Comments by "starventure" (@starventure) on "Johnny Harris" channel.

  1. Self discipline is the key to avoiding and destroying debt. Financial knowledge is the key to growing what you have.
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  2. Yup. John C. Calhoun was a major dope for thinking that way. Were it not for him, the USA and Mexico would be a single nation and likely better off.
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  3. Roland From which power? The Muslims? The Spanish? The Americans? Why not discuss the future Chinese hegemony over the Philippines while at it?
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  4. Señor Flores It gives better understanding of why American settlers were invited in the first place. The video fails to mention that the Mexican government was wary of the Comanche tribe and wanted whites to be the punching bag for them instead of themselves. That, and collecting of taxes off the Texans would help to stabilize what was then a financially unstable new country.
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  5. CrashDavi Damn Americans stole South Korea from Kim Il Sung.
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  6.  @jerrysong9957 What are you talking about? They’ve had H bombs since 1999.
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  7.  @sophiagonzales8974  Still, we have to protect the languages of our past somehow. We can’t forget our roots. My kids are “white”, but still are going to learn at least a little bit of Ilocano, just to remind them of how they came to be.
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  8. Imagine all the people, living life in peeeeace...oooh oooh ooooooooh...
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  9.  @SilverSmrfr  Crimea was never important enough to run the risk of starting WW3 over. The Ukraine can pout all it wants but the USA is not going to sacrifice Western Europe and some USA cities for the sake of some Crimea farmers. It sucks, but not everyone is equal in value in life.
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  10. Hitler...only shot a pistol once in his life and did not miss his target.
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  11. Ah ha! It was the Norwegians who blew up the pipeline then! Well played. And I thought the Texans had done it…
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  12. The lesson is that nuclear weapons actually do more to prevent war than provoke them.
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  13. The US stole PR off of a dying European power that stole it off of the natives who had no standing armies to defend themselves from aggression of any sort. Irony is that the US now wants to get rid of PR, going as far as to offer it to the Danes in trade for Greenland. The Danes said no thanks, we don’t want those people and the Greenlanders actually asked what they had done so bad as to be compared to PR.
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  14. The Russians won WW2 on their own fronts, but it was the Americans who tipped the balance for them in the form of supplying through Murmansk. The UK would never have held out as long as they did without Lend Lease (Though FDR made damn sure they felt the pain of debt as revenge for 1936) and when the USA finally had the legitimate opportunity to join in the war militarily the outcome was more perceptible.
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  15. 11:55 What the F*ck?!?! You buy a freakin' expensive car for no reason and then complain? You made your own problem! Living rich when not actually being rich is sheer idiocy. You can get a great used car that is at most 3 years old with all the bells and whistles for half that price and not break the bank.
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  16. The furthest south the Ottomans went in Africa was to around the Mogadishu area. He is one of those nitwits who thinks that North and East Africa is ethnically and culturally aligned with the fücking Congo and has to use Muslim “they also did it-ism” to try to spread the blame.
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  17. History is just the drama of the motivated and organized trying to move the feckless and lazy out if the way. It’s easy for Johnny to vilify and blame Europeans, but not easy to explore why these other peoples were so disorganized and unable to defend themselves.
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  18. EmiGondor Spain never worked with the US or France to properly delineate their colonial borders, which led to conflict. That, and the Mexican government knew full well they were letting settlers bring slaves in because they issued papers to them to allow them to enter in the first place. The whole “Mexico didn’t know about the slaves” narrative in this video is bullshit. The Mexican government was very selective in who they allowed into East Texas and documented every individual who agreed to work land. Taxation was their primary reason for this.
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  19. Apache land, not Mexican. The Mexicans were terrified to enter the area which is why it was easy for the US to capture it early in the war. The only difference between the Americans and Mexicans was that the Americans were more adept at wielding military solutions when it came to the natives.
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  20.  @AbsurdityViewer  Imagine…just imagine…if Albert Einstein were around today.
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  21. There was a running joke in the maritimes back when Quebec was talking up secession that every Premier had the White House phone number on speed dial in case of it happening.
