Comments by "TJ Marx" (@tjmarx) on "City Beautiful" channel.

You don't need to buy a small country, you just have to have your official HQ with all the money in a tax haven country like Google and Apple do.
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@sor3999 Annexation of territory without consent is an act of war that carries immediate, mandatory international consequences.
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@Nswix People regularly talk about Crimea. Crimea VOTED democratically to leave Ukraine and become an autonomous zone of the Russian Federation. That wasn't an annexation by force, it was a response to a crime syndicate undertaking a violent coup in Kiev that ousted the democratically elected government of Ukraine and replaced it with a criminal oligarchy
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@Nhkg17 Are you joking. Crimea fled from Ukraine for reasons already described. The majority of the population of Crimea already had dual citizenship with Russia. Get real mate. A very different situation to Gaza.
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@ten_tego_teges roflmao Way to show the acute level of ignorance you possess even further. Referencing situations in countries you clearly do not understand as evidenced by the very incorrect referencing of them in the first place. You too got your numbers wrong. But perhaps most telling is the fact you completely ignore the criminal syndicate that overthrew the democratically elected government of Ukraine, from which the people of Crimea fled. You instead pose the logical fallacy that people can't agree, even to escape a bad situation. And all of this completely derailed from the actual discussion at hand, the unique situation of Gaza. I'm sorry mate, you have zero credibility
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This US system you just explained is absolutely convoluted. Check out how local government works in Australia, we have local councils which we call local government but are exactly what you call regional government in this video. There is no organisation here below local councils and it seems dumb that it is otherwise in the USA. What you call regional government doesn't have to be a 4th level of governance, it can just become your new local government.
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 @cineblazer "Makes me ~~sick~~ jealous tbh" FTFY.
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@iceink What are you even responding too? I never claimed anything about yankville not being into war. Clearly their entire economy is built around perpetual war
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Parroting US propaganda is unbecoming.
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@ten_tego_teges Interesting direction for that personal attack, still derailing I see. Both of your questions have already been covered. You have literally no clue
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@MasterMalrubius You can't outlaw it or change it. That's the point. The G7 announcement isn't going anywhere.
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@patersonplankrd The Russian military got involved after the coupe when Crimea asked for their assistance. Get your facts straight. It absolutely does have a right to protect its citizens of which 95% of people living in the Donbas have been since the 19th century.
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lol. This sounds dystopian. Soylent Green is people. You want to make cities more livable? Reduce population.
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@MrCrunch808 This conversation was a week ago so I have neither the memory of what it was about nor an inkling to reacquaint myself within. What I can say in reply however is that yankville is neither important nor immune to consequence.
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@deankruse2891 First and foremost I want to address the massive logically fallacy you've made which appears to be the crux of your argument. According to you IF X=Y THAN A=/=B But that is false, both statements can be true. Or more succinctly that Russia is or is not something has no actual bearing on the varsity of my earlier statements. I'll reinforce my statements again later, but what I really want to drive home for you is what Russia is or isn't has no bearing on what Ukraine is or isn't. Your argument is total nowhere land. I also want to briefly touch on your false description of Putin, and how he gained power. Russia has been politically corrupt since the Bolsheviks seized power from Tsar Nicholas. When Yeltsin was in power he robbed the country blind, and Putin as Yeltsin former KGB attack dog witnessed everything Yeltsin did. When he wanted to retire he couldn't just allow anyone to be elected as president, if they were Yeltsin would surely go to jail. So, Yeltsin organised for Putin to succeed him. Putin is now in a similar position but unlike Yeltsin has no one he can trust to keep him out of jail. That's why Putin goes out of his way going so far as the recent constitutional change that'll see him president until at least 2036. Like all of Russias leaders before him, Putin needs a trustworthy successor. You likewise seem to be unaware that since before even the time of the Romans, the height of the trade in slavs as slaves (slav is the origin of the word slave) throughout Europe, Asia and Africa the region now known as Russia has seen itself always, perpetually as the protector of slavs