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

Well, the way the federal reserve works, it's basically designed that there isn't enough money and in fact never will be enough money to completely pay off ALL our debts. Their solution to "We need more money" is "OK, just go fire up the printing presses and we'll make MORE". They're literally printing money. And it doesn't matter how many bills they print, the actual "value" that backs it more or less stays static. It's basically a glorified "IOU". So what this means is that the more money they print and the more actual bills are in circulation, the less and less each of those bills is actually worth. This problem has been allowed to go unchecked forever. This is also why it used to cost $0.25 cents for a cheeseburger at McDonalds and $0.05 for a soda and fries or whatever, and nowadays the same thing costs like $6 or $7. We've been living with rising inflation our entire lives, so if you haven't noticed it I can't help but wonder if that was part of the plan the entire time. Per citizen the debt last I checked was closer to like $50 thousand per person if not more, and that's whether you went to college and have student loans or not.
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LOL there's a guy who runs one of these companies obsessed with Terminator and he literally is calling it SKYNET. Kind of an omen don't you think?
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It's more about the statement than anything else. It's just like she said, it's a nothing amount for most users. So they will do their free little quarter gram and then approximately 8-10 hours later they'll go through their usual connect to get more. Period. So if the goal is to save lives, it won't work. It's more about the statement and getting this video made and getting a conversation started. I am not at all surprised that this happened in Vancouver, though. They are way ahead of the times as far as everything surrounding drug reform, starting with safe injection sites (the first in the world, or at least in the Western world anyway).
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End the War on Drugs and reallocate the entire DEA to combating this problem instead. They need more manpower with less inconsequential by comparison problems. FORGET the drugs, fight this shit instead.
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Yep. If you need a medication and it's illegal or some company has bought out the rights, I do think you are well within your human rights to break that law to get it. You should be allowed to self-medicate or see a doctor or do a combination of both IF YOU SO CHOOSE and not be anything more than advised by a physician for or against it. The fact that it would technically be against the law to procure a literal life-saving medication for you from other means if it was all you could afford to me is absolutely preposterous. Break that law. Do what you have to do to survive and I would challenge any jury in America to convict you for trying to save your OWN life.
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I am not a Trump fan but the timing of this Afghanistan debacle is going to be THE issue that ensures Biden will not have a snowball's chance in Hell in 2024. Especially if Trump runs again which he almost certainly will and especially because the 2020 race was as close as it was. The fact is, I would prefer that this happened under Trump's administration instead. It was originally his plan anyway, we just tacked on a few months to it but ultimately more or less stuck to the deal TRUMP made. And now that we have, what would have been Trump's mistake is now Biden's. The only way the Democrats have a chance at winning is if Biden doesn't seek re-election in 2024. But here's the scarier and even worse part, like the damage from this is going to be done even sooner than that. In 2022 we have mid-term elections which are arguably more important than presidential elections when you begin to understand that Congress has more power to truly effect change than the President does (the President is meant to steer Congress to adopt his policies, some are successful at it, some aren't). If the Republicans see more success in 2022 than the Democrats, Biden's administration is effectively over. He won't be able to get anything done and he'll be called a "lame duck president" for it. The debacle wasn't his fault but his handling and response to it absolutely, 100% are his fault and it's too late to own it but that's probably what he should have done, not cast blame at everyone but himself.
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It's more than anything just to reinforce the underlying thing that allows all of these organized crime syndicates to actually work -- fear. Fear through violence. These Mexican Cartels make LCN aka the Mafia look like The Mouseketeers, though. They have taken it too far, in other words, but at the end of the day if your business hinges on this idea that like "You are with us or against us" it wouldn't mean anything if you didn't make a few examples a long the way. It's just sad that for these cartels like "a few" is now almost basically on par with genocidal levels. Stuff LCN would've been like "all this bloodshed it's bad for business" the cartels literally run Mexico now so they are committing all of these atrocities so far with impunity.
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I'm one of the people who actually don't believe he ever truly gave crack up. In fact, it might have been the cause behind him creating the pillows as well as the fuel that helped him actually see the entire thing through, from beginning to end. Crack doesn't put you to sleep. Quite the opposite in fact.
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This is a good thing though a lot of the young kids getting into any kind of metal think their favorite stars are touring around the world ACTUALLY screaming. No, that's impossible. It's a combination of effects and then using what's called a "vocal fry" usually.
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@shawntalbert Even George Washington didn't belong to a party and he even warned people about parties in general I believe in his farewell address or something like that, but it didn't take long for parties to form up. Throughout most of American history, there's always been two primary parties but it hasn't always been the Republicans and Democrats but idealistically they have been the same. Separation between conservative ideologies and liberal ones.
