Comments by "T WE" (@TWE_2000) on "The New York Times"
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@Wolfgang8-Y yes much of that poverty is a result of racism; but most of that racism is from decades ago. The fact is that just as the black population in America had gained equal rights in America, the economy began slowing down, ending the economic golden age in the 50s and 60s, and entering the 70s which was a period of both stagnation and inflation. That coupled with the fact that since the late 70s, income inequality has been rising, and it's no wonder the black community never gained economic parity with the rest of America. But we dont have time machine, so we can't move the civil rights movement to the 1940s, and we have to deal with the conditions as they are today, which means addressing the actual primary cause for most of the disparagement among the black community today, which us poverty, not racism.
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I'm usually not a big fan of Johnny, and even less so with the NYT, but as a California resident I can not express how much it means to me that this video was made. As someone who lives in the Bay Area in one of the most expensive zip codes in the country, it has infuriated me how these so called progressive politicians and voters have actively made us poorer in the most hypocritical and self-serving policies. Despite this state having everything needed for success, a diverse economy, the growing and innovative tech industry, major ports, tons of land and natural resources, world class public universities, multiple metropolitan centers, California has the highest rate of poverty in the nation once the cost of living is factored in. While homelessness has decreased in the US over the last 10 years, in California it has increased by 50%, and in the major cities like SF and LA it has increased by over 100%. Child poverty is the highest in the country. People spend nearly half their income on rent, even our public universities have become unaffordable to most, and all of this has happened while Dems have had a control over all branches of our state government with a supermajority. Gas prices in California is sometimes 3x higher than other parts of the US, an 80 square ft room cost $750 in SF, increasing poverty and making destroying the middle class in our state, all primarily due to government regulations and restrictions, and yet the entire time progressives continue to claim they are for helping the poor as they raise our taxes. It's government overreach and left wing hypocrisy at its finest. I can't wait to leave this state, and honestly if you're a resident of the state and you don't have a large inheritance or a job that comfortably puts you in the upper middle class, I'd recommend you do the same.
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Our leaders might not be up for a full on invasion, but I don't see why we can't have a little coup, have CIA start arming training the people, overthrow the Maduro regime, bring back the democratically elected opposition government, and bring back the American oil companies (and maybe some u.s. troops to assure their protection) which would increase oil production and lower oil prices, thus providing democracy and jobs for the Venezuelan people, cheaper and more abundant energy for the American people, and benfit our so-called "corrupt and sadistic" leaders, it's a win-win for everyone. Which shouldn't be too hard given the millions of fleeing Venezuelans that will be on Colombia's border. And I doubt the Colombians are going to be willing or capable of taking in and caring for a group of refugees that could potentially grow the size of nearly 10% of their population, and ditto for their most likely president, Ivan duque Marquez, who'd even more right wing and pro-military. Plus with 90% of the Venezuelan population against Maduro, and the opposition having nothing to lose and really no other options, they would all probably be for some revolution. And with most of the army being payed an abysmal salary of just 2 dollars a day, I doubt there would be much resistance (worse case scenario we help the opposition out by sending in an aircraft carrier and some predator drones. And, again with millions of refugees already lined up on the boarder, most of the population against Maduro, and an opposition that has no other options, we would have a huge pool to pick from, and they would be doing all the fighting. We've certainly done more with less. #FREE_VENEZUELA #CIA
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Pablo Orta yeah but Venezuela isn't Syria they don't have the capacity to fight a war there. With the exception of their submarines fleet, their navy is abysmal, there one reserviced aircraft carrier needs a tug boat at its side at all times and barely made it around the British Isles and back to Russia, they don't have any military bases, and they don't have any defense alliance. Even even if they could reach the place there is no way they could reach Venezuela without setting off every alarm bell along the way, and for all of Putin's eye poking at the U.S. they aren't willing risk another Syria in the U.S. sphere of influence, where the outcry for the U.S. to get involved will be immediate from every single war hawk Republican (so all of them) and every single Russia hating Democrat (so all of them) along with all of the mainstream foreign policy experts who will say that the U.S. can't allow Russia to establish itself in Latin America like in Syria. But again, I doubt Russia could do so even if they wanted to, Russia slashed its military budget by 20% last year, and with Putins new completely pointless missiles program, there's even less spending for conventional forces. There's a reason why even the USSR didn't try to form any military alliance with nicaragua in the 80's, because the result would be U.S. being handed the perfect reason to invade, and Russia would lose face, and after Syria, no one trust Russia to take care of Venezuela except for making it more of a humanitarian disaster. This is why for all of his moves to become a dictator, Maduro has made sure avoid any extreme use of lethal force with the exception of the relatively rare protester who was hit at close range, because he knows that if Venezuela starts to look like anything even resembling what we saw in Syria in terms of killing, CNN, MSNBC, and FOX News will covering him daily, making U.S. intervention almost unavoidable. People like Maduro or Ortega don't tell their officers to hold back because they want to seem merciful or feel empathy, they do it because they know there is Jupiter sized American hand in the shape of a Fist hovering over their head that seems like it is always itching to just clobber them. Russia is regional power, not a global power, its connections to venezuela are almost entirely through corrupt deals between the government controlled oil companies, limited arms sales, and cryptocurrency that is used to evade sanctions, but that's about as far as Russian will or can possibly go. If the CIA starts arming and traing some of the millions of Venezuelans already on Colombia's borders, the Maduro regime will collapse within 2 weeks.
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