Comments by "Akira Nakamoto (中本 明)" (@AkiraNakamoto) on "Thomas Sowell" channel.

  1.  @mikez4760  ALL the countries you mentioned are small countries with population size comparable to the microstate Singapore. Your centralized socialist solutions may work well in these small social systems, but won't work in giant nations like China/India/USA. The scientific reason is NP-complete problems in computational science. I wrote a long explanation about it, but youtube deleted it. So you have to do some homework by yourself.
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  2. Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same. --- Ronald Reagan I think it's a big mistake that Dr. Sowell rejected Reagan's offer of Secretary of Department of Education. At least some fairplay rules could be introduced to mitigate the woke 5hits in the educational system, if Dr. Sowell took the offer.
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  3. Wishful thinking. Act on a whim. Rousseauian emotion driven by menstruating men's estrogen.
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  4. As Tom Sowell says, the self-anointed / the left is always allergic to the fact. No exception this time.
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  5. 5:44 Adolf Hitler was also a largely self-taught character. So was Stalin. So was Mao. They didn't have the decency to learn anything decent from any decent subjects such as science and rational thinking.
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  6. First International is essentially BLM with the concept of race replaced with the concept of social class.
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  7. 10:26 A crowd of godless self-appointed gods. :face-blue-smiling:
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  8. As a scientist with some knowledge of probabilistic systems, I have a scientific theory about non-merit based programs like charity and affirmative action. In regard to Affirmative Action, logically there are only 2 types of reward system: merit based and non-merit based. There is no third option. Affirmative Action is NOT merit-based, so it must be non-merit based, an evil policy if it is adopted as a "main street policy". Why? The sum of large amount of independent and identically distributed (i.i.d.) distributions is Gaussian Normal Distribution, aka. the bell curve. It has a sigma parameter to quantify the shape of the curve. Most instances, 99.7%, fall into the [-3*sigma,+3*sigma] interval. Let's call this "main street", and call the other part "3 sigma alley". Any non-merit based policy can ONLY apply to the 3 sigma alley, not the main street. Otherwise disaster is the only possible result. For example, I support charity programs, but only if they are applied to the [-infinity,-3*sigma] poor people in the 3 sigma alley. If you apply the charity programs to the main street. It becomes communism and famine follows. This remark also implies that these non-merit based programs (charity and AA etc.) must be run by private sector, not the government which by default would apply to the main street. Affirmative Action is just like a charity program. I have no beef with AA if it is limited in the 3 sigma alley, i.e., with about 0.3% quotas reserved for AA beneficiaries. But the stupid rats have applied AA to the main street for decades. Here we go. The result is disastrous. In a nutshell, I support these non-merit based programs (charity & AA) if they are limited to the 3 sigma alley and they are not run by the government. Otherwise, my answer is NO.
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  9. It can be evaluated by comparison, that is, form a group of AA institutions and a group of non-AA institutions with comparable performance at the beginning, then we compare their performance 20 or 30 years later. My prediction: Meritocracy-based policies always win, at least won't lose. And AA is NOT meritocracy.
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  10.  @ScandinavianHeretic  I am from a science background. AA is not a big issue in STEM fields. But for schools of liberal arts, there are very obvious degeneration and decay, for example, Hollywood (graduates from dept of performing arts) and corporate media (graduates from dept of public communication). We no longer have performing artists and journalists, only radical Marxists and woke activists.
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  11. Eugene Sledge would agree with Sowell 100%. Eugene fought in Peleliu and Okinawa. What he wrote in his memoir is just one word: living hell.
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  12. Here is my concise equation: Barack Hussein Obama = Black Rousseau.
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  13.  @ScandinavianHeretic  Since 1961 signed by JFK. Democrats initiated and developed it.
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  14. 3:22 It was a rule-or-ruin tactic that would appear again and again in later communist infiltrations of non-communist organizations. -- Thomas Sowell on Karl Marx's tactic in handling the First International
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  15. An interesting remark I've figured out after I read Max Weber's book "The Protestant Ethic and The Spirit of Capitalism" is that................Confucianism is perhaps the closest ideology of Weber's Protestant Ethic (or indeed Calvinist Ethic according to Weber himself) on this very earth in regard to working ethic. As long as working ethic is the only concern, Confucianism and Calvinist Ethic are almost identical. The ideological distance between them is much closer to the distance between Calvinism and Catholic or whatever ideology. Of course, I am not talking about theological aspects, only working ethics. Nowadays Taiwan and South Korea are still very Confucian in secular life. Japan is not a typical Confucian country. But Japan was largely affected by Chinese Tang and Song dynasties. The "traditional" Japanese clothing is indeed a close variant of Chinese Tang clothing. Mainland China and North Korea are scr3w3d by Stalin's Russians and FDR-Truman's regime. If they hadn't begged Stalin invade Manchuria, China and North Korea would have preserved the traditional Confucian way.
