Comments by "whyamimrpink78" (@whyamimrpink78) on "Ben Shapiro: Left-Wing Policies Are ‘Radical.. Untenable’ u0026 ‘Not In The Mainstream’" video.

  1. Kyle won't, he knows he will get destroyed.
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  2. A right to a jury is stealing labor from citizens. If you are called for jury duty and refuse you go to jail. Our elected officials pick judges and they are require to serve us.
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  3. nathan, why didn't she say that?
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  4. JamesToneyLegend, I read that article, it is a joke. It starts out saying "It's easy to laugh, as some of us do, at the phrase "conservative intellectual."" There are many intellectuals on both sides. The fact that he dismisses the other side like that shows he has no argument. There are several things wrong with that article. For example, it cited a study how black individuals are 20% more likely to receive longer sentencing than whites. However, that same study said correlation does not equal causation and that other factors are at play. But hey, why present information honestly when apparently no intellectuals exist on the right.
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  5. Futa Nari, nowhere does the Constitution give the federal government to provide education and healthcare to the people.
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  6. Futa Nari, the fire department and the police department are ran and funded locally. That is covered in the Constitution via the 10th amendment. The Constitution covers what the federal government can do and the rest of the powers are granted to the states. So the Constitution allows for fire departments and police departments. I can keep going.
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  7. Futa Nari, those professors cite all of their sources, many of which are peer reviewed in academic journals, and give all of their methods for you to criticize. The fact you refuse to read a piece of literature that could have an opposing view of yours shows you are not intelligent enough to have an opinion here. Single payer systems do not cover more. They do not get better results. I encourage you do to do more research on this topic.
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  8. Razorfist is a nobody in the political commentary. Kyle debated him and struggled cursing half of the time replying with "that's bullshit" as if that is an argument. Ben has been in many debates and knows his stuff. He would destroy Kyle as Kyle only has talking points and cannot break anything down.
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  9. Two ways 1. Higher taxes 2. Lower quality In those European countries the left loves to point to healthcare there is lesser quality. The US has higher cancer survival rates and offers more CT scans just to give a couple of examples of how the quality is better in the US. For "free college" they restrict who can go where many are denied access if they do poorly in high school where in the US you have the option of a CC or JC. The reality is that Shapiro is correct, none of these programs will get passed.
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  10. Andres, to be fair it isn't to say those programs are awful in developed nations. They can work to a degree, but there is a lot more to it than what the ultra left is presenting. For example, in healthcare, other countries live healthier lifestyles with lower obesity rates and lower smoking rates. They also have lower rates of teen pregnancies and single parents. That helps out the healthcare system when you have healthier people and with less unwanted pregnancies that helps out the welfare system. People who point to other countries as examples of those systems "working" are ignoring many factors. A couple others are the fact they have lower corporate tax rates and less regulations on businesses. They tax their citizens more.
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  11. Futa Nari, I covered the General Welfare Clause in another comment. It is of the "United States", not the people. Also, it still does not cover the point that the government does not have a magic wand. Just because the government provides healthcare does not mean it will actually exist. In the end someone has to produce it. If there are no doctors the government cannot give any healthcare to people.
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  12. Acceleration, you say "read a book" is very vague. What book? There are many books out there that will disagree with your point. As for the US being ranked 36th, those healthcare rankings are arbitrary. Anyone can play with the stats and have any ranking they want, including the US being number one. Do you even know how the WHO created that ranking? I doubt it. But you blindly follow it as if it is legit because it fits your narrative. The reality is that the WHO ranking was criticized so much they have no created a new one in nearly 20 years. Healthcare is way too complex to be reduced down to a simple ranking. The WHO ranking compared the US to Malta. A reason why Kyle refuses to debate Ben is because Kyle goes off of talking points and cannot break down anything. Ben goes into details. Kyle would not fair well against Ben so it is to the interest of Kyle to avoid debating Ben.
