Comments by "michael" (@michaeld4861) on "51-49 with James Li" channel.

  1. "If you have time to see your family, you have more time to devote to making me rich." - Kevin O'Leary
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  2. Well said man! This was a hell of a video!
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  3. Not even fired, moved to a different position as UN ambassador.
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  4. AIPAC is unconstitutional. Everyone that's taken money should be charged with being an unregistered foreign agent.
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  5. The Antisemitism Distribution League. A privatized intelligence service just as evil as the CIA.
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  6. Yeah but my god wrote a book saying it's actually my land so Israel can scram.
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  7. I don't like the idea of government utilizing influencers. But if it is going to happen they should have to say in the video that they are being paid by the government to sponsor their video/ad. Anything you get paid for is an ad and should have to be openly declared as such.
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  8. I haven't seen anyone lay it out as clearly as you have hear, and in 8 minutes no less. Well done!
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  9. How is this channel not getting more attention!?! This and More Perfect Union seem to be on the Youtube blacklist.
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  10. Holy crap, I didn't know the ADL had such power to control all other social media! This is just nuts. I thought dystopia was coming in the future but we have already been in it for some time.
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  11. I mean RFK Jr is a crazy person and will not fix anything and this was pretty much exactly what I expected to hear from his supporters (some crazy, some just uninformed, and some just so sick of the establishment that they will support anyone else they perceive as having a chance). That being said, he should be allowed on the ballot in all 50 states, the fact that he's only on 1 ballot so far is nuts. Our facade of a democracy is corrupt to the teeth. Which is also why I think anybody that believes the democrats have gone too far to the left is just mind blowingly stupid. Both parties are republican big-business-at-all-costs parties with one dipping their foot into full blown fascism. I mean FDR wasn't even really a leftist but his lefty-inclined policies built the working class and he was elected 4 times because of that. Only death stopped him from winning more and after that wouldn't ya know it, they imposed term limits. And now both parties and almost the entire government are all corporate captured. RFK supports the terrible policies of both parties, which does not make him some enlightened centerist that will bring balance to the force. We need an actual candidate that supports facts and the working class like Bernie Sanders or hell even Jon Stewart even though he will never run. And Bernie ain't perfect either but at least he listens and tries to help the people and not the billionaires or himself.
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  12. Well said! Yes it's definitely mind boggling how any jewish people that survived the holocaust could possible turn right around and do the same to others. The only solace is that the government of Israel does not represent all jewish people nor even all Israeli citizens. But also the complete censorship and cancellation of anybody in the US that speaks out against the Israeli government's genocide is insane as well. Some states have even passed laws preventing you from doing business in the state if you criticize Israel. Literally making it illegal to criticize a foreign government!
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  13. Excellent video! It's criminal that these companies can give away so much money for free to the rich but don't pay their workers or allow any spending on basic safety practices, even if it literally results in entire islands burning down into warzones and then they still are not held accountable for anything. Murder is legal if you are a corporate executive. They basically have qualified immunity from all crimes.
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  14. The FED and corporations are now working together to put a stop to worker empowerment by causing a recession and mass layoffs. Remember, the FED is not part of the government, it was created by bankers to control the money supply and unemployment rate.
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  15. Excellent video! Love these more investigational longer-form videos.
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  16. Purely for academic reasons, every major advancement of human rights in history necessitated violence to achieve. The Black Panthers and the civil rights movement, ending slavery, ending apartheid in South Africa, ending the German expansion and holocaust during WWII, child/other labor laws, etc.
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  17. India liberating itself from British rule, yes it's true, civil disobedience didn't alone win the fight. Feel free to add to the list.
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  18. It seems every successful movement usually has at least two groups involved, a peaceful group and a non-peaceful group. The non-peaceful group uses "extra-legal" means to put pressure on governments and capital markets in order to advance human rights and attract international media attention to the cause in the hopes of sanctions or other outside pressures as well. This also helps because the government can then bargain with the peaceful group and both sides are seen as bargaining instead of simply giving into the "extremes" of political violence. This worked quite well for the people of South Africa (although took a long time as Nelson Mandela and others were in prison for 30+ years) though it does not appear to be working so well for the people of Palestine, perhaps because of Hamas targeting civilians instead of infrastructure, or maybe because of a more cohesive western propaganda campaign backing Israel no matter what and conflating anti-semitism with the government and somehow everyone goes along with it. idk.
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  19. Yeah, total dystopian hellscape. We're headed straight for every sci-fi movie, in a bad way.
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  20. This is the most insidious sh1t ever.
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  21. I just read an article about these weight loss drugs paralysing people stomachs and now they regret ever hearing about them. And the newest Eli Lilly obesity drug is said to the be most expensive ever and may single-handedly bankrupt Medicare in 10 years. Also, if obesity was genetic then why did obese people barely exist 50 years ago? If it was genetic there would be the same levels of obesity throughout all of history, after all it's pretty easily diagnosable unlike many other diseases. And lastly, we in the US need to join the civilized world and stop letting big pharma set our drug prices at whatever they feel like and always at least 10 times more than everywhere else.
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  22. That Arizona Tea guy is awesome, if we have to suffer capitalism then that's the way to do it. Cheers to him.
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  23. Damn, that was a great explanation.
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  24. So if we use #freepalestine on youtube will they see google as a national security threat and force it to break up and sell?
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  25. Well said!
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  26. The FED was established by bankers for the same purpose that the police force was established at the founding of the US. To keep the slaves obedient and unable to fight back to win their freedom.
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  27. I agree but portraying Ron DeSantis as a freedom fighter is quite concerning. Also RFK is concerning in his own right.
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  28. Yep, you laid it out perfectly. Unfortunately.
