They'd be intellectual bruises all over shapiro. Talking points don't fly very well against kyle. it needs to be done, shapiro needs to be slammed for being incorrect on some key issues as he hasn't really had any hard challengers last i've checked.
Clavitz Rain I'm conservative and I agree with you. I generally like Ben alot but I disagree with him on military spending and the tax bill. I support tax cuts but not ones that raised the deficit and hurt people making less than $75,000 a year.
I don't know about him being a good debater. It seems to be it's just his fast talking, which makes people believe he's somehow good at in it. Not saying that makes him wrong or right on anything. However, I'd say he's pretty average.
Michin Sin yeah true he does talk fast but he often has a lot of statistics in his pocket whether they’re accurate or not he’s really good at saying things like they’re facts you know?
Actually, from what I hear that "most" believe that because he speaks fast he is smart is BS in this case. From (the little) I hear about him he always keep his line of thought, what actually happens when one is smart is that you end up tripping over your tongue because one can't match the speed of the toungue and thought, while ben just keep both at the same fast speed (and probably most talking points are pre made)
Ben Shapiro is THE most *PRETENTIOUS* conceited *BOY* in politics. All I've ever seen in that phony *BIG-HEADED* dweeb is a puny little BOY pretending to be a genius. So full of shit.
The stuff he says are reasonable, hes fair when it comes to debates and free speech unlike liberals who scream and shout. plus he went to Harvard law school. from what ive seen hes more of a human than the lefty cucks on the streets
Because he speaks very well with an incredible amount of confidence. Small-minded/intellectually lazy people are enamored by that. People are naturally anyway, and our political opinions are giving us enough awareness to catch his terrible logic.
People say Shapiro is a “genius” because he graduated from Harvard law and will cite nothing else to call him a genius. Anthony Scaramucci also graduated from Harvard law...so that’s how well that argument turns out. 😂
Exactly my point. People masturbate to the prestige of the degree without even considering how stupid they sound by saying “Blank is a genius, he went to Harvard”
American Ivy League schools: 15% of students are hard working people from less privileged backgrounds who deserve to be there/ 85% are rich slackers whose parents "donated to" (polite way of saying "bribed") the university. Harvard and Yale are just the "Coors" and "Budweiser" of American education; you can get just as good of, if not better, an education from any community college in the country.
+Rob McCune Give 'em a break, man. If the alt-right didn't scrape the bottom of the barrel to find their intellectuals they wouldn't have any "intellectuals" at all.
He's not alt-right he only supports one ethnostate that needs breathing room and that is Israel, he is however a bigot. I've posted a couple variations of this, but to be a celebrity on the modern right you need billionaire funding and connections to right wing media to get promoted. Shapiro has to tow the line with the rest of the right or we would never hear about him.
I once watched one part of his argument that his wife would work more if universal healthcare would exist in America ... So yeah, he did kinda say it 😒
Just like the rest of us, slaves to the wage. I hate wankers like Shapiro because they come with an attitude of "capitalism is great - being poor is a choice". Hes a wee wank-dog.
+Harrison Gibson Basically, yes. Watch his debate with Cenk: his opening argument is that universal healthcare would be forced labor for his wife. The intellectual heavyweight of the right starts off debates with idiotic strawmen.
MythicalRedFox yup, we need to free all the enslaved military personnel, cops, firefighters, and other government workers. And not just gov workers. If your employer gets a government contact you are now enslaved.
MovingForward actually its not. If social security was spend by the people that owned that money then there would be no need for social security in the first place
@ Jim Garrison ... Word has it that Ben Shapiro has a dual citizenship with the USA and Israel. How ironic that he would want to spend America's money on the military....as typically the USA supports Israel in conflicts. OF COURSE HE WANTS THE USA TO SPEND SPEND SPEND ON THE MILITARY!!! He seems to have just a TINY LITTLE CONFLICT OF INTEREST. Frankly....I always used to be empathetic to Israel as well. BUT: I REMEMBER ISRAEL WHEN IT BOMBED THE USS LIBERTY ....INTENTIONALLY!!!! I ALSO WAS NOT TOO HAPPY ABOUT THE 9-11 "DANCING ISRAELIES " SCANDAL. It sure seems like Israel is not above provoking situations to induce the USA to support them. I am now VERY skeptical about this "Friendship". AT THE VERY LEAST I DO NOT APPROVE INCREASING FUNDING OF THE MILITARY.....let them work out a reasonable budget just like every family in America has to.
My point is that he doens't care about positions. It's all about the money. And Mercer and The Kochs would turn on Israel on a dime if they thought a dollar could be made. That's the GOP in a nut shell. Nothing matters except their own money. They would poison and kill off a town of Americans if they knew they could get away with it and make some money.
Ben Shapiro is just Lord Bamboozle to me. An extreme religious corporate conservative. Quick, but not intelligent. Clever, but not wise. An angry little man, lacking empathy.
Empathy, when applied to politics is really dangerous, because when you empathize with one person, you effectively ignore everyone else whom you have pledged to serve. Sympathy, on the other hand, is a positive thing.
Spot on definition! In a way, angry little men make the world what it is now. I might even suggest this is a symptom of a patriarchy-based role modelling and education. Im a guy btw
+Sev'rance Tann Love the "I'm a guy btw" remark, hehe. But I suspect you might be right wrt role modelling and education, although I think there are probably more factors at play in today's crazy political climate where figures like Shapiro can become popular. Fear related to the inevitability of globalization (something that shouldn't be fought against imho, but it is a difficult thing to deal with), extreme polarization as a symptom of super optimized social media-powered echo chambers. The world is changing quickly, and it seems we're increasingly losing the ability to take a moment to think before settling into some judgmental opinion.
@@patch8830 Ben Shapiro and every other conservative at politicon passed up a debate with Kyle a few weeks ago. He was set to debate Ann Coulter and Candace Owens and they both backed out.
Welp the trolls are out already with nearly half dislikes, Also Nice job exposing yourself as a hypocritical regressive Ben. Libertarians are supposed to be against high military spending
No one on the modern right can be principled and A) get an audience and B) get corporate money. Simply put they have to be apologists for corporate welfare, empire, authoritarianism in law enforcement and national security and bigotry in order for anyone to have ever heard of them.
+Tim Horn libertarians dont have to be against big militarises i mean place a libertarian in the middle of ww2 and im gonna guess they want a big ass military
If only there were more Americans like him to encourage critical thought about domestic and foreign policy issues. Most think they are the greatest people world and enjoy the highest quality of life, education, and health care in the developed world, which in the context of wealthy, developed nations is simply laughable.
Ben is from Israel 🇮🇱 his true interest is the best for Israel not America Keeping the military budget the way it is helps Israel they need America’s assistant
If you guys think the right-wing is stupid, you're only deluding yourselves. They know exactly what they're doing and they've effectively seized both parties for themselves, while we giggle and call them dummies. Never confuse liars with idiots.
He's just intelligent enough to make his points in vaguely intellectual parlance and not quite insightful enough to do any actual analysis on them beforehand.
This was a great commentary. I only wished you touched on the fact that Social Security and Medicare are primarily self-funded through special payroll taxes; therefore, they do not contribute significantly to the deficit.
YES,BUT, since Reagan deficits started to rise b/c taxes were cut for the rich, then they turned to the SS Trust Fund of $2.6 trillion at the time, borroeong from it to run gov't and Reagan admin raised payroll tax, and then raided the fund again as did Bush and Bush 2 and now Congress doesn't want to pay it back, so that is why they can say cut it, as it comes from the General fund from which they're supposed to raise taxes to pay it back from, but instead the taxcuts are now permanent.
Trump voters said they didn't want globalist military expansionism- Trump gets in, expands military conflicts around the world...Trump voters: we need to expand the military.
snakey973 True.. not only that but they flip on every other thing too.. then just blame someone else it's fucking crazy how disillusioned these people are.
That's because they believe Obama cut funds from the military. Which isn't true, the military just cut useless and outdated equipment and modernized the military. Apparently Trumptards still think its 1901 and we fight wars with bayonets and horses.
snakey973. Perhaps you should get the news from conservative outlets too. You have obviously been lied to. The US has decreased presence in military conflicts around the world. Think a bit, and dont just swallow up BS from boy who has started a political party to the left of DNC. Do you think that can be balanced? Ripping both DNC and GOP is his political job.
Obama was no different... its almost like politicians pander for votes, or if you want to dunk your toes in the alex jones pool.. the deep state steering the ship bamn after inauguration. What's with people's memory being so poor? This is the resistance? Lul.
kim ping, the only time I will listen to conservative news at this point is if I want to laugh. Red flags, gay frogs, $10 gas and FEMA camps? Really? This is what's becoming "mainstream" to the right. Kyle here starts a group that opposes bullshit Democrats while the right elects Trump, who turns out to be a bullshit Republican and they still love him for it. Very telling.
I understand your entitled to your opinion, but why are all these comments hating on people have no substance to them? Like give an example of why you think that way all i see is pointless rhetoric.
It doesn't matter if you don't think he's legitimate, people on the right already think he is in massive numbers. Trying to ignore the problem doesn't help anything
People on the right also believe the Earth was created 10000 years ago. I don't care how many people agree with something, when it's that stupid you just can't take it seriously.
That's why you need to debate them. If you just put your fingers in your ears and go "lalala, you're not legitimate, so I'm going to ignore you!" Those anti-science groups end up growing, because they're the only one effectively reaching out and "proving"(?) their points, while everyone else just sits around refusing to engage.
You should send a letter to powerball telling them that if you wanted to, you'd guess the right numbers anyway and you don't want to legitimize them by buying a ticket. I'll bet they'll send you the cash prize right away.
