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Because its irrelevant. Those fires will eventually start as the undergrowth thickens. If its not those radical idiots, then it will be something else. It doesn't solve the original problem. If the original problem were dealt with, radical idiots wouldn't be able to set these uncontrollable fires. Solve the real problem and you solve the problem of radical leftists setting fires. It's the same with "defund the police" mentality. To solve the problem of negative police interaction with the public, especially within the black community, solve the crime problems within those communities. Solve that and negative police incidents go away. Leftists aren't smart enough to realise that solving the symptoms doesn't fix the actual problem.
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BLD Lightpainting Although Sweden is set up as a secular nation, it's roots are deeply entrenched in Christianity. This has to affect the way people think and react to how a government is run even if they claim to be atheist. The US is a secular country as well, whether you like it or not. The separation of church and state is a core tenet of American politics. That doesn't mean that a person's religion will not affect his political beliefs and his voting habits but it does mean that one religion isn't favoured over another. This came from the incessant religious wars of the Reformation in Europe. The American founders wanted to be sure that no one religious sect or belief system would take control of the government or the people and allow them to dictate government policy. That means it is exactly like Sweden, in spite of the rhetoric of saying it is founded on Christian principles. The only difference between Swedish and American politics is the declaration of the existence of God. There are still lots of churches and you're still free to worship as you please. Besides, what does it matter if your neighbour believes in Jesus or not? As long as he allows you to believe, all should be good. Your salvation does not depend on the salvation or belief system of your neighbour.
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Deplorable Mike. That is the problem and it's happening all over the West. There is a left trend that wants to impose their political ideology on others and they use shaming and victimhood status to impose their beliefs and lifestyles on others. They're turned freedom into a morality hierarchy and have clear lines in where we all should sit on that hierarchy, white cis males being at the lowest of the morality scale. It's a recipe for authoritarianism.
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@chrisbayridge23 Are those 66 million working class people starving to death? Are they, as the woman in this video describes it, fish food at the bottom of the sea in their attempt to find a place where their lives are better? Capitalism provides hope. It's the hope that one can create products that bring wealth to the individual. Socialism creates handouts. That monthly wait for the government check. It creates nothing. No products to sell. No income in exchange for that product produced. No hope to build your own future. Just waiting for the next pay check from the government and the hope that they don't change their mind about giving it to you.
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@kulturfreund6631 "Well, spend a thought on the fact that the wealth/gains on one side are the poverty /losses on the other side." No...it's not. In fact, the reality is just the opposite. The US has more millionaires than all of Africa and South America combined and I can guarantee you one thing. There are no American refugees heading to those 2 continents looking for a better life. Refugees are all going the other way. I can also guarantee you that most people don't want to live the way they do in those 2 continents and their dream is to live as we do in the industrialised west. The statement you just made highlights one huge fallacy. It's the fallacy that suggests that there is a big pile of money that's available and we're all in a game of "grab the cash" that's sitting in the middle of the table. It's not how accruing wealth works. Wealth is accrued through the creation of end products of value, from raw materials that have no initial value. This is converted into a cash value, a system that makes exchange a much simpler way of distributing the wealth that has been created. The more produce that one can create that has value to others, the more wealth that he can accrue, but he has to be able to sell it. People have to want it. That makes is a free exchange. The customer looking for a product and a producer providing him with the product that he wants. A free and open market. From that system, some will do better than others and some will fail but those that fail, miserably, those drug addicts and mentally challenged street people of LA, as an example, have removed themselves from that open market. Not through any fault of their own, but they're no longer contributing to society and they're not reaping the rewards that the others do. Even the simplest cave dweller has to go out to hunt in order to eat. It's a reality of life.
