Comments by "Steve Parker" (@steveparker8065) on "NowThis Impact" channel.

  1. The fact that they can't go to school without fearing being shot and then spending their lives learning how to accept the prospect of a low waged job and then being fleeced by a corrupt government may have something to do with it.
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  2. If their loss to supply chains could have such a devastating effect on the economy, maybe they should be given respect and enough money to live on for their services? We all rely on countless low-paid workers for the goods and services we need. Support the workers not greedy corporations!
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  3. I love Trump because he's so mature and speaks so eloquently and cautiously. Always pays his taxes, he's never been bankrupt, always pays his workforce, and fights so very hard to provide Americans with healthcare. He always puts the US first before his own petty agenda. He's extremely generous to his friends on Wall St. And his voice is like that of angels descending from the heavens to bless your ears with humanity, compassion and decency...
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  4. I've often said, with all the problems of modern life what this world really needs is more squirrel cinemas...
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  5. Pink Floyd are deeper than the Mariana trench, smoother than a quantum stabilized atom mirror, cooler than an iceberg in a river of liquid nitrogen and more zen than 1,000 Buddhist monasteries...
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  6. Healthcare is a human right not an opportunity for the wealthy to profit. We pay a multitude of taxes for services and infrastructure as part of a civilized society. This should include health, education, services and basic human rights or the contract between a government and its people is null and void. In the UK our NHS is slowly being drowned by for-profit organisations taking a larger piece of the budget. Most Europeans are horrified by the amount of profiteering in the American system...
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  7. Good job America, keep manifesting that destiny and protecting the second amendment by sacrificing children and the innocent on the alter of brutal ignorance and apathy. It's a lot easier than changing legislation to improve gun controls - like a sensible, mature country...
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  8. Now, this is a story all about how, Will's life just flipped, turned upside down. Chris made a cheap joke, about Jada's hair. Then took a fresh slap from the Prince of Bel-Air...
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  9. I don't seem to be able to type this without being filtered "Stay woke was an African-American term the origins of which can be traced back to 1938 and the blues performer Lead Belly. It was a term used to warn African-Americans to be aware of social prejudice and their history of being marginalised and discriminated against. It became the shortened 'woke' during the civil rights movement and was simply a term to describe an African-American aware of their history. Now it has been hyped up by the media and the far right to include anything they don't like..." So ill try in quotes...
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  10.  @ImperiumMagistrate  He's filed for bankruptcy 6 times on his corporations. Which cost the US taxpayer and the unpaid workers. Stop trying to use semantics to try and defend him... It's just sad...
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  11. ~Just a guess but is it because America's prison system is privately run for profit and does that explain why the US has the highest incarceration rates globally? Maybe there is something wrong with your society considering all the mass shootings? just maybe because your country has been a corporation since 1913 when the FED was created is the starting point of the calamity... Like I said, just guessing...
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  12. America the world is laughing, sort yourselves out!
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  13. A little bit of trivia for the Americans. After the clusterfk of Brexit, the Tories claimed we could recoup some of our losses via a new trade deal with Tuvalu which is a collection of 9 islands with a population of under 12,000 and part of the British Commonwealth. That didn't age well! On a serious note, good luck Tuvalu with this project and the evacuation.
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  14. My grandparents never used pesticides and yet they ate organic vegetables every day, straight from the garden. Although they didn't call them organic, they just called them vegetables...
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  15.  @jackaljade  Reread my comment and accept it's media hype. The term is being abused to demonise anything to do with freedom, equality and decency.
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  16. I'm glad that was to honour his father. At first, I thought America was upping the stakes on the school shootings...
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  17. @Omar Aguirre Which one? ;-)
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  18.  @emaarredondo-librarian  I'm not American and agree with you. We have healthcare, working rights, holidays, maternity and paternity leave, sickpay etc in the UK. Although the Conservatives are trying to take it from us.
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  19. I made an invisible shield years ago, unfortunately, I can't find it...
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  20. Some people have too much money and not enough self-control...
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  21. Let's all worship vacuous celebs and help them overcome their poverty by rewarding them with a token of our appreciation for the groundbreaking work they do in portraying human beings. Not everyone can play pretend as an adult, it takes a special kind of person to do that. Don't get me wrong I enjoy a good series or film, but I'd rather humanity reward humanity, let's put low waged mental health workers, carers, nurses and doctors on a pedestal. Let's reward compassion and decency and the willingness to do humble work like building, cleaning, serving, repairing and producing goods for society.
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  22. Here's the complete explanation for the hard of thinking "Stay woke was an African-American term the origins of which can be traced back to 1938 and the blues performer Lead Belly. It was a term used to warn African-Americans to be aware of social prejudice and their history of being marginalised and discriminated against. It became the shortened 'woke' during the civil rights movement and was simply a term to describe an African-American aware of their history. Now it has been hyped up by the media and the far right to include anything they don't like.." Nothing to do with economic or political ideology, it's just being used as a catchall phrase to demonise anyone with decency and morality...
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  23.  @thebigpicture2032  lol sure... I mean seriously he's been caught out more times than a naughty teenager...
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  24. I just wish we could find even more destructive, backward, inhumane ways to increase shareholder profits from the farming industry. Is there room for a little more cruelty? maybe we could just stick animals in their own diseased faeces and beat them relentlessly? oh no, we already do that. Maybe we could pump them full of drugs and toxins that stay in their system and end up in our food chain? nope, already do that too... and yes this is called sarcasm...