@ Cheyron ... Of course he loves America: he's an Israeli dual-citizenship American. Gee....Israel depends on American Military presence....not too hard to figure why he'd want more spending for the military while spending the USAs money to Israel's advantage. Duh. In the meantime...he recommends more military spending while he drains the blood out of the funds that the largest generation in history in the USA PAID INTO ALL THEIR LIVES?????? Excuse me: I still remember when Israel INTENTIONALLY bombed the USS LIBERTY.....and I remember the "Dancing Israelis" incident DURING 9-11!!!! We've been a good friend to Israel forever.......but something is REALLY WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE!!! Guarandamntee it: anybody comes to touch the investments that the baby boomers have made into Social Security ALL THEIR WORKING LIVES to secure their older years.....there's going to be a revolution. Big one. There's a LOT of us out here!!! We know how to organize and protest. We have paid for ALL the wars we never wanted (including the Vietnam war)....and LOTS of us STILL BELIEVE THAT PEACE IS THE ANSWER....NOT WAR!!!! Try to touch Social Security, and the nation is going to have approx. 75 million older people up in arms. We did not have OUR money taken from us and put into trust with the Federal Government just to have them go and fund the military with it. NOPE. And our money is NOT here to fund the millennials, either: put your OWN contributions into Social Security, kiddies.....that's how it works. Peace n' Love..... ~ RED ☮♥♫ .
@ Cheyron ... Thank you for your balanced response. Learning about the USS Liberty was a real stunner for me, too. I remembered the incident on the news when I was VERY young.....but the subject went suddenly, completely, and oddly very quiet. Since the internet came "of age"....the information has resurfaced. It is thought that the Israelis bombed the USS Liberty in a effort to result in a larger US presence in the Middle East at a time when our military was largely involved with the Vietnam War. Obviously it is to Israel's advantage to have a large US military presence in the Middle East....and in those days Israeli/Palestinian issues were very raw and often resulted in warring in the Middle East: including the "Six Day War"....which I also remember very clearly. I was 10 years old then.....and a precociously bright and an unusually socially concerned youngster. Reports included information that the Liberty had been positively identified by Israeli pilots in their aircraft: and they had conveyed that information by radio to their command. Some of the Israeli pilots (or at least one) refused to fire on the Liberty. More than thirty of our sailors and intelligence staff were killed in the bombing of the Liberty by the Israeli planes. The issue of the "Dancing Israelis" during the 9-11 disaster was one of the myriad of perplexing reports. They were definitely Israelis....they were arrested...and an investigation was conducted. There's a lot of information online about the incident....and a lot of confusion about the details....and the outcomes of the incident and those involved were quite perplexing to the Americans that did know about the incident. A search of the relevant search criteria should provide you with a lot of information to consider..........with an open mind. Now: I want to make it very clear that this information caused me a LOT of consternation when I learned (piece by piece) of BOTH of these incidents. I was raised by Grand-Parents who were from the Great Depression/WWII era...."salt of the earth" kind of people. That generation was called "The Greatest Generation"...and for good reason: courage, honesty, integrity, and a willingness to help others was prevalent. I was raised that way as well: and to "ALWAYS DO THE RIGHT THING" was the mandate of every day of my up-bringing.....and for the rest of my life ever since then. My family was involved greatly in WWII, suffered deaths of their kin, and life-long injuries to some of them. My family was Christian, and I was raised that way, too....but they were also very benevolent in spirit, with a great amount of empathy for Jews, and they were heart-broken about the holocaust. NEVER have I been anti-Jewish or anti-Israeli. NEVER. Often I have stood up for them when others were bashing them verbally and making far-flung accusations. I've had NOTHING but great admiration for Israel and their struggles....and I've always wished for Peace in the Middle East. I am devoted to my country....but there have been many incidents I've come to know about that leave an apparent question mark on the matter of "What is truth....and What is cover-up?" Outcomes of issues often seem to be questionable: IF you look at both sides of the story with open mind, and an interest in TRUTH. It is not lost on me that it sure seems like there have been incidences that Israel may have incited events to cause the USA to be more involved in the Middle East than might otherwise have happened. And now this "Ben Shapiro" thing.....his double citizenship with Israel/USA....and his interest in building up the US military at great expense to our country AND especially at the expense of those of us approaching our elder years. I come from a very patriotic and honest family....and I've often ditched my own comfort and acted selflessly in the interest of personal integrity and "ALWAYS DOING THE RIGHT THING". I do not arrive at these uncomfortable thoughts easily. BUT I DO HAVE TO SAY THAT AGAINST MY DIFFERING WISHES: IT DOES SEEM LIKE SOMETHING IS VERY, VERY WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE. Peace n' Love..... ~ RED ☮♥♫ .
@ Cheyron ... Not a lot of time right now....but I did want to reply. Certainly those discussions would be interesting....perhaps over time?? Feel free to stay "in touch" if you wish. I did want to get back here with a quick message. There is much more to the "Dancing Israelis" than "just five guys dancing". Follow that story line down with appropriate search criteria....and you will see the concerns are very similar to the story of the USS Liberty....and eventual international outcomes. The people involved were VERY connected: before and after the actual "dancing" part. As for the "short story" about me (which can not even begin cover "My Story": You've heard some things about my youth and upbringing. I remember JFK, and I still have the MIA bracelet that I wore from sixth grade to my college years. "My" soldier never came home from the Vietnam War...the bracelet is still on my bedstand less than 2 feet away from me every night. I've been in a very challenging "helping" profession for decades (with a degree of esteem, recognition, and accomplishment) ....a strong advocate for change where needed, as well as for those with unmet needs who can not advocate for themselves...a long history of activism AND volunteerism (including working on ecology issues and I helped "save the whales" in the late seventies....you like whales? You're welcome!!! :-)....Civil Rights, Peace (since the Vietnam war era), ecology, activism, volunteerism, advocacy, as well as trying my best to live a life where I "practice what I preach" . My promise to myself every day since I was in high school (not just to "do the right thing" :-) "Do something EVERY DAY to make the world a better place...in big and small ways...EVERY DAY". I am a product of the "Peace and Love" generation as well...and pretty much agree with a lot of the Hippie movement (but not so much about the drugs/sex thing). HINT: I'm proud to say I've been an SJW since the 70s and a "sensitive snowflake" as well. And that "Do The Right Thing" and "Make the World a Better Place" attitudes eventually led me (in a very convoluted process) to becoming a real-life whistle-blower (in a very scary place that needed a LOT of change....and lives were at risk). I've spoken "Truth to Power" for the benefit of "things larger than myself".....My life has required every bit of Courage, Strength, and Integrity that I have. That "Do the Right Thing" ideal has NOT always made my life easier....and sometimes the journey has been down-right difficult....but that ideal has never led me astray, either. I am very proud of who I am....but I know darned well that I would not be who I am had it not been for my good fortune to have been raised by grandparents from "The Greatest Generation". And my "journey" continues still..... Feel free to contact me if you want to have those discussions. TTYL Peace n' Love..... ~ RED ☮♥♫ .
@joe yeah you have a point there. classroom engagement is positive indeed. what kate was referring was probably the obnoxious nature of a warhawk kid from a rich family.
If he does it will have to be under Kyle's term I.E. having a fact checker/moderator. It's not gonna be a free form debate like a lot of these chuckle heads screaming "debate him" would like.
Do Ben Shapiro, and all these other "intellectual" right wingers that have somehow gained popularity lately, realize that its not just about just stating the words 'facts/logic/reason/etc' they actually have to use facts, logic, and reason.
JT Vlogs I enjoyed the razor fist one because he seems like a chill idiot. Shapiro's seems to be the living embodiment of the Dunning Kruger effect, hopped up on speed.
He is such a corporate paid goon. This is what society has become: lie to get rich. Absolutely pathetic. I'd rather die than be a lying sycophant promoting propaganda. Heck, even drug cartel kingpins have more honor and dignity than Limbaugh, Hannity, or Shitpiro.
Whats net nuetrality? And where exactly did you see the positive effects of it? And if you can tell me why its so detrimental not having it? Ps. I know quite a bit about this stuff but just want to gauge your philosphical consistency before tearing your logic, or lack there of, apart
The ISP's can slow down any content they want. It's both an anti-trust issue and a free speech issue. I'll tell you what will happen, companies flush with corporate profits and influence will get fast lanes. Anyone without money or mainstream views will be slowed down. This is just another way to monopolize the established powers at a break neck pace. Any news site that doesn't tout a pro corporate agenda will be slowed. And competitors to Amazon, Netflix, Facebook, and Google will also be slowed. Make no mistake, the ISP's will collude with the already established media players. Capitalism's oldest playbook is to appear like there is competition. When you dig deeper, you realize all the large companies collude together and create the illusion of competition. It's an insiders club where everyone agrees to act in lock step to capture more market share. Only on the margins do they compete to fool the public.
Anonymous DueToFascists first of what are you saying? Nothing you said was a cause of concern. And no it isnt a monopoly. The free market works the same way in any level of society. I dont see the concern if an isp wants to work with another company to give their customers deals. Why should the government use force to make these private businesses conduct business to their means. Thats communist mentality at the end of the day. If tmobile wants to team up with netflix because they made a deal at the expense of another companies system being slowed such as amazon prime then i dont see the problem. I saved 180 dollars this year on netflix alone. Ill pay 5 more bucks a month to get more bandwidth if i also cant watch hulu and amazon at the speed of my liking.... Omg first world problems. Plus obama passed that bill and wasnt even in place for 2 years your acting as if it was a repeal of one of our bill of rights 😂😂
So love your Shapiro act. And it's so true. Ben takes sophistry to a whole new level. And in case anyone doesn't know what sophistry is, I believe the Webster's definition goes something like this: an argument that on the surface appears to be logical and reasonable, but upon closer examination begins to fall apart. What you need to do when listening to Shapiro is to put the video in slow mo, take notes, and you too will begin to see his reasoning fall apart
That's why he speaks fast and very quickly jumps from one subject to the next. He doesn't want to give people time to actually consider what he has said.
