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I have a similar story. I was married and just graduated with a biochem degree and was headed to get my PhD. I got addicted to pain killers during my senior year, so my wife left me for a separation. Two month later, my dad dies suddenly from cancer, only had 3 weeks with him. Two months after that, my mom fell down the stairs, had a traumatic brain injury, and was put in a home. Three months later, my wife filed for divorce. That month, I left grad school and gave into my addiction. A year later, I was homeless and suicidal. I am now married, working as a research chemist, clean, and just got my first home with my wife. I went to a psychiatric hospital after a suicide attempt left me in the ICU for 2 weeks. I scored something like 190 out of 200 for stressors. I had nothing in my life except stress. It is insane that I made it to the other side, I wanted to die so so badly.
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Yep, ice cold showers and baths were God sends. Take a ton of loperamide, keep the room cold, take cold baths, do as much physical activity as you can, etc... What surprised me was that buprenorphine withdrawals were just as bad, and they lasted so much longer! Suboxone didn't ever make me feel euphoric like the stuff I was taking before I wanted to quit, so I thought withdrawals would be a piece of cake. Nope! They were awful. Might as well just go cold turkey from oxy, at least it is over in a few days. Suboxone is very helpful in getting clean for a lot of people, it removed the psychological dependence on euphoria ups and downs, but damn the withdrawals were no joke. So glad I am done with all of that, it destroys your soul
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I mean, how can you talk factually though? If you want to get factual, the Palestinians are a radical group of people who would be on par with Nazis or Imperial Japan in ideological fervor. This is a point of pride for them, they are not shy in saying this. Most Palestinians who weren't radical already left.
This entire drawn out conflict is a strategy by the Arabs. They knew they couldn't defeat Israel militarily, so they decided to reframe their struggle to Western audiences all while continuing to want the destruction of Israel. Poll after poll shows this. Even the daily lives of their citizens shows this. Look at what Palestinians have focused on and what kind of society they have built.
Israel does bad things like every Western liberal democracy does, but it is miles different from an Islamic theocracy or dictatorship like in Gaza. Why are the supposedly objective YouTube content creators not displaying the culture and mentality of Palestinians? It is the key component to all this, it shows why they are willing to sacrifice everything and are backed by the Arab and Muslim world. It just seems everyone wants to paint them as helpless everyday folk just trying to get along, but that isn't the case. You can't transplant a Western mindset to your average Gazan, they hold very extreme and fanatical views compared to the average Westerner.
And sure, criticize Israel, the entire Islamic world does it non stop, so I think we have that covered. But why is no one talking about this?
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@alexanderg1935 - So, I am a biochemist, and while I don't think of myself as a racist, I do have questions. IQ tests clearly show this demographic scores lower across the globe. Societies which have them as a majority are universally some of the worst countries. Even in other countries, their enclaves are some of the worst places to be in the country.
Now, how is it that this failure is distributed so widely across the globe? I tend to think it isn't genetics, although i can't rule that out, I would guess they have developed mal adaptive cultures. I would hypothesize that if their culture changed to mimic more successful ethnic groups, they could prosper more. But given their rather primitive lifestyles compared to Europeans, they never had a good base to build a successful culture on. But, that doesn't really explain the IQ tests. Those are supposed to be impervious to different culture, although I still think explanations other than genetic would suffice. The real problem is how do you convince them to change their culture when it would be emulating white people, the people they hate?
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@patclark2186 - But that is the thing, focusing on growing business yields long term results. Government does not produce, it takes from the productive sector. If you focus on taking, your potential for growth shrinks and shrinks. Eventually you enter a death spiral. Not to mention, the demographics simply don’t exist to carry a heavy welfare state. Europe is already having to raise the retirement age everywhere, and it still isn’t enough to make their programs solvent. It is much easier to create welfare programs than take them away, even when you desperately need to cut back for the good of the nation. People get used to free stuff and they will not listen to reason if it needs cut. This is a recipe for disaster, especially given the demographic time bomb in Western countries.
I am not against government help when it is absolutely needed. But it quickly spirals out of control when politicians want votes. Taxes are very high in Europe and they tax the lower class quite a lot. The bottom 50 percent of workers in the US effectively pay no income tax, where in many countries in Europe they would be paying 35+ percent of their paychecks to tax, sometimes a lot more than that.
Like I said, it is not a good long term solution, and I think Americans will come around to that as they see Europe’s economy continue to fall behind the US. Pretty soon the different will be very noticeable, and no amount of welfare will gloss over this fact.
Targeted and limited welfare which isn’t easily exploitable and actually incentivizes people to work is the optimal solution. Sometimes, proper incentives look cruel if you compare things to Europe. Another thing is that many European countries Americans idolize are tiny, Sweden for example. They are or were very homogenous as well. Since Sweden has seen a surge in immigrants they have modified their welfare program because it was being exploited by people from a different culture which had no intention of giving back to society. Welfare policies need to be examined individually, being libertarian or socialist is just lazy thinking. Yet, if logic is used, the policies will lean towards less government. People are fickle, so they very well may vote for economic decline and a welfare state in the US, but it would be a massive, massive mistake.
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Reparations are never going to happen. This country is massive, and many different ethnic groups were wronged throughout its history. The largest lynching in American history wasn't even black people. Anyone seen Gangs of New York? Black people had it bad, but literally every ethnic group went through struggles. Saying black people had it the worst might be true, but it in no way makes the case for reparations. We cannot build a society that makes policy and devotes money based on skin color. So many people have moved here since any of this happened, and lumping everyone in based on skin color is about the crudest method possible. What do you say to the struggling, barely surviving white family that had nothing to do with any of this? Sorry, you were just born with the wrong skin color, you're fucked? How cruel would that be? To fix injustice you want to introduce injustice? Constantly seesawing back and forth and never finding an actual policy you can move forward with? Help everyone that is poor, and you will disproportionately help black people. But for God's sake, don't make reparations based on skin color. That would ignite racial division like nothing before, and it would give poor struggling people of every other race a very real animosity towards black people. John loves it because it will never affect his privileged life. He won't be the one who suddenly can't pay rent because his taxes go up. He won't be the one passed over for a desperately needed job because of quotas, putting him out on the street. Reparations are basically "fuck every other poor person as hard as you can". Fuck that, that isn't caring nor compassionate. Horrible, horrible idea.
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@dyrefate - Ya, it was like if I didn't actively think of anything, my mine still pulled me to think about the voices of police I was hearing outside my window. Then I would imagine getting arrested, and I feel like I kind of dissociated, or to put it differently, I was so compelled to focus on these hallucinations and stimuli, all I could keep in my head were disorganized thoughts. So, I felt dissociated with my old self, like my brain was powering forward even though it didn't know which way to go, it had to go somewhere. And the massive amount of dopamine had my brain trying to think every thought was very important and must be focused on. It was a trip, like a total loss of control
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I was 16 and just finished wrestling practice. I went to go pee, and nothing but dark red blood came out. This wasn't "coke colored urine", it was straight blood with what looked like no urine. I went to the hospital and found out I have polycystic kidney disease. It is a very common disease, and it usually ends up with kidney failure in the age of 50-60. I'm 35 and have 90% kidney function, so not doing too bad overall. It is what will eventually kill me though, I have no illusions of having a long life.
The thing is, it never hurt. I didn't notice it was blood till I looked down. My kidneys are bigger than normal and press into my rib cage sometimes, and that hurts, but overall it doesn't cause pain. It will when my kidneys fail, but not now. It is such a sneaky disease because it won't cause kidney failure till after people have kids, so it is difficult to weed it out of the gene pool.
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Kenneth Barbee - Those were my exact thoughts. I have a B.S. in biochemistry, and I had to use my calculator for a multitude of different equations and mathematical approaches, but using the calculator was the smallest part of the problems I worked on. I know engineering is different than biochem, but a lot of the core scientific principles are the same. The hard part is figuring out what the data can tell you and which equations should be utilized in order to get the answer you need.
Honestly, some older people just do not understand the technology that exists today. They see an expensive calculator and assume it does all the work. Since they don't even understand the subject matter, let alone the limitations of calculator assistance, their perspective is entirely disconnected from reality. Rather, they allow their emotional reactions to dictate their thinking, assuming young students are lazy and incompetent and therefore they must be having the calculator do all the work. I'm not trying to be rude, but it is amusing seeing people act so sure about something they have no way of understanding and evaluating. At least they don't lack confidence.
And as to the comment that university graduates are useless and lazy compared to those who work in the trades, I have to disagree. As with any aggregate system, there are outliers to the norm, but from my own anecdotal experience, the trend of capability and productivity tends to favor the college graduates.
I have experience with both groups. I grew up in a farming community and worked for a few years on a farm. I also helped my dad, who was an electrician, complete jobs which often requires plumbing skills as well. I met other trade workers and have a decent idea of how they act in a general sense. I also went off to college and attained a B.S. in biochemistry.
Trade workers are very good for what they do, and it can require hard, physical labor. So regarding the physical requirements, it is true most university graduates won't be taxed nearly as hard as trade workers. But then again, most trade work can't compare to the demands of farming work. Having done all three, I would much rather work a trade or office job rather than have to go back out and work on a farm. My point is that physical exertion isn't much of a factor in determining laziness and capability, there will always be another job which makes you look lazy in comparison.
The other thing is that while trade workers are good at what they do, it is very limited in scope. I learned more in one semester at college than what I accumulated while working for years with my dad. The books my dad had to read to certify as a Master Electrician were miniscule compared to all the books I had to read in college. So while trade workers are good and necessary, they generally don't have the intellectual flexibility and capacity to function efficiently in our increasingly data driven economy. So no, University Graduates of today are not some uniform group of incapable pussies. There is a small contingent of ultra liberal PC crusaders who can't walk 5 feet without being offended, but they were the people 95% of the student body avoided at all costs.
