Comments by "john" (@Pistolita221) on "VICE News" channel.

  1. What's the most upsetting is the worst offenders of COVID misinformation are Fox News and they're all vaccinated.
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  2. Crocodilians are remarkably intelligent, I think the tour guide eventually builds a repour with the crocodiles. It happens all over the world, people make friends with the local crocodilians at the river and they become friends. There are people who call wild crocodilians by name, and they come like dogs to greet him before he takes a dip with them.
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  3. this was good, but i really wish you'd have asked them" name the terms you'd consider switching careers over". I feel like that would have really given perspective, and humanized them, cause they feel like they're protecting their livelihoods, not destroying Bangladesh. If they named terms that being a solar technician satisfies, point them in that direction, i don't know much but i'm rather confident the Outback gets a decent amount of sunlight. Probably decently strong winds, too.
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  4. A lot of these people who are anti-vax are pro-jan 6th. Anyone supporting a violent attempt to overthrow american democracy, is not a friend of mine.
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  5. idk, it doesn't seem that bad. Didn't they say they weren't actually burning the horns (which are like hair and fingernails, made of keratin and growing life-long. With the mud as protection, and the thick hide of the bull, it's unlikely that it's anything but frightening for the bull. Bull fighting is problematic, but there are still kids in cages, they found large scale slave trading rings coming from Africa again. Bull fighting doesn't register next to human trafficking.
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  6. I feel like you're not trolling, and that's alarming.
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  7.  @PropheticShadeZ  If enough of them die we might get a blue wave!
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  8.  @RR-lv3tp  lol, get their stick out ya mouf
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  9. The lighting of the horns seems a lot less dangerous and damaging to bulls than the bull fighting. imo there's a solid case against bull fighting but one town having one ritual that scares a bull is not bad, imo. tbh I'd be protesting the kids in cages disappearing rather than the bullfighting. Bulls would naturally gore each other to death, it happens often.
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  10. Too reductionist, you won't win anyone over by calling anyone who participates or even spectates in their tradition a sociopath. So kids forced to show up are sociopaths? Seems like tenuous ground to tread.
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  11. 100%
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  12. It's the desertification that happens from CO2 induced mass extinction events, look up the Triassic-Jurassic and Permain Extinction events. #5 and #1 worst extinction events caused by CO2 induced global warming, nothing new under the sun.
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  13. If he called them clean law abiding citizens then he'd have a harder time getting the police to respond.
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  14. What we need to fix all these issues is Universal Basic Necessities, or 3 hot and a cot. Free shelter and food, just enough to keep you alive and healthy (able to function in the economy, cook, hygiene, etc.) for free. Nothing special, something comparable to a prison cell in terms of amenities, but with a locking door that you have a key to, then all these predatory firms would start hemorrhaging money, because it would be more financially appealing to stay in a free room than be robbed to rent a home. They would hemorrhage money until their amenities matched the prices offered. A lot of these homes would be sold back to smaller institutions or individual homeowners, increasing the number of home-owning people. It is, indeed a simple concept to fix the problem, but rather expensive and materially and energetically intensive. imo shipping containers are perfect, small, sturdy, cheap, easily moved and assembled as well as easily mass-produced.
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  15. this guy is frightening.
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  16.  @patrickkobolt3069  i agree the bullfights are bad. the flaming horns doesn't seem terrible, it seems frightening, but not dangerous. In the film I saw, the horns have the same thing they use for fire poi tied to the horns, so the horns themselves are away from the fire, the fire is about 2 ft from the bulls head, 1 ft from the horns, and the bull lives. it's even covered in mud, which is a nice consideration that is a very effective fire retardant. If you took away everyone animal who they scared for fun, you'd wind up with a lot of euthanized animals and no meat. CAFO's are huge animal rights violations, but as Stalin said 1 death is a tragedy, 1000 deaths is a statistic. This town's ancient ritual is a problem that needs the internets attention, not the billion chickens that are sick science experiments and contributes to climate change that is sold at every fast food joint in the nation. I'm arguing that it's a harmless tradition, flashy and frightening but harmless and there are so many better things to be upset over.
