John Stossel: I don't put my faith in politicians 

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many libertarians are conservative. they are not mutually exclusive.

@@scottjohnson5132 I think you have that backwards, some "conservatives" are libertarian or embrace libertarian principles. Historically libertarians had as much in common with "liberals" and democrats as they did the GOP and conservatives but this association with conservatives taints the perception of libertarians at a time when the left is moving away from liberalism and classical liberal ideals.

@@willstikken5619 my larger point is that they are not mutually exclusive.

@@scottjohnson5132 certainly, or at least they didn't used to be. The problem for libertarians is not that they don't have plenty of overlap with the traditional values of either party but rather than the parties no longer believe in those things. Republicans are only in favor of fiscal responsibility and small government when they are the minority party. Democrats only believe in civil liberties when it involves creating new rights for special interest groups. You can certainly have a conservative leaning libertarian but they're really just libertarian that don't realize their party has left them behind.

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Stossel is good at giving his opinions. He is very short on backing up his opinions.

@@cranmer1959 Care to give an example?

@Clever Witticism Here I already did. In this video Stossel said the experts say that climate change is caused by humans and he agreed with the experts. That is the fallacy of appealing to authority. The so-called science is based on asserting the consequent, another fallacy. If there is climate change, there will be hotter weather. There is hotter weather, therefore there must be climate change. Another problem is how do you determine global temperatures and averages over different latitudes, etc.? And what about time periods? There aren't enough measurements of temperature today to get an average or mean global temperature, much less such information for the past few hundred years.

@@ThomasCranmer1959 Sorry this response took so long. I got busy and then I forgot about it. Agreeing with experts does not mean you are engaging in the so called "appealing to authority" fallacy. That fallacy only applies when dissenting data is dismissed without consideration because it doesn't agree with "the experts." I don't believe I've seen John dismissing any data because of a lack of credentialing for a person or persons. If you have seen such, I'd like a link to it. It's no fallacy. The global temperature has increased by about 2 degrees Fahrenheit since 1880. That's climate change as defined as long-term shifts in temperatures and weather patterns. Now it can certainly be argued as to how much humans have contributed to the issue. They measure temperatures with weather balloons, sea buoys, and weather stations. There are thousands of them all over the planet. There certainly are enough measurements to get an average or mean global temperature. We've been keeping records about global temperatures for almost a century and a half. Which is admittedly a tiny moment in time for a planet, but as pointed out earlier that 2-degree increase happened during that "tiny moment." We may not have "hundreds of years" of data for "modern" times, but paleoclimatology is a thing and it enables us to track previous weather patterns which does give us some insights into the "climate lifecycle" of the planet. That climate change is happening is no longer really in question by anyone. All the debate nowadays seems to about just how bad the effects will be (or are) and what (if anything) should be done. Though I suppose I can agree that John doesn't really do deep dives into data. For me, it's always been an introduction to an idea that I' hadn't thought about or something I just took for granted as being true. If I want the nitty gritty, I do regularly have to go elsewhere.

@@cleverwitticismhere6922 There is no way to determine average or mean or even median temperatures across the various latitudes and longitude of the planet today. And yet you appeal to archaic records from the 1880s? Really?

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IT's because the homeless cant afford for another bad decision. 😅

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Idiotic sexist take.

Ha! Well the sun shines on a dog’s…well you know the saying. I would make it 50 years, though.

Not happening.

Yeah. Also, as long as we're asking realistic questions: What's your plan to protect maids' jobs from the Harry Potter house-elves?

I think it's our duty to not let that happen. Despite my belief that less regulations is better AI is dangerous and should be very limited.

I think that's still a ways away and from what I've heard ai isn't entirely perfect. For example, a good artist can tweak ai art to better because ai art as it is can be riddled with mistakes. Plus, new jobs can be made.

He said crassness and self-importance. The fact that Trump is still not behind bars is remarkable.

He does not put faith in you, either.

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Ad hominem is not only a fallacy but also a "primitive" way to argue.

@@sickandtired967 This is what marching zombies in the US learn. And only this. Sorry, I have no desire (nor need) to argue/debate with zombies (or debate at all). There is no point in arguing with zombies. And when I want to express myself, I say what I need about Hitler, for example, leaving the illiterate psychobabblers to babble about fascism (without knowledge of history - this one was murdered - it is babbling and babbling only). There is much more to human reality than life between water and water on the soil without a war for centuries in a two-day old country. You just don't know that and anything else. Americans have debated themselves to death. There is a value in quiet thinking and broader knowledge (beyond seemingly useful and/or Hollywood imposed), for example, but this value hasn't been discovered yet on this land and looks like it is too late to start. Frankly, what can be more idiotic/illiterate than marching through life chanting "Capitalism is gut, sehr, sehr, sehr gut and because it is sehr, sehr, sehr gut it ends in monstrous wars and/or communism and this is gut, sehr, sehr, sehr gut." When there is no knowledge, no familiarity with historical facts, no familiarity with such concepts as causes and consequences, with centuries old background, societal complexities and human nature, there is ... Orwellianism (sorry, I meant libertarianism) and yes, primitivism (greed is gut, sehr, sehr, sehr gut) dr anna