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@spartacus-olsson - You are talking about nascent nationalist movements and what they aspire to. And while yes, geopolitics affects that, it isn't what most people are talking about. They suggest that the majority of their problems are because of colonialism, which is just nonsense. Colonialism didn't make the Muslim and Arab world poor, they were poor before colonialism. Their main failures are all internal, and as such the only way they can make progress is with reform. But how likely is reform when the popular narrative is that it is the West's fault for all their problems?
This speaks to a fundamental problem in Muslim/Arab society. They are quick to blame others, conjure up conspiracy theories, etc... I believe this all traces back to their ultimate problem: Islam. They believe they have a perfect religion written word for word by God. So, instead of deep reflection on why their societies don't work well, they think "Well, our religion is perfect, so Allah just wills it this way for now" They need secularism badly. The constant blaming of others is a symptom of sick society, and boy does that society have a lot of malaise.
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@Jangimiau - No, there were plenty of conservatives who hated Trump too. The man said "two Corinthians" instead of "second corinthians", he clearly is not a Christian and was lying his ass off the entire time. Just like with so many other things. Remember his phone call with the Mexican president where he said the wall wasn't important, it was just for show because he ran on that? I mean, the guy is a lifelong conman. Literally no US bank would loan to him, which is why he had to use the notoriously corrupt Deutsche Bank. How on earth could people not see he was conning them? He was a Democrat for a long time before he switched to being a Republican. No one trusted him with the nuclear codes. His own staff belittled him and how much of an idiot he was. He never had a clear grasp on anything, he was always just winging it with his conman bullshit. I am just amazed some people were stupid enough to fall for it. Just because I might not like the Democrats doesn't mean I will take anything put forward by Republicans. That is partly why we are in this entire fucking mess, because people use about two brain cells when it comes to politics. If the guy is from their team, he is 100% right on all issues, but if they are from the other team, they are 100% wrong on all issues.
Not to mention what he did with the tax cuts. Number one, they were unfunded so they just added to our debt. Number two, the tax cuts for the middle class expired after a few years, while the tax cuts for the rich had no expiration. Gee, almost like that directly benefited him or something.
I frequent foreign discussion boards, and Trump was the laughing stock of Eurole. If you seriously think they respected Trump but laugh at Biden, you are so far disconnected from reality you might as well be a transgender person trying to play as the opposite sex.
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I understand most of these, but I don't agree with the one saying never to say, "Thats crazy". There is no malicious intent behind it, and it just means another step on the treadmill of euphemisms. Some words have bad connotations, that is part of life. If one switched it to "That is rather unusual", it would not only lose the emphatic power over a word like crazy, but you would soon find people complaining about "unusual". Neurodivergent people might take offense to that. I am all for respecting people, but you can't please everyone at the same time. Unless it is an egregious use of the language to hurt someone, I don't think it really has much of an effect on people. I have mental illness, and I take no offense because I know that isn't what people mean. I just think it kind of detracts from the overall message, because people might think this person is so sensitive that their advice just isn't practical.
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@sovietmoose5624 - The US has quite strong legs to stand on. It's weird, when it comes to geopolitical analysis, you rarely get an objective and rational answer from a stranger. This is because nationalism is intrinsically linked with a lot of these topics. Pathos takes over instead of a more refined analysis.
So, while the US certainly has made regrettable decisions while possessing a less than perfect moral grounding. When I say this, many of the ardent critics of the US react with strong emotions. They will almost break their keyboard typing up the many "evil" things the United States did. It is usually the same list, the information is generally gleaned from social media. Just like the US, it is fertile breeding grou d for conspiracy theories and misinformation, weaponized or otherwise. But that is a topic for another day.
Anyways, on to my main point. Despite the picture you've no doubt constructed in your head, the US has done quite well on developing good morals within its society. The only way to check this is with comparative analysis. For all its faults, the US is the most powerful nation state the world has ever known. It's reach is staggering, and its ability to affect military operations anywhere in the world within mere hours is completely unmatched, in the present or in all of history. Given this information, coupled with the fact that the US was in a Cold War which regularly made people feel as if the deaths of hundreds of millions was an inevitable outcome, only a question of when. With this backdrop, the US has been remarkably restrained. All other empires of comparable size were far more brutal. The US gains its power through trade, which is a naturally mutually beneficial transaction. The US has even helped communist countries like China pull hundreds of millions out of poverty, which was partly made possible by th3 loss of a significant amount of manufacturing jobs in the US.
You take all this and then look at how the government treats its people. It gives them significant rights with a high standard of living. Compare this to China. Compare it to India. Compare it to a corruption laden country like Brazil. Only Japan is somewhat close in size while having a similar standard of living. The US I'd quite a bit more wealthy and powerful though.
Anyways, what I am basically saying is that the relative peaceful nature of US influence expansion is really quite unprecedented in the history of the world. This is what one would conclude after reading history and developing a cohesive framework which is supported exclusively with facts in their proper context. Notably, it is absent if any emotions which are so commonly associated with these discussions. I find people tend to pick a tribe. Similar to a football team. They defend their position because of group loyalty and other reinforcements based on emotional rewards. Notably, they do not defend it because they logically came to that conclusion.
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People are really, really getting close to a breaking point with you people. At first, people gave you the benefit of the doubt because you were doing an awful job of taking care of yourselves, so everyone wanted to help you. But you have used that help to act like petty tyrants, thinking you can just run around saying whatever you want while making others walk on ice around you. This isn't going to last forever, we are going to reach a tipping point where it will be socially acceptable to criticize you again. I can't wait. If you think your poor, precious feelings are hurt now, wait until people aren't afraid to say what they really think. I wish so, so badly that you had all just gone to Liberia. You have been nothing but a drain on this country, we could have been so much more successful without having to devote so much time to your every little whim. Even with all this, your lot is still the worst performing demographic in the US. Even with all the special help, you can barely keep it together. It is a damn shame so many of you live in the US, you make the country a more dangerous and worse place to live.
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@j3nnytool - No, first of all, it can't 100% be explained by social pressure. Second of all, they have dysphoria as part of the condition. It's in the name, gender dysphoria. Do you know what dysphoria means? It's the opposite of euphoria, and it is inherent with the condition, otherwise they wouldn't need to pretend to be of the opposite sex. Why do people like you try so, so hard to make sure not a single thing could be said about them which might be negative? It's so weird. Plenty of people have a mental illness, it is nothing to be ashamed of, but then we have people like you who will twist themselves into knots trying to deny the obvious reality. By the way, the morbidity associated with gender dysphoria has a strong biological correlation, by no means is it all social.
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@zachgman - This is off the top of my head, so don't take it as gospel, but I think it's right. So, certain neurons have benzodiazepene receptors in the brain. Once activated, these receptors cause the accumulation of GABA neurotransmitters and an uptick in free floating dopamine in the nucleus accumbens. So, your brain has specific receptors for it, but your body also has GABA receptors literally everywhere. It is one of the main neurotransmitters. So, benzos probably bind directly in the brain in order to produce the alterations in mood, but they bind allosterically throughout much of the body to generally increase the inhibitory neurons firing, which makes the body slow down overall. This is why they work as muscle relaxers as well. Now, I am not 100% sure this is the case, but I think this is what was taught to me in biochem 431.
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Simple Caps - Identity politics have ruined the left in America. Even if you vehemently disagree with the idea of more programs to help the working class, you would have to agree that the left could get a hell of a lot more working class white votes if they focused on things like healthcare, unions, etc... instead, rhe left in the US is mainly led by upper middle class white professionals and people of color who make the working class white man the enemy. The things they say about white men would never, ever fly if it was said about another race. We are in the "revenge" portion of our civil rights history. And upper class white people love nothing more than self flagellation. Well, they love one thing more, and that is destroying poorer white people who they see as inferior. They feel totally free to let their hate run wild by labeling working class white men as racist, sexist, etc... It is a movement driven by hate, disguised as "progress" i am an atheist who supports universal healthcare, but the left in America sickens me. I will never, ever vote for them. If nothing really changes for me no matter who I vote for, why would I vote for the party that constantly demonizes and makes me the scapegoat for all the evils in the world. Fuck the left.
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@lukaszednik7547 - I think most Americans understand that. I would hope most Americans would understand there wasn't famine 24/7. There was a very narrow selection of consumer goods though, so while you didn't starve, you didn't exactly eat good. I liked that you described the mindset of Soviet citizens too, because it is all true. They didn't have to really think about how to share their lives, the state did it for them. Overall it was much worse, but there is some comfort in not having to make all kinds of decisions just to survive. Sadly, this really hit the population hard when the USSR collapsed. Everyone was so used to the government doing everything, it was a very rough transition to a capitalistic economy. That, and the "shock therapy" imposed by the US.
Many Americans do have a good understanding of what went on there. I think you are being a bit unfair here. One, this is a comedy video and not a documentary. Two, there were a lot of food shortages. Poland had strikes in the 80's because people weren't being fed enough after a lot of money was diverted to investments to catch up to the West. There were a lot of food shortages and hunger, at least compared to the West.
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@lukaszednik7547 - Thanks for all the info, you seem fairly well informed about this. It is nice to have a discussion about communism where one side isn't screaming "It killed a bajillion people!" and the other side is screaming "It was the best government and society ever! We need our own communism!"
I have actually read stories about food from Germany bring labeled the same when sold in Eastern Europe, even though they used far worse ingredients to save money and make a higher profit. I thought it was just an isolated case though, I didn't think it was widespread. How often did things like that occur?
