Comments by "dixon pinfold" (@dixonpinfold2582) on "Triggernometry" channel.

  1. Lucky for you you're allowed to say that here. I posted this in the main comments and it disappeared into thin air: "There've long been undertones in gay and lesbian rhetoric that heterosexuality is somehow harmful, inferior, 'bourgeois,' and of course boring. Pretty much a sickness, in fact. It's no surprise that a society exposed to such notions for decades has at last produced a generation in which some see homosexuality as both a personal advance and socially beneficial, and 'transitioning' as even more effective." Something else weird: Number of comments when Sorted by Top Comments: 10; when Sorted by Newest: 23.
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  2. Defund it NOW!
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  3. Well reasoned, well written, well delivered. This clip deserves an internet response like your Oxford Union clip got.
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  4. "It was easy. We thought we were the good guys saving the world." Wokesters take note.
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  5. When five friends all decide they're not girls, they're boys, that's all you need to know. Any adults who support them in their delusive thoughts and behaviors are highly irresponsible and harmful at the least, criminal at worst.
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  6. I've read that black Africans were rare even in North Africa until about the 17th century, never mind in Britain.
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  7. I must be hallucinating right now. I see Konstantin wearing an actual shirt instead of a t-shirt.
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  8. If you announce that under your system, whether proposed or extant, abusing other people terribly is the way to improve the world, countless followers will come out of the woodwork to sign up. I've been saying this for a few years, but it turns out someone else said it during the Soviet era: "The surest way to work up a crusade in favour of some good cause is to promise people they will have a chance of maltreating someone. To be able to destroy with good conscience, to be able to behave badly and call your bad behaviour 'righteous indignation' — this is the height of psychological luxury, the most delicious of moral treats.” —Aldous Huxley
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  9. When he's asked about division in America he replies rather indignantly, asserting that "people are just chillin' out." Exactly one minute later he himself says "Everybody's screaming and yelling." 🙄
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  10.  @seanjones180  Don't wilfully avoid seeing what's in front of your face. Anti-white hatred must eventually result in hatred in the other direction. You sound like you may be one of those who hope for exactly that. I'm not listening anymore to what you say you want, I'm watching the effects of what you say as a more accurate guide to your intentions.
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  11. I get Michael's point about us being able to turn woke ideology off by reading a chosen book, listening to music or watching sports. But it only goes so far. Woke ideology creeps in nearly everywhere, and to avoid it for even just a whole day takes, if not considerable gymnastics, at least not doing a lot of things you would otherwise. It is insidiously taking over everything, let's face up to that.
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  12. Uh, lads, Mr. Campbell is not 'a doctor.' He is a nurse with a PhD in nursing. Let him be called "Dr. Campbell" at learned conferences of nurses, or by administrators at the university where he teaches, or by any social acquaintances who wish to do so. But to title this video "Doctor Explains ..." is extremely, unpardonably misleading. You know quite well your viewers will assume Doctor means MD. Integrity absolutely demands that you re-title it: "PhD Explains..."
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  13.  @lucydayLucida  What does an attraction to fast cars and skydiving, for example, have to do with heartlessness? Being a spur-of-the-moment type person? Not having qualms about the mere cancelling of engagements? Being very persuasive? Keeping a cool head under pressure? There's 15 points right there.
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  14. I've been hearing how bad men are every day of my life, stretching back more than 50 years now. Literally, in one way or another, every single f⸺g day, unless it was one I spent entirely alone with no electricity, newspapers, magazines, etc. It ranks not so far below the air that I breathe as a presence in my life.😱🤯 And so too, by the way, has any woman born when I was, every one I ever met, dated, worked with.🤯😱
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  15. ​ @seanjones180  Oh dear, tragedy going on in the scrupulous truthfulness department here. What a surprise. Actually, YouTube does not allow anyone to see who has liked a comment. No one but the liker. I'd say nice try, but it was a very lame try. Saddening😢and depressing😳, but once again not surprising. Now we're done. Have a nice night, young one, and thanks for the like😄.
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  16. He speaks quickly and confidently, which impresses many people easily. But I've been watching him now and then for five years and none of his predictions have come to pass. Not one, not even close. Nor does he even stand up to fact-checking. False claim by Rickards: "The Russian economy's going to outperform the US in 2023, according to the IMF [...] and World Bank." Actual forecasts: US GDP +1.6%, Russia +0.7% (IMF); US +0.5%, Russia -3.3% (World Bank). (Sources: IMF "World Economic Outlook," 4/23; WB "Global Economic Prospects," 1/23). Zero excuse for that. And now he's down to predicting a recession like most others—so maybe you should bet on a rebound.
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  17. When he says "What business is it of yours to require that I fulfil your inability to think [etc.]," besides showing barely average verbal intelligence and lack of mastery over his own native tongue, he shows a sad lack of awareness that it's precisely being commanded to adopt the beliefs of people with an inability to think which so many people object to. DeGrasse Tyson is one of those people I find most galling of all: People who pretend they are smart.
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  18. Golden thread except the thing about bitcoin. edit: (And I don't have anything against bitcoin. It's fine for anyone who likes it, I guess.)
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  19. The one thing he said that I don't know how to go along with is that Trump lost the election in 2022. What?🤔
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  20. I wonder how many cats she has so far.🤔
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  21. Of course. Absolutely. Many people have noted that Chat bots are woke.
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  22. Not sure exactly why you're saying this, but if I did know, I'd probably agree. For my part, I don't like being called "cis-male". This is for multiple reasons but chief among them is that it really means "non-trans." (A funny comedian once remarked that it's a way of marginalizing a normal person.)
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  23. ​ @keep-ukraine-free  No, trans ideologists did not create the word gender. They took it from feminists. Feminists stole it from linguistics, where it refers to ordinary nouns and pronouns (but not in English linguistics). La belle, le beau, e.g.
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  24.  @xmathmanx  "[A]lmost all left wing people are very critical of stalin [sic], obviously" A lot of them make excuses or just go through the motions of criticizing him, and won't own up to the evil of oppressing people. They'd like to see the same oppression here, just without the slaughter and mass imprisonment. But the slaughter and mass imprisonment are what make it work.
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  25.  @parkcaro  And it only makes perfect sense. They've been taught to have a very bad opinion of boys and men. Why would anyone care much about the opinions of people they think are low?
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  26. "As a normal woman without a victim mentality [...]" But a woman without a victim mentality has long since ceased meriting the designation 'normal.' Rather, you're a bit of a rare specimen. That single nitpick aside, thanks for your post.👏 All the best to you.
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  27. Ask that odious scrap of silicon what gives it the right to lecture human beings on morality.
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  28. Rights are about people not being able to do things to you. When you demand that other people start doing things for you, I don't know what that is—it's being a self-regarding, entitled, narcissistic eh whole, I suppose—but whatever it is it's not rights.
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  29. (1) He uses the same very strange, affected vocal delivery as Glenn Greenwald. (Who copies whom?) I dislike it intensely. (2) He strikes me as a charlatan because he's interested in convincing people rather than persuading them. It's probably because he can't persuade them, due to incoherence. (3) I'd frame the central problem of democracy very briefly as: Democracy is the best system for fostering human development, dignity, prosperity and security, but it's the hardest one to sustain. It's not a system for nitwits, it's a system for the best people. Yet by fostering human development, dignity, prosperity and security, it also creates the ideal conditions for people to slack off and deteriorate. In short, democracies have trouble producing the people needed to sustain them. (The US holds the all-time record at only 247 years.) This is hardly a full explication of the problem, but I think it's the matter that most needs addressing and it's where we should start.
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  30. The persecution of Stalinists in positions of influence or security-sensitive roles in the US, whether by the state or anyone else, was a grand thing.
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  31.  @mattrickard3716  I guess, sure. But risk-taking doesn't strike me as a pathology. It sounds like thinking that's a bit too much straight out of the present era, where parents take their 5-year-old to the park in kneepads, elbow pads, and a helmet. You know, safety culture. One of the things it does is label everything unsafe and so any other approach gets labelled crazy. Increasing feminization of the culture stresses risk aversion and pathologizing everything that seems to have any distinct maleness to it. I favour a balance of maleness and femaleness across humanity. Anything else is mad, bad and immensely dangerous.
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  32. Leering astrophysicist to female grad student at symposium: "Do you like Keating?" Student, returning his leer: "I don't know, you naughty boy. I've never been keated."
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  33.  @biocykle  He was Orwell's French teacher at Eton and Orwell always thought something was the matter with him.
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  34.  @wyleecoyotee4252  Russian riot cop cracking the skull of a protestor in Moscow: "It's like the famous Wylee Coyotee says: You had the option not to protest." Crack!
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  35.  @davehald9352  I think it goes even deeper. I think it's a twisted cover for narcissism. Because of the way they were brought up, they're swimming in narcissism. Yet they're faced with convincing evidence of their own inferiority, chiefly having to do with dependence, profound ignorance, and immaturity. The narcissist shamefully aware of her or his own inferiority is a sick and dangerous creature. Before long, he or she finds others, including groups, to take it out on. The more they hate, the better they feel. "Shame is pride's cloak." ---Blake
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  36. ​ @clizbot  How about not setting standards to suit your own tastes and values? People can decide for themselves. I don't think anyone will be helped or our society improved by stigmatizing femininity. You remind me of the youngsters who declare that "cis" people are all inherently boring. It's high time people backed off from trying to marginalize normal people.
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  37. Terrific powers over language for a 22-year-old.
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  38. *HS
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  39.  @apteryx7080  I'm thinking Musk should let sane people keep Earth and send all the political freaks to Mars.
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  40. Everybody's buying entire ideologies off the shelf like packaged consumer goods. Barf-making.
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  41. Sardonically says: "It's kee-ev, by the way. Not keev. " A minute later: Calls Abrams tanks "Abrahams tanks." Good lord.🙄 (Btw, I have a Ukrainian friend born and brought up in Odesa. His mother tongue is Russian, he lived his daily life there mainly in Russian, and his Ukrainian isn't as strong. Yet according to him it's pronounced keev. )
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  42.  @lucydayLucida  Your last question is a great one and I'd say the answer is both. Psychology and psychiatry are climbing a strange mountain: however fast they go up, the peak recedes twice as fast. It's not encouraging. The only consolation is to look down and see how dizzyingly far down to the base camp it is now. The way I view it, the validity of these diagnoses is great in the clear-cut cases that tick all the boxes but goes down on a fairly steep curve from there. There's so much variability across people that you end up trying to apply generalizations to the most complex mechanism in the known universe by far, namely the human brain, and they're not good enough at those murkier cases. I also worry about the quality of the minds in research and clinical practice now. It seems lower than a couple of decades ago, from what I can tell from my reading and viewing lectures and talks. People are really atomized in their narrow specialities and I strongly sense they're not at all widely read like the giants of previous generations. Ok that's it, I'm verging on total boringness here and should leave it at that. Thanks for your interesting reply.
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  43. And you can even read and write. Splendid! [No sarcasm btw]
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  44. Tinkle is like all those Americans of the 1936-41 period who said "Leave Adolf Hitler alone. He's done nothing to us," except he goes further, saying Putin's done nothing wrong at all to anyone. He's a mixed-up kid who must have a grossly inflated self-image to think his opinion matters enough to go on national TV to advance it. I find him rather Greta-like. He's only 23 and clearly knows next to nothing about anything, except maybe that Tucker Carlson is his hero. Konstantin, on the other hand, is deeply aware of all the salient facts.
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  45.  @wyleecoyotee4252  "You had the option not to get the vaccine." This seems to show a weak grasp of liberty. Save such a statement for addressing criminals—e.g., 'You had the option not to rob that store.'
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  46.  @robollis  Neo-Marxism is the word. It is hardly necessary to trace out literal endorsement for their every idea somewhere in Marx's texts. The roots of the fundamentalist left are in Marxism and you've got to face up to it. Peterson is strained, first of all, from being a clinical psychologist. Depression is a major occupational hazard in a job where you drink in the suffering of patients for hours a day. Second, he's strained from decades of strife with the Neo-Marxist, fundamentalist left. It is of course very taxing to do battle for that long.
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  47. Also, nazism was shot through with a great deal of socialism. It was not called National Socialism for nothing. Look up the hour-long Triggernometry episode with Prof. Stephen Hicks.
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  48. But AI inadequacies are half of what they were a year ago. They're a quarter of what they were two years ago. They're an eighth of what they were three years ago. They're a sixteenth of what they were four years ago. You can see where I'm going with this.
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  49. @dellwright1407 That's not true at all. A resurgence of masculinity followed soon on the heels of Boy George and Richard Simmons. It began around 1990 and it had a certain Tate-ishness to it. Think of, for example, the Chili Peppers wearing nothing but a single sock each on stage. They set the tone for the decade, and it had little to do with any androgynous Boy George or Wham! ethos.
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  50. "Discuss" 😡Hey man, don't tell me what to do.😡
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  51. Translation: 'The key to global security and peace is Putin remaining in power.' 🤣🤣 I don't think so, Sergei.
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  52. Still better than him.
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  53. There are closely-related concepts people are evidently forgetting about, or just aren't very familiar with due to growing up after their heyday, namely: neutrality, disinterestedness, evenhandedness. I encourage everyone to look them up, study them and contemplate them—before those whom they obey/low-key-worship/passively tolerate find some way to defame them into total obscurity. Maybe even criminalize them just slightly.
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  54.  @jht3fougifh393  There's a political and social street fight taking place. It's no time to explore empathy and commonality with the opponent. They will never reciprocate any such gesture, you may depend on it. It's vigorous counterattack and antipathy that are called for.
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  55. The arrival of living explorers from other stars does indeed seem unlikely. The cost and complications of sending out 'wetware' are simply immense. Much more likely that they'd send out extraordinarily capable hardware.