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  13. Kyle pointing at polls is not an argument. Fact is this is one victory for one of Kyle's peoples. If I recall Allison Hartson got 2% of the vote. This is not mainstream, this was a dumb dog finding a bone.
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  14. Ed Nogi, you are correct that the only real polls are those on election days. Those polls Kyle points to have vague questions with little details. Come election days more details are given and people vote differently.
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  15. Baker, that article was not a fair analysis of Shapiro, it had an agenda and it proved it at the very beginning by saying there are no intellectuals on the right. There are. There are many intellectuals on both sides. I can break down the article even farther. It was about how black people are poor because of culture. Shapiro said that if you work full time, have a high school diploma and have kids after you are married chances are low you won't be poor. The article counters by saying that blacks have a hard time in getting a job to begin with. Well, one major reason is because they graduate at nearly a 20% lower rate from high schools compared to whites. They also commit more crimes. That comes back to what Shapiro was saying in that it is the culture, not racism that leads to them being in poverty. They list another study about receiving a call back in a job between whites and blacks with criminal records. They ignore the type of crime, references, how long ago the crime was, job history, etc. There are several things missing. As for the correlation vs causation, that article listed that because it is true that there are many factors you cannot measure that influence the difference in sentencing. Attitude in the court room and dress are a couple. As I mentioned earlier, there is nearly a 20% difference in high school graduation rates between blacks and whites. Are high schools refusing to give blacks diplomas? The fact is that the article did not give a fair analysis of Shapiro. It really scraped the bottom of the barrel to come up with a joke of an article. But again, he starts out by saying there are no intellectuals on the right which is completely not true.
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  16. JR 14, Ben was just on Bill Maher's show. Ben debated members of Congress.
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  17. JR 14, Congress is not clueless, they are very intelligent. You are projecting.
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  18. Baker, Native Americans have lower homicide rates because of where they live. Many live on reservations as opposed to the inner cities. Those are factors at play as well. Again, playing the race card does not help anyone, it only holds people back. It is the push for the soft bigotry of low expectations.
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  19. President Bean, healthcare is around $4 trillion. Defense is around $800 billion. Cutting defense down to zero would not even cover 1/4 of our healthcare costs. I think your public education failed you in math.
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  20. uzumakiangelus, I do not ignore the studies. The one that says medicare for all would cost $32 trillion a year admits they underestimate the cost as they do not factor in demand along with other variables. The "study" that says our current system would cost $49 trillion simply took our current costs, assumed the same growth over 10 years, and then said it would cost that much. They ignored quality, progress, innovation, etc. The two numbers being compared were calculated in two completely different ways and made over simplified assumptions ignoring many factors. So no, I do not ignore that point, it is easily debunked.
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  21. Uh, the right wants a better healthcare system as well. Their ideas are just different.
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  22. It isn't so much that the polls are slanted but more of they are unreliable. They ask vague question on complex issues. Asking if there should be a universal healthcare system many will say yes. Now attach a price tag to it and a tax rate and people will say no. Case in point, Coloradocare lost with nearly 80% saying no in a vote when they say that the payroll tax was going to increase by 10%.
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  23. Angelo V., ever thought it was you who doesn't know what they are talking about? Reality is that Ben is an intellectual, even if you disagree with him. It sounds like you are having trouble countering his arguments.
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  24. YY, when am I wrong?
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  25. YY, I watched that video. The guy said that Ocasio-Cortez had a plan to pay for her programs and that she didn't just blab for 2 minutes and gave no plan. Reality is she did blab for 2 minutes. She gave no tax rate, she gave no cost for her programs, she simply said "get rid of the tax cuts". That is not a direct answer. She did not answer the question.
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  26. YY, so I am not wrong in my criticism of that video, is that what you are saying?
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  27. The debate will not happen for two reasons 1. Kyle is too scared. He is all bark but no bite. 2. Kyle isn't worth Ben's time. Ben will appear on Bill Maher's show or on Fox or debate Cenk as they are household names like Ben is. Kyle is a nobody. Ben has nothing to gain from it.
