Comments by "SmallSpoonBrigade" (@SmallSpoonBrigade) on "The Young Turks" channel.

  1. Precisely. This isn't a team sport, all of the Bernie supporters I've met were enthusiastic about his message more than him. I think he's awesome, but I'd vote for somebody else in a heartbeat if they were serious about fixing the things he's focused on fixing.
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  2. If they're going to go blue, the DNC has to offer them something that's at least marginally palatable. I'm a progressive and I couldn't vote for her, so why would anybody even slightly conservative vote for her? BTW, I wrote in Bernie Sanders, there's no way in hell that I'm voting for Trump or Clinton.
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  3. +SeanTheOriginal I'm pretty sure that the CEOs get to make most of the decisions, otherwise, why have them at all?
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  4. None of that is true. The GOP is the party that's fighting against comprehensive sex ed and access to family planning programs. Also, where do you think the Democrats got all that "tough on crime" and "super predators" stuff from? Here's a hint, it's not coming from the progressive and liberal wings of the party.
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  5. +robert karas There's a huge difference between killing yourself and getting assistance from other people. I think it was a poor decision, but having doctors aiding and abetting it is rather ridiculous.
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  6. Perhaps if you folks would have better judgment about whom you glorify you'd be taken more seriously. Most of the videos out there are about black people being shot that are inflaming tensions, threatening the cops and running away. There's little talk about what the community is doing to contribute to the problem and there's this incredible degree of hypocrisy involved with convicting the officers in the court of public opinion and then whining about the system being prejudiced. If there's a real problem here at all, it would probably be best to learn from Gandhi and stop fighting with the police and stop inflaming tensions to emphasize the difference between you and the police. It worked brilliantly in India, so I'm not sure why it wouldn't work here in the US where you have more rights.
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  7. I'd like to see some evidence of that. IQ is purely for the purpose of identifying people that are more or less capable of dealing with a specific academic environment. Nothing more, nothing less. People complain about it, but the only real problems with IQ is that it's a narrow set of tests and it's routinely misapplied to prove whatever fool notion people have about different groups of people. But, within it's intended use, it's a perfectly fine measure.
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  8. Well, it is a long hard thing with lots of seamen in it, so the better question is probably why aren't all the ships gay?
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  9. How much are you being paid for this nonsense? Regardless of why the rebar is now exposed, it's still a violation that needs to be fixed. Also, these aren't hotdogs from the grocery store, they're ones that come from a supplier. Plastic bag or not, you're exposing them to bacteria either on the floor or when picked up and moved to the prep surface. What's more, the hotdogs themselves have bacteria in them that does grow and if not properly managed can grow enough to the point where people can get sick even after cooking them.
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  10. It's not even remotely funny. Women do this kind of thing far more often than we'd like to admit. And yet, we've got people like Aziz Ansari being tarred over nothing and people expect that to be taken seriously, when women do things like this.
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  11.  @jameelsazam2827  There was a body and idiots like you would claim otherwise even if they had brought it back as you hadn't personally seen and tested it for authenticity. The reality is that there wasn't really any other option. It had to be disposed of somewhere that wouldn't attract terrorists and anywhere else would have become a gathering place or target.
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  12.  @cdjhyoung  the point of it was to deny his followers a memorial site and to avoid creating a focal point for a revenge plot. But really, simply removing or troops from Saudi Arabia and letting them handle their own security would solve most of our foreign terrorism issues.
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  13. Citation necessary. If the "victims" need the rights of the accused to be eroded in order to come up with the "correct" results, then that implies that there isn't sufficient evidence to charge or get a conviction. The basis of our legal system is innocent until proven guilty because it's better to let a dozen guilty men walk free than to send one innocent one to prison. If you don't like that, then perhaps move to some other country where it's guilty until proven innocent. Or better yet, some place where they don't even bother with trials.
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  14. Probably too much Gone with the Wind and not enough Roots.
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  15. And yet the Democrats weren't taking things seriously. They could have had a near certain victory if they had just let the voters choose Bernie . Instead Obama had to get involved and rig the primaries.