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  56. ​ @matteymat  In a case where someone isn't as well informed as can be, the right thing is to at least ask the right questions, and Kisin certainly did. He repeatedly challenged them to explain why manufacturing should not be re-shored and they repeatedly steered clear, revealing themselves completely. Offshoring results in more pollution of every type because when China needs more electricity to satisfy Western demand—and remember, Western consumption is far higher than it would be without globalization, because globalization means the West can afford to pay for many, many more shiploads of Chinese stuff—when it needs more power, I say, it simply digs more coal out of the ground, or pays Russia, Australia or Canada to do it, builds several more generating stations, and proceeds to burn it without restraint or proper environmental controls at all. As Kisin pointed out, British managers of energy production and goods-producing factories would do it much more cleanly. So when offshoring of manufacturing drives down domestic rates of pollution, people like Kisin's interlocutors support it, patting themselves on the back even though the situation has actually worsened from an environmental perspective, as well as from economic, social and national security perspectives. I'm certain the Chinese political leadership just can't believe how fortunate it is, having the West act totally against its own interests and in favour of those of China itself. It's an ongoing, stunning, total victory for them. You don't need to be a genius to realize all this, you just need ordinary good sense and a sufficient lack of desire to run with the herd and parade your sanctimony. That panel, almost all the media, and almost all political leadership are shameless panderers to mentally ill neo-Marxist bullies. The fact of this is crying out for a full explanation. He trapped them and they got mad at him because they know he's right. If they really believed otherwise they would have addressed his question directly in a friendly manner, wishing to help him understand. But they were only concerned with protecting their rhetorical 'sunk costs' (their investment, metaphorically speaking) in globalist policies and left-activist dogma. The latter two things are actually not even a match for each other. Indeed they're very much at odds, which is why anyone trying to stand behind both of them simultaneously has to perform the most awkward and embarrassing contortions to get through even a minute of debate. Anyone could see all these things I've pointed out about these people from the heights of space, unless he or she were a total hypocrite not on speaking terms with the truth. And that's a good way of describing them—as well as perhaps half the population, perhaps more. The fact that Kisin is rising out of total obscurity and into prominence is really somewhat heartening. Now just watch as they gang up on him to annihilate his reputation. Smooth-talking savages that they are, It's the tactic they rely upon most.
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  57.  @texluh  Almost entirely.
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  58.  @anro5705  I won't defend the war on Iraq. It was mistaken, criminal, or both. But Afghanistan played host to and fostered Al Qaeda, and Al Qaeda went on to attack the United States. Whether the US "felt threatened" by Afghanistan or not, the Taliban had to face consequences for that. Period. ISAF had a UN mandate. I find your sophistry awful. Anyway, US military power is all that stands between the world and an explosion of real tyranny. I'm for it.
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  59. Or: one big bathroom; locked, totally-enclosed, solid stalls; communal sink area which is CCTV-monitored/-recorded.
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  60. Marvellous clip from start to finish, but that last minute or so was simply golden. This is almost KK-Oxford Union-grade and deserves to go hyper-viral.
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  61. Rather like a judicial nominee during confirmation hearings. Speaking of which: Coming soon..... Q: "Justice Wokely, what to you personally are the three most important juridical principles?" A: "I can't answer that—I'm not a chatbot."
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  62.  @lucydayLucida  Wouldn't disagree there. A friend of mine is a pretty eminent doctor in a hospital with a worldwide reputation and he once told me there's no shortage of people who think a lot of these various diagnostic criteria lead to "phony" diagnoses. (His word.) Mildly surprised, I said "Yeah? What do you think?" He paused and looked up and shook his head thoughtfully, then looked down, then back at me, but gave no answer. I caught his meaning and we moved on.
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  63. @Tepid Cupcake That doesn't explain anything. Yes, YouTube "filters" things. So you're telling me what I'm telling you. Please say what you mean. Oh yeah, nearly forgot: "lol"
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  64. ​ @Mortimer_Duke  With that reply you appear to broadcast what you yourself are all about: never impartial, always more in pursuit of victory than truth. I'm different: I support Campbell's viewpoints but do not want them to gain adherents through any misleading pretences. Your proctologist is ready for your bi-weekly appointment.
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  65.  @jonhay75  It's misleading in this context and I imagine you know that. A botany PhD qualifies a person to be called Dr. as well, which is fine, but imagine such a person walking up to the scene of a mishap and saying "I'm Dr. Smith, can I help?" Misleading.
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  66. Ah, but if Europe had its crap together, American problems could hardly have affected it. As it was, it exported its own problems to America in enthusiastic return. Way loads of blame to go around, and let's not forget all the various social classes.
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  67. When a person who scores 9.5/10 for bizarreness is the voice of reason.
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  68.  Mike Girard  Congratulations on bayonetting a battlefield full of straw soldiers. This isn't a site for fringe psychos. Rubin and, from what I can tell, the average commenter here, started out and remain liberal in a lot of ways. So pack up your indignant foul-mouthed attitude and take it with you to some white supremacist site, you smug young twerp.
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  69.  @hexum7  Well that was an empty swipe. In fact I've heard a few times, including from left media, that research shows lefties are unhappier than conservatives. Whether being unhappy makes one a lefty or the other way around isn't clear. Maybe it's just a big swirl of reflexive, self-intensifying misery that eventually reaches a fever pitch of destroyed statues, destroyed economies, commissars, prison camps, and mass graves. Who knows?
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  70. Fair point. I love those Political Compass people for giving us the quad thing. Still 2-D though. Maybe it could use a 3rd axis.
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  71.  @room101b7  "As the air to a bird or the sea to a fish, so is contempt to the contemptible."—Wm. Blake
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  72.  @TheJeremyKentBGross  So? Even if you're right, AGI will be to nuclear weapons what nuclear weapons are to sharpened sticks.
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  73.  @anro5705  Stop spamming that identical comment randomly where it's not even germane, please.
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  74. I'm happy for him in his domestic happiness, but I'm reminded of a great piece of wisdom... "There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall." —Cyril Connolly And of potent politics too, perhaps.
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  75.  @Pandabee11  What do you mean it didn't go down well? Shipping the awful and the terrible to distant shores soon had Britain in such great shape that they became the most advanced nation by far and ruled the world.
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  76. Slight hope is worth next to zero, tbh. I've become convinced that only through sustained mass public protest is there — hope be damned! — any realistic chance of real improvement and repair of the damage. Sustained, organized, coordinated, brilliantly conceived and executed, effectively-led mass public protest. That's just my opinion, I could be wrong. Perhaps some people agree?
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  77. What a surprise that someone who craves being onstage is a left-winger. The two things have something extremely important in common, namely the aspect of publicly showing off and reaping applause for it. (I'm certainly not slagging comedy, though. Unlike left-wing politics, it adds much harmless pleasure to life.)
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  78. Somewhat. And they're also just finding out a little bit more about their own viewpoints. Very often I have one thing in mind and then I just start writing to find out what else I think. They're doing it by chatting. Quite lovely.
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  79.  @ChristopherCompagnon1AndOnly  I also don't like anyone telling me what I am as a man in the way you are. Why can't everyone just look after themselves and never mind telling others what they are or should be? Improving the world should mean improving oneself and it should end there. Something tells me that busybody-ing is simply a way of avoiding it.
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  80.  @shane_2337  A total disregard for safety or responsibility is one thing, and just about anyone can spot that. Instances far less obvious are another thing. You would likely get pretty wild disagreement from person to person as to how to score individuals. For example, timid people would probably score a lot of people rather higher. What better for them than to have the world regard fearlessness as a pathology? (Somewhere in Blake there's a contemptuous remark about those who "make a virtue of incapacity." Since I read it many years ago I've seen it come up in life countless times.)
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  81. Oh, leave the guy alone. He's just making his disgusting living!🤑😏 Edit: I don't mean Konstantin!
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  82. Right. And Babe Ruth just swung hard and got lucky 700 times.
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  83. World Sasquatch Association: "Havin' a go at us, are you? Hope you enjoy a hike in the woods, mate, cuz so do we."
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  84. 🙄But Kisin is famous, while the other guy is unknown.
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  85. And don't forget to read Orwell's non-fiction, which is at least 95% of what he wrote. It's far better. (I suggest any volumes of essays, The Road to Wigan Pier, and Down & Out in Paris & London.) Paul Fussell made the comparison (which of course he knew was strained) with TS Eliot's Book of Practical Cats vis-à-vis his poetry. 😄
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  86. If your analogy is dinosaurs and a speeding asteroid, then no, nothing is going back to normal. But what if the right analogy is a big, fat, rotten, pulsating pimple filled with yellow goo? Those can be lanced. Those can heal.
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  87.  @mrjohnnyk  Like when he says 'orthogonal' and 'sui generis'.🙄 Omg what a putz.
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  88.  @FunderDuck  You can tell who's thinking and who's not by whether all of their beliefs can be reliably predicted as soon as you know one of them. Here's a word for people to remember: heterodox. It's an adjective for a person's beliefs if they are hand-picked more or less one-by-one and don't conform to any known orthodoxy. Eclectic is also fit for describing such beliefs.
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  89. I agree with 'left-libertarian'. But 'classical liberal' is quite a tricky term. I think you, like Dave Rubin and some others, use it to mean the moderate mainstream liberalism of the 1960s-90s. Kennedy liberalism, I guess. But classical liberalism really means the liberalism of the later 19th century which favoured free enterprise, free speech, public schools, and so on—but which was socially conservative and would have blanched in horror at the size of today's governments, today's levels of taxation, today's social permissiveness. So classical liberalism was very conservative by today's standards despite the fact that in large part it's where today's liberalism came out of. (Today's liberalism also in part came out of Marxism/socialism, but in pretty bleached-out form obviously.) When people use the modern term 'neo-liberal' disparagingly to refer to what are really today's somewhat moderate right-wing libertarians, they are basically accusing them of resembling the classical liberals of 150 years ago. I hope all this is clear, but if it's not, think of an analogy with how Democrats and Republicans in America switched places in fundamental ways about a century ago. The word 'liberal' really changed in meaning around the same time as well.
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  90.  @wickywickyjoka  There is zero wrong with categorizing someone—only with mis- categorizing someone.
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  91. I scored minus-7 and I'm appalled at all these commenters bragging about scoring in the low-to-mid single digits. To think I'm probably running into monsters like that in my daily life without even knowing it.
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  92. A few years ago I saw a long segment on the PBS NewsHour concerning left miserableness. It quoted studies showing they're much unhappier than people to their right on the political spectrum. When PBS will admit something like that, why doubt it? I think you can find it on YouTube.
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  93.  @jullietmburu9672  Yes, I forgot about them. That's so true. But I'm quite sure bike part theft is generally about raising cash in order to spend it immediately on drugs. (In sketchy neighbourhoods there's always a brisk trade in such parts and also entire bikes of course.) And there's no reason it can't be both, come to think of it. Thanks for your reply.
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  94. He will never have ISIS or Al Qaeda enthusiasts on his show either, and he shouldn't.
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  95.  @MrEismenTV  So 100 million Eastern Europeans were lying when they said they wanted to join NATO because they were afraid of Russia? These are the people who were invaded by Russia within living memory, some of them more than once. And you have the nerve to tell that guy that he is being "intellectually dishonest." Unreal. Just unreal.
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  96. Minor quibble: Like you, I thought 'snowflake' was about being delicate and easily destroyed. Turns out it's about being unique. It's what their parents told them they were, in order to make them feel 'special' and oh so important. (As well as "You're the greatest! You can do anything! You can be anything you want!" and all the rest.)
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  97.  @ChristopherCompagnon1AndOnly  We are indeed social creatures. But the best of us are social creatures who are not officious.
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  98. There've long been undertones in gay and lesbian rhetoric that heterosexuality is somehow harmful, inferior, 'bourgeois,' and of course boring. Pretty much a sickness, in fact. It's no surprise that a society exposed to such notions for decades has at last produced a generation in which some see homosexuality as both a personal advance and socially beneficial, and 'transitioning' as even more effective.
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  99. ​ @openallnight2113  I think you made a number of valid points, especially about clinician subjectivity and false positives. There's something to each of the disorders as described in the manuals, because you do find clustering of the criteria in people, but the thresholds are incredibly nebulous and vague. Thanks for your reply.
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  100. If you have to ask, you'll never know.
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  101. It's not a ban at all. Males who "transitioned" before puberty are welcome to compete as "women." That is not, I repeat, a "Transgender Athletes Ban." Gentlemen, how could you miss that? How on fn earth?! Germaine Greer put it best: "A man who cuts his c--- off isn't a woman. He's a man without a c---."
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  102.  @fyrchmyrddin1937  Hahaha, good one. Thanks. But why do they make it so comments appear and disappear as you toggle between Sort by Top Comments and Sort by Newest?🤔 Why would a comment not simply either appear or not appear, no matter which viewing mode you're in?
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  103.  @rat_king-  But I didn't go by the count. I didn't even look at it. I actually counted, super-fast; then toggled and did the same thing. I was trying to avoid any lag thing by going fast. And I repeated in reverse to verify. Yeah, posts were being added, but only one a minute or so. Bonus reply😄: Since then I've been a bit of a detective. I found that posts with more than about three or four emojis (like a series of flags in a war video comment, a row of hearts, laughing faces, anything) get totally withheld from view under Sort by Best. Gone. So do any with strong language, and I don't mean swearing or obscenity. Just highly critical words. This is at least part of what's going on when you see "5 replies" and then expand and there's only one reply there, e.g. But they seem to all or mostly re-appear if you simply toggle to Sort by Newest. Thanks for your reply.
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  104.  @barbarasimons3762  I can believe that in a microsecond. Btw, I don't expect you to get this reply because as of just now I appear to be 100% shadow-banned. Another person just did some checking, and not only are my standalone posts in the main comments not showing, neither are my replies. That's a new one on me. Please reply if you get this, so I know .
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  105. Canada's de facto independence can be dated from as early as 1848, when its government became formally responsible to the Canadian electorate rather than Westminster. The process was well under way in 1830. After that, layers of symbolic British rule were removed one by one, Lord Balfour declaring in his 1926 report that Britain and its dominions were constitutionally "equal in status." One area of partial integration remained, the foreign office, but this lone survival was at Canada's sole discretion. It decided to end it four years later.  (Even this was largely symbolic, as Canada had already been a founding member of the League of Nations (1919), had its own seat at the Paris Peace Conference (1919), had concluded a treaty with the US on its own (1923), had sent its own ambassadors abroad, etc.) Canada can de jure never be more than (as Mr. Biggar put it) virtually independent, as long as the Monarch is its head of state. But not a soul on earth disputes that this last remaining tie is ceremonial, and it first became effectively so when Queen Victoria was in the 11th year of her reign, aged 29. The statute passed in 1931 codified and finalized a reality born 83 years earlier.
