Comments by "Titanium Rain" (@ChucksSEADnDEAD) on "Lex Clips" channel.

  1. He understood the meme. The point is that aquaman is the only feasible buyer once the house is underwater. Ben understood that - he pointed out that between now and aquaman buying the house there could be multiple owners of that house who'd be able to use it for a few decades and negotiate a lower price.
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  2.  @KeekeOrb  "My car is worth 15,000 dollars" "But you have 300k miles on it" "Okay I'll accept 5,000" See how it works? The house would be massively devalued, which means you could buy it for cheap and use it for 20 years. Maybe you could even live in it for 10 years, and then sell it for even cheaper to someone who only needs it for 10 years. You don't "lose" money on the purchase if the house is so cheap that you actually save money living in it for X amount of years conmpared to a rental. The last person doesn't have to hold the bag, just buy it for so cheap that he or she will get enough use out of it to justify the cost. "Not to mention that no insurance company would insure that house." - If the house is going to become unfeasible to live in in 20 years, get a contract to insure it for 15.
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  3. They withstood the airplane strike. The fires brought them down.
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  4.  @sharlesdaviskendy2391  Who am I going to sell the 500 dollar car to? Nobody. I drive it until the wheels fall off and then it goes to the junkyard.
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  5.  @WSmith_1984  How am I being disingenuous? If you have a system that's inherently revolutionary, and calls for the abolishment of capitalism, at least have a plan to exist without capitalism. If you claim you want to abolish capitalism and you violently repress people from the former economy, how can you expect to come with your hands out and beg for support? If your plan needs the help of capitalists, you have failed before you started. You created your own economic system. Use it. Don't beg for help from the people you demonized. What fair crack at the whip? What socialist nations gave people a fair crack at the whip? Money is simply a token of exchange. Oh, and socialist nation leaders didn't glorify and worship their own wealth? Did they not control supply? Did they not force people to work to the bone for little pay? Human time has value, and socialism is the most efficient way to waste it.
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  6.  @Jenkkimie  You don't even know what semantics are. If you think a little, there is no problem. The house becomes less valuable which means there's still an opportunity. If you look at the cost of renting and the cost of buying a house that's living on borrowed time, and the house comes out on top, you can easily think of it as a rental. You don't keep it. Someone will eventually own a house that becomes condemned and has to be knocked down. Someone will eventually own a car that it costs more to repair than the scrap value. Someone always uses something for the last time. The problem is that you think that a house is forever and always a half a million dollar purchase. I come to you and say I have a 50k house and in ten years the government is going to take it away because it's not safe. You do the math and figure out you're getting a house for 5k a year. It would cost you more to rent. Why wouldn't you take the deal, and when the ten years are up you let the sea or erosion gobble it up?
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  7.  @Jenkkimie  I've tackled the issue. This isn't cognitive dissonance. A junked car is a junked car. The house is still flooded. The car is still junked. Everything you own will break down at some point.
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  8. "Akchutally it wasn't real communism!"
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  9.  @Mellowyellow8888  It also makes zero ethical sense to contaminate the control group. The fact of the matter is that the chances of dying are so low it makes more sense to preserve the data than argue that they need to protect a few thousand people.
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  10.  @byrnemeister2008  Your opponent made a very compelling argument. Care to counter?
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  11.  @enterpassword3313  That's not true. You're lying through your teeth about Crimean independence referendums. Independence initially made sensewhen Ukraine wanted to leave the Union but after the Union collapsed Crimea chose to remain in Ukraine. The issue was that the Ukrainian and Crimean constitutions were incompatible. Ukraine did not "take over" in 1995, it just delegitimized the office of the president.
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  12.  @TheRustedShackleford  I take it seriously, which is precisely why I'm worried about a huge gang of thieves and murderers being in charge of it. You think a government wouldn't shut your power and gas for a few days and claim it was Russia to keep you in a perpetual state of fear?
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  13.  @sharlesdaviskendy2391  Depends. If they continue living there, they lose 100% of their money. It's a choice. I'd rather negotiate with someone and take a hit on value to recoup some of my loss, while that person gains off my loss.
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  14.  @jamescooke7243  Yes, they had as much time as they wanted. The last phase of the trial involved 48k people. This is nothing compared to how many doses were administered.
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  15.  @baron_xd4633  There's the compounding factor that as a novel virus it's different enough for a good chunk of the population to not have any sort of defenses against it, and we're being too reactive instead of proactive. We know inflammation and oxidative stress are causing massive damage to the people with serious cases, well after the viral load has decreased. But go on reddit and see what nurses are saying, they're just sedating people and hooking them up to ventilators knowing they have a low chance of making it. What the actual hell is going on?
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  16. Honestly, I'm on the other way around. I'm sick of people explaining things to me at a 6th grade level. I actually know more than the people who are trying to lecture me, and that makes me feel they were lectured to like children, and now they're trying to lecture me like I'm a child. No, I know what these people are telling me are massive oversimplifications. It doesn't work that way.
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  17.  @genericdisposable9952  "our democracy" you look outside the window and tell me you own a piece of that democracy
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  18. @Despize Perform I don't trust that at all.
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  19.  @dan2569  This is the reason I refuse to take it. I've already had the coof twice, Wuhan strain and Omicron, and it was a cold that lasted one day. However since 2019 I have had a worrying heart condition that is still undiagnosed (thanks to lockdowns delaying appointments and exams), and I have occasional chest pain and high heart rate. I'm genuinely worried that if I take it, this is going to make it worse (or actually kill me) but doctors won't even entertain that this could be a risk factor. And again I had this before the pandemic so it wasn't myocarditis from viral infection, that many claim to be more common than adverse reactions.
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  20. ​ @ince55ant  The festival happened before a war. There's a difference between declaring everything a legitimate target and going ham, and then having a war where you hide among civilians. During peacetime the military lives among civilians, and has bases within city limits. You can't use that fact to do like Russia and drop Iskanders on every apartment block.
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  21. Communism doesn't "work" even under the Dunbar limit. Communism doesn't even work in a household, usually who brings home the bacon makes the rules.
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  22. Donestk and Luhansk "agency" or FSB agency? Igor Girkin and other Russian nationals without any links to Donbas started the "uprising". What about the agency of the people who fled to West Ukraine because they wanted to flee Russia? What about the agency of Mariupol residents who were hit by Grad volleys fired by the glorious separatists and Russian army in disguise?
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  23. America did. Everyone else was taking US aid.
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  24.  @Tygrus758  Not to dogpile but the US Air Force had scientists and engineers living in Las Vegas and flying them out to the middle of the Nevada desert to a place called Homey Airport. Colloquially referred to as "Area 51". The Soviets also had a biological weapons program in Aralsk-7, a facility in an island in the Aral sea. High level scientists will go where the paycheck takes them.
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  25.  @paulmichaelfreedman8334  How do you know they would have lived if they had contracted something else?
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  26. Except that's not how it works. Once you leave military life you are a civilian again. Just like if you are a soldier, get wounded, and give up, the enemy can't just finish you off with a coup d'grace. You're out of combat and no longer a threat.
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  27.  @himiehonor1196  Listen to Russians or read their telegram. They're not hating anything.