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  16.  @ScandinavianHeretic  It's not okay. I am against any non-meritocracy based government policy. We are living in a probabilistic/stochastic physical world (as proven by 2022 Nobel Physics laureates). Enforcing uniform distributions is never a natural way. The most common natural one is the Gaussian normal distribution (aka. Bell Curve). I am not saying we simply let the poorest (3*sigma) die. I am saying that Charity is necessary, but it should be handled by non-profitable non-government organizations (e.g. church), not by government. All charity institution run by government are incredibly corrupted, see the Red Cross of China for an example.
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  17. Wrong and wrong. Obiden is NOT a straw man, and they are NOT down.
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  18.  @unforeseencircumstances  I am saying that his decision was perhaps a mistake. We, the "Constrained Vision" believers, retreated without any meaningful effort to defend our beliefs, therefore the "Unconstrained Vision" quasi-Marxists have taken over the world.
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  19. You can also say that Hitler was ineloquent, because there was hardly any authentic logic in his words. But Hitler is good at demagoguing. That's a confirmed conclusion. Obama is repeating the same trick.
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  20. A typical Rousseauian aiming for disaster. Refer to Reign of Terror and communist regimes for examples. Lawlessness is the common feature of all Rousseauians. BTW, illegal means lawless.
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  21. It's called colonization, rather than immigration. In colonization, people bring their home country's life style to their new residence.
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  22. You can also say that Hitler was ineloquent, because there was hardly any authentic logic in his words. But Hitler is good at demagoguing. That's a confirmed conclusion. Obama is repeating the same trick.
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  23. Details available in Fredrich Hayek, "The Road to Serfdom". Chapter 11, "End of Truth".
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  24. This video was made in early 2010s.
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  25. Nobody is perfect. You need to compare Reagan with other HUMAN POTUS, not with the God.
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  26. 【The following comment was a reply to EzraFaulk's comment. But it was always deleted by uutube, so I have to post it independently】 This(EzraFaulk's comment) is a revisionist's history that is lopsided and egocentric/sadistic (or anti-egocentric/masochistic if from an American apologist). To be fair and neutral, there is NO excuse to attack Pearl Habor because of an embargo, a non-military policy adopted by American to contain the Showa Jingoists. Otherwise, this kind of logic can be used to justify ANY aggression, such as Nazi Germany's expansion, or Mongol's mass expansion and mass murders. Everything can be justified because there is no perfect ideal on this very earth. This is called Moral Relativism. And this Ezra dude is a typical moral relativist. BTW, I am not Japanese. The audience shouldn't have wrong idea about my id.
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  27.  @jumpupdown2556  I can confirm that the original Chinese text is 不见棺材不落泪。
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  28. Actually "Unconstrained Vision" per Sowell's term.
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  29. It's a common phenomenon in a type of society called "mouse utopia".
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  30. A lineage from Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin, Adolf Hitler, Mao and Polpot. As long as their fanatic supporters are alive, the world is always upside down.
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  31. Diversity only applies to cuisine and arts. There is no such thing as "diversity" in politics. You just cannot implement rule-of-law and rule-of-outlaw at same time, or democracy and dictatorship at same time. It's logically impossible.
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  32. Yes. The left makes living by imagination, not reality. Utopia is never a right thing.
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  33.  @ScandinavianHeretic  Yes. Poverty and similar underperformance issues should NOT be enacted into governmental imperatives, which should be based on meritocracy only. In a fair social game, Gaussian normal distribution is the natural result. Successful people do not owe underperforming people anything. Welfare states say otherwise. They are wrong because governments are always less efficient and more corrupted than private sectors in the long run. Government may be the ONLY choice when something is at its initiation phase, but eventually will lose to private competitors. I can use NASA versus SpaceX as an example. At the very beginning of space exploration, we didn't have choice but to rely on US government and Soviet government to start it up. But eventually the governments become less efficient, waste more money given them enough time. As to your last question, it's a tough one. My answer is related to Adam Smith's "Invisible hand". But it's an original research and I haven't finished it yet. Basically the best solution in a stochastic dynamical system is an exponentially stable solution according to Lyapunovian stability. There is a way to achieve the goal according to my original research unpublished yet.