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@hsuyaarchives2526 There were all kinds of wars in ancient India. There's the Battle of the Ten Kings (c. 14th century BCE). The Kurukshetra War which is the foundation of Bhagavad Gita. The Kosala-Kashi war (c. 650 BCE). The Kosala conquest of Gaṇasaṅgha (c. 600 to 550 BCE). Gandhāra-Avanti war (c. 575 BCE). Magadha-Anga war (c. 535 BCE. There's lots more and this is LONG before Christianity or Islam. Then there was the horrific caste system that was alive until the British tried to outlaw it but its remnants still remain. Then there was Sati, the ritualistic burning of widows whether they liked it or not.....something else the British succeeded in outlawing. The Sanskrit Laws of Manu of the 1st century bce describes slavery and slaves were the lowest of the low, right beside the untouchables. My point is that the people of India are people just like people anywhere else in the world. They loved, killed, built and destroyed, just like any other group of people. That's the legacy of humanity. Viewing history should't be a contest, to see who's the worst and conversely, who's the best....sort of like an Olympic sport where we hand out gold, silver and bronze medals. The bronze medal winners in warring is no better than the gold medal winners. They wanted to win just as much as the gold medal winners, but for some reason, they just weren't as successful. That doesn't make them any better. It makes them human.
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@kulturfreund6631 I suppose West Germany wasn't devastated either. Did you see the big difference in the seventies between East and West Germany? Or do you only see what you want to see.
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@kulturfreund6631 A person would have to write a book to refute the things that you commented on. Your comment covers too much ground to give adequate attention to. It all sounds so true, but there are a lot of problems there and the Venezuelan predicament is a prime example. One thing is certain. When you align your economy with an authoritarian regime or trading partner, you will get burnt. If you practise open, fair and free market economic policies, you'll do a lot better. This is why South America and Africa don't do so well economically. They have imposed economies by authoritarian regimes and they just don't work.
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@LordsofMedia Where did I say to give them a pass? I've reread my comment and I didn't see it. If you think a radical might want to burn down your house, don't leave a can of gas and a lighter on the front porch, overnight. That's what I'm saying. If you don't want idiots stealing your car, when you're downtown, don't leave your keys in the ignition. If you don't want radical idiots setting huge forest and brush fires, don't let those areas become such an entangled mess of dried up tinder, that he can be successful. It's just plain stupid to allow the place to get to that state and then wait and see if you can catch the guy that want's to light a fire. It's too late if the fire burns a couple of towns to the ground. You've caught the guy but your town has been destroyed. Good thinking.
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@kulturfreund6631 You can't destabilise a country if that country hasn't the mindset that allows destabilisation. The hatred has to be in them to be used against each other. It's a weakness of the nations that you say are prey to the destabilisation and all it does is lay blame upon blame upon blame and it's ALWAYS the other guys fault. For once, it would be nice if one of those countries would just say that they're not going to fall for these machinations. Just say that they're responsible for their own actions and not everything is someone else's fault. Until they look within themselves and say "We can change our future" they will always be prey to dictators and outside interference. It's like an abused child. It's the fault of the abuser that he's abused but it's his own doing if he can't rise above it as an adult. Also, the Middle East was held for only a short time by European interests. It was the Ottoman Empire that controlled the area for almost 400 years until they lost WW1 in 1918. Most of the area was held for only 30 years by Europe before they all became independent. That includes Iraq. Also, if corrupt governments allow corporate interests to break the law, that's not the fault of Capitalism. It's the fault of corruption and the lack of respect for the rule of law. The US is NOT a fascist state. Fascist states are rooted in nationalist socialist ideas and a one party system, ruled by dictators and supported by his henchmen. That's NOT the US. There are problems but there's not a nation yet conceived that hasn't had it's issues. It's a problem of humanity. Overall, the people living in the Capitalist west, the US, Canada, western Europe, Japan, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand and Hong Kong have the best living standards in human history. A standard that is the envy of the world and we should be encouraging other nations to follow the same work ethic and ideas of free markets and the rule of law. It's NOT perfect but nothing ever will be. It's the best that we've ever had, though and the only way to improve on it is to encourage the respect for the law and hard work that brought us the living standard that we have now. Isn't it strange that the only country in Central America, where things are half decent, is a country that has had stable government and there is a strong commitment to the law and free enterprise. That's Costa Rica and they're very proud of how they've avoided the pitfalls of the countries around them. Like I said, you don't have to fall prey to corrupt corporations and politicians if there is a social mindset that rejects it. It only flourishes when you allow others to tell you who they should blame.
