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  68. I was watching Congressional proceedings when they were discussing reparations. The amount of blaming other races going on in it was shocking and saddening. One man was very upset there were two college scholarships specifically for huwhite people. He exclaimed that proved racism still existed in the system. I asked him about the nearly 100 I could search for people of his race and why he thought it was fine there be that many available for him, but 2 was too much. I asked if he thought there should be none. He never replied. Another was saying there needed to be more representation on TV and movies. I asked if he thought 12% of the population should make up 50% of it. Again no reply. That was while I was explaining how Natives had not received reparations as all of them believed because "they know some that get checks from the government". I pointed them to the Congressional committee that discussed it under Obama and came to the conclusion it was too difficult. I also explained that the checks were from lawsuits filed against the government for broken treaties and stealing tribal money the government keeps because Natives are too stupid to handle their own money. I also asked why Natives getting checks equals reparations to them, but them getting government checks doesn't. Again no reply. One woman said they didn't want money, but certain privileges and listed several like affirmative action, incentives to start businesses with better interest rates, easier to get housing loans, etc. I pointed out they'd had almost all those since Civil Rights passed. She did reply and admitted she did not know that. Many don't know that reparations were already given in those government programs. It was even acknowledged as such at the time. The sheer hatred I saw in some of the comments directed at all other races was honestly sickening. So no, I'm not surprised by this poll in the slightest.
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  94.  @American-Motors-Corporation  2015 was Obama, not Trump so what does that have to do with him? You forgot that Nixon also caused our oil imports to double due to price controls he put in place. The Arab Oil Embargo that you're referring to was because we'd just faced an oil crisis. What happened in 2015? The US became the largest producer of oil. We were no longer at risk of an oil crisis. We export mainly to Canada and Mexico. I'm confused by why you think sending India oil is bad. We are not currently experiencing an oil shortage. The price of oil is based on speculation, not current supply. That speculation is on the global market, not just the US. Let's take the Keystone pipeline as an example. The pipeline would have allowed oil to flow to refineries faster and increased the global supply of oil so prices dropped in speculation of that happening. When it got canceled, the oil production wouldn't increase thus keeping the global supply the same so the price rose because the speculation was incorrect. The current prices rising is because Biden's cuts to drilling will effect the global supply in the future. If we don't increase exploration, we won't be able to replace oil deposits that run out and stop producing. That will decrease the amount available in the future. Whenever there is a decrease in the amount of something (or the likelihood of a decrease) the price of that item goes up. Edit: Maybe have a basic understanding of how the market works before voicing what you believe to be true.
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  96.  @antonyjh1234  Ugh "equitable" just means everyone equally poor. Why shouldn't my talent and hard work to improve it earn me more than someone who's incapable of doing what I do but does it anyway because they want to? We are not equal. Nothing is equal. Not in the animal kingdom or nature that we're all members of. A person who studies and improves their skills to the point they can perform complex brain surgery should absolutely have more than the hospital cafeteria worker who's much more easily replaced. Agree with it or not, they are simply more valuable to society. We know that if everyone receives the same regardless of work or talent, production drops and technology declines causing not enough for the population to survive. It's been shown to occur time and time again. It's only ever successful in very small communities that people refusing to do their share can be kicked out of. To do that in an entire country means imprisonment or killing them because there's no where to remove them to. It has nothing to do with ideology or advancement or anything else. It's no different than a caged animal being feed and no longer having to acquire it's food as intended. It gets lazy and in some cases eventually drives them mad. No matter how many different ways it's tried, the results will always be the same because we're still animals and subject to nature as much as we like to pretend otherwise. Edit: The whole "such and such country has some social programs so therefore socialism good" is boring and tired. It's called a mixed economy and it's what most countries have. It's called not going to extremes either direction to achieve some balance.
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  103.  @marcasrealaccount  They've intentionally changed the lore to put women in positions of power they don't have in the books or appendices. Their Queen regent Miriel. She's not Queen in the books. Her throne is usurped by her cousin who then forces her to marry him. Because he is already bad, he's much more susceptible to Sauron and he becomes a follower of Melkor (Morgoth who is Sauron's master). This causes the kingdom to split and people to start worshipping evil which directly leads to the fall of Numenor, supposedly what this series is about. Since she's Queen, it changes the entire dynamic of the story and it's already reflecting in the show. Another part is creating a sister for Isildur for no reason. She's already had a scene telling us she's been accepted into a science program. She's not there to move the story forward or explain anything about what's going on. She's just there for strong successful woman and to show that she's clearly better than her brother who is taking a gap year because apparently that's now a thing in Middle Earth now (as are apparently universities ). All completely irrelevant outside of making his nonexistent sister better than the human that cuts the ring from Sauron's finger and to add modern stuff into the most popular fantasy ever written set in a world meant to be the mythology of England. Another subversion is Halbrand. He's from the lands that supported Morgoth, a thief, and is said to have done very bad things. They are intentionally trying to make him sympathetic and likeable. Far more so than Galadriel. They are pushing him into being like an Arragorn He will turn out at the end of this season to be very bad indeed, but you'll sympathize with him by then. The "Harfoots" are particularly nasty subversion. These Hobbits are dirty, gross, and frankly very stupid. The complete opposite of their portrayal in the book. The line from the trailer is "Our hearts are bigger than our feet". Then this episode they talk about how they are a group. They walk on leaving no one behind according to what they are telling you. Then one breaks their leg so they leave him behind to die. They even sing a song listing all the others they have left behind to die which includes a line about how they don't leave anyone behind. Their portrayal is also extremely racists. It's not by coincidence that they have an Irish accent. The good from the books are intentionally being portrayed as if they are really no better than the evil they seek to destroy. It's to destroy the line between what is good and what is bad to the point neither really exists.
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  120. Maybe that's why I've always been populist. My grandfather was my idol. Born in 1912, was a farmer and later a Union leader at the oil refinery, led a strike at said oil refinery, was absolutely what one would think of as an upstanding Christian. He was quiet and reserved. He'd take the shirt off his back if someone else needed it, and did. He'd walk to work in the ice if the roads were too bad to drive to make sure the guy he was supposed to relieve at work got off on time. He prioritized family above everything. One time during contract negotiations he asked the OWNER to step outside to settle it, which means he was challenging a fist fight. It was so against his nature to do something like that, the owner immediately apologized and backed down. He'd made a comment about the workers that was particularly insulting and my grandfather wasn't having it. You can imagine the impact that had coming from a 6'7 man that nobody had ever even heard raise his voice. He never trusted the government. He taught us survival skills and how to grow pretty much anything because we still farmed. It was all about being self sufficient. Hunting, farming, fishing, he made sure we all had those skills. He even built the only house they ever owned by himself. Including all the electrical, plumbing, cabinets. Things he'd never done, but taught himself how to so he didn't need to rely on anyone else. I think if everyone had someone like him in their lives, we'd be in a much different and better place right now. Oh yeah, and everything bought HAD to be American made. It didn't matter if it's more expensive. You support your fellow citizen's first.
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  247.  @TheHigherVoltage  I can't take someone seriously that doesn't know why marijuana was banned and why it's remained so. You also ignore that the bill that put all those people in jail didn't come from the right. Marijuana was banned because it was competition to paper. It's remained banned because it's competition to pharmaceutical companies. The Democrats told you it was because of the right because it's in their political interest to do so. You also don't know your audience. The majority here don't believe government should be involved in marriage at all. Marriage has become defined as a religious ceremony so that's where it should stay. For the government, it should just be legislated like any other contract or not at all. So you being upset that a religious institution won't say you can get married so you demand the government violate other people's rights is the problem. As for women, a new poll says over 50% of women WANT to be a housewife and not work. I advocate that's their choice, you advocate that's wrong think. Again believing you should be be able to violate their rights and force your opinion on them because you don't agree with it. Yet you're upset because a now very small group with no political power, dare to voice disagreement with you and don't believe what you want. You consider what they are doing is violating your rights while demanding government involvement to force your opinion on others. You're what you're railing against and don't even see it. Edit to add: Tolerance isn't a one way street. You are free to advocate for what you want and they are free to do the same. Neither should be silenced. That's what real tolerance is. I'd suggest learn to do it first before demanding it from others.
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  258. This is the ideas that the US was founded on. It makes change slow so that if it's really a benefit or a detriment that has time to show. If a new idea works, it will be adopted by other states and that will test if it's compatible for all or if it's more limited based on resources available or wealth of the state. If it is found to be a benefit then it will be adopted at the federal level and by that time it's already pretty much been accepted by the majority of the people. It was never supposed to be as it has become with one or two states doing something and then it's forced onto the others by the federal government using party power rather than individual state power or by withholding funding until they comply. States are finally starting to remember that they are supposed to be the power within the country instead of the federal government. Outside of interstate conflicts, money printing, trade, treaties, etc the federal government isn't supposed to have much power. Edit: The closer the people are to their politicans in day to day interactions the more those laws are supposed to affect our day to day life. Each step further removed from the people, the less impact they're supposed to have on our day to day life. There should be vastly different laws and regulations between states all the way down to counties and towns. It was so people could live under laws they want to and those that didn't like them could easily move to an area that better suited them. We were never supposed to be identical to each other.
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  363.  @EekChocolate  Everything you're saying is completely false. Gen X, my generation, created a new economy because we had to to survive. Those jobs being shipped out are why 90% of what you're complaining about happened. Because there were no more good paying manufacturing jobs that don't require a lot of skill disappeared, that resulted in higher skills being needed. That caused the push for college and the government to step in to attempt to guarantee its availability to those no longer earning from the lost manufacturing which drove the price up. College became so common that businesses now use it to gauge employment readiness which drove the demand even higher. If you watched the video, you'd know wages are usually pretty stagnant, but because of when you grew up you're used to them growing rapidly. They have grown extremely rapidly to be clear. When I was a teenager the minimum wage was $3.20. Now it's over $10 to start in most places and $15-$20 in many areas. That's in less than 30 years. That's massive growth. As it increases so do prices to go along with it. I currently live in a fairly small town in a sparsely populated state and it's $13+ to flip a burger. That's a $5+ hour increase in less than 5 years. That's not stagnate. The wage increase combined with the shortages caused by getting too much stuff from overseas has caused prices to rise and products to shrink. That's not Reagan economics, that's just plain supply and demand. So again, not manufacturing here has caused an increase in prices that wouldn't have occurred. The other major issue no longer making things here has caused is a lack of invention and progress technologically. Competition isn't nearly as fierce to create new things so it's become stagnant. That's where the real stagnation has occurred. You went on a tirade about cars. There were always other big car manufacturers around the world. Tariffs added costs to them, making the ones made in the US cheaper and it drove car manufacturers to constantly be improving their cars in looks and quality to appeal to more people. Seeing cars made outside the US was uncommon and limited to the more wealthy before. You can see it across all product markets. It's no longer about improving how well something works or how long it lasts, but just adding little gadgets onto it to increase the cost. Let's look at washing machines. There's been no real big improvements to their functionality in decades. They've simply added some technology into them, but their core functions haven't improved at all. Simply because I can start it with my phone, somehow makes it worth thousands of dollars when the much cheaper one does the exact same core function just as well. Our society now puts massive value on gadgets rather than actual functionality and quality which is a direct result of the Boomers driving the economy into a consumer one. My generation simply responded to what Boomers wanted in order to survive, but it was never what we wanted. That's why the middle class is now collapsing. It was never sustainable, but making things is. If you think it isn't then explain China's massive economic rise since we've shipped most of the manufacturing of our ideas over there.
