Comments by "King Ace" (@kingace6186) on "Spectacles" channel.

  1.  @editek5992  He was a gay hero killed by conservative former cop over politics. That is enough to spark a "Gay Spring". Moreover, Dan White was incompetent and unhappy at his job anyways, and had already resigned. So, most people never blamed Milk for making sure White didn't get reinstated.
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  2. Similar to how everything that happened during the Concert of Europe was tied to Napoleon, Kissinger was just as influential when it comes to the Cold War (+ even America's post-9/11 foreign policy).
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  3. I don't think it was just because the victim was gay. This actually reminds me a lot about the trail for the Murder of Trayvon Martin. In both cases, it should have been a slam dunk cases. But incompetent prosecutors ruined ALL of that.
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  4. They thought they would have enough time to pop the trunk in an emergency???🤣
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  5.  @MutedGrowl  Not really. As I said, similar story to Trayvon Martin. We have come far but we still have a long way to go.
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  6. History is crazy like that. The more I learn about the Bay Area's history, the more shocked I become.
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  7. While I agree with you, you also left some things out: 1) Hamas is deeply unpopular too. As soon as they came into government, Gazans realized they didn't know how to govern. They also promised to be moderates despite being renown for terrorist tactics. Hamas is also notorious for how it tortures & terrorizes Gazans that it suspects have any connections to Israel. 2) Since the election became so disputed (Hamas, Fatah/PLO, Israel, US, EU) that it turned to war over Gaza, which Hamas won. So, in the end, what really mattered was Hama's de-facto control over Gaza. That's realpolitik of you. 3) And, yes, Hamas did barely win de-jure control by 4% in the elections... in 2006..... almost 20 years ago. The population has more than doubled since then, and 2/3 of Gaza is made up of children born after the 2006 elections. For Gazans in 2023, the 2006 elections has zero legitimacy. 4) Which brings me back to the disapproval rating of Hamas, 2 weeks before the October 7 attacks, a poll was conducted that surveyed people in Israel, the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Gaza. According to the Arab Barometer, "67% of Palestinians in Gaza had little or no trust in Hamas" and "75% percent said in the previous 30 days, they could not afford to feed their households due to Hamas's corruption". This is why during the summer before the war, Gazans took to the streets protesting and chanting "F*ck Hamas". 5) So if there was an election held today, Hamas would lose by a landslide. But, the polls showed that it's not that Fatah would win, either tho. That's significant because the US State Department has stated they want the Palestinian Authority to govern Gaza post war to avoid another Israeli occupation.
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  8. Yes! It's time for the actual JFK Mystery.
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  9. CIA failed hard. Good thing that Ikeda moderated his party.
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  10. Unfortunately, this is my first time learning about it. Big s/o to this video.
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  11. True but she actually has done a lot for the gay community. Maybe it was due to Milk's assassination, a la PM Ikeda after the assassination of Asanuma.
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  12. Weak reference. He made that allusion with poor understanding. For some reason, Frank blamed John Kennedy for the American invasion of Vietnam. In reality, JFK was 100% against American troops entering the conflict (direct intervention) even though the IC and the Pentagon kept hounding him to invade. But just like Operation Northwoods, he vetoed the plans. But when he was assassinated, LBJ got sworn in as the 36th POTUS. Johnson had always advocated for direct intervention, so on March 8, 1965, he deployed troops. Frank Herbert was a brilliant man, but he was wayyyyy off on this one. He had a point but jumped to the wrong conclusion.
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  13. Very well-research. I learn a lot from this. My only criticism with this video is a flaw in its conclusion, 23:30. That is not the Left-Right political spectrum (the X-axis) of a political compass. That is the Up-Down political spectrum (the Y axis) to measure civil order. The Up half represents authority based politics, and the Down half represents individual based politics. The examples this video used were two political extremes: Authoritarianism ("far-up" lol) and Libertarianism ("far-down" lol). It's important not to confuse the two axes. Because the Left-Right spectrum is meant to measure priority: egalitarian values vs hierarchical values. The Japanese LDP under Kishi was authoritarian AND militaristic. The JSP under Asanuma was constitutionalist AND revolutionary socialists. Two complex extremes. So it is not possible to accurately lump them in basic spectrum. You have to use a political compass. +The LDP under Ikeda was transformed to constitutional liberalism, a moderate solution. At least, that's how I gauge it.
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  14. One blindside to this video is the role Netanyahu played in the failure of the Oslo Peace Accords and the rise of Hamas. It was Bibi's inflammatory speech against the PM (calling him a "traitor" & a "Nazi") that got Yitzhak Rabin assassinated by a far-right Israeli. Then, when Hamas carried out terror attacks on school buses, Bibi used that fear to launch his political career right into the Prime Minister's office, thus starting a mutual relationship. In fact, after Hamas took over Gaza, Bibi was caught "smuggling suitcases full of cash" into Gaza to discreetly give to Hamas, despite it being a terrorist organization. His political calculus was that as long as Hamas continues to exist (and Fatah continues to be corrupt), Bibi can claim that he has no partner for peace, thus de-facto denying the legitimacy of Palestinian Statehood. The fact is Netanyahu has always opposed any form of a 2 State Solution and even rejected the "existence of a Palestinian people". As long as politicians like Netanyahu are in charge, anti-Israeli organizations like Hamas will continue to exist.
