Comments by "Jim Luebke" (@jimluebke3869) on "Valuetainment" channel.

  1. "Stalin did have an extraordinary impact on people's lives" He ended tens of millions of them.
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  2. "Don't put this stuff into kid's heads, you'll confuse them" That's the point. They're coming for your children, singing merrily as they do.
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  3. "Regulations, which have never been voted on, which have the force of law..." ... for which you cannot have a trial by jury, don't forget.
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  4. "I could make a million starvation-wage jobs." No you couldn't. You don't have a company with the revenue to do that. Typical communist. "My imagination is reality!"
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  5.  @TL-rh1lf  I think it might have been a country that was attacked without warning, by a country that committed atrocities against countries it invaded, and whose population was trained to (and in many cases did) fight without any idea of surrender.... Which country was it that opportunistically declared war hoping for spoils, once the fighting was done?
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  6.  @mikearchibald744  They want our obedience, our worship, and access to our children. If you haven't seen this, you haven't been paying attention.
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  7. "Why were you originally against Donald Trump?" "[Lists a bunch of questionable things that didn't happen until years after he first opposed Trump]"
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  8.  @Dreadwolf3155  NeoCons are with the Dems now. Dick Cheney endorsed Kamala. I'm as shocked as you are.
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  9. So as far as those surveys go, did any ask the question: "Are you likely to lie to a survey-taker about your opinion if it professional or legal action could be taken against you for holding that opinion?"
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  10. @L One of the most fascinating archives was the one from the old KGB, presented by an archivist named Mitrokhin. "The Sword and the Shield" is one of his major works - it came out in 2000, featuring information from decades past. It has some extremely interesting reports in it, like the fact that J Edgar Hoover's alleged transvestism was a complete fiction spread by people on the KGB payroll. A literal "communist plot", if you will. There's still actionable intelligence in there -- arrests were made decades after the fact, based on information that Mitrokhin shared. One remarkable thing about the book is how many sexual perverts in America and England were used as KGB spies. This wasn't out of a threat of exposure as you might expect, these people were quite open about their degeneracy. I don't know whether the Russians were attempting to weaken America, or simply because communism is more appealing to this sort of person, but it's too common to be a coincidence.
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  11. @alpacamegapint Should we accept theft or perjury? Not sure how tolerance is divisive.
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  12.  @mikearchibald744  Keep your eyes open, and you'll see what happens to people who try to opposes their agenda. They try to memory-hole their opponents though, so you really have to pay close attention. Look what happened to Matt Walsh, for one.
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  13. Many people don't know evil when they see it. Newsom and Garcetti do not see the evil in themselves. We must treat them as irrelevant, to prevent that evil from having its effect on the world.
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  14. You know what would solve this problem? If these guys want to be "outlaws", make them outlaws. Remove the protections of the law from them, so that if fathers, husbands, brothers, or anyone else does anything to discourage them from abusing women, the law will not take action against those family members.
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  15.  @Ryanlexz  A lot of YouTube is built on 5 minute video. They should have gotten people who are already famous for 5 minute videos, to make their 5 minute videos.
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  16.  @imperator692  I'm curious, would you condemn both Clinton / Vietnam / etc, and also Stalin, or are you condemning Clinton / Vietnam / etc but NOT Stalin?
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  17. "The media doesn't like Vivek's gumption" That ain't just gumption there, that's moxie that Vivek's got.
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  18. Not to mention the fact that love and sex are absolutely not synonymous.
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  19.  @roostercogburn7243  Lol, that was never true.
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  20. Bezos has destroyed at least as many jobs as he has created. Probably more. Sorry Patrick, but it's true. Amazon hasn't expanded the economy, it has contracted it.
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  21. "Blob vomit" has to the be the best term for Deep State propaganda I've ever heard.
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  22. The people insisting on it have gotten so much more aggravating than the conservative Christians opposing it, that there's a backlash. Oh, and we've slid so much farther down the slippery slope, that people want to just reset things to 1990s "don't ask don't tell" again. How far will it go? I think in all likelihood the traditional definition of marriage will be legally reinstated, and every one of these "identities" will probably end up, at least provisionally, back on the DSM listing so that they can get therapeutic help if they want it.
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  23. Let's be clear. This is NOT a "Democrat" issue. They're covering for this.
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  24. According to St. Paul, even dressing up like the opposite s*x is wrong. So, it IS addressed in the Bible.
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  25. A whole lot of that territory down near the border, is military bases already. Operations in that region really aren't that hard, or that expensive.