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  466. According to Vee, it's pretty standard to be detained for 30 days. They can hold you without charges for up to 180 days, but that's extremely rare for judges to allow. Every 30 days they'll ask for an extension until the 180 is but most judges won't allow it to continue to that point. They don't have innocent until proven guilty like we do so keep that in mind. Completely different judicial system. As to what Tate says, I raised my sons to never hit a woman ever unless life or death like a weapon being involved. I don't believe that anymore and have since added a caveat to it. If it's one if these modern women that believe they can act like a man, and are as strong as a man, if they hit you hit them back. If you're going to as "strong as a man" then that comes with the responsibilities of being physically as strong. If you believe you're better than a man, that comes with more responsibilities than a man. Tired of this idea that women get to be like men and still be treated like women. I'm sick of women complaining they have to work and almost all of child responsibilities. If you alone get to determine if that child is born and the man gets zero say, then it's your responsibility to care for them. You don't get to make 100% of the decision and then put the responsibility of it onto someone else. That's not how equality works. I've been slapped repeatedly in the face with this commercial telling me women are better than men in every way but retire with 30% less and that's not right. If you save 30% than men into your retirement, then yes it is. You're responsible for the choices you make and intentionally remove men from.,
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  567.  @TheHigherVoltage  The no taxes things on Churches is pretty lame because EVERY nonprofit has those benefits. Churches ARE nonprofit and spend the bulk of donations on charity inside the communities they're in. They save the government money by taking away some of the burden and that's why nonprofits (religious or non religious) aren't taxed. Churches have accounts at grocery stores for those in need to Oh buy the groceries they need to live, they have accounts with every utility company to help pay for families in need, they run shelters, food banks, and kitchens. Define poverty? My red state was considered "poor" but we lived better than people in New York making 3 times as much because the cost of living is much lower. When you look at a rate based on national averages rather than areas, the much higher areas (due to the wealth gap) push the average much higher. I owned a 4 bedroom 3 bath 2300 sq home on 3/4 of an acre for $120,000 because the cost of living was so low. Even when were below the "poverty" line and on food stamps I was able to purchase my own home. We had everything including internet that we were able to pay for fine and our own cellphones and cell service we paid for. That was a family of 4 below the poverty line in one of those "impoverished" red states you're talking about. The average income is $45,000 and the average home price is $100,00. Now look at New York. The average income isn't much higher, but the average cost of a home is astronomical. New York is "rich", but who's living easier and has more? Edit: Also most of those states are agricultural heavy. The government sets the price range of most crops to keep prices down. If farmers were allowed to charge whatever, they wouldn't be poor. Don't try to pull "but California" either. California's farming industry is 1% of the state's economy. Most of those states it's the largest portion of their economy. We can always develop the land and the people in the rich cities can starve.
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  586.  @fallonclouatre7934  Finland is expanding it's nuclear plants to generate 60% of it's power needs, the opposite of every other country in the West. It's banned in the US. Finland doesn't have oil, natural gas, or coal available as a natural resource so it's always had to import it and will continue to do so for the remainder of its power needs. Meaning more oil is used to ship it in making what it does use a far larger impact than a country like the US that has all 3 readily available. Oil is used in millions of products you use everyday so this idea that anyone will be oil free is laughable unless you want to live like a pioneer. There are already brown outs and black outs because there's not enough energy to supply all the new electric everything required in a few cities. Without nuclear, how do you think all nearly 200 million using an electric car will work exactly without destroying every forest and turning it into a solar panel field or cutting down all the trees so they don't block the wind for the windmills (both of which use oil to make or operate)? No pipe dream technology that might happen either, using only the technology available right now. Those energy sources aren't as reliable either meaning more brown and blackouts than just the ones in residential areas because the businesses need the energy and they take priority. How many people will die when there's not enough to cool or heat them, especially since many places are also banning wood burning fireplaces? I have solar panels that I purchased brand new. They don't produce the exact same amount of energy day to day which means as a means of producing mass amounts it's much less reliable than what we currently use. Look what happened in Texas because the windmills froze and imagine that across the entire grid. It didn't just happen in Texas either. Several states lost their green energy sources because they froze causing 13 states to institute rolling blackouts in an attempt to keep people from freezing to death. That was without the entire population of them using electric cars, stoves, heaters, water heaters, etc. It would have been catastrophic if that was the case.
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  882.  @weneedcriticalthinking  Don't link opinion pieces as fact. They aren't. They are someone's opinion on what they think something might mean or what might happen based on their own individual biases. That's not proof. Trump's first 2 years were bad for the middle East, no one is disputing that. He's not a politician and was surrounded by people the GOP told him would be good. His entire term he only had a small handful of people around him that were trying to do what he wanted. Everyone else was doing everything they could to stop him. They constantly bragged about it in interviews. The main guy over the Middle East let it all out after he retired. The higher ups in the Pentagon were intentionally lying to the President and the people about troop numbers and what was going on. That's when Trump fired all of them at the Pentagon and put in people he knew he could trust and troops were brought home. Even Congress stepped in to prevent our withdrawal. No one is happy he didn't pardon Assange either. The thing is, nobody is perfect and everyone screws up. He screwed up a hell of lot less than most. Might I remind you Democrats wanted to drone strike Assange rather than even have a trial. Obama used drone strikes against US citizens abroad without them being convicted of anything. Snowden is another case entirely since he leaked information knowing it was illegal. He actually broke the law. Assange is a member of the press so he broke no laws and if he's convicted, that's the end of the free press guaranteed in the first amendment. As for Space Force, it's something that will be needed in the future. If you think those other countries weren't already thinking ahead like we were, I've got a bridge to sell you. It didn't escalate anything it just brought it out into the open. If anything the US is behind because Obama stripped NASA'S funding which is our primary space department.
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  1013. @burnt andburnie The major countries causing CO2 emissions are China and India. They produce more than most other countries combined. That 10 most, is deceiving. I'm not for the Paris agreement because it's telling poor countries they'll have to remain poor forever. Conservative means conservation. That means preserving things or saving things. The problem is you think that means everything, but it doesn't. You can be economically conservative and socially liberal or the opposite. Most would identify has Constitutionalists. There's nothing wrong with preserving the Constitution since it's the foundation of the country. It's obvious you're self taught and I'd say you still have a long way to go. I'd suggest geology so you'll understand the normal global temperature of the Earth is 70, not 60 like now, with little or no ice cap. That's why there are alligator fossils in the Tundra. You'd also learn CO2 levels increase with no explanation why and the global temperature can swing in either direction by as much as 10 degrees rapidly. Yes humans have an impact, but not as much as some think. The Earth has done this when we didn't exist. That some believe human can just change the Earth at will is mainly our ego and usually just creates more problems down the road. Florida is a prime example. "Florida is going to be underwater" because it's mostly supposed to be Everglades and thus pretty much water anyway. Humans built it up to make it habitable and are now shocked it's try to go back to it's natural state.
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  1016.  @kentkobakoff7231  I suggest looking into T cell research when it comes to people who have not had the virus, that's if you know what T cells are. It's complicated to test their reactions so it takes longer than just looking for antibodies in the blood. There are studies worldwide, all with similar results, but the US study differs because it used blood donated from 2015-2018. I was surprised when I saw the results and conclusions and am still waiting on the media to report on them. If we're supposed to follow the science, why aren't these states doing so? The CDC says it's perfectly safe to open schools so why are they closed?. WHO and UN scientists have said lockdowns are bad and kill more than the virus so why are we still talking about them as an option? I have no issue with a store having a policy of mask requirements just like I don't have a problem with their no shirt no shoes no service one. I do have a problem with government mandates, not laws, requiring them. These mandates didn't go through the normal legal process of checks and balances to be enacted and that's a problem. No one is against quarantining those currently infected, but there is no science that says to quarantine the uninfected. We know viruses spread faster in the winter because we stop moving around and stay indoors more, so how does not moving around and staying indoors magically also prevent spreading especially when they close stores and force the whole population to use only one or two? All of this was based on the premise that China did it and it worked, but it has now officially been confirmed that it didn't work and they were lying. So we should continue to follow what China did and ignore WHO and the CDC? Y'all really need to make up your minds.
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  1045.  @MatthewCYN15  The Pandorica The Doctor says a lot of things. This is actions, not words. You've never said something in anger but didn't act on it? Everyone has which is the point of things like that in the scripts. To make him relatable. Time Lord Victorious was way more than just that. It was predicted to the 4th Doctor by the Dalek that he would become everything he opposed. Proving the point of the comment. It was undone when the Eleventh reset all the fixed points in time during the Pandorica arch. Twelfth Doctor threatened that but did not do it. Instead he told her, Me is the name btw, to stay far away from him. He then brought Clara back (sort of) and she's out of time traveling with Me. The only time The Doctor eliminated an entire race was the Daleks which he swore to never do again. He was forced to kill but it was always with great regret. Even in the Time Lord Victorious he allowed a few to escape intentionally. People are allowed to comment as much as they like about the recent seemingly permanent development of a lack of empathy from the 2 most recent attempts at The Doctor. There's a reason the ratings took a nose dive and are continuing to drop regardless of Tenant's and RTD's return. I find it interesting that you only mention him changing a fixed point in time in the Victorious arch but not the much more heinous acts he committed. Like destroying an entire planet and creating a time rift and time loops. He didn't have a companion because he didn't want one. All The Doctor's companions have tragic lives except 1 or 2 across the entire 50 years. He couldn't stand the thought of condemning another person to that fate for a brief time. That reminded him of why he had them in the first place. To keep himself grounded and empathetic. Edit: Even though you claim to have portrayed The Doctor in audio shows (not cannon btw), you have zero grasp or understanding of the character. Not surprising. I've been told by those that work with them that actors are pretty stupid and surface level. Thanks for proving it true.
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  1236.  @janekh1917  What does that have to do with the MCU? I'm a woman and I've never been "oppressed". Are men being oppressed because they are forced by law to financially care for a child they never agreed to have? If you're answer is no, then neither is a woman. Plus you're not addressing why she's being denied. It has nothing to do with the abortion laws and everything to do with being an orphan that currently has no guardian. I can agree that judges ruling was wrong, but you're blaming half the country for a poor court decision that will be appealed and most likely overturned. You're too ignorant to understand the difference between laws and a bad court decision. According to the law, she's well within the legal limit which is 15 weeks. A limit the overwhelming majority of the population of the entire country supports and every other country does as well except Canada, North Korea, and China. Even in Canada it varies by province. It's beyond lame to use a single court case and apply it to every woman as proof of something when it doesn't affect every woman. It's just manipulation and not factual. The state abortion laws don't apply to every woman and are overwhelming supported by the women in those states. The prolife movement is almost exclusively women, the pro abortion movement has a ton of men in it. So either way you slice it, it's not oppression by men. Edit: If you want to talk about oppression by men when it comes to abortion, how about all the men that pressure a woman to get one? They threaten to leave and manipulate a woman in a vulnerable situation. You don't care about that though. Only women making decisions in their states that pertains to them.
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  1322. The best the Fellowship (it's what the fandom is called) can figure out, it's Finrod. Angered and Aegnor died fighting Morgoth. Finrod is the only one associated with Sauron and Middle Earth. His kingdom was in the mountains, instead of the Woodlands like most Elves. He was close to the Easterling where Sauron was creating his armies. Because he was in the mountains, they were near Dwarves. The Dwarves saved his life do he owed them a life debt. Him and some companions magically disguised themselves as orcs and infiltrated Sauron's forces. Sauron showed up and could see through the disguises. Finrod almost defeated Sauron right then, but got injured by a werewolf. He defeated the werewolf, but succumbed to his injuries. Thus he had fulfilled his life debt because he died protecting the Dwarves. So there was no "mission" for her to complete. It also looks like that's not at all how he's going to die, which is a lot of people's favorite story. The snow scene is the Elves that were banished to Middle Earth for taking part in the Kinslaying. She certainly didn't lead the crossing as all families involved were removed so it would be hundreds if not thousands. Certainly not that small number shown. Given that that was what remained of her family members crossing or members that followed her family during the Kinslaying, it makes her demanding anyone be left behind particularly disgusting on her part. The Eminem character, is supposed to be a group of fanatic Elves, which given the nature of Elves is ridiculous. None of that is getting into her having a relationship with Sauron even though in the books he avoided her, Elrod, and Gil-Galad because they had strong foresight and could see through his disguises. Which makes her line about whatever you've done leave it because she would know what they had done, what they were thinking, and likely what they were going to do in the future. You just have to watch the movies to understand that part. That's why she gave them the gifts she did. She knew they'd need them later. So they didn't just not read the books, they didn't even watch the movies.
