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

  1. Tom: "There's no political agenda in Moscow" Joe: [Tucker face]
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  2. "It is not a noble thing to allow this to continue." Amen!
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  3. "Why am I paying so much in rent to live in this soulless box and getting my s**t broken into?" Again, wise words from Saagar. Dense urban areas are NOT the way forward.
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  4. If YouTube makes an editorial decision to ban gardening content, then legally it is a publisher and not a platform, and is liable for what is said on its service. Pakman doesn't display any knowledge of the basics of what he's talking about. Either he's arguing in bad faith, or he's an idiot.
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  5. Bill Gates was a villain 20 years ago, do you remember the MicroSoft anti-trust suit? Seriously, he's been a villain for a while. No one wants to be forcibly injected with the pharmaceutical equivalent of Windows Vista. He really shouldn't be the front man for this.
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  6. Yeah, he's a complete partisan hatchet man, who broadcasts his power fantasies as if he were perfectly right about everything and so he should be in charge. If he ever got near power, he would be very, very dangerous.
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  7. Hold on, wouldn't armed revolt cause the kind of chaos that would lead to even wider spread of CV?
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  8. Er, no. The ozone hole repaired itself after we discontinued use of CFCs, much faster than the models predicted.
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  9. The neighbors of the Aztecs took one look at the bloodthirsty psychopath Cortez, and said, "We like this guy better, he can help us get rid of the Aztecs."
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  10. Three pieces of technology are within our reach well before 2050. 1) Inexpensive launch. 2) Self-constructing 3D printers. 3) Asteroid mining. None of these three technologies are really that far future. Musk is working on #1. People are familiar with 3D printers, and increasing the quality of their output can lead to 3D printers that can reproduce themselves (and then be reprogrammed to build whatever else is needed.) Asteroid mining is just mining which we've been doing for a very long time, plus zero-g (or artificial g), plus no pressure (or artificial pressure), plus automation (which terrestrial mining is really getting into right now.) As those three technological fields mature, human beings will have the ability to move beyond this single planet and create places to live in other parts of the solar system. Once the asteroid mining and self-reproducible 3D printers take off, space solar power can be added into the mix, which gives on-orbit populations something of value to trade back down the gravity well. This will accelerate the whole process beyond a few relatively rich and motivated people, to a broader group of working-class humanity. It's just a matter of vision and motivation.
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  11. It wasn't just "they thought Harris had a real shot". It was a matter of "Harris is the anointed one and must be president at all costs". That's why they paired her with someone who's sunsetting fast.
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  12. Three pieces of technology are within our reach well before 2050. 1) Inexpensive launch. 2) Self-constructing 3D printers. 3) Asteroid mining. None of these three technologies are really that far future. Musk is working on #1. People are familiar with 3D printers, and increasing the quality of their output can lead to 3D printers that can reproduce themselves (and then be reprogrammed to build whatever else is needed.) Asteroid mining is just mining which we've been doing for a very long time, plus zero-g (or artificial g), plus no pressure (or artificial pressure), plus automation (which terrestrial mining is really getting into right now.) As those three technological fields mature, human beings will have the ability to move beyond this single planet and create places to live in other parts of the solar system. Once the asteroid mining and self-reproducible 3D printers take off, space solar power can be added into the mix, which gives on-orbit populations something of value to trade back down the gravity well. This will accelerate the whole process beyond a few relatively rich and motivated people, to a broader group of working-class humanity. It's just a matter of vision and motivation.
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  13. Dude, there is a MOVIE in all this. This is hilarious!
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  14. "Somebody F'd up" Blame! Blame! Misfortune happened, look for someone to Blame! Because everything in life will be perfect, if we just find the right people to Blame!
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  15. I think that Trump isn't as cavalier with the launch codes as Weinstein assumes. In fact, I think Weinstein's take on Trump is an indictment of this country's elites, and how they believe they're so much wiser than everyone else.
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  16. If you don't want anyone to respect your privacy, you have no idea what kind of manipulative SOBs are out there to take advantage of you when they know things about you that should be private.
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  17. People were pushing at the walls because they're unemployed. NOT because there's anything special about the "cause".
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  18. Things go to really dark places when the two are separated.
