Comments by "LancesArmorStriking" (@LancesArmorStriking) on "VICE News" channel.

  1. It mentions an army from the east. Not sure why Russia, thousands of miles north, fits that description. It seems like an Arab nation is more likely to invade.
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  2.  @holiyo3677  Lol everything can theoretically kill you, you didn't understand the point. Getting sick because you refuse to take vaccines is a super dumb way to die. I can't control how other drivers will drive, or whether a school shooter will show up to my school, or whether someone will try to stab me. But I can just get a vaccine and literally never have to deal with that strain of disease for as long as I live. People were lining up for the polio vaccine because they didn't have the luxury to delude themselves into believing that they have "natural options". It's so easily preventable that it's just sad to see people refuse it out of principle. If they wanna die, fine. Just keep those fuckers away from the rest of us.
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  3. Sheesh, what a mess. Everyone's so radical about their own opinion. All I can say to you (if you're starting to scroll down the comments) DON'T DO IT. You'll either waste your time reading them all or getting caught up in an argument.
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  4.  @truthseekersmedia  Fine, then he should take his business with him. Americans didn't build it, he did.
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  5.  @METALWULF  Examples? Cannibalism is extremely rare even before the U.S. existed, and "communism" wasn't destroyed by mercenaries. Latin American governments don't really count, since nationalizing a company, or labor reforms, are nowhere near "communism," and I don't think it was worth the trade. Is Guatemala happy that the U.S. saved it from "communism"? How about Iran? Brazil? Mexico? The Congo? The list goes on. There are so many more failures than successes. '' Mercenaries, Russian or otherwise, are not a benevolent forc
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  6. @Proud Murtadd I think OP means that Scripture =/= practice. Christians used to be incredibly violent, but mellowed out over time. Similarly, living in Dubai vs. Saudi Arabia is like night and day. So to hold Islamic nations' "goodness" to the standard of a fundamentalist reading of the Quran, while letting Greece off the hook, is blantantly hypocritical. I hate fundamentalist Islam, just as much as I hate fundamentalist Christianity. But that doesn't give me the right to hate the nation of Indonesia, or even Saudi Arabians outside of Riyadh, which is what more extreme atheists can be lead to do, conflating the demands of a religion and the behavior of its average follower.
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  7.  @Founderschannel123  The issue for Russia is access. Let me pose a question: would you rather have land in Mongolia, or Hawaii? Most people say 'Hawaii' for the weather, but it's also because of location. Hawaii has free access to the ocean, while Mongolia has none. This creates an economic problem. Russia has an enormous amount of land, yes, but most of it is frozen and its coastline in frozen 90% of the year. In reality, only about 36% of Russia is habitable. That's about the size of Kazakhstan. So what good is land if you can't trade with other places? You're isolated. Russia is in that situation. Why does it expand? It wants to freely trade. The West doesn't seem to understand, because all of the countries (US, Britain, Australia, Japan, European bloc) have access to the ocean 100% of the year. No advanced ice-breaking ships. They just have it all the time, for free, and expect it as granted. They don't seem to understand that if Russia 'just follow the rules', they become placed in a permanent disadvantage, and have to make concessions to other countries just so they can do what other countries are guaranteed by sheer luck. Geography makes things unequal, and Russia will not accept a fate as a landlocked resource mine. Its people would forever be exploited by Western corporations taking its resources, and selling finished products back to Russians at a high price. This already happened in the 90s once. It will not happen again.
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  8.  @m998hmmwv7  What happened to supporting our boys in blue? He should have just complied with the police, none of this would be necessary! Hypocrite
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  9.  @zephead843  Chicagoans are paid well, relative to the rest of the country. Chicago is also a pretty expensive place You seem like the type of guy to ask why people with $200,000 are poor in LA?? ThEy hAvE sO mUcH mOnEy, ThOuGh!!
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  10. Round is a shape lol
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  11.  @idanshoval6939  Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan, Guatemala, Congo, have all been bombed by the U.S. in the name of 'freedom.'
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  12.  @SammyxSweetheart.02  Not true— most of the countries are multicultural, only united by nationality (similar to America except you're invited by political values). Switzerland has 5 different cultural groups that make up the Swiss nation, Russia has Siberian tribes, Germany has Turks, France has Algerians, Italy is still divided by north and south and divided even more by each city having its own history as a separate country. America has no excuses. You need to get your shit together, not being homogenous isn't an excuse (China is almost 100% Chinese but their hospitals and healthcare sucks— Japan is homogenous and have the best healthcare on Earth. Two pure Asian countries with opposite results. It has nothing to do with race or how pure the country is. America can do better. Do it.
