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

  1. That's ridiculous. Putting a fence in your backyard is cheaper than paying the costs to raise your neighbour's child.
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  2. Adam Sandler doesn't necessarily fit into "trash cinema" because they blow a huge budget on big stars delivering cliche dialogue in a mainstream movie with bottom of the barrel jokes and an artificial/cheap emotionally charged final act. It's pretty much a by-the-numbers, written by committee, check-the-boxes, artificially manufactured big studio shlock. Ironic enjoyment of shlock isn't necessarily the same as "trash cinema".
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  3. +Shadhir RM and if I'm not mistaken a couple years ago it was found that the results from half of the studies from the field of psychology could not be replicated, and science kinda hangs on the whole repeat-ability thing. One study finding something is always cool news to hear, but not really anything groundbreaking.
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  4. It's also important to consider that the people who don't think are effective include Russian experts, who are clearly unbiased and hack frauds like Pierre Sprey. In real world testing and pilot testimony the F-35 seems to be an excellent machine despite all the software blocks still in place, but the news media (renowned by their knowledge in military hardware) keep going back to Pierre Sprey, the "designer behind the F-16" despite the fact that the F-16 is a good plane because they gave it capabilities Sprey himself thought were useless. The people who think the F-35 isn't needed are people insisting that the US of A should stick to older designs that did well under past conflicts but are outdated in the modern world. People who don't know what it's even meant for.
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  5. trickle up YMMV. The less I exercise the more I hang around the house munching on stuff. The more I exercise, the less I feel like eating.
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  6. "The implication is usually confirmable, on rare occasions false." but that's bullshit because you can find correlations in almost anything. Like those examples of wildfires and mattress sales, homicide rates and ice cream sales, etc. You can make anything you want correlate and rarely is there a causation involved.
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  7. European countries have huge unemployment problems.
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  8.  @saiganesh7502  Cluster munitions were used in Libya?
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  9. This, but unironically.
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  10.  @ma27794  "So you support citizens to own rocket launchers" - yes.
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  11. ​ @austinduke8876  Clearly money is the issue. Those who have more children are too busy to get better jobs. Those who have money have it because they did not have children as early and as often.
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  12.  @austinduke8876  Without fail one of the best predictors of poverty is having children early. Right there you get the hint that having children can make you poor.
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  13.  @easlern  I literally live in Europe and my government is left wing even though the center-right party "won" the election. The left just joined the center-left party and pooling their seats together they can form a government.
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  14. Look, the government is up to the eyes in cronyism, the Affordable Care Act was not a move towards better healthcare, it was the result of politicians being bought off by the businesses that would profit from forcing everyone to enroll in the program and eliminating health insurances that didn't "get with the program". Fairchild probably ran out of friends in Congress, I'd have to look into that situation myself. But are you seriously questioning the "one hand washes the other" mentality? The contracts had nothing to do with the JSF, so that excludes the possibility of handshakes under the table? Come on.
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  15. +James Line >"You cannot support mass immigration and a welfare state and increasing wages at the same time" Thanks for admitting that socialism has to be inherently xenophobic, though.
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  16. You have to understand "the economy" isn't an abstract dollar sign in a computer. It's the combination of all human activity. Changing the economy means poverty. You may be perfectly willing to do it for the cause, but convince billions to live on less resources. People would grab the pitchforks.
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  17.  @ma27794  because it forces you to prove your innocence. That means assumption of guilt.
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  18. Yes the government should use their police force to restrict more freedoms. Get everyone used to being stopped by cops and being forced to provide papers to justify their travel.
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  19. ***** So you're telling me that for example Richard C Blum, husband of Sen Feinstein, was never benefitted by his wife's activities? You're seriously implying that just because nobody got shitcanned for it, then Lockheed doesn't have their people in congress? Why buy watchdogs? You can look up every conflict of interest for yourself, they're being reported on, everyone is just too busy keeping up with the Kardashians.
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  20. Yeah but that's really complex. If I ask you for a moderate belief on gun control for example, I am sure I would disagree and be able to explain why your example of "moderate" is actually pretty radical and unreasonable. Or alternatively, look at the 4th Amendment. Both parties have a "moderate" opinion on cybersecurity which is that you can't have both security and privacy so we compromise. But to me, accepting any form of warrantless wiretapping is an extremist position even if you are a moderate. It's binary. My position is on the other extreme, absolutely no wiretapping without due process.
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  21. The F-22 is an air superiority fighter. The F-35 is a strike fighter.
