Ah, "Disney's 'True Life Adventures'". The series spawned by complete ass-hat documentarian James Algar.
This is the same director who lead a team to produce the complete falsity that was "White Winter", which went on to inspire culture, ignorance, and generations of individuals who believed lemmings were mindlessly suicidal.
It's not exactly the Reich, but fuck them anyway for spreading such disinformation across the world for a profit.

I do understand that the purpose of Godwin's law is to reduce the worst kinds of hyperbole, and that's exactly what I'm trying to do.

Whatever you think about Israel's policies regarding the Palestinians, referring to it as extermination only shows that you haven't taken the time to understand anything about the current conflict and you are just reacting emotionally to the terrible horror of war. Extermination is the total elimination of a certain population by killing, and such an action is so far beyond the state of oppression we see in Gaza today that I just can't take your comparison seriously.

The only way you bother to support these outlandish statements is by telling me that death is death - no matter what the cause - as if that mindless tautology is enough to render two wildly different sets of circumstances and tactics equivalent.

Should we also call all murders murders and not bother to make distinctions between first degree, second degree, involuntary manslaughter, etc? Should we treat the serial killer the same as the drunken brawler who hit someone too hard in a bar fight?

Of course not. As thinking people we analyze factors such as intent, quantity, severity, remorse, and perhaps most importantly, we consider what measures can possibly be taken to correct the underlying cause. All of these elements are wildly different in the different degrees of murders, and having an honest grasp of these differences helps us understand how we as a society should react to each degree, both in terms of punishment and rehabilitation.

To similar ends, it is very important that we consider analogous distinctions in the different degrees of atrocities between nations or ethnic groups. The fact that it is obvious that I would much rather be in Gaza today than a concentration camp in 1943 is very much so relevant to this sort of analysis. The fact that there is no Israeli intent to exterminate the Palestinians is also relevant.

But if you want to leave the depth of your understanding at "dead is dead" then I guess that's your choice.

...and more terrible English in an attempt to attack that which you admit you don't understand...or just to troll me some more. Either way, you need to preview your posts better.
That aside, read by itself there's no telling who's side you're on here, just that you're vitriolic and angry about it.
People that habitually post in this manner are bags of meat locked-into a dangerous, mindless habit.
When someone breaks the law and harms you, the proper course of action is to sue, but of course since I suggested the normal and reasonable course of action you must deride and insult it but offer no alternative suggestion.

Uhhh, the sad state of the roads shows driving like this 'Perfectly normal' (whatever that means) and still, it's butt-fuckingly stupid not to mention inconsiderate and dangerous as hell. People that habitually drive in this manner are bags of meat locked-into a dangerous, mindless habit.
Sue,sue,sue...Let's all default continually to feeding the corrupt courts and build-up that slave-machine.

I am a nice shark
Not a mindless eatin' machine.
If I am to change this image, I must first change myself.
Fish are friends.
Not food.

Pledge says nothing about humans or rigid-hull inflatables.

Once again, the neocon answer is dismissiveness and insult, with no logic, reason, or facts.
You certainly don't have me pegged, sir. I'm not a dumb kid of today, nor did I spend much time in public schooling. 1290, 3.5, 138 and graduated...sorry to disappoint or confuse.
Your comprehension of my position is appallingly incorrect, and knee jerkingly insulting to boot.
I have both been taught, and learned from experience, that capitalism is not the best answer to every problem, nor is liberalism (not that they are opposites or related). Neither is evil or good, those are things only people can be. Neither is a panacea.
Educators want nothing of the sort...you are describing baby sitters.
Wow, amazing that you aren't chanting "We're #1" like most neocons mindlessly do. I'll give you props for that little victory. I agree, our position is sad, more so when you consider the cost we pay for that result, and the costs we will pay because of it.
I do think you are (redacted) wrong that any TEACHERS want this kind of mind numbing chanting or dumbing down of their students...I do agree there aren't enough teachers teaching, and too many babysitters in their place. I also think this is due, in large part, to the lack of respect and compensation available to a public school teacher....you've already shown the former quite clearly, and your political affiliates have seen to the latter.
You seem to have convinced yourself that, since I don't go along with your narrow train of thought, that I'm all for, and 100% behind the current education system, I never even hinted at that straw man arguement. What I did say is that capitalist business always does the least work possible to get the most pay out, and that's not what we want for our tax dollars, especially not our education system. As was said before, this particular flaw is an issue caused by for-profit privatization with not enough regulation, which if it must be politicized is a right wing baby.

I'm sure there are some dumbing down going on, see the related video in the comment above, but what this woman is talking about/objecting to is insane.

