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

  1. Is it 2012 again? I remember people claiming socialism worked great in Venezuela just before their economic crash.
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  2. Just staff Jezebel with everyone from Honey Badger Radio and sit back.
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  3. You mean... "Collusion"???
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  4.  @dontforgettolike7127  The people who called Canadians Nah-tzees over a single flag in a protest are pretending not to see the swastikas, black suns and totenkopfs on the gear of Ukrainian soldiers.
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  5. Nobody: YouTube: hey guys you should google "WTC 7 controlled demolition"
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  6.  @TheObsesedAnimeFreaks  If you engage in the distribution of illicit material you're also on the hook.
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  7. In the Soviet union they even had another problem which was people received wages, but their domestically produced consumer goods were not very good and people tended to hoard their savings and not spend. This wrecked the Soviet economy because the money wasn't circling around.
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  8.  @manuellabor2759  ah, the old "bulked but forgot to work out"
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  9.  @untyrhallsprung569  "a skateboard is obviously less deadly then a gun" - But that's irrelevant. Once you use a bludgeoning or stabbing weapon against someone, you've already escalated to a point where self-defense is justified no matter how much of an advantage the victim has. As shitty of a weapon a skateboard is, using it against someone when there's no justifiable reason (like stopping a robbery or something) is a serious crime.
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  10. Media: "Pwease help us, we are dying" Me: "Then perish"
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  11.  @Saiyan0X  they put the money through "air locks". Say a foreign interest group wants to finnance a presidential campaign, they donate to a university or something with an agreement that the money will be attributed to a non-profit, then that institution is actually controlled by a politician. Then the politician can use that money to achieve deals, like you front the money to finnance the campaign and then the foundation hires your company for "consulting" purposes so you get paid back, the money gets "laundered" from its foreign origins. Everyone knows exactly what's going on but you can't prove it's foreign money finnancing your campaign unless someone blows the whistle.
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  12. Tounushi using all strategies available is still beating someone. Luke, if we had a realistic perspective on training and skill, would have been able to predict such a move, block it and deliver a counter to punish the eager student. But noooooo...
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  13. Я Смерть if it is well written it is not sjw but just a left-leaning movie. The sjw fuckery is what ruins it.
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  14.  @96MasterOfPuppets96  Practicing fire safety isn't the same thing as prohibiting all wood furniture and framing on houses, banning all combustible fluids, lighters and matches. They're effectively trying to place everyone on house arrest. This is madness.
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  15.  @stevemtc1  "The fact they put themselves in that position may be an issue but not really. If I go to the hood to buy drugs that is against the law. But it doesn’t negate my rights to self defense if I’m attacked" - Because then you're being aggressed upon. If you're instigating the fight you may create a situation where others fear for their lives, but you don't have the same legal excuse. They were not passive actors in this situation, and your analogy makes them look passive.
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  16.  @rhumandlove393  "I believe in this particular personal sacrifice... I despise authoritarianism" - So you despise authoritarianism but you're willing to make an exception. Newsflash: the majority of people who defend authoritarianism claim to be against it, but are willing to make a few exceptions. Once you group everyone together, and congregate all their exceptions, you have the manufactured consent for authoritarianism that nobody will question.
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  17. You mean red as in republican or red as full communist?
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  18. @Comic Book Guy they said it was a composite from data analized by multiple observatories. The whole reason we never had a photo of a black hole is because of the physical limits on angular resolution. There's no mirror big enough. But I guess people tune out when they get nerdy. By the way, I am pretty sure any digital camera has an array of sensors that encode information about every pixel on a file. All digital photos are CGI because it's a composite from different sensor data.
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  19. +ItsNikoHIMself sanctions? Oh, you mean the only way """"socialism"""" works is if you let it have MORE CAPITALISM?
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  20.    "And when people refuse and thereby potentially put everyone else in danger?" - Are they breaking into homes of people in isolation?
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  21. Call me gay conversion therapy because I am SHOCKED
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  22. I don't want to be trapped in an echo-chamber. Sometimes youtube recommends me videos by leftist youtubers. One time I clicked Philosophy Tube's "Why the left will win" video and gave it a chance. Motherfucking soyboy actually makes the case that one of the reasons the left will win is because the right admires strength while the left gets together over their weaknesses. How the fuck does that even make sense?
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  23. They had one that was "f*ck it, we'll put 5 blades on razors" around that time, I think, and then in the early 2010's brands started making them.
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  24.  @SiddikaKobir  I disagree, my brother is 5 years younger than me and he is much more conservative than I am. You have to realize kids are watching Paul Joseph Watson, Jordan Peterson, Sargon of Akkad, etc that is why big media is scared of independent creators and smearing them. Look at those "SJW cringe compilations" with millions of views, you think it's only boomers watching that? Teenagers watch that. Look at PewDiePie, he had Ben Shapiro on his channel to review memes because young people asked for it.
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  25. "The future is already determined, it's the past that keeps changing" - Soviet proverb
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  26.  @Brandon-yb8gj  lmao but I do consider people who fund terrorism to be the masterminds. The ISIS leaders are profiteers who take advantage of depressed incels to do the fighting. Not masterminds of some evil plan. Those who fund terrorism to weaken countries and advance their interests are masterminds.
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  27. "Everything is racist, everything is sexist and you gotta point it all out!" - Anita Sarkeesian
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  28.  @SelecaoOfMidas  additionally, all I have read points to Thiel having business in Saudi Arabia when Gawker outed him. They were willing to not just violate his privacy but also ruin his business and risk getting him arrested if he was in Saudi Arabia when the article dropped.
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  29. That's when Nixon illegally used CIA funds to buy himself a gaming rig, right?
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  30.  @joaquinlechen8611  If your daughter danced like in Cuties you unironically should have faced criminal charges.
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  31.  @bodbn  even anti gun advocates in the US accept that there's 50,000-80,000 defensive gun uses every year. Middle of the road estimates are above 100,000. There's hundreds of videos here on youtube of people winning gunfights even though the opponent had a gun drawn.
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  32. If the problem is automation then more and more people will have the "barely enough". Funny how half of the posts defending UBI almost seem to have contempt for the poor while the other half screams about how we'll all be poor one day.
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  33.  @michaelsteffensen6844  murder laws exist to punish the act of murdering. I don't think owning guns is worthy of punishment.
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  34. MeltonCrest your search history matters but there are ads that just get directed to everyone. I get Russian girls dating websites on YouTube but I don't use dating websites nor search about Russian women. Some websites play me ads for these scantily clad women anime games but I don't consume anime or manga, everyone gets these ads because the developers just paid the website to show people the ads, targeting be damned. When I get targeted ads it actually shows travel, cars, power tools, etc because those are related to my browsing history.
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  35. +Facepalm Migraine two years of misuse? I called this shit as soon as it propagated, libertarians and other right-affiliated groups were being branded as alt-right pretty early on.
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  36.  @halasimov1362  holy crap, I never considered that the biological material grown in the lab doesn't have its own immune system...
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  37.  @magsteel9891  The two issues with that are: 1. Even though the movie is "about" exploiting kids all the breakdowns I've seen essentially describe as not actually being critical, just exposing the issue, contrasting it to conservative Islamic tradition within the family, and then the girls resuming a normal childhood. So it's "about" exploitation but without even comitting to anything. 2. Despite the movie being "about" exploitation, from what we understand hundreds of children auditioned for the roles. Even if the movie was critical of exploitation, the audition process did exactly what the movie would be criticizing.
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  38.  @saytax  "not without incident..."
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  39. zanitzeuken dude and Zionist terrorists killed British people (including British Jews) when they were placed there by the Brits. After that they started expanding and performing ethnic cleansing of Arab land so that they could settle and get more land in the 1948 partition.
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  40.  @bodbn  for fuck's sake you make sweeping claims like "The vast majority of gun violence is instantaneous" and "it's a myth" without a single source to back it up, but when confronted you start asking for sources? Here you fucking go: Smith, Tom W. (1997). "A Call for a Truce in the DGU War". Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology (Northwestern). p. 1462. Otis Dudley Duncan, "Gun Use Surveys: In Numbers We Trust?", Criminologist, v25 n1, Jan/Feb 2000. Philip J. Cook and Jens Ludwig, "Guns in America: National Survey on Private Ownership and Use of Firearms", NIJ Research in Brief, May 1997. McDowall, David; Loftin, Colin; Presser, Stanley (2000). "Measuring Civilian Defensive Firearm Use: A Methodological Experiment". Journal of Quantitative Criminology. David Hemenway, Chance, Vol 10, No. 3, 1997. Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology (Northwestern) 87 (1997): 1430. But if we go by the standard that claims need sources, then thanks for shooting your own argument in the foot by providing ZERO.
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  41.  @grubbybum3614  "produce some of the best military equipment in the world" - which means that the rest of Europe have to throw money at them to keep their forces equipped, at the rest of Europe's expense. "And all 3 have a standing army, navy, airforce" - and a lot of the costs of maintaining them are offset by NATO. We can't even properly train fighter pilots in European airspace, the US has to bring the rest of NATO pilots to places like the Nevada desert where you can fly simulated combat without crashing into airliners.
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  42.  @grubbybum3614  "There's a central budget to which they contribute" - and certain nations are spending over the amount agreed upon while others refuse to pull their own weight. Still doesn't change the fact that a lot of stuff in NATO cooperation is off-budget and simply covered by the US defense budget.
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  43.  Super JLK  "at this point the man still thought the jogger was a burglar." - Irrelevant. " He believed the gun would have been used against him and his son." - Oh no, a criminal believes I'm going to hurt him in self-defense. Fuck him. They committed a crime trying to perform the arrest because they're retards, then killed the victim. Criminals don't get to fear that their gun will be used against them. They should either accept their fate or accept getting arrested for murder.
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  44.  @killcat1971  it's funny how to you the answer to the UBI problem is materialism and sex. Maybe if people weren't so obsessed with having the latest phone we would live in a world where a UBI wouldn't even be necessary. Also, if you want to give people a UBI just for their basic needs and nothing more, why instead of a UBI not have a state soup kitchen and rooms? You can live in poverty, but you will always have food and shelter. Want something better? Go find a job. That way you don't need to give people money and risk them misusing it.
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  45.    "Scandinavian countries are mostly atheist and were the best places to live on earth before they got infested by Islam" - If they were such good places to live in, they wouldn't have allowed certain people from obtaining special rights over their own native citizens.
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  46. Ethan Hunt: "By fire... It's the best way."