Except Ben isn't even consistent a in his criticism of Republicans for exploding the deficit. He staunchly supported Trump's tax bill, and had NOTHING to say about the 1.5Tn dollars added to the deficit. Not a peep. I watch his show regularly and he didn't say jack shit about it when it was tax cuts for him and his bosses, but on this he talks shit about the deficit to make him LOOK principled. He ain't, not one goddamn iota.
Oh let's deregulate some more and let's repeat the 2008 economic crash. The same fucking problems before. Letting these corporate fucks do whatever they want.
Guys, Heath is just indoctrinated to believe stupid economic ideas. "Fuck empirical evidence, it's good for the rich." Mark Blyth puts it best. /watch?v=55fPbuAUEHI
Flash Goran, you don't hate evil terrorists and despots who do those things to their own people more? You probably support abortion also, so you have no right to speak.
Sorry but if you are in the position of receiving SS just be aware that with the thieves in congress now. You could very well see your entitlements disappear. It is the 'murican peoples fault they have been sleep walking into this since ronny rayguns days. You did it to yourself 'murica.
Also who the fuck would want to listen to Shapiro for more than a minute? He has such a grating voice that it almost makes Limbaugh and Jones doing an audio book on War and Peace sound like James Earl Jones narrations.
"That's a moronic statistic to measure defense spending. " No its not as it is a set comparison to a standard. GDP is going up, defense spending isn't. "When you spend more money on the military than the next 8 nations combined," A very deceptive stat. First off, when you look at percent of GDP and you combine the GDP of all of those nations, they spend around 2.5% of their GDP on defense, we spend 3.5%. Yes, it is higher, but only by a difference of 1%. We spend more on education than Germany, the UK and France combine. Should we cut education spending? Or is it that our GDP is so much larger then them that it only makes sense that we spend more then them combine? "To just compare the percent of GDP that defense spending had 58 years ago with the present is a overly broad, misguided, and down right stupid." But comparing defense spending to 8 combined countries with a fraction of our GDP isn't? France has a GDP that is 1/10 of ours, how can you compare raw dollars at that point. Again, we spend more on education then France, is that bad?
1960 U.S. GDP = $543.3 Billion, 10% for military = $54.33 Billion. 2017 U.S. GDP = $19.73 Trillion, 3% for military = $592.17 Billion. So no, military spending hasn't "been shrinking", in fact the contrary is true.
Remember Ben Shapiro graduated from Harvard or one of the other Ivy Leagues. Never knew they taught American Imperialism in the U.S. public and private education system.
We could reduce the cost of medical care in general with a single payer system, which would in turn reduce the cost of medicare and medicaid. Just saying.
And we can increase our revenue by taxing more the corporations and cutting military spending and hence reducing the deficit and hence reducing the interest we pay to bond holders, mostly ass-hole republican donors.
thec4ke. Show the math on that. You know it is not true. And reducing the cost for people, is not the same as reducing the cost for taxpayers. If it is gonna be paid for, you would have to increase the tax.
litoo2002. No, you cant raise corporate tax and get more revenue. Companies stop investing in the US then, and make investment in more companyfriendly countries. How bout having the same taxrate as canada, as you leftist see that as a shining light for the US. Interestrate on the issued bonds dont change. Newly issued bonds might have higher interestrate. It depends on the rating the US has when they sell them. Mostly sold to other countries and investmentbanks. When Germany goes to good, and they have top creditrating, they sell bonds with low interest, and cools down their economy with buying bonds from other countries that have higher interests. Every country does this, to cool down their economy. China has bought up most from the US the last 20 years, just for this reason.
i am a conservative/republican and i really respect your opinion and agree we should cut some military and we should focus on caring for the older generations so that the younger ones will take care of us in turn. Social security should not be cut at all.
Kyle, Ben Shapiro makes the argument that our elected officials, instead of voting in the interests of the people, need to EDUCATE THE PUBLIC. No! Legislative representatives are sent to Washington or Des Moines or Sacramento to exercise the will of the people. The people EDUCATE the legislators. When the hell did this get turned around?
Holy fk Shawn, that's some brilliance right there. Well said, mister. Because we live in a representative democracy, not in some weird money-based oligarchy. I share the thought, and the frustration sir
The oil? Is there an age of consent for oil in order for it to agree to being pumped and used? No problem with that, as long as 6,000 oil years are equivalent to eighteen human years, I suppose...
Active right now. It doesn't change ops or missions, it changes our living, and our work. We work with outdated equipment then, old vehicles, systems that break CONSTANTLY. Causes us to live in buildings with brown water, roaches, rats, burned out lights. I think ANY civilian would be SCREAMING that it's not fair or right if they were in this position. We lose staffing, facilities, benifits, etc.
The argument about not debating Shapiro is very inconsistent and illogical. Kyle said that it's useless to debate him because he (Kyle) is "objectively right" and Shapiro is "objectively wrong". Let's suppose this is true. Then WHY does he keeps talking about Shapiro's views/opinions? Presumably, Shapiro's fans are not going to change their minds according to the assumption that they are "closed minded". Assuming that Shapiro is "objectively wrong", then Kyle talking about his views would be like talking about someone who thinks the earth is flat. What is the objective then, to talk about Shapiro? Other than to give those who hate Shapiro support and more confirmation bias? It's absurd. I'm starting to think that this is not the real reason why Kyle and many of his followers don't want a debate against Shapiro.
Kyle is correct about the misuse of funds in the military. We spend billions to make our weapons marginally better. Generally it is not worth the investment.
The good ol' russian approach has always proven to be best approach at army tech. Make a ungodly amount of hardware sufficiently cost effective and arm every man with some of it. Same aproach the US took with the M4 Shermans. And those were some real pos tanks. Or P51s and P47s, very good aircraft, but not nearly as good as late-war german ones (109 variants G and K, and Fw190 D models)...guess who won air dominance?
Kyle. Please. Debate Ben, put him to shame, just so conservatives can stop sucking him off. Cause god damn, if I have to see one more video claiming him as some "champion of free speech" I might give up on the world.
Devante Starks It feels like he is on a winning streak because no one of substance is standing up to him. He just attacks SJWs, they fight back (very poorly) and suddenly Shapiro is a 'genius'. I hate politics right now, and Kyle was right. People need to stop worshipping people on the grounds of them being 'anti-sjw'.
We all need to keep in mind that "Debates" are just WWE shows. Look at his debate with Cenk, like I'm not big on Cenk Uyger, but all these conservatives loved his stupid one liners and act like Cenk didn't make any good points. Like when ben said you're the prostitute or whatever. It was so bad, debates are a joke at this point.
I was amused that he said military spending is only 18 to 20 percent, like that isn't a ton of money for something Americans mostly don't benefit from.
"Social security, medicare, medicaid make up 60% of the federal budget. Military is only 18-20%." I can't find where he's getting these numbers from. Everywhere is showing about 57% of the budget goes to the military.
here is Ben Shaprio's CIRCULAR poverty philosophy. You are Poor -> You're poor because you are bad with money -> You are bad with money because you r poor. *repeat*
Not EVERYBODY is "poor" because they were "bad with money". A lot of people fell on hard times and job losses since 2008....and a lot of those people have not recovered yet. Of those people: a lot are still unemployed and struggling......but they are NOT included in the "numbers" for the "Unemployment Rate"....because they have not been collecting unemployment benefits for years.
Kre um no...other countries with at least affordable college have a larger middle class. Graduate school will still require good grades.. there's only a limited number of slots in graduate school.
Ignar Husky Progressive Maddog How about Small and Medium businesses. Also when has that worked, we should put regulations on Corporations so they won't influence our Congress, this has been proven to worked in Social Democracies.
Why does he lie about social programs taking up more than half the budget? The military program is MORE than half the budget. Don't lie about it, shows he has no principles.
He's an unscrupulous cunt who relies on cult minded people to gobble up his bullshit. Luckily, rational people don't do that and they fact check so they know that people who say such things are utter cunts. He clearly thinks very little of human beings in general.
MudnavI there’s this thing called mandatory spending and discretionary spending dumbass we do spend the most social security, Medicare, and Medicaid. Stop watching propaganda www.nationalpriorities.org/analysis/2015/presidents-2016-budget-in-pictures/
MudnavI did you even read the link you posted. According to your link the government spends 25% on social security and 16.2 % on Defense/homeland security when you look at the total amount the government spends (as in discretionary + mandatory spending).
Ending world hunger costs just $30 billion/year. Ending homelessness in the U.S. costs $20 billion/year, and providing free tuition for public colleges and universities would cost $50 billion/year. Our priorities are waaay outta whack. We could slash our military expenditures in half and still spend far more on it than any other nation. If we did that and then invested the aforementioned $30 billion to end world hunger, wouldn't that make us far more safe and secure than what we're doing now? Seriously, who would attack the country that fed every man, woman and child on the planet?
It isn't that easy. With homelessness you may be able to give them all a home, but long term they will destroy the public housing. They are homeless for a reason.
whyamimrpink78 It's actually cheaper to house the homeless ($10k/yr per person) than to leave them on the streets, which costs us $30k/yr per person in various services (hospitals, police, sanitation, and more). And besides that, doesn't a "housing first" policy make more sense? If someone is homeless, there are myriad reasons why, whether it's a string of bad luck, domestic abuse, lack of affordable housing, substance abuse, our shitty system, mental illness, etc. Or any combination of these barriers. How are they supposed to work on any of these issues and make progress on them in any meaningful way when they face an endless scramble to find drinking water, bathroom facilities, a dry, safe (ish) place to sleep, and other basic necessities? Not to mention the crushing loneliness that comes with the territory? How is anyone supposed to "better themselves" while in the midst of these nearly insurmountable obstacles? It can be done without help, but it's enormously difficult for most, and even impossible for some. No, it makes the most logical sense to me to house these folks FIRST *and then* give them a case worker and access to resources that would help them overcome whatever the underlying cause of their homelessness was. Given this opportunity, most people would make enormous progress and when they do well, that benefits the health, strength and well-being of our entire society. And I haven't even touched on the humane morality of a "housing first" policy. I'm an atheist, but that's the most Christ-like thing we could do, with the added bonus that it not only saves us money, but makes us stronger as a whole. We can't afford *NOT* to, if you ask me.
