Comments by "Mighty One" (@mightyone3737) on "Leeja Miller" channel.

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  5. You get issues like 'political violence' when the police don't enforce the laws vs their preferred clique, which is right wing assholes at this point. Their aren't a bunch of left wingers assaulting spouses of republicans with hammers for example. I won't forget watching the capital police in DC holding one another back, carefully doing nothing significant to impede the rioters that sacked your most sacred institutions. Here in Canada we had long, obnoxious, and obviously illegal 'protests' and the police literally did nothing for weeks, the same organizations that have no hesitations when it comes to Natives doing actual legal protests, lethal force is pretty much expected in those situations. Those protests not only embarrassed our country by making us look like a bunch of brain damaged hicks, they cost billions of dollars. BILLIONS OF DOLLARS. The police did literally nothing (many police were openly supportive of the 'protests'), and now corrupt judges are trying to pretend that open harassment of random citizens is a valid and protected form of protest, and that you can endanger locals freely if you're right wing enough. This country is rapidly turning into a shithole because it's legal system protects the wrong people, and we still have jackasses campaigning for 'better treatment' for ex-cons... Oh, you have no empathy and everyone knows it because you committed a horrible crime, and now you can't find a job? I honestly don't give the least of a fuck. The system does absolutely nothing for victims, and instead enables the worst among us to do whatever they want. Of course if their is any kind of 'crackdown', it won't target the actual problem individuals, it'll target minorities, for some reason we never crackdown on rich assholes breaking the law with abandon. The problem here is that our society has been actively selecting for assholes for thousands of years, and putting the more awful among us in charge, you can trace just about every systemic problem to this. This is how capitalism works, you reward the people with the least scruples and punish those who refuse to exploit, so it's not even like this wasn't an intentional thing. On the plus side, at least we look like we'll die out pretty soon as a species due to our staggering hubris/stupidity of our leaders, maybe choosing people who despise us to be in charge was secretly a bad idea??
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  8. I'm pretty confident that this polling stuff is manufactured to help normalize an objectively terrible candidate, simply hearing other people think he's a reasonable candidate will make some people much more willing to vote for him, I don't think his polling is actually improving, nobody neutral is looking at this and siding with trump. It's more that his control of the republican party (which has very poor odds for the next election, barring some big change) strengthens because the party has actively courted 'single issue voters' (aka people who will sell-out their own family if you let them be mean to unwed mothers and minorities), and trump is one of those single issues. If they don't give exactly what those single issue voters want, they lose those voters, which is why the party has endless paradoxes, such as having to cling to profoundly unpopular anti-choice arguments because a solid 20-25% of the US is violently opposed to allowing women to make their own choices, but even in pretty red states, outlawing abortion is intensely unpopular, again, media coverage is designed to normalize the anti-choice cause, so we get more anti-choice people radicalized. The whole thing is going to explode in a disastrous nova eventually, but until it does the republicans have a base of ~35% of the population (not all of whom will vote obviously) that will vote for them because it is their new religion. It's not a coincidence that trump is both very popular with this base, and has rallies in which he is mostly an incoherent old man trying to repeat buzz-phrases to his base of morons, they want a bumbling idiot who will be a tool for the fascists behind the curtain. The base isn't really listening to what he's saying in a literal sense, they are listening to 'vibes' he's pushing, which are racism and oppression for everyone who isn't a billionaire, as well as general fascism, everyone has to be like them or 'suffer consequences'. It doesn't matter that he literally told his followers to drink bleach, and that he helped make COVID 19 as bad as it could be for the US and the world, him doing a bad job is fine as long as he also targets the groups his racist base hates (mostly minorities and people who have sex but aren't rich, apparently conservatives think poor people are only allowed to have sex to reproduce or something, but if you're rich you're allowed to have sex whenever? Their aren't words for how stupid conservatism is, it's what happen when you raise humans to adulthood but don't educated them in a meaningful manner so all of their beliefs are either programmed in or are superstitions, most people are barely capable of critical thought). I also strongly suspect trump is illiterate, the way he signs his name really, really suggests it, but we also not only never saw him read anything above a 4th grade level as president, he insisted on having pictures/graphs to transmit all his briefing info, presumably because if he can read at all, it's very rudimentary and embarssingly slow. He also needs glasses and doesn't want to wear them because he thinks they make him look like a dork, yet he's too clumsy/impatient to put in contact lenses (you really have to steel yourself the first few times you put them in, you get used to them quickly but he's not strong enough as a person to touch his own eye), so he's got terrible eye sight, hence his constant squinting that makes his already small eyes look even more piggish. He's a shockingly stupid man who is lauded and praised exclusively because his psychopathic racist father was really rich and really evil. That's why conservatives like rich people btw, you don't get to be a billionaire by having ethics, scruples, or morals, you get there by being very, very evil but having just enough self control that you're able to understand who you're allowed to fuck over and who you're not allowed to. This is why trump wouldn't pay contractors, but will grovel like the most pitiful of bitches (an actual dog with no self respect in this context) before anyone who has more money. He only ran for president because