"He said education was about challenging and changing students mind.."

YES IT IS!. Thats excactly the point of education: LEARNING something that gives you something to think about, she says it like its a bad thing!, its a good thing, having your views challenged. And then she continues: "I thought education was about reading, writing and arithmetic" Well, you need those things, but sureley, if anything is dumbing down, it would be to create mindless reading math robots with no understanding of the context and purpose of learning stuff.

"He could turn a god-fearing patriot into an atheist in an hour" Well duh, thats because religion and nationalism doesnt make any sense, of course kids with actual open minds would realise the truth very quickly.

I feel so strongly about this. My partner and I are headed down the road where I'll be the primary caregiver. I work at home, and she goes into an academic environment to earn the majority of the money. We plan to have children in this setting.
My "manhood" has never been on the line, nor have I ever measured myself against the status-quo she describes (and most of society purportedly subscribes to), but it incenses me to no end that parents are given a scant few months off for p/maternity leave and then called back to work, or that so many people buy into the mindless cultural norms that she so effectively illustrates in her talk.
In our time, women don't have to think about the equality of men, because they're still fighting for equality against them, but it's immeasurably empowering and encouraging to see a woman take the time to assess the global situation on that front anyway. I've always tried to do the same with my life everywhere (i.e. measure everything from any and everyone's perspective), and this talk just makes me incredibly happy.

This must be the low information voter channel.

Now we know how low does a President have to reach mindless youth.

The ACA is just a a Ponzi scheme where the youth pays in and the elders get the care they need.

Sounds like Social security.

The youth of today would see jack benefits of neither.

He can play Michael J Fox's batty father now...


Well... he could have before I guess. Just thought I'd make a mindless, asinine analogy.

OH, OH! I know, I know!! (raises hand as a diversion) -The context in which a question like that could be considered sensible is asking it simply to make someone who thinks that this type of waste-of-time back-and-forth media shit-box battle of liberals vs. conservatives is real, just to get a rise out of and distract someone who cares to watch it!!

ALL this, with a view to distracting you from what is actually going on, which is powerful insidious cunts turning the planet's citizens into an insane roundtable of mindless, cackling wage-slave-bots.

1; £50-£100 may not be much to you, but there are countries where the population exist on around 40 pence a day, I'm sure they would consider it a lot of money.

2; You saying; " smashing it with a hammer is no different to most of the mindless procrastination they get used for anyway," is rather silly. A Non-sequitur.

3; It doesn't beat "languishing in a drawer." Money - albeit a small amount- can be made from old phones or, if you care, given to someone who can't afford one. That, incidentally, is the major point I was trying -unsuccessfully it seems - to make.

7 million views = about $7000 in youtube ad revenue. Sound investment I'd say!

Also that is actually a pretty old handset, probably only worth £50-100ish now at most.


Now if we're talking about the Congolese workers who mined the ore and the Chinese sweatshop staff that assembled it that's another matter, but then that goes for anyone who owns or has owned a "smartphone". How one chooses to use it irrelevant, smashing it with a hammer is no different to most of the mindless procrastination they get used for anyway.

It's a highly disposable industry and this beats just languishing in a drawer somewhere or being dropped down the toilet etc.

Actually, I was the one to ridicule the guy. I've never considered myself a class act. And @enoch specifically said he felt "twat" was too harsh, so I'm not sure why you're targeting him.

If you're referring to the title, though, I think it's pretty accurate. This guy is regurgitating right-wing bullshit media points without any thinking or attempt to validate the statements' truth on his own (hence, he's a zombie--attacking mindlessly, as zombies are wont to do). And because he didn't bother to check those facts for himself, he gets thoroughly (but politely) schooled here.

Yet, despite this schooling, he continues to cling to his completely misinformed beliefs about Chomsky.

He seems not interested in truth so much as clinging to a particular worldview that he's apparently heavily invested in. You know, actually, I've come to agree with you: he shouldn't be ridiculed... he should be pitied.

<< Well thank (G)god and quantum theory and the high-priestesses of non-linearity (Hail Eris) for assisting the few brave and hapless souls in the quest watcher-man, I'd imagined in the most heated of moments to be dealing with creatures that looked like humans who were in fact, mindless automaton designed to make my experience on Earth a living hell of sorts...That said, if everyone shopped at Walmart the few times a year I go in there and spend less than $20 bucks atta time, every one of their locations would be a black hole of unused square footage slated for demolition and re-acquisition. They'd make for some great multi-lane bowling alleys, skating rinks, or homeless shelters-