Comments by "DeoMachina" (@DeoMachina) on "TED-Ed" channel.

  1. I have to say guys this has been my most successful troll to date
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  2. Shibashish Mahapatra I assumed so, it's kind of shifty how ted-ed glossed over that part
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  3. Apledore I'm not seeing it, they seem to be saying something else. The central focus of the Bible was never a relationship, it was about redemption and being forgiven.  Ask yourself why Jesus came to earth in the first place?
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  4. Apledore We're talking about an entity that placed a fruit in the garden specifically for people to NOT eat, knowing full well it would get eaten.  "Why" isn't really a question we can ask, humans can't comprehend or relate to it.
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  5. Apledore That's a good point, but there's always the fact that we are always as close as he wants to be. Sorry to hear that you're sad, but I hope you don't hold people to the same standards.
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  6. 1sola1verita I'd say he was visible, 2000 years ago, but after ascending to heaven..out of our sight.
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  7.  @alokbaluni8760  Just because a butterfly looks different from a catepillar doesn't mean it isn't the same animal
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  8. lmao nice bolt, traitor
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  9. Here's an interesting take for you: What if the only reason we think that capitalism isn't also destructive is because we can't pin it on leaders like Che?
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  10. One explanation is media bubbles...another explanation is that my political opposites just decided to start killing people and those of us not willing to support murder are trying to move as far away from it as possible
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  11. Dawn, Speaking as a communist, I should let you know that UBI is not the same thing. In fact, communists are actually pretty skeptical of UBI! We don't think it's the answer here. Regardless, there are countries that have no welfare at all, no help or assistance for the poor. Poverty is still an issue in those countries! In fact, it's even worse! People die in the millions as a result of this! Sorry but the evidence is clear, people are not poor because they have no incentive. You can't tell me people are dying yet aren't incentivised enough to try and not be poor.
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  12. +theddfreak Eating healthy can improve your cells! But some foods are healthy in one way and unhealthy in another.
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  13. >christians can't talk about the bible Lmao, talking so much garbage here
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  14. Robert Rockey Calling out a troll on being a liar makes ME the troll?  Care to explain? Actually no, I don't think I want to know the perverse reasoning that produced that abortion of an idea.
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  15. +Lorie Franceschi Yeah there's really no explanation over actual conspiracy theorists, I think this video should have been titled something else since we're all here expecting something else.
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  16. +Gerdronex The classic "conspiracy theorist" stereotype is simply a delusional who finds patterns in things, but cannot accurately extrapolate meaning from them. For an example, look up "gangstalking". There are hundreds and hundreds of people who noticed a weird pattern once, and now believe they are being stalked by literally all humans.
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  17. I suppose God might want us to die sooner so we can visit heaven sooner, is that what you mean?
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  18. Abhyuday Sharda But I've had a bunch of vaccines and I'm not in poor health.  Same with everybody I know.  Why are you lying?
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  19. There is something deeply unsettling about the idea that we evolved so that our bodies simply cripple themselves when they detect strife.  And that they will not repair unless people arrive to help.
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  20. +adtc I think religion and theism are derived from other traits in our psychology. We don't have any "patterns" that substantiate god, however humans instinctively project humanity onto the things we see. A loud storm is "angry", because that's how we exhibit anger etc. We see human traits in everything, so it makes sense somebody would eventually decide that a human-like being really WAS doing things.
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  21. Zen Macrobiotics Dualism isn't quite as ubiquitous as you seem to believe, and the fact that opposites exist doesn't imply divinity.
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  22. Hannah Diane So the thing that convinced you was that the second book was written by somebody who read the first?
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  23. Rose Du Sahel Wait, so he didn't use violence to take power over Timbaktu or Gac? How did he bring them into his empire?
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  24. So they need to pass an amendment in order to reduce the threshold..but DO they really? Can't we just take a general opinion poll and say "Eh, just lower the threshold". I mean, who's gonna come after you?
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  25. Spencer Dalling You might find somebody willing to do it, the legal issues might put a lot of artists off though.  Ever heard of the Sedlec Ossuary?  I think you'd like it.
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  26. Spencer Dalling Exchanging human parts can get you into some very difficult legal situations, given how serious it is, they'd have to be very confident they had the paperwork they needed. It'd be cool though!  Personally I'd like my skull to be turned into a drone
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  27. Apledore I could be wrong but I don't think the whole "relationship with a diety" thing is in the bible, I thought that was a new-fangled ideal?
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  28. Apledore Not necessarily, you can forgive a total stranger if wronged. The term "father" means "creator" in this context, not actual father.  I mean if we're not actually speaking with a father, are they really a father?
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  29. 1sola1verita In the early times, it was apparently not too rare to actually interact with God though.  Same can't be said today.