everywhere. It's a tradition that Russia takes very seriously to this day. Parroting what you've pieced together for 2 minute news segments isn't useful. You have to actually understand the deeply complex and historic contexts of what is going on in Russia and in Ukraine. You have demonstrated you don't possess this information. Stop your nonsense. As for Ukraine; It is an internationally undisputed fact that in 2014 Ukraine was overthrown by a violent coupe which murdered and exiled democratically elected members of government and was orchestrated by a criminal syndicate who deal in oil and gas. It is an undisputed fact that the people of Crimea called to Russia for help. It is an undisputed fact that the Donbas region has been at war with Kiev for 7 years, over access to the oil and gas fields in the Donbas. It is an undisputed fact that the people fighting for the Donbas and Crimea are ordinary civilians who do not want to see the death of democracy in their country. It is an undisputed fact that prior to 2014, Ukraine had been a democracy with free and fair elections for a number of years. And that the elected governments of Ukraine had always been pro Russia. It is a fact that the 2019 Ukraine election was rigged. It is a documented fact that Hunter Biden, sent to negotiate by his then vice president and head of the yankville task force on the Ukrainian coupe Joe Biden, made a multibillion dollar deal for shares in the oil and gas companies owned by the crime syndicate who perpetrated the Ukrainian coupe. It is a fact that by Ukrainian presidental decree Ukrainian military forces were built up along the disputed zone and regions Ukraine's undisputed border with Russia in order to incite a response from Russia and allow Ukraine to run around Europe screaming about the safety of Europe in order to try and drag NATO into this And just to drive things home full circle, it is a fact that the reality of Russian corruption doesn't invalidate the reality of the corruption and violence Ukraine is now faced with as a result of the 2014 coupe. You have been played
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@unconventionalideas5683 That is entirely false. There was only 1 referendum.
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@clangswordsman4968 What vote are you talking about? Crimea? Because that isn't true if it's what you're suggesting. The Crimea referendum is internationally certified, and had independent oversight. It was a fair & true referendum. 99% of the population in Crimea were already ethic Russians. The referendum result was a surprise to no one. Yankville just didn't like it.
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@imEden0 What does support have to do with this? It's a situation that had nothing to do with us and we shouldn't screw ourselves over for no reason. I support not fucking up international markets and ruining people's lives because two sets of fuckwits are fighting over innocent civilians trapped in the middle that no one is even considering. I support lower energy prices, lower petrol prices and lower consumer goods prices because their logistics inputs aren't sky high.
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@imEden0 I agree with the people of Donetsk and Luhansk, whom from the start 8 years ago have only wanted to live peacefully and autonomously in their own homes, in their towns. I disagree strongly with the continual characterisation of them as "Russian separatists" as they have continually looked for ways to either remain part of Ukraine or to become their own independent nation state. We are talking about civilians men, women and children of all ages whom have been murdered en masse by their own countries military at the order of a president whom claimed power not through democracy but through violent, murderous coupe. I also disagree strongly with the continual characterisation that the war is somehow illegal. The UN have been abundantly clear that much to their displeasure there is nothing illegal about this war. I wholly reject propaganda from any source. I care only about objective fact. A president whose bosses want the resources under the towns of Donetsk and Luhansk. ~$2T of oil and gas, that's what it's about. I support Russian actions so far as their defence and safe keeping of these innocent people. I do not support the wider land grab, even though I understand it's strategic importance to holding the Donbas. I respect the people of Donetsk and Luhansk in their decision to join the Russian Federation but I fear they made that choice out of necessity as the lesser of two evils. These people want independence, free of both Ukraine and Russia, I support that. I likewise do not support the people of Kyiv nor western monetary, economic and military support thereof. Supporting them is directly harming us for no material gain. Without western intervention this would have been over 6 months ago. It would have taken all of 2 weeks to conclude, donetsk and luhansk would be free independent states with minimal civilian harm. War does have casualties, and that includes civilian casualties. The only way to avoid that is to avoid war in the first place which had been on the table for the last 8 years but Ukraine and yankville refused to avoid it. If anything, Biden pushed hard for a war. I would imagine if this war is still going on in 2 years time when Biden loses office, it will mysteriously come to a sudden peace agreement within the first 3 months of whoever beats Biden taking office.
