Comments by "Praise The Sun" (@Praisethesunson) on "Big Think" channel.

  1. The U.S doesn't care about Islamic Fundamentalist extremists in the Middle east. If we did we would support and be allied with the most Islamic Fundamentalist country in the region(Saudi Arabia). The U.S has considered middle East oil a tremendous source of strategic power and the most valuable material prize in world history since 1950. Because controlling that oil give the U.S influence over the development of rival nations (South Korea, Japan, Europe, India, and China) in a way direct military force could never match.
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  2.  @anthonymorris5084  You have peak serf brain
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  3. ​ @Doss3332 no it isn't
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  4. That's niggas head hair is proof their is no higher power influencing our behavior. It takes a terrible kind of free will for that to exist.
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  5. States have nuclear weapons. No rich person will ever get them.
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  6. They aren't allowed to ever challenge the economic status quo that our corporate overlords benefit from.
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  7.  @harrycurtis6822  Charles Koch would appreciate your simping if he cared about your plebe existence.
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  8. OMG a koch brothers funded piece. They (not surprisingly) left out that the vast majority of other nations want nuclear weapons free zones. Which the U.S(and it's client state Israel) roundly disagrees with that otherwise global consensus. Meanwhile the only handful nations of who haven't signed the non proliferation treaty are India, Israel, Pakistan, and the U.S ignores it. Also the U.S has had at least 13 "broken arrows" (military term for oops we lost or mishandled a nuclear weapon) since they've had them. Yet they want to lecture the world on best practices. sure buddy. All to totally avoid the obvious issue that the reason the U.S doesn't want Iran to have a nuclear weapon because then the U.S can't threaten violent intervention.
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  9. That's bad for the profits the already wealthy own. Get back to work
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  10. I wish they were quicker to learn that storming into random houses in trashcanistan at 3 in the morning and snatching people away like the fucking boogie man is terrible policy that does nothing to help American interests.
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  11. Yeah but if we fund space missions where will we get the money for missiles to drop on dirt farmers in Yemen, Syria, Afghanistan, and a half dozen other countries? WHERE?!
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  12. Her point wasn't clear to me. I now keep cabbages under my bed for ghost prevention.
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  13. Only workers organized together can emancipate each other from the shackles of wage slavery. Even the saddest small business would work their single worker to death if it meant a few extra pennies this fiscal quarter. Every single right and benefit workers have was fought for by workers. Nothing has ever been given on high from the ghouls that directly benefit from exploiting workers as much as possible.
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  14.  @MiloTheFirst1  You can't "secretly" refine uranium or test weapons(it requires tons of massive supercomputers not literally setting bombs off which would be instantly and internationally detected). The Operating costs are still well beyond even the richest people to attempt. Nuclear weapons require states. Businesses cannot and never have been able to build nuclear weapons. As close as they have ever gotten is managing some weapons for a state but that isn't even in the same galaxy as actually controlling nuclear weapons.
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  15.  @harrycurtis6822  I told you a fact not an arguement. Your Obvious dislike of that reality is irrelevant.
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  16. I smoke cigarettes to lose weight. I dropped 90lbs.
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  17. Is there a test for that? I totally want to make a kid that cures cancer.
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  18. This was a long winded way to say "Eat the Rich"
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  19. CIA level funding for this vid
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  20. Yeah. They should be a western style democracy. Let's keep dropping 21st century explosives on them until they agree with use. We have the might so we must be right.
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  21. The game is called "class war" and the top is winning.
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  22. Nothing says different like trying to form a union. You wanna be kind of different that is risky in the workplace, try to organize your coworkers to collectively assert your rights. Spoiler: You will be fired and blacklisted in that industry.
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  23. Well that will bring great solace to the billions of people living in such conditions. They can descend into hopelessness all they want. As long as they don't do anything dangerous (to the powers that be) like use that suffering as a template for collective action to change those conditions.
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  24. I can't unsee that now.
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  25. Well who else are my political leaders supposed to blame for the country's ills? Corporations? But they have money and influence. Blaming Paco is so much more politically safe because he is more likely to be lower income and can't vote said political leaders out of office.
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  26. Why does that guy knowingly leave his house dressed like a 1910 watch maker?
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  27. Oh of course it can. But have you seen how much more money can be made if people take synthetic heroin instead?
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  28. Air Em Out 00:03 into the video. Big think. brought to you by the Charles koch foundation.
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  29. The U.S is an empire. Empires needs to maintain control over their domestic population(so massive domestic digital spy program if every American, constitution be dammed), and observe potential threats from foreign powers(gotta make sure none if that oil in the middle east ever gets pipelines to India and China. Doesn't matter if that would mean cheap easy access to the most valuable resource in world history to 40% of the global population). This speaker is dumb. He has no ides that defense spending is a massive unaccountable subsidy to develop the high tech economy of the future.
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  30. I gotta hand it to him. He's got a leg up on me.
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  31. But profiling plays so well into my personal prejudices.
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  32. It's a disturbingly low bar in either case.