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  17.  @silkyslapjaw5154  lol, ok I'm sure it scares the animal. I don't think animals emotions matter all that much. Only their physical well being. Are you aware of how long it takes a wolfpack to make a kill especially for larger animals like cattle? and important follow up, why it is necessary for predation to occur? Violent death is literally the ecological function of most herbivores. That doesn't mean we can or should hurt animals, it does mean that we, by virtue of a quick death are more merciful than what 90% of wild animals experience in their final few moments, and anything but physical harm for your meals is pretty alright as long as you take care of their other needs. "think of the bulls feelings!" I imagine bulls feel angry, horny and hungry mostly, lol. Not the complexities our brain to body ratio and prefrontal cortex afford us. You're entitled to your opinion, I just think #1 you're not achieving a goal, because food's emotions simply don't matter and #2 even if point #1 is conceded and the bulls feelings matter, I think the town's painless, less than a day long ceremony matters more than 1 cows 15 minute experience. Bull fighting is obviously bad and should be stopped, and I do love my pets like kids, but you really wanna talk about your hamburgers feelings? It seems absurd. "THIS TOWN IS BAD CAUSE THEY SCARE THE COWS!" I mean, do you hear how that sounds? Have you heard of cow tipping? Is that turrible animal abuse, too? I think you could make a case degrading your cat by making him chase a laser pointer is hurtful to their feelings, if we wanna to try and imply our reasoning to what COULD offend a party that can never properly communicate. There's all sorts of innocent intentioned actions that "could hurt the animals feelings" and it's simply a non sequitur because it winds up with imo a small imaginary box.
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  18.  @Stevie-J  Thats because of the Basque, they're not really Frankish. Frankish are germanic, Basque are genetically similar to the people early farmer peoples who filled europe 9,000YBP
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  19.  @bug688  You're a woman, how can you assume you know the male perspective so well? Are you trans, did you actually have to understand what it's like to be a man for any length of time, or are you judging as a complete outsider? You've never stopped to wonder why men feel this way, so consistently? Clearly not, shows how 'intersectional' you are and how much material analysis you actually do.
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  20.  @c.i.a.932  "well, maybe people aren’t always right in what they do." Really? Sounds like you might have some experience, tell me more. "Maybe making fun of someone who thinks laughing at dead people is bad, isn’t a good thing." I'm with you on the anti-vaxxers, I doubt most people are going to apply this as generally as you're hoping.
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  21.  @botanicalitus4194  Yes, it's privilege to be consripted. That's why feminists have fought so hard to not have the same civic responsibilities as men, right?
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  22.  @gregwalther2237  Their claim to not take scientists at their word without a valid critique is also dangerous. If the police say stay inside there's a sting operation going on, it's let's call it bad advice not to take them at their word.
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  23.  @gregwalther2237  It is fine to offer a valid criticism after you fully understand the concepts, parts, mechanism, scale and scope of the system. Otherwise you're talking clouding the water with bad advice.
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  24. things are pretty weird in Michigan, too.
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  25.  @gregwalther2237  In the same way it's not useful refuse the advice of surgeon and pilot, it's not helpful to question and refuse the validity of virologists unless you understand virology.
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  26.  @kennycayson1485  What irritates me is that billionaires who rely the most on the US infrastructure, education system, etc. pay 13% in actual taxes, and that likely doesn't include a lot of their income, which comes in stock and an increase in its value. They have trillions and it's not taxed, but WE'RE taxed.
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  27.  @CB13212  I generally think you're a bit too bitter to get your message across, but 10/10 here.
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  28.  @gregwalther2237  When your flight hits a storm, is that the moment you doubt your pilot and start giving your own orders? Or do you sit tight and listen for instructions?
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  29.  @briankoski817  they've formed gangs and those gangs are infecting police departments and unions around the globe.
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  30. Such a shame, they're going to break down the rule of law with that rhetoric. police gangs are ending law and order in the nation. liberals know they need guns to protect themselves, because police are no longer doing their jobs. Look at what the police do to BLM protestors, and look at what police do to literal treasonous nazis we ALREADY FOUGHT A WAR AGAINST.
