Comments by "Rusty Shackleford" (@POCKET-SAND) on "A Message to Pennsylvanians" video.

  1. You get arrested for expressing opinions your government doesn't like and also don't have any means to defend yourself because your states have a monopoly on violence. Clearly another European who know nothing about America.
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  2. "Capitalists" don't lobby for more regulations And yes Communism is bad, it killed more people than Hitler did. Anyone who in 2024 calls themself a Communist is a retard.
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  3. Liberty and Democracy. Then I don't know what else to tell you man, if those are your two biggest values and you're choosing Harris, either you've been decieved or your sense of liberty and democracy is far different from mine.
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  4. "I want gun rights! . . . I voted for Harris" It'd be funny if there weren't so many people this delusional.
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  5. Virtually every leftist regime that came to power enforced some degree of anti-religious laws.
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  6. Doesn't really work like that. We can tell what megacorps want by seeing where they put their money in Washington. These companies overwhelmingly lobby for more regulation not less. That's because they have the weight and wealth to simply shrug off regulation whiler smaller competitors cannot. This means they actually make more money in the long term because there are less alternatives for people to go to outside of them.
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  7. Because South America is a collection of largely 3rd world nations ran by gangs and cartels.
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  8. I'm sick of this idolization some on the right have for Russia. Russia is not "Western Civilization," it's the reanimated husk of communism. The way their government fuctions retains many of the same features it had in the days of the Soviet Union. The conservative elements of their culture are, more often than not, used as political tools. Christianity, for example, is nominal at best in Russia. The government says they are Christian, but in reality they have some of the lowest Church attendence rates in Europe and their government leaders sure aren't leading through example in that regard.
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  9. Sorry dude, but Joseph Smith was a heretic.
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  10.  @edshanks2189  Abortion is not "liberty" for the same reason the ability to kill each other isn't "liberty" because that's what abortion is: the killing of innocents.
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  11. Fascists don't support gun rights, kinda the opposite of that. Fascism and Marxism are two sides of the same coin.
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  12. Avoid philosophers like the plague. It's the modern day philosophers that created this mess.
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  13. I will pray for you because on your judgement day, you will have to answer for your unbelief.
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  14. Because over time, they've become one in the same
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  15. With all due respect, I don't think you're living in reality. Stalin, Mao, and the rest are not exceptions, they are the norm for the left. When the left is able to grab significant political power within a country, totalitarianism soon follows. After which, dictators like Stalin pop up with alarming regularity. As for Trump, what did he do that was so authoritarian and terrible during the 4 years he was in office? Where did he say he wanted to suspend the Constitution? Do you geniunely believe America is better now than it ever was before? From the border bill rhetoric, I can tell you don't reall understand what you're talking about. Firstly, Congress rejected the border bill, Trump didn't like the bill but he had no vote on the matter technically. Secondly, the "border bill" only talked about the southern border for about 20% of the bill. The remainder was filled with just shameless attempts at increasing the power of the federal government in matters completely unrelated to the border. The section that did deal with the border wouldn't even solve the border crisis. The bill aimed to drastically raise the limit for how many people could come in per year, provide more resources for vetted those people, and making a path to citizenship easier. People don't want this, people want the border to actually be secured and for mass migration to stop, this is why Republicans in Congress rejected the "border bill" (which again, only talked about the border in 20% of the document, naming it the "border bill" was a political stunt by Democrats). The Democrats weren't trying the solve the problem, they were trying to legitimize it.
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  16. Give an example of an overtly authoritarian policy that most of the right supports.
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  17. I suggest you educate yourself on basic economics.
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  18.  @JaydenBrooks-ys6lj  By rejecting Marxist pseudoscience and reading things from actual economists instead.
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  19. To argue Jefferson was no different than the liberals today is pretty moronic. Sorry, but there's no polite way to put it.
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  20. You even bother to watch the impeachment trial?
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  21. No, I'm not a fan of idolatry.
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  22. The people who run the left are evil. Most of the rank and file are just misguided idiots being manipulated by the ones in charge. As for the policy goals you mentioned, that's all fine and dandy but statistically left-wing policies do nothing to solve any of it. In America, the more "progressive" a locality is, the more crime and violence it sees. As for inflation, I can tell you don't put much thought into these things. The average poor guy cares A LOT more about the cost of grocieries and gas going up than he does about all that virtue signaling crap. To ignore the economy is the single biggest insult to the poor because a crappy economy hits them the hardest, which is why the left deserves nothing more than a massive middle finger from those they claim to support.
