Comments by "Piccalilli Pit" (@piccalillipit9211) on "Thom Hartmann Program" channel.

  1. THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU MAKE MONEY YOUR GOD we told you it was a bad idea - but you laughed at us and pointed to your giant trucks and your McMansions
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  2. I THINK IT IS MORE SIMPLE I think he is just evil... He hates the idea of things going to poor people who don't "deserve" it in his view.
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  3. imagine fighting to keep destroying a nation...
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  4. Im an English author on psychology living in Bulgaria now and to me its incredibly obvious why the USA has this problem: 1) Pathetic level of education 2) Abandonment by the political class for decades 3) Car culture - no one ever walks anywhere, talks to people, interacts with others - everyone is totally isolated 4) Consumerism - defining your lives by what you buy. Its ultimately nihilistic even for those with the money TO buy plastic crap from China 5) Hyper individualism; if you are a failure its YOUR FAULT 6) Pandemic 7) and not least - Facebook The USA is a place of isolated disaffected people who NEVER socially interact with a cross-section of society; if anyone. So people are utterly desperate for meaning in their lives and community. "Everyone worships, and the reason to worship some kind of God or spiritual force is pretty much anything else you worship will eat you alive"
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  5. You made money your God.
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  6. DONT WORRY THE GOP HAVE BLOCKED ALL ACTION ON IT so you guys in the USA can all meet the end with low taxes, that's the important thing.
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  7. Ask the Conservative, it's their solution to everything...
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  8. WHEN I LIVED IN FRANCE In 2003 they had a national strike cos the price of cheese went up - no joke
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  9. Nothing - thats their job. Have whine collect 50% of the time in office and give the rich what they want.
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  10. THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU STOP EDUCATING YOUR POPULATION I read a Fox News comments section yesterday - it was like a portal into h3ll for this European. NEVER been so happy to pay my taxes for free universities in my life.
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  11. Your dad was way more perceptive than I was...!!!
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  12. Im an author on this subject... This is the list of contributing factors to societal collapse: Plague / disease Y Environmental change Y Massive wealth inequality Y Loss of the administrative class Y The government stops governing Y Attack from the outside - now includes cyber attack Y Loss of faith in the political system Y Economic collapse Y Exposed obvious corruption Y Crumbling infrastructure Y Mismanagement of a crisis Y Societal division Y Loss of belief in the unity of the society Y Restriction of international trade / loss of trade agreements Y Increased isolationism Y Rising internal violence Y Excessive spending on military / arms race Y Inability to maintain the currency - hoarding / devaluation / hyper inflation Y If a majority of things on the list happen to a civilisation simultaneously, it is invariably the end for that civilisation. If all happen at the same time, it's guaranteed to be the end.
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  13. THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU STOP EDUCATING YOUR POPULATION I read a Fox News comments section yesterday - it was like a portal into h3ll for this European. NEVER been so happy to pay my taxes for free universities in my life.
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  14. THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU MAKE MONEY YOUR GOD we told you it was a bad idea - but you laughed at us and pointed to your giant trucks and your McMansions
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  15. IM A EUROPEAN and I 100% agree they are capitalist horror stories. Last year I watched the Idaho "secret santa" videos and they were UTTERLY HORRIFIC. Yes a guy was helping people - but NONE of those people should have been in those situations in the first place...
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  16. IM 53 - I LOVE GEN Z my entire hope for humanity is tied up in Gen Z
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  17. Im an English author on psychology living in Bulgaria now and to me its incredibly obvious why the USA has this problem: 1) Pathetic level of education 2) Abandonment by the political class for decades 3) Car culture - no one ever walks anywhere, talks to people, interacts with others - everyone is totally isolated 4) Consumerism - defining your lives by what you buy. Its ultimately nihilistic even for those with the money TO buy plastic crap from China 5) Hyper individualism; if you are a failure its YOUR FAULT 6) Pandemic 7) and not least - Facebook The USA is a place of isolated disaffected people who NEVER socially interact with a cross-section of society; if anyone. So people are utterly desperate for meaning in their lives and community. "Everyone worships, and the reason to worship some kind of God or spiritual force is pretty much anything else you worship will eat you alive"
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  18. The person consulting was Dr Bandi Lee, a Yale psychiatrist. I am a member of Dr Lee's professional association.