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  34.  @aguyyouneverknew  According to Dennis Prager, these Nordic countries are capitalism in production (i.e., wealth creation), and socialism in wealth distribution. Every country enforcing socialism in production/wealth creation has failed unconditionally. Only a few small ethno-nations (i.e., low complexity in terms of population size and heterogeneity) enforcing capitalism in production and socialism in distribution have survived.
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  35. If based on open and transparent competition, then yes. But today's H1B visa granting procedures are mostly under the table.
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  36.  @josephgakunga5296  No. On the contrary, if you are a palestinian or an israelite, you can't really understand what's going on because of conflict of interests. I am a neutral 3rd party with thorough reading of the related history.
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  37.  @ezrafaulk3076  No, u r not. It's called Apologist's excuse, which can be used to justify ANY aggression.
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  38. Multiculturalism only applies to cuisine and art. There is no such thing as multiculturalism in politics. In other words, it is impossible to implement rule-of-law and rule-of-outlaw at same time, to implement democracy and despotism at same time. It's against logic.
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  39.  @andythomas4998  Mouse utopia, or behavioral sink, is not about committing sxxxxxe, but transmogrifying normal behaviors to abnormal ones.
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  40.  @sterlingferguson1704  So, you believe Marx's "truth"?
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  41.  @sterlingferguson1704  Culture Marxism is what's going on in uurr mind. That's why.
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  42.  @sterlingferguson1704  You don't show anything but trolling in your comment.
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  43. You have confused Showa Japanese with modern Japanese (born after Douglas MacArthur's Constitution).
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  44. Virtue signaling is the nuclear weapon of the left, from Jean-Jacques Rousseau to commies then to western wokes.
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  45. Like all other socialists, Karl Marx is good at spending other people's money. Sowell is too nice to use some bad names to call these people. I think Ayn Rand is more caustic and sharp on calling them: they are "parasites".
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  46.  @jaya8729  You know what they say about people who ASSume. I have no political party and u r an irrational libertard.
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  47. The reason: loss of Protestant Ethic held firmly by the nation founding puritans. By the term 'Protestant Ethic' I mean the exactly same term named by Max Weber.
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  48.  @pedrohenrique-et3fs  You guys need to differentiate two types of tradition: the type of Pareto improvement (non-blocking of other people including the real thinkers) & the type of control-based improvement (i.e., blocking other people to enforce the will of people in power). The tradition of USA (& Scotland & Netherland) is essentially a Calvinistic practice of social Pareto improvement, i.e., closest to the former one by far. The tradition of Nordic countries is a Lutheran practice of quasi-Pareto improvement, i.e., closer to the former one. The tradition of all other countries is the latter one, i.e., the source of all kinds of social disasters. This explains quite well the Reign of Terror in France, the fascist's era of Italy, Germany and Spain, and the communist's era of Russia and Asia. They all belong to the tradition of control freaks.
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  49. I would use "Nakamoto government", which is an unmanned government implemented by Satoshi Nakamoto's BlockChain technology if we regard "government" just as a form of "social consensus". Indeed the "social contract" theory in classical liberalism is based on this equation "government = social consensus". Therefore, if social consensus says that the executives and businessmen should be highly paid, then so be it. But I don't think this thing will happen with non-trivial probability.
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  50. ​ @Mayadanava  Unlike your India, USA doesn't implement socialism in the PRODUCTION / WEALTH CREATION fields. India's persistence in planned economy is even worse than China's. Welfare states refer to those regimes implementing socialism in WEALTH DISTRIBUTION fields. This approach only works in those small ethno-states with stable rule-of-law. India and China are corrupted socialism states, NOT welfare states. Please don't flatter yourself.
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  51. This was written around 2009. For Republicans to win 2024, they MUST stop mail-in ballot frauds AT FIRST. Otherwise they will lose the presidency vote EVERY TIME because it takes very little amount of votes to win the swing states.
