Comments by "H B" (@capitalb5889) on "David Pakman Show" channel.

  1. Speaking as a representative of the rest of the world, I'm freaked out.
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  2.  @TruthIllinois815  No - voters would determine who won. It would have nothing to do with states. And every vote would count equally no matter where you are born. As it happens now, the entire election will probably be down to what a few thousand Pennsylvanians thing about some issues. That isn't democracy.
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  3. No reason not to come over now
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  4. For me, when he confused Nikki Hayley and Nancy Pelosi was a sign that something is wrong. It wasn’t just that he got the names muddled up, he literally thought that Nikki Hayley was Nancy Pelosi.
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  5. Memorising the up to 12x table is very helpful, but when you forget, it gets much harder. I did - many years since I did it - so did 10x80 + 2x8 to get there. But I very nearly screwed up the decimal places.
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  6. They weren't actually clapping Hitler, but rather that mask wearing was being compared to the Nazis.
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  7. ​​ @TruthIllinois815 I imagine they understand the stated purpose of the electoral college system, but also understand thst it has long outlived its usefulness.
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  8. I imagine that in New Zealand they follow a British style education system where you specialise at age 16. I dropped maths at 16 and just did three subjects. I was in an advanced maths class so had done calculus at 16, but it wasn't really the direction I wanted to go in, and my life was hardly going to be affected by not studying for two more years. The flip side is that British students become more advanced more quickly in their area of specialism.
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  9. Agree - I would say high. This does not look like a drunk guy.
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  10.  @mph650  he's never done anything as clearly deranged as thinking Nikki Hayley was Nancy Pelosi. That's not just muddling up a couple of names.
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  11.  @kimbelsimpson7535  - I put it down to the sharp reflexes if the driver, not divine intervention. However, let's ask God why who chooses not to intervene in the cases of all the children who did die in accidents, and ask him why he gives children terminal cancer and doesn't cure them.
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  12.  @kimbelsimpson7535  - it's a nice story to wrap up terrible things, but frankly "God's plan" and his death arm, whether positive or negative, sounds entirely like chance to me.
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  13. 100%. I thought Trump is going into the garbage can of history.
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  14.  @adiinbar993  - comparing masks to Hitler is utterly stupidity and in bad taste, but at least I can understand their logic. And if you weren't closely watching but listening to Packman, you can be forgiven for having misunderstood this. But I can't see how Packman can have got this so wrong. Was he not listening?
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  15. Whining, not winning
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  16. @Michael Rogers - and while you describe the economic basis of fascism clearly, it also came with other non-economic elements and it is these that are far closer to where elements of the US have been promoting. For example, a move away from democracy towards authoritarianism - and with the attempted coup, phoney challenge to the election result and the growth of the QAnon cult and hopes for a military overthrow, we see that. Greater restrictions on civil liberties, such as recent changes to abortion law at the state level. There has also been a rise in nationalism - another cornerstone of fascism. If America were to go fascist, it would be remodelled with officially laissez-faire economics, but with giant corporations in oligopoly with the government.
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  17.  @TheParadoxDestroyer  - this is the point that no one has a clue what is going through his mind. His fans don't care, so he is happy to enter a stream of consciousness. But yes, it does show a very bizarre brain.
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  18.  @ynysvon  - that's true. But everything is compared to the Nazis these days, or if you are a Republican, to communism.
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  19.  @GStone  I agree with @Adi Inbar on this too - most comments seem to think that the speakers were holding out Hitler to be applauded, whereas it was actually a crass use of the opposite.
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  20. ​ @tylerblox99496 I learned about them at high school when I was 16.
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  21. One of my favourite lines of poetry sums this hypocrisy up: "On her white breast a sparkling cross she wore, Which Jews might kiss, and infidels adore." Alexander Pope, 1712
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  22.  @kimbelsimpson7535  "but that decision is not mine to make because I'm not God and I don't question his methods" - you appear to be overlaying a rationale and decision-making process to something that is ultimately utterly chance. Apparently even animals can be made to imagine order where there is disorder. Child dies - it's bad luck. Murderer lives to ripe old age and never gets caught - it's bad luck. It is not because God wanted another angel for his team, or whatever whimsical nonsense people create.