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  31. I'm glad I wasn't the only one. She's probably the best at what she does, but this didn't hit right, even though I'm still glad they made it.
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  32.  @mikehocc  In particular, this ritual, not bull fighting, but this towns ritual specifically seems to be showy and can be frightening to onlookers, but if you look at how they attach the fire to the bulls, the bull is extremely safe. It's the same set up as fire-poi, away from the animals head and face, not directly on the horns. It got a lot of shock value, but it is a harmless ritual. CAFO's are a great animal rights violation to get involved with. Not only is it more than 1 bull a year you'd help, but it also helps fight climate change. This strikes me as intentional misdirection of animal rights activists, and the philosophy behind it is best captured in this quote "1 death is a tragedy, but 1,000 deaths is a statistic". Which is to say, 1 shocking video is a lot easier to grasp and fight against than the actual meaningful fight that shapes society, fighting CAFO's and puppy mills/general pet trade animal rights abuses.
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  33. @Skyler Dickson  I'm the one with the ego? but you're using nazi talking points to aid in your genetic essentialism. Imo nazis have the most ego, and you sound like a nazi.
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  34. We are a failed nation. I doubt these people will ever see justice.
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  35. settlements need to come out of convicted officers retirements/salaries, make them debt slaves.
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  36. So THATS why they had the 3 largest fires by area in 1 year, because they cut down so many trees to make suburbs?
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  37. It's not if the fires will get to you, it's when. This is desertification, the forest won't grow back. This is it kids, in the next decade you'll be a climate refugee or know (and be competing).
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  38. There have been CO2 induced extinction events in the past, the 2 most notable were the Permian Extinction Event (the worst extinction event of all time, 95-99% of the biomass of the planet, and 85% of genetic diversity were wiped out. And the Triassic-Jurassic extinction event, ~barely~ more than 1/2 species went extinct and probably something like 50-85% of the biomass. But go on, tell me about the new fossil beds you've found that disprove these established scientific doctrines on extinction events without any other clear cause. I can't wait to hear your dating methods, locations, and markers for ecological influences that outweigh the decades of rigorous data collection and analyzations that lead to these conclusions. It's truly amazing you were able to excavate, clean, and analyze all by yourself (usually it takes a university's backing in collaboration with donors or museums like the Smithsonian) and then make relevant connections to the thousands of quarter of a billion year old fossils you'd need to be taken seriously and kept these findings to yourself all this time. Spill, I want your research, I'd even pay for it if its peer reviewed. Or, you're arguing from ignorance (like children do) and should have stayed in school, or defer to the experts on matters concerning their field so you don't wind up sounding so slow, willfully ignorant and pridefully uneducated. It's not a becoming look, kiddo.
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  39. soa re the spartans, go blue.
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  40.  @Dockhead  No, when they say the earth can heal itself if we just let it, there is a lot of science behind that statement. They actually think a lot of the fossil fuels of today are the "carbon sinks" that stabilized the climate. Carbon sinks are naturally occurring ways the earth traps carbon. Usually in the form of dead bodies, buried without oxygen so they decompose slower. The ocean turns into an enormous carbon sink, there's a bloom of purple cyanobacteria and they produce sulfuric acid and hydrogen sulfide, killing anything in the sea and anything near the sea, where the wind blows the gasses and they can pool. If its bad enough it kills everything at a certain sea level, during the Permian it was 200ft above sea level where the atmosphere had such high hydrogen sulfide it snuffed out anything that walked into it. That immediate killing of all life, which is carbon based allows for enough carbon to be taken out of the cycle that things find a new normal after a few million years of apocalyptic storms and fires and sulfur death kills enough. We don't want nature to stabilize this.
