Comments by "Valorie Napoletana" (@valorienapoletana4063) on "ABC News" channel.

The fact of the matter is that literally everything comes down to climate change now. Your food cost, your home cost, your pension, your health, your education, your vacations, everything. It's all climate change driven. Every financial actuary in the world is explaining disaster capitalism through accelerated climate change makes the polluters the most money. Immigration? A climate change issue. Annex Canada or Greenland, gulf of America? Is actually a climate change issue. Abortion? A climate change issue. There is literally no escaping the evidence. Even the parties screaming it's not real are acting financially in ways that mean they are certain it's occurring and real. Every military in the world has plans and is literally taking action to address climate change impacts in terms of defense. The world is changing. We have experienced the most minor of changes thus far and it's already blatantly obvious that there's an impact to literally everything and as we study it more and more intensely there is never a situation where it is not an underlying issue. It's not that Al Gore was correct on the solutions. No one has been in that regard. It's that he was completely correct that it was happening and we need to begin preparing for the impacts. That we aren't... is exactly what capitalists want... because it makes them more money.
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Because at the time... we could have converted... but we waited 20 years. And now can't. That's always been the tactic. Stall until they can't do anything about it.
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To be fair most of them just think they're still watching the Apprentice. There's no real reasoning.
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@FayCilf <--- this is a propagandist.
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Correction may be a moot point. Considering this is the very top of the iceberg that we're crashing into head on at increasing speed. We'd be much more successful with opening migration pathways and opportunities, forcing the top polluters to pay for mitigation measures and environmental impact and instituting controlled degrowth initiatives.
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@curtrice1264 I'm in no way suggesting such a thing as population control. And yes, at current, voting can help us course correct. But we have not seen anything truly meaningful in terms of limiting the global impacts... and have not seen anything close to a major tipping point. We're seeing the trickle of water from a crack before the dam fails. Whether it's a slow failure or a catastrophic one is yet to be determined. But we can vote for things which may increase the likelihood it's a slow, controlled failure. Controlling degrowth by specifically empowering people based in civil rights and liberties is extremely important considering what's to come. We had the ability to reach approximately 11 billion and sustain if we had taken decisive action since the 70s. It's no longer possible and population collapse is literally a part of every future model that isn't totally bonkers at this point. How it occurs, what we do in response, who benefits and gains power and why are the needed focus at this point. Billions of people are being impacted at this point. When that becomes more severe impacts is not known other than it will occur.
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It's spelled Colombia. And the problem came from the deviation from the established protocols for deportation. Not anything else. Thanks for playing... maybe next time try to know what you're talking about?
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@PhilipKicelemos The storm surge was almost 20 feet...
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@ Nope, you believe it isn't. That's all. Your house? The manner in which insurance and loan companies are operating means you won't be able to get, keep or insure your home in the long term in far more areas than you may think. Already, it impacts your insurance rates for both your car and home. Already it impacts the amount of money that polluting companies put toward elections fueling all sorts of right wing legal think tank groups such as the ADF and Heritage. Most of project 2025 is a polluting companies dream for what they'd want to do. And I could go on... if you'd like to challenge me on ANY point. Please point it out. Can even show you the data. You believe climate change isn't already impacting your life in every single possible way? This is your habitat as a creature changing. It's pervasive... And really... just think about it... if most the resources, farmland and livable land are going to be above the 49th parallel... wouldn't we want Canada and Greenland? So... even the climate denying maga is operating exactly as they would if climate change is not just real... but pervasive and accelerating. And so is every military in the world. And so is every financial actuary.
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@YorktownUSA < --- propagandist
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Not only that... but that's who pays the tariffs.
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@ Saying it makes it true... oh wait no it doesn't... US Tariffs directly hurt US consumers in many circumstances and especially as the maga administration has attempted to implement them. In this case, the US taxpayer would pay 25% extra (likely more) on anything imported from Colombia and quite a bit more on alternatives, even American alternatives, as global supply chains aren't what you pretend them to be but rather are complex and interrelated. That's just what occurs. And.. your strange attraction toward a former president is a bit weird but if you want to sleep with them I won't judge... and random declaration of someone losing who wasn't running... means nothing here.