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  47.  @Shade7x  but any fee, test or licensing system tied to the act of voting would be unconstitutional. The state has the ability to verify if you're not trying to commit voter fraud. If your neighbours report gunshots the police will come check if you're killing someone. That's not a "gun law" its simply enforcement of other laws that involve damage you can cause to others with your actions.
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  48.  @96MasterOfPuppets96  "they're asking" - Asking for something doesn't automatically mean you'll get it. "this is a pandemic, kite surfing is not a necessary activity" - Literally safer to be on the ocean than a grocery store. "If they let one person go to the beach, everyone will go to the beach, it's quite simple really." - There's more social distancing at the beach than literally all the essential businesses.
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  49. I fact-checked his statement and it is true.
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  50.  @shanerooney7288  you're mistaken. Because of the number of people learning in the armed forces and taking their knowledge to the provate sector rather than getting certifications in the civilian world, the military is within its rights to not award someone their certification. My father was an aircraft mechanic in the Air Force and he had to fight to obtain his certification that allowed him to work on civilian planes after going into the reserves.
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  51. I think Richard Spencer coined the term years ago when he "broke up" with American nationalists due to his views. But yeah the media took it and ran with it.
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  52. Let's just say that websites that talk about gaming but call out SJWs probably don't get the same ad deals as IGN or Kotaku and have to settle for advertisers less concerned with the image of the websites where they show up.
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  53. 1/2020th
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  54. Bobby Bobby the funny thing is pedos are trying to enter the protective umbrella by using SJW theory.
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  55. Ahah I just posted the same thing, now that would be epic
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  56.  Super JLK  "The man also had a right to defend himself and the life of his son" - Nope. They decided to become criminals by performing an illegal arrest. They voluntarily gave up their rights to self-defense and consent to being killed by the victim.
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  57.  Super JLK  "it is relevant what the man perceived the threat to be" - Nope. The gunmen were the threat. "Any man running at me intended to cause bodily harm will end up getting shot" - Then you're a murderer because in this case you're committing a crime. Criminals don't have the right to kill their victims.
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  58.    "Their progressive, tolerant, naive, sjw, ideologies did that, not their atheism" - This was about Scandinavia being a good place to live. Sorry, but a place that tells its own citizens they have no freedom and allows a special group to have more freedoms, it's not a good place. "They're getting it at their stupid gatherings, giving it to their whole family who are giving it to the people they come in contact with" - Who are they coming in contact with? "all of them are going to the grocery store and coughing on the food that I and the people I care about buy. Covid can last 9 days on surfaces." - Wash your groceries. You should be doing it even without the crazy christians and their evil cough. "Wash your hands, wear a mask and gloves when you need to go out" - Yes. Do that and the crazy christians won't be a threat to you. "stop believing in fictional bullshit" - I'm an atheist, dumb fuck. Amazing how you call me retarded and wrong but it's you who's consistently wrong on everything.
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  59.  @elperrodelautumo7511  I don't know why that was necessary, the moment anyone mentions "family" in response to far left efforts to undermine society should we assume tradnationalism or nazism? Because when the welfare state promoted single-parenthood, when the professional victims demanded access to "male spaces" (durr) while demanding female exclusive spaces for themselves, etc the progressive centrists either did nothing or actually applauded.
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  60. I was watching a videoby mister metokur where he described that there's a guy who posts videos of himself in a septic tank. I wanted to see if there was an explanation for such a weird thing but upon writing "man" google autocompleted "man in septic tank". It was listening to the video.
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  61. WickederThanThou Zionist militias commited ethnic cleansing of Arab owned land in order to secure a better deal in 1948. They used aggressive, violent expansion to steal land from the Arabs and now they continue with the settlements to rub salt in the wound.
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  62. Already mentioned by the other comment but that claim about Disney was published right around the time he was having disputes with unions (one of them an unironic Soviet Union intelligence front). Disney also made anti-Hitler propaganda.
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  63.  @mattatat1138  "When in fear for your life, and unable to match their level of force, continuing to flee is the most reasonable option." - How is being afraid of getting shot in the back gonna convince someone to flee?
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  64.  @mattatat1138  "if he were an innocent black man, unarmed and confronted by multiple armed men in vehicles, the only reasonable choice is to flee." - Bullshit. The innocent have the right to fight back.
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  65. Not really a sim. It's a shooter with real world military setting.
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  66.  @o.s.s.fitnessandgrappling1052  Nobody's stealing stocks. They don't "pretend" it's theirs. And they don't replace it "before you know". It's amazing how even though there must be a thousand videos explaining the stock market uploaded in the last few days people still fundamentally misunderstand how it works.
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  67. FoC Fans of Color
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  68. And you can see he was zig-zagging and circles around the car because it was the best cover available. Running anywhere else would have exposed him.
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  69.  @xpusostomos  I saw a statistic the other day that FIFA games sales are 75% physical. Online sales often include the DLC and microtransactions which makes physical look like it's dying, but it's not going to die that soon.
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  70.  @Skeloperch  "They were literally attacked" - They were an armed threat. I wish Mr Arbery was carrying so he could use his gun in legal self-defense over those dumbasses. "Zimmerman" - In the Zimmerman case he was following a kid and then the altercation is mostly Zimmerman's own testimony, and he ended up getting his head pounded on the ground. These boys hopped onto a truck and started chasing a man while armed. They were a threat. Zimmerman, according to all the available evidence, was just a curious neighbor and kept his gun hidden until he had to use it.
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  71. It is riddiculous. They put up photos for PR. This means that somehow whoever posted that pic thinks the force is doing a good job.
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  72.  Michael Williams  bro you do realize there are a ton of Anerican Jews who hate what Israel is doing, right?
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  73. One person reviewing can discourage thousands from watching on the theaters.
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  74.  @tyler7713  " A shot wasn’t taken until he assaulted the man with the gun" - False. Three shots. One taken before the altercation. Even then, they broke the law by performing an illegal arrest. They're criminals and the victim defended himself. They killed the victim for resisting.
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  75.  @tyler7713  Rewatch and this time remove the earwax. On the 36 second video there was a shot at 20 seconds, a second shot at 25 and a third shot at 29. The shot at 20 seconds was fired BEFORE Arbery started the fight. George E. Barnhill was the DA that recused himself due to conflict of interest. Bruh. You're literally gonna point to the guy who covered for a former cop and had to recuse himself?
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  76.  @deltawhiskey6732  you do realize just BUILDING the car requires energy and pollutant materials, right? So what the car was taxen off the road? The damage is done and the people who need a car are going to buy one anyway so the nunber of cars on the road is unchanged.
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  77. @Comic Book Guy they did describe it as a composite made from observations made under a specific range of the radiation spectrum. Maybe you missed it, maybe the reporting was shoddy at the source you read, but they weren't trying to mislead anyone. "that's why the digital camera analogy is false; the camera records the actual light-wave data" - you do realize that to a sensor it doesn't fucking matter if the light is invisible or not, right? Point a TV remote at a camera. You'll see a purple glow unless the manufacturer put a filter because the sensor will see that light and interpret it as purple. There's even cameras with a slight night vision mode, they don't work as light intensifiers like in NVGs but allow you do see a green tint that allows you to see things that you wouldn't see on a normal camera. Because we humans are limited to a "visible spectrum" we typically consider visible light different from the rest of radiation. But if we had cones that interpreted IR we'd call IR "visible light" too. Some animals see IR. Light-wave data is not different from any other radiation wave data other than the fact that we can actually see it with our own eyes. I used digital cameras for my analogy and not film photography because we specifically made film to react to visible light (although radiation damage can be observed on film, I know there's artifacts on pictures taken on Chernobyl right after the disaster and film that traveled through space will wash out the colors but you get what I am saying), I am not very knowledgeable on photography but I am sure we could change the chemicals on film to make them react to a broader spectrum. Meanwhile digital cameras can pick up outside the visible spectrum and if you want them to not pick up IR you'll actually have to put a filter before the sensor. Look at FLIR imaging or images taken by a modern IR homing missile. It's a camera. It picks up a spectrum we cannot see. The camera doesn't care for the limits on human vision. It does what it was designed to do. "There's no such thing as radio-wave-light" - "In physics, the term light sometimes refers to electromagnetic radiation of any wavelength, whether visible or not.[5][6] In this sense, gamma rays, X-rays, microwaves and radio waves are also light." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light Have you ever heard of the Dunning-Kruger effect?
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  78. To be fair there's always a path to redemption. There's many who heard about Epstein but would rather not think about it.
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  79.  @jimbo5973  "You are only dead if they shoot you" - Can you prove someone doesn't intend to shoot? "who says they would of shot anyone if he hadn't of charged and started swinging?" - Who says they wouldn't? "thats one hell of an assumtpion to make...." - Your life is on the line. Are you gonna assume the men harassing you with guns are good guys?
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  80. Also it's fucking rich that you just linked to the Critical theory article and right at the top it says it needs revision by a sociology expert because the tone is too technical. It's an encyclopedia article. What kind of bullshit editor wants it less technical?
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  81.  @arktana  and both democrats and republicans have used the anti-semitism card to describe the boycott. Really makes you think.
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  82.  temporarysanity  and the purpose was to normalize cigarette use among kids. Does everyone on tgis god forsajem cyberspace think analogies are direct comparisons? For fuck's sake!
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  83.  @joaquinlechen8611  Yeah, I wasn't there at the night of conception because I'm not a perv. This accusation is not the own you think it is. This wasn't about rules until I saw people defending this to the death, and then bragging about their own children as a way to defend the movie.
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  84.  @davidford3115  "water moderated reactors are fail-safe is because when you boil off the water" - until it becomes fail-deadly if something prevents the steam from condensing "you remove the moderating fluid" - No. You remove the fuel itself. "High temperature does not stop reactions, it actually makes it MORE likely to detonate" - LFTR reactors have a negative temperature coefficient of reactivity.
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  85.  @bluefmi  "it's not normal to take a rifle and go and kill someone you never met. but it is necessary in war" - War is horrible and nobody who doesn't want to fight should be forced to. "me, personally, i have no problem if you have large meetings. with the small condition that you sign that you give up on ALL your demands towards the medical system for the next 6 months." - I'll agree if the people who make this agreement also get to stop paying all taxes to the government.
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  86.  @cameroneagle4370  they don't care about the capital, they care about the capital
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  87.  @familhagaudir8561  "They were called for help by the person who witnessed Arbery comit the burglary, they could legally perform the citizen arrest. " - You do realize that if that were the only legal requirement then you just legalized murder? Anyone can make a call asking for "help", accuse an innocent person, and then you go along and kill that person in "self-defense" when they react to being harassed by armed vigilantes.