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  19. YEP - she is in danger for sure.
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  20. IM AN AUTHOR on psychology and the collapse of civilisations - I no longer talk the truth about US or the UK economy, I am aware my comments may push desperate people over the edge. Things are so BAD, the future is next to non-existent in any positive or meaningful way. Life will be significantly worse for the majority of people. Its the end of high living standards.
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  21. LITERALLY EVERYTHING YOU EVER NEEDED TO KNOW about the right wing in America...
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  22. I'm a British author on the collapse of civilisations - Reagan was the worst president you have had in modern times. The 2nd worst is Obama, he promised so much and delivered nothing, he was the last hope for meaningful change in America and his betrayal of that promise caused 50 million people to give up on politics. THAT led to Trump and everything you have going on today.
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  23.  @Clusterboy  - YEP - We wrote dozens of increasingly desperate letters to the US congress explaining what would happen - and it did, exactly as we predicted. Not that it was hard to predict...
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  24. TRUST ME - they can. That does not mean they will make sense or understand what you are saying, but they will argue...
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  25. Im 54, Im British - the writing on the wall was there for Britain 15 years ago so I got out. Moved to Bulgaria cos it reminded me of the UK in the 70's when neighbours still cared about each other. It was a poor country then. Its absolutely booming now. Which ironically is bad for me as I earn my money in $USD or £GBP and it buys a heck of a lot less than it did 15 years ago LOL. You thnk you guys have inflation problems. when I moved here the average wage in my city was 400 leva - its now 2,200. Thats great for the people here but it does lead to inflation.
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  26. ELON WANTS TO GO TO MARSE ON HIS OWN he h4t3s humanity - please listen to the P-Cast by "The Dollop" ep 600 & 601 Elon is 100 X more disturbed than you would ever think
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  27.  @arellatikvah  I listened to an incredibly podcast on "Novara Media" Episode "ACFM Tripo 35: The Internet" I would absolutely recommend it. One of the guests said "we are to blame, the public, its our fault. We were so used to the hatred of minorities and the neoliberal hyper-capitalism of Thatcher and Reagan that when Blair and Clinton and Obama came about and they said 'its cool to be gay and its cool to be brown' WE all thought they were 100% on our side. They weren't, they were still neoliberal capitalists, they just donned a cool attitude and gave us a few crumbs of economics, but meanwhile, they were still privatising everything, still transferring wealth to the top 1%" "Obama was one of the most intelligent and articulate of presidents the USA has ever had." YES - and he used it to con the nation into thinking he was 100% there for you. Which is why in my book - he is the 2nd worst. Trumpp can NOT be better, he is totally incapable, but Obama could have transformed the USA and it would be genuinely world leading today - instead, he transferred wealth to the 1% and he handed the country to Trump.
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  28.  @georgefurman4371  - I could not agree more; to be honest I think the USA is in for a very hard time. BUT I think it will emerge from it a better more equal nation. According ot the book "the 4th turning" America is entering the 4th turning - the collapse phase. But every collapse is followed by a rebirth in an 80 - 100 year cycle. And Gen Z are amazing; they are so creative, they are so organised, they are so far left it really will terrify the establishment. They are a very different people. Technology is not magic to them like it is to us. consumerism is not new and special to them like it was to us. I have literally seen teens the last week playing with the medieval cup and ball game. they will be the ones that rebuild - and they will do a good job of it. But there are some tough times ahead for the UK and the USA.
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  29. IM REALLY GOOD AT STATISTICAL MATHS Im autistic and this is my 'thing" - I built a large company on Amzn JUST by analysing statistical data i can not get the maths to add up I said before the election "there is almost zero mathematical possibility of a Trump victory - only a very low turn out can help him and postal voting is up 22%, early voting up 50%, he is ******" OH what do you know - no one voted on the afternoon of election day [the morning was a record]. I am NOT a conspiracy theorist - but something went ver wrong after 12 on election day.