And you are spot on about the factories not being able to compete with the West. That is the thing about top down command economies, they are far less agile and are not suited to respond to market forces. Plus, they focused on workers more than the product, so workers weren't used to having to try to compete. They were guaranteed a certain wage for a certain amount of work, and no one wanted to rock the boat and make things harder on the workers. That is a nice thought, focusing on worker comfort, but it soon leads to industries that simply cannot compete on a global market.
The food has to be better now in Russia though, correct? I've seen videos of Russian grocery stores and they look like US ones. Compared to the videos I have seen of Soviet stores, it looks like they have a far greater amount of choice and quality. And no one is starving in Russia now, and to my knowledge, food hasn't been an issue since the USSR fell and they had all those issues immediately following that. I thought they got it straightened out by the year 2000 or something.
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NATIONALIST #PATRIOT - Jesud you are all over the place. You act as if black communities being poor is what is keeping them back, as if that is some unique thing for black people. Every ethnicity started out poor when they immigrated to America, it is the culture behind the ethnicity which allows some to succeed and some to flounder. Generally speaking, black culture does not value education as much as other ethnicities, so there is little chance for them to break the cycle of poverty. And it isn't because they are underfunded, Baltimore, for example, has nearly the highest amount of school funding in the country because of special federal programs. Same thing with Detroit. It hasn't helped one bit, because the students dont value education. You can hem and haw all day long making excuses, but it is a problem with black culture in America. They love to blame white people for everything while never taking a hard look at themselves. It feels good for them to be able to blame everything on racism, but sadly it just means they will be stuck in the same situation because they have not identified the real problem.
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NATIONALIST #PATRIOT - Actually, black people have to work half as hard as whites and asians. Affirmative action ensures that their scores only need to be a certain fraction of a white person's score, and Asians have it the worst since they do so well in school. Companies also receive federal benefits for "diversity", which means that they are eager to hire black people and you actually have an easier chance to get a job if you are black. I am a chemist, and my company desperately wanted to hire a black chemist because of the federal programs, but there were literally none that applied. So, this whole "need to work twice as hard" is just an example of how black culture has a victimhood mentality which has nothing to do with reality. The simple fact is, if they would just work hard at school and make even somewhat decent grades, they could sail through college and a career. The bar is that low for them, but it still hasn't pulled many black people out of poverty because even that isnt enough. Now, people like Coates just want direct deposits into black people's bank accounts. It is pathetic. Black people only have themselves to blame, but God knows they will blame whitey, the CIA, the illuminati, etc... basically anyone but themselves. It is comical at this point, it is like dealing with children, "Yes dear, the big bad white man has kept you down, you have it so much harder than anyone else, if you stay out of prison that is worth celebrating in itself!". Give me a fucking break.
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@Frommerman - I mean, the whole "more variation within races than between them" doesn't adequately answer that question. Certain haplogroups do tend to cluster on the most objective tests we can design. Tests which have some of the best utility for predicting future outcomes. Now, I don't know if the tens of thousands of years that saw Indo-European people proliferate resulted in significant genetic alterations. You would have to consider their ancestors, and it does get messy. But the fact remains, that some of the best objective metrics we have do show correlation between certain ethnic groups and IQ. It isn't as simple as melanin or no melanin, and it becomes very complicated quickly, but there are patterns. A significant amount of inter-cousin marriages in Arabic societies has shown abnormally high rates of disease clustered in Pakistani immigrants in England. Then you look at the Arabic community at large, and some evidences suggests this has affected the gene pool. Humans evolve, and I know it is a taboo question. Maybe there is no meaningful answer, no genetic difference, but the slavish deferral where people automatically reject the question is not something I can get on board with. And, the research might never be done. Maybe it is better than way, but it's not a passion of mine or anything.
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@geocelta1961 - Yes, the climate was changing naturally, but we accelerated it by a huge amount. We basically dug up all the CO2 that used to be in the atmosphere and put it back into the atmosphere. The rate at which we are putting CO2 into the atmosphere is faster than any natural event has in the past, even including super volcanoes. So, while the climate always changes, we have made a massive impact on it. They can measure this by looking at ice cores and seeing how much CO2 was in the atmosphere before. What you see was slow transitions from low CO2 to high CO2 that took hundreds of thousands of years. We are doing the same thing in hundreds of years. You can already see it with things like British Columbia having 104 deg F last summer. Or how winter is now ending a month early compared to 100 years ago. That is a rapid change on a geological time scale. Anthropogenic climate change (human caused) climate change is a very real thing, and scientists have found that their worst case scenarios are being exceeded. So, while you may not belive in anthropogenic climate change, it certainly believes in itself, lol. It is happening right now, no matter what people think. You aren't going to have the option of dismissing it in the near future. I'm curious how you could dismiss it now, because what normally takes 10,000 years is happening in 10 years. It is about to get really, really rough. Buckle up.
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@geocelta1961 - Ya, that is good that you are doing your part, but you are 100% right that it won't matter unless governments and corporations make huge changes. There are some countries that are doing pretty well, like Germany. In ten years, they have gone from 15% renewable energy to roughly 50-60%. They hope to go to 90-100% by 2035. The problem is, a lot of countries will be wanting to switch to nuclear in order to reduce their green house emissions, and estimates suggest with current uranium available to be mined, we probably have 100 years left if most countries start using it. We might find more deposits to mine, but we can't count on that. The alternative is that everyone starts using wind and solar, but that will have to be an international effort since countries will have to rely on power transfer from other countries when they have low sunlight or no wind. Europe is trying to integrate power grids within the EU to achieve just that. We will also have to develop energy storage techniques to a much higher level. We simply don't have the battery technology to store the amount of energy required. So, there are a lot of theoretical solutions right now, but it is a quickly evolving field. The wildcard is fusion energy. If they manage to master fusion energy, our power needs will be met. We will also have enough energy to seriously start building carbon capture machines that you spoke of at scale. But fusion energy is very, very hard. You have to sustain plasma at 125 million degrees Celsius, much hotter than the center of the sun. The sun has a much higher amount of pressure, meaning it doesn't need to get as hot for fusion to occur. Right now I think they have sustained a plasma for like 30 seconds, so we have a long way to go.
Basically, I think we're fucked. We are going to do a lot of damage before we get our emissions under control, and who knows how long it will take for that. Scientists aren't being alarmists when they say it is going to get really bad, they are underselling it if anything. The wildfires in Australia, California, etc... The stronger storms we are seeing. The flooding and rising sea levels. 50% of the world's population lives within 125 miles of the coast, a coast which will assuredly be flooded in the next 100 years. New Orleans will be gone, no saving them. It is going to be bad, and that isn't some pseudoscience alarmist bullshit, it is the honest to God truth.
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@bootnazz1786 - Slaves were responsible for a small part of the overall economy, even by 1860. That is why the North rolled them so easy. Yes, slaves earned a lot of money for some rich plantation owners, but they in no way were responsible for the majority of wealth in the US. It was a small minority. This isn't disputed, it is factual and objective.
As far my ethnicity goes, I am American. Half German and half Swedish, even did a DNA test. I am quite proud to be American of European descent, thanks. The reparations paid to the Japanese were for people who were still alive and were effected by it. That is far different from giving the great great great grandson of a slave a lot of money. Furthermore, your demographic uses programs like SNAP and other programs at a hugely disproportionate rate. You get the most money from the government by proportion by far. And there has been billions of dollars spent on the black community. The Community Reinvestment Act was a big one. Johnson's "war on poverty" was another one. You get affirmative action in school AND jobs. The government just gave black farmers way, way more money than white farmers. The list goes on and on dude. This idea that white people have done nothing for you is ridiculous. It is your vitimhood mentality which is holding you back. You think your biggest problem is where people, when in reality, you are the wealthiest diaspora by far. Your people back in the homeland make nothing compared to you. But you never, ever look at positives. You only cry about things and demand that white people give you money or special treatment. How has that worked for you? Oh, that's right, we are more divided than ever because you quite literally cannot talk about ANYTHING without inserting race and making yourself out to be the victim. It is like a guilty child's mentality. It is sad honestly, I hope you guys can do some self reflection and improve your community for the future. It just guys reallllllly tiring hearing it all the time. Notice how there was no riot after the Memphis killing of an unarmed black man, just because all the cops were black? If they would have been white, riots all over the country would have broken out. That shows that your people are purposefully causing destruction, death, and strife just because you don't like white people. Where was that energy for Memphis? Now all of the sudden you want to be peaceful and reasonable? God, your culture has so many problems, it is sad.
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@Pookie515 - Did you even read that article? It mainly demonstrated that black people didn't follow through with treatment and didnt make appointments for preventative care compared to white people. So, basically, they made poor decisions and surprise surprise, they had poor outcomes. Do we need to treat black people like children, assign them guardians as do facto parents like the advocated were in the studies mentioned in the article? At some point, black people are going to need to take their own welfare into their own hands. You claimed I was a racist earlier because I said black people might not be as cooperative with health care professionals, which would explain bad outcomes. But that is exactly what the paper you linked was saying. Black people often cited that they didnt trust the white doctors as a reason for missed appointments. Or they felt disrespected. It sounds an awfully lot like they are making excuses for not making their appointments when they are questioned by researchers. Who would skip an appointment which could save your life simply because you felt like someone looked down on you? And how do we know it isnt in their head to begin with? If black culture has a victimhood mentality, they view everyone as a threat and they especially view white people as hostile. So, there are no hard metrics which show a lack of care, it is the actions of the black patients themselves which are causing the problems. Of course, people like you will bend over backwards to try and blame white people for the actions of black people, but I choose to treat them as adults and not children, they are responsible for making their appointments.
