Comments by "voteZDLR" (@voteZDLR) on "Getting Drunk on God" video.
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OK, whether you think this is horse shit, or whether you may even be moved by some of the "pastors" here, the end result, bottom line is this:
19:26 -- watch from this point.
The guy with the tattoos is a drug addict. He's doing something or another, but he's also realized evangelism is one of THE most profitable things somebody can do. In America at least, it's all tax-free to run a church.
The other guy, the more straight-laced one, he's no better. Contrary to what he says he's doing though, he IS running a pentecostal service. The people who go and probably pay for his services don't realize this, but he's taking advantage of stupid, weak people. Like every other major religion on the planet.
But honestly, a lot of these television or "pop" pastors -- they're in it for the money. Duh. Tax free AND a dumb clientele to boot? I'd say count me in if that wasn't a completely evil thing to do. Think about that.
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***** ZDLR = Zach de la Rocha, who is the frontman for Rage Against the Machine. I've had this username for like 8-10 years now, and it's never changed, although I would never vote for ZDLR if I had the option today (he's in favor of radical socialism, which seemed much more appealing to me when I was a kid) but all the same, it's my username now. And it has sort of come to mean something else to me personally for that reason alone, and for others I am sure as well (I am pretty sure that most people don't know who ZDLR is, although I think you're the first person who actually ever bothered to ask).
But yeah, it IS depressing. If you're smart enough to see through the smoke and mirrors and question things, you are in the 10% of the population of this country capable of critical thought and being able to vote. Back in the day, you used to have to be a white landowner to vote -- I disagree with the racial aspect of that since I've met plenty of intelligent black people and plenty of moronic white people, as well, but the landowner part is what's most important. In doing so, you would vote on behalf of yourself and everyone on your land, in theory, and more importantly to own land you'd have to be in the higher-tier of mankind -- the landholders. That takes a certain level of intelligence, it wasn't just anybody and everybody who was able to vote. That's the way it is today, and it's a dangerous idea since I bet if you gave people a simple poll on the basics of who they're voting for, about half of them wouldn't get above a C+ or other relative score on the test. Many would fail altogether. So you literally have people who DO bother to vote, but don't know what the hell they're doing. That's going to be the downfall of Democracy, and why in my opinion the older form -- the Representative Democracy -- is much better for the people and the world in general.
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***** Interesting points. So you're from Europe, then? Those of us who are paying attention are keeping a pretty close eye on Greece. It will effect you guys sooner if they leave the Eurozone or if any number of things happen with them and their economy, but it won't take long for that to affect the rest of the world either, due to the fragile (and insane, honestly) state of the world economy as it has been changed by capitalism and other socioeconomic experiments. I honestly think the biggest mistake any of our countries have made at this point is adopting a centralized economy that is entirely dependent on, and hinging on, a federal bank for it to work at all. I am certain this affects Europe as well since the IMF is running the show for all of us, but as it stands now in America it's literally impossible to completely pay off the "debt" we're creating. Not only is the amount just disgustingly and astronomically high, but the way it stands, because of interest, there's never going to be enough money in circulation to pay off the entirety of the debt. What that means for us when our creditors start knocking down our door looking to get that money back (again, with interest) I really don't know. If you divided it by all of the citizens in the USA, the debt comes out to like $55-60 per citizen. For those who can't pay their share, I shudder to think what will happen. Maybe debtors' prisons, or maybe something far worse. I don't know. But getting back to the original point, I do personally believe in a lot of Libertarian principles myself and I believe big government is much more detrimental to people than they even realize, which sounds moderately similar to what you were saying.
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***** It's pretty bad, Google the US Debt Clock. It shows how many millions of dollars are being spent, per second, and where those dollars are going to. The United States spends about 50% of it's annual budget on the military alone, which I believe is more than any other industrialized nation combined. It's ridiculous, and it is. It's terrifying that it's gotten to such astronomical levels. Many people here don't even talk about it or seem to realize it's going on, that or they don't want to think about it. Things definitely do seem to be taking a turn for the tyrannical more and more, left and right -- but you look at problems in Mexico and other places with Drug Cartels, etc. -- a simple change in policy in the United States would force those criminals out of business over night. In other words, admit the drug war is a failure and legalize all drugs, whether you intend to use them or not. It sounds crazy, but honestly the fact is people are going to do drugs no matter what -- illegality has never stopped people from consuming substances before. But the flip side is it's funding violent terror and costing us a ton of money, this is just one area the USA and other developed nations could really turn the tide on criminality and even terrorism, and then treat societal problems like drug abuse and poverty and crime in an environment where most of them aren't involved in drugs and other forms of crime to begin with. I can think of a number of ways we can solve these problems, but at this point the USA at least is in a very, very serious financial hole that I honestly have no idea what the outcome will even be when all is said and done. Money is owed to somebody, and they will come knocking for it one day or another.
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