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@ You're agreeing with the guy who can't even spell. Just saying... may not be the most accurate comment. Yknow... because no one said that... and no one said any other crimes were committed.
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So he was correct? Good call. The issue with statements from 20 years ago is we didn't understand the rates of change we're seeing to be possible. And thus error margins are +/- 20 years. A margin that people inherently can't understand outside of scientific study in geological terms. We're at a rate that it's declining so rapidly at this point the summer sea ice is already not significant enough to provide enough cooling to sustain the biospheres stability, and the sea ice will be gone entirely within the next 20 years. The marketing of such concepts is also at play. If you don't pressure people to understand we have to act NOW to have any real impact then they think they can wait those 20 years. Simply put we were saved in some regards to the world being slightly more complex in thermodynamics. So in short, he was correct. The Arctic currently does not have enough summer sea ice to stabilize the polar vortex. At current. And the ice is gone by 2040-2050. The counter marketing here is to lie about the effect of the summer sea ice and when it becomes too little to matter and when it is officially gone.
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@PhilipKicelemos we're probably looking around mass migration and sacrificing the ability to live/build in these locations... at minimum during hurricane seasons. This isn't going to stop. It's going to keep hitting Florida until the Everglades are a sea and most of the pennisula is uninhabitable. And while the full extent of such things is the next 200 years. Stilts are only going to keep the status quo of disaster/rebuild for so long.
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Ah the democrats... the great plan to keep asking us to donate to them... while having no solid plan... which means their plan is maga too... but yknow... with civil rights...
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1. Organize Recalls 2. Remove them from office 3. Organize special elections 4. Replace them with people who will support a post revenue carbon tax on the top 100 polluting companies so that hijacking our government for their profits isn't viable. Use those taxes to eliminate personal income tax and institute UBI.
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Imagine New York City... view from the top of the freedom tower. Everyone in the area you can see... in every direction. They're going after at least the entire size of the largest of cities. Basic labor markets imply that as labor supply is less demand and wages should increase... but that's far too simplistic and dated for what's actually occurring.
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@charles5652 You do realize that's not the only concern here right? That your grand simplification of coffee and bananas is nearly meaningless compared to what's actually in trade between the countries... and alright cool... let's say we can get those items elsewhere... does that mean supply chains will yield to your request? That it won't cost far more for them to do so than just paying the tariff? That these other places we get such items from will allow those items to be diverted? How many millions of people survive on getting items imported from this country that you don't know about at all and completely misjudged by pretending it's just a banana or coffee bean? Do you know any of this? Or just saying something that sounds reasonable to you but has no basis in reality?
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@ not what happened or what would have happened... try again.
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@ No, they might not have hurt you... that you know about... that you could understand... And let's be clear... they did hurt my company at that time. We had to pay tariffs as a company. At the time we didn't raise prices, we just reduced promotional events and how much you could save on the products. We did have to charge customers the amount that the tariffs cost us. Even if the price of our product didn't change in the way they thought. You don't actually know how much of these kinds of things happen and how and what actually occurred for you. Do you import and export? Anything? Because I know plenty of people who do who are upset we have to pay extra and absorb the cost through our customers in some manner. Whether those customers know it or not.
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@ It's very clear you are assuming you know what you're talking about but don't have the true business experience.
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@ let's also be real clear... factoring in losses to the workforce which disproportionately impacted lower income earners and accounting for stimulus money the wages of the American people stayed stagnant or shrunk. That a disproportionate effect and a shrinking lower income workforce occurred to make it appear like wages increased isn't the full picture. Especially if we're looking at what occurred from a supply chain and labor market disruption point of view. Simply put... without 2020 and the pandemic, your statement would be entirely false. You may have been punch drunk during his first term... maybe even about this one as well. But the American wage earner has not seen true economic progress that uplifts them in a VERY long time.
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@ You have faith in someone attempting to circumvent the ways our government works merely because what? A period of time felt a certain way to you? And what? You resorted to ignoring what we're talking about for philosophy? I'm talking math. I said exactly how people may be paying tariffs whether they know it or not. With an example that's literally what happened with the products I was importing. Typical maga, you're wrong on the math so you shift and pivot and attack the messenger.