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  25.  @brandontrammel4581  It seems my second reply has been deleted. Forgot this is an American news channel and therefore censored to keep the population compliant. Check out his failures in Buenos Aries protecting child abusers and refusing to meet with the victims.
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  26.  @jackaljade  lol, you have no idea about M and clearly don't understand the huge conflation and contradiction. PS Reading Marx doesn't necessarily make some a M, in the same way reading Dumbo doesn't necessarily make you... An elephant...
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  27.  @jackaljade  It's impossible to argue with ignorance and a lack of logic and reason on that scale. Your conflations defy the laws of even mental gymnastics. Trying to debate you would be like trying to teach a fish calligraphy...
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  28.  @jackaljade  Like I said, trying to debate you would mean correcting all your conflicts and conflations plus your lack of understanding and logic. Therefore even before I try to debate I'd have to spend 3 decades correcting your erroneous beliefs. About as pointless as an ashtray on the international space station...
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  29. Frankie Boyle was on a comedy quiz show on British TV and the task was to make jokes about famous last words. He said the following: "Stingrays love foreplay."
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  30.  @jozz2248  He's done a lot to cover up child abusers too. Very progressive.
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  31. Such a shame fruit and vegetables don't just grow on their own and can't be planted in neighbourhoods when they're built...
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  32. 6,000 miles from the US.
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  33.  @tonyaduvall49  My point is a general point about needing to rely on low-paid workers, whether it's manufacturing, litter collectors, waste disposal or service industries. The system would grind to a halt without any of those vital functions. Yet the US has one of lowest pay structures in a civilised society. Most of us in Europe have maternity leave, sick pay, holiday pay, free healthcare and lots of other benefits that are simply non-existent on the lower end of the spectrum in the states.
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  34. They kicked me off Twitter years ago for using facts and stats while being mean to the right. I don't want to sound bitter but I'd be happy if it collapses under the weight of its own duplicity and biases...
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  35. Pesticide use by country shows the USA are second only to China, you use 407,779 tons per annum... India is 13th, Japan is 14th, S.Korea is 24th.
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  36.  @amynoah1621  lol you mean ignore every relevant detail until the USA are no longer the second-largest user of pesticides by actual amount of pesticides used? The US also imports 15% of its food.
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  37.  @ImperiumMagistrate  It's semantics mate, don't try and justify your comment. His corporations, his losses and he walks away leaving the American taxpayer to pick up the pieces and causing other businesses to go bankrupt. Yes, Trump is a confidence trickster, a snake-oil salesman, every venture has failed and cost the American taxpayer...
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  38.  @b.41879  You don't seem to understand words or their implications, you clearly said "you really might want to educate yourself about it rather than assuming or guessing" Implying that I'm ignorant... And yes, conversing with someone with a higher IQ than a dead possum may be pointless for you. Hope your day is as nice as you are ;)
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  39. Some of those that work forces, are the same that burn crosses... RATM
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  40.  @Hertz2laugh  Your argument also works for humans, we are all going to die no matter what, either cancer or a car accident, or brutally murdered in a robbery... I used to work in butchers I've been veggie for 35 years. If we went back in time I wouldn't have a problem hunting animals for food out of necessity. No form of farming is cute and cuddly, farmers slaughter piglets before they are old enough to have had a nice life, suckling pig for example. I was simply pointing out the contradiction in your comment. Yes, small farms that give their animals a decent life is better than industrial farming, but the end result remains the same.
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  41. Is Chicango somewhere near New Nyork?
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  42. Books should be categorised to avoid youngsters being exposed to adult content and I'm sure they are even in the US. Banning books is the regressive action of people who try to control information, usually conservative, usually religious types. Have they never read the Old Testament? by their own standards that would be the first book to be banned. Such a shame that a minority of ignorant and unintelligent primatives control the narrative of a country and the availability of knowledge.
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  43. I know this one I think. Is it because you have a society full of macho aggressive semi-sentient halfwits who drink a lot and carry a gun with them when they pop out to the grocery store?
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  44. America sold its soul to the bible belt and gun lobbies decades ago. What's left belongs to Wall ST and corporations...
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  45. I'm just glad she didn't get all emotional and make herself look unbalanced...
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  46.  @amynoah1621  It took the EPA 14 years of public pressure to ban chlorpyrifos in food usage. In 2016 the USA used more than 320 million pounds of pesticides that were banned in the EU. Please stop this, research is quite easy to do and I'm bored of correcting you...
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  47.  @amynoah1621  India is a South Asian country, S.Korea is an East Asian nation, Japan is an East Asian country. It is only China that uses more pesticides than the US and is 2.2% larger in landmass. You should just accept your generalisation is incorrect and move on. Anyway, I'm bored of circular debate. All the best Amy!
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  48.  @danielmiller9012  Agreed he (failed to) served 5 times despite having horrendous feet injuries (according to a pediatrist in the employ of his father) and being in college at the time. lol good one I forgot about that :)
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  49.  @theme6590  I try to keep up with news on former colonies ;) ~Yes I'm a Brit and no I don't support colonial attitudes, just joking as I've nothing better to do in feudal Britain as our new King is the only thing on the news...
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  50.  Who Dis?  lol you could have typed something intelligent or witty. Instead you're happy to blame the left for the cowardice of the right, keep using children as sheilds to protect your rights, you disgust me.
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