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  52. The anointed a-holes are doing exactly the same trick by leveraging on new subjects: critical race theory, climate utopia. Same (il)logic, same narrative.
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  53. Mouse utopia, or behavioral sink, is not about committing sxxxxxe, but transmogrifying normal behaviors to abnormal ones.
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  54.  @sterlingferguson1704  So what?
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  55. 2:10 There is a typo here. "bum", not "bomb".
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  56. Irrationally wishful thinking is the fundamental character of all the left. THEY JUST WANT SOMETHING, WITHOUT KNOWING WHAT THE REAL THING IS, AND NO MATTER WHAT PRICE TO PAY. The leftists are psychologically like giant children who are forever in their rebellious adolescence phase. * Like a rebellious teen without faith, they are lost in finding their own identities, a common phenomenon amongst atheists since most leftists are atheists or semi-atheists (e.g., people from Christian familial background but not religious at all - some of them may self-identify as Christian but indeed de facto atheists, some of them simply self-identify as atheists - the mainstream white liberals fall in these two categories). * Like a rebellious teen without patience, they are strongly vexed by the reality and want to radically change the status quo, and of course, in the shortest time possible. The goal of their "change" is always a fuzzy and vague utopia, e.g., a communism society / an equal society, or a climate paradise, or an LBGTQ heaven, which has no firm definition or clear set of rules to qualify and quantify the progress toward the utopian goal. In other words, their utopia will NEVER become reality. Being childish may help some of them work as some sorts of artists, if they were born with artistic gifts, as children in many cases can be more imaginative than adults. This explains the reason why Hollywood performing artists (directors, actors, musicians etc.) are so leftish. Unfortunately, if these artists play politics rather than plain arts, there will be disasters, because they mostly live in imagination/utopia rather than reality. Adolf Hitler was an art painter. Mao Tse-tung was a poet. They regarded other people's life as trash whenever other people are in the way of "their art" and "their utopia".
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  57. The left (or the Rousseauians) always initiates violence. It has been their pattern since Reign of Terror enforced by Rousseau's student Robespierre.
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  58. Read "Conflict of Visions" and "Vision of the Anointed" for the definition of intellectuals in Sowell's discussions. It's not your definition.
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  59.  @rafaelgonzalez4175  Then read Hayek's separation of "English tradition of classical liberalism" and (continental Europe's) "French tradition of classical liberalism". The "intellectuals" today inherit most of their mindset from the continental European's French tradition, i.e., Rousseau, Hobbes, et al., vouching for a lawless mobocracy and a leviathan state. It's not a fabrication, but a fact not taught by ur liberal teachers/indoctrinators.
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  60. Then read Hayek's separation of "English tradition of classical liberalism" and (continental Europe's) "French tradition of classical liberalism". The "intellectuals" today inherit most of their mindset from the continental European's French tradition, .................................
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  61. .........................French tradition, i.e., Rousseau, Hobbes, et al., vouching for a 1aw1e55 m0b0cracy and a leviathan state. It's not a fabrication, but a fact not taught by ur liberal teachers/indoctrinators.
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  62. ..................French tradition, i.e., Rousseau, Hobbes, et al., vouching for a 1aw1e55 mobo-----------cracy and a 1eviathan state...............
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  63. .............It's N0T a fabrication, but a historical fact not taught by yur French-traditioned .........................
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  64. ...................continental European styled French-traditioned liberal teachers...................................
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  65. ...................teachers/indoctrinators.
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  66. Yep. Karl Marx to communism is the same as Wu6an lab to the Wu6an v1rus. The source of the pathogen.
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  67.  @kimobrien.  Please speak English or go see a shrink. ♿
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  68. I can see the proteges you are protecting.
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  69. Yep. Bill Gates's recipe to sell his 3rd-tier products. Computer industry and computer science won't change a bit if there is never a Microsoft, because all of Microsoft's products are copycats.
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  70. This bald liberal thinks and sounds just like commies in Soviet Union and Red China.
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  71. A typical Rousseauian 1unatic aiming for disaster. Refer to Reign of Terror and communist regimes for examples. Lawlessness is the common feature of all Rousseauian 1unatics.
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  72. Who took whose land? Who takes whose land?
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  73. You are.
