We send all these people, who have hearts pumping, brains thinking, and body moving to their deaths because we think we can build some sort of utopia here in the USA and maybe the world. But using violence to solve social complex problems will lead us to mass population control, which the future will look back and say WTF? It's immoral to treat us this way, immoral to treat us like worker ants, we are smarter than that. We'll overcome.
It is a sad thing that so much young potential is devoured on the battlefield, and to add to this, young manhood is considered fulfilled, patriotism is paid its due, through the worst, most horrendous rite of passage. If only all worthy ideals, if pursued to their utmost, were considered honorable. If only we had a culture where a young man found it more heroic to wield a stethoscope than he does a rifle. In our post-industrial culture, doctors and entrepreneurs will matter more than soldiers.
@GeoffreyTransom I see you are using a very high-wattage projector.
Were you less unfamiliar with Iraq, you would have known that the regime of Saddam Hussein has run up HUGE debts, with Kuwait as their principle creditor, in their long-running war with Iran. You do remember Iran, don't you? The next country over, the one that has generally poor relations with most of the other countries in the region?
Of course not, the systemic segrigation of Jews didn't happen leading up to the war, their mass-entournment didn't start before the war, whatever. The execution of 12,000 German nationals for no other crimes than holding dissenting opinion, and the imperialist military campain of said executors, was our reason for going to war.
@GeoffreyTransom Mate, if you could take one moment to actually read what I said, not what you want me to say, then we might get somewhere. I'm justifying the action the allies took against the axis in WW2, I'm not justifying everything my country has ever done ever.
Now can you stop making retarded strawman arguments and get a fucking grip? Everything you've guessed about me so far is false. Why the fuck do you think I'm commenting on this video? I'm an anarchist, that's why.
@GeoffreyTransom "further to this (the idea that the German regime was 'tyrannical, genocidal, fascist"): that was an issue for the German people, who, if genuinely oppressed, would have overthrown the Hitler regime."
While the Germans and Japanese were busy NOT overthrowing their governments, 5 million Jews/gays/disableds and 10 million Chinese were tortured, mutilated, and murdered in unmentionable ways. Don't you fucking tell me for one second it was "an issue for the German people".
@GeoffreyTransom The part of "war for oil is a nostrum I attack at every opportunity" that escapes me is the part where you DON'T claim that Saddam invaded Kuwait in an attempt to add it to Iraq for the FIRST TIME (we'll not get into your claim that he was correct in his historical claims about Kuwait) was purely to do with oil, AS YOU KEEP CLAIMING. It was unrelated to oil, it was about FOREIGN DEBT owed to Kuwait. He didn't even PRETEND it was about oil.
@GeoffreyTransom Soldiers who fought against a tyrannical, genocidal, fascist power did protect our personal liberties. You're not a veteran of the great wars and, like I pointed out in my previous comment, the mere fact that you held a gun and fought people doesn't give you sage-like insight into the political workings of remembrance day. I'm well aware the current wars have nothing to do with freedom, you need not remind me.
@GeoffreyTransom You are making the same generalisation that stefan does. Not all soldiers serve for pay but to protect their country, certainly if you look at it historically. Saying that all soldiers are evil is delusional. That was my point.
Pfff, where to begin. Nice use of words but It is too black and white for my taste. There are Soldiers who defend their country, and there are soldiers who attack countries. Condemning all soldiers is crazy and unthankful. If you dont get that, i don't even know where to begin.
@erdal0 I don’t think I’ve heard Stef deny that self defence is legitimate I might be wrong of course- however in an educated evolved species would there be any need if violence was resigned to the history books – I never understand ‘remembrance day’ when ordinary men and women continue to buy into the bullshit that convinces them to go and kill other ordinary people all over the planet.
@GeoffreyTransom In reality, it wasn't about oil at all. It was about Iraq's foreign debt being held largely by Kuwait. If Saddam could get away with annexing Kuwait, he would have been able to wipe most of his foreign debt problems off the books.
Claiming the US was interested in securing the oil from such a minor supplier is full on hallucination.
@GeoffreyTransom No it does not, it's about remembering the dead to whom you and I owe the ability to discuss the notion of anarchism without persecution. The fact that you personally are a soldier does not give you a sage-like insight into what remembrance day is about. It's a pretty simple concept.
Politicians cause war and we cause politicians. We can't blame them for taking advantage of a situation we created, but we can stop them.
Stef, dammit, you make me cry. Many of us have been against WAR all our lives, it never made a difference. The lies of war, Freedom is not Free and Democracy propaganda have continued to prevail. Now apparently it will be Iran, and what can we do to stop it? They just do it, without consensus, without public support. People ask of me at 50 yrs old, why do you still fight, and hurt for it, you cant win. Give up. Stop feeling the pain. You only hurt yourself and annoy your friends. Uselessness.
Why not just educate your children that soldiers are rapists and murderers who never defend us, but go overseas to enslave other nations. We laugh at dead soldiers in my house. We snigger at ex-vets being given no medical help, go homeless and commit suicide. The girls who left them for an intelligent man who stays home to support the girls, and love them. Sucked in zombie soldiers.
This video is NOT intelligence. Dont kid yourself that you are a deep thinker. There is a huge difference between being critical and being a critical thinker. Today's Americans are sell-outs, "marketing" themselves as smart / intelligence (marketing: another word for lying) by being "empty-headed-critics"... When if they wanted to be intelligence they would be true critical-thinkers.
@ihaterobbie123 Yes it does. Otherwise we would just mourn the loss, not throw colorful fancy parades with speeches expounding the importance of the continued effort in 'the fight against terrorism.'
@FUZZYisBIG Sir...shut the bleeding fuck up. If you don't know what happens at the laying of a rembrance day wreath then I strongly suggest you educate yourself. Growing up in the western world means you should have no excuses.
