Comments by "Newbie Prepper" (@newbieprepper8451) on "The Rational National"
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Joseph Norm so wait a minute, you are claiming that we are more advanced than China?
China is the 3rd country in the world to put a human in space, second country in the world to land a living organism on a surface outside of Earth, produces and develops their own nuclear weapons and nuclear power on their own, produced and developed a 5th generation jet fighter that rivals the US and Russia all on their own, produces the majority of green technology for the world, and you claim that they are less advanced? in what respect?
i could fathom a country like Congo or Somalia or Zimbabwe getting a free pass, i would even go as far as cheer for us to grant them some technology to get them up to speed, but you cant argue that a country that is on the same level of technological advancement as us is less developed simply on the basis that their government has a stranglehold over their economy keeping their population in slave labor conditions.
your Paris climate accords amount to this - punish western countries with fines and regulations while rewarding other countries by claiming they are less developed which amounts to manufacturing leaving the punished country where regulations keep pollution low for the rewarded country where they are allowed to exploit the slave labor population and pollute twice as much in order to make more profit, and they sell you this by making you believe that you solved climate change. to make it easier for you to understand. they push this climate change idea till you buy it and support it, then they raise fines on your country and force your country to install costly regulations, then they move the manufacturer to China that allows them to pollute twice as much and show you how they moved that polluting factory out of your country so the climate is better off. what they dont show you and what you refuse to ask about is, how you lost jobs and helped create twice as much global pollution in the process.
twice as much pollution over there does not mean you have cleaner air over here, it just means there is twice as much dirty air for everyone to go around. but you feel good about it because you have been told it solves pollution and you dont even bother asking simple questions.
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@pennyc11 while i agree with some of your points, i dont quite agree with others. yea, China knows their mistakes, but they keep making them and appologizing hoping everyne else just ignores it and moves along, kind of like an abusive spouse who keeps abusing but the next day buys some flowers and candy and says i love you and im sorry. and yes, most of America now depends on Chinese goods, ever wonder why? because politicians on both sides of the Isle have been selling us out for decades. as for businesses in CA, ive seen many interviews posted up where most businesses that left CA stated taht it was either the taxes or unfriendly regulations or a combination of both, Waste Management wanted to build a recycling plant in CA at a landfill / garbage dump, and for 10 years they were going through beurocracy, they finally started up a recycling operation in NV and 2 years later finished building a recycling plant for cheaper while they were still waiting to break ground in CA. as for the housing market or lack of affordable housing in CA, i doubt any company is concerned about their employees ability to house themselves. and i CRINGE at people who call CA a communist state, i lived in a communist country, and CA has a long way to go to get there. and yea, i agree that greed is destroying America.
now as for a serious warm winter in VA, can you attribute it to human activity? 10,000 years ago when the temp in VA was 10 degrees colder on average, was that atributed to human activity? how about 13,000 years ago when most of North America was cover by an ice sheet a mile thick? was that man made? i would love to meed the human civilization that caused enough global warming 2.3 million years ago that crated an earth without any ice caps on the north and south poles. i wonder what happened to that civilization since eventually the earth cooled and ice caps formed enough to lower the oceans enough to to create a land bridge between North America and Asia for the Native Americans to cross over on foot. every 400 years or so, the earth temperature either lowers or rises, depending on the period, during this 400 year cycle it is rising, this has been recorded in history, texts in Chinese documents reveal cold periods with lower harvests spanning period of 400 years or so. in 1800 something, not exactly sure which year, but Krakatoa exploded causing the year without summer, where snow fell in July, a simple volcanoe exploding affected our climate worldwide, i havent seen a year without summer because too many people run their cars too long.
the thing with climate is that it is far more intricate with thousands of inputs that affect it, from the output of the sun to the strength of the earths magnetic field to our position relative in the galaxy to the spiral arms and magnetic currents to the amount of sunspots on the suns surface to the amount of water on the surface of earth and cloud cover and vegitation and composition of ice crystals in the upper atmosphere that formed from evaporation by the ice caps and so on and so on. current climate change theorists anly pose a theory, and they pose it with just a few datapoints while omitting the rest hoping you wont notice because they have "scientist" in their title so that gives them authority to tell you that they concur.
science is not about scientists agreeing, science is about scientists being able to prove each others hypothesis through experiments and data. the last time scientists "agreed" that something was correct was when they agreed the world was flat and sickness was caused bad spirits and demons.
here is the gist of it. rich elites gather with government officials to sell you something, they employ scientists with "grants" to uphold and validate their story. scientists come up with global warming theory and with the help of the elites pushes this on the public. the public gets scared and demands action from the politicians, who enact new "green" taxes and "green" legislation to extract more wealth from the public, which is then used to to give more grants to more scientist and to line the pockets of elites. ever notice how the people pushing the climate change theory about ocean levels rising are the same ones buying up oceanfront property while flying around in gas guzzling jets every week to chastise people about conserving energy and lowering their carbon footprint? Al Gore, the great climatologist whimpering about climate change has a $30,000 per month utility bill in his mansion. at least i can respect Thunberg for going across the ocean in a boat and using trains as much as possible. but seriously, ask a scientist what the effect of the sun is on our climate and our weakening magnetic field is on our climate and ask if those two inputs have been calculated in.
