Comments by "Jason Dashney" (@jasondashney) on "ReasonTV" channel.

  1. Bernie is like all socialists. Who has too much? Anybody who has more than me! He doesn't need his large salary nor 3 houses. But he's only a millionaire. It's the BILLIONAIRES that need to go. *sigh *
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  2. A program like that would have to be introduced and concluded all over the country in the same week, with absolutely no notice. Then it could possibly work.
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  3. Sort of. This very heavily leaned in favour of the development. Yes, it's better than most media outlets, but it was still quite biased. There were a ton of elephants in the room it ignored.
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  4. I think that's a great solution. If two candidates are apparently that closely regarded, who cares which one it is? Don't waste taxpayer money coming up with a convoluted solution.
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  5. I felt exactly the same way. She is the type of research only the things she's passionate about, from only the angles she deems matter. She thinks the money part just takes care of itself and clearly hasn't put in any effort into researching what economics is all about, which is odd for someone who wants socialism. You think if you hated capitalism that you'd learn the ins and outs first.
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  6. You admitted you only mentioned one side of the argument. When jobs are extremely scarce, for goddamn sure they are paying next to nothing. This guy has been rich too long if he thinks it's always a "voluntary transaction". I suspect you are too young to have experienced any really hard times to see exactly what businesses do. Trust me, they don't give a fuck.
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  7. It kills me because I’d be first in line to buy a legit small scaled down version of a pickup.
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  8.  @Degarth  I had the same thought. Where is her funding coming from? It's unbelievable how often things like this are funded by the usual suspects. I wouldn't be surprised if it's McDonald's and other companies who don't take in tips that want this because it puts the others out of business. Or maybe it's funded by some nonprofit who turns out to be funded buy big business. The minute that woman started calling everything she disagreed with as being a lie, and then didn't send the information to back up the claims, the alarm bells went off as far as not giving her the benefit of the doubt that she's just naïve
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  9. In Canada, the rules aren't the issue. Winter is. How can a car see the difference between patch of wet road vs black ice 50 yards ahead when there's a break in the coverage of snow on a highway? Will it drive on the hard packed, slick snow that's basically ice or will it scoot over into the fluffier snow that's not in the middle of the lane, but provides greater grip? I can't see fully auto cars in Canada any time soon.
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  10. Tulsi could've had fun with that one.
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  11. "....rip off the working class". Here's the rub: there is not enough money!!!!!!!!!!!!! The counties are all in debt because there just isn't the money to pay people good wages. People act like outsourcing for lower wages is done out of spite. It's not, it's done because there literally isn't enough money to pay for them. The only other option is for governments to keep borrowing from the future to pay for today. How is that fair? You're asking the next generation to pay for your higher wages today. Plus, there's less money to go around when the government has to service those debts. Your last line is right, but in your world you'd rather it be tomorrows generation that pays. Good grief.
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  12. Exactly. From the Chinese government to the American government, nobody trying to be transparent in any capacity. I cannot think of a larger red flag.
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  13. I'm shocked at how infrequently these videos come out given all of the examples. I'm also surprised at how many of the examples delve way way back into history when there are so many contemporary ones to choose from.
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  14. I always say if you don't apply them consistently, they're not morals; they're whims.
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  15. I live in Vancouver Canada, and everywhere here has them banned and it’s so funny because according to what I read, you have to reuse a cotton bag 50 times to make up for its equivalent in plastic. Very few people are using their bags that many times. I have scores of them that get given to me free by businesses all the time.
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  16. Love it. To be fair, you should've added one thing though: city services. Sewer and electrical infrastructure need to be able to handle the increased load. Sometimes that can be the bottleneck.
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  17. It cracks me up that the far left are the ones first in line at Whole Foods to pay ridiculous amounts for stuff which line this guy's rich pockets.
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  18.  @notme222  I've seen so many different conclusions. All I know is that every single reputable science outlet says that paper v plastic is more of a draw than a knockout victory. Environmentalists who pound the table about plastic bags are simply not looking at the whole story.
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  19. Perhaps I only hear of the examples where it doesn't work, but it seems like every time people introduce one creature to control another creature there are unintended negative consequences.
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  20. That's where I thought it was going
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  21. 14:00 THIS is why I love Lomborg. That's the most realistic scenario. I'm sick to death of everybody overpromising and under delivering because they don't wanna live in reality and they think people don't wanna hear reality.
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  22. I wish Vancouver would see this. They're considering rent control. Here it's bad enough already because it's really hard to get building permits so rentals are not increasing nearly fast enough, yet the city council blames "greedy landlords and builders" instead of their own policies.
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  23.  @lkjkhfggd  it’s not that people forget to bring the bags, it’s that you get them with many purchases for free. I have tons of those bags that I didn’t even ask for. I could never use all of them enough times to cover the equivalent of the environmental issues plastic ones create.
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  24.  @LC-uh8if  I will admit that the bag ban helps you remember because I used to remember 5% of the time before the band, and now I remember 90%. When I forget, it's infuriating though. I have to leave everything at the checkout and run out to the car and get my bags, which is super awesome in a Canadian winter.
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  25. The definitions of a lot of things seem to have been changed in the past few years.
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  26. I live in Vancouver and I can't express how much worse our problem has gotten over the past 20 years. I moved away, then moved back and it's SO much worse now. And what kills me about governments in general is they are loathe to look at where things are working and then emulate it. You'd think that would be painfully obvious but they don't seem to want to do it.
