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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