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  28.  @westleymullins  Someone speaking at a 6th grade level doesn't mean they're not able to learn or understand concepts. Talking to people like children only leads to two outcomes - people will feel offended and reject the message, or promoting infantilization and we'll be consistently trapped in a treadmill of trying to lower the grade at which we speak instead of pulling everyone to a higher level. There's nothing that tanks credibility like purposefully talking down to people. I'll be primed to look for the inconsistencies and inaccuracies.
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  29.  @westleymullins  And I'm just saying, after almost two years of people trying to use 6th grade language, I'd rather blow my brains out. Because I know that what they're saying is wrong and they were purposefully taught with 6th grade language to imprint this wrong information into their heads in an easily digestible way.
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  30.  @HarkyOfficial  How? Whatever they learned, was how to make life a living hell while also not making the problem go away.
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  31. It was not an impossible route.
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  32.  @enterpassword3313  Crimea had a referendum at gunpoint.
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  33.  @TheRustedShackleford  "unless they're forced to because it costs money" - If your entire operation gets shut down, does that not cost money? "Food and health inspectors probably give you nightmares..." - I've worked minimum wage jobs in kitchens. Let me put it this way. If you're not eating at a restaurant the day the health inspector shows up, you're not eating at whatever grade the restaurant got. If your infrastructure is only secure in the days when the government audit shows up, does that really make you safe?
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  34. ​ @adrihans1870  Africa didn't beat colonialism, they just let the Soviets and Maoists take charge.
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  35.  @sharlesdaviskendy2391  Yes. Someone has to be the last owner of any item on this earth. Nothing is forever. It's not obfuscation. It's how things work.
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  36.  @dRoy8364  Man, this guy right here doesn't understand the difference between a joke and actual politics.
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  37.  @WSmith_1984  If a socialist country has the communist party in charge, how can being hindered from trade affect them? Communists have all the theories, they can figure it out. They know how to survive without capitalism, why would they want to have access to it?
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  38.  @WSmith_1984  I know the difference between socialism and communism. The fact of the matter is that communists always failing to deliver on their promises does not hinder my argument. Socialism is a transitional state where the communist party is in charge. In the USSR, who was in charge? The Communist Party of each nation. What was the USSR? A union of Soviet Socialist Republics. So who cares? The people in charge should know about failure points rather than expect cooperation from the people they declared war on. There are no countries with a democratic socialist system. Social democracies are capitalist countries. Are you actually bringing up 2015/2016 talking points to this conversation and purposefully misleading people into believing that democratic socialism exists? The proof is in the pudding - there's many countries without the issues you mentioned, and they're not socialist. So yes, thanks for proving yourself wrong.
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  39.  @WSmith_1984  My point is very clearly a response to yours, it's you who's kind of being vague.
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  40. ​ @connorbrady5689  The Nazis specifically used slave labor to prop up their war effort. That's why not all camps were death camps. You're comparing an ongoing conflict where one side puts as much civilians in front of themselves to use as a shield as a battle tactic, to an industrialized program to extract value out of people before getting rid of them. It's like the comparison between birth defects in Fallujah and Hiroshima/Nagasaki. It's an emotional argument. The toxic chemicals left behind from battle will affect more people than and outright flattening of a city. All it takes is thinking for a second. The nukes and subconsequent effects wiped out those closest to the radiation source, so they didn't pass down as much birth defects. If you think about it for a second, the Nazis prioritized sending to death camps the old, weak and sick. Not those who could still be put to work.
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  41. It kinda is. I'm forced into participating in this system against my will, if annoying people like you forever is the only satisfaction I can get, then I guess you'll just have to deal with it.
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  42.  @finerbiner  Please. Everyone complains all the time. You complain too (you're doing it right now). You're just miffed that people are complaining for the wrong reasons. We're all losers in a world where everyone's a loser, then. You're not forced to do anything? Try stop paying taxes. Living in the woods doesn't exempt you from the system, you know that. You don't care, and here you are complaining about the people you supposedly don't care about. You're trying to be too cool for school after you already made your vulnerability public. You care, deeply, which is why you posted your initial comment. Now leave it here for everyone to see how quickly you change your mind as soon as someone gets inside your head, or delete it to wipe the thread and it will be our secret.
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  43.  @marklefevre3476  "If you put a mask on, it slows down the air you exhale and keeps it in a more confined area. It physically doesn't get to them." - It still gets to them. Just a lesser number of particles. "When you inhale, you're breathing in their air, whether you're wearing a mask or not." - Yes, but when you inhale the low pressure zone sucks the mask right up to your face. So you take a limited breath through the gaps when you start, and everything else gets pushed through the filtering surface. When you exhale, the positive pressure zone forces the mask away from your face and creates wider gaps that serve as path of least resistance.
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  44. Whataboutism
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  45. That's a riddiculous standard as there are short adults and tall teenagers.
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  46. How were they duped?
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  47. Whataboutism
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  48. Norm is the narcissistic here.
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  49. By his logic, you can't exactly blame the Allies for causing so much destruction to Germany. There's choice people who can be pointed to as near genocidal (like Bomber Harris) but WWII was not a genocide against Germany or Japan for that matter. You want to judge the Allies for daring to stop Germany, you do you boo.
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  50.  @steffeneilers8530  Okay so in a twisted sense not only have I managed to vote against my own interests, but like natural selection I managed to make my opposition worse and thus force me to double down on voting against my interests because the alternative will always get worse. The only winning move is not to play, and you proved it for me.
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  51.  @FearlessP4P1  Canada signed a military cooperation agreement with China in 2013. Then everyone forgot about it. No invasion.
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  52.  @06rtm  But Ukraine couldn't join NATO due to the border conflict since 2014.
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  53.  @29memyselfandi  I think I did something wrong because I got a bamel.
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  54. The Junkers Jumo 004 was hot garbage and they were fully aware of it because they were on full "perfect is the enemy of good" mode and strived for ease of production despite of the fact that the engine was held together by spit and prayers and could need a refurbishment after 10-50 hours of operation depending on how hard you flew it. The V2 project was more expensive than the Manhattan project despite using slave labor, and it killed more people in the construction of the missiles than in its military application. Out of 1610 V2s fired at Antwerp only 590 were direct hits. The Germans were also fooled into overshooting London by bogus casualty reports. They weren't perfecting the ICBM if their guidance was driven by guesstimation rather than precisely calculated impact points, and it was more of a short range missile. The nuclear project was also a joke, with very little funding, most researchers giving up and working on other projects, and the diversion of the uranium stock towards the production of ammunition cores. It's not that they were unsuccessful at building a nuclear reactor, it's that they barely even tried.
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  55.  @dont4922  This assumes that people will not take their safety as their own responsibility. When authorities were saying masks are useless, I saw people wearing full fledged respirators and gas masks to go shopping. And the measures will be adapted by each business, instead of having two or three sizes fits all of measures that outright force closures without any leeway, or severely limit walk ins, while other businesses are allowed to operate freely. Also, the sharp and short lockdown would not have worked considering that in the Americas and Europe we have found samples taken in late 2019 that included antibodies for the Wuhan strain, meaning it was already present, and it would continue through household contacts and resurface when the lockdown was over.
