Comments by "Eli Nope" (@elinope4745) on "TED" channel.

  1. Facebook and twitter censor political stances and movements, just like China does.
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  2. I call bullshit on the idea that integrating migrants into the US does nothing. The US is the worst in the world when it comes to per capita global footprint. Integrating migrants into the US drastically accelerates manmade climate change.
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  3. Its racist even if its talking about Asians or Caucasians.
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  4. I think more people with vegetable gardens is a good idea. Also more fruit bearing trees. Farmer markets are great.
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  5. Look at "the Pirate Party" there are groups who are trying to perform real solutions that fall outside of political and media narratives, including some of the narratives espoused by this speaker.
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  6. Some medications cost a ton to fabricate, most do not and are simply overpriced. Some medications cost a lot in research and development, most do not and are simply old drugs rebranded as treating a new symptom. We need to be able to differentiate between these. Some drugs are naturally expensive, but most are just unethically artificially priced high for profit. We do need copyright reform.
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  7.  @Bfould3120  The government has a long history of decieving and cheating the public. At the very least I don't want a senate with the same people who served in 2008.
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  8. No, you have to open your eyes and see that you can buy more with the same money in the future. You just got to wait for it to bloom first. When you see it the right way, your natural greed will have you saving and investing. Change your perspective, change your life.
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  9. Most people don't seem to be able to see through the simple façade. In the US, the democrats and the republicans are the same party. We have a one party system that works for the major corporations to the detriment of the people.
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  10. Honduras gangs are funded by the cocaine industry that supplies the illegal drugs. The same big corporations that push for more immigration of cheap labor, also push for the war on drugs that fund the violence in the countries that push those immigrants to leave their families, their homes to go work for low prices in a country that is drastically more expensive to live.
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  11. I heard that 9 out of 10 people enjoy gang rape.
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  12. Would you enslave your family members? We do all live in the same house. Live and let live, or be nosey and controlling. We all have to share the same planet though. Make sure people don't rightfully view it as an evil world that should be destroyed.
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  13. Aunt Manda i agree that violent rape is one of the worst crimes. i would categorize it as a type of aggravated assault, and a severe form of it as well. it would be comparable to causing spinal injuries that lead to life long paralysis and dysfunction that destroys the value of life.  it is just that the absolute worst crimes are just a little nastier. aggravated assault that leads to murder (including the rape and murder of a person) is the worst of the worst. it is the big ugly. now this hurts many more people as nobody wants their kid or brother or mother to be killed, especially in a violent manner, so it hurts survivors as well as the victim. (all crimes effect society by having lasting impacts on the victims except for this one which has stronger impacts on survivors).  when a girl is raped and a boy is lit on fire and allowed to burn to death while awake and not on drugs. the boy has suffered the worse crime. boys are overwhelmingly more likely to be killed by fire than girls are. and burning to death is worse than rape.  also don't make assumptions on people's lives. i have experienced many forms of abuse, sexual abuse being among them. 
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  14. KAM COLORADO the women i talk to say that it is mostly women that don't like women. a lot of them also don't like women and prefer to hang around men. you would be surprised with how many women i have met that told me the first day that i knew them that "they were not like other women". guys on the other hand like pretty women, and women who share their interests (whether pretty or not).
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  15. KAM COLORADO many men are abused and controlled, and they need shelters to protect them from their abusive wives. men frequently need protection from each other. (men are the largest group of victims of violent crimes). consider all the boys that boko haram burned alive at their schools, they needed protection. they didn't get protection because of their gender. the girls who were allowed to live, they got help sent their way and international support. girls always get more support than boys, and women always get more support than men.
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  16. KAM COLORADO men are the majority of the victims of men. men need more protection from men than women do. women are the majority of the victims of women as well. luckily for women, they aren't half as physically violent as men are, unless their opponent is clearly defenseless.