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  30. nmshark That's a good point, and there are additional factors such as different definitions of crime and different levels of urbanised population etc etc
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  31. Private property*
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  32. I love the little jab at conspiracy theorists in reference to soy there Although to be pedantic, there's absolutely no past-tense there. It's very much a current belief
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  33. If poverty is a problem with mindset, how come the increase and decrease in poverty levels correlate with economic policy? Do you honestly think it's a coincidence that millions of people suddenly become poor after their taxes are hiked up again? You think everybody just forgets how to spend money? No, that doesn't make sense at all. You can't look at what is happening and say "Wow clearly booze is the problem here".
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  34.  @lukeulibarri3924  " collusion between a business class and the political class. This is often achieved by the manipulation of relationships with state power" Yeah that's literally just capitalism Even without tax breaks, subsidies etc, the business class have always relied on state power to profit. Always. "According to your logic, there is no distinction between canines and felines because they are all mammals in the end." ..you realise the classification of animals is wholly arbitrary and the lines are just wherever biologists say they are right? So..yes.
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  35.  @lukeulibarri3924  I dunno dude t's not very convincing when you ignored everything I said in favour of 'noo but I define it this way'
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  36.  @lukeulibarri3924  "You just said that you "dunno"" Going to interpret your desperate attempt at attacking colloquialisms as a concession, thanks for playing
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  37.  @lukeulibarri3924  Cool story man, get back to me when you look up the rest of the words you're misusing in a dictionary But taking you seriously was never an option once you decided that common turns of phrase were to be misinterpreted on purpose
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  38. AaaaaaAaaaaAaa- I was raised by a cup of coffeee~
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  39. Silence, tory
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  40. "Without cows our entire food system would collapse" lmao okay dougie
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  41. Christianity was forced into most of Africa by imperialist European nations though, so you don't make sense
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  42. Death cult death cult
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  43. Friendly reminder that capitalist economies spent the past 100 years slaughtering everybody who wanted to tinker with the 'dials'. Even mild social democrats were executed if they dared win an election. The people who work for this channel KNOW that, they KNOW what happened in Latin America and Asia. They KNOW that's not what capital means. This video isn't just wrong, it's lies.
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  44. We can't exist infinitely in the universe either, what did you think your point was again?
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  45. Dairy farms are state-subsidised and also much larger with well established production methods. Newer products take time to be brought down in price necessarily.
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  46.  @georgekromidas5097  I mean, there seems to be a causitive link between capitalism and genocide. Take the Irish famine for example, where all of their food was sold to other countries because they could pay more. Or more recently, the genocide of the Yemeni people, which is largely made possible because capitalist nations want to make money from selling arms to countries that have a habit of killing people. As for starvation, you need only look at the usage of food banks in the richest nations. People can't afford to buy food at an increasing rate, and malnourishment among children is reaching levels not seen in a very long time. This is, of course, a necessary function of capitalism.
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  47.  @georgekromidas5097  So you're telling me that a steady increase of living costs coupled with a totally static wage growth doesn't make people poorer? Do I need a source to explain why that's wrong? Poverty is increasing in countries such as the UK and the USA, both examples of right-wing capitalist nations. This is despite the fact that both countries are getting richer all the time. This of course, is by design. Each company is incentivised by profit maximisation above all else, and taking a greater share of the profit is the most efficent way to do this. So capitalism produces wildly more efficient systems that are much more profitable, but it's all pointless as 1% of the population benefit from these advances. When the company doubles its profits, the workers at the bottom don't get double wages. They get paid the same. There is also the problem that a class of super-rich people have enough money to simply purchase the laws and regulations they prefer, or make politicians do certain things. Take for example wars being started for the sake of defence company profits. There's also the fact that the planet is about to experience severe ecological damage through global warming, this is 100% due to capitalism. Tens of millions of people are going to die because oil companies wanted the sea levels to rise. That's not genocide?
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  48.  @stevied3400  -Consumption is very different from consumerism. -Yes, actually. Countries not under the yoke of oil companies are implementing new technologies that are less harmful to the environment. You'll notice how capitalist nations resisted this change with scare stories about the new technology? -Probably for the same reason capitalist countries keep bombing/destabalising/embargoing them.
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  49.  @stevied3400  Um, dude? The President of the USA spent years trying to stop windfarm construction. Because he thought it would interfere with his businesses. Oil companies spend decades, literal decades, trying to muddy the water and lying about global warming, to make it seem like we had no reason to invest in greener technology. Let's not forget, fossil fuel corporations got big subsidies that made it impossible for competition to assert itself. So like, pretty sure capitalist nations are to blame for this. Don't even pretend that human rights violations are a factor in this. What did Cuba do exactly? If the answer was anything less than "orchestrate a complete genocide of a neighbouring country", you can stop talking now. Because countries which ARE doing just that don't get embargoed. They get multi-billion dollar contracts. Again, capitalism.
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  50.  @stevied3400  This is false.
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