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@jackarnold6755 It's Orwellian. War is peace. Chaos is order. Incoherence is logic. That's why you can't talk to these individuals. Nothing makes sense.
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@kulturfreund6631 So what do you think socialism does. It bankrolls EVERY business, big and small. Every business is owned by the very top....the government. A socialist country is a one owner economy. A monopoly, where the people have no say on what it is they want or can have. They get what the monopoly produces. Also, do you really think that those who are running that big monopoly aren't reaping benefits that aren't available to the average citizen or worker? If you believe that, you must also believe that every Soviet citizen had a home in the city and a dacha in the country....just like the top Party officials had. Right now, the US has a per capita millionaire rate of 1 in 18. That's 1 person in 18 Americans are millionaires. I wonder what the per capita rate is in any of the Socialist countries. I'd bet Cube would be hard pressed to show 18 millionaires in total. Other western capitalist countries have similar numbers. The countries that don't have those numbers are socialist and the corrupt 3rd world countries. Bailing out billionaires? You don't have a clue what you're talking about or have any idea of economics. Do you know who's getting bailed out in Venezuela? Maduro and his cronies and Maduro is the one doing that bailing. Great system that.
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@kulturfreund6631 "Key industries are nationalised" That's my biggest concern about socialism. If you want to screw something up, let the government look after it. Their currency is votes. Business currency should be profits.
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@bradleyweiss1089 After millions of years, a tree had a cone that was just a little bit different and couldn't release it's seeds because the seed was sealed in too tight within its cone. A fire came along and the seed container came under pressure as will happen to a sealed container. It exploded and the seed was released and fell to the ground. The seed wasn't readily flammable and survived the fire and later germinated. This new tree carried the genes that would produce sealed seed containers. This type of manipulation can be done by humans rather quickly. Left to the processes of nature, it would take a lot longer.
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@tehbakedpotato I didn't hear that but does it ever make sense. It's also a pie in the sky mentality. Very few of the gifted students will help others. Their work would be done and the extra time will become a time to goof off. That's human nature.
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@kulturfreund6631 The Nazis thought they could destabilise the Netherlands, before the war. They supported Nazi parties in hopes that Holland would be any ally because they wanted access to the port of Rotterdam. However, the people of Holland rejected the Nazis and declared itself neutral. I have relatives who told me about the Nazi rallies in Holland but the average Dutchmen said NO. They had a culture that preferred peace over war and hard work to get ahead. Germany had to invade Holland. They couldn't subvert it from within. It can be done. It's about the culture of the people of the nation. It's a culture of discontent that revolutionaries try to foment and only a culture that accepts those ideas that will join them in their quest for power. It's why I always say to not blame others for your situation. Others will not help you get out of it. Do it yourself. It might be difficult but, in the end, it's worth it. The people of Costa Rica are living proof of a nation that has a fairly decent standard of living and, by far, the lowest crime rates in all of Central America and likely all of South America. It comes from within.
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@AquarianSoulTimeTraveler You're a bot and a troll. Go away....if you even read the comment section.
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billythedog Peterson did not lie about that law. The law was Bill C-16 and it was to follow the guidelines set in the Ontario Human Rights Act. This was to be a guide, not a law, and as such was open to interpretation. There was wording in that Act that could have been interpreted in such a way that a refusal to use gender based pronoun could be interpreted as discriminatory against transgender people. Peterson said that the wording of the legislation was against a person right to not use speech that they didn't want to and if, IF, in capital letters, anyone tried to force him to use any speech, he would refuse. He then said that they could try to force him to use compelled speech by citing this law and the Ontario Human Rights Act by saying that refusal to use that speech was an act of discrimination. If, the word "if" is important here, this was used against him, he would refuse to pay any fines levied against him if that law was interpreted against him. Hundreds signed petitions against him. He never said he wouldn't use them if negotiated on a one to one basis, but he would refuse if compelled using any legislation but in particular, this one. That was enough to spark the outrage of the masses. One year later, Lindsey Shepherd was told she may have broken a law just showing a clip of a debate Peterson was involved with on an Ontario public TV station. They actually believed that was against the law. Where did they get this idea? From the very legislation that Peterson had argued was wrong. So, then......who DID lie? Obviously, it wasn't Peterson. If he lied, then why would someone think that Shepherd had broken the law by just showing a debate on gender based pronouns? It was because the Ontario Human Rights Act suggested that she was being discriminatory by even suggesting that it may be a human rights problem to compel speech. It was being interpreted in that way. He didn't lie at all and if you're really interested, I will even find the sections that deal with it and show them to you.
