Comments by "sharper68" (@sharper68) on "David Pakman Show" channel.

  1. Thats Not a Knife, This is a Knife It is likely he does not like it when someone he thought was progressive spits empty establishment talking points like he was ignorant of what they mean.
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  2. I could not disagree with David more on the idea the democrats have to focus on republicans instead of going after conservative dems. The fact is the democrats will continue to lose unless they shake the GOP light mantle they currently wear. Overt sellouts like Joe represent the reason progesives and liberals stay home on voting day and it is time to push candidates that the base can actually be excited about. I am deeply disappointed in seeing David adopting the talking points of the establishment dems especially as it has veen shown they do not know how to win against even someone as deeply flawed as Trump. Giving their empty nonsense voice has no merit and the democrats have not won by running right but have won by acting progressive.
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  3. Sure, as long as it is Bernie. :P
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  4. lisa houk  It appears projection might be your only move ... you do not appear to be clever with spin that empty and weak not to mention devoid of all substance. Keep on playing stupid and eventually you will be indistinguishable from the actual brain dead.
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  5. They can find work in a different industry.
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  6. Her brain is broken and so is yours if you hear this doctor freak show and believe her overtly stupid and dishonest spin. She should be shouted down as a dangerous idiot every time she opens her mouth on this subject.
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  7. That problem is our government has been for sale to the highest bidder for a long time and regularly ignores what the voters want. Having two bad choices leaves you with bad results.
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  8. You are an idiot for even saying that on behalf of the GOP.
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  9.  @victorbergman9169  No one is even proposing it, forget about it passing.
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  10.  @Swigzable   Becuase virtually no one died of the shot, knowing several people who have is like knowing several double lottery winners.
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  11. Are you paid by DCI? .. The response is a purposely confusing word salad meaning essentially yes.
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  12. ***** I suspect you were never a subscriber .. you are not paying attention if you think they are apologists.
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  13. He was the best of a bad set of options.   He was not what was promised but he is no worse than what we would have seen under the GOP candidates.  I am disappointed in Obama but that does not make me rethink my vote, as someone who lives in district that could go either way any vote but him could have meant the GOP candidate would get in and that would be bad.  No way is Obama good, but on a great many issues that matter he is far better than the loonies at the the top of the ticket on the right.
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  14. Fact free much?
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  15. IamSpacedad It is shocking to everyone including most who through ignorance or apathy support still support anti gay marriage spin.  All it takes is to hear a rant this insane for many otherwise decent but misguided people to change their positions from tacit support to fundamental opposition of the ideas he represents. His nature and entire world view when clearly exposed like this is repugnant to all but a handful of people.  There is little danger of his spin gaining traction because someone like David lets him "share his views" in public while carving his fact free spin apart.  The stuff buddy says in interviews like this form some of the best arguments of why his entire viewpoint belongs on the trash heap of history.
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  16. Yet
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  17. One is science one is is religion ... what is confusing for you about that? 
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  18. We need to get into space and there is nothing stopping us but the will to do so. To say the vision of space travel is unattainable is as forward thinking as those who argued against sending ships to find the orient by sailing west.  We need to ignore you and those like you and press on without your blessing or support.  Unless we do so we are doomed as a species as we can not stay on our tiny ball forever and expect to prosper.
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  19. Eman6881 He did not have full control for the whole year as he just finished appointing a final batch of cronies last year.  He also held what is widely considered a successful Olympics  and he has flexed Russia's muscles in bullying of Ukraine.  I have no doubt a country that has felt second class for a long time appreciated feeling like the bear again ... does not mean the policy was good or that they have had it reported to them accurately.  His popularity claim is a smoke screen, it has the same problem (to a lesser degree) as Kim Jong Un's state reported popularity numbers. Neither are to be trusted.
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  20. Eman6881 I did not say they were brain washed but the actions of Putin over the last year spun correctly with no decent allowed his domestic popularity soar.  This does not require brain washing, just a press that says what the government tells them to.  Russia instigated and facilitated a takeover of a region in a sovereign country where "oversaw" elections that delivered it into their control through a unilateral action. I guess from a Russian nationalist perspective this is a shiny move but to the rest of the world it is nothing but naked pretense to retain control of the area primarily for navel access. Putin is "popular" because active descent against him or his administration is crushed. All news is good news as Goebbels proved when you own the press you can really get the majority on your side.  Russians feel important again and there is some satisfaction with having a strong man in power who does what he wants.  None of this makes his policy sound or his propaganda vindicated.