The value of having two oceans between us and any possible enemy is priceless. A quadrillion dollars of military spending would not come close to equaling the strategic value of having two big oceans between us and potential enemies. We don't need a foreign military base, let alone 190+ around the world. We as Americans are safe because of WHERE we are born. Others are unsafe Largely in part to being born in an area deemed an enemy of the us. They can't ever reasonably hope to aspire to threaten us. But a majority of Americans would rather literally give money away to rich/connected people that plan on killing those same unlucky people, than give the money to their fellow citizens .😭 raising the floor is always better than raising the ceiling.
SeanMcFarlinTRE I wasn't disagreeing. I was explaining to the above comment what he meant by counter sources. No point in getting defensive over nothing.
Manny C. I wasn't being defensive. Just telling you that if you desire to know how honest this is, You should definitely do your own research instead of just expecting someone you don't know to do it for you is all.
"Just stop being poor" - Ben Shapiro
Aiden A. That's actually great advice.
"but my wife is a doctor" also Ben Shapiro
"I masturbate to Ben Shapiro's face"
- Sargon of Akkad
J Ribs Wow! If only someone had told me that the way to beat poverty is by *gasp* cosmically stopping myself from being poor! -_-
Indeed, they just have to make better life decisions.
Ben Shapiro is a tired neocon in the body of a 30 something youngish guy who speaks quick
In fairness, his adenoidal voice is very appealing.
Ca S snake oil salesman
Ben Shapiro v Secular Talk that's the debate I would love to see
They'd be intellectual bruises all over shapiro. Talking points don't fly very well against kyle.
it needs to be done, shapiro needs to be slammed for being incorrect on some key issues as he hasn't really had any hard challengers last i've checked.
Shapiro is a snake in the grass. Kyle needs to hurry up and oust him.
I'd love to see that. Shapiro gets far too much credit because he talks really fast and is able to out-debate 19-year-old college kids.
Clavitz Rain I'm conservative and I agree with you. I generally like Ben alot but I disagree with him on military spending and the tax bill. I support tax cuts but not ones that raised the deficit and hurt people making less than $75,000 a year.
Clavitz Rain yep. Best competition he's had is Cenk Uygar who can't win a debate unless the audience is 80% TYT fans.
Ben Shapiro sounds like a black comedian's impression of a white guy.
Nailed it.
LMFAO
koab78 exactly.
lol right enough, I though of Chappelle straight away
It's just myself, so it is. same here lmao
"Something, something, my wife is a doctor."
--Ben Shapiro
Good one!
At 2 times the normal speed.
A doctor stupid enough to marry Ben
Almaraen What a lame comment ! Can’t you girls come up with something better than these stupid comments ?????
At least Ben Carson can make the claim that he himself is a brain surgeon. Ben Shapiro can't even say that.
Kyle should've debated Ben, not Cenk...
MrKingoverall I disagree with Shapiro on like everything but he is a pretty good debater
I don't know about him being a good debater. It seems to be it's just his fast talking, which makes people believe he's somehow good at in it.
Not saying that makes him wrong or right on anything. However, I'd say he's pretty average.
Michin Sin yeah true he does talk fast but he often has a lot of statistics in his pocket whether they’re accurate or not he’s really good at saying things like they’re facts you know?
Shaunak Kulkarni very true
Cenk was pretty good
Ben " my wife is a doctor" Shapiro
Is the doctor a proctologist?
She should give him a pill. lol a pill for a pill get it.
burculuks - what's his wife do again? lol
She must have forget to give him the daily chill pill
burculuks Ben "universal healthcare would enslave my wife" Shapiro
I think he talks so fast that he doesn't know what comes out of his mouth.
Watchmaker Fs so fast and in such a high pitch. I cant take that seriously.
corporate shill turds
He knows.
Actually, from what I hear that "most" believe that because he speaks fast he is smart is BS in this case. From (the little) I hear about him he always keep his line of thought, what actually happens when one is smart is that you end up tripping over your tongue because one can't match the speed of the toungue and thought, while ben just keep both at the same fast speed (and probably most talking points are pre made)
Watchmaker Fs He's an ideologue pushing an agenda. He knows EXACTLY what he's saying.
Ben Shapiro is THE most *PRETENTIOUS* conceited *BOY* in politics. All I've ever seen in that phony *BIG-HEADED* dweeb is a puny little BOY pretending to be a genius. So full of shit.
Why do people think Ben Shapiro is smart again?
The stuff he says are reasonable, hes fair when it comes to debates and free speech unlike liberals who scream and shout. plus he went to Harvard law school. from what ive seen hes more of a human than the lefty cucks on the streets
@@amorokai7187 You need to get out more!
Because he speaks very well with an incredible amount of confidence. Small-minded/intellectually lazy people are enamored by that. People are naturally anyway, and our political opinions are giving us enough awareness to catch his terrible logic.
Because he is a human gish gallop
Because to the uneducated if you talk really fast then you must be a genius.
People say Shapiro is a “genius” because he graduated from Harvard law and will cite nothing else to call him a genius. Anthony Scaramucci also graduated from Harvard law...so that’s how well that argument turns out. 😂
So did Ted Cruz😂😂
Johnny Varelas Philip Collins, creationist geologist, graduated from Harvard also. Oh well
Exactly my point. People masturbate to the prestige of the degree without even considering how stupid they sound by saying “Blank is a genius, he went to Harvard”
At least good old Scar is funny.
American Ivy League schools: 15% of students are hard working people from less privileged backgrounds who deserve to be there/ 85% are rich slackers whose parents "donated to" (polite way of saying "bribed") the university.
Harvard and Yale are just the "Coors" and "Budweiser" of American education; you can get just as good of, if not better, an education from any community college in the country.
"Conservative intellectual" ladies and gentlemen.
+Rob McCune Give 'em a break, man. If the alt-right didn't scrape the bottom of the barrel to find their intellectuals they wouldn't have any "intellectuals" at all.
ScoopMeisterGeneral that is very true! You can only take what you can get, even if it’s nothing but garbage.
He's not alt-right he only supports one ethnostate that needs breathing room and that is Israel, he is however a bigot. I've posted a couple variations of this, but to be a celebrity on the modern right you need billionaire funding and connections to right wing media to get promoted. Shapiro has to tow the line with the rest of the right or we would never hear about him.
That is what we call an oxymoron.
Conservative intellectual is an oxymoron
Ben's basically a corporate mouthpiece at this point.
when was he not?
Ben advocated that Healthcare is not a right and compared it to folding chairs so he was a mouthpiece even before.
Flash Gordon isreal is racist.
Jeremy Ray
The military industrial complex? The Koch bros? Insurance companies? Hello?
Ad hominems
Ben "Universal healthcare will make my wife (Who is a doctor) a slave" Shapiro.
PineAppleWilly Oh dear googly moogly did he really say that?
I once watched one part of his argument that his wife would work more if universal healthcare would exist in America ... So yeah, he did kinda say it 😒
Just like the rest of us, slaves to the wage. I hate wankers like Shapiro because they come with an attitude of "capitalism is great - being poor is a choice".
Hes a wee wank-dog.
+Harrison Gibson Basically, yes. Watch his debate with Cenk: his opening argument is that universal healthcare would be forced labor for his wife. The intellectual heavyweight of the right starts off debates with idiotic strawmen.
MythicalRedFox yup, we need to free all the enslaved military personnel, cops, firefighters, and other government workers.
And not just gov workers. If your employer gets a government contact you are now enslaved.
Social security is their money, not a free thing we are giving away.
Ben Shapiro is a dumb fuck. A real fucking idiot.
MovingForward actually its not. If social security was spend by the people that owned that money then there would be no need for social security in the first place
Bogdan Mendryshora It was already taking away from them and do you think that the gov't will give it back? Nope.
that has literally nothing to do with what i said...
Ben should sell used cars.
i sell used moms bring yours around my shop.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
@John Carosi he IS a used condom
You claim this car is faded? Ha, that's actually a shade of yellow dubbed 'light blonde". I guess they don't teach that in Liberal school.
Shapiro looks like Kyle evil brother
TheMLC35
🍻I thought the same thing...
Kyle looks more like Shapiro's brother that does COOL mind altering drugs.
Maybe he is...
Dun dun duuunnnn!
OMG
Imagine a video game where you play as Kyle and Shapiro is the final boss.
Why didn't Ben go fight in Iraq in '05??? It's still not too late, Ben!!!
Jim Garrison better yet.... He should sign up his kids to serve as soon as they are able to.
"WHY BEN SHAPIRO AND HIS ENTIRE TWERP FAMILY DYING IN IRAQ IS RIGHT FOR AMERICA"
Now that's an article.
Very good point Allan Lamb!!!! Ben should sign his kids up like all GOPers should and all DEMs too!!!! Service 1st Career 2ond...
@ Jim Garrison ... Word has it that Ben Shapiro has a dual citizenship with the USA and Israel. How ironic that he would want to spend America's money on the military....as typically the USA supports Israel in conflicts. OF COURSE HE WANTS THE USA TO SPEND SPEND SPEND ON THE MILITARY!!! He seems to have just a TINY LITTLE CONFLICT OF INTEREST.
Frankly....I always used to be empathetic to Israel as well. BUT: I REMEMBER ISRAEL WHEN IT BOMBED THE USS LIBERTY ....INTENTIONALLY!!!! I ALSO WAS NOT TOO HAPPY ABOUT THE 9-11 "DANCING ISRAELIES " SCANDAL. It sure seems like Israel is not above provoking situations to induce the USA to support them. I am now VERY skeptical about this "Friendship". AT THE VERY LEAST I DO NOT APPROVE INCREASING FUNDING OF THE MILITARY.....let them work out a reasonable budget just like every family in America has to.