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@matejebach5487 What. They did that to the Soviet Union and China, Albania, Bulgaria, Cuba and Cambodia? Those poor Hungarians, carpet bombed so much the Soviets had to invade and rescue them. Same as Czechoslovakia....and Germany. East Germany was so rich after the carpet bombing of WW2 and West Germany so poor. (big sarcasm here). Another ideologue who's vested in the politics of envy.
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Roger King First of all, it's NOT my country. The world doesn't revolve around the US. Neither did the Atlantic slave trade. More Africans were brought to the Caribbean, Central America, Brazil, Venezuela, and other Southern Nations than the US. So, your 70 million does not apply to the country that you so mistakenly call "my country". It applies to the entire New World. The US is only a part of the New World. Everyone was involved in the slave trade. Europeans, Africans, even Arabs were involved. European mostly traded for slaves but it was the Africans that went into the interior, raided villages and captured slaves for the Atlantic slave trade. So there was fighting but I was not referring to that specific trade when I made that statement. Countries have gone to war for thousands of years and quite often the losers were carried away as slaves. The Romans did this for centuries when they went to northern Europe and after defeating people there, captured them to sell off as slaves back in Rome, some going into the gladiator pits. Even in the Americas, indigenous people would do the same, the most famous being the Aztecs, who would use the slaves for ritualistic human sacrifices. America became independent in 1783. Before that it was a British colony. 20 years later, the Atlantic slave trade to the US was stopped, in 1807, to be specific. The slave trade was slowly dying in the US, with strong abolitionist movements in the North and the Republican Party was a very strong Abolitionist party formed to fight slavery. It was a slow progression but it DID happen, yet you refuse to give any credit to the hundreds of thousands of European Americans that worked hard and sacrificed it all to end slavery, and 600,000 people did die in that Civil War. It was white American Abolitionists that drew the ire of the south and caused the Civil War, a war that ended slavery. No kudos from you, though for the sacrifice of the Abolitionists or the Government of the US for supporting them. You'd rather draw the line in the sand and keep up the hate. Over 90 percent of the slaves went to the Caribbean, Brazil and Latin America. Only 6 percent went to British North America. Plantations in the Caribbean were huge compared to American plantations and death rates were much higher due for the slaves there than it was in the US. Like it or not, "my country" was not the main recipient of the African slave trade. https://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-now/historical-context-facts-about-slave-trade-and-slavery Read this and read it all. It gives a rounded description of the African slave trade, without the emotionalism and anger that people like you want to inject into the conversation. Also the numbers weren't 70 million slaves brought to the New World. It was closer to 10 to 12 million and 600,000 of those went to the US. https://www.pbs.org/wnet/african-americans-many-rivers-to-cross/history/how-many-slaves-landed-in-the-us/ Read this. It confirms the numbers given in the other reference I've given. Slavery didn't start with the African slave trade but it was the greatest in numbers and scope. Slavery had been in existence for thousands of years even mentioned in the Bible. That was long before the European settling of the Americas and even any kind of real knowledge of Northern Europe. I'm not defending slavery either. Another fallacy people like you want to make in your attempt to show moral superiority and maintain the hate in your hearts. I'm saying that slavery is a part of HUMAN history and has been for thousands of years. Pointing fingers and laying blame solves nothing. Anger and hate solves nothing. You'd think that someone who would quote the Bible would know that. "Love the neighbour". It doesn't say to "Love the neighbour except for those who's ancestors might have had slaves." There is no qualification in that admonishment.
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Tucson Jim Gelsolin is a natural occuring substance within the human body. It's not like introducing a foreign substance like thalidomide or Vioxx. Gelsolin is already there and obviously isn't hurting anyone. This is the one thing that's missing in your logic. Increasing levels of something that already exists in the body, naturally, would not be near as risky as introducing a foreign agent into the system. In fact, if gelsolin levels are down in the late stages of Covid-19, then it might be advisable to bring it back to normal levels. Would it really be that dangerous to have normal bodily functions restored?
