Comments by "kokofan50" (@kokofan50) on "Whatifalthist" channel.

  1. This helped me figure something out. The parts of the country that supports Trump are the remaining pride driven areas, and the areas that hate him with the passion of 1,000 white hot suns are the anxiety driven ones.
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  2. You’re conflating Indo-Aryan with Indo-European. The Indo-aryans are a sub group of the Indo-Europeans
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  3. Russia has basically said that in a war against China, they’re not going bother sending in ground forces; they’re just going to use nukes.
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  4. @LTNetjak the US has been the driver of global economic growth. The US has developed and commercialize new technologies then offshores them as part of mass commercialization
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  5.  @090giver090  A) no, the long term effects are maybe a couple thousand people die early from cancer, but it’s impossible to actually tell because that number is below a standard deviation for the size of population exposed. In reality, we can only firmly say around 50 people died from Chernobyl. B) “contaminated” makes it sound like a wasteland rather than a forest C) it was out dated. Only the Soviets were using that type of reactor. The US had built and abandoned designs similar to the RBMK in the 50s because of the safety problems that happened at Chernobyl.
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  6.  @freddiemercury8625  Russia doesn’t have the population to just throw men at an enemy unless they’re the size of Estonia. The US over took the Soviet Union back in the 90s, and Russia proper long before that
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  7. ​ @alfalafelstine1536  bullshit. China never controlled a huge amount of the territory it does now, and the reasons it’s claiming some areas are clearly for other reasons. The water shed from Tibet is too important to let India control it. A free Chinese state sets a precedent the CCP can’t stand. Taiwan directly disproves many of the arguments the CCP makes for their legitimacy. China has never controlled the area in the 9-dash-line; they just want the resources
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  8. Demolitionman is a great example in fiction.
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  9.  @immaculatesquid  because corruption was how everything worked
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  10.  @offthemountains  that’s just not true. Indo-Iranian is a subgroup of Indo-European. You’re right the term was changed from aryan, but it was Iranian, which is, funnily, a derivative of aryan.
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  11. People have been saying the US is going to collapse from the start
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  12. No, all life is very rational. It’s just the logic being used is game theory and it’s often so deeply embedded into our thinking that we don’t even know that’s how we’re thinking.
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  13.  @alfalafelstine1536  Tibet wasn’t under the control of the ROC. However, you’re ignoring the more important argument
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  14. China is even more dependent on imports and exports than Germany was in WW1. Just the Quad (the US, Japan, Australia, and India) would be able to seal China in the first island chain.
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  15. Every time the US has fought communists, the US had well above a 4:1 kill ratio.
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  16. The USSR fell apart because of social and economic problems created by ideology. Capitalism has no lords or central planners telling people what needs to be made or how much to make.
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  17.  @saladin3273  1) we care what they think? 2) it’s easy to criticize the people who brought the greatest age of peace and prosperity until that peace is gone.
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  18.  @frankrenda2519  you’ve obviously been watching too much Russian propaganda. You also might want to brush up on American history.
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  19. As long as it’s an honest and intelligent disagreement. Unproductive insults are just annoying
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  20. Yes, it’s minor. It barely killed anyone, and the majority of people who died were over the average life expectancy. There was no mass death among the population, destruction of cities, nor famine.
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  21. I see you’ve gone so far left you fell off the end.
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  22. The military has lost a lot of of its respect, but it’s still the most trusted government institution. It probably always will be because the US doesn’t need the military to police it’s internal matters, except for really bad riots when the National Guard are called in, but they’ve got enough separation from the full time it doesn’t affect the military’s reputation. It’s not unheard of for the leadership and rank&file to split. It’s also possible to run an army with Sargents and low ranking officers. It’s not possible to rebuild a military with just Generals.
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  23.  @frankrenda2519  well, if you’re going to count the locals rising up to help over throw the tyranny oppressing them, it’s kinda hard not have allies popping up all over. Being the good guys makes people want to work with you.
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  24. Silicon Age collapse
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  25. There are lots of differences. Besides being taller on average, Northern Europeans have much higher rates of genes connected to alcoholism/depression and lactose persistence. Subsaharan Africas have a gene that makes them more resistant to malaria, but it’s also the gene that causes sickle cell when a person has a double of the gene. The Australian Aboriginals had no resistance to simple colds because they had been disconnected from other populations for so long. Groups that live at very high altitudes have developed several different genes that make living at those altitudes easier. There’s a group who have been living on boat and deep water diving for so long they’ve developed traits that help them dive deeper and longer. Those differences don’t make one group better or worse in any moral sense, but not recognizing the differences can have real consequences to individuals.
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  26. Buildings randomly collapsing in China is really great infrastructure
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  27. I see someone has swallowed the critical race swill
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  28. It was sold to the UK as part of a peace deal, so both are right in their own way
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  29.  @frankrenda2519  ask Mexico or Spain about that
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  30. You clearly don’t know anything about history, but marxists wouldn’t be marxists if they did.
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  31. You don’t get Churchills or Roosevelts without a Hitler
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  32.  @leko4420  you’re a complete idiot. You’re basic assumption that China is just going to keep growing is asinine. China’s population is the fastest aging of any major nation. The most populous nation in the world has found a way to run out of people.  The largest part of the real estate market in China are second homes, and they’ve already emptied out the countryside of all the working age people. Moreover, the ghost cities aren’t in areas people are moving to.Those buildings are speculative assets people are hoping to sell in the future. China’s economy began slowing down years ago. China hides a lot of their debt by taking it out under the name of state owned companies, rather than government by name. They’ve even started taking out loans to pay back money they’ve borrowed to pay back more loans. When a country gets to that point, the only question is how many history books are going to be written about the collapse.
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  33. Depends on the type of orbit you want, but polar orbits are a lot less common.
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  34.  @ChewEberrie  communist China is the world’s biggest polluter, and the Soviets created more than their fair share of environmental disasters, none of which have been cleaned up. Environmentally friendly isn’t something you can call communists. Capitalist countries have actually dedicated quite a lot of resources to protecting the environment. I have a feeling all the other examples you didn’t give are just as wrong.
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  35. I would call you ignorant, but you’re a commie, which is basically the same thing.
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  36.  @L0stEngineer  that’s because they’re communists. However, even is areas that are near parity, the US dominated. In Korea with the F-86 vs the MiG-15, the two most evenly match fighters in history, the US had a 7:1 kill ratio.
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  37.  @nederlandmijnvaderland  the US “lost” at the psychological level not on the ground
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  38. You leftists and your eternal problem with not understanding what words means. I suggest you look up what fundamental and rampant mean to start with.
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  39. It’s simple supply and demand. If there is large supply of low skilled workers, prices for low skilled labor will go down.
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  40. That’s happening just about everywhere, even in Africa. Granted, the birth rates in Africa only just started declining a couple years ago, so they still have 50 years with large populations.
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  41.  @f3tsch906  Stalin and Mao did a lot of killing of ideological reasons.
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  42. It’s simple. When we take a beating, everyone else takes it worse, so we’re always the last ones standing.
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  43. Or people just see the value of being part of the richest most powerful country in the world in spite of the local government
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  44. We helped Panama become an independent country when they broke away from Columbia.
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  45. We get it. You got your 50¢, you wumao
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  46.  @noahbpeters  the Franks were a West Germanic tribe, so not surprising.
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  47.  @theresafisher8781  I was going to ask if you understand the difference between teasing and harassment, until I saw you were in Washington. The leftists, leftists not liberals, are the worst hypocrites in the world. They denounce everyone else for what they are as a way to deflect from their own ism.
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  48. You’re right there’s no comparison. The BLM riots were far worse. They killed dozens of people and did billions of dollars in property damage. The riot caused by Pelosi not stationing enough police for proper crowd control only had one person killed, and she was shot by the police.
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  49. The problem is the politicization. The left has turned science from a way of developing knowledge into a dogma, and university students have been indoctrinated in to things like critical race theory
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  50. What the people are like and how the government acts are two very different things. Also, he’s covered the reasons China is going to collapse in other videos.