Joe Walker Lawyers fought in WWII. What's his excuse?
"if you are poor, why don't you just buy money" -Ben Shapiro's Brain
Why don't you work seriously?
@@harshitmadan6449 Dunno if your a basement dweller or joking
Harshit Madan you have to work to get benefits jackass. Food stamps, Medicare u gotta work 20 hours
Ben "israel first" Shapiro
Oh heck, if Robert Mercer or the Koch brothers paid him $5 million to switch his position, he would.
He's a compete disingenuous sellout.
My point is that he doens't care about positions. It's all about the money.
And Mercer and The Kochs would turn on Israel on a dime if they thought a dollar could be made.
That's the GOP in a nut shell. Nothing matters except their own money. They would poison and kill off a town of Americans if they knew they could get away with it and make some money.
Smol Bean Shapiro
Ben Shapiro might be the "cool kids philosopher", but Kyle is the "cooler kids philosopher".
TactilePuma58 no.. He's just right..
West African Gooner Why yes, Kyle kulinski is right.
Lmao, the fact that Ben defends trillion dollar jets and wants to cut social security is amazing
Ben Shapiro is just Lord Bamboozle to me. An extreme religious corporate conservative. Quick, but not intelligent. Clever, but not wise. An angry little man, lacking empathy.
Empathy, when applied to politics is really dangerous, because when you empathize with one person, you effectively ignore everyone else whom you have pledged to serve. Sympathy, on the other hand, is a positive thing.
Spot on definition!
In a way, angry little men make the world what it is now.
I might even suggest this is a symptom of a patriarchy-based role modelling and education.
Im a guy btw
+Sev'rance Tann Love the "I'm a guy btw" remark, hehe.
But I suspect you might be right wrt role modelling and education, although I think there are probably more factors at play in today's crazy political climate where figures like Shapiro can become popular.
Fear related to the inevitability of globalization (something that shouldn't be fought against imho, but it is a difficult thing to deal with), extreme polarization as a symptom of super optimized social media-powered echo chambers. The world is changing quickly, and it seems we're increasingly losing the ability to take a moment to think before settling into some judgmental opinion.
Ben fucks his mother
Please take this passion onto Joe Rogan's podcast! He needs a wake-up call.
Keyboard Crusader joe rogan has said himself that he is left leaning on MOST issues. He needs a wake up call from the ideas of the left if you ask me.
beleafer22 ?
Keyboard Crusader I love JOe Rogan podcast. He has idiots like Steven krowder on his show
Keyboard Crusader he had way too many right wingers on
Kyle’s video from a couple days ago debunking his smear job said he had just been invited to go on so just wait
if you want to cut spending on Medicare, then move to a single-payer system.
Felix Serrano 59 medicare for all is single payer there’s a difference between government run healthcare like in the UK and single payer.
+Kre He's saying making Medicare available to everybody would drive the costs down.
Kyle Kulinski DESTROYS Ben Shapiro
Let's get them on a debate stage and see who gets 'destroyed'
@@patch8830 Ben Shapiro and every other conservative at politicon passed up a debate with Kyle a few weeks ago. He was set to debate Ann Coulter and Candace Owens and they both backed out.
with *FACTS* and *LOGIC*
Welp the trolls are out already with nearly half dislikes, Also Nice job exposing yourself as a hypocritical regressive Ben. Libertarians are supposed to be against high military spending
Shits going down when you see a Tim Horn comment in the thread.
No one on the modern right can be principled and A) get an audience and B) get corporate money. Simply put they have to be apologists for corporate welfare, empire, authoritarianism in law enforcement and national security and bigotry in order for anyone to have ever heard of them.
Nah, it still has majority likes. The dislikes look to be a small minority.
Ben is not a libertarian.
+Tim Horn libertarians dont have to be against big militarises i mean place a libertarian in the middle of ww2 and im gonna guess they want a big ass military
"Your word is pseudo-intellectual"
Student- "can you use it in a sentence?"
"Ben Shapiro is a pseudo-intellectual"
Kyle Kulinski is a national treasure!
Yup. He should be buried on somewhere.
National treasure is Kyle Kulinski
If only there were more Americans like him to encourage critical thought about domestic and foreign policy issues. Most think they are the greatest people world and enjoy the highest quality of life, education, and health care in the developed world, which in the context of wealthy, developed nations is simply laughable.
Let's put Shapiro in a minimum wage job where he has to worry about paying next month's rent 24/7 and let's see him defend the rich then.
The Mother Flickers not at all an argument.
The Pragmatic Slytherin Was it meant to be?
N C fair enough.
The Pragmatic Slytherin Shut yo 🐍 in the grass up right wing bitch
D Nice very intelligent “argument” you have there.
Talking fast doesn't make you smart.
Yeah, but the uneducated think it does, so he does it to prevent people from thinking too much about what he's saying.
So true..i just made that argument in the cenk vs shapiro debate
Ben is from Israel 🇮🇱 his true interest is the best for Israel not America
Keeping the military budget the way it is helps Israel they need America’s assistant
Why does the right believe Ben is an intellectual. I will never understand that
All he does is talk fast, and its annoying as hell and so is his voice. I wonder if he's really a woman pretending to sound like a man.
Aaron Haselrig 😂 that would make his transgendered arguments even funnier.
Because "feminists and political correctness is destroying the world" and Shapiro said something bad about those people.
Because that is the highest intellect they can understand.
Because he wins debates against 19 year old college students.
He's the "intellectual heavy-weight of the Right," didn't you know that, Kyle? Lmao
The Majestic Spider Nah the anti porn pro theocracy Jordon Peterson is the real "smart guy". Ben is like his Robin.
bob john Ha! What a low fucking bar that is. lol
If you guys think the right-wing is stupid, you're only deluding yourselves. They know exactly what they're doing and they've effectively seized both parties for themselves, while we giggle and call them dummies. Never confuse liars with idiots.
He's just intelligent enough to make his points in vaguely intellectual parlance and not quite insightful enough to do any actual analysis on them beforehand.
This was a great commentary. I only wished you touched on the fact that Social Security and Medicare are primarily self-funded through special payroll taxes; therefore, they do not contribute significantly to the deficit.
Right.....not at all, actually.
YES,BUT, since Reagan deficits started to rise b/c taxes were cut for the rich, then they turned to the SS Trust Fund of $2.6 trillion at the time, borroeong from it to run gov't and Reagan admin raised payroll tax, and then raided the fund again as did Bush and Bush 2 and now Congress doesn't want to pay it back, so that is why they can say cut it, as it comes from the General fund from which they're supposed to raise taxes to pay it back from, but instead the taxcuts are now permanent.
Ok, that just proves they only hurt the working people
@@martman1466 sure
So, THIS is the great conservative intellectual I keep hearing about?
I am underwhelmed.
i read "i am underwhelmed" in the voice of mike tyson
sabin97 lol perfect
who told you that? fox news?
Peter H
It's what Fox News would like me to believe.
yeah, don't pay much attention to fox news, or breitbart or infowars etc, it's fun to read and watch though., just like a train wreck.
Trump voters said they didn't want globalist military expansionism- Trump gets in, expands military conflicts around the world...Trump voters: we need to expand the military.
snakey973 True.. not only that but they flip on every other thing too.. then just blame someone else it's fucking crazy how disillusioned these people are.
That's because they believe Obama cut funds from the military. Which isn't true, the military just cut useless and outdated equipment and modernized the military. Apparently Trumptards still think its 1901 and we fight wars with bayonets and horses.
snakey973. Perhaps you should get the news from conservative outlets too. You have obviously been lied to. The US has decreased presence in military conflicts around the world. Think a bit, and dont just swallow up BS from boy who has started a political party to the left of DNC. Do you think that can be balanced? Ripping both DNC and GOP is his political job.
Obama was no different... its almost like politicians pander for votes, or if you want to dunk your toes in the alex jones pool.. the deep state steering the ship bamn after inauguration. What's with people's memory being so poor? This is the resistance? Lul.
kim ping, the only time I will listen to conservative news at this point is if I want to laugh. Red flags, gay frogs, $10 gas and FEMA camps? Really? This is what's becoming "mainstream" to the right.
Kyle here starts a group that opposes bullshit Democrats while the right elects Trump, who turns out to be a bullshit Republican and they still love him for it. Very telling.
Ben Shapiro sycophants are some of the worst people on the internet today.
Alex Rincon
Alt righters are worse.
Alex Rincon I think the Jimmy Dore ones might actually be worse.
Alex Rincon but paid YT shill sock puppets like YOU are *THE* worst. Fuck the hell off. Go watch CNN oh wait no one watches CNN anymore.
Alex Rincon po00
I understand your entitled to your opinion, but why are all these comments hating on people have no substance to them? Like give an example of why you think that way all i see is pointless rhetoric.
Kyle as much as I agree w/ you about not legitimizing morons like Ben Shapiro, damn...it would be satisfying to see you debate and destroy him
It doesn't matter if you don't think he's legitimate, people on the right already think he is in massive numbers. Trying to ignore the problem doesn't help anything
Ava Guidette destroy him? 😂😂😂
People on the right also believe the Earth was created 10000 years ago. I don't care how many people agree with something, when it's that stupid you just can't take it seriously.
That's why you need to debate them. If you just put your fingers in your ears and go "lalala, you're not legitimate, so I'm going to ignore you!" Those anti-science groups end up growing, because they're the only one effectively reaching out and "proving"(?) their points, while everyone else just sits around refusing to engage.
You should send a letter to powerball telling them that if you wanted to, you'd guess the right numbers anyway and you don't want to legitimize them by buying a ticket. I'll bet they'll send you the cash prize right away.