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@CapucineNighly - I am a chemist with a degree in biochemistry. I have done thousands of PCR tests as well as RT-PCR. Your sister is incorrect, it can tell the difference. It amplifies specific sections of the genome that are only found on certain viruses. That is what it means, polymerase chain reaction, making many copies of genes with the polymerase enzyme. Coronavirus has RNA by the way, it is not DNA. So either your sister is incorrect or you heard her incorrectly. If she really did say it couldn't tell the difference, then she doesn't know what she is talking about. I have been out of school for over 10 years by the way, so it isn't some recent indoctrination by a professor.
Also, the inventor of the PCR, while a noble achievement, is a quack. He has been universally condemned by the biochemist community long before the coronavirus was around. It is funny, you guys talk about indoctrination, but you are the most uninformed and indoctrinated people I have met. You don't understand a thing about any of this science, and instead you think YouTube makes you an expert. You need more education on this topic.
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@revpadma - No, it isn't a mystery at all. You realize we in the West are quickly becoming majority atheist, ya? We already had cultures which were completely incompatible, but now there will be an even bigger rift between us. You guys still act like its the 7th century, you practice your religion like Europeans from the Middle Ages practiced Christianity. Then we had the Enlightenment and secularization, and the divide has been growing since. You won't ever catch up until you modernize your culture, but I expect you guys to cling to it even tighter until it is completely undeniable that your religion is keeping you weak compared to everyone else. You guys will have a really hard time giving up a myth which makes Arabs front and center, even saying God told people to only read his words in Arabic, hahaha. You guys just don't have a clue, you are proud of all the wrong things, you think your stubbornness in places like Palestine is a show of strength, but to the rest of the world it perfectly encapsulates why you people will always stay underdeveloped. You are hot heads with little logic going into to your thinking. So, no, it is not a mystery why you are portrayed the way you are. It is because it is the truth. The only people who support in the West you have an ideology which is completely incompatible with yours, they just support you because of a brain dead ideology about oppression and needing to be a white savior to minorities. It is all so comical. The truth is, it is only going to get worse until it gets better, because you guys are nowhere near ready to move on from Islam or at least have a movement equivalent to the Enlightenment.
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@fermansmith6042 - So, I specifically ask you to answer a question since I knew you would go on a tangent, and that is exactly what you did - go on a tangent and ignore my question. I am humble, but your responses have been so bizarre that anyone would call them out. You are an odd fellow, and I don't mean that as an insult, you are genuinely odd. You believe in "chi" for God's sake. I know your type. You don't have a good education, you fall for pseudoscience easily because it allows you to think you are smarter than most people without having to actually do the groundwork to gain knowledge. It is a similar phenomenon with conspiracy theorists. So, please answer my question about SAR, and then I would like to know if you believe in any conspiracy theories. I have been polite and responded to you, I think it I'd fair to have you answer two short questions. So, please don't change the topic until you have answered my questions.
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@cliffgaither - You know plenty of countries get along with the US just fine, right? Seems that signing a deal with Iraq or Iran would be entirely foolish, as both those countries are involved with multiple conflicts. Sadaam started iran-iraq, the Kuwait war, etc... Iran is funding militias and proxies all around the ME, like the Houthis in Yemen. Arabs always go on and on about how evil the US is. The reality is, the US isn't evil, it is just extremely powerful. If Arab countries would have somehow become a superpower, they would be spreading backwards and middle aged religions like Islam. Democracy wouldn't be promoted. Gay people would have no rights. Arabs are just mad that Islam has made them extremely weak, so they try and blame the "evil West" for their own failures. Sad situation. Only Arabs buy this line of thinking, and it is clear Arab thinking isn't working out too well. Just like how Arabs make demands of Israel as if they won the war, haha. The arrogance or Arabs is unmatched, truly. And the saddest thing is that their arrogance has no power behind it, it is all a coping mechanism for being inferior.
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I definitely think that people should be able to express themselves however they see fit, individualism is a key component to our Western ideals. The problem arises when people care more about a forced outcome instead of opportunity. I think it is telling that you are a supporter of socialism/Marxism. It is not good enough to live and let live, others must conform to your idea of fairness, be that economic or gender related.
Looking at history, it is very clear that forcing the ideal of equity in economic outcomes only leads to oppression and misery. Do you honestly expect that forcing such a simple solution on a very complex subject like economics will result in utopia? Because if you do, join the millions of other that had to learn the hard way.
In the same way you believe that forcing your ideals about gender will lead to harmony in our treatment of each other. Why is it not enough that we label those with XY chromosomes men, and those with XX chromosome as women? However you choose to present yourself beyond that is up to you, and you free to do so. Instead, you compel speech, you attempt to back up your claims with pseudo science such as a "gendered brain". Even the trans movement can't agree at all on what gender is and how to define it. It is reasonable then to use scientific knowledge to define male and female based on chromosomal arrangement, and the rest is left up to the individual. I think you will find people are a more tolerant than you give them credit for, it is the strong armed tactics of compelled speech and the demand for the world to bend to your scientifically baseless ideas which is causing all the issues.
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@revcrussell - No, that isn't true. Time dilation occurs when anything is traveling fast, and the closer to c you get, the more time dilation there is. Time dilation is not a hypothesis, it has been proven with empirical evidence. Not to mention, the mathematics behind it are rigorous. Do you understand the basis for time dilation? It must exist if you understand the basics. Energy is confined to a localized area in atoms and molecules. That doesn't mean energy propagation slows down, it just speeds along in a very small space. This is what makes matter evolve through time, or age if you will. You ever seen videos of molecules "buzzing" extremely fast? That buzzing is the energy moving rapidly which makes the molecule age through time. When that molecule gets close to the speed of light, that buzzing dies down dramatically, meaning the molecule advances through time much more slowly. This is because the energy propagation and waveforms are always moving at a constant speed. Now, that speed can either work to age the molecule, or it can work to move the molecule through space. The more you move it through space, the less energy is left to advance it through time, hence time dilation. I am starting to think your ideas are just flat out wrong, because saying time dilation isn't real is to deny the basics of reality. Forget about studies done on atoms and molecules which show this, GPS satellites have clearly demonstrated time dilation is real.
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No matter what side of the political aisle you are on, you need to look out for visual tricks. Let's be real, 99.9% people watching this channel are on the right, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't hold this guy accountable so he makes better videos. He tried to say it wasn't a small minority by showing a 2 second clip which showed about 1,000 people. 1,000 people out of 30 million Canadians is a small fringe minority, so his video did nothing to disprove that. Keep in mind I am not claiming it is a fringe minority, just critiquing this video. He also showed a clip of truckers filling the roads, but that showed even less people, maybe 100. If JP was actually trying to be objective and show how popular the movement is, he should have used statistics and graphs to prove it isn't a small minority. This is how videos hoodwink you into believing things which might be false. You should demand transparency and a stop to manipulative tactics if you are actually searching for the truth. If you are only searching to have your views confirmed, regardless of truth, carry on.
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@benjaminhenderson5025 - Palestinians diaspora craft their messages for Western audiences. Most of the Western YouTube content is from diaspora. If you were to find actual gazans with those views, I would question if they were legitimate, because what they tell the West and what they speak in Arabic are often very different things, like Osama letter to America in English compared to Arabic. In any case, I am sure there are some people in Gaza who genuinely want peace, thr problem is that percentage is much smaller than the percentage who want to destroy Israel. After the attack, gazan approval of it was over 75%. The majority of gazans support hamas by a significant margin. Furthermore, the ones who don't support hamas aren't all doing it for peaceful reasons. Many think they aren't violent enough, evidenced by hamas popularity shooting up after the attacks.
I feel sorrow for the small minority who genuinely want peace and would allow Israel to exist, but the reality in life is that sometimes you are trapped as part of a group that is bringing this on themselves. If a group like that existed and killed Americans and wouldn't stop for decades, they would be removed and the world's approval would mean little.
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@JerehmiaBoaz - Sociology is a tenuous science at best. There is a reason it is known as a soft science. Meta reviews have shown roughly 50% of sociological papers cannot be reproduced. This isn't surprising, because it is not scientific in the first place in a lot of instances. Anyone can look at data, write a narrative, and publish it. That is philosophy, not science. Science makes testable predictions, that is the core of what science is. So, how did these CRT academics prove that their theory is correct? As this video shows, they specifically reject the idea of an objective truth, basically meaning that no one can falsify their claims. So, how is it a science again? Is this the point where you say it is just a legal framework, admitting that it isn't a fact and it is certainly not proven?
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Science Lad - Lol, about what I expected from someone of your intellectual stature. Just deflection, and oddly an appeal to authority right after criticizing me for it... Here, let me make this simple. I am appealing only to the scientific method. The scientific method REQUIRES that you make testable, objective predictions. That is kind of the entire point, otherwise it would just be more philosophy. That is what CRT is, philosophy. It isn't science, and I am actually not familiar with many people who would even claim it is a science. It is clearly not. It is a legal "lens" by which to analyze the laws of a nation, chiefly the US. This "lens" they use is little more than biases which are explicitly bad for academia. Like one of the principle authors of CRT being against the very idea of an objective truth through the scientific method. Thousands of papers are not proof. Thousands and thousands of papers were written about communism. It was even championed by the social sciences at the time. They thought it was the future and would lead to a better society. Turns out when your field isn't a science and doesn't require scientific rigor, it is very easy to get it completely wrong! Just like they were wrong about communism, and just like they are wrong about CRT. According to your intellectually deficient definition, communism must have been a scientific theory supported by thousands of papers and academics. Same thing is happening now. They are appealing to your emotion, not intellect. At least they know their audience, because you have far more of the former.