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  88. Nahtzee
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  89. +KingNicotine typically there's no room in the private sector for gender studies graduates but those people often manage to butt in through HR and sensitivity training. Not only are media outlets willing to employ these people but they also get jobs in NGOs and make a living out of dictating which content facebook and youtube should deplatform.
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  90. The problem is that in European countries most of the cost is covered by the taxpayer (I think in my country it's about 2/3rds). And even in the US the tuition is heavily subsidized and colleges get a shit ton of grants for research and whatnot. I'm all for letting people waste their money. But they're wasting OUR money.
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  91. LOL... the Government.... when you think you're more Alpha than some goat farmers in the mountains
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  92.  Maiden Minnesota  bruh I don't even remember which channel said but but Tucker criticized a guy who said on TV that the shutdown would have to last until the vaccine was available. It's gonna take more than 12 months for that.
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  93.  Revan  That doesn't have anything to do with the fact that yes, some people have said that this is new new normal and the shutdown will last indefinitely
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  94.  @grubbybum3614  fuck the EU army too. We're not dying to protect the interests of France and Germany.
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  95.  @Soldierboy54b  the cop was in the wrong. Starbucks baristas have pitched in the conversation and revealed that pig gets flagged on profanity filters so the only way to get it printed on the label is to use the app. When questioned about it, O'Mara said he paid with card and deleted his original tweet. The cop fucking false-flagged himself.
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  96. Savage.
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  97. She's more like a tomboy than butch.
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  98.    "What about the people who "don't wanna do it" when they ASK" - Yeah, what about them?
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  99. Saw someone on social media trying to claim it's 25%. Imagine a quarter of the people you know being LGBT. Maybe if you live in SF or Portlandia...
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  100. People die in street fights. Doesn't happen every day but it's not a regulamentation ring with rules, weight classes and a referee to protect the fighters.
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  101.  @cstgraphpads2091  how do you perform air traffic control without knowing where the planes are? Airports existed before radar because air traffic was less congested.
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  102.  @GROGU123  the problem is the lack of due process. A college friend of mine got a letter in the mail telling him to pay up. He asked for photo verification of his car speeding. They didn't reply. The autonated system had probably fucked up and sent him a letter, as soon as someone realized there was no photo of his car/plates in the system they gave up. My girlfriend's father replied to one of those letters by stating the radar had not been calibrated in 6 months, and according to their own rules they couldn't fine a person without hard evidence. Part of due proccess is the government admitting it can get things wrong. Autonating the system to revoke people's rights would open the door to injustice in other areas.
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  103. @Jorge andrade the richest states are democrat because of industry, ports and tech. It has nothing to do with politics.
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  104.  @Jujuwhat  but common sense says that if your company is getting fans riled up it means there's a silent majority of people who didn't like it but don't bother to post their opinion. For every customer who complains there's 10 more who are pissed off and simply stopped buying your product.
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  105. The IRA couldn't compete with the British Army and the Taliban couldn't compete with the coalition. Just saying.
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  106.    Different subject. The US accused Iraq of not destroying their stockpiles according to UN guidelines and also of trying to procure yellowcake to make nukes and using mobile labs to make WMDs. The UN inspectors were satisfied with Iraq's compliance and the only WMDs found were not stockpiles but abandoned and deteriorated weapons from the Iran-Iraq war era that were unusable. The mobile labs didn't exist.
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  107.  @thomasmadison3896  Owen Benjamin is a false flagger. He acts like a SJW whenever anyone calls out his bullshit.
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  108.  @earlward6374  "He had a pattern of this behavior." - Irrelevant. Priors don't justify the shooting. "Thus they had a right to initiate a citizens arrest." - False. You can only do that if you witness the crime or you've positively ID'ed a felon. The former cop recognized the black man from a prior altercation, not the alleged burglary. It was an illegal arrest. "It appears their intent was to stop and hold this criminal suspect until law enforcement arrived. Under Georgia Law, this is perfectly legal" - Only if you witness the crime or you've positively identified a felon. "Barnhill wrote of the McMichaels." - Barnhill was helping the McMichaels in a blatant case of corruption.
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  109.  @earlward6374  "He was shot because he tried to attack people with guns" - Who were illegally detaining him, thus were criminals. He defended himself from criminals. "If they intended to kill him he wouldn't have gotten close enough for a punch to the head" - Why? This doesn't even make sense. Plenty of people are murdered at arm's reach. "They would have shot him dead within 5 feet of the truck as the guy was in the bed of the truck armed" - They did shoot before the altercation. I counted 3 shots.
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  110.  @earlward6374  1. They are irrelevant because the media narrative doesn't matter. It was an illegal shoot. The ex-cop is gonna have his ass pounded in jail. Womp womp. 2. "They already had seen VIDEOS of him" - Only one video is mentioned. And he wasn't recognized from the video. The ex-cop recognized the man from previous altercations unrelated to the burglary. They did not have positive ID of the burglar, the ex-cop just realized the man was familiar. 3. Don't press shift while punching in numbers. The DA fucked up. He attempted to get them off by recusing himself and writing a statement but unwittingly admitted they became criminals when they attempted the illegal arrest. "Glad this piece of shit "jogger" is dead" - I'm glad the ex cop is gonna be worse than dead in jail.
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  111.  Super JLK  Watch again. With sound. And remove the earwax. Three shots. Two during the struggle. One before.
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  112.  @ethanwilliams4559  we could also ban excavators and give people spoons if the point is job creation.
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  113. The problem is that the cops hate this shit but they are forced to act due to NGOs overseeing their response to this type of "crime". The Quartering had an anonymous British police officer send him emails about the topic.
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  114.  @chrisfaircloth2599  "the ngo has no power" but they do, because they will bitch to the chief of police/superintendent/whatever and the person in that seat was put in power by politicians like Sadiq Khan.
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  115. @Coelacanth Q you cannot perform a citizen's arrest except under extremely narrow circumstances. If you do not see someone committing a crime, you cannot arrest a "suspect".
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  116.  @DextNRN  "With every constitutional right we have (In the US), we have a responsibility that go's with it" - Where does it say that?
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  117.  @nonyobussiness3440  it was a set up for the paid actor joke...
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  118.  @Tr1Hard777  "The suicide rate would skyrocket." - yeah because the school system in itself isn't responsible for driving teens into suicide already
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  119.  @dralord1307  That doesn't make any fucking sense. Like a third of the population gets the seasonal flu, and the reason so many get it in the first place is because the flu is a minor inconvenience that allows us to go to work and school and spread it out. Meanwhile 20% of the people infected by this stuff get hospitalized and cities shut down.
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  120.  @juanfvt1000  it didn't work with Nike because "Blue Lives Matter" type of people who burned their Nikes aren't the brand's main demographic. Now, I think it's fucking disgusting that an underperfoming football player used a publicity stunt to catapult him back to relevance and then get a huge paycheck from a multinational brand while claiming he sacrificed everything... But I'm not gonna stop wearing Nikes over that. That's why a Nike boycott wouldn't work.
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  121.  @Cemtexify  it would be the definition of insanity to kill Gillette due to SJW crap and replace it with another brand with SJW crap. We can still not buy it.
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  122. Cough in their face and scream "IT'S JUST THE FLU BRO!"
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  123. I was never a big Sony guy since the PS2 days so I legitimately thought that the girl from TLOU was played by Ellen Page.
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  124.  Virgil Grin  that's like saying Commies were atheists so atheists killed 100 million people.
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  125.  @Aiveq  Pretty much anything that can cause serious injury. Even a car or a boat.
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  126.  @Rivenburg-xd5yf  "YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO ASSEMBLE, WHAT YOU DONT HAVE A RIGHT TO IS ANONYMITY AFTERWARDS" - Yeah, you do. Wear a mask.
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  127.  @genobreaker1054  Minimum wage was created purposefully to "breed people out" of society by making them unable to live and raise children.
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  128.  @XanarchistBlogspot  Seems to me like you want the freedom to drive so you're making excuses. Some of us want the freedom to even get to the car door.
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  129.  @CJ-kg7yq  because you're 1) invoking God's name in vain and 2) asking him to damn something, damnation is pretty strong. It's strange but remember there's people who write G-d even in digital media because the word could be printed and desecrated. Go figure.
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  130.  @bobsmith-pc4zw  Not the same thing. You can get a loan, use it to invest (or gamble) and you're on the hook for paying it back. You can mortgage your house to get a certain percentage of it's value and use that money to invest or start a business. What happened was naked short selling. If you borrow 10 bucks and I ask you to borrow those same bucks, there's 20 dollars of debt and only 10 dollars of money. I'm on the hook to pay you back and you're on the hook for paying it back.
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  131.  @Crono1973  the issue is, what kind of work are you expecting from a person making 1 dollar per hour? If you pay that poorly the only people you'll find working that job are people who won't do anything they are told, take excessive breaks and won't stop staring at their cellphone while on the clock. I saw this recurring problem on a fast food job that paid min wage, imagine paying less than that.
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  132. What about the southern hemisphere?
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  133.  Kathy Sharp  you do realize houses are good investments, and valuable car collections hold their value, right?
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  134.  @deltawhiskey6732  in retrospective it was more obvious the second time reading.
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  135. Hearing protection? Reducing noise pollution?
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  136.  @blai5e730  Some weapons are still obnoxiously loud indoors even while wearing hearing protection. In many countries hunting is done with suppressors/moderators/mufflers to limit the nuisance. I don't see why the assumption is handguns, but even then being against suppressors is even more nonsensical. Handguns are the main type of firearm used in crime because they're concealable. A can in the end of the muzzle makes the pistol much longer, to the point it becomes difficult to pull it out from a concealable position and nearly impossible to shove into a pocket or glove box.
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  137. @Comic Book Guy "defined in the dictionaries" - oh yes, because dictionaries are the ultimate authority in physics. "a camera, whether digital or chemical, or any device being able to detect or show the affects of humanly invisible EM radiation, doesn't = us seeing the invisible EM radiation" - that wasn't the argument. Nobody said that. You said that no EM radiation outside the visible spectrum could be considered light, which is false. "TV remotes don't flash purple or any colour" - again I just said it is interpreted as purple light. "the camera represents the invisible EM radiation with visible EM radiation." - now think long and hard about what you just said because that proves my entire point. "The dark objects/surroundings of night are not made light-grey by night vision cameras" - nobody claimed that. You're grasping at straws to disprove anything, even what was not said. "it seems that the ones who use "Dunning-Kruger" are the ones who've got nothing better than petty ad hominem." - it's not Ad Hominem my guy, you literally just fucking pretended to know better than someone else because you are not aware of a piece of knowledge required to understand his statement. "yet you seem to struggle with the fucking basic concept of INVISIBILITY" - the black hole isn't invisible. We can see the orange glow of the accretion disc. That's how we knew where it was in the first place. The problem is that you can't fucking see shit because of all the dust and clouds in the way and the lack of angular resolution. So they picked a band from the spectrum that could get through the matter.
