Comments by "dixon pinfold" (@dixonpinfold2582) on "The Institute of Art and Ideas" channel.

  1. He's simply a moral peasant-with-a-pitchfork saying you will pay with misery or death or both if we think it will create a fairer society--- we , mind you, we professors of neo-Marxist Critical Theory. When millions of Ukrainians were starved in the 1930s, when tens of millions of Chinese were starved in the Great Leap Forward, and during all the purges, the very same moral and political spirit made it all happen. Extremely dangerous canting nonsense.
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  2. Only if you pay a fee. What you see here on Youtube is a promotional trailer.
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  3. Certainly the cute cuddly panda China that was hoped for 35 years ago never materialized and clearly never will. Instead the younger generations there are predominantly contemptuous of other systems, cultures, races, and countries. Deeply contemptuous. For the real jingoism, the real racism, and the real cultural entitlement, forget about the US. China is rapidly coming to resemble the Germany of about 1936. So, yes, watch out Australia. Best to keep your alliances as strong as possible, something I will not say is easy or straightforward. Notice I used the plural: if the US even after Trump is gone is too wrapped up in its own many problems to pay you much mind, make sure you at least are as tight as possible with the rest of the anglosphere and EU.
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  4.  @williambunting803  Thanks for your reply. But next time use the reply button; otherwise I do not receive it. It's funny you should go to the trouble of contradicting me about all of this having to do with power, since I said nothing about power. But let that pass. Your point about prisons seems odd, too, since Canada (even then of vast extent) and other far-flung places were available for dumping convicts already. Just a little island suffices for a prison colony, or even a walled-off section of any land mass at all. Then there is your pessimism about the will of the Western democracies to hang together. In my view it is a luxury you Australians cannot afford. (You seem to be one.) Another one is indulging China in arrangements that will merely make it hungrier for more. Munich-like accommodations will not pay off. For Australia they won't anyway; for China they are bound to pay off handsomely. Assiduously building and maintaining relations with your old friends strikes me as far more prudent and wise. Sorry if I'm just repeating myself. Anyway, good luck.
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  5.  @williambunting803  Oh, and I should have added that the US wasn't thrilled about battling Germany either, but became a lot more interested when they saw that its regional domination would cost the US plenty: lots right away (trade, finance, shipping, tourism, strategic resources) and then massively later on (the security of the US homeland itself once Germany had absorbed, as it threatened to succeed in doing, the productive capacity of Russia as well as dozens of other countries). Thus I suggest you take it all very seriously but do not worry in quite the same fashion. Americans if the time comes will see a Chinese move on Australian territory as a massive threat to themselves and will respond appropriately, by which I mean sanely in their own interest as much as Australia's. Britain and Canada, too, would really see red, you can count on it. So all together that's 440m rich and armed-to-the-teeth friends whom you could expect to have fully on your side. You'd do the same for all of us, wouldn't you?
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  6. The woman here representing the Labour Party is here to tell you that your dirty rights are just a cover for oppression, represent an evil aberration in human history, and must come to an end.
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