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  30.  @fishinghuntingfool  You know super yachts are sold as life capsules / safe houses now...? Thats not a joke.
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  31. My sister bought a very expensive house that she could not actually afford but really wanted for the land for her horses when she was about 23. So this would be the early 1990's. She took it on a 30-year mortgage to afford it and it was a variable rate at base rate +0.5%. Which was standard in the UK back then cos the interest rate was like 9.5%. She has been laughing the last few years - she pays basically NO interest.
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  32.  @tamarabartolo9185  - it is one of those weird dichotomies. The stock market is not tied to the economy, but the economy is tied to the stock market - its a one way steet in a bad way.
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  33. AS A EUROPEAN sorry I agree - Trump IS Am3ric4. No European was shocked when you elected him a 2nd time. Everyone I know said "Well what do you expect, Am3ric4ns..." I know this is not all of you, by a long way - but it IS you as a nation. As a Nation you deserve Trump. The way YOU look at Trump is the way the world looks at Am3ric4. In the 1980's you made money your God and this is where it got you.
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  34. I AM LITERALLY JUST READING THIS BOOK NOW its very good, a little bit slow, could get to the point a bit quicker... But I 100% recommend it. BTW - its called "The Fourth Turning"
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  35.  @Combatwhombat  YES I agree - In fact I believe some economists are saying that we have NEVER seen wealth inequality like this in human history. EVEN feudal peasants had the security of home and food as long as there was no famine. The modern homeless person is the equivalent of an "outlaw" - a person thrown out of society and outside the protection of the law for a crime...
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  36. IN 1994 MY BASIC SALARY WAS £17K I was 24 years old - for a person to have the same standard of living today as that bought in 1994 they would need to earn £44,500 = $57k This was basically a tellesale job for a 24 year old. MY actual pay [cos I was good] was £27k = £70.7k or $90,000 WHAT 24 YEAR OLD EARNS $90K TODAY...??? I had just bought a 3 bedroomed stone built house, I had a Toyota Supra twin turbo, and I was out clubbing 3 nights a week...! Which you COULS do if you earned $90k
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  37. Very few. Very very few. Im an author on psychology - narcissism is my speciality. They don't have the object permanence or long term goal setting to become CEO's usually. It's way more likely they are sociopaths or even psychopaths. Narcissists more often tear down what others have created than build anything themselves.
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  38. very clever
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  39.  @arellatikvah  - Im just listening to "the rest is politics" podcast and Alister Campbell says the French President Macron's [who he knows] greatest fear is that his legacy will be the same as Obamas, that he was elected on such high hopes, failed the people so badly that he directly led to Trump - and Macron fears he has let the people down so badly his legacy will be LaPen the French fascist. I find this interesting cos as far as I knew I was almost a lone voice saying this for the last 5 years.
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  40.  @georgefurman4371  - You are most welcome. Change has to start at the top; the bottom is fragmented and despondent. The government HAS to get money out of politics and to start working for the PEOPLE of America. Why would you believe in government if government has done nothing for you in your lifetime...??? ID object to paying taxis if I saw nothing for it. But instead, I have a brand new entirely FREE hospital being built literally 400 yeards from me, and brand new roads and great subsidised public transport... I have a REASON to believe in the unity of society and in government - as imperfect as ours is.
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  41. IM 54 - BRITISH Ive never bought a car on finance in my life, maybe a small bank loan. Bought my first house at 24 for 2.5 X my salary as a telesales person - THAT WAS NORMAL I do NOT come from a rich family, I come from a very poor family, I bought my parents a car...!!! Not the other way around.
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  42. Here in Bulgaria tax is 10% of EVERYTHING. Flat rate. Income tax 10%. Capital gains tax 10%. Director of a charity 10%. Gifts 10%. Company car 10%. You work part time at a shop on Sundays 10%. No deductions, no loopholes. Costs almost nothing to enforce or collect and you can't worm your way out of it. This is why OTHER forms of corruption are so high, cos the rich ALWAYS want to make more money and they cant do it on the tax system...
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  43.  @scottpreston5074  - Yeah. I mean our standard of living is nothing like Denmark. But its amazing what you can have on JUST 10% flat rate tax. I had to go to the hospital yesterday, its brand new and I get terrific care, no waiting time, back on Friday for a check up.