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  27. The Achilles' heel of intellectuals is that they are smart enough to be able to come up ways of justifying any behavior.
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  28. These videos could be 20 minute segments coming out once a fortnight if they really wanted to.
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  29. Forget the Loonie toss rule, Saskatchewan banned peelers altogether, forcing businesses to close. Then years later they promised to start them back up - with the best of intentions! Then some people complained and AFTER business owners had done the renovations and spent the big bucks, the government went "Yeah, that thing we said you can do......you can't because reasons". So these businesses closed down (no revenue), spent money (negative revenue), then were told "Tough titty" to their dreams of a titty bar. Thanks Saskatchewan.
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  30. If you did not want to sell it, then the amount you get for it is borderline irrelevant. If somebody forced you to sell the most sentimental object you own for "fair market value" you would still be upset and call it unfair.
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  31.  @notme222  In Vancouver even suppliers are bag-free and it's insufferable. When I go to a hardware supplier for work stuff I'm not bringing a damn reusable box with me. They took it way, way too far. And most places here don't have paper either.
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  32.  @seansingh8862  I'm in construction safety and onn industrial sites the safety program takes up about a third of the budget. The people instituting these programs think they are scoring one for the little guy because that makes the job a tiny bit safer but guess who pays? The end consumer pays for literally everything always. The insane prices we are paying due not to sensible ways to protect workers but instead just a bloated bureaucracy is ridiculous. And then these people have the stones to bitch when things cost too much.
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  33.  @this_epic_name  I'd love to find a rental property of one of the lawmakers and rent it and not pay. See how they like it.
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  34. If was flawless and she still lost. What does that tell you, Joy? Hmmmm......
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  35. The term Scientist is meaningless now, Today it means that you've met two conditions: That you've been signed off on by an accredited education, establishment, and that you tow the party line. It does not matter how much expertise you have a field, or how rigorously you adhere to the scientific method. You are called an amateur until you have a degree. You could follow the scientific method to the letter and achieve new discoveries with demonstrable results that are replicable, but you absolutely would still be referred to as a hobbyist, unlike someone who just graduated from university, but hasn't stepped foot in the field yet.
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  36. Elon Musk? Peter Thiel? Of course they exist. They are in the minority but they do exist.
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  37. I immediately take them out of my showerheads. It's unbearable without doing that.
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  38. "The biggest cause of the massive spread and that high excessive death compared to our neighbour was that the schools for younger kids were kept open" Then explain how countries that totally locked down the schools and had zoom school had way higher spread and excess death rates.
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  39. "Punching up - challenging those with power and offending those with power, is quite different from punching down." Who's up and who's down is a matter of great debate. If you can utter a single word or phrase and get completely ruined for it (your whole career destroyed etc), especially when it's clearly uttered either in reference to the word itself, or worse yet when it's commonly agreed upon it was said with absolutely no malintent, who holds the actual power? I've never heard the phrase "punching up" by anyone who didn't have a very warped vision of what power really is. If you can ruin the lives of people who meant no ill will, simply be deciding to be offended, (often on behalf of someone else), then you clearly have the power, and also the actual ill will. Perhaps you are the exception to the rule, but I've never heard that phrase from someone who wasn't malevolent on some level.
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  40.  @tmapaman7080  That only applies to icebergs etc (ice already 100% in the water). Any snow/ice that's currently on land that melts and goes into the oceans would increase the levels. Antarctica does have lots of ice that's on top of solid ground.
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  41. It's literally across a bridge from Sweden. Maybe he means she'll take a day trip to Copenhagen? (though that part did get me too).
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  42. I had to laugh when they said the country had 30% inflation, and that bitcoin was the answer, as if it can't fluctuate 30% in a year. I'll never understand people who think bitcoin is a safe haven versus the stock market when it fluctuates much more wildly.
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  43. I'm a moron. Canada was doing this was $20 coins a bunch of years back. They were special edition Looney Tunes ones. I should've bought the whole lot.
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  44.  @herknorth8691  Yeah, They have NW, NE, SW, SE and the streets and ave's are mostly numbered.
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  45. The only way to do it would be if you were somehow backed by the American government. Obviously that would create a whole host of other problems but you have to make it so the local government wouldn't dream of taking your land. I have no idea how to do that though.
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  46. She doesn't understand how economics works. That money has to be created, then put into the system in a way that means they go into debt to do it. They have to pay interest on that money, plus it leads to inflation. They don't just print money and give it away with no consequences. That's not how it works. She doesn't understand the absolute basics yet she sure has a solid opinion and decent sized platform to state that opinion.
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  47. In Vancouver, there are places you can go and bring your illegal street drugs to test them for purity. You can also get peyote and mushrooms and all kinds of stuff here in a retail establishment. Did I mention the drug problem is absolutely out of control here and the homeless problem has skyrocketed since they started safe injection sites, etc.?
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  48.  @connor9423  Yeah, the fact that unions are not a meritocracy is one of the major reasons I don't respect them.
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  49. Are you high? He said the customers get to choose with their wallets. He wishes they'd choose differently but they don't and he lives with that. That's as libertarian as it gets.
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  50. Corn is entirely subsidized. Lots of agriculture is. Also, I'm a long time vegetarian but I've seen some damn compelling evidence about the size of ancient guts etc that we really did get the big brains etc because of meat. I also think that now that we have those big brains which can get us sources of protein that don't require meat that it's time we moved past it.
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