Comments by "voteZDLR" (@voteZDLR) on "VICE News" channel.

  1. We're already reflecting the downfall of Rome in a major way, especially the way that entertainment has more and more become a staple of our lives. We love movies and TV shows, we idolize stars, and The Learning Channel has shows like "Honey Boo Boo" on it because it gets better ratings. Not to mention our obsession with sports. In Roman times this was called the "bread and circuses" era. They kept the people placid with entertainment, basically, while they became more and more corrupt and did their evil deeds in broad daylight while the people were too distracted to notice.
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  2. as long as we're alive, we have a future ahead beautfiul
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  3. "He was ambushed by a remote controlled machine gun, mounted onto a car which later exploded." So what you're telling me is that Heisenberg killed him.
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  4. Yeah, VICE is getting a little too much on the biased/liberal side. I get they're more liberal leaning than not, but seriously, the humanistic aspect of that argument is scary because it actually tugs on the heartstrings and WORKS in it's ability to convince people. It's JUST a border, what's a border over human lives? That's essentially what is being said. But yeah, the border and the fence exists for a REASON, and it has very little to do with we don't like your country or it's people. Immigration creates a shitstorm of logistical problems in the country they're trying to go to, but the bleeding hearts will forever not care about that, their complacence literally ruining things for the rest of us who DO care. 
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  5. The Taliban (which incidentally the word Taliban means "students" from what I understand in Arabic) understood that to defeat America in warfare you didn't have to BEAT the Americans so much as you simply had to not lose against them. Their strategy from the very beginning was one of attrition and patience.
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  6.  @hmmnope9231  It's only getting more and more relevant with time, though. Besides, the US is currently on a supercharged track of the rise then downfall of a civilization like Rome. It's happening more or less the same timing spacing wise, but Rome was a major civilization for hundreds if not thousands of years -- America isn't even 250 years old yet. It's also different from the standpoint that it's less of a "one country economy" and more of a globalized one in the modern world. But yeah as far as the collapse of values and morality in society on top of our obsession with entertainment over important issues (while our elected officials operate corruptly basically in the open because nobody cares or notices that they're doing corrupt things to begin with). It's not a 1 for 1 exact recreation of the downfall of Rome but it's more similar than it is not.
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  7. I don't think he means it in that way, I think he means it from the standpoint they're literally not afraid to die, and in fact do so all the time in their attacks.
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  8. 2020 is going to be the year we remember where everything truly changed for the United States of America. Around 1994 is when I think you can really start to begin seeing the shift in policing from typical like "Boys in blue; the old protect and serve" to actually resembling something more akin to a military power. The militarization of the police, to me, directly contradicts what public service members should look like in what's supposed to be a free and democratic society. What will we look like in 20 more years? It's terrifying to think about.
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  9. It follows that an organization that revolves around hatred would actually lead to if not outright encourage acts of hatred. Whatever you focus on, your mind will manifest it in actuality. So if you are in any of these hate groups or groups that at least spend a majority of their time hating something or another, then don't be shocked when you find you're completely miserable. Consumed by the toxicity of hatred.
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  10. Kel's the only one with class out of the two of them. Kenan went Hollywood as soon as he got accepted on Saturday Night Live (which he got late in his career and it's probably, sadly, the "highlight of his career") and it's probably the last job he'll ever have in show business when he is let go inevitably after a few more years. The problem with Kenan going Hollywood is he doesn't even have the raw talent to back it up anymore. He's just a douchebag and IMO he HAS ruined the show or at least he's one part of many on that team who have ruined it.
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  11. The scariest part of this story is the fact that they slowed down and scoped you out first before making that corner and ultimately shooting at someone else. And that it was nighttime. If it was some other shooter you may have gotten shot as well "just in case" you were the target. They don't care who they hit apparently, even children are getting caught in the crossfire in some cases, that's the saddest part of all to me. It really is a warzone there.
