Comments by "Jack B" (@WindFireAllThatKindOfThing) on "VICE News" channel.

  1. When dealing with an old, white, rich guy (classic Republican), it would be more accurate to call her a concubine than a girlfriend.
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  2. GMO's = necessary scientific means to keep food production effective. Organics = higher priced luxuries made to cater to health nuts who don't look up real facts. The problem stems from the companies behind the science. Bad PR and bad faith corporate decisions have not only affected their market share, but the positive science being done with it. Transparency was needed, but wasn't granted, and distrust in our food has driven people back to wasteful, possibly dangerous stone age food choices. The other problem is polarized politics, carrying on the us versus you mentality. Someone right leaning sees a 20 something in normal fashions sold today, cries 'HIPSTER!' (just read half of the comments below) and assume it's just a liberal on a soap box, and buys sugary filler and questionable milk just to make a statement about their politics, being equally as ignorant about what they're doing. We need GMO's (and I will take my meat irradiated, tyvm), but unless Monsanto is clear about what they're doing, they will lose market share and the science contributions to humanity will suffer because only the politically moronic will drink their cool aid without asking what's in it first.
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  3. It's not just the Government that wants illegal immigrants out. It's the bulk of the American people. Polls have shown it over, and over, and over again. They're OK with that attitude until you flat out call them racist. And not just White status-quo America, either. Sun Yun, a 2nd generation Korean American who owns 3 small businesses, and Cheyanne, a Native American acquaintance, and many others who aren't remotely white, want illegals gone for these 3 recurring reasons: 1. If you're here illegally, what other criminal activity have you committed, and still commit? I might want to give immigrants a shot, but you can't screen felons that you don't know are here because they snuck in, and Mexico isn't great about letting the US know who has a rap sheet in Mexico. They consider it getting rid of their trash. The policies of BOTH countries are horrifically broken, and both populations are paying the price, but the finger only gets pointed one way. Yes, that one-sided "America is always guilty for all the worlds woes" attitude is old with other ethnic groups as well, White America. 2. Most illegal immigrants aren't here to become Americans because they love the idea of America, or to mesh with other people of any color other than their own. They're here for American money, and have little cultural respect for the US in general. They're interested in having Mexico, but up north and economically successful. They aren't interested in learning english even after 15 years, or obeying many routine laws, and have very different cultural ideas about such things as age of consent. If it wasn't quite such a large percentage of illegals who fit that bill, they would not be met with such rancor from Americans. Immigrants themselves will have to manage the outlook and behavior of their fellow immigrants before that ever changes. 3. Latinos are second only to African Americans for the role of Sacred Racial Cow of this country, and are first when it comes to the public race debate that draws attention in the media. This does not sit well with most other groups who feel they have a horse in the race, but whom the camera isn't paying any attention to. Media attention = political power and benefits. While we mostly love the idea of the American melting pot, Diversity and racial ass kissing has destroyed color-blind Unity, and immigration has boiled over the tolerance levels of most Americans: http://www.gallup.com/poll/1660/immigration.aspx
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  4. 12:30 They're asking for every iota of your Personally Identifiable Information to stage no-bullshit mass identity theft once they see how you've been voting. They could literally stage digital and by-mail votes in your name with that much information. That's the exact same kind of information that the Russian FSB has stolen from Americans during the election season. Now Trump's goons are asking it be handed over directly to them, and who do you think they're going to hand THAT information over to?
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  5. The guy at 4:19 has the exact same mentality as American Republicans. They just don't stand with anyone who isn't one of them, or who disagrees with them in the slightest.
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  6. The increase in paramilitary equipment in the hands of police is proportional to the increase of paramilitary equipment in the hands of gun nuts around the country, and because the thought of locking horns with the hundreds of thousands of experienced combat vets home from overseas has them feeling scared and inadequate. There is a sad history of "Bang, Bang, FREEZE!" warrant entries developing when cops have to deal with veterans these days.
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  7.  @bertieblagden711  That's not how things work. That's just how BS wars start, is all. Somebody says 'WELL my GRANDDADDY lived here once after killing the people here before him. Therefore this is MY land, I guess?!?' No. Where you were born and where you live now is your only claim to home, not what your great grandparents murdered other people for. And Iraqi Kurdistan they have every right to...because that's where they are and other Shia iraqis aren't
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  8. dunholm1 Sry Dun, wasn't trying to minimize the allied contributions alltogether, just throwing out that chunk because russian propaganda and hostility is aimed at two targets generally: Europe as a whole, and America. That was just me being lazy.
