Comments by "Gabe" (@gabetalks9275) on "The Wall Street Journal" channel.

California does not have a water security problem. They have a water management problem. LA used to have so much water that they once had constant flooding. Then, they covered the LA River in concrete, and now it's mostly dead. They had the 9th largest freshwater lake on Earth, and they drained it for agriculture. Now they're draining the rest of their state's rivers, reservoirs, and aquifers so that they can feed more crops, so now, they're pulling most of their water from the Colorado River until that's drained next too. California has had more water than most entire countries could ever dream of, but they waste it like its an infinite resource. This is why we need to transition away from monoculture to permaculture. We need to use our water much more conservatively so that we always have plenty in times of crisis. If we don't start doing that now, then we won't have any water left for anything, let alone fighting wildfires.
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California is notoriously wasteful with their water. I am confident that there wasn't even enough water to even build those reservoirs.
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My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined Plz put Zoom video boards in the stands.
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@dangercat9188 I'm also white passing. Everyone thinks I'm white until I tell them I'm Puerto-Rican. Americans just can't comprehend the fact that a hispanic/latino person could be any shade other than brown.
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@anirudh_s17 The water getting pumped to LA is not worth killing the river itself, even if it's for flood management. There are far better and far more sustainable ways to protect against floods than killing your region's biodiversity, like putting bioswales all over your streets and parks. And concretizing the river makes it impossible for the aquifer underneath the river to refill, so even if you're still pumping the water to LA, it's still a net loss of water because you've sacrificed the aquifer, which holds way more way than just the river by itself, in the process.
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@700K-pp9wm We are under colonial occupation and that's a fact. We are US territory who citizens are denied the rights the citizens of the 50 states have, while neglecting it economically and in times of crisis like with Hurricane Maria. That's the definition of colonialism. So no, I'm not "crying." My culture and heritage is being Americanized and assimilated by the United States, and now the US is trying to finish the job by making us a state. We cannot allow that to happen. Just look at what happened to Hawaii. It's going to happen to us next if we don't preserve our culture.
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@700K-pp9wm Ok, firstly, I said I was white passing. Not white. White passing means I just look white, even though I'm not. Also, are you insinuating that the only reason why Latin America is poor is because they didn't oppress them correctly? Because that's eerily similar to saying: "We're not white supremacists. We're actually just correcting the Africans' savage ways." You're basically saying that Latin America is hopeless without the intervention of the white man.
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Corporations should not be held accountable to their shareholders. The consumer should be king above all else. Shareholders don't care about the consumers. They only care about money, regardless of whether or not it comes at the consumer's expense.
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The fact that these same people who virtue signal about "protecting our freedoms" don't see the dystopian irony of them purged the entire administrative state of their opponents and replacing them with those loyal to the president. This is a hallmark of every dictator from Stalin, to Mao, to Castro, to Hitler. And to make it even more ironic? Stalin, Mao, and Castro were communists.
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Our country is not 250 years old yet. We'll be hitting our 250th anniversary in 2026.
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@TonyMontanaDS Yes, but they're wasting it. That's my point. They should have more, but they don't.
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@TonyMontanaDS In the reservoirs that have already been built. But what about all the other natural waterways currently suffering from drought?
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@mrcpaddler The idea than mankind is supposed to fight nature in order to survive is one of the dumbest concepts we ever created. It completely goes against how we evolved as a species. Nature is designed to work for our benefit. We're supposed to work with nature in order to preserve our natural resources.
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It will never make sense how using "best ever in the history of our country" and "worst ever in the history of our country" as your frame of reference is such a convincing argument to people. It's so vague. Give me specific comparisons. Saying best or worst ever just leaves what to the best or worst used to be totally to the imagination of the voter.
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The media should not be endorsing candidates. Their job is to be impartial. Just like how the media used to be in the 50's and 60's when Walter Kronkite was America's reporter. When the media endorses a candidate, it's no longer news media. It's just propaganda.
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@illfyouup That is not how it works. All races come in all shades. Just look at Latin Americans. You will find latinos that are both light and dark due to generations of racial mixing. My complexion doesn't make me white. My ethnicity is what makes me white. Perhaps I am half-white. I don't know. But my grandparents on both sides were from Puerto-Rico, so I'm definitely not fully white. I am at least half Puerto-Rican.
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In order for Trump to actually become a dictator and advance his dictatorial ambitions, he'd need to use legal loopholes and convinced the Republican Congress to vote in favor of it. He won't be able to do it if the Republican coalition can't unified. Basically, we're barely holding by a thread now. We're already an oligarch with Musk have enough economic and political power to threaten the Congress members with him funding their election opponents in order to do his bidding, but if the resistance in Congress completely crumbles and becomes totally loyal to the President, then we won't be a democracy anymore, because at that point, they'll only be accountable to Trump and his oligarchic cronies then the electorate, only serving them and not the people. We could still have elections, but just like in Russia, they'd be rigged and opposition would be suppressed, if not assassinated, so we'd only be a democracy in name only.
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@LauriSuoranta Shareholder skill issue. They're the ones that chose to invest in the company. Don't make an investment you'll regret if you don't want to lose money. It's the corporations' fault if they suck at their job. Especially because more often than not, what the shareholders want is at odds with what the consumer wants and workers' rights. Just look at how Nijisanji exploits their talents so that the shareholders can make more money and how that has directly resulted in the mass boycott of their company, causing their stock price to tank.
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