Comments by "Daily Wire Third Stringer" (@DailyWireThirdStringer) on "Climate change permanently damages to some communities | WNT" video.
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@skydiver1013 Oh, you want a non-biased source? How about Fox News or Newsmax? Or Breitbart? Or maybe Redstate? 🙄 Come on, you have to be joking. This issue isn't a matter of opinion; it's one of fact. We have all the evidence to prove that a) GHG's cause climate change by means of the "greenhouse effect," and b) that humans are contributing FAR MORE to the global total than anything in nature. The only two questions remaining is just how severe the consequences are going to be, and what should be done to prevent them. It's not my fault if you're too ignorant (or too stupid) to do the minimal amount of research necessary to find all the evidence that anthropomorphic climate is occurring. And of course we want to solve all of the other problems you mentioned. Here, I'll go one by one and prove it:
Poverty: Redistribution of wealth in the form of social programs. Tax the rich and use that money to nationalize the pharmaceutical industry and implement a single-payer healthcare system. Provide free college tuition for all American citizens meeting certain education requirements. Expand access to welfare, mental health clinics, and rehabilitation facilities, including a program that would allow drug addicts to take psychedelics under supervision of an experienced health professional. Use federal funds to create hundreds of thousands of jobs in the energy industry to achieve a sustainable future. Provide low-income housing to give the homeless a head start, and reform the banking system so that they can take out a loan with little or no credit history.
Hunger: This one's easy. Domestically, this problem can be addressed by solving poverty, such as by making use of the solutions listed above. Internationally, the U.S. may deliver humanitarian aid (NOT foreign aid in the form of currency, but food and supplies) to the poorest regions of the world. Perhaps the area suffering the most is Yemen, but at the moment we are not permitted to provide assistance because we're equipping Saudi Arabia with the tools they need to carry out a genocide. This brings me to my next point:
Violence/war: End U.S. participation in all foreign conflicts. We are not the world's police force, and most of the time the country we invaded ends up worse off than it was before (e.g. Iraq). Obviously, this includes a complete withdrawal out of Afghanistan and ending our operations with Saudi Arabia. Just taking these two steps will go a long way in establishing peace abroad. Our involvement in the Middle East should have come to an end a long time ago. By the same token, Israel will no longer receive any financial assistance from us, because they have established their own apartheid-like state with respect to the Palestinians. Give them their own territory (i.e. the West Bank and the Gaza Strip), and we may reconsider. Domestically, reinstate the assault weapons ban that expired in 2004. The more that are bought and sold, the more lives will be lost in the form of mass shootings. This is a verifiable statistic, and you can look it up for yourself if you wish. The U.S. has more guns per capita than any other country in the world, so it's no surprise that it also has the highest rates (i.e. percentages, not raw numbers) of gun violence of any developed nation. The only country that even comes close is Yemen, and as we have already seen, that's not something to be proud of. Moreover, legalize, tax, and regulate all but the most dangerous drugs and decriminalize the rest. This will put the Mexican cartels out of business, solving the border crisis over time (which is erroneously often used as a scapegoat by uneducated right-wingers for high rates of violence, typically to justify tougher laws on immigration). Additionally, domestic disputes will decline as adults addicted to alcohol, opioids, or other substances have access not only to safer and milder alternatives (such as weed), but also to rehabilitation programs that do not put them in jail but encourage them to overcome their addiction and perhaps induce a psychedelic experience using psilocybin, LSD or DMT, which frequently facilitates a transition away from these substances.
Infectious disease: Really? Do we seriously need to go here? It was a Republican President who disbanded the commission for disease prevention in the National Security Council (Global Health Security and Biodefense) in 2018. Democrats in Congress, as far as I know want to take every measure to ensure that a pandemic of this magnitude never happens again. It's the "budget-hawk" Republicans who will block every attempt at increasing funds in this department. This is just a flat-out lie.
Cancer research: Name me 1 time a Democrat in Congress opposed funding for this purpose. It doesn't happen. What does happen is that the free market lunatics want Big Pharma to develop their own treatments independently, and then charge an arm and a leg to have access to them. What's the point of developing a cure if none but the most wealthy can receive it, or the developer can put a patent on it so they can make a profit at the expense of the lives of the people? This is beyond greedy, it's inhumane.
Pollution/overfishing/adequate sanitation/education and clean water: Wow, now you're sounding just like a straight-blue Democrat. Of course all those things are priorities, which is why we have departments in the government (such as the EPA) to oversee activities that may cause them. Even though it was established by Richard Nixon, not too many Republicans are fans of the EPA and other such agencies (I've heard it called the "Employment Prevention Agency"). But without them, there would be no oversight at all, because businesses aren't incentivized to protect the environment and the Tragedy of the Commons will prevail. This is why rugged individualism fails, and some form of collectivism is sometimes necessary. And of course, we can't forget about education. Which party is proposing a bill right now that would expand the budget in this area, and which party has their own alternative bill that leaves out this priority? I want to you look this up and get back to me. Until then, have fun educating yourself on the basics of American politics. 🤦♂️
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