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  56.  @CLDLL-yr8df  I remember when the US invaded Iraq and several NATO countries said no. Being a member of NATO doesn't mean you are dominated.
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  57. If you're a physicist with 20 years of experience you don't break down into a crying mess of ad hom.
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  58. Putin said all countries have the right to decide their alliances. Putin also said that Crimea was Ukraine and they would not invade after Georgia 2008.
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  59.  @markportnoy6290  Ineffectual response? He attempted to stop the spread by suspending travel and was called a racist over it. In fact, I remember the side opposing Trump suggesting that we hug people and releasing articles about how the yearly flu kills more people so we're stupid for caring about covid. Also, didn't more people die under Biden's watch?
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  60. You'd have a hard time OD'ing on it, it's mixed with a component that makes you throw up if you take too much.
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  61.  @jakw97  violence is a tool of the state... the whole point of a state is an organization that holds the monopoly on violence. All the state can use is violence. Don't pretend to have moral hang ups about violence when your system depends on it.
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  62. Ford must have killed millions by selling vehicles all over the world.
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  63.  @TheRustedShackleford  Regulation is control. Most sophisticated? By whose definition? I don't trust the government to write a law regarding the sophistication of a system, they'll bungle that one up or actually have the unintended consequence of legally trapping companies into using outdated systems they could upgrade but now can't due to law.
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  64. ​ @RandoBurner  Reductio Ad Absurdum.
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  65.  @Jenkkimie  How did he fail?
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  66.  @sharlesdaviskendy2391  On the surface level it is and it almost sounds like a joke, but it really isn't. If the property retains value albeit reduced, people can move sell it and move.
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  67.  @hana-a-cha  New homes are built all the time too. Cars break down all the time out of a sudden, houses can have issues that give you ample time to move out or repair. For example look at the millenium tower leaning to one side in San Francisco. The issue is evident years before something could topple the building. Again, we lose more coastline to erosion than rising sea levels. The first effect of rising sea levels will be sea water contamination of fresh water tables. There's people right now living on cliff edges that would have that issue without global warming, it's coastline erosion that will destroy homes first.
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  68.  @conradmonson30  I'm not a Shapiro enthusiast. We don't make things to last 100 years. Ever heard of Roman concrete? Lasts more than our modern concrete. The problem is, you can't use rebar to reinforce it. So you're limited to construction that keeps each segment in compression rather than tension, that's arches and domes. Modern concrete construction techniques are so much stronger you can make flat slabs, you can make the segments much lighter, and you can make stuff much taller without requiring massive support arches. But it's not going to last 2000 years. The cracks and corrosion will eventually require the building to be brought down and something else rebuilt. We always talk about how old cars were bullet proof. Well, if we made cars overbuilt the way they were, we wouldn't be able to afford them. When my parents were kids, the average person couldn't own a car where I live. Now in average the families living there have like 1.5 cars. What does it all mean? Anyone can pay lip service to what happens 100 years from now. Truth is, everyone can lie about it because few expect to still be around then. When you make it about the practical, what happens to X when Y, you kind of give up the big picture. You want the big picture? It doesn't matter what happens after 100 years if that house isn't going to be there anymore. Because it was never built to last 100 years.
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  69.  @Gantz_rl  Who tf would buy a shitbox car that is known to give out in a few years? Everyone does it. Let's say rent is 1500 dollars and the house is 50k. Ten years until you have to vacate if you buy it. Your choice is between losing 180k to rent in those 10 years, or just 50k over the same time period. By buying the house, even if the value goes to 0, you're actually saving yourself 130k. How's that not the smartest financial decision you could have made?
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  70.  @iseedeadpeople6667  Sure. But that was arguably a risk the owner took without realizing it was a bad decision. You could say the same about anyone building close to the San Andreas fault line. San Andreas isn't just the name of one of the best GTA titles. It's a geological formation which has the potential to unleash a Big One in the next 30 years. "People would be homeless" also applies to flood prone areas, hurricane/tornado prone areas, erosion prone areas, active volcanoes, etc. How come you can resort to such a simplistic take that applies to literally anything? Let's not build anywhere! We all move to Yucca Mountain or Cheyenne Mountain! We'll be safe in the sturdy rock!
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  71. Why would I want to say "I helped"? Do people vote thinking they're getting a gold star?
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  72. In BJJ competitions there's an "absolute" category with no weight classes. While the heavy guy always has the advantage with top pressure, skill can overcome.
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  73.  @YOILIKEWEED  I know a dozen people who were banned from social media for talking about it in 2020.
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  74. Live attenuated vaccines have extremely poor records with coronaviridae. One of the reasons there's no common cold vaccine.
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  75. You do realize they're taking up hospital beds for other reasons and simply test positive. These incidental cases make up 40-65% of hospitalizations "with" covid depending on the country, meaning that your rant is meaningless. Also, Der Spiegel has reported that in Hamburg 70% of the hospitalizations are of unknown status, so they just write them down as unvaccinated. If one city is lying to make the shot look better, why wouldn't everyone be lying?
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  76. But he did get it. He explained why there could be a line of buyers before aquaman.
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  77. China and Canada signed a military agreement in 2013. Nobody cared.
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  78. The argument makes perfect sense. Value would go down as part of a long term trend. It does change the outcome. A car with 300k miles is devalued by the perceived "wear and tear" and buyers will expect repairs to be necessary down the line. A broken down car is worth even less and is basically unsellable except as junk or to someone who wants that specific model and is willing to recover it. Now try to claim that stretching the timeline doesn't change the outcome - is an old car the same as a broken down car?
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  79. Defend himself AKA declare control of areas and say it's his territory.
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  80. ​ @TylerShacklefordDurden  German citizens in the 1940s suffered much worse than Gaza. Dresden was like 25,000 fatalities in a couple of days.
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  81.  @sanders555  Exactly, the lockdowns were the government replacing the batteries on the bird robots.
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  82. It's not WW3 when it's a single country getting ganged on.
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  83. "The point is to stop a pandemic" - If that was the point you wouldn't have called people racist for noticing something was happening in Wuhan. You people insisted on not taking action. Then you brought on government mandates by the time it was too late to stop it. "why the fuck would you take on the added risk to yourself and your families" - Hold on, now I have to wear a mask at home? "Asian countries that were close to China, used masks from the get go of the outbreak and were able to control their numbers very well." - They also immediately started quarantines for travelers and contact tracing. You people said it was racist to think travelers could be carrying the virus. You people said it was the flu. You people said only doctors know how to wear masks correctly. And by the time it was too late, you people decided it was the goddamn plague. To hell with your blatant revisionism.
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  84.  @Brejamlyn  I've used condoms all my life and they never failed. People are using masks and still getting sick. I fail to see how the comparison is supposed to convince me.
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  85. Austin isn't insignificant, a ton of companies settled there.
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  86. Yes, the craters at Energodar show the shells are coming from Russian occupied territory. Did you see the Rosatom spokesperson trying to tell the IAEA inspectors that Ukrainian rockets look Russian because they do a 180 degree flip?
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  87. You want to stop someone's liver, stomach and lungs under the assumption only the heart and brain are essential. You can't. There's no built in support or compassion, you can't hit pause on human activity and get surprised that non-essential stuff is actually critical to maintain the essential stuff.