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He's going to shut off water and power which means that the person living there is forced to leave the house in search of water. Either that or die of thirst. I don't think this plan was well thought out.
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@InayetHadi Uncle Tom did work hard, as a slave. He did his best at everything he did. Modern leftists see that as a weakness of a bad thing, so they deride him for it and use his name as an insult. However, he wasn't a fool, either. He understood why people would balk at being a slave and was killed eventually killed for not talking about the underground railroad. Leftists like to use partial truths in their narratives. Uncle Tom worked hard on the plantation. That makes him a butt of their ridicule. They ignore everything else about him and focus on his work ethic and only that as if this is somehow indicative of slave mentality. They don't want to know the real Uncle Tom, only their own caricature of him. I'd say that makes them the racists.
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@kulturfreund6631 Boyle, a left wing, anti-semitic conspiracy guy. He's one of those guys who crop up at every crisis like this and starts on about how this is all part of some nefarious plot by the powers that rule the world, invariably all Zionists. He has some points that are worth listening to, especially concerning the war in Lebanon but this video is a mishmash of "may haves" and "it would appears". If this were true, why isn't the information in the papers that he showed the highlights from, available to all and to the media at large? I'm not even close to convinced and no matter what, the plague started in Wuhan, China and spread from there. I just don't have enough information to know whether this is the only such lab in China or whether there are many more. If more, than no matter what happens, there would likely be a lab close by that would validate his theories. He just hasn't involved any other real solid voices to lend credence to anything he's saying. We need a lot more evidence than what he's presented. I don't like to engage in gossip. My neighbour, when I was growing up, was a gossip and I didn't like her one bit.
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@jackarnold6755 There was one known Antifa member who has been charged with starting a fire. There are other stories but this is confirmed. It is unknown whether he acted alone or not or even if his fellow Antifa members approve of his action. It's without a doubt that they would if he was in town burning down a business but they haven't really said much about the fires. Wouldn't put it past them but not enough evidence to support the idea that this is an Antifa tactic or just a lone wolf Antifa member.
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Well said.
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@dreamdiction This video is saying that mass migration is the result of globalist and national regulations. The people lose hope and end up at the bottom of the ocean. Did you not see the part where young men were floating in the water? That doesn't look like solving problems to me. What this video is saying is to allow the economy to grow at a grass roots level. They used the example of the shoe makers to showcase how outside sources are ruining the small shoe making businesses and it's the give away programs from outside that is stifling entrepreneurship in Senegal. I think you started watching this video with preconceived notions and they were validated the minute the word "migration" was invoked. No context was needed. The word in itself triggered your response. This, in spite of the fact that the entire video was about loosening regulations to allow the average person the opportunity to become a small business entrepreneur.
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Roger King It's not just America that held slaves. Slaves have been a part of human history, all over the world for thousands of years. Quite often the slave traders would fight another culture and take them for their slaves. That was common practise. North and South America was opening up 400 years ago and they need labour, especially in the areas that used plantations as a source of income. That happened all over the Americas not just the US. In fact, it took only 20 years and the Atlantic slave trade was abolished in the US. Within 80 years, the government of the US, using the Constitution was in the process of abolishing slavery, when the south revolted. 600,000 people died fighting slavery, mostly whites. Strange how the US government gets no credit for that.
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@andrewjensen8189 What's happening now is that fires are being put out immediately whenever possible. That means the undergrowth builds up so their is so much more fuel to burn when the seasons do become dry. In pre-history, the smallest fire would grow to burn off huge areas of land before the undergrowth could build. This was a natural and recurring phenomenon, so much so that the environment had adapted itself to natural fires, with a host of species depending on those fires as part of the natural cycle. Humans have interrupted that cycle. The natives would engage in controlled fires because they knew that the land would come back quickly and abundantly after the burn and it would stave off the conflagrations that we now see. We have to devise a method of forest management that reflects that natural cycle so the undergrowth doesn't build to unnatural densities. We've taken away the role of nature so we have to learn to do it for nature.
