Comments by "weetikissa" (@weetikissa) on "VICE News" channel.

  1. "We shouldn't hate." 2 sec later "Burning their flag is my culture."
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  2. He, like, says "like," like a lot. Like.
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  3. It's insane to see deep systematic poverty and German luxury SUVs in the same frame like that.
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  4.  @Freddan0  Real life DOES work that way. It's Putin who doesn't. Reality will catch up soon enough.
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  5. You need to be public about it because 1) visibility normalizes everything and letting homophobes see that they're the minority might make them reconsider and 2) we need to let those who are struggling to accept themselves understand that they're not alone or weird. What better way to make people understand they're not going to be shunned for being different than to out-weird them with pride parades?
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  6. He looks like a Sacha Baron Cohen character of a weird but boring white Brit.
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  7. Visit Holland once in your life. Please.
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  8. I don't think you're getting the point of this video. Mark Rutte's official position is "most people are going to get it anyway so might as well let it happen controllably." Spain and Italy's policy is "we're trying to prevent ALL infections at any cost because our experience has shown for certain that nothing else works." And science agrees with the latter position. The Netherlands is essentially giving up from the get-go and letting hundreds of thousands die because the government is pessimistic about its own ability to control it.
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  9. Taiwan numba wan you Chinese trolls
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  10.  @Skyfoogle  Demolish highways and parking and build dense transit-reliant housing in their place. Paris has the same population density as Manhattan because they don't waste space on single-person cars like New York does. Each car needs at least two parking spots and enough space to travel between them. That's the space of a small apartment wasted on one person's commuting which can usually be done by bike or streetcar instead.
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  11.  @Jesusswe91  Try this: they will get to work a lot faster because their streetcars and buses are no longer slowed down by single-person cars. At least that's the big problem in Helsinki.
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  12.  @Skyfoogle  The Helsinki region has 1.3 million people, 25% of the entire country. The national government is planning on building trains to the closest other cities that would put more than 50% of the whole country's population within 1 to 1.5 hour's reach from downtown Helsinki by train (plus bus), even more as Helsinki and other cities in south-southwestern Finland keep booming like crazy. You couldn't do that with cars because they take about 2 hours when there's no traffic even though it's all highways from downtown to downtown the whole way. Downtown Helsinki is on a narrow peninsula so small, that it's practically an island connected to everything else with massive bridges. Only so many cars can fit on Helsinki's limited road network that the city has to think of other ways to get more people in and out of the city. These commuters from outside the city that you mention are tired of sitting in endless traffic on bridges as locals are taking their cars to do shopping. The locals are tired of having to take the car to go shopping because biking still feels dangerous and the buses and trams/streetcars are stuck behind cars. What the city is doing is looking at what modes of transport are used on what roads and reassigning the space accordingly, so as to best fit the needs of the people and not have economic growth be hindered by people struggling to get from one place to another. According to the city, only 25% of trips in Helsinki are done by car, so why do they get 75% of the street and most of the transportation budget? Despite the sub-arctic climate, Helsinki has the world's most popular bike-sharing scheme; why can't bicyclists have their own lanes where they feel safe and seen? Why not have more people living on this end of the highway rather than the other?
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  13.  @Skyfoogle  Forgot to add that owning a car costs a lot of money. Several hundred euros a month that people could use on domestic consumption. Let's stop shoveling all that money to Russia and Saudi Arabia.
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  14. +redswift31 Not only are you comparing two very different stats, Europeans never use household income as a measurement because we tend to live in apartments by ourselves or with a partner and have small families instead of splitting huge houses with a bunch of roommates and having tons of kids like Americans do.
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  15. Nope, people will live closer to where they need to be.
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  16. "We are leading the way to defend democracy." You stick to your hereditary lords, first past the post, and royals; we'll keep our presidents, proportional representation, and democratically elected MEPs, thankyouverymuch.
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  17. GIGAtyWING He's hot
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  18. Honestly, people are simply settling for Biden because Trump is so uniquely incompetent. 200k+ dead and counting and tens of millions unemployed, climate inaction and nepotism everywhere. Y'all need more parties like here in Europe. You guys call yourselves a democracy with someone who lost the vote as your president and a list of candidates only half as restricted as North Korea's.
