Comments by "Debany Doombringer" (@debanydoombringer1385) on "MentisWave" channel.

  1. The Heritage Foundation puts something like this out every election. I don't know why the Democrats decided to make it a huge thing this election.
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  2. Wait. Commies complaining about not owning a house when they don’t believe in private property has got to be one of the funniest things I’ve seen recently.
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  3. You're seeing this all over. It's quite fascinating to watch. I don't know why when they blamed the violence during the "Stop Jewish Hate" on white supremacy when it was clear who was doing the violence didn't clue them in.
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  4. It's very strange they identify with the iceberg.
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  5. My parents were immediate gratification types. I watched them spend money they couldn't afford to spend constantly. They wanted a house, but couldn't save up for it. They had 4 kids. They even blamed us for it. My father told us one time if it wasn't for us they'd be rich. Meanwhile they bought a new car every 2 years and would drop $500 (this was in the 80s so that was A LOT) on crap for themselves. We would do without while they blew every cent they could. I wore my brothers hand-me-down clothes until I finally developed bobs and couldn't fit in them anymore. It made me the complete opposite. I'd do without so my kids could have something. The youngest never even realized how poor we were. The oldest figured it out. We're living proof that that attitude leads to wealth and better outcomes. We're very well off now and it's because we were very careful and never went for immediate gratification we couldn't easily afford. Even now, we can afford our house payment and 2 car payments but we don't do it because if something happened it could put us in a financial bind. Delaying gratification doesn't mean you dely it on everything. It means you dely it on something that could create future problems. If you can't dely gratification, you don't even think about that.
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  6. Tariffs only work when they're targeted. Japan, for example, has a 10% tarrif on the rice the US imports to them. It's to protect their own rice producers. Otherwise, the US could flood their market with cheaper rice, destroying their local rice farmers, and then jack the price up because they're now dependent on the imported good. Essentially, what China has done in the US. If the maple syrup guy in the example put their prices up to match the Canadian one, they're bad at business. The price might increase, but not to match the Canadian one because if theirs is cheaper, they'll get increased demand and make more money. Whereas if they increase to match the Canadian brand, they wouldn't make as much as they would if they kept it cheaper because they'd price out some of their consumers. As long as regulations are cut along with the tarrif, it also opens up the market for a new company to form to fill in the gap because it's created an opportunity.
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  7.  @baltulielkungsgunarsmiezis9714 Ignore the ignorant tankers. Remember they believe they’ll be writing poetry as their job after the revolution.
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  8. Mexico is pretty much a failed state. A mayor just got assassinated a couple of days after taking office. Outside of major cities like Mexico City, the government has little to no control. The reason the tourist areas are relatively safe is because the cartels run a lot of businesses in them and that would hurt them.
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  9. Exactly! That's why they're called breadtube. Bread lines are good says Bernie.
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  10. The problem with the statement of, "every person supports abortion, immigration, and LGBT rights" is they confuse their definition of those things. They are correct, but not what it means in their head. Most people support immigration, but not illegal immigration. Most people support LGBT rights, but not privileges above everyone else. Same with abortion. Most people support abortion, but not without strict limitations. Edit: There's a reason the boat wasn't rocked much under Roe. It enforced limitations. The Hobbes decision removed them and that's when it got crazy.
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  11. It's been explained by people way more involved in education than me how it happened. It's because moderate and conservative college educators didn't promote like minded people behind them. Instead they just did whoever they thought was best regardless of ideology. Where as far leftsist promoted and pushed based only on ideology. Thus they were able to get a majority of high positions within academia.
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  12. I’ve never haggled at a small store. An individual selling a product maybe, but not a store. They already are working with extremely thin profit margins. Small businesses make up 99% of the market so what you feel like is true simply isn’t. They’re responsible for employing 61+ million workers. It’s probably because you think of small businesses as just a store. They’re not. Edit: Haggling is expected in certain parts of the world at open markets. It’s not really a thing in the US because unless it’s a handmade unique item, you can simply buy it somewhere else.
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  13. ​ @Apostate_ofmind  While trying to distance herself and calling herself a change candidate. Her entire campaign was mixed messaging and word salad. I said when they removed him it was to try to save the rest of the ticket. That whoever they put in was intended to lose so it wouldn't be anyone with a possible political future. That they raised and spent over $1 billion on it is the insane part.
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  14. ​ @Levelingwithgods  Dev is not right-wing. He has not hated Trudeau for years. He literally supported him in every election he was in. He defended what Trudeau did to the truckers. He calls himself an "enlightened centrist" whatever that is. He also supported Biden and Kamala. Considering you know absolutely nothing about Dev, but spoke with such authority, you're opinion about anything else is immediately discarded.
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  15. They did that character so dirty. He went from having so much potential to being the joke side character.