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@小肉肉-w2e - A collapse of the US would inherently be multi-dimensional, nothing short of an amalgamation of severe failures would bring down the U.S. Which means that there would have to be considerable pressure applied externally or internally. Americans are never going to have another Civil War and destroy their own country again, and I don't see any country being powerful enough to significantly hurt the US without taking unacceptable casualties. Perhaps in 50 years China might be able to dominate the US economically, militarily, and culturally, but we are a long way off from that yet. China will definitely surpass the US in GDP soon, as it already has by some metrics, but the actual median income per citizens is still 4x lower than the US. It will take a considerable effort and a long time to gain parity with the US standard of living and income. There are just so many people in China, it is a miracle they have done as much as they have in such little time. Militarily, I don't think China will surpass the US in my lifetime. I just don't see it happening. And that might be a good thing if it signals that Bejing doesn't want to wage any wars or participate in any imperial action. If China was smart, they would let Taiwan go, focus on their economy, and everything would go smoothly with them. As far as global hegemony, it is already falling apart. We are in the early stages of a multi-polar world, which kind of sucks in a way. History has shown time and time again that if there are multiple strong powers, they inevitably get into conflict of some sort. With Pax Americana, the world has only gotten more and more peaceful since 1945. As far as cultural domination, which the US has now, China just doesn't have a chance. Their inward looking culture is basically dominated by a strain of Han ethno-nationalism. They believe they are superior, the historic leaders of the world, and that the past few hundred years have just been a hiccup in their long time spent at the top . I don't see that kind of culture spreading beyond China very much at all. I know I wrote a book in my response, lol, but I find this so interesting. China is very powerful, but they are trying such a weird hybrid system of communism and capitalism, it will be very interesting to see how China progresses in the future. Not to mention, since they are richer now, they will naturally start demanding more political autonomy and power through the ballot box. Right now it is a very small portion who long for democracy, but I see it growing very soon.
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@c.a.greene8395 - I think I made my point poorly, as I agree with everything that you have said. Opioids do indeed have profound effects on the anatomical and physiological make up of the addict. And, as you mentioned without saying the word, epigenetics is involved which causes future children to be at risk for many different malignancies. I have a bachelors in biochemistry, and I used to listen to a lot of different professors, including ones who studied fentanyl. Interested fact, fentanyl binds so strongly to the mu opioid receptor that it actually pulls the receptor protein out of the the cell membrane. This is why tolerance sky rockets so quick with it.
All this to say, my question was if opioids aurally are sequestered into every cell type in the body. After perusing through the blood, being metabolized by the liver, and excreted, I would imagine there are some systems which might evade having an opioid influx, lymphocytes perhaps? So lymph nodes? I honestly don't know, I've been out of school for 15 years and I work as a chemist now, so I was genuinely asking. I wasn't minimizing the dangers of opoids, I agree with you.
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@blackmamba5593 - Lol, of course, the "no true communism" trope. It isn't inevitable dumb dumb, it is forever in the grave. It is a terrible system at its core, which is something modern people like you can never seem to grasp. The Scandanavian countries have lower corporate tax rate than the US, they are capitalist countries without a single socialist policy. For someone who insists on a theoretically perfect definition for communism, you sure throw out the word socialist loosely. Socialist isn't when thr government does things, it is the public ownership of the means if production. It's almost like you deflection about communism was just that, a deflection and an excuse. How do people like you, so simple, how through life? How do you remember to breathe?
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häh - Another fun fact is that Germany has more homeless people than the USA! Oh, also, Germany has a GDP per capita of roughly Alabama, one of our poorest states. Oh, also, they completely ignored their department of defense because Germans have a culture of "let someone else deal with it so we can use our money on social programs". Which, you know, wasn't great when Ukraine was invades and Europe collectively turned its head towards the US for help. Europeans have some advantages, Americans have some advantages, I am just really tired of Europeans talking like they are advanced because they have denser cities and more social spending. I don't think Europeans realize they have become the caricature they used to mock, they are the jingoistic ra ra types now in order to feel superior since the US is increasingly leaving them behind when it comes to the economy.
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@ntro9347 - Ya? Where are you from? This is typical Euro coping. We have welfare bud, just not tye massive amount found in Europe. It is much better this way, as the US has seen a lot of growth since 2008, with Europe basically seeing a second recession the US never saw. The EU's share of global GDP is dropping while the US remains stable. You sacrificed long term prosperity for short term ease. And that is even with the US subsidizing the defense of the EU nations, allowing them to spend much less than 2% of their gdp by and large.
Anyways, the US spends trillions on government subsidized Healthcare. Entitlements are by far the biggest part of our budget, acting like there is no welfare is absurd. Remember how much more Americans were getting during the pandemic with beefed up unemployment payments in addition to the stimulus bills? Ya, just part of the economic prosperity the US enjoys. Europeans usually have more of it, but they also have absurdly high taxes in comparison. And considering how the US is starting to pull away from most European countries quite significantly economics wise, you guys are going to have some interesting choices coming up, lol.
The US had a better cancer survival rate than all European countries for a few years running, and that is just one example. We also lead the world in drug innovation by far. Our wait times are usually much less than European countries, even compared to functional ones like in Germany. Your image of the US being some libertarian hellscape is cute. It shows you were educated on social media and have hilarious stereotypes standing in for facts, but it does get tedious after a while. I bet you didn't know welfare was the tip budget item by far, did you? Because yout tik tok education didn't quite get to that part.
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@ntro9347 - You want to have a mature conversation? How can we start if you don't recognize something which has been widely recognized by academics and journalists across both countries? The EU economy has seen losses compared to the US for over a decade, and it is a worrying sign for European nations. Just for example, Europe completely missed the tech train. Look at the digital giants from the US, now look at the EU counterparts. These days, even if a European compamy shows promise, it is quickly bought by a US company. Despite Europeans constantly claiming that their welfare states dont adversely affect the economy, it is clear that the abundance of VC fundinf coupled with the low regulation and agile nature of capital in the US allowed the US to completely dominate Europe in the realm of tech. And considering tech is kind of the future, that is a big deal.
The European economy has been shrinking as a percentage of total GDP worldwide, meaning Europeans are getting poorer compared to Americans, there is no getting around this. No amount of nonsensical "it is all in the hands of 6 people!" Comments will nullify this fact. Do you accept the EU economy is now lagging behind the US? Not much we can discuss if you can't accept the problem.
All of those nice social programs are funded by a robust economy, and the math doesn't add up for the more comfy welfare states. The recent situation in France is but a mild prelude to the drama which will unfold on your continent. A retiree used to be supported by 20 workers, in places like Germany, it is getting dangerously close to a 1:1 ratio.
Furthermore, your demographics are bad. You are far below replacement rate, which is why your politicians have not vigorously defended your borders. Your countries need new young people to make sure they continue to function. Yet, you have had a lot more problems with integrating your new illegal immigrants/refugees, meaning your economy hasn't been able to utilize them.
Basically, your future looks much poorer than the US unless you are a petro state like Norway or a tax haven like Ireland. So, you won't die of starvation, but your future is much bleaker than the US. This is why Europeans constantly harp on their differences like government Healthcare or walkable cities. Because they know in less subjective findings than "quality of life questionnaires", they just can't compete with the US. This, predictably, leads to people like you overcompensating and thus envisioning the US as some third world hellscale to soften the blow of your own material decline. Europe is a fine place to live, but comparing yourselves to the US will yield some unfavorable results, even if you are used to like minded people reassuring you that nothing in the US is better than Europe.
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@ntro9347 - We pay programmers 4x compared to much of Europe. Our tech stocks are worth more than your entire stock market. So on and so forth. Now, you will probably reply how that doesn't mean anything because it is all in Elon Musks hands or some other cliche response, but our disposal income is the highest in the world. Our median income is in line with tiny states like Sweden and Norway. And that absolutely does translate to a better life. I think if you have to discount the economy as important, you are on the losing side of a battle. It means we can buy cheaper homes, get more food, have more activities, etc... Europeans will talk about things like not needing a car, because big surprise, their cities evolved in such a way you didn't need one. We have NYC, it's the same way, it isn't some accomplishment. The US is just too big for that to be common. I like Europe, but Europeans have become insufferable with their ignorance.
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@michiganlineman357 - Oh Jesus, you're one of those. I am not a leftist at all. The fact that you automatically resort to labeling anyone who disagrees with you as a leftist is a very good indicator for the maturity of your thinking. And just to be clear, it means you are immature and have difficulty holding an intelligent conversation.
I didn't even mention the things you were going off about, you made up an entire strawman of who I am and what I believe. I grew up on a farm in Nebraska where personal responsibility and low taxes was my way of life. But now I am a leftist because I dont like Elon?
Ironically, you are just proving my point for me. Elon was dumb enough to alienate leftist voters when they were the primary customers in the US. I know you operate on a... let's just say simpler plane of existence, so let me reassure you that I am not saying Elon is bad because he is a conservative, he is bad because he makes very dumb business decisions that have caused him all kinds of problems. He didn't even want to buy Twitter, the man ended up buying a multi billion dollar company because of his ego. He bought it at a wildly overpriced share amount, and pretty much everyone agrees he just bought a financial black hole, which is why he unexpectedly sold more Tesla stock to cover his liabilities with Twitter.
And most of all, he attracts people like you. Simple minded people who view everything through the lens of left/right because anything else is too hard for their brain. Immature people. People who almost always will buy a truck over a Tesla. And it is bad for their brand to attract simple people like you, it makes Tesla look like the home of the rednecks.