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  1353. You don’t understand homelessness. Most homeless choose it. They don’t want to be a part of society. The difference is how wealthy nations have become has allowed them to live whereas before they’d just simply die. If you chose not to work, you starved. The state didn’t provide for you. The “majority” in wealthy and democratic nations are NOT poor. It’s a very small percentage of the population. Where as before they were. Serfs were poor and everyone not of nobility, high up in the church, or a merchant were poor. We’re talking 3rd world kind of poor. I simply love when people attempt to compare post industrial revolution to pre. If you’ve never lived like it didn’t happen, you have no idea what you’re talking about. I’m talking no electricity, no running water, no modern day conveniences. There are even a few places in the US you could go experience it. You won’t because you’d rather sit in your comfort making ridiculous comparisons of completely different time periods and proclaim the one you’ve not experienced better. Edit: Serfs didn’t own the land. If they didn’t produce enough to pay the landowner their required amount, which the lord had to pay the crown a percentage of in taxes, they were punished. They weren’t allowed to move up in wealth. As much as people like you complain you have no idea what it’s like to live in a society with zero upward mobility while pretending that’s somehow a good thing. You have no idea what it’s like to truly suffer yet long for it out of your own ignorance. You’re living in the top 1% of the world’s wealth while complaining about the 0.01%.
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  1434.  @reek4062  Yes, stuff was changed which was discussed and debated within the fandom at the time. The majority decided that despite the changes, it was the best representation of Tolkien's work that likely will ever be made. Jackson addressed and explained most of the changes that were made with the fandom at the time. Him, staff, and Sir Ian Mckellen all communicated with us via message boards and blogs during production and after release. The books say Faramir interrogates Gollum rather than kill him for fishing in the Frobidden Pool (entrance to Henneth Annun). It's not unreasonable to assume an interrogation would involve some pressure. That's not "abuse" especially since he should be killed as his proper punishment. Faramir may have been wise and kind, but it didn't mean he didn't perform his duty. The Mouth of Sauron scene is only in the extended editions so if they don't have those, that is unknown to them and only a part cut for time (which it was). Frodo sending Sam away (not Sam leaving Frodo) was highly contested along with removing Tom, and not doing the Scouring of the Shire. The last two were removed for times sake and Frodo sending Sam away didn't change what ultimately occurred as a result of entering Cirith Ungol. These are things, that though debated within the fandom, doesn't take away someone's fan card nor does it call for degrading other fans who love the movies simply because someone else disagrees. That's not how this fandom works because just reading and understanding Tolkien's work requires an intelligence that behaving that way, is frankly, beneath us.
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  1554.  @steveg209  Interesting take. Do you honestly believe that red states are all white and don't have all that you listed? I'd suggest looking at real demographics of each state. Minnesota, Oregon, Washington, Rhode Island, and many more are far more homogeneous than the majority of southern states. You know those red states you hate. 1/3 of vegetables can't feed the country. Farming is 1% of California's revenue, it's 25% of mine. So who do you think it affects more and looks like more when the government has to pay to fill their trade agreements on food? We grow 50% of the country's rice supply and 20% of Japan's. That's a staple crop which means farmers get paid to grow it by the government because it's not a good money making crop, but the country needs it. We also produce almost all the country's boilers. I know you don't know what that is, so look it up. We also produce a large amount of tomatoes for the market of several neighboring states as well as quite a bit of soybeans. That's all comes out of a small population of 3 million. I'm also going to point out that you assuming only one race are farmers is extremely racist. I'll be sure next harvest to tell the two local black farmers I buy all my produce from they don't exist. Edit: It's also pretty dang uneducated to think we don't have all those electronic devices since you're talking to us on the internet. They make these wonderful things now called solar panels and there are satellites too. I'm not sure why you're putting down living much more green and leaving a small carbon footprint. I thought that was supposed to be a good thing.
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  1558.  @kh8655  There are a few studies saying production is down and it's pretty easy to explain why that happens when working remotely vs in the office. If you're in the office and you finish what you're working on, you can immediately be assigned to something new. That's not an option remotely. That work exists in both situations it just gets started earlier in one than the other. Also when you're in the office with everyone else, it's much easier if you need something from someone else. Instead of having to schedule, play phone tag, or hope they read your email soon. That's the entire reason big offices were done in the first place. This has changed a bit with Millennials, because there was a serious breakdown in face to face communication and they've always tended to rely on texts or email rather than just walk a few feet. So there was already a decrease in efficiency and productivity, but Gen Z is going back to more traditional interactions within the workplace. Plus, you aren't the only person in the workplace and what's best for you personally might not suit everyone where you work, which also has to be taken into consideration by employers. Many people have too much going on inside the home to be able to dedicate time or find an area to be able to do that. That's why it's important to understand that only 25% or so want to remain working remotely. That 25% is demanding everyone else accommodate them. I'm fine with them looking for a new job that better suits what they now want, but also agree with JJ. Until you do, do your job how you agreed to.
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  1641.  @kkimbo771  "Tump says fallen soldiers are losers" That was debunked within minutes of it being "reported". That you're still using it shows you're just a mouthpiece. What has Biden actually done in his almost 50 years besides legislation that disproportionately harms minorities? Why didn't he try to fix these problems in the last 47 years? I can't even begin to try to picture him standing up against China or Russia. He's not strong enough. He's one of the most racist people I've seen and has been his entire career. He can't keep his hands off women and young girls. Maybe if these Democrat run areas actually protected their citizens instead of coddling criminals, Trump wouldn't be able to point to them as examples of what a Democratic President would do. Y'all also need to decide if he's a wanna be dictator or not. Calling him that while calling those cities his fault doesn't fit. They've given him a perfect excuse to seize power with the insurrection act and he hasn't. Make up your minds. You can hate Trump, but his Israel/ UAE deal and now his Kosovo/Serbia deal are wow. Just one of those would be automatic reelection. His priorities on child trafficking have had real results. His economic policies are why we're recovering quickly from the shutdowns and have faired better on that front than almost all other countries. He released thousands of federal prisoners put their under Biden's bill too with justice reform. No new conflicts, greatly reduced drone strikes once Bolton was gone, drug prices, federal recognition for tribes that would never get it otherwise, etc. Man, he's horrible.
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  1669. Seeing as you grew up around Hollywood I can see that being your perspective. The film industry isn't a good reflection of the how it is in the rest of the world. It's an extremely isolated bubble. So it is wrong to judge everywhere under the false assumption that it's like it is there. That's just not the case. I personally have had far more women try to control my decisions than men and I live in an area people like you would most likely consider backwards and misogynist without having actually lived there. Very red, very religious areas. I have been charged with being a drain on society and worthless as a woman because I chose a more traditional role. A role my mother didn't take. She worked in administration her entire life with computers and in IT departments while my father, who was less educated, worked in chemical plants. I didn't like not having a parent at home, so I chose the opposite. I have been attacked on line and in person by other women for my choices. So no, men aren't trying to control me. Women on the other hand will try to strip me of my womanhood for not bowing to their ideals. That's life outside your bubble. I'm not anomaly either. It's been going on for several years. My family also dates back to Jamestown as an indentured servant (he was the 2nd son to a royal) and before because his great grandson married a Native. I don't know why you added that, because it doesn't make you special or more authoritative. Edit: I am college educated and could practice child psychology. So I'm not a stupid hick or anything either. All the women in my family, going back to my grandmother who was born in 1918, are college graduates. While none of the men are Edit 2: Correction. My great grandmother was a school teacher. I'm the first in 4 generations to choose to not work outside the home. All born and raised in the same red, religious, state. This was on top of running a small cattle ranch. Being told you can't work and everything else, never applied to poor and rural people which my family was.
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  1918.  @xX_Kino_Xx If just doing whatever I want to make me happy is the only moral, then absolutely nothing beyond that in your long winded attempt to justify your position matters nor does it belong in anything beyond yourself. You’re attempting to decide what makes others “happy” based on your own idea of it. You can’t even explain what happy is because it’s just an emotion. It’s not an achievable state of being because like all emotions it’s controllable and involves choices. Conscious choices. I’m not sure why people seem to believe suddenly that emotions are this uncontrollable force. They aren’t. Every single emotion is controllable with enough practice and effort. If all I’m supposed to do is make myself “happy” than what makes me happy could be something extremely destructive to everyone else and according to you, that’s perfectly fine and moral. Morals are ethics. They are a set of guidelines decided on and enforced by a society and culture. They are based on what is most beneficial to that culture and society. They have nothing to do with the individual’s desires and in fact often go against them for the betterment of society. Edit: Even before civilization existed we had societies. Small societies, but they still existed because we are social animals. Groups animals. Just like every animal we adopt what’s most beneficial to the species survival. That’s what morals are based on and why they change overtime. What’s beneficial to my survival based on my limited knowledge during prehistoric times is completely different than what’s most beneficial to our survival as a species today. If I steal from my neighbor, it’s very likely to shorten my life and harm society. Therefore it’s not a moral good. It’s really not that complicated. You’re personal anything has no bearing on what’s morally acceptable in a society.
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  2091. If you say you aren't justifying it and then say "had no other choice", you've lied in the first part. He's a part of the WEF and good ole Klaus had mentioned how proud he is of him in several speeches. He doesn't hate globalism. He just wants to be the one in charge. In the speech to his troops before the invasion he praised Lenin and he's buddies with China so trying to claim he's against communism is complete BS. He also doesn't give a crap about Nazis. Russia is home to half the world's population of them. The former Russian PM sent Dmitry Demushkin and other neo Nazis into the separatists regions to fight Ukraine. Putin has only outlawed 5 groups of them in the last 2 years because he was pressured to due to their extreme violence. We're talking mass murderers. These groups even officially register to the government so they know who they are. Everything you just wrote is complete BS and inaccurate. It's propaganda plain and simple. You talk about centuries and don't give a single reference to what happened, only the USSR for a second which didn't exist for a century so your history isn't "centuries" in explanation. Russia is still very much Communist in similar ways China is. Their major exports are nationalized and controlled by Putin or his oligarchs. Just like it was under the USSR. It may no longer formally be communist, but there's little difference outside the economy. The government is very much still exactly the same. As for Ukraine. It's made up of several different countries. Part Russia, Poland, Romania, etc. Part if Poland that Russia took with Germany ended up now part of Ukraine. When the USSR took an area it intentionally mixed up the population to create strife so they wouldn't trust each other. That's why Yugoslavia split into so many different countries that can't stand each other. Putin is using the intentional displacement of Russians during that time to take parts, or in this case all, of previous Soviet countries. He's stated that any country that contains people that speak Russian belongs to Russia. He's used these same excuses in all 5 or so invasions of neighboring sovereign countries. NATO "expansion" is a direct result of those invasions. Everytime he does this, former Soviet countries get nervous and some of them ask to join NATO. So he's conveniently complaining about a problem of his own creation which is typical government honestly. Add in that since it's existence Russian leaders are judged by how much they expand the empire and you'll just start to understand Putin and his motivations. He's old, he's not going to be in power much longer, and to take the largest ex Soviet country back into Russia would leave him with a nice legacy. The fact that you or anyone else tries to justify the slaughter of people that have every right to determine their own fate as a nation, is disgusting. That Russia should be allowed to bully it's neighbors to be a sacrificial lamb in case Russia gets invaded, is sickening (that's what a buffer state is). That against their will, they have to sacrifice their livelihoods, their rights, and even possibly their lives to protect a bigger country is fine to people sitting comfortably in their homes in the West far away, is beyond tone deaf. It's elitist and it's proof that the West has no principles or morals left.
