Comments by "HomerOJSimpson" (@Homer-OJ-Simpson) on "Cogito" channel.

This was tough to watch and I only got halfway through…because it’s highly bias. It is indeed very difficult to pass but the underlying arguments made is that it’s mostly the fault of the US and the US should have open borders or near open borders. The underlying argument made is that on top of the half million who illegally enter the US, the US Should allow another million or more each year…year in and year out. That’s economically unsustainable and the current amount is probably still okay amount but it would be much higher if not for pickups to make it more difficult In addition, the problem is that migrants have abused the system of refugee claims. It’s now mostly economic reasons they are leaving and not true refugee reasons (the reasons covered by some international law)
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How are they not? You are basically saying everyone is forced to trade with everyone so you have it backwards
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@Baelor-Breakspear you do know that hyper inflation started when the Venezuela govt began to price control food? Millions fled Venezuela immediately and went to neighboring counties in South America As to why they only specifically started coming to the US in large numbers in 2020’s, not sure. But they have a decade of strong outflow migration to South America
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@Baelor-Breakspear how so? Because the policies right now are what keeps the immigrant numbers sustainable. U guys are asking for millions per year for year after year and the US economy cannot handle that Educate urself
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@Baelor-Breakspear ending sanctions? The sanctions on Venezuela aren’t the major cause of their problem — it was far left economic policies like controlling prices for food, giving money away in large sums to buy votes but driving up debt, and corruption in state run businesses like oil. Haiti more recent issues is not from US intervention — in fact, it’s the opposite the past decade or so. People are now crying the US isn’t more involved. As for the rest of the migrants from other countries, it has little or zero to do with the US intervention. China? South Asia? Other South American migrants? Or even Central America, it’s less the US government (though one could say it’s the US consumer of illegal substances)
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@snowballeffect7812 "the trade is cut off with the implication of violence" No its' not. It's cut off by literally cutting off the trade. Do you know how modern trade works? Most of the sanctions on Russia are cutting them off from western financial institutions. They can't use western banking, the SWIFT institution (which allows financial transactions), & the oil is sanctioned by now letting Russia use insurance companies of the west which represent 95%+ of insured shipping.
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Expensive routes..:cost money. And most doing this can’t afford it. However, there are some I’ve seen / read about that look like they could afford it but they did Darien Gap because they were mislead about difficulty of crossing it.
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@theawesomeman9821 I think people on both sides go to extremes. At the moment, the low skilled immigrants aren’t a drag on the economy but allowing millions year in and year out will drag the economy down.
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@Bambisgf77 I agree there is a breaking point and I am 100% against these people acting like the US should have open borders or accept millions of low skilled migrants each year but I don’t know if we reached that breaking point. That said, it’s precisely because of the policies to make it harder that we might not have reached the breaking point
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@snowballeffect7812 most sanctions aren’t upheld with violence but with cutting offending parties from certain trade or business
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@snowballeffect7812 Basically you don't know anything & saying "the US has very limited economic pull" when US Dollars account for 85% of transactions in spot, forward, and swap markets, and almost 90% of foreign exchange transactions.
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8:55 ok, calm TF down with the suggestion the US, etc were responsible for the breakdown in Haiti. “Unelected”. On 5 July 2021, Herny was selected as the next prime minister of Haiti by President Jovenel Moïse, but two days later, Moïse was assassinated, stalling the transfer of power
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No offense but this is heavily bias toward North Korea. You mention the rise of North Korea economy through the 1970’s but don’t mention all the support they received from the USSR. But when you mention South Korea’s rise beginning on the 60’s, you mention the support of the US and Japan. I saw a lot of these little things over and over in this video. I’m guessing you are a strongly left leaning person?
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@CogitoEdu "The video at no point claims the US should have an open border." You literally are blaming the US not only in the vid but in these comment sections for making it harder. How are you not arguing for some very loose immigration policy? There already are 500k+ people a year illegally entering the US. Everything you have argued in these comment sections would indicate the US should be accepting far more. And that's the problem...the 500k a year illegally entering the US does not count the large number blocked before they could illegally cross NOR does it count the vast number deterred by the polices. So yeah, you are in effect arguing for policies that would accept likely a million or millions per year into the US.
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@CogitoEdu "examination of root causes" by describing the issue frequently throughout the vid as a US fault. You also in these comments say the US should stop intervening in Haiti & Latin America (it hasn't in Haiti in a long time & only Venezuela in more recent years but their issue was caused primarily by bad economic polices of Chavez & Maduro). hard to believe you weren't blaming the US in the vid when you are criticizing the US over and over in the comment sections.
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@CogitoEdu ”end the interventions in Haiti and Latin America”. U really are far left wing still clinging on to the past. For the most part, the US isn’t involved In Latin American like you suggest. The expedition is Venezuela and Cuba but with Venezuela, the issue is 95% the corrupt government and their policies to control the food prices and oil/gas prices in their country Haiti, you try to blame the US and other western countries for the current crises by saying “US backed Henry” when the facts are: > On 5 July 2021, Herny was selected as the next prime minister of Haiti by President Jovenel Moïse, but two days later, Moïse was assassinated, stalling the transfer of power
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July 1 news: undocumented crossings into the US in June dropped to lowest in over 3 years. It was 141,000 in Feb and just 84,000 in June
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You are right…the US should be able to take in millions of people year in and year out! Oh no, that’s not reasonable. And as soon as attempts to cross the border began to rise in large unsustainable numbers, the US had to make it harder to enter. Without tough restrictions, you’re looking at millions per year entering and flooding the agencies with cases that they will never be able to handle or flooding the US with large number of immigrants that the economy cant handle I’m pro immigration and I am very anti orange man but there is a point where too many immigrants will drag down an economy. We aren’t at that point but that’s precisely because policies have made it so the US can only accept X number per year.
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@JoeJaJoeJoe You mean the 2nd half of the video completely went in the opposite direction? What are you going on about...how would the 2nd half fix the bias & errors of the first half? Go ahead, I'd like to hear it.
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@JoeJaJoeJoe who said I didn't watch the vid? Learn to read. I said I watched half the vid. So explain to me how the 2nd half of the vid corrects the problems of the first half?? In addition, Cogito elsewhere proved he isn't making smart comments. He stated that new policy changes won't effect much and used as evidence that migrants interviewed on the Darien Gap route mostly all were not aware of the policy changes. Yet this very same video describes how policy changes eventually did alter migrant flow patterns which lead to the surge in the Darien gap. As these migrants hit the end of the road & are rejected at the border or in Mexico, that will get reported back to their family & friends which will alter migrant patterns.
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@CogitoEdu "deterence has failed" is actually a very LowIQ response. Failed compared to completely solving the issue. But NO DETERENCE would mean millions a year crossing into the US. Ur sm@rt enough to run a channel but when bias comes into play, you seem to lose that intelligence.
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@schneejacques3502 there is a lot he doesn’t mention that seem to benefit NKorea or damage SKorea. It was very obvious he was bias towards to NK due to communism
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