Comments by "Ida Larsen" (@idalarsen2540) on "Brian Tyler Cohen" channel.

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  4. It's about time Stacey Abrahms just gets appointed Queen of Georgia or whatever (I know that's not very democratic, buuuuut..), at least for a while, just so that she can make sure that these bad faith repukeliKKKans can't rig the election and suppress democratic voters. NB!!: I'm not American so don't come after me if I'm mistaken about anything I'm about to say. Isn't most residents of Georgia black people and/or people of color (I'm not too fond of that term as it divides literally one group of people (white ppl) from everybody else with more (or a lot more) melanin in their skin. That just feels.. segregating. I just don't know of any better way to put it:/ I know POC is a widely used term and I hope it's not offensive, despite it actually being (at least a bit..) offensive. Or am I just being too PC and overreacting? πŸ€” Irdk. Just food for thought. I'm white myself (as you can clearly see in my pic where I'm ghostly white lol, can't help it πŸ˜…πŸ˜…), so I'm not one to determine what's offensive or not. BUT ANYWAY, rambling over. Isn't the vast majority of Georgia's population POC, yet most political representatives white? Also, isn't the vast majority of Gerogia's population democrats/liberals/progressives/all in all left-leaning, yet again, their political representatives repukeliKKKans/conservatives/all in all right-leaning? Just asking. That's the impression that I've somehow gotten, and I don't know if it's right or wrong, or to what degree it's right or wrong. I literally just want to learn here, so there's no need to come at me. If ANYTHING that I said is offensive to someone, please tell me. I can't see how a single word, sentence or parapragh would be offensive as this is all rethorical, questions and objective. Still, please tell me if anything, literally anything made your nose wrinkle, and why. I'm curious and want to know. My thing is, if my first analysis is right, that seems to me to be a definite clear indicator on how undemocratic it is, and have been for far too long. I understand that there's nuances ti everything, and that just because you're black, doesn't mean that you vote democrat etc. I get that. I'm just speaking in more general terms. If my analysis or whatever is right, that'd mean there's an even bigger reason to label repukeliKKKans corrupt (I know most of them are, and I know many democrats are as well - most democrats just don't seem AS corrupt), and an even bigger reason to fight hard against these repukeliKKKans bad faith rethoric and clear voter suppression. I don't even understand how that's legal. In my country (Norway), if anything even remotely similar happened, there'd be a massive uproar. Not that anything like this would happen, because our elected officials literally can't try to rig elections. You get the most votes? You win. Our parliament is shared by MANY parties, not just two. We the people can vote for ANY existing party, and they get seats depending on the percentage of the votes. Unless you're on of the absolute biggest, most popular party, there's not even a guarantee you'll get a seat. We neither have presidents, we're more similar to the UK. We have a royal family, but they're fairly insignificant, unlike in the UK. For the most part, our royal family just represents our history, and represent us to the world. They really don't have any political influence at all. People barely pay any attention to them, lol. They're kinda just there. Our actual leader is a prime minister (who is a woman! I don't like her all too much because she's part of one of the most conservative parties we have. She's/her party is not too bad tho, they're not the absolute most conservative. Also, even our most conservative politicians/parties believe in free healthcare, abortion rights, social wellfare programs etc. All of that is standard here, not to be messed with). One party "rules all", or I guess it's more fitting to say they have the final say in all matters, but they HAVE TO work with two other parties as a joint leadership. The rest of the parties/politicians that gets certain amounts of seats leads as well, but they're mostly there to vote for those they represent, which they actually do. They all know they have to do what they promise before elections, because there's no way they can rig their way into parliament. It's not a perfect system, no system is. It's still WAAAAAAAY MORE democratic than America, and we're way more free. I don't understand how you feel you in America even come close to a democracy. America seems to hide beneath a democratic fasade, but that's it. The rest is corrupt. I'm privileged to not be an American, I must say...