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  16. He definitely would. Why would Bernie supporters show up to vote when Biden isn't going to do anything for the American people. He'll do whatever minimum is necessary to look like he's not a Republican. I personally, won't be voting for any Democrat if Biden is the nominee.
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  17. That's the thing, TYT is lying when they claim that this is just rightwingers that are disgusted. There are definitely prominent leftwingers that are disgusted by the film. It's hardly just a conspiracy to prop up Qanon.
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  18. -1 more ridiculous anti-cop BS. Tamir Rice was lowering what appeared to be a firearm in the direction of the police. This is clear, we have the video. Please stop misleading people about what happened. It is unfortunate that his lapse of judgment led to his death, but blame where blame is due. Expecting the police to wait while somebody points a gun at them just in case it's a toy is ridiculous. I wasn't allowed to have toy guns in large part because of that sort of thing happening.
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  19. That's not waterboarding, but it is deplorable.
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  20. I'm no longer a Democrat after 2016 and after 2020, I may not even vote for their candidates any longer. It's absolutely disgusting that at such a pivotal time in history, that they're more concerned with maintaining the power of the establishment than either the will of the people or the best interests of the people.
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  21. Or she's a fake progressive gold digger. She brought this on herself with the lying and unfair smear campaign.
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  22. Why should white people apologize for slavery? Slavery ended 115 years before I was born. There were literally no slaves still alive when I was a child and few people were still alive that had even met any of those slaves. What's more, I have no ancestors that were involved in the slave trade on any side. Please take your Nazi blood debt bullshit and get the hell out of here. This is a false equivalence. He wouldn't be asked to apologize if this was somebody elses joke that somebody else had given. This was a joke that he himself made and as such, yes he does need to apologize if he doesn't want the consequences of not apologizing.
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  23. At least women get maternity leave, and a lot more than is necessary. Men generally don't get paternity leave and if they do get it, it's significantly less than what women get. In most cases, a woman can be back to work within a week of giving birth and historically that's what happened. The remaining time has little to do with pregnancy and everything to do with bonding with the baby.
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  24. +John M, there's absolutely no reason that it has to be the mother. Women whine about how men aren't more involved with their children, but men don't get much in the way of paternity leave.
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  25. This kind of thinking is why people don't really take women seriously. The reason you don't see more women leading is because more women aren't leading. You think it's great being a leader? Well, I tell you what, it's lonely at the top and it sucks being the person that's "responsible" when somebody comes by demanding to know who's responsible for whatever happened. It's much easier to just sit back and let somebody else make the decisions and take the blame if things don't work out. Women shouldn't be whining about this. Women have the privilege of not having to be at the top all the time. It's a lot of stress and work and you often get blamed for things that you can't reasonably have planned for.
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  26. Interesting, so they mention things that are real and ignore things that are not. That seems really strange. Why would they ignore sexual violence when it's not at all what the news media would have you believe? It's almost as if they're thinking critically about the world around them. Sexual violence is an issue, but it's massively overstated and tends to ignore violence against men.
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  27. That's the thing, no need to pretend like George was cooperating and being respectful. His behaviour should have led to him being detained while things were sorted, but not killed. Misrepresenting situations like this gets people killed when they decide that it doesn't matter what they did when pulled over.
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  28. Yep, this isn't a rightwing thing, Shoeonhead covered it and she's hardly a rightwinger. Yes, because there's no better way to fight hypersexualization of girls is by spending 95% of the film hypersexualizing girls only to have a very short bit at the end which implies that it's against that. And yeah, it's disgusting and rather anti-Muslim at that.
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  29. Also, Biden didn't crap himself on stage. I'm surprised that the media didn't bother to point that out as that's roughly where the bar is right now. Anything shy of crapping the stage is a win for Biden.
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  30. They're probably more concerned about the damage to their reputation, but I'll take it.
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  31.  @brdatwork  Probably the same ones that forgave Hilary for what her Husband did "for" the community.
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  32. I assume his definition of "great Speaker" Is one that's able to get the post back after having been a miserable failure the previous time. In that case, I can see his point. But, if actually getting things done that benefit the voters is part of it, then she's a miserable failure as Speaker.