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  21. Max Rice Do not take the bad feedback very personally,  such is the nature of you tube comments.  When it occurred I thought it was kind of fun because anything that kicks fox propaganda in the teeth can't not be all bad.   Hope you had fun with it and do not worry about what the you tube haters think.
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  22. MacX1985 Which is a sideways way of calling him gay.  When someone says "I dislike your lifestyle" in right wing speak it means "your gay lifestyle".
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  23. MRostendway I trust neither of them but I really do not trust Russia at all and there is little upside in fabricating this from the CIA's perspective.  The government is not controlled by the Clintons but by the same guys who owned both her and the GOP, the GOP still won and they have nothing to whine about.   The idea the fabrication is on this end when it makes eminent sense Russia was involved and that they have tangible celebrated wins makes the concept not remotely far fetched even before confirmation.  I do not trust anyone blindly but I do not need a smoking gun for it to make sense and be logical based on the actions and the power of Russian spin machine or what they have already been willing to do and say to push a false narrative. This hacking is not unlikely or outside the character of Russia did it and that makes more sense then the CIA is blindly defending Clinton. 
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  24. MRostendway The escalation of tension between nuclear powers is over blown and as much of non issue as it has been for the last 60 years.  Mad is no less true now than then and any saber rattling is exactly that and is not the first step to nuclear destruction. Trump by all accounts has been almost fawning over a dictator who wants to be the king of every castle he steps into.  Cozying up to an alt right nationalistic totalitarian dictator is not something anyone who is not a fascist should be comfortable with.     Your spin mirrors that of Russia and wholly mitigates them of any culpability in these events.  It may turn out that they have none but the accusation is certainly out of character with normal diplomatic efforts and strikes me as genuinely possible in the existing climate.  I was surprised to see the expelling of ambassadors especially with the friendly nature of the relationship trump has imminently imposed.  It leads me to believe there is more than they are willing to share and that we are missing part of the story.  It does not make me think Russia's cries of innocence ring true.  I think evidence will come to light,  I will not be surprised when it does.  In the mean time concern about some foreign power messing with our electoral process should be a page 2 story. Page one should be how corporate interests have been manipulating our system for years and have driven policy through their bought and paid for leaders.  You want to talk about concern about manipulation,  that is a the real crime. 
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  25. Nathan Robinson Projection mastered, nice work.
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  26. Nathan Robinson Anyone who labels progressives as such are factually the most ill informed anywhere.  Your assertion appears to be fundamental projection of your own faults based on it.
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  27. Nathan Robinson Yes they were cons in spite of your claim.  They were no more socialist than the democratic republic of Korea is democratic.   You are attempting to apply a redefinition of history commonly used by a fringe element of the right to distance themselves from the ass hats in their ranks. Fascism is was and will be a right wing phenomena and the Nazi's where the poster boys for it.   In other failed spin you share public education is a universally part of the most successful systems in the world.  There is no private system that ranks int the top 20 let alone top 10.  The idea that government in education is part of our problem is the spin of corporate shills who want to make billions at the expense of our children's education or sheep who have bought into their bullshit.   What should I expect from someone that throws out the Nazi's were not cons idiotic spin.  Please note that all neo Nazi's are right wring freak shows, the movement was is and always will be conservative.  
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  28. Nathan Robinson Conservatives and the right wing are synonyms.  The distinction between them is non existent.  The Nazi's were conservative and by extension right wing.  They crushed trade unions, communists and actual socialists, gay people and anyone who opposed them.Their actions were universally conservative and they had that support even here in the US. Nationalistic authoritarians are not progressives but cons.  In any sense of the word?  Please they were worshiped by the cons here and it is telling that neo Nazi's are UNIVERSALLY conservative.  You literally have to change the definition of the term for it not to apply.   Conservatives are universally ill informed on any subject that they care to discuss.  They misrepresent the truth or change entire definitions to suit their narrative as they can not face what they are dead on.  You sit in a camp with self declared racists, homophobes and actual living breathing Nazi's.  Our education faces challenges mostly attached to funding and the fact we have elements on the top working against it for their corporate masters.  A properly funded public system has proven to be the most effective education platform and moving away from that model has never been the answer in any of the places that rank best.   The GOP who represents cons in our country universally serve coreprate agendas and the dems are not much better.  Neither serve their constituency but at least the liberals do not clap their hands and cheer the policy of handing over power the country to multinationals and billionaires.  It is undeniable that cons do.  
