Comments by "Taxi Rob" (@taxirob2248) on "Good Times Bad Times" channel.

  1.  @Trump2024asw  it's because they're not in a state of war and experiencing any privations. If Hitler had just chilled out within his own borders the Third Reich would still be around, too, and probably would have founded something similar to the EU as a trade bloc for European ethnostates and an ally to the US and UK. China's prosperity would probably disappear overnight in a state of war, since no one in their society has every experienced any. And they share their continent with a whole lot of people who don't like them very much, while half of all Canadians and Mexicans are already either in the US or doing business here and are not likely to attack. Imagine China distracted with a major war when India decides they want their mountains back... and maybe a little bit more.
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  2. who were "they all?" DId you personally see every Gaza resident celebrating, or did you see what pro-Israeli media showed you? Same stores were told on 9/11 to stoke anti-Muslim feelings.
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  3.  @overredrover9430  probably. There is a universe of fission involving a few different reactor types that when used in a chain can result in a reduced need for extraction and very little high level waste. Breeder reactors can create fissile material while mixed oxide reactors can burn different fuels. Sadly, Rosatom was the leader in the latter technology. They could have been at the forefront of the disarmament movement.
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  4. Are you so underinformed that you did not know that Israel moved their capital to Jerusalem? It's been their capital on paper since 1980, they made it official several years ago.
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  5.  @illuminat121  I don't understand why fascists don't just admit to what they are, almost like they know what they are doing is wrong...
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  6. Are you dense? Israel moved their capital to Jerusalem. That's part of the problem here. And yes, the US gov is sometimes referred to as "Washington" by media all over the world, including within the US.
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  7.  @Noobsaucer  not sure whose ass you have your head inside of to even ask that question in the first place, but you're welcome.
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  8. the model was intentionally broken by the neoliberals
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  9.  @Teutathis  Russia seems to have forgotten they are a nuclear power. A test in their own territory might be a good reminder.... but they have never done one, have they? Always in another non-Russian republic, not their own.
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  10.  @keto0303  they are regularly doing nuclear bomb tests in Russia? News to me, champ.
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  11.  @sunnyrobinson2128  so does Venezuela.
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  12. Who is moving to the US? Go ahead and name names.
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  13. @ I was talking about the OP's claim that businesses are moving here from the EU, which is demonstrably false. There are European owned factories here, of course, but that's only to avoid tariffs. No one is picking up their entire operation to move to the US.
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  14.  @vdotme  which rights did they repeal?
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  15.  @elysiumfields  no one is talking about the Minsk accords, which give third parties (who are also direct signatories of the accords) inspection access. Russia, one of those signatories, denied any and all third party inspections of the territory, ensuring they'd have full control of all propaganda emanating from the conflict in Donbas.
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  16.  @alexv3357  Otto Craw's aunt
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  17.  @dewit5883  "fairness" is relative, especially given the asymmetrical firepower involved. I really need to see specifics before making such a subjective judgement. It's more likely there are redlines that might seem reasonable to people on one side but not the other, while complete outsiders might be scratching their heads over them. And it might be some very specific item that seems completely insignificant to everyone but the people demanding it, or they might be red herrings meant to derail the convo. Given the amount of time this has gone unresolved, I'm leaning toward the latter. Smarter people than us have failed for decades, I can't help but think they've been deliberately sandbagged by the people holding all the aces. Instead of laying their cards down, they keep raising the stakes. And by aces I mean the finest western weaponry in pretty much unlimited amounts. And by stakes I mean everything from the river to the sea.
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  18. Population collapse is only a problem for capitalists and other racists.
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  19.  @thomaskalbfus2005  explain all the attacks before Hamas existed
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  20. "coke" is a type of processed coal fuel pellet used in steel manufacturing
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  21.  @steviechubbs5238  how many panamax ships are even flagged in the US? It's about COLLECTING those fees, which is great for Panama but wouldn't do shit for USGov revenue.
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  22.  @joni8090  France?
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  23.  @AthenaTennosN  Orthodoxy, Autocracy, and Nationality. It goes back to Nicholas I in 1825.
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  24.  @mesa9724  you stand for settler colonialism in 2024. Not very civilized IMO.
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  25.  @backstabba  Gazans didn't do anything, Hamas did. Look who's mislabeling everyone when it suits them...
