Comments by "LancesArmorStriking" (@LancesArmorStriking) on "The Majority Report w/ Sam Seder" channel.

  1. ​ @anthonydelfino6171  "Keep your Obamacare off of my ACA!" —That one old lady
    39
  2. Beta-Israelites (from Ethiopia) are discriminated against, like the caller said, but beyond that they aren't even widely recognized within Israel as Jews, period.
    36
  3. Would not be a surprise to see Netanyahu "honor" the demand one day before Ramadan ends, as a salty middle finger to the UN
    25
  4. Yes. Ask Libya
    23
  5. Her expression and general 'look' screams Ben Shapiro Jr., is that just me or...?
    20
  6. New Gender Unlocked: ADRAB
    19
  7. ​ @hwirtwirt4500  Comparing that to a product coming from the largest manufacturer on Earth is just willful ignorance.
    18
  8. Not so much religious fundamentalism (because Israel was specifically envisioned as an Enlightenment-style colonial nation-state) as it is nationalism. Though even nationalism doesn't take it this far, I think it's just fascism.
    18
  9. That somehow makes it worse. They had the empathy to know how horrible it feels, and then choose to do it anyway. What a bunch of monsters.
    11
  10. ​ @suomalainenvoima  Lol
    11
  11. Realistically it's possible now. They don't control the supply of microchips (they have parents, but the Netherlands and Taiwan produce and design them), manufactured goods (China), or energy (Russia). The world could move on without them and lose nothing in terms of quality of life— of course, they have a HUGE amount of capital to invest in others. And a big military, but if most of the world avoids trading with them, it won't matter much.
    10
  12. "how high?"
    9
  13. ​ @SpaceVVitch  I know right!! I love my Pakistan sweatshop iPhone
    9
  14. A bit late.... Syria lost. Turkey and the US won
    9
  15. ​ @brandonellis8111  Sure Arabs as a whole have way more land but ultimately each country has its own population spread and you can't easily move millions of Palestinians to another place. That's related to my second point— Jews certainly deserve a land to call home, why did it have to be in Canaan, where millions of Arabs were already living for 1,000+ years? There were plenty of other places that could have been arranged with less chaos than this. Look at how chaotic Israel is by choosing this little strip of land. Was it really the best choice?
    8
  16. ​ @amorizz5579  Refine messaging? No, they need a complete overhaul. Their actions are what needs to change, not messaging
    8
  17. It's like talking to a brick wall. He literally repeated the same phrases over and over when questioned about those phrases. Insane. It's like they can't see past the local level of anything, and everything beyond one-on-one disputes magically solves itself or doesn't happen.
    7
  18. You literally can't. Russia has more people and now more weapons. You practically, logistically cannot do it without depending on the goodwill (or being politically convenient for) larger, more capable countries. You don't have a right to anything when you're not the one who guarantees your own security. Either be grateful and play by the guarantor's rules, or go off on your own. Pick one.
    6
  19. ​ @patchwurk6652  Don't feed the trolls. An old Internet rule that has not failed yet. He wants the attention, so deny him it
    6
  20.  @user-de2eq2rz4n  You want my personal opinion? Nasal voice. In Nomiki's case, vocal fry. They just grate my ears. And it seems to be a very American-exclusive way of speaking (though women throughout the Anglosphere sometimes do it, too). It's just annoying, period.
    5
  21. ​ @saadhasan2300  Their strong tradition is also what keeps their tribal mentality alive. They can't seem to move past their bronze-age beliefs in superiority (despite not having created a civilization like the Persians, Greeks, or Romans) even into the 21st century.
    4
  22. ​ @davidbaker9479  I suppose so... but the US REALLY shouldn't set that precedent. Once China starts putting out more tech products regularly, other countries might not want to do business with the US if they're going to be that protectionist. Google could easily lose 70% of its revenue and only be left with the US, UK, Canada, and Aus. Not a great pool of data to sell.