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  19.  Kyle Blank  The DAs are letting them back out -- DAs whose elections are heavily influenced by out-of-jurisdiction money (such as from realjusticepac.org). These PACs specifically cite their ties to famous pro-riot figures like Shaun King. This is why it's a good thing that we have a President who's probably seen enough Westerns to know you can send in a Federal Marshall when the local legal system is crooked. These rioters are now facing Federal charges, which is keeping them imprisoned when local DAs are not doing their jobs to keep their constituents safe from criminals.
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  20.  @zamin6060  It's a sad fact that posting a relevant quote frequently gets you more thumbs-up than anything else.
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  21. So did Jacobsen learn anything about America's ICBM program, and von Braun's role in it? Question for you: if you thought that Josef Stalin was going to have intercontinental ballistic missiles (maybe tipped with nuclear warheads), would you be willing to overlook the past of German rocket scientists who would make sure that you got them first? That's why Sputnik was so scary. Everyone in the know, knew that if they could put one up that went "beep", they could drop one down that went "boom".
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  22. Well, to be fair, Twitter is absolutely demonstrating bullying behavior here against people who go against their ideology.
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  23.  @artistaprimus7080  Compared to the people back home in Spain. One gets the idea that he was deliberately encouraged to vacate the peninsula, when the fighting there was done. I agree with you, in Cortez vs. the Aztecs, Cortez was clearly the good guy. And I can't help but think the Aztecs' neighbors looked at Christianity's idea of God sacrificing Himself for humanity (rather than the other way around) as a very nice change of pace.
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  24. She's totally unprepared for any challenge whatsoever. These people live in a bubble.
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  25. "Gargling or washing stuff with bleach" -- kind of a broad category. Would you be disturbed to hear that "15% of Americans are atheists, or eat babies"? This is a badly-structured survey question. (Likely, deliberately so.)
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  26. Tyson is wanking, assuming that his point of view is important and no one else's is.
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  27. Tim is very careful about what he says. The only times he's wrong are the times he doesn't get completely behind Conservatism, and frankly, it's only a matter of time before he comes around on those things too.
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  28. We probably shouldn't look to Joe for any life advice regarding intoxicants. There's enough good stuff in his presentations that they're still worth our time. No one has everything right.
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  29. David Pakman specifically ignores the structural discrimination against Conservative voices. Pakman is not honest enough to have a productive discussion with.
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  30. And they're fighting to make sure that every single one of your votes counted. How noble of them!
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  31. What happened with the Ozone Hole, is that the guys that won the Nobel Prizes put together a set of overhead projector slides, showing measurements of the ozone densities over the southern hemisphere over time. Simple, effective. Some scientists have been disappointed that similar presentations of the output of their chaotically complex (and sometimes, mathematically misleading) computer models have not had the same effect as these simple measurements. They're even upset and personally hurt that people don't recognize the absolute brilliance of their spaghetti code. Poor things.
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  32. Wow, a video entitled "The Ethical Responsibilities of Tech Companies" is getting throttled -- I'm just seeing a loading spinner. Other, apolitical videos are NOT having this problem.
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  33. You can balance lives against lives. Right now, we're seeing the total death toll for this pandemic at about 60k. That's 5k-10k below the annual death toll for drug overdoses, which is between 65k and 70k. The reason this is a meaningful number here is because of the direct causal link between economic depression and suicide (especially from drug overdoses.) If we try to save any more lives from COVID-19, (and since the typical COVID-19 victim is of advanced age and has one or more health issues already) there is a serious question as to how much human life we are really preserving with these economy-cancelling efforts. Further, the more quarantine and "social distancing" we do, the slower that Herd Immunity develops in our population. (This is where a virus spreads far more slowly because people have antibodies because they've had it already; it's why we don't have epidemics all the time.) Without herd immunity, we're going to see wave after wave of COVID-19. Can our economy tolerate not only these few months of quarantine, but several months of quarantine for several years? It's possible that we'll see not only the least economic impact, but also the least death overall, if people who are likely to have few or no symptoms get CV-19 as soon as possible. In the end, we must protect those who are most likely to die of this sickness. However, the best way to do that might actually be for the rest of us to get it and get over it ASAP.
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  34. Texans have guns. Californians should be terrified, if they have any sense. Then again, if they had any sense, they'd cheerfully become Texans and vote to keep the place as it is.
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  35. Atheists have instilled a fear of death that didn't exist 100 years ago, when the Christian promise of salvation gave people strength and courage that people lack now. Good going, atheists.