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@imEden0 The mistreatment and murder of civilians in the Donbas by Ukraine has been heavily covered by mainstream media in the 7 years leading to this war. There is mainstream media coverage of Ukrainian military shelling their own towns, shooting at civilians. There is wide coverage of the thousands of children murdered by the Ukrainian state in the name of resources for the organised crime gang whom control the country. Make no mistake Ukraine has always been a puppet state and continues in that tradition. All that changed 8 years ago is who was controlling the puppet. Prior to the violent coupe of 2014 (which almost failed but was propped up at the last minute by then vice president Joe Biden) Ukraine was a democracy. It's democratic leadership were sympathetic to Russia and China. Russia restoring democracy to Ukraine wouldn't have harmed anyone, Ukraine has been united with Russia for the entirety of it's exist except the last 8 years. Ask yourself, why now. Ask yourself why Ukraine would move 75K troops onto the Russian border 5 weeks after Biden took office and the media only reported the Russian response. Ask yourself why this war broke out just 7 weeks after Biden took office with no long term escalation. Ask yourself why Biden couldn't just sign a piece of paper to state NATO wouldn't expand onto the Russian border knowing not doing so might lead to war. Ask yourself why Taiwan, a Chinese state confirmed by 178 of the 193 UN member countries including every member of the G20 as being part of China, acknowledging the one China policy and having denied it's independence bid on no less than 23 occasions is constantly presented by media and politicians from these same countries as a sympathetic state worthy of independence. But poor rural farmers, innocent families with no agenda other than to live their lives as normal, with their democracy respected being fired upon, murdered by their own countries military have their humanity stripped from them and are described as some kind of enemy. Ukraine isn't united, it hasn't been for a decade, maybe longer. Western Ukraine like the western lifestyle of Poland where many of them commute to daily for work. Eastern Ukraine miss the Soviet days and are loyal to Russia, their ethnic homeland. The obvious solution is for Ukraine to split, however all of the industry, resources and agriculture are in the east so a split west Ukraine would have literally nothing. It would be dirt poor. So they enslave the east and hold them hostage. Genuine democracy needs to be restored to Ukraine, but that can't happen whilst organised crime are in charge anymore than it can in Russia. The people of donetsk and luhansk need our support in their independence. They shouldn't have to choose between joining Russia or oblivion. I mean can you imagine if the US military suddenly started shelling Columbus Ohio because a dodgy oil company who donated the biggest amount to the president found oil under the city and offered the president a personal cut? That's what's happening in the Donbas. It's disgusting
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I strongly disagree with you on population and so does the UN. The projected peak increases by 1 billion people every decade. There is no actual peak and if you took a moment to think about how capitalism works, and our biological urges you'll understand why. Without active population controls we're destined to destroy ourselves through overpopulation.
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@Lildizzle420 We are already overpopulated by 8x the theoretical maximum natural limit for our species. Overpopulation has ALWAYS been part of the climate science story, ALWAYS. It's the main driving force. Overpopulation has featured in every annual IPCC and FAO report, in addition to every UN world population prospectus. Right from 1962 when climate science really came about, the call has been to reduce population size. We are already killing ourselves from overpopulation, another 2Bn people is the end of our species and thousands of other species along with it. The theoretical calculated global population maximum for humans is 1 billion people. The naturally occuring global population maximum for the same is just 500M. Artificial population boom is what the industrial revolution really did, as what is really driving our doom. It's all about scale. These are hard facts mate, long agreed by relevant scientists around the world and by peak bodies. We need to get the global population down to 1 billion, humanely, by the end of this century or it's all over.