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  28. Kyle works in a bubble. Everything he said in this video is pretty much BS. Bernie beating Clinton in the "red states" is more of a sign of republican voters voting for Bernie knowing he was the easier candidate to beat. And pointing to the teacher strike is not an example of leftist policies becoming popular. So far these "populists" have won around 2 elections, congrats.
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  29. Futa Nari, the Constitution does not say anything about providing welfare to the people but instead says "provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States..." If it were to be for the "people" it would say "people" instead of "United States." Also, there are much more basic forms of welfare than health such as a home and food. But you are not pushing for that.
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  30. Futa Nari, the "United States" means just that. If it were meant for the "people" it would say it like it does in the first paragraph of Article I Section 2 when it says "The House.....every second Year by the People of......" Or in Article IV Section 2 "A Person....." You don't get to change the definition of words to fit your narrative. And calling me a bot does not mean you won the argument. You said in another comment you can debate any conservative and win. Calling people bots and changing the definitions or words is not winning.
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  31. Futa Nari, there are many arguments against single payer healthcare. Many scholars argue against it. Read the book "The Business of Health" Two professors wrote that book. You dismissing the other side shows you lost the debate already.
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  32. What does fracking have to do with this? If a state wants to frack that is their business.
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  33. Futa Nari, I agree, they are opinions. Experts on both sides have different opinions. Single payer healthcare is not better in every objective measures because there are many ways to measure those stats. For example, if you remove car accidents and murders in all countries the US is number 1 in life expectancy. I did a lot of research. You are repeating the same talking points the ultra left does with zero justification. I gave you an entire book to read and you refuse.
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  34. Josh, it is a BS excuse. Kyle knows he won't do well. Debates are about having ideas challenged. He refuses to have his ideas challenged.
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  35. Futa Nari, up to 7000 people die a year in Australia on waiting lists for "elective" surgery. That 45,000 you cite is very deceptive. They are poor and bad health is associated with the poor where there are higher rates of obesity, type II diabetes and smoking with the poor, all self inflicted. So the question becomes do they die due to lack of access to care or due to being in bad health to begin with? Also, you bring up 45,000, what standard to you have to compare that to? None. So it is an empty number. As for 30 million being uninsured, two points. One, why does insurance equal healthcare? Two, no country covers everyone, period. Stop with the talking points.
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  36. Futa Nari, it is deceptive. Again, due to lifestyle choices they have bad health to begin with. They have man complications and question is do they die due to those or due to lack of access? That is a legit point. Also, again, what standard do you have to compare that number to? None. Thus it is an empty stat. If healthcare insurance equals healthcare then why doesn't car insurance cover oil changes and new tires?
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  37. Futa Nari, saying "lack of access" is challenging. Yes, they lack access because they are poor. But you also have to realize that chances are high they needed healthcare to begin with due to poor lifestyle choices that made them unhealthy. If someone had a poor diet and became a type II diabetic they need healthcare. They need it due to their own lifestyle choices. Now if they can't afford it then they lack access to healthcare. However, they needed healthcare to begin with due to their choice in life. It has a lot to do with the health of the person. You need healthcare when you have a health problem. If you live an unhealthy lifestyle you have a higher need for healthcare. If you live a healthy lifestyle you do not need healthcare that much, if at all. If those individuals lived healthy lifestyles they would not need access to healthcare. That is what makes those numbers so challenging to accurately determine to begin with.
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  38. Brian, the US is a powerful and rich country. I don't see how these ideas would harm the US.
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  39. Brian, I said I could live off of $6/hr if needed. I said myself in particular. I did that to show how the talking point of a "living wage" is subjective and people need to stop saying it. For many people $6/hr is not enough. For some that is money they can use to buy frivolous items with. It all depends on one's living situation. You see, I actually understand how complex these issues are.
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  40. Uchiha, Kyle said Bernie was going to win. He didn't. Kyle keeps saying Trump is going to fail, he is successful. Winning one election in New York is not a victory for you guys. You are losing all the other elections.