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@Homeless Forstr very well, i'll inform you. after the civil war, republicans (who were against slavery) started moving into the democrat (who were for slavery) areas of the south to help reconstruction and help bring former slave into a freer country. those former slaves finally found freedom when they realized, with republicans help, that they could move to other parts of the country, including cities in the north, after all, who would want to stick around in the south where prospects of prosperity were slim compared to the industrialized norht where industry was booming and everyone got a wage because there was no slavery. freed slaves over generations started moving to large urban areas for prosperity, and the democrats from the south that kept the slaves down all those generations followed them to urban areas and maintained control with disinformation campaigns such as "you know dems and repubs just switched names right". the republicans that came from the north into the south to help the former slaves stayed there helping the slaves that were left behind, while the democrats who followed freed slaves into urban areas established themselves there and flourished by maintaining control over a subjugated population constantly, with the help of the media at the time, since everyone knows what the NYT is or the Chicago Tribune, or Wall Street Journal compared to the Baton Rouge Daily Buegle.
long story short, democrats moved out of the south into the north, republicans moved into the south, and then democrats lied and claimed that they just switched names, all to maintain control and dupe more generations into being slaves for dems.
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@ohhah1255 wow, so much to read, I at least appreciate that you made an effort to make a point and an argument. And yes, it is mostly the politicians fault. People elect them in the first place, then they do a piss poor job of fighting for our interests and then people keep re-electing them, and they are the ones that enrich themselves and make the laws to make themselves and their friends richer. You think someone like Pelosi or Waters or Biden or Clinton aren't rich? You try to make it sound as if though the politicians and the rich are 2 different things, but they are not. As for where I was born, yea, post petestroika Russia. My parents were born there, and my grandparents. And no, we were not rich landowners, we were the peasant class. And from what was described by my predesessors about Russia, the only difference between the times of pre and post petestroika Russia was the amount of people that the government killed and the name of the guy in charge, not much else was different. Communism works on a small scale, but it is a poor way to run a society on a national level with hundreds of millions of people. Tell me, would you be satisfied working a minimum wage job as long as you were fed the line that it's for the national good and that your work will help someone a thousand miles away? In a capitalist system you work a minimum wage job that benefits a CEO who lives far away. In communist russia, the government forced you to work on a commune farm so that your crops could feed someone else far away. Here is the kicker. If you don't like your capitalist job, you could strive for something better, you could quit and go somewhere else or just not work at all. In communist Russia, yea, if you didn't like your job, the party would find you another job just as shitty. 30 million people died under the communist regime in gulag work camps, 10 million worked themselves to the bone digging a canal outside of Moscow using their bare hands because they had no choice, they were prisoners in the gulags because they were either criminals or those free spirited people that complained about their previous jobs. Yea, I grew up in that regime, as did generations of my family, did you? I doubt it, because if you did you wouldn't want it.
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@randyrederson4860 i live in Chicago, my brother lived in California for a while. and while my brother was un-insured, he still received medical treatment free of charge from the state, called Cook County hospital here in Chicago. i also lived in England for a few years and Germany and Poland. most of my family is scattered all over Europe, and since we do talk, i may not have direct experience, i have knowledge of the European system since i did live there and still have close ties there.
im not saying that our system is above Canadas, but what im also not saying is that Canada has anything to praise either. we both have pieces of turds but they are polished to our own liking. what i learned from Canadas health system ive learned from articles and various friends and aqcuaintances that have lived there.
so far the system here works, its not impressive, but it does its job. i personally wouldnt want to live in the UK where recent reports have come out that healthcare would have to be rationed to certain age groups. and while the healthcare in Poland and Germany is on par with the US and Canada, its offset with higher than normal taxes and longer than normal wait times.
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@j0j0dartiste21 healthcare should never be treated as a right, it is strictly a commodity.
my definition of a right is something that you are inherently born with that can not be denied you by any means, or should not be denied you by any means, such as a right to speech, or a right to defend yourself, or a right to live.
in this definition, if healthcare is a right, that means that i am guaranteed healthcare no matter what. what if there are no doctors, am i allowed to draft someone and make them into a doctor, like indentured servitude? or what if everyone has a right to healthcare but doesnt want to pay, are the doctors forced to work for free?
to me, a right is not necessarily access to a tangible good that is a necessity. for example, i need food more than i need a doctor, food should be a right above healthcare. now if i dont have food, can i come and take food out of your fridge since it is my right? if you stop me from taking from your fridge are you inhibiting my rights?
food and healthcare may not be the same thing, but rather comparable. healthcare is a produced item, do you have a right to someone elses produced item regardless of your ability or willingness to pay for it? a long time ago there were people who believed they had the right to other peoples production, we ended that practice.
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