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  138. @Comic Book Guy I mean, you're as pedantic as the Comic Book Guy but at least he is knowledgeable about stuff. Dictionaries reflect culture because meaning if often defined by society - see, the example of "literally" now being used by people who don't actually mean something literally changing the dictionary definition. Tell me, when soldiers using night vision goggles and want to mark a position they crack some IR chemlights so why are they "chemical lights" if IR is not visible? And they use IR lasers to aim their rifles when the night vision googles do not allow them to look through the ironsights or scope, laser means "Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation". Insects and shrimp can see UV radiation. Wouldn't that make UV a form of light as well? "The intellectually honest, unbiased person can tell that the guy was covering his ass" - if you're actually intellectually honest you would realize he was explaining it to normies. He was actually being honest because he corrected himself to let people know the light wasn't visible. Normies would assume the object is visible on a normal telescope that works with your eyeballs so he made sure people understood they picked a non-visible part of the spectrum. All EM is part of the same phenomenon. It just so happens that we can see part of its spectrum. X-rays, radio, UV, IR, Microwave, Gamma-rays and visible light are all EM. They're all part of the same phenomena with different wavelengths. They're all waves and its quantum are photons. What you see are photons hitting your eyes. An X-ray of your bones is photons hitting your body. Therefore they're all light. "that is BOUND to be taken as an attack upon the person's character and BOUND to be taken as an attack made to undermine the person's arguments" - you are insisting that EM radiation is not light because of your own lack of understanding of the topic and then pretend to know more than a scientist even though he technically didn't make any mistake. How is it an Ad Hominem to tell you that your own lack of expertise is clouding your judgement and making you see conspiracies where they don't exist? "you've seen a visual representation of its radio waves" - I understand what you're getting at. I do. But take for example the Sun. If you take a photo of it through the visible light spectrum is just a bright ball and you can't see anything. Have you ever seen eclipses or Venus crossings through those dark lenses? That's what the Sun looks like. A white ball. So most pictures of the Sun you have seen are photos taken through the X-ray spectrum, where you actually see the dark spots, the sections burning brighter and those arcs that look like flames. We color fill them with orange. But that image is true to life because it actually allows you to see what's going on the surface of the Sun without the image simply being washed out by the blinding white light emitted by it. We only did a similar thing to a black hole, figure out what it looks like in a spectrum that doesn't get washed out and color fill with the orange that we can see on visible light telescopes.
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  139. Lending is part of the money creation, which is necessary as economies grow because the base money is not enough to cover all the assets that come into existence from human activity. The banks have you on the hook for paying back and if you don't, they take your assets to erase that debt.
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  140.  @jimbo5973  You're dead either way. Might as well take the chance to disarm the opponent.
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  141.  @nautdead3197  the Berlin wall didn't work. It was the indoctrinated hardliners picked for border guards that discouraged the crossing. By shooting people in the back.
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  142. ​ @nautdead3197  they picked people from the interior of the country so they wouldn't have emotional ties to Berliners, gave them extensive shooting training and political indoctrination classes to make them true believers in Communism just so that they wouldn't hesitate to pull the trigger, had secret police and snitches infiltrated among the ranks so that nobody could even think about looking the other way and they kept the shifts secretive so you couldn't help anyone plan an escape because you wouldn't know who you'd be paired with in the watch. Are you legitimately saying that the US needs to turn into fucking Commie hell? After the wall came down there were like over 170 murder trials because that's what they were. Murderers.
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  143.  @nautdead3197  that's not what you're saying, because if my argument is that the Berlin wall was only made effective through the threat of murder (and still people fled anyway) and you said "yeah that sounds effective" you're literally praising the communist system. If your argument is that manpower is what truly demotivates people due to the chances of being caught, then the building of the wall is taking away resources that should be spent on the manpower.
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  144.  @nautdead3197  Me: describes the horrific crimes of the Soviets inflicted upon Eastern Europe You (and I quote): "that sounds like it worked"
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  145.  @nautdead3197  "saying somthing was effective isnt arguing it was moral." - 1. you initially said it was the wall when it was the manpower 2. The wall was still not effective because people crossed when there was no watch.
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  146.  @Kiadaw77  "wall slowed down & make it difficult for crossing, significantly increase risk of failure and being shot. That prevent more people attempting to cross." So will the US put brainwashed sharpshooters manning the wall to create that fear of death?
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  147.  @nautdead3197  maybe you should explain yourself better. What you should be trying to say is that the border needs increased controls, but you're here unironically saying "yeah murderous bastards manning the walls, that works" like the Berlin Wall was some hot shit. I'm trying to explain how riddiculous that is to you, but you accuse me of misrepresenting your point instead. ITT: pro-wall people come full circle and unironically support the "antifascist" wall set up by Commies, which had to come down within a few decades due to the will of the people
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  148.  @nautdead3197  lel emoshiunssss. Me: "indoctrinated hardliners shot people in the back" You: "that sounds like it worked"
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  149. @Maxeotl why don't they just cross the border, I thought Trudeau would welcome refugees with open arms?
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  150. The yokels committed the crime of an illegal citizen's arrest. Sorry bud, but they chose to be criminals and justify a victim's self-defense rights against them. They deserved to fear for their life.
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  151. Of all the things Alex Jones have said, Pizzagate seems to be the realest. Come on, all these powerful people just happen to like art depicting child abuse? They just suggestively tied up real toddlers with duct tape? They removed the man-boy love symbol from their logo when it was reported there was similarity? Hollywood is full of rapists and pedos, why not the government too? UN officials have used their position of power to have sex with children from third world countries.
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  152. This is all pointless because to the left even if you have moderate right wing opinions you're already evil because you hate the poor, women, minorities, etc. The left does exactly what the shooter wanted - drive moderates into becoming the extremists they are already accused of being.
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  153. "jews are targeted and massacred even in the US" - I fail to see how a boycott towards an ethnostate engaged in illegal occupation equals being massacred. "And boycotting a liberal democracy" - lmao the US government literally allied itself with dictators when it suited them so don't bring that "muh democracy" when the US worked to topple democracy and reinstate a monarch in Iran for exemple. Being a democracy isn't excuse to do fucked up shit. "and since its done only towards Israel, and not towards muslim dictatorships" - How many products do you buy from Arab countries? And by the way, I sure hope Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the UAE get fucked as oil prices drop when fossil fuels fall out of favor and they suddenly won't be able to pay foreigners and use slave labor to do their work. But that's unrelated to the issue. "that stone women to death for speaking to men" - my dude unless you literally go over there and bring your own rifle to sort that shit out I'm not interested in hearing about that. So many of their own people are not interested in the Western concept of freedom and will die either to protect the status quo or just money. So what happens when our "liberal democracies" show up? We see ourselves forced to blow innocent people up and make the civilians believe even more in their ideologies. We've been sinking trillions of dollars into the Middle East and yet the US still had to negotiate with the Taliban to not attack pipelines because they still control rural areas. So if you want to liberate Afghan women you do it yourself rather than ask me to pay the bill for a meaningless war that's gonna kill more Afghan women anyway. And aforementioned oil producing countries don't give a shit about human rights and we're friendly towards them, so… the "Muslim country bad!" deflection is just that, whataboutism. Muslims spit in the face of Western ideals but they're honest about it and I'm not going to risk dying from an IED to change it. Israel pretends to be a developed country while subjugating a native population and holding a nuclear sword of Damocles over their neighbours so that they can perform their airstrikes without fear of retaliation.
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  154. "You dont need an AK to take down a shooter without killing people. In fact you dont want the AK in that scenario." - Why? "You want the single shot pistol or revolver" - I don't even know of any single shot pistols that aren't veterinary guns and what would be the point of a revolver that's single shot? The whole point of a revolving cylinder is having multiple shots on tap. Why machine a revolving cylinder with only one chamber? You may study history but the books sometimes don't have the full knowledge.
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  155. Nicholas Connor as much as I joke about Obama being similar to GW Bush, in terms of policies republicans had reasons to hate Obama. The guns issue, the ACA is against right-wing economics, etc.
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  156. Chuck Norris is repping Glock, too
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  157. 8:15 Tim addresses it.
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  158. "now"
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  159. Isn't there an actual study that found most vegans give up on their diet?
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  160.  Jayne Eyre  that's optimistic as hell. Considering that cereal manufacturers paid for the promotion of breakfast as the most important meal of the day (science doesn't support it), I really have no doubts about how low corporations will go to promote their product.
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  161.  @joaquinlechen8611  How are the details about your personal life a defense of Cuties? Either it was never as bad, and you're a useful idiot, or you're actually admitting your own offspring was exploited. The two hour runtime is probably made up for the tapes of the hundreds of children who auditioned for the roles.
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  162.  @Dank_Nuggetz  No, military ID doesn't bypass any federal or state laws. In fact, retired military personnel found out that they were having delays on their background checks because the government added them to watchlists after they returned from deployments overseas.
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  163. Get North Korea to denuclearize by firing their stockpile into CA.
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  164. The US has no jurisdiction. Netflix are the ones distributing in the US. Everyone else is out of reach from the courts.
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  165.  @abduldajewl  You do realize that the fed injects those billions into the financial sector, right? An overvalued Wall Street does not mean you don't owe your wealth.
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  166.  @Dave-ks9fi  the issue is that this thing spread after the Chinese New Year and I'm not saying this is true everywhere... but many Chinese restaurants closed for Chinese New Year.
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  167. It's important for people to not back down: people gave up on Gillette for a reason. If playing identity politics in favor of "white people" or "the troops" brings people back then it will only feed the argument that the people complaining are snowflakes.
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  168. If you have the stomach, listen to "Hunting Warhead" - a podcast with six episodes about a criminal investigation on a dark web site administrator. It explains where it all ends up.
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  169. Get Judge Judy on the case.
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  170.  @familhagaudir8561  "Pointing it at someone is. Which didn't happen untill Arbrey attacked them." - False. The first shot was fired before the attack.
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  171.  @familhagaudir8561  "The two guys accused for shooting Arbery in self-defense" - They opened fire first, though. In the 36 second video posted on liveleak you hear the first shot at 20 seconds.
