Comments by "Xyz Same" (@xyzsame4081) on "VICE" channel.

I think him treating his staff well, was key, I mean even if the wife of the boss freaks you out - would you DARE to go to him and make the suggestion that she meant business. It needs a relationship of trust to even to and warn him. - In the end the malignant narcicisst / psychpath could not grasp the concept of loyalty. She could have noticed that customers and staff liked him so who unaware do you have to be to hire the hitman there. She may not have been stupid but completly unaware of the relationships between boss and staff.
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good thing that she wasn't smarter. If she was from Mexico she could have hired people from outside that would have gotten him.
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you have to look at the schoolbooks (in red states). Maybe one generation before. When slavery is witten about the images show happy slaves in front of their cabins, singing, dancing and eating together. That is an uniform theme. Not on the fields working, not being whipped, not being sold at a market. Not on the ships after they had been kidnapped, when it was more profitable to load the ships full, let a lot of them die due to the terrible conditions. Those who survived were a good fit to be exploited.
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@amandakelley1665 A reminder that the rich will act like that if they can - our ruling class gladly accept such conditions - just in other countries. So they do not have to see it. Back in the day they just did not visit certain ugly areas.
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18:00 I get why he wanted to impress her, she is gorgeous, looks, and the way she talks and presents herself.
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Actually they can exactely do that ! - that is what freedom of speech is about
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@amandakelley1665 They did the same in the U.K. they still have that going on in developing countries and the U.S. military and the CIA see to it that it stays that way. If need be with a coup or a war. U.S. oligarchs making sure to exploit these people with the help of local oligarchs.
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@Homer Simpson you have to READ the books. I watched the films for good measure, not expecting them to be as good, and they weren't.
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6:08 - 6:40 Lin Wood (a white lawyer that helped Trump after the election) on twitter: "I am hearing that Pence and leaders of coup are planning to arrest & execute president Trump. Typical move by communist tyrants." - Riiiite: Mike Pence is a "Communist" (an evanglical right wing Commie then). - Now I have seen it all. I understand that people in politics and grifters will lie - but the right is certainly not burdened by any logic, or KNOWLEDGE when they make up the crap as they go. Does not reflect well on their supporters. (as the recent attempt to blame the Texas blackouts on wind power by FOX and TX politicians that are responsible for the mess shows how much contempt they have for the viewers. They assume those lies will be swallowed). As for LinWood and his ilk They just throw 'em big words around.
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When have obvious facts ever deterred the right wingers. Not saying that the other side is not lying, but they try at least to make their lies a little bit more sophisticated.
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@michboyd10 poor whites were needed by the big slaveowners to keep the slaves down, but did not profit from slavery. That explains the vicious propaganda, not allowing intermarriages etc. - and they were cannonfodder in the civil war (which defended an economic model that was against their interest).
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If they cannot bear to HEAR things they do not like - that is WEAKNESS. - There is a proverb: the dogs bark - the caravan moves on regardless. (Or the German version: What does it mean to the German oak if the hog scratches itself on it's bark) So the artists / activists / looneys show up in costumes, sing a song and record it - so WHAT ? W/o the Kossacks interfering the video would be completely uninteresting - the singing did not sound very impressive. In my country - and no doubt also in Russia you cannot go naked in public - if you do that you will get a fine. And the police - not some self important, self-appointed people take care of that. But apart from that if you want to sing a song in public, people may find you strange - but that's it. They do not harm anyone and are in PUBLIC SPACE. If you do not LIKE what they sing - do not listen. Or sing your own song only louder -;) THAT would have been some fitting "revenge" - Do some Kossack counter song ! Those kosacks have no business interfering with the expression of someone else. Example: if that had been a Folk music band with costumes they would have like it, listened to it - or at least ignored it. WHO get's to decide WHAT is good and what NOT. And there is no need to LOVE your motherland. Nor can that be forced upon somebody. Futhermore: that performance could be THEIR way how they think they want to improve or influence the motherland. Freedom of speech and thought and press MUST include the right to be dead wrong. Else it isn't worth anything. People MUST pay taxes or keep the laws (like not stealing, not HARMING anyone - for instance attacking people who did not attack you). And besides - how does anyone KNOW if that is not their idea of how to do right by their country (by protesting, by making the others uncomfortable and maybe THINK. Either your conviction then is stronger - or maybe you let yourself be influenced by the opinion of another human).