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  29. Nathan Robinson You do not have facts .. you misrepresent everyone you disagree with and are basically wallowing a pool of willful or ignorant dishonesty.   Stalin and Hitler were both totalitarians but sat on the opposite spectrum with regard to the right and left. This is what is what is understood by people outside your bubble. You lump totalitarianism in as left wing when it is in fact an entirely different axis. I understand exactly what you think,  it is just fact free with regard to the terms we discuss as you use them incorrectly.  I know why your element has done this as it allows you to paint a giant swath of anyone you disagree with as the other and blame all problems on the state.  When you make this mistake you end up misrepresenting what people like me actually stand for and it creates an artificial divide between us when in fact we may agree on many things.  It makes it impossible to talk to you and I think this is by design.  
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  30. Kev Urbie Our students have a ridiculously high debt ratio after graduation. Most kids parents can not afford to pay for the whole shot and there is no reason to assume she is any different.  It is not the 1960's and the cost of education is so high that many are crippled with debt for years after they graduate.  As you ignore this fact it  becomes questionable if you were ever progressive as your spin shows you to think like a right winger, fact free. 
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  31. Rathelm MC There is value in non stem related educations and the idea it should be predicated on earning potential is part of the failure of our system.   The other potential effect your "solution" would inflict is to further stratify our society where the rich get the good jobs most are relegated to min wage and labor jobs which will continue to decrease in value as we automate even further.  Making our country more like the third world feels like a race to the bottom for me and I do not see it as valuable. There was a time when we enacted universal education for children that people would have advocated the same path as you do saying everyone did not need to learn to read.   There idea if that if the job does not generate money it is useless is only possessed by a specific mindset.  Our biggest issue is we have out sourced many of the jobs that once made our economy a juggernaut and the current policy is slowly bleeding us out as a handful collect all the growth.  The idea we are screwed is false as the issues we face are systemic from the top down and have nothing to do with potential or ability.  People with liberal arts degrees have gone on to do all kinds of things that may not have been attached to their education but was relevant to the experience they got while procuring it.  Our education is what should be our competitive advantage when facing off against the rest of the world.  I see no upside in sacrificing it.
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  32. Rathelm MC Why go to 13, why not stop at 8 and make people pay to get more education after that?   Why 8 .. perhaps stop at grade 5 and get those kids out into labor jobs even earlier.  It seems you imagine half the population is way over educated for their ability already, if that is not true how did you draw your line? On what criteria do you base your standard? The fact is not everyone can even afford trade school and many start their lives in massive debt just to get a reasonable chance of getting a job you can live on.  That is even if their education leads to a lucrative job (which all of them do not).  We should be encouraging people based on merit not how much cash they can borrow or what their parents can give them.  If we want the best and brightest to be educated then we should be paying for it all the way through.  This should be considered an investment in our society and has a much higher pay off economically and socially than the fact we dump money into foreign wars and endless military spending without a thought.  Be it collage or trade schools we should be covering the cost of education for everyone. It should be driven by achievement, ability and desire not how much cash your family has.  
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  33. Nathan Robinson Not true, it will stop young people graduating from post secondary education buried under mountains of debt just to have a chance of getting a good job.  Even 30 years ago this was not the problem it is today.  The debt you have to swallow these days to get an education is harmful and forces everyone that incurs it to start a lot further behind than people of a single generation ago.  To get any job of note these days an education is a must and the idea we can just ignore this issue as we have in the past does not seem to solve anything to me.   That alone is a good reason to correct this. The fact is education should be about ablity and desire not how rich your family is or how much debt you are willing to swallow.  I think that it should be attached to grades to show aptitude and if you qualify money should not be a barrier.  There are good systems in other places that we can look to and copy that mitigate our our massive issues.   A charge toward less education is not the path forward.  