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@mymidlifeadventures4248 The reason things got better was because Chavez took the money, made by the State oil company, and started giving it to the people in social programs. Money, that should have been reinvested into new equipment and company infrastructure. He fixed prices and started make work programs. However, retailers started to find that the products they were buying cost more than they were allowed to sell it at, shortages started to appear. Slowly at first, but more and more over time. Many retailers went bankrupt and the government took over their businesses. More socialism. People became angry so Chavez gave more money from an already troubled oil company to the people. Then he started to print money and that was the beginning of the end. The falling of world oil prices was the final nail in their coffin. When the leader of a country tries to buy the affection of the people with the profits of nationalised companies, the country's economy will fail. Businesses cannot survive as a welfare system. It has to sustain itself with profits. That is the basic truth of how a business works, big or small. A socialised economy is always doomed to failure. A course in economics 101 explains why.
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@rockbandjohn First of all, I'm being facetious. Second, I grew up on a farm and my dad still lives on the family farm and he and my brother raise cattle, cash crops like corn and oats and tap around 2500 maple trees each spring. Do you know what? They have to make money. So yeah....increase yields increase their profits. I only called them, and people like them, "elitists" because I know how ridiculous it really is and how hard they work to keep their business viable. Greater yields is of the utmost importance, even more so to them, than it is for the big GMO companies. They just want to sell their seeds. My dad and brother are the ones that NEED the bigger yield per acre. But, they don't buy GMO seeds. It's a choice and they chose not to because of the nature of the contracts that they would be forced to sign.
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@chrisbayridge23 Venezuela nationalised it's oil industry way back in the mid seventies. No more private ownership. All revenue made from oil sales went into government coffers. Do you know what that meant to the people and those that were trying to get elected to power? It meant that the politicians had a cash cow to entice voters to vote for them. Money that a capitalist company would have used for innovation, training, refurbishing machinery and hiring the best people, was used as capital to finance the politicians promises to the people. The oil industry became less and less competitive as privately owned oil companies were able to use their profits to bolster up their ability to produce cheaply and effectively. When the oil prices dropped, it was Venezuela's national oil company that tanked because it never even tried to stay competitive. Chavez was the ultimate socialist. He used oil revenue as if there was no end to it and he fixed prices when inflation was starting to erode at the value of the people's money. That made things even worse. Also, the US didn't place any embargoes on Venezuelan products until 2015. By that time things were out of control in that country. Even I was affected by the ever spiralling inflation in that country and I live in Canada. In 2013, Venezuela ran out of toilet paper and Chavez promised to bring 5 million cases of toilet paper to Venezuela to appease the outrage. He used oil profits to get that toilet paper. I worked in a factory that made toilet paper and we couldn't get raw paper because it was all suddenly going to Venezuela at inflated prices. Some of us were laid off. Hardship in Venezuela actually brought hardship to my fellow workers here in Canada. As for the IMF and the World Bank, why would they give or lend money to a country where the value of that money would become valueless within 24 hours? They'd never be able to pay it back and it wouldn't buy a thing the following day. That's how high the rate of inflation was. There is only one reason for their troubles and that's the socialist idea that money exists on of itself. It doesn't. It's representative of tangible wealth or products that a country can produce and if you don't use the capital that these products generate wisely, you'll fail and fail horribly. It can happen anywhere and it will happen in the US if you allow socialism to take over the economy. That's not fear mongering but fact. Socialism is a recipe for disaster.
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Lectric Line I'm a bartender. One might say I'm a professional party goer. Been doing it for 14 years at different venues and each time offered the job without having to apply. So, I guess I am a peach at a party. He who controls the beer is the most popular guy at the gathering.
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@MrTigerniger Apparently you missed the part where she had over 300 contract, between consulting companies and schools, to educate teachers on the principles of CRT. Those teachers then go to their classrooms and teach within the framework of CRT. It's like a Christian teacher who doesn't directly teach Biblical lessons but does so indirectly. Learning hymns in music class, as an example. Posting the Ten Commandments but in a way that the text isn't recognisable as the Biblical texts. Asking the students if they go to church or not and letting the students know that they love going to church. If you really think that a direct statement, in a children's book, accusing white people of making a pact with the devil for free land and other privileges isn't an aspect of CRT, you don't know a thing about it. Either that, or you're being just as disingenuous as the teacher activists for CRT.