Hey Ben Shapiro fans I thought 'facts don't care about your feelings'...why u all disliking this video then??😂😂
Varun Kenadath lel
I am amazed till this day of how many people actually listen to that clown Ben Shapiro
@ Cheyron ... Of course he loves America: he's an Israeli dual-citizenship American. Gee....Israel depends on American Military presence....not too hard to figure why he'd want more spending for the military while spending the USAs money to Israel's advantage. Duh. In the meantime...he recommends more military spending while he drains the blood out of the funds that the largest generation in history in the USA PAID INTO ALL THEIR LIVES?????? Excuse me: I still remember when Israel INTENTIONALLY bombed the USS LIBERTY.....and I remember the "Dancing Israelis" incident DURING 9-11!!!! We've been a good friend to Israel forever.......but something is REALLY WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE!!!
Guarandamntee it: anybody comes to touch the investments that the baby boomers have made into Social Security ALL THEIR WORKING LIVES to secure their older years.....there's going to be a revolution. Big one.
There's a LOT of us out here!!! We know how to organize and protest. We have paid for ALL the wars we never wanted (including the Vietnam war)....and LOTS of us STILL BELIEVE THAT PEACE IS THE ANSWER....NOT WAR!!!! Try to touch Social Security, and the nation is going to have approx. 75 million older people up in arms. We did not have OUR money taken from us and put into trust with the Federal Government just to have them go and fund the military with it. NOPE. And our money is NOT here to fund the millennials, either: put your OWN contributions into Social Security, kiddies.....that's how it works.
Peace n' Love.....
~ RED ☮♥♫
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@ Cheyron ... Thank you for your balanced response.
Learning about the USS Liberty was a real stunner for me, too. I remembered the incident on the news when I was VERY young.....but the subject went suddenly, completely, and oddly very quiet. Since the internet came "of age"....the information has resurfaced. It is thought that the Israelis bombed the USS Liberty in a effort to result in a larger US presence in the Middle East at a time when our military was largely involved with the Vietnam War. Obviously it is to Israel's advantage to have a large US military presence in the Middle East....and in those days Israeli/Palestinian issues were very raw and often resulted in warring in the Middle East: including the "Six Day War"....which I also remember very clearly. I was 10 years old then.....and a precociously bright and an unusually socially concerned youngster. Reports included information that the Liberty had been positively identified by Israeli pilots in their aircraft: and they had conveyed that information by radio to their command. Some of the Israeli pilots (or at least one) refused to fire on
the Liberty. More than thirty of our sailors and intelligence staff were killed in the bombing of the Liberty by the Israeli planes.
The issue of the "Dancing Israelis" during the 9-11 disaster was one of the myriad of perplexing reports. They were definitely Israelis....they were arrested...and an investigation was conducted. There's a lot of information online about the incident....and a lot of confusion about the details....and the outcomes of the incident and those involved were quite perplexing to the Americans that did know about the incident. A search of the relevant search criteria should provide you with a lot of information to consider..........with an open mind.
Now: I want to make it very clear that this information caused me a LOT of consternation when I learned (piece by piece) of BOTH of these incidents. I was raised by Grand-Parents who were from the Great Depression/WWII era...."salt of the earth" kind of people. That generation was called "The Greatest Generation"...and for good reason: courage, honesty, integrity, and a willingness to help others was prevalent. I was raised that way as well: and to "ALWAYS DO THE RIGHT THING" was the mandate of every day of my up-bringing.....and for the rest of my life ever since then. My family was involved greatly in WWII, suffered deaths of their kin, and life-long injuries to some of them. My family was Christian, and I was raised that way, too....but they were also very benevolent in spirit, with a great amount of empathy for Jews, and they were heart-broken about the holocaust. NEVER have I been anti-Jewish or anti-Israeli. NEVER. Often I have stood up for them when others were bashing them verbally and making far-flung accusations. I've had NOTHING but great admiration for Israel and their struggles....and I've always wished for Peace in the Middle East. I am devoted to my country....but there have been many incidents I've come to know about that leave an apparent question mark on the matter of "What is truth....and What is cover-up?" Outcomes of issues often seem to be questionable: IF you look at both sides of the story with open mind, and an interest in TRUTH. It is not lost on me that it sure seems like there have been incidences that Israel may have incited events to cause the USA to be more involved in the Middle East than might otherwise have happened. And now this "Ben Shapiro" thing.....his double citizenship with Israel/USA....and his interest in building up the US military at great expense to our country AND especially at the expense of those of us approaching our elder years. I come from a very patriotic and honest family....and I've often ditched my own comfort and acted selflessly in the interest of personal integrity and "ALWAYS DOING THE RIGHT THING". I do not arrive at these uncomfortable thoughts easily. BUT I DO HAVE TO SAY THAT AGAINST MY DIFFERING WISHES: IT DOES SEEM LIKE SOMETHING IS VERY, VERY WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE.
Peace n' Love.....
~ RED ☮♥♫
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Cheyron no....Shapiro is just the fast talker. ...who just talks bs. ... a speeded up version of Trump
@ Cheyron ... Not a lot of time right now....but I did want to reply. Certainly those discussions would be interesting....perhaps over time?? Feel free to stay "in touch" if you wish.
I did want to get back here with a quick message. There is much more to the "Dancing Israelis" than "just five guys dancing". Follow that story line down with appropriate search criteria....and you will see the concerns are very similar to the story of the USS Liberty....and eventual international outcomes. The people involved were VERY connected: before and after the actual "dancing" part.
As for the "short story" about me (which can not even begin cover "My Story": You've heard some things about my youth and upbringing. I remember JFK, and I still have the MIA bracelet that I wore from sixth grade to my college years. "My" soldier never came home from the Vietnam War...the bracelet is still on my bedstand less than 2 feet away from me every night. I've been in a very challenging "helping" profession for decades (with a degree of esteem, recognition, and accomplishment) ....a strong advocate for change where needed, as well as for those with unmet needs who can not advocate for themselves...a long history of activism AND volunteerism (including working on ecology issues and I helped "save the whales" in the late seventies....you like whales? You're welcome!!! :-)....Civil Rights, Peace (since the Vietnam war era), ecology, activism, volunteerism, advocacy, as well as trying my best to live a life where I "practice what I preach" . My promise to myself every day since I was in high school (not just to "do the right thing" :-) "Do something EVERY DAY to make the world a better place...in big and small ways...EVERY DAY". I am a product of the "Peace and Love" generation as well...and pretty much agree with a lot of the Hippie movement (but not so much about the drugs/sex thing). HINT: I'm proud to say I've been an SJW since the 70s and a "sensitive snowflake" as well. And that "Do The Right Thing" and "Make the World a Better Place" attitudes eventually led me (in a very convoluted process) to becoming a real-life whistle-blower (in a very scary place that needed a LOT of change....and lives were at risk). I've spoken "Truth to Power" for the benefit of "things larger than myself".....My life has required every bit of Courage, Strength, and Integrity that I have. That "Do the Right Thing" ideal has NOT always made my life easier....and sometimes the journey has been down-right difficult....but that ideal has never led me astray, either. I am very proud of who I am....but I know darned well that I would not be who I am had it not been for my good fortune to have been raised by grandparents from "The Greatest Generation". And my "journey" continues still.....
Feel free to contact me if you want to have those discussions.
TTYL
Peace n' Love.....
~ RED ☮♥♫
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Inb4 Ben Shapiro’s cult comes to dislike the video in mass.
Hunter Thompson You know what I’m talking about
Ben shapiro = that one nerd from high school that raised his hand so much that teachers give him question limits
@joe yeah you have a point there. classroom engagement is positive indeed. what kate was referring was probably the obnoxious nature of a warhawk kid from a rich family.
Dont trust people who talk extra
fast they are often missing large swaths of reality.
John Carosi Ben Shapiro’s a Jew
Ben Shapiro makes a fool of himself in public.
Nothing new to see here.
Shapiro/Kulinski debate edges closer to reality.
If he does it will have to be under Kyle's term I.E. having a fact checker/moderator. It's not gonna be a free form debate like a lot of these chuckle heads screaming "debate him" would like.
YESSSSS! Make. It. Happen.
Yes! This! So much this!
Erron Black kyle would destroy that MF
Ant man- Ben shitpiro fan? haha fucking brainwashed imbecile
Do Ben Shapiro, and all these other "intellectual" right wingers that have somehow gained popularity lately, realize that its not just about just stating the words 'facts/logic/reason/etc' they actually have to use facts, logic, and reason.
Ayn Rand did it too. She called her philosophy of private property to justify violence against indigenous as "reason"
"Hur duh debate this totally serious person kyle. He is not a ridiculous nut job, he's smart."
Yeah. I don't get people who say this. Kyle is not obligated to debate anyone.
The Poison Bucket yeah his wife’s a doctor
JT Vlogs I enjoyed the razor fist one because he seems like a chill idiot. Shapiro's seems to be the living embodiment of the Dunning Kruger effect, hopped up on speed.
Max kennedy "what a story mark"
The Poison Bucket Oh HigH Denny!
Talk fast, think little.
I Do Monologues talk fast
thats it
Talk Fast, Think Never
One thing I'll give to Ben Shapiro on consistency. He is consistently a monster.
ANd loser
I honestly don’t understand how you can get educated as a lawyer at such a top school and get to your 30s and still not understand how poverty works.
How does poverty work?
Nickelicious the war on poverty and welfare hurt poor people.
whyamimrpink78 poverty works like this: my money is mine and your money is mine and I have paid the lawmakers to make that into laws.
oh, he understands. just DOESN'T CARE. that's the sad part, ppl like Shapiro are trash
Ben "repealing net neutrality is OK" Shapiro
He is such a corporate paid goon.
This is what society has become: lie to get rich. Absolutely pathetic.
I'd rather die than be a lying sycophant promoting propaganda.
Heck, even drug cartel kingpins have more honor and dignity than Limbaugh, Hannity, or Shitpiro.