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  51. You know the difference between Europe and China is? Europe is even more divided.
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  52. Socialism was a miserable failure with 100 million tall mountain of dead bodies to prove it. Feudalism retarded human development and is generally regarded as a bad thing.
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  53. Constant wars between countries trying to secure their positions. It’s worse than it sounds.
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  54. Not at all. The Germanic cultures have always been very individualistic. Japan and South Korea are some of the most industrialized countries in the world, but they’re very collectivist.
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  55. There’s a trope in kong fu movies of the mad Buddha, someone driven insane by reaching enlightenment. It seems you’ve come to a similar idea.
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  56. Spain has territory in North Africa, and Morocco got labeled
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  57. The Iliad is the cornerstone of Ancient Greek literature, and your ancestors added even more depth to your equivalent. That’s not an insult.
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  58. These videos are speculative. Also, demographics are hugely important. You can’t run a country if all the people are geriatrics.
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  59. Space is to harsh that the best places are the only places you can realistically have colonies.
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  60. That’s because it would end to fast for foreign interference. Once water, food, and electricity are cut it would be over in three days.
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  61. No, it’s pride driven.
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  62. Not when you’re building up the reservoir. You can also shut down the flow if the water level isn’t too high or cause flooding by releasing more than would regularly be.
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  63. Yeah, major cities under lockdown is doing great
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  64. Maybe in Spanish and French but not English.
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  65.  @abrahamgn3614  nope, it’s only the convention in Spanish and French. In English the conventions are that the continents are called the Americas and the United State of America is truncated to America.
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  66.  @abrahamgn3614  nope, in English they are the Americas, notice the plural. In Spanish and French there are xenonyms for the US, while referring to the Americas are one region, but most just use the truncation of America for the US. You seem to be having a hard time understanding that there isn’t one objective system of classification. Each language has its own.
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  67.  @abrahamgn3614  you have no idea what you’re talking about. North and South America are completely different tectonic plates. Hell, North America is divided between 3 plates, the North American, Pacific, and Caribbean. Also, Europe, Asia, and Africa are all connected by land.
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  68.  @abrahamgn3614  So are Europe, Asia, and Africa. You can drive, in theory, from Cape Town to Norway passing through Asia Minor. Also, you’re really underestimating the how hard the Darien Gap is to get through.
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  69. China trapped inside a chain of islands, all of whom are American allies. It’s easy to blockade China from a safe distance. Also, Russia wouldn’t go against the US. China doesn’t matter that much to them, but India and access to international markets are
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  70. You’ve watched too much MSNBC propaganda
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  71. You really underestimate the development of anti-drone systems
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  72.  @thelitsquad2718  about 400 per year and about 3,300 in total. In the Gulf War Iraq was losing more than 400 a day. In WW2 1,500 tanks were destroyed in a single battle.
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  73. The US has never completely stopped immigration. We’ve severely restricted it at time.
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  74.  @ihatethewokecommies1321  for the time being, we have a stable population. However, if we can’t get the birth rate up in the next decade we’re going to have a problem.
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  75. Russia would probably be more like Spain in WW2 for the anti-Chinese alliance
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  76.  @Newbmann  I can see that. Russia and Turkey have come close to fighting in Syria.
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  77. The US has been down right gentle as the global hegemon.
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  78. No, the Democrats are the ones with too much power. They control two of the branches and are trying to leverage that position to take control of the third when at best the represent 1/2 the country.
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  79. Did you miss the whole colonial era of Canadian history?
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  80.  @frankrenda2519  you still haven’t said anything about the Mexican-American war, but more importantly, people turning against their governments en mass would help the US.
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  81. The greats of all kinds
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  82. With how Trudeau is going, Canada is going to need liberation
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  83. The Soviets looked strong until right before they collapsed too.
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  84. China has blown through trillions in USD to keep their currency stable.
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  85. The US took the Northern half of Mexico and was contemplating if the US should just take it all.
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  86. You don’t get Churchills or Roosevelts without a Hitler
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  87. It’s not if they can grow food without fertilizer. It’s that the crop yields will be down 25-50%
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  88. Nowhere because greed isn’t the basis of capitalism; free association is.
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  89. 1929, the US economy collapsed. 20 years later, the US in a superpower and entering one of the longest and largest economic expansions in US history
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  90. You Spanish speakers always get pissy about English conventions.
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  91.  @CaptainAmerica001  The first link was to the a video the same people I sent you to, and the video clearly explains that different places use the name differently, which is my point! Seriously, how stupid do you need to make my point for me?
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  92.  @CaptainAmerica001  you just refuse to take up any information that doesn’t agree with you. As I and the video explained, the US being called America is a truncation of United States of America. The only one who’s ignorant, arrogant, and condescending is you trying to force conventions of other languages on to English because you can’t understand how English categorizes land masses and vernacular.
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  93.  @CaptainAmerica001  “Languages have nothing to do with the name of the United States of AMÉRICA.” WRONG! It has everything to do with it. In some languages the Americas are two continents, and in others they’re one. In some languages, the name of the US and the continents are completely different. In English the conventions are two continents, North and South America, and a country called America. I’m not insinuating anything. If I’m going to saying it; I’m going to be blunt about it.
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  94.  @rizkyadiyanto7922  no, the Pax Americana
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  95. There have to be Russians to underestimate them
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  96.  @Slender_Man_186  those numbers aren’t from the Soviets. That’s just some math. Regardless of the model you use, the amount of radiation people were exposed to would cause an increase in early deaths from cancer at a rate below the natural deviation you see in populations that size.
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  97. China’s only carriers are an old Soviet carrier and a copy of that one, and the new one they’re building is inferior to the Nimitz and Ford classes.
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  98. @Joseph China hasn’t escaped the middle income trap.  Getting people to have few children is easy, but getting people to have more is hard. Moreover, even if they started having more children right now, it will take two decades before those children are old enough to start filling out China’s work force and start consuming goods en mass.
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  99.  @darthutah6649  the Chinese economy has been slowing for years, and the government has been doping their economy with endless debt
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  100.  @robertwright4906  Trump was always hated by the establishment Republicans, and he’s still massively popular among the populist wing. DeSantis, while I say this as a Floridian who is very happy with his governorship, he’s not well know out side of the state and political circles.
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  101.  @theresafisher8781  you should really improve your reading comprehension. I was agreeing with you after learning where you were talking about.
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  102. Most of your points were refuted to one degree or another in the video. Yes, companies pay people in poor countries a much lower wage than they would pay here, but the those jobs are much better paying than other jobs in the area. Another one is the woman being paid less. Women aren’t paid less per hours worked when comparing people in the same job. They just work fewer hours.
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  103. Social justice is the opposite of human rights.
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  104. Tim Pool voted for Bernie. Joe Rogan isn’t anti-vax. Try thinking.
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  105. There are two continents, and there are four major languages spoken, English, French, Portuguese, and Spanish. Moreover, he was clearly talking about the US.
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  106. They don’t. Most have a flood story, but they’re more variable than that.
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  107. It’s a correlative relationship, not causal. One of the biggest factors in military power is how sacred the nation is to the people. Religion is all about sacredness.
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  108.  @Albanez39  China and Vietnam are both nominally communists, but that doesn’t make them politically aligned. They’ve got a lot standing territorial dispute over islands in the South China Sea, and the Chinese even massacred Vietnamese troops back in the late 80s over it. Let’s not forget the Chinese invasion of Vietnam in 1979. Neighbors rarely make good friends.
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  109. Be quiet wumao
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  110. You might not be a marxist per se, but you definitely view things in marxist terms. Also, no one has ever said capitalism invented markets, let alone money. What differentiates capitalism from other economic systems are the free markets, without government or other institutions interfering
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  111. It’s not a superpower. China is boxed in and would have to fight a long and bloody war against Japan and the othe island nations around them just to get.
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  112. China’s relative debt is far worse than the US’s. Their real estate bubble makes the US’s in the early 2000s look tiny. Their population is going to shrink by at least half by the end of the century. The PLAN is a long way from surpassing the USN. The PLAN has more hulls, but they smaller and less capable. One supper carrier is worth more than 10 corvettes.