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  12. The other problem with mobile homes and trailer parks is a lot of them only allow people to stay for a set amount of time, like 5 years and then they ultimately have to rebuild the trailer home. Long term living in a trailer park is a recipe for disaster in itself, that's a place to go stay a while and catch your breath, not hunker down and start popping out kids out that you can't afford. Of course nobody winds up in a trailer home as a result of GOOD decisions they made.
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  13.  @tagheuerwoods6241  Exactly it's not that simple in reality, people who aren't renting and who actually bought their houses are in the worst predicament of all because ... in order to move, generally speaking, one must first sell their property. The truth of the matter is people in that boat CAN'T move because nobody in their right mind is going to buy a house in the neighborhoods people are going to be the most desperate to escape in the first place. That's what you call the definition of "stuck".
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  14. VICE is clearly running a program that is tattoo-friendly, hipster-friendly, cigarette, drugs and alcohol friendly... like it's just the coolest damn News network there is. They allow cursing, etc. It just makes their work (when they're at their best) more appealing to people I think. More refreshing than getting watered down, PG-rated news broadcasting with totally white bread and/or Uncle Tom newscasters and commercials in between. No, VICE says forget the traditional method, we're going to give people something more hard hitting and real. Unfortunately the more commercial VICE gets the more I distrust them.
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  15.  @olmed4405  Is that what your parents told you? Nobody lives in a trailer when they could live in a house instead. Nobody. Not even the "nicer" ones.
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  16. Yeah the Taliban this entire time was simply just waiting. They learned by observing what happened in Vietnam, to defeat America you don't have to win the war -- you simply just have to not lose it. Their strategy was patience from beginning to end and even they are like "Wait so they just trained all these soldiers for us over the years (they're all going to the Taliban now or will be executed, you have to understand this) and THEN they left the gear behind for us, too? Seriously?" We should have destroyed all of the equipment, logistical networks and bases before leaving. The idea we have trained all these people then left behind all of the weapons and equipment we did to me is beyond debacle levels. We will be attacked by them again, it's just a matter of time, but the difference is we didn't just leave that equipment behind we left a trained paramilitary force to use it as well.
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  17. I wouldn't do that as an elderly person OR a female. That's something hipster kids do when they're in their 20's and 30's but I guarantee you'll get sick of it very, very fast. It looks fun and adventurous and "kewl" on YouTube but you're only seeing the good parts, not the bad. If you do decide to go this route, get a gun. You're gonna need it.
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  18. "The govenrment shouldn't be helping either of them, they're both bad. They're both criminals. They should just go and wipe them out." The cartels are not only better funded, they're frequently better trained than the military itself. In Los Zetas case, they actually formed that cartel with specialized military tactics in mind. Many of them were former Special Forces in Mexico, etc. They quit working for the government when they realized they could use all their training and expertise to make a shitload more money than they ever could by entering the drug trade. But yeah they're talking about how they're out there shooting helicopters down with RPGs, the government is scared out of their minds when it comes to these cartels and don't know what to do. So they pick the lesser of two evils to fight the "bigger" evil, not realizing that you take one group and their leader down and like five more pop up. The only way to end it is to legalize all drugs. I am serious. As controversial as it sounds, it's the only way this ends.
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  19. Bill Perry is 92 years old now! That's awesome.
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  20. One reason war in America continues to rage on and on, unlike Vietnam, is that few people are actually actively reporting on it. And fewer are listening, it would seem. We're listening. This is very important work you're doing. Keep it up.
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  21.  @stephenthomas8648  What about Louisiana? It's decriminalized in New Orleans for instance up to 14 grams IIRC and beyond that most cops that I know couldn't care less. I mean, I am white so that probably has a lot to do with my opinion/experience but no they're more worried about the guys driving from the East all the way through Metairie to Kenner with heroin and cocaine than they are about some people in town smoking weed. They probably run into more problems with people who drink than they do with people who smoke.
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  22. They come out of the military with military experience thinking we're the bad guy. And maybe that's for good reason. So they figure well we can use these skills now to fight back against the very people that trained them in the first place. That's literally what happens when it comes to these extremists.