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  44.  @henrygustav7948  - I literally had a guy swearing at me yesterday saying "You must be one of those **** **** **** lefties that doesn't understand things have to be paid for by taxes"
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  45. AM3RIC4 LIKES TO THINK IT OVERTOOK BRITAIN it did NOT - Am3ric4 is still 30 years behind the UK - only now that 30 years is in mass layoffs and collapse...!!! If you want to know your future - LOOK AT THE UK...!!!
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  46. That is essentially what they did in the UK. Cos my sister had lower outgoings but maintained he income despite being in lockdown for a year - she is buying a new car, an EV. People have money and they are about to spend it and boost the economy.
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  47.  @GoldenRetrievers4President  - I absolutely agree. The entire thing is about doing NOTHING while giving the illusion to voters on either side that a huge battle is going on...
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  48.  @patrickvanmeter2922  - agreed.
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  49. THE AVERAGE IQ IN AM3RIC4 IS 97.4 that is why you guys have PRESIDENT Trump. For context NORTH Korea - 98.8 You have ALWAYS needed to steal other countries' intelligent people.
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  50. IM AN AUTHOR ON PSYCHOLOGY I jotted this down yesterday about the right-wing... The left wing project onto the right wing things that are not there. Emotions, motivations, moralities, many things... I no longer believe being “right wing” is an ideology. I now think it is pure SELFISHNESS Itts ME ME ME ME and ME... They don’t want to pay taxes, they don’t want to educate YOUR child they don’t want to p[ay for YOUR healthcare Its not an Ideology - its a SELFISHOLOGY The idea that they BELIEVE in something is the left wings PROJECTION onto them. In psychology, we call this "veneering". All evidence suggests they don’t believe in ANYTHING except themselves and their desires. They HATE society - cos society forces them to be nice to people and pay taxes That is why they are so happy to see it burn to the ground - they HATE being forced to care about other people And the reason they HATE the left so much and with such visceral passion is the left make them FEEL BAD about themselves. THEY KNOW they are selfish c***s who don’t care about others and when the left DO, it points out to them how horrible they are This is why they love Trump - he gave them PERMISSION to be the horrible people they are...
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  51. A LOT OF PEOPLE think the Nazi's in Germany were a H cult - they were not and it DID NOT go away after the end of the war, there were lots of committed Nazis in Germany in the 1960's
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  52. EVERY COUNTRY GETS THE LEADERS IT DESERVES and Am3ric4 deserves Trump Not a single European is surprised you re-elected him, he IS Am3ric4. I'm sorry but this is who you are. The way YOU see Trump is the way the entire world sees Am3ric4.
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  53. Here in Bulgaria tax is 10% of EVERYTHING Income tax 10%. Capital gains tax 10%. Director of a charity 10%. Gifts 10%. Company car 10%. You work part time at a shop on Sundays 10%. No deductions, no loopholes. Costs almost nothing to enforce or collect and you can't worm your way out of it. This is why OTHER forms of corruption are so high, cos the rich ALWAYS want to make more money and they cant do it on the tax system...
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  54. WHAT YOU HAVE TO REALISE is old money rich people think in generational time scales - they are not about maximising profit today, thats your Tech Bro's The old money are working on 25 or 50 year time scales to affect change.
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  55. You are part of nature but if I poison you it has negative effects on you. But thankfully it won't make you any less intelligent.
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  56.  @nsbd90now - Im British as you probably gathered. Ive always said - we don't have a "housing crisis" of unaffordable houses, we have a WAGE CRISIS of unlivable wages that was masked by dirt cheap and ever falling prices for consumer goods from China. That has ENDED. Chins is starting to supply their own internal market and the prices are starting to go up. But houses now cost 9 X the average salary in the UK cos wages ahve NOT gone up. The average wage in the UK today is £32k - thats £12k BELOW my basic sallary as a young telesales person in 1994.