So murderers and rapists are more honorable and dignified than three of America's most popular radio hosts? I smell a communist rat.
Whats net nuetrality? And where exactly did you see the positive effects of it? And if you can tell me why its so detrimental not having it?
Ps. I know quite a bit about this stuff but just want to gauge your philosphical consistency before tearing your logic, or lack there of, apart
The ISP's can slow down any content they want. It's both an anti-trust issue and a free speech issue.
I'll tell you what will happen, companies flush with corporate profits and influence will get fast lanes. Anyone without money or mainstream views will be slowed down.
This is just another way to monopolize the established powers at a break neck pace.
Any news site that doesn't tout a pro corporate agenda will be slowed. And competitors to Amazon, Netflix, Facebook, and Google will also be slowed.
Make no mistake, the ISP's will collude with the already established media players. Capitalism's oldest playbook is to appear like there is competition. When you dig deeper, you realize all the large companies collude together and create the illusion of competition. It's an insiders club where everyone agrees to act in lock step to capture more market share. Only on the margins do they compete to fool the public.
Anonymous DueToFascists first of what are you saying? Nothing you said was a cause of concern. And no it isnt a monopoly. The free market works the same way in any level of society.
I dont see the concern if an isp wants to work with another company to give their customers deals. Why should the government use force to make these private businesses conduct business to their means. Thats communist mentality at the end of the day.
If tmobile wants to team up with netflix because they made a deal at the expense of another companies system being slowed such as amazon prime then i dont see the problem. I saved 180 dollars this year on netflix alone. Ill pay 5 more bucks a month to get more bandwidth if i also cant watch hulu and amazon at the speed of my liking....
Omg first world problems.
Plus obama passed that bill and wasnt even in place for 2 years your acting as if it was a repeal of one of our bill of rights 😂😂
So love your Shapiro act. And it's so true. Ben takes sophistry to a whole new level. And in case anyone doesn't know what sophistry is, I believe the Webster's definition goes something like this: an argument that on the surface appears to be logical and reasonable, but upon closer examination begins to fall apart. What you need to do when listening to Shapiro is to put the video in slow mo, take notes, and you too will begin to see his reasoning fall apart
That's why he speaks fast and very quickly jumps from one subject to the next. He doesn't want to give people time to actually consider what he has said.
Except Ben isn't even consistent a in his criticism of Republicans for exploding the deficit. He staunchly supported Trump's tax bill, and had NOTHING to say about the 1.5Tn dollars added to the deficit. Not a peep. I watch his show regularly and he didn't say jack shit about it when it was tax cuts for him and his bosses, but on this he talks shit about the deficit to make him LOOK principled. He ain't, not one goddamn iota.
Oh let's deregulate some more and let's repeat the 2008 economic crash. The same fucking problems before. Letting these corporate fucks do whatever they want.
Guys, Heath is just indoctrinated to believe stupid economic ideas. "Fuck empirical evidence, it's good for the rich." Mark Blyth puts it best. /watch?v=55fPbuAUEHI
Ben Shapiro should not be pointing a gun at the elderly people's head and robbing their money from their social security.
Flash Goran, you don't hate evil terrorists and despots who do those things to their own people more? You probably support abortion also, so you have no right to speak.
They better not cut social security I've paid into it since 1976 and and now retired. You're smart.
Sorry but if you are in the position of receiving SS just be aware that with the thieves in congress now.
You could very well see your entitlements disappear.
It is the 'murican peoples fault they have been sleep walking into this since ronny rayguns days.
You did it to yourself 'murica.
Also who the fuck would want to listen to Shapiro for more than a minute? He has such a grating voice that it almost makes Limbaugh and Jones doing an audio book on War and Peace sound like James Earl Jones narrations.
Blood Red Whiny bitch whines about whiny bitch XD
because he inhales helium before doing any public speaking.
his normal voice is almost as deep as james earl jones
So Talking fast makes you smart to right wingers? Why isn’t twista considered like chomskey?
nick quiroz Hahahaha.
It isn't about talking fast. Actually listen to what he says.
Defense spending was 10% of GDP in 1960, now it is around 3%. To say it is a waste is not true as it has been shrinking for over 50 years.
"That's a moronic statistic to measure defense spending. "
No its not as it is a set comparison to a standard. GDP is going up, defense spending isn't.
"When you spend more money on the military than the next 8 nations combined,"
A very deceptive stat. First off, when you look at percent of GDP and you combine the GDP of all of those nations, they spend around 2.5% of their GDP on defense, we spend 3.5%. Yes, it is higher, but only by a difference of 1%. We spend more on education than Germany, the UK and France combine. Should we cut education spending? Or is it that our GDP is so much larger then them that it only makes sense that we spend more then them combine?
"To just compare the percent of GDP that defense spending had 58 years
ago with the present is a overly broad, misguided, and down right
stupid."
But comparing defense spending to 8 combined countries with a fraction of our GDP isn't? France has a GDP that is 1/10 of ours, how can you compare raw dollars at that point. Again, we spend more on education then France, is that bad?
1960 U.S. GDP = $543.3 Billion, 10% for military = $54.33 Billion.
2017 U.S. GDP = $19.73 Trillion, 3% for military = $592.17 Billion. So no, military spending hasn't "been shrinking", in fact the contrary is true.
Ben Shapiro could be the world's best used car salesman.
yoda muppet147 that would require ben to be trustworthy
War on Drugs...
War on Terror...
War on Poverty..
Mudhar Hadi instead of war on poverty they have a war on drugs so the police can bother me. - tupac
Remember Ben Shapiro graduated from Harvard or one of the other Ivy Leagues. Never knew they taught American Imperialism in the U.S. public and private education system.
you need to read confessions of an economic hit man
Bush graduated from Harvard. Case closed.
Actually it was Harvard Business. Don't tell me he has two degrees :P.
Johnny Q He graduated from Yale before he went to Harvard Business School. Look it up.
So lil' Benny graduated from spook schools ! I believe the people *PAID* into Social Security ever since they started working !!!!!!!
I like coming back to these older videos and seeing how consistent Kyle has been over the years, been subbed since 2014
we spent 3,000,000 million dollars on Iraqi soldier uniforms. Cut some millitary spending
We could reduce the cost of medical care in general with a single payer system, which would in turn reduce the cost of medicare and medicaid. Just saying.
thec4ke agree
And we can increase our revenue by taxing more the corporations and cutting military spending and hence reducing the deficit and hence reducing the interest we pay to bond holders, mostly ass-hole republican donors.
thec4ke. Show the math on that. You know it is not true. And reducing the cost for people, is not the same as reducing the cost for taxpayers. If it is gonna be paid for, you would have to increase the tax.
litoo2002. No, you cant raise corporate tax and get more revenue. Companies stop investing in the US then, and make investment in more companyfriendly countries. How bout having the same taxrate as canada, as you leftist see that as a shining light for the US.
Interestrate on the issued bonds dont change. Newly issued bonds might have higher interestrate. It depends on the rating the US has when they sell them. Mostly sold to other countries and investmentbanks. When Germany goes to good, and they have top creditrating, they sell bonds with low interest, and cools down their economy with buying bonds from other countries that have higher interests. Every country does this, to cool down their economy. China has bought up most from the US the last 20 years, just for this reason.
Let's apply tax big corporation with the same EFFECTIVE tax rate applied to those ones in Canada.
i am a conservative/republican and i really respect your opinion and agree we should cut some military and we should focus on caring for the older generations so that the younger ones will take care of us in turn. Social security should not be cut at all.
Kyle, Ben Shapiro makes the argument that our elected officials, instead of voting in the interests of the people, need to EDUCATE THE PUBLIC. No! Legislative representatives are sent to Washington or Des Moines or Sacramento to exercise the will of the people. The people EDUCATE the legislators. When the hell did this get turned around?
Shawn Fitzpatrick You’ve never learned from a discussion/debate or changed your mind as the result of a case being made?
Holy fk Shawn, that's some brilliance right there. Well said, mister.
Because we live in a representative democracy, not in some weird money-based oligarchy.
I share the thought, and the frustration sir
Shawn Fitzpatrick citizens united is when
we also steal oil out of the earth and tell our people its only 6000 yrs old lol
The oil? Is there an age of consent for oil in order for it to agree to being pumped and used? No problem with that, as long as 6,000 oil years are equivalent to eighteen human years, I suppose...
Brian Taylor you're pretty dense aren't ye
I wish we could cut 15% of military budget and give 5% to education, transpiration and infrastructure.
Kyle's Ben Shapiro impression is on point. Lmao
When I hear "conservative philoshopher" I instantly giggle.
bmk 11 me too
Active right now. It doesn't change ops or missions, it changes our living, and our work.
We work with outdated equipment then, old vehicles, systems that break CONSTANTLY.
Causes us to live in buildings with brown water, roaches, rats, burned out lights.
I think ANY civilian would be SCREAMING that it's not fair or right if they were in this position.
We lose staffing, facilities, benifits, etc.
You should debate him. Would be fun to watch.
Matthew Walker
It's not up the ass... It's up the stomach.
Nah ben would wreck the fuck outta him. liberal logic is shit
TRON 996
A sentence starts with a capital letter and ends with a period.
Kyle is a pussy
The argument about not debating Shapiro is very inconsistent and illogical. Kyle said that it's useless to debate him because he (Kyle) is "objectively right" and Shapiro is "objectively wrong". Let's suppose this is true. Then WHY does he keeps talking about Shapiro's views/opinions? Presumably, Shapiro's fans are not going to change their minds according to the assumption that they are "closed minded". Assuming that Shapiro is "objectively wrong", then Kyle talking about his views would be like talking about someone who thinks the earth is flat. What is the objective then, to talk about Shapiro? Other than to give those who hate Shapiro support and more confirmation bias? It's absurd. I'm starting to think that this is not the real reason why Kyle and many of his followers don't want a debate against Shapiro.
