Youtube hearted comments of Diego Yanes Holtz (@diegoyanesholtz212).

  1. I am from a broken family and it is true, we need a good family system. A broken family leads to broken children and destroys societies in the long run.
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  2. Africa has a poorly drawn border too you should do that continent next.
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  3. I watched an old documentary about the Soviet Union from the 1980s, is exactly, things will only get better, and the future is bright for the USSR, I thought thinking in 6 years the Soviet Union wouldn't even around anymore, it had become history. Watching this propaganda documentary on YouTube shows how the Russian government lies. I think this subject should be taught I US schools, how to identify propaganda.
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  4. Is not only white skin, you need to have white skin and be from the right country according to MAGA.
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  5. Taiwan and Singapore can be considered an extention of South China, exactly the same people inhabitants those places, Taiwan being 97% han chinese mostly fujianese and Singapore is 74% Chinese too, probably mostly cantonese and from other part of southern China.
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  6. Japan should be next.
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  7. You can grow your economy through demographics or productivity, and the best economic growth is productivity growth, not demographics.
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  8. There are certain hierarchies in universities, there are the Ivy League plus, then bellow there are the flagship state universities, and below that there is the second tier state university then come for-profit universities.
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  9. After the war, Ukraine needs a Marshall Plan, but the good news is that the US could share the burden of this new Marshall plan with NATO allies countries.
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  10. Crimea, Donbas, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhya should be withdrawn first, Russia should pay reparation to Ukraine and Ukraine should join the NATO alliance so this never happens again, that is a fair deal for Ukraine. The rest is unfair.
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  11. Is the same thing Venezuela is going through, resource curse.
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  12. I don't think Brazil is fully in China's orbit, it is more like South Africa and India I would put Brazil in the same shade, I am from Brazil and I know what I am talking about I lived there for 14 years, Brazil is in TIAR (aka Rio treaty) a defense alliance with the US but they are also in BRICS and is connected to the Chinese order, also China, Russia, and Iran just lost Syria as an ally. Brazil is a breakaway region of the american order, it used to be in the liberal international order. Venezuela is fully in the Chinese and Russian system, and so is Cuba too.
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  13. I see this never-Trump mentality in Utah too. The Mormons are conservative but they like a Mitt Romney type of a Republican, you can see Utah become more purple and possibly Idaho too.
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  14. Probably this collapse will be worse than the fall of the Soviet Union.
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  15. Just look at countries in Latin America and you see how low trust society works, Brazil is a good example I lived there in 14 years.
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  16. There are quality of life index called HDI, human development index.
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  17. One thing I found dumb is that MAGA is they love classical liberalism and hates neoliberalism, and an economics professor said the difference between neoliberalism is that they use math and graphs to prove classical liberalism theory. Also, Classical liberalism is pro-free trade while MAGA is very anti-free trade, MAGA is not liberal nor conservative.
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  18. Russian Bread, Tucker Carlson likes it, give him non-nutritional Russian to him.
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  19. You need to cut spending not only taxing the rich to balance the budget.
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  20. Dolar is the world's reserve currency.
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  21. Biden should step down give the presidency to Kamala Harris.
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  22. Cambodia under Pol Pot was very North Korea like.
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  23. Can you talk about what is going on in Syria and if that has something to too with the weakening of Russia?
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  24. Ivy League classes there is nothing special, I did a course on Coursera at Yale, but if you go to one you are a privilege. I never studied in an Ivy League school but I know they don't teach you any secret.
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  25. Cosmopolitan global hub, that sounds pretty globalist to me.
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  26. I notice something about Latin American cities like the rich live near the city center but not at the city center which is quite ghetto and dangerous, and the poor live in the outskirt of the city, lived in Brazil, maybe doing a part two including some Brazilian cities like São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. I know São Paulo's rich neighborhood can be Jardins, or Morumbi, I think these two would be old money and new money, in São Paulo, it is in Alphaville and Itaim Bibi, the area around Av. Faria Lima (I am kind of doubtful if it is new or old money, the latter) ; and in Rio, it will be on the beach, the old money will be Leblon or Ipanema, and the new money will be Barra da Tijuca.
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  27. Russia is underperforming and Ukraine is punching above its weight, a Brazilian said that "Putin is the Pelé of Geopolitics" then my response was "Yeah, that's why Russia is underperforming and by now I would have thought that he would have occupied all of Ukraine, and Moldovia and annex it into Russia by now three years ago when this war started" and he became pissed at me.
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  28. There are Russian going to Argentina and Brazil that how bad it got there.