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  113. You haven’t been paying attention to the news for the last year and 1/2.
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  114.  @lifeuncovered6188  people have been fleeing California for years because of how crappy it is under Democrats. Cuomo murdered 15,000 people destroyed the state’s economy. Biden’s policies are driving inflation, and he’s trying to remove basic, constitutional freedoms like travel between states.
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  115. The company that runs the Hong Kong metro system is majority own by the city government and makes most of its money from leasing property.
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  116. Yes, he is the supreme YouTuber. All other channels shall bow-down to him.
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  117. The best Canada can hope for in 30 years is stagnation. Just look at their demographics
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  118. No one owns their home in China. The government just leases the land for 99 years. China has massive stockpiles, but they have just as many people and animals to eat it. Also, most of the grain has been badly stored.
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  119.  @Andrew-ip7cd  yeah, they will. Pandas are exceptionally lazy and rather stupid bears, but they are bears and have occasionally mulled people to death.
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  120.  @Andrew-ip7cd  You said never happens and now you’re saying rarely happens. Those are different things. Moreover, I never said it was common. I think this is still on topic. You used a metaphor of a panda for China not attacking other countries, but we have come to conclusion that pandas do attack people unprovoked, just like China has. Just because your metaphor doesn’t say what you thought it did, doesn’t mean it’s inaccurate.
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  121. The Arabs got a lot of their knowledge from the Greeks.
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  122. Russia has a smaller economy than Texas, which has 1/10 the population.
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  123. That’s what women say, but how they act is different
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  124. It’s a branch of the Indo-European language family, which includes languages like Hindi and Persian. Now days it’s typically called Indo-Iranian because of the connotations of Aryan.
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  125.  @daniellegler4011  happy to help
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  126.  @Cesar1492Enjoyer  what do cars have to do with prosperity? You must be a communist to ask stupid questions like that.
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  127.  @L0stEngineer  I was just going with the most even match.
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  128. In Spanish and French you’re right, but not in English
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  129. The US and Canada are so culturally similar that for all practical purposes we share a single culture, no Americanization needed
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  130.  @dynamitebsb4520  no, he said Mahabharata is like the Iliad in that it’s an epic about a war with significant cultural importance, and that in India the significance was added on to even more with the layering on of religious symbolism. You’re probably getting confused because he used the metaphor of Mahabharata being the Indian Iliad. He’s not saying it’s the Iliad and copied by India.
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  131. That’s a little too ruthless even for people like MrAcuther and “Bomber” Harris.
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  132. I have to disagree with you on points 3 & 4. A group with a strong ethnic identity is likely to use genetic engineering to further distinguish themselves from other groups by enhancing the traits the like. The US is an ideological state, and what distinguishes us from other groups is our thinking. While I’m sure there will be people who see genetic engineering as a form of self expression or way to gain a competitive advantage, being so individualistic, people tend not to feel the need to adapt themselves but rather find the place we’re best suited for.
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  133. English is over 1,500 years old. I don’t see why it won’t survive another 1,000. It might be New Modern English by then, but still English.
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  134.  @mattposlusny917  that’s a possibility, but I see it evolving like Latin did from Classical to Medieval Latin.
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  135. More than ten million people die in China every year now. It’s just that there won’t be enough babies being born to maintain the population.
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  136. the Chinese are looking at losing everything as is.
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  137. They would be non-voting territories for at least a decade while they’re Americanized.
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  138. The few drops against a sea. Who wins
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  139.  @bennybundi9671  you can’t just start handing out guns to random people on the street and tell them to secure the aqueduct or whatever. The few people in major cities with the potential to fight are out numbered by those out side the cities
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  140.  @RalphdontGAF  1) not everything is driven by one emotion even if it’s the major motivation. 2) gun owners are a lot less fearful than non-owners
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  141.  @RalphdontGAF  you clearly don’t pay attention to politics because all the left has been doing is fear. Also, just because someone is more prone to feel something doesn’t mean they’re more driven by it. In fact, many people feel negative emotions more strongly often seek to master it so as to not be dominated by it.
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  142.  @RalphdontGAF  total bullshit. For the better part of a decade now the left has only fear mongered about things. First it was Trump was going set up concentration camps and genocide minorities. Then he was going to start WW3 and kill all life on Earth. When Covid happened, it was all we have to lockdown or were all going to die and when the vaccines came out it was get vaxed or granny is going to die.
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  143. Of course, commies don’t know anything.
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  144. Yes, a much more accurate graph would include mediating factors like crime rate. When those are considered, black people afe less likely to be shot by police
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  145. Because they’re seen as reincarnated people. Cattle held a high place Indo-European cultures in general, and mix that with the ancestor warship; and you get very high status animals.
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  146.  @CliffCardi  To my very limited knowledge it’s only cattle that are held in such high regard. Although, animals in particular temples are treated with reverence if they resemble the god the temple is to. For example there’s a rat god, and all the rats in his temple are feed and treated with great respect
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  147.  @bitcoinzoomer9994  it’s religion. Religions aren’t rational.
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  148. Yes, British bands preforming an American genre are British fish talking bore in and living it’s life in an American lake. Almost every social media platform is American and dominated by Americans
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  149. No they aren’t. In fact, we have an open offer to them to join the Union.
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  150. Even if the USN disappeared, the USD would still be the reserve currency because the US economy is by far the largest economy on earth.
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  151. You really don’t understand the US. American expansion was mostly the government try to stop Americans from breaking the treaties, and we’re not changing. Right now SpaceX are taking the lead, not NASA. China doesn’t have the man power or capital, and they’re beginning to turn inward. Japan and the EU have aging populations who won’t be able to support something so expensive. Also, as long as the US exists, Japan will never be a superpower.
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  152. The CCP leadership is in that range, and Chinese culture, what’s left of it anyway, highly values elders. The CCP isn’t beyond doing it, but it’s suicide.
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  153.  @marcin8680  you never answered my question: how do you suppose China would deal with the civil unrest caused by your plans?
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  154.  @marcin8680  Chinese people aren’t stupid. They’ll notice, and this would be far worse than Tiananmen Square, which the CCP were afraid lead to their overthrow.
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  155. Except the naked tyranny of it. You even have the last living signatory of your charter of rights suing for abuse of power.
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  156. 1) have you seen the leftists? 2) you can’t magic up a city’s worth of food and water over night. 3) there’s no reason the roads, railroads, and rivers would stop working. 4) who is going to support the cities? They don’t produce the food and other basic resources. They make the high value added good which are mostly consumed within the US. 5) the left has installed left leadership in the military, but the rank and file are more like 60/30 in favor of the right, and the way the has been treating the military is just causing disaffiliation. Also, the military oath is to up hold the constitution, not blindly fallow orders.
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  157. We’re not a maritime empire. We’re a continental power that ran out of land and resources to build a navy
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  158.  @mafinalmessagechangedaworl7131  if Biden wasn’t restricting the number of wells that can be drilled, we would be producing more than enough oil for out needs.
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  159. No, the cities aren’t where the power of the US comes from, and even if they were, the rural ares would just cut off food, water, and electricity without damaging most of the infrastructure. Also, the left has been getting much more radical over the last 5 years. Just this year a million people switched from Democrat to Republican or independent.
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  160. The EU isn’t nearly as cohesive as you seem to think.
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  161.  @saismo1657  he’s saying Biden is bought off by China in an incredibly rude way.
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  162.  @saismo1657  because Hunter Biden took millions of dollars from China as his dad’s middle man
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  163.  @saismo1657  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OkUSt6sA04
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  164. Humans think in mythical terms. While science and reason are powerful tools, they can’t change human nature. Even many of the most devout adherents to science and reason have turned them into a religion.
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  165.  @alexarr8395  out demographics and geography are good. Everything else is the way it is because we chose it.
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  166. The E4 mafia under an American military dictatorship would be the most powerful shadow organization in human history. Although, I would much rather deal with them than the DMV.