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  88.  @eachday9538  A medically induced coma requires people to be awake to monitor you, feed you, etc. If you put everyone in a coma at the same time, who's there to make sure you're not dying? Who's there to keep making the food that goes into the tube? I have to seriously question those numbers. One would think the economy was running on fumes but kept afloat by government policy, and then the training wheels have to come off and now you're seeing the actual effects from the lockdown. All policies you enact in short term to avoid a collapse is just money you're taking from your future self. When the time comes to pay and as it turns out you've only delayed the inevitable, you're stuck with both the collapse and the debt.
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  89.  @eachday9538  Okay, how do essential workers manage to work without non-essentials? Essentials still need clothes, shoes, dry cleaning, to eat, etc. Either everyone's essential or nobody is. Farmers had to destroy produce because they had no workers to harvest, no workers to ship the product, and even if they had all that there were other issues such as non-essential factories being on hold and thus produce and meat not having plastic to wrap them. You think food is essential, but food requires a ton of non-essential things to come to your store. You think you can draw a line on what's essential and what's not. Your lockdown just became... tanking the entire entertainment industry I guess? Yeah screw those musicians and roadies and sound/lighting people. Everyone keeps working but them, because it's the only sector that others don't depend on. What does testing do except show you the cases that aren't serious? Good, you have a bigger number on the counter on TV. So what? That's not going to cure the ones in the hospital, but you'll be able to cause even more issues as entire chunks of the workforce are required to stay home and isolate due to contact. They test negative, go back to work, then someone tests positive again. Back to isolation. Now workplaces don't even have essentials. You've done absolutely nothing to protect the vulnerable, but you sure got to cause more pain and suffering.
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  90.  @eachday9538  Okay, that doesn't explain how the tool in the toolbox is going to be used properly. Australia is an island nation. The bug can't swim across the ocean, dawg.
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  91.  @eachday9538  Because the WHO recommended against travel restrictions and when this was brought up in the United States people were called racist? Nothing was squandered away, all you had was a delay of the inevitable. You knew Australia had to come in contact with it at some point. Or do they keep the country inside a bubble forever? Yeah, you got compliance rates high by threatening people with the loss of their jobs. Great. Not cowardly and scummy at all, go after people's livelihoods to get your way. The Harvey Weinstein method, I call it. Death rates are lowering across the board due to Omicron. We tried the spectrum. By pushing for more, you want the all. How are you paying for social supports when you essentially demolish the economy? I only brought up that sector because it would be the only one unaffected. So no lockdown except for musicians, and we don't destroy the economy so we can pay them? Sure. Most of the spread will still occur in households, it would be probably safer to attend concerts. No matter the way you slice it, you're always making grave mistakes trying to set policy.
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  92.  @eachday9538  If you can call that living...
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  93. ​ @ArielMajjhoo  "hm actually your honor who smealt it dealt it"
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  94. Do you even know what a strawman is? Strawman is purposefully creating your own argument that is weaker than the opponent's and defeating it.
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  95.  @petervandenengel1208  Stalin did not follow original Marxist theory and the MH17 was confirmed to have been shot down by the Buk launcher numbered 332 from the 53rd anti air missile brigade stationed in Kursk - a Russian military unit. The dings and bends in the metallic skirts match VKontakte social media pictures posted by Russian soldiers. Photos and video of the launcher, launch site and smoke trail confirm it was launched from the separatist side, plus the exact launch spot was confirmed by satellite picture of the scorch mark on the ground. Separatists also published videos of them cheering the shootdown, which were deleted (but archived) after it became public they had shot down a civilian airline.
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  96. Hell yeah dude.
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  97. ​ @j.r.r.tolkien8724  What happened to Germany in WW2 wasn't genocide.
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  98. Pentagon with a tonic accent and BBC is British... wow
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  99. I'll purposefully pick the bigger idiot as many times as it takes for you to understand the system is flawed. We've been doing the opposite of "nothing" for decades and your premonition didn't come true. Stop trying to convince us with the same tired arguments we already know are false.
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  100. Both claims are true. The trenches were filmed by drone and the craters at Energodar prove Russia shelled the plant.
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  101. If it pissed them off, why no response to Sweden or Finland. Also, would not Russian invasions in the past piss everyone else off, making them consider NATO membership?
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  102. 3d printing is a bad way to build housing. Most of the homeless are mentally ill and addicted to substances, policies that focus on housing fail because a homeless person rarely can be housed. First you have to fix their addiction or mental illness, then they'll get a house.
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  103. Ukraine is one of ours. Putin should have stayed in his backwater country.
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  104.  @FuriousImp  Scott Ritter is a convicted p3d0phile.
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  105. He didn't delay, he was bribed into signing a deal with Russia that would nullify the EU deal.
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  106.  @Zeitgeist_Dron  It's a pretty big "detail" that a president went against the wishes of his voter block for personal profit and then murdered protesters. Nothing awkward about a rich actor with his own production company owning property in America. How many Russian oligarchs have high rise apartments and mansions in Paris, Los Angeles, New York, London, etc?. Bit awkward. I thought the west was evil, but any Russian who comes across some money wants to live with us.
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  107. The elected government was not overthrown.
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  108.  @ltmund  It was violent because the Russian-trained Berkut unit cracked down on protesters hard to demoralize them while Yanukovych passed laws to restrict free speech.
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  109.  @tomfennings8384  It wasn't violent and it was by democracy. The democratically elected government showed up to the Verkhovna Rada and voted to remove the president from power due to his escape to Russia.
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  110.  @ltmund  There were violent protests. The removal of Yanukovych happened by vote. What happened in the streets was violent. Yanukovych's removal was bureaucratic. Why does anyone discuss anything? Today I turned on the TV, they were talking about Ukraine. Why?
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  111.  @markupton1417  False. The Soviet Union depended on American lend lease. The US also won Desert Storm.
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  112. Russia keeps threatning nukes. They've been at it for a decade.
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  113.  @trimetrodon  Mearsheimer also said Putin was too smart to invade.
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  114. Voting for the lesser of two evils is still voting for evil. Spend a few decades voting for the lesser of two evils and you'll end up with the things you initially voted against.
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  115.  @1donniekak  the deal was no NATO forces in East Germany while the USSR existed.
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  116.  @cybervigilante  Minsk II was broken the day after it was signed by DPR forces assaulting Debaltseve and forcing the Ukrainian army out. The slaughter was brought on by Russia.
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  117.  @gcod3d161  "especially if things are made to have a short lifetime and be unrepairable/ not modular because capitalist companies will make more money that way" - There is a reason for it. Most technology develops fast enough that a new model comes out every year, and the consumer demands it. Outside of things like DRM and proprietary software, most of the fragility and unrepairable nature are a result of market demands. If the market demanded modular phones that could last a decade, companies would provide. Can 10 year old phones in mint condition even run modern apps? But no, the market demands thin phones with big screens, and at "acceptable" prices. If a company came out with a phone that they guaranteed would last 6 years and was twice the thickness for twice the cost of a model of the same range, people would riot. "at least the workers making those decisions would be the same people that have to deal with the repercussions of their harmful business decisions in their local environment, making that kind of corruption less viable" - Far too optimistic. What repercussions?