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  41. Uchiha, most poor do not work full time. Very few people work 80 hours a week. Those that do are the very minute in our society. You can afford healthy food at Walmart. People just refuse to. They are lazy and refuse to eat healthy.
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  42. Brian, I said I could live off of $6/hr. I did not say all. My point was that the phrase "living wage" is subjective. For some people a living wage is $0 if they have a spouse who is well off. For others it is more depending on their situation. I want high quality healthcare for all, but reality is that no country can do that, not even the US. There are limitations in resources. You have to phrase your argument in a way where you feel I am not moral and want others to suffer because you do not have an argument. You try to paint me as a bad person when in the truth is I live in reality. I want everyone to have high quality healthcare, but that is not going to happen. I feel a free market system is the best route to approach that.
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  43. Kyle keeps pointing to polls as if they mean anything. One of your candidates won one election, that is not mainstream.
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  44. Watch the video where he goes farther in the issue. He is correct on the idea that healthcare is a commodity that someone has to provide. Sorry, but the government does not have a magic wand to just create things.
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  45. Futa Nari, the idea of no doctors is an extreme. But reality is there are limitations in resources in all healthcare systems. That is why people die on waiting lists in Canada for "elective" heart surgery. Up to 7000 die a year in Australia waiting for "elective" surgery. Read the paper entitled "The Ethics and Reality of Rationing in Medicine" Rationing occurs due to lack of resources. People die or end up in worse shape because of it. Also, I am hear debating you now.
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  46. Futa Nari, those healthcare rankings are completely arbitrary. Anyone can do a legit analysis on the stats and have the US be number 1 if they wanted. The fact you take something as complex as healthcare and limited down to an arbitrary ranking shows how little you care to actually research this topic.
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  47. Futa Nari, again, those rankings are arbitrary. Do you even know how those rankings were created? I doubt it. But you blindly follow them because it confirms your firmly held, religious like belief. I never said the US is number one. I, as a math minor that took stats, that is a PhD student in physical chemistry, understand that stats can be presented in many ways and many variables influence them. Ever heard of the book "How to Lie with Statistics"? Anyone can take the stats and present them in a away to fit a narrative. I understand that healthcare is very complex and it cannot be reduced down to an arbitrary ranking. You can throw any stat and me and I will show you how it can be viewed differently that is legit. You say I have a "naive way of thinking" when you blindly follow a ranking you have no clue how it was even created.
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  48. BPD MF, the issue with healthcare is that minor things can be major. Having more general practitioners would be great but is not the solution as they cannot tell you if something is more severe or not. Also, many issues with people in the US is compounded due to many health issues. Poor people are generally less healthy with high rates of obesity making their issues more severe. In the US the poor suffer, I agree, but a lot of times it is due to their own doing. Also, saying "train more general practitioners" is easier said than done. People don't work 55 hours a day to get food and water. Things have never been better for society.
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  49. Futa Nari, you say "overall quality of the care provided". How do they measure that "quality"? You have not explained that. The US is number 1 in cancer survival rate and none of those rankings factor in that. And telling me to "Google it" is not an argument. I have Google rebuttals to those rankings. You are using it to fit a narrative. You have no clue how those rankings are developed and just blindly follow them. Again, healthcare is complex. To limit it down to a simple ranking is intellectual dishonesty.
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  50. Futa Nari, raising the min. wage would not solve anything. Most earning the min. wage are not poor to begin with. As for "free college", the US has the best university system in the world. We have the most international students for a reason and top researchers here for a reason. Poor people in the US have it fine. Can their situation get better? Yes. But their situation is unique compare to the poor in other countries. Most of their problems are self inflicted with our higher rates of obesity and teen pregnancies and single parents. Those are cultural and societal factors that require a different approach than just giving money away.
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  51. The Zero Zero, and this is why this movement is not mainstream. You won one election so far and you are calling this movement mainstream. These ultra leftists may win 5 seats and that's it. Remember that Allison Hartson receives 2% of the vote. You refuse to listen to the other side. You deny reality. And when someone presents you strong arguments showing how complex these issues are you dismiss them. I am not sitting here saying that I am right, I am saying that these issues are complex. Your denial of that is why you will continue to lose.
