Comments by "Ralph Bernhard" (@ralphbernhard1757) on "Forbes Breaking News" channel.

  1. Apparently, where he comes from, "gun control" means using your "gun" on underaged girls who can't defend themselves. What kind of "law abiding citizen" would support a creep like this?
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  2. The root cause of all the causal effects of imperialism, resulting in the mutual backpatting in this thread...
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  3. If you wish to compare the cars only, without comparing where the energy that moves comes from, then one might end up with a disingenious comparrison. Has anybody calculated the "carbon cost" of the hydrocorbon industry (oil/gas/LPG/etc.), and added that to the carbon cost of producing a car with an internal combustion engine?
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  4. The Palestinians only "mistake" (sic.) was not bowing down to outside invaders, like Hawaiins were forced into doing by American settler colonial imperialist politics after 1898. Unlike tge people of Hawaii, who bowed down and were squeezed out of their own homelands, the Palistinians had by this time (WW1) understood how "settler colonialism" works, as settlers come in small numbers first, then in ever increasing numbers as time passes. By using Hawaii as example: That is how "imperialusts" lusting for territory, like their victims. Submissive, bowing down and saying "yes mastah" as the original inhabitants are overpowered one town and one field at a time...
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  5. Clapping seals...pathetic...
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  6. If it takes more than a minute to explain something simple, it's most likely wrong.... Here is what happened: During WW1, the British Empire faciltated mass-immigration into the Levant, against the wishes of most people who already lived there (around 650,000 of mixed cultural/ethnic origin). There ... fixed it for you 👍
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  7. War around the globe is expensive...
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  8. Globalism in action.
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  9. POWER. DOESN'T. CARE. Maybe we the people should start thinking about a different strategy. All around the world, millions of people have finally figured out they are trapped in a "divide and rule world", and it has been all about PROFITS and CONTROL over the people. Counter strategy to "divide and rule": Start pulling the rug from underneath the feet of these eternal meddlers... Boycott: Much simpler than trying to remember the long loooong lists of what not to buy, and for whatever specific reasons, is to try and limit what one actually does buy: buy no-name brands from small companies (addresses usually on the labels), buy local foods (farmers markets), buy locally produced or handmade items, otherwise go slightly "over-regional," or buy fair trade wherever possible. It is not a perfect strategy, but don't get sidelined by the whiners/finger pointers who will invariably ALWAYS show up like clockwork, trying to ridicule or nag with their dumb "...duh but your using a smartphone, but your using oil toooo"-gotcha style distractions. It is not MEANT to be "perfect"... Methodology: JDI and make it a longterm lifestyle, not just a short-term knee-jerk "trend," because of some or other upsetting event in the news. Just boycott ALL corporations, as far as personally convenient and possible, and always remember that even if only 75% of all the people on the planet only get it right about 75% of the time, on roughly 75% of everything they buy, it will finally make a massive difference for all the causes you also value. Want to bring the boys home? Do you wish to limit military actions to becoming multinational, following the principles of international law only, and independent of any corporate "interests." Do you wish to contribute to end western imperialist actions and meddling all over the world? You wish to contribute a small share to forcing Israel into a negotiated peace process? Do you wish to give small companies a better chance in the dog-eat-dog capitalist world in your country? Join BDS, because the international cross-border politically influencial rich and powerfull only REALLY start caring when their pockets start hurting. Regardless of where you live, or how much money you have, just remember this: - You are not going to achieve much by voting in elections. - You are not going to achieve much by posting on social media. - You are not going to achieve much by debating on any plattform, real or virtual. - You are not going to achieve much by making use your "freedom of speech" in any way. - You are not going to achieve much by protesting in any possible way which will politically make a difference. Here is what you can do, easily: 1) Read Smedley-Butler/War is a Racket, a very short book (should be possible in a few hours) 2) realize that after around a 100 years, NOTHING has changed 3) start unravelling the connections between big business and Washington DC, by boycotting "big brands". Do not delay. Start today. 👍👋
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  10. Hamas, just like every single "terrorist" organisation EVER, at any point in history ever, in any geographical location ever, by any religion ever, are always an EFFECT of oppression. The USA/collective West is "classifying" the terrorists they created themselves with own PREVIOUS political actions, as terrorists... Terrorism/Freedom fighting (POV) is always an "effect" not a "cause." If you live in the west, then you (personally), or your parents, grandparents or previous generations have never ever ever fought anybody your own leaders have not personally set you up against. Try me on this one. Name me the war, incl. this current "War on Terror", and I'll inform you how your own government created it (aka "lay the foundation").