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So corrupt politicians allow a drug that is likely to be abused to be sold over the counter ?? (Viagra can be fatal when the person has heart problems, never mint interactions with other medication).
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Richard Grannon - good guy ca. 10:00 minutes
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He can't be very practical. He had some name recognition. A boat accompagnies him, the Coast Guard leaves him alone, in the offhand chance he makes it w/o chaeating that is, he has another day of fame.
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@urielrabo8821 A Democratic admin passed / signed the Civil And Voting Rights Laws - approx. 65 years ago. The South had slavery and Southern Republicans AND Democrats were equally O.K. with it. Hint the Civil War era was approx. 155 years ago. Democratic leaning voters from the North travelled to the South to help black people to register to vote in the 1960. The Republican party and their base was hardly engaged. Nixon honed and expanded the Southern strategy, that was in the 1970s, the Republican party even aploogized for that (in an attempt to better their standing with the black community, maybe after 2008 or 2012).
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@urielrabo8821 The 1960s and 1970s are more relevant to our time than how politics, society, and culture functioned in in the 1860s. People that were 20 around 1965 are now approx. 75 years. The children they raised are in the range of 55 years or younger. THAT matters for OUR time. Before LBJ signed the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts people with a racist attitude found their home in both parties. The Democrats had a pocket in the Southern states, but that was not an issue that went into the decisions for whom they would vote. Neither party toched the issue, until the Civil Rights Movement forced them to. Then the racists (especially in the South left the Democratic party in droves, and found their home in the Republican party, which used that effect to gain votes. So they developed the Southern strategy. Once one party clearly stood for progress on race issues (everwhere in the country) the split happened, and the Republicans specialized in dog whistles and racism.
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@kilmoturtles1 Because the U.S. claimed to be a developed nation, being civilized, and the slaveowners claimed to be Christinas. Africa is a huge continent, you can fit the landmasses of Europe, the U.S., China on it. They different tribes treated each other as enemies, pretty much like the neighbour countries U.K. and France, or France and Germany.
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@kilmoturtles1 However, the colonists, often from European aristorcrats (either rich or trying to restore their fortunes) needed cheap labor for growing cash crops on plantations. So they CREATED a huge DEMAND for SLAVES, and the people that had always engaged in some form of slave trade in Africa (Arabs, warring African tribes and nations) were massively incentivized to expand that. The transport of these slaves overseas was of course done by people from European descent (Amercian colony, France, Portugal, UK until it was outlawed there, much earlier than in the U.S. the U.S. was the last developed nation to do so, and it took a Civil War). Not to forget that in chattel slavery the children of the slaves were kept or also sold. That is not the original transatlantic slave trade, but it is domestic slave trade (even if they lived all their life in one place - they became the possession of heirs. Or they were handed over to a family member (think children of the owners that married and lived elsewhere. The owners changed, money was exchanged or not, but they were still traded off. Servitude was fading out on the old continent as they started settling on the new continents and islands and detected new profitable crops. Even harsh laws that got people deported for petty crime to be serfs for some time in the new colonies were not enough to keep up with demand for that business model. Kidnapping their own citizens would not fly and the Catholic church did not allow Catholics to enslave each other in chattel slavery (they could go to war with each other). countries that were protestant also shied away from doing chattel slavery (even to Catholics). Make the land fit for agrigulture, growing indigo, tabacco was hard work, many died of diseases when they had to transform (swamp) land to farmland. Poor Europeans migrants would rather work their own small plot of land than slave away for rich people that tried to increase their fortunes. Or they would flock to the large cities. White serfs could even flee w/o standing out. Some sold themselves into servitude to pay for the passage from Europe, but they had to be released after some years and be given a mule and I think a small plot of land - the government making sure they could make a living and there would not be many homeless people with nothing to lose. Slaves that were sent on errands needed to have a letter or note from there owner with date, the purpose of their errand and expected time of errand. When they completed their task, the other white person wrote them a note confirming they had done the job and were now headed back. They could be stopped and asked to justify why they were not on the plantation at any time.