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  26.  @petarmajstor2370  Nah, "American Propaganda" at the time was Walter Duranty's fraudulent reporting. About twenty years ago the Pulitzer committee finally revoked his prize for that particular bit of useful idiocy.
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  27. @John Bob Um, this data doesn't push you towards any particular moral conclusion, about Stalin, his impact on his country, his impact on history, and the ideology he espoused?
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  28. "Does it matter to you if there's a g*y teacher at your school?" Like some of the (male) 4th-6th grade teachers in the gifted-and-talented program at my hometown when I was a kid, who would spontaneously give backrubs to their favorite (male) students? Yeah, more people should be not OK with this.
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  29. Yup. The Target / Bud Lite boycotts have companies scared. The "influential" media franchises (Star Trek, Star Wars, Dr. Who, etc) got Woke, and went Broke. They had their turn, we saw how badly it went, and now their turn's over. The fashion is done. The Spirit of the Age is moving on.
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  30. "These capitalists wanted markets for their goods - imperialism rises inexorably from capitalism" Kind of like China needs the American market for its exports today? Where exactly did this arise from?
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  31. It wasn't "impossible" to stop the West African and East African slave trade. It just took a lot of determination, which only comes from the clarity you can get from serving God.
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  32. "If there were a massive propaganda effort from China to undermine the United States, would we ban it?" There is, and we should. Swalwell, Feinstein, professors at Harvard and countless other universities -- you are deliberately ignorant.
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  33.  @RogerioCampanhol  I think more effort should be made to help them -- the first mistake was in the early 70's, when it was taken off of the DSM. That was the first step of this slippery slope we find ourselves on. Nowadays? If a therapist doesn't think that a kid chopping parts off of themselves is medically necessary, they'll lose their licenses if they say so.
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  34. "Lenin was a great listener" I suppose he liked long walks on the beach too?
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  35. If you guys follow Peter Zeihan at all, a little while back he said "We're short on workers, we need about 50 million more in then next ten years, and that's going to cause some unrest." Elsewhere he has said, "One of the only important numbers in determining a country's power, is its total population." I consider Zeihan to be a window into the inner circle of highly influential strategic consultants that the Deep State uses to help make decisions. I don't believe that they're evil, exactly, but they certainly don't consider difficult-to-quantify values like culture or family at all in their calculations.
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  36. There are two Peters: - Data Peter, which is actually pretty good. Give him a reliable dataset to deep dive, and he's well worth listening to. - "Blob Vomit" Peter, who is only interesting insofar as he communicates what the Deep State wants you to think. Apparently Benz believes you can get this information from elsewhere ("Journal of Democracy", etc.) Peter seems to have a past history of connections (both professional and informal) with some fairly high-up folks. I can't speak for how fresh these connections are. As long as you keep it straight in your head which Peter you are listening to, he's a reasonably entertaining source of information.
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  37.  @DivinesLegacy  "Blob vomit" is a good term for this kind of Deep State propaganda. He's a perfect conduit for it, too -- even though he's smart enough to see that our fertility rates are a disaster, his personal predilections are such that he won't advocate for policies to reverse The Blob's anti-natalist policies.
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  38. Fantastic stuff!
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  39. Who else is here after the Hunter Biden laptop stuff broke?
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  40. CalPERS invented Woke investing in the first place. Of COURSE they'll try to use their economic clout to try to control or weaken Elon.
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  41. The Germans were Socialists in the 1930s - national socialists. There is little difference between Germany in the 1930s and Russia in the 1930s. There is even less difference between Germany in the 1930s and China in the 2020s.
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  42. "The less Trump does, the better it is right now" Of course. If the debate hadn't gone well for him, he'd have announced his VP pick to get it into the news cycle. As it is, he would happily keep his mouth shut while this plays out.
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  43. The manifestation of the idea that the "Dominant Ideology" only benefits the ruling class, is never so apparent than in countries that espouse Marxist ideology. "The Party" benefits, and everyone else suffers. It's also true to some degree in places where the Dominant Ideology spreads sovereignty (through liberty) to as many people as possible. Benefits are spread as widely as possible.
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  44. This guy that says "it's the woman's choice" and it doesn't matter if the guy is being deceptive, is an absolute piece of s**t. He needs to go to one of these "angriest countries in the world", and get treated to the consequences of his opinions.
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  45. So is China interfering in the 2020 election, which looks to be at least partially fraudulent?
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  46.  @robinfaulkner9945  What kind of standards are there for ICU admission? Are they consistent across the study period? If you want the numbers to dance to your tune, there are ways to make that happen.
