Comments by "Taxi Rob" (@taxirob2248) on "Good Times Bad Times" channel.

  1.  @czwitek1995  who invaded who? You're looking to blame the victims.
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  2.  @chico9805  the West refused to negotiate? Budapest memorandum, Minsk and Minsk II, no recruitment by NATO, the fact that Sweden and Finland have only now joined BECAUSE of Russia's actions... you're truly a fool if you refuse to acknowledge any of that.
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  3.  @ljt3084  Russia isn't the Soviet Union. The 12 countries you're talking about weren't formerly Russia, they are sovereign states that made their own choices democratically. You show your ridiculous bias toward an empire that failed on its own merits, and your desire to see it return is plainly disgusting. And Trump and the Republicans are in fact a minority in this country, they have funding from foreign sources thanks to their loading of the Supreme Court who deemed it all legal. That allows them to gerrymander congressional and statewide districts, pour billions into campaigning and propaganda, and generally deliver the exact opposite of what you seem to to want. Supporting fascism doesn't bring about socialism, comrade.
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  4.  @JaKingScomez  you can't claim defense when you're invading a sovereign state, Ivan
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  5. 18 years in a giant prison camp thinking about it probably just left violence as the only thing that made sense.
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  6.  @IgorDruzhinin-qo2vj  keep dreaming Vlad
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  7. When did it have a worldwide trade empire? I must have missed that part of its history.
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  8.  @birdstwin1186  asking people to come and mow what used to be THEIR lawn for a subsistence wage, yes how generous indeed
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  9. it's ridiculous that the US demands a strategy update when Ukraine is so overmatched and not receiving everything they've been promised in a timely manner. Obviously the strategy is to expel the invaders, and Ukraine has never been fully equipped to do so. WTF is it that the USgov needs to hear exactly?
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  10. The point isn't to replace anybody. Growth and attrition should leave plenty of room for such a small influx. The failure of the plan was letting go of energy independence. How much was Merkel paid for Germany's future?
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  11. have you been watching me sleep??
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  12. not as many bots as outright bootlickers
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  13. *surrendered
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  14.  @FodaseNaoLigo  no. The past is what keeps it from breaking out. Letting go of the past and forging its own destiny is what Brazil needs to do.
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  15. crouching wolf, hidden bullshitter
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  16. Sad but entirely possible. UA without its entire legal territory is an economic weakling.
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  17. I resemble that remark
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  18.  @alexv3357  *autocroissant
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  19. Translation: "this can be over tomorrow if Israel is allowed to complete their ethnic cleansing of Gaza."
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  20.  @Osonhador32  the state pays better than the private sector. This is widely known publicly available information.
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  21. Yes, it really is that simple. I like the idea of Ukraine becoming an armory for other countries though, that would draw their interest and force them to look at UA as an investment in their own future. Ukrainian scientists and engineers were arguably the best in the Soviet Union.
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  22. Getting rid of nuclear power was economic suicide, and they've already swallowed the FlavorAid. Neoliberals in the CDU sold out Germany's future, and there is no rational alternative.
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  23.  @trillionbones89  cost is always a red herring. New plants cost whatever the regulators decide they should. Existing plants that COULD continue should have, as the costs were already long since recovered. Shutting them down right when they turned profitable was a way to reinforce the false narrative of cost.
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  24.  @overredrover9430  that's just alarmism pointing to old designs as the standard. That's like saying cars could never get safer than that first Mercedes when they all have seatbelts and airbags now.
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  25.  @AnonymousLibertar1an  show us proof of concept for your idiology
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  26. add Honduras, Azerbaijan, Uruguay and SIngapore... BRICSHITHAUS
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  27.  @brandonlance3601  so it's okay for Russia to put troops directly on the ground in UA territory, attacking UA military and civilians alike, but not ok for the US to merely advise UA in any way, shape or form? Because if you weren't so arrogant that you could actually hear yourself, you'd realize that's exactly what you're saying.
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  28.  @BiggestCorvid  I could see it coming in the American Green party too, going back at least 25 years. There was a weird overlap with 1930s style isolationist conservatives in the Reform Party under the fascist Pat Buchanan, thankfully US Greens never held office outside of California where they were held to a more left wing stance... albeit with the same misplaced environmentalism.
