Comments by "SkyRiver" (@SkyRiver1) on "Zeihan on Geopolitics" channel.

  1. The solution is to take the profit out of drugs, by decriminalizing them and making cocaine available to the fools who use it cheap. At one point when I was young I had a job doing fix-up and painting around the house of a retired general of the US armed forces. His wife had prescriptions for both cocaine and opium, legally as nose drops and paregoric. She had bottles of them in virtually every room of the house and she seemed to function quite normally. The whole illegal drugs thing is a scam, it is total bullshit, and the only solution that works is decriminalization and gov sponsored clinics where the drugs can be had and used safely like they have in Switzerland. Unless you want the drug barons and their banker launderers to continue to corrupt every facet of our Republic from Congress down to the beat cop level, and the incredibly ineffective enforcement apparatus which has proven that they can do nothing of significance regarding the problem except increase their own power and funding and shit on low level street level creeps. When you make something like pot or opium illegal you make it so profitable that it will be smuggled and sold successfully no matter what enforcement techniques you use. It is natural to use and want to use drugs, cocaine is like coffee, only actually less toxic than pure caffeine. The worst drug by far as far as health and society is concerned is alcohol. You could use medically pure opioids most of your life without serious consequences, not so with alcohol. The reason drugs are illegal is power and money is derived from their prohibition, but the lies have the public in fear and no one has the courage to stand up because the bastards that profit from the prohibition have everything by the balls.
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  2. Perhaps you are forgetting that it was Trump who made the decision to pull out of Afghanistan. Biden actually delayed it for a few months after the date that Trump signed into effect. The mistake in Afghanistan was not leaving, it was bringing in the Army and attempting to nation build, when a few CIA and deta force guys with millions in cash and air support had already done all the work that could be done without pushing into Pakistan with the assistance of the "Northern Alliance" (a bunch of drug lords). Chaney's old company Halliburton made the big bucks throwing away dollars by the C111 full in useless cost plus projects. See the mess we have in the world is mostly due to Bush the stupid and his neocon assembly of Chicago idiots.
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  3.  @Skunk106  I take it you have never been to an Asian city.
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  4. And e scooters are a venue where battery swapping works great. Take Gorgoro, a beautiful little scooter that you never have to charge, you just pull up to the local 7/11 deposit your battery in a slot and take a charged one. Should be an enormous game changer. Faster than pumping gas and perfect for places like Thailand, India, etc,
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  5.  @serafinacosta7118  Asia is the place where it will actually matter. Take a look at a street scene in Vietnam or Thailand.
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  6. warthog defense gives updates several times a day. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GP9PticIpN8
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  7. doubtful -- even laughable.
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  8. Your reasoning does not necessarily reflect market dynamics. In 2020 the market crashed and precious metals crashed along with it, despite the obvious "reasoning" that you note, having the same rational as earlier.
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  9. I have never used Twitter and don't intend to, but I seem to know that the use of Twitter has and is increasing even after Musk bought it (and you don't). Don't believe the FUD.
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  10.  @smarternu  Yes a pack of lies is frequently a good thing. Take Santa Clause for instance. Who doesn't like Santa. And while the Mormon used to massacre wagon trains of settlers traveling to Oregon and make it seem like it was Indians doing it, I hear they don''t have to do that anymore. They own shopping plazas and apparently loads of exoplanets where the men rule after death if they dominate enough women while alive. Sure nothing wrong with delusional cults having economic and political power. If you like shysters in control of people. There are two kinds of people who are all gunge-ho on religion: the people who know they are lying and the people who don't know they are lying. Both dangerous, but the people who don't know they are lying are more dangerous.
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  11.  @smarternu  Satanists? What fricken' century are we in? Oh, I forgot, you got to have satanists so the truly evil people can convince the weak minded to do their bidding. A vast proportion of the truly evil people are religious leaders and politicians. Don't believe me? Try asking one of those frauds to return the money they swindled some muddled geriatric grandma out of.
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  12.  @smarternu  You may think the activity of your nervous system is a "soul" but I could prove to you in one second with an ice pick and a clamp to hold your head steady that it can be permanently altered (perhaps for the better in some cases) with a poke through the eyesocket and a few swishes through the frontal lobes. Soul gone, thoughts about needing one -- gone. Oh but then I forgot, that the brain is just a kind of radio receiver for your real soul that just hovers around somewhere. Really how the hell are humans ever going to get rid of this nonsense if people are continually brainwashed by a bunch of psychopaths claiming they know "God's Will" because it is in a book with so many errors that you can't get past the first page without spotting a half dozen of them if you have any knowledge of reality at all?
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  13.  @chrise-ih4ix  I forgot to put the /s at the end of my statement. I just leaned about the sarcasm clue and have to start using it. In reality there is no need for anyone to feel the need to disprove the existence of a "soul" it is the fantasists that believe in it who have the burden of proof, and apparently proof plays no part in their cerebration. You do know that the belief in a soul as it is found today is a rather recent invention. Quite distinct from the statements about resurrection found in their book. Which I guess could take place at some point far in the future through the melding of genetic technology and AI. Of course it wouldn't really be you that would be decanted by some automated system, just one's genetics, so it would be like a twin that got lost for a few eons.
