An we can expect 2012 to only get even worse. There is no one worth voting for in this election running for president in 2012. No I do NOT believe the world will end in 2012. I just think things are going to get worse, more UN-employment,more of our freedoms and civil liberties being taken away.More cops beating protesters, etc. I think that's what we can expect for 2012.Obama doesn't stand a chance of being re-elected, but none of the republicans running for president are going to be any better
Obama couldn't close gitmo because he didn't have the votes. Plain and simple. It's not his fault, ALTHOUGH he obviously should have used the bully pulpit much more
@blackopsc0n It's still waterboarding, just not at gitmo... Go check out Chrisopher Hitchens article on getting waterboarded called "Believe me, it's torture" even though you think it's bad, it's a nice read
@yuo252 Iran is a country ruled by a government that isn't scared of making tough decisions, even if it may kill their people they do it for the greater good, plus its the terrorists that shape the country, and make it so only the strongest survive... the strongest is iran
@Nentenguy64 Nah, I'd say that it isn't going to happen anytime soon, if ever. In communism there is NO private property. EVERYTHING belongs to the state. The US might want to rethink their governmental system, though; as it is now, the people have much too little control for a country that prides itself on being "free".
I'm really afraid of where our country is headed, of course i've been afraid for a while. I really think we're fucking ourselves over, and taking the rest of the world I bet
2010 was he worst year for music in decades and that's saying something. We had Justin Bieber and Kesha, two of the most annoying girls to ever hit the pop charts.
America is an evil empire, its just a little less evil than neanderthal Muslim and some Asian states. Although the 3rd world is just playa hating because they dont have the vast riches and resources that the first world enjoys.
@andron333 yes, because NO other country has EVER done anything evil EVER in history. Every country has the potential to be an "Evil Empire" as long as corruption remains in our human nature.
@andron333 can't argue with you there. but there have been much, much worse things happen under other countries when they were in power so i'd hardly call it an evil empire.
@HugelyBig oh that? that's called lying to the people who elected you to represent them. i'm sorry, actually it's called waterboarding, but with all the stuff america is involved with at guantanamo, it's all sort of the same.
You know, despite everyone saying whether we will or will not die in 2012 I think it will be a good year... I can imagine living that year and having the thought in the back of my head that there's a chance I could die. And that in itself could make me feel more spontaneous, more alive. like I'm dodging a big bullet and I can take on the world.
Obama may fail, but I seriously would rather pick the Lesser of the two evils rather then voting on a president that could die any moment and be replaced with an incredible moron!
@JesusPaid4You How much people are actually going to agree with you since this is a video by TheAmazingAtheist? Anyhow, great video, and quite an amusing poem. Shame about the Texas textbooks, though. What good has a conservative point of view ever done anyone?
@Dalsir1 it's waterboarding. It's a torture technique infamously used by the US government on suspected terrorists that simulates the sensation of drowning.
As in the failed marketing term for the failed policies of the failed Whig party?
That's a great example of the specious nature of your drivel. Such deceptive terms are referenced by today's Left, and attached to their fuzzy claims about a whole host of disjoint events and topics, all toward their endless attempts to perfectly invert the historical record.
And FDR is the POLAR OPPOSITE of the founding ideals. He was our first and only fascist president-for-life.
@TylerNull "Disjoint events and topics" The American System: applied througout the entire course of our history. Yeah that's the one I mean. The one that was ratified in our constiution and argued for in the federalist papers.That plan that split the souther democrats and northern whigs, changing their names to Republicans and made the "old Henry Clay tariff whig" put it into full effect in the civil war, on through the gilded age, picked up by FDR, Truman and Eisenhower. I'd say it did well.
@TylerNull It is exactly what I described earlier. Summed it up in the first Federalist paper: "the vigor of Government is essential to the security of liberty; that, in the contemplation of a sound and well-informed judgment, their interest can never be separated."
Your latest description has no resemblance to the statist mythology your were proselytizing earlier.
The point you keep trying avoid is that America SKYROCKETED to greatness by REJECTING the statist fiefdom systems of Europe. As much as America's has been eroded since, its core is free enterprise & market-based economics. It is liberty that powers our civilization, not gov't bureaucrats usurping us, and trying to tax and spend and borrow us into prosperity.
@TylerNull The reason the constitution was burned by some when it first came out was because they saw it as radically statist with the too much power at the federal head. Our path to greatness was one of independence, development of our own manufactueres, protection of infant-industries, investing in science and education,internal imporvements: continental railroad, telegraph, Panama Canal. And the state played the leading role in all of these. If you don't know that, you don't know anything
"Our path to greatness was one of independence, development of our own..."
That's my point.
Yours is that "our own" is synonymous with gov't bureaucrats usurping OUR liberties, economic plans, and earnings, all to power THEIRS. Your muddled notions are socialist agitprop, whatever mix of genuine ignorance and willful deceptions constitutes them. Then again, such is expected from batches minted today by the cartel of DoEd sponsored [circa 1979] teachers' labor unions, isn't it?
