Comments by "SkyRiver" (@SkyRiver1) on "Should We Worry About Chinese Land Purchases in the US? || Peter Zeihan" video.

@smileygladhands Or actually find out what they believe and you will find they are more crazy than the pedestrian kindness of their public face portents.
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I hear the price of chicken is up too. Do they own all the chickens?
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@Taber01 The number of full size pickup truck in the USA that are used as basic transportation is ridiculous. If someone does not need a pick up for work they are basically dragging around a half ton of useless iron everywhere they go in a vehicle that couldn't be less aerodynamic. At 60mph most of your gas money is being used to push air out of the way. They have no concern either for the environment or their wasted money. As is said, most of these people don't need a pick-up they need a cowboy suit. I bet less than five percent of them ever carry anything that would not fit in the trunk of a sedan, and if they do it is only occasionally. It would be far more efficient to just rent a pickup for $20 a day the once a year they really need it, or just borrow one from someone.
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@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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@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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@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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@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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@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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HOw about an episode predicting the consequences of Trump winning the election and managing to subvert the democratic process even more than he has already tried to do.
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@serafinacosta7118 True enough. There are some less than benign cases of foreign ownership though. But of course they would be just as harmful no matter who owned them. The case that sticks out in my mind is a few decades ago some reporter investigated just who owned a particularly filthy strip mining operation in the hard coal region of PA. This is a company that as basically raped the populace and destroyed the environment for decades. The Spanish "royal" family is one of the owners that stuck in my adolescent brain at the time.
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They have a long way to go to catch up to the harm that Monsanto/Bayer has caused with glyphosate (round up) Under the guise of "no till" farming they have manged to poison every human being on the planet. Pesticide residue controls carried out by EU Member States in 2016 analysed 6,761 samples of food products for glyphosate residues. 3.6% of the samples contained quantifiable glyphosate residue levels with 19 samples (0.28%) exceeding the European maximum residue levels
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No tit for tat there, that's for sure. Not only can't Americans buy land in China, the Chinese can't buy land in China.
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