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  167. And it would have worked if a few things went differently.
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  168. They’ve captured most of the elites, but not the body politic
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  169. It doesn’t matter where people are if there’s not enough young people to support the old people. Also, test scores are a terrible metric when it’s all you’re using. Test scores just prove people know facts, not if they know to apply what they know or can work through a problem.
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  170.  @user-uf2df6zf5w  no, the eldest son supporting his parents is once they’re too old to work is how civilization has worked until recently in industrialized nations with a pension system, and even pension systems require young people paying in.  Again, you miss my point. PISA reports to measures the ability to apply skills, not the ability to develop new solutions.
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  171.  @user-uf2df6zf5w  you don’t understand humans, and you really don’t understand Chinese culture. Even in the hyper-individualist US, we don’t abandon family, and in China, where the culture is heavily influenced by confucianism, family is 100 times more important. Knowledge is a lot easier obtain than creativity.
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  172. And the wumao roachs have come out
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  173.  @thelitsquad2718  we’ve had ATGM for decades now and had several wars with them. Tanks are still here.
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  174.  @thelitsquad2718  and your point is that tanks have always had threats to them? That seems counter to your previous point.
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  175.  @thelitsquad2718  no, you’re point was that tanks are obsolete, and you tried to use how easy it is to destroy tanks as the explanation why. For every new weapon there is a defense. Active defense systems have been developed against missiles. Various strategies are being developed to deal with drones.
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  176. I think you mean mildly traditionalist government. Europe’s Overton window is skewed so far left actual communists are the moderate left.
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  177. If several states had fallowed their own laws and Twitter and others hadn’t suppressed the Hunter laptop, Biden would have lost. That being said, Bernie wouldn’t have won either.
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  178. The Gnostics were a very strange early sect of Christianity.
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  179.  @InternetLaser  “ Current evidence points to” is uselessly vague statement. What kind of skills do these immigrants have that we can’t produce or at least can’t produce enough of? Sure an immigrant working as low cost labor is going to consume goods and services, but would they consume as much as an American, who would demand higher pay? Even if they do, is it worth displacing our own people?
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  180.  @InternetLaser  even if I give you that someone from Mexico has to come to the US for their knowledge of Mexico’s ecology, not an American scientist doing expeditions and all the other stuff, that’s a minority of people coming to the US. Most people are low skilled. Even if there are only two options, there aren’t, I would much prefer investing in other countries, rather importing masses of people to be an underclass. Moving people from a poor country to a rich one doesn’t magically end poverty
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  181.  @InternetLaser  wow, you’re full of crap. You complain about the example of yours I used to make my point rather than making an argument against my. Then you complain about the words I use to describe the ad hock system that has evolved to bring people into the US. You hold two incompatible ideas at the same time. How is a government supposed to tax people if they hold no control over the flow of people, capital, or goods? Moreover, why would people invest here if those things are so easy to move? Also, “economists estimate” is too vague to mean anything and basic bitch example of appeal to authority. Are those estimates of mass immigration or free trade?
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  182. There’s no point in ending the abuse of power if the abuser is still in power.
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  183.  @Boberman286  peaceful and nonviolent are exactly the same thing. Moreover, how do you terrorize people without at least the threat of violence? The definition of terrorism has violence and the threat of violence in it. How is honking a horn a threat of violence?
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  184. We haven’t invented Skynet and the terminators yet.
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  185. There’s no good reason they wouldn’t join the US. The cultural differences between the US and Canada are smaller than the regional difference within both. Much pf Canadian identity is built around not being American. If that Canadian identity implodes, then all that’s left is the regional identities, which fallow geography rather than political borders. Also, they would probably want to able to make political and economic decisions from the inside rather than being dictated term to by the much more power US.
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  186.  @monkeytime9851  the US collapsing, like the end of the world, has been much predicted and has yet to happen. My understanding is that the western provinces don’t have issues with being part of a bigger country. They have issues being ruled over by people who don’t represent their interests. If the joined the US they would be joining a block of states with similar interests
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  187. They probably couldn’t take Taiwan, let alone project power across the planet
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  188. They’ll be locked in their cities with the electricity, food, and water shut off in days. Mercs aren’t going to be able to stop something that fast or even be hired.
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  189. Generally, you only kill the ruling class when conquering a place, particularly when outnumbered 10-100 to 1. Also, all the genetic, archeological, and linguistic evidence points to Ukraine being the origin of Indo-Europeans.
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  190. I don’t see a Confederate States of America on a modern map.
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  191.  @alessandrodelogu7931  we didn’t lose. We lost interest.
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  192.  @davefranklyn7730  and my point is that the rebellion lost to the US.
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  193.  @davefranklyn7730  secessionists are rather explicitly denouncing their status as Americans.
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  194.  @davefranklyn7730  I was speaking about secessionists in all times, past, present, or future. Let’s take this step by step. Secessionists are implicitly denouncing their citizenship. Denouncing their citizenship makes them not Americans.
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  195. The wokeists make up at least 1/3 of the party, and that fraction is growing as moderates flee for the sane Republicans
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  196.  @nadavgilboa5054  the work by hidden tribes of America estates that 8% of the US population are progressives. It’s common knowledge the Democrats and Republicans have each had about 30% of the voters for decades.
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  197. 1) China’s economy is never going to over take the US’s. 2) China is boxed in by geography. 3) China has ruined their relationship with most of their neighbors.
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  198. Every girl gets a tentacle monster and every guy gets a harem of his choice?
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  199.  @darthutah6649  the last ~70 years show not many
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  200. China is going to be a champion of sucking, so no.
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  201.  @johnpaulcross424  there’s a lot of good information in the video, but the conclusions have some issues. China’s demographics are going to have major problems before that, and the main reason China has seen the economic growth it has is because of the US providing security for trade. With the US retrenchment, China is going to have to look out for its own trade, and they live in a traditionally tough neighborhood.
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  202. It’s pot-ash, as in the the cooking vessel.
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  203. Yes, Europe is passive and broken, not even responding to crisis
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  204. No, it lost that status after the Mexican revolution
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  205. Most latinos are of majority European ancestry. The dividing line on who is “white” is a question of if you identify with the Northern European culture of the US of the Southern European culture of Latin America.
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  206. Biden’s entire career can be defined by failing up. Under Trump we neither started nor joined a new war and the economy was the best it’s been since the 90s. Under Biden Russia invaded Ukraine, and we’ve been supporting the Ukrainians as a proxy. And don’t get me started on the economy.
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  207.  @Newbmann  Russia is actually pretty weak compared to the US and China. Russia has said they’ll just nuke China if they invade Russia’s eastern territory. The Chinese have also pissed Russia off with stealing technology. I think India would be happy to just buying technology from Russia, while they give China a cold shoulder.
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  208. Biden is handing out checks and printing money. That’s exactly what leftists do.
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  209. It has been
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  210. All of it.
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  211.  @thatsaboat2882  what are you talking about? We’d be happy to take North (cold) Luisiana.
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  212. You’re conflating religious faith for trust. Western societies are high trust, but not religious
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  213. The Romans invaded what’s not Scotland and even controlled part of it.
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  214. You do know that many standards are capped with a spear head, right? It’s part of the martial history of flags. Also, using the constitutional mechanisms to challenge what you feel was an unlawful election is the exact opposite of antidemocratic.
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  215. Socialism is the logical extreme of the Enlightenment, so it’s not surprising
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  216. Our politicians haven’t even started physically fighting yet
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  217. What happens when some general decides he wants to set up his own feifdom but doesn’t have the means to put him down?
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  218. Christian Socialism wouldn’t have made any difference on colonialism. Countries started dropping them when they stopped serving their purpose. At the end of WW2 the US sat everybody around a big table and told them we would protect their trade from anywhere to anywhere, and if they didn’t play nice, they would get the hammer. In the environment all colonies are is expensive vanity projects.
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  219. The US has no major external threats with the resources we need, so no matter the problems we have internally, we can work it out.