The greatest economist who ever lived took notice in his day that it wasn't the government that was acting to limit liberty, but the private power that ran & staffed the government, who sought for what he called "the vile maxim of the masters of mankind..."All for ourseleves and nothing for anybody else." He was right when he said "the principal architects of policy have been the merchants and manufactures."
That's a peculiar way to absolve gov't of its own toxic effects; made more so by quote mining some sentence fragments from (perhaps) Adam Smith.
Unless we believe that a taxpayer funded salary deifies or otherwise unburdens people from envy, greed, and all else that plagues us mere mortals, then gov't functionaries would be no less vile than us (lesser) mortals, REGARDLESS of their prior job history.
So, it seems yours/Smith's would be reason to more tightly restrain gov't.
@TylerNull I said nothing to absolve our government of it's crimes, I'm just saying that the biggest issue in modern american society is that the government has been hijacked by unaccountable private tyrannies, leaving the people with no voice, no representation. Smith knew it, Jefferson foresaw it, that's why he said he wanted to: "crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations which dare already to challenge our government in a trial of strength."
What those men "knew" bears little resemblance to your claims, as I detailed.
And absolution is precisely your theme. Specifically, you imply there is an immaculate entity (gov't), which is corrupted by an evil entity (private tyrannies). Such is statist mysticism. Contrarily, we know the evils of gov't are inherent.
Thomas Paine: "Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one;"
@TylerNull Yes and I agree completely with Paine on that as well on this point:
"If systems of government can be introduced less expensive and more productive of general happiness than those which have existed, all attempts to oppose their progress will in the end be fruitless."
So long as it's of, by, and for the people I see no reason to try to mame it- I know that our government is not of, by, and for the people; but I'm just sayin...
History is made of the rise and fall of empires and America is no exception. It may be sad to hear as an american, but I seriously think that the time of the american empire is nearing it's end. What has been a country of freedom and justice founded by bad ass rebels and freed slaves is now a post-apocalyptic dump mind controlled by big corporates untoutched by the poverty of man.
These may be the last days of an empire. But rejoice, as a new ones will arise to take leadership.
@smallguy241 Drowned? Oh no, the friendly gitmo staff were just rejuvenating that prisoner's face with an exfoliating acne wash. You know how dry the desert can be. NO TORTURE HERE, BOSS!
US citizens, please give some serious thought this year about ridding the white house and senators who believe too strongly in Christianity for the next elections. We cannot keep this up. These irrational people are making irrational decisions that greatly affect how the world looks at us, and it trickles down to our way of life. We are no longer the best place to live. The 2010 lists of best places have us no where in the top 20. Atheist countries all make the list. Please help your country. :(
I have a positive outlook on 2011 onwards. It's the start of a new decade (YES: 2011 is technically the first year of the new decade), and (hopefully) we have or will learn from our mistakes. And BOY, did we make some big mistakes in the last decade. You idiots voted for BUSH, for God's sake!
@Humberto4790 i think the US needs something different something innovative other than red vs. blue, we need to move forward instead of left and right, we just need to swallow our pride and embrace the future, because the world sure as hell isnt going to wait on america to get its shit together, as for your statement, yes i agree in theory, but i believe that for that to work efficiently in our country i believe we should sect off the civil service system into different departments to prevent
the civil service departments from providing below-standard judgment, after all, we have FedEx and UPS that competes with the U.S. postal service, there could be different departments in the government that competes with each other in the civil service system to ensure that the most successful one provides the most quality, but yes, i agree that oil companies should not be privately owned
Does anyone remember Dan Evans from the 2008 season of "The Biggest Loser"? He looks a lot like The Amazing Athiest, i mean no they're not the same person but they do look a lot like, look Dan up on Google images if you don't believe me.
America skyrocketed to greatness under capitalism. Businesses, incl' mortgage lenders, had the liberty to use sound lending practices. Then, FDR began nationalizing the mortgage industry with Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac. Carter & Clinton authorized gov't bureaucrats & community organizers to dictate lending practices, through reg's like the CRA,; BOASTING about forcing lenders to submit to gov't mandates.
The rise of american greatness is the direct result of large scale government planning and protectionism. Highest tariffs in the world, government investment in infrastructure, computers, internet, mass production, containerization, higher education, world class medical facilities and treatments, nearly all technological advances, aviation, agribusiness, big business, the military... all this comes either out of the state sector, or is entirely reliant on it.
@TylerNull Which historical record? The record of the American System coined by Henry Clay, Abraham Lincoln's "beau ideal", that involved high tariffs, gov investment and development of infant industries? Partly the cause of the civil war was the south's refusal of this system.
Computers and the internet weren't built within the military industrial complex? Universities don't recieve federal funding for R&D? Big business don't do the same? Neither do they rely on the gov to bail them out?
What "caused the civil war" was the the Democrat Slave States and their party's first act of treason. The "system" the Democrat Slave States "refused" is known as America.