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  172.  @diomedes7971  "they had more right of being there then Arbery, their home was down the street." - Your home being down the street doesn't give you the right to act extra-judiciously. By the McMichael's own words recorded on the police report, they weren't in hot pursuit of a crime they had witnessed, Greg just saw a man he had reached for his waistband once. "He ran over a hundred feet to their park vehicle" - And you think they were parked there for a picnic? The police report itself reveals that they were on the chase with the two trucks and attempted to box Arbery in multiple times. Arbery didn't run to a parked truck. He pushed through an ambush he had attempted to shake off already. "Arbery wasn't ambushed by these guys" - The police report spells out that they were using the vehicles to box him in. "Arbery was a grown man and is fully responsible for his actions" - And so are the McMichaels. Now they're facing the consequences for trying to play cop. Which could have killed an innocent man rather than the actual trespasser. "No weapon was pointed at him" - A shot was fired at him before the confrontation became physical. "he was a safe distance away" - And the armed men denied this distance by chasing him. Read the police report where the police flat out recognized that Arbery did what you required of him but the armed men did not let go. "That if they were out for his blood would have dropped him dozens of feet before he reached them" - This is completely ignorant. If armed men are chasing you, do you second guess their intentions? What reason do you have to believe they won't kill you later? "Senior was also on the phone with police when Arbery initiated his assault." - What does this even mean? If you get attacked by a group of people do you assume that they're on the phone with cops or calling more of their boys for the fight? Calling the police does not give any legitimacy to the confrontation.
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  173.  @diomedes7971  "because a intelligent person runs 100+ feet in open ground to rush a gun holder" - He was moving forward, then you see him notice that he is going to be fired upon, he starts zig-zagging to dodge the incoming gunshot, takes cover behind the vehicle, you hear a shot ring out, then you see that the driver left the vehicle and Arbery is running across the hood of the car to meet him. He had already been chased and attempted to leave like you required of him. His last resort was pushing through the ambush (as evidenced by the first shot, it was the option that bought him a few extra seconds of life). It doesn't matter what is smart or isn't. It was the option available at the time after exhausting the other ones. "as in running directly at two men open carrying" - Read the police report. They had been chasing Arbery and attempting to curt him off. The McMichaels used the vehicle's superior speed versus human locomotion to get ahead and corner Arbery. You can describe it any way you want, but even if you use superior speed to get ahead of your prey and create a barrier, that's still a chase. "He wasn't cornered, the McMichael's were not actively pursuing at that moment." - They were just actively running a two vehicle intercept. "while refusing to communicate what so ever with them" - He didn't have to communicate. "Then proceeded to felony assault a armed person." - Which is self-defense.
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  174. I support open carry and armed demonstrations by people protesting against gun control, though. Don't undermine other causes just to dunk on the left.
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  175.  @charlytaylor1748  "ask some of the guys who sit back and watch their investment stocks rise in value" - apart from insider trading, they could have easily lost it all in those gambles
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  176.  @ThreeDaysOfDan  yeah of course it isn't gambling by the legal definition, but "gamble" is anything you take a risk on. Like for example: "Crossing the street here? With the poor visibility it's a gamble."
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  177.  @grubbybum3614  anyone in the EU who will not reap the benefits of the military industrial complex
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  178.  @mathieul4303  Then it doesn't matter. Rights are not for the good days. They're for the bad days. It's precisely in times of crisis that rights get overlooked and thus trampled. If there's nobody left, we might get the answer why the universe is so quiet. But, it's extremely difficult for SARS CoV 2 to eliminate mankind considering that 80% of people seem to be unaffected/only mildly sick.
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  179.  @artruisjoew5473  "The shots are fired defensively, after the fight had broke out." - False. In the 36 second video you can hear a shot at 20 seconds in, one at 25 and another at 29. The shot fired at 20 seconds was fired BEFORE the fight broke out.
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  180.  @artruisjoew5473  "you can see the burglar run past the car then turn 90 degree to the left" - By this time a shot had already been fired. 20 seconds in. Then he turns left and the fight starts. "this is considered to be the initiation of the fight, the shot was heard after that." - Nope, that was the second shot. And the initiation of the fight was the chase by armed men in two vehicles attempting to perform an illegal arrest and thus making themselves the criminals in the situation.
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  181. If stores don't price gouge, profiteers will just purchase high volume at the regular price and then do the price gouge themselves. Plus the extra income to the store may help them get enough money to order more goods to restock at inflated prices. If they sell at regular prices they might not be able to compete with other stores due to lack of finances.
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  182.  @tomsawyerpiper9412  I think the point is that nobody cared about "representation" until a certain type of people convinced minorities they desperately needed it.
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  183.    "If you read the study quite a few started volunteering for charity which they could not do under welfare rules." - which kinda introduces the idea that UBI will lead to someone somewhere profiting off unpaid wages if the state is subsidizing people's income. Start a charity, you and a few friends get jobs as directors of something, use the volunteer's labour and pocket a huge chunk of donations as "operational expenses". You'd be surprised at how much charities spend on their own directors.
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  184.    "If they save money on something they are not going to care that someone is profiting from that. It is called being rational." - no, it isn't. My point was that the UBI is like Walmart signing up people for welfare. It's a subsidy you're giving to corporations. "Also Finland monitors how charity use their money quite a lot so no that is not possible. It would be reclassified as for profit" - it's not "for profit" if the only money you spend on yourself is operational costs. There's legal ways to do whatever it needs to be done.
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  185.  @killcat1971  the point is that even you have criticized materialism, meaning that there are obviously people in this world who do not need materialism to feel whole and will accept the neetbux.
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  186.  @MegaPaddz  travel and tourism create a lot less emissions than cattle raising. Unless you get the NEETs to go vegan people not going on vacation will not affect emissions that much.
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  187.  @MegaPaddz  "Shutting down air travel/transport and diesel powered sea travel/transport worldwide would have a huge effect on carbon emissions." - there's a big difference between shutting everything down and just ending vacations. Also, shutting everything down would make several countries collapse because they're not self-sufficient and need the road and sea transport to get supplies. "We also have to factor in global dimming caused by all the aircraft which is keeping the earths temps about 2 degrees Celsius colder than they actually would be without con trails blocking the sun" - isn't... isn't that actually a positive effect because it counters the effect of greenhouse gasses? "buying of products which are imported" - you're underestimating how much imports are needed. We import not only finished products but partially completed products and raw materials. Countries import and export machinery that allows a country to manufacture a product even though they do not manufacture the machinery themselves. Even a ban on imported finished products would be devastating, but actually trying to shut down transport would destroy living standards and send everyone into poverty because wealth generation will go back to pre-1800's levels.
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  188.    "They are already subsiding businesses so if what you say happens, that profit is another benefit of UBI" ???????????????? for fuck's sake you're literally stating that corporations not having to pay good wages to attract employees is a positive effect of UBI?????? Oh my god don't you see that you're playing right into the hands of the ultra rich? "So it's still the rational thing to do. Profit isn't a negative side effect. It's a positive side effects." - It's not rational at all! It's completely irrational to allow someone to steal and gain from it! Profits earned illegitimately are a negative side effect! "The only problem with fake charities is that they take money that should go to real charities. But this isn't money earmarked for that." - I'm not even talking about fake charities. Very real charities have to pay their own staff. And the bigger a charity is the more work it involves to run it, so typically that is the rationalization of directors of large charities paying themselves good salaries. The issue is, at least charities dealing with volunteers are limited by the fact that people don't have unlimited time and they have to earn a living somehow. If volunteering increases simply because people have nothing to do you're essentially devaluing labour because those who benefit from it are not paying what they owe. If UBI was a thing charities should be forced to hire people with real contracts to try and limit the number of people they can use as labour.
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  189.  @killcat1971  "but how many?" - many. Especially if there's zero effort required. "Most people want more from life then a UBI will supply" - the problem is that even even working for minimum wage involves work, so people naturally figure that if they're working might as well do some extra effort and climb the ladder. If you're ensuring people they're gonna be set for life there's no sunk cost. "When you are deaing with something as broadbased as the UBI you have to look at the population as a whole" - yeah, and the population as a whole doesn't paint a pretty picture. There's more than enough people willing to cheat the government and get benefits. If there isn't even any cheating involved, oh boy.
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  190.  @killcat1971  "if there is no "system" to cheat you save on compliance costs" - but you lose on the fact that nobody feels the shame of being dishonest "there is a very generous social welfare system, and we still only have ~4% unemployment" - or maybe, it's a very productive country/society and the wealth generated allows for a generous welfare system. If the factories were going bankrupt, the banks failed and the services industry slowed down suddenly there would be no way to afford that welfare system. "some women would be likely to stop working and be stay at home moms, but this could actually raise wages (fewer workers willing to work for so little)" - but I thought that people wouldn't feel whole staying at home? Wouldn't the woman go back to work to provide a better life for her child because according to your logic we all strive for it?
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  191.  @killcat1971  "The kind of people that care about "honest work" aren't likely to stop working due to a UBI" - I never said anything about honest work. Cheating the government is, go figure, a crime. Many people who cheat the government are absolutely shameless and have no problems being dishonest on any aspects of their lives. Other people would rather work hard not because of valuing honest work but because they're not willing to tell a huge lie nor commit an infraction. "When you look at most welfare systems they spend a LOT of money on compliance" - the money you save on compliance will be offset by the extra UBI you'll be paying. "And employers take advantage of that" - how? "I've seen people suggest that there should be no welfare state and no minimum wage, can you imagine what that would look like?" - yes, I can. If jobs paid so little it was preferable to move to the countryside and grow your own food, employers wouldn't be able to attract any workers and businesses would be forced to either pay worthwhile wages or perish.
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  192.    are you playing dumb just for the argument's sake? Why should Finnish business be supported if it doesn't want to support itself? Hell, forget about Finish businesses. All businesses will be affected by this, even foreign businesses. The state is PAYING for the wages that corporations should be paying. Why not transition into communism, then? If the state is paying. Might as well expropriate the businesses. Why should be profits be privatized and costs socialized? I mean, corporations cheat the system by forcing the state to pay what they're not willing to pay and you applaud it??? You're actually applauding the Walmart model of not paying enough and singing up people for welfare? Making EVERYONE pay what they're not willing to pay and pocketing the money for themselves? You think this is good? You think this is sustainable? "There are no any evidence that volunteerism devalue the value of labor." - 1. There is no evidence because we're talking about a system that has never been implemented in a true scale. 2. It's basic economics. If people are willing to labour for free it decreases the value of labour. It doesn't take evidence to realize that if I start giving away computers the companies charging 600 dollars for a computer will not be able to compete because I devalued computers as a commodity. The same thing that happens to products also happens to labour.
