Comments by "mpetersen6" (@mpetersen6) on "Triggernometry" channel.

  1. She likely has issues with some Republican stances as well. Personally l have no issues with that. I would love a third party that unites the Centerists from both parties. And leaves the fringe elements out in the cold. I would likely have issues with some positions. But never expect to see a political party l agree with on every single issue.
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  2. Make voting required. Low turnout makes a mockery of democracy.
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  3. The Rust Belt isn't as rusty as it used to be. Some areas, cities, counties have managed to find new economic opportunities. And some haven't. It boils down to a few reasons. 1) Location, location, location. If your community is off the beaten path so to speak you are often drawing the short straw. 2) Urban vs rural. Often counties in the Rust Belt may have a modest sized city but the rest of the county can be mostly rural aside from a few smaller towns or villages. This can cause conflicts as to what direction the people want to go. 3) Apathy and the refusal to see that things have changed. Inefficient businesses lost to more competitive ones. Taking the jobs with them. The de-industrialation of many areas did not help. Sometimes this was because of competition from off shore. But sometimes there were actual government policies that drove it. The academics in the 70s were talking about a post industrial society. Well I'm sorry but everyone isn't suited to higher education. What do we tell the people who aren't, we're sorry you'll just have to accept working at a convenience store for minimum wage. Plus a nation with the international commitments the US has requires a domestic industrial base. What happens when you buy everything from a potentially hostile country. And then they say no. In 1939 Germany's biggest trading partner was France. Also refusal to see change is just wanting the good old days back. The good old days often weren't that good really.
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  4. The biggest problem is wokeness is so embedded in the universities.
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  5. In 2020 l thought she was the best of all the Democrats running. They threw her under the bus because she would not get with the program. Democrats l knew turned against her because she did not vote for impeachment.
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  6. As an American l do nothate my fellow countrymen or women. Sometimes some of them disgust me l will admit. But come election time l recognize that it is their country too. And l expect them to do likewise.
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  7. To some degree Britian is a nation of immigrants. Only its been various waves, folk migrations, whatever you want to call them. Plus the waves weren't really that large. The Anglo-Saxons and the Normans didn't replace the native population. I doubt the Indo-Europeans totally replaced the Bell Beaker. But cultures changed. Today national pride in your nations past achievements must be ground out of existence while you drown in the collective guilt about things done in the past.
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  8. What he said about education is more important than anything else said in this interview.
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  9. Just wait until leftist academia figures out a way to use these metrics to suck more money out of society to attempt to uplift various groups. But only if they can control the process
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  10. Or the Afgan Wars
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  11. I only have one issue with shows like this that feature celebrity quests. Just because they may be famous that does not mean they speak for us, the great unwashed. I remenber l qoute l saw this year. I think it was post election. In my life l have needed a physician. I have needed a lawyer. I have needed a plumber. Ihave needed an automotive mechanic. I have needed a roofer. Ihave needed landscape service. Ihave needed a teacher. Ihave needed a priest. I have needed a friend. I have never needed a professional entertainer. I have never needed an actor. l have never needed a professional athlete. I have never needed any"celebrity to tell me who l should vote for. What political party l should embrace. Celebrities are entitled to their own opinions. I have no problems with that. Their celebrity "status" does not entitle them to shove their opinions on everybody else. Entertainers, this includes singers, actors, athletes and authors of fiction,earn their living by using a skill to give we the great unwashed a few minutes or hours of pleasure and escape from our daily problems. For which we pay. If any of us owes anybody. It is them. Not we.
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  12. I remember a panel discussion a few years back. Same basic subject IIRC Kasin was on and definitely Ash. She made a smug comment about immigration and population growth. It ended with her saying "and we're winning".
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  13. We are all a minority of 1.
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  14. I sometimes find it ironic that one of the best voices for British values is an immigrant from the Russian "Republic". The speaker coukd have immigrated to anywhere in the world. He choose a nation whose core values were values he embraced. Now large numbers of Britons as l see it from outside of Britian (1) have abandoned those values not because they reject them through independent thought. But because they have been told to by their government. Their "educators". And their media. And l have a question. Let's say Hamas gets their hearts desire. Israel ceases to exist. Lets ask the question. Where do the Israelis go? What if other nations refuse to accept them? And lets face it. If there was one elderly homeless Jew sleeping on a park bench in what used to be called Tel Aviv it would be one too many for Hamas. 1) l am in the Great Lakes region of the US. As l see it we are about 10 to 15 years behind the UK and France. Biden wants to bring in as many Palestinians as he can. As a total of the electorate they will not matter so much. But their effect on the current Muslim communities will be huge.
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  15. I do not agree with everything Shapiro says. I don't expect to. Shapiro in my opinion is mostly a common sense liberal. Who got shoved out of the liberal left not by his views changing so much but by the constant shift of the Left in this country. We didn't leave the Democrats. They left us.
