Comments by "William Davis" (@williamdavis9562) on "TLDR News EU" channel.

  1.  @nathaneddy502  It was a majority of people who actually voted. Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't that how you win a referendum? I have no horse in the race but I do know fanatics generally like to that people who vote in a way they don't like are because they're misguided, stupid or were misled. That isn't a very productive way to approach the feelings and decisions of such a large group of people. This is why democracy exists, so people can express their point of view on how their state should be run. I'd imagine they're capable of doing that with you disparaging their decisions. I'd imagine you'd be very happy if people weren't free to choose and policy rammed down their throats by the elites. I'd also imagine you'd be a very popular figure in the old Soviet Union with that mindset.
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  2. @Sherif Nabil did you really just say high interest rates increase the prices of houses? Seriously? I agree with your point of view about how global banking is predatory but to claim high interest rates increase the price of homes is insanity.
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  3.  @sherifnabil9663  I understand your point, there are costs associated with paying a higher interest rate. However that's a very small part of the equation. I just find it strange you're ignoring the biggest determining factor in house prices, supply vs demand. When interest rates are high, you have less buyers and the buyers you do have are able to spend less on the price of a house. This causes downward pressure and lowers the price of homes. If what you're saying were true, Turkey home prices in Turkey would not have been skyrocketing the past 3 years. Same with any nation which have kept interesting rates insanely low for the past few years. This isn't really up for debate, it's a known fact and the world has seen this play out over and over and over again without fail. Lower interest rates=higher house prices Higher interest rates=lower house prices. Debating against this is as difficult as debating that the world is flat.
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  4. What is wrong with the German government? Not sure this can be covered in a short youtube video.
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  5.  @wamingo  Yea they did blow it. But in the end it won't be them who is hurt most by this. It will again be Europe who really has no way out of this mess. Not sure how much Macron kissing the Chinese ruler's arse will help.
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  6. What powerhouse. Both are corrupt nations who will always have trouble advancing. Obviously with Greece being in much worse shape in the long term. As terrible as Turkey is at least they're not a vassal state.
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  7. I don't think there was any way these two nations were going to be able to get along for the long term. Give it another few decades and they'll have armies massed at each others borders.
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  8. I don't think the video claimed Turkey was in the EU. In fact I'd imagine most people understand it's quite lucky it wasn't accepted into the EU. What ever short term economic problems they may have, it's a lot easier to work your way out of it without the constraints of the EU. I'd imagine long term their economic prospects are still better than nations like Spain, Greece and Italy.
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  9.  @pyellard3013  The states of the USA at the time of formation didn't have legislation their people didn't want rammed down their throats by a centralized unit which didn't give a rats ass about what the people want. You might want to learn more about the history of the United States, how the states formed to make a nation and how their democracy functioned in those early years before making ridiculous analogies.
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  10.  @lorisperfetto6021  It doesn't become so because you say it does.
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  11.  @lorisperfetto6021  I made an argument. Your reply of "nah the EU is" isn't much of a rebuttal.
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  12.  @lorisperfetto6021  To be fair it was more of a statement. You didn't do much to disprove it either.
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  13.  @lorisperfetto6021  When a union holds a referendum (the will of the people) and then ignores it's results because it didn't like what the people wanted. That is an undemocratic institution. The EU has done this on multiple occasions. The EU superstate doesn't seem to care what the people want.
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  14.  @hangingwithmygnomes2067  Imagine the level of a god like complex a person must have to presume to have the ability to pick better leaders for a country than the people who live there. Imagine?
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  15.  @hangingwithmygnomes2067  This rhetoric being thrown around about Turkey losing it's secular democracy or being like Iraq I'd imagine is done by people who've never been to Turkey or don't know much about it. Basically just parroting rhetoric which crumbles under even the slightest inspection. I've been spending more than 6 months a year in Turkey for years now. I think I'd challenge anyone to come up with one secular law which has been removed. I have full freedom of religion here, the court system is based on laws not religion. Just because they have a leader who spouts religious rhetoric doesn't mean secular democracy has gone away. The laws remain the same along with their implementation. I'd imagine a lot of these views which are false stem from a form of subconscious racism perhaps? Who knows but either way it's insanity. I also find your comment about France to be interesting. Of all nations you picked France to be the bastion of freedom? A nation which has thought crimes on it's books? Seriously? I have more freedom in Turkey to think as I please than I would in France.