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  9. Things I learned from this video: 1. Simon is pissed that American Personnel are present in Ukraine, and will be a dick at every opportunity to Americans, or try to nuance shit talk out of the Ukrainians at every turn about the Americans. 2. This is more about getting first hand knowledge from the Ukrainians about current Russian gear, tactics, and capabilities than training the Ukranians on anything, and Putin will know that and have to consider that. The US is contemplating a full spectrum war with Russia again, something they stopped focusing on decades ago 3. Republicans are cool with kicking off WWIII even if the US President isn't, and just like the Iraqis, no matter what support the US gives, Ukrainians will continue to claim they get none. The difference is, right now they really are.
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  10. "I haven't seen this many pissed off white people since they cancelled M.A.S.H."
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  11. Max G. It'll be our little secret.
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  12. Well, guess what, Miners. You're in an industry that most Americans want done with that destroys where THEY live. If you can't adapt to anything else, you get no support from the rest of the country. It's not the Government waging the war, it's the long, looooong standing recognition that it has to go. You've been given a stay of execution for decades, and now the bell tolls.
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  13. Cruel and Unusual punishment is illegal. However, a single lethal gunshot to the grape (not a freaking dog and pony Firing Squad) is neither unusual nor cruel. It's instant, and it killed 33,636 people in the US in 2015.
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  14. 2 things: 1. China is going to put their industrial espionage crew into overtime, and will probably have it hacked out by the end of the year. 2. If you give this to the world (after being damn sure it's not worse environmentally than fossil fuels..), then you hamstring all those nations we buy oil from that have been stabbing us in the back, and they go broke. That's a strategic win on a massive scale. As an Army guy, I never say this, but: Good job, Navy.
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  15. Don't let this report lead you to believe that the Shia (Shi'ites) & Hezbollah are less vicious, and should receive your moral support versus the Sunni & ISIS, who have the headlines now. For those Americans with short attention spans in understanding the difference behind their millennia old war: There are two key sides in Islam, rooted in the history of what happened in Mohammed's family. It's similar to the Christian reformation, with Catholics and Protestants murdering each other over the years in prodigious numbers, but taken up a few notches. Sunni, who are rooted in the idea of established Caliphate nations (and are the reason the US has had a large navy since 1801, and Marines sing of the "Shores of Tripoli"), versus the Shia, who have tighter roots to Bedouin life. Neither is the less violent or crazy, both seek Sharia law by different interpretations, but the Sunni side are almost always more organized, and constitute the majority of the Muslim world population. Think of the Sunni as urban Texans, and Shia as West Virginia hillbillies. Now feed them PCP and you about have it. When you discuss Islam, it really is important to phrase it in terms of Sunni Islam and Shi'ite Islam, and think of it accordingly, like Republicans vs. Democrats. Yeah, sure, there are other parties, but they don't mean much.  
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  16. Well, I'll be darned. The south DID rise again.
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  17. Seems like everyone from Zaibutsus to small garment shops are operating by Yakuza rules. I wonder how invested they are.
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  18. I wonder how many Pulitzer chasing reporters feeding on this tragedy are going to bring Ebola back to their home countries, flying home and passing right through the airports the day after their story is recorded instead of self quarantining for a month, thinking they are bullet proof, and end up killing their family, neighbors, coworkers, and others.
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  19. In other news, Great Leader will have an underwater parade commemorating the Glorious Leader's latest accomplishment: The Pacific Ocean. Building the Pacific Ocean was necessary to use Dear Leader's newest, greatest invention which will revolutionize History: The Boat. China is currently suing, claiming they invented the Pacific first, as evidenced by their new manmade islands hundreds of miles from China yet inexplicably placed a few miles from the Phillipines. China and NK are expected to settle out of court for $20, which is the annual GDP of North Korea. That money is earmarked for more model rockets.
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  20. Well, that's Donetsk, the far east of Ukraine, and Crimea, the far south, seceded and effectively in Russian hands as the next year goes by. You can just bet that Putin won't stop this velvet glove invasion until he has Ukraine split down the E-105 highway from Kharkiv in the north to Kherson in the south. Or maybe he won't stop at all, pushing all the way on to the Dnieper River, splitting Kiev in two with an iron curtain like post-WWII Berlin, replete with secret police and disappearing dissenters.