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  23.  @kimbelsimpson7535  - you are entitled to believe what you want, but you are wrong, even if you choose to base your understanding of biology on an iron-age collection of Mediterranean creation myths. Atoms naturally bond - water is a combination of three atoms. Amino acids can form naturally. RNA is self-replicating - we can do both. All of the buildings blocks for the first single celled creatures are there. At the order went from very simple single celled organisms, to more complex single celled organisms, to simple multi-celled organisms and so on. Individually, nothing is that amazing, but collectively, it is mind-blowing, because here we are. And it doesn't need any fairy dust to make it work.
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  24. They clapped because he said MAGA at the end - it's a simple Pavlovian reaction
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  25.  @neandrewthal  - I think you took the joke a bit too literally
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  26. yep, he isnt drunk, but something is going on.
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  27.  @kimkelly7  while that is valid for some abortions, a lot are simply the result of mistakes between consenting adults (e.g. malfunctioning contraception). These will always happen
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  28. A calculator just accelerates a process, but it doesn't do the work for you. It's like saying, I don't need a map or satnav because I have a car. The calculator doesn't tell you the route you need to go to solve a problem.
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  29. I confess to having no idea what critical race theory specifically is, although it is something that seems to enrage parts of the right, and I guess it has merged in their minds with BLM as the bogeyman that must be opposed at all costs.
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  30. ​ @SypGamer34 243k miles? You haven't broken it in until you get to 250k.
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  31. ​ @majkus which is about the same distance as the moon is from the earth.
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  32. I think a lot of European countries have excellent healthcare.
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  33. I love ramen!
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  34. Had both AZ shots and not any side effects of either 🙌. Sorry you had some bad side effects, but just imagine how bad it would have been had it been actual COVID.
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  35.  @TheStompboxer  - also very true!
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  36.  @stevemack7110  - I have seen that term used 😂
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  37.  @rjkmusicmedia  what baby?
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  38. For 9+4, you aren't doing simple arithmetic, you actually just remember that that's the answer. There are some people who actually have a memory deficiency whereby they can't remember these simple shortcuts and have to work it out every time - a rare condition.
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  39.  @DrunkenUFOPilot  actually quite a few mathematicians are quite poor at arithmetic
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  40. I'm British and have been watching the circus that is American politics for five years avidly. And it gets more ludicrous by the day.
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  41. Nothing childish about genocide
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  42.  @jamiejp4007  - yes, I imagined that it was something along those lines - the product of university sociology departments - and I am not dismissing it either - I was a politics major in the UK and it would be a valid area of study, but it comes nowhere near the lives of ordinary people, so those opposing it are using it as a fig leaf for their underlying racism, as you state.
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  43. The whole point of the Hitler comment was surely that she is comparing mask wearing requirements to fascism rather than that he was a top dude.
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  44.  Sara bee  - I'm not - she was clearly comparing masks to fascism.
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  45. I think that's a bit strong. I can understand that an airline might want to put some requirements in place during a pandemic, but I can't see why it would be a condition of getting a driving licence.
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  46.  @russellmania5349  - while I think it was a bit too extreme, it isn't communism. It's authoritarianism, which is pretty typical in Communist countries, but could just as well be a far right regime. Edit: I see you also made a comment to "fuck critical race theory". As a non-American I haven't much come across this term, although I've started hearing the term more frequently. What is it exactly?
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  47. Exactly - shifting the burden of proof, or accusing others of doing it is a bad faith technique. He is also peddling back from an assertion that he’s on drugs so that he can deny he has to provide any evidence. And yes, it is something you see in arguments about religion (“atheists claim there is no god, but can’t prove their claim”)
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  48.  @phillippalana4143  - I normally concur but in the case the choice of less/fewer completely changes the meaning of the sentence, changing "like" to mean "approve" rather than "such as".
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  49. @mikes63  I hope that the tape deck is still working
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  50. ​@1987BillyBob - yeah seriously, a 5 day old account. Given you username, it would suggest you are a man in early middle age who has suddenly discovered YouTube and then decided to troll comments pages with semi-coherent MAGA nonsense. More likely you've had previous accounts which have been banned from this channel, or even the whole of YouTube so you've had to set a new one up. New accounts are a massive giveaway.
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