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  19. ​@Cromwellian Protectorate Republican This Commission you mention is appointed by the Council -- which is democratically elected -- and approved by the Parliament -- which is also democratically elected. Your argument leads nowhere. But Britain... It took you 1 dirty lie to the Queen, 2 elections, 3 PMs, and 4 years to finally Brexit, but you're still too proud to do a redo of the referendum. Is it because Brexiteers are afraid of the results? You know, democracy? If Brexit is such a compelling choice, why not prove it once and for all in another referendum?
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  20. @Cromwellian Protectorate Republican Also funny to hear a Cromwell-supporter defending democracy, but okay...
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  21. @Cromwellian Protectorate Republican Cromwell was a genocidal dictator but I'll let you delude yourself on historical trivia. And December was definitely not a redo of the referendum because of first past the post. Anti-Brexit and pro-second referendum parties (L, LD, SNP) got more than half of the votes nationally yet the Tories have a majority in the parliament. Talk about democracy, sheesh...
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  22.  @freedomordeath89  If you think that Britain isn't run by bankers then I wish you good luck voting Tories. Lmfao. They even have their own little playground in the middle of your capital where they can set their own laws, aka the City. It's all so very brazen. Honestly, London and Zurich are money laundering capitals #1 and #2. Both of them outside of the European Union's watchful institutions because ... reasons... All of this is happening while the elites are shorting the pound like there's no tomorrow. Just look at what Farage is doing with his investments. His and JRM's mouths say one thing, their investments the polar opposite. Do yourself a favor and look that shit up.
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  23. Source?
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  24. Finland doesn't like having to pay Russia and Saudi Arabia for a commodity which they don't actually need.
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  25. Grega Jezersek I too love the pain of sado masochism
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  26. He is so running in 2024.
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  27. Kade Aru What has he achieved exactly?
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  28.  @mymusicchannel2668  Wow, you haven't read the news, have you? The Republicans deregulated the mortgage industry under Bush and that created the bubble which burst in 2007-2008. All of the economic indicators you have mentioned are thanks to Obama's hard work to stimulate the economy and turn it around. 2 years as president are not enough to turn such a massive economy around, not at all. In fact, Trump is doing his best to crash the economy, if anything. China banned all US agricultural products and American farmers are reporting record losses. Dow Jones crashed by 800 points just the other day and people are expecting yet another Republican-caused recession. White supremacists (people who HATE Indians) are killing people in the streets and Trump calls them good people. Trump destroyed the Iran nuclear deal and now they're back to developing nuclear weapons again. He even almost started a war against them, remember? I do. He has not managed to deliver a single one of his campaign promises: no repeal of the Affordable Care Act, no wall on the border, and no Clintons in prison. The only thing he has achieved is a tax cut to the megawealthy.
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  29. Gotta protect them hairy legs
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  30.  @kylewininger  Mass exodus? What are you talking about? Everyone's still here.
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  31.  @Rommie26  The EU is at about half the number of Trump's deaths with 1.5 times the population, which is bad because America is doing astonishingly terribly, but we're still way lower and at least we're reporting real numbers. Trump has held back on testing "because tests mean more cases," he's prevented the CDC from publishing real figures, and thousands more are listed as dying from pneumonia instead of COVID. If you compare the total number of all deaths in 2020 to 2019, the number of Americans who have died from COVID is likely to be way higher than officially reported. Look it up. But it is what it is, right? In any case, what's your defense when it comes to the other stuff that I mentioned? Like nepotism? Could you imagine Malia Obama getting a White House job talking to world leaders while tens of millions of more deserving people are unemployed?
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  32.  @kylewininger  Those are cherrypicked examples, but yes, Europeans are generally more willing to stay home in their suburbs instead of pulling off no-masker stunts in the city for no reason whatsoever.
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  33. Agtsmirnoff The Republicans are doing a fine job on codifying religion into the law. The Christian Taleban.
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  34. Thanking Trump for Obama's years of work on fixing Bush's economic disaster is like a Christian thanking god for a doctor saving their life.
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