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  16. I've experienced this. My husband's pay increased. It threw us into the next tax bracket, but just barely. By the time the money was taken out for taxes, he was bringing home less than before. We're avoiding reaching the next tax bracket like it's the plague.
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  17. ​ @1685Violin  There were, but they were different. They were more about we allowed Russia to elect a president. This time there's no plausible deniability with how overwhelming it was. Even the MSM is saying the American voter gave him a mandate.
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  18. Oh, they did. You weren't supposed to suggest that black guy at Harvard got there due to affirmative action. That also was considered racist even though you could tell the ones that did because they didn't perform very well.
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  19. ​​​ @Levelingwithgods "Your (you're) punishing the vice reporter (key word) for her opinion on a vtuber." Yes because she's a reporter which means she's bound by ethics and a duty to the public. Just like I'd punish, see they get fired, a teacher that was teaching students incorrectly. Free speech is not freedom from consequences of that speech. If your job is a reporter which means reporting news as unbiased as possible to inform the public, if you do it poorly there are real world consequences. Like said vtuber losing sponsors for a fan posting a picture on Twitter. You should be held responsible for the consequences you caused. Freedom of speech simply means the government can't arrest you for anything you say. It doesn't mean society doesn't have any standards of acceptable conduct. Edit: You're attempting to argue that someone can stand in front of someone screaming in their face and nobody can do anything because "free speech". Yeah, that's not how life works. Or even arguing that a parent can't go to the school board to get a teacher fired who just screams at the top of their lungs all day instead of teaching because it's their free speech.
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  20. I've seen a leftist challenged in a debate to not reference a Marvel movie or Harry Potter in their response to a question and they immediately referenced both.
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  21. I also can relate. I got put in remedial reading in 3rd grade while I was reading Shakespeare at home. My grandfather collected anthologies of classical writers. He had Dickens, Twain, Shakespeare, etc and I'd read them and understand them for the most part. This was before they'd split the class up into groups of different reading levels like they do now. I was bored out of my mind. That teacher hated me for some reason and enjoyed announcing to the class she was putting me in it. Edit: I was only in it a few weeks, but stuff like that seriously messes you up when you're young.
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  22. IQ is potential. Take me as an example. Heck, most of my family. We all range between 130-150 IQ. None of us have been scientists, have invented something, or done anything special. My oldest is 160+ IQ. He works in operations at an oil refinery. My IQ is 138. My contribution is being a stay at home wife and mother. We've all preferred hands-on type work. So we've all been farmers, ranchers, gardeners (I'm a master gardener and enjoy design), carpenters, etc, and very knowledgeable in those areas. When we do find something that piques our interest, we'll read everything we can find on it. Studying and learning about it like we're getting a masters degree in it. We end up with vast amounts of knowledge in various areas outside whatever we've chosen to earn money doing. We've all been creative in one way or another. Both of my sons are musically gifted and could have gone into it professionally. I'm into fabric art and crafting and work at expanding my skills in areas adjacent to that. My mother loved interior design and all forms of decoration (cakes, knicknacks, ceramics, etc). Both my grandfather and father loved woodworking and building things. Those are the skills we'd work on and master outside work. Continously improving our skills in them. That's basically what the majority of higher IQ people do because it's not about making money. It's about learning and improving our knowledge and skills in whatever area we enjoy. Sorry for the book, but I was trying to sort of explain in detail using my own high IQ family as an example of how it typically functions in the real world.
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  23. ​​​ @baltulielkungsgunarsmiezis9714  If you're libertarian like you claim, you know what you suggest is in violation of the NAP. So why did you even try to insinuate he meant that? Why are you taking what someone you don't knows statement in the worst light possible and to the far extreme? Everything else they listed was to work within the system. To take the last one completely out of that context is extremely disingenuous. Edit: It's also well within libertarian values to allow a community to enact rules they agree upon. It's understood if you don't like them, you're free to leave said community. How is the population of a state voting to enact rules they wish a violation of that? I'll also close with it's odd to think it's not a violation of the NAP to end the life of baby just because it's in the womb. It's okay to commit violence against them apparently.
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  24. ​ @EcclesiastesLiker-py5ts  They hate capitalism. The economy is the the eventual. The culture is the way to get there. It's Maoism. He was the first to use culture to inact communism rather than class. They absolutely still talk about class, but understand the friction in capitalist countries comes from culture because of the upward mobility it allows in the class system. The destination is the same, the path is just different.
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  25.  @danmorgan3685  The USSR was very nationalistic. I don’t understand what you think that proves. Even as they sent Russians to mingle into the populations of the countries they took over, those Russians saw themselves as superior because they were Russian.