    4
  23.  @FuddlyDud  The houses in question were still under tithe jurisdiction of the West Bank, by virtue of being located in East, not West, Jerusalem. This means that the landlord would have to go through the West Bank's legal processes to have him evicted, and no Israeli government forces should have ever been involved. The fact that they did is a flagrant violation of international law.
    4
  24. ​@Agnezz11 1) Finland's border is mostly taiga, less likely for the US to send covert operations through there 2) They didn't because Finland and Russia had the exact type of agreement that could have worked with Ukraine. They didn't join NATO for decades and there were no issues between them. As long as the US military stays out of their country, Russia felt secure. It's not about resources, Russia has more than enough of those.
    4
  25. Because we aren't. The US has scarcely ever been a true democracy. Senators are directly elected, but they're still chosen from a small pool of people wealthy enough to attend law school and fundraise for their campaigns. It's a parallel society, they don't live like we do. The UK is a more honest look at this, pretty much everyone in the House of Lords has gone to Oxford.
    4
  26.  @Fuctmentality  Your arguments in this thread were very poor. Your need to rely on attacks on character with condescending things like "sweetie" makes it look like you're overcompensating for a lack of good substance in your argument. Which, frankly, there was a lack of. I'll say what I told the other guy: you're part of the reason men are driven away from the left. You're so toxic that you've managed to radicalize people... in the other direction
    4
  27. Tay! A pillar of what YouTube used to be, a manifestation of the utopian optimism that was felt throughout the early Internet!
    3
  28.  @robfl100  Russia is preventing the US from re-establishing its hegemony. They've assisted several Sahel countries in expelling literal French colonial outposts. Come now. Don't be dense
    3
  29. ​ @glumreaper8885  In many instances developers help set the rents of the prospective tenants. They are incentivized to push them as high as possible because they usually get a percentage of the rent (as compensation for building). New housing en masse might have a net effect on prices, but at the moment we basically have rent control in reverse.
    3
  30. ​ @TheHuxleyAgnostic  I don't understand this line of thinking. "Russia's so backwards and non-diverse! Russia's bad for not having diversity" "Actually it's got lots of Muslims and Turkic people" "That's because they invaded! Russia's bad for having diversity" It's almost like it doesn't matter what attributes Russia has, Westerners will still find ways to hate it. Communist? Bad. Capitalist? Bad. The only period in which Americans genuinely liked Russia was when it was poor and destitute, immediately after the USSR collapsed. I wonder what that says about what Americans want for the average Russian.
    3
  31.  @jacktingey7886  Why do you people keep asking how I feel, or what SHOULD be the case? I'm describing what IS. No, I'm not okay with it, but yes, Israel can do whatever it wants as long as it has the US' support. It's stronger and no one's gonna stop them. Which, by the way, makes the entire Ukraine rhetoric ring pretty hollow.
    3
  32. ​ @MrPhotodoc  It has its issues still. But as with anything in China, once they advance it's pretty much going to stay that way. And their sheer scale will make it a contender globally. Like a wall of iron shifting forward.
    3
  33. I don't recall anyone ever assuming that about the Russians. American pundits have actually made a habit of denigrating their capabilities as compared to the USSR.
    3
  34. That's not exclusive to liberals. What about the 'war on Christmas', despite the fact that over 70% of Americans identify as Christian, and most Democratic Congress(wo)men are practicing Christians? No evidence, yet it repeats itself every year on Fox and every other conservative outlet.
    3
  35. Can't save what's already dead. Trump taking over and stopping elections would only make the system more honest about what it's really doing
    2
  36. This lady is now on a poster somewhere at the IDF headquarters
    2
  37.  @PuffDaMunkey  This is the best the pro-Ukraine people can do? If it's so obvious that I'm wrong, why don't you just say it, so everyone else can see??