@ihaterobbie123 I grew up In Lebanon and have lost plenty of family to petty power politics. Lay your wreaths and parade like an idiot. I won't make out senseless loss of life to be anything more than it is.
@FUZZYisBIG And you don't think I know war is a senseless loss of life? I don't know how many insults I can take from you fucking retards.
If you don't understand rembrance day, SHUT-THE-FUCK-UP. It is not there for the purpose of glorifying war. It is not there for the purpose of belittling human life. It is not there to somehow justify conflict. It's there to pay tribute to the SOLDIERS who were coerced or chose to fight to preserve the security of their friends and family. NOTHING MORE.
Excellent vid! Not to take anything away from the video, but your accent and voice could make reading an excerpt from "Green Eggs and Ham" sound profound. Love ya, Stef! Please never run out of ideas!
People in my country, and yours too, are alive now because of them. People like you and me are ALIVE, able to write poetry & books, walk, breathe, make love, enjoy children, grandchildren, and take joy in the natural world.
Without those willing to fight, and sometimes die, You would be in chains - we would be subservient to brutal murderers, dictators, fascists, nazi, or dead. I thank God that even the Fascists-Leftists display "artwork"
@captnhuffy Has the thought ever occurred to you that you may be regurgitating the same line that has been said by a billion flag waving, brainwashed, nation lovers before you? Step outside of your shoes and imagine you grew up in Iran...you'd be saying the same stuff, only you'd be supporting Iran instead.
@munkyusm Hi, Has it occurred to you that the author is a sell-out: being controversial, pimping his soul out to get recognition / attention? Other views are vital vital vital, sometimes even wrong ones
I come to my conclusions honestly. Other's can see the truth too. When we get back to a world have values honesty and truth, OVER someone pimping his work. The author has strong-strong talent. Does he believe what he writes, or is he a slut for attention?? TY for your words as a question.
@captnhuffy Sell out? I don't understand how you mean? The dude has put out tens of thousands of well thought out podcasts, and every now and then he does an entertaining artistic piece and that's selling out? He's trying to reach people, not masturbating via the internet.
We will never get back to a world with honesty and truth until we evolve as a society and outgrow the need for a state. Fuck religion, fuck nationalism...all that matters is the non-aggression principle.
@captnhuffy Consider the reasons for war in the past century. Those wars were not waged to stop starvation, oppression. Wars may be fought in the name of human rights but that is never the true goal. Wars are waged to gain greater control over the people and resources. War causes poverty, starvation and reduces freedoms it does not grant freedoms.
BS. For example: So youre saying the "Coalition of the Willing" should have let Saddam Hussain: Invade; Rape; Pillage; Burn, and create HUGE environmental disasters in the oil fields??
If the Coalition has not responded there would have been a war... There would have been FAR FAR worse.
@captnhuffy Because you believe you have an infallible crystal ball that tells you the unavoidable future, you advocate for U.S. troops to go 1/2 way around the globe and die and kill for your arrogant belief system. Your soul is cold, your brain is frozen with self-absorption and self-admiration, so much that you cheer killing machines and invasive empire wars for your vain nationalism. Shame on you. As if Saddam were a tenth the risk to the globe that Bush/Obama were/are.
"As if Saddam were a tenth the risk to the globe that Bush/Obama were/are."
He was in defiance of at least 15 UN security council reoslutions, he was butchering his own people by the tens of thousands, and minority groups like the Kurds, and he was giving aid to internationally known terrorists. What an insulting comaprison. You're the one who should be ashamed.
@regelemihai Saddam killed tens of thousands of people?? WHOA. THATS A LOT.
How many people have died in Iraq/Afghanistan as a direct result of our invasion? I don't know exactly but I'm pretty sure it's over a million. That's ten thousand times 100 for those who aren't good at math.
"How many people have died in Iraq/Afghanistan as a direct result of our invasion?"
You mean how many people died as a result of muslim extremists being on the loose and killing each other in secterian violence? I dunno the exact number. The Iraq Body Count estaimates that overall, the total number o deaths amounts to 103,000. A million is pure fabrication.
@captnhuffy You said, "People in my country, and yours too, are alive now because of them." You were referring to soldiers killed in action.
Understand that they only fought because there was an opposing force comprised of men fighting for identical reasons--us good, them bad. We just happened to be the "bad guys" in their eyes they were the bad guys in ours.
What makes our soldiers so great and the old Nazi German soldiers so bad? They were lied to by Hitler just as ours were lied to by Bush.
Beautiful sentiments. You write well. You speak well. War is used far too often and for the wrong reasons. I do see a problem though. It's just my opinion. The underlying premise of your video seems to be that there is nothing after this life so we should not do anything to disrupt maximum fullfillment here. If this is true, and there is nothing past this existence, and there will be nothing left when the heat death of the universe occurs, why bother with this existence either?
@lexidart You're basically saying "If there's no god, what's the point of living?". Do you think you're the first to come up with this ridiculous argument?
Thank you Stef. Each successive year as Remembrance Day approaches here in the UK and the pressure to wear a red poppy increases, I become more and more uneasy at the growing sense that war is being glorified. I'll post this video on my Facebook wall and anyone asking why I don't wear one will be directed to it.
This reminds me of the lyrics to "Not about Love". "And last night phrases sick of lack of basis are still writhing on my floor" "and it doesn't make sense, I should fall for the kingcraft of a meritless crown".. great little Fiona Apple song
@MAZDAKPRODUCTION There are probably way more bonds than you even realize. Righty anarchists are so much lamer than lefty anarchists, imo. Give it a shot, it's a blast!
Very poignant, tragic that most try to white-wash this day.
The point is to remember war for its horrors, weigh those thoughts with its gains & losses. Understand its magnitude on our lives. Then turn to our vets with appreciation & gratitude for their sacrifice. Then to pray for hope that we can eliminate it from our lives.