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  57. I STARTED READING MARX in the lockdown* by page 9 I had realised why capitalism is a literal joke of a system and WHY it was vitally important that Marx be discredited at all costs. Vast amounts of money have to be spent on propaganda to keep people believing in capitalism, it is so obviously idiotic that the mere absence of propaganda will reveal its failings. * I read a summary of Das Kapital by David Harvey - very good. But very small print in the paper format.
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  58. MESSAGE FROM EUROPE the Dems have zero clue on messaging...!!! More thought and talent went into the above comment on YouTube than the entire Dem election strategy.
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  59. GEN Z ARE THE MOST POWERFUL GEN IN HISTORY They are the first truly hyper interconnected gen in history AND they have a participation culture...!!! When they realise they can vote together en masse to dictate the outcomes of elections - they will rule the world. The 2024 US election is in the hands of Gen Z, they CAN dictate the winner - if they decide to. Poland was de-nazified by GEN Z. Argentina may be saved by GEN Z. They will eventually work out the power they have. [this is why they want to ban Tic Tok]
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  60. IM A SPECIALIST ON ABUSE RECOVERY it is ENTIRELY NORMAL to be stressed in a stressful environment. I help hundreds of people recover from severe narcissistic abuse. The ones that do the best are the ones that DO NOT take medication, drugs or alcohol, but deal with the underlying causes. No.1 tool in dealing with severe stress or anxiety - GO FOR A WALK
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  61. I THINK EUROPEAN COUNTRIES need to have a policy in place to deal with the inevitable flood of refugees from Am3ric4 - and NO registered Republican should be allowed in. We do NOT want that poison in our society
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  62. SLOWLY AT FIRST - THEN ALL OF A SUDDEN Its the same for company bankruptcy and fascism... And the cause is the same in both cases - PEOPLE DISMISS THE EARLY WARNING SIGNS - I call it the "reality lag" - people are always 12 months behind reality in their acceptance of bad things.
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  63.  @Kektamusprime  - NO, its the USA and the UK. the rest are doing reasonably OK. I seems like in describing ever modern country cos you get your news in English.
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  64. IM A GUY IN EUROPE I watched about 1 hour of the trial live yesterday - I WAS UTTERLY HORRIFIED... the judge is VERY CLEARLY very right wing and very much trying to get the guy off. I have never seen anything like it. I don't really know the full case, so I'm not that invested. But he shouted at the prosecution for shaking their head, he would NOT allow the fact that a witness was a far-right extremist to be mentioned - he said that "political persuasion does not influence testimony" - WHAT - ARE YOU KIDDING ME...??? It should be a mistrial cos of the judge.
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  65. $300 A BARREL if America goes to war with Iran...
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  66. EVERY 80 YEARS WE GO THROUGH THE CYCLE Everyone should read the book "The Fourth Turning" It explains that every "Seculum" every period of a long human life, there is a collapse of civilisation, usually a great war, and in 1997 it predicted EXACTLY this collapse.
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  67. You cant - they bought that with their billions. This is the fate of capitalism - it concentrates the money and therefore the power in tghe top 0.01% and they use that to distort the system. The only question now is does the revolution happen BEFORE the technology gets to a point revolution is not possible
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  68. AS A EUROPEAN sorry I agree - Trump IS Am3ric4. No European was shocked when you elected him a 2nd time. Everyone I know said "Well what do you expect, Am3ric4ns..." I know this is not all of you, by a long way - but it IS you as a nation. As a Nation you deserve Trump. The way YOU looks at Trump is the way the world looks at Am3ric4.
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  69.  @barquerojuancarlos7253  - Yeah I have actually studied this for a book I am writing. Poor people are not lazy, people given money are not lazy on the whole. What are "lazy" are depressed or sick people.
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  70.  @Rnankn  I KNOW...
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  71. I LIVE IN BULGARIA NOW the poorest country in the EU - WE DONT HAVE HOMELESS PEOPLE...!!! They deliver hot food every morning to your house if you have a child under school age, if school age you get food at school.