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  16.  @hangingwithmygnomes2067  Considering America is my home, I had every right not to be quiet. Now if you could please stop posting false information on a public forum, the truth would appreciate that.
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  17. EU can't survive on it's own, that is the position they've put themselves in. The EU will be someone's butler. America's or China's? That is for the EU to decide.
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  18.  @RealCherry8085  Considering some of the earlier posts you made about economics, I'm shocked to see you knew which date the global crisis started.
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  19. I think by the second term enough French people realized their president doesn't give a rat's arse what they think. He is beholden to the globalists. France for all intents and purposes isn't really a functioning democracy but more so a vassal state/banana republic. Deep down Id 'imagine most French people are frustrated their government doesn't care about what they want and know this to be true.
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  20.  @NickStrife  Yes it is surely a bad situation, I wouldn't want these two nations to have a conflict. I've been to both of these nations and found the people to be kind and decent. So I'm not exactly happy about my analysis of the situation. But the reality is what it is.
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  21.  @NickStrife  I think you're failing to realize what Greece itself is also doing to stoke tensions. There is plenty of blame to go around on both sides. This level of cognitive dissonance (assuming it is widespread) is not going to do you guys any favors. A stalemate is not really in the cards. From what I've seen (disclaimer I'm not an expert on either country) I don't forsee this problem persisting forever. There will be a conflict. The good news is I don't see this conflict being a huge conflict like in Ukraine where hundreds of thousands of people die. It will probably be short lived in contained to the islands in question. In a case of a conflict I have a hard time thinking of any scenario where Greece doesn't lose physical control over these islands. But this is the game nations play.
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  22.  @windrider2857  I'd imagine it is called human nature. Humans tend to get as much as they can.
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  23.  @windrider2857  How about when you give your neighbor a piece of your yard and make them sign a contract on what they're able to do with that property. Then the person who received it goes ahead and does everything on that property it signed a treaty not to do. We can go back and forth with analogies all day my friend. No rational third party is going to see it from your emotional point of view.
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  24.  @windrider2857  I don't have property there, I live nowhere near that region and don't really care. I was merely responding to your one sided insanity. If you guys want to fight your neighbor that is fantastic, go get em. Just don't ask me, my country or our tax dollars to come save you if things go south. Thanks.
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  25.  @vardekpetrovic9716  I fail to see how making all those people in the north vulnerable to ethnic cleansing again is a good thing.
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  26. @Last Aid Kit. You're acting like the EU has any choice. I swear people in the EU have this psychological disorder where they still think it's the 1700s and Europe is a major player on the global stage. The mistakes that stem from this delusional line of thinking are nothing short of extraordinary. These delusions and lack of understanding reality has pushed the EU into a very simple corner. It has three options now. 1. Political vassal of the United States. 2. Economic vassal of China. 3. A combination of both (which France seems to be leaning toward now)
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  27.  @YourLocalMairaaboo  Yes it was, that is what they called a dying civilization. Kind of like what France is now.
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  28.  @senadsehic6565  I'm fairly sure you didn't understand the point of this guy's comment.
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  29. The EU to "handle' China? Seriously? Considering the state the EU has fallen into and their lack of respect in international affairs, they'd have trouble handling a nation 1/10th the strength of China. The EU states (most not all) are simply vassal states of an empire. The only thing they'll be handling is doing what America tells them to do.
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  30. When ever a person has to qualify their statement with "as an educated xxxx" they've basically just proven their education probably wasn't worth the time it took to attain it.
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  31. Japan isn't doing great but are still in MUCHHHHH better shape than most EU nations. The EU is a dead man walking.
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  32.  @trthib  Nato won't be removing troops from Poland because France and Germany are having a hissy fit over their authority being undermined. That's a damned pipe dream.
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  33.  @trthib  Alliances rely on interests not trust. Crack open any history book to come to that conclusion. As far as America being more "aligned" with western Europe now more than ever, what exactly are you basing this one? America basically muscled France out of Australia and signed a defense treaty with Aussie, England and itself. Deliberately leaving France out of said alliance. As I said in an earlier post France or Germany crying about their authority being challenged by Poland means nothing to Nato. Germany is a very passive Nato member and France, well France is probably the least reliable Nato member. Washington won't trade Poland to please the regime in Paris. It's a pipe dream.
