Showing posts with label Secular Talk. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Secular Talk. Show all posts

July 30, 2018

Infowars Goes After Kyle, Big Mistake

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Recently, Infowars (the president's favorite news network) reminded everyone that they are the saddest news network in the United States. But we aren't talking about Alex Jones. Instead, this column is based off a member of the Infowars B-Team. Meet Harrison Smith.  
This all started when InfoWars released a video called Tick Epidemic Sweeps America. While talking about ticks, the want to be Alex Jones shows pictures of politicians like Bernie Sanders and Alexandra Ocasio Cortez who he is pretty sure are socialists. By the end, he starts talking about "eradicating these blood sucking" ticks.
Now, somehow, people misunderstood this and thought he wanted genocide. Enter Kyle Kulinski, the host of Secular Talk who did a segment pointing out that Harris came out looking a little, Nazi-like. I don't know why.
Harrison saw this video and responded. Insert his video Science Proves Four-Year-Olds Are Smarter Than Socialists
The first thing I noticed about Harrison is just how much of a victim he is. Harrison opens the video by calling himself "the victim of a vicious leftist, socialist smear". He seems confused people were angry at his "hilarious and insightful video" where he borderline gave a death threat to democratically elected politicians. But I guess this is what Infowars considers "jaw-droppingly insightful".
Harrison Smith (who is the victim of a vicious leftist, socialist smear) really has three main points, only one of which has to do with Kyle. His attack on Mr. Kulinski (the first of his idiotic trinity if you will) is one of the saddest attacks I've ever seen. After giving "a little language warning" (because Infowars is rated TV-Y7 now) they start the attack.
You see, it makes sense Kyle doesn't understand Harrison's (who is the victim of a vicious leftist, socialist smear) "hilarious and insightful video" because he "thinks socialism works". Kyle doesn't actually think socialism works for the record. He's a social democrat, not a socialist. But I guess it's easy to defeat an opponent made of straw. 
Although, he does attempt to make it clear what he meant. You see Harrison (who is the victim of a vicious leftist, socialist smear) wants to "get rid of socialists by convincing them they are dumb". Just like you do with ticks. You go up to them and convince them that sucking blood is not a good idea. Instead of killing them. I don't see how anyone could get this confused with calls for killing.
His second point comes from a study (that he felt the need to print out). You see, Yale University did a survey and found that people don't like what he would see as freeloading. However, and he doesn't hide this fact by the way, the study was done on 4-year-old kids.
Of course, I was convened by this line of reasoning, I don't know about you. So I told many of my socialist "friends" about this experiment and how it the 4-year-old children proved him right. Unsurprisingly, most of them laughed at me, despite the fact I was just being part of the free market of ideas. Upon pushing it further I was banned from r/sandersforpresident. So much for tolerant liberal.
Harrison's (who is the victim of a vicious leftist, socialist smear) has one last point. You see, Kyle didn't care for the fact that Infowars, like all conservatives, seem to be obsessed with a certain South American country. 
Kyle takes issue with the knee-jerk reaction of "well what about Venezuela". So Harrison (who is the victim of a vicious leftist, socialist smear) in his complete wisdom, spends the rest of the video talking about Venezuela.   
So in conclusion, Infowars is still a joke. 

June 20, 2018

No Sympathy For Illegals

So imagine this. You read a story about a criminal, the crime is irrelevant in this case, getting separated from their family. Your first reaction is more than likely "good" assuming you care at all. Now tell me this, why should that change when the crime is entering a country illegally? 
Over the past week story after story after story has come out related to kids being separated from parents at the border of the United States and Mexico. Part of me wonders why, if these parents care so much, they would try to cross the border in the first place. I mean if ICE is "the American Gestapo" (seriously, I've heard some people call it such), then why are you the Jew entering NAZI Germany? That doesn't seem like a better life to me. But I digress.
But, either way, these stories have gotten a lot of coverage. Even though, post-DACA, we have had some of the laxest immigration laws since the Reagan administration. Plus the net 0 illegal immigration from the country where the wall is supposed to be built for a decade, meaning this is a non-story. Let's not forget the media being silent about both the fact that Clinton created tough on illegal immigration policies and George W. Bush trying to build a fence (with support from both Obama and Hillary Clinton). Now George and Bill seem to have got the wives together to explain how wrong they are. You think they could have said something when they were actually in power.          
Speaking of which, Laura Bush seems to have taken the time to come out of retirement after her husband's pocket stuffing of a presidency, to talk about how bad it is that criminals get punished. It should be noted that The Washington Post is owned by billionaire Jeff Bezos. AKA one of the millionaires the Bush's love fighting for. Ivory tower or something more? 
In the six weeks between April 19 and May 31, the Department of Homeland Security has sent nearly 2,000 children to mass detention centers or foster care.
What kind of monster would create such a thing? Well, her husband
This is what I have dubbed an example of Krang's law, named after the Vice writer who goes under the name Krang T. Nelson (you can also call it pulling a Holder). Named after the time former Attorney General Eric Holder came out in favor of making cannabis legal, Krang (in a tweet I couldn't find directly) responded with:
it’s extremely cool how every single one of these dorkass politicians pull a total 180 on pot the very instant they no longer have the power to ruin people’s lives over it
Here's another example of this from Laura:
These images are eerily reminiscent of the internment camps for . . . [the] Japanese . . . during World War II
Really, because they kind of remind me of the torture (I mean enhanced interrogation that just happens to be oddly similar to torture) at Guantanamo Bay
Look, I could go on. However, there seems to be one big lie that's being spread about illegal immigrates. A lie that is currently being spread by both the left and the right, that ruins the entire conversation. 
That lie is typically in the form of the question, "what if they haven't done anything wrong?". Typically, these people will also use the phrase "undocumented immigrants" instead of "illegal immigrants". Even Secular Talk, someone who I have a massive amount of respect for, seems to have engaged in this game once or twice:
Before Bush we existed without this US version of the gestapo
IT'S BAD BECAUSE IT'S NEW. Hey Kyle, didn't we exist without the Iran Deal until 2014? You know, the same deal you were against Donald Trump pulling out of
Searching for undocumented immigrates. Who are criminals or not by the way.
Yeah, we'll come back to this. Heck, even right-wing commentators like Steven Crowder seem to have fallen for this game to some extent:
We are talking about deporting illegal immigrants, who are only caught exclusively because they were caught committing crimes.
Did you guys notice something? Maybe the fact that catching any "illegal immigrant" is catching a criminal. Don't believe me. Well, tell me, what's the first word in the term "illegal immigrant"? Illegal. What does illegal mean? It means:
not according to or authorized by law
All ICE has ever done is act like a police force. If you're against that, just admit you're an anarchist. 
Or you can keep focusing on the fact that Ann Coulter said something insane, as if she hasn't been doing that non-stop since the 90's (citation NOT needed), so you can stay in your burning building reminding yourself that "this is fine".
Update: I honestly can't stop laughing right now