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  33. You're what's wrong with the world. Nobody is ignoring gunshot wounds to blame deaths in Corinna virus.
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  34. Even if they did, Biden was VP when those cages were built.
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  35. Nobody should be doing these things, it's disrespectful of the other folks. But, if they're not enforcing that consistently, that's wrong.
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  36. But, if they go broad, how do they get the potential for momentum?
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  37. We already know that he's perjured himself, the question is going to be whether additional evidence will make it impossible for the GOP to ignore his obvious guilt. Boofed, means fart, really? How many 15 year olds do you know who have never farted and are looking forward to doing so for the first time? We already know from his own calendar that he kept for decades that he was at a party that was suspiciously like the one she claims to have been sexually assaulted at. We also know that his story has been changing without explanation and that he hasn't requested the FBI come in and clear his name. The likelihood of him being innocent a this point is extremely small. The number of coincidences that would be needed for him to be not guilty are rather substantial.
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  38.  @lreyla  It's not a semantic argument, we keep hearing calls to crackdown on virtually non-existent voter fraud. But we have a massive problem with elections fraud that nobody in power seems to care enough to address. The minuscule numbers of people engaged in voter fraud isn't something that's having an impact on the results of the elections. The elections fraud regularly does.
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  39. In the world that TYT advocates for, attorneys shouldn't do their jobs just because the defendant is guilty. It's not surprising, they are anti-cop and refuse to let go even when more facts come to light that change the appearance of what happened. In this case, I doubt that things like this will have much of an impact, but the attorneys have to do the best with what they have to work with.
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  40. @ It's Ya Girl, Jesus' Wife. How do people like you live with yourselves. Feminists decided to change the definition of rape to include situations like being drunk or failing to say yes to sex. Perhaps back in the past when there needed to be actual force involved you may have had a point, but sexist women like you should really rot in hell. But, really, women like you are exactly the kind that men need to stop associating with. If you don't take rape of men seriously, then why on earth should we care about women being raped? It's not our fault collectively that women exercise poor judgment about what men to associate with in private.
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  41. For being a lawyer? That seems a bit harsh. If I were ever brought up on charges, I'd be angry if my attorneys didn't do everything within their power to get me off. The prosecutors will get to call witnesses to poke holes in those theories and if they're as ridiculous as it might seem the jury likely wont' buy it.
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  42.  @oakstrong1  Why not? The South won the civil war, right? Oh wait, there was no civil war, it was a war amongst the states that the south won, and yet they had to make all the concessions. Sigh, the quality of education in the South is exceedingly poor.
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  43. Warren is in it for the power of being the first female President. She cares precisely 0 about anything other than her own feelings.
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  44. You can donate the money to somebody that needs it, if you don't. I'd be happy to take it off your hands, I've got tuition to pay.
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  45. I'm not sure how she could accept that deal after all those lies she told about him. She is holding out for something, but I don't see how she could accept a VP pick when she has tarred him as being sexist.
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  46. No, not unless things are extremely close. We've been voting by mail for years here and it's rare for us to not know the result within a few days and usually we know by the next day. The longest counts were for governor when there was an extremely small margin of votes and it had to go to multiple recounts. But, even in those cases, it was a matter of weeks, not months.
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  47. If Sanders does win, you better believe that the DNC will find ways of losing as many seats as possible to make it look like Sanders cost us representation.
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  48. Funny how folks did that when Obama was President. We can definitely blame him for continuing efforts to cut medical coverage and refusal to push for expansion. Those are completely on him.
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  49. You sir are the problem. The DNC continues to cheat in order to get their preferred candidate. If anything, Biden is a step down from Trump. Have you seen his cabinet picks? They make Trump's look perfectly reasonable. We have Trump because Hillary refused to do anything to earn our vote. So, we stayed home, voted for somebody else or voted for Trump. It's not our fault that the DNC can't figure out how to run a clean primary.
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  50. Yes and both parties engage in it. The Democrats do it by fixing their primaries to ensure that the will of the people isn't respected. They just don't generally do it in the general election. So, we get more Democrats that act like Republicans.
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