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  23.  @khongelaningobeni6614  There are equal rights in America, but those on the left pretend that there aren't and constantly push for minorities to recieve SPECIAL treatment, not equal treatment.
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  24. go back 20 years, and he'd firmly be in a centrist camp. The left had shifted and radicalized, not the right.
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  25. Eplain that one because it makes no sense
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  26.  @ChadsBeans  You, like many who suffer from unbelief, talk big now. But you will be filled with sorrow and fear when the day comes when you find yourself standing in front of the throne.
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  27.  @ChadsBeans  Still praying for you, my brother. Your "reason" and "science" mean very little when we seek actual truth. Hopefully, the Lord will enter your heart before it is too late.
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  28.  @ChadsBeans  Hopefully, your eyes will be opened soon.
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  29.  @ChadsBeans  I suggest you read it again
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  30.  @quwuirkyturkey  The right to bear arms, or more specifically the right to self-preservation, IS a human right. Every dictatorship that ever existed, one of the first things they all did was disarm the populace if it wasn't already disarmed.
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  31. Also socialism is retarded, especially the kind that that gay Austrian painter supported.
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  32. Why is it that the wealth is even more heavily cocentrated at the top in non-Capitalist countries? Fidel Castro was by far the richest man in Cuba. The Premiers of the Soviet Union lived lives of luxury far exceeding that of the President of the United States.
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  33.  @JaydenBrooks-ys6lj  It was true, Castro was far richer than the Cuban military dictators he replaced. He lived a life of luxury while his people lived in poverty: a far great disparity than ever existed in America. As for the USSR, it was Marxist. the argument that it wasn't was cope made later on by Marxists attempting to claim the USSR "didn't count" because it didn't turn into some utopia that their favorite fantasy author, Karl Marx, wrote about.
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  34. Found the boomer rino
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  35.  @HENRIVICTORIOUS1  No because murder is illegal and immoral.
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  36. Found the butthurt atheist. More people were slain in the name of state atheism than ever died in wars of religion.
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  37. We had Trump in for one term already. No new wars then, so it's unlikely he's trigger a world war.
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  38. I can tell that you are a very sheltered individual. Western "white" culture is arguably the least racist in the world. Go to Asia, there got concentration camps where certain ethnicies are kept. Go to Africa, they still have small scale wars largely along ethnic lines.
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  39.  @AaronBluestone  You got a source for that?
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  40.  @AaronBluestone  The whole thing gives off "he refused to condemn white supremacy" vibes, a lie that most Dems still believe even nearly 8 years later.
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  41.  @AaronBluestone  Yes, I asked you for data. You gave me a bunch of headlines from left-wing news sourcs saying Trump called for Cheney's death. It's the same thing that happened in 2017.
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  42.  @LocomotiveThought  The Boston Tea Party was a violent protest conducted because of a slight tax on tea and inability the to obtain it from other sources. In what world would modern liberals protest over tax increases? Jefferson is not the same as modern liberals. Jefferson, if he were around today, would fall firmly within a right-libertarian camp, only leaning even further to the right with all those 18th century social views.
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  43. Ukraine is the one issue where I don't fall in line with the right on (at least most of the American right). Russia has violated pretty much every agreement they'd made with Ukraine and with the West as a whole. Maidan was not orchestrated by any outside force, it was undertaken because the Ukrainian president basically did the exact opposite of what he said he was going to do on his campaign (they guy would later steal as much money from the state treasury as he could and flee to Russia, so it's not difficult to see where his loyalties truly lied). It's hard to understand for Americans so I'll put it this way: imagine there's this very small section of American society that is like the leftist elite, but on steroids. So different are they in terms of culture that they don't even speak the same language. They activiely set out to destroy American culture and replace it with their culture, including trying to force their language through as the official language as opposed to English. And this culturally different elite is, to a degree, propped up by a powerful foreign nation. That's what it was like being Ukrainian, these pro-Russian elements within the country seek to eradicate Ukrainian culture and the Ukrainian language. They are heavily propped up by Russia, which had the ultimate goal of taking Ukraine back and making it part of Russia again. And on top of all these, the Russians and the pro-Russians are communists and communist sympathiziers who remember the Soviet Union fondly. Ethnically, I'm mostly Polish and Ukrainian so I'm pretty much hardwired to see the Russians for the mongoloid horde that they are, so there's that too.
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  44. Iraq was attacked because they invaded Kuwait. Therest were because they were aiding terrorists responsible for 9/11
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