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  36. "You don't want your immune system reacting too violently to the disease" -- It's like the 1918 epidemic. Your immune system makes your nose run when you have a cold. To exaggerate an example to clarify this, if your immune system reacted "too violently" it could create a gallon of snot every minute. (Some of which gets into your lungs and drowns you.) Seriously, look up the 1918 flu.
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  37.  @ballbuster4317  The term I used was "bloodthirsty psychopath". You're right about the "bloodthirsty" as being literally inaccurate. "Eager to turn to violence, in a very professional way" then? Looking at the guy's approach to life, I still think that "psychopath" isn't all that far off. And that all in all, the Spanish government was probably happy to send him and his brothers in arms across an ocean to do their thing there, instead of in Spain.
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  38. "The pace of change is accelerating" is the biggest lie people tell these days. Look at the physical changes to America in Joe's lifetime (1967 to today, 2020) and compare it to the physical changes from 1867 to 1920. In 1867 we didn't even have a transcontinental railroad, the city of Denver was less than 10 years old, the first generation of sod-busting farmers were still living in Kansas, you got everywhere on horseback. Custer got the 7th Cavalry wiped out in 1876. Fast-forward to 1920, and we'd won a European war, cars were everywhere, you could fly across the continent, and people were moving off of the farms and into cities at an accelerating rate. Nah, it was all suburbs in 1967, and it's all suburbs now. Instead of commuting you have telecommuting, which is not as big a change as what we saw 1867 to 1920, not even close.
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  39. Hey Joe -- ask Ben Shapiro to give you some figures on how much money the Democrats have pumped through inner cities since the Great Society began. I think you'd be shocked at the totals (billion after billion after billion). How much good did all that do? It's the collapse of the black family that's done most of the damage (Great Society again, see the Moynihan Report*), and the damage to black churches (which atheists like YOU have contributed to.) Now they've got riots too, basically the afterparties to these protests that you like so much. More people will die of Covid from these marches, than were ever lynched (5000, over a thousand of whom were not actually black), combined with the number the police have killed in the last century. More people have already died by violence in these riots (20+), as there were unarmed black people killed by cops in the last year (9). Do you want to do some good? Support social infrastructure in these neighborhoods (YES, I mean churches) and stop glorifying intoxicants like weed and booze. If you'd prefer, get Jordan Peterson's message out to these places too (although you'd be best off doing all of the above.) And if you really support the protests, call out the idiots that are hijacking that goodwill to push "defund the police", establish no-go zones in Seattle, and push for weird SJW laws that would criminalize you for your opposition to domestic violence in MMA. Not to mention the street violence from Antifa (and weakness of our central government) that reminds me of nothing so much as the situation that led to the National Socialists keeping the peace and gaining so much goodwill in Weimar Germany. Jeez. I didn't take you for an absolute naif. You're better than this, Joe. * https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/moynihan-report-1965/
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  40. You know, Joe may have inadvertently red-pilled a lot of his audience on Richard Nixon with all this. Bill Murray's experience with Woodward -- "Hey, I know about this subject. He's lying!" -- clicks with the credibility-destroying experiences we've all had, watching those extra 30 seconds of footage around MSM's selectively edited clips. With Woodward's credibility gone among the majority, how long before the truth about Nixon comes out instead, and the narrative shifts? And, with The List coming out, with Clinton's name on it, how long before it's clear that examples of impeaching Democrats are justified while impeaching Republicans if typically a deep-state setup?
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  41.  @matthewbittenbender9191  If a single person who, at risk of their life to support American interests abroad, lost their life because of Snowden's careless exposure of our secrets, he deserves all the grief he's gotten and more.
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  42. I've always thought saying "I''m spiritual but not religious" is a bit like saying, "I like listening to an orchestra tune up, but I don't like actual music."
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  43. Is this just a home-grown American fad, or does it have roots in other countries?
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  44. Judging people by today's standards only shows our arrogance in thinking that today's standards (at least, the ones that have changed) are the correct standards. In many things, the standards of the past are superior to our own.
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  45. Joe doesn't have the energy anymore to help everyone with their problems.
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  46. 6000 horsemen was as big a cavalry force as any but the biggest ancient armies had.
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  47. Kamala Harris is worse than Trump.
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  48. Either that, or she's on the payroll of one or more governments doing their bidding to wreck America.
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  49. Joe, you need to talk to a cop. I recommend The Officer Tatum. Dave Rubin could make the introductions there.
