Comments by "Ficus-lovin\x27 Capybara N\x27 pals • 🌟 • 25 yrs ago" (@YourCapybaraAmigo_17yrsago) on "What GM Doesn’t Want You to Know About EVs | Ft. John Russell" video.

  1. Asking big companies to promise to be good boys is ridiculous. We need hard-and-fast iron fist style laws on these bastards. Believe me nothing else will control them. All they care about is greed they will always find a way to to weasel out of every promise or weak regulation. But real laws with zero loopholes and serious penalties including jail time for violations will work. Just elect me I know what tf to do
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  2. Billion dollar company firing a single co-worker for not wanting to supply his promised healthcare. That's absolutely disgraceful. He should have tried to sue for wrongful termination.
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  3. Way to go lot of ethics at Home Depot I can see. Hiring a cop fired for some kind of violence or criminality. Lot of standards they have.
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  4.  @chocomalk  buddy I really hope your dad runs home Depot otherwise why the hell are you shilling for them living on your three-digit income??
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  5. Yep. Trains now please.
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  6. God damn that's so gross
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  7.  @Megacooltommydee  ikr!?!? Insanest shit I ever saw
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  8.  @chocomalk  what is your point the? Are you saying that wasn't home depot's responsibility? Because if they offer healthcare I would say it is their responsibility. I understand chemo isnt cheap but this is why we need national healthcare. Besides a multibillion-dollar company can cover someone's chemo. At a minimum they should have given him a generous settlement if they let him go for that reason.
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  9.  @TechBearSeattle  that's right.
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  10.  @coderamen666  yes. Gross isn't it
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  11.  @Novastar.SaberCombat  I'm ready to make the ultimate sacrifice to stand up for what I believe in. I'm not a coward and I never have been.
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  12. Amen to that
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  13.  @Novastar.SaberCombat  I believe you are being facetious with this. No cause is lost. It is better to die fighting for one's beliefs then not try at all.
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  14.  @Novastar.SaberCombat  better to die fighting for a noble cause then not fight and stay a coward
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  15.  @chocomalk  yeah maybe it's not perfect but guy that's better than not being able to access it at all don't you think?
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  16.  @chocomalk    well if it is being mismanaged I'm very sorry to hear that but man all I can tell you is private healthcare ain't no panacea. For those of means who want to pay more, in some cases much more, for healthcare they feel they can trust that's fine, but if you're lower-income or no-income what are you supposed to do? There should be robust public healthcare available for everyone as well as private healthcare for those who want it and can afford it. Once you turn healthcare over to the profit motive things can go downhill fast. I won't say it's always bad but it can get bad quickly. High premiums, getting denied services you desperately need that you were supposed to be covered for, $1000 ambulance rides, unaffordable medication. It's a real mess here for a lot of people. I think it's something like 100,000 people here die every year for lack of healthcare access, millions more struggle to afford their prescriptions and so on. Essential medications are being priced out of reach on purpose by these hyper greedy Pharma Bros. I think if you knew the extent of it you'd be pretty shocked. It can be a mess. Like I said some people who can afford it might be really happy with their private health provider here in the States and I'm happy for them, but you're just as likely to hear horror stories from people who basically were taken for a ride from their pricey health insurer. There is a patchwork of some forms of state health coverage plus Obamacare but both of those programs have a lot of issues and leave a lot of those who need them unable to qualify. Also I forgot to mention, medical bankruptcy is I think the first or second leading cause of bankruptcy in the US. I think the leading cause of debt overall is student loan debt followed by general credit card debt. We're kind of a worst-case scenario for a lot of things but my point is, a totally unregulated free-for-all for-profit healthcare system can cause a lot of harm. Now if it was more regulated a lot of those harms would be prevented or at least minimized. I thought that private healthcare was available in Canada?
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  17. Why
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  18. Nobody likes the yt algo my guy
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  19. I hope they stayed with it.
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  20. Who's your union?
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  21.  @edvvardcash6109  who are they?
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  22. But big business handouts is what this non-government criminal cartel is all about. However, helping the poors? Eww! That's Communism!!!!
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  23.  @Vort_tm  I agree with a lot of what you said but it's extremely easy for the federal government to drop the iron fist on large business- they just have to want to. Problem is they don't want to because they're owned by them, they serve them, they're in their pocket. It's a mutually-beneficial incestuous get-rich-quick back-and-forth relationship.
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  24. True But even if we lose the battle in our lifetime we still should fight and band together and do what we can to leave a better world for our children
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  25.  @Novastar.SaberCombat  bruh a person's influence can endure long after they're gone. At a minimum there's usually somebody who will remember you fondly.
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  26.  @Novastar.SaberCombat  ok but so??? That's life. That doesn't mean that life is meaningless it just means that most of our life is ordinary and that's okay. Usually there's at least one person that will miss you after you're gone and not just for a week but for a long time.