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Roger King If you think that the Bible was only written for the Israelites then you're not accounting for the writings of Paul. It was Paul was expanded the Bible out of Jewish teachings and spread it to the world. There are a lot of books in the New Testament devoted to spreading the Gospel all over the Roman Empire, including the Epistles to the Romans, Thessalonians, Ephesians and so forth. Those ministries were bringing everyone to Christianity, not just Israelites. Years ago I read Mein Kampf. Reading your comments reminded of that horrific book. Hitler was filled with hate and anger and he knew exactly who he hated and why. You're exactly the same. Like Hitler, you rant your anger and hate. You know exactly who it is you hate and why. I feel sorry for your congregation if indeed you are a minister. I don't see much love in your message. Just anger and retribution. A truly sad individual.
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I'm wondering if being a black or transgender victim loses it's power, what will the next victims manifests themselves as? I'm trying to think of another marginalised group but I think that they've got them all covered. They're pretty smart though. I'm sure they'll come up with a new angle on how to sow discord and resentment. Those, of that mindset, have been doing it all through history. They'll never give up.
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@Lue1337 What they want is what you're seeing in college these days. They don't want students who think and ask questions. They want those who chant slogans and high five each other when they recite talking points which are the result of indoctrination. This is their first step in the fight against the patriarchy. No more male activities. Eventually, those who insist on acting like a boy will be reprimanded. My grandson told me that the school took away their soccer ball because soccer was too rough. It appears that only boys wanted to play soccer and that was unacceptable. It wasn't inclusive enough. He and his friends were angry and disgusted.
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@daisy8luke Utopia. They actually believe if we all behaved in the way that they want us to behave, beautiful things will happen. That's why they think their system could ONLY lead to the better students cheerfully lifting you up. They are exceptionally naive.
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@kulturfreund6631 I never mentioned the abolition of the military in Costa Rica but it is one of those decisions that was made, that came from their culture of self reliance. It's when they say "I will not take part in allowing destabilising factions" The militaries in Central America have been a huge problem. I haven't watched any yet. I've been a little busy and I've been watching Trump's press conference about the coronavirus which is a little more pressing right now for a senior citizen like me.
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@akidmyself4053 You should add "money" to that list. Top name actors all insist on top dollar pay checks. Imagine decrying capitalism all the while claiming that they have a right to this money because the movies make money. That's capitalism, you clowns.
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@palimpalim5291 But I've listened to the woman in this video and she makes sense. I don't have to go to Africa to believe what she's saying. Also, the more regulations that there are, the tougher it is to run a business. Like she said, her business was being strangled with dumb regulations and they want to talk about gender equality. The same thing is happening in the US. Too many regulations. Trump comes along and slashes the stupid ones and the economy takes off. Give a man a shoe and he's no longer barefoot. Teach a man to make shoes and he has a job and he can exchange value for value. You don't give people stuff, you give them opportunity. Opportunity is what makes a better life....unless you think that they're incapable of taking advantage of opportunity.
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@goldenraven2046 I don't think that you quite understand what Churchill meant by that observation.
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madwtube It's not a scam. It's allowing a last resort attempt to save a life that is in a terminal stage. If there is no hope, but an unapproved drug, why not allow a patient to make his own mind up on whether to try it or not? It's like telling a person, dangling from a precipice, that you can't use the rope in your hand, to save him, because it hasn't been rated for a specific weight. Sometimes a desperate attempt is better, than no attempt at all, to save one from certain death.
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Lectric Line This is what the Constitution says. "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof..." Jefferson later wrote this and has been cited by the Supreme Court numerous times over American history. "legislature should "make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof," thus building a wall of separation between Church & State" The state has no right to legislate religion. That is the separation of church and state. I'm not sure what it is your talking about when you say that people are being forced to do as they say or give up their right to own a business. Maybe if you cited some specific examples to illustrate what it is you mean, I'd be able to discuss it, somewhat.