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@ Absurd normalization that belies what's happening for a narrative you feel is correct. I don't care if you think he did well vs Biden. The math doesn't work out the way you assume. Do I personally think either candidate was good for a long time? No. And I'm certainly not hoping I'm correct. I'm a far more analytical person than you assume. I am a business owner and scientist. Philosophy won't sway me here. Show me exactly how the math works out. Because I do the math for my business and work with many others. Tariffs aren't what you assume them to be. The result of using them is a mathematical formula. You claim tariffs won't hurt a US consumer... and have not provided ANY evidence to support your statement.
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@michaelrs8010 That literally didn't happen. It's a false analogy. It's the same xenophobic bs as has always been a rant about immigrants. Did you have anyone come to your house and do this? No? Maybe a couple people came here and worked for a bit and went back? Yeah? That's mostly what happens? Sometimes they have friends and families to help them while they work here? Their employer and them pay taxes? And they rented a place in town while they're trying to stay long enough for their family back in their country to not starve? Maybe this is just a hell of a lot more complicated than the racist trope you just blurted out?
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@ No, there is not.
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It's the insane idea that we should be a meritocracy and government should be run like a business. Is basically just people entirely deceived by what companies are doing and how they're operating on the largest scales. They don't understand the new rules as they don't even know they changed. They don't realize firing people isn't even cost efficient to a country. It's very difficult for them to understand that these cuts to the government are just stealing money for the people who helped buy the election.
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@ it is me... it's me... my friends... it's you... we're all being stolen from... I've had my job taken by the same sort of corporate oligarchs demanding we be wage slaves. Um... little person? What are you talking about. All I said is the people clapping for this either are hardcore zealots hell bent on burning the world down for profit and power and turning us all into wage slaves in a technofuedalist nightmare... or still think Trumps on the apprentice making decisions they can "like" because they don't have any real consequences except to people they dont care about.
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@ what does this mean to you? No more free money for... hard working employees of America? Nuclear scientists, forest rangers... I mean I suppose a few less tax collectors be nice as it's an entirely unnecessary scheme if we tax corporate profits properly but then... who is that money going to? Seems to me the only people getting free money are the corporations who are going to hoping you'll be happy enough with the small meaningless bribe that you're going to hand to them anyway.
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That's literally not where the money has been going. Every financial actuary in the world, every military and even maga and their oligarchs are operating on the assumption that the world is changing, will become more and more disaster ridden and that they make more money accelerating the problem. They lied to you. It's classic countermarketing and stall tactics for monopolies to maintain power regardless of the damages they're causing. Simply put, the money as you put it is directly funding climate change because disaster capitalism where they both cause and profit from the disaster makes them the most money.
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@popsiclestick8405 Scientists had proof it was occurring and informed Automotive companies and Oil companies in the 1890s (almost immediately as they created the combustion engine). It was determined that profits were more important. What happened was the civil rights of the 60s yielded a concern for the environment. In the 70s a huge number of people felt this way and the result was to buy out the politicians and deny the problem existed. Get them to sell out/buy in to the corporate takeover of the world. In the 90s we tried to revisit it as climate change began to become apparent and accelerate. Again, the same denial countermarketing. Same in the 2000's... same in the 2010s. You're being marketed to by billion dollar entities so they can steal your money and give themselves tax breaks so they can market to you and buy out more politicians. Following the dark money paths shows EVERY political issue of the last 50 years was countermarketed by oil companies to the tune of hundreds of billions to protect their trillions in profits. Trans bathroom bills? The ADF's oil money. Anti-abortion and vax? That's just the privatization of healthcare for profit funded by big oil to protect their profits. You're being lied to... is the left any better? No. But as a scientist with a laboratory that can do the experiments that prove climate change and has friends all over the world who can do the same and are studying it in the field... the lie that scientists are wrong is the worst one to believe.
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You really think it's just those? You have any clue how many other goods and supply chains and services are tied up in all that? Do you know how many millions of people rely on those supply chains to stay the way they are? Do you know that worldwide the cost of diverting those goods and supply chains may be more than the tariffs themselves and we're just stuck paying the government 25% on all sorts of things? Remember... the people paying here is the US taxpayer. If I import a $1 banana... you think you won't pay $1.50 for it? Yeah... you will. And you won't even know why. You'll just know it went up. And while you may assume it's from this tariff in this example... the vast majority of it? You won't have a clue.