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  22. An important part to remember about the F-117 being shot down is that planners became careless and sent the planes down the same corridor at predictable times. They shot down a F-117 because it had left it's bomb bay open and thus making it easier to lock onto, not to mention that the F-117 pilot did not have a launch warning. It was human complacency that failed that F-117, not the stealth technology itself.
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  23. +wesley ogilvie but a drone doesn't do the job just fine, which is why attack aircraft and multi-role fighters are performing the jobs that drones are not sent to do. Not having an airforce is only relevant when the enemy maintains air space superiority. And currently, the US, Russia, Syria, etc are enforcing said superiority over ISIS's skies.
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  24.  @liuring3756  "Learn from China, what they are doing to save people" - by welding them shut in their homes?
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  25. @Handsome Squidward We knew. It's April 1st. You could have made this video with information available in February.
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  26. Funny how consistent it is. I always heard it was found that in general conservatives think liberals are "misinformed" or "misguided", but liberals flat out hate conservatives. And no matter what I keep seeing people reinforcing this observation through the years.
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  27.  @uyenst  a woman was once murdered by an ex with a restraining order while she was on her waiting period for a gun.
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  28.  @laerin7931  "Licensing doesn't stop one from acquiring guns for self defense." - make the license impossible to get and it will stop people. "Having to wait 3 weeks isn't going to matter" - a woman was once murdered by a man she placed a restraining order on while waiting for the gun. It does matter.
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  29. The problem is the left/right just forming a coalition to win control of the government even when they don't have enough votes as an individual party and you're back to the two party system.
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  30.  @enlightenyourself8555  Takes more brain power to handle munitions than posting that comment.
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  31.  @parkerbilbro3651  America definitely doesn't need a economically left wing party. Not only would they deliver an easy win to the Republican party by fragmenting the Democratic vote, but true left politics would divide the country even further. Maybe this may come as a shock to you, but the average democrat does not identify with leftist economics not social policies.
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  32. Ayanle Farah Well, they follow minimum wage laws to follow the law. People with citizenship tend to complain about it, that's the whole point of using undocumented foreigners as they won't report the situation. So yeah, they increase wages when the min wage increases, otherwise they'd be in trouble. All things being equal, I could not in good conscience advocate for the end of minimum wage laws. But in principle, I am against the concept. In a world without minimum wage I'd be all in favour for a workers' union to be able to negotiate corporate policy that set their own minimum wage without government intervention, just like I would support someone who really needs the money and decides to do the same job for less. Right now, the real minimum wage for those people is zero. No job at all.
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  33. +neeneko you should look at the illegal guns from the Philippines. Not only do they end up in the wrong hands, but a lot of people manufacture them with cheap welders, files, angle grinders and a drill press. This is entry level tooling you can get on a single trip to a hardware store.
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  34.  @alexh349  overpopulation is a myth.
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  35. Because your leaders want to keep you in the third world. They control the guns so that they can control you.
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  36.  @Jornandreja  "We can't even figure out how to safely store the waste we've already produced." - we already know but regulations prevent it! "can't be safely moved." - yes, it can. There are coffins made to move nuclear waste specifically designed to safely transport it. "Solar" - doesn't work at night, weak during winters and in higher latitudes. "wind" - whacks birds to death, causes changes to climate in certain areas by taking energy out of natural winds "geothermal" - can only be done in specific types of rock and has the same problems as fracking "hydro" - you can't build dams everywhere, you're disrupting natural water cycles and even fish reproduction as they need to move upstream
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  37.  @daburnz2  "That is Afghanistan, not the United States." - lol what? "the US government would be able to stop any resistance" - the US territory is an absolute nightmare in a COIN scenario... if you think Afghanistan is bad you should look at a map of the US. "the US police and military is too advanced for a group of citizens to put up a fight" - you mean the same US police that is too cowardly to deal with dogs and mentally ill? "They would be destroyed very quickly and would have no impact against the police." - bro remember when Chris Dorner, a SINGLE MAN, completely humiliated the LAPD during the manhunt? A police department can't even handle one determined individual swiftly, and you think they can handle a million angry residents?
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  38.  @calligansaccount  "The US spends more on the military than the next 8 countries COMBINED" - which means that as soon as the US becomes involved in a war and stops being the economic powerhouse, soldiers will stop getting paid really quick. That's like bragging your car has worse gas mileage, it can't last a LeMans. Or like a huge bodybuilder with no cardio who gets tired after two punches.
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  39. @Green Oscar it warms my heart whenever the anti-gun people expose themselves as bloodthirsty bootlickers who wish for the US govt to nuke its own people.