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  72.  @coconutmix  The average IQ in Am3rci4 has dropped to 97.4. North Korea is 98.8...!!! Taiwan is 107. 10 POINTS HIGHER, that is a shattering difference
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  73. AS A EUROPEAN I HAVE GOTTEN EVERYTHING I WANTED THIS WEEK Every European country has written off Am3ric4 or even decided it is an adversary, US Tech Billionaires are now seen as the 3n3my, US Social media will be restricted, a European Defence Pact will inevitably replace NATO, flights have been announced to China for talks - THANK YOU AM3RIC4 - we will finally be free of you...!!!
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  74. AS A EUROPEAN she sounds like the perfect VP for Am3ric4 she is what you deserve as a nation - lets be honest.
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  75. IM REALLY GOOD AT STATISTICAL MATHS Im autistic and this is my 'thing" - I built a large company on Amzn JUST by analysing statistical data i can not get the maths to add up I said before the election "there is almost zero mathematical possibility of a Trump victory - only a very low turn out can help him and postal voting is up 22%, early voting up 50%, he is ******" OH what do you know - no one voted on the afternoon of election day [the morning was a record]. I am NOT a conspiracy theorist - but something went ver wrong after 12 on election day.
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  76. IN 15 YEARS AMERICA WILL BE A ONE PARTY FASCIST DICTATORSHIP and it will be 100% the fault of the Democrats... It is the JOB of the right-wing to become fascist dictators - it is the JOB of the Democrats to STOP THEM. As a European watching - its beyond pathetic how weak they are.
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  77. Are you saying "populist labor and or civil rights movement" cause inflation, or they are a response to the economic pressures that accompany the inflation...?
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  78.  @Combatwhombat  - I just didnt know which war around you saw the cause and effect that was all.
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  79.  @markdouglas8073  - Im very good thank you! Well I am English so I have lived under an American style taxation system and the Bulgarian one and the Bulgarian works much better. The official rate on income tax int he UK is kinda 22% to 45% something like that, and their services are not as good as here. The rich are really paying 1% to 3% and it costs SO MUCH to administer it, all fo which could be paying for things for the people.
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  80. NO - its just MAX PROFIT
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  81. AT THE BOARDER is the key bit here - its OK blaming China for their level of current emissions BUT THEY ARE MAKING STUFF FOR THE USA DN THE EU...!!! This is NOT China's CO2 - its OUR CO2 - we are "Offshoring" our CO2 emissions to China and them BLAMING THEM for their CO2 emissions.
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  82.  @greeneyedlady5580  - THANKS
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  83.  @nsbd90now - YEP and all that money the hyper rich got, they used it to buy the system. And now we cant get it back...!!!
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  84. IM AN AUTHOR ON THE COLLAPSE OF CIVILISATIONS - AND I HAVE A WARNING FOR YOU Fascists always exist; they are always there. But they are impotent. What is needed for the fascists to metastasise, for them to pupate and take on their true form IS A PATHETICALLY WEAK OPPOSITION PARTY and in the current Democratic excuse of a party they have found their enablers - you guys need to FORCE THE DEMOCRATS TO FIGHT or you will lose to the fascists.
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  85. MY friend is 62 - her entire department of 35 people were fired on Thursday, she is 33 years with the company and too expensive to get rid of, she is the only one left - everything to be outsourced.
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  86. You have it wrong, this was my comment: ELON WANTS TO GO TO MARSE ON HIS OWN he h4t3s humanity - please listen to the P-Cast by "The Dollop" ep 600 & 601 Elon is 100 X more disturbed than you would ever think ----!---- He does not WANT to save the earth - he wants to save himself and his clones cos he was bullied at school. He is frighteningly messed up.
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  87. As a European Im trying to be careful with my language. Cos I know its NOT ALL AM3RIC4NS. I have Am3ric4n friends who are the greatest people in the world. But OH MY GOD 40% of your population are the **** on the planet. The entire world has just written Am3ric4 off as an unserious nation you can't be involved with cos they will let you down at best or extort you at worst.
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  88.  @danielcarroll5667  You are welcome - Im sorry it ended like this
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  89. YOUR COUNTRY IS SOOOO OVER You know that exports to Am3ric4 are 2.7% of Chinas GDP Your media make out 60% of Chinas GDP comes from selling to Am3ric4, its 2.77%. SO what do you think will happen when Trump gets to work when in truth you are 2.7% to the world and not 60%
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  90. He had an illegal gun, in any country that is not a backwards sh!t hole ANYTHING you do with that gun is defacto illegal. Only in a retarded country would this even get to trial.