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  74.  @swamp1foxva518  I am not saying Nixon was a bad president. But his China policy devised by Kissinger turns out to be a disaster. Without Nixon-Kissinger couple, communist China likely collapsed within few years after Soviet Union collapsed, even if we assume Soviet Union didn't nuke China in year 1969 (you know Nixon-Kissinger threatened Soviet an apocalypse nuclear war if Soviet nuked China in 1969). So you see, nobody is perfect.
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  75.  @kimobrien.  Your choice says that u r a f00l.
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  76. Agree. We need a counterpart of ancient Greek and Roman's Ostracization law, in order to get rid of the innate cancel cells grown inside the body of the society. This is a non-trivial miss of our Founding Fathers. They did overestimate American society to be cancer-free. But the reality is the opposite.
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  77. Oprah Winfrey did nothing for me, yet she is so rich. Life is unfair, you've got the point.
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  78.  @jaya8729  I can hardly find a libertard understanding sarcasm. Enjoy ur humorless character.
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  79. Yeah, show me where the propaganda is. I give you a fair chance.
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  80.  @woodbinescab  That's really Sowell. Sowell is a supporter of fair-playerism per fundamental humanity rules. He doesn't care about your anointed respect. Read his original writings about 'unconstrained vision' and 'constrained vision'. You sound like a leftie with 'unconstrained vision'.
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  81. @KibyNykraft You are a pseudo-science believer (a musician?) sticking to the conventional deterministic physics denied by 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics. The mathematical world is deterministic, eternal, unchanging, αμετάβλητο. The physical world is NOT. There is true randomness in the essential part of the physical world. Einstein's pseudo-random "hidden variable" theory is wrong, at least at present time this is the best scientific conclusion. Copenhagen interpretation basically says: Physics follows all mathematical rules, but is NOT deterministic. In a nutshell, the physical world is mathematically random, but not chaotically random.
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  82.  @KibyNykraft  You are a pseudo-science believer (a musician?) sticking to the conventional deterministic physics denied by 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics.
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  83.  @KibyNykraft  The mathematical world is deterministic, eternal, unchanging, αμετάβλητο.
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  84.  @KibyNykraft  The physical world is NOT. There is true randomness in the essential part of the physical world. Einstein's pseudo-random "hidden variable" theory is wrong, at least at present time this is the best scientific conclusion.
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  85.  @KibyNykraft  Copenhagen interpretation basically says: Physics follows all mathematical rules, but is NOT deterministic. In a nutshell, the physical world is mathematically random, but not chaotically random.
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  86. As shown above, I had to segment my long comment into multiple pieces because youtube keeps deleting the comment. I wanted to see which piece offends youtube's 5tupid policy. And it turns out none of the pieces did, the only problem seems to be the length/string count of the comment.
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  87.  @KibyNykraft  What does a musician know about science? Get real please. LOL FYI, Theory of Probability itself is deterministic, eternal, unchanging math. But if you apply it to a non-eternal, changing physical entity, you will get non-deterministic probability even if it's against your feeling or faith.
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  88.  @KibyNykraft  You are supporting determinism even if you orally deny. What a bunch of hypocrite. No matter who u r, u don't know the difference between Copenhagen interpretation and EPR's hidden variable theory. And this is the key problem.
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  89.  @KibyNykraft  1. Determinism is a philosophy, not religion. Laplace's demon is a philosophical concept, not a religious concept. Don't enforce your own dictionary on others.
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  90.  @KibyNykraft  2. Randomness is not an idea, but about the objective DIFFERENCE/INTER-RELATION existed in physical materials. It leads to information/structure/negative entropy. For example, Alfred Whitehead pointed out that (inter-particle) relation is not material (particle or energy). The 2nd Law of thermaldynamics (e.g., Maxwell's demon) and Landauer's principle are natural laws about the connection between randomness and information.
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  91.  @KibyNykraft  3. Mathematics in ONTOLOGICAL sense is NOT a language. I call it Mathematics Ding An Sich (MDAS). Mathematics study in EPISTEMOLOGICAL sense is a language. You need to understand the difference between the above pair. The former (MDAS) is the research target of the latter (mathematics study). THEY ARE NOT THE SAME THING.
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  92. ​ @KibyNykraft  4. Your rant about physics doesn't make sense. If you deny the fact that Copenhagen interpretation identifies a probabilistic (i.e., mathematically random) physical world, then you are inventing your own physics "science" or "pseudo-science".