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  40.  @jgonzalez20  two words: Banqiao Dam One hydroelectric accident killed more people than Fukushima and Chernobyl put together.
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  41. "Americans know that the constitution can be amended right?" - yeah but mentioning that it can be amended doesn't mean you can act like it already has been. Can it be amended? Sure. Amend it. If it's so easy do it right now.
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  42.  @akashsharda9993  "america is the country that world looks up to" - nah "if that happens than all these countries are forced to take actions" - no, they won't. Unless you go and personally start bombing them into submission countries can't be forced to do anything.
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  43.  @Mr.O-Town  "I don’t understand why Americans have a problem with having to take a course and wait 3 weeks to be able to own a firearm." - Because then "Oops, too many people, you're gonna have to wait 5 weeks" and then it becomes 9 weeks, then 15 weeks, then 30 weeks. Deny people their gun rights without needing to write a law banning them. - Who creates the course? Who makes sure it's not impossible to pass? Who pays for the course? What about those who live too far away from training facilities and can't miss days off work?
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  44. The problem is that other countries are considered high income countries. China fell in the middle income trap.
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  45. More parties would still end up as a two party system, because the left or the right would form coalitions.
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  46.  @cyagami90  That's just not true. There's people from developed countries that go to the US to do experimental treatments they aren't allowed by law to get in their country yet, people who don't want to wait in their country and decide to pay to get their treatment/surgery sooner, etc. There's private clinics in Canada where people travel from other developed countries simply because they have better procedures, for example that hernia treatment clinic that promises better results and faster recovery than the competition. It's not something exclusive to the US, but there's more research and private practice in the US so people go there.
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  47. Kanaka Maoli Democrats more centrist? They've been economically neoliberal for some time now and you cannot definitely expect an economically left party to succeed in the American system but they are definitely not "centrist". In fact they are losing support from centrist Democrats.
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  48.  @susannehartl3067  "It will not voilate one section of the constitution, as it will not take away your right to own a weapon." - then why are poll taxes considered to infringe on someone's right to vote? Please try to learn about constitutional law before making statements about what violates or doesn't violate the constitution.
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  49. Okay by no means am I defending Fox News but CNN, MSNBC, etc are terribad at presenting anything about gun control laws. I don't watch Fox News but I'd assume they're the kind of people who'd actually call in experts in firearms, while the rest just calls butthurt senators and astroturf activist managers.
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  50. James Line You should tell the media then, stop this myth that we all want walled up borders.
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  51. Ayanle Farah So it's for their own good, huh? Look, there is such a thing as a better life. Would you take a marginally higher wage to live in a country where journalists are executed and left hanging on street signs?
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  52. Ayanle Farah Yeah, protect them from corporations... Look, we live in a world where unions will push for higher minimum wages and then make their workers exempt from minimum wage laws so that the have guaranteed jobs. The "protection" you're talking about breaks the first steps in the economical ladder. That's why people's first jobs are at age 21 and they're serving coffee at Starbucks with a college degree in their hand.
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  53. Ayanle Farah >"I don't think it's fair that somebody works 40 hours a week and still can't afford rent or food for their children" The percentage of people working 40 hours on min wage is extremely low. You also have to take into account that almost half of min wage workers are teens and young adults who live in their parents' house and thus aren't the sole earner. >"I would be glad to skip the first steps in the "economical ladder"" That's a really ignorant thing to say. I assume that you're either a college student or have found labour easily because otherwise you wouldn't say such a thing. You realize that to get to, say, the third step of the economic ladder you need either training or experience. Preferably both. So, when you try to land your first job and they ask you for experience, where do you earn that experience? Working? But there are no lower paying jobs. The bottom two steps of the ladder are missing. This situation plagues Western nations and is the reason why people with college degrees are stuck in dead end jobs.
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  54. Ayanle Farah >"Training to do what? Flipping hamburgers" The guy who's flipping burgers at your local join has a college degree. What now? Are you going to top what he has to offer? >"This conversation was never about requiring experience." Because you make the rules to suit your reality. You can't argue minimum wage if you're going to cherry pick factors to leave out. That's not a debate, that's one-sided propaganda. >"I'm not talking about young individual trying to climb a ladder at his dad's company." Guess what slick, nobody mentioned any of that. If all you can do is cherry pick what you don't want to talk about and Strawman the fuck out of this debate then I know you lost, and you know you lost even though I'm probably not going to hear you admit it. Climbing the economic ladder is now yuppies working for their dads. Fuck this shit.
