Comments by "Gakusangi" (@Gakusangi) on "The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters" channel.

  1. It's even funnier when you realize his country is highly dependent on the trade agreements they have with a Capitalist nation that has the money to help support them.
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  2. Young people today are never taught to take responsibility or accountability. Instead, they taught to trust in a system and assured that it's looking out for their best interests. They made sure to start it when they're young and impressionable so that when they grew up, there would be less resistance.
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  3. The irony would be, even a dictator, he'd be one of the best presents in the past thirty years XD
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  4. He's BEEN deluded. He seems to believe his half-baked opinions are facts because he does ZERO work into verifying anything or offering any different perspectives.
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  5. The reason they don't find the dead people in their chambers is because they're in some private collection for some European rich guy. These places were plundered by grave robbers during the times they were first in use and all the way up until the modern era. We're lucky to find ANYTHING in them.
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  6. So far, an overwhelming majority of the public seems very much in favor of Elon taking over. So either the vast majority of people are hateful racists or things at Twitter were fckt and people want it to change.
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  7. School Standards have been plummeting since the 90's. Over in the US we had "no child left behind" which basically translated to, "just keep pushing them along even if they don't know anything", we had a knee-jerk reaction to teen self-esteem issues (go figure, adolescents having identity, self-esteem and depression issues... color me shocked) resulting in schools telling whole generations of young people that they didn't have to change and were perfect the way they were, constant misdiagnosis of learning disabilities (I was in an assisted reading program for most of my elementary school years after first grade just because they didn't realize I had an issue with public reading and not that I COULDN'T read), a stronger emphasis on being able to streamline processes with constant evaluations and quizzes (you guys remember those assessment tests you were constantly taking in Middle and High School? Fat load of good all of those did) leading to kids that knew how to test well through raw statistics rather than knowing anything about the actual materials... Modern schooling has FAILED. It has continued to fail, it has been allowed to continue to fail and it's been fighting tooth and nail to not have to put any more effort in than it's doing now. Then they have the sheer fcking NERVE to try and tell parents they have no rights to what their children are learning or to even know what it is. That's where we are now.
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  8. A clown country, run by cartoon characters who can just get away lying to people while they're actively being called out on it.
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  9. Why are young people so miserable? I dunno, could it have something to do with being taught their entirely lives to never change or adapt, while constantly being proactive in topics they barely understand with no sense of foresight or future planning ever included in their curriculum? They're screwed when they get to the point their parents are at. There's not social security, no retirement plan, no life insurance policy, they have zero coping mechanisms for the real world that doesn't cater to their comfort or interests... they were lied to for so long, driving by the need to be a part of something and to feel relevant no matter what and now that they start to transition in to their "responsible adult" years, they have to slowly accept how used they were for other people that were older and smarter than they were when they made all these mistakes. I'd be pretty miserable too XD
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  10. Once again, people saying and doing stuff like this doesn't help the LGBTQ community, which fought very hard to break itself away from the misconceptions of them being crazy, child predators. These people aren't welcomed there and anyone making any decision to harbor or protect them should rightfully come under legal scrutiny.
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  11. I work in tech, I've never seen a workplace environment like this.
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  12. My only hope is that with AI tech now requiring enough energy to merit turning some nuclear facilities back on, and then Trump's order to make the US the foremost experts in emergent AI technology will have that happen sooner and then they'll just figure we should go ahead and just turn it on for the rest of the country too.
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  13. Hell no! This was the time to push as much as possible because he won't have anywhere near as much power as he does RIGHT NOW to get things rolling, and everyone else has to wait before they can even respond to his orders. If he fixes things before that time is up, then there's nothing to even discuss when it comes around.
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  14. As I said in on videos covering this, we put up with being criticized and looked down on and getting the worst end of every deal while we were being polite for the sake of diplomacy, building a good reputation and making good relationships. This gotten us nothing, we're not respected, we're not appreciated and we never get a break. Well, now we have a president that's making it abundantly clear that it only happened that way because we allowed it to, we took it on the chin and tried to be the bigger person, but things only got worse, so now we're not doing that anymore. We can win fights without every even threatening actual conflict, all we have to do is make this so headache inducing, so frustrating, so horrendously cumbersome for the other guy that they'll be forced to make a compromise and at least meet us halfway for a change. A lot more people need the US than the US needs anyone else and we're not here just to pick up what everyone is throwing away.
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  15. While knowing someone strategy can give you an advantage, when they have all the leverage to flex, it doesn't matter what you know besides the fact that they can and will use it. Knowing how Trump operates hasn't stopped the fact that he can do extensive harm to other trade economies if they don't deal with him. This is how he got exactly what he wanted from this stunt, he made the market tank, caused a panic, got a cue full of people ready to negotiate and is still getting a small, but universal tariff out of everyone while getting better deals for US products and everyone that was paying attention saw this and predicted it. For some reason, people see the pause while negotiations get worked out as some kind of admittance of failure or try to make it out like it's entirely random and without any kind of plan behind it. No, everything he's done has been very well calculated and planned and it's very obvious. It lines up perfectly with what he said he was trying to accomplish. The main target is getting hit on three fronts. First is that their products aren't moving as well, factory owners are already talking about how demand is at an all-time low. Foreign businesses are pulling out, moving to build their production pipelines to the US to avoid massive taxation on their goods, meaning that there is no longer any benefit for the slave-labor offerings. Finally, it's removing any outside assistance, by having the countries that were going to be used to bypass the tariffs and having them rush over to the US to save their own economies and I have no doubt that the new trade deals will come with a couple of restrictions that won't make it easy for China to just shift production someplace else. So China is now isolated and hemorrhaging money. The only thing that can save it is interference from within the US government as Trump's opposition moves to hinder his efforts so that this isn't successful. If that can be avoided, then he'll undoubtedly score a huge win.
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