Comments by "Chompy the Beast" (@chompythebeast) on "The $140BN Plan to Change a Nation with Infrastructure" video.

@no.reply_ They are conservatives and ultra-capitalists who honestly hardly believe that the government should spend anything to improve the lives of its people. They're classic "Pull yourself up by the bootstraps", "Fuck you, I've got mine" capitalists. They're some of the last people we should be letting near leadership, but here we are
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@TheVesko95 Cracking down on independence movements is terribly British, but it is not the moral thing to do. The fact that you think Scotland owes so much to England is probably exactly the sort of attitude that has Scots so ready to leave. And they were conquered those years ago―400 years can pass, but it doesn't justify land grabbing
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@TheVesko95 Suggesting that Scottish Independence would be a "backstab" to England and emphasizing that Scotland has been an English possession for 400 years is very much to suggest that Scotland owes it to England to continue to stick around. And the Empire divested itself of many of its overseas colonies, yes, but I think we all know how well the situation in Ireland has gone and continues to go. Russia may have Crimea, but England has Northern Ireland and Scotland, whether that's something convenient to admit or not
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@thomashiggins9320 It was King James VI, the great-grandson of King James IV, who eventually became James I. James IV married Margaret Tudor but was long dead by the time Elizabeth died without an heir, making James VI the closest thing to "legitimate" in their archaic and despicable system of government. But none of that really detracts from the wars waged between the two nations beforehand, or England's historical hegemony over Scotland since that time. I suppose if anything such a technicality might be seen to legitimize Scottish Independence Referenda
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@user-ku3bu7se8n Perhaps read further down the comment chain―intermarriage of the royal families does not erase the warfare waged between the two nations before, nor does it excuse English hegemony over Scotland since. It also doesn't much matter what some nobles said 400 years ago, if the people of Scotland today want independence, it should be theirs, no matter what James the Umpteenth might think about it
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@TheVesko95 If those territories want independence and autonomy and vote for it democratically, I am not inherently opposed to the idea of their separation, no. The only thing to consider in the case of Texas is that an independent Texas would just fuck over huge swaths of its people with even greater efficiency than it already does as a member of the Union. Empires deserve to be shattered into the smallest pieces possible, and regional autonomy is a far more natural way for humans to govern themselves
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@thefaithful5218 The most recent referendum on Independence was in 2014, before Brexit, and the "No's" only won with 55.3% of the vote. Most polls show the No's wouldn't have it today
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@herbertant4096 Yeah but like, Tokyo has a really big drain
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