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  47.  @iandougan3758  Try 0.3%
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  48. Here's the biggest surprise in store for people who hate American corporate jobs, who think they would prefer communism... you know office politics? Your entire LIFE is determined by office politics, under a communist system. Kissing up to the party bosses, never getting the work assignment you want, dealing with the faceless corporate bureaucracy to get your work (and living) supplies, horrible co-workers you can't get away from -- all of it. Now imagine... you can't ever quit. And when they fire you, they do it with bullets. "The Office", "Dilbert", and every dystopian office story -- THAT is what your day-to-day life is like. And that's at BEST.
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  49. Just curious, is anyone going to see Jim Caviezel's "Sound of Freedom", the (true) story a man who rescues children from trafficking? It should be in theaters now.
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  50. I think that "Blob vomit" is one of the better descriptions of Deep State propaganda, too. =)
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  51.  @imperator692  Lol, the only doctored numbers were part of Walter Duranty's cover-ups of the Holodomor. Tens of millions of people under his government dead by his orders, and as much as one-seventh of the Soviet population enslaved in the gulag system. Socialists get their panties in a bunch when 0.7% of the American population is behind bars, for actual crimes. You have to be a particular kind of deranged, and entirely detached from reality, to believe that there's any comparison between America and Stalin's monumental crimes.
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  52. "Leave the kids alone with this stuff" They can't. They won't. They can't have kids. They have yours.
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  53. "China relied on other countries to buy their stuff" Why not just shift those workers from Export to Elderly Care? Yeah, with fewer exports you can't afford as many imports, so standard of living may fall, but the two problems work together to stave off collapse.
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  54. If China's goal is to overturn the Westphalian order, isn't the alteration of Ukraine's border by force, a victory for China?
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  55. Even the Roman Empire had several civil wars every century. Federalism really does work nicely, in comparison.
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  56. If you had to choose, would you choose the rainbow or the cross?
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  57. Robert Reich is basically as communist as he thinks he can get away with. With the dawning of a new Cold War between liberty-minded democracy, and authoritarian bureaucracy, Reich is certainly on the side of the authoritarian bureaucrats. If we're going to preserve our way of life, people like Reich need to be discounted.
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  58. "Just... throwing things... off-balance" Maher doesn't have any clue what he's talking about, does he.
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  59. The only people who are truly homophobic and transphobic, are the CEOs quaking in their boots, terrified of offending activists' delicate sensibilities.
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  60. The "Working class intelligentsia" is all working for Trump.
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  61. "Given Russia's demographic problems, wouldn't it be best for the young men and women of the country to make love, not war?" "It sounds like Kiev has a better historical claim to be the capital of Russia, than Moscow does. Why shouldn't proper students of history back Zelensky to conquer Russia?" "Don't you worry that expending Russian fighting-age men in the West, critically weakens you in the East? Do you really trust Xi Jinping?" "Do you think that Russia today has more in common with China, or Europe? "Are you worried about Finland joining NATO? Are you worried about the Baltic States already being in NATO?"
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  62. Cold War II is brewing -- instead of capitalism vs. communism, it's going to be liberty-minded democracy vs. authoritarian bureaucracy. Who is sovereign -- the people, or the palace eunuchs? That is the choice.
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  63. Climates are pretty d**n complex, even compared with the human body. Pretending otherwise, is why this hoax has had such staying power.
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  64. Malthus would have had other ideas as to why Stalin looked "successful". So would Thanos, for a more modern comparison.
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  65. Transphobia: the fear that if you speak your mind, you will be wrecked on social media and probably lose your job. Homophobia means the same thing.
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  66. The sh*ttiest thing about "unrealized gains", is there's no way to tell "unrealized gains" from inflation. If they drive the inflation rate up to 100%, suddenly you have to sell your assets based on the crashing value of the dollar, not on any "gains" you've made.
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  67. The best way to combat sympathy for communism, is to accurately point out that China is Fascist.
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  68. The fact that monkey pox (with its very specific way of spreading) ever struck our elites as a major problem, tells us a lot about what kind of people the decision-makers are.
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  69. Small business owners (and former small business owners) need to take over the GOP, and take over government at every level. We need an ARMY of small business owners, to stand against the army of bureaucrats who are strangling our country. Small business owners need to run against incumbents and WIN (effectively firing the incompetent officials who are currently there), and FIRE the bureaucrats who accomplish very little other than spending money they did not earn. That is how we make certain these crimes *never happen again*.