What would they say? They would answer with the non-answer they always did when they were alive -- "God, family, and country". The 3 tiers of bullshit in human society.
I'm a big fan of Steph. He has the answers to the social questions. But in regards to human nature and motivation; borders and Identity, race and ethnicity (i.e Borders are arbitrary lines, or 'how does one feel after being manipulated by these words.' I'm in sad disagreement. Like it or not, as Shakespeare and Dostoevsky discovered, Man desires to discharge himself in time and is against self preservation or 'reason' if it disparages his honour and identity. ;'may my thoughts be bloody.'
@EdwardWhelanPiano I tend to disagree, seeing as how these soldiers voluntarily join up. If they were drafted, I may agree with you, but these people know damn well what they're expected to do.
Great work Stefbot, ( I still don't understand your stance on land ownership, but ) this is a small masterpiece in my opinion.
The ability to step back and observe from the outside is a pre-requisite for the scientist and rational thought.
I would make all the fervent nationalistic pawns of the State read this if I could, but I wonder if such people are that way for lack of insight. Are they able to view from the outside?
Unfortunately, the death penalty awaited those who refused to fight.
I think the worst of war is yet to come. There has never been a weapon system created that has not been used. The Nuclear aresenals of the world currently is an agitated phase ie Iran/Israel/US could finaly release the nuclear genie.
And when that happens all previous wars will just seem like pushing matches.
BBC online have been running stories about the death penalty and how people that engage in vigilanteism have a greater sense of right and wrong and are more likely to act on their sense of justice. They were also arguing that such people are good for society because they punish those that don't conform and encourage people to conform (BBC Radio 4 the week just gone). If they are pushing the DP, then why? In anticipation of major unrest? To prime society for War? The arrogance.
These are the type of videos I don't like. Why did you become an actor lately Stef? If you guys want to listen to something good from him on a similar subject, listen to podcast 149 or 446.
Completely disgusting.I watched C-SPAN this morning on house appropriations and the military.It was a sickening view that completely ignores public opinion and continues absurd spending.Joe Lieberwhore.....why don't you go fight that shit yourself fucking asshole.
Hello Steph. I just wonder, this is not so much related to people dying in wars, but why not keep the borders and the ethnic homogenity? After all, in this apathy we live in today, globalism would be even more. There would be no inspirational cultures and there would just be a bunch of mixed people. Nothing more, nothing less. What to live for then?
@swedishvein You wouldn't have to worry about that, mate. It's a damn big world. And free men will always diversify behaviors and interests and products in response to markets, which means ALL markets; dating as much as raw amterials, ethics theory as much as tangible commodities. But, you see, having borders absolutely IS related to wars (and people dying in them) because it is an entirely imaginary line in the sand to fight over which introduces violence to the market trade routes. Savvy?
@JaceJohanson I'm bordering on anarchocapitalism but do not believe in what you are saying. I think that history is important, with or without borders. We have great problems with immigration and immigrants, sure, the system is flawed. But I don't believe that when the system gets "fixed" that there would be something better. I really want the white race to survive. And I doubt that it will get any better with the new system. Depends really, if it's small government or no government at all.
@swedishvein K, all the things you wrote are distractions to the core of the moral principle, here. There is a big leap from, "I want the white race to survive," (which is just your preference) and, "I am willing to support a violent means of ensuring the white race survives." Whether you doing or claim disbelief of an idea bears no weight on whether said idea is evidentually and reasonably accurate. History is lost in violence, not sex. Drop the bigotry. I'm white, too. But who really cares?
WOW Bravo! You are against Intellectual "property" right Stefan? Does that mean I have permission to sample some of your words in my music endeavors so long as I give credit?
@MadXMax187 I can't speak for Stefan, but I know several people have done so before and he was really cool with it. Post whatever you create on the the fdr boards.
@stefbot Alright well it might not be until next year, I want to have a CD to sell people before I started putting my stuff out here on YouTube. But thank you that's good to know and will do when I get them up eventually.
Brilliant. As a combat veteran who "made it back" all I can do is weep after listening to this. So so true. Thank you. You have articulated what can't be said or explained...even by those who experience it. You've help silence the demons that sometimes occupy my heart.
Ya, I joined the army at 17. I remember driving down the highway of death in Iraq. I tried not to look at all the burned bodies. A few were still alive even while they smoked. It was a nasty business. Some of my coworkers seemed to enjoy counting them, adding many of them up in fractions. Not me though. The experience made me dam near suicidal. I didn't get my mind back until I was a free civilian again.
Did I join for patriotism? Nope. I was an economic refugee.
2. We'd run into the lone iraqui soldier but we didn't have time to take prisoners. Instead we took their weapon, handed them water and MREs and told him to go home. They had no fight in them. I remember one officer looking insulted when we didn't take him prisoner.
I'm grateful that chapter in my life is OVER. I used to have nightmares of being in the army again but happily those stopped about 8 or 9 years ago.
I did manage to save up for diesel school though. Now I'm doing something useful.
@vention4wh Is that why your featured video is titled "Woo Hoo! Free burger at Dick's if you're a Vet!"
I guess thinking of those "burned bodies" isnt so bad as long as you have free cooked meat to stuff in you mouth. I have no sympathies for the Iraqi Army (whom apparently you've forgotten) invaded a nation then proceeded to murdered and raped Kuwait woman and children. I guess its just a damn good thing you didnt have to get your hands dirty fobbit.
Your opinion is meaningless. You came to my channel with an ax to grind, looking for something to criticize. Congratulations. You found something. Woo Hoo for you.
I always get a little offended when people tell me to 'support the troops'. I dont have a choice lol, I go to jail if I dont. You want me to get on my knees and blow them too? No thanks. They are old enough to know what they are getting into, they have access to all the same information that I do. Fuck the troops. Im not shedding any tears for rambo wanna be fuck heads or patriotic dupes.