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  52. Futa Nari, US universities are affordable. You have CC and JC that are cheap and you have affordable four year colleges. I went to an affordable four year college on $10,000 a year that included summer courses. I am now in graduate school and have my college paid for. And the payout you get after you complete college is worth it. What made colleges so expensive were government subsidizes, especially the student loan program. It increased demand without increasing supply. Thus college charged more knowing that the government would pay up. This is why when people say Medicare for all would be cheaper are completely wrong. You are increasing demand without increasing supply. Medical providers will raise prices and the government will pay up. The counter if they don't is lower quality which the people do not want. Politicians will just raise the debt ceiling as they don't care as they are not permanent in office. The people won't care about cost as they are not paying but they will see if quality improves or not. Your comment on right wingers is a strawman. They criticize low earning degrees such as Gender Studies. Besides that, subsidizing colleges does lower the quality or does make it more expensive. The value in college is not sitting in classrooms listening to lectures. The values in college is developing connections, learning how to manage time and money, and showing employers that you are willing to invest time and money into accomplishing a long term goal. If you remove that investment part employers will not value a degree. Poor people in the US have it fine. They have advanced technology. In those other countries you point to those benefits are not great. The correlation with poverty and obesity comes from life style choices. Those individuals are poor for a reason. They make poor choices. Being obese shows you do not care about yourself and are essentially lazy. It translate to other areas of life. Giving them money to make them not poor is not going to change their habits. You claim I deny things when I don't. I have never seen a corporation force food down someone's throat. I am not obese. I guess I am avoiding corporations somehow forcing food down my throat and preventing me from going to the gym.
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  53. William, I feel less people will attend medical school if healthcare becomes nationalized because they would not want to be working for the government. But even if that is not the case we still lack doctors. Every country does. There is no way we can cover everyone. Also, I am not a fan of healthcare insurance companies. I feel they have too much power. You are making a false assumption about me. I want to hold insurance companies accountable. I just understand that a free market can do that. We do not have a free market system in healthcare. We have a highly regulated system that gives more power to the insurance companies and less to the people.
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  54. Futa Nari, debate me on healthcare and see how well it goes.
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  55. On the debate against Cruz when a hair salon owner asked him how she could afford healthcare his response was "I don't know". He had no desire to learn about her business. He just went on an emotional rant about what if her employees get sick. In the other debate when he was pushed by a guy from Denmark on tax rates He admitted that he would have to raise taxes on everyone to pay for his free stuff. He became very emotional. When Cruz cited actual data in healthcare Bernie pointed to opinion polls. Bernie is a poor debater. I can out debate him.
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  56. Futa Nari, it hasn't been proven that Medicare for all is "less costly". There isn't any strong data to support that idea. Also, saying it is cheaper is only one part of the argument. What about quality? What about innovation? You are ignoring that. A studio apartment is cheaper than a two bedroom apartment. Does that make the studio better?
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  57. Futa Nari, R&D is funded privately. Government funded research goes into very broad topics that produce little. I am paid on an NIH grant. I produce nothing directly in terms of healthcare. My research can help pioneer it, but the real productivity comes from the private sector. I do scientific research for a living. This is an issue you will not beat me on.
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  58. Futa Nari, so reading a book is a bad thing now? You told me to do research. I pointed you to a book to read on this topic. You told me to do research but did not point to a single source. So what should I research? Should I go to the Daily Wire and look at what Ben Shapiro posted? You see, I pointed you to a book to read and a paper as I know sources to look at. You don't. You did what Cenk did and that was saying "Google it".
