Comments by "David Ford" (@davidford3115) on "TLDR News Global" channel.

  1.  @lewisbaitup6352  It is not bad character to tell a child they should listen twice as much as they talk (two ears, but only one mouth). Making excuses as you have only shows that you should stop talking. I suspect in your culture as it was for me growing up, that children are to be SEEN and NOT HEARD.
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  2.  @lewisbaitup6352  You choose to respond. Poke the bear and don't be surprised when he eats you. Also, if you have to say "it was only a joke", you are in damage control mode because you failed to read your audience. it isn't what you say, it is what the audience hears. That is something adults understand and children learn the hard way.
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  3. OPEC nations are universally authoritarian dictatorships, not democracies. They don't stand up for the people, they rule over them with an iron fist.
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  4.  @ibrahimhassan711  Trading one tyrant for another one that is closer and shares your same face isn't an improvement. All you are doing is creating a local "fat pig" who is exploiting the locals. Stop trying to justify despotism just because you can't succeed in a capitalist free market system. Just ask Venuszela how well their nationalization policy has worked out.
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  5. Have you not heard of the public beheadings in Saudi Arabia? They happen daily.
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  6. But what constitutes "minimum amount"? Each person will have a different answer to that question.
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  7.  @philippebrehier7386  Yeah, and the people who you are complaining about not obeying the law are the ones going after Trump.
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  8. Actually, American banking is more like Alexander Hamilton and Henry Knox's vision. Andy Jackson HATED central banking which is why he abolished Hamilton's National Bank.
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  9. And Glass Stegal was put in place to prevent it. That was until Dodd-Frank repealed those protections.
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  10. So, what is the alternative? Solar and wind is NOT viable without massive government subsidies. Only Nuclear is a realistic alternative for cheap energy. And without cheap energy, your economy collapses.
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  11. Because there is no disincentive to NOT take risks. When government covers your losses, there is no reason to NOT take the big risk. If you have to eat the loss yourself, you are less likely to take the risk. Nothing ventured, nothing gained, as the saying goes.
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  12.  @Potato-ru8nh  Dude, that is the cost of doing business. Nothing ventured, nothing gained. Seriously, you need to understand how business works, and why your thought process actually rewards bad behavior and encourages more of these bank collapses.
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  13.  @LordKalerran  Classic deflection. Rather than actually debate the merits or any of my points, you try to grandstand as if you are accomplishing something. Incidentally, it is your side who has a hard on for totalitarian dictators such as Xi. “I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.” ― Margaret Thatcher
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  14.  @ibrahimhassan711  Didn't even bother reading anything I posted did you. You are just a bigot against westerners. Oh, BTW, you Arab Muslims have treated sub-Saharan Africans FAR worse than King Leopold. They would consider him a far more benevolent tyrant than Musa ibn Nusayr.
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  15.  @ibrahimhassan711  You keep telling yourself that. I actually HAVE read about the brutality Arab Slave trade (maiming and disfigurement being commonplace) and the exploitation of the Ghana and Mail Empire by the Sultans of the North. It was the Muslims themselves who sold blacks to Europeans during the age of Sail. Often kept them in cages on the beach just waiting for the ships! You speak on hypocrisy and yet you blatantly ignore your own. Try looking in a mirror for once and realize that if you chose to cast stones, expect to be on the receiving end yourself.
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  16. @Zaydan Alfariz Liberia was not colonized, but it was America's first attempt at "nation building". The results are still up for debate. While the Germans did TRY to colonize Africa in the mad scramble, they were not very good at it and so their nominal territories (Togo, Namibia, Cameroon) were effectively uncolonized. Even the German attempts to hold Pacific Ocean possessions were ineffective (with Japan collecting all of them after WW1). And you are correct that Thailand is an odd ball. Nominally they were occupied (and colonized) by the Japanese in WW2 but were left to their own devices. And that does not even get into Chinese colonization before the European Age of Discovery.
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  17.  @hallelbimpong1901  Point out the logical fallacy in your argument IS a concrete defense, because it cuts the legs out from your position. Your use of emotional outbursts and logical fallacies is a cardinal sin in debate, something you should actually learn how to do.
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  18.  @ts109  That is a lie, and you know it. They had FULL statehood and franchise in Gaza. And they did exactly what one would expect with it. An analogy example in the US is what happened when Korean business owners handed over the hard work they built in Koreatown to blacks after the 1992 LA Rodney King Riots.
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  19.  @ts109  Nice revisionist history. Rabin may have signed them, but it was Bibi who had to carry it out after Rabin's assassination. Or have you forgotten that awkward handshake between him, Arafat, and Clinton? Also, if you think Bibi supported Hamas or has any influence over them, you are giving him too much credit. If he did have the kind of power over them, this biggest Massacre of Jews since the Holocaust would never have occurred.
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  20. I agree. Bring back Glass-Stegal Act.
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  21.  @JackHankeAnd  Which means the whole affair is politically motivated.
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  22.  @JackHankeAnd  Except, if it WAS worth pursuing, then why did the Feds decline when they have sole jurisdiction? You blatantly ignore critical details which shatters your narrative.
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  23. If you think replicating Venezuela's dire situation in Colombia is a good idea, then sure it probably is based.
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  24.  @conorbuttimer6243  Lost of words, but little in the way of substance. Even CNN says these charges are a joke. Alexander Lushenko of Belarus loves people like you.
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  25.  @Boretheory  Wrong on BOTH counts. First, China has had numerous famines almost like clockwork. Globalization is not really a new thing. Ever heard of the Silk Road across Asia? The Greco-Roman world was trading with India and China since the time of Alexander the Great. Ever heard of the Tarim Basin? The blonde and Redhead mummies found there have genetic markers and technologies from both the Rhineland as well as China and Korea. As for the technical progress, that is a DIRECT result of capitalism. Only capitalism rewards creativity and innovation. All other economic systems punish those who would disrupt the status quo. There is a very good reason why only Israel is in competition with the US when it comes to breakthroughs in science and technology, though Japan and Korea are catching up BECAUSE of their embrace of free market capitalism.