America SKYROCKETED to greatness by free enterprise, and long before the computers and the internet, jackass. However, even by that measure, you fail miserably. All the products and services you enjoy, including this forum, are due to private enterprise. Say thank you, ingrate.
@TylerNull Slavery was at least half the cause of the civil war, many northerners were particularly reticent on the subject.
There was no free enterprise until very recently and a state could repeal a corporate charter until around the twentieth century. From 1818 to 1914 America had an average tariff rate of 45-55%. Gov planning/money caused the railroads, telegraph, and most universities.
This forum is on the web, which was invented at CERN and developed at public expense here in America.
Peppering your mythology with irrelevant numbers of irrelevant rates fails to address the fact that America's economic engine is capitalism; that America's industries became global leaders due to our market-based economics, not government bureaucracies.
You are proselytizing for the spectacular failure of Soviet style central planning, and you are doing so with specious blather smeared over ever more irrelevant topics.
@TylerNull A private company using technology that was handed over to them as a gift from the government. That's how it always is. Gov supports, aids, protects all enterprises, funds most R&D. There's nothing Soviet about this. This plan was first penned by Hamilton and pursued by all our founders, including the Henry Clay generation which was forwarded onto it's greatest exponent the early Republican party, it was despised by the southern democrats and is called the American System. Look it up!
@Bellantoni Setting aside your statist notion that gov't can "gift" ANYTHING to what is in fact its owners, a protocol isn't much of a technology. Private enterprise built STACKS of such protocols to make what is referred to as "the internet". And the government functionaries were entirely oblivious of its value; entirely disdainful of its use by private citizens; and entirely irrelevant to the private enterprises who built the hardware and software and protocols infrastructure that you enjoy.
@TylerNull WTF are you talking about? The internet was developed by the department of defense at universities in california. Silicon Valley was a Navy, NASA, Airforce military complex that received nothing but federal grants for R&D. The internet remained in the state sector and was publicly funded in places like MIT and Berkley for almost 3 decades before they were handed over to private corporations.
I think its time you actually looked into the history of the development of these things.
What makes your irrelevancies so hilarious is that the internet is the one area of the US economy that is most unencumbered by government, and not coincidentally, just about the only industry that's still growing. And yet, you actually point to it to prop up your advocacy of Soviet era central planning.
Your specious declarations crumble upon the slightest hint of inspection, and your blatant lies only dupe the immaculately ignorant.
Good Bye 2011 ! Welcome 2012 ...
arrackattack 4 days ago
2010 was just as bad as 2011 :(
themegaradical 2 weeks ago in playlist Uploaded videos
>tj claims to be a redditor
>uses memes that reddit stole from 4chan
sounds about right
Krauserowns 1 month ago
Best year of my life
edwardLRS 1 month ago
Same here so far.
ichigo12183 1 month ago
2011 was the worst year of my life.
BeatleFloydify 1 month ago in playlist Yearly Reviews
I thought the last verse of "Goodbye 2011" was familiar. At least you can't use it again for the 2012-2013 transition.
MrXman49O 1 month ago
@MrXman49O Yeah, I caught that too. We're smart! *high-five*
WHIREAS 1 month ago
@MrXman49O
But compared to 2012, the upcoming year might seem like hell
5emtio4yra 1 month ago
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J O Y O F S A T A N . O R G
SATAN IS GOD!!!
jewlostallcontrol 1 month ago in playlist Yearly Reviews
waiting for the new poem TJ :3
Gnometower 1 month ago in playlist Yearly Reviews 2
2011 sucked even more tbh
GroovyColouredLove 1 month ago in playlist Yearly Reviews
"The way things are going, 2010 may seem like heaven compared to what awaits us in 2011" truest statement ever spoken
hunterW1134 1 month ago 4
An we can expect 2012 to only get even worse. There is no one worth voting for in this election running for president in 2012. No I do NOT believe the world will end in 2012. I just think things are going to get worse, more UN-employment,more of our freedoms and civil liberties being taken away.More cops beating protesters, etc. I think that's what we can expect for 2012.Obama doesn't stand a chance of being re-elected, but none of the republicans running for president are going to be any better
IlluminatReptilian 2 months ago in playlist Yearly Reviews
@IlluminatReptilian Check out Rocky Anderson, Maybe he willchange your mind.
BigBis1337 1 month ago
2011 is the year when i took an arrow in the knee.
Mall0ryC 2 months ago in playlist Yearly Reviews
Cody weber would've done this better :/
xxdeathx 2 months ago in playlist Yearly Reviews
fuck obama
omega4chimp 2 months ago in playlist Yearly Reviews
2011 was better overall
MyMyMyTelephone 2 months ago
2011 wasnt that much better ;(
MrSommar25 2 months ago in playlist Yearly Reviews
fml
TheMrgreentoker420 2 months ago in playlist Yearly Reviews
2010 like any other year ;o
Xyphion 2 months ago in playlist Yearly Reviews
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Born again means you spent the first half of your life as a loser, and the rest of it as an asshole. Thanks, but no thanks!