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  34. A solution would be a driver less HOV type lanes where we have a hybrid of manual and automatic driving.  Where everyone drives and then once in position the car takes over and moves them in.  This technology will be of primary benefit on high volume arteries like freeways where human nature and instinct is the root of traffic problems.  Dedicate a lane then two then three to autonomous cars and watch people convert to them. 
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  35. Medical supplies are more expensive in Canada?   Source that please.
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  36. justun chan Yes but we do have contemporary references to him and even if you ignore those we have scores of detailed references about his life from distinct sources.  We are not talking apples and apples here or Alexander's existence would be in doubt too.  Your example is a poor one.
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  37. justun chan There is contemporary evidence for Alexander the Great from a number of sources: Cleitarchus, Callisthenes, Ptolemy, Nearchus, Aristobulus and Onesicritus to name a few.  There is even a a contemporary account of his death. http://www.livius.org/aj-al/alexander/alexander_t41.html.  We have his face on coins and statues for heaven sakes, I honestly can not believe you think the evidence of Alexander is comparable to Jesus. Your analogy is fatally flawed You do know this stuff is pretty easy to look up yourself if you have the will to do so.
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  38. justun chan Not true.  There were writers and documents contemporary to his time.  There are dated coins with his face on them.  We are not relying on the writings of historians 2 centuries after he was dead. A documented report of his death talking about other locals events of the time is preserved in London. I am not sure how you mange to equate these two figures.
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  39. justun chan My argument is not that the writings we have about Jesus are biased but now you mention it, that is a factor. Independent accounts of him are pretty much non existent.  When you accuse people of bias you are better to have a strong basis for it.  In the case of Christ we can assume a great deal of bias being the source of almost all your 1000s of documents are from those have a direct interested in promoting  and validating him real or not.  Bias is a concern for all studies of ancient writings and it is well understood the nature of putting pen to paper means some will always leak through. The real concern here for the case of a real Jesus of Nazareth is a complete lack of independent historical record.  Jesus is practically not mentioned outside religious scripts that are undeniably attempting to aggrandize and promote him.  Most of the texts you are talking about are not worth the paper they are written on as a verification of Jesus existence even if they are interesting. 
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  40. justun chan There was no reason for the heavily pregnant Mary to journey to Bethlehem.  The event that forced them to make the trip is not documented anywhere,  at no point was there ever a proclamation that had people journey to another city to do a census.  This is exactly the kind of thing that we would expect independent verification of.  The whole reason the Christ ended up in Bethlehem in a manger never occurred.   Your wild claims are not attached to reality, they are make a good story but hurt the credibly of the source.  This makes a claim of the bible being a historically accurate text very weak.   The more inaccuracies and unverifiable statements a text makes the more its value decreases as a historical reference.  When you can not verify any of the independently important components that should have some outside references it calls into question the veracity of whole thing as a literal report. Some of the the new testament books supposedly are written by one writer. But when studied it turns out they are actually written in several distinct styles suggesting several authors.  The idea these texts are accurate or that we even know who penned, edited or translated and then re translated them is not a valid.  The new testament is a fascinating incomplete collection of stories that may or may not resemble what the originals looked like.  The original manuscripts were edited out of existence are not fully represented by the modern text that has been deliberately modified to suit a political needs of churches leaders perpetuating their bias.  The idea there is anything historical about them should be in grave question. 
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  41. You are correct we have problems in out school system that are not addressed by privatizing for someones profit only so that faith based nonsense can be taught as fact.  The best most effective systems in the world are public, instead of throwing our money at a group who values profit over education we need to reform our public schools to do a better job.  It is little wonder there is no political will to do this,  the failure of our schools is in the interest of the parties who buy our leaders.