@rodrigodet "I wonder if the ruling class feels any remorse for the young men that trade their lives for lies."
Murder is BIG business, so I would think -- absolutely not. Hell, they are probably pitching a tent over all of it. It's their own natural 'Viagra"...
Lest we forget. If we forget we might turn into an international bully who invades third world countries for political and monetary reasons. If we forget we might start changing our society so that war is accepted as normal. If we forget we will forfeit our humanity and lose all that makes our country great as we descend into a new dark age of violence, hatred and poverty. If we remember on the other hand we realize killing for someone else's half baked, political reasoning is STUPID!
Excellent stuff ! The dead would tell you two things if they could 1.) watch Roger Waters The Wall and 2.) under no circumstances trust anything Hillary Clinton says
@PullTheTricker I think he'd believe the people in power wouldn't be there if karma did exist. though that's just my opinion i'd feel his atheism would match it.
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bobthechipmonk 3 days ago
We send all these people, who have hearts pumping, brains thinking, and body moving to their deaths because we think we can build some sort of utopia here in the USA and maybe the world. But using violence to solve social complex problems will lead us to mass population control, which the future will look back and say WTF? It's immoral to treat us this way, immoral to treat us like worker ants, we are smarter than that. We'll overcome.
Antdog5 1 month ago
It is a sad thing that so much young potential is devoured on the battlefield, and to add to this, young manhood is considered fulfilled, patriotism is paid its due, through the worst, most horrendous rite of passage. If only all worthy ideals, if pursued to their utmost, were considered honorable. If only we had a culture where a young man found it more heroic to wield a stethoscope than he does a rifle. In our post-industrial culture, doctors and entrepreneurs will matter more than soldiers.
erentheca 2 months ago
LOUD NOISES!!!!!
theredscourge 3 months ago
Wow.... speechless. Favorited.
lukasewing 3 months ago
@GeoffreyTransom I see you are using a very high-wattage projector.
Were you less unfamiliar with Iraq, you would have known that the regime of Saddam Hussein has run up HUGE debts, with Kuwait as their principle creditor, in their long-running war with Iran. You do remember Iran, don't you? The next country over, the one that has generally poor relations with most of the other countries in the region?
evensgrey 3 months ago
@GeoffreyTransom "it was NOT the Allies' casus belli."
Of course not, the systemic segrigation of Jews didn't happen leading up to the war, their mass-entournment didn't start before the war, whatever. The execution of 12,000 German nationals for no other crimes than holding dissenting opinion, and the imperialist military campain of said executors, was our reason for going to war.
ihaterobbie123 3 months ago
@GeoffreyTransom Mate, if you could take one moment to actually read what I said, not what you want me to say, then we might get somewhere. I'm justifying the action the allies took against the axis in WW2, I'm not justifying everything my country has ever done ever.
Now can you stop making retarded strawman arguments and get a fucking grip? Everything you've guessed about me so far is false. Why the fuck do you think I'm commenting on this video? I'm an anarchist, that's why.
ihaterobbie123 3 months ago
@GeoffreyTransom "further to this (the idea that the German regime was 'tyrannical, genocidal, fascist"): that was an issue for the German people, who, if genuinely oppressed, would have overthrown the Hitler regime."
While the Germans and Japanese were busy NOT overthrowing their governments, 5 million Jews/gays/disableds and 10 million Chinese were tortured, mutilated, and murdered in unmentionable ways. Don't you fucking tell me for one second it was "an issue for the German people".
ihaterobbie123 3 months ago
@GeoffreyTransom The part of "war for oil is a nostrum I attack at every opportunity" that escapes me is the part where you DON'T claim that Saddam invaded Kuwait in an attempt to add it to Iraq for the FIRST TIME (we'll not get into your claim that he was correct in his historical claims about Kuwait) was purely to do with oil, AS YOU KEEP CLAIMING. It was unrelated to oil, it was about FOREIGN DEBT owed to Kuwait. He didn't even PRETEND it was about oil.
evensgrey 3 months ago
@GeoffreyTransom Soldiers who fought against a tyrannical, genocidal, fascist power did protect our personal liberties. You're not a veteran of the great wars and, like I pointed out in my previous comment, the mere fact that you held a gun and fought people doesn't give you sage-like insight into the political workings of remembrance day. I'm well aware the current wars have nothing to do with freedom, you need not remind me.
ihaterobbie123 3 months ago
@GeoffreyTransom Continuing to claim that Iraq's invasion of Kuwait was related to oil instead of foreign debt is stupid.
evensgrey 3 months ago
@GeoffreyTransom You are making the same generalisation that stefan does. Not all soldiers serve for pay but to protect their country, certainly if you look at it historically. Saying that all soldiers are evil is delusional. That was my point.
erdal0 3 months ago
"war is simply organised murder, and nothing else' quote, Harry Patch, WW1 veteran..RIP 2009
TheMrbean76 3 months ago
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soldiers fight wars for rich old men who tell them nice stories of foreign monsters in distance lands that need to be killed.
They are sent to kill and steal resources from other places to make the story telling rich old men richer
stop joining the army, stop fighting wars for a few wealthy old men who would never fight in those wars they create
pgbcca1 3 months ago
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pgbcca1 3 months ago
Pfff, where to begin. Nice use of words but It is too black and white for my taste. There are Soldiers who defend their country, and there are soldiers who attack countries. Condemning all soldiers is crazy and unthankful. If you dont get that, i don't even know where to begin.
erdal0 3 months ago
@erdal0 I don’t think I’ve heard Stef deny that self defence is legitimate I might be wrong of course- however in an educated evolved species would there be any need if violence was resigned to the history books – I never understand ‘remembrance day’ when ordinary men and women continue to buy into the bullshit that convinces them to go and kill other ordinary people all over the planet.
ehpl 3 months ago
@ehpl I don't know but what you said doesn't really change Stefan's generalisations.
erdal0 3 months ago
@erdal0 Self-defense is when their soldiers come here. Attack is when your soldiers go there. Got it?