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  41.  @djchaiwallah  Georgia is really beautiful, arguably more beautiful than Colorado if you prefer botanical beauty to mountains. Unfortunately that beauty won't stop the CO2 extinction event is coming to you, too. It's more likely to be hurricanes though. Did you know they clocked a hurricane with a 100 mile wide swath of 287MPH winds and 50 ft or higher waves, Typhoon Mangkhut. You thought Katrina was bad? That's 100mph on from Katrina. It didn't make landfall at those speeds, but the seas are warming, and these storms will become more common. You think your house could survive that kind of storm?
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  42.  @djchaiwallah  they don't have to if the initial storm starts with winds well over 200mph. And if its not flood it'll be fire, and if you manage to avoid that, expect the Californians, Floridians and Louisianans to invade. People from the dust bowl states will have to evacuate, too.
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  43.  @djchaiwallah  it's not going to be like that, they'll be like illegal immigrants, working for nothing because they have nothing and no real prospects. It'll increase crime significantly, but go ahead and believe that you'll be worried about property values when the grain belt dries up and blows away.
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  44.  @eliasnassour4483  It's a CO2 induced mass extinction event, like the Permian and Triassic-Jurassic extinction events. It's happened before, we know what happens. Desertification via flood and fire, then ocean stagnation giving rise to purple cyanobacteria, or "red tides". Apocalyptic stuff, more death than impact events, but it's starvation and warefare instead of quick cleansing, predictable impact events.
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  45.  @scott3462  In terms of CO2 PPM, not really. However, those were from eruptions which put ash and other cooling agents into the atmosphere, to counteract the CO2. We're also deforesting at an unprecedented rate, and the chances of forests regrowing is low with the fires, insane floods and invasive species and other parasites that are killed by the hard frosts and sustained cold temps of winter is unlikely. That with the methane from permafrost melting, and you have a very bad scenario.
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  46. We need to protest before we're all living in tenements like the worst parts of the 3rd world. They want our labor to be competitively priced when compared against literal slaves.
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  47. it should be done by a 50 cal, "place head here" sorta deals, like a guillotine, but faster.
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  48.  @porogaming8521  One of the Flynn brothers help up the national guard.
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  49. the reason why is because the highest court in the land supports trump, they're all a part of the federalist society. The military is a primary recruitment camp for these radicalisms, all our boots are compromised. The government is over, give it a decade and they'll openly admit they're ethnically cleansing minority neighborhoods.
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  50. @Ann Nunnally  oh, you're right I'm sure you can't be bothered to admit that more is legally expected of men than women. Idk why I asked you to be honest.
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  51. Our democracy is over, the government is beholden the top to the bottom to the defense contractors. Until we address their apatite for treason against the highest American offices.
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  52.  @AnnNunnally  "I don’t have an opinion about the draft since it is not my country" About its necessity or about whether having policy that only effects one gender is sexist? "I was really just commenting on that one man and his responses." Ah, ok. You know if the draft wasn't gendered, you this guy's argument about 'protection' would have absolutely NO validity, even if you try to make it work, you'd have to outright lie.
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  53.  @AnnNunnally  Indeed, but to claim it's as simple as men are being reactionary is also seriously lacking nuance. It IS sexist, on a state level, to give women the same privileges without the same responsibilities. Especially today, when trench warfare is dead.
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  54. stupid is as stupid does, lead the lemmings to their graves, if enough of them die maybe we can get some decent policies passed and make sure the american public is never stupid enough to fall for this again.
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  55.  @TheTeganOsmondChannel  It's a psy-op, the intelligence community plays the long game in a chaotic in your face kinda way, so you can't see enough of the picture to understand it, cause it's so chaotic and in your face. Start by manufacturing the term conspiracy theory, then as people are technologically left behind, give them drugs and encourage paranoid fantasies, and watch them tailspin. Rogan is the fruit of the psychedelic psy-op tree they've nurtured for over 60 years.
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  56. That's not true at all, feminists in SK are not even slightly concerned with getting women drafted, so they also contribute to the nations safety.
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  57. What happened to turn the other cheek? Not if they look funny to you?
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  58. dysphoria and dysmorphia are not the same thing. They can be similar, but they are not the same. ED's are more like steroid abusers than trans people.