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  70. "Should Marxists be allowed to be professors in the USA?" Sympathy with Marxism, considering its brutal and bloodthirsty record over the last hundred years and more, calls into question the intelligence and character of anyone who supports it. Intelligence and character are necessary for a job like teaching children and youth. To lack either one is to be disqualified to teach in this or any country.
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  71. Defense contractors don't need actual war to make money. The Cold War proved that. Just the fear of war is necessary, which is something every reasonable person will probably have forever. Margins on bullets and bombs are awful. National customers whose working-age population is getting killed (and not working) are not good customers. Dead people don't have any money. Countries getting their infrastructure reduced to rubble, are not good customers. Who wants to be paid in rubble? Debt-financing of war has a way of wrecking the international order. (See: the 20th century). On the other hand, the best margins are on major cutting-edge defense systems. These are usually for deterrence, and never actually have to be used. Countries can decide how much money they have to spare for them, making them much more stable long-term customers. Spinoff technologies gave us the personal computer and the Internet. Countries that don't have a lot to spend on them, clearly do not have their economies in good order. They will come under the influence of countries that do have their economies in good order, without even a shot necessarily being fired. As long as this influence is imitative -- as long as it spreads the better economic ordering -- this is a very good thing. It's not a bad thing for defense contractors to make money (even, make LOTS of money) especially advancing technology that might not have an immediate commercial application, but whose long-term implications are massive. Microelectronics and networking before the networks are fully deployed, both fall into this category. Research in the context of defense (rather than just basic theoretical research) raises the stakes, giving some signals of which research to prune back as ineffective, and which to reinforce as fruitful. Simply demonizing defense contractors as warmongers ignores the healthy part they can play not only in an overall economic ecosystem, but in the defense of that system, which is (obviously) essential for its survival.
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  72. A slippery slope happens when you don't push back. When you push back (or have a backl*sh), you get the old traditional pendulum-swing of more or less permissive morals.
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  73.  @Repeal-19thA  It's pushed in by activists, who should be in jail.
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  74. "If kids are encouraged and cherished for it, they'll behave in a certain way" Joe, you realize that means that not all of the people with these predilections were "born that way", right? A minor's coming-out party should be considered Reasonable Suspicion to start investigating adults around them for gr**ming and a*use.
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  75. "It's hard to collect that data, that's why no one collects that data" Remember Trump's "Muslim ban"? That was specifically to hire a bunch of US government people to vet people who were coming from countries (not all Muslim countries, and some countries were not Muslim countries) that had no capability to vet or identify emigrants.
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  76. "The average plumber doesn't have any idea" Huh. So there's no Hungarian-language Joe Rogan, Tim Pool, or Jordan Peterson that the plumbers listen to while they work?
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  77. You can't simultaneously build Civil Society, and crush churches. You can't simultaneously build Civil Society, and crush families. You can't simultaneously build up Civil Society, and universally impose government schooling. The only way to build a society that is flexible and strong at many levels, is a principle of Subsidiarity that encourages churches, families, and diverse private schools to flourish.
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  78. Police Officer Rachel Maddow couldn't stop these guys if she tried, so obviously she's not going to try.
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  79. "We can all agree that neither side wants civilian casualties" The rhetoric and actions on both sides makes this an absurd statement.
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  80. Vladimir Putin needs to make love, not war.
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  81.  @chadradwell2593  Not exactly syllogism, but it does balance brevity, and building to a point.
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  82. The life expectancy of Russians under Stalin hit its lowest point in modern history, and it's not even close. It's fair to count Stalin's foreign policy in all this.
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  83. Is that Ysolda from Whiterun?
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  84. Dave's looking great here -- Cuomo's just a punching bag.
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  85. You don't put the doctors in absolute control in a pandemic, any more than you put generals in absolute control in a war.
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  86. "You are arguing with me, a man, about what I shouldn't be attracted to" -- Has this guy never heard of the concept of "temptation"? Sometimes you're attracted to things you should not be attracted to. I'm sure he has negative things to say about delicious food. There is no moral difference between someone who gives in to lust, and someone who gives in to gluttony.
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  87. Naval power goes to Russia? What?
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  88.  @InaEsin  Yeah, it re-started after the Imperial powers left. England stamped it out over a hundred years ago, and it came back.
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  89. "What is the Deep State?" When the Commander in Chief said, "pull troops out of Syria", the Deep State were the people who said "Yes sir, the troops are out" and left them in.
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  90. "You are lambasting this man for accomplishing what very few men can accomplish" Very few men have ever accomplished the conquest of Poland. Do you think there's nothing to criticize about their behavior?