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  17. although human CO2 emissions are a big problem, it is far from the biggest fish to fry on this. CO2 is useful for crops, it needs to be in the right places (such as not over the ocean), and we will need CO2 to provide food because of the changing weather cycles. many old farms will drought, many will flood, those that are left must be able to provide enough food for the populations. we will have to actively cool the world by blocking sunlight, this will require us to go to space and move celestial objects. a geosynchronous asteroid or 10,000 will be needed to help block out the growing sunlight. don't think it has to do with the sun? go ahead and explain the changing weather on the other planets then. we aren't polluting jupiter.
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  18.  @stevenhoog1  So what you are saying is that the group of people who want to help you is a power greater than yourself? Have you ever heard of Descarte's famous saying, "I think therefore I am"? It is you who gives those things value, it is you who prizes the group of people over yourself. But the reality is that there is a tiny chance that those people are all a figment of your imagination. The pantheist god may be a higher power than you, and is certainly a thing. But such a god does not care about you nor what activities you do, what drugs you consume, or if you are alive at all.
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  19.  @stevenhoog1  I don't believe in sick minds. Its a made up thing used in order to control behavior and thoughts. A sick mind is a mind that doesn't work well or mesh well with society as a whole. But there are societies in which well adjustment is not a sign of good mental health. The governments of the world today are sick, if you don't mesh well with society that is probably a good thing.
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  20.  @stevenhoog1  I agree that you gotta try to become stronger and better by your own internal standards. Your higher being is the future you that you could become, if only you put the work in to do so now. As for drugs, its a big gray hazy area for me. Two people with two different lives could be doing the same drug at the same rate and same amount with it being a major problem for one and not a problem at all for the other. Different people have different bars and different standards for different things. But people who are trying to quit an addiction are by default trying to become stronger and more independent.
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  21. a good person would not take away the autonomy (freedom to choose) of another person. a good country would not take away the autonomy of another country. a good culture would not take away the autonomy of another culture. on an international scale, i can see that most moral laws are indeed immoral.
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  22. fightfanian i agree, but over time i have seen the same problems in political beliefs. progressives ignore the fact that they are fighting against ideologies that are based on fiction when they themselves use ideologies based on fiction. patriarchy theory of modern feminism is just as false as any religion. forced freedom is not freedom. to force liberty on people is the same as forcing any other ideology.  there is very little difference between the west forcing western values on islamic countries, and islamic countries forcing islamic values on western countries. both are bad things, both are evil and both should be avoided.
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  23. wow this story about caroline and ET makes me think that little girls are super sensitive and useless. her whole story made me think less of women and girls. i had assumed that people were strong enough to watch a movie and not cry because they weren't the star in it. but if girls can't handle that, than we really need to address that fragility.
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  24. it is your job as an individual to be a detective on how you are being manipulated. you need to learn how manipulation works, you need to understand past examples of manipulation and how it applied. you need to look at motivation to manipulate people's behavior and look at who gains and who loses. when you understand this, you can create a 2nd account on anonymous block chains, and you can manipulate just as well as they can. when everyone does this, than the whole thing falls apart.
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  25. i got an idea for gender equality, people should kill more women. women are not violently killed at anywhere close to the rate that men are violently killed. support gender equality, kill a feminist. they won't understand the gravity of the situation until that starts happening. don't really kill feminists, this statement is just an attempt to help them empathize.
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  26. Jaquelynn Gering women cry more than men. "why we cry" - american psychological association.  "THE IMPACT OF PREGNANCY ON U.S. ARMY READINESS" - merideth bucher  i am relatively sure he is comparing STEM careers to the career fields you DON'T see feminists fighting for more. the fields of work where A- there are a relatively high number of work place deaths (yes there are a few exceptions, but in those exceptions you can count the women on one hand, while there are hundreds or thousands of men) such as elite or front line military, underwater welding, nuclear waste clean up, lumberjack (the old style where you do it, not a machine), sky scraper construction, etc.  go look at the two women who passed the ranger course, they didn't carry machine guns (the M240-B) ,and they recycled courses more than men are allowed to without failure. i'm not going to try and go dig for it, there was a personal report leaked and you can find it, it wasn't put out in the media, although another personal report by a general was before the girls passed and that general basically said the girls would pass or the trainers would find new women that could. basically they were going to find women and push them until the women passed and they were going to suffer if they didn't do as the general told them.  a lot of this stuff has been traced in books about the wage gap myth, it is easy enough to find credible sources on the wage gap myth just using the youtube search field. at least one leading feminist from the 70's wrote a book about this. 