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  50. Three pieces of technology are within our reach well before 2050. 1) Inexpensive launch. 2) Self-constructing 3D printers. 3) Asteroid mining. None of these three technologies are really that far future. Musk is working on #1. People are familiar with 3D printers, and increasing the quality of their output can lead to 3D printers that can reproduce themselves (and then be reprogrammed to build whatever else is needed.) Asteroid mining is just mining which we've been doing for a very long time, plus zero-g (or artificial g), plus no pressure (or artificial pressure), plus automation (which terrestrial mining is really getting into right now.) As those three technological fields mature, human beings will have the ability to move beyond this single planet and create places to live in other parts of the solar system. Once the asteroid mining and self-reproducible 3D printers take off, space solar power can be added into the mix, which gives on-orbit populations something of value to trade back down the gravity well. This will accelerate the whole process beyond a few relatively rich and motivated people, to a broader group of working-class humanity. It's just a matter of vision and motivation.
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  51. When the "cops pushed the old guy", that old guy was reaching for the cop's belt, which has weapons on it. By the way, when those cops got arrested for that, dozens of them - the entire squad - resigned.
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  52. Fascinating that Google eliminated The Federalists' comment section, when YouTube's comment section is sacrosanct. I'm waiting for The Federalist to have its comments restored.
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  53. OK, so the whole "Is Joe smarter than his guest?" game -- it looks like he's found a situation where he's actually smarter than Peterson. Wow. Although Peterson is a fast learner. Thanks in part to Joe, here.
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  54.  @Americansikkunt  You probably want to stop fixating on a very old man who's going to shuffle off this mortal coil immanently. This is likely his last shot (which makes him more dangerous) but he's far from the only source of funds. Look to the Tech millionaires / billionaires, and their wives, (Mackenzie "Amazon" Bezos and Patricia Ann "Netflix" Quillin, are just two examples) for donors these days. There are organizations like realjusticepac.org who are making / bundling donations as well. The push for revolution will only end when donors are indicted / convicted / imprisoned on racketeering or conspiracy charges. In the meantime, imprisoning the ground troops for obvious crimes will give us time (and evidence) to build the case against the subtler crimes.
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  55. In 1918, a flu virus killed more Americans than WWI did. We got through it. We kept working. Life went on. Why do we think that that is no longer part of the human experience? It is THAT hubris -- that we are somehow immune now -- that could destroy society as we know it. On the other hand, Courage will save us. We know normal life will hurt, but we'll do it anyway.
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  56. Bret, this "brutal policing is a feature not a bug" is a conspiracy theory. Please talk with someone like The Officer Tatum, for an insider's perspective on what policing is all about.
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  57. The problem is most politicians only talk to people who can work from home. They don't talk to "somewheres" who have to go to a place to do their job. The people who need to Shelter In Place are retired, because they're most at risk. This won't affect the economy much. People who need to go to work, should be left to their own judgment as to whether to go to work.
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  58. What do you do with Jesus' healing? Well, you can see that when God came to Earth, He healed people. And that healing certainly mattered to the people being healed, which one could think of as reason enough for Him to do it. (Although some were more grateful than others.)
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  59. Joe, if you want to know what happens when one group of humans has technology to dominate another group of humans, look at two histories: one, the history of the British Empire, and another, the history of the Maori conquest of the Moriori. The British brought Christian civilization to the world (with astounding success in many places). The Maori killed and ate the Moriori.
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  60. Yes, Joe, the mistakes all favor Biden.
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  61. The innovation of the US military was put on hold twenty years ago when we invaded Iraq. Many major, next-generation programs were cancelled to pay for that effort. You'd be surprised how many defense contractors really hate war.
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  62. "Silicon Valley came up with AI" Yes. AI has no connection to the real material world. It's a collection of stuff people have typed out. This is right in line with the programmers who think that if they type stuff out, they make it true. They have a lot more in common with the Hollywood "Narrative" crowd than you seem to think.
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  63. If we'd shut down for 60 days, March 5 - May 5, we would simply have shifted the schedule to the right. Businesses would be bankrupt (such great shape!), we'd have 30 million unemployed (really great shape!), and all that, which Pakman in his power fantasy simply ignores. We'd just be spreading the virus now. Hey, maybe none of Pakman's ideas should be discussed because there's no point. That's about the best idea you guys came up with here.
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  64. The Left: "We will control the country by controlling The Narrative!" God: "You think you control The Narrative? I'm gonna make this guy a legend now..."