FYI - Stef has clearly stated self-defense is legitimate.
jeffiek 3 months ago in playlist More videos from stefbot
@GeoffreyTransom In reality, it wasn't about oil at all. It was about Iraq's foreign debt being held largely by Kuwait. If Saddam could get away with annexing Kuwait, he would have been able to wipe most of his foreign debt problems off the books.
Claiming the US was interested in securing the oil from such a minor supplier is full on hallucination.
evensgrey 3 months ago
EPIC!
brklynusa 3 months ago
@GeoffreyTransom No it does not, it's about remembering the dead to whom you and I owe the ability to discuss the notion of anarchism without persecution. The fact that you personally are a soldier does not give you a sage-like insight into what remembrance day is about. It's a pretty simple concept.
Politicians cause war and we cause politicians. We can't blame them for taking advantage of a situation we created, but we can stop them.
ihaterobbie123 3 months ago
@ihaterobbie123 I've never caused a politician in my life.
rockstarofredondo 3 months ago
@ihaterobbie123 "but we can stop them."
Far more brilliant man than you have tried, for far longer than you have been alive, to "stop them".
They've failed.
Care to share you secret with the rest of the world?
jeffiek 3 months ago in playlist More videos from stefbot
Stef, dammit, you make me cry. Many of us have been against WAR all our lives, it never made a difference. The lies of war, Freedom is not Free and Democracy propaganda have continued to prevail. Now apparently it will be Iran, and what can we do to stop it? They just do it, without consensus, without public support. People ask of me at 50 yrs old, why do you still fight, and hurt for it, you cant win. Give up. Stop feeling the pain. You only hurt yourself and annoy your friends. Uselessness.
SonjaSmith 3 months ago
Thank you!
SonjaSmith 3 months ago
Steph is clearly a logician, but his impact is a result of his poetry. Just, simply, fastastic.
mikepeare 3 months ago 17
@mikepeare thank you
stefbot 3 months ago 5
Why not just educate your children that soldiers are rapists and murderers who never defend us, but go overseas to enslave other nations. We laugh at dead soldiers in my house. We snigger at ex-vets being given no medical help, go homeless and commit suicide. The girls who left them for an intelligent man who stays home to support the girls, and love them. Sucked in zombie soldiers.
Not so romantic now is it?
baalisgod666 3 months ago
This video is NOT intelligence. Dont kid yourself that you are a deep thinker. There is a huge difference between being critical and being a critical thinker. Today's Americans are sell-outs, "marketing" themselves as smart / intelligence (marketing: another word for lying) by being "empty-headed-critics"... When if they wanted to be intelligence they would be true critical-thinkers.
captnhuffy 3 months ago
@captnhuffy Btw, he's Canadian, not an American.
acousticfreeze1 3 months ago
@captnhuffy So much irony in that post. Funny stuff.
PoliticsStudent 3 months ago
Rememberance day does not glorify or support the act of war in any way.
ihaterobbie123 3 months ago
@ihaterobbie123 Yes it does. Otherwise we would just mourn the loss, not throw colorful fancy parades with speeches expounding the importance of the continued effort in 'the fight against terrorism.'
FUZZYisBIG 3 months ago
@FUZZYisBIG Sir...shut the bleeding fuck up. If you don't know what happens at the laying of a rembrance day wreath then I strongly suggest you educate yourself. Growing up in the western world means you should have no excuses.
ihaterobbie123 3 months ago
@ihaterobbie123 really? It's televised cunt. Everybody know, but suck holes like you elevate it more than it should. Remember the dead.
baalisgod666 3 months ago
@baalisgod666 Never has a rememberance day I've been to mentioned the Iraq/Afghanistan war, that's what I was responding to.
ihaterobbie123 3 months ago
@ihaterobbie123 I grew up In Lebanon and have lost plenty of family to petty power politics. Lay your wreaths and parade like an idiot. I won't make out senseless loss of life to be anything more than it is.
FUZZYisBIG 3 months ago
@FUZZYisBIG And you don't think I know war is a senseless loss of life? I don't know how many insults I can take from you fucking retards.
If you don't understand rembrance day, SHUT-THE-FUCK-UP. It is not there for the purpose of glorifying war. It is not there for the purpose of belittling human life. It is not there to somehow justify conflict. It's there to pay tribute to the SOLDIERS who were coerced or chose to fight to preserve the security of their friends and family. NOTHING MORE.
ihaterobbie123 3 months ago
@ihaterobbie123 When the last digger (Australian vet) was speaking about war as a mistake, he was ignored. So RD is a waste of time.
baalisgod666 3 months ago
Excellent vid! Not to take anything away from the video, but your accent and voice could make reading an excerpt from "Green Eggs and Ham" sound profound. Love ya, Stef! Please never run out of ideas!
munkyusm 3 months ago
They died for nothing - how VERY NARROW MINDED!!
People in my country, and yours too, are alive now because of them. People like you and me are ALIVE, able to write poetry & books, walk, breathe, make love, enjoy children, grandchildren, and take joy in the natural world.