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Don't pray. Recall your senator and congressional representative and get people who will prevent the damage from happening. We can show people what to do or we can steal from people. And the entire mantra of the right is to steal from us and everyone else and give it to the polluters.
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It is sooo much more complicated... 1. We already have a protocol for deportation with *Colombia*. 2. The flight per proper deviations from flight plan landed at an international airport. 3. They did end up in Colombia. 4. This was entirely a concocted scheme hell bent on demonizing a country made out to be nothing but a cartel by media and entertainment outlets... for the sake of pretending there isn't a much more sinister plan. 5. Landing a military aircraft in another country against accepted protocols is MUCH more problematic than you might think... especially in terms of how the host country typically operates in response. 6. The entire event is a charade that's typical of maga. A blatant hoax perpetrated by a con man to make people think he's doing what people want... even though he's ignoring that there's already a way to do that which wouldn't cause such a mess... and is foaming at the mouth trying to raise prices on US taxpayers and strain worldwide economies. Simply put in this regard... most people are clueless. Anyway... that's where we're really at...
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@ Imagine the hell the United States would raise if they sent them back without telling us they're breaking from established protocol so they could pull a publicity stunt on the world just to make you feel good about nonsense that's undermining undermining that countries fundamental freedoms and rights... can you just picture the news stories and peoples reactions and the whatevercountryistan version of you? Can you just imagine how other people in that country that see what's actually occurring would react to that hypothetical jackass? How America might initially force that country to take a pause before allowing what's occurring to happen? Hey... if you're gonna use sarcasm... try going both ways... you may like it!
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@ The numbers are a lot worse actually. The entire 1.5°C and 2°C thing is political nonsense and marketing. It was already too low when released in Paris. It's the numbers politicians felt comfortable using. Scientists came up with this benchmark as it's a useful tool to sum everything up generally. But as scientists what we've been studying is different than people imagine. And we were explaining we're on a nightmarish collision course with far higher temperature anomalies being already observed locally. When we calculate the full radiative thermodynamics the picture is concerning on a geological scale. Meaning the thermal maximum events of this planet are being outpaced and we're currently holding our breath hoping it isn't exceeded.
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Yeah... that's the way to do it... deny people the right to assembly and speech... perfect... what could go wrong? It's not like that's a fundamental aspect of all common law and core to American values and traditions... no way that could be problematic far beyond this single issue... what's anyone need the first amendment for anyway...
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@ You are completely incorrect here. The constitution specifically protects peaceful assembly and speech and is upheld in that regard at every challenge federally with minimal exceptions for burning draft cards and imminent lawless actions. Helping people cope, helping them understand what's going on, and what may happen to them is NOT lawless, does not incite anyone to lawlessness and does not interrupt a function of the US government. There's no precedent whatsoever for pretending the group that's assembled doesn't have a first amendment right. It's why this administration is attempting jurisdictional changes through EOs. The attempt is to make scotus say the jurisdiction of the United States and therefore the constitution... doesn't apply to these situations. The core of American values are being challenged... limited... and the land of the free is being divided into free and not free... you really want to make that kind of argument? Or are you just repeating what sounds good? Because it doesn't seem you're ready to have this conversation in earnest. And let's just for good measure explain some legalities... a conspiracy requires 1. An agreement between the parties to commit an offense 2. The parties must have the intent to commit that offense and 3. Must then make an overt act toward committing that offense... or it's not a conspiracy. Aiding and abetting requires 1. willful participation 2. Knowledge it's unlawful or would result in lawlessness 3. An underlying crime and 4. Meaningfully assistance in the crime... just talking and holding a meeting doesn't qualify... housing people and feeding them even wouldn't meet this standard. Did they walk anyone across a border? No? Then they're not party to the crime. We don't get to redefine this as we desire and wordsmith it to suit our needs. Even the maga administration knows this... and it's exactly why they're doing things the way they are... Americans don't want to lose first amendment rights because you claim it can help criminals. There needs to be specific circumstances that go far beyond talking and assembling for there to be any reason for challenging such rights.