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  59. desantis is going to sign SB254 which allows florida CPS to take any child suspected of receiving or planning on receiving anything considered gender-affirming care.
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  60. Some time this month they'll be able to take any child suspected of receiving gender affirming care. "Florida SB254"
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  61. actually it's a contraction of pusillanimous, it's not a reference to womens whatever.
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  62. DID and gender dysphoria are not the same thing, they're not even related.
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  63.  @silverhawkscape2677  obvious troll is obvious.
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  64.  @bug688  Feminists offer men nothing but the sins of our fathers. Get lost with that nonsense, I am no more responsible for my grandfathers sins than my sister is, but that's not how feminists see it. Feminists refuse to define themselves to maintain the obfuscation of culpability. When feminists do something bad, it's actually patriarchy that made them do it. If only the men would stop making feminists hateful. I mean, are you an amber heard defender? That is what most main-stream feminists institutions defend, and Jezabel is even worse. They're openly misandrists, but misandry don't real (I just want to point out your ability to listen to mens perspective on this, and really try to understand it instead of immediately gaslighting, sorry correcting the story you don't actually know).
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  65. great work!
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  66. 'systemic racism' is a term they likely use in place of police gangs, because police gangs have enough power to silence you if you really upset them
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  67. lol, probably the mid-west/great lakes region of the USA, the most segregated place on the planet, or at least the anglophone world.
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  68. The USA is exporting its police gangs to exert military dominance over the globe fo FREE cause the boots they'll be using will be existing police infrastructure.
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  69. their mafias, so obviously. American policing is done primarily by literal gangs, who have initiations and everything, except you HAVE to be an officer to join, no one talks about it because it stays behind the blue wall of silence. Police gangs work like regular gangs, too. They sell drugs, sex, protection, etc. and stay safe behind their badges.
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  70.  @ANCM2211  bruh, this is feminism. idk what you think feminism is, but this is what it actually is. you think it was the MRA protesting male dv shelters?
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  71. it's apparently privilege for peasants to be drafted to die in a foreign land, away from their families and anything familiar. cause apparently feminists simultaneously think war is the greatest, while also thinking women are completely ill-equipped, but equally equipped, but not equally equipped, you get the idea. A lot of big brain, intellectual thinking.
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  72.  @whyyes6428  These guys who swim with crocodiles actually don't feed them, they don't want to be associated with food. Are crocodilians the most effective amphibious apex predators ever to have existed in earths history? Yes. Are they also intelligent enough to be something other than 2,000lbs death calculators? Also yes. Just like humans can build a repour with hawks, bears, monitor lizards and wolverines, humans can also build a repour with crocodilians. It's rare, and extremely dangerous, but it is possible, and there's documented examples from around the world to prove it.
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  73.  @whyyes6428  I'm not talking about croc jumping, when did what I described remind you of crocodiles jumping for chicken? WTF, lol you've gotta improve your comprehension or realize the world is larger than your personal experience. Cheeto and Poncho, Casper and Chris, there are tons of examples of crocodilians being habituated to become 'friendly' with their handlers, in a similar way to how cats are habituated, but they don't actually like you.
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  74.  @whyyes6428  "Stop trying to hard" Is too hard giving verifiable examples? And here I thought you had intellectual integrity. "Crocodiles are an apex predator and will eat you in a heartbeat of their survival depended upon it and that's the bottom line." Cats, dogs and people will eat you for survival, too. IDK why it's so weird when crocodilians do it.
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  75. You're not going to acknowledge the examples I gave of people swimming and playing with crocodiles? "A cat isn't going to eat you for survival" When a cats owner dies, the cat generally eats their owners face. It eats its owner for survival. " It's also not weird that a crocodile will eat a human for survival, not too sure where you pulled that one from mate." It's definitely your comprehension. I said 'IDK why it's weird when crocodilians do it (eat humans for survival)' I won't respond to you again if you can't figure out how to make sense of written english. It's difficult, since it's root words are primarily latin in origin, with germanic structure, and greek, german, and hebrew loan words, but if you're going to be commenting understanding what you're responding to is paramount. I'm dyslexic, high and a little tipsy, and I can do it. I believe in you. "That's why they're by definition an apex predator, they're at the top of the food chain." You are really, really dumb. reread this reply a couple times before you respond, so you don't make a fool of yourself again. Heck, reread the whole thread so you have context, since you missed the point of my last 3 replies.