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@shirleyspadorcio6182 - I don't know, I feel like I could imagine it. Just look at the human population like a large colony of bacteria. Organisms die, life goes on. So, you dehumanizing people is just how you have always viewed humanity. Also, you probably don't get the negative feelings other people get when they upset someone. They cannot feel empathy, so hurting someone has no negative effect on them. And finally, just like a drug has the power to put you in a euphoric mood no matter the circumstances, psychopaths get a similar dopamine rush from killing people. So, they are basically chasing an addictive high while experiencing none of the pesky negative effects felt by normal people when they hurt someone else. So, really, it would be logical for a person like that to kill people and still sleep soundly at night.
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This has all gotten so ridiculous. Sex is an observable characteristic which usually coincides with gender roles because of how society has developed to maximize the utility of the two sexes. Only recently have people tried to claim a gender opposite of their sex in any significant number.
When people say he or she, they are referring to their subconscious grouping of people based on their physical characteristics first and foremost. That is why people feel weird when seeing a masculine person wearing a dress. They intuitively understand that the person has an XY chromosome pair, but their presentation does not match what they are used to seeing. It is also why there is far less controversy or internal conflict with transwomen that pass well, people are able to sustain the idea that the person carries the primary characteristics which define femininity.
We need to be honest about how language has evolved. Gender roles have changed over time, but primarily masculine and feminine pronouns have referred to the physical characteristics which denote XX or XY chromosomes. The gender expression just validates the basic utility of these words.
I get it, we live in a society which now allows you to freely choose your gender expression. But that does not mean you can decouple pronouns from their primary function as they have evolved in our language. People have to actively try and use pronouns which subvert their original meaning as they were initially understood, and that is fine. But let's be honest, these pronouns were always about physical characteristics which made it clear if a person was a biological male or female.
The problem is that trans people often base their identity on their gender expression and lend it far more importance than is normal in our society. They need to understand how these words evolved in the first place, it has always been about discerning between the two sexes, therefore they should not be offended if people use pronouns which match their estimation of their sex. Sure, ask them to use different pronouns, but understand you are asking them to redefine the basic structure of language they have understood since they were infants, so some people might object to that. If you can't handle that, then you are far too sensitive and unable to deal with the reality of how language has evolved over time.
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@chantjelly6773 - Yep, it would be quite insane not to have a healthy dose of fear for Islam. As an atheist, I know that my head would not stay on my shoulders were I to state my beliefs in a Muslim country. They are among the most intolerant people on the planet, yet they utilized the tolerance of the West to gain a foothold until the demographics change enough, then they won't be doing the whole oppression olympics song and dance, then they will just straight up demand the country is run like they want it to be run. Similar to Israel/Palestine. Initially, the Arab countries used very little language about being an oppressed people. They were belligerent and said they would straight up destroy Israel because they were stronger, and Jews would never be welcome to create a country alongside Arab people. Then, as they were humiliated time and time again, they had no choice but to try and paint themselves as righteous victims, it was the only strategy they had left. Well, not the only strategy, they could have opted for peaceful development in an open and tolerant environment, allowing Israel to exist, but we all know they won't take that option unless every other option has been thoroughly exhausted. The pathetic thing is how young and naive Westerners actually believe these sob stories and propaganda. They think that supporting such an archaic and violent culture is actually the most moral thing one can do in this situation! It is funny as hell watching LGBT people support Palestine when they would be killed were they to campaign for their own rights in Palestine. There are just so many easily manipulated people in the world, intelligence seems to be a rare commodity these days.
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@fl00fydragon - I agree with you that this would be the logical thing to do, but humans didnt evolve as perfectly logical creatures. And no one would be crazy enough to try and nuke a country that is bulding an iron dome. What would be the point? You want to avoid being nuked so you do the one thing that ensures the US would send 1000 warheads your way? What you are describing is how rational actors should behave if they had perfect knowledge and cooperation with everyone else. The problem is, we dont know what the hell Russia really is doing. We lie, they lie, so why would you just trust that they arent working on new defensive technology of their own?
And I feel like I am one of the few people that has the proper respect for nuclear weapons like you have. Yes, they are a species ending instrument. It is terrifying to think of what they could do. Many people just think they are big bombs and not that scary. I am not one of those people. Hell, using your own logic, shouldnt the US invade Iran and sacrifice a million lives in order to keep nukes out of the hands of fanatical religious dictators? The point is, we dont know that everyone else is just fine with the current MAD arrangement, some countries might be trying to find a way to nuke the US with a shield to stop retaliation. Its madness, but it is weirdly the only play to make.
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@drew6524 - The problem with psychology is that it doesn’t have a lot of data backing up its methods. It is notoriously difficult to pin down exact mechanisms in the brain, and psychology rarely provides empirical evidence which proves their claims. It is more like taking a shot in the dark with common methods learned in school, and seeing if anything sticks. I went to a psychologist who said CBT was effective so I started researching it. From what I found, the behavioral part is far more effective than the cognitive part. It is really difficult to rewire neuronal pathways by just thinking, it is like trying to pain a boat from inside the hull. Behavior, which have far more reinforcements which can alter neuronal pathways, seems to be much more effective.
I haven’t ever met a psychologist who could quantify anything or provide specific biomarkers which indicate x,y,z. It is just a bunch of interpretation and largely guess work. Not trying to be snarky, but they call psychology a soft science for a reason. What is it, 50 percent of studies in psychology cannot even be reproduced once?
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John L. - No, they did not do "quite well". They used the economic hypothesis of socialism/communism as their primary guiding force in building their country. This resulted in a terribly inefficient, ineffective, and oppressive system which could never hope to keep stride with capitalist countries of similar size and population .
I think there is something vital which modern day socialists do not understand. Marx wrote about socialism in a very basic and uninformed manner. An economy is enormously complex, the variables involved are far too complex for one man in the 19th century to grasp. He basically derived his ideas from pathos instead of a solid logical foundation.
So guess what happens when you take an Ill researched and rudimentary idea and then model an entire nation on it. Ya, it does not work out so well. I am sure Marx and many communists had ideas about the best version of society, but that is all they were since in practice communism results in misery and oppression. It does best when it is new and can siphon off the resources accumulated previously, but as time goes on the glaring issues with it always lead to decay and collapse.
It simply does not work to say, "Everyone should receive x amount of wealth from the state and equality should be engineered". This is the part I think people get stuck on. I have noticed that a lot of modern day socialists are usually graduates from the humanities. They do not understand the vast complexity involved and they believe since it sounds like a more just society, surely it is the best method in practice. Well, it has been tried. And tried. And tried ad nauseam. Every time the naive say. "Well, they just should have done it this way and it would have worked", and then inevitably some country attempts a reformed version it fails again. Yet people won't give up the idea because they do not understand why it is not feasible. They think it is a matter of tinkering, when in reality the most basic premises of socialism do not allow for a healthy and functioning society.
The best you can do is provide a strong welfare state built on a capitalistic system, but even small countries like Sweden only found success once they rolled back from their full blown socialism from decades ago. And strong welfare states can only be kept if capitalism is allowed to generate the wealth in the first place. Sweden also has one of the lowest corporate tax rates in the world and one of the most free economies. Capitalism works because it tries to avoid engineering the economy to gain a desired result. It is a theory which understands it's limitations, and it allows for organic growth instead of an entire economy dictated from the top down. Top down economies don't adapt well and massively magnify human error across the whole county since planned economies relied on a small group to plan everything.
I mean, I could go on and on about this, but basically Russia screwed itself by turning full blown communist. Sure, it was better than a feudal system in a lot of ways, but it wasnt and will never be a match for capitalism. And this is to say nothing of the inevitable brutality involved and the morality of dictating every citizen's life. It floors me that people are so naive and gullible that they would support socialism in this day and age. I am a biochemist, and I have met a lot of scientists in my life, and it is rarely the scientists of the hard sciences which espouse socialism. It is always the sociologists, philosophers, and other non-scientifically inclined people who buy into the bullshit. It is because they can only see it as an issue of morality and assume it can be made to work well. They are clueless to the actual complexities involved and don't realize that you can't just create equality through simple brute force methods. I mean, you can, but only by dragging the whole economy down and making you vulnerable to other nations or from collapse from within.
I ended up writing way too much, but I could still go on about this. Advocate for an increased welfare state if you want, but never go full socialist if you value your time here on earth.
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@commie5211 - It really shows a lack of class. I have noticed a lot of leftist led countries and populations are all about criticizing America and evil capitalism, yet America has done an enormous amount for them. Hell, look at Taiwan, it is being propped up by the US till this day. I think many people just need to stop being so needy, and at the very least, if you are going to constantly come begging and criticizing, maybe just leave us alone? Or be thankful and have some class? Or, continue to blame all your problems on everyone else, and continue to watch as leading nations and leading people focus on themselves and blame their problems on themselves. It is a sad state when so many people cannot own up to their own decisions, needing a boogeyman to blame all their problems on. And seriously, what is that excuse at the end? Your reason for being ungrateful and a choosing beggar is that America talks about wanting to spread democracy? Something it has objectively done even if it isn't to your standards, lol
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@lukaszednik7547 - Ha, what a funny coincidence. I am an R&D chemist for a company that produces petroleum based lubrications. Think gear oil, grease for heavy machinery, etc... Hell, my company supplied a lubrication for the James Webb Telescope so the different parts would unfold smoothly.
I work in the lab, but it is right next to a plant. In the plant, we have many kettles where they make large batches to ship. It gets quite hot around those, especially in the summer. A lot of people try to get transfered to a different part of the plant so they don't have to deal with the heat.