he had to, pretty sure that was a condition on his various billions in loans (to cover up his ineptitude/support his expensive lifestyle of conspicuous consumption). I will always be a bit horrified at how happy the poor are to not only support a wildly out of touch billionaire, but to decide that, against overwhelming evidence, this rich POS who was raised in one of the richest households in the US, and who was given billions of dollars after he kept failing at everything he tried (he's incredibly, almost implausibly stupid and shockingly bad at managing things), is 'one of us poor oppressed masses'. I've heard that governing people is hard because so many of them are so incomprehensibly stupid that 'idiot-proofing' barely covers things. Did you know that if you make roads too easy/safe to drive on people have more accidents than if you have some touchy stuff? People get lax and don't respect the road on freeways because they are too easy to drive on, and a significant portion of the population is dumb enough to think that they can put on mascara or watch a porno while driving on a highway at 100km/h. How do you plan around that kind of stupidity, that if you make things to easy for them they screw up *more*? Apparently if you're a republican you take advantage of it to get money out of the rich. I do find a bit of dark humor in the fact that the people who are funding the republican party with petty cash (the money they spend on politics is nothing to them, our politicians are bought for stupidly low amounts of money, they're corrupt for the equivalent of money you'd find digging in your couch/have sitting on your nightstand in change) made a lot of their money off of making that exact republican voter base so miserable, the base literally turns to the people who have made them miserable in their (manufactured) time of need, it's insane but also 'funny'. I guess there will be decades for 'I told you so you dumb bags of shit', but I'd really prefer it doesn't come to that.
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  13. For me, reality TV was hate-at-first-sight, and it still is. Actually, that's not quite true, I liked 'pro' wrestling as a little kid, and that's very, very similar to a lot of 'reality' TV that is popular. I'd rather watch amateur improv than watch heavily scripted reality TV. I wouldn't be terribly surprised if the proliferation of reality TV shows helped speed up the radicalization of our world, since it glorifies conflict for conflict's sake, most reality shows present conflict as potentially quite profitable, no matter how stupid. It also encourages petty bullshit, I don't think it's a coincidence that republican hivemind thinking is obsessed with gamification, this is why it's presented as a 'strategy' to 'own the libs' in and of itself, it doesn't matter if they shoot themselves in the foot if they've put their foot on top of yours, they're not trying to win in a traditional sense. The closest thing they can achieve is to make their opponent's suffer, their is no way to 'win' when your goal is to magically turn back time (this is why they don't worry about global warming, they're magical thinkers that think because trump was allowed to get away with every awful thing he's ever wanted to do he has magic powers. Fascists are very, very stupid because they never grew past their childhood development, which happens when life is set on ultra-easy mode for you) to a more fucked up period. While I do hate reality TV, I do think it sounds objectively hilarious to watch americans who suck at meeting people/have rudimentary social skills go oversees and try to get hitched, just like it'd be funny to watch people try to drive spikes with a tack hammer: none of these people are bringing the right tools, and the disaster that ensues will probably be amusing, if in a dark way. That said, there are some people who don't fit in in the US that would fit in far better elsewhere, the US has some pretty shitty standards for 'what is cool' in my experience. Not surprised to hear to say that these 'reality' shows are designed to showcase things like conspicuous consumption, hustle culture, substance abuse, racist tropes, sexist tropes, and just general right wing shitty-ness, it's like these are also propaganda or something.
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  17. Presenting this stuff as solid evidence seems openly insane to me, Kyle Hill had an interesting video about the overwhelming bulk of the evidence (possibly all) being artifacts from repeatedly recording videos over and over, especially similar types of videos, such that you can end up junk data that looks like data and can be 'hard to explain'. They're actually really easy to explain if you know how computer storage works, this is also why it's hard to 'truly delete' stuff and you should just junk any hard drives that are too old to use, drill a few holes and it becomes very, very hard to get anything usable off of it compared to leaving it alone. I think as long as we let people go through life without a true education you're going to get conspiracy nutters, I think their foundation is mostly skepticism of experts, and as long as you have no idea what someone is talking about it's very tempting for low intelligence people to just decide that you're making stuff up, because if you weren't making it up they'd understand it, because they think they're not stupid due to inbuilt narcissism. The frustrating thing here is that it's not just about teaching people a series of facts. Education is achieved when the individual's mind has been *put into motion*, a state of being that is difficult to stop, and is signaled by the individual self-teaching, including applying critical thinking to novel situations/concepts but also the ability to lean and apply concepts learned primarily from practice/experience, ie get better at things they are doing because they are able to understand them better the more that they do them. Education is when you can (and to some extent will whether you want to or not) apply the process of learning independently, and that you can derive value from doing so. Once you have an education, it is technically possible to learn enough about a subject (quite possibly on your own, using books/videos/internet/whatever research) to progress, such that if it's important, you can learn enough about a complex and advanced subject that you understand what the experts are saying, and possibly even know why they are saying it, it's much harder to be skeptical of experts when you have learned why they are right.
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