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  29. I don't think it will have another depression, but a Japan style crisis is very possible. We aren't there yet. A pension crisis is possible too. The American pension system is run like a Ponzi scheme, you need to do something that Chile did during the Pinochet's government and change the pension system to resemble more like a 401k or the Private system than it is. I studied the pension system and it got me worried.
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  30. I will quote Ronald Reagan, Trust Ukraine, but verify, I am not against send auditor from the pentagon to Kyiv to see everything is ok
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  31. Will people leave Russia, imagine the migrant crisis.
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  32. Brazil too, they are nice people but generally, not all Brazilian some are even fighting in Ukraine's side, especially people from my state, Paraná received a lot of immigrants from Ukraine in the past, Russia and Poland too. But generally Brazilian supports Russia, even though they are nice people.
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  33. I don't think China will substitute the US, but I see the US going into decadence. I also see a pension crisis down the road in the US, the pension system is run like a Ponzi scheme and this will crash and cause the government to take even more debt. The only thing that makes America lucky is the demographic crisis in China and Russia will be so bad that the US will stay on top even with the decay.
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  34. India is not a US friend is a US ally, there is a difference US friend: the UK under Churchill and the US ally Soviet Union under Stalin during world war two. I do see India US relations souring.
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  35. Is not just GSR. Is GS2RM Gossiping, shaming, rallying, ridicule and moralizing.
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  36. For some reason, MAGA likes Russia, and I feel they want that model of corrupt oligarchical kleptocracy in America, I am shocked that Trump won. I got tired of MAGA saying how Trad and Based Russia is and the US has to copy it. Why because Russia hates homosexuals? Is just so dumb, they can go first after homosexuals, minorities, and immigrants but after you, they will go after you MAGA m0r0ns.
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  37. Well done. BRICS is over. I think if China collapses is over.
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  38. I do think Milei is kinda right, Argentina needs to balance its budget, you have a 200% yearly inflation rate. I just think giving up monetary sovereignty and dollarizing the economy is a bad idea. But government spending has gone too far in Argentina and the country nearly entered a hyper inflationary scenario like Venezuela, the only reason Argentina didn't is because it is a democracy and the people voted out the politicians that did that.
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  39. People will come from Central America, South America, and Cuba. But I do see illegal immigrants decreasing due to demographics too, many latin american countries have low sub-replacement birth rates.
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  40. Will the Chechen try independence again? They mite.
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  41. Social mobility in America is bad, but is still better then in many other countries, just go to Latin America and see how it is.
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  42.  @AFNick  Brazil and Argentina, and even Chile are emerging market economy, sub-sahara African countries is not. Is underdeveloped. Probably the worst places to live. I think many people confuse the dog eat dog mentality with third world countries. Is different. America has an individualistic culture from protestantism, I have many criticism, like they pretend life is fair or you deserve what you got, I disagree is unfair and you can have thought of luck, but it is how America is.
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  43. That Europeans are polyglots, they need to know a lot of other languages.
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  44. MAGA is the most anti-American movement, destroying America from within.
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  45. Asbestos in Russian apartments? I don't doubt they have that too.
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  46. In the United States the answer is simple, no. In Russia, yes. I think the Russian ruble is collapsing. The US has 100% of debt in US currency which is the world's reserve currency. Now hyperinflation is usually cause if your central bank cannot stabilize currency and has no reserve, Russia, or if you have too much debt in a different currency that you do not print (Argentina). The US doesn't have these problem.
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  47. Is funny, same in Brazil, the south divide, Rio is the wealth in the south because is a coastal city, but if not a coastal city like São Paulo, or were I spent most of my time, Curitiba, the south is a poorer region and the north is richer.
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  48. What Russia wants is for Trump to steal this election, and through Ukraine under the Bus, and negotiate a favorable deal so they can go to war in the future. I just want this election to be over and not stolen, for me the GOP became authoritarian, and I can't vote for them anymore. I watched an interview with Liz Cheney and the party was captured by the MAGA faction. They won't win, but will they steal?
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  49. North Korea would be a socially conservative country by american and western stardards. There women mary, don't divorce, cook, clean and even some South Korean men prefer to marry North Korean refugee because they are more tradicional. Now I am not tankie and think the kim regime horrible and I grateful for not being a North Korea.
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  50. In Brazil their is a lot of Genteel poverty, my family is one example of genteel poverty.
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  51. I am for helping Ukraine, and after this nonsense is over, I for adding Ukraine into NATO so this war never happen again.