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  13.  @MrDavicovic  Advocating specifically for a thing, and allowing it to be one of two options, are quite different. Pro-abortion would be encouraging people to have them, regardless of context. Pro-choice is simply the advocation for the existence of the two options. Not any particular action. Nice try, though.
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  14.  @zlatkojokic3245  No, thank Obama. If Libya had not been destroyed, it could have absorbed most of the refugees. There is even a chance that the Syrian war might not have happened, with Qaddafi and Assad preventing intervention by the Americans (not saying either of them are compassionate leaders, but deaths by brutally suppressing democratic uprising vs. death because there is no government at all.. which would you choose?)
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  15.  @MTXSHO9732vV8SHO  You're a tiny minority of people. Most turn to drugs (selling) to survive, because there are no businesses in their area, and most turn to drugs (buying) for the same reason, but to escape their problems. If no stores are willing to open up in your area, and you can't afford to up and move, what do you expect them to do?
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  16. @Proud Murtadd I did. Homosexuality was illegal in Greece until 1951. The only reason that same-sex marriage is legal is because, despite still not being legal in Greece, the European Court of Justice ruled that homosexual marriage is officially recognized in all EU member states. They had to do this in 2018. Just because Greece has a vibrant gay culture, doesn't mean that its laws are the same. Which is exactly my point. In the Islamic world, the opposite is true. In Jordan, Bahrain, and Iraq (all of which have legalized homosexual practice), not everyone hates homosexuals. To the same token, Nigeria, another very Christian country, has criminalized homosexual behavior and marriage. I don't think I need to tell you about Russia- it's the same case there. You act is is tolerance of marginalized social groups is some inherently un-Islamic trait, but it should be pretty obvious that this isn't the case. Non-Islamic countries can be less tolerant than certain Islamic ones. It's also not timeless. Like I said with Greece, a society has to work to get to the point of acceptance, no matter the religion. Give Islam time to mellow out, and secularism will win out every time.
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  17.  @leonardomartinez5581  That makes Vice sound so sleazy when you say it like that— and it's probably true!
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  18.  @ALotOfCancer  Someone cared enough to comment..
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  19.  @Raj-dy2cn  Lol, imagine a country with India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and half of Iran inside it. That is what most countries in Africa are like- different tribes which are hostile to each other, forced to be in a single country and live together. It can never work, Africa needs to be redrawn.
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  20.  @Raj-dy2cn  No, it's not. Nigeria has a larger population than Western Europe, so imagine Spain, France, Germany, Austria, and Italy in one country. And "sparsely populated" doesn't make sense because despite having a bigger population, Nigeria is much much smaller. Same with Egypt, Ethiopia, DRC, Morocco, etc., all very dense for their size, concentrated in a few cities or coasts. And even THAT doesn't matter because I'm not talking about the number of people. I'm talking about combining a bunch of historically rival tribes with conflicting interests forcing them to create a government together. That's why I used so many large countries; Africa is more diverse so it has more variety of tribes in a smaller area.
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  21.  @Trollofjom69  *Republicans. They support no government interference in business, look at what that's got us.
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  22.  @twistedyogert  We had to go visit a gurdwara (Sikh temple) for a class, they really are the nicest people you'll ever meet. Highly recommend making a Sikh friend, they'll defend you with the curvy blade >:)
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  23.  @Smoothbaldness  Nope, both should stop. It just happens to be that Republicans will lose more seats if we correct this problem
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  24.  @paulblart3157  The higher rates, usually. I wouldn't argue that Florida caused it, so "epicenter" here applies in terms of raw numbers (although, thanks to the Mormon Church, Utah is also a center of child suicide).
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  25.  @pololavish5774  This looks like an American problem, though. More liberal countries don't have this kind of inefficiency. Unions in other countries just aren't this slow to fix things lol
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  26.  @jimcoulter5877  He is the straw that broke the camel's back. People can still forgive the past or at least make a compromise, but not when one side is eroding the power of another. They must speak on equal terms, and Trump made them very unequal. This is his fault.