    2
  38.  @redrick8900  You're right It doesn't need to be, but the US is trying to. And I'd argue Russia is rather capable of fighting it, considering the entire idea of sanctions is failing thanks to the failure of the US to affect Russia in a meaningful way. Oh and depleting NATO's artillery reserves:)
    2
  39. Not really easy right now and no easy way to solve it besides massive government subsidies. Labor is too expensive (by the standards of developers) to make a hefty profit. The only way they can stay in the black is if they commit to luxury high-rises or opt to repair existing homes (which has zero overhead and is much more profitable). So unless we start subsidizing new construction, housing will always be scarce and expensive.
    2
  40. Answer— because they have no practical control over any aspect of the conflict they're fighting in. Like it or not, Ukraine doesn't produce enough of anything for its own defense. It relies on the US and Europe for logistics, arms, and even federal and civilian salaries. Them being included at the table simply isn't a necessity; it's a courtesy. What Ukrainians want doesn't matter, in practical terms.
    2
  41.  @s7robin105  What does that have to do with what I said? History shows that removing a leader creates lawless chaos, which is far worse than the country just being anti-US.
    2
  42.  @s7robin105  You're assuming it's a nationalist icon. I've had this pfp since 2012 before this conflict began. You're also avoiding the original point, overthrowing Chavez will just make the people's lives worse. Which is supposedly what the US wants to avoid
    2
  43. You're acting like Jens Stoltenberg didn't also say this "talking point" a few years ago. Everyone on the US side understands what caused Russia's reaction. If Yeltsin, Gorbachev and Putin can all agree on something, it's not the whims of a madman; it's policy.
    2
  44.  @johnassal5838  Sure, but they weren't, as the commenter tried to outright say, "invincible". Or anything remotely implied by that.
    2
  45. Even the video player looks like Limewire
    2
  46. ​ @c.a.t.732  We can narrow it down to the territory of the Palestinian Mandate in the year 1947. Or if you think Israel should continue existing right where it is, Palestine's borders as Israel's government at the time agreed to in 1967.
    2
  47. ​ @donovan4222  But it takes two to tango— Zelensky didn't HAVE to take BoJo's advice. Had he signed the agreement, everything besides Crimea would have been kept, and hundred of thousands more Ukrainians would still be alive.
    2
  48. ​ @alextorres8635  Except that no territory would have changed. I think you're the delusional one here, despite the other person's comments. The deal in March 2022 was, we keep Crimea (which was already gone) you keep everything else but give greater autonomy to Donbas WITHIN Ukraine. Ukraine would have lost nothing on that deal. Hardly a surrender
    2
  49. ​ @kajetan_teararoa  Do you think only the military was stationed there? Ukraine knowingly starved people who were, only a few years prior, its own citizens. Even if we humor the idea that every single Crimean left for mainland Ukraine and only Russian transplants moved there, they're still civilians! International law doesn't make exceptions for a victimized party— Ukraine shouldn't have done that no matter what you think of the larger dynamic. This is why no one believes Western leaders when they harp on about human rights. Even its citizens, like you, are hypocritical. Jesus.
    2
  50.  @jlighter1  The answer there is simple. It pledged, in 2008, to make both Ukraine and Georgia full NATO members. You might not agree that Russia was forced to do anything, but from its own perspective, that potential state of affairs was unacceptable. If you want a counter-example, the US was "forced" to threaten nuclear war over nuclear missiles in Cuba. Cuba is also a sovereign nation, and the US had no issues stationing Jupiter missiles in Turkey, but freaked out when the shoe was on the other foot. In that moment, from the US point of view, Cuba had to be forced against its will. It's a simple reality— alliances don't exist in a vacuum; there isn't a reality where "every state has the right to join any alliance it wants!". That's not how any state has ever acted in history, and you're ridiculous for thinking Russia or any other country should act that way. Especially after what NATO did in Libya (no Article 5 trigger), it's not a defensive alliance. It's a de facto arm of the US military, and it's extremely dangerous.
    2