Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "French Cops Round up High Schoolers as Protests Continue to Grow" video.

Taxes are definitely a part of it. And the gas tax was the final straw.
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Lukaku's First Touch : LOL! Robinson's in legal trouble primarily because he was the one citizen for miles with the guts to confront the problem of child-prostitute grooming gangs operating more or less freely throughout the UK, with the tacit (and sometimes explicit) assistance of law enforcement and the government that controls it.
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Farley Moab : The USA elected Trump. Things had already gone too far for Working Americans, before 2016. There's still a lot of inertia in government institutions consisting of the same lefty, I'm-smarter-than-you types embedded in government and education, not to mention leaking over into the private sector, with diversity officers (Soviet Commissars) finding work at major corporations and pushing the same Obama-executive-order mandates that never passed the smell test in the legislature, but which bureaucrats, without the legal authority to do so, went ahead and "passed" by what is essentially DECREE. As a faculty member at an American college, I'm obliged to take Title IX training, every year. At first, I thought it was because the training must suck that taking it once isn't sufficient, but it's because with annual training, they can update us on the latest re-defining of dictionary terms for things. To get their way, liberals are incessantly re-defining terms to suit themselves, and these trainings are how the Establishment get these new, language-and-meaning-destroying terms out into the public sphere, by making SURE that all teachers take the same indoctrination, every year, like computer updates.
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@firstnamett4656 : It doesn't matter if UK rejects it or not. The fact is that all the MAJOR players are in opposition. UK's significant, but UK, France and Germany are not as big or as important as they think, any more. It was HILARIOUS watching Trump speak to NATO, like the delinquent children they are. Everybody was shocked, but the fact is that UK, France and Germany are 2nd-tier powers who don't even pay for their own defense.
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The British people, from whom the USA derives many of its values, are a supine population, too afraid of being called a bad name (like bigot or racist) by an establishment that has WEAPONIZED racism and bigotry against its own, absolutely weak-willed and flaccid population that just wants its Free Stuff.
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@declanh2314 : EU or "Common Market" as a voluntary association for commercial and security purposes makes sense. But it should never have its own military or police arm, with authority that supersedes the national sovereignty of its members. It's gone too far, and maybe all it will take is the more conservative representatives that its member countries will send to Brussels, and call bullshit on the elites. Things really aren't THAT far out of whack, if they turn a few things around on the policy side. What's surprising ME is how many in these movements are actually limited-government types. The almost-instant transition following whatever your individual red-pill moment to an essentially libertarian theory of government is a world-wide phenomenon. Aussies talking about Adam Smith. Ghetto-dwellers talking about anarcho-capitalism. The rate at which people can self-educate in the information age is utterly amazing. They spend their whole lives being indoctrinated in collectivist, feel-good (but deadly) policies, and 6 months later, they're so-called alt-right!
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@littlekingtrashmouth9219 : Yeah. Corn syrup. Corn's such an over-used product and over-cultivated product. It's a robber crop, for starters, and not the best crop for the land, unless you've got a serious crop rotation in place OR you add chemicals to the soil (from petroleum products!). Midwest farmers LOVE ethanol fuel, because it guarantees more markets for their piss-poor corn crops.
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You can take ALL the money of the rich, and it won't be enough. Maybe it can give you a nice bump, short term, but you end up killing the goose that lays the golden egg, which government MUST have in place, in order to tax and spend. In the end, the people who end up shouldering the burden are the hard-working people in the middle class, and the elites don't care if they drag the middle class down into poverty. They'll just have programs to help them. The trouble with a program for everything is that somebody has to pay for it, and you eventually run out of people with the ability to pay. Nanny government is a Ponzi Scheme, that politicians specialize in, because it wins (buys) votes in the short term, but sows the seed of eventual malaise, with a people who are less and less able to care for themselves, and people who CAN take care of themselves are essential to create the golden eggs that government wants to divide amongst its captive voting public.
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It turns out that Free Stuff and Individual Sovereignty are mutually exclusive, and I don't think the public-schooled Brits have a CLUE about this. They no sooner fight a World War to defeat fascism than they adopt most of its policies, and only prosperity and the might of the USA has shielded them from the INEVITABLE abuse of power that follows from the GRANTING of too much power to the elites. NHS is STILL a sacred cow in the UK. One-payer health care was Jo
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@haydencapps : The reaction is inevitable, because the deluded lefties in power will just keep pushing things farther and farther, and it'll be a last straw, like a gas tax, that breaks the camel's back. In a way, it's like Hitler's excesses. Everybody let him have his way, until there was zero doubt who was in the wrong.
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The coalition of guilt-ridden and entitlement-driven is fragmenting. Huge voting blocs, whom the left had in their hip pockets for generations are breaking away. African-descended voters used to vote 90% or more for liberal Democrats in the USA. They're dividing along the "Leave me alone, so I can do for myself" vs "Take care of me" crowd, much as any other racial or ethnic group. Democrats used to count on similar numbers from the Latino vote. That's going away, too, and the INEVITABLE DOMINATION BY THE LEFT, on the verge of manifesting, here and abroad, is turning into a "Democrats are now a marginalized minority" situation. And they're using every dirty trick and smear tactic at their disposal, starting with the NOW-marginalized, so-called mainstream media. Unlike the USA, however, the other countries don't have a 1st Amendment, guaranteeing Free Speech. And their governments are used to just taking whatever powers suit them, in the moment, so they censor the Internet. They're trying to censor it in the USA, as well, but it's much more difficult to totally silence the growing dissent. The only question in my mind was how far the left would take things before the inevitable blowback. The farther it went - or so I speculated - the bloodier the "correction" would eventually be. But I'm used to the U.S. Constitution, and parliaments are much more subject to the day's political weather than in the U.S. They're much more responsive to the daily whims of the public, so they go over the deep end, quicker, and correct their course, quicker. Not as well thought out and deliberate, because they don't have to navigate protections built in for the dissenting minority in the USA. I like the more deliberate American way, because the weakest and poorest are ALWAYS the ones done the most damage by sudden shifts in policy at the top. The best thing you can do for the disadvantaged is to have a stable rule set and compassionate INDIVIDUALS, rather than a government that can only PRETEND to be the expression of its people's compassion.
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Bottom line is it's an ideology that isn't sustainable.
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JOBS NOT MOBS!!!
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... job #1 for Hitler and Mussolini, because they UNDERSTOOD it was the thin edge of the wedge of their totalitarian rule. But stupid people insist on voting for the bastards that promise them Free Stuff.
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