Comments by "clray123" (@clray123) on "Today I Found Out" channel.

  1. More like a true idiot. Probably was scared of getting caught and executed for his crimes as he should have been.
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  2. Beremor ALL patriotism is born of childhood brainwashing and propaganda. There is no other reason to associate yourself with an entirely abstract and diverse group of people who happen to inhabit some big geographical region.
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  3. And the space is there so Mozart can shit down her nose.
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  4. Your argument may have some merit when applied to the closest circle of family and friends, especially in earlier times where you (as individual) were highly dependent on such support, but it collapses outright when applied to an abstract and mostly externally imposed construct like "country". If you know any history, patriotism everywhere around the world is always hijacked to promote both aggression and war (or at least coercion of groups of people against other groups and rating interests of some people above others). I don't care what your personal "harmless" definition of the thing is. You are just whitewashing it, just like many people whitewash religions (all about morality and doing good, huh?). Sadly, in most circumstances, for most involved people, it turns into something ugly rather quickly. It's a slippery slope toward discrimination (on par with racism), and the best way to avoid this is to stay wary of it from the beginning and to abandon the concept altogether - in favor of a better, more modern, reasonable one which de-emphasizes differences instead of underhandedly promoting them. (Not to mention the sheer stupidity of being proud of something you didn't work for, like your heritage.) This abandonment of failed concepts has worked well for humanity with things such as slavery and colonialism, and time is nigh to eliminate the cover for xenophobia known as "patriotism", which seems to be spreading once again, and producing its usual rotten fruit around the world.
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  5. More like a real nutjob and criminal.
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  6. You know you've made it in life when you've been licked down there and wrote a canon about it.
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  7. Beremor EVERYONE is human like you, everyone feels sorrow, pain and happiness and bleeds like you, not just some select group you call as COUNTRYMEN or a group of morons from your town/village/clan or fans of the same football team fans or anything like that. Do you know how countries are created and what they are based of (hint: violence)? How country boundaries are arbitrarily shifted after wars? How people are displaced and moved around by the winning "patriots"? It's all random bullshit for the most part. Ganging up in groups - for which patriotism is a euphemism - has valid evolutionary and biological reasons (it's easier to beat up a smaller group if you gang together in a larger group), but none of them are noble, none are something to be proud of or advocate in today's modern world. Patriotism is also a way to push you into servitude (especially of paying taxes to support "your fellow countrymen" - most of the tax money going into pockets of corrupt people drumming up the patriotic feelings and creating xenophobia against "foreigners", as you seem to have realized half-way).
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  8. Harrison Yates, bullshit, nations can't and don't hate - it's the individual people, especially the "patriots" who do. That's why we need no fucking patriots, we need human beings. And yes, we need means of defense against other human beings who are willing to use violence against us. No patriotism required still.
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  9. Harrison Yates, also note that every "genocidal army" is full of patriots.
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  10. Alex O I'm not American. And what the fuck is a "neoliberal Marxist"? I thought "neoliberal" was an insult used by Marxists and "Marxist" was an insult used by neoliberals. Take your head out of your ass maybe.
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  11. Where the fuck did he get ammunition for his rifle over 30 years?
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