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

  1.  dfctomm  That's insane. Today's California is a function of the Berkeley lunatics juiced by Silicon Valley money.
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  2. He needs to get more exposure. He's the main lecturer for a extraordinarily under-subscribed channel, which covers his major areas of expertise (ancient Greece / Rome, WW2) in a way that specifically points out how these events formed America as it is today. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_mKQpt648ouOD7SuotFhSA
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  3.  dfctomm  Were there selfish and short-sighted Republicans in California, who profited from exploiting cheap southern labor? Sure, I'd buy that. But I'm not convinced that VDH is among them. That said, I'm not as familiar as I should be with the fall of the California GOP. The Republicans are reluctant to talk about it, and I wouldn't trust anything the Democrats had to say on the subject.
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  4. Careful of fixating on Goerge Saurus as the money behind any given problem. The man is 90 and will lay his burdens down presently. There are more than enough nouveau riche Silicon Valley types who are funding DA races, bail funds, and other nonsense that should not be ignored.
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  5. "Eternal vigilance" is true, probably always will be.
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  6. Spread this as far and as fast as you can. We're behind already.
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  7. We need more like Pullman We need more like Hillsdale
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  8. For an adventure: tell the truth For a challenge: be kind as you do so
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  9. Listening to "100 years hence" is anyone else reminded of Tom Lehrer's "Wernher von Braun"?
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  10.  dfctomm  Interesting that he supported George W Bush as much as he did, then. Not to mention his talk with the Hoover Institution on "The Case for Trump". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEXL5USuDGI
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  11.  @kreek22  Honestly, at very small levels of organization, "From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs" works pretty well. At first your kids don't really have much in the way of abilities, but you meet their needs anyway. Gradually they get more chores to do as they get older. I suspect that the vast majority of Americans look at small-scale co-ops and wish them well, if they pay them any mind at all. It's only when they break out the guns and start making demands of other people, that the problems show up.
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  12. 2022 calling -- as part of the backlash against the insanity that set in during the 2010s, the Supreme Court has rescinded the EPA's authority to regulate CO2. We're starting to win. We've had some really bad years, but (believe it or not) the election of Donald Trump to the presidency was an enormous help. =)
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  13. Hey, Joe Rogan can keep an audience enthralled for four hours at a time. Maybe Xi and Brezhnev talk about aliens, drugs, and martial arts competitions. I'm sure I don't know enough Chinese or Russian to know myself.
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  14. "We shot down one of our own planes a few weeks ago" I'm pretty sure that's because we were surprised by the concept of a friendly ballistic missile.
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  15.  @LadyIarConnacht  I give it a decade of influence at most, during which time most of those involved will just figure out ways to take the money and run.
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  16. "Germany beat England at Jutland, which was the beginning of the end of the Royal Navy" I would have said that the HMS Dreadnought started a naval arms race that the British steel industry could not hope to win. Speed wasn't armor, but an effort to make a virtue of necessity.
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  17. Socrates, Western hero: "It is better to suffer wrong, than to do wrong one's self" Cao Cao, Eastern villain: "I would rather betray the world than have the world betray me"
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  18. I have suspected for awhile that the "snowflake" problems we see in Millennials, the obsession with "feeling safe", is a function of the panic that took hold after 9/11. I'm hoping that we won't see the same thing in impressionable children during this panic.
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  19.  @shiowmeychiao3325  Point out to her how the epidemic models we've seen for the past few months aren't particularly reliable, and point out that climate models aren't reliable either. (If you'd like to get a little more familiarity with the relevant math, read up on Chaos Theory. This explains why computers can't really model the weather. The same parameters apply to modeling long-term climate.)
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  20. You can find even more from VDH -- history lectures on how the American political establishment was formed -- on the American Freedom Alliance YouTube channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_mKQpt648ouOD7SuotFhSA
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