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  34.  @trthib  You'd rather have an EU army rather than Nato? An EU army when push comes to shove would be an inept entity that would probably get pushed around by even second rate powers.
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  35. @Daniel Sykes, I always found the idea of having elections when ever you feel like it rather strange. It seems so alien to people living in America. As far as who calls for these elections, that's a great question. I'd love to know
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  36. Did someone seriously just claim the EU is a super power? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 It's a collection of vassal states which do not have the ability to defend themselves.
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  37.  @lordmiraak8991  Anyone in Europe who believes their reliance on America can be broken needs to come back to reality. Without Nato and America leading Nato, Putin would be having breakfast in Berlin and lunch in Paris if he wanted to.
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  38. @La Didah Nothing in my comment excuses the fact that western armies most notably my country America has been the most destabilizing force on the planet for the past few decades, by a long shot too. I've probably been complaining about it A LOT more than you since the Iraq war. My comment was simple reality as to Europe's ability to defend itself and how weak it is in relation to it's neighbors. Try to understand what is actually being debated before jumping in like a bull in a china shop and making a fool of yourself.
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  39. @Lord Miraak, The EU the way it's set up is a nearly impossible task to keep afloat in the long term. That many different nation states, with that many different cultures trying to have common political and monetary policy is a tall task. With all those natural problems you're pointing to the EU's issues that England caused them? Even if England was never let in, the EU's chronic problems wouldn't magically go away. Nor would the EU's drift toward undemocratic authoritarianism, something England probably helped slow down in it's time in the EU.
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  40.  @lordmiraak8991  You really think the state model in America, the different ethnic groups in Russia or China is akin to the EU which literally has different nations in a union, all of which have a large portion of their people who believe in the nation's independence? No, it does not apply. Nothing on earth applies to what the EU is trying to do.
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  41.  @lordmiraak8991  You also said. "You dont need exactly the same economic policies for a nation to function" This is blatantly false. If you have the same currency you're locked into the same monetary policy. A one size fits all monetary policy for so many different types of economies is dangerous and simply will not work in the long term. There are other reasons also but monetary policy is one of the major factors into why nations like Greece, Italy and Spain are suffering. It's a monetary policy made to tailor fit a German economy for example yet won't work for another nation with different circumstances. The EU will either change and become less centralized or it will collapse. I can't say when, no one can but it can't go on for very law with these structural flaws.
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  42.  @lordmiraak8991  You specifically said economic policy in response to a point made which claimed that enforcing the same monetary policy on economies which are so different can have very negative effects on the weaker economies. If you think a high production high export economy like Germany needs the same monetary as a low export high import inefficient economy like Greece, you're literally trying to convince me the world is flat. Imagined difference between those economies? Are you kidding me? Is gravity imagined too when it doesn't suit your interests? I thought I was debating a rational actor for a while here but now I see I was dead wrong. My apologies for assuming you were rational.
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  43.  @lordmiraak8991  It's not a straw man when I dismantle exactly what you said.
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  44.  @lordmiraak8991  No I didn't, you might want to read what was said again. Someone made a statement, you made a statement trying to counter that statement and I commented on how ridiculous your counter was. I used your own words incase you weren't paying attention.
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  45.  @greyfells2829  I don't see how that refutes my point.
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  46. @Jmus it seems some of their neighbors didn't react well to having good relations. They tried the carrot, now comes the stick I'd imagine. Especially in the case of Greece, every time Turkey tried to soften their stance, Greece hardened their positions. So again, all Turkey has left to it is the stick approach which seems to be working.
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  47. @Guzzirider, they have problems with the militarization of those islands, they don't have any "territorial claims"
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  48.  @conservativemike3768  Seems this specific issue goes well beyond any economic hardship either of these nations may or not may not be having.
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  49. @user, people vote with their interests. Imagine people from thousands of miles away trying to brow beat people into voting for who they believe they should vote for. Colonialism is over bro
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  50.  @secularsekai8910  Romania might ask who helped them when they had rough times?
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