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  220. I’m pretty sure he meant in the numbers we have today
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  221. China isn’t a superpower, and the Chinese housing market collaping right now and lockdowns are probably going to cause massive revolts
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  222. You’re forgetting a couple of things. The only state besides the 13 founding states that wasn’t a territory before becoming a state is West Virginia, and that’s entirely because of the circumstances it was created. Congress has had super majorities of of both parties, so parties might just make a new territory a state with their super majority.
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  223. You think wars that will kill millions is a good thing?
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  224.  Guts  yeah, we told everyone else to play nice or else, and it’s the few places that didn’t listen that are get the stick from the US.
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  225. No, the Americas and Australia are going to be fine. Europe is going to limb it’s way through. Asia and Africa are going to be horror shows
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  226. If you mean conservative as in keeping things the same as they’ve been, you’re right; they were conservative at all. If you mean conservative as simple and austere, they were definitely conservative.
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  227. The US is going to be the only place of relative calm. American power is going to be further entrenched
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  228. They already are
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  229. China has always been authoritarian, and its not going to change anytime soon.
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  230. Japan doesn’t have nuclear warheads, but they have the knowledge and experience to build one within months if they wanted to.
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  231. Thank you for showing everyone you’re one of those weak anxiety driven people
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  232. Their population problems are worse than anybody’s.
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  233. Serf. Surf involves the board
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  234.  @Theorychad99  you repeat what I say.
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  235. China’s crime statistics, like most statistics from China, are completely made up. If you’re well connected, you can get by with any crime. If you’re on the wrong side of someone with more clout, you’ll be arrested even if they have to invent charges.
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  236. Spring used to be called the starving time.
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  237. What is an “Angloid”? And what is this we you’re talking about? You clearly haven’t been paying attention to China lately. Their economy is imploding, and inflating the bubble called China’s economy isn’t going to fix the problems.
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  238.  @jameswilliams2182  and China is spending at least that on make work projects.
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  239. It’s the other way around. Trump is the Gracchi brothers. He was fixing the system broken by corruption, and the corrupt elites hated him for it. Although, rather than beating him to death in the streets, in their own words, they “fortified” the election.
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  240.  @Darth_Bateman  going “derrrrrrp” would be a better argument
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  241. He’s covered much of this before in other videos
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  242. The US has survived worse. Even if there’s violence, one side limited to urban cores.
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  243. French is the 4th most spoken native language in Manitoba, and English is by far the more dominant language even if it’s not as dominant as in North Dakota, which Manitoba shares the border with.
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  244.  @resevoirdog  yes, a lot of people speak a first language that isn’t used in schools. Also, the second largest French speaking population in Canada outside of Quebec isn’t the same as French being the second most spoken language in Manitoba.
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  245. Genetics, archeology, and linguistics all clearly show Indo-Europeans originated in Ukraine. There are basal words for plants and animals you don’t have in India. There’s a clear mixing of populations in India, while there’s an overwhelming majority of the R1b haploid group in the area around Ukraine. The oldest clearly Indo-European graves are from Ukraine.
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  246. No, you’re just crazy far left.
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  247.  @DQBlizzard_  he’s pushing far left social issues and is extremely authoritarian.
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  248. 2) the US grossly over estimated covid deaths 2) the lockdowns were .1% effective, while other causes of death spiked
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  249.  @amk4956  the CDC, WHO, and just about every other other health organization has said the lockdowns are ineffective
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  250. There’s no reason to assume China and India are going to reach parity with the US.
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  251. Canada only exists because the US allows it to.
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  252. Are you trying to say the Turks stopped using Arabic or Arabic script?
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  253. Germany has less than 1/3 the population, and even that has to be broken up into different state systems.
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  254. With demographics as they are around the world, the USD is going to be the reserve currency for at least a another generation
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  255. We’re running low on artillery shells, something we don’t use much of because we use bombs and missiles. Our ships are newer and in far better shape than the Russian navy’s. The RN has had major fires destroyed or heavily damaged several of their ships, and the pride of their Black sea fleet was sunk last year because of the poor condition it was in meant it couldn’t defend itself from a missile.
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  256.  @mlytle0  i was responding to this: “Our Naval assets are in poor condition over all (with the notable exception of Submarines, where we still excel). The Russians, on the other hand, have rebounded.” The US military is so overwhelmingly powerful that even regional powers have to fight the US asymmetrically.
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  257.  @mlytle0  I understand what you’re saying, and most of it is factually wrong.
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  258. We’ve already seen mass revolts in urban areas after the Democrats lost in the. We’re probably going to have the same thing happen in a few weeks after this election, and if not, in 2024. Milley should be in jail for sedition, and Bar is a corrupt POS. Trump only wanted constitutional remedies to grievances with how the election was conducted.
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  259. Culture and and economics dwarfs any ideological differences.
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  260.  @7pop217  Canada’s provincial differences are baked into the geography, and in the case of Quebec, cultural/linguistic differences. Those differences also make large parts of Canada more like areas of the US than other parts of Canada because those areas of the US and Canada are part of the same geographic landscape
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  261. Look up the Indian war, Filibusters, how Japan got involved in Mongolia, and a ton of other times it’s happened.
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  262.  @votebrian66  wow, that’s some grade A bullshit circa 2018.
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  263. Trudeau is a neoliberal on economics and radical leftist on social issues.
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  264. Russia is winning, but they’re really under preforming. If they were anywhere near as good as they made out, they would have overrun Ukraine months ago. Russia is selling a trickle of underpriced oil to India and China. It’s better than nothing, but it’s not going to make ip the difference
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  265. The Russians clearly planned for a quick and easy victory, are now having a hard time against a second rate military
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  266. The PLAN would be obliterated by the USN outside of the the hypersonic missile umbrella. There are also numerous bottlenecks between China and the Middle East.
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  267. No, teachers have to have degrees in what they teach
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  268.  @JhanCarnero1984  that’s the dumbest argument I’ve heard. languages don’t change conventions because of a borrowed word.
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  269.  @CaptainAmerica001  and that gets truncated in America.
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  270.  @CaptainAmerica001  those are initialisms, not truncations. Also, we’re know as Americans because we’re from America.
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  271.  @CaptainAmerica001  the government’s shorthand doesn’t change the conventions, particularly because there are several English speaking countries. People from those countries aren’t Americans. They’re from the Americas, which I might add are two continents. Now, if this was Spanish or French, which have different completely different conventions, you would have a point, but this is English.
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  272.  @CaptainAmerica001  here’s a video that shows how ridiculous your first argument is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrsxRJdwfM0&t=410s Wikipedia also has a good article that blows you arguments out of the water: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demonyms_for_the_United_States
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  273.  @JhanCarnero1984  the only ones here with a grievance are you and alphanumeric designation
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  274.  @CaptainAmerica001  I’ve explained how what language you’re using changes everything, repeatedly. You’re just too dumb to comprehend it.
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  275. Sorry, the US decolonizing after WW2 is completely unrealistic. The US was the last power standing after WW2 and could have easily told the colonial powers to hand over their colonies. The US even treated Japan Germany like colonies for a short period.
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  276.  @hb2495  no, he’s a lying sack of shit getting paid by the CCP to lies about the genocides their committing
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  277.  @saladin3273  how many wars between great powers have there been since 1945?
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  278.  @rizkyadiyanto7922  the Soviets were always the weaker of the two superpowers, which is why they relied so heavily on the threat of nuclear weapons, and Russia is a shadow of the Soviet Union.
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  279. Yeah, when the US conquers the world.
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  280.  @FleetAdmiralDouglas  you’re taking a joke way too seriously.
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  281. He would have lost.
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  282. You mistake regression with progress.
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  283.  @toptextbottomtext3062  thanks for making my case for me.
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  284.  @toptextbottomtext3062  no, which is why I call y’all regressives.
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  285.  @toptextbottomtext3062  he’s not the one promoting pedos. It’s you “progressives”.
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  286.  @toptextbottomtext3062  yeah, yeah, you can quote mine. I get it. You can’t stand losing but can’t win the argument, so you resort to dishonest tactics.