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  2094.  @DinoDino118  I'm correcting your arguments. Don't want others talking about your points, don't post on open forums. Yes I understand socialism, but most that argue for it don't. Venezuela is "privately" owned by those in good graces of the leader as an reward for their loyalty. Not unlike a monarchy. Giving someone a business the government controlled and can take back control of at anytime, isn't "privately owned". It also means there's no competition which drives innovation. Socialism doesn't allow an individual true ownership of property. That alone makes it a big no from me. I brought up Venezuela as an example since you kept claiming everyone but you is stupid. I like your personal attacks. That's a clear sign of not having facts to dispute the argument presented and instead resort to an attempt to bully. Since you don't like Venezuela, how about Vietnam then. They achieved the idea of people owning everything. It didn't work either. Their rice production dropped because people realized they got the same benefits regardless of effort. They had to import rice to feed the population. Unfortunately, because their economy went that direction, they had massive inflation of up to 900%. The country went broke just trying to feed them. They did it twice with the exact same results. Would you like more examples of socialism failing? The fact that I can point to examples and explain why they failed shows I have an understanding of socialism. Attacking another economic system with zero evidence or explanation of why it isn't working, shows you don't. Again, poverty in capitalist countries is completely different than poverty in other systems which I pointed out and you ignored. I'll give you more than that the poor in the US is still in top 1% of the world's economy. All but a very tiny portion of poor in the US with be a part of the middle class at some point in their life. That means the majority that are in poverty now, won't remain there which means a lot of upward mobility. I'll even go further. Where I live the cost of living is very low. Living in poverty here means you live pretty comfortably. I know, I lived it. While you can't afford some luxury items, you certainly can meet all your needs. Even more so with the government programs you get. You can afford a car, rent (it's about $600-$700 for a 2 bedroom apartment and there are cheaper), enough food to feed your family, and most have internet or data on their phones. The government also pays for your healthcare with Medicaid (we have extended so that includes eye care and dental). Please explain to me how horrible that is. Again I lived it. Yes, it was upsetting that I couldn't afford nice things for my children that my brother could for his children, but our needs were met which is far more important. I understood the difference between needs and wants as well as necessary and luxury. Just because someone else has something doesn't mean I should too. A lot of it I don't even want. You set the poverty line at $2, which is extreme poverty. The US doesn't have 10s of millions living in that state. Not even anywhere near 1 million. I don't feel like doing the math, but it's 0.11% of the population. Then you'd have to factor out those that choose to live like that in the mountains, so less than that.
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  2107.  @oleonard7319  "Other countries have socialized healthcare that works much better than ours". False. If that was true, people from those countries wouldn't travel to the US to receive treatment and they do all the time. The US provides the overwhelming majority of the world's medical research which is paid for by the costs. Those types of healthcare systems are fine if you're relatively healthy, but they're terrible for those with rare diseases and sicknesses. 500,000 die under those systems a year waiting on heart surgery alone. They only purchase medicines to treat the most common conditions, so if have a rare one that requires special medications they won't be available to you. An example is adrenal insufficiency. It's rare. While the steroids to treat it are available as they're common medications used for the treatment of many things including infections that's available. However an emergency injection kit is also required to prevent what's called a crisis that occurs when the body gets stressed and requires a large dose to prevent a coma and organ failure. They are not available in those countries because it's not cost effective for the government to purchase them for such a small number of people. They won't get a big discount because there's no need for a large purchase so they simply don't purchase them. I have no problem getting one in the US. I have experienced Canadian and US healthcare as I've given birth in both countries. I used a government hospital in Canada. Both were high risk pregnancies. I recieved far superior care in the US than in Canada and my care in the US was free because I was on Medicaid.
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  2182. ​​​ @ultr0shot440  I'm an independent. As you've touched on, the Democratic party has gone off the deep end. That tends to happen whenever a party has power for too long. Unfortunately it tends to happen more rapidly for that party. I think it boils down to them needing such a large coalition to win it causes them to get pulled further and further to maintain it. It's funny that I see people claim the other party has moved far to the right because when you look at actual policy they've maintained their position and the Democratic party has moved much farther left. I'm old enough to remember the last time they did price controls. Carter did it to oil and gas. It was horrible. Long lines, rationing, etc. It was crazy. To even just suggest it on food is pure insanity. 44% on gains is bad too. It means I'll lose almost half my retirement when I cash out my 401k. Meaning I'm going to have to save almost twice as much and work longer. Pretty much the entire platform is crazy. Notice how I'm sticking to policy and not talking about personalities, likeability, anything to do with either candidate personally. The ONLY thing that should matter is policy. As for abortion, it went back to the states and the current platform is it remains there. The Supreme Court ruled Plan B can't be banned and condoms have been available for free since the late 80s or early 90s due to AIDS. I'm personally sick of all the fear mongering about every single issue. I'm also laughing at the party that opened the boarder and caused the problem are now suddenly running on fixing it. The party in power that claimed for almost 3 years they couldn't do anything about it suddenly cares and is going to fix it. I just can't. Edit: As for Trump and his daughter, Biden did the same thing with Hunter when he was VP. Hunter would fly to China on the government's dime with his dad and make business deals. I'm supposed to care Trump did it and ignore Biden did the same. How about nobody should do it, but neither side has the ethical high ground on it. Plus, honestly, that's the least of my concerns at the moment because unlike everything I listed, it doesn't really effect me.
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  2246. I currently have one in my home. I don't care for the breed personally, but I don't take that out on my son's pupper. I'm actually grateful he came to live with us because had he stayed with just my son and his girlfriend, he would have ended up as statistic because they have no clue how to handle or train a dog properly. I know my som grew up with them. He just never paid attention to how we trained them. Even so, just due to his size and compactness of his build, my Red Heeler has had a leg broken. They were less than 6 months old rolling around playing, and the Pit ended up rolling onto his leg and breaking it. Red Heelers have long, slender legs and are already prone to leg injuries. He is NEVER outside with the other dogs without strict supervision. The minute he starts showing signs of being tired and grouchy, play is immediately stopped and he's brought in. I work with him individually on training and tricks daily. My two dogs ( Red Heeler and Blackmouth Curr) are much smarter than him. He takes 3 times as long to learn. He's not aggressive at all, but I'm not stupid enough to not understand that can change in an instant given the right circumstances. I've owned a lot of different breeds. My Border Collies are the only ones that have bitten anyone. She nipped our lawn care guy on his heel when he was on the riding mower. The herding instinct is extremely strong in that breed and you can never fully stop it. She didn't like lawnmowers in general so her instinct was to nip it's heels to herd it out of the yard. She didn't do any damage to him, but we made sure she was inside when they'd come after that.
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  2261.  @mmeditatio  Men didn't pick their spouse either. Arranged marriages were arranged by the parents of both, so I don't understand how that is only seen as bad for women. Plus arranged marriages only happened with the rich or nobility, not the majority of the population. The concept of romantic love is very new. You're wrong on so many things. My grandmother and her sisters all graduated college. None of the men in her family did. They all worked too and she inherited the property of her parents, which according to you didn't happen. She was born in 1918 btw. Florence Nightingale worked, Marie Curie was a scientist in the late 1800s, Cleopatra, Elizabeth I, Joan of Arc, it was Isabella that sent Columbus, the largest slave owner in Louisiana was a woman, and many many other women that were leaders and led armies which you claim wasn't possible because women weren't allowed outside their homes. None of what you stated is true on a large scale. Young boys were r@ped too and still are and men were enslaved just as much as women. Women are just as abusive to their spouses and children as men are as well. Women have owned and ran businesses for centuries too. I'm so sick of this false narrative that women were helpless, constantly abused and r@ped, and held back by men. Yes, women were from time to time throughout history treated poorly, but it was by no means the norm and wasn't all of history. Pretty much everything you described was mainly only well off families and wasn't the experience of the common man. Women worked beside their husbands in fields, shops, all nurses were women, and teachers. So how were they not allowed to work or leave the home, yet were the only or main ones in those occupations? This is the problem when you listen to propaganda and ignore facts.
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  2380. ​ @bobhiggens1106  Trad is not rushing to get married. He wasn't traditional and doesn't seem to have ever claimed to have that expectation. She expected him to want something he didn't. He complained almost immediately that she was no longer working. Did she even talk to him before just doing that? Trad or not, she made fatal errors for any relationship. She failed to communicate her wants and expectations prior to marriage and he did the same. I'm talking about her instead of him because she's the subject. She's now telling other women not to consider Trad based on her own experience which she's partially to blame for. I don't know the situations of the other influencers she's talking about either. What I do know after 26 years of marriage is that sometimes, especially in the early years, it's not always very pretty and the relationship can be bad, not abusive, for periods while you work out your differences and learn each other inside and out. You learn boundaries you weren't really aware of until a situation presents itself. The ones that survive that are the ones that push through it and instead of building resentment, learn and move forward. It takes a serious commitment and dedication. We had some serious fights early and when faced with outside stressors. Now we never fight and work like a well oiled machine. It's one of those marriages everyone watches and is amazed by. That's because before we got married we both agreed divorce wasn't an option. We both only wanted one marriage. You have want the same things and be able to communicate those things before you get married. I also made it very clear I wanted to be home with our future children. He agreed and said he'd work two jobs if he had to make it happen and at some points he did.
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  2451.  @gregbors8364 Either you don’t know what’s going on or you’re intentionally being disingenuous. Sports are dominated by what is considered an oppressed group. So of course they aren’t being targeted. Unless you live in the UK or another Western country where after every soccer/ football game there’s article after article complaining that the team is too yt. That happened in the World Cup a lot. Meanwhile over here in reality and professions that are important you have standards being dropped or even eliminated because the ratio isn’t “equitable”. So because they think oppressed groups, their words not mine, aren’t smart enough (they excuse that thinking by saying they’ve been so oppressed by the system they just aren’t able to reach the necessary level) obviously the requirements are racist and are intentionally preventing those groups from entering so they must be removed. You’ve got the BAR association and various physician groups saying they’re going to limit the number of licenses available to yt people in order to attempt to even out the numbers, places like Washington and Oregon removing passing the BAR, you’ve got a reduced requirement for pilots by hundreds of flight hours, you’ve got colleges and advanced schools reducing the requirements of admission and programs based on race (proven by a lawsuit), etc. Before you try to claim there’s no proof and it’s not caused any problems, a bridge collapsed because they prioritized having an all female group of engineers instead of going by merit so yes it’s happening and no it’s not a good thing.
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  2462.  @0trynewthings0  What resources does NYC or LA have? Hollywood? They don't grow food, they don't have mining, they don't have oil, etc. They are piled on top of each other like sardines so they don't even have land. They are big cities. They built it with certain things like Broadway to attract the rich. Then the rich wanted good food so chefs from around the world came. The wealthy being there creates jobs and businesses to fill their wants so they spend their money. The people that live there benefit from them by also having access to things they otherwise wouldn't. The people voted in bad politicans and bad policies and are now reaping the benefits of their bad decisions. Those bad decisions now effect their economy. That's not because of capitalism. It's because of poor government decisions. Capitalism isn't a government system, it's just economic. Unfortunately, government decisions effect the economy. I'm a perfect example of how wrong you are. I've been on foodstamps and welfare. Me and my husband are now well on our way to becoming millionaires. We made choices and saved to get here. I'm not responsible for you or anyone else deciding that buying a $40,000 car ,when a much cheaper used one will get you there, rather than saving that money is what you choose to do with your money. I'm not responsible for you going away to a college for $60,000 a year rather than one within driving distance for $20,000 or less. You are responsible for your choices and the consequences of them regardless of how long that consequence lasts. I'm not going to suffer because you're impatient and want everything right now. If you are a Millennial, you're already better off then my generation was at your age so cry me a river.
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  2481.  @yinyangsaladgang8789  The Church didn't do the egg hunts and stuff though. Easter, as far as the Catholic Church is concerned, is a special Mass followed by a feast like most holidays. It was the pagans turned Christian that added the rest to combine their traditions with their new religion. While it's true that the Church didn't pushback against this combination, mainly because it was local priests and missionaries rather than the Church handling these areas, that doesn't mean the Church is responsible for the combination that occurred. While you can certainly make the argument Easter falls where it does to align with previous pagan holidays, it really makes more sense that every religion celebrates the changing of seasons and these holidays were just Christianity's version of that rather than that the Church incorporated these holidays for pagans. Judaism also Mark's these occasions and they certainly weren't trying to lure people to their religion. It's really a chicken or egg argument, but it's more plausible that these celebrations existed already in Christianity and the pagans were the ones that combined their old traditions into the new religion. Edit: We know that the resurrection was extremely important to the early Christians, before the Church came to be. They marked their graves with the fish symbol (to represent a whale for Jonah and the whale story) to signify it. It was on the graves of very early Christians in Jerusalem and it's been found in symbols on floors that would have been hidden by a rug.
