Comments by "Adam Donovan" (@adamdonovan4071) on "Based Camp with Simone & Malcolm Collins" channel.

  1. The Cold War never ended, it sublimated. Yuri Bezmenov, if you haven’t watched the interview with him, you should definitely do an episode on it.
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  2. When the solution to failed big brother policies is bigger brother policies…you’re in one hell of a spot.
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  3. If you’ve never been called a conspiracy theorist, you’ve never questioned the official narrative and are thus part of the problem.
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  4. Her ideology seems pulled straight from Reddit, not 4chan to me….not all black pills are from 4chan.
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  5. I have been pointing out the history of the word progressive for years. So glad someone else is pointing this out, but I will add that fascists saw themselves as “progressive” too. Political progressivism is at its base the belief that the government has the right and responsibility to define what the society it governs should be. In this way, progressivism is actually diametrically opposed to liberal democracy, which is why you should NEVER call a Democrat a liberal; they are progressive, just different shades of progressive. Representative democracy in theory should be the society defining its government, progressivism is the government defining its society. These two notions cannot coexist. This is why fact that we are a constitutional republic is a critical distinction.
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  6. Regarding Christianity not being “black”….the Ethiopian Christian church is one of the oldest Christian churches outside of the Middle East. 4th century AD; this is essentially the same time as Constantine…ergo Christianity is exactly as African as it is European from a historical standpoint.
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  7. I think Trump should give Scott Pressler the Presidential Medal of Freedom and an ambassadorship. He did that much for the country. What a freaking hero.
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  8. Malcolm, you should read the Q…it’s not what you think. Most of you think is really problematic wasn’t added onto the Q, it’s in there. He was a warlord who declared he was a sacred figure to legitimize his conquest and make promises of otherworldly rewards so that he could expand his army.
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  9. Regarding the 2022-2023 time lag of Covid deaths: bear in mind that due to their draconian lockdowns throughout what we think of as the Covid pandemic, it is very possible that large portions of their population were not exposed during what we think of as the pandemic period; and thus their death toll could be later. Alternatively it is also possible that they did not allow people to gather for funerals during the lockdowns, so people may have had funerals well afterward, ie the deaths may not have been on that timeline but were captured in data on that timeline.
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  10.  @leeroyking1088  I mean….i totally agree that the biblical characters were not “white”…..but frankly, the vast majority of white people on the planet are not “white” on a cmyk chart….and thus their skin can whiten when they are ill. In fact having a “pallor” is a famous sign of being unwell. If you find a person whose skin could not be whiter, that is an albino, which is in itself an illness/abnormality. Most “white” people are varied shades on tan, pink or beige. This is a bizarre comment.
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  11. Agree. I think it’s a post-modern reinterpretation of tradition…the traditional role of women was procreating, not doling out sex. They have repurposed the pastiche of tradition to subvert the original purpose.
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  12. A mace is a ball, sometimes with spikes, on a rigid handle. The weapon name you are looking for is a flail or ball and chain, which introduces a chain between the handle and head. These two weapons are often confused, but thought I will point out the difference….since you know, we’re on the internet, and that’s what it is for.
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  13. Consider how seismically active Japan is though….if they had built in stone it would be rubble. Wood structure are more resilient to movement.
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  14. Epic of Gilgamesh was written ca 2100 BC…not 26,000 years before Beowulf, but 4,000 years is a long time before it.
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  15. I had never thought of the jello mold as a status signaling gesture, but it makes so much sense. No wonder they have lost their luster with refrigerators becoming ubiquitous.
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  16. On the Swedish study: I suggest that the stats on age of first child correlating with greater life longevity are actually showing correlation of wealth to longevity, rather that some sort of underlying general health correlation. Women who have their first child later are likely to be professional and thus wealthier and the correlation between affluence and longevity are pretty well demonstrated. This seems some what more likely than healthier women having kids later, or having kids later leading to being healthier. It is hypothetically possible that due to the woman recognizing that she is having a kid later and therefore being more conscientious about her health during pregnancy and that conscientiousness carrying forward after pregnancy, but frankly that is also a more expensive lifestyle (high quality calories are more expensive than low quality calories as a start), so this correlation would also somewhat necessarily dovetail with the original theory.
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  17. An ethical argument for capital punishment: The fundamental nature of reality is scarcity, you need to gather resources to ensure your survival, this is simply the cost being alive, for all creatures, humans included. In a society where the “cost” of committing murder is that the state meets your survival needs for the rest of your life, the state is functionally “paying” the murderer for having taken another’s life. The cost of their life, is that your life necessities are covered. It is not a high quality life, I grant you that. But it is three hots and a cot for the rest of your life…if you get paroled it actually reflects a diminishes of the “value” of the life you have taken. This is an ethical abomination. Wrongful convictions are a problem, but that problem exists whether the punishment is life or “your life”….in the absence of questions about actual guilt, it is entirely unethical for the government to force tax payers to pay for the survival of someone who took another taxpayer’s life.
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  18. From fentanyl to French court in five easy steps….what a journey.