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  14.  @joshuaashton1929  I edit almost all of my post, because of my wireless keyboard being too far from my computer I guess, some strokes get missed or I make a mistake. Will some people think I went back and changed them after someone replied to them, maybe, I don't really care. Sometimes I do change them if I find out my sources were incorrect, and when I do that I am going to adopt your technique of announcing the reason for an edit, but for typos and such, I just make too many of them so that's out. But I do admire your integrity.
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  15. No need to worry: Trump says climate change is a hoax.
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  16.  @hermesliteratus882  The Tesla model Y is the car sold in America with the most American parts and labor. It is number one. Three of Tesla's four car models are ranked in the top ten of cars with the most American parts and labor. No GM,or Ford, cars even make it into the top ten. And most importantly ALL OF THE TESLAS SOLD IN AMERICA ARE BUILT IN AMERICA. Guess that blows your theory. Next time try some facts. And FYI the Tesla model Y is the highest selling car in China. It sells more than any other car including gas cars and hybrids. Try some facts Jack.
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  17.  @tveggemeyer8103  No, it takes first, fourth, ninth, and twenty first with cars. I imagine it takes first in trucks too, but I am only guessing because cybertruck is all American.
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  18.  @Paint-brigade1776  Tesla model Y is the most American car. Tesla cybertruck is the most American pickup. Tesla semi, well, probably first or tied for first. ALL Teslas sold in the USA are built in the USA, and they make most of their own parts too..
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  19.  @petesmitt  Yep that is one of the exceptions.
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  20. Dude, you should just move to the woods. Starlink makes it possible.
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  21. Looks like my comment disappeared. Probably because I put a link to the lineup of the 2024 New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival. Which is without any doubt the best thing that happens in the USA every year, including everything. Check it out the talent lineup is near unbelievable. Joe Bonamassa, Rolling Stones, Bonnie Raitt, Johm Batiste, Neil Young, etc. etc. I am there every year for the last thirty years -- nothing, I mean nothing compares. Also plan to visit San Sebatian for the music festival next Summer and try to catch Bonamassa at the Albert Hall.
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  22.  @tonywilson4713  American companies frequently have foreign owners (stockwise). I grew up in an area of the country that has been fucked over and over by the coal industry for centuries. A few decades ago when someone became curious about who actually owned Reading Company (one would assume some company in Reading PA) It turned out to be mostly foreign investors who were far from the massive death and destruction their company had caused, foreigners like the Spanish royal family.
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  23. Worlds largest lithium deposit found in Nevada https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHu7OAgzKZQ
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  24. ​ @tonywilson4713  You are reflecting my own sentiments regarding the neocons, and economic theories that seeped out of Chicago. On the other hand I do not consider all concentrations of wealth as evil. A billion people with one dollar each could not do much while one person with a billion dollars to allocate could do a lot of good or harm. But my own view is that we are really on the verge of abundance, and people like Musk will be fighting and joking all the way to get us there. My guess is that there will be a viable Teslabot, not to mention a car that drives itself much more safely than the average human, and the bots will bring a massive evolution to the world economy. Along with this, nano particles that have recently been isolated in mammalian blood seem likely to make extreme youthful longevity available to everyone on earth. So live another decade or two if you can and you may well live another hundred years in a financial situation that today seems ludicrous to even presume.
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  25.  @jcd776  You are the victim of propaganda. You are mind hobbled.
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  26. lol what a bunch of crap.
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  27. Sooner or later even the most rabid Trump cultist will see what he really is, and be quite ashamed, if only to themselves for having been such a foolish rube.
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  28. Hard to believe that it was only back in the Clinton Administration that we were running a budget surplus. And at the time it looked like it would be a surplus from then on. It took Bush the stupid, Obama, and Trump to destroy that. Mostly Bush, but Trump did give the richest Americans a huge tax break while spending the USA into debt faster than any other president to date. While Bush the stupid didn't destroy the economy with tax breaks for the people who need them least during the midst of wild spending, he did set up the whole destruction of the economy with his stupid invasions and nation building. You may be thinking, but what about Bidden? Bidden's spending is strengthening the economy, bringing back manufacturing and transitioning to sustainable energy, and trying to reestablish a strong middle class, like the one the GI bill created after WW2. An uphill battle against a corrupt insider trading congress controlled by money and not much else.
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  29.  @Art-is-craft They are unthinkably massive. In land alone they own over 29% of the land in the USA.
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  30. Tesla and other companies are producing megpacks like crazy and have back orders for years. They are much less expensive than fossil peaker plants that are currently used to supplement electricity generation, and also solve the problem you present. I am quite amazed that anyone is currently unaware that this problem has been overcome years ago. And by the way, you only have a 12 hour nighttime two days a year.
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  31.  @Innerspace100  Probably Tump's, but apparently you don't have to pull anything out of Trump's ass, it falls out all the time, no matter where he is. And people close to him just have to deal with the smell. But since most of them had covid, or at least covid of the brain, they can't smell it anyhow.
