Comments by "Mighty One" (@mightyone3737) on "More Perfect Union" channel.

  1.  @seitanbeatsyourmeat666  The peanut butter over here has the peanut oil removed because peanut oil is prone to separation if you don't refrigerate it (it melts at room temperature, but we have a bottle and it's semi-solid in our cellar). Still, if the fat you put in to replace it has a different consistency then it's almost certainly worse for you, because they're adding fat that stays more firm at elevated temperature (meaning it's probably palm oil, which is artificially cheap).
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  2. The habit forming nature of these foods is part of how they work, if you've never had access to good vegetables you don't know how enjoyable it can be to eat them, and similarly, if you haven't trained your body to eat raw vegetables it will take time to get used to them, this is part of why children need to have access to real food, if a kid doesn't think good raisins (like flame or lexia) are sweet, they need to work on their palate, they're eating too much non-sugar sweeteners, because a lexia raisin is generally more than half sugar by weight. Because I eat primarily actual food, and even did as a kid, I've never been overly fond of fast food, I've always preferred actual home cooked food when I have the option. I remember being a kid and hearing other kids talk about how much they loved mcdonalds food, especially the fries! I couldn't believe it, we didn't eat it very often, but I had tried it, and while it was better than a 'bad' meal at home, we had almost no such meals, so mcdonalds tasted cheap and artificial. At this point I literally grow my own potatoes, garlic, onions, leeks, tomatoes, peppers, etc many of which get processed. As a side effect I eat better than most people period, regardless of their wealth, it doesn't hurt that I'm also an excellent cook, but growing a lot of my own food really changes things. I've even raised and processed some chickens, it's unreal how different the meat tasted and smelled, it turns out chicken has plenty of flavor if you don't butcher it when it's a tiny baby bird that's still putting on weight, we had dressed chickens that were well over 10lb, one breast could feed 3 or 4 people on a regular night, our food is a nightmare. The issue with peanut butter isn't actually taste, it's texture, pure peanut butter (made with nothing but peanuts) tastes quite good, but it is also relatively stiff, and it's prone to separation the more finely you grind it (and if you remove those thin skins, that's another big thing! the shell can go, but afaik the skins help with digesting peanuts). I know about this because we lived near a store that sold peanut butter that was ground on demand, from their own roasted peanuts. It was very nifty.
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  3. How did this 100% tax fear ever make sense to anyone?? In india the lower casts got to clean up poop by hand, let me assure you that's WELL BELOW 100% tax rate. The real question is why does conservative propaganda 'hit harder' than progressive? I know as a kid all the progressive propaganda was awful preachy BS, maybe that's still the issue? You could perhaps double the wages of most bottom wage Americans and the system wouldn't actually collapse (the % that's going up to the ultra wealthy is obscene), but the weird inflation would result in the reduction in wealth held by the already wealthy, so it'll never happen. Capitalism works because the system has been set up to exploit the worker class, and once you have it in place all of the establishment types immediately act like you're aborting their first born if you want to tax them or change the system, let alone help the poor!
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  4. I'm 6 minutes in, I'm pretty sure the private equity guys are the tapeworms of capitalism? Why is this kind of thing tolerated? It's literally nothing but the enshitification of the world, an example of a small group of people profiting from making life shittier for almost everyone.
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  5. I'd prefer to say it like this, ticketmaster did an awful thing (it enshittified one of the more sacred aspects of human expression), and because it did that awful thing it was rewarded with a monopoly on that thing, because it was so evil! It's nice to know that capitalism is literally selecting for evil, there was a time I doubted it even, hard to believe.
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  6. I got an ad by people whining about the Capital Gains Tax on this vid. Make it make sense ut00b, make it make sense.
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  7. Re-labeled slavery is pretty solid proof that the US is a deeply messed up country. It's been said before but it ought to be repeated, 'the capitalists won't be happy until the poor are all slaves', conservatives literally don't believe in equality, be it before the law or just in general, to a conservative if you're poor you need to be punished for not having worked hard enough to be rich: this is done not because poor people working harder will ever alleviate their poverty, the poor are to be punished for their poverty *because to not do so would lead them to question how rich people got rich*. We've been made painfully aware that they aren't smarter or more competent (hooray for modern media, it turns out the right can own ALL the media yet be so idiotic that they can't manage it for shit), yet we still keep propping them up.
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  8. This man is this rich because his odious personality is what our society looks on and wishes to reward. Our society doesn't reward hard work, diligence, morality, or ethical character, it rewards selfishness and greed. I'm willing to bet I worked harder before I was 10 years old than that sack of crap ever did. Also, ffs, there is no similarity between gambling and investments made by the wealthy, look into their rate of return some time, it's not gambling when you have no chance of losing. The stock market for the rich is a money printing engine, it can only print so much money (as a % of existing money) at a time, but there are only so many rich, so they don't mind sharing it, as long as they keep the poor from gaining any of the pie. It's been the strategy since the 50s to slowly grow the wages of the middle class (and to shrink those of the poor) such that they're effectively losing ground, but due to advances in tech they'll barely notice that their quality of life hasn't been improving, they just have more dumb gadgets that will quickly break, because once they couldn't really pay workers any less (or work them any harder, downsizing had done it's job) they had to make the quality of goods go down to raise profit margins, otherwise the line wouldn't go up and capitalism would be revealed for the lie it is (and the wealth of the wealthy would be stripped from their cooling remains).
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  9. Sweet son of Satan hearing a dumb goober sing about how the 'rich men of the north' are trying to exert control when the USA has been ruled by the racists since day 1 is insane... oh, and those racists? They're more common in the South, but the North finds and rewards them, mostly because of the influence of the the racist AF founding fathers that arranged things so racists would always have power. It has occurred to me that the South was 'supposed' to win the civil war, if you actually read about it they had a TON of advantages because most of the veteran soldiers were rebels, the South had prepared with some combat with Mexico, the North was arguably deliberately unprepared, in the hopes that the South could just blitzkrieg (not a term they'd use) the North into submission. A funny thing I've noticed about myself, if I'm ignorant about something I often do the most wrong thing... ever wonder why the Rs want voters ignorant AF? It's because they vote against their interests VERY reliably, they'll actually TRY to vote against their interests out of ignorance.
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  10. Tipping is fundamentally stupid, it's just a way for assholes to feel powerful and to keep workers desperate. It's insane that companies can not only pay workers shitty wages, they can also steal tip money. Also, how about all of these awful capitalist groups just get called 'The Money-Havers Alliance'? The only thing binding them is money, and all of those groups play together for the same team.
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  11. All of this is a part of why I buy beef from small producers, local butchers that source local meat. I've met some of the people who grow my beef, and I think that's a good thing.
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  12. It's also important to remember that something akin to this will happen to every industry if we let it, late stage capitalism is about nothing more than consolidation and exploitation.
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  13. The endless irony to me is that we didn't buy stuff like this when I was a kid explicitly because it was too expensive, no part of me is surprised to find out they're basically poison. Why is everything marketed to poor people so expensive??
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