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  106. ​ @23strawbale  Arggggh. I really wish you hadn't replied to me on this.   Look, if you can't use a few words to describe yourself, it takes a nine-hour conversation. I said that and I mean it. I am not talking about buying entire ideologies whole and I don't get why you are. Please, please do not reply. Bug someone else.
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  107. Correction: "Finally the truth that I've never heard."
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  108.  @tamashumi7961  Speaking of Orwell, he wrote this: "What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?"
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  109.  @BDub2024  Yep, simple misfit-ism. They choose the 'activist' path only up to a point. For the most part, no other path is accessible to them.
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  110.  @kawaiilotus  On the latest BBC Question Time the unbearable host, whatever her name is, said 15 million.
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  111.  @tomcarroll4785  Saying that "he lost the election in 2022" isn't a valid way of summarizing all that, though. The two facts that he wasn't running, and that his party won the House, together make it topple over from top-heavy ludicrousness. Shapiro should have merely said that Trump failed in his aims. Why reach for something far-fetched? It never impresses the right people.
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  112. Truth: In the long run it's all we've really got. Life, love, morality and a few other things are vitally important, yet at their core they depend entirely on truth, compared with which they are like water in our hands. Devalue it at your own peril, lads.
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  113. Stalinism didn't die with Stalin. (Nor Maoism with Mao, etc.)
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  114. Based on the hyper-extreme rambling I'd say he's a stoner. The big fat belly and tired-looking face argue stoner-drinker.
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  115. Yes. For example, sometimes you can just avail yourself of race-filtering admission policies instead.
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  116. America is its own thing. But let's make no mistake, it's really the Europe of the West Atlantic. It absolutely has its roots in Greece, Rome, Britain, France and Germany. America will never stop identifying its interests with those of Europe.
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  117.  @nautilus1872  You concentrate on persuading those open to persuasion and on encouraging those already persuaded to act upon their persuasions. That will multiply their prominence and influence. And what about those legions who are, say, not dead-set against you but instead meek followers of your opposition? Easy: those people are followers through and through. Soon after they notice the tide shifting they will switch sides.
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  118. "Celebrities with their weird, smooth, plastic lizard faces." Hahaha, good description.   Don't forget the highly artificial, contorted, Joker-type, Instagram smiles learned by endless hours of practice in the mirror.
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  119. It won't stop here either. There are endless shining horizons of sexual and other identities to explore, as hinted at by the emergence into the spotlight of the 2,000 genders. What about three-way marriages? Four-way? Thirteen-way? Indeed, what if a whole artists' colony or alternative theatre troupe show up at city hall demanding the right to plight their mass troth into a single great union? Shall their human rights be denied by the chaplain present? Can't people marry their pets? And not just sheepdogs and pekingese, but gerbils, spiders and gnats? Is it right that in the 21st century society refuses to recognize the intimate love between grandmothers and their grandsons, great-uncles and their grand-nieces? And should they be denied bathrooms dedicated to them alone? Why do none sit together on even a single company board of directors across the whole land? What if you fancy a piece of timber—shouldn't it be eligible for your workplace benefits? You know, a fresh coat of shellac yearly, and a survivor's pension when you shove off? And is it not high time we ended the exclusion of ethereal unions? Are we so closed-minded that we can't allow marriage between a woman and her ghost, a man and his fairy, five ladies and their three cherubs? I do apologize to all whom I've left out of this unfairly, inexcusably short list. I am deeply sorry and pledge to dedicate myself to making amends.
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  120. That sounds right to me. Let's hear some sort of definition of "cancelled" from the lads.
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  121.  @talonr7818  It might make a fine screenplay, but who'd finance the production, who'd distribute it? Indeed, where would you find the crew? You'd be treated as though you'd written Springtime for Hi Tler.
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  122.  @robollis  I'm not letting Marxism off the hook. Hardly. It is its stupid and poison premise of levelling, fit for stupid and poison people, that comes shining through in Neo-Marxism. And your attempt to bait me with Nazism is all I need to see to tell me you are not worth my time. Good bye. :)
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  123. Excellent analogy. The problem in the US is a collapse of trust following all the Covid lies, plus social media and YouTube echo-chambering, plus immense flooding of social media by foreign propagandists. Big social media is the dream of Russia and China which has come true.
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  124. Every university department is becoming part of the Trans Studies Department, coming therefore under its direction. The Office of the President has nearly turned into the Office of the Trans Students/Trans Studies President.
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  125.  @texluh  I agree with every word of that. The problem with democracy is that it eventually produces people like him and gets them on interview shows. In any decent monarchy he'd be shovelling dung in some rich person's stables.
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  126. I don't think that's the whole story. Russia can see all the Warsaw Pact countries to the west of it and how well they've done over the past 30+ years. Poland, Czechia and all the rest have made out fine. It's not democracy that's a disaster, Russia, it's you.
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  127. @dellwright1407 There was a clear (but all-too-short-lived) rejection of what feminism and the culture overlords had prescribed in the 1980s. For a while there was more than just male-bashing going on.
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  128.  @jedcollings3624  If two-thirds of divorces are initiated by women, all I can say is of course. For them it's not just a fresh start and a disencumbering from an unsatisfactory relationship, it's commonly also a payday.
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  129. My life is little more than an attempt to find people, especially women, who aren't like her.
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  130. I'm much older and many of my teachers, too, would tell us that communism and socialism were far better than generally thought. They intimated that they might well be better overall, much fairer than the free-enterprise liberal democratic system, etc., but would never catch on in the West because the Western economies were so much more prosperous. I got the impression they thought that adherents of communism/socialism had purer souls. 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮
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  131.  @anro5705  You made the identical post two comments up. My reply is the same.
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  132.  @JusticeForNicholeAlloway  "Why would I like someone just because they are gay?" Easy question. Because gay men are men but are not threatening, and a lot of women choose their men (just friends or otherwise) for non-threateningness. Surprised anyone would even ask that.
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  133.  @Larindarr  Yes. If they were real women they'd find men to do their appropriating for them.
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  134. His greatest admiration by far appeared to be for Deng Xiaoping, whom he bizarrely called a monarch. Muddle-headed stoner, in my opinion.
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  135. The BBC news operation should be de-funded. You should not get your news from the government. Let it sink or swim on its merits and vie for subscription and ad revenues.
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  136. Stop it, you're getting him all excited.
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  137. That reminds me of how my best anti-Putin posts are all swarmed by legions of Pooty-bots. You have my best wishes and thanks.
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  138. But the trans activists are merely copying all the loathsome techniques which she and all her fellow radical feminists used against men. She and they are simply hoist with their own petard, and it couldn't have happened to a nicer bunch. Edit: Watch her face when Francis tells her he had a breaking point "with this stuff". Her eyebrows go up as if to say "You? A man? A nasty man has something to complain about?" 8:30 I expect she raced home to shower immediately after the chat.
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  139.  @GM-db4bv  Look it up. I'll start you off as a favour: Hungarians voted 85.3% in favour of joining NATO. Have a fun time.😄
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  140. I fear that soon it will be scarcely worth fighting for at all. Existence here is rapidly losing not only its pleasure and charm, but its meaning too, which was formerly rooted in a feeling of pride in its freedoms and the sanity of its people.
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  141. I think it's weird to say girls have sex out of competitive pressures to land dates and relationships. Very weird. It's hard to trust someone who in effect denies that girls have sex out of sexual desire. They quite naturally have lustful urges. It's normal and healthy. Breaking news!: Human beings are not ethereal creatures, they are made of flesh and blood and were not designed for optimal conformity to the prescriptions in your chosen religious texts, Freya. (I noticed your very shiny cross.) Yes, girls and women love having sex. Face it.
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  142. Whenever I hear the word 'problematic' I release the safety on my Browning ( pace Hanns Johst). And so many other words besides. Not literally, of course. I own no Browning nor any other firearm. I just share the antipathy of the character in Johst's play towards those who hide their insidious motives behind words that sound sensible, nice, prudent, high-minded, etc. E.g. 'equity.'
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  143. Btw, Kellogg's has an actual gay cereal now. Not kidding.
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  144.  @annabizaro-doo-dah  First, you're conflating income and wealth. They're two things. Second, it sounds like you think most private wealth was obtained through inheritance. Do you? Third, let's remember that enormous sums of income are unearned because they are given to people by the government, which has first taken them from the incomes of people of greater means. (Often barely greater.)
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  145.  @idongesitx1873  You mean there are job applications with tick-boxes that say "Non-white"? Prove it. By the way, the oh-so-pious woke term "person of colour" means non-white or it means nothing.
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  146. And they don't even wait for him to finish. They cut him off with applause, which is the highest compliment any audience can pay a speaker. Stunning contrast with the rest of the panel.
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  147.  @tiberiusvindex804  If this were 1985 I'd side with you. But it's 2023, and we have a choice between how Russians say it and how Ukrainians say it. I also no longer say "Kharkov." Or "Dnieper" (although I would to refer to the part which is within Russia).
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  148.  @lucydayLucida  All right, but you have a way of, as they say, "hiding your argument." I'll take your word for it.
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  149.  @imnotgayyy8489  I find it a bit interesting that you would ask that, my protestingly-named friend.
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  150.  @StanislavGres  There's too much respect for power-grabbing in Russia, rooted far too deep, for the spreading around of power to be taken at all seriously, at least anytime soon. Germany, like the Russia of today, was until about 75 years ago afflicted with a feudalistic societal outlook and set of political instincts and customs. Things changed rapidly after that, but it could only have been occasioned—and was—by a catastrophic military defeat.
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  151. I made it through the pandemic sort of like that. On its scientific aspect — which of course ought to have been its most important one, but turned out not to be — I ignored journalism as much as possible. I instead spent more than a few hundred hours reading journal articles, watching talks given by scientists and doctors at well-reputed universities or hospitals, listening to panels of them discussing things on podcasts. (But it's a problem for a lot people that they don't know even the basics of how to read a paper. Their understanding of the article's content may not repay the effort of reading it.) Btw, I do think the media changed a lot. Not so long ago neutrality was quite strictly observed. Most people would sneer when a reporter for a 'quality' news outlet gave an opinion in a news article or TV report. Viewers were not there to be schooled in their values by journalists. Well, some were, but it was a seeming minority in contrast to today's seeming majority. Thanks for your comment.
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  152. No, just one: "W⚓."
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  153. Congratulations on being a supporter of Saddam Hussein, the well-known meatpacker.😂
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  154. This should've been 10 minutes, lads.
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  155. If you don't like the terms of the contract, don't sign the contract. If the contract says the production company owns the footage forever, your feelings ten years later don't matter.  Or if they do matter, then how about the other party's feelings? They could come along ten years later and say "We wish we hadn't made that video with you in it, so give us back the wages we paid you." If you're 18 and you sign a contract, you can't go back later and say "Oh, I wasn't mature enough to know" etc. and then when you don't get your way, say "It's so unfair!" It's clear even to an 18-year-old what a contract is, even if they're not of average intelligence. A contract is a binding promise. What's this about how things are "terrible" or "unfair"? Francis, I never hear you talk like this about choices people make. Are you flirting with this porn actress?
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  156. There should've been an effective slogan for those opposed to or skeptical of government measures. Like "It's Not Ebola!" maybe. Would I ever love to be a high-paid anti-government slogan writer. Edit: Are there places hiring for that?
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  157.  @chriser555  I edited out the second-person pronouns, which should never have been there anyway. Sorry.
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  158.  @МаксимЛяшко-и3ъ  You're clearly correct.
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  159.  @jordane5150  I agree with every word of that. I would add that destructive people acting in good faith also generally need to be battled. Good faith doesn't mean that when Konstantin and Francis walk up to you with smiles and handshakes, armed with friendly reasonableness, you're not going to tell them with a smile to sod off. The two of them seemed almost high.
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  160. The difference between this guest and the typical Millennial now turning 40 is the difference between growing up in your late teens and 20s—as you're supposed to!—and just not growing up at all. Her mom must be a pretty all right person...who's feeling pretty relieved.
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  161.  @fraserbailey6347  Ok, so he doesn't belong in A-ball. But you're familiar with the so-called "Mendoza line"? It refers to when you made it to the major leagues but your career batting average was under .200.
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  162. Farage seems an ok guy and I'm congenial to [edit: some of] his points here. But he has a minor sock crisis going on. He should solve that and then move onto global security and Britain's future.
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  163.  @tliltictotolotlmacehualli5796  That's an assertion that to follow his logic is to endorse it. That assertion is false, since his logic is false.
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  164.  @WilfChadwick  It'd be hard to say it any better than that.
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  165.  @danielgriff2659  That's nice, but Piers Morgan's show airs in the UK. The audience is British.
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  166. Terribly disingenuous, and those are the nicest words I can find. On things like vaccine passports his thinking wasn't nearly so much in line with actual scientific evidence and reasoning as simply strident, overbearing, sanctimonious, lightly-informed and other terrible things besides. And here he is, being just as overbearing, sanctimonious and pompous in retreat. The damn fellow is clearly in a lifelong love affair with himself.
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  167.  @TIVOSTUDIOS  Thanks. All you've said through this thread is great. Anyone who read through it all is fortunate.
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  168. When you say 'Peterson' you mean his difficulties, right?
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  169. Let's go back to the start here and point out that one doesn't become aware simply by announcing one is aware. The terminology the left wing chooses for itself and its so-called ideas is as hilarious as it is deceptive and outright dishonest. The most straightforward and classic example is 'social justice.'
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  170. The hipster accent is rough. The way he enunciates the long o sound makes my skin crawl.
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  171.  @terdferguson1736  old chunks of coal?