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  23. It's just sad that California is one of the most taxed if not the most taxed states to live in, and they still have problems like this. Where is the money going? But that's basically the natural response for people who have the money and resources to do it in the first place, if you aren't getting your needs served by the services you pay taxes for, you have to supplement it with private service instead. I think it's gonna run into problems not just from a liability standpoint (like if the private ones get in the other guys way or vice versa) but there's almost more of an impetus for the firefighters to successfully extinguish the fire if they're being paid by an individual personally and to protect only the one property. But realistically speaking, they're probably going to have more than one client in a given threatened area. There's no way they'll be able to save them all. Unless it's stipulated in the contract that having us as private firefighters isn't even necessarily a guarantee, either, what we can guarantee is all our resources will be dedicated to protecting you, your family, and your home though. But even still there's gonna likely be some lawsuits.
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  24.  @thacrypt223  I had to read that in high school. I forget what it's about specifically but it's sort of a coming of age story about a young boy growing up in Afghanistan, and it sort of shows what it was like before the Taliban, during the Taliban, and I believe even some parts that covered the occupation but it came out in the early 2000's so it's mostly just an accounting of what it was like living under Taliban rule from the standpoint of a young boy and it follows him through his life all the way to like moving to America and slowly beginning to not sympathize with the terrorists but to understand why they may not like America because at the time especially after 9/11, people were looking at Muslims in particular with suspicion and even antagonism in a lot of cases.
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  25. Yeah it reminds me of that movie called "Shot Caller" and the miniseries which is absolutely brilliant (watch it if you haven't seen it, it's called "The Night Of") where basically it shows what happens to good people when they get locked up. You go in thinking you're going to just quietly do your time, then realize it's impossible unless you bulk up and join a gang basically. Wolves or sheep. You figure out which one you are when incarcerated, but the worst thing about it is they call prison a "correctional facility" when the reality is it doesn't correct anything. It makes BETTER criminals from every standpoint imaginable.
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  26. The reason they're giving away the drugs for free is less to do with the "public service" aspect of it and more designed to be something they can point to if they ever get arrested for doing this. It's harder to justify convicting someone for "drug trafficking" if they're literally receiving no money for it. That isn't a sale, that's a gift.
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  27.  @lindalewis8503  I can see living out of an RV but not a van. Even the most spacious van setup I've seen still looks claustrophobic to me and then there's the imminent thread of flash flooding and tornadoes, or even not-so-imminent threats like hurricanes. Houses have a better chance of surviving all of those natural events. Trailers and vans and even RV's are pretty well going to get totaled/destroyed in really bad weather.
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  28.  @SignedOff402  Be safe whatever you do and never underestimate mother nature. Every storm is different especially when it comes to hurricanes, last storm I endured was Ida and the total blackout of New Orleans after the hurricane winds were so severe it knocked down an electrical tower that wasn't even knocked down during KATRINA. I would try to find a parking garage large enough to accomodate it but if you can't, do get a room. I am just afraid it won't be able to survive hurricane force winds even though it is a large, heavy vehicle like that.
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  29.  @jonjonboi3701  I agree. Idolizing stars, being obsessed with sports and sports stars, loving movies and TV shows and things that on a level of actually mattering do not matter at all, IS a sign of the downfall of America like Rome. So if your statement is that it isn't true that doing all of the above isn't a sign of America's downfall, then I agree with you, because if you take the negatives out of both of those statements then you are saying that it IS a sign of America's downfall. Particularly on a cultural level. It IS true that these things are indicative of the downfall of America like Rome (your statement without the dual negatives in "Not True" and "Isn't"). We don't even make our own medicine anymore. China is responsible for making something like 90% of the world's medicine, and here we are on the doorstep of going to war with them if we don't just let them have their way, invade Taiwan and threaten Japan and Australia with nuclear weapons the way they are. Oh well, as long as we're "entertained" to death, right?
