Comments by "Martin Maat" (@MartinMaat) on "Leeja Miller" channel.

I am a 57 year old Dutchman. I attended a christian kindergarten (because it was nearby and other kids in my street went there too). I don't remember much of what the young women who were taking care of us ever told us, it was mainly about keeping us occupied and socializing. The Israeli occupation was fresh and apparently a debated topic at the time. I DO remember my teacher making this exact argument! Like "it was all wasteland and now oranges grow there!", which supposedly made it right. I must have been 4 years old, maybe 5. I found it weird, it didn't make sense to me. I now wonder how the subject came up in the first place.
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@johnlast6066 Statistics do not tell the whole story. If you keep one group poor, people from that group are more likely to steal, yes. "The poor are more criminal than the rich!" (if you look at petty theft and people getting at each other's throats because they cannot afford a house that gives them any privacy). Yeah, duh. What is your point? That this is how it's supposed to be?
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@turipz I feel no urge to defend what the Dutch government did in the past. Fact is, in this age, the Antilles receive money from the Netherlands and no Dutch soldier is shooting at the natives over there or are destroying any houses there. A lot of them live in the Netherlands as full Dutch citizens who can vote. Same with other ex colonies. What words are in religious books or not does not strike me as meaningful when it comes to current human rights issues. Palestinians live where they live, in occupied territory. Most of them never had any part in the politics that lead to he current situation. Claiming they have no right to anything, even taking land from them up until this day, based on "Jews lived here once and our book says it's ours" does not make it right. It is apartheid today and it is violent suppression today. And yes, that is bad. I am ashamed for my country that doing business with Israel is still legal.
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@kelwdavicuddui5677 I do not believe that to be true on any scale. Minimum wage would be the same for any worker so replacing a trained one for an untrained one makes no sense whatsoever. This is probably one of those stories that make people fear immigrants rather than question the minimum wage. Either way it's "freedom!". Conservatives should have no issue with it, any employer should be free to hire and fire whoever he pleases.
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I once had a colleague who had lived in the US explain to me that even using the flag's image on clothing would be disapproved of. The flag needs to blow in the wind, high on a pole and any frivolous use of it was considered blasphemous and a mockery of everything sacred. Well, I guess they moved beyond that idea.
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@Navy35 I'm with Bernie and Michael on this. The government could set the rules to tip the scales more in favor of workers and regulate imports. Free markets and "open borders" now only benefit rich people and make it easy for them to screw over American workers. If you want to "close the border" you should start looking at freight.
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The background sound effects are distracting and annoying. Not sure if I will put up with it till the end. [Edit] Ah, it's only the pre-intro part.
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It could have worked for an eighties pop band though.
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It is really simple folks. It is t....ism when poor people hit rich people. When the other way around, it's just exercising the right to defend oneself.
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Apparently these troubled souls feel trapped in a society that doesn't offer them any attractive options or achievable goals. So they get bitter and angry and all around unpleasant which doesn't improve their siuation. I do not have many examples in my personal life apart from people I encounter in comment sections and the odd co-worker. I recognize it is self fulfilling, once they dug themselves in they only get marginalized more. I am thinking of one person in particular I knew in the work environment. He often cautiously brought up some idea about some social group that would be bad for society and was typically met with ridicule rather than open debate. They get shut up for their beliefs and no one wants to deal with them anymore once it's clear what they're about. That is a strong, polarizing force, we sane people push them further into that rabbit hole. And then they vote.
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So, you explained democrats are hopeless and will never change course, will continue to be sell outs even in the prospect of losing elections and then argue people should vote to save them. What exactly is worth saving here? This is not how revolutions happen, this is how things continue to get worse at a steady pace. It's not a matter of punishing democrats, it's a matter of acknowledging they are useless.
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Make that fascist administrations.