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  26.  @alexanderballa6152  Chicken and the egg conundrum. It is easy to ascribe to technology that which is made possible by good economics. All modern technology does is facilitate ease of that which already exists; how many times has plumbing, and sanitation been reinvented over the centuries?
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  27.  @theburgerexperience  It is not moronic. The most rapid advances in technology and science are a direct result of American capitalism. Indeed, most industrial revolutions only occurred BECAUSE of capitalist principles driving them. "Socialist Industrial Revolutions" only happen because those societies plagiarized from the societies that had already developed the technology. I agree that we have NOT hit the maximum population capacity of the planet. The New World became more agriculturally productive in no small part to both Western technological innovation as well as the humble honeybee. And socialism is NEVER a steppingstone to a post-scarcity society because it REQUIRES the stagnation of technology to even function. Innovation is the bane of socialist economic order because it upsets the delicate math of centralized planning.
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  28. Shale oil will upstage that though. It is MUCH cheaper than the money pit that has been renewables. The ONLY "renewable" energy source that is financially viable is hydro-electric dams.
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  29. Shale oil will dampen that though.
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  30. Have you actually read the law or are you just engaging in wishful thinking? Even CNN admits that this is a weak case. PS, there is a little thing called the 6th amendment which means you cannot create charges for a crime to go looking for another crime.
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  31. Yeah, they don't seem to realize that by boosting Trump, he WILL defeat Biden because of buyer's remorse. This is going to play out much like the election of 1892 where Grover Cleaveland won in a landslide because the electorate was infuriated by the previous election' fiasco.
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  32.  @seanbowe5529  Didn't Venezuela do that? How did it work out? Nationalization NEVER solves the problem; it simply puts the power in a never smaller cadre of power-hungry despots.
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  33. We can thank Admiral Hyman G. Rickover, the father of US Navy Nuclear for why the west has not had anywhere near the number of accidents that the old Soviet Union experienced. Nuclear is the safest form of electrical power thanks to his leadership.
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  34. How about Hunter Biden's laptop? How about Hillary's destruction of government records? Geta grip on reality.
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  35. Part of the problem with Thorium reactors is that they are molten salt/sodium moderated which make them an accident waiting to happen, much like the graphite moderated reactors. The USS Seawolf (SSN-575) was a Thorium reactor, and it NEVER achieved the results claimed by advocates of Thorium power. There is a reason why Admiral Hyman G. Rickover rejected Thorium in favor of uranium water moderated reactors.
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  36.  @wtfbros5110  You are confusing THERMO-nuclear bombs with radioactive "dirty" bombs which are simply conventional explosives. Waste from a nuclear reactor is not very useful within an actual nuclear bomb.
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  37. And I accept that. You don't have to like the guy to call out the hypocrisy.
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  38.  @RRaymer  Communists always called themselves "Democratic Socialists". Hell, even Valdimir Lenin admitted that the end goal of Socialism is communism.
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  39.  @nathanl4083  Wow, what rock have you been hiding under? The Biden White House has been the antithesis of stability, and I will list exactly how. The War in Ukraine is directly Biden's fault. Remember his January 19th "minor incursion" comment? It basically invited Putin to invade just like Dean Acheson's Pacific Defense Speech invited Kim Il-Jung to Invade South Korea starting the disastrous Korean War. Putin NEVER troubled Ukraine while Trump was in office. Or have you forgotten that the Donald threatened to nuke Moscow if he did? The price of Gas was $1.86 when Trump was in office. The $4 a gallon gas today is directly Biden's fault as he has been waging an economic war on the fuels industry. And that was LONG before Putin invaded Ukraine. Inflation was under control with Trump but under Biden we are experiencing Jimmy Carter's Stagflation and flirting with HYPERinflation. Hell, the attempt to claim that the SSI payment increase was a self-own of how terrible he has been for the US economy. So, no, everything you accuse Trump of doing, Biden has done ten times over. Every good thing that Biden claims was his doing was delayed result of Trump's policies.
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  40.  @cossaizy6309  Wow, shifting the blame rather than accept the truth of reality. But sure, ignore the fact that left learning governments create instability by their very nature while right leaning governments are more stable. Ignore the fact that leftists want radical change for its own sake while rejecting what is proven to work.
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  41.  @williamchamberlain2263  Who is Ray Epps? Nobody gets off the FBI's most wanted list unless they are dead or a federal agent.
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  42. The elites are scared. The American people are angry.
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  43. Electric cars run on coal power. The ONLY way electric is greener is if you are at 70% or more of your power coming from nuclear.
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  44.  @KonstantinValentix  Even CNN admits that these charges are weak. They even point out that the Feds refused to pursue this case.
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  45.  @omarrawashdeh6021  The funny thing is, the 1970s oil embargo ended because members of OPEC broke ranks. They may put on an act of being unified, but under the table they will undercut each other.
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  46. Just ask the Cambodians what they think of Marxist Guerillas.
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  47.  @reasonvoiceof  Nelson Mandela won the Presidency of South Africa after being convicted. Trump would be no different.
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  48.  @profbbfab6211  It is funny you think that simply being accused of a crime makes you guilty. It also shows you don't actually believe in the rule of law, only that your political tribe win, even if it means burning the country to ashes.
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  49. Tell that to Nelson Mandela.
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  50.  @iihamed711  JUDEA, not Palenstine. That word was made up by the Romans to erase Jewish history after the revolt of 66-73 AD and the deportation of the Jewish people.
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