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  30.  @jponz85  It really does depend on where in Asia honestly. If they came from China and they're whining about life in the US ... the US is still vastly superior to "Asia" in that case. If it's South Korea, well, that is slightly different. If it's Japan, again, slightly different. Now the reality of the fact is I would be scared to live in Japan OR South Korea right now with all the issues bubbling up in that region and it's China's fault. The entire world, but especially countries in Asia, will be upended when China invades Taiwan. Not if, but WHEN China invades Taiwan. In fact, China has even gone out and publicly stated to Japan that they will nuke them continuously if they send so much as even one man to assist Taiwan in this matter. You can look it up, too.
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  31. Damn you're right. that's crazy
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  32.  @Tim85-y2q  They're still trailer homes though. They're still most vulnerable to natural disasters, even mild natural disasters like flash flooding all the way up to tornadoes and hurricanes. I don't care how many modern comfort modifications they make to these residences to help differentiate them from normal homes. At the end of the day, they're still mobile homes. They're good, cheap options for temporary use, but you can't sit there with a straight face and tell me that owning a mobile home is synonymous with owning a brick and mortar home that sits on a proper foundation and is designed to last the test of time and not until you get through medical school or whatever your temporary hardships and challenges are that would land you in a mobile home to begin with. For a few years. They will never be on par with traditional homes, I don't care how many amenities and bells and whistles you throw on top of it to try to hide the fact that it is what it truly is.
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  33. LOL thank you
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  34. If they didn't want to move the weapons back over the pond again at the end, they should have destroyed them. I don't know for the life of me why they didn't. My guess is that would have invalidated the deal with the Taliban who we are suddenly cowering to for whatever reason.
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  35. He's never experienced it before.
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  36.  @oscar2500  There's a difference between being early for something like Bitcoin and having a genuine gambling problem. People with a gambling problem are actually playing games of chance, not observing futures the way that people dealing in crypto do. Gambling = chance. Futures = skill, with a little bit of luck but not nearly as much as roulette or craps for instance.
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  37. Yeah, people, just stop using drugs. Kick that heroin habit today. People have been using intoxicating substances, regardless of their legal status, since the dawn of the time when man knew what intoxicating substances were. Most likely something like cannabis or mushrooms or like... peyote or something naturally occurring would be the first and this idea that people will ever stop is completely and totally false. What they need to do is at the very, very least DECRIMINALIZE all drugs. If not just outright make them legal. I don't think they should be easy nor impossible to get for people who want them. This will eliminate the process of spiking drugs, it will reduce if not remove the overdose and disease transmission factor, it will allow the price to normalize because right now these cartels are making billions and billions of dollars off of something that is artificially expensive because it's illegal. These drug gangs would cease to exist, or would end up moving to more traditional crimes like burglary or extortion or that sort of thing, but the drug war itself would end overnight. These gangs are still going to be incredibly rich from the money they've already made, but one way or another a lot of it will end up trickling back anyway. The bottom line point is, though, the drug war itself must end before this sort of thing will end.
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  38. I wouldn't and don't support Uber right now for one reason only. Uber does not require background checks. Cab companies do. You never know if you're getting some guy who's been in jail a few times etc. You do not know. A lot of people can't find work if they're ex-cons especially and are turning to things like Uber and other things that won't even ask them if they've ever been incarcerated. Just saying. I don't support Uber, never have and never will. Support local cabbies. It's a lot harder to become one and they'll not only arrive faster usually they're also way more guaranteed to be professional than some random Uber driver could ever claim to be.