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  59. Futa Nari, I said I research in science on an NIH grant. I am pursuing a PhD in physical chemistry. Also, do you know how often experts in their field read? There are a ton of books out there the release new information all the time. I am reading the book "Nonlinear Optics" as it is directed towards my field. I read a couple papers a day as it is directed to my field. There is a lot of information out there for one to learn. I see your problem. You feel that experts know everything and do not need to learn more. That is the complete opposite of an expert. An expert realizes there is a lot to learn and not enough time. These issues are far from settled. To you the healthcare debate it. However, to experts it isn't. That is why there is research done in it. That is why those two professors wrote that book on it. As for the clause in the Constitution, legal scholars debate that as well. I gave you my argument and you just dismissed it with your logical fallacy. Matt Christiansen Googled what Cenk told the people to. He has a Youtube video on it. You should watch it. In short, the issues are complex and cannot be solved with a simple Google search.
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  60. Futa Nari, the fact you feel that experts do not need to read shows your problems. Experts read a lot. I read a lot. These fields are very dynamic and thus there is a desire to keep up with current events. I guess you can go with your arbitrary rankings and I will go with my many books and peer reviewed papers.
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  61. Saying he is the amendment king is a low bar to set.
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  62. It is free speech.
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  63. Money is speech. There are many ways to support a candidate. You can post a sign, rally for them, dedicate an entire youtube channel to them, or donate money to them for them to pay for advertisements and campaigns. Advertisements cost money. As long as there is not quid pro quo there is nothing illegal.
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  64. 1. Who is going to build it? 2. The people you give the homes to, are they going to maintain it?
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  65. If you make healthcare a right it does.
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  66. Ryne Green, if you get cancer in another country you have a lower chance of survival compare to being in the US.
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  67. Mingchao Shi, do you work for free?
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  68. JR 14, $4 trillion was a quick off of the top of my had estimate. Other countries pay less in healthcare because they offer less. We offer more CT scans and have higher cancer survival rates for example. So sure, we can pay less but our quality will suffer. But assuming that we pay half that is still $1.7 trillion. Cutting defense spending to zero will not cover half that.
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  69. RandomGuy, that is such a convincing argument. I am completely changing my viewpoint on life now because of it. I am a Bernie supporter now.
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  70. JR 14, American's life span has been going up for years.
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  71. JR 14, you are truncating the chart. Looking at a couple of years does not show the overall trend. Over the past decades life expectancy has gone up. 1/10 of a year drop is nothing compared to it increasing nearly 5 years in the past 20 years. If the best you can do is pinpoint two years of life expectancy to make you case than you do not have an argument. You do know from 2014 to 2015 the life expectancy of France dropped as well? The life expectancy of the UK dropped between that time as well. But hey, who needs facts?
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  72. JR 14, our trend is not flat. Also, Japan has high suicide rates, so it seems that they have many problems as well. You are really reaching at this point.
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  73. JR 145, you are really splitting hairs here. You are looking at 5 years of data. As a person who understands stats I can argue that the life expectancies of the UK and Japan have flatten out as well, that the recent increase you are seeing is due to the drop in life expectancy that happen in Japan between 2010-2011 and in the UK between 2011-2012. Japan has high life expectancy due to other factors such as diet. The US spends over 40% of their food dollar eating out. Japan and the UK spend around 20% of their food dollar eating out. If you remove car accidents and murders, things not strongly connected to healthcare, the US is number 1 in the world in life expectancy. Also, over the past 5-10 years didn't we get Obamacare? I guess you are arguing we need less government in healthcare as apparently more government has led to lower life expectancy according to you.
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  74. tcorangemen, because medicare for all will be more expensive
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  75. 1. The "paid for it" with lower quality 2. We are the richest nations and do not have universal healthcare, ever thought that us not having universal healthcare made us rich? 3. There is no quantitative way to measure "happiness", it is 100% subjective
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  76. Vineeth, up to 7000 people die a year in Australia on waiting lists waiting for "elective surgery". People die in other nations due to shortcomings. That 45,000 stat is an empty stat as you have no standard to compare it to. Name me one country where no one dies due to shortcomings in their healthcare system. You can't as none exist.
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  77. piet, we do try. The argument is what is the best route. To me and many others the best route is a free market route.
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