Comments by "André" (@Andre-qo5ek) on "DW News" channel.

did you know there are companies that help seniors spend their money so they have nothing to pass on to their families? absolutely criminal. corporations just want people to spend to get the money. as they say "debit is good" , which is complete nonsense.
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@kreight_ is it an "excess of saving" or that there is nothing of value to purchase. moving liquid cash into material asset only makes sense if that asset is useful, can hold its value, or can increase its value. dumping cash into items that instantly depreciate makes no sense so you are right to suggest saving. there is certainly upper and lower limits to saving, but those are situational.
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didnt musk already say he WILL NOT follow terrestrial law if he gets into space. ??
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regulating corporate profits... that's a HUGE part or a solution.
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they are not "try[ing] to enforce their ideas and opinions over others". the are bringing attention to a global event by interrupting the daily events of people that want to stay blissfully ignorant. there are somethings that are too important to not interrupt society. if they were just interrupting for a tiktok, ... yeeha that would be a problem. even that is not violent though. spreading imminent information to the masses is not violence. teaching the ignorant is not violence. whistleblowers are not the ones committing the violence, they are the ones calling out the violence. this is lightly analogous to American civil rights sit-in. an illegal act, done in protest. it disrupted business as usual. it was not violent. violence by racists and the state was definitely enacted upon them though.
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this Clemens Fuest ... ... the kind of guy that would want the live out the space pen story because he would want to sell the "space pen" for 1235% profit or something. (and yes i know this story is urban legend but it is fitting. for an interview where the guy is saying to work harder not smarter ) "After sending astronauts to space, the US realized their ballpoint pens were useless. This was the 1960s—the height of the space race—so NASA spent an absurd amount of money to develop a pen that works in zero gravity. Rumored to cost at least $1 million (about $9 million in today’s dollars), the “space pen” can write upside down, at extreme temperatures, and even underwater. This feat of American inventiveness allowed astronauts to write in space. Faced with a similar problem, the Russians used a pencil."
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@Abbasblesseddaughter ? what do you mean? youre saying that calling out racism is bad?
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@Abbasblesseddaughter this report about overtourism was good.. because overtoursism is a legitimate problem that people do no know about. the report could have been way more detailed but it is a good intro to the topic.
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The way to protect ourself is in sci-fi already. Air gap systems, hardliners systems not connected to the systems, human mathematicians and human hard drives ( our elders story tellers) Humans are already intelligent and need to be brought to their potential. Our governments should be taking steps to protect its people from its business profiteers not its business class from its people
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Exactly. Cya, it's the blame game.
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this is all part of the smoke and mirrors. the dangers of being "skeptical" without critical thinking. it is the same as the people who fall for zealot religiosity . people have fallen for the idea that being skepticism is doubting all forms of evidence and authority. that skepticism is believing your own truths. critical thinking is watching the magic trick and suspending your disbelief enough to have fun but never forget that it's all a trick. and further wanting to find out the mechanisms of the trick.
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who has "expectations" that corps will act like good guys!??!! its not about expecting it, its about HOLDING them to doing better. ivory tower board members are too isolated from FAFO. they definitely FA ... but are so legally and financially detached from finding out... society has to bring them down to human level again... remind them their actions have consequences. *** Profits (the goal of 99% of corps) vs morals (doing good for the world) are not in sync. corps are not held to any real standard to do better. in some instances they are legally constrained from outright poisoning people... but that about it. and when they do get caught doing so they are not penalized in any meaningful way. where are enforcement bodies arresting entire boardrooms full of executives!!! a slap on the wrist and a bonus for the executives, that's their "punishment". when times get tough people will have to work where they have to work. this is because there is no support for labor to strike. enforcement currently supports corps because they are "too big to fail". they have a complete lack of understand of what matters..... "exponential growth", "fiduciary responsibility", "profit at all cost", these are all trash ideas that boardmembers have trickled down to the the business class to manipulate them and keep the labor divide.
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being "needed" is suck a ridiculous concept. people need to RISE to opportunity, perform action where there IS a need. yeah its nice to be appreciated, but when what a person is offering is NOT needed, NOT WANTED , people have to pivot. EXPECTATION is a killer for so many people. and gender expectation of "masculinity" is ridiculous. the entire concept of TOXIC masculinity is that there IS a HEALTHY "masculinity" , NOT that ALL "masculinity" is toxic. ---------- gut the systems that are generating a air of expectation. aka.... get rid of meritocracy, marketing, competitiveness(in regards to livelihood), capitalism, consumerism, archaic unjust hierarchical traditions....etc.