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  52. Voting for Kamala Harris.
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  53. What I would do Social Security would be reformed in the capitalization model. The US would not be the first to adopt it, Chile, Australia, and Singapore adopted this model. It would solve the insolvency problem of Social Security but the problem would be the transitioning out of the old model, which is government-funded and pay as you go, the younger people would enter the full capitalization model but older people would be still in the old model pay as you go, untill they die and the people in between could have a hybrid model. The problem is demographics, and with low birth rates Social Security will be insolvent, I believe that pro-natalist policies have been tried in various and have a rate of failure to 100%, nobody has yet solved the low fertility rate, all the pro-natalist policy can be bad and authoritarian too.
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  54. Russia is Moldor on planet Earth. There is even a Russian book The Last Ring Bearer, based on Lord of the Rings but with inverted logic, Sauron is the good guy, and Frodo and Sam were the baddies, search it up. Never read this Russian book, but I read The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings.
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  55.  @realchris  yeah.
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  56. As a former republican Anthony Scaramucci said, after Trump the republican party is over, yeah is 100% true, and that is why Arnold Schwarzenegger is out too, he said that MAGA reminds him of an evil movement that too over his country in the 1930s and 1940s and was responsible for the worse war in human history. I wouldn't say MAGA is full N4z!, but I saw a part of project 2025, and I will tell you it is scary, it is unhinged. I think I have to leave this place because not even the blue states will survive what is coming, I am a former republican I would vote for anyone but a republican, the party is over.
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  57. Religion in Russia is like Religion in Iran, for geopolitical reasons.
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  58. You can escape and open a channel talking about the Racket.
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  59. The problem are MAGA clowns in Congress like Margorie Taylor Greene and Mike Johnson. I think the people should pressure representative to vote the Ukraine aid.
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  60. Declining demographics are overrated, if you reform the pension system, like Chile did, you will not have this problem. Also is hype in the US because the US can attract immigrants, many people say that are nativists and don't want immigrants here, legal or illegal. They don't even want a highly skilled Indian immigrant who opens a starts up in Silicon Valley and employs Americans.
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  61. Unfortunately, I think Russia will do a new mobilization, they are waiting if Trump will win, but since I think he will lose, look up Allan Lichtman's 13 keys, he will do a mobilization next year.
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  62. Some leaders can be good, such as Winston Churchill who fought against fascism and tyranny for example, but there have been a lot of bad leadership throughout history.
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  63. Brazil is part of BRICS and I see how pro-Russia Brazil is, Bolsonaro likes Putin, and so as Lula. Russia and China control Brazil.
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  64. I think Trump Social Media Group stock will just collapse after the November election. Just want Ukraine to win and MAGA to end.
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  65. China is more pacient then Russia, they can invade Taiwan but I think they will sanction proof the country. They are observing Ukraine war.
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  66. Can you talk about the Donbas and how it will be liberated?
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  67. Unfortunately is not over yet, I do think after the US election Putin will decree massive mobilization, which will probably even affect the middle class in Moscow and St Petersburg, giving an afterlife to the Russian war effort. But you are right Russia will fall in the spring to summer of 2026.
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  68. Russian propaganda is very good. I am not pro-Russian, but they are good at convincing people.
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  69. Mixed is the best.
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  70. Esse canal é melhor que canais gringos. Melhor canal mesmo.
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  71. I think going to college is a mistake. I would not go to college but get an associate's in community college, if you have a fat inheritance and you don't need to work, do it. But I would not waste my time if you were not rich.
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  72. I don't believe California will be a red state but a purple state first. Michigan is not a ruby-red state like Wyoming or Tennessee. It will be a more purple state, it votes Democrat in one election and it votes Republican in another election, and it will swing, California will probably go that route until, as Florida did between 2000 and 2020, it becomes a red state like Florida in 2022 onward. When a state stops being Democrat it will be a swing state before it becomes a red state, I think Oregon will go the same way as California too.
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  73. I don't think so.
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  74. Illegal immigrants work harder than natives. They do not work high-paying jobs but they work necessary jobs.
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  75. I had been exposed to Chinese propaganda in Brasil, is always I should learn Manderin because China will become the main superpower and will overtake the US. MAGA is stupid, look at Trump's policy, agenda 47, freedom cities, is a joke, I cannot believe I voting for Joe Biden, even though I disagree with Joe, he is the lesser of two evil, Let's not make America Russia.
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  76. That is why I am not a Republican anymore they are not for liberalism, democracy, order, and stability. They just became a mafia-style government, and they want the Russian system here, I thought this type of crap happen only in Russia or some BS country like that.