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  287.  @toptextbottomtext3062  yeah, yeah, you can quote mine. I get it. You can’t stand losing but can’t win the argument, so you resort to dishonest tactics.
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  288. Either join the US and get a say or be independent and forced to take dictates.
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  289.  @litrogue6328  you don’t understand what was said at all. Fascists talk about the superiority innate to their group over other. The other video was talking about the affects of genes on the individual, and it was also clearly stated that genetics are only part of the equation. Spirituality is a massive part of the human condition. Those who ignore or actively try to suppress it always have terrible results
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  290. The Republicans are a lot more democratic than the Democrats.
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  291. Humans are one of the least genetically diverse species. There was genetic bottleneck 50-100 thousand years ago. Some scientists think it was a volcano. Others think it was highly selective mate preferences.
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  292. The Christianity as we know it in the West is very Greek.
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  293. The Soviets were plenty anti-scientific in their own ways, but produced their fair share of scientific knowledge in fields that didn’t conflict with their state religion.
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  294. The socialists certainly started the French Revolution, but by the end they had an Emperor who started a short lived dynasty.
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  295. China is constantly having to reconquer itself after it breaks apart.
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  296. 5 years ago, you would be right, but over the last few years, the socialists have driven the party to far left
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  297.  @sovietpotatoes2353  we have communists openly rioting and calling for the violent over throwing of the government. Have you heard of the Chaz? There is no “by American standards” you idiot
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  298.  @sovietpotatoes2353  you’ve missed my point about the “by American standards”. I wasn’t saying there is no such thing as an American frame of reference. I meant that they are far to left regardless of reference. The Democrats have been courting the far left, so while the many of rioters aren’t strictly speaking Democrats, the Democrats have been trying to get the rioters on their side. They’ve even been fairly successful at it.
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  299.  @darthutah6649  how is being tied with middle income countries proof that China has gotten past the middle income trap?
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  300.  @louisglatt1038  Trump supporters have no problem with the rich per se. Hell, they want to be rich. Their problem with the elites currently is that they have personal and national pride of Americans.
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  301.  @Maxipadtriplesix  I don’t know you, I have no idea. Maybe ask someone you know.
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  302. It obviously never accounted for communist delusions.
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  303. That’s because poor places in the US can’t afford to waste money on leftist policies. It also doesn’t help that leftist policies at the national level hurt everyone but the rich on the coasts.
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  304. If leftist policies generate wealth, why does California have the highest poverty when adjusted for cost of living? It’s also leftist policies that created the inner city slums.
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  305.  @guydreamr  Poverty in the United States: 2021 by the Census Bureau. Read the Supplemental Poverty Measure section
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  306. The west is what happens when you civilize barbarians.
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  307. You’ve been reading too much Chinese propaganda
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  308. China’s economy is slowing to shrinking, and they’re decades behind in technology
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  309. The US has been moving to making more light industry domestically or relocating to places like Vietnam and Mexico. Also, it’s very easy to transport goods around the US. We have more navigable rives than the rest of the world combined. We also have the largest freight rail network in the world. Even with the recent spike in prices, the US has lower fuel costs than Europe or China
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  310.  @AA-Crow  our proclivity for flexibility doesn’t mean we can’t move things more efficiently. Moving containers on a river might not be as efficient as moving it by see, but it’s a lot more efficient than by truck. Also, most imports heading for the eastern half of the country are shipped to a port on the east and gulf coast.
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  311.  @AA-Crow  an underutilized advantage is an advantage. Also, you’re completely ignoring bulk good, which are the most important to ship cost effectively. As a rule it costs less to move goods by water than land, so if it’s cheaper to ships goods by land in the US than by sea, it means the US has a highly developed and efficient transport system. Transport costs are highly dependent on the local conditions.
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  312. If you live in the West, you already live one of those countries, no marxism needed.
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  313. He said he didn’t care if Hunter had dead kids in his basement.
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  314. You’re mistaking the big cities for the country as a whole.
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  315. It was a graveyard at a church with an attached school. The church and school moved and the graveyard was forgotten about. There wasn’t anything nefarious about it. And other things like that, which got completely distorted. That doesn’t mean the residential schools were good either.
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  316.  @garrettp1  actually, children’s graveyards where very common until about 70 years ago. The Childhood mortality rate was 20% pre-antibiotics. Through most of history it was closer to 40%, and in prehistory it was nearly 60%.
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  317. You’re right about the weapons we've given them, but both sides are using drones in numbers and ways that aren’t anything like the 90s
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  318.  @lmao.3661  Yes, the US is the exception of all things
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  319. China is too fractured to ever be able to do that
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  320. They do to some degree, but they not big on immigration. And what countries are going to let China import tens of millions, so they’re now dealing with a massive gender imbalance?
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  321. The US doesn’t care about that area, so won’t have reason to stop Turkey. Russia’s population is only 40% larger than Turkey’s, and their demographics are terrible. Also, Turkey doesn’t have the vast sparsely inhabited area to defend. The huge area of Russia spreads their limited forces very thin.
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  322. Russian cope is funny
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  323.  @DavidChristosAlexandros  it’s not reality.
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  324. The “Radical Republicans” was the original name of the Republican Party back in the mid 1800s.
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  325. Most of Canada’s population is surrounded by the US on two sides, and the rural areas are much more inclined to join the US than the cities.
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  326. Most of Canada’s population is surrounded by the US on two sides, and the rural areas are much more inclined to join the US than the cities.
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  327.  @gajxo  no, Rogan got in trouble telling people what he did when he got covid, but all the big institutions like labeled anyone who didn’t mindlessly endorse the vaccine as the only possible way of surviving covid as an ativaxer. I can easily see Tim saying something reasonable and a mob of indoctrinated nut jobs attacking him forcing him to defend himself and anyone with him. I can see a lot of people having to defend themselves from the violent cult that the Democrats are turning into.
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  328. They can have a new prophet, who will start a new religion saying Muhammad was wrong the same Muslims say Christ was a prophet but wrong.
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  329. You didn’t understand anything. His argument is that cultures dominated by particular emotions creat different social conditions. In the west those conditions were conducive to discovering various laws and theories of science.
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  330.  @worstedwoolens  a metaphor and noticing that there’s a resemblance between a couple of ideas?
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  331. Yes, that’s the point of speculation.
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  332. Rome is the only empire in western history that’s comparable to the US in terms of power. Also, the US is a republic
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  333. Religious and church going are two different things.
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  334. There are more countries now than in the 19th and 20th centuries because of the break up of empires. As rule by force became politically disfavored by all, nations within empires gained independence. While the US has distinct regions, most of see ourselves as Americans. Canada can’t say the same thing.
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  335. Not in English.
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  336.  @alt1f4  yes, unless they’re speaking Spanish, which has an exonym for the US.
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  337.  @alt1f4  exo: outside nym: name Exonym: the name people from the outside use
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  338. Vietnam isn’t a Chinese ally. They have a long bad history with China
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  339. Purity spiral.
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  340. The USD is the world’s reserve currency; if it goes, so does the rest of the world’s currency. Also frankly, Americans don’t care that much the rest of the value our currency. All that really matters is how much other Americans value the USD. Money doesn’t mean much without food or water. Moreover, you really don’t understand the difference between mercs and national militaries
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  341. There are ways of manipulating the vote, but fundamentally, they do have to obey it.
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  342.  @robertlewis6915  China has very little influence on the US, and they’re losing favorability by the day. The Most the Biden administration can do is slow that trend. It’s a similar story in Europe.
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  343.  @robertlewis6915  no government can just ignore what the populous wants.
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  344. Limited suffrage seems like the only solution to people voting in politicians how just promise money. However, it sets up the conditions for a system of patronage that degraded Rome from the inside
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  345. Brazil has two big problems: the costal mountains and high input agriculture. The mountains make getting goods out of the interior very hard. The high input ag means the narrow margins for farming get eaten up
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  346. I doubt he will introduce a new flag. Flags are notoriously hard to get right, even though there are literally just three rules to making a good flag, and the Maple Leaf is iconic.