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  172. Oh, please. Sexual display to attract the attention of potential mates is at the core of existence in the animal kingdom. It has nothing to do with bowing to "the patriarchy." It sounds like normal sexuality disgusts you and you yearn for us all to be ethereal creatures rather than flesh and blood. In other words a type of biological denialism, which leads me to the point that it's that kind of feminist histrionics which the trans activists are modelling, because it got you and your ilk rather far.
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  173. And those are their most charming qualities.
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  174.  @robollis  Pay careful mind to the prefix 'Neo'. It always denotes a movement which cherrypicks some of the concepts of an earlier one and then adds a few new ones, ordinarily resulting in a jumble. It doesn't cohere nearly as well as the original, but that doesn't stop it from attracting some enthusiasts. In the case of the Neo-Marxists you can easily do your own analysis. To give you a start, clearly they've dropped any of Marx's objections to private property. Class levelling is the last thing on their minds, and except for a scattered few them, they are even mum on tax cuts for the rich. Their novel contribution is their emphasis on race, sexual orientation, and sex. Take it from there yourself. It's not hard going. As for 'fundamentalist', I meant it not in the literal sense of any slavish devotion to Marx's works, and regret leaving it open to misinterpretation. I used it just as a generic term for intolerant obsessiveness and rigid fanaticism.
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  175. Congratulations protozoa, left-wing activists have replaced you as the lowest form of animal life.
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  176. Our guest tends to end her sentences with words spoken very quickly, rather indistinctly and in a much softer voice. Worse still, they are the words which she has been building to. Thus the most important words are the most difficult to make out. Frustrating. I must say I'm tired of hearing about how dissatisfied women are. I've had to hear about it every day of my life. They've got the power, status, money and freedom they demanded and just complain more and more and more. Do they never tire of their own complaining? It appears not, and it appears that this is because complaining is richly rewarded.
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  177.  @scalesofleviathan9697  Don't confuse the libertarian with the anarchist.
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  178.  @gogaonzhezhora8640  Says a fraud.
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  179.  @BlurryFace-ro3mp  Do you not read comments before you reply to them? I specifically stated that it's a linguistics term. Go back and read, and maybe acquire the habit of reading each word. As for that word having roots in Latin, it sort of goes without saying. Most words in the English language can be traced back to Latin through French, which I find interesting, and indeed I know thousands of Latin roots. But interesting doesn't equate to important in every case. As a term in linguistics it retained its sense of male vs. female anyway.
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  180. Sullivan was close with 'minstrel,' but we really need the word 'womanface'. Maybe 'girlface'. 'Chickface' as a slangy thing for people over 40, even.   We need to turn their woke firehose around and back on them.
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  181. "I've actually left a steamer back there." Took me 3 or 4 replays to make that out but it was worth it😆.
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  182.  @lostintranslation1957  You're one of those Russians who Konstantin satirizes in his channels promos.
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  183.  @lostintranslation1957  I think Putin has a salad in need of a toss. Off you go.
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  184. New and improved.
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  185. Don't forget Pol Pot and Nancy Pelosi.
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  186. How long before Canada starts producing political exiles? 🤔
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  187. What's wrong with saying "people" or "category"? Answer: Nothing.
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  188.  @johnwade1095  "There is only one human right—the right to be left alone. All others are subordinate." Sounds right. But now the New Puritans say "That's only half of it. I have that right, and another that you do not: My right to tell you what to do. And don't you dare try to deny me my human rights or you'll have hell to pay." (Orwell [somewhere in the afterlife, nursing a pint and shaking his head]: "I'll say it again, mate: Don't let it happen. It depends on you.")
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  189. I have little sympathy for these women who spent their lives milking the twin agendas of preposterously and mindlessly slagging men while preposterously and mindlessly glorifying women — and now come making nice to men, soliciting their aid out of pure self-interest the minute it occurs to them they might be useful. As I see it, they are hoist with their own petard, for the trans activists are just copying all the loathsome techniques the feminists used for decades. Serves them right.
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  190. Didn't care for that latter part. Konstantin's sudden near-religious conversion since the birth of his child reminds me of a keen observation by Cyril Connolly: "The most sombre enemy of art is the pram in the hallway."
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  191. LEE-mən not "LAY-mən," for heaven's sake.😂   Appears this guy's a layman when it comes to finance. (When it comes to recent economic history, even). I had no idea what the poor devil was talking about at first.🙄 Yikes.
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  192.  @pablodelnorte9746  You assume incorrectly that I am an American. You also incorrectly invoke the German family name Lehmann. It's irrelevant to the name Lehman Brothers, which was an American bank, not a German one. Its name was not pronounced LAY-mən, as anyone with any knowledge of global finance and investment knew, and knows. Just so you know, the American beer Budweiser is pronounced BUD-wyze-er, not BOOT-vyze-er. And Heinz (the ketchup company) is hynz, not hynts. These are not mispronunciations, they are correct American forms. Thanks for your reply.
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  193.  @williammkydde  Yes, and in WWII the US was also justified in attacking Japan, which was also "half-a-globe away." You're bad at this. Do find someone else to bother, will you please?
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  194. You're wrong about that. Ukrainians overthrew a guy who f.ed them over as much as it is possible to do. He campaigned and won on aligning Ukraine with Europe. It was unequivocal. Then the minute he was sworn in he announced that, no, instead Ukraine would align itself tightly with Putin. The country was furious and got him the f. out of there in a hurry. I don't doubt that the US pulled one or two strings to aid Ukrainians at the time, and I'm glad if they did. If they hadn't, Ukraine might not exist today except as a Russian province. If you're not fond of Putin and his lies you should find ways to defend your mind against him and them.
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  195. 1) Konstantin mentions people who are now reflexively against any policy or action their governments come out with. Yes, that's bigger than ever. Prime example: the insane position that it's wrong to assist Ukraine. It's mainly rigid anti-governmentism. (Hope you like my new word for this.) 2) Richard seems to agree with what I was just thinking. I started by asking Why can't everyone just look after themselves and never mind telling others what to do, say, or be? After all, I went on, improving the world should mean improving oneself and it should end there, full stop. So all this busybody-ing that plagues our society is likely just a way of avoiding doing that. ("I'm a fine person; it's other people who need improvement.") Now Richard comes along to say it "absolves you of responsibility" and he ties it into untreated or improperly treated psychological afflictions. Noice. 3) I like how the replay graph is all squiggly. It shows people are replaying the most interesting bits so they can absorb them better, or just to savour them. (I refer to that graphic feature embedded in the video progress bar that shows viewing time, including "Most replayed".)
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  196. Rob's story of the virtue- and class-signalling young woman ("marriage is patriarchal") reminded me of a youngish woman from an upper-class background whom I once knew. Her grandfather had been CEO and a major shareholder of a department store chain. She lived in a mansion in the city's most exclusive area but wore nondescript clothes and drove an old Volkswagen sedan. We had both worked in the political sphere (in my case for a centrist government, in hers a left-wing administration). One day, after she spoke in favour of hiring quotas, I mentioned two or three of my reasons for opposing it. She felt compelled to respond but had nothing at all to actually say, so she settled for replying blandly "I'm sure there are answers to that in a briefing book somewhere." (Briefing books are government policy manuals containing background information, commonly in the form of talking points.) It was enough for her to stand for the belief without knowing why.
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  197. Trans activists: " 'Man' 'woman' —those things aren't real, they're imaginary. Scholars have proven that. You just think you're a man, you just think you're a woman, according to narrow-minded social conventions with no foundation in science or truth of any kind." Also trans activists: "I am a real woman! / I am a real man! Don't you dare deny my human rights."🙄
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  198.  @charlesdavis3802  I'll go along with that. As he said himself, somebody had to get things going. There were no numbers on antibody seroprevalence out there at all.
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  199. Ok, if it's a matter of terms, how about "Putin bootlicker"?
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  200. Right. Let's have women's spaces remain just that. Women's clubs, too, and all the rest. (Except they can't say men can't be nurses and things like that, obviously). Also, let's see the return of the Boy Scouts. Just the fact that somebody doesn't like sex exclusion isn't enough. There should have to be proof of substantial harm. The urge to micromanage everybody's lives, which in this day is mushrooming totally unrestrained, has got to be beaten back before life and society lose every shred of their charm.
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  201.  @fionawhiteford2128  Pffft! Please. They stole every one of their moves from the decades-old feminist gaslighting playbook.
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  202. Yeah. Or 🤔did she change from POS pretend-good-person to good person? She made it clear at the end that her whole level of honesty and sincerity went way up.
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  203. Almost never, yeah, but Ellen Page was fairly good-looking. So I'd say 'a good-looking woman with a grip on herself' would never. On the other hand Page was in Hollywood, so maybe she considered herself homely in comparison to the prettiest of her fellow actresses.
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  204.  @bigsprucerabbitry6238  How can you ask? Women never use the toilet with the seat up; men use it each way sometimes.
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  205.  @anneb889  A great many instances were and are oblique references. It can be a wordless few frames in a TV ad, e.g. The reminders are constant and I wouldn't expect even what I look on as the best women to notice. There's less reason for them to, just as there was less reason for men to notice the metronome-like slights of women in earlier eras. Anyway, it sounds like you were well brought up, so maybe your home environment didn't amplify the dumber sorts of social messages. Also, in my view some point maybe around 1990 marked a high point in male-female relations in a lot of ways. The worst of male attitudes towards women were behind them, just as the worst of women's towards men were ahead of them. It's been downhill since, thanks to the tireless efforts of extremists and other fiends, to the point where not many of the young are interested in the opposite sex much at all, if I'm to believe what I read nowadays. Thanks for your reply.
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  206.  @anneb889  That was an interesting reply. Thanks. I'll point out that as a boy I found it merely annoying and ridiculous but the moment I arrived at university I realized how deadly earnest the man-haters were. They had a department devoted to their activities which was called Women's Studies. They weren't about making sure women got paid equally or anything like that; their entire purpose was to raise women by degrading men. Or simply to degrade men. When I would point that out to girls, they'd say 'What's wrong, can't you take it? That's what men did to women forever' or similar things. They realized that they had pit bulls working on their behalf and valued them on that basis, expecting that they'd get to wear the pants. Where I grew up women dominated at least half of marriages anyway, so they were just looking for an even sweeter deal. It was around that time that talk of equality dried up. The tone moved to: 'Men are simply terrible and don't deserve anything. Whatever they have is illegitimate. We are through with men and don't like them or need them.' By this time I was looking back on the messaging I was drenched with as a youth and began to feel a complete fool for sympathizing with and backing their earlier campaigns. I'd been had. Which is why I now just laugh at the gall of feminists' asking men to help them deal with 'trans' 'men' invading their territory. Of all the damn nerve, after how you've treated us for nearing on a whole lifetime! Trans people are copying their whole awful, irrational, histrionical, society-destroying, fake-academic playbook and I think it serves the feminists bloody well right. I'm enjoying watching the thing they spawned come back to bite them. Hoist with their own petard, and it couldn't happen to a lovelier bunch of self-serving mentally-ill hate merchants. More than you bargained on hearing, I'll bet, and if you read all this way you have my gratitude and affection. This will be all though, unless you happen to ask me something, which I'll be glad to answer (tomorrow). All the best to you.
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  207.  @craigsmith1443  Party solidarity has never been my thing. It seems hardwired into women, though. But yeah I can go part-way if there's a reason to, and I do. Problem is I was gas-lighted for so long, cutting way into my available time and energy. Maybe I can write a book.🤔 Books still make waves. Paste that reply of yours to your Notepad and make it to others elsewhere and often.👍
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  208. For two years I would go onto the New York Times and CBC forums and write about the same things Jay talks about here. As a science graduate I would always frame my remarks in proper scientific as well as other terms, generally referencing academic research. Those comments were removed. Some of my comments were supportive of certain actions of the authorities. Those were never removed. It was as simple as that. My anger (and anguish) over that will never go away completely.
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  209. Right. Those who accept your lies, from that point onwards, in effect work for you. It's not that they merely don't oppose you and are thus neutral. A person neutral to your interests would be someone who hasn't heard your lies. The ones who accept them are an asset to you and thus multiply your power.
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  210. Jordan Peterson: "Welcome to my f n world! The suckage factor is at infinity. Whatevs, talk to you soon my good man."
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  211. Putin's copying his entire playbook.
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  212.  @rayrautio4011  Dude, omg, no!🙄 The female version of patriarchy already has a name: matriarchy.
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  213.  @klientproby  Your reading comprehension was poor. I certainly did not say that anything you said was fake. Read each word individually.
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  214. Hahaha Brilliantly well put. You deserve a good writing job if you want one and don't have it yet. Tone, idiom, rhythm, pacing, rhetorical force, mastery of meaning, almost microscopically faultless usage, sense coherence, it's all there—the works.👏 America needs more You. The world needs more You, for that matter.
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  215.  @sifridbassoon  The thief could get a small amount of money for the wheel or trade it for something. It's highly unlikely the motive was not gain.
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  216.  @roygeorge5364  I don't get why everyone here's assuming the dad was a donor. Many gay couples adopt. EDIT: By donor I meant plastic cup donor.
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  217. Isn't 87k views far below the Triggernometry norm? Appears that way to me. If so, it's a pretty obvious case of algorithmic cloaking (i.e. they're keeping it out of people's suggested videos, which is a shameful thing to do).
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  218. It's amazing how 21st-century TV make-up can make Justin Trudeau look like Sam Harris. If your idea of democracy is the candidate you oppose getting fewer votes via media manipulation, you're anti-democratic. So when he said he didn't think it would've been ok to stuff ballot boxes to make sure Trump wasn't re-elected, I didn't believe him. (Btw, during this interview he was clearly on something. Note also the band-aid on the back of his hand.)
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  219. As in Rome, first neurosis, then heightened corruption, then depression and a lack of will to carry on. Then more neurosis at a new level. Then a final spasm of utmost corruption. Then the end. Oh, and just before the end, setting sail for Byzantium. "Elon Musk. Paging Elon Musk, white courtesy telephone please."