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  27. who's going to wound them? the police? who tend to be on the alt right side or untrained? the military which is mostly conservative? the progressives which believe owning a gun is a threat to themselves? i don't think dead and imprisoned is reasonable, rather i see a lot of dead people on both sides and the government fracturing, perhaps being taken over by military generals.
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  28. krag3r if they are defending further immigration on their land than yes. they have a right to push back upon people taking their land.
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  29. i still vote sanders over trump, and trump over clinton. bernie or bust.
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  30. this video and the last one are like night and day. i like this type of video, thank you Anjali for your thoughtful speech.
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  31. 4:45 anonymous threatens to release information. anonymous is ran and organized by the FBI for the most part ever since it arrested and adopted the original (rebellious members) that hung out on 4chan. that was back in 2010-2011. CIA organizes and arms ISIS and FBI (different wing) also stages terrorist attacks as well as works with DEA to smuggle drugs and blackmail/bribe politicians. not only is our government inept at cyber warfare, they are often the people behind the terrorists within warfare. the biggest threat to the common american's security is not a muslim, it is the secret services that operate illegally and above the law within our own borders. they have government sanction to do as they please and answer to nobody. and they are willing to kill innocent people to keep their activities secret.
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  32. the idea that you can just turn off an AI is part myth. by the time it becomes dangerous, you won't be able to do that. look at how mass surveillance has become dangerous. can you just turn off your phone if you don't want the CIA to use it to spy on you? can you just turn off your TV if you don't want the government to use it to spy on you? even when the device is "off" it still functions as intended and spies.
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  33. kingofprussia17 worker coops are better than corporations for the vast majority of people (but not for the top deciders who are drastically overpaid to the detriment of other employees). but when worker coops start getting big, the country that supports them gets attacked and war is declared on it (see spain).  organized work is great for the economy. corporations are not the only available method, they simply are the method that is best at corrupting governments to put laws in place that create corporate monopolies and at the same time create an oligarchy of wealthy people who's interests are placed above everyone else's.  if you  haven't noticed corporations have crushed the open source movement, not through competition but through new laws that give the corporations monopolies. our copyright laws have become a joke, they exist purely to support the oligarchy and to suppress innovation.  corporations were great, in the 1940's through 1960's. but since then they have become corrupt and destructive to the lives of the people who live in the governments that sustain them.  there is a food coop named "Costco" that exists on the west coast of the united states, i prefer that store far over "sam's club" on the east coast. as a customer i can barely tell the difference. but the reality is that employees at costco get paid twice what sam's club employees get paid (and sometimes more than twice). this is because costco is employee owned and sam's club is a subsidiary of the walmart corporation. costco does it better. costco is a net benefit to the communities who it serves. sam's club is a parasite taking local money and centralizing it in the hands of the oligarchy. 
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  34. Xanxei cat calling is a communication of one person to another telling the other person that they are attractive. it is a compliment. the problem is that women don't cat call men often enough. they refuse to extend the courtesy that men extend to women. furthermore attempting to stop men from communicating is an attack on their autonomy and is sexist against men.
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  35. Xanxei yes i think it is reasonable to have some form of communication that you don't want to be cat called. simply being unattractive works for a lot of women. and oppressing men and censoring their communication so that women don't have to be annoyed is far from seeking equality. if you want equality than more women should be cat calling men. we should have equal freedom. if we want to tear people down and limit their freedom to make everyone equal than we should just start a nuclear war that kills everyone. than we will all be equally dead. and nobody will be able to do anything that offends anyone. i stand for liberty. don't want to be cat called? you should have the right to communicate that desire.