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  55. Ayanle Farah >"I don't think any restaurant would care for college degrees. Why not try to work with something related to your degree?" All things being equal, if you're paying the same you're going to chose the person most qualified. More than half of people with degrees in the US do not work in the field they studied. Personally college has become a scam but having a degree still pulls some weight and employees take that in consideration. There's people bartending and working as bouncers with degrees. >"I don't think there's much of a economical ladder for a single mother who works at Target" 48.2% of the 3 million people earning min wage are between 16 and 24. That number is only 2.3% of all the wage and salary workers in the US. You're talking about a demographic so small it becomes obvious you're blowing the problem out of proportion. >"I also think that said mother, who's working the hours, should be earning a living wage." Define livable wage. Every place in the world has it's own cost of living. Does this livable wage have to accompany every single fluctuation in cost of living or inflation? Do you realize that by making labour more expensive, prices of goods will increase accordingly therefore undermining the concept of livable wage?
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  56. Ayanle Farah >"Yes, it should be more dynamic." It's a wild goose chase, but I guess "dynamic" makes for better politics. You still missed my point. There is no "standard" for livable wage. Location alone undermines the possibility of drawing up a number and apply it at a federal level. It wouldn't work even at state level. If we're calculating people's wages loosely based on their personal lives (such as adjusting for local cost of living) then it's just another form of welfare that we're forcing employers to pay. You're detaching the wage from the value of one's labour and turning it into charity.
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  57. Ayanle Farah I know what you meant, my point was that there are too many factors to keep track of. It's not a wage at that point, it has so much oversight and control by the government it's welfare. Hence "wild goose chase" - a perpetual game of catching up. >"The minimum wage of $1.60 an hour in 1968 would be $10.90 today when adjusted for inflation according to the Bureau of Labor" And mid-60's to mid-70's was a period of great economic expansion (above 4% GDP growth, with 67 or 68 achieving 5% growth) while the last few years were kind of shitty. You're literally comparing a golden age to a post-crisis period. >"But not trying to do anything and staying with the status quo doesn't seem like an appealing alternative to me at all." So it's the "we gotta do something" fallacy all over again, fuck what's being actually done, or the rationale behind it, or the results. It's just doing that matters. My point is that the idea has to make sense, when we can't even define what the living wage even is! Challenging the status quo? Please, your hypothetical single mother working at Target is going to climb the corporate ladder (not the economic one) as a result of getting a few extra bucks/hour? How the hell will it challenge status quo? Millionaires who employ small numbers of workers are for minimum wage hikes - they pay their experienced and qualified workers more already so they don't get affected, while their competition that relied on minimum wage workers is forced to either cut personnel or raise prices which makes them lose market share. I'm not sure sure of what the store is because I'm not American, but they're like wholesalers and most of their workers are highly qualified because they need to operate forklifts, etc and they'd love to see the Walmarts and Targets dying. If anything it reinforces the status quo, it puts experience and qualifications on a pedestal, the older people keep their jobs by pricing the younger workers out of the line of work. >"You use a lot of loaded words such as charity and welfare. People are still putting in work since it's hourly pay." What for? It would actually be easier to just pay everyone a livable wage. Minimum wage jobs would be unpaid and every other job would get a pay cut - ie if a doctor is making 50 bucks an hour and the livable wage is 15, he now gets paid 35 because he's getting 15 from the government. That's what I'm getting at when calling it welfare. It's a system, and a government controlled one at that, rather than spontaneous trade relations between employer and employee. Your worldview is kind of simplistic, isn't it? If they're working 7 bucks worth of labour per hour and getting 10, those three extra bucks are charity. Just putting in the work doesn't automatically make every cent worth it. Example: I never got any money for doing chores but there's families that do that. Those kids get more money than their labour was worth - it's their allowance and whatnot. Making a bed, washing some dishes and putting the clothes on the drier can be considered "putting in the work" but the reward for it is greater than the value of the labour. Just because there was work involved doesn't mean every cent was deserved.
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  58. ***** Sanders will drive America into further trillions and trillions of debt, even the progressive/liberal side is saying his economic plan comes from Neverland.
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  59. +Jay West I don't see how capitalism "requires" open borders. If the borders are controlled to verify who is getting in and limiting visas, people are prevented from entering willy nilly but the businesses can 1) use visas to coerce foreigners into working for less than nationals (corporations like Intel bring Indian engineers to work for them for half the price of an American one, and they can't complain or their visa expires and they're legally required to go back); 2) outsource labour. In theory a perfectly capitalist aka completely free market would happen in a place freedom of travel is least infringed on. But it's not strickly necessary. The problem with your argument is that it exposes socialism to the "socialism always runs out of other people's money" meme. Socialism can't work because everyone will try to get it and benefit from it without giving back? Why is that concept true to people coming in externally, but not true to the natives to that country? A lot of people will exploit the system and not give anything back internally. But somehow immigration will be the problem? I mean the whole point of socialism is dismantling profits and private property. If socialism works so great, it should be able to deal with an influx of people from all over the world. Socialists claim that their planning allocates resources better than capitalism. No matter how many come in everyone will have jobs, houses, etc. What gives? It is xenophobia. Because the "common sense" argument essentially defeats socialism at the theoretical level.