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  118. "Why can't we be bad, the US was bad" do you realize how psychotic this line of reasoning sounds? So because serial killers exist you want to try their activities?
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  119. Dude laid it out simply. If you fire a rocket engine all that flame and gas comes out the nozzle. With the lasers the pellet is fired so fast, the "flame and gasses" can't move out of the way fast enough due to inertia. When you press down on a can of deodorant or hair spray it gets cold due to the gasses expanding. The back of your refrigerator is hot, the AC system has a heat exchanger and fan outside, after your turbocharger or supercharger you have an intercooler. Compressing gasses heats them, which is the opposite. When you fire the pellet, the fact that it is "burning" faster than the byproducts can get away (due to inertia) means that you're "compressing" the pellet and thus getting more heat than you put in it from the laser.
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  120.  @skydragon23101979  The US solved it diplomatically by agreeing to remove missiles from Turkey. Was an invasion necessary?
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  121.  @alxhiding  They have not been on great terms. Russians attempted genocide multiple times on Ukrainians.
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  122.  @ProtossOP  The government wasn't overthrown. The government showed up to parliament and had a vote to strip the president of power due to his absence.
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  123.  @skydragon23101979  What negotiation could the US do? "Sorry Ukraine but you are a dog and Russia has you by the leash, we can't treat you with the respect a real country deserves".
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  124.  @FearlessP4P1  How could Russia fear attack if they have nukes?
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  125.  @skydragon23101979  The Maidan revolution only happened because Yanukovych murdered protesters and passed laws against free speech. Had he just ignored the small protests people would move on. A verbal promise that NATO wouldn't expand to East Germany. That promise was kept. To this day only West Germany has international bases.
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  126.  @THEGREATAFFILIATOR  Why would anyone volunteer for Russia? Iran is currently trying to prevent a revolution so they're the least likely to get involved.
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  127.  @Naprolom177  Not true. The only invasion was Afghanistan due to Article 5 and the US being attacked first.
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  128. But Ben didn't strawman them. He explained how the market would react to the information that there's a long term outcome of the house losing all value.
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  129.  @adapienkowska2605  So the poor enjoyed a dirt cheap house for a few years. They lost the house knowing there was a time limit on it. The people aren't discardable. They saved money living in a house that was known that at some point would be condemned. If rising sea levels were delayed, they'd actually strike big by getting a cheap house that lasts for longer than predicted.
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  130. Therapies are also blocked outside the US.
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  131. NATO advanced to Finland, which had adamantly remained neutral during the Cold War. They don't seem worried, even removed defenses from the border.
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  132.  @Jimboken1  Er... so Russia is fundamentally prone to being bamboozled because they can only focus in one situation at a time? If NATO is such a big deal why is Russia weakening their defenses near a new NATO border?
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  133.  @rastiga9196  Someone go tell those people, then. They're clearly breaking procedure.
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  134.  @Pyasa.shaitan  "look at American sanctions on South America" - This is ridiculous. Amazing how the people who blame capitalism complain about being shut out of capitalist trade. "If you think hardwork will turn you into a billionaire" - This is a strawman argument. "Meanwhile two backward countries like Russia and china got rich & productive in less time than USA and Japan" - Yes and after the first minute mile was achieved, more people managed to do it. You always do things faster when someone else laid the blueprint. Also, the Soviet Union's grain requisitions was their way of financing their purchase of foreign made machines so they could get rich and productive.
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  135.  @Pyasa.shaitan  Who said anything about billionaires? I never defended multi-billionaires. You're punching air. See how you changed subject to liberation of women? Free education? Industrialists came up with that one. Make the government pay for the training of future factory workers. Inequality was not abolished anywhere on this planet.
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  136.  @Pyasa.shaitan  Don't know what those countries have to do with anything but thanks for admitting it.
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  137.  @mrkatmandroog  It was definitely a surprise attack. The leaflets that are often talked about were always dropped in multiple cities so nobody could predict which city would get attacked next and set up defenses.
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  138. They were given improper care protocols and were forced to helplessly watch people die. That does a number on anyone.
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  139. How are they dominating? They're sending human wave attacks. They're not holding back, they're constantly running out of ammo and need to stop to replenish supplies. The craters in Energodar confirm Russia is shelling the plant as a false flag.
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  140. A lot of professions do not involve direct competition, and when they do the individuals are hardly to blame.
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  141.  @HarkyOfficial  Funny, because the WHO and most western countries outright refused to be careful and decided to pretend nothing was going on.
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  142. How is it legitimate?
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  143. How did NATO mind control Putin into ordering the attack?
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  144. Same was said about the electric car.
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  145. So Russia gets to have a nuclear arsenal to threaten Ukraine with but the few weapons given by the US (most Ukrainian weapons in 2022 are still Soviet) scares Russia?
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  146.  @domdomdom720  Oh give me a break. Intervention for what? It was a FSB op. They even denied those were Russian troops. Trying to retroactively legitimize a clandestine op is hilarious.
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  147.  @jackthemoldavian5589  No. The Soviet Union asked for NATO not to chase the Warsaw Pact towards the new border between the former East German and Polish territory. This promise was kept - to this day the former East Germany has no NATO bases. Russia always wanted to attack Ukraine - it's been their pet project for centuries. Read Russian social media. They fully believe they need to wipe them off the map. Ukraine staying neutral? That's codeword for weak Ukraine. No friends Ukraine. Easy to invade Ukraine. Try to convince your neighbor to remain "neutral" - he cannot buy locks for his doors or install an alarm. See how well he takes that suggestion. Donetsk and Luhansk were genocided by Russia. They mobilized the men and forced them to be human shields for the Russian army. Very democratic of Russia. Turn their land into a warzone, make people flee for 8 years.
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  148. Poor Russians are the victims, they say. They were the ones who invaded. Ukraine never attacked Russia prior to their invasion.
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  149. Blatantly untrue. Many on the right started looking into masks as a means of self-protection when the government said they didn't work. Then the relevant government agencies, which allowed unchecked spread in the first place, pretended it could be contained and eliminated choice by issuing mandates. That is politics.
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  150. Yet Norm was pissing himself crying whenever Destiny made a good point.
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  151. Because people were told to stay home, so they got worse and had to be taken to the hospital by the time they were critical. The death rate was not 4%. That was CFR. We assumed a high death rate because we truly didn't know how many were infected. Hospitals were filled up by design. I refuse to understand that, because it's a lie. And you're a dangerous person because you've already exposed yourself a bloodthirsty tyrant. You tell this stuff publicly, and you expect me to take you seriously? After openly declaring I should die, you're a threat to my existence. How credible does the threat need to be before people have to act preemptively to prevent being wiped out by people like you?
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  152. ​ @TK-nc3ou  I see replies on the bathroom stall graffiti too. Replying to that requires whipping out a marker pen while taking a dump so if anything writings on stalls are more important than your comment.
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  153. Macgregor has been consistently wrong about Russian victory and Ritter is a p3d0.
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  154. The pandemic started in late 2019, it was global by then.