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  33. Unsubbed. Absolutely tone deaf trying to distract from living conditions being objectively worse and more percaious for 90% of the popualtions he's yapping about. as teleprompted at us by a trust fund kid.
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  34. Her plan means the rest of your life only until age 58
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  35. We don't need to produce more food. We need to distribute it more fairly. Good final point after that hippy dippy rant. Now I have to go look up why 70% of apples in Mexico are wasted.
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  36. Does big think only know 2 scientists and 1 engineer? What happened to the actual science? This fool might as well just say he like drugs because timey wimey stuff he lacks to qualifications to adequately explain. Ask a neurologist about the potential benefits of drugs use. A psychologist on using drugs in treatment practices. How about a marketing expert on how our senses are being influenced in the modern world? Stop with the philosophy already. We enough meaningless opinion pieces from modern news. Big think, teach me something real please.
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  37. This week on Old man yells at cloud.
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  38. Way to shift demographics from rich to poor. All the wealthy can live in some city while all the poor/undesirables can be shipped to some no where dessert to fight for scrape. What I'm saying is border less world turns everywhere into Australia. Not in a good way.
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  39. God this video makes me so angry I just want to punch something smaller and more disadvantaged then I am!!!
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  40. She clearly wants to marry the Nye for U.S Citizenship.
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  41. Coke sponsors the majority of public events for public schools in the United States. They make their product more easily accessible than any other drink. They have indentured their product into our actual culture. Yet in blind taste tests people choose Pepsi far more often then coke. They are the most successful brand in human history. Which is what I thought this video would be about. Instead shaggy from Scooby Doo told some BS philosophy about relevancy of products.
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  42. If they are minorities isn't it less then half the story?
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  43. #feelmyjohnson
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  44. So?
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  45. I wish he picked Adam west batman's voice to imitate instead of gravel throat mcGOTHam.
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  46. I'm so glad the U.S doesn't regulate these pills because Utah's senators want that state to be a global fake pill mill.
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  47. The main counter argument is "Harris is a deliberately charlatan acting to enrich himself at the expense of others". The main ignores corporate power(the force deliberately ruining our ability to talk to each other) because he wants money more than he wants to "fix" the problems he points out to grift with.
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  48. This old bag in designer clothing that cost more than a 3 months rent, telling other people "work until you die plebs". Capitalism is a blight on humanity. This woman is pro feudalism.
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  49. This ghoulish brit hasn't noticed that life expectancy is going down in the U.K and U.S thanks to the very system she treats as some immutable law of nature(capitalism).
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  50. Good news. The world will be fine. America will just further impoverish its own domestic population to maintain profits.
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  51. You are silly. Human nature changes. It just does so on an evolutionary scale. That's why you still have paleolithic emotions.
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  52.  @SilentStormParadox  The people who want you to work until you die only serve the rich. The rich serve no one. They have no souls
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  53. We'll do anything except fix the planet we were forged on through billions of years of evolution.
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  54. Obviously they will feed on the exploited labor of the poorest people.
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  55. Cause organization of the rabble is forbidden. You as an individual have to do things because individuals have no power compared to existing systems of power. Also economists are just voodoo priests for the god called markets.
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  56.  @anthonymorris5084  Corporations are why the number 1 cause of bankruptcy in the U.S is medical debt and why you will never have guaranteed access to basic shelter.
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  57. American, Canadian, and Russian policies towards oil have guaranteed that 4 degrees is what we will see by 2100.
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  58. Reading your comment I'd never guess corporations even exist let alone know their power over society is the the actual problem
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  59. This is a blatant lie. Florida is a mess of speculative boomer plaaygrounds and Texas still has the worst power grid in the nation. Their GDP means less than nothing.
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  60. ​ @5353Jumper Charles Koch doesn't care how you individually consumer. Individual action cannot change system problems
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  61.  @5353Jumper  You don't buy anything from his companies. He doesn't sell to plebs like you. You as a consumer don't have the ability to threaten his business model at all.
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  62.  @5353Jumper  If you think you can threaten the capitalist system by consuming but different. You already lost. Koch doesn't sell to you. You can't impact him if all you do is consume.
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  63.  @5353Jumper  wrong on both counts. You need to Imagine your role in society as more than an individual consumer. You are so used to your chains you cannot see your life without them.
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  64.  @5353Jumper  koch has killed more mass public transit bills across the U.S than the text limit will let me post. You need to act collectively with other people on a mutual interest of a hospitable planet being more important than short term profits.
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  65. This presentation brought to you by the Koch brothers refuses to acknowledge that the U.S has over 800+ thermonuclear weapons pointed at China. Meanwhile China is the only nuclear power on the planet with a sane nuclear weapons policy. China is more open to trade than any other western power. China is the middle kingdom looking for tribute from other nations. The west wants war in/against China cause they want to open those markets up in a way that services western (financial) corporate power.
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  66. Harris has been at loss for meaning since his blatant anti muslim sentiment lost traction with the broader public.
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  67. Just tap into your family trust like her you plebes
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