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  15. LMAO. Nah bro. The Japanese go hard with their protests. The reason you don't see major demonstrations in Japan anymore is because the government makes it impossible to happen.
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  16.  @saturationstation1446  What does that have to do with Japan or America?
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  17. I'm from Oakland. Harvey Milk is a certified legend in the Bay Area. It sucks how these consequential figures, from the Kennedys to Asanuma, achieve more after they are dead. They became immortal after they died.
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  18. Namely, Netanyahu and Bezalel Smotrich.
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  19. Same. This is the content quality that you'd expect from channels with over a million subs and 10,000s of patreon supporters.
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  20. lmao ikr
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  21. That's why he had to partner with LBJ. Kennedy was popular in the North, Johnson was popular in the South. Together, they swept.
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  22. I knew that before. But I didn't know much about Kishi until this video. That explains a lot about Abe.
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  23. The worst part about all of this was the trial. I hate incompetent, overreaching prosecutors as much as I hate that bs defense "expert".
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  24. Thank for this. Very informative. Purposeful inaction can be just as guilty as conspiratorial action. Also I am embarrassed to say I was very impressed to learn that dabs were invented by a former CIA agent/asset. But it is still f*ck Ronald Stark, tho.
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  25. Yup.
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  26. He was assassinated. He didn't die of natural causes.
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  27. Leopards Eating People's Faces...
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  28. He made a video on the war crimes, specifically Unit 731.
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  29.  @clarenceonyekwere5428  I'm still waiting on part 2😭 Kraut has us waiting longer than Oversimplified.
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  30.  @thomasjosullivan9179  There is always a path towards 2 States, what is needed is enough political will.
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  31. I wish people would stop tunnel visioning on the Presidency when Congress and the Supreme Court are much more powerful. In this flawed democracy, the President is only the most powerful person because he is allowed to be. That way, there is an easy target for the public to blame as members of Congress rob taxpayers, and SC Justices rewrite the Constitution.
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  32. Jackie was better off living a simple, quiet life. It seems like that was what she would have wanted.
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  33. Tucker Carlson is a traitor. He's in bed with Putin, an infamous hater of gay rights.
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  34.  @Nakaska  Doesn't matter. In the US, even former Presidents get top-tier Secret Service protection FOR LIFE. Even if Trump loses and goes to prison, the Secret Service would follow him in there to make sure he stays secure. There is zero excuse for that to happen.
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  35. I agree but what is depressing to me is that I (23) will be an old man by the time we fix everything Trump broke. My whole future is going to be spent undoing his damage.... And by then, people will have forgotten about the threat and will vote in something equally destructive. America is stuck in a cycle and I want out.
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  36. As an Architecture student, I agree.
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  37. To be fair, the US didn't go through anything comparable to the hyperinflation and murder-squads of the Weimar Republic. Maybe we have to accept that we are weaker than the Greatest Generation. That the threshold for voting against democracy has been lowered. That the bar has been raised. Add to this, the pressure of billionaires and religion in politics.
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  38.  @dai-nippon_digger  I'd rather listen to native Hawaiians rather than an ungrateful transplant.
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  39. In fact, I would say Deng learned from Kruschev's failures and successes.
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  40. Soviet revolutionary socialism (aka Communism) was atrocious. But what anti-communism paranoia did to the "Free World" was equally devastating. That reactionary fear and panic caused a lot of corruption, oppression, and wars.
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  41. lol
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  42.  @grujcyk  Dude. Trump is literally trying to privatize NOAA and the NWS. Nothing is safe when billionaires control government.
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  43. Ultimately, in his ever paranoia, Stalin weaponized the tragedy of his close friend's assassination to purge anyone he didn't trust. Millions suffered because of that. Furthermore, these purges are the reason the USSR did so poorly during the early days of the World War 2.
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  44.  @jettjones9889  The deep state doesn't want this channel to shine. This channel is exposing too many mysteries. lol
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  45. Moro dedicated his whole life to his party, his government, and his country, but was betrayed by the same forces that were built up by him. Moreover, he was on the brink of achieving lasting domestic peace in Italy. Regardless of whether the conspiracy theories were accurate or not, the betrayal is undeniable. That's no way to treat a patriot.
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  46. You're delusional. JFK saved American and the world countless times. He was a war hero, a fierce senators, and a president that fought against the evils of America. And above all else, JFK prevented certain nuclear holocaust. TLDR: Go read a book.
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  47. Jesus. I didn't know it was that bad.
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  48. That is insane. The Japanese Government is strange asf.
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  49. Yup. Incredibly ironic. But Xi doesn't actually like Mao. He is championing this era of "re-Maoization" because it is simply useful for his ambitions - for his Xi Thought.
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  50. 😢
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