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  155.  @markportnoy6290  It did nothing because as I had mentioned, the spread was global by late 2019. So it was futile. The opposition response was to deny and deflect, so even if Trump's ineffective response was something that didn't pan out, the opposition wanted to purposefully spread it. Were test kits available in mass by then? Again, the opposition also claimed it was just the flu, and then reversed their position when they found a way to hurt Trump. How have I been gaslit? I paid attention. I saw how YOUR SIDE (Trump's opposition) wanted to spread it. You now concern-troll about initial response as if you weren't holding the exact opposite opinions, and as if you aren't the gaslighter-in-chief. You can stop punching air. You confuse me for a Trump supporter. I'm not. I simply paid attention and don't have the memory of a goldfish. So I have seen your entire gameplan. And I applaud it. We can still be gentlemen in a game where backstabbing and kicking people in the nuts is fair game. But don't try to deny you have a knife in your hand and a steel toed boot in your foot. That's just embarrassing.
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  156.  @markportnoy6290  Hold on. So there were cases, we just didn't know about them, but because they're not counted it wasn't a pandemic? I don't think the definition of a pandemic should be defined by our awareness of it. The black plague was not a pandemic until people realized what it was? You're the one using rhetoric. It wasn't a pandemic because we didn't declare it. I can only scoff at that. Yes, people said it was the flu. I can't post images but there's compilations of news articles about it. We learned from the deadliness before it even "left" China (it already had but we didn't know). We knew it had a 3% CFR. Adult? That's the narrative now! All this testing is clogging up the systems with cases that don't need attention. Funny, the increased testing due to Christmas and NYE is the cause for this debacle, but not the Feb/March increase in 2020? Was mass testing even available in Feb 2020? Yes, I remember that in mid 2020. But early 2020 it wasn't him. It was the opposition. You were called a racist if you thought it was deadlier than the flu. Oh, things are X but they can definitely be Y. Is that how I get a government job? Just say whatever and follow up by admitting things can change? Guys, unemployment will drop! Unless it increases, don't hold it against me if the situation changes! Guys, I can assure you Afghanistan is stable! Unless the Taliban take over the government, again things change. I could read the article. I don't need to, though. You are maybe angered by those 7 statements. That's fine. I'm angered by a million different statements. You only care about Trump Trump Trump. Trump is the only thing on your mind, and you want me to believe you actually care about the virus? So no, I don't care what Vox has to say. I probably already know about 5 or 6 of those statements. I don't need to focus on Trump because I don't care about him. If we hold Trump responsible for what he did (and only that, no ridiculous reasons like no mask mandate - Biden just said it should be up to the states did he not? And only put the mandate on federal buildings?) can you then agree to let us hold everyone else responsible? Or are you so faithful to Trump's opposition you want them to be protected at all costs?
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  157.  @davidradtke160  the issue is that they spent money on division, not on the behalf of anyone. They paid for pro-Sanders ads and ran pages meant to turn the left more extreme, etc. So there's a diference between a political contribution to Trump and trying to fan the flames of a civil war.
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  158. So his response is to lower the level even further?
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  159. Natural resources don't mean anything without extraction, which is the west's expertise. How many African countries are wealthy in resources but still poorer than the poorest European nations?
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  160. You had everything from one group seeing another group as Nazi collaborators and one group seeing another group as the descendants of foreign invaders from centuries ago. Not exactly the same as the US.
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  161.  @pinheadluke3136  Many "who live there" fled. Many "who live there" are no longer among the living. Many "who live there" are Russians who moved in 2014-present and have no historical ties to the region.
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  162. Sports are regulated by athletic comissions/federations. When in a country you have to abide by their state's rules. In some countries there's no sanctioning body for MMA so the UFC acts as the sports comission there, but if there's an already existing body that country's rules supercede everything else.
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  163. Damn and just like that the SS style executions are washed away clean from Russia's hands.
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  164.  @LeviKerrison  They did it as vanity projects. Instead of actually improving the living conditions they wasted resources on heated pools. Fun fact, there was one built near a library and the humidity from the hot water started to ruin the books and they had to complain.
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  165. Because he's describing events along a timeline. You can transpose the present tense to the past so you can have a new frame of reference. This is done in documentaries too. Ever heard a WW2 documentary narrator say something like "Hitler's generals are concerned..."? Pretty sure they're not even around anymore.
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  166. The Great Depression was caused by government interference.
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  167. War is devastating, who knew?
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  168. Where was the LAPD when the North Hollywood bank robbers entered the bank? Huh? Huh? Where was the NYPD when in 1993 the Al Qaeda organization put a truck bomb in the underground parking of the WTC? Huh? Huh?
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  169. Anyone who has access to a market where they can trade gold will surely have access to BTC.
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  170. The coup wasn't violent. The demcratically elected government showed up to parliament and voted the president out.
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  171.  @flamingwizard14636  Security isn't a matter of just running certified software. You have no business mocking my background when you say shit like that.
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  172. ​ @robertpirsig5011  Nazis intended to wipe out entire populations to make room for Germanic people. The Allies sought to stop them. And the Allies caused massive casualties among German civilians to beat them. If all you have to do is look at actions, then the Allies are as evil as the Axis.
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  173. It's not equal at all. Ukraine did nothing to Russia while the Japanese empire was massacring civilians and forcing women into slavery.
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  174. There was no connection hub. It was Putin's way or the high way.
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  175. The "something else" does not represent me and if they got into power they'd be just as corrupt.
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  176.  @zuldo8577  To even get to the position where you can become a politician you get corrupted. It's pretty simple. Look at AOC and how in a matter of two weeks she changed her mind on settlements in Palestinian land.
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  177.  @THEGREATAFFILIATOR  No, Putin's own paranoid schizophrenia created a self-fulfilling prophecy. By attacking, Putin created the monster that did not exist before. Now Russia will pay for his sin.
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  178.  @doomsdaybooty1072  What physics are being transcended?
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  179.  @doomsdaybooty1072  Never heard of any Navy physicist talk about this. Anecdotes from witnesses are kind of inherently flawed. That's why UAP reports that get solved are usually just mundane objects seen from a very different perspective. Where's the instant acceleration? The only verifiable data regarding that was from a radar seeing a contact from very high altitude that dropped and then got picked up at near sea level, with no other sensor recording an object doing that stunt. It's the radar that's right and everyone else and every other sensor wrong? Or is the radar the "minority report", so to speak?
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  180. And Norm starts screaming Ad Homs.
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  181. ​ @Jimboslice1776  Chomsky is a known genocide denialist lol
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  182. ​ @ratulxy International law does not considers former conscripts as soldiers. You are a civilian once you leave service. And unless war mobilization calls for you to return, you are a civilian for the rest of your life.
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  183.  @rifffatkins7704  they got 3 MW from 2.something MW laser energy output. But the input for the lasers was hundreds of MW. They're extremely inefficient lab grade lasers, a power plant would be more efficient.
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  184. Keeping Latin America at bay? Do you mean militarily or in terms of immigration?
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  185.  @athsumerius6865  The real joke is that the biggest threat from rising sea levels is infiltration of salt water into the fresh water table. We lose coastline from erosion faster than the seas could ever climb.