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@ Thanks for admitting you're literally part of the problem and your opinion is purely your own systematically corrupted ideology that has nothing to do with proper law enforcement, the constitution and American values. If you've been through the trouble of this country in the regard you claim then I think you need to take a step back and ask yourself if enforcing laws specifically designed to undermine our rights and usurp our freedoms and systematic at abused not only you and your fellow officers trust but destroyed countless other peoples lives over a massive fraud attempting to circumvent our laws for profit is something you believe in. Because if it's not... maybe you need to reevaluate... a lot... because that's what we need here... people to reconsider what's happening not in the context of what you believe occurred and is occurring. But what actually is occurring. You can reply to me all you want. It DOES NOT change what I said. Your interpretation is that of law enforcement. A hugely bias interpretation. It's why we are able to hold officers accountable for their errors and misjudgments. It's why we need certain unalienable rights... like assembly and speech. The king can't just throw you in jail for showing up to a place... and that you may have used that tactic anyway as law enforcement... doesn't make it right, doesn't make it American and doesn't mean it's actually legal. So again, do you really want to make this argument? Or are you just saying what sounds good to you and your cop friends? Because I can forgive you for that... but if you simply don't care... you want this rammed home regardless of the consequences... then I can't respect that at all. And let's be clear, speak specifically as a law enforcement officer. Someone who isn't in the process of committing a crime and may not have committed any at all, went to a place to assemble peacefully and discuss a government action. Without ANY evidence or probable cause... you can raid that place??? Sure about that? Because I see your BS. And law enforcement has been kicked in the teeth at trial and on appeals for such things. The most grievous part though for me? That they wouldn't even get a trial due to how they circumvented these rights. You simply don't want to acknowledge I have a point here. You're not helping me see yours... I see yours... as law enforcement your jobs easier if you can ignore people have rights... it's a terrible bias... and I don't find it reasonable.
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@mannyn.4241 What gives people the right? The largest and wealthiest economy in history combined with the technology level that has made it so 90% of jobs are not only obsolete and unnecessary but are counterproductive to a stable environment. We could institute UBI. But you pretend that's hand outs and not a payment from the companies destroying the world and forcing you into poverty. We could solve homelessness and hunger... but you pretend interference in medical technologies that save lives are more important. We could have free healthcare... but you won't vote for people who would do it properly. Your choices to judge and condemn other people got us here. Now we have to agree with you as you judge people further to disastrous consequences and thousands of lives disrupted so a fake vengeance can be wrought? Do you even understand how absurd your position is?
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@FreshWater37 Recall them all, hold a special election with weekly town halls (at a government facility, without cost to the candidate) and weekly debates and speeches on ALL media platforms AT the media companies expense. Anyone who takes any money from anyone including asking for $1 donations should be boo'd out of the town halls and not considered as a candidate.
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@ Did they? Or were they conned into thinking he would do as they have desired in response to the most well funded propaganda in all of history? Have you ever been deceived by corporate marketing? Does the whopper on the commercial look different than the one you get at the store? They want to be able to change their government effectively and efficiently... we literally all do. And the propaganda/marketing that reached them promised all that... they may even still believe it's happening as they may envision regardless of what actually is... November wasn't an election of holding anyone accountable. It was handing the country to the corporations who have spent hundreds of billions campaigning and pushing propaganda so they can continue to pollute at the expense of the American taxpayer while stealing our money. That's what the math shows... but how can anyone believe it when all they wanted was a change to the stagnation... they gave up everything hoping it would change something... and honestly... they may just get it... but the change isn't to hold anyone accountable... it's a change in whether they're represented at all.
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@alisaSDgal what FBI? The one they're literally shutting down? Secret service? You mean the service they're shutting down to do nothing but guard the President? And then... To do what? Police a comment on the internet that's just someone's frustration with how little we are being represented? Make sense...
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Recall your representatives. All of them. Especially if yours is Republican. And get new people who promise they won't vote for anything Trump proposes and will make it economically unviable for corporations to influence politics. It's the only way to do things peaceably.
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Us: we want affordable groceries and an environment that isn't hostile to us... Them: the dang kids aren't listening cause they're on the tok!
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