Chelsea4President 2 months ago in playlist Yearly Reviews
i used to like 2010, but then i took an arrow to the knee
ImperialDovahkiin 2 months ago in playlist Yearly Reviews
dude this world we live in seems a lot like 1984 by geroge orwell
BOKNOWSCOMPUTERS 2 months ago in playlist Yearly Reviews
roses are red
violets are blue
all the world hate us, we're all screwed
happy new years bitches
DNIGHTLORD14 2 months ago in playlist Yearly Reviews
oh you cant make these videos untill the end of ayear. ive been searching everywhere for it.
MrMrbobblehead 2 months ago in playlist Yearly Reviews
Uploaded by TheAmazingAtheist on Jan 1, 2011
Goodbye, 2010
TJ posting from the future a poem about a year ago.. I'm confused...
Shangori 2 months ago in playlist Yearly Reviews
haha 2011 was worse than 2010!
dacoolray 2 months ago
roses are red violets are blue ....put a subversive comment here....and end with the word ...poo
mrsuperbafrango 2 months ago in playlist Yearly Reviews
@mrsuperbafrango
roses are red
violets are red
the grass is red
Fuck, the gardens on fire!!
werewolf873 2 months ago in playlist Yearly Reviews
@werewolf873 lmao .....damn it ive been out done again!
mrsuperbafrango 2 months ago
Obama couldn't close gitmo because he didn't have the votes. Plain and simple. It's not his fault, ALTHOUGH he obviously should have used the bully pulpit much more
asdfxcxv 2 months ago in playlist Yearly Reviews
2010 was the worst year of my life.
MrSFTU 2 months ago in playlist More videos from TheAmazingAtheist 65
@MrSFTU
2011 sucked more.
CroGamer002 2 months ago in playlist Yearly Reviews
@MrSFTU it was a great year for me lol
DeathByVlogz 2 months ago in playlist Yearly Reviews
@MrSFTU 2010 was also the worst year of my life.
ArcticB4Desert 2 months ago in playlist Yearly Reviews
@MrSFTU How so, tell the story.
(length doesn´t matter)
RagdollRalph 2 months ago in playlist Yearly Reviews
lol that waterboarding clip is fake, a guy paid 2 guys from the army $800 so he could make a point
blackopsc0n 2 months ago in playlist Uploaded videos
@blackopsc0n It's still waterboarding, just not at gitmo... Go check out Chrisopher Hitchens article on getting waterboarded called "Believe me, it's torture" even though you think it's bad, it's a nice read
Lulzalutioners 2 months ago
Mortal Kombat is the best fighting game series evar.
EliroX904 3 months ago in playlist More videos from TheAmazingAtheist
stop the rhyme
SuperCrawlin 8 months ago
@SuperCrawlin Its a poem. What, where you not expecting rhymes.
MrDullmop 2 months ago in playlist Yearly Reviews
Best and worst year of my life.
nightral8I4 11 months ago 34
@nightral8I4 wow for me to
ArchibaltFingers 3 months ago
@lolnakamura69 Lol... friend /r/ soon pending
NobodyLikesPaul 11 months ago
@yuo252 Iran is a country ruled by a government that isn't scared of making tough decisions, even if it may kill their people they do it for the greater good, plus its the terrorists that shape the country, and make it so only the strongest survive... the strongest is iran
NobodyLikesPaul 11 months ago
@Nentenguy64 Nah, I'd say that it isn't going to happen anytime soon, if ever. In communism there is NO private property. EVERYTHING belongs to the state. The US might want to rethink their governmental system, though; as it is now, the people have much too little control for a country that prides itself on being "free".
KanpekiJan 1 year ago
How dare the Republicans complain about lack of progress? They're voting against everything Obama does!
mslewp 1 year ago
I'm really afraid of where our country is headed, of course i've been afraid for a while. I really think we're fucking ourselves over, and taking the rest of the world I bet
stride7860 1 year ago
What about the earthquakes in Haiti and Chile?
Tattas999 1 year ago
god that was depressing.
spudgebomb 1 year ago
This is depressing...
CuddlyPuffs 1 year ago
Agreed
TylerAColby 1 year ago
2010 was he worst year for music in decades and that's saying something. We had Justin Bieber and Kesha, two of the most annoying girls to ever hit the pop charts.
SuperDevolution 1 year ago 16
@SuperDevolution but we also had MGMT, the Books, Four tet, LCD soundsystem etc.
bignoisematt 1 year ago
America is an evil empire, its just a little less evil than neanderthal Muslim and some Asian states. Although the 3rd world is just playa hating because they dont have the vast riches and resources that the first world enjoys.
andron333 1 year ago
@andron333 yes, because NO other country has EVER done anything evil EVER in history. Every country has the potential to be an "Evil Empire" as long as corruption remains in our human nature.
puppytrails2121 1 year ago
@puppytrails2121 you are right, but America is always full of sanctimony and condescension about own righteousnesses and morality.
andron333 1 year ago
@andron333 can't argue with you there. but there have been much, much worse things happen under other countries when they were in power so i'd hardly call it an evil empire.
puppytrails2121 1 year ago
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9/11 INSIDE JOB... I DARE ANY OF YOU PEASANTS TO CHALLENGE ME!
peoplz360 1 year ago
You did better last year.