Without those willing to fight, and sometimes die, You would be in chains - we would be subservient to brutal murderers, dictators, fascists, nazi, or dead. I thank God that even the Fascists-Leftists display "artwork"
captnhuffy 3 months ago
@captnhuffy Has the thought ever occurred to you that you may be regurgitating the same line that has been said by a billion flag waving, brainwashed, nation lovers before you? Step outside of your shoes and imagine you grew up in Iran...you'd be saying the same stuff, only you'd be supporting Iran instead.
munkyusm 3 months ago
@munkyusm Hi, Has it occurred to you that the author is a sell-out: being controversial, pimping his soul out to get recognition / attention? Other views are vital vital vital, sometimes even wrong ones
I come to my conclusions honestly. Other's can see the truth too. When we get back to a world have values honesty and truth, OVER someone pimping his work. The author has strong-strong talent. Does he believe what he writes, or is he a slut for attention?? TY for your words as a question.
captnhuffy 3 months ago
@captnhuffy Sell out? I don't understand how you mean? The dude has put out tens of thousands of well thought out podcasts, and every now and then he does an entertaining artistic piece and that's selling out? He's trying to reach people, not masturbating via the internet.
We will never get back to a world with honesty and truth until we evolve as a society and outgrow the need for a state. Fuck religion, fuck nationalism...all that matters is the non-aggression principle.
munkyusm 3 months ago 2
@captnhuffy Consider the reasons for war in the past century. Those wars were not waged to stop starvation, oppression. Wars may be fought in the name of human rights but that is never the true goal. Wars are waged to gain greater control over the people and resources. War causes poverty, starvation and reduces freedoms it does not grant freedoms.
deadman12078 3 months ago
@deadman12078
BS. For example: So youre saying the "Coalition of the Willing" should have let Saddam Hussain: Invade; Rape; Pillage; Burn, and create HUGE environmental disasters in the oil fields??
If the Coalition has not responded there would have been a war... There would have been FAR FAR worse.
captnhuffy 3 months ago
@captnhuffy what a brain washed douche. Nothing would have happened you dick head.
It's Iraq oil, why would they burn it? Fuck your dumb.
baalisgod666 3 months ago
@captnhuffy Because you believe you have an infallible crystal ball that tells you the unavoidable future, you advocate for U.S. troops to go 1/2 way around the globe and die and kill for your arrogant belief system. Your soul is cold, your brain is frozen with self-absorption and self-admiration, so much that you cheer killing machines and invasive empire wars for your vain nationalism. Shame on you. As if Saddam were a tenth the risk to the globe that Bush/Obama were/are.
leafwatch 3 months ago 14
"As if Saddam were a tenth the risk to the globe that Bush/Obama were/are."
He was in defiance of at least 15 UN security council reoslutions, he was butchering his own people by the tens of thousands, and minority groups like the Kurds, and he was giving aid to internationally known terrorists. What an insulting comaprison. You're the one who should be ashamed.
regelemihai 3 months ago
@regelemihai Saddam killed tens of thousands of people?? WHOA. THATS A LOT.
How many people have died in Iraq/Afghanistan as a direct result of our invasion? I don't know exactly but I'm pretty sure it's over a million. That's ten thousand times 100 for those who aren't good at math.
MrGarky 3 months ago
"How many people have died in Iraq/Afghanistan as a direct result of our invasion?"
You mean how many people died as a result of muslim extremists being on the loose and killing each other in secterian violence? I dunno the exact number. The Iraq Body Count estaimates that overall, the total number o deaths amounts to 103,000. A million is pure fabrication.
regelemihai 3 months ago
@leafwatch That is fantastically written and very true.
erentheca 2 months ago
@captnhuffy You said, "People in my country, and yours too, are alive now because of them." You were referring to soldiers killed in action.
Understand that they only fought because there was an opposing force comprised of men fighting for identical reasons--us good, them bad. We just happened to be the "bad guys" in their eyes they were the bad guys in ours.
What makes our soldiers so great and the old Nazi German soldiers so bad? They were lied to by Hitler just as ours were lied to by Bush.
MrGarky 3 months ago
but how can we change it?
feeltheillinois 3 months ago
@feeltheillinois There's really only one way...we point it out for the evil it is.
munkyusm 3 months ago
Beautiful sentiments. You write well. You speak well. War is used far too often and for the wrong reasons. I do see a problem though. It's just my opinion. The underlying premise of your video seems to be that there is nothing after this life so we should not do anything to disrupt maximum fullfillment here. If this is true, and there is nothing past this existence, and there will be nothing left when the heat death of the universe occurs, why bother with this existence either?
lexidart 3 months ago
@lexidart You're basically saying "If there's no god, what's the point of living?". Do you think you're the first to come up with this ridiculous argument?
munkyusm 3 months ago
Thank you Stef. Each successive year as Remembrance Day approaches here in the UK and the pressure to wear a red poppy increases, I become more and more uneasy at the growing sense that war is being glorified. I'll post this video on my Facebook wall and anyone asking why I don't wear one will be directed to it.
philonymous 3 months ago
This reminds me of the lyrics to "Not about Love". "And last night phrases sick of lack of basis are still writhing on my floor" "and it doesn't make sense, I should fall for the kingcraft of a meritless crown".. great little Fiona Apple song
CycloneShow 3 months ago
Here is to the common denominator that bonds my leftist socialist wills to your peace seeking Anarchism
MAZDAKPRODUCTION 3 months ago
@MAZDAKPRODUCTION There are probably way more bonds than you even realize. Righty anarchists are so much lamer than lefty anarchists, imo. Give it a shot, it's a blast!
munkyusm 3 months ago
"War...War never changes..."
gotohellgooglization 3 months ago
I was itching for a stefbot fix!
ashane77 3 months ago
excellent vid
kellyjplante71 3 months ago
Very poignant, tragic that most try to white-wash this day.
The point is to remember war for its horrors, weigh those thoughts with its gains & losses. Understand its magnitude on our lives. Then turn to our vets with appreciation & gratitude for their sacrifice. Then to pray for hope that we can eliminate it from our lives.
kutgw
th86stone 3 months ago
I can only say, powerfully true and truly powerful !
zg76 3 months ago
Very well written and poetic. I agree with you about everything. I watch all of your videos.