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  65. Incremental improvement: no refrigeration (and the poor nutrition that leads to), fridges with poisonous compressor fluids, fridges with compressor fluids that aren't poisonous but cause environmental damage at end-of-life, fridges with compressor fluids that don't cause problems. Same deal: Walking, which limits peoples' productivity, lives, and freedom; horses, that can help us work and travel but take enormous dumps all over the place that breed diseases; internal-combustion cars, that help us travel and work but don't c**p so much New York needed to devote several city blocks to manure yards stacked dozens of feet deep, but the cars use leaded gasoline which cause diseases on a far less extensive basis; to cars that don't use lead in the gasoline anymore but cause some smog. All in all, our problems are getting smaller, not bigger, but we're panicking more. Why is that?
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  66. If Trump wins, we'll be as doomed as we've been for the last four years. I can live with that, and I suspect that if we're all honest, we can all live with that.
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  67. Nah, more like when "Les Miserables" is real life. One day more...
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  68. Twitter's a platform, and not a publisher. It shouldn't be allowed to make editorial decisions and remain a platform.
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  69.  @ballbuster4317  Good point. I should have been more careful about over-the-top metaphorical language... in this case it really does lead to factual confusion.
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  70. If you think you're running out of material, a 10 year sabbatical can be helpful. Jordan Peterson does as well as he does because he's thought about this stuff for 40 years. Sometimes it really takes time.
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  71. You have to invent a near-infinite number of universes, to make Schroedinger's equation simpler by one term? Yeah. That's the reason for all of this. To make the math easier by one term, and get rid of "wave function collapse" because it's unaesthetic to some people.
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  72. Bakeries do not benefit from network effects the same way Twitter does.
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  73. There was actually a court decision in the last year or so that says you can't clear out someone's tent without giving them an alternative place to live. The Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal back in the middle of December.
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  74. "Money is data" -- well, sort of. Just like the EM waves can be described in Time domain or in Frequency domain, you can think of things in both Data domain and in Physical domain. Data domain has a lot of dynamic power to it, but it's unwise to discount Physical domain completely.
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  75. Is this the same guy that was behind the Duke University scandal that turned out to be fake?
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  76. The ultimate rationale for Harris isn't that she used to work in prosecution. Although to be fair, it does rhyme with that.
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  77. So, we need to run counter-insurgency operations in Minneapolis and Seattle now. Well, OK, if that's where we're at, that's where we're at.
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  78. Hey, Joe Rogan managed to interview Hiro Protagonist from Snow Crash!
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  79. "Rioting in the middle" -- are you trying to imply that grievous bodily harm and even death to innocent bystanders, is somehow not as bad as looting?? That doesn't even compute, if you're claiming to value lives (like George Floyd's, for example).
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  80. Link please. Seriously, some proof of that would be a constructive addition to the discussion.
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  81. You let people decide because it's too complicated for the government to do it. Liberty's the way to go.
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  82. Quit Twitter. It's the only real solution.
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  83. Someone needs to check to see what was in whatever Bourdain was taking. He knew about Epstein, and he was talking about it.
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  84. "How the Media is Covering Voter Fraud Allegations" ==> "How the Media is Covering Up Voter Fraud Allegations" FTFY
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  85. If you want people to trust the election, you go through the process of auditing it. Questioning how things when and then double-checking the questionable points will increase trust. Even if we don't find enough chicanery to change the outcome, rooting out the chicanery that we DO have will help the process.
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  86. If you didn't know about Antifa taking over part of Seattle, whatever news you watch is lying to you and keeping you in the dark.
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  87. Joe should get Eric Weinstein on again to talk about Geometrical Unity.
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  88. Yup. Anything that a government derives revenue from, it will encourage. Criticize if you'd like, but this is a great argument for the income tax.
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  89. "Mars sucks. Can't we fix here?" We can't hope to know enough to fix here, until we try to fix Mars.
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  90.  @matthewbittenbender9191  So there was absolutely nothing in Snowden's revelations that had anything to do with American methods and assets? I'm not sure I believe that.
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  91.  @matthewbittenbender9191  You've read through the entire data dump, and made certain that there was no information in it that could endanger sources or methods, even peripherally?
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  92.  @matthewbittenbender9191  This statement... "The vast majority of the documents that Snowden exfiltrated from our highest levels of security had nothing to do with exposing government oversight of domestic activities. The vast majority of those were related to our military capabilities, operations, tactics, techniques and procedures." ... is literally General Dempsey accusing Snowden of criminal espionage, and not whistleblowing. Did you even read this quote before you posted it?