I want you to debate him, make sure to bring up our military spending I want to see how this weasel responds
People need to hear this, thanks Kyle
Kyle is correct about the misuse of funds in the military. We spend billions to make our weapons marginally better. Generally it is not worth the investment.
Isaac Rivera the military buys the cheapest contractors every time. The weaponry and Equipment are military have is trash and always has been.
The good ol' russian approach has always proven to be best approach at army tech.
Make a ungodly amount of hardware sufficiently cost effective and arm every man with some of it.
Same aproach the US took with the M4 Shermans. And those were some real pos tanks. Or P51s and P47s, very good aircraft, but not nearly as good as late-war german ones (109 variants G and K, and Fw190 D models)...guess who won air dominance?
Kyle. Please. Debate Ben, put him to shame, just so conservatives can stop sucking him off. Cause god damn, if I have to see one more video claiming him as some "champion of free speech" I might give up on the world.
Devante Starks It feels like he is on a winning streak because no one of substance is standing up to him. He just attacks SJWs, they fight back (very poorly) and suddenly Shapiro is a 'genius'.
I hate politics right now, and Kyle was right. People need to stop worshipping people on the grounds of them being 'anti-sjw'.
Shapiro debated members of congress. Kyle debated Cenk and Razorfist. Shapiro is way out of Kyle's league.
whyamimrpink78 Oh, yes. Congress. Real hard hitters there.
Have him debate a liberal that isn't an SJW or corporate shill.
We all need to keep in mind that "Debates" are just WWE shows. Look at his debate with Cenk, like I'm not big on Cenk Uyger, but all these conservatives loved his stupid one liners and act like Cenk didn't make any good points. Like when ben said you're the prostitute or whatever. It was so bad, debates are a joke at this point.
I was amused that he said military spending is only 18 to 20 percent, like that isn't a ton of money for something Americans mostly don't benefit from.
"Social security, medicare, medicaid make up 60% of the federal budget. Military is only 18-20%." I can't find where he's getting these numbers from. Everywhere is showing about 57% of the budget goes to the military.
He's misleading his ignorant follows that are too intellectually lazy to look up the numbers themselves.
media.nationalpriorities.org/uploads/total_spending_pie%2C__2015_enacted.png
interesting....assuming that graph is correct, you spend in your military 16 times what you spend on science....that explains quite a lot...
57% is just discretionary spending.
We have a 107% GDP to debt ratio. That is driven by social security, Medicare, and Medicaid because we spend the most on those.
here is Ben Shaprio's CIRCULAR poverty philosophy. You are Poor -> You're poor because you are bad with money -> You are bad with money because you r poor. *repeat*
salty_doge is it you are, you're or you r lol
IDK. I like to think its a little bit of all them. I try to keep people on their toes. ^^
salty_doge here’s how u get out of poverty
Most people are poor because they are bad with money.
Not EVERYBODY is "poor" because they were "bad with money". A lot of people fell on hard times and job losses since 2008....and a lot of those people have not recovered yet. Of those people: a lot are still unemployed and struggling......but they are NOT included in the "numbers" for the "Unemployment Rate"....because they have not been collecting unemployment benefits for years.
Social security is by payroll taxes. It has NOTHING to do with government spending.
The Increase in military spending is enough to fund free college for all Americans...
BERNIE!!!!!!!!
Xavier Lamar that would devalue the degree and everyone would go to graduate school
Kre and?
Kre um no...other countries with at least affordable college have a larger middle class. Graduate school will still require good grades.. there's only a limited number of slots in graduate school.
Sagoomo s college isn’t affordable because of the government loan program and in those countries less people go to college than they do here.
Kre wtf dood.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_tertiary_education_attainment
When a grown man thats a foot tall wants to make life hard for others you just know there is some hard feelings from his childhood behind it.
Ya I'd like to punch his lips off! His vagina lips.
The lolly-pop guild has sold out to the Koch brothers
Far from cutting Social Security, we need to increase benefits. It's really pitifully inadequate--and Medicare's the same story.
I would pay a lot of money to watch Kyle debate Ben Shapiro.
Spunky1991 that makes 2 of us
LMAO THAT IMPRESSION AT THE END
I hope something horrible happens to Ben Shapiro and he ends up on social welfare.
THE ECONOMY MUST BE RUN BY WORKER COOPS.
Drkon6 WORKER COOPS SHOULD BE AN OPTION BUT THE GOVERNMENT SHOULD NEVER FORCED IT
Drkon6 Abolish Corporations! Establish Democratic Socialism!
Ignar Husky Progressive Maddog How about Small and Medium businesses. Also when has that worked, we should put regulations on Corporations so they won't influence our Congress, this has been proven to worked in Social Democracies.
Democracy at the workplace.
Mom and pop shops FTW!
Can I cut Ben Shapiro?
demoCRIPS & reBLOODlicans 1 Only a blessed holy knife can cut that evil.
i'm not gonna say you can.....but i cant stop you from doing it.....and i'm not looking...so cant call the cops either....
The Military ALWAYS get the Blank checks they want from both parties. No one has the courage to say NO.
Every time a right-winger tells you to do something, just do the exact opposite.
nyx211 Agreed but Same could be said about left-wingers.
Why does he lie about social programs taking up more than half the budget? The military program is MORE than half the budget. Don't lie about it, shows he has no principles.
He's an unscrupulous cunt who relies on cult minded people to gobble up his bullshit. Luckily, rational people don't do that and they fact check so they know that people who say such things are utter cunts.
He clearly thinks very little of human beings in general.
MudnavI there’s this thing called mandatory spending and discretionary spending dumbass we do spend the most social security, Medicare, and Medicaid. Stop watching propaganda
www.nationalpriorities.org/analysis/2015/presidents-2016-budget-in-pictures/
Kre I stand corrected. www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2015/aug/17/facebook-posts/pie-chart-federal-spending-circulating-internet-mi/
MudnavI did you even read the link you posted. According to your link the government spends 25% on social security and 16.2 % on Defense/homeland security when you look at the total amount the government spends (as in discretionary + mandatory spending).
Kre you make it sound like a bad thing, taking care of our own. It should be higher much higher! Why don't you stop sucking up the propaganda.
Ending world hunger costs just $30 billion/year. Ending homelessness in the U.S. costs $20 billion/year, and providing free tuition for public colleges and universities would cost $50 billion/year. Our priorities are waaay outta whack.
We could slash our military expenditures in half and still spend far more on it than any other nation. If we did that and then invested the aforementioned $30 billion to end world hunger, wouldn't that make us far more safe and secure than what we're doing now? Seriously, who would attack the country that fed every man, woman and child on the planet?
It isn't that easy. With homelessness you may be able to give them all a home, but long term they will destroy the public housing. They are homeless for a reason.
whyamimrpink78
It's actually cheaper to house the homeless ($10k/yr per person) than to leave them on the streets, which costs us $30k/yr per person in various services (hospitals, police, sanitation, and more). And besides that, doesn't a "housing first" policy make more sense? If someone is homeless, there are myriad reasons why, whether it's a string of bad luck, domestic abuse, lack of affordable housing, substance abuse, our shitty system, mental illness, etc. Or any combination of these barriers. How are they supposed to work on any of these issues and make progress on them in any meaningful way when they face an endless scramble to find drinking water, bathroom facilities, a dry, safe (ish) place to sleep, and other basic necessities? Not to mention the crushing loneliness that comes with the territory? How is anyone supposed to "better themselves" while in the midst of these nearly insurmountable obstacles? It can be done without help, but it's enormously difficult for most, and even impossible for some.
No, it makes the most logical sense to me to house these folks FIRST *and then* give them a case worker and access to resources that would help them overcome whatever the underlying cause of their homelessness was. Given this opportunity, most people would make enormous progress and when they do well, that benefits the health, strength and well-being of our entire society. And I haven't even touched on the humane morality of a "housing first" policy. I'm an atheist, but that's the most Christ-like thing we could do, with the added bonus that it not only saves us money, but makes us stronger as a whole. We can't afford *NOT* to, if you ask me.
Facts don't care about Ben Shapiro.
How that sounds in Sweden: "Don't cut industrialized murder, cut your grandma's pension!"
Lmao! "The Taliban and isis are running circles around us with their jets." Good shit.
If were not spending on social programs what the hell will the military be defending?
the only thing the usa military has ever defended....the interests of the rich
Terrance Hyde That's actually a brilliant point.
Ben "Neoconservative Zionist" Shapiro.
Great points Kyle. I just found your channel a few days ago. I appreciate you sharing your voice. It's very much needed.
The value of having two oceans between us and any possible enemy is priceless. A quadrillion dollars of military spending would not come close to equaling the strategic value of having two big oceans between us and potential enemies. We don't need a foreign military base, let alone 190+ around the world.
We as Americans are safe because of WHERE we are born. Others are unsafe Largely in part to being born in an area deemed an enemy of the us. They can't ever reasonably hope to aspire to threaten us. But a majority of Americans would rather literally give money away to rich/connected people that plan on killing those same unlucky people, than give the money to their fellow citizens .😭 raising the floor is always better than raising the ceiling.
Hey Kyle, I know this would be an extra step, but in the future could you link your counter sources in the video description?
August Denys counter sources?
gert moelders the articles he's getting his info from. He used an article saying that 73% of dictators are supported by us.
Manny C. Or Google it yourself and do your own research? You'll find that it's true of course, as well as being allied heavily to Saudi Arabia.
SeanMcFarlinTRE I wasn't disagreeing. I was explaining to the above comment what he meant by counter sources. No point in getting defensive over nothing.
Manny C. I wasn't being defensive. Just telling you that if you desire to know how honest this is, You should definitely do your own research instead of just expecting someone you don't know to do it for you is all.
the biggest con with military spending is that the majority goes to soldier salary and it doesn't.
We’ll see how bad Ben wants to cut social security when he is benefitting from it