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  22.  @salokin3087  The USA aided the UK in WW2, but not without onerous conditions. And rightly so, given the hostility displayed by the UK government towards Americans during the years prior. When they came knocking on the door to plead for military aid, FDR knew it was payback time.
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  23. *Western European country - offer not valid east of Germany/Austria and Switzerland
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  24. Other NATO members have the right to establish bases in the USA as part of the agreement, but none do as internally the USA is not exactly a hotspot of threat activity. Germany did profess the interest in setting up a base in Arizona years ago but decided against it as it would have just been an expensive Luftwaffe “resort”. A shame.
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  25. Carlos Carlin A terrible shame.
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  26. LA...California in general, is not like the rest of the USA. The situation there with housing costs versus wages has gotten so far out of hand that it is starting to negatively affect the rest of the country. You have Californians selling their piece of garbage bungalow home built in the 1920s for over a million dollars, then moving to Wyoming or Montana or Texas and buying a house cash in hand that is cheap for them but expensive for the native residents, causing their property taxes to skyrocket and force them out of their homes to look for a cheaper place only to discover it no longer exists. California/boomer greed in the housing market is killing the rest of the country.
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  27.  @יוסייייי-ק1צ  Very well stated sir.
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  28. It's a lie. Most US cities nowadays have light rail networks and the ones that don't are easy to avoid. The real key to having a good commute is the location of the job and the immediate area around it. A job in the suburbs is fine, as long as the community around it is affordable. Not that tough to find. A job in the central business district is fine too, with light rail usually connecting poorer areas to there to allow for opportunities while also connecting wealthier areas to reduce traffic. The real obstacle to having equal economic opportunity is the stigma surrounding poor people, specifically cultural aspects.
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  29.  @isabelflann4087  MARTA. Did you forget it exists?
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  30. PR is a special case, though. The perception of puerto ricans in the US is seen through the optics of bad stereotypes, which is why only now, 80 years after the first immigration wave do you see puerto ricans finally leaving the urban prisons for the village greens. The whole reason Trump was so cold about PR was because of his own experiences.
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  31. Stalin, Mao, etc.
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  32. Where are your apartments and investments located? Location matters.
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  33.  @himasekiwari155  The reason for that is cultural and ethnic remoteness. When you are so far from the culture in distance and contact and you marry outside your race or are a product of a multiracial marriage, you tend not to care about ethnocultural group a or b or c. You just remember the place as a distant whisper. And the visit to the home country actually does more harm than good, because you recognize fast why your family got the hell out in the first place.
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  34.  @sophiagonzales8974  That could be said of most languages outside of English or Spanish. Maybe Chinese can be considered in the same class but most languages are limited in area of usage. Who outside of Germany cares about the German language?
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  35. Johnny, the video is about the Bermuda Triangle but you start off by showing nuclear test footage from the Pacific in the late 1950s. Why?
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  36. Since when did your hand start charging you a bill?
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  37.  @ummkhel  You could shovel all the money in the world at some people or their problems, and still never make any headway at all on solving them.
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  38. De Gaulle left NATO because of the bitter feelings left over from the Suez Canal crisis. It had zilch to do with being militarily independent. Ike and Dulles stopped France and the UK from acting like neocolonialist jerks in the middle of Soviet expansionism. The UK saw the writing in the wall and cooperated with the USA while the French threw a hissy fit and went their own way.
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  39.  @Simon-md3uv  Symbolism, mostly.
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  40. Not to engage in whataboutism, but the whole planet was a chessboard in the Cold War with the two last nations reasonably standing after the Second World War trying to checkmate each other. The Soviets placed soldiers and equipment on Vietnam as they did in Africa, Afghanistan, central and South America. Do you think they had just good intentions in doing that?
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  41.  @buff114  You didn’t try to make a counter argument. All you did was just make a lame attack and exposed your idiocy before everyone here. Is this the best you have? Make a proper critique then consider getting off the short bus.