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@sabrinaterry269 Native Americans had some slaves (black) and also prisoners of war (white people, people from other tries) which they made work. But the slaves in general had it better, had a chance to become fully accetpted tribe members. People of other tribes were often bought out against a ransom etc. And of course Native Americans never did that on a large scale and they the did not initiate the Transatlantic slave trade.
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Yes - and meanwhile the rightwingers are shooting around in schools - but the "libtards" are the problem - right
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Or the wife is O.K. but the MIL is a piece of work. Or she is joking. Or it is a cultural custom you are unaware of.
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1:10 is this Michal Flynn Jr. the son of that general Flynn ? (that suggested to Trump to impose martial law - he was not part of the cabinet but he adivsed him after the lost election).
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+ Bull Lea - they could pull that performance directely at the gate / fence of the White House. Visitors must move all the time they are not allowed to stand still, that is a security rule. But if they would show up in costumes, sing their song - stupid, patriotic, cursing or whatever - march along and record it - SURE. Maybe they could march with a burning flag (might be a security concern, endangerin others etc.). But singing songs about burnign the flag, showing such pics, marching with a flag that is half burnt - SURE. If you do LOVE your country and the flag (shiny and bright) is your revered symbol for it - you CAN bear such a display. And if THAT can disturb YOU (what someone else does with the flag or thinks about the flag or what it means to THEM ) your conviction and devotion was not worth much to begin with.
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+ Juan Salas - what a nice dictatorship. - in a democracy people are supposed to be strong and mature enough to be able to endure the opinion of other people - even if they do no like it. - the thing is: if they had let them alone, the video would have been completely uninteresting. And btw: the Kossacks were the ones that rode down the people for the czar (and prosecuted the Jewish people). From what I read in the other comment they do not have a good record from the 40s as well). - So the idea of the motherland of those artists / acitivists may be more civilized - even when they look weird. And I do not like the idea that some old farts take it upon them to "restore" public order. It is either lawful or not to do something. And the (hopefully trained) police has to do with it. It is like in Iran when old woman private citizens made themselves important by harrassing young women for not covering up properly, if a strand of hair was showing (I think that has ended).
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How do these women keep YOU from having that stable family ??
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+Juan Salas - these were approx. 6 people doing a lame performance - and they do not need to make anything "better", you simply cannot grasp the concept of FREE SPEECH.
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Funny how you talk about a democratic system. - and if such activists are against your free speech - as you claim they are - the most they would do is SAYING something - as opposed to PHYSICAL ATTACKS. There are a lot of WEAK people out there. It seems you cannot even bear the thought that someone has views that vastly differ from yours - and expresses them. .
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As for the patriarchal system: if a man finds a woman that agrees with him on that, go ahead. But you cannot prevent other people from having other opinions - and living THEIR LIFE in a different manner. And even in your traditional family the wife (and the husband) will continue to hear them. If your family is so wonderful if will not matter. it sounds almost as if these wonderful opinions you have cannot hold up to any competition. The "feel free to think new ideas" habit (even when it comes to how society used to be organized" translates to mental freedom in other areas - like creativity and technical development, entrprepreneurial spirit etc. Be open to ideas in one area (and allow other ideas, you never know where the interesting stuff will come from) and shut down the ideas in other areas (which will inevitably differ when a few humans are involved) - that is not how it works. Freedom of speech and the fight for liberation for various groups came up at the same time when science, wealth, technology increased. That is no coincidence. It is like your position is so feeble that other people having other opinions would bring all tumbling down. ;)
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Last but not least - Even in the Soviet era (without any outside influences) the marriages were not that rosy. Lots of drinking going on, abuse, man dying early. And of course a lot of divorces. Not that a couple staying togehter means much, if the marriage is not going well it is better the two part ways.
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