Comments by "dixon pinfold" (@dixonpinfold2582) on "PolyMatter" channel.

What a pointless, speculative and totally off-topic post. The only purpose it could possibly serve is make dull and impressionable Americans think their country is just as awful as Soviet Russia and that Elon Musk is as stupid as a 1950s Politburo hack.
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@nicholasconder4703 Your anti-immigrant prejudice is shocking, intolerable and shameful. Who's your hero, Enoch Powell or Adolf Eichmann?
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@nicholasconder4703 Ah, history. Or rather, "history." The automatic resort of the R-word and the illiberal. Most notably, in the last year or two, Vladimir Putin. You're in great company there, Slobodan. 👏👏👏
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@cattymajiv The population of First Nations reserves in Canada is 400,000 (2021 census, out of a total 1.05m who have First Nations status). Of course not all have unsafe drinking water. And bear in mind that an unsafe water advisory may pertain to a source which serves as few as five people. According to the federal government, "Canada will spend at least $6bn on First Nations water infrastructure between June 20, 2021 and March 31, 2030." The provinces also provide some funding. This follows the earlier commitment to provide $4.6bn in infrastructure funding in the five years to 2021. The number of public system long-term water advisories for reserve residents is going down. It fell for 7 of the 8 years in the 2015-22 period: 69 were issued, 130 were lifted. (In the first pandemic year, it rose by two.) According to Indigenous Services Canada, "As of Feb. 3, 2023, there were 32 long-term boil water advisories in 28 communities in Canada." They say that 81% have been lifted, a lift is pending in 9% where the work is finished, in 7% construction is in progress, 2% are in the project design phase, and 1% are being assessed.
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@nicholasconder4703 I specified quite clearly that it's your attitude to immigrants which is extremely repulsive and unacceptable. You replied with deliberately irrelevant points. I understand though. Anti-immigrant people seldom face up to what they are, instead hiding behind "history" and even "science"(!). It's difficult, I know, and I doubt you'll ever get there.
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@vincegalila7211 No. Ethnic and racial hatreds are always unacceptable and always for the same reasons. Stop spreading hate, please and thank you.
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1) Education only has a little to do with memorizing facts. Albert Einstein: "Education is what's left when everything learned has been forgotten." This is of the utmost importance. 2) The quality of information on the internet, esp. free sites and esp. YouTube is very, very spotty. Besides that, a great deal of it is deliberate misinformation uploaded by foreign government-sponsored sources. Most importantly, the publishers and highly-qualified editors who work vigilantly to maintain the quality of books simply are not there. At all. It's mainly people of unverified qualifications working alone and producing undergraduate-level essays which no one has checked for anything. Many are of course quite untalented at thought. 3) It is not a way to get an education or "a grasp of the world"(!). It is only safe for someone who is already well educated. And even for them it's full of traps, blind alleys and just plain errors. You're much better off finding out which books pre-dating the politically correct era have long been considered classics in their subject area. Read them, and read the books which you find referred to in them. And do not read only and deliberately to have your views confirmed. That may happen, and there is no hard and fast rule, but on the whole it is better to be surprised.
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You didn't properly read the Retirement Age graphic. It didn't say "Age of Government Pension Eligibility," it said "Retirement Age." Anyone can retire whenever they think they've got enough saved, and many do. That's where the "62.5" came from.
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