Comments by "VE7NDE" (@denelson83) on "Johnny Harris" channel.

  1. Unfortunately, privatizing profits and socializing losses is the prime directive of capitalism.
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  2.  @chwa7774  The way cities in the US are planned and constructed is precisely how big corporations want them to be planned and constructed, so that those same big corporations make more money.
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  3. Canadian news is better than American news. American news is just "Breaking: Some bullshit happening somewhere". Don Henley was right.
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  4. It is not hybrid for me. I am Canadian and I use the metric system exclusively. I know my height only in cm and my mass only in kg.
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  5. What, Ireland?
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  6. It's McScruciating.
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  7. You. Just. Cannot. Win. 13:30 - Ch r o mium.
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  8.  @ftd7435  Have you seen just how small of a country Singapore is? It's literally a city-state, like Vatican City.
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  9. If you invest money, then you are sacrificing the future of the human species. Everything has its price.
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  10. Or Taylor.
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  11. 1:01 - No, the Earth is divided into circles. 5:17 - "Today, all of these cities and towns would be just on Eastern Standard Time…" ( Shows a list that includes Sacramento, CA )
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  12. i.e., "Keep-em-dumb-onomics".
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  13.  @Ghreinos  Precisely. That is part of why a lot of people now see Putin as evil.
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  14. Unfortunately, in the US, there is too much societal counterpressure to that trick.
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  15. WARNING. The US going to war with China means World War III and the extinction of the human species.
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  16. Uh… Did you forget that Canada exists, JH?
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  17. Playing the lottery is really just contributing to someone else's dream. And of course this would impact poor people the most, because the ultra-rich have no incentive to play the lottery and they have zero tolerance toward being taxed. So yes, lottery funds should go towards benefitting poorer people. And honestly, the bigger the jackpot you win, the more you become a target for financial predators and the more likely you are to get murdered for your millions. 13:05 - Col🇴rado.
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  18. No, not "powerful countries", capitalists.
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  19. Capitalist. Dictatorship. I will say it again. Capitalist. Dictatorship.
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  20.  @lubb213  Wrong. If corporations do not socialize losses, they do not maximize their profits.
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  21.  @alvarohernandez2764  That is only if you are a shareholder. The vast majority of working class people do not hold stocks. Why? Because there is no room in their shrinking budgets to buy any. And besides, if you own stock, you are part of the problem. And also, most working class people have no savings, because they live paycheck-to-paycheck, and cannot even afford a surprise $400 expense, and if such an expense is sprung on them, they fall below the poverty line and end up having to sleep on the streets.
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  22.  @zacharywissinger3996  BULLSHIT. Liberty is the opposite of tyranny.
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  23.  @lubb213  Capitalism is fundamentally about profit.
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  24. @cavachoncx3 Take your proselytizing elsewhere.
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  25.  @lubb213  That argument is practically meaningless.
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  26.  @Homer-OJ-Simpson  The only such consequences would be capital strike and capital flight.
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  27.  @Homer-OJ-Simpson  Because capital strike and capital flight can be used to devastate a country's economy.
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  28. Unfortunately, this division is permanent.
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  29.  @Opalivian  83?
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  30. And this is one of the reasons why I have blacklisted the US and refuse to ever set foot on US soil again.
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  31. So now you'll just have to do things on your own, Tom Scott-style.
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  32. The abandoning of public transit and the design of life entirely around the car in the US is completely intentional. Capitalist forces in the US HATE public transit. Remember that the US used to have great public transit systems back in the first half of the 20th Century, but automobile manufacturers bought up and shut down most of those systems in a bid to force everyone to drive instead, and further lobbied the US federal government into creating the Interstate Highway system to encourage people to drive even more. Big corporations make more money if everyone drives, and they are not about to willingly give that up. You suggest better public transit, and the big corporations are only going to iron-fistedly shoot you down, shut you up, and warn you not to fuck with their profits.
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  33. Over 180 kL per 100 km.
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  34. International Court of Justice? I think you meant the International Criminal Court. I don't believe you even know about the International Criminal Court, given that the US is not a State Party to it.
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  35. The Turkish administration in the north part of Cyprus does not even use the name "Republic of Cyprus". It calls the part of the island outside its control the "Greek Authority of Southern Cyprus".
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  36. I do not use both. I am exclusively metric.
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  37. The US military footprint is more like a bootprint.
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  38. I am also Canadian, but I was born in the 80's and grew up with the metric system. I actually use the metric system exclusively in my daily life.
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  39.  @recurse  Well, they are perpetuating an unfair US influence.
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  40.  @billimono4480  Because it claims to not be corrupted by capitalism.
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  41. You are not going to get more public transit in the US. Capitalist forces in the US HATE public transit. Remember that the US used to have great public transit systems back in the first half of the 20th Century, but automobile manufacturers bought up and shut down most of those systems in a bid to force everyone to drive instead. Big corporations make more money if everyone drives, and they are not about to willingly give that up.
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  42. A vote is a voice.
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  43. Fish and chips? Or piss 'n' shit? 15:29 - "O-fish-ially"...
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  44. Heck, Taylor might suggest that each McDonald's franchise get two such machines. 25:31 - Classic "fear, uncertainty and doubt". Or, in other words, "Don't fuck with our profits." 26:16 - Boy, Johnny, you missed a big opportunity by not using the word "McNugget". But I bet this continuing trouble may end up leading to the failure and closure of many McDonald's franchises because "just calling the guy" ended up costing the franchise owners way too much money. McDonald's and Taylor are actually bullying these franchise owners out of their money. Make no mistake, the instant you threaten a big corporation's profits, they will ruthlessly exterminate you.
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  45. Nope. It is the same thing in Canada.
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  46. But phones also have built-in GPS.
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  47. 🇨🇭. It takes no sides. It takes no shit.
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  48. This is Putin holding the entire world hostage.
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  49. Putin essentially claims that Russia actually started in Ukraine, and that Russia, Belarus and Ukraine should be one country based on the fact that all the way back in the middle ages, they were all in a single federation known as Kievan Rus'.
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  50. It will only change for the better if franchise owners stage a mass walk-out and start closing down their franchises in disgust over this issue.
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