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  60. Joseph Ballard "Have we forgotten that future conflicts between the US and nations equipped with similar technology would almost certainly result in a nuclear holocaust?" Russian/Chinese technology went head-to-head against American technology during the Cold War and there was no nuclear holocaust.
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  61. Joseph Ballard So you're telling me that Vietnam or Korea were "cold" wars? During the Cold War several "hot" proxy wars were fought, in which both sides were armed by Americans or the Chinese/Russian. Remember, Turkey shot down a Russian Su-24 and NATO didn't get dragged into a nuclear holocaust. If you think a F-35 shooting down a PAK-FA or vice versa automatically means nuclear war, you're not really looking at the past. Great, you posted a story that has nothing to do with the topic at hand. I appreciate the understanding that nobody should have ever been trusted with nuclear weapons, but that event doesn't relate to American made gear going head to head with Russian/Chinese gear.
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  62. This, but unironically.
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  63. ​ @grimsonforce7504  we already went over "peak child". Number of children isn't increasing since the 2000s.
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  64. ​@Just Ori Then everyone deserves to fail? How do you support a society with more retirees than workers?
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  65. ​ @fulanichild3138  No. It's because when your country is full of retirees who's gonna keep the lights and water on?
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  66. ​ @MoniiChanTheUnicorn  wealth hoarded loses value, that's why the rich invest
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  67.  @fulanichild3138  Well the self-checkout just offloads the labor to the customer.
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  68.  @altrag  and how much freedom does a person with little money have anywhere else?
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  69.  @altrag  "You're a lot more free to change jobs if your healthcare isn't tied to a specific employer." - The freedom to change jobs is all about having skills in demand. If your "freedom" is just to make a horizontal move where you're paid the same and treated the same that's not saying much. Plus, the employment being tied to healthcare in America is a vestige of WW2 policy. The government is to blame for putting wage ceilings in place that promoted the use of benefits as a way to "pay" higher wages without breaking the law, and then making those benefits exempt from tax in a way that makes employers prefer to pay in benefits than actual money. "You're a lot more free to leave an abusive partner if you know there's a social net to help you while you try to get back on your feet." - Abusive partners are a problem over here too. Social safety net doesn't put a roof over your head. If you have nowhere to go the trap is the same.
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  70. Well, police officers already murder us every day so it seems to me that they're the first group that should be looked into. Also, I heard that about 40% of them are domestic abusers?
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  71. @Oli okay and what happens when we all spent our money? We won't be able to afford food. What happens to the farmer when he can't sell food? I'm massively oversimplifying the issue because obviously the money has to go SOMEWHERE but I'm only pointing out that the lives we save by restraining the climate shouldn't be thrown away by killing them with poverty. This has to be done intelligently, not haphazardly.
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  72. Actually, it would. Requiring a license to vote is against the US constitution. You can't license a right.
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  73.  @mintedog  "the democratic party would be centre-right" yeah when the democratic establishment is essentially calling for political violence and demanding people to be considered guilty until proven innocent there is nothing centrist about your leanings.
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  74.  @mintedog  "unprecedented global peace present today" - simply because war became so expensive the big guys cannot afford to engage each other in open warfare - since the Cold War you've seen the rise of the proxy war and foreign meddling. I am thankful for the relative peace we live in today but we live in the days Saudi Arabia can just torture and kill a journalist with near impunity while committing war crimes on Yemen most people don't even know about with arms supplied by Europe, Canada and the US. A president can receive the Nobel Peace Prize while bombing 7 countries. "soaring standards of living" - but even the left claims wages aren't keeping up with inflation, what's up with that? "increasing personal freedoms in most parts of the world" - except that we're under more and more control from the megacorporations, we're being listened to at all times and the media can essentially block you from seeing content they don't want you to see in an instant, and even Google is working with the Chinese government
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  75. Yeah because anti-capitalism will somehow keep people alive without using any oil.
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  76. Actually, only by 26%.
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  77.  @kimon2993  new reactor designs can use the nuclear waste but the technology was archived by the DoE.