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  6. That's offensive to children, despite me agreeing with the point lol. The thing is, children are simply ignorant/naive. The GQP on te other hand are just willfully ignorant, but not naive. They know what they're doing. They know better, but refuse to do better. When children know better, they do better. So there's a huge difference. The GQP is acting foolish, but they know exactly what they're doing. Children act foolish because they're children. At least children learn and grow. They own up to their mistakes, and wants to do better. RepukeliKKKans are willfully making calculated "mistakes" in order to get their badfaith point across. I respect children. I do NOT respect the GQP AT ALL. They deserve nothing but the worst, and I sure do hope that karma comes and kicks their behinds so hard, they'll wish they weren't ever even born. Shame on them. Shame. I'm not even American, I've never been there, never intend to go there. But I still care. I care, because I care about everyone. I care about earth. America holds such great influence globally, whether we like it or not. Hence why I care so much. Me, myself and my fellow Norwegians (as I am Norwegian) may not be directly affected by America, BUT we sure as heck get influenced indirectly. Not only are we in NATO together, meaning that whenever you Americans decide to invade some other country to "make them democratic" (aka STEAL their assets like oil etc.), we must follow and fight together. Not "just" that, but our politics are often greatly influenced by American politics. We've for a long time been called "America's little sibling". Our politicians have a tendency to follow their lead. Say for instance when it comes to drug laws. When Reagan declared "The War on Drugs", we followed. Same thing now. Most of us believe that marihuana should be (at least) legal medically. Many, but not as many, also believe that recreational usage should be legal. Most people in the extreme very least, believe that it should be decriminalized (along with other drugs intended for personal usage). Our politicians never dare to take such big political steps first. For some reason, they insist on always wanting until several other countries have done the same, especially America, and then, and only then do our leaders begin to even just consider change. It's like they want to see other nations/states fail or succeed first, before we implement the same policies. Personally, I think that's foolish, but that's how it goes. Therefore, I am very much interested in your (Americans) politics. They really do affect many more than just your own citizens. They influence the entire globe. It seems like Americans never think about this. They wanna be number one, the globe's greatest influence and leader, but refuse to even consider how their "lead" will actually end up influence others. You want credit for the good, but refuse to own the bad, and take accountability for the wrongdoings. How selfish and grandiose. If you wanna be leaders, act like it.
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  25.  @msmith53  Germany absolutely learned their lesson, and quickly too. Associating the german population of today, or let alone these past decades after the war (sure, ofc not everyone came around IMMIDIATLY after, and also - MANY germans were also victims of the war, so it's far from like all germans were nazi's), would be hella wrong and ignorant. Germany is a wonderful country with wonderdul people. I'm norwegian myself, which if you know just the basics of geopraphy, you know that we're very close, almost neighbours. We're (somewhat) divided by the ocean lol, but still, not by much. You can travel there (from Norway at least) on a cruiseship in about one day. You CAN drive there as well, but then you have to go through other countries, and that takes much longer than just taking the cruise. Anyways, I'm getting off track here lol. My point is, Germany and nazism have NOTHING but history to do with each other, and that's fortunately the way it's been for most of the time after the war until now. It didn't take them long to put up memorials and everything. They've not tried to hide this history, they've 'embraced it', in lack of a better term. Which I wish is what America would've done with slavery for instance. Instead of hiding history and trying to white wash the story, Germany said to "never forget". They have tons upon tons of memorials, they showcase their entire history. It's not like you see memorial statues on every corner, of course not. Still, the last thing they did was to forget it.. they've surely dealt with that piece of tragic history the best way anyone could. I don't know how they could have done it better, really. Germany surely deserves credit for this. Credit for not trying to hide or minimize any of the terrors that went on. Credit for working hard to write a new and justifiable history. I doubt there's even any german people that even remotely sympathizes with the nazi's (I know I can't think or speak for everyone. Sure, it's absolutely possible that a very small amount of people for whatever reason sympathize with the nazi movement, but no one would dare to even sound like, or cause any suspicion over whether they sympathize with the wrong side of history or not). Were there sympathizers after the war? Absolutely. Did they fade away fairly quickly? Absolutely. I wish americans would act the same way about their own bad parts of their history. Instead, many people want to erase the bad from their history books. They're for whatever reason to scared to let people get an honest and critical education about their dark history. They only want you to focus on Colombus' "good parts", making him more hero-like instead of telling the whole story. Racism is still far too rapid and blatant (obvs, ughh) in the states. Even by seeing how native americans and black people (America's most oppressed people throughout their history) are STILL getting treated unfairly is just awful. If you compare Germany and America today, it's clear as day how much better attitudes they have in Germany, and how much faster they were able to progress. I can't remember when Colombus invaded/colonized America or when slavery was abolished, but I know for sure it's hundreds of years. Now, it says a lot when attitudes from the slavery era is still going around in America, despite how long ago it was (especially compared to how "little" time it was since WW2). America's CLEARLY done so much so terribly wrong when it comes to this. Germany at least managed to "quickly" change their attitudes. You have no excuse for these terrible attitudes STILL being prevalent to this very day. Germany managed to do a complete turn around in just a few years (remember, WW2 ended in 1945 which isn't really that long ago), while America, after hundreds of years, STILL want to remove the ugliest parts of their history. Now that's disgusting. Look, I obvs know there's so much more to American history than just Colombus and slavery, I just picked the two most noteable parts that everyone knows about. America' it's so far past due time to learn. You can't hide your past. Embrace it, so that you can come out even stronger, like Germany so clearly did. Heck, if anything, it would be far more correct to tie nazism to America than Germany. There's faaaaar more nazi-sympathizers over there than in Germany, or even Europe as a whole. That's scary. Saying neo-nazi would be more correct tho, I get that. I'm very aware of how America was an important ally for us to win the war, but still. That good fact doesn't change the disgusting fact that there are so many proud nationalists, neo-nazi's, white supremacists etc freely and proudly roaming around, shouting their beliefs out loud, with no shame. This has got to stop. Nazism of any kind should've officially ended in every way decades ago. It should have been properly over and done with in 1945. It's time to learn from, value and embrace history, to make the world better for literally everyone. It's clear as day that not hiding your bad past, but learning and growing from it is the much better option. Stop the white washing!!!
