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1. “Devin Patrick Kelley. Many Antifa and other leftist-communist-anarchist types for generations have been Irish-Americans, and simply insane with hate.”Why is him being Irish that relevant? Hate over what? Nice to see that the ‘evil’ of gun rights stopped the massacre, but I don’t see the reason for his Irishness being relevant.

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   • It is relevant because a lot of Antifa are Irish. My own name is Irish. It is just an unpleasant fact that in the past many Irish-Americans were hardcore Democrats, many were union types (which is not all bad, of course, unless the union is corrupt) and some are far-left. I have been on or led many street demonstrations, and you can just SEE the red hair and freckles coming at you in leftist mobs, and they want to stomp your guts out.

     Just tell an Irishman someone is “oppressed” and an “underdog,” and they automatically want to fight for them. It is a noble trait that is misused by demagogues.

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     • Most of the problems with ‘left’ things are just double standards anyways. Social welfare only ends up causing trouble for the Europeans since it’s aimed specifically at immigrants and money is instead taken from them, same with the USA and affirmative action.

       Universal healthcare and free education are pretty undeniably good things, removes the profit incentive for corruption, and removes interest on college debt bills while removing financial incentive to restrict access to education.

       Women’s rights aren’t bad,just are misused to create divorce courts that are biased against men.”Gay rights” essentially only is a problem because many gays are actually pedophiles and use gay marriage to aggressively molest adopted kids. The main reason a lot of conservatives are against mass immigration is from the suspicion that other groups, like Muslims, will be more aggressive and criminal in the first place, not ‘hate’ for minorities.

       The leftist anti-war sentiment, at least among the Bernie supporters, is a pretty good thing, although certainly crazy neoliberals supporting Hillary do love the idea of devastating a few more middle east countries just like the neocons.

       The right does have some very misplaced assumptions, like that private industry will handle things better than the government would or that welfare and other public services should be private. This is just untrue, since the profit motive will naturally lead any private group to maximize their personal advantage at the least possible expense, although certainly the state can be corrupt too, the state itself is often controlled largely by corporate influence anyways.

       One big example of the inherent flaws in capitalism is the need to always maintain profit inhibiting progress, if cancer were cured right now no further treatment research would be needed and all profits from the industry would vanish destroying countless jobs. It’s essentially required for consumers to have cyclical needs for a company to keep profiting, if you could make a car that would work for 100 years, fully power itself with free energy, and be easily repairable and updatable to different design models, you would put yourself out of business as the customers wouldn’t need you for ages leaving you with no profit once their needs are met. These same incentives can be applied to all sorts of industries, even the construction industry.

       War is actually awesome for business as once you blow up all the infrastructure of the devastated country a construction company can make so much money rebuilding everything and wasting endless resources. This is another reason why someone fully buying their own household is a horrible thing for the housing industry since cyclical profit through loans or rent is no longer possible. It’s the same reason why phones need to be replaced after a few years, it’s needed to be extremely resource-inefficient to keep making money.

       Intellectual property is probably the best possible example of purely invented nonsense that’s just there to maintain profits and maintain employment, 30% of US jobs are in IP intensive industries(page 2 of article:https://www.uspto.gov/sites/default/files/documents/IPandtheUSEconomySept2016.pdf), and it would be pretty devastating if just 20% or so of the population became unemployed. So inevitably, these laws remain enforced, but it just shows the absurdity of the system in making this kind of situation the norm.

       There are also these same kinds of structural flaws in things like the modern system of how employers manipulate employees and along the same lines, teachers students through punishments and incentives rather than encouraging their intrinsic motivation.The behaviorist model that people have no intrinsic motivation and there is nothing to undermine by manipulating them like puppets has been heavily debunked, and can be easily seen as false to anyone from their personal experiences of the difference in feeling between doing something because you are forced vs doing it out of inner desire. One key finding with employment and payment, is that financial rewards are most effective when you give an employee enough money that monetary concerns are no longer primary in their mind;they don’t just work harder and harder with more rewards, the effects drop off.

       Now I know that may be a long rambling repeat of things you already heard, but I think talking about the structural flaws of a system is a really important point in why it will inevitably corrupt,only getting much worse when you add in the actively very malicious who wish to exploit an already bad system to their own ends. Essentially, the lines that can be drawn here between both flaws in capitalism and how motivation works is that people generally think and work best when free of being externally forced and also in a situation where they are not constantly in economic danger, activating their lower reptillian brain Fight-or-Flight functions and lowering their effective intelligence.

       Communism has the same problems as capitalism, it just is stated to have a purpose of ‘freedom’ when really about control. Some of the right is basically just the left, but seeing immigration controls as a justified control system due to the idea behind it of preventing aggression by groups seen to be more violent, and when it comes to Islam and the direct goal of world conquest in it+imposing Sharia law, which a significant number of muslims do want and would like enforced, it can be pretty justified, as long as the actual reasons are right.

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       • The common sense point that people think and work better when under less external pressuring whether that’s money concerns or some other forcing situation, leads to a logical conclusion that if scarcity is made a non issue, as it certainly can be if UFO and free energy technology is released, that they would be best off mentally when that pressure is absolutely zero, and it is possible to make resources like food/housing/transport available universally at no cost. Welfare only causes problems due to not being distributed fairly, and if the actual problem of technology being insufficiently powerful to deal with some kinds of objective natural scarcity(Although a massive amount of scarcity today is simply artificial and caused by capitalism) is dealt with, it’s a short step to having a ‘utopian’ society. World peace and global abundance are actually very easy to achieve, if the US could ‘mobilize for peace’ as well as it could to devastate foreign countries, so many world problems could be fixed.

         But talking about abundant food transport and resources barely scratches the surface of what can happen. Right now, the human condition is inevitably very limiting on mental development for simple reasons, no matter how intelligent/skilled someone might get they will eventually die. However, a cure to aging would entirely fix this and the problem that has developed in modern civilization of it being impossible for any one person to learn the exponentially increasing amount of knowledge available.
         https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/aging-is-reversible-at-least-in-human-cells-and-live-mice/

         Beyond stopping aging is then using that gained time to find methods for increasing intelligence, and then achieving a faster rate of congitive processing. This is likely how higher dimensional entities or advanced aliens think, being not only immortal in terms of not aging, but experiencing far far more thought in the time a human might experience 1 second. Essentially it means the most advanced aliens out there are probably immortal in 2 directions, both never aging, and collectively being on a level of consciousness so much higher and faster that comparitvely humans and others would seem to be statues, and anyone far lower in mental rate being no threat. It may also explain why some experiencing NDEs have an experience of ‘timelessness’, their raised rate of consciousness and ability to experience countless simultaneous lines of thought at once may make it seem like there is no linear progression. In a sense this is accurate, since fully understanding a concept makes it ‘timeless’, once someone knows how to multiply completely they just do it without thought, there is no linear time in which they try to remember how to multiply, the intuition directly comes to them. Interactions in the afterlife(Maybe ‘between-life’ is a better term)could seem timeless if you can reach a point where they are complete, and you understand at all times everything any other entity could want or think and anything that could happen.

         Ultimately mental advancement of humanity could start happening at an exponential rate, the biggest issue is getting past the current Orwellian world to a semi reasonable one.

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