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  78.  @lucasthemycologist  "Requires a shitload of energy to extract and refine the radioactive ore" - yeah and where do you get the stuff that goes into solar panels and batteries? Yeah you're gonna have to dig those out of the ground. "generates a bunch waste" - which can be put into concrete vaults underground away from fault lines.
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  79. But you see the problem, if you tax oil too much you make renewable more expensive because we need oil to get to the minerals that make the electrical components and to run the factories making the solar panels.
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  80. It doesn't even make sense, much less to a libertarian.
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  81.  @alexb.1372  "socialism aims to protect societies" - AHAHAHAAH
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  82.  @Moonlight.Melon.Mounter  "if capitalism is so great how come socialist policies are used in crisis?" - You mean the cure that is worse than the disease? The measures are just patchwork that will further the debt you will be forced to bear by virtue of being tax cattle. The public is being bribed with its own money and you think that's a good solution...
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  83.  @Gmonkeystar  "in a socialized system, since profit is not a factor, more hospitals are built" - That's just false. Building a hospital costs money. Staffing it costs money. Governments have a budget and there's only so far they can stretch it. A socialized system doesn't give you more hospitals unless the country has a greater tax revenue per capita and is able to squeeze more expenditures. If you have a socialized system, but the country is not doing that well, forget it. "socialist policy (safety net)" - Socialism requires capitalism to be abolished. Social safety nets aren't socialism.
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  84. lmao so a project that costs trillions will be paid off by cutting... billions?
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  85.  @familyfive05  he told you to look at the numbers PROPORTIONALLY. A country with more people will get more cases.
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  86.  @CheekoLFreako  Exactly.
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  87.  @jasonr6342  >nuclear kills everyone on the planet >dozens of reactors running for decades :thinking emoji:
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  88.  @jasonr6342  yeah it's not like we haven't come up with passive safeties in the last few decades or anything.
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  89.  @jfridy  because he met a private seller. Private sellers exist everywhere, not just at gun shows. If you go to a gun show and approach the counter of a gun store, they're still an extension of their FFL and they would be violating federal law if they didn't do a background check. However, private sales are an intrastate matter and the state decides the rules. There's no "gun show loophole" because you can conduct a private sale at a Waffle House parking lot, no gun show needed. If anything, gun shows have police presence so it's the worst place to conduct an illegal transaction.
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  90.  @unassumingaccount395  "many gun shows still don't do background checks." - any gun store represented at the gun show is still forced to abide by FFL rules and this must perform background checks. The only people who don't need to perform background checks are private sellers who only need to follow state laws on private sales. There's no "protective shield" against the law at a gun show.
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  91.    what evidence do you have on the contrary?
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  92.  @unassumingaccount395  "And many major gun shows are privately run and therefore are under special exemptions from background checks" - dude by that logic the business that owns a gun store is privately run and thus are under special exemptions from background checks. All gun stores are exempt from background checks, then. That doesn't make any sense. "states don't have strict laws on private gun selling." - and it's the state's right to set their private sales law how they want. Many states prohibit private sales and force everyone to go through a FFL. It should be up to the state how to deal with intrastate matters. The federal government only gets involved when the gun crosses state lines.
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  93.  @unassumingaccount395  at this point you're purposefully misunderstanding everything. All background checks are done through the federal records. As an anarchist you support the Swiss model where they outline several nationalities of immigrants who cannot own guns? Oof.
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  94.  @antoinedoinell  Obama "pulled the trigger" by ordering several drone strikes (and before someone mentions it Trump has ordered too, shut up). A gun store sells you a gun, there's a 99.99% chance that gun won't ever kill anyone. You sell weapons to warring nations, don't get surprised they use them.
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  95.  @BARelement  "Acts as if every president didn't sell the Saudis till Obama" - except that the argument was about getting Nobel Peace Prizes. Not every President gets one.
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  96.  @BARelement  the thread started with the topic of the Nobel peace prize. Read again.
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  97.  @BARelement  what the hell does slavery have to do with this thread?
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  98.  @alexfischer2527  "no business is being put out of business by being forced to pay their employees although they're not working" - because they budgeted for the costs in the first place. If you add that requirement without warning, suddenly there's an extra expense that wasn't budgeted for. "Never understood why that's so important for you guys. Quite an anarchist concept if you think about it." - Because anarchy is great.
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  99.  @ZephyrFate  Anarchy is the purest form of capitalist economy.
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  100.  @ZephyrFate  It makes complete sense. Free market capitalism is the only system that can exist under anarchy, any other system is an aggression against anarchy and an imposition of a new system. The Republic of Cospaia existed under anarchy for almost 400 years and they were capitalists, tobacco growers.