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  19.  @Liethen  not nearly as much…on a global seismic hazard map Greece and Italy are pale green to yellow, southern Japan is dark red. They are not even in the same ballpark.
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  20. Anybody else start off this episode wondering if we were watching Malcolm and Simone convince each other to start a Breaking Bad storyline?
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  21. That’s why it’s called destiny. /s lol
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  22. They started to push to normalize “MAPS” as an identity a few years ago…you’ll have to look up what that acronym stands for yourself if you do not already know.
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  23. Kind of sounds like gambling is his hobby….just not a productive hobby.
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  24. I agree in a way, but not entirely. The asset that is received through the debt accumulation cannot be taken back, so if there were no protections everyone would graduate and immediately declare bankruptcy…because why wouldn’t you? It would be seen as the smart thing to do. That said, the student should have some level of protection, especially considering the institution currently has no incentive to prepare students for a productive future…the institution should be on the hook for any debt outstanding ten years after graduation. But if a system could be developed to eliminate the debt trap all together, that would be even better.
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  25. Look into the UN’s findings on R as a genoc1de tactic used by Pakistan in Bangladesh. It is essentially what you are hypothesizing.
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  26. Allegedly he kept a horse in his house in NC…he may not have medded up, but maybe he should have been. No idea if it was an emotional support animal or what, but that is wild.
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  27. There is another way to frame what actually happened when they focused on maximizing user engagement on the apps. If you are using the app the find a long term partner you will be on for a while, find someone, be off app while trying to see if it’s a permanent match, and then either never be customer again or be back for another cycle, rinse and repeat; but if you are just looking for casual sex or hookups you will always be on the app looking for a new hookup. So they deprioritized relationships in favor of relations.
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  28. There is a lot human evil in bureaucracy, but I would disagree that “all human evil” is downstream of bureaucracy.
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  29. Could not agree more.
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  30. It’s like a more modern version of the Teddy Bear. Bears are terrifying…they live in the woods, why would anyone go there? When Teddy Roosevelt created the National park system this issue was addressed by “cutifying” bears by giving them as stuffed toys to cuddle (that’s why they are “teddy bears”). I can’t say why they want dragons to be de-alienated (maybe they really are lizard people (JK))…but essentially in post modernism inverting everything is the central theme. Perhaps it is simply another way for humans to be seen as the problem, which would work well for the Malthusians.
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  31.  @theJellyjoker  technically the Prussians were move interested in creating compliant soldiers than factory workers at that time, but when the US installed that system it was intended to create factory workers. Other than that note, I generally agree.
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  32. Irony is the primary organizational principle of reality.
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  33. “I’m glad it’s your up, and not our up”, may be the funniest pun I’ve heard in a very long time. [yoink], I’m stealing that.
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  34. It would be keen if you raised your kids in 50s slang vernacular.
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  35.  @CyberChrist I think it was rats, not mice…maybe that’s what they’re calling “discredited”…
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  36. Every shepherd needs a flock…that is hysterical.
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  37. @ the mortality rate could go down and yet mortalities go up due the massive increase in exposure. They literally went from locking people into apartment buildings, to zero restrictions or protections around that time. During their lockdown people literally died in an apartment building fire because the doors would not open, so the population went from near zero exposure to high exposure very quickly.
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  38. That’s how they got Al Capone.
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  39. PCU is one of my favorite movies of all time.
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  40. @ that was a response to them calling Pressler a conspiracy theorist…not me calling you guys conspiracy theorists. Best.
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  41. It’s possible Crooks registered as Republican to vote against Trump in the primary, as PA is a closed primary state. He may also have been registered by his parents.
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  42. Go to 30 minutes in…
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  43. It’s always nice to see a good usage of the concept of sublimation.
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  44. @ it gets deeper…allegedly she was coordinating with a 20 year old man in California for simultaneous attacks (per The Independent)…the other attack never happened…so the question to me is, was that guy her “boyfriend”, and was he actually more like her “handler”? Interesting to do a follow up on this if more ever comes out on this.
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  45.  @jackiekjono I would suggest that it may be possible to look at it differently. I think this is more of a threat to the institutions than the faculty within them. This system will likely require content, which would mean that it will require content creators; it’s just that the university bureaucracy won’t be taking 90% of the value off the top for their grift fund.
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  46. Turkey does not belong on a Christmas table IMO. Christmas. Is roast beef and Yorkshire pudding.
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  47. Weekend at Biden’s
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  48. “The dirtiest version of sitting on Santa’s lap” damn near killed me. That was hysterical, but also seems like an apt parallel…which is very disturbing.
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  49.  @Zantorc  I read both Beowulf and Grendel in high school…I’m in my 40s…I can’t really imagine that being children’s lit, to be honest (though Beowulf would be more appropriate than Grendel in my estimation), but Beowulf is in my opinion a more productive cultural content than comic books…especially more current comic book content.
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  50. Reddit does not provide “average sentiment”…they purged the right, so it is at best average of the left, at worst average of whomever hasn’t stepped out of line…
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