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  347.  @theemiester4090  even though it makes no sense, that was just a word change, not a complete rewrite.
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  348. There’s not a lot of institutional support for nuclear, but the technology is improving. All kinds of new reactor designs (SMRs, MARs, fast reactors, etc,) are being worked on.
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  349. Yes, leftist coastlines and conservative hinterlands. Big chunks of Oregon and Washington want to break away from their states and join Idaho.
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  350.  @chaomingli6428  in another country, you might have a point. However, the CCP has imposed themselves and their ideology onto China.
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  351. Actual white supremacists or people like the Proud boys who believe American values are the best in the world? Although, I know white and black supremacists some times agree to partition the country between different races.
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  352. US security agreements are why Europe is peaceful, and what people want and what people will do are completely different
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  353. This level of violence is actually pretty normal for the US.
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  354. It means a capable, good looking , and charismatic man, the peak of masculinity
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  355. Not really. Moving stuff in space is actually pretty easy, particularly if you don’t care too much about being fast. However, the true value of materials in space is their use in space.
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  356. Not really. Moving stuff in space is actually pretty easy, particularly if you don’t care too much about being fast. However, the true value of materials in space is their use in space.
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  357. Payback is a bitch. 20% of the 100 most used in English words are derivations of Old Norse words.
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  358.  @lifeuncovered6188  people have been fleeing California for years because of how crappy it is under Democrats. Cuomo murdered 15,000 people destroyed the state’s economy. Biden’s policies are driving inflation, and he’s trying to remove basic, constitutional freedoms like travel between states.
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  359.  @dickgoblin  considering only nuclear can displace fossil fuels and Republicans aren’t actively hostile nuclear, that doesn’t really make a difference.
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  360. You’re assuming foreign talent is the diver of innovation. We’re happy to take them, but they’re supplementary
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  361. Started by George Washington.
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  362. Many books
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  363. Money
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  364. There aren’t any moderate Democrats, nor are you a moderate. You’re one of those leftists who is going to be surprised when you see how people actually agree with you.  By all but the leftist definition, the US is one of the most tolerant countries in history. Breaking up the sex cartel women had and calling it sexual liberation is just hilarious. The voting patterns are clear about who votes what way. Most Democrats are upper middle class and minority groups bribed into voting Democrat. You’re conflating overwhelming majorities with unanimity. You sound like a young earth creationist; just because you don’t understand the argument means it’s wrong.
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  365.  @4rtifex  yeah, and momentum in the east-west direction doesn’t help you if you’re aiming for a north-south orbit.
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  366. The US has more forest now than in 1900. China is a giant ecological disaster in the shape of a country
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  367. No one is fallowed around or pulled over by the police for being black. They’re fallowed/pulled over for being suspicious. Also, a lot of socialist ideas have worked their way into American society even if people reject it as a whole.
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  368.  @chrisaustin9949  besides making a bald faced logical fallacy, argument from dictionary, you’re wrong. I looked up several definitions of socialism, and not a single one said that.
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  369.  @chrisaustin9949  dictionaries are descriptive, not prescriptive. That means they tell us how people are using the word, not telling people how to use the word. It’s because of this and stupid people we have abominations like literally meaning both literally and it’s antonym, figuratively. You’re right. They’re not trying to turn the US into the USSR. They’re trying to to the US into Zimbabwe. Two of the three founders of the main BLM organization are self professed marxists and numerous protests have had people chanting quotes from one of Marx’s books.
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  370.  @chrisaustin9949  yes, Zimbabwe has socialists take over and implement racist, anti liberal policies that destroyed the economy —along with being morally wrong—, and in response, the government started printing money. The Biden administration has been going their utmost to do the same and has printed more money than ever before in US history. Yes, most people who support BLM are idiots who don’t know what they’re supporting, but a tiger doesn’t lose its stripes just because the tiger doesn’t know it has stripes.
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  371. No one can seriously invade the US.
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  372. Outside of modern times, there were no black Europeans. At most they were olive skinned.
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  373. Russia some how has worse demographics than China, and Europe is looking at a long stagnant era at best.
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  374.  @eirikarnesen9691  betting against something just because it’s the favorite is stupid.
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  375.  @chozer1  North Korea calls itself democratic. Europe is divided by geography along with all the cascading effects that has. Without the security that the US has provided, those differences won’t be able to be ignored anymore.
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  376. They think they’re saving the world by stopping destructive ag practices. To some degree they’re right, but now isn’t the time for that. You should also look up what’s happening with the Dutch farmers
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  377. No one owns their home in China. The government just leases the land for 99 years. China has massive stockpiles, but they have just as many people and animals to eat it. Also, most of the grain has been badly stored.
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  378.  @evandubois3364  you’re right China is far worse. China has the largest real estate bubble in history, and it collapsing
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  379. The red chapel.
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  380. It’s possible, but it would take some really major changes for the US to want to annex Northern Mexico. As is the relationship would be great if we could deal with the cartels and illegals
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  381. Provoking a panda is as simple as wearing a jacket it wants.
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  382. He explained that at the start of the video
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  383. Both are populists from well to do families who were/are hated by the deeply corrupt establishment. After a term in the highest office fighting the corruption of the system, they were attacked by the corrupt who they weren’t able to get rid of. In the case of the Gracchi it was literally being beaten to death. For Trump it means constant police harassment.
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  384. The species of malaria that are particularly dangerous to humans are from the Niger delta when they jumped from other great apes to humans.
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  385. You’re confusing the tenets for the institution.
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  386.  @mitchellblake1475  you should try practicing what you preach because you’re suffering from the sin of pride. This is about a group of people, not you.
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  387. Try watching the video before commenting.
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  388. Hunter-gatherers are the poorest people on the planet, and it’s only after our ancestors learn ways of life more advanced than that were they able to build some weslth. And in more recent past, were people able to build enough wealth to for most of population to not be poor.
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  389. Women could always own land. Widows owned the land their husbands had owned, and even when women got married with land, her land became part of household’s property, which was the same for men.
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  390. The US can’t feed the world, and the US is the single largest grain exporter in the world. The global system only works because the US has secured it since 1945.
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  391. It’s nice to see I’m not the only one thinking of that kind of stuff
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  392. Florida has cities controlled by Democrats. Although, they’re losing ground quickly. Also, the people who are believe the election was stolen are the ones against the democratic process? Think that one over for a bit and you’ll see the contradiction.
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  393. The right wing jobs you mentioned aren’t inherently right wing like a diversity officer is. That’s why he didn’t mention them
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  394. Potato, potato. Whatever word we use, people from Indo-European cultures moved into India bringing their language and culture.
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  395. Because it’s mentioned briefly in the video.
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  396. Canada is part of the British commonwealth, but that means very little. At this point the only direct connection to the UK Canada has is the Queen being the head of state for both countries.
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  397. India as unified entity is a British creation. Also, the Greeks conquered part of India and established kingdoms that lasted for hundreds of years.
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  398. It’s going to be the Surrender at the Forbidden City.
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  399.  @jankutac9753  before ~2,000 years ago we we only have archeological evidence, but the Romans did write about the Germanic tribes. Then around 1,500 years ago our own records are good enough to say our ancestors were pretty individualistic.
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  400. Most countries in Europe aren’t even a century old —I’m including countries that completely reformed their government, like Germany and former Eastern block countries— during the greatest peace in history
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  401.  @alaeus2310  you didn’t understand anything. These systems haven’t had to deal with real since they were form, reformed, or reconstituted.
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  402.  @alaeus2310  most of those are enough to change administrations, not change the type of government. The only one mentioned that could is the Russian invasion of Ukraine but only those involved. Also, the Cold War wasn’t a crisis.
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  403. Canada literally set up internal borders to restrict internal movement and Trudeau declared martial law
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  404.  @Robcroley  the only one being histrionic here is you for calling a peaceful protest and occupation, but you’ve obviously been conditioned by the media to uncritically accept obvious bullshit.