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  220. False. Top 5 countries: GDP in USD: US, China, Japan, Germany, UK GDP adjusted for currency valuation (PPP): China, US, India, Japan, Germany
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  221.  PerilOS  Yes, as valued by the conversion rate of the rouble it's in the range of Canada, Spain & Italy. But even giving a high theoretical value to the rouble, it's below Germany. It is not 5th by any measure except maybe some voodoo calculation on Russian state TV.
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  222. ​ @afuzzycreature8387  Most instances of using verbs as nouns that aren't sanctioned by dictionaries (e.g. 'encodes') are meant to exclude or to signal cultural status. I read that somewhere anyway.
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  223.  @brianover_reviews  "[I]t has always been possible to use intelligence to evil ends." In that case, you yourself are capable only of good.
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  224. Why does no one else paint the same picture of China's demographic future as Zeihan does? Everyone else predicts decline, but says it will take much longer. No one else says a solid majority of Chinese will be dead within 27 years (by 2050) with a very small number of births to compensate. He predicts a population under 725m by then. Alarm bells are going off for me. He also misuses words he has never looked up.
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  225. Don't forget the endocrine (hormone) disruptors in everything from plastics to cash register receipts (see NYT article "The Types of Plastics Families Should Avoid"). Plastic particles are in our food and water. Even in the air (yes, your home has considerable plastic dust). They're surely embedded in our flesh—they're in the flesh of fish caught in the middle of the ocean, so why not? Very widely prescribed anti-depressants also tend to significantly decrease sex drive. They do this by an unknown mechanism, often sharply and not just temporarily. So I don't know how much we should blame social factors. I suspect that if they were fine biologically, with hormones similar to humans of the past, young people would tell the social engineers to stuff their weird ideas, and then go out on the hunt for the opposite sex, as formerly. As it is, they are suddenly temperamentally very open to outlandish concepts concerning sex. Many of them don't know what gender they are. Many are grossed out by the idea of sex entirely. Tbh, I find they look funny. Younger women show less interest in becoming mothers every year. Males' sperm quality and quantity is very low, and deep voices have become very rare. Between 1990 and 2019, annual per capita childbirths fell 18%. But in the 20-24 group it was -72%. Those 25-29: -43%. Of course, some of that is down to skyrocketing infertility. Our endocrine systems seem to be collapsing.
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  226. What a pity that ordinary women have to face this women's spaces business. Because watching the TERFs fight it out with the trans activists is sheer delight. I wish they'd pick up the pace of defaming each other. Doyle is brilliant.
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  227.  @GM-db4bv  Try not to be so 🤡ish. Just try.
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  228.  @GM-db4bv  A poll published last month, the results of which are searchable (Statista article: "Share of people who would vote to stay in NATO if there was a referendum in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) in 2023, by country") showed that Hungarians' support for remaining in NATO is at 89%. But not all 11.3m Hungarians were polled, so you probably don't accept that.😂
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  229.  @HayilAl-Qadhaafi-ws9of  Oh, poor Qaddafi!😢
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  230. If you watch as ex-agent Yuri Bezmenov reveals in Operation Infektion how the KGB used Western media to shape what the West thought of itself, it's impossible not to believe that when the West's enemies saw social media emerge as an incredibly powerful force, it must've looked like a mountain of gold just there for the taking. And so it was.
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  231.  @ephraimwinslow  World Pigeon Congress: "Hey, stop comparing us to that guy!"
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  232. Famous guy v Unknown. There's your explanation.
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  233. (1) What they call 'gender affirmation' is 100x closer to being 'gender assignment' than what they actually call 'gender assignment.' Amazing how they always accuse others of doing what they're doing. (2) When anyone tells him/herself that if they question their young child's 'gender identity' it's because they're transphobic, that's when they should know they've been gaslighted. Like a kullt member saying "If I doubt the Leader, surely I must be possessed."
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  234. Wokesters think human nature itself can be changed by their activism. It's the classic far-left, socialist, communist, radical feminist error. They think that, well, we get people to drive on the correct side of the road, so surely we can turn humans into ethereal beings by just trying harder. But we are flesh and blood, and that's what horrifies them, what gives them their anxieties, neuroses and all their obvious tics and outright mental illnesses. They're the New Puritans yearning to have no body, only a soul.
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  235.  @maxfitnesstraining1585  But where is the well-organized class of white people going around on university campuses and TV asserting that such things are ok? It doesn't exist. If it's wrong, it's wrong, so you shouldn't come anywhere near defending it on the grounds that it's on rare occasions done to your group.
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  236.  @maxfitnesstraining1585  You came near it at the very least, mate, as I said. And by telling me to calm down you reveal that you're ready to make a point but not ready to be calmly challenged on it. Try pointing to the part of my reply that wasn't 'calm'.
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  237. ​ @idongesitx1873  "You can look it up." That is an empty assertion. Try offering what you consider evidence.
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  238.  @maxfitnesstraining1585  🤨Strange. But I'll take your word for it.
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  239.  @kamelionify  No probs.
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  240. Every decent woman will give the Barfie movie the Bud Light treatment.
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  241. It's the arms race to end all arms races. Winner take all.
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  242.  @jiminverness  I agree with every word of your comment except cringe. Maybe it's strange, because I'm pretty hawkish on diction and usage generally, but I got used to it fairly easily. In my view it also happens to be a good adjective for based. 😠
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  243. University students: Pompous, Self-Righteous, Callow & Clueless. Since 1088 ᵀᴹ
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  244. ​ @gacek5036  There was only one world-leading commentary platform out there to buy. He had to pay what its shareholders were willing to accept. So he did the standard thing and offered 20% over the previous day's closing share price — exactly what the book says you have to do, exactly what his advisor Morgan Stanley suggested. It turned out the market was overvaluing Twitter, but that's not something you can do much about if you're drafting a takeover bid. You go with an offer you expect will eventually find favour.
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  245.  @saltburner2  I know. I was only messin' about
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  246.  @oldtools  What's that in reply to? I've posted several times in this thread.
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  247.  @ConArtista  I find this welcome. Too many people disagreeing with me these last however many days. Cheers.
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  248.  @wanderinggremlin2388  Seems like a fair assessment.
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  249.  @laylaindy  Sure, it may be a sign. But absent a number of additional possible indicators it can be simply a part of bad judgment or immaturity. I think it's important to avoid over-medicalizing behavior that's the least bit unusual, not really sensible or even harmful. You know it's important when you realize that many things are considered acceptable, not unhealthy or even virtuous in one country and unacceptable, pathological or even criminal in others. And even within a single country, it may depend on one's walk of life. (What about a father who works in an anti-gang police squad and regularly participates in conducting raids? Psychopath or hero of society?) Personality psychology is rife with pitfalls.
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  250. I daresay most people are a little more intelligent simply for having listened to him attentively for an hour, even if they forget immediately what he said. Something of his powers of analysis will remain with them and add to their own, briefly at least.
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  251. His rants don't hang together and he's not clever enough to understand the subjects he tries to tackle. But he's also not clever enough to be intimidated by that. He's like a manual labourer who goes after the university mathematics establishment, just a joke. What I like is that he's got something bad to say about everybody, so it practically doesn't matter who you're against, he's got a dig at them that you'll like. However, that's the bad side at the same time: He gets everybody riled up to no good effect because he calls everybody a liar—except for those who, like him, call everybody a liar. For example, Joe Rogan. So he's actually contributing to confusion, distrust, nihilism and chaos. If the day comes when everybody starts shooting at everybody else (a civil war or whatever will be the right word for it) he will have made a serious contribution to making it happen...while making a pretty damn good living at it. I'd say his conscience is weak in that regard. But calling Barack Obama "black Santa Claus" had me in stitches and you could see KK and FF got a huge kick out of it too. EDIT: Omg then he went on to point out that Bill Gates is only a high school graduate yet the media treats him like a virologist, and also that he was a buddy of Jeffrey Epstein. KK and FF almost fell out of their seats laughing. Oh ffs I did love that.
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  252. Jim Rickards says a lot of things. Look him up years and years ago saying gold is headed to $2,500 very soon. It never happened. It went down in price instead and stayed there for years. Now he says it'll be $5,000 or $15,000 or whatever. He talks fast but says little. One learns very little by listening to him.
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  253. If Russia doesn't want NATO on its border it's free to move elsewhere.
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  254.  @MakinItHappenn  Yeah, I figured so. But I'd like to know when, how and why.
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  255. They at least know what Putin is, and only 9% have any use for him.
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  256.  @eusouamarela  Quite right. It's what I and others call a religious face. Key features include the blank serenity and unemotional condescension which result from dogmatic conviction. It's very often fat, pink and clearly well-rested. (Picture Vatican officials responding to abuse allegations. In Harris' case less so, as I see signs of drug abuse.)
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  257. @@nickshannon7442 In highly-politicized academic subjects, and probably even in some that aren't, peer review is broken.
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  258. To avoid having to have a nine-hour conversation just to get the vaguest idea of who someone is. How can you ask? (I'm not saying it always works, I'm just answering your question.)
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  259.  @23strawbale  It delighted you to reply to someone who asked you not to, didn't it? I bet you stalk people, too. And either really love yourself or really hate yourself. Ah, well, there is the mute button.
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  260. "Yooman"? Good lord. Try to have guests who know how to pronounce the word 'human'.
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  261.  @juniorjames7076  Brings to mind Bob Dylan, Positively 4th St.: "You just want to be on the side that's winning." Anyway yeah, you're quite right. I'm guessing that a lot of institutional/corporate/academic support for wokeism is a mile wide and an inch deep. And that it's the same out among the general population.
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  262.  @PeterbFree   How did Kuwaiti citizens die in a war which was in another country and in which they had no part? You just made that up. That simply wasn't the same war. It was 13 years earlier. It's poor argumentation to change the subject. Do you have any comment to make on the subject at hand, the Kuwait War? Btw, I always opposed the Iraq War.
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  263. Pinfold's dictum: Two wrongs don't make a right. They make a leftist.
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  264. Shouldn't we in fact say "new level"?
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  265. So is Canada's CBC. All its features and half its "news" are simply left-activist articles; the other half of its news is likewise delivered from the left-activist point of view. Reader comments critical of the Liberal government or of the woke agenda are scrubbed wholesale from its site. The remaining comments are largely attacks on conservatives. A cesspool and an echo chamber simultaneously. (Excuse the unpleasantness of that final image, but the metaphors are apt.)
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  266. What's happened to you is what the wokesters, the Left, the radicals, the neo-Marxists want. They want disharmony, hatred, chaos and violence (as well as widespread poverty) so that a populist appeal for revolution will find support. People like you, from their point of view, stand in the way and must be engineered out of existence.
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  267. I suppose, but is that so much less uncommon in, say, the US?
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  268. 1st paragraph: The word you might want there is heterodox. (Fancy word for eclecticism in beliefs.) 2nd paragraph: The term you might want there is illiberal liberals. 3rd paragraph: The term you might want there is neo-Marxist. ('Neo-' anything is a version which is merely inspired by the original and indeed might well horrify the originator(s), but the lineage is clear enough.)
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  269.  @pixtilla  way tl;dr Nearly barfed at "good old Karl". He fucked his young maid right under his wife's nose, then fired her and never supported the child. And you follow this POS? Muted🖕
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  270. This guy sure can talk jive.
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  271. Yes, Kisin is quite brilliant and unfailingly honest.
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  272.  @11235but  He's saying we create the world in our minds in such a way as to make it tolerable. I think neuroscience backs him up on that up to a point. Think of babies and toddlers. Before they've reached the age where they're getting a handle on existence they're very often totally overwhelmed. Baffling data is streaming in by the terabyte and it makes no sense. Learning to cope with it largely amounts to learning how to efficiently and effectively ignore almost all of it.
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  273.  @xwize  Fair reaction.
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  274.  Tri_ggernometry  What is the purpose of your fake account pretending to be Triggernometry?
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  275. Polite way to deflect interruptions during his allotted time at the debate, but too polite for wokeism in general. I'd rather go with "b----- off."
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  276. I was going right along with what he said until he declared there should be mandatory rehab or prison for street-dwelling drug addicts. What about them voluntarily entering shelters as a third option? Otherwise, how would it be unjustified to also clear out shelters in the same way? I'm not in favor of going from the present maximum slackness to maximum heavy-handedness. Mandatory shelter or rehab with prison as a later resort, is likely as drastic as we need to go in order to improve things and generally restore order.
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  277. You would have been great fun in 1941 as well.🙄
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  278.  @MmmMulholland  I see that as true in the sense that radical feminism is the model for trans activism. Radical feminism went to ridiculous extremes against men, ordinary women either backed them or remained silent in the belief that they stood to benefit in the end (which they did), the whole thing succeeded spectacularly, and now its excesses are being imitated in a way that harms women. Hoist on your own petard.
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  279.  @sole__doubt  He grinds up NYT opinion pieces, mixes them in with his junk and mainlines them, evidently.
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  280.  @tamashumi7961  But they could just scrub their accounts right before starting their job search. Terribly cunning, many of these people. Enough of them to ruin your business, to be sure.
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  281.  @OutRAjious  Yes, and they're making war on the very idea of a university as well. Bloated, pompous, full of self-regard, out of touch, corrupt and sitting on giant piles of wealth, they may soon be going the way of the English monasteries (i.e. gotten rid of) and largely for those same or similar reasons.
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  282.  @kev3d  🙄A party can lose an election; likewise its supporters collectively. But for an individual to lose an election, he or she must stand for election, not merely attempt to influence it. With your dubious command of idiom I wouldn't trust you to edit my grocery list.
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  283. "Literally"?🤨 Would it have been possible for her to be born figuratively ?
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  284.  @MikeScott55  How do you literally figure that?
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  285. Tip: YT treats any characters bookended by asterisks (no spaces) as text to be bolded, then it hides the asterisks. (Trust me, your three stars are in boldface.) So to get five asterisks, type seven of them.
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  286. Mmmmm! Where can I find this cup? I totally need that in my life. Is it available online? Do they have it in 32 oz?
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  287. Do you remember any details?
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  288. Why is Hippocrates' Oath for doctors only? Why on earth cannot developers of AI be likewise obliged to First, Do No Harm? If a doctor does harm, after all, the worst that can result is a single dead patient. AI might result in 8 billion dead. My modest proposal: Adoption of this splendid oath on a great scale. We start by forcing it on far-left activists and social engineers of all types. We swiftly move on to politicians, prostitutes, screenwriters and, in the nick of time, programmers.