Jussimania 1 year ago
Um, what are they doing to the dude at 00:28 - 00:31?
HugelyBig 1 year ago 4
@HugelyBig
Waterboarding. Looks fun, huh?
dirtyhandgesture 1 year ago
@dirtyhandgesture
*Googles that shit*
Well that sucks.
HugelyBig 1 year ago
@HugelyBig Its a form of torture. I guess they are filling his belly to the brim with water.
PillzGoezWoot 1 year ago
@PillzGoezWoot no, it allows the water to collect in the cloth which makes it seem like you are drowning
TheoreticalParadox 1 year ago
@HugelyBig
Water boarding they put all this water in you're face which makes you feel like you're drowning but in reailty you're not
TheFreesubs12 1 year ago
@TheFreesubs12
Researched it shortly after asking about it. You are drowning - just very slowly.
HugelyBig 1 year ago
@HugelyBig Waterboarding
moonheart10 1 year ago
@moonheart10
Yeah, I got that after the first three people told me.
HugelyBig 1 year ago
@HugelyBig oh that? that's called lying to the people who elected you to represent them. i'm sorry, actually it's called waterboarding, but with all the stuff america is involved with at guantanamo, it's all sort of the same.
ToySoldierScorpion 1 year ago
@HugelyBig waterboarding, simulation
EternalGnome77 1 year ago
@HugelyBig Yeah what are they doing?
mslewp 1 year ago
@mslewp water logging. some torture method they use at g baY
MrVarhansen 1 year ago
That pretty much somes up 2010
SporeMultiMedia 1 year ago
You know, despite everyone saying whether we will or will not die in 2012 I think it will be a good year... I can imagine living that year and having the thought in the back of my head that there's a chance I could die. And that in itself could make me feel more spontaneous, more alive. like I'm dodging a big bullet and I can take on the world.
Sharpie4123 1 year ago
Yeah 2011 is going to be worse. Just look at the Killing in Arizona.
alanoasiss 1 year ago
Obama may fail, but I seriously would rather pick the Lesser of the two evils rather then voting on a president that could die any moment and be replaced with an incredible moron!
Tarik360 1 year ago
But there will no no hell quite like 2012 (I'm pretty sure mainstream America actually IS stupid enough to vote Palin).
FuckItSnoopy 1 year ago
I can't believe I'm actually impressed with an Amazingatheist video. Well, Jesus is the way to God!
JesusPaid4You 1 year ago
@JesusPaid4You dude god doesn't exist, sorry for ruining your neverending childhood.
dominicanoaki 1 year ago
JESUS IS THE WAY TO GOD!
JesusPaid4You 1 year ago
@JesusPaid4You How much people are actually going to agree with you since this is a video by TheAmazingAtheist? Anyhow, great video, and quite an amusing poem. Shame about the Texas textbooks, though. What good has a conservative point of view ever done anyone?
TheMikeyX 1 year ago
I wonder what will happen this year?
KrfNYC2 1 year ago
whatta fuck is on 0:28 ???
Dalsir1 1 year ago
@Dalsir1 it's waterboarding. It's a torture technique infamously used by the US government on suspected terrorists that simulates the sensation of drowning.
theuserofthissite 1 year ago
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roses are red
violets are blue
i cant write poetry
neither can u
ExiledAtrocity 1 year ago
Great speech
mrttwo 1 year ago
"American System"
As in the failed marketing term for the failed policies of the failed Whig party?
That's a great example of the specious nature of your drivel. Such deceptive terms are referenced by today's Left, and attached to their fuzzy claims about a whole host of disjoint events and topics, all toward their endless attempts to perfectly invert the historical record.
And FDR is the POLAR OPPOSITE of the founding ideals. He was our first and only fascist president-for-life.
TylerNull 1 year ago
@TylerNull "Disjoint events and topics" The American System: applied througout the entire course of our history. Yeah that's the one I mean. The one that was ratified in our constiution and argued for in the federalist papers.That plan that split the souther democrats and northern whigs, changing their names to Republicans and made the "old Henry Clay tariff whig" put it into full effect in the civil war, on through the gilded age, picked up by FDR, Truman and Eisenhower. I'd say it did well.
Bellantoni 1 year ago
@Bellantoni
Then "it" is nothing of what you described earlier.
TylerNull 1 year ago
@TylerNull It is exactly what I described earlier. Summed it up in the first Federalist paper: "the vigor of Government is essential to the security of liberty; that, in the contemplation of a sound and well-informed judgment, their interest can never be separated."