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  2634. People are misunderstanding what submission means. It's being said by Christian women. It's directly from the Bible. The Bible also says the man must submit to his wife. It's not a one-way street. It simply means putting others before yourself. Which if both spouses do that, it means you're both thinking about how everything impacts the other person instead of only thinking about yourself as a child does. I'm a "trad" wife. I'm a Christian woman who fulfills her Biblical role. The man is the head and the woman is the neck. She controls where the head faces. Yes a wife should do what she can to support her husband's career because when he is successful, the family benefits. That doesn't include doing his work for him because that's fraud and against the Bible. This doesn't work if both don't understand their roles and what's expected of them. This is why if you want to enter into a traditional Biblical marriage, you both need to know what that means. It seems like her husband had no idea she wanted that role or expected that from her marriage. That's why I always dated a minimum of 2 years before even considering marriage. Even so, I was engaged 3 times, asked 4 or 5, but only walked down the aisle once. Her saying she didn't understand he was abusive means she never had any other relationship in her life and I find that very hard to believe. My husband understood what I expected before we got married and agreed to provide. Me wanting that and having the qualities I do, is why he wanted me to be the mother of his children. Not because of what I financially brought or my looks. My morals.
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  2884.  @MrCantthinkofaname10  He did write about it. The first and 2nd Age is the Silmarillion. Numenorens are blessed by Eru (head, big god) for helping in the war against Morgoth. They are very similar to Elves, just not immortal. They are very tall and the greatest warriors. Sauron's army fled from them in fear. The fall of Numenor occurs after the forging of the rings. Sauron is captured by them and help prisoner. The king (Melian was supposed to be Queen but never ruled because her cousin usurped her throne and forced her to marry him) gets corrupted by Sauron and allows him in his council. Some Numenorens are angry and envious because they fear death and want to immortal like the Elves. Sauron uses that to convince them to worship Melkor/Morgoth. They performed child sacrifices and other horrors in their rituals. Then Sauron convinces them to attack Valinor. Now they had been warned to never sail past the point that they could no longer see their shores. In retaliation and punishment for their acts, Eru makes the world go from flat to round. This creates a tidal wave that sinks Numenor and it separates Valinor from the world. That's the fall of Numenor. They were jealous of the Elves immortality, not about them stealing their jobs. Galadriel at this time is building her kingdom with her husband Celeborn who she met in the 1st Age and their children. She traveled to Middle Earth, not for revenge because Elves are reincarnated, to build her own kingdom to rule. No, it doesn't follow the lore in the slightest. Edit: Galadriel wasn't a warrior. She could talk to people in their minds and persuade them because of her strong foresight and tore down a city opening it up to the sunlight after the defeat of Sauron. Her powers kept the forest of her kingdom in perpetual bloom. She didn't need a sword.
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  3108.  @pinchebruha405  Did who have reasons for what? If you mean the Austrian with the funny mustache that ruled Germany, his "reasons" are explained by himself that you're free to read. As to "Palestinians" in that area, they were never supposed to be there. It belonged to Egypt and Israel gained it during the 6 day war. In 2005 the UN forced Israel to abandon it to create a buffer between them and the West Bank. "Palestinians" flooded the area and took it for themselves. That's why all the infrastructure is from Israel. They built it. Nobody forced them to move into it. It was their choice. It's Israel's right to defend itself and its citizens from attacks and maintain their safety. That's the single biggest reason governments exist. The government in that area makes it clear in their Charter, they exist solely to destroy Israel and eradicate all Jews and non Muslims. One is to protect its population, one is only to kill and destroy. If you don't know which is good or bad then that's your own moral failings. Edit: Notice the non Muslim part. Since you say religion is the problem then you're an atheist. That means they want YOU eliminated too. Choose wisely. If you think appeasement works I'd suggest a look back into history because that tells us it never does. It only emboldens and causes the problem to continue to grow and expand. Edit: Contrary to what you seem to believe, H didn't just eliminate Jews. He caused the death of at least 5 million others. They included blacks, Gypsies, gays, disabled, etc. He wasn't Christian either. He was agnostic maybe but like many leaders from that time, closer to an atheist. So you're "religion causes everything" claim is complete bs. Communism, which enforces atheism on the population, has killed far more in war and persecution than any religion ever did.
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  3115.  @patwinlawrence6948  Then you're thinking is incorrect. There aren't enough past black students to where 52% of each class would be black applicants and get accepted. Acceptance rates generally don't include those let in as legacy because they typically don't go through the same application process. Letting students in who barely graduated high school or can't pass tests that the other students do doesn't help anyone. It hurts them because they can't do the work, drop out or fail out, which causes lower self esteem. Instead of focusing on acceptance rate as some weird determining factor on if certain group is somehow now better off, look at graduation rates of that group. It's low in Ivy League schools for black students because they're accepted knowing they're incapable of doing the work at the level required just so people like you can go "We're doing something!" when in reality you aren't. These schools are Ivy League not just based on money, but in high standards to get in AND high graduation rates that go along with higher earnings based on the faith employers have on the abilities of their graduates. Because they have higher standards to get in, they are able to employ a higher level of professors who can teach at a higher level of understanding than a state university. It's the equivalent of sending a student that can barely do basic math to MIT and claiming you helped him. People need to stop just looking at these schools as a play ground for the rich because they're not. They earned their reputation and are listed as top universities based on the level of education you receive at them. Edit: Also the number of legacy students allowed in is capped so that they don't take up all the resources. I know because I worked my a$$ of to try to attend one for law school. I had the grades, I had the test scores, I even grew up in poverty. Unfortunately I was the wrong race. Making race a deciding factor is the definition of racism and you cheer it on. By the way, I went from foodstamps and welfare to now the upper middle class. Upward mobility isn't gone. It requires risks just like it always has and too many people are no longer willing to take them. They want opportunity to move in nextdoor instead of seeking it out.
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  3118.  @oshitomaha  First off I'm not a "bro" and how dare you assume my gender. I just looked him up. First sentence "an American Marxian economist". That's his publicity information so yes, he calls himself that. Socialism is the economic side to Communism. It's based on workers owning the means of production. The only way that is possible is to do away with personal property rights. The reason is the owners name is on the lease for the building, they buy the equipment needed to make product, etc. Thus the workers can not own the means of production as long as that is recognized as the property of the person that purchased it. Unless the workers invest equal amount into creating the business, they should not be treated as equal because they aren't equally at risk. If the business fails, it's not the workers that the banks will come after or suppliers. It's also my name and reputation associated with the product which is another level of risk that's added that a worker doesn't face. I guarantee you can't find thousands willing to take on the risks the creator does in order to have a decision in what's done with the profits. Democracy isn't something that's just handed out like candy. It's something that's always required sacrifice. To push that workers should have that decision making ability without taking any of the risk isn't remotely reasonable. We have Unions that negotiate contracts with employees. If employees really wanted some say, they would form one, yet Unions are down across the board. You can try to blame right to work states, but Unions are still alive and well in them. I know because I live in one and my family have all been Union members. That says the majority don't really want a say. I don't know why you threw in healthcare when that's totally off topic as we're discussing Marxism and how the economy works and why his vision of the economy wouldn't. I love how you throw out "you capitalist" like it's some type of insult only to admit you are one and don't agree with him. Capitalism has existed since civilization was created. Even bartering is a form of capitalism. It's worked for thousands of years and socialism has failed everytime it's been tried. I also am aware of something you and him appear not to be. We don't have a capitalist economy, it's a mixed economy. So all his bashing of capitalism isn't even applicable. Edit to add: A living wage is a very subjective term. What's a liveable wage where I am, is not a liveable wage in NYC. That's why it shouldn't be determined by the federal government. It's too large of a range. My son makes $14 an hour which is almost as much as a dual income family averages with his overtime and our cost of living reflects that. Businesses here should not be forced to pay what a living wage in New York or California would be. Currently our minimum wage is $11. We voted that in a few years ago. If we want it to be higher, we'll make a petition and have it added to the ballot. If people in other states want theirs to be higher, I suggest you do the work and do the same instead of waiting on someone to do it for you.
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  3278. You're right. People who want to make informed decisions for themselves is just insanity. Everyone should just listen to the experts. The problem is which ones because they aren't in agreement? Should it be WHO and the UN which now say lockdowns should only be used to reallocate resources or governors who order lockdowns, but make exceptions for certain industries like Hollywood? If their decisions were based on science, there would be no exceptions. How is Walmart, where a ton of people go touching everything and is so crowded you can't social distance, safer than my mom and pop store that has fewer people go into it? There's nothing scientific that says that. Should I believe the pharmaceutical company that's making billions off of this vaccine or should I believe the 100 scientists, including a head UN scientist and the former head scientist of said pharmaceutical company, who say this type of vaccine is very dangerous? Should I believe the media who is telling me all these instances of reactions while also telling me it's fine, or should I listen to the UK who has added warnings and to an Illinois hospital who's suspended giving it out due to the number of severe reactions? I'm high risk and have already had the virus. So which science do I trust? The science that says I'm immune with a slight risk of getting it again and if I get again it won't be worse than my previous case of it which was very mild? Or do I take the vaccine that they say I have to even though it's not known if it will actually prevent me from getting it or just make me asymptomatic or mild, which I already was, and still able to spread it? According to the science, they are the same outcome for me, so why should I risk a bad side effect for no different protection? This is the upside to having a complex medical situation. I've learned to be very proactive in my own treatments, because all doctors aren't equal in skill. I research every medication that's suggested to make sure it's not going to affect one of my other conditions. Multiple times I've been prescribed medications that were dangerous to me including one that had a black label for my heart condition. Doctors aren't infallible and should never be treated like they are. I don't know why people treat them that way when malpractice is the third leading cause of death.
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  3626.  @nolwino  This is to your evolution, picking mate thing. Humans also have these things called contraceptives. We also have pills that prevent implantation. Because we have evolved brains, we can make decisions for ourselves like who we have sex with that we are all very aware could result in a pregnancy. There's such a thing as personal responsibility. As to Down Syndrome, because you are disabled and hate yourself, you're projecting that onto the unborn. Most Down Syndrome children born now are self sufficient. The reason they weren't in generations past is because they were hidden and not taught. Society viewed them as unable to learn. That's not true. Those that grew up, especially after Gen X, went to school, got an education, and are able to live alone. Tossing someone away because they aren't perfect is detrimental to the gene pool. A wide variety of different genes creates a stronger species. As a species evolves, those evolutions will be seen as birth defects because they are different. So eliminating every possible pregnancy that has a birth "defect" will prevent the species from advancing. Unfortunately society goes through periods were it tries to create and force perfection. The group lead by the funny mustache man wasn't unique at that time in that endeavor. Those periods of time are always looked back at in horror and as unethical. Just because we're living in such a time now, doesn't mean everyone has to be forced to participate. Edit: Sickle Cell isn't a birth defect. It's only an issue in the west. It's an evolutionary response to malaria. People born in areas with malaria it's a bonus, not a defect. Hence my advancement point. You clearly aren't a person that needs to be deciding what is and isn't a defect.
