Video: Adam Kokesh makes an Iraq war supporter look dumb

[Omphfullas Zamboni]

Could somebody re-upload this with a different title? The change would make this video more spreadable. I suggest something like: Why Stay in Iraq?

 

[kuckfeynes]

Too confrontational, and a big WTF with the title? If making enemies is your goal then I guess it's a good video. For someone who seems to understand the concept of blowback, he's certainly willing to create some. It's an okay interviewing style for mouthy OWS protesters, but the death-glare rapid-fire competitive interviewing was not appropriate there. Making confused people feel dumb is not winning over any minds.

 

[Agorism]

I actually thought he tended to interrupt too much. I like Max Blumenthal's where he kinda just lets them talk, but Max tries to coax them into heat topics where they will save really dumb stuff, and his rebuttal tend to be sarcastic in nature.

 

[LibertyEagle]

Too confrontational, and a big WTF with the title? If making enemies is your goal then I guess it's a good video. For someone who seems to understand the concept of blowback, he's certainly willing to create some. It's an okay interviewing style for mouthy OWS protesters, but the death-glare rapid-fire competitive interviewing was not appropriate there. Making confused people feel dumb is not winning over any minds.

Quoted for truth. But, he's still fairly new at this. He's learning and improving.

But, seriously, Adam, please watch what you title your videos. It drives people away.

That said, he was much more patient with that woman than I could have been.

 

[MJU1983]

LOL - this woman is a moron.

Government schools churn out millions just like her though...

 

[silentshout]

omg, so amazing that people still support that war.

 

[Lothario]

Too confrontational, and a big WTF with the title? If making enemies is your goal then I guess it's a good video. For someone who seems to understand the concept of blowback, he's certainly willing to create some. It's an okay interviewing style for mouthy OWS protesters, but the death-glare rapid-fire competitive interviewing was not appropriate there. Making confused people feel dumb is not winning over any minds.

Yea, probably a little much on the title, but I don't really have any problem with the interview style. You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink. I find it to be far more effective to allow people to discover their own ignorance, rather then just telling them the truth when they aren't ready for it. The solution doesn't matter if you don't first recognize there's a problem...

 

[AbVag]

Nothing like making people want to debate him like calling them 'a fucking moron' on the title.

Superiority complexes can exist even in people you agree with. What feels ironic to me is that it can exist simply by pointing that out. Or am I too self-conscious?

 

[canadian4ronpaul]

initially i thought the title of the video was a bit much too...but thinking of it from adam's standpoint, who for all we know has had friends die, get injured, have PTSD, commit suicide, or forced to kill another human being-maybe its not over the top. what is more of an outrage is some stupid, uninformed idiot spreading her crap around as if she actually knows what she is talking about. She is putting other peoples lives in danger to "teach about capitalism" and give iraqis "thinking tools".

the irony is that she is the perfect example of how terrible a system democracy is.

 

[LibertyEagle]

initially i thought the title of the video was a bit much too...but thinking of it from adam's standpoint, who for all we know has had friends die, get injured, have PTSD, commit suicide, or forced to kill another human being-maybe its not over the top. what is more of an outrage is some stupid, uninformed idiot spreading her crap around as if she actually knows what she is talking about. She is putting other peoples lives in danger to "teach about capitalism" and give iraqis "thinking tools".

the irony is that she is the perfect example of how terrible a system democracy is.

Last time I checked, we did not have a draft. These people volunteered.

 

[ghengis86]

Change of title needed and I'd spread (although I cringe just listening to that lady's moronic answers)

 

[canadian4ronpaul]

Last time I checked, we did not have a draft. These people volunteered.

i dont think military personnel volunteered to go occupy foreign countries. thats why they support ron paul, and they turn into people like adam kokesh

 

[Austrian Econ Disciple]

But we do have a democracy within the bounds of the constitution, which provides a great deal of leeway to the states. 51% can ban cigarettes, alcohol, or raw milk in any state, against the wishes of the other 49%.

Technically, no, as the Constitution requires the states to be a republican form of Government. Now, sure, there are democratic elements, as in voting for your Representative, but I've always been dubious of the legality of Propositions. I wonder if they have ever been challenged under the Supremacy Clause vis a vis Republican form of Government.