Bellantoni 1 year ago
@Bellantoni
Your latest description has no resemblance to the statist mythology your were proselytizing earlier.
The point you keep trying avoid is that America SKYROCKETED to greatness by REJECTING the statist fiefdom systems of Europe. As much as America's has been eroded since, its core is free enterprise & market-based economics. It is liberty that powers our civilization, not gov't bureaucrats usurping us, and trying to tax and spend and borrow us into prosperity.
TylerNull 1 year ago
@TylerNull The reason the constitution was burned by some when it first came out was because they saw it as radically statist with the too much power at the federal head. Our path to greatness was one of independence, development of our own manufactueres, protection of infant-industries, investing in science and education,internal imporvements: continental railroad, telegraph, Panama Canal. And the state played the leading role in all of these. If you don't know that, you don't know anything
Bellantoni 1 year ago
@Bellantoni
"Our path to greatness was one of independence, development of our own..."
That's my point.
Yours is that "our own" is synonymous with gov't bureaucrats usurping OUR liberties, economic plans, and earnings, all to power THEIRS. Your muddled notions are socialist agitprop, whatever mix of genuine ignorance and willful deceptions constitutes them. Then again, such is expected from batches minted today by the cartel of DoEd sponsored [circa 1979] teachers' labor unions, isn't it?
TylerNull 1 year ago
@TylerNull I admit I was wrong.
The greatest economist who ever lived took notice in his day that it wasn't the government that was acting to limit liberty, but the private power that ran & staffed the government, who sought for what he called "the vile maxim of the masters of mankind..."All for ourseleves and nothing for anybody else." He was right when he said "the principal architects of policy have been the merchants and manufactures."
If you don't know THAT you don't know anything.
Bellantoni 1 year ago
@Bellantoni
That's a peculiar way to absolve gov't of its own toxic effects; made more so by quote mining some sentence fragments from (perhaps) Adam Smith.
Unless we believe that a taxpayer funded salary deifies or otherwise unburdens people from envy, greed, and all else that plagues us mere mortals, then gov't functionaries would be no less vile than us (lesser) mortals, REGARDLESS of their prior job history.
So, it seems yours/Smith's would be reason to more tightly restrain gov't.
TylerNull 1 year ago
@TylerNull I said nothing to absolve our government of it's crimes, I'm just saying that the biggest issue in modern american society is that the government has been hijacked by unaccountable private tyrannies, leaving the people with no voice, no representation. Smith knew it, Jefferson foresaw it, that's why he said he wanted to: "crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations which dare already to challenge our government in a trial of strength."
Bellantoni 1 year ago
@Bellantoni
What those men "knew" bears little resemblance to your claims, as I detailed.
And absolution is precisely your theme. Specifically, you imply there is an immaculate entity (gov't), which is corrupted by an evil entity (private tyrannies). Such is statist mysticism. Contrarily, we know the evils of gov't are inherent.
Thomas Paine: "Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one;"
TylerNull 1 year ago
@TylerNull Yes and I agree completely with Paine on that as well on this point:
"If systems of government can be introduced less expensive and more productive of general happiness than those which have existed, all attempts to oppose their progress will in the end be fruitless."
So long as it's of, by, and for the people I see no reason to try to mame it- I know that our government is not of, by, and for the people; but I'm just sayin...
Bellantoni 1 year ago
History is made of the rise and fall of empires and America is no exception. It may be sad to hear as an american, but I seriously think that the time of the american empire is nearing it's end. What has been a country of freedom and justice founded by bad ass rebels and freed slaves is now a post-apocalyptic dump mind controlled by big corporates untoutched by the poverty of man.
These may be the last days of an empire. But rejoice, as a new ones will arise to take leadership.
maximebv 1 year ago
You only talked about negative shit
setustraight 1 year ago
What a great year!
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levimoreno 1 year ago
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levimoreno 1 year ago
personally i think that if we were to nuke planet earth and destroy everything, we'd be just as screwed when we return to the now then as we are now.
littleruningboy 1 year ago
2010 may seem like heaven compared to what awaits us in 2011-the amazing atheist I second on that notion
trex6321 1 year ago
Sometimes I think this world would be a better place if America just vanished off the face of the earth.
AICabal 1 year ago
We just got raped 10 times this year.
BGMLV 1 year ago
wtf is going on at 0:30?
xxcobhcdrxx 1 year ago
@xxcobhcdrxx looks like a torture method similar to water boarding
nairbsille 1 year ago
aw so much gloom and doom
FarmGiraffe 1 year ago
i got raped 4 times this year
WKaliberr 1 year ago
What the hell was that video of in Guan.? Was that someone getting drowned?
smallguy241 1 year ago
@smallguy241 Drowned? Oh no, the friendly gitmo staff were just rejuvenating that prisoner's face with an exfoliating acne wash. You know how dry the desert can be. NO TORTURE HERE, BOSS!
