Comments by "" (@TheDavidlloydjones) on "Hillsdale College" channel.

  1. "In 1914 Britain a century had passed since the last one," he says in his plummy accent. Both the war against the Boers, and the vast sweep of empire building, an act of death-dealing unprecedented since perhaps Atilla, go ignored...
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  2. I guess you didn't listen to Hansen, did you, Micblog?
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  3. The nice thing about a relatively free society is we can vote people out after their policies have been tried and found wanting. Brownback, both by personal character and by ideology, is a disaster in everything he does. A wicked, devious, ignorant and deluded little man. The people of Kansas are now beginning the difficult project of recovering from his misgovernment.
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  4. Shut up and listen to yer betters, eh, Peter?
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  5.  @lw3646  "Guerilla"? "Crimean"? The Crimean war was certainly a pretty direct war between Russian and British Empires. The Boers fought with the hit and run techniques typical of guerillas, but it was a vicious war of imperialist aggression by Britain against a perfectly viable independent and civilized Transvaal state. The Boers were never defeated militarily. They fought honourably and effectively, then surrendered only because 30,000 of their wives and children had died of disease in the British concentration camps. This was a war crime unmatched until Hitler's and Eichmann's time, a lawless cruelty worse than anything even claimed to have been perpetrated by Ghengis Khan. FWIW, the English-language press of the world has a tendency to blame Apartheid on the Afrikaaners. While it is fair to say that Henrik Verwoerd was a fascist on the Himmler model and Daniel Malan was a nasty piece of work, the groundwork for the post-1948 system of state-enforced racial oppression was laid by the oh-so-social Jan Smuts and the English-speaking labour unions as a way of protecting high paying white jobs in the mines and industry. Their free-market handling of the prosperity brought by WWII caused the immiseration and class warfare which made the segregationist police state seem credible. Now then, see if you can work on your spelling, OK, @LW? 😎
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  6.  @spm36  I assume the word you're looking for is "twit." Correct? 🤣😂😁🤦‍♀️
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  7. Steve, You assume that the violence today is not the legacy of the British yesterday. The fact is that in India, China, Uganda, and Ghana, at minimum, the English made war against cultures every bit their equals if not their superiors in civility, law, and culture. The Brits, of course, "........had got The Maxim gun, and they had not." -dlj.
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  8. "RepetitiveMotion," You didn't like Victor Davis Hansen's explanation, hunh?
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  9. Don't know that there were many. Your point about censorship, however, is sound. Most Americans don't know about the US expeditionary forces to Russia up through 1920, for instance. American deaths from the various disease pandemics, major among them the 1918 planetary influenza sweep, far outnumbered those from bullet and bomb, for Americans as least. A reprise on censorship: Googling the influenza epidemic, I find that the influenza was kept secret to some extent.
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  10. Trump is wall-to-wall anti-American. He is pro-Donald Trump and nothing else. He doesn't understand America. Or economics. Or morality. Or rationality. Or anything at all except what makes Donnie feel good, which mostly means priase for fat little Donnie.
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  11. Dead wrong, Clyde. The opposite. Bushlet's "They hate us for our freedoms" is correct. Repetitive's ignorant rant is plain stoo-pid. Fact-free, hateful, and silly.
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  12. Good analysis. Now the real problem is, Hansen agrees with Hillary's program, free enterprise armed to the teeth. He disagrees with Trump's program of Trump-Trump-Trump. What does this mean for the future of any Republican Party?
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  13. Correct -- if you don't take the years of the War of the 20th Century as being, say, 1914~45, or perhaps 1908~92. It's hard to see 1918 or 1919 as the end of even the European segment of the Great World War, isn't it?
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