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  193.    IT'S NOT INDIRECT. IT'S BUSINESS SHIFTING THEIR COST OF OPERATION TO THE GOVERNMENT. JESUS CHRIST, PEOPLE. IS THIS REAL LIFE? IT'S LITERAL CORPORATE WELFARE, USING STATE MONEY TO SUPPORT BUSINESSES. "And no that's not basic economics. That's not how demand and supply works. Which is very studied and proven. Your systement contradicts thousands of published peer review papers." - no, it doesn't. It literally obeys supply and demand. Are you saying that according to supply and demand, if I give away computers for 0 dollars then will 600 dollar computers be worth 800? No. If you start giving something away for free, it reduces value. "If people work for free then the supply of workers decrease and prices for paid labour goes up." - for that people will have to refuse to work for free, aka the initial conditions have changed. If people are working for free, it devalues labour. Once the conditions change by the previously unpaid labourers demanding wages, price of labour will go up. With price of labour going up, more people will be willing to work meaning that labour will devalue back to roughly the starting position. It is a cycle. But taking a snapshot in time where people are giving away free labour, labour is devalued. If then the supply of labour decreases then yes you may see a severe hike in the value of labour - but your argument hinged on people being willing to work even when there are no wages involved, essentially killing the normal cycle I just mentioned if what you said was true.
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  194.  @killcat1971  "But so what? you'd (hopefully) end up with a system where everyone was covered for the basics and if you were willing to work you could live fairly well on even a minimum wage job, as stated it would also cover maternity leave and students, veterans, the mentally ill etc." - then why not just implement communism? You're just a few steps removed. Because it seems to be a clusterfuck in terms of morality. On one hand you have capitalism assuming all interactions without government intervention are voluntary and it's immoral to force unwanted relationships/contracts with "society", on the other hand you have communism which despite my disagreement has created a morality that attempts to be internally consistent and justifies it's existence. With your system... it's madness. Seems like there's no method or logic, just people clicking buttons and adjusting sliders like real like is just a game of SimCity where you don't care about law or fairness or morality. People are just mindless drones with a specific set of wants and needs and the government just gives it to keep people happy. Forget principles, only objectives and how to complete them. Say what you want about communism... but at least there's a purpose, there's principle. I don't want to live in this hellhole where we get the problems of communism AND the problems of megacorporations trying to get us to consume. The only justification being utilitarian arguments. "where would they get the land?" - people could get together and purchase land that has completely devalued so it's cheap. Does it sound like a commune? It does. I wholeheartedly support communes as long as they're voluntary.
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  195.    "In Finland. Yes. They require evidence." - I literally do not know what the hell you're talking about or why you keep talking about Finland. I'm talking about the world in general. "Yes it's indirectly. They pay this to citizens not to corporations. No one wants to give corporations UBI." - You can refuse to see the facts. But if we have a friend, and I owe you 10 Euro, and I say I do not have money but our friend can pay my debt and he gives you the 10 Euro, you can call it "indirect" but I essentially took money from him and gave it to you. Sure, I didn't touch the money directly but I still benefited from his money because now I don't owe you money. If we do that with corporations, that is corporate welfare. Deny it. You can try. But the state covering for costs that businesses should be FORCED to pay and then the rich pocket the money they earned through this practice. It's a fucking joke. Privatized profits, socialized costs. Businesses become leeches. "And no if computers are given away that doesn't bring down the price of computers." - yes, it does. If everyone gets a computer for free this steals sales from competitors. If competitors have product on the shelves that they can't move the prices go down. Since better computer components are released almost every year, a computer that doesn't get sold will eventually have to compete with better models. Keeping product that doesn't sell in storage costs money. Have you ever seen any supermarket running deals on products that might be nearing their best before date? They typically cost less. Why? Because things that do not get bought are lower value. "And we are discussing labor here not computers. There is a limited demand for computers" - and there is no limited demand for labour? "Work on the other hand is not something that buyers get enough of." - then why does unemployment exist? Clearly there's a limiting factor for employment so there's no infinite demand for labour. "If they get some workers for free that doesn't mean that they wouldn't hire the rest of the workforce." - if I can get free workers to make all my products why would I waste money on hiring anyone else? Especially if hiring more people and making more product would lead to... saturation? "The number of available paid jobs are set by the central bank" - the what now? "Also when you hire someone on welfare you do get subsidies from the government. So how is what you describe different from what's already happening?" - well, it is different because I would hope it is a temporary measure to get people OFF the welfare. A permanent UBI? it would turn the human race into cattle. With the added criticism of being corporate welfare. Here's an interesting take on the subject: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuRuFj5c0bE
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  196.  @killcat1971  "Can you actually point me to an area with decent farm land hat's that cheap? Anyone who'd be in a better position to leave town than work is unlikely to have much money." - again, there's small plots of land, people can pool resources, etc it doesn't need to be "farm land" as long as there's no zoning laws bullshit people can grow food on home gardens - it's gonna grow on any appropriate soil. Also, there's plenty of wealthy leftists, ask them to contribute. And I am just saying, but for example in the US you used to be able to homestead public land but that was outlawed in the 1970's so that's a government putting a barrier on self-sufficiency, not capitalism. "As to Communism the issue with it is that it states that everyone is equal" - I'm not going to focus on that idealistic side of communist theory, according to the core tenants of communism the needy will be taken care of and the workers will keep the full profits of their labour, which would fulfill the stated goal of UBI. In theory it's going to allow for inequality, you just wouldn't be able to use property to achieve it. You'd have to work for it, not manage or hire people. "and then creates a hierarchy with the "party" on top" - not to sound like a communist, but communism is a stateless society. The communist party leading a country is socialism. That's why the USSR was lead by Communist parties, but the countries were Socialist republics. Minor nitpick, but my point is that communism ties the value of commodities to labour. I disagree with the labour theory of value because it only works if you add social necessity or "socially necessary labour", which is basically just Supply and Demand with added steps. But at least there's an economic theory behind it. Morality, even. It's important to realize that whoever pays the money that is used to give people UBI (the ultra rich, the mega corporations) will become The Party. They will have 100% of control over society. "The reason I prefer a UBI over Communism is it allows individuals free choice" - it really won't. UBI will be used to control the population. It's basically an allowance that you will have to spend on corporations so that they can profit and grow so that they can be taxed and you get your UBI again. What's going to happen when people are given UBI but they realize there's a big advantage in not consuming and simply saving the money? "In short Communism has never worker, democratic socialism (like Norway) does" - Norway isn't democratic socialism. It's a capitalist country with welfare. It works on a highly productive country with strong industries, meanwhile the same system is implemented in the PIGS and they're always in the brink of collapse. And plus, the same pitfalls of communism will affect UBI. One of the reasons the Soviet Union had so many problems was that people preferred to save their money than consuming, the ruble was more valuable than the goods produced by the Soviet Union. This means that industries could not sustain themselves and generate the wealth required to pay people's wages, this almost brought down the Soviet Union several times. Like I said before, if the economy depends on people spending their UBI but they realize that it's better to save money the economy will stagnate and there will be no taxable profits to distribute as UBI. "I don't know what your situation is but what would being able to get $1000/month do for you" - it would be about the same I'm gonna make once I graduate college later this year, and about double than I made working my ass off full time without a degree.
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  197. @M A "And what if that money would barely make you able to afford food and rent for 10 square meter room?" - how does that differ from "first world" poverty? If you're not going to change the human condition what's the point of UBI? I thought the point was preventing exactly that situation. "I doubt anyone is arguing UBI so high that it would start competing with actual work salaries" - a lot of jobs pay low enough that sitting on your ass for a little less money sounds attractive.
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  198.  @killcat1971  well higher min wage would have screwed me over - the economic crisis meant that nobody would risk giving me a job and I was out handing in resumes daily. As soon as the economy got better I got hired right on the first application I sent. A higher min wage would have delayed my employment, during which time I'd be getting paid 0€.
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  199.  @killcat1971  but in the actual cases where the father is MIA you'd basically need an allowance for each kid. Maybe with some sort of function that diminished returns, because if you gave the same set amount for every kid economies of scale kick in and it becomes a welfare scam.
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  200.  @AltCTRLF8  you do not know how many people have hundreds of Steam games on backlog, do you?
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  201.    but we're talking about a Finnish experiment as a small scale reproduction of the concept in itself and we started debating the concept. "Well, in Finland..." let me stop you right there. The rest of the world isn't Finland.
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  202.    "By that reasoning public schools are corporations shifting their costs to the government" - but public schools are owned and controlled by the state. Do you want Walmart and Amazon to become state-owned enterprises? That's a different argument. My point is that people get jobs so they can afford to live, giving people welfare means employees are not longer trying to attract people who need to make a living, but people looking to get extra allowance. This lowers the costs of employment and shifts that burden into the UBI system. "But that's still an indirect subsidy." - it's indirect through semantics alone. If a corporation spends less money on employment costs the benefits are pretty direct. If a bank has debt and the government bails out the bank by paying their debt, you can call it indirect all you want but you still gave welfare to a bank.
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  203.  @Tuatara1989  >"we need UBI or else people will live in poverty!" >"ahahah you think you'll be a deadbeat when we get UBI? YOU'LL BE FUCKING POOR HAHAHA!" "why don't they work less hours than they do now?" - because employment isn't a thing that you sign up for to be busy during the day, having a job means serving a need. There are some jobs you get to pick hours in part time but the vast majority of people are needed to man their station. The employer is not looking to have people who'll only show up for half a day and go home.
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  204.  @asdrt6405  it was a small scale study. Try it on a few million people and see how it goes.
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  205.  @VantaSilver216  if you have reasons to want it small then you're not very pro- either.
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  206.  @VantaSilver216  it's not black and white, if there's pro government and anti government in a spectrum and you're past centrist... Libertarians/minarchists still hold anti-government beliefs.
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  207. +Collin being pro-American is all about recognizing the fucks who are sending Americans to die. Defending these tyrants is anti-American.
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  208. Making an anti-war movie by provoking an actual war is kind of crossing the line.
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  209. @Noktirnal exactly.
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  210.  @willowsband1  how is medical knowledge being outdated invalidate an immutable concept? You have the right to own property, you have the right to be innocent until proven guilty and you have the right to have your property protected against unwarranted search or seizure. Unless the ideas of self-ownership extending to property and having a fair legal system are somehow outdated to you, you can try again and come up with a better argument.
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  211.  @TheManofthecross  plus Stalin purged a lot of them.
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  212.  @icipher6730  because physically smaller countries have less room in their national parks, wild camping is illegal/discouraged in many places, people trust the government to provide emergency response, etc.