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  36. Xanxei so suddenly what women want is more important than what men want? and you call that equality? i don't think so. i am an egalitarian. everyone has the right to free speech and nobody has the right to censor the speech of other people. you have the right to go protest, and i have the right to cat call attractive women. if one is harassment than so is the other.
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  37. Xanxei i do defend that right. and do you know what? its great for black people. you see people are going to be racist even if they shut up about it. if you are a black person and all white people hide their racism, than all white people look like potential racists. its a much better world if you can tell the racists apart from the non-racists. i also think everyone should be able to wear their bigotry on their sleeves that way everyone else can know who to get to know and who is just a waste of their time. that is why i stand up for your right to openly be a feminist.
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  38. xEvanRocks i will be dismissed by those who could not be swayed by rational thought. those people will never be organized enough to defeat those who do use rational thought and work together. emotion might lead to belief. but without rational thought and understanding you will never be able to come up with an effective strategy of change.
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  39. Xanxei my stance would be that all public places are areas where free speech may be expressed (including the right to cat call people), as the government has an onus not to suppress free speech and to support free speech (specifically unpopular speech). since public land is government controlled, i believe there should never be any form of censorship on public lands. (obviously does not apply to illegal speech such as a call to violence or a lie intending to cause harm through massive panic). i am opposed to public lands that censor profanity and nudity. i am opposed to any attempt by the government to squash peaceful debate or protest. i admit to the possibility of me worrying incorrectly here, but i fear that free speech is being eroded and that some powerful people are "astro-turfing" (starting false grass roots movements that are actually funded and organized by powerful institutions with specific political agendas) movements that erode free speech in an attempt to suppress peaceful revolution and political dissent in the future. in order to preserve free speech, i fight to protect all speech, especially unpopular speech. i would defend someone's right to scratch their balls in public, just like i would defend another person's rights to call them gross in public for doing so. i am not concerned with the uncouthness of a situation, rather i am concerned with the preservation of the ability to communicate unpopular things. (of any political stance, including stances that i adamantly disagree with so long as they are not an erosion of free speech). i believe that speech must remain free and thoughts must remain free. these things are sacred to me. the first amendment is all about the protection of belief and speech, it is the very first human right protected in the constitution for a reason, and the second is guns to make sure that violence can back up the first if it is abridged. the correct political action to suppression of speech and thought is to kill the person doing the suppression. free speech allows for peaceful political change, if that is not possible than violent political change follows. nobody has the right to not be offended. nobody has the right to censor others or to control their thoughts and beliefs. once these things are breached than civilization has been breached and we revert to the natural order. in the natural order there is no right to life. i stand by these things. i will fight for these things. i am a veteran of wars in iraq and afghanistan. i am a firm believer in the constitution. i have fought for these principles before (actually i believe i was deceived while i was young and ignorant), and i will fight for them again if needed. but i don't think it should come down to that. you have the right to offend me. you do not have the right to silence me. you have the right to be protected from my physical violence, but not my verbal non-threatening attacks. i do not have the right to be protected from your verbal attacks. but the second one group silences and censors the other, it is a declaration of war and an invitation to violent conflict in the truth meaning of the word. the type that doesn't just offend, but leaves dead bodies in its wake. i don't believe it should ever come to that. rather i think that public awareness for the most part works, and that awareness is spread through freedom of speech. most people are good people, that don't want to see others harmed (this is especially true of veterans who have seen too many people die over stuff that should have been talked out instead of gunned out). most young men do not understand the perspective of pretty women who have to go through being cat called around every corner they cross. they don't understand because women don't cat call them. they have no ability to empathize because to them it is a compliment. women should SHARE their experience first hand, by returning the favor. until that happens men and women will live in different worlds with different perspectives. at the same time many women do not realize that a lot of cat calling is a legitimate compliment. if they SHARE the experience of being on the other end, it will help them see the men's perspective. once both men and women understand each other's perspective they can use their free speech to come up with a solution that works for everyone without suppressing anyone. the problem with cat calling (and everything really) is that it is seen through different perspectives by different people. freedom of speech allows people to share their perspectives to both recognize a problem (or to recognize if it actually isn't a problem) and to recognize how the problem can be addressed in a manner that doesn't oppress one group to protect another. but freedom of speech is important in these (and all) things. the cost of individuality is that people will have different perspectives (i am an avid supporter of the liberty to be yourself and not be like everyone else as well). as for the trolling, i was sharing the male perspective. i do my best to be aware of the perspective of other people. this is why i am aware of the problems that are unique to pretty women even though i am a short man (the male equivalent of being a fat woman).