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I am a lefty yet wary of this idea. It sounds nice but it will sure have a lot of effects, lots of which undesirable and some of which unexpected. It won't be free. The argument is that government would be so much simpler and cheaper. No more social security benefits or money spent on the apparatus to maintain it. Sure... Do we keep minimum wage? Or is there no need for this anymore? If that ends, income differences will increase. Only the ones who are indispensable or have a strong position in the job market will be able to maintain their income. To them, the UBI will just be a present they don't need, a subsidy from poor to rich coming out of general means. This is why here the right is not unsympathetic to the idea, it would be a present to employers, the state will pay part of the worker's pay. Again, the poor subsidizing the rich.
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@BenjaminWalburn It will not be free, the money to pay for this will not be created out of thin air, it will have to be pulled from some other budget and there will be a fight over it. It is about making choices like everything in politics. So there will be shifts. I was quite clear about the subsidy from poor to rich: EVERYONE will pay for it, collectively as a nation, but while being a "social measure" it won't be just the poor benefitting from it. With current subsidies, it is. You only get support for rent, child care, health care, whatever if you are relatively poor. That is targeted, assigning money where it is most needed. Not the case with UBI. The labor market will be impacted. You state less people will be available because they already have money. Possibly. This depends on whether UBI will be enough to live comfortably or not. Some economic activity may just disappear because no one can be bothered to do it anymore. My point is that it won't be "everybody happy", it is not something to be introduced lightly and there will be a lot attached to it no matter what your idea or expectation may be. You think you know this to be a left wing idea. It is not that obvious who will ultimately benefit though.
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@matthewkopp2391 Yes. Native Americans were forced to sell land they lived on to the invaders. The natives never considered it to be their land though. The notion of people owning land and its ownership shifting from one person to the next through a transaction was nonsensical to them. You don't own air, you don't own the moon, it is a meaningless concept for environmental entities.
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European cities grew more "organically" and we have more powerful and richer cities that employ people who went to school to learn about city planning so everything that is built is well thought through, planned and regulated But it is fair to say that we also have some racial segregation, albeit not maliciously planned. In the 20th century when labor was in demand people from mediteranian counties came up north to work (settled and never left). The jobs they came for were typically low income jobs. As the original population moved to newer houses in outer city areas, immigrants filled the old ones. This way whole town sections got darker where they originally were white or mixed. At some point remaining white folks do not feel comfortable anymore and leave too. Education is good and affordable though so the children of immigrants often did well and the population gradually mixed again. But we're not there yet.
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I celebrate Leeja Miller every time she drops a video.
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@Navy35 There's only one kind of capitalism and if you let it roam free the result will always be that you end up with a couple of filthy rich people and hordes of poor ones.
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Consider UFO sightings/reports have been way more abundant in the US than in all other countries in the world combined. I just looked that up. So either aliens find the US more interesting than other parts of the world or the US is more occupied with misteries in the sky than the rest of the world. As far as shown interest, it seems like angels have had enough of us. In pre-space age times angels reportedly visited earth far more frequently than today. I'd like to know why that is, this decline worries me. We should investigate and get the pope involved. Maybe ask for his expert opinion or torture him to get the truth out.
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He was a communist. A damn liberal pinko. Preaching to help the poor and needy... A disgusting radical leftist.
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In the trump era, liberals are the new conservatives.
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Your sound is oddly dim.
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@Valathia It does seem to be a US issue more than anything but then again this makes sense because the US probably has the most obese population in the world. But then the mental thing, women with just normal female bodies striving to be thinner, it seems to me that's something women do to each other. I don't think many heterosexual men would fancy that "ideal" thin look. It may have something to do with women being ashamed of their sexuality and their desire to hide it.
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These videos obviously take a lot of research and work to make and the results are educational and impressive. And then, out of the blue, you manifest yourself as a fortune teller. 🤦 Why?! You KNOW how silly it makes you look, that it hurts your credibility and yet... 😮‍💨
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20:37 That sounds really good compared to your current government! "Fk up the you nited states internally and let the world live in peace". Can I have some of that, please?
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Everyone talks about messages. Nobody talks about bmbs 🤔.
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