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  101. Because he used to be one?
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  102. Then make guns out of the scrap.
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  103. Anyone who doesn't support a racist, classist measure to prevent the underpriviledged from owning guns.
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  104.  @gregorybrew427  after slaves were freed the first gun control laws were passed to prevent free black men from owning guns. A licensing system requires one to pay fees, pass tests, take days off work, etc. This means guns in the hands of the rich people, and not in the hands of the working people.
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  105. No.
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  106. "Nothing about this system prevents law-abiding citizens from obtaining a gun" - Psychologists could be encouraged to make people fail evaluations. - The course can be made impossible to pass - The locker requirements can be made unreasonable by demanding safes too large to fit a house, too heavy for the majority of homes to be built to handle them, etc and the police being able to randomly enter your house without a warrant is a violation of your rights so yes that part does prevent people from obtaining a gun because it demands from them to give up a basic natural right.
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  107.  @dominicgunderson  "your average person isn't going underground" - average people went "underground" - aka any street corner - to buy weed.
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  108. You're not for the protection of the 2A, then. You're asking for the 20th step in the ladder that leads to banning guns.
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  109. So if you own a junkyard should you be required to have a driver's license even though you're not gonna drive the cars anywhere?
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  110. Based Zeihan enjoyer.
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  111.  @CassidyCope  you think the police will waste manpower following you all day?
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  112. Germany recently made it legal to hunt with AR-15s.
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  113.  @fargonianproductions2767  define "more secure" and "thorough". Also, no. Several Democratic leaders have already stated they want to take away guns. The cat's out of the bag. Stop making excuses and giving us the centrist talking point we know the Democratic party will not settle for.
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  114.  @ScytheNoire  "Socialism is what saved America after the Great Depression" - false, in fact the New Deal made the depression last longer than it did "You also sound like quite the racist, how dare black kids go to the same school as white children" - you literally lack reading comprehension. He said that Kennedy had to use force because of the democrats blocking him
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  115.  @Tombee2  socialism is the same as communism but with a state. In socialism private property is abolished and the control is put in the hands of the communist party. Unions aren't inherently socialist, it's workers using negotiation powers by holding all the cards in their hand. Capitalism also doesn't defend the abolition of public facilities, it's an economic system not a totalitarian regime.
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  116. ​ @Tombee2  that's not the definition of socialism. In any corporation people work together for a common goal and that doesn't make them socialist. Having power over someone (withholding production capacity, which threatens business) and using it as leverage in a negotiation is pretty capitalist. "Not to mention socialism in an umbrella term" - yeah but the umbrella isn't far reaching enough to say that people getting together is socialism, or that me sharing my food is socialism, etc. Socialism may be an umbrella term but it is very well defined and you can't shove anything underneath it. "Using communism an extreme left wing idea isnt fair for the term socialism because it can be pro-market" 1) it is VERY fair, look up the history of socialism; 2) pro-market socialism is still anti-capitalist "Also capitalism isnt the best direction as seen through the industrial ear" - the industrial era made people have enough power to demand the vote, abolish child labour, etc. Before the industrial era you had no choice. "we need a mix of both socialistic practices as well as capitalism" - that makes no sense. Socialist practices contradict capitalism and vice-versa. The abolition of private property is against capitalism, even if the system is based on market-socialism. And if you allow capitalism within a socialist system people will undermine the system. "If we have pure capitalsim then the rich will rule over the poor" - the rich ruling over the poor exists in literally every system. Even in anarchism, the lack of a governing system, the rich will have more choice and control over those who have less. "if we have communism greedy government officials will rule" - communism is supposed to be stateless
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  117.  @drewwreds6934  Chicago wasn't the size it was today and the liftings were done pieacemeal.
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  118. The thing is, the green energies also get subsidies. Geothermal can't be done anywhere because it requires specific geological conditions, wind whacks birds to death, solar obviously doesn't work at night and is weak during winters/at high latitudes. We can't just build dams willy nilly because of the ecological impact of changing the hydrogeology of entire areas. Fossil fuels need to have their subsidies cut but if there's any hope to make things green I don't think you can remove it from nuclear or the green alternatives as they get more research and development.
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  119. The video isn't a video lecture for restauranteurs, it's an infotainment piece for average people. And the profit equation doesn't change in Europe, labor is expensive so having a dedicated pastry chef or pulling someone aside to make deserts is not feasible on a business with low profit margins.
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  120. - No license to own. - I can make "illegal" modifications as long as I don't take it out in public. - I can buy without background checks. - I can sell to other people even across state lines.