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@useodyseeorbitchute9450 That was incoherent gibberish. Fertility rates have not changed significantly anywhere on the planet. If fertility rates started dropping there would be panic everywhere. Fertility rates are the physical ability for someone to reproduce. It does not relate to actual births We have not colonised other worlds, we only have earth mate. We have countries on earth. Almost none of them are civilised anymore, even amongst the economically developed ones. Natural growth or birth rates have declined in some OECD countries, and increased in many developing and undeveloped countries. I think this is what you're referring to without really understanding what you're talking about. I encounter this argument from time to time. It fails completely to understand what is being discussed. Slow natural growth is not population decline. Your suggested (but inaccurate) natural growth figure of 2.1 would create a stable population. But we have 7 billion people on the planet too many. No country has negative natural growth which is what the science tells us we need. To put this into perspective for you, we're talking about for example a USA with a hard population limit of 39M people across the entire country. A UK with a hard population limit of just 8.25M, a Sudan with hard population limit of 6M and Venezuela with a hard population limit of just 3.6M. A reduction in population to 1/8th. A hard limit of just 1 billion people on the entire globe. That's the science. Every climate model ever created tells us this. Every IPCC report says this because that's the reality. There are 7 billion people too many in the world and we need to discuss as a species how we will humanely get rid of them without replacing them by the end of the century.
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@Incred_Canemian Please remember my post. You'll understand it in about 25 years.
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@bwofficial1776 That's not what we're talking about. We're talking about regulated conceptions.
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Weird random ending.
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Of course when you ban cars from a street retail come back and not because it has local high density housing. It's good enough that you have two destination businesses, the university and the capitol. Major retailers also act as destination businesses. It draws people to the location but because they must walk instead of drive, they come in compact with more retailers and are thus more likely to interact with those businesses out of impulse or as a planned aside while they're in the area anyway. This is the primary version of brick and mortar retail in Australia.
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@octorokpie How I described it is how much of the world operates local government. Your reasoning is, weak?
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So, I got to 8:12 and you're still talking about pure EV cars and not mentioning hydrogen powered EV which is already here and Ford, Toyota, GM, BMW, Chrysler, Kia and Nissan have all said are their future mainline vehicles. Pure EV was only ever a transition technology, it was never intended to be 80% mainstream. That's what hydrogen powered vehicles are for. They have electric motors the same as your pure EV does, but instead of needing to be charged they take the power from hydrogen reactions and convert it into electricity. That means 1. Refueling works identical to refueling your petrol or diesel vehicle. They take the same amount of time to refuel as petrol vehicles do and get better milage than petrol 2. The existing petrol stations can be easily converted into hydrogen refueling stations. As long as they have no lesks, the existing petrol tanks don't need any adjustments. Hydrogen powered vehicles solve all of the problems that hold people back from buying EV, and do so whilst using existing infrastructure. 120 petrol stations in the USA and 60 in Canada have already converted into hydrogen refueling stations They make everything in this video, at least everything up until I stopped watching at 8:12 completely irrelevant, baseless speculation not grounded in what the industry has already said about the direction it's going in. Edit: Before anyone says anything about environmentalism, hydrogen is the most abundant element in the universe and the chemical reactions taking place in hydrogen powered vehicles produce only breathable oxygen and water. Also worth mentioning that actress Natalie Portman invented one of the methods being used to produce hydrogen commercially for vehicles.
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@RandomVidsforthought are you? That's weird
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@RandomVidsforthought No trolling from me mate. Might want to talk to the producers at DW about their trolling behaviour though.
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@cineblazer Thanks for confirming you are jealous.
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@cineblazer First and foremost, there is no single silver bullet to solve the housing problem. When an issue occurs however, one should not attempt to treat the symptoms. Doing so solves nothing. One must seek to identify the causal factors and how best to mitigate those factors instead. So, if you do have genuine interest I ask that you might indulge me a little and permit me to answer a question with a question such that instead of me simply speaking at you, we might come to a conclusion together, or failing that we might at the very least be on the same page such that we can understand and respect the others opinion. To that end, and please don't think this presumptuous of me, but what do YOU feel are the causal factors behind the housing problem?
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