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  42. Tony Zan Pretty much, though the first owner should always be deemed the one who had at least a little intent on defending it.
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  43.  @jordanfulmer5542  Not always. If you can go frugal and live in a $900/mo place, the money you save will grow very fast. The biggest problem is lifestyle creep but also something I personally call "damned by geography." You are not in control of your commute distance always, and this is a significant factor in how much your monthly transport budget will be.
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  44. The first thing the Philippines needs to do to stop becoming a meal for the dragon is to acquire nuclear weapons. Ever noticed that nuclear armed nations don’t get invaded?
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  45. Uh, are you aware of the size and location of Russias submarine fleet? It is the primary projection of power that they have, and is very deadly.
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  46. Well, Kenya had it’s guy, Jamaica is likely to have its lady, so who knows? Of course, you may need to loosen your definition of Filipino American to suit your hopes.
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  47. The guards in the US are already getting $25/hr or close. The issues is they want $50/hr, which to any manager is nuts.
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  48. "Where in the hell is Djibouti?!?!?!?!" - North Carolina Senator Jesse Helms
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  49. Would you prefer it be Russian or Chinese instead? That can be arranged. But before you jump off of that cliff, why not go and have a conversation with a citizen of one of the Baltic nations or an Uyghur about the wisdom of it.
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  50.  @sketchb0ok484  Corruption in the USA at least gets caught now and then. Russian justice is a joke, ask Navalny if you can.
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  51. 1. How many rooms to your home? Are people sleeping in the same room? 2. What are your home walls made of? 3. Are the roads you drive on paved or unpaved? Are there just local roads or are there intercity highways nearby? Car quality is of no importance here, it just has to move safely.
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  52. Savings accounts have always sucked donkey nuts. CDs and LCIFs are far better.
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  53. Inflation of wealth = inflation of costs.
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  54. Followed by “How Britain lost the world”
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  55.  @tanvirapu885  There were quite a few of them, which one are you referring to? Calcutta?
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  56.  @IgorS.  Russia has bases in Cuba and Venezuela. China has a base in Panama and the Spratly islands. Keep in mind that prior to 1962 the USA did not have the global military presence it does now; it was limited to the conquered nations of WW2 and the domestic USA. After 1962, bases started to be leased out from other nations with the simple logic of “if they are doing it we have to as well”.
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  57. Rohan Dick Yes if you compare to the current China-India debacle. But Chinas south see claims have no historical counterpart. They are full of crap.
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  58.  @TheGrandDurian  Wait, Spain is a natural gas player too? Cool!
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  59.  @KingLarbear  Let loose the moose, because the elephant can’t…(bad haiku)
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  60. “What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is.” - Dan Quayle, former vice president of the USA.
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  61. julian blanco Genghis Khan would strongly disagree with you.
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  62. julian blanco Muḥammad ibn ʿAbdullāh and Alexander the Great look at you puzzled...
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  63. julian blanco Please explain the difference between empire building and imperialism.
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  64. Notice how they keep making reference to "breakthrough technologies"? Why does it have to be another country behind it? Remember when Trump got elected how he mentioned that Obama told him about a "major problem" that has been hidden from the public. Why do you think the 6th branch of the military was created?
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  65. Funny, you know that when an American travels to Hawaii they think it is Japan because of all the Japanese tourists there.
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  66.  @bodigames  If you buy a BMW, you are a fool and you will get what you deserve for wasting money on expensive and unnecessary toys. Expensive cars are bullsh*t that keep people poor. You are talking about buying a product that loses a quarter of its value the moment you drive it off the lot and continues to lose value year after year. The first rule of wealth accretion is "don't be a jackass."
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  67. Back at that time the rule was grow or die. Genghis Kahn and Alexander the Great taught this lesson very effectively.
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  68. Trump has been trying to get rid of PR. Nobody wants it so far, and they don’t want independence because they know what that means. Exhibit A: Haiti.