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  405.  @Robcroley  if you don’t like political protests, don’t live in national capitol. You seem to think Ottawa is just your city; it’s not. It’s the capitol of Canada. You don’t claim to be protecting the rule of law by undermining the rule of law.
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  406.  @Robcroley  democracy doesn’t men tyranny of the elected. All citizens have the right to protest the actions of the government at any time. I have no problem with public sit-ins from any side so long as they didn’t damage property to enter or damage property in the process of protesting.
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  407.  @Robcroley  no, lost business isn’t property damage. Sells are not property in any sense, let alone a physical object that can be damaged. A sit-in is a sit-in regardless of size, and Ottawa wasn’t shut down. The protest was a couple streets near the Houses of Parliament. It’s only your who are making this a zero-sum game with no run to negotiate. If Trudeau would have actually sat down with the people he is supposed to represent, he could have resolved the problems with far less disruption. However, he has a fundamentally authoritarian mindset and only knows how to use the force of the state to force submission
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  408.  @Robcroley  loss of business can be a legal tort, but there was no property damaged therefor no property damage. Yes, we’ve established that you’re an authoritarian who believes in the tyranny of the elected, but that’s not the English liberal tradition of Canada works. Everyone has the right to peaceful petition their government for redress of grievances, and it is the duty of the government to adress the grievances of its citizens.
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  409.  @Robcroley  I called you an authoritarian because you are one. You’re advocating for the removal of peaceful protesters. Also, an ad hominem is saying you’re because of some derogatory label. I’m saying you’re wrong because you don’t under how the English liberal traditions Canada is part of. Sitting in a parked truck IS NOT an act of violence. Words have meaning, and you don’t get to just slap what ever negative word to something you find bad. You’ve tried it repeatedly.
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  410.  @Robcroley  All totalitarian communist regimes have said they’re goal is to shape society and the people who make it up so that the government would just dissolve because it’s unnecessary anymore. People aren’t defined by what they say they support but what they actually support. Canada enacted internal borders. That’s the kind of thing the aforementioned totalitarian communist regimes do. Canada has also frozen bank accounts without doe process under Canadian law. Yes, an occupation requires force. There was no force used by the truckers, therefore it wasn’t an occupation. You don’t get to label things with a word then say what you’re labeling with said word must have those characteristics because you have labeled it as such. Tyranny is neither peaceful nor good governance, and you have tyrant. Jan. 6 was a protest that got out of hand because Pelosi didn’t put enough capitol police on crowd control. Why she did that, I have no idea.
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  411. Tell that to the people who have filed law suits against and police who have arrested people for misgendering someone.
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  412. No, it’s gonna be East Asia.
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  413.  @Cesar1492Enjoyer  no, the Soviet Union wasn’t. Have you seen the cars they drove or how long the waiting list for them was? Do you know how many kinds of cheese they had: 1. They were better off than some countries, but they were far from prosperous
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  414. He has mentioned he is.
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  415. It’s demonstrably true. The French guy’s who started post modernism were a bunch marxists who were trying to cope with the the abject failure of communism. Rather than deal with the fact their favorite grand narrative was wrong, they set out to destroy all grand narratives.
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  416. Shut up wumao.
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  417. American “black culture” is lower class English culture mutated over time in the US. Also, people tend to be poor because they engage in particular behavior, rather than being poor causes particularly behavior.
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  418.  @cavaugnsharkey2699  nope, I’m right on both. “Black culture” is a variation of Southern culture, which in turn is a form of English culture. American culture is English culture with a bunch of different influences. The Koreans, the Japanese, and the Norwegians all used to be poor at the beginning of the 20th century. Now they’re all known for very high standards of living.
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  419.  @cavaugnsharkey2699  1) the Scots, as much as they hate the thought, are mostly English in ancestry and culture. 2) yes, English with influences. You’re not disagreeing with me in fact, just semantics. 3) excluding the minor contributions like beat pattern and a few crops, there was very little African culture brought over to the US. The slave owners stamped what ever traces there were. Also, the American slave population was mostly born in the US. 4) Yes, once the outside factors keeping them poor were taken away, they were able to build prosperity. Other places without said problems are still poor because of cultural problems. Argentina should be on par with the US in quality of life, but their culture has screwed them over constantly for the last century.
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  420. That’s true of a lot of stuff.
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  421. Republics are a form of democracy. The words basically mean the same thing in Latin and Greek.
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  422.  @eidoneverchoosen1171  I’m not arguing any form of democracy over another —I have my thoughts, but I’m not here to argue about that—; I’m just saying you’re making a false distinction between democracy and republicanism.
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  423. No, the US is from a historical perspective a left wing country. It’s just modern European politics have gone over the cliff with how left they are.
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  424.  @Hhifix  holy cow, you have no idea what you’re talking about. You just called empires and monarchies left wing, and I’m assuming you’re calling the Nazis moderates. The only places the constitution mentions religion it’s saying the government can’t force religion on people. Also, have you heard of the John Brown gun club? They love guns and are extremely left wing. Conservatives don’t disestablish the church or rebel against their monarch.
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  425.  @Hhifix  the constitution doesn’t mention god anywhere. It’s not a long document. You can read the whole thing in just a couple minutes. You seem to be confusing the constitution with the Declaration of Independence, but even then, it doesn’t say “god” but “our creator”. If you’re religious, that can mean a creator god, but if you’re not that is the process of evolution. Or you can believe it was aliens for all I care. Knowledge and expertise are demonstrated, not asserted, which is why an appeal to authority is a logical fallacy. “[J]ust because they are left wing doesn’t mean they aren’t supporting a Right wing ideology,”only a college grad can say something so contradictory. The rest is just nonsensical rambling and bald faced lies, like saying the Nazis were trying to destroy religion
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  426. Russia was hoping this would be a quick war that ended before anyone could start moving equipment. It’s now turning into a war of attrition
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  427.  @grugnotice7746  no mind reading. All I and others have done is look at Russia’s actions. NATO is trying to kill Russia’s ambitions in Ukraine so there’s no direct conflict, which could easily lead to Russia being desperate enough to use nukes.
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  428.  @grugnotice7746  you’re apparently unhinged
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  429. Most revolutions are about replacing the current elite with people who they think will run things better.
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  430. More people in Spain are part of the the R1b haploid than Germany, and Spanish is a Latin language. Yeah, Spain is European.
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  431. The US is re-industrializing faster than ever before in US history.
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  432.  @jameswilliams2182  with unreliable overseas supply networks and automation it’s very much happening
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  433. Compared to Europe or China, the US has very little bureaucracy outside of the major cities.
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  434. Land routes almost always lose out to sea routes because of cost, and frankly the US doesn’t need or want trade with more than a few countries, all of whom are outside of BRI.
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  435.  @meocean5499  not needing trade doesn’t make the US irrelevant, and China is decades behind the US in terms of technology. China still hasn’t produced a high performance jet engines. China is only just catching up to what the US did in the 70s. The US vehicle market is dominated by trucks and SUVs, something the Germans don’t really make. Also, car sells in China peaked a couple years ago.
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  436. Trucker were threatening to boycott certain cities in 2020 over safety concerns from the BLM riots
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  437. Because the US has a fairly close relationship with Taiwan
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  438. @Nick Gerr neither. The US doesn’t care about the wheat and other stuff from Ukraine, and if anything, some chaos in the SCS serves the US’s peruses of weakening China.
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  439. Air and gravity are easy enough to make, and water is all over in space.
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  440.  @jeromewright93  were far from machines replacing humans at everything or even most things. Second, we want to grow, not just die stuck on a tiny little bit of dust no matter how nice it might be.
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  441.  @dynamitebsb4520  no one took anything from anyone. Try arguing against things people actually said.
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  442. The left disregards a lot more basic science and math than the “right”. Also, the federal government is supposed to do as little as possible meaning we don’t need someone smart or talented most of the time.
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  443. You’re a snobbish Canadian royalist the sounds of. Although, you might be a bitter Brit who wants to rebuild the empire.
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  444. The woke have driven so many people off that they’re now the plurality and heading for majority on the left.
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