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  213.  @chriscormac231  "he showed everyone the utter depravity those who seek war want to inflict upon the world and broke the back of the south as an example" - that's exactly how a movie villain justifies his evil in a monologue
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  214.  @rhumandlove393  That, but unironically.
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  215. Wait until they realize that IDE hard drives had pins in the back so you could set them to "master" and "slave".
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  216. You do realize that 1. they could literally make shit up and you wouldn't be able to tell if it was real? 2. they can't release that information because it violated patient confidentiality.
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  217.  @nunyabusyness5608  but even if they released names what would you do? If the death records are falsified the only thing you'd be able to do is prove that there's not enough cremations/burials being done.
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  218. "And how the hell the Trump's wall could stop this, btw? China is a bit across the pacific pond, not underneath Texas." - you do realize that diseases hop through less developed countries where there's less resources to contain the infection, right? The disease hit Iran, and from Iran went on to multiple middle eastern countries. It only takes a South American returning from Italy to place the infection underneath Texas in a matter of days. "airplanes still fly back and forth all over the world, and the people who have legitimate rights to be in the US might bring the disease into the country. Bypassing the Wall." - and if suspected to have been right in the middle of outbreaks those people ought to be quarantined.
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  219.  @noeasyanswer9224  and people moving freely makes that worse.
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  220.  @trashfire9641  the Founding Fathers fired musket balls at British troops, I guess Britain gets the right to occupy America.
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  221. I mean, I really need that information so that I don't make a bomb on accident...!
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  222.  Jason Rasmussen  he didn't say you were an asshole, he was talking about the example of not smiling enough
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  223. A dude worth 570 million will never be miserable in jail.
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  224. The issue is that now the course can be made too expensive or hard to complete. In Japan that's how they do it, they require commitment to participate in classes and tests during the week days, so that the average Japanese salaryman who barely takes days off due to cultural reasons isn't even going to bother attempting to enroll the classes.
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  225. People complain about TikTok daily. Nobody has called out TikTok? It gets called out so often I'm actually kind of tired of hearing about it. YouTube was called out by that ginger guy. YouTube took down a ton of accounts and disabled comments on videos that seem to feature children. The author "denounced" it by getting the girls to do the same shit? Brilliant cinematography? Press X to doubt. I don't think she's the next Kubrick. Also, calling people virgins lol
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  226.  @krazykris9396  work is mandatory everywhere by that logic, you starve to death if you open and close your mouth to eat. That's work, energy spent over time.
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  227.  @therisj  if we teach a bunch of people woodworking they might actually build their own cabins in the woods and live debt-free. But that would be too much work... and the government banned homesteading as well.
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  228. Genghis Khan680 lmao neo-nazis have always supported the Arabs on this issue. Remember that there are nazis and sympathisers in non-white countries (South America, Slavic countries are white but considered subhuman by Germany, etc). White nazis still don't want to share a country with non-whites they typically support Palestinians due to their common goals.
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  229. Hell the fact that an agenda is being pushed will only make me doubt even more.
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  230. You can still be a celebrity and a felon. Hollywood actually has replica guns they hand out to actors with felonies so they can do action scenes.
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  231. Usually I am all for criticising Apple because consumers need to realize it's a garbage brand and they need to have higher standards. But if they made a smaller version people would bitch about gendered products.
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  232.  @davidlillecrapp2960  It's not on par. Canada has lower guns per capita than Finland and Switzerland. The US sits at a comfortable >100 firearms per 100 people without a good estimate because millions are sold every year. Distant second place is Yemen with 80 guns per 100. However I'm sure you can find a multitude of countries with higher numbers of guns with even lower gun crime than Canada.
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  233. Can you imagine the debates between Alex Jones and Marianne Williamson?
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  234. And get through metal detectors!
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  235. No no no the current theory is that the US cannot default on its debt (because it controls the currency) so you pay for everything through debt. The economy will have to keep on growing indefinitely or else the currency becomes worthless, though.
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  236. Something something death of millions is a statistic, said Joseph Stalin.
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  237. It's literally about distribution. If the charges were about production they'd have been dismissed in 30 seconds.
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  238.  @AgentKenshin  ammo is priced like $GME stocks these days...
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  239. I'd rather die in a shootout over my stuff than be put on a facility built solely so I could die away from the regular hospital.
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  240. There's not much to it. Just get stuff you're gonna need, canned food, dried beans and rice, don't forget water and hygiene. Imagine you're gonna take a month long vacation in a remote place and you won't be able to get to the grocery store. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSgotSS222c Other than that you might need batteries and powerbanks just in case power goes out for a few days and you need to keep a cellphone or radio alive.
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  241.  @kungfoochicken08  It was an illegal arrest.
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  242.  J. Bar  Only if they witnessed the crime. They didn't. They committed a crime and killed their victim. They're going down for murder.
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  243.  MrAmmanas  Better to take an L in a gun fight than the D in prison because you're an ex-cop.
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  244.  @kungfoochicken08  "Glad this piece of shit "jogger" is dead" - No, they didn't. The ex-cop recognized him from a prior altercation. "He matched the description of the burglar reported on the 911 call" - Not enough to perform a citizen's arrest. "Let's be honest here, there's a significant chance he did it" - I don't care. It doesn't change the fact that it was an illegal shooting. "He was arrested for bringing a gun to a high school basketball game and then violates probation by shoplifting. Are we really supposed to believe he was "jogging" in a neighborhood 30 minutes from his house?" - Doesn't matter. A former cop who should have known better decided to become a criminal by performing a citizen's arrest without the legal backing. His victim fought back and he killed the victim for resisting. Now he's an ex cop in jail. Womp womp.
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  245. ​ Super JLK  If you watch the liveleak video the first shot happens at 20 seconds while Arbery is running around the car.
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  246.  @o.s.s.fitnessandgrappling1052  You didn't just oversimplify it, you've managed to twist it into something that's essentially fraud. It's not theft. Nobody's stealing your money. Now you're openly mocking people for being right. Sorry man, glorifying ignorance is cool and all but you've actually gone overboard because it's not funny, it's actually sad.
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  247.  @irisdogma8174  my dude people die from accidents all the time.
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  248. @Fact Checker All of that happens on normal days. Just issue the warning that nobody's gonna get rescued. Name a single person who has demanded a rescue from scuba diving since the lockdown started.
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  249.  @irisdogma8174  Yes.
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  250.  @chrisfaircloth2599  you're moving goalposts but okay. You can only vote someone out when there's overwhelming popular hatred for the guy. In most cases even horrible politicians are not hated by the average public, which doesn't pay attention, and many times they have people who vote for them because of the party. Millions of Americans hate Sen. Feinstein from California but for decades she reined supreme because there's no way a Republican would replace her seat. Hell, even Trump, he is absolutely hated and Democrats could easily vote him out in 2020 but they have nobody viable and they keep getting associated with the far left.
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  251.  @askwhy2030  do you have proof he was a criminal?
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  252.  @earlward6374  That doesn't excuse a bad shoot. It was a bad shoot. You can't instigate a confrontation and then claim self-defense.
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  253.  @newlife2343  "He wouldn’t stop to talk." - He didn't have to. "If I was innocent I would stop to talk," - If you were innocent would you allow random nobodies to play law enforcement? You know how many criminals have pretended to be cops just to get people to stop and not resist? "Hell if you are innocent and being chased by men with guns why not call the fucking cops!" - Yeah they'll arrive just in time! "Instead he runs at then violently, attacks him and attempts to steal the gun." - That's what you do when attacked by criminals.
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  254.  @stephentoth6003  in what way does Israel being an ally benefit the US? Most of the instability in the Middle East was either created by American/British/French intervention or Israeli actions. Saudi Arabia is a huge sponsor of terrorism but they are a US ally and have even cooperated with Israelis from time to time.
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  255.  @stephentoth6003  of course it's not a coincidence! "Of course the US wants Isreal as an ally" - why? "Who gave them Nuclear weapons?" - not the US. In fact Eisenhower and Kennedy pressured Israel about the plant they were building and wanted an inspection of the facility to make sure it wasn't a reactor. "are you aaserting that the Middle East would be a n ocean of tranquility without the Western powers there?" - not really. I am saying that nobody would care about those conflicts just like nobody cares about conflicts going on around the world.
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  256.  @stephentoth6003  the US is self-sufficient in oil nowadays. I believe the US doesn't need any of them as allies. "Have you ever seen a massive movements of death to Americans in Isreal ever?" - you do realize that Arab people actually respected the US before all the foreign intervention, right?
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  257. That doesn't make it okay to involve children. Plus, shouldn't we be more evolved?
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  258. I'm European and it sickens me to see everyone convincing themselves everything is fine. Gun rights are non-negotiable.
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  259. There were three shots. Also, the two yokels committed a crime by trying to perform an illegal arrest. Now they'll go down for murder. Womp womp.
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  260.  @WarRabb1t  No, it wasn't. The inbreds did not witness the alleged burglary and had no positive ID of the suspect. The former cop recognized Arbery from a prior altercation that had zero to do with the burglaries. This means that they did not have legal standing for a citizen's arrest, thus making them criminals. Having a description is not enough to perform an arrest because a citizen's arrest cannot be done for investigative purposes. You can say womp womp, but your boys are in jail right now. And they're going to prison after the trial. So again, womp womp.
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  261.  @AD-wm9if  I heard there's no immunity and the disease becomes more lethal if you get it twice.
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  262. For years I read the Metro and literally had the exact same news as other papers and from the same sources.
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  263.  @Ryan_Harkin  it tells me that Metro doesn't stick out like a sore thumb nor does the fact that it is free matter. So calling fake news on this just because it's Metro...
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  264. "This is photoshopped. I can tell from the pixels and I have seen quite a few photoshops in my time"
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  265. It's not falling apart, if anything it's being validated. This is time preference, they'd rather gain greater control over society to earn more money in the next few decades.
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  266. A day trader evaluated GameStop over a year ago, there's a 56 minute video of him explaining why the short makes no sense and that despite all the criticisms GameStop still has value. It wasn't a "oh hell no!" it was a case of people doing their due diligence. That's what DeepFuckingValue did.
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  267. Debt leads to bankrupcy? Big if true.
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  268. If you post a bs comment people will reply "fake news" even if it's just a mistake and not even news. It became a generic expression by now.
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  269. A conservative gay man was raped by a Grindr date and when he shared the story on reddit the LGBT community shat on him.
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  270.  @Naskinlahtaaja  how on earth are you ignoring all of the instances of normal people like me and you being punished for "speech crimes"?