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  32. Interesting guess that 1:41 "Russia has several million more armored vehicles that they can throw into this". I guess that is counting wheel barrels, because the people over at Covert Cabal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PHUK6zkbpc&t=3s who actually bothered to count them, claim that Russia has 3911 tanks left that are able to be repaired and brought into service.
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  33. Stupid.
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  34. This is the first comment in the hundreds I've read that even hints at the coming paradigm shift that is just around the decades corner. AI, robotic and genetic breakthroughs will make all this fretting and calculation of the economy's destiny using kitchen table math seem like the hallucinations of dimwitted children.
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  35. The only ships the Danes are interested in stopping is the ones with Tesla EVs on them. Because the unions in Sweden are like the mafia in the USA -- Just like the unions in the USA. All because twelve Tesla workers out of hundreds want a union. The rest want to own a part of it through the employee stock program which has produced more employee millionaires than any other equivalent program.
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  36. The end of German as an ethnicity is just a ridiculous statement. In the USA alone Seventeen percent of the population is ethnically German (still the largest ethnicity). And there are half a million Mennonites, and 360,000 Amish (whose population is increasing rapidly with an average of seven children per household.) Yes the famous Pennsylvania Dutch are Germans.
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  37.  @YourHineyness  That is easy to believe since there are only about 16 million Jews in the entire world. Though it seems like there are more, especially if you go by noble prizes, and general media attention, and show biz. Very talented neurotic people. Many wise old ones if you discount the religious ones.
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  38.  @middleagedbaldguy6774  Good, then you will not be so put out when Trump rolls the economy into a ditch.
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  39. Half of Europe's electricity is now produced by wind and solar.
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  40. ..."worked on the principle of Commerce, Education, and civilisation.". . . That is the rationalization. You done drunk the koolaid. Hundreds of thousands of machine gunned natives with spears in their hand would tend to disagree with that outlook. Then again perhaps you mean something different form civilization by "civilisation"?
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  41. I am so sick of people being proud to be stupid.
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  42.  @LividImp  Please -- . . . don't you know that Trump has made it possible for people to be proud to be stupid? Reality? Fox is bad enough, but most real dead-enders like the hard-core nonsense. Were as Fox viewers where shown to know less about what is really happening than people with no interest in the news at all, and they are almost normal compared to News Max and One America -- where the real hopeless clowns get their fantasies stoked.
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  43.  @jennetal.984  Not funny "ha ha" but funny.
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  44.  @elrichvolshebnik  🤩
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  45. My own prediction is that sooner than you think, in a few years, none of these demographics will matter anymore. None of them. And you will not have to wait long to see that: AI, robots, and especially E5, will demolish your predictions. None of it will matter in the coming Elysium.
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  46.  @YourHineyness  I have reason to be optimistic: LIfe has an urgent desire to survive and evolution is the prime determinant of survival. At this point evolution is no longer dependent on natural selection (if indeed it ever was). Though lame ideas of transferring an individuals identity and memories into an inorganic mechanism are held by some, I personally hold the opinion that the problem of deterioration and death will be overcome by bio-science (if it has not already been) Such as the research of Dr. H. Katcher and his discovery of the rejuvenation potential in E5 plasma borne nano particles. Imagine what potential will be tapped when the leading minds and geniuses in the sciences do not loose their mental acuity with age, or age biologically at all. Instead of educating and training new people to take up their torches, they could just go on. The demographics are meaningless if people stop aging and dying. We are talking about a procedure that will be affordable and available to everyone. Add in the Tesla bots and the advances that AI will make possible and there you have it. Can we, or some religious nut-job screw the pooch for the planet? It is a possibility, but Life itself is alive and I doubt very much if that is in the cards except as a conceptual postulate. What I do see as "in the cards" for humanity is a golden destiny among the stars with infinite resources and the expansion and "destupidification of humanity, as the physical reality of what the collective unconscious vaguely alluded to, via the myths and stories of most major religions (may they and the mindless dupes who take them literally disappear and take their divisiveness with them) become the physical reality for the many that they have been at times for the enlightened few.
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  47.  @robbycook4298  Switzerland. Who did it correctly, offering support, therapy, and a holistic approach to getting addicts off the street with the need to commit crimes to support a habit. In my opinion overdose deaths are not a problem, they are a choice, just like racing your car in a rally would be. Some people just want to die in bliss, why keep resuscitating them an making them do it over again?
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  48.  @tjk3430  Good move: cigarettes are more addictive than heroin and harder to stop using. After cigs the worst drug of all is alcohol, which is far far more toxic than opioids but, is acceptable because when the miners and mill workers in industrializing England began to turn to opium preparations because they were superior in dulling their pain of existence, the whiskey distillers got parliament to make opioids illegal in the hope of reviving the alcohol industry. It worked, in England, and the USA too. In the USA right up to the thirties you could go into a drug store and buy heroin and cocaine over the counter. That's why some call them the "good ole days".
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  49. Ronald McDonald called from Nigeria. He said you have inherited two and a half million dollars, all he needs for you to claim it is access to your bank account.
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  50. I have never even seen a YouTube ad unless the video creator splices them in, then I just fast forward. Thanks to firefox.
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