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  93.  @matthewbittenbender9191  Let me lay it out for you again, slowly. If "The vast majority of the documents that Snowden exfiltrated from out highest levels of security had nothing to do with exposing government oversight of domestic activities" that means Snowden did not carefully vet the documents he published. If "The vast majority of [documents that Snowden exfiltrated from out of highest levels of security] were related to our military capabilities, operations, tactics, techniques, and procedures", that is literal criminal espionage targeting the military capabilities of the United States, and it is VERY illegal, for VERY good reasons, including the fact that American troops and civilians get hurt when that happens. Look, did I read that wrong? Did General Dempsey mean something other than what I took him to mean?
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  94. Civil War would accomplish so little aside from destruction, that you should worry that for people calling for Civil War, the destruction is the point. They should be investigated for foreign influence.
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  95.  @copperbackpack2025  If California decided to secede, the red eastern counties would split off. They would take the coastal cities' water supply with them. In the scramble to secure the aqueducts and dams, the waterworks would probably be destroyed. This would 1) devastate the agricultural sector of the state and 2) produce 10s of millions of refugees from the coastal metros. You'd see probably at least a million deaths from waterborne diseases along the way. Silicon Valley would collapse within the first week. The free-fall in property values would make the 2008 crash look mild in comparison. Probably over 100 million people would starve to death due to the agricultural collapse, and the malnutrition of another billion would be evident in the average height of the world population for a generation. And that's just California. This is worthwhile... why? Again?
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  96.  @copperbackpack2025  Sorry, I misread your initial comment - I thought that you were saying that since things are broken in this system, civil war would be a good thing (as it might change those broken things.) Our current system has flaws, yes, (which tend to be dramatically overstated by protesters / rioters) but civil war wouldn't help solve any of them.
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  97.  @copperbackpack2025  The eggs that are going to get broken are the eggs funded and supported by radical Leftists and foreign agents. This will minimize the amount of damage done to everyone in the country, and will get us back on track to peace, opportunity, and prosperity for every American.
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  98.  @copperbackpack2025  All we have to do is re-open. Then we can come back, and the process will be for the better.
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  99.  @copperbackpack2025  So, a large number of capable, independent-minded people, who are well aware of the how to get things done, suddenly find themselves without the ventures that were keeping them busy 80 hours a week? So these productive people, who didn't consider politics as important as building something real in the world, may have recently had a rude awakening, regarding the abysmal incompetence of people operating at various levels of government, whose incompetence led directly to the economic catastrophe we find ourselves in? So we may have a large pool of extremely useful people highly motivated to replace those incompetent government functionaries, from Gavin Newsom to Sandy Cortez to Ted Wheeler, and to step up to public service and make those public services work well to rebuild and maintain the small business orientation that has always made America strong? Winston Churchill once said, "Therefore, in casting up this dread balance sheet and contemplating our dangers with a disillusioned eye, I see great reason for intense vigilance and exertion, but none whatever for panic and despair." It's easy to see ourselves, in our own situation, in that speech. "What [Herbert Marcuse] called the [Long March through the institutions] is over. I expect that the Battle of [America] is about to begin. Upon this battle depends the survival of Christian civilization. Upon it depends our own [American] life, and the long continuity of our institutions and our [Nation]. The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon by turned on us. [SJWs] know they will have to break us in this [country] or lose the war. If we can stand up to them, all [the world] may be free and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sunlit uplands. But if we fail, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science. Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the [United States] last for a thousand years, men will say, 'This was their finest hour.'"
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  100. Keep vulnerable people quarantined. Let the rest of us get back to work. We'll develop the herd immunity. It's the only viable option. Otherwise people around the world will starve, no joke.
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  101. It's interesting to see what's rattling around in Lex's head, when he envisions a civilization with technology more advanced than ours. It says more about what's in his head than about any hypothetical civilization, though. He loves being inspired; but it's unbelievably naive to think that feeling of inspiration is more important than preventing this technology from falling into the hands of bad actors.
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  102. We're not in a Civil War right now, whatever Tim Pool says. We may be in a runup to a Civil War, though. We're in a sort of "Bleeding Kansas" period. Street violence has similarities to "Weimar Germany" too. We'd best not elect either a James Buchanan-like weakling (Biden), or a obvious authoritarian (Harris) with a clear willingness to act unconstitutionally once in power.