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  42. whyamimrpink78 None of the most successful systems in the world private based. All of them are public.  That stat alone is very telling.  There are a few reasons the right is pushing for private schools.  The first is their curriculum can be fact free and is not tied to any kind of national or international standard.  This allows them  to teach whatever they want to valid or not.  The second and more  important is money, the same way our prison system has been privatized (to our detriment) they have turned their eyes to education making billions on it too.  To that end our school system has been consistently attacked and its finances drained off to serve partisan interests and tax cuts.  There is no justification for the selling of out school system to the highest bidder if oyu are not a shill for the school lobby or you want to see your child is taught nonsense instead of science on the tax payers dime. Either way do not expect much sympathy from those who value the idea of reforming our education system to bring it line with other 1st world players.  There are better options than vouchers and with the proper focus and funding we could easily do much better.  We have examples in this very story how voucher schools are failing their students and outside your rhetoric there is no reason to think the solution lies in handing over our children education to the likes of these greedy clowns.  If you want to pay for your child to be taught nonsense that is your business but do not expect the state to pick up the tab.
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  43. whyamimrpink78 You say they are better but no large scale implementation of them backs you up.  The best systems are public and have strong teachers unions, to say otherwise is to deny reality. Your views on the success of this system are entirely faith based and I would prefer to base our system on the best example there is and not what you hope will happen. There is nothing to support the private systems would be better. They would certainly be more expensive as we would have to cover the profit and not just running the schools.  I say we take the extra money you propose we dump down some corporations throat and spend it on the children's education instead.  We have good models to draw from it is high time we start enacting some changes to bring our public system in line with the good ones.
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  44. Stupid question .. perhaps we should ban knives from people so dumb that they ask it.
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  45. ace8842 They can open a business if they want but if they can not serve everyone because of a personal choice then that is on them.  We know what people like you do when we do not have rules protecting minorities. We put them in place because of there is a segment who treasures who will treat others as a lessor citizen.  Denying anyone a service that open to the public with a retail business license is not a right anyone has because we know what bigots do when the have it.  It is not bigoted to hold everyone to the same standard and I am not singling out christens or any other group by this standard.  If you can not serve all of the public because of your personal bigotry driven by your faith or not then it is incumbent on that person to find a line of work that suits them.  If you can't do the job for everyone then it is time for you look at doing something else.   Perhaps you should  avoid wowing at me when you openly defend naked and unvarnished actual bigotry you just happen to agree with. 
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  46. ace8842 Well you are wrong and the judgement of an openly admitted bigot about my bigotry is not very compelling. I understand enough about faith that I know it should not be applied to anyone but else but those that have it.  Bigotry is not something you just do on Sunday either but that does not make it laudable.  I will actually fight for your right to believe any stupid thing you want but will fight just as hard to see you never shove it down anyone else`s throat.  That you are a 24-7 bigot does not mean make you special or immune to rules that ensure all minorities are not treated as a second class citizen in their country.   Your rights end at the tip of your finger and everyone else`s nose.  There is one set of rules for everyone and you are not remotely special.
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  47. Except it would turn into chaos or control would be scooped up by another entity utilizing one type of coercion or another.   People would end up lining up behind factions that controlled the food or water or security or any number of needs that people rely on the society for access. The idea that goverment is the problem is not valid,  the idea the goverment serves someone else instead of it's citizens is.   Large scale societies can not  exist with the citizens freedom intact if we enact your vision.
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  48. PixelDansIronFist Of course it is, who enforces the "rules" in your system if not some body drawn from the population?  What differentiates them from a state if they enforce law?
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  49. Janos Valentine I am saying that it is impractical and prefer to base my entire system on ideas that have some chance of being enacted in a positive way   I am a realist and the list of things wrong with your system is long.  I reject your primary premise that government in itself is harmful as I see it as simply a tool that can be harnessed for the benefit of all or the enrichment of a few.   You define force as taxation,  others may define it as someone stopping them from pumping toxic waste deep in the earth.   Any rule that is made for the good of all will require force to enforce it.  I do not see any difference at all between what you propose and what we have except you do not have taxes and somehow expect massive infrastructure development for all out of thin air.  Your vision has not been "allowed to survive" as it is a fantasy in the same way the tooth fairy is never given a fair chance to speak.  The entire thing is a pipe dream not attached to reality.  Please know if it was as  successful as you imagine it would be then there would already be examples of it flourishing and both of us know they do not and have not existed in any enviable form.
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  50. JustCause:Reason You are the only one who brought up racism even though this whole mess surely stinks of it.  But the fact they are trying to promote slaves to workers in an educational text should be enough for all sane people to object. 
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