12GaugeSteel 1 year ago
@smallguy241 its called water boarding its a form of torture the U.S. uses against its prisoners
mcmn33 1 year ago
Another year, another beer... or three
eljoeman123 1 year ago 3
what a good year
deadeye160 1 year ago
US citizens, please give some serious thought this year about ridding the white house and senators who believe too strongly in Christianity for the next elections. We cannot keep this up. These irrational people are making irrational decisions that greatly affect how the world looks at us, and it trickles down to our way of life. We are no longer the best place to live. The 2010 lists of best places have us no where in the top 20. Atheist countries all make the list. Please help your country. :(
JabberCT 1 year ago
America must the very worst "Western ideology" country IN THE WORLD!
RyunSharp 1 year ago
Awesome poem.
foxenwolf1 1 year ago
0:27 wtf are they doing o_O?
LadyVIolence 1 year ago
@LadyVIolence
that's how america treats their POWs. it's called waterboarding.
brightyoungidiot 1 year ago
@RyunSharp 1. Australia/New Zealand 2. Sweden/Finland 3. Croatia
Polyhymnia89 1 year ago
Thanks for the optimism TJ
DrFunnelCakes 1 year ago
awesome music
comedyliker12 1 year ago
I have a positive outlook on 2011 onwards. It's the start of a new decade (YES: 2011 is technically the first year of the new decade), and (hopefully) we have or will learn from our mistakes. And BOY, did we make some big mistakes in the last decade. You idiots voted for BUSH, for God's sake!
TheRebuttlerReturns 1 year ago
epic poem
robertosixninesix 1 year ago
Which countries do Americans who hate America wanna move to?
1. Australia
2. Canada
3. England
4. South Africa
5. Ireland
I'd like to find out your choice.
RyunSharp 1 year ago
@RyunSharp Australia man, just get myself some beachfront propert in Queensland and I'm fine :)
Whisper95Productions 1 year ago
@RyunSharp Man, American here, lived in three states, I'm planning to move to Canada. I love it, so. Also, screw America o:
England was another option for me though, but considering the flats in London are pretty crappy and overpriced, I decided not to.
Definitely visiting Ireland one day... but I would never go to South Africa.
RetartedWaffles 1 year ago
@RyunSharp New Zealand.
helliussurla 1 year ago
@RyunSharp Australia.
MCLsmiles 1 year ago
The US needs to be a little bit more socialist,i think they shouldnt let people own oil companies,just the government.
Humberto4790 1 year ago
@Humberto4790 i think the US needs something different something innovative other than red vs. blue, we need to move forward instead of left and right, we just need to swallow our pride and embrace the future, because the world sure as hell isnt going to wait on america to get its shit together, as for your statement, yes i agree in theory, but i believe that for that to work efficiently in our country i believe we should sect off the civil service system into different departments to prevent
TJmarian 1 year ago
the civil service departments from providing below-standard judgment, after all, we have FedEx and UPS that competes with the U.S. postal service, there could be different departments in the government that competes with each other in the civil service system to ensure that the most successful one provides the most quality, but yes, i agree that oil companies should not be privately owned
TJmarian 1 year ago
Cynicism. Never gets old.
mdisen 1 year ago
0:27 - 0:30
i'd rip off ther fucking throughs...fucking bastards.
Vikije666 1 year ago
Does anyone remember Dan Evans from the 2008 season of "The Biggest Loser"? He looks a lot like The Amazing Athiest, i mean no they're not the same person but they do look a lot like, look Dan up on Google images if you don't believe me.
HelloFade2 1 year ago
@HelloFade2 lol he does.
PunkHeart677 1 year ago
Oy, vey. Trolls: GO FUCK YOURSELVES.
BoozyBeggar 1 year ago
I don't know why i have to keep watching this lol
Mowglibaloo2 1 year ago
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In SOCIALIST America, bank robs YOU!
Fannie Mayhem
TylerNull 1 year ago 66
@TylerNull
If only that were true.
Altiego 1 year ago
@Altiego
It's a toss up as to which is more repugnant; your implicit denial or your explicit longing for its toxic effects.
TylerNull 1 year ago
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@TylerNull thumb this fuck face christian down
seanfleming1 1 year ago
@seanfleming1
"thumb this fuck face christian down"
Done, but don't be so hard on yourself, bigot.
TylerNull 1 year ago
@TylerNull i am a bigot.... your a dumbass
seanfleming1 1 year ago
@seanfleming1 you're
seanfleming1 1 year ago
@TylerNull What's to say they don't already? *glances at mortgage statement*
KaiserAdama 1 year ago
@TylerNull
Don't they still do that in regular America?
YoshiTheBlue 1 year ago 37
@YoshiTheBlue
yes
durrthock 1 year ago
@YoshiTheBlue
Yes.
Drumma425 1 year ago
@TylerNull Aww, TylerNull confuses socialism with fascism...
ghostgate82 1 year ago
@ghostgate82
Fascism is national socialism, you infantile dolt. To put it in terms that even you can understand, dog poo and cat poo are both poo.