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  103.  @kevinc9065  Ignore the fact that he hasn't really done anything all that authoritarian, despite rioters giving him ample reason to do so? An authoritarian that allows the states to make decisions on Covid policy? If he's an authoritarian, he's not very good at it.
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  104. Or, according to Joe, "Misunderestimated." Proof he's a closet GWB fan?
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  105. Dude, if we could vote online, 4chan would put Pepe in the White House.
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  106. Compare Commanche raiding culture with Christian Enlightenment culture. Christian Enlightenment culture is better. I'm not sorry to say it.
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  107.  @henrymudgett2646  In practice there was a lot wrong with the residential schools. There was a lot of bad blood on both sides that made abuse more likely under those sorts of circumstances. Any sort of circumstances, really. Compared to the atrocities that were happening a generation before, though? I wouldn't exactly call the residential school issues "first world problems", but they weren't a case of suspending someone upside-down over a fire until the fluids in their skulls boiled and their heads exploded, or burying them up to their necks in an anthill and cutting their eyelids off. I'm not convinced they had a better plan, or that any other plan would have had better results in practice. That said, crimes are crimes, and the people running the school should have been held accountable for those crimes.
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  108.  @henrymudgett2646  The Indians committed those atrocities against the settlers. Listening to research presented in this interview would have taught you some of that, and you can research the rest if you'd like. I agree with you that there was criminal abuse against the kids, who hadn't done anything wrong. I'm only arguing that as bad as the residential schools were, they were better than the status quo (including those atrocities). It's the sort of plan that would look good on paper, so it's not all that surprising that they were implemented, and it's presentist hubris that you'd have come up with a better solution. I'm open to other ideas for future reference, if you'd like to propose some.
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  109. There's absolutely no way the Chaz primitives could have ever built anything like downtown Seattle. Trump the real estate developer is as far above the Chazis as God is above Trump.
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  110. Trump was apparently firing Pentagon players who would lie to him about the status of troops in the Middle East. If you lie to your boss about whether you've done what he's told you to do, can you really be surprised when he fires you?
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  111. Aaaand David smears Project Veritas without giving any proof whatsoever. Keep it classy, Dave.
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  112. YouTube Challenge: Turn that into the first line of a doggerel poem about the rise of AI.
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  113. Seriously. Do you know how many people in Africa have done the biological equivalent of blue-screening because of Gates' vaccines? I think we should make at least some effort to listen to what might be wrong. Show some scientific skepticism, if that's what you're into. Center black voices, if that's what you're into. There are reasons to be skeptical.
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  114.  @Bro-Brah  Yeah, but you lose all respect for the man when he talks about how he would get dates in his Republic.
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  115. Which direction does the causality go? Do people with joint problems tend not to run?
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  116. So why don't the Reparations supporters start with an easy one here? If you were human trafficked (basically enslaved) today, you get to sue your trafficker for Reparations. Set up some precedents, all that good stuff. It's almost as if they don't really want justice, they just want a club to beat people with, or a free payout.
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  117.  @ligmakrak3316  I'm sure you don't mean large-scale street protests. Just everyone peaceably going about their business, then, in some courageous defiance of authoritarian measures?
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  118. Hey Joe, you should get PJ O'Rourke on your show. He's a funny guy who's had an interesting life as the War Correspondent for Rolling Stone. He did drugs with Hunter Thompson back in the day. His bibliography has books like "Holidays in H*ll" and "Parliament of Wh*res". He's apparently doing the interview circuit again these days -- he's live on the Commonwealth Club right now (dunno if this link will work after it wraps up though) -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTbViyH3vp0
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  119. Hey Jocko, Joe -- talk with The Officer Tatum about how much training cops get.
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  120. The only thing that can help the material condition of these protesters is to be able to go back to work, and work without competing for wages with the hemisphere's poorest. As Bernie always said, Open Borders are a Koch Brothers proposal. Say what you want about his personal style, six months ago Trump had us going in the right direction. If he stops the fires and gets us back to work, that the best path forward here.
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  121. Sometimes I wonder whether Marcus Aurelius was as good as he's always presented, or if he was a complete b*****d who was just self-aware, and wanted to be better.
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  122. "Is the US Constitution a threat to America's politics?" If so, we should change our politics.
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  123. Joe Rogan re-establishes the Temperance Society? Wow.
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  124. Why are we getting a second wave now? Because Covid is a flu. It gets worse when the weather gets colder.