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  27.  @Etaoinshrdlu69  When he lets workers relieve themselves during work hours, then you can talk to us about "Liberty".
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  28.  @hankbridges7824  No, you wackjob. You can't control a plant- a part of nature. It spreads too fast, too easily. This has been going on fpr 40 years, Reagan said the same thing you just did. He failed. So did Bush, Clinton, Bush, Obama, and Trump. You can't contain it. Open clinics to get addicts away from cocaine, and allow businesses to operate legally. If someone's gonna make money from it, it can at least be them, instead of cartels
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  29.  @alprazolam7034  Israelis entered Palestine in 1948 without any consent from the Palestinians already living there. The only reason they were able to do this is because Britain was occupying Palestine as a colony. They claim to be the only democracy in the Middle East, but were established thanks to a colonial power ignoring the will of the residents.
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  30. I simply don't think the Funding Fathers understood that the beginning os the system they championed (preceded by Charters and bartering) would inevitably eat itself alive. I hoped the US would understand that with the Anti-Trust Act, but I guess not
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  31. MY WORLD'S ON FIRE, HOW BOUT YOURS
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  32.  @ApoBeef  Fact is, they're the economic engines that the red states rely on for money. "Degenerates"? I'd rather be that than a lazy, mooching, racist hick.
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  33. There are already millions there. Did the Greeks assume that all of the Syrians went right to Europe? No! Most went to the Middle East first, it's not like they want to be in a place so different from their culture. The ones that are coming now are either economic migrants, or the refugees that couldn't find shelter anywhere else
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  34.  @aoflex  In that case, ejaculation is murder, too. So is having a period. Both have unique DNA that is never truly realized. You wanna go back to Biblical logic? That seed/egg could have been used to create life, but wasn't. You took a potential life. And even if you say "well that's different because the egg isn't fertilized", then miscarriages are ABSOLUTELY murder by your definition. Do we start sending mothers to life in prison for involuntary manslaughter?? Your logic is not based in science, that's why it doesn't hold up. You either enforce what you proclaim to believe, or you stop cherrypicking.
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  35.  @akalion213  Except that quality doesn't always go up. Capitalism is much older than Communism and people's lives have fluctuated under it. Capitalism has almost inevitable crashes every few decades, and if you consider a market capitalistic then feudalism was also capitalism. Just because a society is capitalist doesn't automatically make everyone's life better. It can go either way. Ironically it takes a stance against capitalism (rejecting short term profit and sinking losses into building and nurturing domestic industries) that develops a nation, not capital itself.
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  36.  Mendoza Juan  You're asking me about my best argument, but won't respond to any of it. Where in my post did I deny science? Neurons in fetuses develop at ~22 weeks. Nerves are what facilitate thoughts and feelings, so before ~22 weeks, they are physically incapable of feeling pain. What is unscientific here? Please explain. I'm saying your philosophy is subjective!! You just repeated what you believe, you haven't added anything! What is the evidence that the sentence is true?? You need to define your terms, or you're just saying nothing. What specific criteria make something alive? No, it's not. The fetus is not alive. This is the problem, you're not explaining what specific things about the fetus make it "alive." My point was- "alive" is subjective. Bacteria is alive, but nobody makes coughing illegal. I gave you the biological reason a fetus is not considered alive. By saying "neither should the mothers" you're already imposing your values. You think the mothers shouldn't be doing something- that is your belief... your value. No one's asking for a special pass. Especially not "Stacy," who has to put up with your bullshit when she's forced to carry her rapist's baby to term. I'm pathetic? Look in the mirror. This is the world you want? "How were you born?" "My daddy raped my mommy, she didn't want me but the GOP said she has to!"
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  37.  Ron Goldman  wtf? What's your point, none of these people did that. Also, the police know what they signed up for. People protesting (not rioting, this was just marching) have a first amendment right. Oh sorry, I forgot we're in China where rights don't exist
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  38.  @jujugohard4289  No, only WASPs. Don't rope the rest of us into this bullshit
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  39.  @tobiascore  On behalf of russians, sorry. We're not all like that
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  40.  @JohnSmith-oe5rx  Not really. Have you never heard the phrase, "there are worse things than death"? Can you remember what it was like before you were born? That's how the fetus 'feels.' Death isn't bad or good; it's just nothing. You're not hurting or punishing a fetus by restricting its development before it's even considered alive (by even the most conservative standards). Also, "up there" implies you're religious, but I thought god was "up"? And aren't you just sending the "baby" to eternal paradise by doing that, if you really think it's murder? What parent wouldn't sin to guarantee their child gets a free pass into heaven?
