Comments by "Taxtro" (@MrCmon113) on "Vox" channel.

  1. It's important not to conflate authoritarians with conservatives. That is superficially tempting, since most authoritarians in the USA are obviously conservative Christians.
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  2. It's really sad that this has become a propaganda channel. I used to like their videos, but now I fear that they might be lying about other things as well. I happen to know about Islam, but I know very little about other things, so I could be manipulated in a multitude of ways.
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  3. Why doesn't Vox make a video series to help us sympathize with moderate Nazis?
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  4. The primary function of roadsigns is to increase throughput. You'll have to provide a lot more evidence to convince me that this could possibly have higher throughput than giving precedence to the busier street (or a roundabout).
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  5. He sounds like a very persuasive, kind gentleman. He can take my guns from my cold dead hands!
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  6. CNN is trying very hard to be "neutral". If I claimed that the sky is green, they'd settle on cyan. Vox on the other hand is now making active propaganda for Islam.
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  7. So you made a list of all authoritarians? XD The reason why Vox comes awfully close to conflating authoritarianism with conservatism is that in the USA basically all important authoritarians are conservatives. >>the lefts nature is more authoritarian than the rights<< That is simply ludicrous.
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  8. What meteorologist says anything like that? What is that even supposed to mean? "Gender is nonbinary"? Depending on the interpretation it's a tautology or contradiction.
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  9. That's so ironic. She IS the system and the oppression. She's in the vanguard of spreading even more oppression.
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  10. They made a strong claim in the title and then completely retreated from it. That is called clickbait / bait&switch or just lying...
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  11. I've always thought that Trump has basically the same message as his Republican collegues, only wrapped in childlike language. But you are probably right - he is somewhat more of a nationalist / fascist then them.
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  12. Freeze my brain as well as you can so future generations have a chance of profiting from my genius.
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  13. I find "user centered design" inadequate. Let's call it "entitled idiot centered design". The door should not be a blockade, but suck me off and make me compliments as I walk through.
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  14. James Berry Why would any British person want to remain in the UK? If the EU is intransparent, the UK must be a nightmare.
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  15. Getting democratically elected doesn't make you a democrat. You can campaign as an opponent of democracy and get elected in order to end it.
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  16. No. All fascists are authoritarians, but not all authoritarians are fascists: For example: Christians, Muslims, Hindus, Stalinists, etc.
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  17. You are basically parroting Iranian propaganda.
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  18. An authoritarian is someone, who prefers security over personal freedom. The only fault in this video is that it comes close to conflating conservatism with authoritarianism, which can, of course, also take root on the left.
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  19. You mean YOU have no idea, because you don't inform yourself. The EU is transparent to anyone who bothers to educate themselves.
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  20. You are taking orders from Mohammed, Gabriel and God, though.
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  21. I still can't take Trump as seriously as his pious colleagues. Maybe my hatred for the religious right blinds me, but he doesn't seem as bad as Cruz, Santorum, Perry, Walker, etc. He has a big mouth, but I think he lacks the convictions to take the life of innocents.
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  22. GhostInTheShell29 "Just because you believe propaganda that places blame for the nerve gas attacks on the Syrian government" The "propaganda" comes from Russia and their Syrian allies. We do know that the Syrian government used nerve gas, we don't know about any other party. But that's irrelevant anyways. The cruelties of the Syrian government span decades. The war resulted when the tyranny finally became unbearable. When little children were abducted and protesters shot. Then finally a resistance formed. Now you are trying to tell us that we must either support this abominable tyranny or an Islamic theocracy. That is a false dichotomy and a completely irresponsible proposal.
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  23. ***** That is actually a very good comparison. The USA and their allies fought the IS for years. Thousands of airstrikes, intelligence, weaponry for ground troops like the Kurds, etc. And after the IS was already losing, the Russians came in to support the Assad regime and styled themselves as the prime opponent of the IS. Similarly in WWII the Soviet Union was fighting back the Germans and had already won the upper hand, before the US troops came on European soil.