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  21. Dat Aquila straight outta Warhammer 40k at 1:48 Warhammer nerds: Still the apex predators in the nerd food chain.
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  22. They're sad because every dirtbag uses an AK to do horrible shit? Footage from Mumbai ring a bell? They must have missed the 80's where every savvy bad guy had an MP-5 in the movies. FN FAL's & G3's in the hands of child soldiers in every corner of Africa. I don't hear H&K or FN bitching. Hell, they probably enjoy the marketing exposure. AR-15 massacres have been pretty much limited to Scandanavia, the US and Mexico, but that will go up now that they grow on trees. But you can find an AK ANYWHERE on the cheap.
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  23. boredpunks Like I said, you clearly understand nothing about environmental science. And the "It's cool if we do it, but not them" hypocrisy is very telling. YOU are the next generation of environmental destroyers, but you can't even wander 5 feet from your cause to question what you do. You're a trope. At least SOME were using water and latex based paints in other projects.
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  24. I'm sitting in Little Rock right now, waiting for my plane to arrive trying to ignore the squallor by watching VICE videos. I've spent the last month here on the job, and all I can say is: Don't move here. From the blatant racial divide, to the depression and person-to-person general hostility, I've rarely seen a place where everyone seems to hate everyone else so much, except for maybe Sacramento, Miami and Phoenix (I haven't been to Detroit or Chicago yet, even New York and LA was friendlier).
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  25. Wow, never thought I would see the day when the US is more liberal with Weed than Amsterdam. That's just fucking perverse. Doesn't look like Washington State and Colorado have gone up in smoke yet (pun intended).
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  26. You lived and murdered by the sword, and you died by it. If god were so great, he would have smothered you in your sleep before allowing you to touch a gun or utter the word Jihad, blasphemer.
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  27. ***** Well said.
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  28. The Tesla Powerwall 2 13.5kwH storage is only $7k....my damn washer/dryer, and water heater cost that much.
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  29. +SelphieFairy It's very racist Selphie. It's applied to poor white people exclusively. There is a reason why racism is back on the rise with young white Americans again, after a long period of it being whitled down by education, and a collective "whitey guild" campaign since the 80's....that's because it's acceptable, empowering to minorities, and even profitable, to walk around saying "Whites are Racist". It sells books, it pays stand up comics, and it gets lawsuits with large cash awards. Those white kids are growing up from grade school being told how evil and racist they inherently are, and that if they don't accept that and capitulate, then they are also racists. That comes with legal, employment, and social consequences that are a double standard. I'm native Hawaiian, and I can tell you, it's not only accepted to do so, but encouraged to say "Haole". But I can't ignore the double standard being beat down the throats of young American kids that because of their skin color, they are inherently bad if they don't fork over legal & political power, that if white girls don't date black guys they must be racist, that they can study hard all they want, but many jobs are held for people who are NOT them. Same story, different races. That's a remarkably stupid thing to do to the majority population, and there was always bound to be backlash that wipes out the social strides made for fairness. The 80's program was to be color blind, aka Equal Rights. The 2000's dream is to constantly fawn over anything that ISN'T white related, aka Diversity, or Diverting from Caucasians. I much preferred the "Unity in Color Blindness" message to the "Everyone is special, except all of you" message Diversity has come to symbolize. Old white people who used to march for civil rights in the 60's have become the miserable bastard tea party largely because for all they fought for equality, what they got was spit in their eye. I don't have to like it, but I can understand why they soured and became haters. Everyone likes their own brand, so "taking a stand" for your race isn't brave. It's self interest. I hear it all the time among people I resemble, if not identify with anymore. Equality is a pendulum, and it's swung from the far right, and has passed over the center to the near left, and is continuing on. Justice was in the middle. A combination of minority empowerment frenzy and institutionalized caucasian guilt education keeps pushing it further out. There's new master races, they're just different from the one last century.
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  30. The Lithuanians definitely seem to have their military shit together compared to the hot mess that was the Ukrainian regular army, in terms of outlook, leadership, planning and the realities of civil affairs. I'm sure the advanced warning of Ukraine getting hit first helped galvanize them, to be sure, but they're showing real organization and competence. Underequipped to be sure, but they've got their heads in the right place to defend their nation. They need comprehensive combined arms artillery, ADA, long term logistical caches hidden around the country, fixed and rotor wing air support integrated to support their very professional but small infantry force. So I wish them Good Luck, and hopefully, peace.