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  186.  @kennethgenz4784  If you buy a 100,000 dollar car that breaks down 20 miles away from the dealership you got the proverbial pickle. But under normal circumstances you use the car, sell it for 70k, next owner sells it for 50k, next owner sells it for 30k, next thing you know it will be on Facebook marketplace or whatever for 500 bucks. The million dollar house would sell for 900k, then 800k, then 700k. Each successive owner losing little value. The fact is, people are buying million dollar houses next to the beaches. Powerful people. Knowledgeable people. Aquaman won't get that house for decades to come.
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  187.  @doyouliketypos  Nobody will buy a car that doesn't work. Now remember that every broken down car was a working vehicle at some point. People will buy property they can't develop or keep. Again, cars. Unless you're purposefully buying a car to restore it (which requires the model to be in demand) or a rare specimen, you take a financial loss on every car purchase. As soon as you drive a new car off the lot, it devalues by several thousand. Whenever you buy a phone, the model you buy will depreciate. You just figure that your usage of the phone is valued higher. If a house is gone, but you lived in it for 10 years for cheap, all the money you saved put you ahead of other people living a life similar to yours but paying "real" prices on their rent/mortgage. You're going on a rant about real estate developers which is a totally different topic. Yeah, I agree we should re-write the entire thing to promote actual low income housing rather than luxury units. That's irrelevant to the point.
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  188.  @iseedeadpeople6667  People build paper thin houses with a reinforced shelter. They treat tornadoes like a certainty. You can try to rationalize any way you want it, but we build on disaster prone areas. The uncertainty is actually worse. You can lose your investment in a year or 50 years. But you'll be rightly f*cked if you lose your home in one year. At least certainty that you'll have a few decades... that's a better guarantee that anyone else will offer in this life.
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  189. Just like women should be responsible for "asking for it", right? Well, women should have 15 rounds of hollow point bullets on tap and dump them in the assailant's chest.
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  190.  @WSmith_1984  What does social democracy have to do with socialism/communism?
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  191. And what could Fox News do? Fox News doesn't control what gets investigated. If everyone says "it's not real, we won't investigate" Fox News says "it's real guys!" will only convince Fox News watchers. Parler can't investigate the President's son. You're saying "oh Instagram can't verify the Xinjiang concentration camps, it's a bunch of nothing". Is that a real argument?
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  192. Well, the Allies attacked German infrastructure. And German civilians were in the way. Should we have just let Eastern Europe get wiped out and do nothing? Did you think that argument was a big own?
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  193. Why would Mexico ask China to help them against the US?
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  194. Gladio had stockpiles of military weapons to be used in case of invasion. Maidan protesters had stones.
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  195. He's not a scientist, he's a nurse. Undercounting is possible is less developed countries, but I really don't know how you could die from C19 in a country like the US and it not being flagged. They're looking at every death with a fine tooth comb, even testing corpses that were involved in shootings and car accidents for C19.
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  196.  @YOILIKEWEED  It's not scary that a topic is verboten?
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  197. Common Serb L. NATO wouldn't have intervened if it wasn't for the genocide.
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  198. If the lights go out who's going to take your gold? The world will be ruled by bullets, beans and bandages while you're trying to offload your metal.
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  199. Psychopaths love assaulting smaller people if they don't see a cop around. If anything, the state protects these psychos because in anarchy they'd all have been filled in with lead.
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  200. I have to agree. There's a comedian who in a podcast proposed an alternate version of the Matrix where the machines enslave humanity by purposefully making themselves cute and taking advantage of our empathy. And the joke is that Neo is a sociopath who commits heinous acts with no remorse and thus he can fight the machines.
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  201. You have to be kidding. It's not just "separation" but the hinderance it causes to human activity. "Separating" from others meant that many businesses tanked. And thus the jobs with them. It meant ruining people's careers. It mean ruining schooling and education. Yes, the government and politics are to blame. The only way to get over it is to say you're over it. Really? Two years into it, and with the stuff becoming endemic, you want to social distance? Suck it up? With all that comes with it? Poverty? Suicides? Suck it up?
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  202. You mean disgraced sex offender Scott Ritter. Physical access grants operational control. If I steal your safe and bring it to my garage, the lock won't stop me. I'll grind through the side. Claim operational control all you want, if you have no physical control that warhead is lost.
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  203.  @valetheband  whataboutism
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  204. They get paid extra. It's really not that complicated.
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  205. It's possible to deepfake voice.
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  206. Dave Smith just copypasted Scott Horton talking points. The eternal lolbertarian who'll sacrifice liberty anywhere in the world if it prevents armed conflict. Being anti-war is a very respectable stance, but being anti-self-defence is just foolish.
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  207. South Vietnam was our ally. Why wouldn't we help them against conquest?
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  208. It's not whataboutism. It's a legitimate issue.
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  209.  @oh_nur  The people quote unquote in denial are keeping you alive. Let's see you survive in a world where they stop working too. How long will you survive locked inside your home, with no food, heat or water? Thought leaders? You mean TV and politicians? You independent self, you came to your own conclusions without any suggestion or instruction... We've had collective action. It failed. Either shit or get off the pot. Doubling down on failure isn't acceptable. You haven't started the process over. You're simply doubling down and asking for a repeat of the same failed policies that KILLED people through second and third order effects. If you're comparing breathing to drunk driving you're completely off the rocker. Prior to man standing up for the first time in history pathogens already existed. And they will keep existing after we go extinct. If your argument is that living your life causes the same peril as hurling down a metallic weapon that's over one ton at 60mph down the street I suggest you either reevaluate or just follow down your thought to its ultimate conclusion. If you truly believe your breath is moral danger to others, feel free to address that concern. I will not follow you down that path. And then you mention breaking analogies as if you haven't just accused people who aren't even infected of creating so much danger they're the equivalent to one to two ton cannon balls speeding into minivans full of children. Your own overlords, sorry I meant thought leaders, said the mask didn't work which created doubt. Then they said they did, but you could wear any piece of cloth. Now they're back to saying they're theater and you really need N95 ones. Washing hands? Are you listening to yourself? First, I already washed my hands before because I'm not a maniac and second, touching surfaces is a much less prevalent form of transmission. You're here doubling down on what didn't work and giving us the same spiel as in March 2020. We did that. Give us something new.
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  210.  @cybervigilante  But it isn't the easiest or simplest explanation. That would be solved UAP cases cluing us in. Stuff that looks alien turns out to be mundane.
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  211.  @KillerKowalski_  There was global scientific consensus on a ton of stuff that ended up being wrong.
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  212. It's interference. Not on behalf of Trump but trying to fan the flames of division.
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  213. It's not nonsensical. You cannot be sure your property will increase in value exponentially in 100 years because you don't know if the area you're buying in will still be in demand 100 years from now. Where you buy a house today could be worthless in 100 years. Could be a total ghost town.
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  214.  @eeee0027  But that person paid so little it doesn't make a difference. When you buy a sh1tbox for a few hundred dollars you're also fully aware that you may be that car's last owner. You're not "stuck" with it. You're just accepting you're gonna drive it 'till the wheels fall off, and in the end you'd have saved a ton of money on Uber so you're actually coming up ahead.