Evidently, the intelligence of socialists never quite rises above that of carbon residue, which explains why they are so obsessed with the stuff.
TylerNull 1 year ago
@TylerNull I believe it's "In CAPITALIST America..."
Bellantoni 1 year ago 6
@Bellantoni
Facts trump belief.
America skyrocketed to greatness under capitalism. Businesses, incl' mortgage lenders, had the liberty to use sound lending practices. Then, FDR began nationalizing the mortgage industry with Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac. Carter & Clinton authorized gov't bureaucrats & community organizers to dictate lending practices, through reg's like the CRA,; BOASTING about forcing lenders to submit to gov't mandates.
Liberty wasn't the problem.
Gov't isn't the solution.
TylerNull 1 year ago
@TylerNull Capitalism is a good thing, but what came after that in your comment confirmed to me that you a a retard.
shaggzm4 1 year ago
@shaggzm4 Your failure to attach ANY reasoning whatsoever to your mindless complaint confirms that "retard" would be a huge step up for you.
HUGE.
TylerNull 1 year ago
@TylerNull Practice what you preach
The rise of american greatness is the direct result of large scale government planning and protectionism. Highest tariffs in the world, government investment in infrastructure, computers, internet, mass production, containerization, higher education, world class medical facilities and treatments, nearly all technological advances, aviation, agribusiness, big business, the military... all this comes either out of the state sector, or is entirely reliant on it.
Bellantoni 1 year ago
@Bellantoni
Just keep waving your magic wand, princess.
It's sure to alter the historical record.
TylerNull 1 year ago
@TylerNull Which historical record? The record of the American System coined by Henry Clay, Abraham Lincoln's "beau ideal", that involved high tariffs, gov investment and development of infant industries? Partly the cause of the civil war was the south's refusal of this system.
Computers and the internet weren't built within the military industrial complex? Universities don't recieve federal funding for R&D? Big business don't do the same? Neither do they rely on the gov to bail them out?
Bellantoni 1 year ago
@Bellantoni
Back to reality now.
What "caused the civil war" was the the Democrat Slave States and their party's first act of treason. The "system" the Democrat Slave States "refused" is known as America.
America SKYROCKETED to greatness by free enterprise, and long before the computers and the internet, jackass. However, even by that measure, you fail miserably. All the products and services you enjoy, including this forum, are due to private enterprise. Say thank you, ingrate.
TylerNull 1 year ago
@TylerNull Slavery was at least half the cause of the civil war, many northerners were particularly reticent on the subject.
There was no free enterprise until very recently and a state could repeal a corporate charter until around the twentieth century. From 1818 to 1914 America had an average tariff rate of 45-55%. Gov planning/money caused the railroads, telegraph, and most universities.
This forum is on the web, which was invented at CERN and developed at public expense here in America.
Bellantoni 1 year ago
@Bellantoni
No, this forum is built by a private company.
Peppering your mythology with irrelevant numbers of irrelevant rates fails to address the fact that America's economic engine is capitalism; that America's industries became global leaders due to our market-based economics, not government bureaucracies.
You are proselytizing for the spectacular failure of Soviet style central planning, and you are doing so with specious blather smeared over ever more irrelevant topics.
TylerNull 1 year ago
@TylerNull A private company using technology that was handed over to them as a gift from the government. That's how it always is. Gov supports, aids, protects all enterprises, funds most R&D. There's nothing Soviet about this. This plan was first penned by Hamilton and pursued by all our founders, including the Henry Clay generation which was forwarded onto it's greatest exponent the early Republican party, it was despised by the southern democrats and is called the American System. Look it up!
Bellantoni 1 year ago
@Bellantoni Setting aside your statist notion that gov't can "gift" ANYTHING to what is in fact its owners, a protocol isn't much of a technology. Private enterprise built STACKS of such protocols to make what is referred to as "the internet". And the government functionaries were entirely oblivious of its value; entirely disdainful of its use by private citizens; and entirely irrelevant to the private enterprises who built the hardware and software and protocols infrastructure that you enjoy.
TylerNull 1 year ago
@TylerNull WTF are you talking about? The internet was developed by the department of defense at universities in california. Silicon Valley was a Navy, NASA, Airforce military complex that received nothing but federal grants for R&D. The internet remained in the state sector and was publicly funded in places like MIT and Berkley for almost 3 decades before they were handed over to private corporations.
I think its time you actually looked into the history of the development of these things.
Bellantoni 1 year ago
@Bellantoni
Gov't spends money on all things. Got it. .
What makes your irrelevancies so hilarious is that the internet is the one area of the US economy that is most unencumbered by government, and not coincidentally, just about the only industry that's still growing. And yet, you actually point to it to prop up your advocacy of Soviet era central planning.
Your specious declarations crumble upon the slightest hint of inspection, and your blatant lies only dupe the immaculately ignorant.
TylerNull 1 year ago