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  289. Yes. But it's often difficult to make out what he's saying. His microphone is of mediocre quality at best, and he has a way of beginning each sentence in a fairly loud voice which then trails off until finally the last five or six words are quite faint and indistinct.☹
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  290. Correct. Even Serbia adamantly refuses to recognize the Donbas as Russian.
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  291. Yes, down with cowardly British Canadians. What are they even doing over here? Get rid of them. Good job, boys! Keep campaigning against these British Canadians. It's high time!👏
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  292. That's a strong endorsement of his demographic forecasts. But no one else's predictions for China are anywhere near as dire as his. The academic and institutional demographers say it will have 500-1100m people by 2100; avg. estimate around 750m. (Easy to google.) He says China's population will drop by at least 750m within 27 years, not 77. Nearly 3x as fast.🙄🙄
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  293. Thank you!
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  294.  @AmiliaCaraMia  A man can be married and have kids even though he's been disgusting to almost all girls and women his whole life.
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  295. Thanks for this clip go out to the purist neo-Marxist education faculties in every university in the English-speaking world.   Because they made it necessary.
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  296. So the people we call psychopaths are simply the bad apples among those steely people who are masters of themselves; who have decidedly superior, effective and powerful interpersonal abilities; and whose concern for others' feelings and approval is below normal. Makes sense. After all, how dangerous are those weak people who possess little self-mastery, who fall apart under pressure, who can't persuade others, who seldom take risks, and who yearn to please others?
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  297.  @ME4503  I made it clear to even the most careless reader in my original post that I am quite aware of that. But it is not ideal to use it in a medical context. Think about it.
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  298.  @jonhay75  I'm so glad you made that point. So then how about a video elsewhere in which our friend Dr. Smith (PhD, history) is interviewed about Covid vs. the 1918 Pandemic, and it is given the title: "Doctor Says Covid Is Nothing Compared to 1918 Pandemic." Comfortable with that?
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  299. ​ @lewisbenzie845  You mean you're assuming I disagree with what he says? I don't, really. I'm generally congenial to his points of view. I watched a fair number of his videos during the pandemic and for the most part they met with my approval. I don't even have a problem with his credentials. Indeed, the hypertrophy of credentialism during the pandemic was one of its more ominous and unappetizing aspects. Rather, I simply don't want his credentials to be misunderstood for any reason, and my complaint is clearly addressed to KK and FF. Why are you and other people taking this in any way for opposition to Campbell or an attack on his positions? Sorry, but that's not a solid supposition at all. It's also a sign of the hyperpartisanship which just might be the chief plague of our time. I'm not calling you partisan; I'm referring to how so many people assume the other guy is probably a thoroughgoing enthusiast (i.e. fanatic) of some sort, just for seeming to disagree with them in the slightest. I hope this clears things up, and thanks for your reply.
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  300.  @simongreaves9465  Thanks for your reply, but you've rather badly mistaken my point. Have a quick glance at my replies in this thread if you like, and I think you'll be reassured about my estimation of Campbell. (I do nonetheless strongly feel that 'Doctor' in his case is an academic rather than a professional title, however outstanding a practitioner of nursing, university instructor, and researcher he may in fact be—and that the distinction must be made in this sensitive context.)
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  301.  @dendradwar9464  One second sufficed: I said nothing about differing with Campbell's views, and in fact I am quite congenial to them, as I was during the pandemic when I watched his videos (with interest and general approval) probably about once a week. Your thinking, if I construe it properly as it was expressed, is faulty and, it appears, lazy. That whooshing sound was my original point speeding over your head. Let it come by for another go, please.
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  302.  @dendradwar9464  1) I alluded to a possibility that I couldn't make out your meaning because of how you write. Ok, it turns out I couldn't, but at least I was alive to the chance. 2) I don't know what you're on about here, for I see no question mark in your initial reply, but it is phrased as a question. Fill me in if you like. 3) My medical history is private, but I'm willing to say that my choices reflected my tendency toward moderate stances on just about everything life. I did spend hundreds of hours going as much as possible straight to learned academic sources in order to inform myself, whilst studiously ignoring media reports. Your original post is baffling to me. To me it has an air of challenge and disagreement, but its precise point of contention eludes me. Can you put it another way? Thanks for your reply.
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  303.  @dendradwar9464  That's all fine, although I still struggle to get your meaning entirely. The thing is that I don't want to debate the vaccines. I grew tired of that subject. Let's just say I am not interested in a booster unless I can get the Novavax one, which is based on a platform (protein subunit/protein adjuvant) which broadly speaking is of 1980s vintage. I only wrote my OP because I was concerned about how readers would construe the video title, and it had nothing to do with the value of a nursing PhD degree versus that of an MD. Zero. Several people are reading far too many things into it. Classic case of "So what you're saying is..."
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  304.  @MS-yc2tb  "How come trans women mostly focus on the overly sexualized woman image?" Because they're generally if not all gay men and they want to attract straight men. I wonder how can you ask. I have a question for you: Why do you refer to some people abused as children "admitting" to going on to have opposite sex sex? Opposite sex sex is normal. My confusion must have to do with the comment you replied to no longer being visible for whatever reason.
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  305. Even as an entirely hypothetical fantasy the very idea of a pill to 'improve' one's morals is rather dim. What on earth would that even mean? It surely took a lightweight to devise that as a survey question; it takes another to regard it at all seriously, as she evidently does. I'm left to surmise she's from the early cohort of participation-medal children who were praised unconditionally by their parents. ("You're the best, honey! Yay!" "I'm the best! Yay!")
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  306.  @MmntechCa  Ford respected the voters. You're forgetting that pro-lockdowners were absolutely furious with him nearly the whole way, the news media were uniformly clamouring for stricter measures, and so were the public health authorities. He actually stood up fairly well under their enormous and unrelenting pressure. He steered a middle course between the polarized desires of a public who were very divided but leaned pro-lockdown.
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  307. It has to be spelled right, as Nietzsche spelled it: ressentiment. But he was right, and so are you.
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  308.  @RandomAussieGuy87  I read tons of Trig comments and I disagree strongly. I too view myself as a centrist.
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  309. Yeah, that was a really low moment for Konstantin. I hope he wishes he could take that back. I'm not thrilled with Francis for his guffaw at it either.
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  310.  @rodiusmaximus  Then your meaning is obscure. I maintain that your comment should be recast as "Peterson's difficulties are proof of the axiom 'The truth doesn't mind being questioned, but a lie doesn't like to be challenged.' " Otherwise you're saying it's Peterson who's telling lies. Note that I have also corrected the problem phrase "a lie can't doesn't like."😂
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  311.  @rodiusmaximus  I know the English language inside and out, thank you very much, and I wasn't alleging any grammatical or syntactical disagreement between 'Peterson' and 'living proof.' I found fault with the idea that Peterson himself is defending lies. That's what the OC, as worded, asserts. Obviously 'living' as a modifier of 'proof' cannot refer to difficulties and would have to go if 'Peterson' were no longer the subject of the sentence. You must be fun at any funerals you are permitted to attend.
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  312.  @steinanderson  "Meltdown" and "legitimately" are empty rhetoric as used by you here. You're not one of those people referred to in the title, are you?
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  313. De-fund the BBC by campaigning for de-funding the BBC.
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  314. ​ @debanydoombringer1385  They just hate the rich, and it's out of envy—i.e. simple resentment of others, for what they have. It's a very base human instinct and we see what happens when envy-filled people take over. They set up a society far more vicious than what preceded it, with themselves at the top. And immediately they begin awarding themselves privileges and luxuries. Here's the archetypal conclusion, ten years on, of the dupes of socialists who with high hopes had co-operated with their takeover: "They said they were going to eliminate poverty, but poverty went up. What they did was eliminate the comfortably well-off. With that, they declared success."
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  315. 👍Pretty well informed comment. It's so incredibly false for Putinists to claim that it was only the US who wanted Yanukovych out. Ukraine was hopping mad over his absolute fraud of a campaign. They very rightly rose up to get that wannabe tyrant and traitor to his nation out of there.
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  316. Stuff weaving your material and your ads into a single ugly thing.
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  317. Bloody 'Ell! Wuhss goin' on with the RAW upload? Copyright grounds?! It-just-ain't-right-it-in't.😠
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  318.  @rinzler9171  A perhaps surprising source, Yuval Hariri, declares that moderate nationalism is not only good but actually essential. Easily searchable here on this site.
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  319.  @obosumba   Yeah, and analogously to the Germans, those programmed in wokeism are told that the European peoples are wicked and the West is a cesspool of oppression which must be torn down. Ordinary children are indoctrinated like so many Hitler Youth. So, ironically, woke turns out to mean unable to see reality with one's own eyes, able only to see through what others want one to believe. Blind, asleep, anything but awake. It's like I'm talking to a Moonie here.
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  320. Not at all. He's very right about Ukraine, totally unlike your heroes—that shoulda-been-a-janitor Mearsheimer and that dissimulating king of sneak Carlson.
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  321. I bet GenZers are messed up and guilt-wracked from watching internet porn, which I assume most of them first looked at before they were even 10. It's practically impossible for parents to stop, and many must have watched a large amount. It's probably why they think the human race is terrible and why they so easily absorb woke indoctrination. Guilt and confusion prepare the ground for things like misanthropy, shame, anxiety, depression...and of course sanctimonious finger-pointing.
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  322. And add to childlessness manlessness. Wanting to commit violence on George Osborne or something like it is almost bound to creep in.
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  323. NATO is merely the club of countries which exists to deter Russia from attacking them. You don't understand Europe. You don't understand Russia. You don't understand Putin. You don't understand anything.
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  324.  @SuperSuperdude88  Spending on Ukraine is lunch money compared to the cost of letting European security collapse. Tens of billions versus tens of trillions. I repeat, lunch money. Moreover it's being well spent. Militarily it's been highly effective: Putin is the frog being slowly boiled, his army decimated. After his defeat he will not dare repeat his blunder. Go home, Ivan. Get t.f.o. of Ukraine where you don't belong.
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  325. Yes, because the truth cannot possibly be that simple. How can you ask?
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  326.  @Anne_Onymous  I'm curious how you saw the invisible post, though.
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  327. Well, hard-left activists flock to these uploads and pile on the dislikes and "reports." In many or most cases, I would imagine, that's enough for the algorithm to handle the deletion on its own. (In the rest, of course, some wokester hireling gleefully hits the destroy button. Presto!, a hit of dopamine and 10 cents in wages.🤮)
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  328. My dear Konstantin, the left haven't changed. They're just as loony as they've ever been. Anyway, thanks for making the choices that it took to get you to this point.👍 (What took you so long, btw?😄)
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  329.  user-go7yd8qp4c  Another hategirl heard from.
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  330. ​ @killcat1971  It's gendered because she wants to make women's worst attributes politically correct. 'Bad As We Wanna Be' might be her watchword.
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  331. I, too, noticed that with dismay. It was a clownish error. (I must point out, however, that in his name it's the first syllable that's stressed.)
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  332.  @hexum7  What a mess of a comment (especially the long paragraph). It all goes without saying or is patently untrue. You know, you go a long way towards bolstering the OC's assertion. It's ok though, I wish you well.
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  333.  @hexum7  True. But what does "o ‘me em DDS" mean?
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  334. ​ @robollis  I don't want to hear from any turkey who has taxed me with a Nazi slur. You are muted, boor.
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  335. @supernovaaust Yes, but no in a way. Marxism is actually all about human corruptibility, expunging it, that is --- in others --- by abolishing private property. It does not appear take into account the corruptibility of its own adherents. (Cf. "Commonly the Puritan saw sin everywhere, excepting the mirror.") In other words, yes, it seems to assert that corruptibility isn't inherent in people, it originated with capitalism. I'm mildly curious if that's in Marx somewhere. Thanks for your reply.
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  336. "A touch of the Hancock" Hahaha In 1960 there would've been letters written to Hughie Greene (the BBC Director-General).
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  337.  @john_smith1471  Very well. I know for a fact Spike Milligan and Peter Sellers referred to him as Hughie Greene in the sense of the man who was ultimately their boss. It suppose it was in jest but that's all right because I meant it the same way.
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  338. That British-Egyptian guy was pure gold. (Not sure just what I mean but those are the right words for it.) Konstantin's answer to him was equally golden and it was great also that he offered him the follow-up which clarified so well what he was on about. Speaking of so well, I was extremely glad that Thomas Sowell's name came up and his thought given suitable discussion and praise, even if very briefly. ..... ..... Btw, why do socialists have such wide faces?
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  339.  @heronsdoor4658  Because of what the education faculties at the universities are like. They've been very left-wing for a long, long time, and to dedicated leftists mass murder is cute when the left does it.
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  340. Rumor has it he was a fellow supply teacher at that high school Justin Trudeau had to leave in the middle of a semester.
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  341.  @PeterbFree  You look great in your tinfoil hat, spouting irrelevancies and fantasy. Sad.
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  342.  @PeterbFree  😢
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  343.  @PeterbFree  It seems to me that he's criticizing authoritarians and their psychologically stunted supporters.
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  344.  @PeterbFree  I could easily mute hundreds or even thousands of people a year, but do it very sparingly anyway, only about two a year. The most thoroughly hopeless ones. Congratulations on earning that distinction.
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  345. ​ @BlurryFace-ro3mp  I said that "As a term in linguistics it retained its sense of male vs. female anyway." Retained indicates I knew it was an older word. But this is too tedious to interest me anymore. Here, take the ball and find somebody else to play with.
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  346.  @BlurryFace-ro3mp  When someone says they're not interested, you're obliged to respect that. To persist is to harass. Just a little more than that and it begins to near stalking. In any case it's totally bad manners. Congratulations on making me hit the mute button. Proud of that?
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  347.  @ActuallyJustB  Excuse me, are you disparaging Andrea for having a course of personal growth and development which was at most slightly out of the ordinary, and has been a common part of the female experience since time immemorial? Unacceptable. She is owed a retraction of those remarks, and an apology. Out with it!