Some of the workers get a bit annoyed that I sit in an air conditioned lab while they have to slave away in hot temperatures. That's how it goes though. If you don't have a chemistry degree you can join R&D, and a lot of the guys only finished high school. I feel for them, but it's up to them to decide if they want to go back to school so they can earn a B.S. in chemistry or biochem and work in a lab instead of a hot plant environment. Wow, that was quite the tangent. Lol
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@davidchou1675 - I love this narrative Palestinian supporters invented, with the analogy of someone stealing Palestinians home. Except, you know, there never was a Palestinian state, and the Palestinian identity is relatively recent. So, a better analogy would be two homeless people, Jews and Palestinians, both wanted to build a home. Jews worked hard and built a good home for themselves, while the Palestinians spent all of their time trying to burn that home down instead of trying to build their own. Palestinians just cannot stand that Jews are so much more advanced and successful than them, so they lost their minds. Of course the wider Islamic and Arab world joined in, because they could never admit Israel defeated them when they attempted to reenact the Holocaust. It is a comedy of errors from the Muslim world, and all they do is cry about being oppressed now so they can lull naive Westerners into supporting them.
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@paulosicne8498 - Yep, I just posted a similar comment. I used to be a Democrat, and then they went all in on the crazy feminism, anti-white racism, etc... So, I abandoned that bullshit. The problem is, the Republicans don't offer much better. Sure, they aren't into crazy identity politics, but they sure as hell aren't helping the common working man. If you don't care about the wedge issues like abortion or gay rights, what are the Republicans going to offer you? Tax cuts for three years while the wealthy get permanent tax cuts? No thank you. Republicans don't give a flying fuck about the working class. They draw in working class white people based on Christianity and not hating white men, but that is such a low bad it is crazy.
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@DemigodoftheSea - hahahahahaha, we turned out enslaved to our employer? Damn bro, I am lower class in the US and I don't feel enslaved at all. Just like when Orwell said that socialists aren't caring about the poor, they are just jealous of those that do better than them. You think your idea, over 100 years old, and idea that has never worked and no one takes seriously, you think it is suddenly going to work because of automation!? Hahaha, you guys are always good for a laugh at least. Any day now comrade, all we have to lose is our chains. I am curious though, what year? I want to short the stock market, so if you could tell me when this collapse is coming, I would greatly appreciate it!
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@DemigodoftheSea - Holy crap dude, this is just boring. Ya, socialism is great until it is actually implemented. Oh wait, that means it is terrible, never was great, and is only appealing to jealous, bitter people. We currently have massive labor shortage dum dum, there is no lack of jobs. But like everything with you people, it is always "coming soon" and you are "sure it as around the corner". What don't you get? You are part of a discredited movement, you hang on to unfalsfiable future events. Just like socialists/communists of the past. You people are worse than religious zealots, I swear. Same amount of intelligence. And to top it off, you think the majority of Americans want socialism, when all they want are expanded government programs in a capitalist system. Touche. You are like the gold medalist for bad takes, lol
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@DemigodoftheSea - No, I want a quantified scientific paper which shows it. Not descriptions of events. Surely if it is true, you can produce that, correct? You know, how modern economists model different variables and analyze them? Or, let me guess, you simply assume that is the reason with exactly 0 proof to back you up. And let me remind you, articles about the US doing this or that is not proof. I know science isn't your strong suit, but I'll walk you through it. You need a paper proving causation or at least strong correlation in a multi variable systemic analysis. Very standard papers for economics. But let me guess, you have no such thing but you are still soooooooo sure. Lol, you are not to be taken seriously dude. I already know your answer wont be able to provide it because it isnt true. It is just socialiats coping, losers.
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@abuhijjra - Yes, as in inherently more violent, meaning it has far more potential to motivate a population to be violent. In any event, I notice when talking to Muslims they bring up stuff from thousands of years ago quite frequently, and frankly, it is weird. Going on about the Muslim Golden Age, talking about the crusades, etc.. I think it is because Islam can't change, so it keeps Arab/other culture frozen. There is a reason Muslims don't invent stuff and instead rely on the West to buy new technology from. You need an open, pluralistic, and liberal democracy if you ever want to advance and challenge the West.
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@fl00fydragon - OH boy, you guys are always so fun to talk to. Clinging to a long dead ideology, not realizing just how sad it is. It does not matter what type of socialism you support, because socialists are famous for saying "next time it will work comrades!" The empirical data is blindingly obvious, socialism does not work period. Now, you can cling on to the absurdly unlikely possibility that this iteration will work, but the world has moved on.
Furthermore, you can be as socialist as you want in a capitalist society. Start a company, then give Bob the janitor equal pay as the CEO and an equal vote in the board. Literally no one is stopping you. This is just another reason capitalism is vastly superior, it gives you the freedom to conduct business as you see fit instead of forcing everyone to use one model. No big surprise that people have tried this, but they usually cannot compete well enough to make it big or do anything beyond a small coop.
Now, the rest of your predictions are more socialist cliches. Did you know that you are using the "shrinking market" critique of capitalism that Hitler used in justifying a new economic order? It is just as wrong now as it was then. Capitalism isn't about commodities only, as so many socialists seem to think. Growth just means more market share. It can come from and often does come from using less materials and being more efficient. Your market socialism just sounds like businesses being comprised of people who get the same pay and an equal vote in everything. Great, if you like that model, use it in a capitalist country. But no one is on board with "market socialism" being imposed on the population. Your ideology doesn't even have a reason to exist unless you plan on forcing other people to submit to your economic model. Otherwise, you would just start businesses with this model now.
Listen, I am sure you have good intentions. I know at first glance, socialism sounds great to a lot of young people. Most people grow out of that phase, realizing that how it sounds doesn't reflect on how it actually is. I hope you come to that point soon, most do.
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@Zero_Contradictions - That is more data, but it is not conclusive. They would have to do a lot more to show such a thing. Possibly even identifying the exact genes involved. That work hasn't been done, and I doubt it ever will be, so all we have is speculation. One could theorize many different scenarios that might favor for different traits in more Northern people, and the IQ tests certainly suggest there might be something there, but you need causative data. Biomarkers such as genes would be that data, but correlated test results can be tricky. There is global communication, and a global black diaspora culture. It is pretty obvious it is a maladaptivr culture, centered on victimhood, and that might be having lasting effects on the cognitive development of a demographic, or even a desire for such a thing. It is difficult to divorce the two. Africans developed the first major civilization in Egypt, although they are distinct from Subsarahhan Africans. For Northern Africans at least, that data doesn't support a theory they have difficulty building civilizations.
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@merle3184 - Have you been to college and studied economics? You realize the entire field of economics has said communism is an inferior ideology right? These are not capitalists with interests in keeping an exploitive system. They are academics who, if anything, would be biased towards socialism. You are saying they are all brainwashed and everyone but a tiny handful of communists is dumb? You keep saying keeping the people fed is some kind of proof communism is superior, it isn’t. You would need to compare the results to a capitalist system with the exact same conditions. Since you can’t do that, the next best way is to see how communism has worked when it’s been tried. Not sure if you’ve heard, so here is a spoiler, it was a horrible system. So, I guess everyone in the world is brainwashed but you just know some awesome system which is being successfully repressed by basically the whole world because it is just so fair. those evil capitalists love to hurt their fellow man so much, they just won’t let it happen. Ya, sure dude. You’re not the first person not intelligent enough to understand why the system is very bad, you get sucked in by the emotional messaging. That is how propaganda works. You still have time to educate yourself so you don’t end up that perpetual loser clinging on to a dead ideology. The kind of guy everyone but some college socialists make fun of
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@ - Man, you guys have some weird ideological brainwashing going on. I always laugh when you guys parrot the exact same line. Here is a newsflash for you, the “short term” thinking is most definitely the welfare state. Thinking about the long term health of the economy requires logic and not getting in your feels about helping poor people. Notice how the USA is pulling away from Europe in income and wealth. The gap is getting quite pronounced, and no amount of redistribution hides your relative poverty. I know it is a matter of jingoism for you guys, you can’t accept that America is doing much better than you, but it is true all the same.
I noticed you didn’t actually show any logic in your reply. Just some circular reasoning that somehow welfare spending is needed for a strong economy. It isn’t, and in fact your red tape and hefty social security system is causing you guys to fall behind the world. No amount of wishful thinking and insisting that welfare spending is paramount will make it true. It has a very bad ROI, and it is incredibly short sighted. Just like communists thought their system was more fair and humane, but in actuality it was a very short sighted system. All that data is on my side. You guys are losing more and more of your position in the world economy, and you will have to deal with your unsustainable welfare whether you like it or not. Things like universal healthcare are not automatically good, just look at the collapsing NHS. It takes hours to get an ambulance or days to see someone in the A and E, problems we don’t see here at all.
I thought Europeans were supposed to be intelligent? Yet you didn’t address the demographic collapse, your falling position in the world economy, and all the other points I already made. You are coping hard bro, you should probably start applying some logic if you want to do better.