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  91. THE MASS OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE dont have any money...
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  92.  @MillennialDiligence-sx8re  As far as I can tell the plan the rich have for Am3ric4 is the uneducated Am3ric4ns work in the fields picking vegetables etc and the highly educated from around the world get stolen from the countries who educated them to work as indentured labour in the tech industry and the consumers are the 800 million middle class in China and the 1 billion new middle class that will exist in the global south by 2030. Am3ric4 is just a conveniently low tax low regulation base for their global industry. There is no such thing as an "Am3ric4n Billionaire" they are global entities.
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  93.  @Michael0663-qo4wx  SORRY - it was not directed at you - but the Fox News audience. Who appears to be both very stup!d and completely insane.
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  94.  @perryroberts4353  I dont but as its a thing said on the internet my automatic response is to not believe it
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  95.  @perryroberts4353  Yeah - but I just did.
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  96. CASCADING SYSTEMS FAILURE everything is broken and everything you need to fix it is also broken...! Its what kill 100% of civilisations - the mix may be different each time - but its the interconnected collapse that finishes them off - the same mechanism every time.
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  97. I have a long term friend over in Am3ric4 - she takes random dislikes to people. Really deep visceral dislikes out of the blue. 2, 3, 5, 8 years later she is proven right. She did it with Elon, she did it with Cenk and Ana of TYT about 3 years ago "I don't watch them any more, they are sellouts". Her latest one is Justin Trudeau, so expect some revelations there... Some people just have good instincts.
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  98. IF YOU THINK YOU HAVE FREEDOM go in your garden and distil your own whisky... Your land, your consumption, your ingredients, your risk, its a legal product, so get on with it...
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  99. AS A EUROPEAN I WATCHED ABOUT 30 MINUTE of this - the judge is so obviously biased it should be a MISTRAL - he is working every second to get this killer off the hook. If you don't believe me - go watch it. The just is clearly a right-wing nut job.
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  100.  @davidabrinton  As an author on psychology let me explain, this is what the right wing simply don't get. They do not possess the right connections in the brain necessary to understand this and that is just factual not me being nasty. I know that you are going to think I am lying - because YOU would be lying if you said it, so you cant accept that I am not lying. "NO WE DONT HATE YOU - we want the best for you, we want good things to happen for everyone, even the people who fight against us and vote for the con artists and the psychopaths because they prey on your inbuilt fear to get you to vote for them! We want you to have good jobs with protections, we want you to have free healthcare, to not be worried about your bills or unemployment and YES we get very angry with you - because you are so easy to manipulate into voting for psychopaths who literally TAKE all of this away from you and me and everyone." Now I know you dont believe that that is true, cos you dont want that for us and you cant believe that we would truly want that for you - but our brains are different, quite literally we have different brains. Evolutionarily it was advantageous to have a group of people who would steal the last of the food as the village starved - and survive the famine. It was advantageous to have people who would run away and abandon the village when it was attacked, and survive. It was advantageous to have people who would leave their tired and exhausted fellow hunters behind to get eaten, and survive. The genes of the village lived on and the village rebuilt - and that is YOU. We are the ones who tendered the sick, fetched in the harvest, shared the food equally in a famine, and stayed and fought as a group. 75% of the time we got through - 25% of the time we got wiped out and you survived - that's why there is about 25% right-wing in any civilisation. NO WE DONT HATE YOU, we feed you when you are sick, we carry you to safety, even though we know you would not do it for us, cos we are just built that way.
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  101. My uncle - an old farmer in Britain. He only drinks beer out of glass bottles. He said canned beer tastes of plastic, at the time I thought he was nuts. Then I discovered NO they are plastic lined. He eats a very traditional farmers high fat no processed food low sugar diet. Due to health reasons I have to eat a very similar diet myself now and NOW I am eating zero processed food I can taste the plastic from cans or bottles - its REALLY strong. Processed food, in plastic packaging, is making the taste of plastic NORMAL.
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