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  29. The Fed: "We need to give wall street a couple trillion to stave off stock market losses for billionaires." Oh, no inflation. Fed: "We need to raise interest rates, lay off workers and really hurt the regular consumer until they can no longer afford to live cause that's the only way to bring prices down." Sounds like a double win for the aristocracy, they get bailed out and now when people lose their houses or property cause they can't afford their payments due to being laid off, wall street can come in a buy it all up cheap and rent it back to you for inflated prices. The whole system is a pyramid scheme.
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  30. God these people (most of them but not all) are morons! You do realize republicans think stem cells are murder right? And I hope the lady talking about all the poison in our foods isn't voting from Trump, he wants to get rid of the EPA and allow corporations to put more poison in our foods and water. (The EPA has lots of problems but getting rid of it or putting a coal barron in charge of it is not the answer and that's what Trump did.) We need to stop/reverse the corporate capture of our government and Trump is the ultimate swamp monster.
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  31. Yes lets put the Penguin from Batman in charge of AI that's currently being refined to kill people faster on a mass scale.
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  32. I had a coworker that got a rash all over when she was unboxing shirts that was bad enough that she had go home sick and go to the doctor. I don't remember exactly what happened to the shirts, if they marked them all as "damaged" for the tax write off or what but it was a pretty immediate reaction. This was like 8 or so years ago now. They definitely put all sorts of chemicals on/in the clothes, often you can smell the fumes wafting off them when you break the seal on the plastic packaging.
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  33. Coworker's rash went away after a few days and it was not nearly as horrible sounding as blistering but still alarming. Why are we allowing this? Oh yeah, cause the US is a corporatocracy.
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  34. Dude, showing a video of Forrest Valkai is awesome! Love that dude.
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  35. Being a "centrist" in today's political climate is NOT a good thing. But I understand people's frustration with the two parties of corruption (or really one party since they are pretty much both always all about enriching billionaires at our expense and therefore not very different from each other).
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  36. They truly believe they are gods or the chosen ones.
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  37. That's a good point, most of the economic numbers we use nowadays have changed they way they are calculated even just in the last 20 years let alone from almost a century ago. Even the inflation data is changed by swapping out similar products or name brand for store brand in order to create the illusion that food inflation is less than it really is. And much of the housing data is taking from owners equivalent rents which is just asking what homeowners think they would charge for rent. As if someone who has owned their home for 20 year would have any idea.
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  38. Okay but the whole "fiscal responsibility" and spending cuts thing is literally always code for cutting social spending to allow for more tax cuts for the rich and austerity policies for the poor and working class. And any economic destabilization that occurs always shifts things to the right politically and economically thereby enriching and empowering the established oligarchy while the rest of us circle the drain in squalor. It's what globalization, the World Bank, the WEF, the IMF are all about. Any reset is only going to benefit Wall Street and the currency speculators at the expense of the rest of us.
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  39.  P A  Then why are 40% of Americans reliant on those "temp" jobs for survival? Maybe the lack of good paying jobs is a problem? You can't just say get a better job when the reality is that a better job does not exist for half of the country.
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  40. Another billionaire claiming to solve a problem only to intentionally make it worse and cater only to other rich people. I hate all these people more than youtube will allow me to say.
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  41. Yeah but also Matt Taibbi is a joke and it's funny how Musk only released the Twitter docs that fit his political narrative and decided not to release the other thousands of twitter docs. Wonder what could be in those? Musk even now famously censored tweets in India on behalf of the government because they threatened to ban twitter if he didn't censor their political opponents. And then he defended it by saying "yeah but they were going to ban twitter, I had to". I agree though that's it's less red vs blue and more corporate fascism versus human rights.
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  42. Excellent video! It's funny how McDonals in Denmark can afford to pay their workers $22/hr and a big mac costs less there..... There's obviously something wrong with people's brains in the US to believe all the billionaire propaganda. When poor people advocate for their own wages to go down and less benefits you wonder how they haven't just forgotten to keep breathing.
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  43. Great video! Their actions are creating antisemitism just as their funding and actions created and propped up Hamas. They are literally like the show The Boys, creating their own enemies in order to bolster support for them while also being able to play the victim. And creating an enemy out of an idea like antisemitism and tying it to the whole state/country is evil genius just like the war on terror because people can be defeated but ideas cannot, therefore they will always have a card to play. And if they control the entirety of the media and social media and internet in general.... I mean jesus. Feels like they've taken Goebbels playbook to a whole new level.
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  44. Starbucks is NOT a progressive company. It's simply coffee that appeals to teenagers and young people, that's not progress, it's marketing.
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  45. Private equity is all about leeching companies and the country dry.
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  46. It's still better than meat healthwise. There's no cholesterol, heme iron, Neu5Gc, isn't on the WHO cancer list like other meat, etc. And best of all it doesn't mean the torture of animals in horrendous factory farms which also contribute significantly to climate change, dead zones, species extinction, habitat loss, deforestation, etc. Meat substitutes like this one are literally made to be similar to meat in fat and protein content. Which is why this one has saturated fat. But that's not required. Nobody is advocating for eating this everyday, it's marketed as an alternative for meat, which the overwhelming preponderance of evidence shows is unhealthy. (not to mention processed) The article you quote at 5:23 "why the Left eat junk" is just the most ridiculous thing I've heard in a while. As if the right don't eat junk. The article is clearly right wing propaganda. I do agree with the sentiment that it's still capitalism and big business but I think anything to wake people up to the reality of climate change and animal agriculture is at least better than what we are doing now. (It's like the equivalent of voting for Biden only because Trump represents authoritarianism.)
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  47. These leveraged buyouts should be illegal. Nobody should be able to buy a company using debt taken out in that companies name. Like Elon buying Twitter.
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  48. Vulture capitalists in stead of venture capitalists.... that's clever, I like it. Much more accurate too.
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