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@geocelta1961 - Scientists have been agreeing for the last 40 to 50 years. That is a very long time in science. Also, records have been released from oil companies showing even they knew 40 years ago. In fact, the basic premise was discovered 100 years ago, the consensus has been for 40 to 50 years. Celebrities are hypocrites, no surprise there. The reason you experienced a really cold day is because the polar vortex keeps breaking up and traveling south. That is a very bad thing, as it means it isn't in the artic where it should be. The Artic is losing ice at a rapid pace, which is why countries like the US and Russia are fighting over Artic sea passages. It wasn't an option before because of all the ice, but that has changed. The last 10 years have been the warmest 10 years on record, and it is only going to accelerate. I wish I could say there is hope, but there really isn't. The devices you are talking about to capture CO2 from the air don't capture near enough to have any kind of effect. Even massively upscaling them wouldn't have much of an effect unless every country started doing it on a truly massive scale, and it would all have to be powred by fission or hypothetical fusion energy in the future. There isn't enough uranium to do it with fission, and we have no clue if fusion will ever be viable. So, pretty much we are fucked. I am a biochemist and I have read much of the primary literature. In addition to this, I have talked to many professors of climate science, and they all say the same thing. We are fucked, so just enjoy the ride.
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@LordO-thPalace - That is just an excuse for poor behavior, sorry. It is similar to how people said thr black community in America had every reason to not trust the vaccine, excusing their very poor vaccination rates. In truth, the black community has a serious problem with anti-intellectualism in general. Look at the Nation of Islam stuff thar no one has paid attention to, even though a lot of powerful black men are connected to them. If you are telling me a people cannot differentiate between a study done decades and decades ago from a modern vaccine, that is entirely on them. I mean, the lengths people will go to in order to justify terrible decisions is just absurd, especially since these people almost always handle it selectively depending on the color of your skin. There is a word for that.
You do realize how shallow your thinking is, correct? You hear a popular excuse for why that population was rife with misinformation, and you lapped it up immediately because it fit your biases. The conspiracy theories are wide reaching, certainly not some narrow concern because of legitimate grievances. All this to say, this is why you and people like you support programs that don't work and haven't changed anything for that community. You stay willfully ignorant of their actual problems, because you are afraid that you would appear racist for daring to criticize their culture. No big surprise that since you fundamentally misunderstand the situation, your ideas and prescriptions for treating the problem never work out, even after decades and decades of trying. Now the common talking point is that 70 yeas isn't a long time, lol. It is just excuse after 6. It is so intellectually shallow.
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@ramenbomberdeluxe4958 - No, socialist countries almost universally failed. Yugoslavia is the only one which isn't immediately recognizable as a failed state. Yet, if you do the barest of digging, you would gind Yuhoslavia was not keeping up with Western technological innovation in manufacturing and other important areas. What socialists like you don't get is that socialism is inherently bad, it isn't even a corrupt people thing. Free markets are so incredibly more efficient than socialism, they allocate capital to give a significantly higher yield from investment. Whwn you conpoymd that over years, including R&D advantages, the superiority of the Westerh system us insurmountable. This is to say nothing of the oppression which is required for it to work.
My question is very simple. If socialism is so much better, why not just start businesses in America where everyone gets an equal share and an equal vote. You can give Stan the janitor full voting privileges if you like. So, why on earth would you force everyone else to do that if you and your socialist buddies can already do exactly what you want? Which makes it clear that you mainly want the wealth of others. After that rubs out, socialism is too dysfunctional to maintain a 1st world modern living standard. Why on earth would you want to enforce this entirely inefficient and weak system that would make life worse for the vast majority of people?
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@mikk5540 - I am glad you used it in a positive way, that is the best way to handle it. I see people who let it define and destroy their lives, and it makes me so dad. It isn't their fault, but it just is a miserable way to live. I also matured a ton because of it. I was a homeless heroin addict trying to commit suicide and ending up in the ICU for weeks. I tried multiple times. I was also sexually abused as a kid, had the cops come to my school, the whole deal. It messed me up for a while. I graduated college, then it all fell apart because I started using. Lost my wife, daughter, everything. I am not happily remarried, working as a research chemist, and my life is great. But now I can really appreciate things. When my wife complains about not having something she wants, I can just sit there and be so happy we have a home, money in the bank, and my sobriety. It made me so much more mature and thankful for everything I have.
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@canilernproto3018 - Oh wow, your type resorting to calling someone racist because your ideas cannot stand up to the slightest intellectual scrutiny, such a shock. It's funny, when someone is in a cult, everyone knows it except the people in the cult. Cult like ideologies such as Nazism and communism flourish on the same principle. You are in a modern equivalent. Anyone who questions the integrity of your ideology is labeled a racist, bigot, etc... it is just a way to deflect from the many, many deficiencies inherit in your ideas. That is why your ranks are filled with young people, they are more amenable to brainwashing and a tribal mentality. Hopefully you grow out of it, or you might end up a bitter, unsuccessful person who blames the man for all his problems. Either way, I don't care, you have had nothing of value to add here.
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@bootnazz1786 - Uh, that was certainly a response. First of all, the US wasn't built on the backs of slaves. In fact, it is now understood that slavery held the Southern economy back compared to the North, which is why the Confederates had no chance to match the industrial output of the North. The main use of slaves in the South was for things like cash crops. Sure, you created some wealth, no denying that. Your ancestors were wronged, no denying that. But you really didn't build America. The far more rich and powerful half of the US was built by low paid European immigrants. In the South, people usually built their own homes. Most people didn't have a slave to help with that. So, it isn't like the US would be any different had we not brought you over. Well, at least we would still be as successful. Probably more successful because we would have far less ethnic strife in the country, our violence rates would be more in line with Europe, and we could stop using so many resources on welfare and prisons.
I hope the black community does well in the future, but their current strategy is doomed to fail. Trying to make everything about race, trying to guilt trip white people into giving you things... That just isn't a winning strategy long term. Black people will have to look at their own culture and process all the bad decisions they have made so they can make better decisions in the future. We aren't responsible for your prosperity, you are. I think a lot of black people think white people owe them something, but I owe you nothing. And your community will stay stuck where it is if you don't start doing some honest introspection instead of trying to blame whitey all the time.
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@koolguy9531 - Not that it is the end of the world, but Europe is becoming poorer than America, significantly so. Here is a comment I made in another comment chain a second ago:
@ntro9347 - How can we start if you don't recognize something which has been widely recognized by academics and journalists across both countries? The EU economy has seen losses compared to the US for over a decade, and it is a worrying sign for European nations. Just for example, Europe completely missed the tech train. Look at the digital giants from the US, now look at the EU counterparts. These days, even if a European compamy shows promise, it is quickly bought by a US company. Despite Europeans constantly claiming that their welfare states dont adversely affect the economy, it is clear that the abundance of VC fundinf coupled with the low regulation and agile nature of capital in the US allowed the US to completely dominate Europe in the realm of tech. And considering tech is kind of the future, that is a big deal.
The European economy has been shrinking as a percentage of total GDP worldwide, meaning Europeans are getting poorer compared to Americans, there is no getting around this. No amount of nonsensical "it is all in the hands of 6 people!" Comments will nullify this fact. Do you accept the EU economy is now lagging behind the US? Not much we can discuss if you can't accept the problem.
All of those nice social programs are funded by a robust economy, and the math doesn't add up for the more comfy welfare states. The recent situation in France is but a mild prelude to the drama which will unfold on your continent. A retiree used to be supported by 20 workers, in places like Germany, it is getting dangerously close to a 1:1 ratio.
Furthermore, your demographics are bad. You are far below replacement rate, which is why your politicians have not vigorously defended your borders. Your countries need new young people to make sure they continue to function. Yet, you have had a lot more problems with integrating your new illegal immigrants/refugees, meaning your economy hasn't been able to utilize them.
Basically, your future looks much poorer than the US unless you are a petro state like Norway or a tax haven like Ireland. So, you won't die of starvation, but your future is much bleaker than the US. This is why Europeans constantly harp on their differences like government Healthcare or walkable cities. Because they know in less subjective findings than "quality of life questionnaires", they just can't compete with the US. This, predictably, leads to people like you overcompensating and thus envisioning the US as some third world hellscale to soften the blow of your own material decline. Europe is a fine place to live, but comparing yourselves to the US will yield some unfavorable results, even if you are used to like minded people reassuring you that nothing in the US is better than Europe.
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@nathanoneiric - No, it is quite the opposite actually. You are adopting a position simply because it sounds good to you, nothing more. I will keep it very simple, so I am guessing this is the point where you will move along. Are you telling me that you expect the thousand of cultures and ethnicities around the world, comprised of a set of variables enormously complex, to end up being equal in their development? That is your while premise. It goes like: Ethnicities and cultures should end up with roughly the same amount of wealth and success in life, otherwise it is evidence that they are being discriminated against. That is the extent of your position, because I know for a fact you cannot provide any scientific theory which shows we would all be similar in success if it wasn't for those darned racists. Why would you think that? What scientific evidence made you think that? I'll answer for you: None. You didn't use science to come to this conclusion, you were overwhelmed by pathos. But, by all means, try to explain to me that base assumption that cultures will end up roughly equal barring any discrimination. Why do you think certain cultures try so damn hard to promote certain values? Because it works! But here you are, saying it is literally ANYTHING except the obvious factual answer. So, I am guessing you will just not answer because you have no answer, but I would like very much if you would respond to this.
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@김지연-w6r - I can usually tell by your writing. Japanese, Korean, and Chinese all have slight differences, but you already know that. I just kind of picked up on it when looking at various writing samples. Mandarin seems way too busy, like there are too many strokes happening with each character. But anyways, I have had nothing but good experiences with Koreans here in America. I don't know if it is your culture or what, but you guys seem to be really hard working and really i intelligent. You make a fine addition to the American populace. Have you ever been to America? The only thing that I think is kind of weird about Korea, besides the entirety of North Korea, is that you have so many churches there. I know Americans spread them a lot when they went over there for the war and everything after, and I am actually a bit unhappy about that. I think we should have left you guys alone when it comes to religion, we should have spread Christianity.
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