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  35. @UCJjyiyIk4nWczsGw6xtWWEQ Lol okay sooooo you're saying FAUX hosts don't have the same inherent emotions everyone on the planet have? πŸ€” Hmmmm, mkay then. Makes sense. Secondly, no. He said that he have a right to know that he won't be exposed to a dangerous virus while on an airplane; essentially that he have a right, like anyone else to be safe. Whether by means of proof of vaccination or a valid, negative test before entering - as long as the public don't have to worry about their own health and safety. It's literally the same principle as eveey other safeguard we have everywhere, like ensuring that nobody brings weapons or drugs etc. Same thing. You have every right to harm or put yourself in danger, just not anyone else. Your right to do "whatever" stops the second that "right" potentially or definitely infringes on anyone else's equal rights. It never seizes to amaze me how hard that is for so many people to understand. Also as a sidenote: just concluding that what you're saying is right by slapping on "for obivious reasons" at the end is stupid. Especially since this is suuuuuuch a difficult issue for you, an issue you just can't stop arguing about, then obiviously, there's no such thing as "for obivious reasons" here. Obiviously. Then when it comes to the age-thing.. my goodness. Okay, let's just say you're right and this is "old people stuff". Are we not supposed to care about their health and lives? Their rights? 'Cause that's very much what you're saying there in that statement. You're wrong anyway.. sure, in the beginning it affected mostly older people, but far from just old people. Throughout it all, it's affected those with the weakest lungs and immune system, those with other issues and diseases like obesity/morbid obesity, asthma, cancer etc. Although younger people are generally more healthy and older people generally are in worse health, it's far from a reasonable generality to go by, as there are so many not just young people (say 20-40/50), but children, including toddlers with all kinds of health issues. Many of these people simply don't have adequate health to even get vaccinated, especially those who are immunocompromised. That's one of the main factors herd immunity is crucial. Most of us are healthy enough/have "normal" functioning immune systems to handle both illnesses and especially vaccinations. Those among us, who consist of literally ALL AGES, don't have any choice but to rely on the rest of us acting appropriatly, by protecting ourselves, which then automatically protects those voulnerable among us. We also have to take into account that as the virus have been allowed to get stronger and more resistent, even healthy people face bigger and bigger risks ourselves. There's been a steady increase of young and healthy people becoming very sick, many requiring hospitalization, some even dying. Getting vaccinated and following other basic guidelines like staying clean, coughing and sneezing into a tissue or whatever instead of just out in the open, keeping apporpriate distance etc DOES WORK. We're not just doing this to protect ourselves, but everyone else as well. If only America handled this appropriatly from the beginning, you wouldn't have 700 000 (or so) DEATHS in America alone, and covid wouldn't be able to form stronger variants, like the one domimating now, the Delta variant. If you look at stats from America where the rules have been generally quite relaxed, to other nations that took it VERY SERIOUSLY from start, where the attitude was more 'one for all, and all for one', the percentage of both death, hospitalization and infections, it's clear as day that social distancing methods work, and the super strong efficasy of the vaccines. Those nations that took it seriously from top to bottom have almost no cases anymore, and extremely low numbers of infections, and nearly no deaths and very low hospitalization numbers. It's extremely clear that the health guidelines put in place worked extremely well, and as soon as vaccinations became more and more available, it's almost entirely gone.. at least very close to it. This is pure science and logic. People like you who only care about yourself, who complained about not being able to get haircuts and such, who refused to wear masks and refuse to take the vaccine are part of the reason why this have been dragged out further. You've only worked against your own interests and wishes by refusing to take it seriously. If you took it seriously from the beginning, you could've gotten back to normal much quicker.. but oh no. Your actions helped covid flourish instead of the economy, your access to a normal life without restrictions etc. With every action comes a reaction, and your actions helped cause the exact reactions you've been protesting against. Congratulations.
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