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  271.  @Naskinlahtaaja  how is it whataboutism? You're essentially saying something is not happening when it actually is.
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  272.  @Naskinlahtaaja  but it is what we're talking about, it's the same exact topic.
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  273. Based.
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  274.    "The government can't violate the constitution" - You could have just put the period right there and end the sentence.
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  275.  @Cemtexify  they have people running all the numbers, even if their bottom line is satisfactory a brand performing under their expectations is worrying. EA makes a killing out of FIFA every year, but investors get scared shitless of things like Battlefield V. Still, I am boycotting P&G.
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  276.  Virgil Grin  "every country engages in shady shit" yeah I remember when the US sent billions to the UK so they could blow up the Irish.
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  277. Plot twist: churchgoers get exposed to the virus and develop immunity despite tragic loss, ride out the second wave like bosses.
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  278.  @TofuNapa  Buddy, I'd take care of those issues once this all blows over because there's some deep seated anger there
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  279.  @TofuNapa  buddy I work for a living and get exposed to hundreds of people per shift
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  280. He went to a fucking private clinic... Do you think Canada gives out free healthcare to anyone who crosses the border?
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  281. They're using the lockdown to dig up all the dogs he buried.
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  282. It's a stand alone complex. People see a stock rising and start buying because they see a payoff, triggering more people to notice that it is rising and thus rush to buy more before the peak. The WSB may be more comparable to a hivemind but everyone else is the feedback loop that sent GME through the roof.
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  283. We're witnessing the death of liberalism. Liberalism was supposed to be the side with the "facts and logic". Liberalism was supposed to be the ideology that would not censor you for disagreeing. It's a farce and the people realizing it either moved further left or towards the right.
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  284.  @Rivenburg-xd5yf  "If your brave enought to go to an unessesary mass social gathering with all the evedence showing several of these have already backfired horridly, then be a man and fess up to your risky lifestyle" - lmao there's way worse bugs to be carrying around and you never demanded anyone to wear a mark. This is where you draw the line? "Give the people you interact with the chioce to share in your risk level or not." - If you're so afraid stop interacting with anyone. The clerks at your grocery store are exposed to more people than churchgoers.
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  285.  @Rivenburg-xd5yf  that justifies what, what?
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  286.  @Rivenburg-xd5yf  bish, don't make stupid questions and you don't get stupid answers. Freedom justifies it. The fact that you're more worried about people exercising their freedom than the greater danger you face just going to the "essential" businesses speaks volumes about your priorities. Also, why are all the politicians and government officials all together when they appear on TV? Why aren't they criticized for breaking quarantine? But sure, churches are the problem.
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  287.  @genobreaker1054  you repeat the term "conspiracy theory" as if it wasn't a proven fact that Eugenics was really popular in the early 20th century, as if there weren't articles decrying laissez-faire economics for breeding "imbeciles", or the union leaders at the time were not concerned that minimum wage would become the "maximum wage" and take away bargaining power. Henry Rogers Seager, president of the American Association for Labor Legislation, wrote in The Theory of The Minimum Wage in 1913 that he wanted to cut hereditary lines. Sidney Webb, Fabian socialist, wrote in 1912 that minimum wage would prevent those he called "parasitic" from finding employment. Royal Meeker, economist, argued in 1910 that minimum wage would deprive the "incompetent" of work and making them unable to breed more of their own kind. Those motherfuckers all wrote down their thoughts, were not shy about it, for you to come here today and say it never happened. Kappa.
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  288.  @genobreaker1054  >bunch of people pushed a fake dossier as legitimate intelligence to target a political adversary vs >eugenicists and politicians writing down their arguments for policies that purify the genetic pool
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  289.  @genobreaker1054  "Each example is a bunch of people pushing bull" - so wait, people who are eugenicists, who want to kill off the poor and then state they want state policies that disenfranchise the poor so that they can kill them off without genocide... were playing 4D chess all along? "despite what arguments people may have made for or against minimum wage at the time, when you look at the policy itself, and the actual historical context" - you means those people who were literal eugenicists and wanted the measures put in place?
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  290.  @genobreaker1054  "Eugenicists were pushing a bunch of bull" - said "bull" was... drum roll... minimum wage laws.
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  291.  @genobreaker1054  I fail to see what you're trying to prove. So these really "progressive" people who were all about science and manipulating society towards their dream world got into positions of power to implement measures to harm the poor and you're really out here dismissing the events as they happened? "The IDEA that minimum wage laws were some effort to weed certain groups out of society by preventing them from earning enough money to survive on, BY RAISING THE AMOUNT THEY GET PAID TO THE MINIMUM LEVEL REQUIRED TO SURVIVE, is seriously tin foil hat level nonsense." - it isn't. Maybe you didn't watch the multiple videos Tim has uploaded regarding minimum wage but that's okay. The minimum wage kicks out the bottom steps of the economic ladder. The point wasn't to force less capable people to get paid more. That's laughable. Employers would simply stop hiring people who were not capable of producing enough to offset the minimum legal wage and without reliable means of legal employment people would not be able to reproduce. There was no Soviet "everyone has a job" mandate. If it cost you X to employ someone and they could only bring you Y, you simply wouldn't employ them. You'd employ a skilled worker.
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  292.  @genobreaker1054  "you just described half of free market economics" - I like how free market people traveled back in time, started writing about eugenics, got into positions of power and passed minimum wage laws all for a smear job so they could accuse people who want higher min wages of being complicit with eugenics. "Minimum wage INCREASED the wages of the earners" - I mean, anyone who was earning more did not get a raise or was raised very little, the people who were already bang on the limit was obviously paid the same... but jobs where wages were lower were simply eliminated. "Does that mean factory owners hired fewer people to work? Almost certainly, as more expensive labor and safety practices would cut into a businesses profits and ability to survive and grow." - that's just missing the forest for the trees. I'm not making the point of boohoo much economy muh GDP muh layoffs that you're gonna expect in a pure economics argument. The point is that anyone who had an "important" job was retained because the business required it, but people doing more menial tasks for little money were simply prohibited from working. Who do you think was affected by this, the skilled machinists or less capable people? "minimum wage was a pay INCREASE" - Was it? Because if people were getting paid in average a dollar and min wage stipulated 2 dollars (just simple numbers as an example) that would seriously harm the economy as only huge factory owners would make enough profits to pay their workers. You just doubled personnel cost, I'd assume the min wage was just stipulated to be just enough to maintain most jobs. I'm gonna need actual numbers for this conversation to happen because you're making it seem like it was money falling from the sky. "Does it mean people lost jobs at the lowest levels? Yes. What did they do? What people always do, adapt." - my dude we're literally talking about people who couldn't adapt. They were eugenicists. They literally wanted to cull "undesirables". I'm gonna say it, they meant disabled people and low IQ people. "I bring this up because people did have options if they lost their jobs" - if you literally couldn't dig a ditch because you had a disability that wasn't really an option. "And there is plenty of historical documentation that unions arose as mobs of disgruntled workers banded together to shut down their bosses and demand better conditions and pay" - yes, through collective bargaining. Which is an effective tool because it balanced supply and demand. Because unions were perfectly aware of what a minimum wage would mean. As unions became more powerful they started lobbying for similar measures to kick out the bottom steps of the ladder and use wages or licensing to prohibit non-union members from stealing their jobs. This lead to temporary prosperity but it was a huge incentive for automation or manufacturing overseas to escape the regulations unions lobbied for - and eventually unions lost their power because workers no longer had collective bargaining as leverage against businesses that no longer needed to hire them. They were aware of the dangers of minimum wage in the beginning, then thought they could harness regulation for their own benefit and it killed them in the end. Poetic.
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  293.  @genobreaker1054  "Most factories weren't paying people to do nothing but take up room on payroll, you were expected to contribute." - and the point is that everyone can contribute with SOMETHING. Unless that something is less valuable than the minimum wage. Cinemas used to have ushers and more projectionists. Compared to today, they were "doing nothing but take up room on payroll". And that's the point, after someone's contribution is seen as not having a monetary value higher than the min wage we suddenly think it's a useless job position. But we clearly had them.
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  294.  @genobreaker1054  "I'm clearly not going to convince you it was workers fighting for what they needed (yes, they got greedy, such is human nature. Unions were originally a good thing, but have been cancer for decades)" - but that's the thing, they wanted collective bargaining and not min wages as they feared it would become the maximum wage. Take care.
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  295. Wait a minute. James Gunn being obsessed with pedophilia is "just jokes". Two satirical comments make Doom alt-right? Hmmmm.
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  296.  @Farfromperfection  when he got elected he had a bunch of lawsuits pending so he settled on all of them, I think.
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  297.  @alexholker1309  I saw a bunch of them. I follow channels like Forgotten Weapons and there was a time YouTube was cracking down on gun videos so the sidebar would come up with either no recommended videos or put several of those Elsagate videos in a row.
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  298. Yeah the whole "it's French" excuse has been worn tired since... the 90s?
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  299. "They had him on tape stealing from a house. He came back and was seen drooling on a window looking for more to steal." - Where is the evidence? "The video clearly shows him running up to 2 white people in a car with his shirt off trying to beat them" - That is not true. He didn't have his shirt off. You can hear a shot ring out before he charges. He was fired upon first.
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  300. Unironic thanks to Zoe Quinn for proving something that would have been considered a conspiracy theory if the SJWs hadn't outed themselves.
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  301. Nobody is "handed out" firearms. It's not a charity. Background checks are fine. The problem is that they want to use them as a stepping stone for a full registry. The federal government has no right to dictate the rules on private sales, only the state has. So it should be the state's decision on how private sales are handled.
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  302. @SNESLIVE the coffins were probably for hurricanes
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  303.  @Naskinlahtaaja  bit not the first time someone gets in trouble over speech, when a police twitter account posted the butter knives "weapons" they had confiscated from the streets the online mockery they received had them start threatening legal action againt the people making fun of them.
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  304.  @Naskinlahtaaja  You haven't heard a lot of things, but you think you're entitled to lecture others on what is really happening. Not relevant? Cops can't handle the bantz and start reminding people it's a criminal offense to mock people online. Just recently the royal family themselves asked for tougher guidelines on online harassment. For years we have seen people being detained for posting their opinions on immigration or criticizing the troops or whatever. You claim it doesn't happen, when confronted with reality you claim it's not relevant. Amazing.
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  305. To take money out of circulation. According to modern monetary theory the state won't use taxes to finance its programs, it will simply pay it with debt, and taxes are the means to scale back inflation. I don't agree with it, but that's how it was explained to me.
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  306. Yeah because a real hedge fund should... have hedged their bets.
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