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  11. Israel is just one of 800 "unsinkable aircraft carriers" all over the globe. An extension of US power to the detriment of the local populations, because it's the age-old "divide and rule"-technique, which uses "chosen people" all over the globe, who are set up as proxies to fight for American interests....
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  12.  @Sardarji-bq6oj  These groups will rise in popularity, as the oppression in the form of "organized western violence" increases. "The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion […] but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do." -- Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order. Cause. Effect. Brutal.
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  13.  @Sardarji-bq6oj  Guess who "started it", around the time of World War 1? Who went into whose native homelands, to colonize and exploit? Who considered whom to be "dogs", not worthy of being independent? "I do not agree that the dog in a manger has the final right to the manger even though he may have lain there for a very long time. I do not admit that right. I do not admit for instance, that a great wrong has been done to the Red Indians of America or the black people of Australia. I do not admit that a wrong has been done to these people by the fact that a stronger race, a higher-grade race, a more worldly wise race to put it that way, has come in and taken their place." Winston Churchill
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  14. "7 countries in 5 years." Three-and-a-half trillion spent on destroying Iraq alone. Trillions more wasted in dozens of other wars. Millions made homeless around the globe with US taxpayer dollars... Maybe "God" does exist.
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  15. Every individual has a "right to exist", and that incl. all the peoples of the Levant.
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  16.  @thomasjosullivan9179  Yes, you are 100% correct. Unfortunately the "narrative" is designed to suite western imperialism, and the narrative for the continued global domination of the world by the USA/collective West, has been honed to perfection. The "narrative" is meant to disguise the imperialst strategy of "divide and rule", to a point of perfection.
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  17. Antisemitism is basically the hijacking of the concept of "bigotry". bigotry /ˈbɪɡətri/ noun "obstinate or unreasonable attachment to a belief, opinion, or faction, in particular prejudice against a person or people on the basis of their membership of a particular group." No single group or political entity should have a "right" to hijack a concept for themselves and the own ingroup only. Bigotry is a universal issue.
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  18. Sowed the firestorm in hundreds of places around the globe. The firestorm came home... Maybe "God" exists after all...
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  19. The people of the Levant (most of whom are Semites, and the followers of Abrahamic religions) have been "divided and ruled" over by outsiders for centuries. Because it is easier to divide people based on personal differences, than it is to unite them, based on what they have in common. Strategically ambiguous rulers make use of this, for own advantages. In the era of empires, first Rome/Constantinople, then during WW1 the seat of POWER playing these games changed to London/Paris, then after the 1950's as European colonialism's power decreased, starting around the time a "bark" by Washington DC in 1956 (Suez Crisis/War) showed who the new boss was, the role of "divider" was simply taken over by Washington DC (the entire ME was the "playground" during the Cold War). Moscow was tacidly nodding off the observed reality, without too much interverence at this point in time, since gaining full spectrum domination in Eastern Europe was more important at the time. Now the intention is simply to avoid unity in the ME, in order to "rule" over the dissent which is classical "divide and rule". Today, they are ALL tools. Endless wars, constant dissent. Insert "levers" of lies, mistrust... Create favorites: favoratism... Point the finger, everywhere else... Divide and Rule. Oldest trick in the book... Who wields the POWER? Who has had (in all historical cases in the ME/Levant) the GEOGRAPHICAL ADVANTAGE of being able to "reach" all the other little "buck catchers" (tools, and other Roman-era style instruments of POWER), but could not be "reached" itself, because of a geographical-, technological-, organisational-, military-, strategic-, political advantage at any given point of a historical timeline? §§§footnote The concept of the "straight out lie" is related to a variety of other terms within the spectrum of "political techniques," commonly defined as "strategic ambiguity;" and/or incl. such concepts as "lying by omitting," misdirection, misconstrued, spinning, framing, all either intentionally, or sometimes unintentionally.
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  20. Antisemitism is basically the hijacking of the concept of "bigotry". bigotry /ˈbɪɡətri/ noun "obstinate or unreasonable attachment to a belief, opinion, or faction, in particular prejudice against a person or people on the basis of their membership of a particular group." No single group or political entity should have a "right" to hijack a concept for themselves and the own ingroup only. Bigotry is a universal issue.
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  21. Israel is just one of 800 "unsinkable aircraft carriers" all over the globe. An extension of US power to the detriment of the local populations, because it's the age-old "divide and rule"-technique, which uses "chosen people" all over the globe, who are set up as proxies to fight for American interests....
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