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  27.  @chocomalk  yes but they didn't have to fire that guy they didn't fire him for any performance-related issue. So its wrong. But when you take the human element out of it it just becomes a good business decision.
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  28.  @chocomalk  what probably happened was that insurance company CEO or some representative called up somebody high up the food chain with Home Depot and said 'hey you got to cut this guy loose we don't want to pay for this guy's treatment'. These are the cruelties of a completely for-profit system. Everyone's going to need healthcare at some point or another we need national healthcare amongst about a hundred other things People shouldn't have to depend on their employers for healthcare. If they want to fine, if it's a benefit provided fine, but people shouldn't have to. It's ludicrous in a first-world country not to offer national healthcare.
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  29.  @chocomalk  are you absolutely certain all the good doctors are stateside? I'm sure you have thousands of excellent physicians.
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  30.  @chocomalk  lool. I'm sure it can't be that bad. My close friend gets excellent care through his local VA, the only nationalized health service in the US. He doesn't feel he's missing out on anything by not going to a private hospital. The only downside is there can be long wait times as well for appointments but he's used to that and he really doesn't mind that much.
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  31.  @chocomalk  don't they reassign a patients in cases like this to other primary care providers?
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  32.  @chocomalk  well I hope that changes soon if that's true. None in her area you mean?? None willing to take new patients??
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  33.  @chocomalk  is there shortage of physicians in Canada's public health care system?
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  34.  @chocomalk  lol $63 my god That's like a dream come true true for anyone here. Actually in the late 90s one of the few times in my life I paid for private healthcare for a young single person my rate was around only $70 a month. Not sure what that same plan would be today. I'm fortunate to be in really good stable health and I don't need any health treatment for now but if and when I did I would be able to seek it through the VA. Most people here don't have that option however. There are a few wonderful institutions here that charge low or no rates for their treatments but they are few and far between. Well like I said you know we need heavily regulated private care that's fine people should have that option if they want it, and there should also be basic but comprehensive public care for those who don't want that option or don't have the means to buy private care.
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  35.  @thoughtlesskills  agreed. Look I'm not against businesses existing, some Leftists are and well you know maybe in the future but we can have that but now obviously that's not going to be possible, so I don't have any problem with businesses up to certain size existing and operating however I just want to put a set of hard-and-fast ground rules in place. This shouldn't be so hard I know my ethics and morals are not askew so there must be a problem with the shit that's going on and those who are currently making policy. Fukn crooks Hard labor protections Hard environmental protections Real oversight Maximum size limit (10,000 persons maybe) And that's it Everyone can go out and do as much business as they want provided these four requirements are in place
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  36.  @JeremySpidle  very true
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  37. For now yes
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  38. Glad to know you're awake. Communism now frens Business must be forced to play by moral rules.
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  39. And yet we know that's not true
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  40. I don't think electric cars help much in the big picture. Why are so many catching on fire? Something is very wrong here.
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  41.  @seanhartnett79  they actually offer subsidized or free membership but you have to apply Sometimes their fees are reasonable tho
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  42. It's a one red-blue purple uniparty, you do know that?? Behind the scenes same agenda same goals same masters no difference. The 99% do not have physical representation in this country at any level of government you do know this yes?
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  43. There's nothing wrong with welfare if you need it. If you ever needed it you'd be real happy it's there so that's not the problem. The problem is the ruthless corporate dictatorship of our public policy in this country as exercised by both red-blue party agendas
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  44. Lol imagine thinking the GOP are any better
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  45. But Elon is such a sigma! Errr billions errrrrr revolutionary genius!!
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  46.  @OneMoreTank  at least they come through part of the time, that's nice. Credit where credit's due I always say.
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  47. We just need vastly new business rules that put labor, our communities and our environment FIRST. Simple changes could easily protect everyone and drop the hammer on big business thuggery and nonsense. The red-blue purple uniparty grifting machine won't do it tho, we need to find a different way to force these new policies through and I'm not sure yet exactly how to do that. Edit: there are really only two ways. Establish a viable third-party Left People-first party, or do ballot measures. Or both.
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  48. Exactly 💯
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  49. EVs have so many negatives
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  50. 😃👏👏👏
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  51. Imagine if the business rules in this country were written with the public good and the good of the workers, communities and employees in mind, not endless rapacious super-elite C-suite corporate executive greed and shareholder profit? After all what's the purpose of a business or corporation? Just to generate endless profits for a tiny few, or to benefit everyone including the community in which it is situated? Communism NOW. That doesn't mean we can't have business, of course we can, it just means that business is going to benefit workers and communities FIRST (and will safeguard our environments) and is not going to be run for the greed of a tiny few at the top at everyone else's expense.
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  52. EVs are bad for almost everyone. From the slave labor it takes to mine them, to the lack of recycling at end of life, to the clearly unsafe track record, to their onerous maintenance and cost requirements.... Shit who tf is benefiting here???
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