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  93.  @KibyNykraft  You have confused determinism with linear time. They are NOT the same thing. Einstein's Special Relativity already denied linear time a century ago. In math terms, 4D Space-Time is NOT a 4D Euclidean space, but a 4D Banach space. In Banach space, everything is still continuous and deterministic, but not linear. See, your entire argument doesn't make sense because of a wrong definition of a critical concept.
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  94.  @KibyNykraft  Please, make sure your definition of "determinism" makes sense before any meaningful discussion. Otherwise, your entire philosophical and "scientific" thinking is just personal frivolity. Determinism, as defined in Laplace's demon, doesn't mean linear time or whatever about linear time. A deterministic algorithm (with multiple inputs and a single output) means it is a function, that is, given the same input (maybe some randomly chosen inputs) you always get the same output. A probabilistic algorithm is NOT a function, but a mathematical relation, i.e., given the same input, you may get different outputs. Laplace, Einstein and all the determinists alike ONLY allow the random choices in the inputs, and insist that the output is always the same given the same input. This is the determinism we are talking about.
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  95.  @KibyNykraft  Please, rethink everything based on the definition of "determinism" I gave you a minute ago. You are talking about totally different things in your imaginative own world. Cannot communicate with you if your dictionary is fundamentally different from ours.
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  96.  @KibyNykraft  I was NOT talking to you at all. You jumped in and spit out all these nonsense about your own imagination and your own definition of "philosophy" or "science" (I would rather say pseudo-science) or whatever. I am NOT obliged to conform to your imagination and definition. No meaningful discussion is possible if our worlds don't overlap.
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  97.  @KibyNykraft  As usual, all gibberish nonsense, no meaningful contents.
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  98.  DesertRat.45  As a scientist I can use a math trick to answer your question. Consider the society as a de variable (aka. dynamical system). Its speed metric is the 1st derivative, and the system's state is described by its speed, for example, a fighter jet flying at 0.8 Mach cruising speed. The acceleration metric (change of speed) is the 2nd derivative. Conservative means keeping a small acceleration metric / 2nd derivative. :face-blue-smiling: The (radical) left means wanting a devastating acceleration metric / 2nd derivative that will break the system. It's named after Jacobin Montagnards who sat at the left side of French national convention. In regard to the fighter jet example, this means an acceleration metric /2nd derivative exceeds 11G and the pilot losts consciousness. The entire fighter jet will soon crash into ground and break into millions of pieces.
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  99. 3:27 I have an explanation for that. Check "behavioral sink / mouse utopia", when that happens, the intersex relationship is the first one collapsing.
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  100. Check the characteristics of "sociopath": high IQ; highly manipulative; cruel/lack of empathy; .............. Karl Marx is a typical sociopath.
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  101.  @stevelopez372  What Reparation really means is to hurt the main street. Anybody whose ancestor came to America later than 1860s has nothing to do with slavery. As a first-generation American myself, my answer to reparation is kiss my a$$.
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  102.  @mikez4760  Sure. If you can break China/India/USA into smaller nations, your centralized socialist solutions may work. That's what science says. For NP-complete problems, all you need to check out is that, when the system complexity (size & heterogeneity) is small, you may use a centralized deterministic algorithm to solve the problem. But when the complexity metric surpasses certain threshold, ALL centralized deterministic solutions fail. The only acceptable solution is a probabilistic and distributed one, e.g., something similar to free market.
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  103.  @Mayadanava  USA has been severely socialisticized since FDR. Truman, LBJ, Jimmy Carter, Obiden are the later followers-up of FDR. In other words, the Founding Father of the socialistic USA is FDR. This socialistic USA is not our Founding Fathers' America with minimal government in their minds. Thomas Sowell has explained a lot about how FDR built the longest economic recession in the history of free market economy and how LBJ's Great Society wrecks havoc in democrat-controlled metropolitan areas. It's up to you to read and comprehend.
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  104.  @demscrazy6574  You can replace the word "estrogen" with "emotional hormones".
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  105.  @demscrazy6574  Exactly. Feminine doesn't necessarily mean female. Masculine doesn't necessarily mean male. Jean Jacques Rousseau was a very feminine irrational male. Compared to Rousseau, Ayn Rand was a very masculine rational female.
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  106.  @redtobertshateshandles  It means diehard bigot.
