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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