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that's a tough one... "what you are worth" ... hope you are paying your employees what they are worth.... similarly charging your customers what your products are worth. but i do have to ask.... what do you define as "what your are worth"? hope your endeavors are moral, ethical, for the betterment of the planet, for the betterment of all communities, and not just profiteering off peoples needs, or satisfying detrimental lusts. ** by definition business is done for profit. profit being ABOVE worth, "value added" and all that. there aren't too many variables to balance out to get that cream called profit. - reduce costs : cheaper quality in material, skeleton crews, squeezing one employee to do more than one persons worth of job, not providing benefits (medical, pension, 401k ) - increase prices : price gouge when times are tough because of 'demand', inflate prices in general to buffer when 'markets' get down, artificially manage supply as a way to increase 'demand' as an excuse to 'justify' price increases, put the burden of employee raises directly on customers via things like arbitrary 'service' fees. -expand your market : get more customers (1,000 customers @ $10 per product ) OR get different customers (10 customers @ $1,000 per product )
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the fringe on "both sides" .. um... please.... ... if they could have ANYONE that's ACTAULLY a leftists i would be blown away. media doesn't even know what the left is, let alone platform the left.
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"when the West lends to Emerging Markets that's a good thing because it allows Emerging Markets to grow it raises the standard of living lifts countries out of poverty and and globalization has definitely been a Force for good" ... um... its not the LENDING that does it, its the food , shelter, infrastructure, healthcare that is a force for good, not the 'lending' (aka, kicking the can down the road)
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@nuqwestr what math? if you have done the math , please share. there is lots of math in the measurement between EV and Combustion... is there a specific point you were making, or was this just a rhetorical response?
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the core difference is that the right makes up imaginary threats that need to be killed. threats that are not using guns and violence. the left is arguing their weapons training is against legitimate threats that like historically use guns to solve problems. this is the classic right wing BS situation where they are the bullies while denying being the bullies'; and when someone stands up against the bullying, using the bullies own tactics, the right wing cries about being a victim. the right LOVES shooting unarmed people. and all the left is doing her is making sure they ARE armed so they they have a fighting chance against the right aggressors. this is not "a good guy with a gun can stop a bad guy with a gun". the left is not out there wanting to be vigilantes like all the spaghetti westerns and Copaganda shows have taught the the right wing.
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"it's worth looking at that polling quite carefully there are a number of these surveys and the way they ask the questions does vary so what people mean by that is not always what you might assume that they mean " > I appreciate this line. lets not all get caught up in head lines. we really need to deconstruct the rhetoric and find out what people mean by even the most basic words they speak. Doublespeak is commonplace. 1984 tactics are absolutely in play; it's just that people seem to have forgotten the plot to the book, that the terrorists were also big brother. the manufactured unrest was the strategy to impose new rules 'reluctantly' ... aka... more power for the party, more authoritarianism .. in the NAME of "security and peace"
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a "crisis" in gender roles.... has always happened.... any non-egalitarian moment in time (hint: that has been always) will cause crisis. the inequities inherent in "roles" based on "gender" is the crisis. thinking because of a gender you must do xyz IS THE CRISIS. the crisis is NOT the inability to live up to the expectation.
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for what exactly? and whose "them"?
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how do we use these sinkholes to a benefit? installing water capture infrastructure in them, with them?
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what do you mean "HAVE to work longer"?
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"it" is polluting our planet... like its a sentient entity that is growing and spreading on its own, as if corporations aren't making it for the major reason that is profit.
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re: tate for boys and young men ( and sadly fully grown men) to follow tate is absurd. why would a man... listen to a man... on how to treat women.... when women are telling men what they want...... oh right.. it is becasue most of the men are just looking to impress other men, NOT actually attack a women based on the womens needs. and that snot to mention the objectification of the categorical "woman" and "man" from the INDIVIDUAL that each person is. what even is this video???
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a battle of david vs goliath ... let us remember... David used projectiles to take down goliath ... 🤔 fire would have worked too....
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um.. we don't want "higher income" ... we just want to not die because we can't afford a home and food and the basic commodities that maintain our humanity, our rights, and a decent living. whenever we get "higher income" prices of things "magically" inflate.... Clemens Fuest is in some fantasy world that doesn't understand economics. ( he understands "economics", the made up mythology in textbooks, sure.. but not the real world )
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..? what?
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What about the short term. You only mentioned dhwat she considers long and medium. ... which is good... but that doesn't help us now. What do we do NOW?
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@david-eh1vg well the exact question the report asked when the answer was given was 2:32 how to get fair and democratic elections back from anti-democratic parties, like fascists. so what is the short term response is what i am asking op. the interviewee only sates 4:18 "in the short term it is just us it's why I'm talking to you". which is not a very satisfying answer. so i ask the question to the void, 'i am "talking to [you]', the collective you, the 'just US'. what do WE do in the short term?
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@pw3858 explain how DW is censoring anyone?
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@pw3858 what evidence do you have DW lies?
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@Shonbon17 ... wow... "serious adult would do" guess YOU aren't one since you didn't provided the answer. step out the way and stfu.
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regarding the "family owned" business "not getting the right people in the right jobs" ... um .. doesnt sound like its a family business anymore. let the FAMILY work 22 hours a day if they want to. but that should have no effect on me working as little as i want to and still be treated as human.
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if we had universal abundance for all ( healthcare, income, housing, food) then sure ,letting the people that want to work more... well ... let them work more but it won't grant them anything special. this meritocracy BS has to stop. if we have actual goals of welfare for all... we need to stop with this need to drive exponential capital gain for the people on top.
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to who about what?
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