Comments by "dixon pinfold" (@dixonpinfold2582) on "Amanpour and Company" channel.

Germany: "We condemn Russia in the strongest terms for its brutality, murder and destruction. Our response must be firm and clear. We will therefore reduce our energy imports from Russia by as much as half over the next ten years. In the meantime, the US must lead with stronger measures, as European security is their responsibility."
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True. The US isn't doing capitalism right. It's wrong when no matter what sort of person you are you're widely considered a nobody and a loser if you don't have a real pile of money.
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@j.obrien4990 Yes, absolutely, a far-off conquered land is the same as a country's own homeland. Yes, the Indo-Chinese frontier in 1946 was the UK border. Yes, if that's what it takes to get you to bugger off.
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It has to agree with left orthodoxy or it just doesn't make it onto PBS news and current affairs. They've got life and the world all figured out, you see, so the need for wide-ranging discussion has been eliminated.
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We Canadians may be wonderful in some ways and horrible in others, but we are certainly not colourful, except for numerous exceptions that merely serve to prove the rule. As The Economist once noted, "Canada is famed for its ordinariness." Famed, notice.
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You're right. When the Americans who wanted no part of the Revolution came to loyal Canada, after the British lost, they at least doubled its population. Americans have considered Canadians goody-goody ever since, and they're probably right, from the revolutionary point of view they've somewhat hung onto ever since.
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@JK-gu3tl Because fighting Germany twice over a thirty-year span, the second time partly on their own soil, bled them dry financially and cost them huge numbers of their most able men, of course. How can you ask?
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But Hadrian's Wall was very far indeed from Rome itself, and the Mexican wall is on American soil. So the comparison is valueless and shows that you want to think you're smart without actually thinking smart things. Sorry, but that makes you a sentimentalist and pseudo-intellectual.
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@j.obrien4990 You made my point for me. Thanks.
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@JB-uv4hm How, professor?
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@JB-uv4hm Yes, absolutely, a far-off conquered land is the same as a country's own homeland. Yes, the Indo-Chinese frontier in 1946 was the UK border. Yes, if that's what it takes to get you to bu++++ off.
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@JB-uv4hm You're in over your head. Texas is American in ways that York simply wasn't Roman. Don't be tedious.
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I've never heard anyone in Canada lump it in with Scandinavia to call it a social democracy, because it isn't one. Canada is a medium-tax capitalist liberal democracy. That shows you how much Davis is in his own world, patting Canada and himself on the back as he compares the best of Canada to the worst of the US. (Objectionable Americans, of course, with equal injustice compare the best of the US to the worst of Canada.) He strikes me as an old Canadian-left quasi-hippie who's done very well out of the Canadian taxpayer. Not everything he says is wrong, to be sure, but he's very politically biased, which I consider a demerit. And he not only sees nothing wrong with not restraining his bias; indeed he presumably thinks it's morally essential not to, since his political views are so advanced, so intelligent, and so salutary. Like the FDA bending the rules for a new drug to fight the pandemic: sensible, considering the potential benefit in a time of crisis. The whole segment shows the problem with PBS: They interview one or two staunch liberals/leftists and consider that they've surveyed a huge subject quite well --- despite consulting only the left, or perhaps both the rather-left and the very-left. They and their loyal viewers then pat themselves on the back for being so damn smart and so very good. And I'm a patriotic Canadian liberal, but I find this comments section a ridiculous echo chamber: 'Canada is a super-wonderful social-democrat paradise and not inferior to the US in any way, except that the US has The Grateful Dead. The US is a horrible country that deserves a horrible fate, it was never much good, and it serves it right that it will soon be supplanted by China.' That about sums up the comments: views covering the full range from the rather smug self-satisfied to the very smug self-satisfied.
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I'm sure you were far from the only one.
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One, break your writing up into paragraphs. Two, "it's" is not a possessive pronoun, it's a contraction of "it is". I learned that when I was about seven. Third, single-race countries are not "the past" and will continue to be the rule in Asia and Africa, where two thirds of humanity lives. Fourth, your final point is a loathsome argumentum ad baculum and you think it shows the fineness of your mind and moral weave.
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@abitcrazy22 "rich are ... parasites ... contribute nothing of value." You wouldn't say that if you made a pile of money doing something useful. Actually, parasites are spread around the classes pretty freely.
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Only 10% of the early Boomers went on to own a house? That seems implausible. Also, although the cohort of Americans born in the late 1940s was the largest up to that time, the annual number of births kept rising steadily until 1961. By then it was 22% higher than the 1946-1949 annual average. So the late 1940s cohort was actually the smallest of the baby boom era.
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He's much better than this bozo.
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She badly wants to be prime minister, I perceived. For stretches she went on just as in a speech by a politician.
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Shouldn't you say four provinces?
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@andiemorgan961 A country is eligible to have a seat at the UN. A country can declare war. A country can sign an international treaty. A country does not share a flag with other countries. A country is recognized by other countries as an independent nation. A country does not have to live under the will of the people of another country except voluntarily.
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@paulb7207 If you're interested in how Americans became so demoralized that some of them actually cheerlead for its destruction, watch Operation Infektion, a 2018 New York Times-commissioned documentary you can watch here on YouTube. Recommended for anyone who enjoys being surprised.
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@paulb7207 I'll ignore your comment on Jews and just stand up for the documentary. Think of it as an exception that proves the rule, if you like. It was only commissioned by them, and the fact is they had some older staff a few years back who hadn't yet been pushed out by the left-wing hipster asshole who inherited the paper from his family not much earlier. It's plain to see when you watch it that it has zero to do with the neo-Marxist activist slant you now can no longer escape anywhere in their pages. (Except in the real estate section, which is of course very lucrative for the paper and a great favourite of its Limousine Liberal readership). It's a good documentary which I'm sure generates a warmer response from conservatives and moderates than from lefties.
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@stephaniejames6672 There's also been an undeniable collapse of mental health. Americans consume most of the world's psychiatric drugs --- literally more than the rest of the world combined. (And 40% of the world's prescription drugs overall.)
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@abitcrazy22 Yes. The wealthy think they support the poor, but the poor actually support them, not with money but with labour. In return the rich are supposed to run things well, and not take mean advantage of their position. I hardly mind a well-behaved capitalist, but if they keep this up the pitchforks will come for them and we will all be worse off. Much worse off. All the signs are bad to one degree or another. I would like to see massive strengthening of K-12 education and, in the US, universal health care. Then again, the US has so many crooks (and sickly people) it's possible they could never set it up and run it well. That would leave education as its only hope --- or AI, which the govt better keep funding or singularity will be achieved somewhere else. If that happens, head for the hills. Thanks for your interesting reply.
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@deathlarsen7502 Ok, champ. What did I say to make you think that?
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She badly wants to be prime minister, I perceived. For stretches she went on just as in a speech by a politician. And she was pure toff when patronizing Zelenskyy as an "everyman". It amounted to: "Amazing how this little nobody from nowhere near London is actually making a name for himself. Good on him! Once in a while I quite like the lower classes, really. We should get him some good clothes."
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