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  41.  @shahimagesyt  Russians are more subtle than this. He's not Russian. I think he might just be someone trying to sour Russia's reputation further.
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  42.  @Mfhollander2  Broken families tend to create meaning... the purpose for the kids tends to be, create a family of one's own and prevent the issues that came along with a broken home. It really does motivate. The issue is more our society. We have no public spaces for people to meet and talk, social media affects girls especially badly, and boys aren't drawn into social activities as much as before, or if they are, the friendships dissolve after the activity is over (personally speaking, Minecraft was great, until it ended.)
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  43. Even more interesting might be the connection (I think it was made in an Atlantic podcast?) between major news networks and the CIA
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  44.  @cmconley33  True, but Evangelical (and generally conservative) Americans love to call whoever doesn't support Israel anti-Semitic, as if the government and the people are the exact same thing.
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  45.  @METALWULF  What am I talking about? What are you talking about? You're the one who said "no cannibalism and no communism". I asked what you meant. Neither of those things seem true.
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  46.  @roamintheslums4851  Even if wages get more competitive, you still have a new, large, skilled labor force. That can have knock-on effects for everyone.
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  47.  @lamarmcalister2449  Oh, so the U.S. should become a theocracy, then? I'm sure a small group of people (or, as you put it, one man) won't take advantage of that and proclaim themselves ordained by God to rule... oh, wait You're fucking ridiculous. Secularism is not anti-theism. It is unconcerned with religion, not opposed to it. The Founding Fathers wanted people to be free to believe whatever they so pleased, but to not let that influence their earthly political decisions— or at least as little as possible. They went our of their way to not mention a Christian God, going so far as to say 'Laws of Nature and Nature's God' and 'endowed by their Creator' (all nouns were capitalized in that period) because Enlightenment values (and the example set by King George) compelled them to exclude the idea of a theocracy of any kind. No mention of Jesus, the Bible, Moses, nothing. It wasn't one man making the choice, it was the entire team.
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  48.  @AK-lg6ju  1) That means he's holding onto it.... 2) Then just show the evidence (I mean, there's so much!) that stops short of doing that. He's clearly lying- I don't doubt that there's a culture of that in Hollywood, but it stretches across the aisle, and across time. Elvis... and Charlie Chaplin. Drake... and Gaetz. The real truth is, there isn't a clean story to follow. And that's what they're counting on.
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  49.  Mendoza Juan  Embryology and biology have not determined that is a human infant. The fact that you even used the term "infant" reveals how little you understand to begin with. "Life" isn't a set thing; its exact boundaries are unclear. The Catholic Church believes that a zygote just after conception is equivalent to a human life, but doesn't explain on what basis it makes that claim. Bacteria are "alive", are we all committing involuntary manslaughter by destroying millions of them every second, then? No- it's about human life? Okay, then what defines that? A cell with human DNA? What happens when in-vitro fertilization fails, should the doctor be sent to prison for involuntary manslaughter, too? Are the parents accomplices? Yes, no? If yes, then people that can't naturally get pregnant are taking a huge gamble when deciding whether to have children, right? If no, then what is human life? You conservatives don't seem to understand- the things that seem obvious, upon close inspection, aren't at all. It's like your arm: look at it, touch it. Seems pretty real, right? Solid, even. Look closer. It's full of pores, and dead skin cells constantly being recycled. Not so solid and your skin is constantly becoming 'another set' of skin. Look even closer. It's made of molecules, none of which are 'skin', mostly water. Go even deeper, it's all atoms and nothing's even touching. 99% of atoms are empty space. So, how exactly is your arm solid and real, when only 1% of it is material? Same with life. There is no set, objective definition. "Life" is a human label which generally works, but fails with specifics. So, we instead look at what's moral: if a thing cannot feel pain, then 'hurting' or 'killing' it is impossible. So, before the embryo's nerve cells develop at about 22 weeks, abortion is legal.
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  50. Sometimes it's better for the children to not interact with their biological fathers— not every case is the courts siding against a loving dad. To institute such a broad change during a time when administration is stretched thin could create lots of problems
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