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Lectric Line It seems that you have no interest in discussion other then going on some wild eyed attacking rant. What are you....some kind of SJW college student? I didn't come to this lofty conclusion of the separation of church and state. That was an idea offered by Thomas Jefferson, elaborating on his "freedom of religion" point in the Constitution. Read all about it. It's right here. https://www.usconstitution.net/jeffwall.html This was cited by the Supreme Court.....NOT me.... the Supreme Court, notably in Reynolds v. United States in 1879 and in Everson v. Board of Education in 1947. This has nothing to do with me. I'm only the messenger but apparently it's easier to talk about me than the message. Which is, apparently, the same when I asked for specific cases. Better to attack me than bring one instance to the table that we can discuss in a mature matter. Not for you. You just take offence and go on the attack. I'm not against or in approval of what you're saying. I'm trying to have a conversation so we can both get something out of it. You just want to WIN. Beat me by calling me crazy and insinuating I'm uninformed. You're just angry and bitter, just like almost everyone else these days. Draw a line in the sand and start flinging crap...like some kind of zoo monkey.
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@engineeringjoules4776 No. Socialism doesn't contain capitalism. Here is a dictionary definition of socialism. "a political and economic theory of social organisation which advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole" Notice what it says about the economy. It basically says that the economy is state controlled. In a capitalist country, the economy is market controlled, an agreement of exchange between consumer and producer. The more successful the economy, the better the social programs that it can afford. Social programs are a cost of operating a country. Capitalism is how one gathers the wealth that ones uses to finance those programs. The better the economy runs, the better the social programs. Once you redistribute economic wealth, you take away the revenue that feeds the economic system. Every business needs that revenue to reinvest in maintaining and buying new equipment, hiring and training employees, buying raw materials and all the other sundry expenses of running a successful business. Too much regulation and you cripple the economy and that will inevitably end in disaster.
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Tucson Jim Actually my biggest problem with all your posts is all the name calling. You can't seem to write one comment without some kind of insult. To know this I must have read your comments and not just skimmed through the ones that were directed at me. I was reiterating a point when I mentioned that Gelsolin wasn't a drug. I didn't think that solidifying my viewpoint would be the central theme of our exchange. Also, you're analogy of water killing people is true but isn't a very good argument. One of biggest threats in sickness is dehydration and the only way to help that out is to replace the water levels in the patient's body. You also mention that maybe the FDA doesn't take long enough to test some drugs. I'm saying that it's a process of safety, NOT a guarantee. There may never be that perfect process that rids us of all errors in testing or judgement of safety. We can try to limit those problems but it will never be perfect. That's my point about the mandate of the FDA. You're making of them due to things that got past that ended up dangerous. I'm saying that this will happen. Every system will be flawed. That's just a fact of life. Now, I would appreciate a more mature discussion that wouldn't include the overt insulting attitude and behaviour. I'm assuming that this is an adult platform and that we shouldn't be bickering, in an manner, that is more reminiscent of children than fully grown adults.
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Tucson Jim I'll bet you're a big hit at parties. Continuously pontificating, throwing out insults at everyone who'd dare speak and making sure that EVERYONE knew just how much smarter you are than anyone else.....OR......you only behave like this on the internet, where you the courage to be act like the smug jerk that you are without having to face someone that would physically shut you up. The made up internet name would indicate the latter. Don't want to take the chance that someone you know may see what you're really like.
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@bradleyweiss1089 Your issue isn't with evolution, at all. It's with abiogenesis. How did life begin if not by a creator? Science doesn't have an answer for that, at least not yet.
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@harmgregory4560 NO.....we're tired of being told by a bunch of elitists, who've never grown a crop, except as a hobby, telling the farmers how to grow crops so we all have the food that we need. This "experiment" in Sri Lanka, shows just how delusional these elites can be. Sri Lanka stop the use of fertilisers, went to organic farming, and crops reduced by 50 to 60% and people went hungry. So now, you're advocating that we expand this, so we have even MORE starvation in the world. As if the globe trotting elites, who may have a few tomato plants in their back yard, are the experts who will lead us to greater crop yields and the end of hunger in the world.
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