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  121.  @keveydaking  "America has more cases than anyone in the world" - They have 320 million people.
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  122.  @BOULDERPUNCHER9000  It is when the US is literally 5.3 times larger in population numbers. By proportion, Italy would have 530,000 cases.
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  123. @System.out.println you don't need a license to own a car
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  124.  @TheSolarWolf  the law is the state's justification for force (those presumed innocent are not supposed to be kidnapped by men with badges or have their property stolen - probable cause and warrants are what turn those actions into arrests and searches/seizures). Murder, theft, fraud, etc things that harm other people need to be enforced because people who commit those things consented to the state's use of force. A law against a "crime" which is completely victimless is no law at all, for the "guilty" are in fact innocent and it is not justifiable for the state to use its force against the people.
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  125. Without established alternatives, the price of fuel will simply rise to make up for the loss of subsidies.
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  126. @System.out.println that's ridiculous. Laws exist to punish those who break them. Even if we can't find every murderer, those we do find deserve punishment. Owning a gun and not hurting anyone shouldn't get a person in trouble. Criminals hurt people which means we already have ways to punish them.
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  127. "for once"
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  128. Not really. Egalitarian societies used to be extremely violent and we're reaching unprecedented levels of peace despite inequality. Inequality does not make honest people violent.
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  129.  @Jone952  when everyone was equally dirt poor and communities couldn't be larger than a dead animal could feed. If another pack of humans tried to steal your prey, people would fight.
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  130.  @Jone952  Nope. If one group had 1 meal and another group had a hundred million meals, there would be no reason to fight. When there's only one meal and both groups have an equal chance to get it, violence ensues.
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  131.  @Jone952  you're strawmanning by inverting causality.
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  132. Not really. When you sneeze into the armpit it splashes to the sides. You minimize the spread, but particles will go airborne.
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  133.  @leowilly29  "you can leave if you want" like Brexit? Lmao
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  134. You don't need a license to have a car. Costco is a private business that has the right to demand membership. But the government can't simply put licenses on voting...
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  135.  @hegaliandialectics4289  that's the opposite of what I heard, arctic is growing and greenland is shrinking
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  136. Even if you passed a 100% inheritance tax and shot all of the 400 wealthiest Americans in the head, and nationalized and sold off every American company on the Fortune 500, you still wouldn't have enough money to run the US budget for a single year. Eating the rich will only stave off the hunger for a couple of hours. And you'll have destroyed the entire ecosystem, nothing more to grow and eat for the next few years.
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  137.  @fritzjackson4336  this is a phenomenon that is just too consistent to ignore. Typical conservatives think liberals are just misguided or misinformed, while liberals think conservatives are malevolent, stupid, etc.
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  138. Germany and Japan have higher GDP per capita.
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  139.  @iwantsalmon6846  Albania isn't racing to dethrone the US as the top economy of the world...
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  140.  @iwantsalmon6846  The video itself explains that while the phenomenon is not exclusive to China, other countries are high income. China isn't. It's the middle income trap. China had to clear the hurdle before time was up. If you don't, you hit the bar. You can either stay a developing power and use your low income to keep growing your economy. Or you become a high income country. China is not low income enough, nor high income enough. It doesn't matter that the phenomenon is global. We still have the economy to delay the major effects.
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  141. lul making 400 million guns illegal will make them go away
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  142. Sanders rejected himself. Biden is a very good friend.
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  143. It wasn't a cluster bomb. Each submunition seemed to be independently targeted.
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  144.  @susannehartl3067  "By owning a gun you make a choice, whereas poll taxes apply to everyone." - False. Poll taxes don't apply to anyone who doesn't wish to register as a voter. "I missing the connection between poll taxes and voting right" - the point of poll taxes was to make poor people unable to register to vote and thus deny them the right to vote without explicitly banning them from voting.
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  145.  @erzan  if the EU stands for Liberty, explain Article 11 and 13...
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  146.  @techiefromcanada  the police will only come after you've been murdered. Do you think your precinct is gonna waste resources keeping you safe? Not unless you're an important witness for a trial.
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  147.  @davidthedictator  nothing is being ignored on renewable energies.
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  148.  @electronresonator8882  geothermal is just nuclear energy is extra steps.
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  149.  @davidthedictator  No no no no no. You made the claim that breakthroughs are being ignored. You back up your claims. "So then why is it not used more often then?" - Several reasons. Area required, practicality, power requirements, initial installation costs, etc.
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  150. Shut up, only dystopian hellholes like China ban guns.
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