Comments by "SkyRiver" (@SkyRiver1) on "Top U.S. & World Headlines — July 22, 2021" video.

Congratulations -- you've won the stupid comment of the day award!
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@O I Slavery was in the Americas long before there was a USA. The Native Americans had slaves that they treated brutally, three times as many slaves were taken to Cuba as the USA, and five times as many to Brazil. The Islamic Caphilate took as many white European slaves as they did Africans, and exported as many to their own territories as were sent to the Americas. I could go on but it will not prevent you from making dubious connections. You seem to be laboring under the delusion that there is a nation outside of the people that constitute it's population. The Americans of today are not the Americans of centuries ago. So all you are really saying is "other people suck". Maybe, maybe not, depends on the individuals, but certainly the verbal contortions you present here as reasoning do. Oh, but I noticed that your comment got 4 thumbs up and one from yourself, so you must be right, because on DN the truest comments always get the most thumbs up. Oh wait I got it backward. On DN the most knee-jerk anti-American puddin' headed comments always get the most thumbs up.
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@Max14211 Do you mean the point that some of the terror operations on earth are funded by the USA? Doesn't sound like the same point at all to me, sounds more like the same kind of gross exaggeration and idiotic nonsense that the right-wing uses on Fox and the other fantasy news channels.
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@donHooligan Why would I, I gave up all meat and dairy to help the planet and I love meat, seafood, and especially ice cream. Haven't had any for thirty years and I am the most healthy seventy year old I know. And I am totally convinced that it is the reason that I can still keep it up all night at my age. I drive an EV despite the fact that I love sports cars. I only use clean energy and little of it. I kayak to work (just kidding, but I can drop in twenty feet from my back door.) And I post things like this on a continual basis just so people have some facts to make a decision on. That would be stuff like this: The biggest single factor in climate change is the generation of greenhouse gases. Far more greenhouse gases are produced by animal agriculture than any other source (87% by animal ag as compared to 13% by all other sources: cars, planes, electric plants, etc.: combined) The focus on burning fossil fuels is important, but diversionary. Animal agriculture is the elephant shi$$ing in the room, and it includes the massive burning of fossil fuels in it's production and transport technologies. The most important thing a person can do to address climate change, as an individual, is to stop buying the products of animal agriculture, such as meat, dairy products (no Ben and Jerry's does not get a pass) leather goods, and furs. If enough people do this, we will survive, if not, our grandchildren will be forced to decide if they should eat their babies in the hope of surviving a few more weeks when crops fail globally. That's the choice: do we indulge our blind instinctive desires and rationalize them with self-centered reactive opinions, or do we leave future generations a planet worth living on? Or do we just go on fruitlessly bitching about the injustice of things, and put off acting until it's beyond too late. My personal bet is that the vast majority of us, even if convinced of the dire reality of the global climate situation, will go on with our rapacious lifestyles unabated. Even so, those are the facts. Now -- are we rational moral beings, or just mad machines that really have no control over ourselves?
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Yep, but it's not just Republicans, in politics as well as social interactions of a less structured type, hypocrisy makes the world go round: and you thought it was love -- so cute. Though I gotta admit, love, can make the world stop spinning. But OK, I gotta admit, outside of neo-nazi brutes and Qanon Trump cultist, republicans are the worst. But it sure seems to be working for them politically, no majorities anywhere except for the courts and regions where the maps of covid deaths, church attendance, gun ownership, low rates of higher education, all look the same, and they still maintain most of the real power. Follow the money honey, corruption and hypocrisy have no political allegiance.
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Want a real ice cream hero? It ain't Ben and Jerry: it's John Robbins. He was the heir to the Baskin Robbins fortune who turned it down when he personally came to understand how harmful ice cream is. I use to see him at the gym in Santa Cruz, great guy, who has written some fine books about aging and health.
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The biggest single factor in climate change is the generation of greenhouse gases. Far more greenhouse gases are produced by animal agriculture than any other source (87% by animal ag as compared to 13% by all other sources: cars, planes, electric plants, etc.: combined) The most important thing a person can do to address climate change, as an individual, is to stop buying the products of animal agriculture, such as meat, dairy products, leather goods, and furs. If enough people do this, we will survive, if not, our grandchildren will be forced to decide if they should eat their babies in the hope of surviving a few more weeks when crops fail globally. That's the choice: do we indulge our blind instinctive desires and rationalize them with self-centered reactive opinions, or do we leave future generations a planet worth living on? Or do we just go on fruitlessly bitching about the injustice of things, and put off acting until it's beyond too late. My personal bet is that the vast majority of us, even if convinced of the dire reality of the global climate situation, will go on with our rapacious lifestyles unabated. Even so, those are the facts. Now -- are we rational moral beings, or just mad machines that really have no control over ourselves?
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School of the Assassins. . .
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@BlazeHT Gifted? Really? You mean the guns they tried to use in a sting operation against the American citizens who were gun running into Mexico that went south? You have actual documentary evidence of the serial numbers of the guns and somehow got hold of them to check it out? Or you are just repeating something because you would like it to be true. I guess if your aim is to hate the USA you will find reasons to do it even where there aren't any. Disinformation is rampant, DN has become are real nest of anti-American gossip mongers and their victims. Say anything that is against the USA and a bunch of people here will believe it. Haters gotta hate, as they say. But I am totally ready to check out your sources of information and determine if they are hopelessly spun or authentic. Please list them below.
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@donHooligan Obviously you labor under the delusion that a rhetorical question cannot also be a stupid comment.
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@donHooligan lol China did great work in Tibet too, if you disregard the Tibetans. In case you don't get it, outside of a few anomalous examples, all governments suck. The more power they have the more they tend to suck. Why? because humans everywhere cannot be trusted with power. Is the average American better somehow morally than the average Russian, or Chinese citizen or inhabitant of the DRC -- no they are all basically the same, the same crooks, the same moral people, the same vices and weaknesses, the same hopes for a better life for themselves and their families. Do very rich people suck, many do, some don't, same as the guys at your corner taproom, but with more intense repercussions. Does democracy exist anywhere -- nope, not outside of a few areas in Switzerland. Do those with advantages due to wealth or power take advantage of their advantages, sure, but it's easy to believe you would be different yourself without really having that possibility.
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@BlazeHT First of all I am not in the least a right winger, I was imprisoned for antiwar political action in the sixties and have never voted for a republican or any democrat other than Biden and I hate Biden but Trump made me sick on a daily basis. I supported Bernie with both time and quite a bit of money. Need I add, "You presumptious jerk?" Second of all, it was exactly what I said: a sting operation that went wrong. They thought they could trace strawman purchases from Arizona gun dealers to the drug cartels, but they were unable to for several reasons, some of them having to do with court decisions. There were arrests of the Americans who purchased the guns but they were unable to trace the flow of guns to higher level drug lords, like they expected to. This was hardly what it was presented as in these comments. The ATF did not purchase the guns and donate them to the cartels, they simply were unable to follow the seemingly legal purchases that were actually illegal straw purchases. To allow a minor crime like a straw purchase to proceed in order to bust a bigger criminal is a typical law enforcement tactic. It is funny though how people like you think that I am a right winger because I see through the narrative that typical so-called progressives present, on the other hand real right-wing nuts think I am a communist revolutionary because I call them on their torrential confabulation of idiotic narratives. Anyone who steps outside of the inane political duality of left and right and calls them as they see them experiences this completely automatic reaction from those who have been swallowed whole by a particular viewpoint.
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@donHooligan How quaint. . . . referring to the ego statement here. You just don't see many serious attempts at ego-shaming these days. But when you don't have anything real to say, whadda ya gonna do?
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