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  107.  @ThrowAway-t3m  Newton was not. He discovered calculus. None of your Hitler, Stalin, Mao knew anything about mathematics. You have no idea what mathematics is and how it is different from your liberal arts, don't you? :face-blue-smiling:
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  108. But they are living in the intellectual circle. Kamala's father is a model intellectual from Berkeley. So is Joe's wife Jill.
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  109. This is a revisionist's history that is lopsided and egocentric/sadistic (or anti-egocentric/masochistic if from an American apologist). To be fair and neutral, there is NO excuse to attack Pearl Habor because of an embargo, a non-military policy adopted by American to contain the Showa Jingoists. Otherwise, this kind of logic can be used to justify ANY aggression, such as Nazi Germany's expansion, or Mongol's mass expansion and mass murders. Everything can be justified because there is no perfect ideal on this very earth. This is called Moral Relativism. And this Ezra dude is a typical moral relativist. BTW, I am not Japanese. The audience shouldn't have wrong idea about my id.
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  110. This is a revisionist's history that is lopsided and egocentric/sadistic (or anti-egocentric/masochistic if from an American apologist). To be fair and neutral, there is NO excuse to attack Pearl Habor because of an embargo, a non-military policy adopted by American to contain the Showa Jingoists. Otherwise, this kind of logic can be used to justify ANY aggression, such as Nazi Germany's expansion, or Mongol's mass expansion and mass murders. Everything can be justified because there is no perfect ideal on this very earth. This is called Moral Relativism. And this Ezra dude is a typical moral relativist. BTW, I am not Japanese. The audience shouldn't have wrong idea about my id.
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  111. There is NO excuse to attack Pearl Habor because of an embargo, a non-military policy adopted by American to contain the Showa Jingoists. Otherwise, the same logic can be used to justify ANY aggression, such as Nazi Germany's expansion. Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them. --- George Orwell
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  112. There is NO excuse to attack Pearl Habor because of an embargo, a non-military policy adopted by American to contain the Showa Jingoists. Otherwise, the same logic can be used to justify ANY aggression, such as Nazi Germany's expansion.
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  113.  @arkitectoor  That is not a valid argument because the sum of H1B salary and visa maintenance lawyer fees is still less than the regular salary for a qualified citizen. On one hand, the silicon valley big corporations have their own lawyer firms, so the pipeline processings make the lawyer fees negligible. On the other hand, H1B employees do not have benefit package comparable to US citizens. In a nutshell, as long as the procedure is not open and transparent, corruption and abusement happen.
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  114.  @varunchandra2991  There are some H1B abusement cases, in particular in Silicon Valley. Google it and you will find many. I am glad that you are not one of them. But you cannot guarantee other people's behavior. H1B visa itself is a tariff-like discrimination by definition, and underpaying exists at statistical level for the same group of skill background, say, if you compare H1B PhD and domestic PhD. (not comparing H1B PhD with overall domestic workers)
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  115. There are some H1B abusement cases, in particular in Silicon Valley. Google it and you will find many. I am glad that you are not one of them. But you cannot guarantee other people's behavior. H1B visa itself is a tariff-like discrimination by definition, and underpaying exists at statistical level for the same group of skill background, say, if you compare H1B PhD and domestic PhD. (not comparing H1B PhD with overall domestic workers) @varunchandra2991
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  116.  @varunchandra2991  There are some H1B abusement cases, in particular in Silicon Valley. G00g1e it and you will find many. I am glad that u r not one of them. But u cannot guarantee other people's behavior.................. H1B visa itself is a tariff-like discrimination by definition, and underpaying exists at statistical level for the same group of skill background, say, if you compare H1B PhD and domestic PhD. (not comparing H1B PhD with overall domestic workers)
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  117.  @varunchandra2991  There are some H1B abusement cases, in particular in Silicon Valley. G00g1e it and you will find many. I am glad that u r not one of them. But u cannot guarantee other people's behavior..................