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They are expensive because there is now an entire multi-billion dollar industry designed around "treating" sick people. Not "curing", treating. That's why I was like lul when the ObamaCare thing passed, as long as it was still working with private insurance companies. The rates are unbelievably high. All that it did was allow people regardless of pre-existing conditions or not to basically be required to sign up for some form of health insurance. I do not think that it will ever change, either. I am not saying it's a good thing or a bad thing. I just know for a fact that there's people like Martin Shkreli who will mark up the price of a drug because they can .
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The fact is China's been basically using slavery to support it's industrial movement for longer than most of us have even been alive. There's a reason it seems like everything is "made in China". Because, well, it is, that much is true. And if they had to pay the employees a fair and competitive living wage that wasn't borderline them working for free, goods would cost a lot more than they already do. It was so bad at a company that makes processors or something like that that they actually had to install nets outside of the windows of office buildings to prevent people from jumping to their deaths. That says everything that they'd rather die than live another day subjected to the torments they are.
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You end up paying a lot of the difference for it in taxes it sounds like because what you paid for it is still less than what the house is actually worth. It's a buyer's trap. Also, it's in freaking Detroit. Would you rather live in Detroit or SF? And that's not a loaded question either because I do understand SF is struggling nowadays with their own issues, but still, it's not Detroit.
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I think if the problem is that a certain demographic can't afford to live in a certain area regardless of their job or situation, and if their family (if any) nearby isn't willing to take care of them themselves, then offer them a pre-made list of really, really cheap places to live and try to tailor it to whatever skills they may or may not have to help them get started somewhere they can afford. I don't know I think it's really sad there's such a discrepancy between the rich and poor in a city like LA but it is what it is. Sucks they may not want to leave what they feel like is their home, but if they can't afford it... you know what I mean? Come back when and if you can. It's taxed too much anyway I wouldn't live there if I could afford it.
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Love how they disparage Western everything, ideology and all, while holding and equipping Western gear. Foolishly left behind by probably the dumbest president in the history of this country. I mean we've had some dumb ones but goddamn Joe Biden's Corn Pop fighting ass is unconscionably stupid. This is, ironically, one of the problems with democracy. Everyone, even the dumb ones, get to vote too.
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They're not interested in selling you things that you can get already for cheaper. They're not in it for the "feel-goods". They are there to make a metric fuckload of money by selling something that society has deemed illegal to sell, something that is artificially worth like 10 times as much if not more than it would be, and they're OK with the risk especially now that they basically run Mexico. They do good things occasionally but it's never out of the good of their hearts, they're effectively running public relations campaigns on a professional level with holiday gifts etc. It's all just to maintain control of the situation, and they feel like even more than just buying the police on some level they need to even buy the people, something Pablo himself realized was effective as well. Just saying, if they found out a customer had a life-threatening illness and NEEDED the medicine, unless it was a political favor or for one of the bosses or something, they'd be like "How desperate are they for this medicine?" and maybe even crank the price up a little more because they know you'd pay it.
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Either you slingin' crack rock or you got a wicked jump shot
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I mean IMHO Kenan Thompson is at least part of the reason the show IS being ruined. It's not even close to being a shadow of it's former glory. And yeah he is part of the reason the show sucks. He ended up ripping off more than a few Dave Chappelle segments, the most notable one to me off the top of my head is the "I Know Black People!" skit that Dave Chappelle not only did first, he did better. I do not think Kenan is a funny comedian at all. I also think it's really weird and telling that his former childhood-era co-star Kel Mitchell claims that Kenan doesn't have any interest in talking to him anymore, won't respond to him when trying to reach out, etc., but he has no ill-will about it or anything. Kenan's just gone Hollywood which is sad both for that but it's also sad because IMO he is less talented than he is actually talented.
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If I was the CEO of Blockbuster I might consider puttinga few more stores in places like Alaska then. I do miss Blockbuster, used to rent games and movies from them all the time and there's just something magical about walking into one. I think they may be putting like crack chemicals in the stuff they do the carpets in because it's always a very distinctive like smell when you walk into one. It's really great. I wish they hadn't just gotten wiped off the face of the Earth.
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@EnigmaEnginseer Yes in a lot of ways they used the good-will of Americans against them. They hid behind public buildings like hospitals and schools, and of course even children were utilized as weapons with regards to IED's and things of that nature. Bombing the soldiers who were trying to win their favor by giving them candy, etc. And as sure as the war in theory began with them bombing the world trade center, their greatest victory is they put a huge dent in the economy of the United States itself. The war lasted over 20 years and it was outrageously expensive for something that was ultimately doomed to be a failure.
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@pooroldman5089 No, not every leader they had was hunted down and killed. Some were, yeah, but others popped up in their place. I am not denying they were murderers or that they hid behind women, children and innocents, but they did win the war at least. Besides, from their standpoint, we're murderers too.
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lol at them trying to "retreat" at the end (rolling MGS style)
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