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  348. The left: Studies that show how T levels make men destructive, reprehensible and morally inferior to women are great. Absolute truth bombs.🙄 Also the left: Studies that show how T levels make black women less attractive to men are misogynistic, rai cyst, pseudoscientific, hateful, "problematic". Their authors must be ostracized.🙄 Their sole aim is to show that maleness is the problem. Not to show it, actually; to assert it and then punish anyone who disagrees. It's precisely that shameless and self-serving instinct towards tyranny that made Orwell, a committed socialist but still a decent and honest human being, so nauseated by leftists.
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  349. Non-Brit here. What did she mean to indicate by Cornwall and Newham?
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  350.  @TheJeremyKentBGross  Please. I'm saying AGI will be vastly more dangerous than nukes. So why say nukes are less dangerous than I imagine?  A billion times ten and a billion times a thousand are both enormous numbers. And if AGI does deliver some benefits for people, how exactly does that offset its potential to turn Earth to Hell? So what if billions attain clear skin and spotless homes if they die in an bot-war apocalypse or suffer in tyranny under the madman with the biggest array of GPUs?
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  351. So tired of this nonsense, blaming Ukraine and its allies for the war. As though Ukraine is warlike for defending itself, and if it had an interest in peace it would surrender. Defending yourself is not warmongering, nor is aiding that defense. It's like if a girl fought back against being beaten and raped, blaming her for not just submitting. Wouldn't want to be your daughter in that case. Her rapist would adore you, though.
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  352. 'Course not. To the woke left, the left can do no wrong. "When we do it, it's cute."
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  353. Famous guy v Unknown. There's your explanation.
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  354. KK, don't underestimate the role of hostile foreign governments flooding social media with billions of posts, and many billions of upvotes and downvotes. A single online worker making use of AI to spoof a native English speaker can easily post thousands of times a day via fake accounts. Up- and downvotes take a single click. Multiply all that by many thousands of very cheaply hired workers and you get fantastically high numbers. The documentary Operation Infektion (proper spelling) gives an idea of the shocking ease with which foreign governments can make Western openness a weakness rather than a strength. For them, social media is a huge lever marked "Pull Here to Divide and Fragment Western Societies."
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  355. ​ @honestjohn6418  Marxists will always deny there's anything bad about Marxism. They'll argue till they're blue in the face that all criticism of it is unfair. And in doing so, they'll say anything. People who favour democracy, individual rights and freedoms, and free enterprise will always allow that those things have drawbacks. And that's all you really need to know about the two groups.
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  356.  @xmathmanx  Arguing that Marxism will ever be given a serious try is either horrifically bad faith or very very stupid.
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  357.  @xmathmanx  "[Y]ou can repeat clichés all you like, your head will still be empty." The very same polemical style as your hero Marx. Such a nice fellow. All about the justice. Fucked his pretty young housemaid under his wife's nose just after the birth of their son, then fired her when she became pregnant, denied his paternity, and would support neither mother nor child. In the end his fox-hunting super-rich capitalist buddy paid for the child's upbringing. Never had a job but lived of the proceeds of capitalism, and had a servant his treatment of whom would appal Charlie Rose himself. [slow sarcastic clapping 👏👏👏👏👏]
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  358.  @xmathmanx  I wouldn't get my social or political ethics from him if that's the case. Go away. Just go away and stay far away from me. No more contact.
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  359.  @xmathmanx  No, you wouldn't know, would you? Any attempt at it can only end in a tyranny of prisons, famines and rivers of blood, just as has happened. It is a twisted fantasy, not a workable system. Now go away. Do not reply. Dealing with you is lost time.
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  360.  @xmathmanx  Well, I do thank you for showing not just me but everybody what kind of person you are, what kind of person a Marxist is. You're the kind that doesn't mind forcing himself on others, not giving a shit what they want, only what you feel like doing. Someone tells you to leave them alone and you immediately message them. This, my friend (and I use that term very loosely) is what is wrong with Marxism. That's why it's bound to end in tears and much, much worse wherever it's tried. It's because of what Marxists are like as people. They're like you, they're tyrants at heart. It doesn't matter what people want, it's what Marxists want that matters. They're the date ray pists of the world of political theory. Whole peoples, whole nations scream "No!" and you rip their dresses off anyway. I knew I'd hear from you again. That's how you people are.
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  361.  @xmathmanx  And now you're muted. Dude.
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  362. Muroki's Dictum: "[Social] change is done best when it is done slowly." Hippocrates' Dictum: "First, do no harm." Those ought to be inscribed over the entry doors of every university and government building in the land.
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  363.  @ron88303  <-- "Royalty doesn't matter." I say the hotheads insisting it doesn't matter rather proves it does.
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  364. Say what you think while you still can.
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  365.  @timmietimmins3780  Bit late to the thread, but let me throw in another arable land/person stat: Australia: 3.9 acres/person; US: 1.18 Canada: 92.9m acres/38.5 people = 2.41 Temps push down on Canada's yields, but ag science, mechanization and fertilizer offset a lot of that compared to most other countries.
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  366. Plan A in international propagandizing: Ruthlessly attack your opponents. Plan B, because Plan A won't work on many people: Say things to slowly get people to just not believe in anything anymore. Nihilism and apathy are fine achievements in their own right. (Nihilism: "nothing matters, nothing's real, nothing's good or bad." Apathy: "who cares?")
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  367. We need to re-stigmatize mental illness. Good mental health is partly dependent on the will to hang onto it, and without stigma, some people give into incipient mental illness. It's strange and I don't fully understand it, but in effect people can be tempted to indulge in mental illness as a response to distress.
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  368. ​ @williambranch4283  If later decades could've reached back through time to complicate and mess up those years you now take for granted and mildly disdain, you'd have freaked. Taking a laid-back attitude now towards things that meant the world to you then, aging does that.
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  369. "A monarchy is a merchantman which sails well, but will sometimes strike on a rock, and go to the bottom; whilst a republic is a raft which would never sink, but then your feet are always in water." — Fisher Ames, American politician and orator around the time of the War of Independence and framing of the Constitution. He was highly respected and had many other interesting things to say.
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  370. Having the same thing in mind as you, my blond friend always says he's a member of the blond community.😆
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  371. No he does not. He addressed that head-on in the clip. Bear in mind that there are surely neo-Nazis in most if not all countries.
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  372.  @junglesuperstar9270  What's so funny there, Mischa? Did your mind wander over to how comically stoop I d a situation your Psychoführer und Reichskanzler has gotten you into? Might as well laugh while you can. Plenty of time later for staring down into an empty glass that reminds you of Russia's future.
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  373.  @junglesuperstar9270  I would far rather that a people so often charming, intelligent and good-looking would steer themselves in a more salutary direction. Alas, they are choosing disaster. It will be an immense tragedy for them and many others if they don't come to their senses. 😟😟 Pretty soon it will be too late.
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  374.  @junglesuperstar9270  Hahaha Yeah, you're right, most of the EU sponges off Germany, Poland included. But that's a feature, not a bug. Anybody that can live off Germany's wealth should go ahead and try it. It unites Europe. 😄   Anyway: Former communist countries of Eastern Europe ranked by GDP per capita, rated at local currency purchasing power (PPP): 1. Slovenia (next after Italy) 2.Czech Republic (two spots later) 3. Lithuania 4. Estonia 5. Poland 6. Hungary 7. Slovakia 8. Latvia 9. Romania 10. Croatia 11. Russia 12. Bulgaria 13.-23. Five Balkan states, Albania, and five former SSRs, in the south except for Belarus. Ukraine is 23rd but these are 2022 rankings. So Russia is in the middle and is behind its Western neighbors who are part of the EU and NATO. The countries it is ahead of are its mostly southern neighbors like Ukraine and a some tiny impoverished republics totally under its thumb. (So of course they'll be poor. A duty to be poor is thrust upon them.) From Wikipedia "Table of sovereign states in Europe by GDP (PPP) per capita." It gives the IMF as its source.
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  375.  @Seevawonderloaf  I'm sorry to hear this. The lack of any word of this in the Western news media appears to have misled me into assuming Indians are more sensible than they may in fact be. Thanks for your interesting comment. I wish you and your country well.
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  376.  @merlesmith6794  Yes, but even though it's an adolescent's conception of nobility it's still noble up to a point. Every parent and schoolteacher knows what I'm talking about: the child's naïve sense of justice which at times may sting the adult conscience for certain reasons, but must still be patiently reshaped into one that takes all the facts into account. On this view, the most vital question is why we have so many adolescents walking around in the adult world. Providing a full explanation must be among the top priorities.
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  377. Medicine, formerly: "First, do no harm." Medicine now: "Look at me, I'm Victor Frankenstein! Wheeee!"
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  378. ​ @Winterascent  You say that "[the division] is mostly online." But online is where people are. "American consumers spend around eight hours of their day [online]" — Statista, Jun 19, 2023. Other sources report no lower than 6 hours. Subtract work and sleep and that's a lot. Social media alone is 2.5 hours, which is maybe one-third of many people's free time.
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  379. Don't forget that people running their channels have the privilege of deleting any comment they don't like.
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  380. I can't believe she said women in British prisons are "in the hardest situation in the world." Worse than the men in British prisons? Worse than people in North Korean prisons? Worse than men in the front lines of wars? Worse than people confined and tortured, wherever that may be? I didn't much care for her lecturing manner, but I had a fair amount of respect for her until that point.
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  381. And now the elites will be hard at work on destroying Konstantin's reputation. Mark my words. In just the same way an army of them is all over Elon Musk like the Lilliputians swarming Gulliver with their stakes and string.
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  382. I agree he was 100% right, and I don't want him vilified by those who agree on that. But in fairness, he could've toned it down. Not with "niceness" exactly, but just by making use of a touch less direct cruelty of tone. Or at least a tone which would be less open to accusations of cruelty. Can we not all remember an occasion when we were sternly rebuked, devastated even, in decidedly mild terms?
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  383. @dellwright1407 Sure, and remember what made them insecure—as outlined in, for example, countless hours of Triggernometry and other videos.
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  384. Too bad mental dullness and moral vacuity prevents you from realizing that Ukraine's right to exist must be upheld, and the aid of foreign nations is imperative.
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  385.  @ledagraye9477  Such a nice comment deserved one. You're welcome.
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  386.  @williammkydde  I said nothing about Putzin. Anyway, feeling threatened is only one of the reasons one may engage in warfare. Another is horror at the violence one country is doing to another. This is why so many countries went after Iraq when it rolled into Kuwait. More sophistry, this time on your part.
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  387.  @80PercentScottish  Funny you say that🤔, as I always notice the sole of the shoe showing (when he puts his right ankle up on his left knee) is always distractingly grubby.
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  388. "Screw all the women haters" Mind clarifying that? Did you mean the women who are haters (of men, I would assume, given the context), or whoever hates women? And please don't say "Both." I want to know whom you had in mind.
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  389. ​ @monalee7687  "[Society gives] all kinds of excuses for men’s behavioral problems and absence." What? Then you are surely an inhabitant of some other planet. Here on Earth men are ipso facto pathetic scoundrels while women, as haloed quasi-ethereal beings, are literally above criticism. Waiting for your response with my fingers poised above the keys Q, E and D.
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  390.  @Lilah1848  <---"Why do men always do this? Try to undermine you because they don't like something you've said? " Translation into accurate language: "As a woman I'm above criticism. When I say something it's because it's incontrovertible. Calling me out = Misogyny." You'd be drowning in your female privilege, only you've swum in it so long that you've adapted to breathing in it. You've become the thing you despised, only in knickers.
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  391.  @brookemoore8369  That's enormously good hear. I only wanted to know whether you deplore anyone who hates the opposite sex, not just men who hate women, and you not only cleared that up, but gave me something to cheer me up as well. All the best to you.
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  392.  @monalee7687  I'd congratulate you on the fineness of your moral weave, but why gild the lily? Your knack for self-congratulation handles the situation more than adequately.👌
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  393. ​ @monalee7687  Choose to feel insulted if you wish, but it's clear you've been paying highly selective attention for many years. I can't remedy that in a few words, nor certainly against your will, but I sincerely wish you well in all regards.
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  394.  @monalee7687  It's interesting how some people affect fragility as a pretext for aggression. There's a multi-year pandemic of it going on. Tedious.
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  395. ​ @monalee7687  You call what I said a "blanket statement", overlooking the fact that I said "commonly." I think you know the difference between 'frequently' and 'always.' [sigh] Anyway, gold-digging, although it's out there, not only isn't what I said, it isn't at all what had in mind either. What I had in mind is that some given woman could be a more or less unselfish and loving partner, but divorce arrangements as they stand simply often make it tempting to end it when dissatisfaction creeps in. That's not gold-digging, it's just normal human self-interest and not even reprehensible. Neither men nor women are made of stone. We're all flesh and blood and fallible. Learning takes time, and we'd all do better in our second through fifth centuries if only we lived to 500.😕 My strongest belief is that neither women nor men are the better sex, and I run screaming (so to speak) from anyone who disagrees much at all. They're sort of like nuclear waste, so I wish they could be safely stored underground for millions of years.😄 So long.😘
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  396.  @monalee7687  Have a good night.
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  397.  @mh4zd  Can you please clarify for me what you mean by 'objectify'? I thought 'objectify' as used by an intelligent person in the context of male attitudes towards females meant 'regard as an object' in the other sense, namely 'a goal which it is one's desire to attain.' It doesn't make any sense that a man would think a woman is a thing. I don't think any man I've ever met thinks that. The very idea is so far beyond stupid that believing it's what men have in mind is actually very stupid in itself, as well as insulting to men. Men may be frequently inconsiderate towards women, and at times disrespectful, but they absolutely see them as people. But don't get me wrong, I do notice unmistakably that 99% of people use 'object', 'objectify' etc. in this context to mean object as in 'thing, as opposed to human being.'
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  398.  @mh4zd  Thanks, but that's not even readable.
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  399.  @mh4zd  Just as a general rule, apart from rare exceptions. But the question remains: 'Object' meaning 'Goal to attain', or 'Mere thing rather than a person'?