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  77. Trump is the worse president in my live time and he should be tried for treason.
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  78. I know Iran under the Shah wanted to be a role of combating communism in the Middle East. You could what if Iran never had a Islamic revolution?
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  79. China is too authoritarian for a world reserve currency. China is worse than the US. But I do think the US will go through a pension crisis together with a fiscal crisis, the US has a problem that wants to be the world's policeman and has a welfare state, you cannot do both. But the US is the least worst of the world's major economy. I think the US will go through a pension crisis because the government pension system is run like a Ponzi scheme, a pyramid scheme, and if the US doesn't reform it social security, social security will go bust. It will fall like all pyramid schemes do. This is probably the next crisis I would be worried about.
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  80. The second collapse of Russia is looking more like the collapse it faced in 1917 than in 1991,
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  81. With obesity, I would tax unhealthy food, reform the food industry and regulating the food industry and attack food and additives that cause obesity, cancer, and other health problems, or outright ban it, I think the psychiatry industry should be reformed too, if we do that obesity and a lot of mental health problems will decrease. I don't like the EU structure, but I think in some things the EU and European countries are right.
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  82. I know in Arab countries, or even Middle Eastern countries like Iran (Iran is not an arab country), usually the families take care of their struggling family members, they have a more clan-like family.
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  83. I think more people would be pushed towards the left, in the end Bernie Sanders will not be President but Wokeism will win. A MAGA dictatorship is not sustainable in the long run and I cannot see the Republican as a serious party. They want to do exactly what Juan Perón did in Argentina. Argentina was one of the wealthiest country on earth, on par with Australia, Canada, richer then France, go to Ricoleta neighborhood in Buenos Aires you won't believe that you are in a Latin American country it just felt I was walking in Paris or a European Country. Perón did protectionist policy and labor union, that country became a third world country in the 1980s. It became Brazil dressed up as France. This can happen here. It would take longer though.
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  84. I do feel also the white supremacists also didn't like the fact that Obama was reelected.
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  85. You should talk about the natural recourse curse, and how it affects the Russian economy? Russia only exports natural recourse and that is not good.
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  86. The problem is Orangeman and Vance will turn the US into a dictatorship. I hate the authoritarian nature of project 2025. I just think people should be left alone and not be told what to do? Everyone has a different set of moral code and I think that no one should force their morality on others. What I hate about project 2025 is that they want to ban p0rn and I understand if I go to a public library and a book called Fifty shades of grey or Lolita, nobody is being hurt, the libertarian is a sex offender I would be too. It just went too far for the Republican party. I'd vote for AOC is just so extreme the Bible belt has gotten. People should do whatever as long nobody is being hurt. I am delusion with America and if the US becomes a dictatorship, we will need a new constitution because it has failed.
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  87. I don't AI will replace everyone, as I said there will be one or two person that will manage the AI and see if the Robots are Ok.
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  88. Many healthcare jobs are important but administrative jobs are not. For me Trump wants a Putin-like style of government, I totally disagree with Trump's policy, the US vote together with Russia, North Korea, and Iran is the end of the US empire.
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  89. Slavi Ukraini, and hold on, Russia is almost going bankrupt, I don't hate anti-Putin Russia, but I hate pro-Putin ones.
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  90. I keep hearing from russian propagandists that Zelensky will cause WWIII, the opposite, if Zelensky wins, WWIII will be averted. I support Ukraine because I don't fight the Russians somewhere in eastern europe.
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  91. I think the only reason that the US should send aid to Ukraine is that the US is in NATO and if Ukraine falls is cheaper and will cost no American lives to Ukraine deal with Russia, then later the US fight Russia in Eastern Europe over Poland or the Baltics, the US is in NATO and have an obligation to defend these countries if Russia attacks it. The NATO charter is made so the US has to defend European countries from Russia, it was first meant against the Soviets and after the collapse of the USSR, Russia, unless the US were to leave the NATO alliance, I wouldn't stop giving Ukraine aid for that reason. What I would do is just send old decommissioned military equipment that the US military does not want. If Trump is able to leave the NATO alliance then Ukraine and Russia invading the Baltics is not our problem and I would cut Ukraine's military aid. The only reason is Art. 5 in the NATO charter.
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  92. The PCC destroyed Hong Kong, and Hong Kong is becoming another place in China.