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  16. ​Another factor in all of this is social media and the rumor mill. Take the Jacob Blake incident. It immediately came out on social media that the police were there to deal with a fight at a block party. No. They were there because the ex girl friend had called 911 because she had a restraining order against Mr Blake. Plus there was an arrest warrant issued against Mr Blake on a 3rd degree sexual assault charge. City officials knew all of this within hours at most. Probably much less. I wonder who spread the block party rumor. I wonder what their motivations were. The initial video recorded from across the street was clearly edited. Context and content matter. For good or I'll. Did Mr Blake deserve to get shot? I doubt it. The number of shots fired? I have my own ideas on that. Adrenaline and the type of weapon involved in my opinion had something to do with it. A semiauto pistol takes a lot less effort to fire multiple rounds than a double action revolver.
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  17. Within 5 years they'll probably be talking about the rights of MAPs. That will be their death as a movement.
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  18. Disinformation on social media. We saw it in the US in 2020. The people who spread videos or misinformation deliberately to the regular news media or online are just as culpable for any violence that happened as anyone else.
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  19. I'm not a fan of the Israeli government but when someone literally wants to destroy you. How do you think they would react. IMO if the Arab governments had been smart post WWII they would have welcomed Jewish immigration and allowed the Jews of Europe to set up flourishing communities. Just how much would their nations have benefited from the talent those communities represented.
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  20. Could the war have been ended without dropping the bombs? Yes. And it certainly would have cost more lives. Say the US attempted to starve and blockade Japan into surrender. 6 months minimum. 3 million, 4 million deaths in Japan. Plus the dead in China.
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  21. ​Blameless? No I don't think the US is blameless. Sometimes it was blatant pseudo colonialism. The US government using political and military power in the interests of companies such as United Fruit. Thankfully those days are past. But l think far more damage has been done by the residents of the US by those residents who use illegal drugs provided by criminal organizations in certain countries in Central and South America. As far as l am concerned any violence, any governmental instability or social instability that can be attributed to these cartels is partly the responsibility of their customers. Be they in the US, Canada or anywhere else.
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  22. I live there. The overwhelming majority of individuals that were arrested for violence in the Kenosha riots were not residents. When I first saw the video of when Jacob Blake was shot my first reaction was "oh shit". Then there were reports that he had merely been trying to break up a fight at a neighborhood block party. This was reported by the media. No. Mr Blake's girlfriend called 911 because there was a restraint order on file against him. Plus the Kenosha County DAs office had filed charges against Mr Blake and there was a warrant issued for his arrest on Third Degree Sexual Assault. That is why the Police where there. They attempted to arrest Mr Blake (1) and Mr Blake resisted arrest. Does this mean that he should have been shot seven times in the back. IMO the officer in question was at least guilty of excessive force. Why were there seven shots fired. I think that has to do with the equipping police officers with semi-automatic pistols. When police departments carried revolers I doubt they had issues with officers when they did have to fire a weapon firing more than two or three rounds. For those unfamiliar with firearms a revolver, even if it is a double action, takes significantly more physical effort. A semiauto the process of ejecting the fired round loads the next round into the chamber and cocks the hammer. All it takes to fire that round is squeezing the trigger. When the police department in Kenosha first looked into switching over from .38 caliber revolvers (2) to semiautos a lot of police agencies were adopting high capacity 9mms. My brother in law was in charge of the procurement process. Kenosha specifically choose to adopt .45 ACP. Because data showed that 9mm caused significant over penetration and increased the likelihood that a bullet could carry on down range to posdibly go through the wall of house. Or a car door. Or another person. Plus looking at the data on how many rounds an officer fired when they did have to employ their service weapon the data showed the average number of rounds fired was 2 or 3. Well with in the range of a 7 or 8 round capacity of a pistol chambered in .45 ACP. 1) When Mr Blake was interviewed by Don Lemon on CNN he stated that he had to accept his responsibility for the events of that day. Plus he admitted that has was carrying a knife and it was in his hand. 2) Officers were allowed to carry personal side arms and some did. Amongst those who did some carried revolvers chambered in .357 Magnum. But they were restricted to using .38 Special ammunition. A .357 will fire .38s and .357 rounds. The difference between the two rounds is the length of the case (4 or 5 mm) and the amount of propellant used. .38 Special and .357 are basically 9mm in diameter. 9mm equals .354.
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  23. None of this is shocking about the BBC.
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  24. The one thing that bothers me about IQ and comparing groups from different cultures is how these cultures view the world and around them. That said I do think that there are differences in average IQ between different cultures and societies. To me the prime driver of cultural differences in IQ statistics is the value those cultures place on education and true critical thinking. Not that I claim to be a member of any group that is superior to others.
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  25. ​Yes l do remember that. And I'm a yank.
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  26. Facists? Neither one of you two gentlemen strike me as being facists. You are Classic Liberals IMO
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