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  76.  @whyyes6428  "You must think you're a refined and intelligent individual," Rotflmao, yea I'm high, drunk and dyslexic, but definitely high and mighty. I'm not tarnishing my image to amp the pressure on you to be coherent without being ridiculously arrogant. That is until this explanation, i guess. "I also couldn't care less the 'examples' you offer, they're wrong." rotflmao, dumbcast You won't believe your lyin eyes? Real scientific. "They're also what you think and are not f act, and you think nonsensical so therefore I don't offer you any credit." Put my schnitzel to your lips, and blow it really hard, bubba. That nonsensical enough for ya? "Let me remind you that you're someone who thinks crocodiles can be trained like a cat or a dog." Oh, that's what I said? Thanks for telling me what I said, I believe the exact phrasing was "There are people who call wild crocodilians by name, and they come like dogs to greet him before he takes a dip with them." which doesn't mean the same thing you paraphrased; but who really knows what was said, not like there's publicly available written records of our communication to reference.
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  77.  @whyyes6428  So you're going to delete your replies and run away, instead of accepting new information when it's presented? You've got to be a child, I guess I shouldn't have used swear words. But you should be capable of accepting new information when there's irrefutable evidence.
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  78. @Why Yes  well, you have to remember that even stoned and drunk I know more about crocodilians than you, lol.
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  79. I don't think that one was a man eater.
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  80. yea, it's us vs them, not the rich vs the poor. Sorry, I hope I didn't wake you, but the dream doesn't seem that pleasant anyways.
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  81. All opposition has been controlled since the 1970's and almost directly controlled for the last few years. There is no such thing as grass-roots, today.
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  82. My most important takeaway "Let's Go Darwin!" rotflmao
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  83. do you mean alphabet like google's parent company, alphabet boys as in cia, dea, fbi, etc. or are you claiming globohomo is doing more to undermine democracy than the intelligence agencies? lmao. If you think it's the guy just underneath you who's running away with the bag, you're a dog chasing your tail.
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  84. lmao, i love how vice is getting ripped apart, it's honestly way more thought-provoking than the video.
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  85.  @Freedom-ey3cu  yeah, is this the same argument people use to say we shouldn't punish criminals? i mean, seriously.
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  86. 'that think they are', they don't act like heros.
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  87.  @gregwalther2237  lmfao, well firstly it's AVERMECTIN not IVERMECTIN though it does fill my Benghazi denying, global warming alarmist heart to see conservatives discuss which flavor of animal medicine tastes best (while improperly using it). AVERMECTIN is a hypothetical treatment, not a preventative thing like vitamins and vaccines.
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  88.  @CB13212  Firstly, this is antithetical to judaism. This is in line with Thracian polytheism, aka nordic polytheism. Secondly, this isnot ONLY the CIA. There are plenty of major private intelligence institutions that keep their nose a lot cleaner than the CIA. If whoever you think is in charge is making the headlines in outlets workers read, it's safe to assume they're not/no longer in the actual big leagues.
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  89. You don't understand anything how can you critique it? Your logic makes as much sense as blaming mexicans for the rain.
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  90. gilds are the precursors to unions.
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  91. and bombings.
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  92.  @gregwalther2237  They're not just as qualified. It's like global warming, they get more air-time they're not more common. Most of the people questioning the vaccine are on fox news, so they're not doctors at all.
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  93. The bottom half of America is worth less than 10% of the privately held assets.
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  94. maybe nazis and another world war?
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  95. vaccine mandates, these degenerates don't believe in medicine, that's rehabilitation.
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  96.  @ilarious5729  looks like he gave up XD
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  97. because they're in a gang, an international gang that can force media blackouts via coercion.
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  98. And probably north korea. i imagine that's in the back of most SK people's minds.
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