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  39. +Angel Reyes They're making another season, but I honestly don't know how they're intending to pull that one off. They're already basically at about the very end of the story for Pablo, unless it's all about him being on the run from now on -- however, I predict the show won't end with his death. I bet it explores the other cartels more next season and his death will probably occur in Season 3. Just my theory. :P
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  40. Al Ken made good points all around but I think that the similarities of heroin and alcohol are apples and oranges at least insofar as society goes. First off, way more people use alcohol and most of them are not alcoholics. It's a casual thing that many people can control whereas some people with addictive personalities may not be able to control it. But the simple fact is there are more functioning people who use alcohol, and more people who use alcohol in general, than people who have ever tried Heroin anyway. Heroin just the word itself carries one of the worst stigmas of any drug besides maybe meth nowadays and even coke. The sort of stuff most people just stay away from. As far as the damage potential though yes I believe that more people have died from alcohol but that is largely in part because it's legal and it's more accessible than street drugs. If Heroin was legal I think it would either result in more deaths or (statistically speaking anyway) it may even result in less deaths ironically enough. Portugal is the crown jewel of an example of this, it lowers death rates as well as the rates of infectious disease spreading (something that many people who get into IV drugs discount the risks of, forget the substances they're taking, how about AIDS if you share needles or more common than that Hep-C?) but really yeah in my own opinion I do think alcohol is more harmful than opiates are. By far. But it's largely a question of availability in that case.
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  41. They don't want students to understand how it works. It's a racket. It's designed from the ground up to make money.
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  42. Honestly like if you live in a place even like that and let it get run down so much that it looks like a shanty shack, just be homeless. It's cheaper. I don't see anything wrong with the dude cleaning the place up for people who appreciate it. If people just wanna let it and themselves go, like honestly San Francisco is unbelievably homeless friendly in the same state. Go live there instead, for less money, and you can live as "free spirited" as you want with zero consequences instead. People act like they're paying more money for no benefits. Are you kidding me? He's making the entire place look nicer, he's hiring all these people to come do these jobs at no additional cost to the people living there whether they're on the way out or destined to stay, and hiring private security which they claim is for the workers benefit only but it's just as much for the people too if they could only allow themselves to see it that way. Seriously, don't like it? Go elsewhere. The ones complaining about altercations are most likely the ones who let their homes fall to ruin which affects everyone else negatively then they have the balls and audacity to say they were negatively effected by what literally are simply just improvements.
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  43. People give places like New Orleans grief because they built the entire city below sea level in a place that has to worry about hurricanes half of the year, basically. Pick your poison. You got wildfires and earthquakes in the west, tornadoes in the center of the country and hurricanes in the gulf and on the east coast.
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  44. I bet 80% of them are in jail or have been in jail by now
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  45. L-L-L-L-LAWSUIT!
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  46. I've seen it. xD And yeah that one was pretty great. There's quite a few they've done on international cannibals IIRC. I've seen a large number of things they've done since I first discovered them on the ... relatively bad quality footage with the guy who started Vice, Shaun Smith, basically finding a way into North Korea and actually managing to smuggle footage. That took serious, serious balls to do. If they had caught him doing that... we may not even have VICE as we do have it today. That's kind of what I mean about the trajectory they seem to be going. It really IS beginning to show some serious left-leaning bullshit, and you know who I blame for that? Bill Maher. He's simultaneously the reason we got VICE News in the capacity we now have it on HBO, but also the reason it's gotten so... much more biased in the favor of the left. I agree with every word of what you said.
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  47.  @hustlerstv4252  She made a big media thing about it so technically the school could sue her. The fact they didn't points to guilt, OR they figure it's not worth the bad publicity to pursue otherwise but I am leaning more towards the first than the second in this case. That and the fact it seems to be something other students have had to deal with.
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  48. Centuries? Dumb people have existed since the dawn of time.
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  49. He probably doesn't realize he's addicted yet
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  50.  @LOSANGELES3  It reminds me of the Dallas Buyers Club situation, too. Not related to insulin necessarily but he was having to go to Mexico to get a particular drug to treat HIV/AIDS that was either trial-only in America or something was preventing him from getting it. And from that he basically set up a counter-culture pharmacy for these people to come get the treatments THEY want regardless of what the normal/typical path of acquiring those treatments typically were. Through a doctor. Waiting in a line. Signing up for various lists, etc.
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