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  125. If you've been around stables at all, sometimes you'll see a sign talking about "Equine Inherent Risk Law", which means if you're around horses sometimes they'll kick you in the head and you can't sue anyone for that. Anyway, I think that's the kind of thing you're talking about with legal street fighting.
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  126. Black Lives Matter -- make sure Kamala Harris never holds office again!
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  127. Prince Andrew is probably the least important person she has information on.
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  128. What do you do with the Burning Bush? Well, remember that the Creator is the One who's at work here. There's something unique going on. Science can only tell us about things that show up again and again, and can be tested under lab conditions. This leads to an amazing wealth of knowledge that we can apply to things like going to the Moon. It can't explain things that don't happen repeatedly, and the assumption that everything happens repeatedly and can be tested in lab conditions is just that -- an assumption.
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  129. 5:33 -- This is absolute bull****. Rogan should know better. No such thing as people being intellectual snobs? No such thing as intelligent people thinking that less intelligent people are a rabble fit only for obedience? Intellectualism (and anti-intellectualism) are rife in American society. For heaven's sake, wasn't Joe paying attention to the 2016 election? What does he think the "Google vs. America" theme is all about? Joe, pay attention!
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  130. Joe, the New Testament has been translated exactly once-- from the original Greek (that was spoken by the people who wrote it), twice if you count the fact that most of the words spoken by Christ were in Aramaic. The majority of the Old Testament is translated exactly once -- from the original Hebrew. This "game of translation telephone" is overstated at best, bad-faith argument at worst.
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  131. 7:00 -- This is possibly the most important point in solving the problems of society and life in general -- multiply social structures to the point that everyone can be at or near the top of at least one hierarchy. This is why monogamous family units are so important*. Social expectations go this way: Men and women pair off so that they can be the most important person in each others' lives, and they take responsibility for the children they create so that *all children have at least two people (grandparents matter here too) who think of those children as the most important children in the world.
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  132. Weird, that the algorithm is feeding me stuff like this these days.
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  133. Signifiers that are transferred to a new target can come to exclusively signify that target. The French are still pretending they don't know what we did to the word "toilet".
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  134. How much would advanced technology change the world? That would depend on whether the US has it, or someone else has it. The only answer that doesn't involve massive instability and war, is if the US has it.
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  135. Hey Bob, for your own enjoyment, you should start looking up more scientific information in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). No kidding, that's their official acronym.
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  136. The media behavior here doesn't look suspicious at all. At all. Not in any way. There's nothing that they're covering for. There's nothing that they're hiding. Nothing to see here, folks, move along.
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  137. Why does Bill Gates want everyone in the world to have to be injected with his vaccine? Why did Bill Gates want everyone in the world to have to use Internet Explorer? He thinks he knows better than everyone else. I think his performance with Windows makes questioning that, a reasonable position.
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  138.  @nikkingman  It's pretty controversial to s**t on Bob Woodward, though. And to call him CIA. Bill's simple act of standing up for a friend, ironically has the power to undermine the entire anti-Nixon narrative, which is completely based on Bob Woodward's credibility.
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  139. @ Woodward's a liar and a deep-state shill. It's amazing he's made it so far without being uncovered.
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  140.  @JSp8  Did you read the rest of the Wired article? Can you tell us that the first five pages were not a representative sample? Talk about lack of critical thought, and a tendency to ignore evidence.
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  141. Dude, why is it OK if rioters are trying to burn down ANY buildings in Portland? Seriously, why?
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  142. If the relationship is between the mechanics of chewing, and jaw development, why is it heritable?
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  143. If each of these socialized health care systems has good points and bad points, couldn't that reflect trade-offs they have had to make? I mean, you're not going to get a car that's as fast as a sportscar, as fuel-efficient as a hybrid, seats as many as a minivan, and has the storage capacity of a stationwagon / SUV. I know Pakman is serenely confident that a sufficiently organized system will inevitably be superior on all counts, but can that really be true?
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  144. Watching an old JRE episode, one of the ones with Steven Crowder -- they were talking about how apparently Anthony Bourdain was deep into this, and his end may have been met same as Epstein's.
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  145. Keep your phone in a solid metal box (but don't let it touch the box). Or if you're really clever, figure out what wavelengths it operates at, and get wire mesh that will block those wavelengths (see: Faraday Cage).
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  146. Nah, all we have to do is actually arrest the handful of professional rioters that are causing all the trouble. We're on our way to doing that.
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  147. Jaime -- Reuters = "Royters". Weird German pronunciation.
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