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  40. wohdin physical abuse is a form of assault which is a greater crime than harassment. just because you don't like something doesn't make it harassment. my logic is logic. i defend my stances and opinions with it. i am generally a kind person, but i strongly value my liberty even my liberty to do things that i will never choose to do. i want the option just in case i need to do it for unexpected reasons. but i am not selfish about this. i also want you to have liberty as well, even the same liberties as me, even when they are liberties that i will not practice and you may. at the same time there may be liberties that i practice and you do not. having the ability to choose among many paths of actions allows us the freedom to be individuals and to pursue our own personal goals.
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  41. i'm a sexual abuse survivor. i think we should use fMRI to study if someone is remembering something or making something up. that way the mikes o the world that are innocent can be shown to be innocent. and then when a woman falsely accuses a guy of rape, she gets sentenced with a sentence that a rapist would get. that way those who do wrong are held accountable, and there is a real deterrence for violating the rights of another human being. we live in a false rape claim culture. where false rape accusers are not only believed at face value, but are able to demand that men have their lives destroyed with no due process of law. that needs to change, and fMRI's can help a great deal in determining the difference between a rape victim and a false rape accuser.
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  42. apparently i am not part of the problem. i haven't seen any of these videos, and don't intend too. i don't care that it is recorded, i am more concerned with what happened. if it was going to happen anyway, and someone decided to record it than i think it should be protected as free speech. on the other hand if people are paying for a crime to occur, and the crime would not have occurred without the demand of the viewers than it is bad.
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  43. i am already afraid of my phone. smart phones were supposed to be liberating, but then governments and private companies started using my phone to spy on me. what used to be a tool to help me with directions became a tool to track everywhere i went. they told me "why should you mind? what do you have to fear if you have nothing to hide?" they said this while hiding, and they only said it after they tried to imprison the man who told me. no, i don't want more technology, no i don't want a stick that knows my mood, or a light that can read my mind. i don't want a computer that can predict my thoughts, i don't want something that can be programmed by someone else as a means to curtail my liberty, to strip me of my autonomy, to take away any power i once had over my own decisions over my own life. i could do without those things. do you know why i like books more than smart phones? books don't spy on me. figure out a way to make technology and computers in a manner that cannot be taken over by a bad actor and turned against me. that is what i want, something that i can depend on not to be used by someone else to control my decisions.
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  44. at the end of the day we are just biological machines driven by emotional behavior that was selected to get us to reproduce. greed is motivated differently in men and women. men are greedy because it will get them laid. if they stock up on resources they can use it to attract a woman (that is why you see men buying expensive cars and peacocking). women are greedy because of an instinct for nesting behavior and providing a safe environment for their children to grow up in as well as provide them food. this is instinct. in this manner most mammals that share parenting are greedy. it results in the survival and thriving of their offspring.
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  45. Have you considered the possibility that they do because he is authentic unlike many of the politicians he works with? Who do you trust more, the murderer who tells you their crimes, or the murderer who hides their crimes?
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  46. @GoldenWolf Hate speech has already been through the supreme court and is protected free speech.
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  47.  @lynnstrange3819  change away. But smokers are still going to get lung cancer. And waiting to have kids is still going to lead to health problems for the babies, and complications for the mothers. Nobody can save you from yourself.
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  48. Young people tell her those things after she tells it to them. This is all about population control even though she never mentions it. UNICEF is evil.
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  49. The prisons are a racket, private prisons are a crime against humanity. They get a profit by putting more people in prison.
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  50. I don't share his goals and will not work towards them without adequate payment.
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