-Jordan
of Florida
PhatBeat128 3 months ago
Most wars are fought by people who declare "Thou Shall Not Kill" as their moral standard.
War is insanity, demanding it's sane.
TheHigherVoltage 3 months ago 2
This needs to go viral.
dataphreak 3 months ago
these dramatic drarmaqueenish videos are really annoying. please get your point accross without sounding like a hippie poet.
waksibra 3 months ago
@waksibra than look at any other video of him!
zg76 3 months ago
@zg76 There are a lot of videos of him there are like this.
waksibra 3 months ago
@waksibra someone is missiiiing a point!!
zg76 3 months ago
What would they say? They would answer with the non-answer they always did when they were alive -- "God, family, and country". The 3 tiers of bullshit in human society.
YJohannM 3 months ago
You've got such a seductive way of speaking.. like hypnosis
TheJuliusJT 3 months ago
I'm a big fan of Steph. He has the answers to the social questions. But in regards to human nature and motivation; borders and Identity, race and ethnicity (i.e Borders are arbitrary lines, or 'how does one feel after being manipulated by these words.' I'm in sad disagreement. Like it or not, as Shakespeare and Dostoevsky discovered, Man desires to discharge himself in time and is against self preservation or 'reason' if it disparages his honour and identity. ;'may my thoughts be bloody.'
rimbaud59 3 months ago
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startxxx1991 3 months ago
This has been flagged as spam show
Soldiers are victims of the state, as are the people they kill.
EdwardWhelanPiano 3 months ago
@EdwardWhelanPiano I tend to disagree, seeing as how these soldiers voluntarily join up. If they were drafted, I may agree with you, but these people know damn well what they're expected to do.
munkyusm 3 months ago
@munkyusm None would join the army if you really knew the consequences. They exploit whatever they can to make people join.
Watchdawg 3 months ago
BRAVO
samsonality 3 months ago
Great work Stefbot, ( I still don't understand your stance on land ownership, but ) this is a small masterpiece in my opinion.
The ability to step back and observe from the outside is a pre-requisite for the scientist and rational thought.
I would make all the fervent nationalistic pawns of the State read this if I could, but I wonder if such people are that way for lack of insight. Are they able to view from the outside?
Unfortunately, the death penalty awaited those who refused to fight.
CO2TROL 3 months ago
I think the worst of war is yet to come. There has never been a weapon system created that has not been used. The Nuclear aresenals of the world currently is an agitated phase ie Iran/Israel/US could finaly release the nuclear genie.
And when that happens all previous wars will just seem like pushing matches.
valhala56 3 months ago
@valhala56
BBC online have been running stories about the death penalty and how people that engage in vigilanteism have a greater sense of right and wrong and are more likely to act on their sense of justice. They were also arguing that such people are good for society because they punish those that don't conform and encourage people to conform (BBC Radio 4 the week just gone). If they are pushing the DP, then why? In anticipation of major unrest? To prime society for War? The arrogance.
CO2TROL 3 months ago
podcast 918 also.
alique087 3 months ago
These are the type of videos I don't like. Why did you become an actor lately Stef? If you guys want to listen to something good from him on a similar subject, listen to podcast 149 or 446.
alique087 3 months ago
Completely disgusting.I watched C-SPAN this morning on house appropriations and the military.It was a sickening view that completely ignores public opinion and continues absurd spending.Joe Lieberwhore.....why don't you go fight that shit yourself fucking asshole.
taxisgay12 3 months ago
Haunting. Beautifully done Stef.
ScrewDaWorld 3 months ago
Good message but not good poetry. Nice try though.
drummerboy54100 3 months ago
Both of my grandfathers were in the trenches in world war 2.
Neither of them ever liked to talk about it.
their silence spoke volumes to me and neither was upset when I didnt join.
Some guys like to talk about their war stories.......my grandfather said yes and theyre probably full of shit,
Faved.
wideosvatcher 3 months ago
Wonderful poem. The day where most people reject those poison words of propaganda can't come too soon. Thanks for your glimpse into the future.
BookofNick 3 months ago
happy they died for a big lie day.
wideosvatcher 3 months ago
Hello Steph. I just wonder, this is not so much related to people dying in wars, but why not keep the borders and the ethnic homogenity? After all, in this apathy we live in today, globalism would be even more. There would be no inspirational cultures and there would just be a bunch of mixed people. Nothing more, nothing less. What to live for then?
swedishvein 3 months ago
@swedishvein You wouldn't have to worry about that, mate. It's a damn big world. And free men will always diversify behaviors and interests and products in response to markets, which means ALL markets; dating as much as raw amterials, ethics theory as much as tangible commodities. But, you see, having borders absolutely IS related to wars (and people dying in them) because it is an entirely imaginary line in the sand to fight over which introduces violence to the market trade routes. Savvy?
JaceJohanson 3 months ago
@JaceJohanson I'm bordering on anarchocapitalism but do not believe in what you are saying. I think that history is important, with or without borders. We have great problems with immigration and immigrants, sure, the system is flawed. But I don't believe that when the system gets "fixed" that there would be something better. I really want the white race to survive. And I doubt that it will get any better with the new system. Depends really, if it's small government or no government at all.
swedishvein 3 months ago
@swedishvein K, all the things you wrote are distractions to the core of the moral principle, here. There is a big leap from, "I want the white race to survive," (which is just your preference) and, "I am willing to support a violent means of ensuring the white race survives." Whether you doing or claim disbelief of an idea bears no weight on whether said idea is evidentually and reasonably accurate. History is lost in violence, not sex. Drop the bigotry. I'm white, too. But who really cares?
JaceJohanson 3 months ago
great work steph...do you have a text copy of the last part of the video???/
freecanadian33 3 months ago 2
@freecanadian33 thank you, I added the link to the full text in the description
stefbot 3 months ago 2
My great grandfather died in the Austrian Army in WWI, fighting in the Alps against the Italians.