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  26. Owning land has always been an investment. That's why it factors into your net worth. It has intrinsic value. Nobody "convinced" anyone of this. It's been understood since Kings granted land as a reward. You're going to need to first prove that it's artificially inflated. Prices started going up during the pandemic. Not just to, but because mass migration began out of certain areas into other areas. NYC and really all major cities houses have always been more expensive because there's very limited land. Add in zoning and massive, unneeded regulations, and it skyrockets because each regulation adds expense to the building process. The migration I mentioned is still taking place. As people move from one area to another, it creates scarcity in the new area driving up prices because the need is bigger than the supply. Prices will drop as either new houses are built or the migration slows. The idea that it's everywhere is also false. My 25 year old purchased his first house last year for $70,000. It's about the size of our first home which was $50,000 20 years ago. Given inflation, that's not a huge increase. Edit: His house also has an attached 1 car garage which increases the value by $5,000-$10,000 which ours only had a carport. So it's not really more expensive than our first house. Given inflation, it was probably even a bit cheaper. Too many people want houses that are over 1,500 square feet too which the bigger the house, the more expensive it is. Since that's what the market demands, that's what gets built. Our first home and his first home were both around 1,000 square feet and over 50 years old which decreases the value/cost.
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  27. They're not even anarchist because socialism requires government. Massive government. I do feel like acknowledging there's such a thing as libertarian socialist isn't a good thing because they're completely opposite ideologies. You can't reject the foundation principles of an ideology and still get to claim that ideology. They know saying they're libertarian sounds good because of the association of it with freedom so they're just using the label to confuse young people unfamiliar with the principles behind it.
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  28. ​​ @DudeTheMighty  You mean concensus. I don't believe there's such a thing as appeal to consequences. Language generally requires a concensus on what a particular sound means or it isn't language. It's just a sound. While meanings of words do change over time, it requires a consensus for that change to occur. If I followed your logic I could go around saying the sky is red. When someone corrected me that it's blue, I could simply say they're incorrect because words change over time. Meaning no one could ever be incorrect no matter what words they choose to use and we'll no longer be able to communicate. Which means civilization and all our achievements would become lost. This idea you have that an appeal to concensus is bad when it comes to language just tells me you don't understand what you're talking about. Edit: Also, even if a new usage of a word emerges, the old definition still applies. It doesn't magically erase the old meaning. Then you look at the context it's being used in to determine which definition is being used. I guess you hate the dictionary and everything ever written since you're trying to assert concensus is bad.
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  29. ​ @PropagandalfderWeiße ​ Cities naturally are like that generally speaking if there's no zoning laws. Look at Europe. Especially in cities where the old roads still exist. It's very walkable, and they were that way before urban planning existed. Shops tend to be where the people are. Especially shops that carry everyday goods. The only city not like that is LA. The problem with it today is there's no guarantee you'll work anywhere near where you live and it's impossible to plan that. The problem people had with the 15 minute cities idea were the fines and stuff if you left your zone. Because they were introduced to stop all driving within cities for climate change.
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  30.  @GurrasGarage There’s plenty of sources that show Stalin believed himself an amazing military leader and refused to listen to his generals during the first part of the war. It’s why their number of dead was extremely high. Only after he relinquished total control did the losses drop and the tide took a drastic turn.
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  31. Oh no! Choices are evil!
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  32. ​​ @thelordofcringe  They've said it's going to be about how she's been oppressed and her struggle on the topic of Ciri. She also can't be a Witcher according to the lore. I get it if you don't care about those things, put people calling it out aren't "woke." After the total destruction of lore over the last 15 years, people know it when they see it. They've literally ignored and broken the lore so they can put a strong, independent woman as the main character. It's called pattern recognition.
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  33. Yep. Most women play flash type games. I play one myself at night as I go to sleep. I also play real games.
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  34. They love DEI and say it's great while being offended if you say they're a DEI hire. They've got to either embrace it or let it go.
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  35. That's why it said a credible source. Then they choose whichever "source" aligns with their belief. If your source is based on a good study, they'll reject it based off of where it came from. Even if it came from an institution they'll use when the results align with their beliefs.
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  36. ​ @gmodrules123456789  It actually doesn't. If you look up why we pasteurized milk, it says it's because it gives a longer shelf life. It also is honest and admits the process destroys a lot of the vitamins and minerals we get from milk. They do add a bit back, but not as much as is lost. That's why you'll see "with added vitamin D." Because it's in it naturally which is why we drank it, but the process destroys it. We would have died out as species hundreds of thousands years ago if raw milk was extremely dangerous. Europeans and other groups where sunlight isn't as strong as other places started drinking it to replace what they lost from lack of sun exposure. Obviously they didn't know that's the process that was occurring. Just that they felt better when they drank it. Vitamin D deficiency causes a lot of issues like decreased energy and increased muscle pain.
