Comments by "David H" (@DavidHalko) on "VisualPolitik EN"
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@stephanspielmann240 - we supposedly reached “peak carbon”, decades ago, multiple times. We know how those predictions turned out.
Some carbon production is abiotic. There is likely a peak of usage vs natural regeneration.
Since everything living (and dead) around us is made with carbon, once we truly meet usage at supply, we will generate new carbon sources.
If peak carbon was truly a problem, we would be looking at a lot more than energy. Think: asphalt roads, asphalt roofing shingles, nylon clothing, plastic items, vinyl flooring planks, graphite in batteries, vinyl siding, etc. etc.
That being said, all energy sources are needed. Solar is near impossible to effectively use without natural gas peaker plants.
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@keinjuan - “China basically stands alone… no option but to build their own”
That is because they steal military technology from Russia 🇷🇺 and US 🇺🇸- so no one trusts them.
They would purchase a couple items from Russia 🇷🇺, then disassemble & build something themselves, never making additional purchases from Russia 🇷🇺
Honestly, China 🇨🇳 has done this for a long time in civilian technology, so of course they do this with military technology.
I remember a friend buying an Chinese iPhone knockoff, which looked identical, came with 2 SIM cards instead of 1, sported a camera with 4x the resolution, and had identical icons on the touch screen… the plastic touch screen was not well secured, when you clicked an icon, it brought up text versions of 2G phone menus, the photo quality was crap, and we never had a need for the spare SIM card.
Anyone doing any manufacturing business with China 🇨🇳 gets a terrible consequence of getting your junk backwards engineered, losing your technology, and then having them duplicate it without having to spend any in the R&D investment to pay back.
Would I WANT to buy a product from them, where any maintenance must go back to them where they effectively have no R&D?
Nope. When there is a software bug, or enhancement needed to handle a slightly smaller incoming missile, I want to go back to the original R&D developer - not the knock-off
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@gregorytheblackkitten9422 - “you seem to be very knowledgeable about this”
I know a little bit about this since the Americas was “discovered” by Spain on the same year they gained their independence from the Moors.
Just because people toggle between colonizers and colonies, like Spain & Morocco, does not mean the cultural bounds disappear.
In the same way, the UK & US still have strong cultural bounds, even though the UK largely colonized them (and Spain and France), yet the US helped bail the UK (and Spain and France) out of two world wars.
“where are you from?”
I am from The American Colonies, but don’t start thinking that most Americans are like me, my ethnicity is not Western European.
The separation from ethnicity helps me see things more clearly for what they really are, without bigotry or personal hard feelings or guilt / self hatred. Things are what they are, we have to get over them, appreciate the lessons learned, and continue:.. no earthly civilization past had figured this much stuff (go to the moon, wired communication, wireless communication, going to Mars, sending craft able to communicate with us from outside the solar system, etc.)
Forgiveness of people towards each other offers opportunities for the future.
Repentance & Forgiveness drives Restoration & Reward for all parties in all relationships… from personal to national levels.
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@ritchirodenbach8972 - I had a conversation about this, some years back. After looking into it, the African Currency link to Libya seemed like an element of truth in a greater conspiracy theory of misunderstanding of how things work in humanity & on a global scale.
The currency would need to be linked to something significant, like Swahili language, disassociated from the Arab invaders & slave traders of the past 1300 years. (Libya is slaving again, after the fall of Gaddafi, some things never change.) A police force to protect people [from thieves] is needed. A military to protect against invaders [who thieve] is needed.
France is merely a small nation that provides a degree of legal stability & security, with the ability to project stability & security for those who want their help. Nothing more. It has little to do with their currency.
Security & Stability create a super power, because these things allow people to create without having their stuff get destroyed, without having their stuff get stolen, without being kidnapped to provide their unique labor for free, without having their women & children molested & killed [so the created things are passed down.]
Until people understand that creation, security, and stability is the tripod on which civilization stands… people will be in endless cycles of theft & those regions remain poor. Gold is not necessary. In North America, $1 has a colloquial name of a “buck”… because a Buck Skin (skin of a deer) had that value, and people would trade the skin (because it held it’s value… not the fur, but embedded in the fur was the work to harvest & clean the animal, and the meat fed the harvesters along the way.)
Gold is not necessary, it can be a renewable resource like animal skins. Creation [human work], Security [to keep creations from breakage & theft], and Stability [to appreciate & value] are at the heart of civilization… super power is the ability to project those positive attributes & defend from the negatives to other localities.
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1:00 - “highest GDP to debt ratio”
This is a nightmare, you are right.
They have to stop spending like a drunken sailor, but Democrats in Congress traditionally drive this, and US voters are addicted to government services.