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  69. Length and volume in metric is actually already used commonly in the USA, it’s not a big deal. Celsius however, is a problem for Americans because of the lack of temperature differentiation possible in it. 15C to 35C is the equivalent of 59F to 95F, which is insane when you consider the vast differences in physical experience not just between the two temperatures but those in the middle as well. This problem applies to speed as well, telling someone 100km/hr implies high speed when in fact it’s just 60mph. The frame of reference for Americans is wildly off target and would take generations to change.
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  70. He is so obsessed with bashing the USA that he cannot see what you just mentioned.
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  71. You are correct, but bear in mind that the US has some social and cultural issues going on that are unique to them. Eastern Europe is a homogeneous paradise by comparison to the USA and Western Europe, so you have full land utilization available to you. You do not have to know before you do or any of the nonsense that happens elsewhere, which is a blessing. You have it very good.
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  72. Let me guess...everyone has their own car too. Am I right? No car sharing? No one helping each other to pay down a car loan fast?
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  73.  @scratchsoft2347  Both the Americans and Soviets made a special effort to confiscate all scientific data from the Germans and Japanese, including data derived from human medical experiments. In particular, the high altitude experiments performed on Jews at Dachau were especially valuable for the Americans due to the lack of information on how the body behaves in low oxygen pressure environments. Indirectly you might be able to say that we owe the jet age to some of the victims of the camps.
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  74.  @eugenesukhoi7025  Not really. It had more to do with Khruschevs ego and Castros paranoia than anything else.
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  75.  @timbehrens9678  The US had those missiles (Jupiter-C IIRC) in Turkey well before the Cuban crisis and the Soviets did not complain previously. Placing IRBMs in Cuba had zero to do with Turkey and their removal was nothing but an afterthought for Khruschev because the US had IRBMs in Italy and Germany which put them well in range of Moscow. The Soviets actually got a very bad deal in the solution to the crisis in that they would not have any offensive capability against the mainland US again until the early to mid 1970s, while the US got to keep a projection capability. This was one of the many reasons for Khruschevs removal in 1964.
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  76. Johnny forgot that wealth is tough to build but easy to lose.
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  77. Poverty industry is what it is called. They prey on the poor because they know that the poor are too stupid to figure out the scam they have trapped themselves in, and take full advantage of it. Proper financial education in the schools could help to combat this, but money smarts has to start at home, and most parents just don't take the time to educate their kids about it. Hence, the student loan and university scam.
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  78. As an EU member, you are paying for the public benefits of Calabrians and Sicilians who collect and then go gambling with it. Do not gloat, for your continent is reliant on other nations to pay your bills. If the US were to take back the money they spend on NATO every year and use it to assist poor Americans, their lot would be improved vastly. Europe would have to make up for that money from their own member state budgets, which would be entertaining from the outside to watch.
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  79. Story teller. That’s the problem.
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  80. Philippines has been independent since 1946.
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  81. Facts for him? C’mon.
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  82. Marsel • Trump tried to trade PR last year. It may be a nice place, but Trumps optics are through the Bronx lens.
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  83. The problem with celsius is mainly from 15-35C. Only 20C of difference numerically, but in the real world massive difference in between the two that celsius just doesn’t give the same mental clues to that fahrenheit does. It’s even worse for those who do live in places prone to extreme temperature swings, such as the USA. Europeans generally do not experience this climate difference and hence are hostile to adherents of fahrenheit.
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  84.  @oyuyuy  Cool story. Compare 75 to 85 in celsius then get back to me.
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  85. That land you speak of is the area from the 1763 proclamation line (which was a farce from the beginning as there were already settlers west of it well beforehand) to the Mississippi River. It was not originally British though. Prior to that it was French, and prior to that it belonged to nobody because while there were native inhabitants, there was no unified government amongst the tribes and no standing military to defend it. Nomadic tribes at constant war with each other and hatching deals with outsiders is a recipe for failure.
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  86.  @MikeBNumba6  They lobbied because it was their original choice when picking where to live. When they said, "I don't want any mass transit near where I am going to live", they meant it. Trying to force people to accept what they don't want is a waste of time.
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