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  118.  @varunchandra2991  There are some H1B abusement cases, in particular in 5ilicon Va11ey. G00g1e it and u will find many. u r not one of them, but u cannot guarantee other people's behavior.................. H1B visa itself is a tariff-like discrimination by definition, and underpaying exists at statistical level for the same group of skill background, say, if you compare H1B STEM PhD and domestic STEM PhD. (not comparing H1B STEM PhD with overall domestic workers)
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  119. //at varunchandra// There are some H1B abusement cases, in particular in 5ilicon Va11ey. G00g1e it and u will find many. u r not one of them, but u cannot guarantee other people's behavior.................. H1B visa itself is a tariff-like discrimination by definition, and underpaying exists at statistical level for the same group of skill background, say, if you compare H1B STEM PhD and domestic STEM PhD. (not comparing H1B STEM PhD with overall domestic workers)
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  120.  @varunchandra2991  ................. H1B visa itself is a tariff-like discrimination by definition, and underpaying exists at statistical level for the same group of skill background, say, if you compare H1B STEM PhD and domestic STEM PhD. (not comparing H1B STEM PhD with overall domestic workers)
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  121.  @varunchandra2991  my politically-proper reply is censored every time. guess some people want to hide something. there is no way to reach agreement in this silicon valley way.
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  122.  @varunchandra2991  Hint: under............paying happens when comparing people in the same skill group, say, comparing H1B STEM PhD with domestic STEM PhD, not H1B STEM PhD with overall domestic workers.
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  123.  @JJRM8  《《anointed a-h01e.
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  124.  @JJRM8  << anointed a-h0le
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  125.  @JJRM8  Let‘s go Brandon.
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  126.  @JJRM8  Let's go Brand0n
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  127.  @JJRM8  Let's go FJB.
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  128. Yep. Read Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged".
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  129. If you have a look at the ultra-left standing of Chinese intellectuals in 1930s and 1940s, you should see what those anointeds really are. They are commies. Some of them will grasp the political power and become Mao, the others become useful idiots. Supporters of ANY collectivism ideology, such as Catholics, Orthodox, Hindu, Chinese Legalism-Confucianism, are prone to go towards this direction. Only individualism, such as Calvinism, is relatively immune to this bad spirit embedded in human nature. This somewhat explains the reason why Huguenot's Holland, Presbyterian's Scotland and Puritan's early America are more successful, in regard to political integrity, financial probity and social stability, than ALL of other societies.
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  130. The reason whythe nowadays America has lost its way is due to the population replacement which replaces the conventional individualists (e.g., Calvinists) with too many anti-individualism new citizens/voters. 1. The education system, in particular the part controlled by socialistic democrats, turns the majority of the new generations to go collectivism. 2. There are too many 'unAmericanized' new immigrants. The Anglicization explicitly required in US immigration/naturalization policy around 1800s was a de facto individualism requirement. It converted continental European immigrants, mostly from Germany, into American individualists. This kind of naturalization policy is long gone and it has dire consequences.
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  131.  @andythomas4998  Mouse utopia, or behavioral sink, is not about committing suicide, but transmogrifying normal behavior to psychosis, e.g., upside down, hetero to homo, reproductive to sterile................
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  132.  @andythomas4998  Mouse utopia, or behavioral sink, is not about committing suicide, but transmogrifying normal behavior to psychosis, e.g., upside down, heter0 to hxmx, reproductive to sterile................
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  133.  @andythomas4998  Mouse utopia, or behavioral sink, is not about committing suixxxx, but transmogrifying normal behavior to psychosis, e.g., upside down, hetero to hxmx, reproductive to sterile................
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  134.  @andythomas4998  Mouse utopia, or behavioral sink, is not about committing suixxxx, but transmogrifying normal behavior to psychosis, e.g., ................
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  135.  @andythomas4998  test. fuck youtube censors.
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  136.  @andythomas4998  Mouse utopia, or behavioral sink, is not about committing xxxxxx, but transmogrifying normal behavior to abnormal ................
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  137.  @bobinthewest8559  Much like the Romans before the collapse of the mighty Roman Empire. A few corrupted generations determine the result.
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  138.  @sterlingferguson1704  Culture Marxism is what's going on in ur mind. That's why.
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  139.  @sterlingferguson1704  Read the US history and uu will see that uu belong to the Socialist America with Wilson and FDR as the founding fathers. So maybe uu should stop talking about our Founding Fathers and focus on uurr founding fathers.
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  140.  @sterlingferguson1704  You don't show anything but tr011ing in your comment.
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  141.  @sterlingferguson1704  I am pretty sure a white liberal like u wouldn't survive a week in commie's chain. See Otto Wambier for example.
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  142. Get your fact right at first, Mr. Smart a$$. There were signicant amount of Jews living there when Ottoman Empire collapsed. So it was NOT your house then and it is definitely NOT your house now.
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