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  215.  @surfingbilly9654  Ukrainian valleys are meaningless in the nuclear age. If tanks start rolling Russia will nuke the US.
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  216. He got it. Which is why he explained how the market would react.
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  217.  @ahsanxr  Incredulity isn't an argument. In New Zealand a man shot to death was counted as C19 CoD. In Portugal a stillbirth due to intercranial hemorrhage was tested postive and declared C19 CoD.
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  218.  @ahsanxr  My grandfather survived almost a decade with several comorbidities. Pneumonia finally took him out. As tragic as it was, my family somewhat saw it as a blessing. If you were going to die from an opportunistic infection after getting the flu or cold with several co-morbidities in 2022, this stuff got to you first in 2020. There's also the aspect of improper treatment protocols killing people and the many who had their treatments and screenings suspended. We also have the issue with local governments sending sick people to care homes. So called deaths of despair, suicide and alcoholism/OD actually surpassed C19 deaths in many cities. Some countries actually saw increases in road fatalities, despite lockdowns. Less people driving around, more deaths on the road. Something to keep in mind. The claim that all deaths when you severely hinder human activity have to come from the disease and none came from the quote unquote cure is seriously delusional. Obviously a ton of people will die from lack of care, from their life hitting rock bottom, etc. without ever being infected.
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  219.  @hhiippiittyy  In what world is that a good argument? Yes, it's not charity. It's trade. It happens between states. If subsidies stop, food prices increase as a response. Essentially if we ignore maybe third order effects, eliminating the subsidies just means food prices increase so states that import food pay more for it, while states that export food get paid more. On paper there's no difference except you pay for the food at full price from the grocery store rather than partially through taxes.
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  220.  @andrej13666  Bay of Pigs was BEFORE the Cuban missile crisis. Learn some history before coming here and embarassing yourself.
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  221. ​ @anteerceg14  Germans were carpet bombed.
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  222. America is still better? Depends on location. A lot of places in the US are significantly worse than many other countries.
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  223.  @evanserickson  the issue is that getting money from the government is simply getting back some of your stolen goods if you steal from me and leave my stuff on the street for the taking, I'm picking it up
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  224. When the smart people vote, it doesn't stop the dumb from voting. If anything, it just sweeps the problem under the rug. Now you're still fighting the problem without solving it.
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  225. It's a disputed fact. The call is real. It just doesn't prove what you think it does. Russians probably had similar conversations.
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  226.  @Naprolom177  So what happened to the defectors and that British woman?
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  227. Putin is a sweet old man when he talks? Oh wow nobody ever lied to the cameras ever.
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  228.  @doughohulin3546  there's far too much profit involved for the data to not be tainted, but even assuming it is clean it's merely a patchwork solution considering how effectiveness seems to nosedive.
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  229.  @Mmmmkaaay  You've been exhaling dangerous pathogens into the atmosphere since you took your first breath and you will not stop until your last. You never gave a damn about others until last year you got an excuse to point the fingers at others.
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  230. Running that experiment on a New York city studio apartment was clearly an OSHA violation.
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  231. Youtube now wants me to see my credit card or ID so I can watch age restricted videos. Yeah, I don't want websites to "check" ID either because security breaches happen all the time.
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  232. Which is still voting for evil.
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  233.  @finerbiner  A strawman is erecting a purposefully flawed argument to take it down. I did no such thing. I just pointed out your complaint. This country has no path forward due to irreconcilable differences, not the tactics used in arguments. I'm listening to your opinion. I find it lacking. You come here complaining, I find what bothers you. You then switch gears and pretend you never complained. You'll be a victim too. All your arguments apply to you despite you trying to pretend to be above it all. If you were above us mere mortals, you wouldn't even have posted your first comment (a complaint). I'm a loser because I am vocal about what displeases me? I'm a loser because others show their vulnerabilities trying to stamp out dissent, and I make it clear that their vulnerability is my gain? You don't understand. You made it clear that people acting indignant forever can hold you hostage. You told the losers how to become winners.
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  234. It's called A242 but people know it as Novichok.
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  235. Still produces spike proteins. The delivery mechanism is adenovirus instead of mRNA.
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  236.  @berndenamurdurd2073  Everyone would be banned immediately. You have no social media when everyone who posts has to essentially be an "artist" signed to your "label" or "writer" signed to your "publisher". If you recorded a video of yourself and it caught a glimpse of a TV broadcast or Netflix stream... the platform would get pelted with copyright infringement lawsuits. You don't understand. The laws don't exist to protect posters. They exist to protect the PLATFORMS.
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  237.  @bigyeet3629  "the government put something in the water that turns frogs gay" - Atrazine caused the frogs to develop hermaphroditism. It didn't make the frogs gay, it just messed up their reproductive system by feminizing it.
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  238. ​ @orooropaa1846  An attack for the sake of leverage is the definition of terrorism.
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  239.  @hhiippiittyy  This is absolute nonsense. I live in an area with extremely high compliance. I complied. I stated this went too far, but I complied anyway. We're still living in this nightmare. No, we did not deserve this. You're just pulling accusations out of your rear end.
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  240.  @nufh  I live in Europe. We masked. We followed social distancing. We have a 90 percent vaccination rate. This has not gone away. We're not South East Asia. We've not been allowed to move on. We made the government's job easy. We don't deserve this. Please. Stop talking about what you don't know.
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  241.  @nufh  Oh boo hoo, show me the social distancing in SEA then.
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  242.  @jimluebke3869  "it would have been impossible for any Anarchist to stop the Germans from sweeping all the way to Vladivostok" - Germany was critically undersupplied in terms of oil and they could not use Soviet rail.
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  243.  @jimluebke3869  Germany didn't get to suck a single drop of oil from the captured oil fields due to the sabotage.
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  244.  @jimluebke3869  Maikop was captured in August 1942 and they were forced to withdraw by January 1943. They never got to get the installations back into production.
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  245.  @jimluebke3869  Anarcho-syndicalists are cringe and they're disliked by right anarchists and ancoms. I'm also curious how engineers and oil field workers were somehow busy fighting. Seems like the eternal German is not so efficient after all.
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  246.  @jimluebke3869  Security forces are turning wrenches now? I don't know man. You seem to have a fetish for conquest. We can solve this by you getting your boys, so you can be the alligators, and we find a plot of land you guys need to invade, and I get to live in anarchy which means there's no laws regulating what kind of weapons I can own. Let's see how far your alligators go. I'm gonna need legal immunity by the way.
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  247.  @jimluebke3869  What slang? You were the one who mentioned the alligators. Take your Alzheimer meds. A single teenager without state support managed to take down three organized assailants. In fact, the state is now charging him as the criminal. Not really helping your case, bud. Seems like a bunch of Kyles in Poland, with each bagging three Wehrmacht or Red Army cucks per Kyle, would have been the prescription the doctor ordered. Hey, since you're such a simp for the Red Army, why not bring up the mass rapes and how the NKVD would execute resistance movements who had fought the Germans?
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  248. Not an issue unless Russia wants free reign to invade Ukraine. Turns out that's exactly what they want.
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  249.  @mickybender7726  No. A defensive shield against invasion literally only matters if you want to invade in the first place. Russia being mad that they can't invade countries justifies NATO.
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