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  3767. Religion came to be in conjunction with human evolution from being purely driven by instinct into questioning the world around us. It goes hand in hand with our development of logical thinking. It's evidenced in seeing some apes now building what appear to be small monuments and partaking in some form of ceremony in conjunction with it. We know that even Neanderthals engaged in ritual burials. Whether atheist like or not religion is required for civilization and society to function properly. It is the foundation of morality which sets enforceable boundaries within a society. It's because early humans noticed when certain things occurred it created bad results. They believed they were being punished for those actions and thus morality was born. As we continued to evolve and our ability to reason increased we began to understand that the rain didn't come because we didn't make enough sacrifices, but it didn't come due to natural occurring forces at work in nature. Then our religion evolved to encompass more about the impact certain actions had upon society as a whole. New morals were created to deal with our new level of understanding. The mistake is believing our level of understanding has dramatically increased since then. It has not. Science still has not answered the questions religion answers. Why am I here, what is my purpose. As much as atheists like to claim they don't need a God to be moral, they fail to understand that the reason they have the morals they do is because they come from the prominent religion the society they were raised in held. Logic can't dictate why murder is wrong. The entire concept of it being murder stems from religion. Those morals from that religion became law. Those laws benefited society because society shared a common core religious belief system. The other issue with believing a society can be based on pure logic comes from not fully understanding the lack of intelligence by the general population. The majority of any population does not have the intelligence or inclination to spend hours analyzing everything around them to try to determine if they're being purely logical. Frankly it's a ridiculous demand to be made upon them and looking down on and belittling people who aren't capable or interested is just more proof most don't have the morality or empathy they claim they don't need a religion to achieve. Edit: Science is limited by the technology available to observe the world around us. So many things believed to be factual by our previous level of observation have been proven later to be untrue. This new demand that what's "true" be the end all doesn't recognize that what's true today could easily be proven false in a new experiment tomorrow. It doesn't acknowledge there's a limit to our own current understanding. That's the gap religion fills. Destroying religion doesn't get rid of the gap, it just exposes it. It's that gap that wokeness fills. It's that gap that allows the idea that truth is subjective to thrive because that preys on the fact the truth can change with more research. It's that gap that allowed research to be coopted because research is now the key to "truth" and societal morality.
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  3778.  @chrissgchriss  That's not true. Actors just want to act. They love death scenes. Very few actors give a crap about the character they're portraying. Leonard Nemo famously was thrilled when they killed Spock because he got to act out a death scene. It was only later that he realized how much it damaged the character and the fans that he understood the importance of the character. To them it's just a role. The Rock cares because he's been a character his entire life as was his father and because it was in wrestling he has a different view. How his character acted directly impacted his fans which in wrestling are who makes you money. So he always understood the relationship with fans. This is why they say Tom Cruise is the last movie star. He's the only actor people will go see a movie because he's in it. He's cultivated a fan base and been careful with his character choices. Most actors don't do that. Certainly very few younger ones. Used to actors were much more concerned with how they were perceived by the audience from role to role. Now they only care if a role is going to let them do something they like to do. Edit: Patrick Stewart is a good example. Even though he's played Picard for years, he doesn't care about the character at all. His main concern is being able to act in away he hasn't before. If that means that character acts completely differently than he would before, that's a bonus to him. They only care about showcasing their abilities, not who the character is supposed to be.
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  3851. That's not what they're for. It's to limit movement and driving to reduce emissions. I don't know where you got the community thing from. Most people in cities already don't go far from where they live, except for their job, and don't have a "community". Most don't know a single person that lives in the same building or only a couple. No "the left" doesn't give a crap about the majority of men because they're huwhite. When the current skyrocketing rate of them self harming gets brought up, it's laughed off and sometimes even cheered. "Suburb is what demolished the community in the US". Wrong. You'll find the sense of community still pretty strong in most suburbs and in rural areas. A city center isn't required for a sense of community and I don't know why you think it is. In rural areas where populations are spread out due to being heavily agricultural there's no center because it's so rural that large businesses, which is what populates city centers, don't operate. The school or church is what the community rallies around. I've lived where there was a population of less than 100 people and a single store. No government buildings, no "city center" and the community is extremely strong. The sense of community doesn't really exist in cities because of population density. It's too many different people with different enjoyments crammed into a single area. I don't need to "look it up" since I've lived in every single type of place from a large city to tiny towns. "The left isn't 16-25 year old women. The left is huge. Half of people" I guess you don't understand the significance of the age range you even wrote. He's focusing on Gen Z who are currently 16-25. This isn't about the entire population because the rest of us don't have the issues that he's discussing. We're married and had our children for the most part. By the way, women are 51% of the population so half and yes it's women that predominantly vote left. No the current young left is not nationalistic. The majority hate the country, that's according to polls. You can deny it all you like, but reality doesn't care. Edit: Since I'm from small towns with strong communities I attempted to treat people the same way when I moved to a big city. They didn't take kindly to it. They found my attempts at out reach, like making them a meal or making Christmas treats and giving them to everyone, unsettling and creepy. You know, the things that are typically done in an area with a strong sense of community.
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  4065.  @marygard4608  Inflation, per the definition, is caused by the printing of money which devalues the value of it. What you are referring to is just economics. Also supply vs demand economics in one instance. That's not inflation. They expected to have to combat inflation post COVID because over 1/3 of our money supply was printed during it. Thus causing inflation. Annie is correct in everything she is saying. The reason feminism caused things like housing shortages is because with the introduction of the no fault divorce, a family now had multiple homes instead of 1 because the mother AND father had separate households. Keep in mind it caused the divorce rate to jump to close to 60%. Divorce was available for abuse or infidelity long before that, so this idea that women were forced to stay in abusive relationships is bull. As noted, during those times teachers and nurses earned good money and were exclusively jobs held by women. This is all coming from the US so you don't get confused that I'm talking about another country. Yes men had to legally financially provide for their wives even if they didn't live together. This was mostly seen in the upper class. Women could legally marry other women in the 1800s as well. It was for women who were financially independent because it was thought normal that women needed the company of other women. As for voting, nobody but land owners could vote for a long time in the US. Once it was opened for all men, a literacy test was required. Since most men had to go to work on the family farm or in a factory (child labor only ended fairly recently) most only had a grade school education and couldn't pass it. My grandfather only had an 8th grade education, but one of the most intelligent people I've ever known and I know rocket scientists. Intelligence doesn't correlate to job or degree either. MENSA is full of stay at home wives and mothers, including me. Yes we are told we are slaves, we are members of the patriarchy, we are less than, etc by feminist all the time.
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  4146. "Management/compliance is oftentimes more expensive that (assume it's than) the actual tax that has been collected". Why does that matter? You're not the one that gets the tax so how much you personally pay to keep track of it is irrelevant to the amount of taxes your sells generated. You add the sales tax after the sale so it's not coming from your profits anyway. It's from the customer unless YOU aren't taxing them. If you have a business that provides products you've always been subject to adding sales tax. If you sell your items on a platform like Amazon, they do that for you. If you're doing it on your own website there are plenty of programs that figure it and keep track of it per state and add it at the time of sale. They are tax deductible as a business expense. If the program is too expensive for the number of sales you're doing than increase the prices or hope your sales improve. The same would be true if it was a brick and mortar store. The threshold to be required to collect sales taxes in most states is over $100,000 per state. Only 3 or 4 states is it below that and their threshold is $10,000. If you're needing to register and collect sales taxes in 12000+ locations, you're NOT a small business. If you're making those kinds of sales and can't afford the software to do it for you, you're bad at business. Edit: I did see things about affiliates and taxes but if you're an offical affiliate you're under contract which also requires that you're producing a large amount of sales or you're on a selling platform that figures all that for you as part of your registration fees.
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  4355. ​​​​​​ @jojobizadTRASH  It's not in China due to laziness. That's a completely uninformed statement. It's there because the government creates massive amounts of regulations that make it almost impossible to make here. Once China was allowed into world trade organizations, it was the end for most manufacturing in the US. You can't compete against a country with a massive population suppressing wages on their working population. When China was allowed in, there was a huge worldwide protest of every group, every age, and people that voted for every party. In the US it was called the Battle in Seattle because the conference was being held there. In other Western nations it was at the Chinese or US embassies. It's because everyone was aware of the future consequences of that decision and it played out exactly as expected. Oil and gas is produced and refined in the US. We don't need to import it. What is imported is what's called dirty oil because we still have a couple of very old refineries still functioning that can handle refining it without it destroying the equipment. That's why the pipeline from Canada was so important. It would ship down from the tar sands in Canada (extremely dirty oil) to one of those refineries. My grandfather, husband, and now son have all worked in oil refining. The dirtier the oil, the cheaper it is. Edit: Pay and benefits are great. $50 an hour at most plants plus a real retirement plan instead of just a 401k. With overtime my husband makes close to $200,000 a year with only a high school education.
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  4402.  @Foolsjoker  "...the use of immigrants and homeless policies that some states are using to push their own problems onto other states simply to not have to deal with it" while simultaneously talking about unity. Immigration isn't a state issue. It's a federal one and when the federal government refuses to do its job and instead make it the problem of just a few states, those states have control over their own borders. You have a fundamental misconception of the role of government as outlined by the Constitution. No state works for the benefit of the federal government. The federal government works for the benefits of the states. If a state decides to make policies they get enjoy the consequences of those policies. So are you simultaneously saying that a state shouldn't share a burden created by the federal government with the rest of the states while also saying the states should share responsibilities for each other? Isn't that a benefit to the whole or does that only apply to certain things? You're doing what's called talking out of both sides of your mouth. Basically you only want things that benefit where you are while chastising someone else for wanting the same. Edit: Illegal immigration has been primarily a financial and resource burden for the southern states for decades. The states people like you like to sneer at for being poor. Now that policies that were overwhelmingly voted for by states who thought they'd never have to deal with it are getting just a slight taste of what it's really like, they're still not getting the bulk, you want to cry foul while claiming "we should work together for everyone's benefit". Well, taking some of that burden is exactly what you're claiming will benefit everyone so suck it up buttercup. Now that they're getting a taste of what it's like, they will vote for policies that support EVERYONE that's a citizen instead of calling people dealing with drastically reduced resources that benefits everyone else names.
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  4405.  @drewsimoncomedy  Their sense of purpose back then has nothing to do with their job. Their sense of purpose was defined by what they were doing was for the betterment of society. They were not as focused on the self as we are now. They were much more focused on community, family, and God. Doing something only for yourself would have been looked down on. That's why people in cities in the roaring 20s that were focused on partying and indulgence were looked down on instead of envied like today. 100 years ago saw more people living in cities than rural areas for the first time in the US. So no, most people wouldn't have been self employed because a large population in a small area can't support that. I think you are confusing farming to feed your family and selling any extra as "self employed" instead of understanding it was for survival. That's like calling settlers "self employed". If your grandparents were sheep farmers, they would have been considered wealthy so not the norm. My grandmother's family were cattle ranchers. They were wealthy enough to send all their daughters to college. I have furniture from that side and it was considered expensive at the time(still is. 1 item I have would go for around$2-3,000 today). My grandfather family worked the family farm and were poor, struggling to survive. They had very little. My grandfather went to work at the oil refinery when it opened to support his family. Because your family was well off, it clouds your understanding of what it was really like for most causing you to romanticize it. Edit: This isn't a dig at you. Had my grandmother not married below her station, and she reminded my grandfather of that regularly, I would have had a similar understanding of that time period. Because she did, my family grew up poor (I live in the south and didn't have air conditioning until I was in middle school and my mother didn't have indoor plumbing until the mid 50s) so have a better understanding of what it was like for the majority at the time.
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  4521.  @user-wp5fe8ec6l  We already have private police, fire, roads, and ambulances. Many fire departments are volunteers and not paid. Private security is private police as is a neighborhood watch. We even have a private army they were called Blackwater. Private roads are definitely a thing and my town has a private ambulance service aside from the city. It's much cheaper. You can purchase a year's subscription to it and they accept what your insurance pays and have a flat price for those without it. Education wasn't centralized under the federal government until Carter in the 1970s. That's when our world ranking in education started dropping and it continues today. I realize this is kind of old, but you claim to have lived in various areas yet aren't aware much of what you're questioning how it will work already exists. As for your claims of how violent it would be, we've got huge government and just got out of the most violent period of our history in the late 1990s. Contrary to what movies portray, the "wild" west was less violent than it is now. Even though they didn't really have a centralized government. Each town/community made their own rules. As for your concern for others because the government wouldn't be handing out money to those less fortunate, private local charities have much better success rates than government in that area. That's based on studies. It's because people that live in the same place understand better what is needed for someone to improve their circumstances than a giant government that doesn't know anything about it. It doesn't waste funds like the government either. Right now only 30% of the budget for welfare and food stamps gets to the people. 70% is overhead. If you look back throughout our history, you'll see a drop in outcomes when government gets involved and creates programs to "help". It's expensive and inefficient. As for business and government working together being right wing, I guess the Democratic party is the real right wing, because that's been happening openly for the last year and still is. In our current political times, it isn't though because all authoritarian government is left (more laws, regulations, huge government) and small government is right wing. Both parties in the US right now are pro big government, so we have no real right wing. That's the problem with trying to use old definitions and concepts and apply them the same way today.