Russowww 3 months ago
you cannot blame or ask of the innocent, and these people were the innocent. merely tools
eejitno10 3 months ago
Thank you for writing and performing this, Stefan. I'm so happy you made this.
TimothyADonaghue 3 months ago
The irony here is that most of the military support Libertarian Values...
You really think these men and women like being deployed away from their families and in war? Please.
They would love to go home to their families and do jobs that don't involve the killing of innocent men women and children.
batfly 3 months ago
WOW Bravo! You are against Intellectual "property" right Stefan? Does that mean I have permission to sample some of your words in my music endeavors so long as I give credit?
MadXMax187 3 months ago 4
@MadXMax187 I can't speak for Stefan, but I know several people have done so before and he was really cool with it. Post whatever you create on the the fdr boards.
davebrycekopp 3 months ago
@MadXMax187 please go ahead, I'd appreciate it if you would send me a link
stefbot 3 months ago 11
@stefbot Alright well it might not be until next year, I want to have a CD to sell people before I started putting my stuff out here on YouTube. But thank you that's good to know and will do when I get them up eventually.
MadXMax187 3 months ago
Brilliant. As a combat veteran who "made it back" all I can do is weep after listening to this. So so true. Thank you. You have articulated what can't be said or explained...even by those who experience it. You've help silence the demons that sometimes occupy my heart.
dirtdarte 3 months ago 26
@dirtdarte Thank you so much, and I'm so, so sorry this still has to be said...
stefbot 3 months ago 5
@DrDissent If you dont feel for them try to feel for all the others billions of soldiers that died on wars based on the lies of their leaders
rodrigodet 3 months ago
@rodrigodet Is that why you think youre safe sitting in that chair? You dont think people would try to take it from you?
DrDissent 3 months ago
Death has a dignity all it's own when it comes to those who have been mislead.
Spencerianism 3 months ago
Ya, I joined the army at 17. I remember driving down the highway of death in Iraq. I tried not to look at all the burned bodies. A few were still alive even while they smoked. It was a nasty business. Some of my coworkers seemed to enjoy counting them, adding many of them up in fractions. Not me though. The experience made me dam near suicidal. I didn't get my mind back until I was a free civilian again.
Did I join for patriotism? Nope. I was an economic refugee.
vention4wh 3 months ago 34
2. We'd run into the lone iraqui soldier but we didn't have time to take prisoners. Instead we took their weapon, handed them water and MREs and told him to go home. They had no fight in them. I remember one officer looking insulted when we didn't take him prisoner.
I'm grateful that chapter in my life is OVER. I used to have nightmares of being in the army again but happily those stopped about 8 or 9 years ago.
I did manage to save up for diesel school though. Now I'm doing something useful.
vention4wh 3 months ago
@vention4wh Is that why your featured video is titled "Woo Hoo! Free burger at Dick's if you're a Vet!"
I guess thinking of those "burned bodies" isnt so bad as long as you have free cooked meat to stuff in you mouth. I have no sympathies for the Iraqi Army (whom apparently you've forgotten) invaded a nation then proceeded to murdered and raped Kuwait woman and children. I guess its just a damn good thing you didnt have to get your hands dirty fobbit.
DrDissent 3 months ago
@DrDissent
Your opinion is meaningless. You came to my channel with an ax to grind, looking for something to criticize. Congratulations. You found something. Woo Hoo for you.
vention4wh 3 months ago
@vention4wh If its meaningless why all the butt hurt?
DrDissent 3 months ago
I always get a little offended when people tell me to 'support the troops'. I dont have a choice lol, I go to jail if I dont. You want me to get on my knees and blow them too? No thanks. They are old enough to know what they are getting into, they have access to all the same information that I do. Fuck the troops. Im not shedding any tears for rambo wanna be fuck heads or patriotic dupes.
Equity213 3 months ago
I wonder if the ruling class feels any remorse for the young men that trade their lives for lies.
rodrigodet 3 months ago
@rodrigodet "I wonder if the ruling class feels any remorse for the young men that trade their lives for lies."
Murder is BIG business, so I would think -- absolutely not. Hell, they are probably pitching a tent over all of it. It's their own natural 'Viagra"...
YJohannM 3 months ago
Lest we forget. If we forget we might turn into an international bully who invades third world countries for political and monetary reasons. If we forget we might start changing our society so that war is accepted as normal. If we forget we will forfeit our humanity and lose all that makes our country great as we descend into a new dark age of violence, hatred and poverty. If we remember on the other hand we realize killing for someone else's half baked, political reasoning is STUPID!
blandoworthlessness 3 months ago
Excellent stuff ! The dead would tell you two things if they could 1.) watch Roger Waters The Wall and 2.) under no circumstances trust anything Hillary Clinton says
JacquePoopstove 3 months ago
Stefbot, do you believe in karma? I was just curious.
PullTheTricker 3 months ago
@PullTheTricker He's a materialist and an empiricist so it's unlikely. I think I'll do a video on karma. When I finish it I'll send you a message.
newperve 3 months ago
@PullTheTricker I think he'd believe the people in power wouldn't be there if karma did exist. though that's just my opinion i'd feel his atheism would match it.
gabrielcrimson 3 months ago
We revel in our war stories; though, do we share our stories of love?
Sent you an invite to watch a video story about love that I posted on my channel.. hope you find time to watch and comment.
cc
carefulcarpenter 3 months ago
unfortunately judging from the state of things... the dead would keep parroting the same lies, propaganda, and nonsense as always.
WorthlessCurrency 3 months ago 2
WOW this seems deep Stefan I'll have to come back and watch this again later
MadXMax187 3 months ago
My brother died in Vietnam July 12, 1969.
pretorious700 3 months ago
@pretorious700 my sincere condolences
stefbot 3 months ago 2