standarized! U.S. Procurement: Good news everyone!
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  39. ​ @joeyswoles  In case you were wondering, USSOCOM wants to use the Sig MCX Rattler, which can be loaded with 5.56 NATO and .300 Blackout. Also, what...? 7.62 x 39mm has been a Soviet mainstay since the end of WWII. .300 Blackout started development in 2009. Do you mean to say that we didn't design a round to keep pace with our number one enemy until AFTER we stopped fighting them because they literally collapsed? What?
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  40. Source?
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  41.  @midnightclub7629  Which ones bro? It's a genuine question, cuz I'm trying to find where this statistic is coming from.
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