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  37. ​​​​ @makhnothecossack4948  It's a result of them. When the government is responsible for the people's ability to survive through government programs, the government has to take as much money as it can. In this case, if the value is what the government sees as better than the average, they take the extra value away. It's twofold. It takes the monetary excess value away and makes it to where you don't want the advantage because you're punished to the point that it puts it out of reach monetarily. It disincentives getting better things. Edit: Stupid grammarly
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  38. ​ @andrehashimoto8056  The EU is about more than just goods. It's to push them to go back to free speech and to stop going after political opponents. I expect some tarrifs to remain because he's trying to trade them for income taxes. At least that way I can choose how much I pay in taxes by choosing to purchase an import. I guarantee yearly I wouldn't buy $40,000 worth of taxes on imported goods but I'm forced to pay it out of our paycheck every year.
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  39. ​ @saysikerightnow3914  On the FAA website they said they were prioritizing disabled. Listed sight impaired, speech impediment, etc as what they were seeking because they had too few disabled in the department. We do know it was under staffed that night. Significantly so. Which means absenteeism and how people being out is covered policy wise needs to be looked at. Unfortunately there's a Union. Even though I'm fairly pro Union, I'm 100% against them when it comes to government workers. This is a good example of why. It allows the worker to have too much control when other people's safety is involved. Creating worker benefits that might directly jeopardize safety. Like absentee policies. Because it's a Union, it's very difficult to address them until the next contract negotiations.
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  40. ​ @dwwolf4636  I really hate the no true Scottsman. It's how communism works in practice. Therefore it was communism.
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  41. ​​​​ @spacefun101  Here's the difference: The US imports $ 600 billion worth of goods from the EU. The EU imports about half that in US goods. It's to make a deal to more evenly balance the imports and exports. We get them to accept more imports, forcing open their markets. The more we export to other countries, the more manufacturing required to meet that new need. It's not hard. Considering there's an almost 50% difference in trade because the US has open markets and they don't, a 10% tarrif is tiny. That's what he means by trade deficit. Edit: I'm surprised people don't seem to know only the US has low trade barriers and every other country is very protectionist. It's also hilarious watching those protectionist countries complain we might be becoming like them. You want open access to our market? Then we get open access to yours.
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  42. I’ve explained to so many people that inflation doesn’t mean higher prices. When a single item increases in cost nobody is yelling “Inflation!!” So clearly that’s not inflation. Inflation is when you see an increase in every sector of the economy and that can only be caused by money printer go brrr. I think my favorite part was Warren having a Congressional inquiry on Kroger because they’d increased prices.
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  43. ​ @zachb8012  That that was the only thing Trump "lied" about that Biden pushed back on was hilarious. It also showed Biden's massive ego he likes to pretend he doesn't have. He got pretty lively on that.
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  44. I'm in Oklahoma. We turned everything red. Even the cities. Natives voted overwhelmingly for him. So far, we're missing a lot of the blame game being levied at minority men.
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  45. ​​ @TheWolfgangGrimmer  I wish Trump had appointed more constitutionalists. If Thomas and/or Alito retires, they need to be replaced with one. They're a strong voice. If we lose that faction, the decisions won't be as well rounded. Edit: Losing the DEI hire would be the best thing for the court, but no way that will happen.
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  46. Show me anyone in power saying that. Most people point to Melonie. She's not in power and simply said she doesn't like it. At no point did she say it should be legislated out. On top of that, everyone points to the Satanic Panic which wasn't from the right. Every person trying to ban things and suing were Democrats. They especially love to point to Thompson. Who they label as right-wing simply because he's Christian. Except he ran against Condelesa (sp) Rice for AG of Florida as a Democrat. Christian does not equal right-wing and people need to stop trying to put them all into a collective. You're guilty of doing what leftists do with every group. Look at left-wing politicians. Almost all of them are religious and Christian. Biden who's been trying to legislate taking away property from one group and giving it to another is Catholic.
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  47.  @manolgeorgiev9664  They've called for the exact same "decolonization" in the US while cheering that as "decolonization". You did not watch the video because that's pointed out. I guess they can later say "Just kidding bro" and you'll believe them.
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  48. I think after the attempt and the people calling him that said how glad they were it wasn't successful woke a few up. Not anywhere near all, but a few. It was hard to square that circle.
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  49. He's a mathematician. It's kind of like Neil DeGras Tyson lecturing you about political theory. The only thing I listened to him on was him going over the different writings. It just saved me time so I didn't have to read them myself. Unfortunately, some people that did go ahead and read some of them said he was wrong about parts. Which means I will need to read them myself so it didn't save me time and instead wasted it. Edit: Not that I don't enjoy reading and learning. I do very much. It's just those works can be such a slog and tedious to get through. Some of them are so pretentious it oozes off the page.
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  50. The idea that I’m supposed to like my leader’s personality or approve of their private life is weird. It should be strictly about policy. If I could have a beer with them is irrelevant. It’s been so long since we’ve had a President that’s not shy about expressing strength people don’t know what to make of it.
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