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  400.  @jaspermartin7444  Whenever I hear 'object' used in this context, I always want to know if it's meant in the sense of "goal, meant to be attained (and valued on those terms)" or "thing, rather than a human being (and valued on those terms)." Which is it you have in mind, or is it some of both? What you said about ugly women reminded me of something. Jim Morrison, certainly not everybody's idea of a font of useful wisdom but admired by some for his various musings, had this to say in one of his songs: "Women seem wicked / When you're unwanted". Something for men and women both to stash away in the back of their minds, in my view. (Women of the usual sort should substitute 'men' for 'women', obviously.) Thanks for your interesting reply.
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  401. Ok, somewhat. I see someone mostly just pushing people's buttons for fun and profit. Meaning, in this case, detached and twisted self-gratification layered in a sort of a self-referential psychiatric dessert which also pays the bills. I wish I could be more concise and clear, but these are new horizons in personality psychology.
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  402. Cf. Two Cheers For Democracy, E.M. Forster. ( Two, notice.) Also The Revolt of the Masses, José Ortega y Gasset.
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  403.  @punchforpound2808  Of the whole diversity agenda, he only backed one part: a male-female balance. One could scarcely fail to notice.
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  404. I remember that study well. It was quite flawed and he later acknowledged that. The problem was false positives. The antibody prevalence rates the researchers found were within the margin of error of the tests themselves. It could thus not be determined if the findings were valid. The test groups were also not random, as they were recruited via Facebook respondents. He ended up saying that at least it was a start, or something along those lines, which was fair to say. But I think that in time the findings were vindicated, at least in the sense that later research largely backed up his study. It could still be that his sample and his test results were lucky, or were both invalid but nonetheless offset each other in opposite directions. We'll never know. In any case I wish to emphasize that I completely agree with your assessment of him as an outstanding person, scientist, and benefactor to his countrymen and -women. He deserves great respect and gratitude.
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  405.  @charlesdavis3802  Precision wasn't the problem, validity was. By analogy with the game of darts, precision is landing your darts in a tight grouping; validity is centering them around the bullseye (or wherever you're aiming). In science, validity is the great object. As I said, although the study results more or less concurred with later work by others, Dr. Bhattacharya acknowledged it wasn't a great piece of work. It wasn't truly terrible, but it was science done on the fly, and if most papers were of that quality a lot more buildings would fall down as a result, planes would fall out of the sky more often, computers wouldn't work, and medicines would save a lot fewer people. Roughly speaking, let's say it deserved 4 to 4 1/2 stars out of five, while a pass in science is 4 1/2.
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  406.  @charlesdavis3802  Yes. I guess I did not choose a good way to get the point across. The problem wasn't "Do these numbers indicate a sizeable finding?", it was "Is this for real at all?" The conclusions might have been not just off by 40% or a factor of 3x or something, they might have been 100% false.
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  407. What a great guy. He simply won't back down. This was well worth my time.
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  408. Meanwhile, the share of babies born to low-IQ uneducated people is rising all the time. So our population is losing IQ points. The woman least likely to become a mother is one who's intelligent, educated and (my view of it) good-looking and at least a little refined. Thus The Great Dumbening, The Great Coarsening, which are still gathering steam. Don't get me wrong, men's choices have moved along analogous lines. But they don't look down on women as much as women look down on them. And they of course cannot have babies.
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  409. Right. That's true and it's what you and I think. But to some of the high-priest, champagne-socialist, Whole Foods, MSNBC-watching hipster elites, the 'real' heroes were figures like Marx, Engels, Lenin, Trotsky, Mao, Castro, Stalin, and the poster boy himself, the "Butcher of La Cabana," Che Guevara. [enormous great whanging cringebarf 🤮] I am definitely with you. But we need reinforcements.
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  410. I said some more in a reply to @ninak.5283, above, pretty close to the top of the Top Comments. It's just three or four lines so have a look if you want. (Although I wonder if generally my posts are even visible.) Cheers.
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  411. You mean that light-blue box below the video frame? Now it's no longer from Wikipedia, it's from the UN 🙄. And unlike the paraphrase of it by @TheGrimSleepy , it now just says climate change means anthropogenic climate change.
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  412.  @GrimSleepy  Mentioned you in my other reply just now.
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  413. "US, UK, Australia, New Zealand, for example." Uh, there's a 5th country that belongs on that list.
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  414. Ms. Powell, you're a great young person and you've had quite an awakening and that's excellent, but... You have to understand that if someone is genuinely dead set on becoming a political philosopher, nothing can stop him or her. Certainly not merely being unable to pay for a master's. Unless one just wanted the status and salary of being a political philosopher, one would carry on regardless. It's not like becoming an architect, lawyer or doctor.
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  415. I know this was a year ago, but was Viva mentioned in this thing? I didn't catch that.
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  416.  @redmoondesignbeth9119  Yeah, he's a good guy. Grateful for how he gave his time for that. I bet his family must have had mixed feelings! Best to you
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  417.  @taralewis9916  Gee "yeah, I never thought of that" or gee "ok, buddy, whatever you say"?
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  418. It's easy to understand, really. The farther left the government, the likelier it will believe that punishing, trampling, fining, cancelling and imprisoning people are legit forms of moral goodness. And these governments have moved farther to the left. I believe they are somewhat to the left of even those who give them their votes. There are reasons for that, too.
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  419. I am irreligious. This I have often said and will "continue to show." lmho : )
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  420. Super-condensed version: It's right owing to its inherent rightness.
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  421. Amos 'n' Andy weren't all about the hate either. So defend them as well or be wildly inconsistent. Yeah, thought so.
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  422.  @phily8093  That's hard to beat for pomposity and pretend-veiled aggression. For my having the gall and temerity to not share your views, you bitterly retort that it's because I'm angry and "don't wish to try to see my point." No, I see it, but don't agree with it. And I've got news for you: I don't owe you my agreement either. And not only anger, but in addition you histrionically accuse me of "hate" and "shouting others down." Just for disagreeing, for giving my opinion that a man costuming himself as a woman and parodying women's behaviour is akin to blackface, and calling you out on your misogynist hypocrisy. And letting you know that the hate is on your side. That reply of yours, together with your original post, are a Psychologist's Wonderland.
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  423.  @phily8093  Muted, btw. Talking to you has been lost time.
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  424.  @juangamboa2613  Marxism is for misfits. People with personality and emotional problems. They use it to convince themselves it's the world that's mad, not them. But it's them. You could see their problems from space.
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  425.  @HarryFlashmanVC  👏👏👏You go a bit easy on him, but ok.👏👏👏 (Btw, I wrote a reply of my own here, starting "Marxism is..." Can you see it?)
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  426. ​ @PeteQuad  The answer is simple: They're misfits and psychological cases, every last one of them, starting with Marx himself. Such people, many of them hopeless beyond any chance of redemption, need something that somehow validates them as people. (Otherwise abusing drugs or alcohol, or a flight to profound madness are the only options.) Marxism provides them with an excuse for not making any adjustments: "People can't handle me because I have radical ideas. That's what unenlightened people are like. Turns out I'm not inferior to them after all, I'm better than them. Far better." Misfit issues solved. Sort of. (For those who are allergic to the whole subject of politics, there's always piercing yourself with a hundred studs, dyeing your hair one color after another, endless tattoos, unusual eyeglass frames, a ridiculous hipster accent, etc. Other classic remedies include gang membership and religious fanaticism.)
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  427. DeSantis is the one the Dems are really afraid of because he's inoffensive, not unbearably full of himself, and appeals to moderates without much effort. If he has even one of Trump's top ten personal character shortcomings, I haven't noticed it yet.
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  428. I would. So you're wrong there—as you likely are about most things, I should imagine.
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  429.  @Felix-Sited  The Left does this with women too. They always let on that women were important figures in fields where they actually were not. These people feel no compunction about re-writing history with falsehoods — because truth is nothing compared to "equity." They actually consider themselves heroes. Same syndrome on a lesser level as the 9/11 hijackers — not murderers, heroes, due to the rightness of their cause.
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  430. That person in the opening clip didn't get like that on her own. It took a lot of people to create her as she is. I wish we had all opposed them publicly as we all did privately. We were such cowards for so long, most of us; and so complacent in thinking that the tide would reverse on its own.
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  431. The single-occupant bathrooms which anyone can use are totally uncontroversial and only make perfect sense to most people. (Some women don't like them because they may be less tidy and the seat may be up when they enter.)
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  432. It's far more sinister than that. These ideologues can't rule you, the parent, from within the school walls, can they? Wrong. They can. First they indoctrinate your child, molding him or her, then they declare that you're transphobic unless you "let your child lead." Presto, now they're "leading" you. Ruling you.
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  433.  @malpreece5008  ("Angus Maddison...") Please, sir, don't muddy things with facts and logic. We have learnt in recent years that those are evils used solely for oppression.
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  434. It's often nonsense. A situation could be the opposite of what it is and he'd still rant. For example, yes big pharma provides a lot of funding to the FDA. But that's because the approval process incurs expenses on their behalf, and Americans don't see why they should pay for that. It's like lawsuit filers paying court costs. But if it were the other way around, he'd still rant. He'd say "Why are taxpayers footing the bill for these multi-billion-dollar companies? Make them pay!!!"
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  435. They rejected the Old World class system but forgot to reject money worship. It all flows from that.
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  436. Archeological evidence shows women have been wearing make-up for many thousands of years. Like it or loathe it, it's bred into them. Fans of social engineering always think humans are unique among all the creatures who ever existed in having no male and female instincts (except for the male instinct to raipe) and few instincts at all except approved political ones 😆. That's what it is to be ideologues, to be anti-science, to stubbornly refuse to face facts.
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  437. World Agricultural Harvest Workers Alliance: "Hey, stop comparing us to this goof."
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  438. *tantamount
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  439. You wouldn't have the nerve to say that (and with such smugness) if you weren't currently in Bakhmut yourself, surely?🤨
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  440. Yes. What could be clearer proof? He's aligning himself with cultists. He and they make a mockery of liberalism.
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  441.  @DebraArchie-f8o  Just curious, do you see my c'ment of 12 min. before yours?
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  442. Being a tankie runs in families.
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  443. Thousands of years of exploring what truth and morals are all about finally bring us to the point where a big fat sod like Piers Morgan introduces us to the concepts of 'bragapologize' and 'rightwrong'.
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  444.  @LeutnantJoker  Thanks. A mind like yours should have a place at the table of debate in government or a major news outlet. I hope I make myself clear. Btw, did your nickname come from the Kubrick movie?
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  445.  @LeutnantJoker  Just above this thread is a comment by @Odd Captive. That thread was begun an hour after this one. I've made a reply in it which might possibly interest you. Cheers
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  446. Confusing how you wrote that. Why would a guy saying gay people oppose gay marriage get hate mail from gay opponents of gay marriage?
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  447. They're mere pawns in the war of the left on every last element of our society which isn't of their own construction. Yep, the people who always know better than everyone else, who are never wrong, who are the first fully enlightened humans ever, and who now demand complete control over everything. Everything.
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  448. The West ( or 'the "West" ', as you call it, like it's a fake concept or something) doesn't have to imitate what Asia does, thank you very much.
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  449. Notice that last year's Ottawa protest had the same effect as last year's China protests: They both put a stop to the increase in authoritarian Covid measures and soon resulted in government backtracking. What on Earth is going on that there should've been any resemblance at all? 🤨
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  450.  @marcwood2741  Not a bad summary at all. Few people can write or think that clearly👏👏.
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  451. Claptrap. First of all, pandemics happen all on their own without 'spy agencies' creating them, always have and always will. Second, he could just as easily have had in mind China creating a pandemic again.
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  452.  @stephanieuttro2327  Well, I remember the reporter. It was that middle-aged white guy with the moustache who often wears a fedora, is kinda haggard-looking, has a voice that's a tad rough, and does long features. Paul something, or John? He's been with them for a really long time. Maybe you can get his name just by looking at the thumbnails on the PBS youtube channel page until you see his face and then click to watch it. I would use search terms like liberal, conservative, happiness, study. Maybe it's called Why are liberals less happy than conservatives? It was a pretty good segment. Everybody in it seemed honest and curious and openminded. Good luck.
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  453. But in every case when it suits them the wokeists say that all that counts is "lived experience." They're such porcine refuse.
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  454.  @cptcosmo  That's true in my opinion. However, I see value in looking at people before their adult years not just as children but as two groups: children and adolescents. A child will rarely if ever be a Marxist, whereas it's pretty common for an adolescent to have such leanings. It's a teenager thing, simply because mental health tends to deteriorate in adolescence. (That's just life, and it's the reason psychiatrists will only diagnose a personality disorder in an adult.) It usually rebounds, though, and that's why most teenage Marxists drop their Marxism when they grow up.
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  455. Rwanda unfolded very rapidly. It was also a genuine civil war. Nobody invaded anybody in Rwanda, so there was no party to eject from the country. There could be no front. The 'front' was on every street corner in the country.
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  456.  @headshot6959  Bogus? Countries can just steal other countries and it's not immoral? And the West did not defend Kuwait saying they were defending the West. They were quite explicit that they were concerned with Middle East stability and security, concerns which they were right to have. Furthermore, the war to liberate Kuwait was authorized by the UN Security Council. Only Cuba and Yemen voted against it. That means Asian, African and South American countries voted for it, as did the USSR. China abstained, meaning it did not exercise its veto. Finally, your statements on Rwanda are not worth responding to, except to say how funny they are, especially in light of your claim that "you can't draw a meaningful comparison between Kuwait and Ukraine." That's four posts here, two of yours and two of mine, and I have no interest in discussing this any more. Not with you, anyway. Have a nice day.
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  457. 1:20 So frisson is now another of the words muddied up by people who proudly refuse to look them up. It's not about dread or fear. It's a shiver out of thrilled excitement. (Even if the trigger is a horror-movie scene, it's still pleasure, not real fear.) Its meaning in English was long stable until 21st-century hipsters noticed it was quite 'fancy' and thus, they hoped, impressive. Now an additional meaning is listed by the spinelessly descriptive online OED.😠
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