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  4522.  @user-wp5fe8ec6l  We already have private police, fire, roads, and ambulances. Many fire departments are volunteers and not paid. Private security is private police as is a neighborhood watch. We even have a private army they were called Blackwater. Private roads are definitely a thing and my town has a private ambulance service aside from the city. It's much cheaper. You can purchase a year's subscription to it and they accept what your insurance pays and have a flat price for those without it. Education wasn't centralized under the federal government until Carter in the 1970s. That's when our world ranking in education started dropping and it continues today. I realize this is kind of old, but you claim to have lived in various areas yet aren't aware much of what you're questioning how it will work already exists. As for your claims of how violent it would be, we've got huge government and just got out of the most violent period of our history in the late 1990s. Contrary to what movies portray, the "wild" west was less violent than it is now. Even though they didn't really have a centralized government. Each town/community made their own rules. As for your concern for others because the government wouldn't be handing out money to those less fortunate, private local charities have much better success rates than government in that area. That's based on studies. It's because people that live in the same place understand better what is needed for someone to improve their circumstances than a giant government that doesn't know anything about it. It doesn't waste funds like the government either. Right now only 30% of the budget for welfare and food stamps gets to the people. 70% is overhead. If you look back throughout our history, you'll see a drop in outcomes when government gets involved and creates programs and cabinets.
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  4523.  @user-wp5fe8ec6l  We already have private police, fire, roads, and ambulances. Many fire departments are volunteers and not paid. Private security is private police as is a neighborhood watch. We even have a private army they were called Blackwater. Private roads are definitely a thing and my town has a private ambulance service aside from the city. It's much cheaper. You can purchase a year's subscription to it and they accept what your insurance pays and have a flat price for those without it. Education wasn't centralized under the federal government until Carter in the 1970s. That's when our world ranking in education started dropping and it continues today. I realize this is kind of old, but you claim to have lived in various areas yet aren't aware much of what you're questioning how it will work already exists. As for your claims of how violent it would be, we've got huge government and just got out of the most violent period of our history in the late 1990s. Contrary to what movies portray, the "wild" west was less violent than it is now. Even though they didn't really have a centralized government. Each town/community made their own rules. As for your concern for others because the government wouldn't be handing out money to those less fortunate, private local charities have much better success rates than government in that area. That's based on studies. It's because people that live in the same place understand better what is needed for someone to improve their circumstances than a giant government that doesn't know anything about it. It doesn't waste funds like the government either. Right now only 30% of the budget for welfare and food stamps gets to the people. 70% is overhead. If you look back throughout our history, you'll see a drop in outcomes when government gets involved and creates programs and cabinets.
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  4598.  @littledancingfawn  It was about shopping. She hadn't done the grocery shopping like they'd agreed to it appeared. He was also in the middle of his heart problems where it was being crushed meaning he wasn't able to do anything physically straining. No lifting, little movement, nothing that will increase your heart rate, etc. He wanted her to take an Uber and leave the car for him because he was going to go by his parents house, his father helps run the business and is in charge of booking. She wanted it but wouldn't give him a time frame of how long she'd be gone and was going to do some other shopping with her friends. So it wasn't just for neccessary items. She ridiculed his family in that clip too. Having been married for 25 years, a SAHM, and pregnant twice I have some experience here. All of my pregnancies were high risk. The first higher risk than the 2nd until the 3re trimester then the 2nd was much more so. I took care of my mother, grandmother, and father throughout the 2nd one. My mother was recovering from quadruple bypass and aorta bypass, my grandmother had breast cancer, and my father was working 12 hour shifts. She's relying on the sympathy being pregnant draws from the public. People seem to think it's a disability when it's most definitely not. If she was going shopping with her friends, she was perfectly physically able to go purchase food while she was out. He needed her to step up and take care of him, but she clearly had no interest in doing so. It reminded me of my youngest son's ex girlfriend. She expected him to drop everything and take care of her if she just had a mild headache, but when he got very sick with the flu she wouldn't even go into the room to check on him. She was trying to manipulate him into giving into her demands and he was clearly tired of it and had run out of patience when it came to this subject. That's all. If people could hear some of the arguments me and my husband had, especially within the first few years, they'd think we were both horrible depending on the subject.
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  4653. You’re comment contradicts itself. “The founders didn’t give us states to be experimental” “The power comes from the states…not the founders”. Since you acknowledge the founders created the states then yes the power of the states comes from the founders who created the Constitution that outlines that power. They created the states, they didn’t “create” the states. The states came together to create a country. The states are so that each person can live under rules and laws they most agree with. The way the power structure was laid out, it was intentionally so change would occur slowly and new ideas could be tried by different states with different ideas, economies, resources, etc. If the new idea worked in most areas, Congress could then decide to add it into federal law. If it worked for some but failed in others, the states it worked for would be able to keep it and the ones it didn’t could reject it. That way every state would be unique and the people could freely move between them to under laws they found more to their liking. It was never supposed to be homogeneous or states imposing laws onto other states. I’d suggest reading the Federalist papers and other writings from the founders to understand their vision instead of deciding what you think they meant. They were pretty clear. Originally your loyalty was to state and then country. It was following the Civil War that a more powerful federal government was pushed and loyalty only to the country.
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  4697. A booming economy affects wages more than a Union. Plus, that first part was rather childish and off topic. There's a big difference between a worker's Union, which you were fully aware this video is about, and the creation of the country. Since you started with that, so will I as it appears you don't know history. The colonies did not " unite" in the way you are describing. The representatives from each colony were selected by individuals already unhappy with England. That was not the majority of the population so they were not elected, but appointed. Secondly, the states viewed themselves as seperate until after the Civil War. After that, language was intentionally adopted to make the states feel invested in each other. That was when using "we" when talking about the US as a whole came into practice. Now that I've corrected how you're incorrectly using the word "Union" when it comes to this country's history, I'll address the rest. Most Unions aren't as effective as some seem to believe. The refinery my husband works at recently blew up injuring 6 people, with 5 literally catching fire. One is still in ICU fighting for his life. It's Unionized, yet they were unable to improve safety issues that were well known. So this idea that Unions improve all this stuff is complete BS. As for wages, they still make less than the industry standard, so again BS. The only thing positive the Union has done is allowed a couple of guys that were being discriminated against, sue the company. When the economy was booming before the virus, wages were increasing, benefits were expanding, and conditions were improving. That was due to competition for workers because the unemployment rate was so low. That did more to benefit workers than any Union has in decades.
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  4728.  @soulsphere9242  Not on me! I had no restrictions during the pandemic. Neither did Sweden. Do you call them "selfish"? It's illegal to restrict us in the US. Our freedoms of movement and everything else are enshrined in our federal and state Constitutions. Some governors violated those rights, and some did not. Because they are enshrined the lockdown was ruled unconstitutional by the court in Wisconsin and subsequent cases involving what happened are being ruled on as violations against our rights since then. Meaning, according to the law, they can't happen again since there are now court precedents in place. The states I lived in didn't take an economic hit because we didn't follow the advice. In fact the opposite. We've enjoyed an economic boom as companies and people continue to flee to them. No fines were levied, nobody denied employment or services because they didn't take a medication that doesn't protect anybody else. The lawsuits are flying and being won against companies and governments. There's a saying by a Founding Father in the US. Those that sacrifice freedom for safety deserve neither. So yes, we put freedom first. It's not new and it's why we ended slavery, had the Civil Rights Act, and everything else because we've always viewed freedom as the most important thing and take the words written in our constitution seriously. Willingly sacrificing freedom for security is how you eventually get tyranny. Just because you tolerate tyranny out of fear doesn't make you the better person.
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  4774.  @t-rozbenouameur5304  First of all what world were you living in where the media delegitimize Obama? The only time mainstream media said really anything bad about him was when he wiretapped them. Meanwhile, they were delegitimizing Trump before he was President. Immediately it was Russian collusion, the election was stolen, massive election interference, etc. There's 100% proof that the Obama administration set into motion everything they could think of to disrupt Trump's term. The Pentagon was lying to the people and the Commander in Chief about troop counts and actions. The dossier that kicked off the near 3 year investigation was bought by Hillary to distract from her emails. All of this is known and all of this has been proven with documentation and testimony, yet now you don't understand why people don't trust the powers that be? In just the recounts election results have changed, but there's no need to look into it? If it was you that had lost and then won or vice versa, I imagine you'd see it differently. Before the ink dried on the first count, there were 3 prosecutions of fraud of hundreds and thousands of votes, but you want to wave it away as nothing to see here. At the very least, this proves we need more secure elections and a better way to count the vote in some states. Fortunately I live in a state that purges voter rolls regularly and has voter ID so I know mine was fairly secure. What you and others fail to understand is that it's not just if fraud occurred, it's if it's possible that should be the concern. For the record I'm independent and despise both parties. I'm not a rabid Trump supporter, but did get on board when he banned CRT because that philosophy is a violation of the Civil Rights Act and should be stamped out.
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  4975.  @James-cb7nb  What about geology? The people that actually study the history of the planet. The global temperature is usually 70 yet for some reason coming out of the last ice age, the Earth got stuck at 60. The plates have shifted which has changed the flow of the ocean which has been the biggest factor in the oceans warming which also is contributing to the rising CO2 levels. There are many times in Earth's past that CO2 levels were the same and much higher and increased rapidly, but we don't know why. The most stable time in the Earth's history was during the dinosaurs when the ice caps were gone or tiny and the world was tropical. As for the idea we've got to do something NOW, even at the extreme rate of 1 inch per year, it will take 2000+ years for the ice caps to melt and the oceans rise the 200 feet they predict. The places being affected now, like Miami, should never have been settled because it's supposed to be Everglades all the way to Orlando. Even once the ice caps are gone, which large ones aren't normal in Earth's past, Florida won't be underwater. Mostly it will affect islands, which will disappear eventually anyway because erosion is a thing, and areas currently below sea level. Basically we're trying to force the Earth to remain in a state that's not normal for it because we're somehow superior and still, contrary to all the evidence, think we can control everything. The majority of this warming is just the Earth trying to finish coming out of the last ice age. By the way, it's also not unusual for the Earth's temperature to swing quickly either way by 10 degrees. It's been as high as 80 and life flourished. We know that because alligator fossils have been found within the arctic circle. You can attempt to argue that glaciers are older than the last ice age so obviously there were polar ice caps. The problem is the oldest ones were found buried below the level the sun warms the surface which actually supports them not being normal or the surface ones would be much older. Are humans contributing with CO2 emissions? Probably, but it's also much more complicated than just CO2 and also involves water vapor which has increased. They tend to go hand in hand, and that's mostly caused by the warming oceans which I already explained.