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  29.  @keto0303  sounds like copium to me, Ivan.
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  30. the Intel project outside Columbus is probably going to fall through. Maybe Buffalo should give them the property they were going to give to Tesla instead.
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  31.  @Kukura001  replacing a monarchy with a cult of personality based dictatorship is hardly what I'd call legitimacy
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  32. Israel blockaded the whole territory. Gaza is not a state, and has never been allowed true sovereignty by Israel. Stop pretending you didn't know that already.
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  33.  @kobalt6927  you can't be a communist if you assert your success by capitalist metrics
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  34. The more Russian thought about regional hegemony comes to light, the less sympathy I have for Russians as a whole. It seems more and more like the majority there are truly warped to the perspective of reestablishing empire.
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  35.  @sanfinnik  right to return was never allowed to happen. Netanyahu has made dozens of false promises and intimations of things he never intended to deliver.
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  36.  @asiblingproduction  when you have a hammer...
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  37.  @dewit5883  "fairness" is relative, especially given the asymmetrical firepower involved. I really need to see specifics before making such a subjective judgement. It's more likely there are redlines that might seem reasonable to people on one side but not the other, while complete outsiders might be scratching their heads over them. And it might be some very specific item that seems completely insignificant to everyone but the people demanding it, or they might be red herrings meant to derail the convo. Given the amount of time this has gone unresolved, I'm leaning toward the latter. Smarter people than us have failed for decades, I can't help but think they've been deliberately sandbagged by the people holding all the aces. Instead of laying their cards down, they keep raising the stakes. And by aces I mean the finest western weaponry in pretty much unlimited amounts. And by stakes I mean everything from the river to the sea.
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  38.  @AthenaTennosN  Orthodoxy, Autocracy, and Nationality. It goes back to Nicholas I in 1825.
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  39.  @elysiumfields  no one is talking about the Minsk accords, which give third parties (who are also direct signatories of the accords) inspection access. Russia, one of those signatories, denied any and all third party inspections of the territory, ensuring they'd have full control of all propaganda emanating from the conflict in Donbas.
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  40.  @sunnyrobinson2128  so does Venezuela.
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  41.  @vdotme  which rights did they repeal?
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  42.  @FemboyLegendGD  reduced in pay or size? It's already pretty small. The countries that Brazil is cozying up to outside of the US sphere have huge public employment numbers, if not huge public employee pay.
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  43.  @keto0303  they are regularly doing nuclear bomb tests in Russia? News to me, champ.
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  44.  @Teutathis  Russia seems to have forgotten they are a nuclear power. A test in their own territory might be a good reminder.... but they have never done one, have they? Always in another non-Russian republic, not their own.
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  45.  @DanielMC1983  then that's what you should have said. Also, the government employs more than just "sanitation engineers," they also employ actual engineers. Government is more than just administrative work, just as the private sector is more than just burger flippers. A roughly 15% public employment percentage that costs roughly 13% of GDP isn't good from a value standpoint, but the only possible change within the government's purview would be to cut salaries in half to match the private sector average. Is that what you'd like to see? Would cutting salaries AND increasing public employment be better? The employment participation rate is only around 50%, so maybe yes?
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  46.  @DanielMC1983  post a quote from any of my comments showing me claiming that the state is the largest employer in Brazil. We'll wait.
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  47.  @DanielMC1983  I don't need to answer that. The peer reviewed studies clearly show that public sector jobs pay anywhere from 5-200% more for the same jobs. Google them yourself, I don't work for you.
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  48.  @FemboyLegendGD  weird that you're attacking the OP with your accusation in particular, since Brazil's pubic sector jobs are well known to pay better than private sector jobs.
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  49.  @overredrover9430  probably. There is a universe of fission involving a few different reactor types that when used in a chain can result in a reduced need for extraction and very little high level waste. Breeder reactors can create fissile material while mixed oxide reactors can burn different fuels. Sadly, Rosatom was the leader in the latter technology. They could have been at the forefront of the disarmament movement.
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  50.  @eonby5941  Explain why marriages between non-Jews are not recognized by the state. Explain the limited power of non-Jewish Knesset members. Explain why dual citizenship with Israel is okay, but not with Palestine (yes, they have special passports that recognize them as a nation. Funny how that works only when Israel wants to exclude them, like the US putting natives onto reservations.)
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