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  31. It sure seemed to chill Bosnia the fuck out compared to that ethnic cleansing fiesta they were having. Yeah, it is sad, but it appears the people are separate in heart and mind already. Perhaps the US should bring their troops home so they can KICK Texas out of the Union, instead of listening to their grumbling about secession if they don't get their hateful way. Their values seem totally out of whack with most of the US anymore, except for much of the south and Alaska.
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  32. Because they can be
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  33. And you can bet KBR is drooling at the contract money they could turn this into by displacing organic Army support
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  34. Be honest. It's Brazil. It's not like we expect to see Latin America pop up in political news with anything less than Crazy, Narcos, Military Juntas, and shouts of Revolucion! Revolucion! These are not calm, dispassionate people who disapprove of gunfire as politics. But then again, neither is about 2/3rds of the cultures spread throughout Humanity. You could have changed the language from Portuguese to anything else, swapped the flag, and noone would have been able to see any difference between Brazil and Columbia, Guyana, Venezuela, Brazil, Mexico, or Honduras, or even the Philippines
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  35. Mmmm. Delicious fried kelp and liver. The future is now.
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  36. LOL @ Y'all-Qaeda sympathizers flooding to downvote, comment and say "Chicago" over and over in defense of White Nationalist Terrorism Sharia Law is fine by them as long as you call it Jim Crow
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  37. Why does Paul LePage just look like a fatter Joe Arpaio?
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  38. The competition for that title seems fierce
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  39. I thought this meant the tunnel was starting in Boring, Oregon And it lives up to it's name. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boring,_Oregon
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  40. This is what happens when the Immovable Patriarchy Establishment meets the Unstoppable Matriarchy Coup And meanwhile the bulk of the population, who are sane people, regardless of gender, are stuck in the middle watching this shit show circus and trying not to get drafted into a gender war.
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  41. Yeah, except dudes been shot and murdered IRL over counter strike, lol. Used to play at a CS 1.6 LAN bar called Swat Team Gaming back in the day, there was a fight in the parking lot almost every night. Ridiculous? Sure. But still happened all the time. John, the owner, kept a baseball bat and a SIG handy when the place was open.
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  42.  @Wurmo  Whatever makes you feel clever, Johnny Reb
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  43. There's something truly tawdry about participating in Mankind's expansion into the Solar System by following it.....on goddamn Twitter.
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  44. Xi Jinping, is that you?!? Why you change your name to Sally??
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  45. When his goons gleefully attacked protesters on their own soil in the US, that should have been a wrap. But just like the American relationship with Saudi Arabia, no crime is really too much so long as Trump is encouraging others to channel their inner Dictator.
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  46. Mmhmm, that's what the left is doing alright. All that fighting against a white/christian fascist police state fanbois who grovel before corporations sure does line up with the PRC
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  47. Dear VICE: Your Russian troll bait is a runaway success. Just look at them all gathered at the watering hole. It's breathtaking.
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  48. I miss Kids Telling Dirty Jokes.
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  49. Trying to think of the last time someone used a compound bow to massacre lots people at once..... Guns are tools designed specifically for making killing easy, with a high chance of success and lots of bodies. Now, I'm for having self defense firearms, but what we're selling today isn't self defense. It's a hand held massacre that you won't have to get your lazy ass up and have to work for, like with a knife. There's a reason why knife attacks have low numbers of dead victims involved. We don't need any firearms more dangerous than they had in 1880 in this country. A gate fed revolver of limited caliber and capacity cylinders. Single round, hand fed manual action sporting rifles. Nothing more than a double barrel shotgun of reasonable gauge. Automatics of very small caliber with no more than a 5 round magazine capacity.
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  50. I like to think of it as "Boulder Colorado Chic", but without the honesty of a well meaning philosophy when practiced in the US. It's not really new and the legacy of wealthy 60's skiing culture in the US. Hang with any mountain-lifestyle rich people and you'll get the same rap and food/fashion trends. They're VERY happy being rich, and pay progressive activism and healthy living just enough lip service to avoid being labeled Yuppies. Just don't really expect them to welcome you into their 'hood if you're poor or not REI-fashionable.
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