3:30 - [US Presidents speak on debt]
The US found out during the Trump administration that when Trump did not spend the money allocated by Congress, Democrats sued President Trump for not spending what Congress budgeted.
It was the craziest thing I have ever seen, in my lifetime!
5:43 - “white house continued to raise the debt ceiling”
This is not the role of the White House or President.
6:35 - “debt ceiling… serves no function except to generate political tension”
This is completely false. It is through the debt ceiling mechanism that the US congress has been able to force deals to constrain spending by other members of Congress.
The reason the President is needed, is because the President is the leader of a major political party, in this case the Democrat Party [which is addicted to uncontrolled spending], and the President must tell his political party members to fall in line & vote for the debt control measure, otherwise they vote against the debt control measure to bring home $$$ pork 💵 to their constituents.
6:54 - “Republican Gephardt… Gephardt rule”
This was a nightmare, as you suggested.
7:46 - “White House addicted to debt”
Once again, the White House is not the driver, Congress is the driver
Usually, if the opposing party is in control of congress, there are 2 paths:
1. Congress drive spending to make the White House look bad (ie Democrat Congress under Republican Trump… resulting in a 1 term President when his voting base did not come out to support him)
2. Congress drives less spending and can make the President look good (ie Republican Congress during Democrat Clinton… extending him to 2x terms during scandals)
8:40 - “checks written by the White House”
You really don’t understand how this works in America. The White House does not really control the spending.
11:25 - “social security… funds projected to run out… take out more and more debt”
They will merely increase the payroll tax or facilitate more illegal aliens so illegal aliens must steal social security numbers to work & therefore pay into the system & not get that money out when they retire. This is how Democrat President Biden’s policy is buoying Social Security.
14:20 - “pensions will have to financed with debt”
No, previous debt from other departments must be paid back, and those departments must start paying back their borrowing from Social Security… so the social spending will come to a halt pretty quickly before there is a default.
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This video was a far-left hit piece, by using all kinds of tropes & left wing charged language.
If the video maker was trying to be centrist, accusations using charged language would have not been used, and just explaining the facts without identifying left & right would have been used.
I did find it interesting that Israel lacked a written constitution, but instead relies upon some kind of basic law scheme, which is basically a progressive constitution.
Is it right to have a judicial branch, which can override the parliament passing laws, which in effect has the responsibility to pass central laws which have the power of a constitution?
That does not seem to rightly abide by traditional Democratic Balance of Power. I wish there was more detail on how central laws with “constitutional authority are passed in Israel. Maybe, it is quite reasonable.
Should the government [with infinite money 💴 supply], be able to force legal proceedings against any citizen [with limited financial means] , to prove they broke the law, where they can’t make their case over 3 years???
That does not seem to be right, by any stretch of the imagination. This is well beyond the bounds of of any Democratic governmental system, and is more akin to Soviet “show me the man, I’ll show you the crime” authoritarianism.
This video just seems alarmist and pro-Authoritarian.
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@HedgehogZone - how many of the patent files were retrieved & saved by the US for Germany, when Germany was shipping fragile patent books to Poland & holes in the ground!
When the US figured out what was done, with the books that were falling apart, the US understood the value of them, separated non-concluded parents, microfilmed them at close to 3,000 a day, and the films were handed over to the German patent office, re-created in the 1950’s, for gratis.
The US restored to Germany the patent wealth of that generation, in a way which the Socialist Germans of WW2 did not care for them, of their own volition.
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@NickSteffen - “charge Medicare below list price… still making a profit”
Ummm… no… not necessarily.
Many health care providers provide services to Medicare recipients where they do not make a profit, then they admit a large enough number of other customers to make up the difference.
There are a some unscrupulous providers, looking to scam the system, by charging things they did not do, in order to make up the difference. I have family members where they noticed this, and stopped using those doctors.
Many doctors stop working, because the government Medicare & Medicaid cuts are too great & they just can’t make the ends meet.
We lost older doctors like this, who were Frank with us about why they left the profession.
We watched younger doctors decide to go into medical real estate types of business, so they could pay back their medical schooling loans.
We occasionally go to other doctors, who only take cash, because they don’t want to deal with the headaches of Medicare, Medicaid, and Health Insurance, with all of their regulations… they give a rock bottom price, can make ends meet, and take care of our problems & problems from friends.
Doctors are people, too.
Hospitals are often just facility owners with doctors being contractors. The older the facility, the higher the cost. The closer to urban centers, the higher the taxes. I just watched another hospital start closing, on the news, tonight.
The reality of making ends meet applies to everyone,
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