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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