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  91. Cuomo: "People at the border don't want a wall" - but the voters do. "Drones in some places, and sensors" - because they have an off switch. "They want help processing and places to put people" - Ha, this is just an argument for more throughput What we need are camps IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES, for the purposes of facilitating SENDING THE MIGRANTS BACK.
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  92. She failed to make the case that masks mattered. At best, she demonstrated that they are a placebo, unless (as is probable) government-forced shutdowns are the root cause of our economic disaster.
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  93. Auto insurance in California is up because of all the uninsured illegal immigrant drivers, and the accidents they cause. One of the most common jobs for them is as a delivery driver, so the elites can get everything on their doorstep.
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  94. The only meaningful definition of "homophobia" and "transphobia" is, to be afraid of the legal and social consequences of saying anything critical of gay or trans.
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  95. Are you sure we're going to be able to stop the gr__mers if we don't ban the publication of books like this? I hope it's not going to take measures like that, but if one of your principles goes directly up against another of your principles, one of them has to give way.
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  96. "Where is the middle class in California going?" Away from California.
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  97. "We've got to get a price point up front" If you want a price point, you're asking for a commodity product. You're asking for something that has been made to exact, existing specifications. You will not get anything enhanced or expanded, and you will not get a whole lot of insight into the interior processes or incremental reviews. If you want something new, something top-of-the-line, something that no one has ever done before, you're going to have to pay cost plus, because there is honestly no way to know what kind of issues are going to turn up in that prototype. American defense doctrine is to have everything best-in-class, state of the art, bleeding edge technology, so that our soldiers won't get hurt while they're getting the job done. That is expensive, and you're unlikely to be a fan of how things look if that doctrine changes.
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  98. We're going to be scarred worse by the shutdown than by the (questionable) death rate.
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  99. Pat, you don't need wars to make money as a defense contractor. You want fear of war. In fact, if Putin fell tomorrow and Russia became best friends with everyone in their neighborhood, where do you think that would leave the defense contractors? On the other hand, if suddenly he sued for peace and stayed in power, wouldn't every single country in the region still flock to the United States to get the latest and greatest defense systems? Nah man, you don't want your customers dead. Dead people don't have any money. You don't want them at war either, you want their economies humming along and their tax revenues piling up, so they can spend that tax money on those high-value (high margin!) defense systems. You know what the margins on ammunition are? They're cr*p. Actual shooting war is a low-margin activity. War sucks, man. And you really think defense contractors are better off when their customers' countries are rubble? Pat, you want to be paid in rubble? It doesn't help when they borrow the money either. England and France borrowed the money for those world wars. For a while it was fun getting the English to give us all their military bases. Eventually they had to shut down the empire to pay us back. What is the United States going to have to shut down, to pay off the national debt we're building up because of these wars (and our huge unsustainable domestic spending?) And you're a smart guy, you probably know what happened when they tried to collect reparations from their enemies to pay off those debts. It got to the point that the United States just said, "to h*ll with all of you, we're just going to rebuild you and you're not going to fight anymore." No joke Pat, war isn't all it's cracked up to be. Defense contractors need healthy and prosperous customers as much as anybody.
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  100. Step 1: Buy large stakes in various companies Step 2: Force activists for Leftist causes onto their boards, who will reorient the company towards ideology rather than profit Step 3: Buy politicians, who will pass legislation that advantages companies following those Leftist ideologies (and hurt companies with a good business plan) Step 4: Profit -- and pat yourself on the back for the success of "reflexivity".
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  101. "Capitalism kills 14 million people a year" No. Not having their s**t together kills 14 million people a year. These people do not have clean water to drink In the natural state of things with no organization, either. In a communist system that doesn't care about its people (hello, Holodomor... the conventional wisdom about Stalin is correct) or one that doesn't work very well (Do you really think Best Korea is going to win, in the end?) people don't have clean water either. And it's vastly more common for communism to fail, than it is to succeed. Even Fascism (like China today) works better.
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  102. The "phobes" are the ones afraid to stand up against them.
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  103. "Their kids aren't going to get into colleges" Victor Davis Hanson breaks this down -- once you include legacy admissions, the white quota is basically full. If you have an Ivy League diploma dated 2012-present, that's not an indication you're one of the smartest people out there.
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  104. The only problem with that is the desistance rate among those who "identify" this way. A survey of men and women who "identified" as homosexual in college, were between 50% (for men) and 70% (for women) likely to be in a relationship with someone of the opposite sex, five years after graduating.
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