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  4989.  @mechadoggy  According to his letters, all the wizards but Gandalf failed and were killed. So the blue wizards failed in their task to unite a force in the East against Sauron. Tolkien wrote 7 versions of the Silmarillion and it was his first book. A lot of what was published after that was story ideas Tolkien had played around with to fill in the stories in it. That's why there's so much contradictions between them and the Silmarillion. Since we know Tolkien intended to publish the Silmarillion, it's considered canon. There's no evidence he ever intended to publish any of the other side stories. Which none of it matters anyway because they don't have the rights to any of it. This show is horrible and they made freaking female Nazgul. They've clearly added stories from the Silmarillion in and the Unfinished Tales too. I have not watched it, but watched reviews where they break every episode down. They've turned mithril into a magic ore that's only found in Kazad-dum that was created when Glorfindel fought the Balrog only they made the fight about a tree that is a Silmirill that never existed. Though they never name Glorfindel, anyone familiar with the 2nd Age would recognize that's who it was. The Elves are no longer immortal and Numenorens hate them because "they'll take our jobs" ( I wish I was kidding). Celebrimbor is an idiot who doesn't know how to forge two metals together until human Sauron tells him how, and the Dwarves don't like him. The 3 Elven rings have been forged with the help of human Sauron, but not the 7 or 9 and he's revealed he's Sauron and gone to Mount Doom. Mount Doom was created by a human using a sword that's a key to open a dam that floods tunnels orcs dug. It sends water into the volcano and makes it erupt. So a human created Mount Doom instead of Morgoth. It's so so horrifically bad and lore breaking. Oh yeah and Celeborn is dead. Sauron tries to put the moves on Galadriel because he says she'll make him want to be good. She says no, which makes him become the Dark Lord. It makes me want to vomit.
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  5100. I've got to give kudos to Amazon for reading the room and changing marketing right before it starts. It's changed from "We love Tolkien and are going to be faithful to his work! We swear!" To inspired by and based on LotR. Everyone knows inspired by and based on means we're using characters but it's going to be completely different. That means they need to change the title. If it's only based on it, it should be Rings of Power based on LotR. LotR should not be at the beginning. To get into what's wrong will involve some rumors/spoilers, but nothing most haven't already heard except possibly one which I'll heavily warn about. Hobbits don't exist in the 2nd age, which this is based on. That's one of the reasons they were able to resist the ring better than other races. They were a fairly young one. Gollum was an early Hobbit most likely Harfoot, so take that as you will when it comes to skin color. Celeborn, Galadriel's husband, is dead for some reason even though he's in LotR. I think it's funny even Amazon realizes their Elves don't look like Elves because they have Halbrand "a new character" lift Galadriel's hair to look at her ears. Elves should be easy to distinguish from humans on site. They are taller, more regal, and have an ethereal glow. Miriel is ruler in this series when she isn't in the books. Her husband is so, yeah. Can't have a weak woman. Spolier!!!! Halbrand is Sauron. I 100% expect him to have a "relationship" with Galadriel. Him disguised as a human mortal makes zero sense and never happened in the book. Why they think Elves and Dwarves would trust a human to form magical rings is beyond me.
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  5123. Lizzy Borden was underage and planned and murdered her parents. Lots of "children" have. How many 14+ gang bangers have killed very young children in drive by murders? Should they be exempt because of their age or should it depend on their actions? They committed a heinous crime against society. Yes 13 year olds are capable of planning and carrying out the crime of murder. As stated, some children are more mature than their counterparts. That's why it's done on a case by case basis. Teenagers are fully aware they'll only face juvie if they commit crimes and that record will be sealed once they're adults. Edmund Kemper killed his grandparents at 15 and went on to become a prolific serial killer. He only faced juvie. So just because a psychopath that's already committing murders is a child they should be unleashed back into society at the age of 18 because that's what happens under juvenile law? As for that girl, it's strange you're capable of understanding she's in full control of her decisions, but wants to let the murderer (a much more serious crime against society) free because they're a child? Murder is handled differently because it's a much more serious crime than statutory r@pe. Edit: 16 is also the age of consent in many states. If what she does is so well known in the area, maybe men should stop sticking their privates in her and control themselves. It takes two to tango. They're doing it of their own free will fully aware of the possible consequences. So is your argument fully grown adult males isn't capable of controlling themselves around a 16 year old girl?
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  5327.  @25taylorkw  Even "common sense" regulations were put in by corporations to stifle competition. In the US there's a case right now that's a good example of how this happens. When we put in food inspections, it was to increase the public's trust in grocery stores. Before that, they got it directly from the farmers so they could see for themselves what they were getting. Now the government is using the Commerce clause to come after local farms still selling like that under the guise of public safety. Forcing these local farms to go through and pay for government inspections will bankrupt them or drive the cost up so much that it's no longer as viable for the general population. So for your "safety" you won't be allowed to buy produce or meat from a local source even though you know them and their products, even though if you got ill from them you could have sued them. If it goes through, in a few years you'll believe it was because the government was protecting you, not consolidating its power over your ability to get food. Not to mention the increase to corporate farms and grocery stores. Even meat you hunt and kill will have to be inspected and food you grow yourself. I'm not kidding either. The court made the farmer in question get the food he was serving his children inspected. Edit: This is a unique case because the Amish farmer in question has a huge business and ships all over the country. However, that happened due to word of mouth and the quality of the products he provides. He's setting a model for other farmers to follow and that's dangerous to the industry. Imagine if other farms could mimic his success. That's what they want stopped because it is taking profits from big businesses and that market will grow to take more and more. A lot of people found out they could go to farmers and get products much cheaper during the pandemic when there were shortages and that's dangerous.
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  5559. 9:10 Its called workers compensation that anyone laid off is entitled to for 6 months-1 year. China doesn't hold most of our debt. Japan does. It's easy to look up. Trump is attempting to cut as close to 2 trillion from the budget as he can. To either eliminate or at least greatly reduce the income tax citizens pay. Or at least start paying down the debt. Our interest payment on our debt is 1 trillion a year. It's about to be the largest percent of our budget. He's hoping to be able to do both with tariffs making up most of what's lost from removing the income tax. If he succeeds, he'll go down as one of the best and most influential presidents in history. Beside Teddy, Lincoln, FDR, and JFK. I love how they've tried to spin US Agency for International Development as an actual aid agency when it was created by JFK to fight the Cold War. An agency that just gets blanket funding and has zero oversight. Oh the horror that it's gone. As much as I have heard leftists complain about the US engaging in color revolutions, I don't know why they're suddenly defending the agency responsible for them. Edit: I can explain why there's so much wasteful spending. If an agency doesn't use all the money budgeted to them, their budget gets reduced to what they spent in the next yearly budget. That incentives wasteful spending. Then when they're tasked with doing something else, their budget is just automatically increased for whatever they say they need. So if it's a short-term project, their money gets increased, but never decreased once the project is finished. It's an insane way to do the budget.
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  5756.  @DUDEDRUNK  Do not try to speak for me. I'm Indian American/Native. We do not "live in their own countries like a discriminated minority". Other than diseases introduced when Europeans came, we were the number one killer of ourselves. You clearly know nothing about our history or what's taught about it but feel you can speak on our behalf. My particular tribe conquered other tribes with the understanding they join or die after their defeat. We controlled 40 other tribes and recieved tributes from tribes far away to keep us away. How many other tribes did we wipe out? The Aztec subjugated the smaller tribes and used them as sacrifices. Do you honestly believe 200 Spaniards were able to conquer the million + Aztecs? No. It was the other tribes that banded together with them that conquered them. The Native population of the entire Americas are the same people so claiming we were wiped out is ludicrous when they're still the majority in South America. Canada, US, and all South American countries have the same Native population. In the US we don't "live in our own countries". We have reservations that our culture and religion is preserved on, but the majority of Natives don't live on them. We have the exact same rights and are subject to the same laws as everyone else. I'm sick of being told by people like you I'm a victim and my land was "stolen". We lost it through war just like all land has been determined throughout history. By that logic we "stole" land from each other constantly. When we conquered another tribe they assimilated or were removed just like throughout history. Why is it only considered bad and wrong when it was Europeans that became the strongest, but ignored or even revered when Genghis Khan did it? Do you think everyone he conquered were also Mongol? How about when China was united through conquest and the other Asian groups were forced to assimilate? Egypt saw the same thing. This has been going on since modern humans spread out and erased all the other humanoids, but because white people did it it's bad. Sick of this ridiculous rhetoric. Edit: How about when the Ottoman Empire conquered and forced populations to assimilate? That's from Africa so good or bad? If you view that as good then you need to take a hard look in the mirror. We don't hate white people. Most of us are grateful because any other point in history we would have simply been eliminated completely which you'd know if you read history.
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  5814. ​ @The_Haruspex  I'm in the US. There was never a time church and state were combined. Religion has never had anything to do with conservatives here. It's just been something put upon conservative by others. Both parties have always contained religious members. Look at Congress now. Almost all of them follow a religion. It's not just a conservative thing. So you claiming it is shows your own uneducated understanding. During the moral panic of the 80s and 90s, it was Democrats pushing for censorship and regulations. I'm fairly certain Tipper Gore, wife of Al Gore, has never been a conservative or a Republican. Somehow that's been erased and it's now considered something conservatives alone did. Conservatism in the US is about preserving the ideals of the Constitution and our founders. Which, as much as it pains you, means living up to those ideals like all people are created equal and have rights ordained to them. That's why "conservatives" were the first party with black people in political positions and the first openly gay member of Congress. Probably the first female in a political position but I've never researched that. They don't brag about it like Democrats do because they don't see it as anything unique or special because it's just how it was always intended. That's not "progressive" either. It's what this country was founded on, the vision of those that created it to be eventually reached. If you're not in the US then your political references are completely different and right and left mean something entirely different.
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  5829.  @Sebster85  The Thor movies have always done the worst performing in the franchise. So expectations $ wise was already lower. Yes Marvel movies are getting bad across the board. There's a reason for that. They are based on comic books which were intentionally written to become these movies. Some of the dialog may change, but the story follows the comic and ALL of those comics were woke. The male heros became portrayed as dumb and useless that couldn't defeat a villain without a woman's help no matter how strong they used to be. They created the multiverse, killing off the original versions and introducing new, more diverse ones from it. So now not only are there few old beloved heros, but there are no real stakes. That's because they can't have their new diverse heros lose or look bad. Only left over heros are allowed to be weak, dumb, and lose; and those were only the male huwhite ones. Understand it or not, that's what is coming across on the screen because that's what happened in the comics. Audiences might not fully realize that's what they're reacting to, but they know something is off and the movies don't feel right anymore. It took awhile for comic book fans to fully understand what had happened to their heros, but eventually it gets too in your face to deny it anymore. Sorry for the long post, but it took it to explain that yes it is woke that's causing the movies to do poorly by Marvel movie standards. It's just still subtler than it will be later, but it's still the reason.
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  5862.  @GarerBear It’s drying up. Contrary to popular opinion, it wasn’t ideologically driven. At least not at the higher levels. I read financial news. About 15 or so years ago, I don’t remember the exact year but it was after the 2008 crash and under Obama, articles started coming out about the “new, young investor”. That they were more concerned with supporting a company’s policies than about profit. How true those articles were given what we know now I can’t say. They were predicting this huge market shift in what people purchased. That companies that were more say environmentally conscious would get a huge boost in the market. I personally thought it was stupid because young people have been and talked like that since the 80s but once they start really investing once they have extra cash that flies out the window. In response, a couple of larger investment groups do what they do and gambled on the prediction in an attempt to get ahead of the shift. Thus ESG was born as a way for investors, companies, and potential customers to see which companies “cared” about all these causes. Every investor wants to be the one that heavily invests on the ground floor of the next Walmart or Amazon. They saw these little companies as potentially that so they invested. A LOT. When the summer of love hit it probably massively reinforced the belief in this new type of customer and investor so the funding really ramped up. I can see why they’d think it signaled a massive shift in culture and thus buying habits from high up in their penthouses. I will say I have little doubt there were younger people fresh out of college telling them all their friends care about this stuff and are really dedicated to it which only further pushed their belief that they were right and ahead on this new market. This is why you keep hearing “modern audience” and other buzzwords like it. It’s trying to appeal to the predicted new market. Unfortunately the results are finally showing and it’s bs. The opposite is happening. People are rejecting it and refusing to participate. They’ve lost billions if not trillions on this silly gamble. Activists simply took advantage of what was being offered and because of this silly market prediction, companies believed they’d help them navigate it. TL;DR: There was a massive shift of buying habits predicted based on what causes a company supports and if they’re environmentally conscious. Thus ESG was born to rate which companies these new buyers would support. Hoping to be on the ground floor of the next Walmart or Google they’ve lost billions if not trillions to a prediction that was never going to come true.
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