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  93. What do you think of MAID, Medical Assistance in Dying, or Physician-assisted suicide? If you think of an economic sense it makes sense, especially if the person can't work, but in a Moral sense it might be dicey. Some countries have adopted this, Canada, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Belgium etc. In the US you need a have a terminal illness and would be dead for 6 months. Some people can be permanently disabled.
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  94.  @AFNick  yeah as I said, in economic reason does make sense, the problem is moral.
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  95. Their are supply shock inflation, money printing inflation, and government raising workers minimal wage inflation. The right this inflation is only caused by money printing, they are not wrong that money printing above the productivity increase rate causes inflation, there are other reason, like supply shock. If China invades Taiwan now, inflation will go up. No money has been printed.
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  96. Maybe you buy insurance, like life insurance, and if you become disabled you can receive money.
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  97. ​ @AFNick I still think the government will pay the pensioner, but how, through money printing causing inflation, the only reason this didn't happen in Greece is because they did not have monetary sovereignty.
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  98. Aid to Illegal immigrants I 100% agree with cut. I think cutting aid to Israel too.
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  99. I do believe demographic change will happen. It will be hard not to have a white plurality country.
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  100. China has printed more than the US, see the Yuan and you can use FRED sites. Chinese statistics are not trustworthy and take it with a grain of salt, but there still is more RNB printed the USD. Also, China is a black hole the US is not, the US is a transparent country, I don't see any alternative to the dollar, and is not even Bitcoin which is too volatile, and prone to asset bubbles and speculation. Peter Zehian said that the world economy outgrew the gold market, that is why we do not have the gold standard since 1971, I do not think the US needs a good standard or a nominal surplus, just needs to cover the cost of pension, salary, welfare, infrastructure, etc, everything the government spend excluding interest spending, the US can outgrow the debt with a primary surplus, is not like only debt part of debt/GDP grows, there is also GDP growth.
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  101. That is so true, in Brazil, I only voted for economics, I voted for Bolsonaro because of economics. Brazilian elections work differently than the US. But you should do a video no Project 2025 and what would it mean to the US if it is fully implemented.
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  102. You made another mistake that Nicaragua is not in the american liberal world order, the president is a friend of Maduro and an ally of Venezuela.
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  103. I do think in Russia mite go through a currency collapse or hyperinflation soon.
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  104. Do one on Project 2025 now Trump is elected?
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  105. America is the most powerful country, you never bet against America they always win, when they lose a war like Vietnam or Afghanistan is because they got tired of fighting that war and also being an enemy of the US is dangerous, being a friend of the US is fatal and I made this third rule, you don't f*ck around with the war hawk, especially if they are republican, they are aggressive, they are powerful and they make money from war, do as they said, Putin will learn this last lesson the hard way, he made the biggest mistake in his life rejecting JD Vance peace plan for Ukraine, Putin is not a chess playing but a fool.
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  106. Trump wants to erode checks and balances.
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  107. The economy is not doing great, is a mild version of the 1970. I do feel inflation is not going up but down. Yeah it might be higher than it is but I think by 2025 to 2026, inflation will reach the center of the target.
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  108. I think the best metric to measure an economy is GDP per capita adjusted to purchasing power, GDP per capita PPP.
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  109. Yeah, inflation is making a come back. I think Trump will be remembered has the worst president, and the US economy will go south.
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  110. I also think the Republicans have gotten very extreme and this is antagonizing a lot of donors. I don't know how long the Republicans will last if they become this extreme
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  111. I agree Biden Harris is not perfect on Israel, AIPAC is one of the most powerful lobbying groups, but Trump will be much worse on everything.
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  112. I think you get to the middle class even if you finish community college and have an associate degree depending on the case.
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  113. In Brazil they mix North American and Europe, the downtown is a ghetto in most Brazilian cities, then some places surround the downtown where the rich and middle class people live, and then if you go out to the suburbs is just a big favela (slum).
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  114. I like to use the nominal GDP when measuring the total economy, but per capita I us the Purchasing power parity. Is better then the gdp per capita nominal.
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  115. I believe the middle class is dying.
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  116. Good deflation is when prices go down due to an increase in the supply of that good or service, if demand is decreasing and you have deflation then is bad, an example of the latter is the deflation of the lost decade in Japan or the Great Depression.
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  117. How do you fix the tax system? One thing I think is unfair about the tax system of the US is the only country that has a diaspora tax, no country has one that allows you to exit the tax system, I do believe that people should have the right to exit the system if they don't want to pay into it, but they can't live in the US like all the other countries in the world, the tax system in the US seems a lot like a slave system that you can't leave.
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