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  26. When you said "conservative intellectuals," I spit my drink through my nose
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  27. it is officially Jerusalem and the US embassy is located there.
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  28.  @FemboyLegendGD  weird that you're attacking the OP with your accusation in particular, since Brazil's pubic sector jobs are well known to pay better than private sector jobs.
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  29.  @DanielMC1983  I don't need to answer that. The peer reviewed studies clearly show that public sector jobs pay anywhere from 5-200% more for the same jobs. Google them yourself, I don't work for you.
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  30.  @DanielMC1983  post a quote from any of my comments showing me claiming that the state is the largest employer in Brazil. We'll wait.
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  31.  @DanielMC1983  then that's what you should have said. Also, the government employs more than just "sanitation engineers," they also employ actual engineers. Government is more than just administrative work, just as the private sector is more than just burger flippers. A roughly 15% public employment percentage that costs roughly 13% of GDP isn't good from a value standpoint, but the only possible change within the government's purview would be to cut salaries in half to match the private sector average. Is that what you'd like to see? Would cutting salaries AND increasing public employment be better? The employment participation rate is only around 50%, so maybe yes?
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  32.  @FemboyLegendGD  reduced in pay or size? It's already pretty small. The countries that Brazil is cozying up to outside of the US sphere have huge public employment numbers, if not huge public employee pay.
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  33.  @giovanni-ed7zq  I think people are so eager to see a clear military resolution of some kind that they've downplayed or forgotten about the economic realities of it. Maybe if Russia hadn't been able to sell oil and gas throughout the invasion, the economic collapse would have already happened.
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  34.  @JDDC-tq7qm  I understand what you're saying, but we're discussing LEGAL ownership so we do have to be very specific. As former constituent republics of the Union, both Ukraine and Kazakhstan had legitimate claims to the hardware.
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  35.  @LogicaetRatio-r8z so what? It didn't have delivery systems.
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  36.  @tylerisnthere2922  that's true for any scrap of land you can point to in Ukraine. The lines move with the line, this isn't news.
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  37.  @michaelotieno6524  what's absurd is calling conscription "kidnapping," while RF is literally kidnapping Ukrainian children and selling them to the barren Russian bourgeoisie.
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  38. Because Trump is a goddamned moron and couldn't be bothered to count the provinces.
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  39.  @thomaskalbfus2005  don't be obtuse, Thomas. Hydra effect is real, that's how we got both Al Qaeda and ISIS.
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  40. Dude Gaza is on the coast of the Mediterranean. If it wasn't under Israeli blockade for going on two decades, they'd be making a shitload of tourist money. Ever heard of a thing called a "beach?"
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  41.  @Archangelm127  says who? Palestinians in Gaza should be the ones deciding how to develop their own land.
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  42.  @Archangelm127  ok but they're not necessarily forced, it IS their land under international law, it's still part of the occupied territories. The ongoing issue is that they don't have real sovereign control of their own land. They can't leave, they can't develop it, they are just stuck there. But they should not be forced to leave it either. It's theirs.
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  43.  @SpaceMarine500  weird how you think Muslim is a nationality.
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  44.  @amnont8724  weird how you don't know how each of those countries have done exactly that to varying degrees
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  45.  @EgoEroTergum  weird how you think all of Palestine is Hamas
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  46. That would mean undoing all the Israeli settlements INSIDE Palestinian territory. And those settlers are armed hardcore Zionists or they wouldn't be there in the first place.
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  47. The one state solution can't happen because then the Jewish ethnostate comes to an immediate end. The Basic Laws make that impossible.
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  48.  @eonby5941  who cares what governments claim out of expediency? The US says the Kurds are terrorists on paper, but sends them arms to fight ISIS. They did the same thing in Nicaragua and El Salvador. They also supplied mujahedin against the USSR in Afghanistan, not the best plan in the long run.
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  49.  @eonby5941  the West has also refused to recognize certain regimes throughout its history, if Hamas is the problem they can just crate a new Gaza authority any time they want to.
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  50.  @eonby5941  I don't need to compare them. There are plenty of other documents that describe Israel's intention to create and maintain an ethnostate. The current status of non-Jews inside Israel is that of less than full citizens. You can talk around in circles all you like, but if you really want to encourage people to do their own research, you're going to lose every time.
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