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  24. It's the knowledge of what he has said that makes his face "punchable".
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  25. +NRG Player I think it's some deep seated Western centrism to blame the West for EVERYTHING. Even the religious rules in a theocracy, which resulted from a revolution AGAINST a regime, which had good relations with the West, and still sees the USA as their arch nemesis.
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  26. They don't think they have the right - otherwise they wouldn't try to climb the fences, you moron.
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  27. Note that it is always people, opposed to modernity and human rights, who complain about the "New World Order" and similar stuff. You are being suckers for the propaganda of the Catholic Church in the late Middle Ages as well as right wing esotericism in the early 20th century.
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  28. Yeah they weren't. Russia came in LATER to support the Syrian government. At that point the Western powers and their allies had long stopped and reversed the growth of the IS.
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  29. I've since changed my mind. The danger in Trump is that he is ignorant and dumb - proud of the former and unaware of the latter. That combined with an inflated ego and you have a more worrying mix than bad intentions alone.
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  30. "I'm not going to drink this bottle of rum, because it might make me fat." - body conscious drunkard
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  31. Since we bury our death something quite different should happen to our corpses. Those flies don't bury underground, I wager.
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  32. GhostInTheShell29 "The Russians helped the Kurd's close off ISIS supply lines with Turkey, preventing them from receiving their oil income." That was later. The IS was already losing territory long before that. And that was because the USA, Jemen, Saudi Arabia, Europeans etc supported the Kurds. "The Syrian military is one of the biggest anti- ISIS forces in Syria" Famine and disease are also anti-IS forces, I guess. Does that mean we should increase famine and disease in this world? The Syrian government is the reason the war is going on in the first place. It has caused more suffering than the IS ever could with it's limited resources.
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  33. Can you please stop calling the defenders of Islam "liberals"? The authoritarian leftists, who do that, don't even call themselves liberal.
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  34. Your ignorance on history is stunning. "Leftists" don't hate conservatives, because of youtube channels, but because of workers being horribly exploited in 19th century.
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  35. What is the point you are trying to make about the old guns reloading slower?! If you have some idiotic argument to make, spell it out please. This is definitely one of your weakest videos.
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  36. No, I want a wise representative. Unlike you, I don't need to be led anywhere. The masochism of you authoritarians is, honestly, disgusting.
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  37. So you say we ought to make this character white in order to be less racist? Wouldn't that be "white washing"?
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  38. You mean Afghanistan?
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  39. Surrendering basic rights = acting like adults.
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  40. They are spending more money to make the benches uncomfortable, not the other way around.
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  41. That's easy to say when you're basically born in paradise.
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  42. No. The Ukrainians wanted to join the EU and Russia invaded the Ukraine in order to stop that from happening.
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  43. Yes. We must not confuse "authoritarian" with "conservative". All conservatives are authoritarian, but not all authoritarians are conservative.
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  44. @Tim You know nothing about Islam.
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  45. I can't take this channel serious anymore when it lets Aslan freely spout his silly propaganda. This is just one more of these shitty ways in which he tries to defend Islam. Btw the comparison with homosexuals in TV is downright insulting. YOU are the problem of homosexuals, Aslan. YOU.
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  46. The North Korean government cannot be the problem, because North Koreans suffer most from it. - every apologist for Islam
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  47. You know that the spelling in your language sucks when you have competitions in it. EDIT: The guy explains very well for a six year old.
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  48. Most people don't realize that there is something like competence in a politician. They think any fool, like Trump, can simply come and do the job of a politician as well or better than someone, who learned how to organize and govern for years. Politics is also about craftsmanship, not just a popularity contest.
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  49. That is so true. I was saying this over and over again. Terrorism is mostly for propaganda and recruitment.
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  50. Yes, because you don't listen to the criticism.
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