@@newforestpixie5297 Al Franken went this route and was eaten by his own. We don't need someone who isn't qualified in office ... we tried that. And Robin Williams died because he had a neurological disease that made his life a living hell so he took his own life. You should know this. It's insensitive to talk trash like this.
Douglas Jackson, you said: " Robin Williams said it best: “Politicians should wear sponsor jackets like NASCAR drivers, then we know who owns them.” How does George Soros jacket looks like?
This dude is extremely anti American. To say “America can’t handle crises” is objectively false. Even just from the 1900s forward the US has navigated WW1, Great Depression, WW2, Cold War, Korean War, Vietnam War, Gulf Wars, 9/11, 2008 Housing crash. Y’all let pretty words swoon y’all
@@skinsornothink1913 most of those were wars that America began or made worse and don’t count as a crisis, the only ones I would say were a crisis would be Great Depression and 2008, but those were solved by government programs and funding, not private corporations, because it required a ton of money that would have made it impossible to profit
@@kugelblitzingularity304 I see what you mean, but I would say most beings (including humans) would like to grow for the increased quality of life side of things rather than imperialist expansion. I think that is what the quote may be referring to.
@@owencole5774 ever thought about a circular economic system instead of a growing one? Capitalist want the universe and more when we only have the earth
I was born in 1963 so I can't say there was a "good old days" unless you count gasoline going for 35 cents a gallon and candy bars for a dime. Oh wait, those contributed to global warming and obesity. Never mind.
Born in 65 middle of Vietnam War, 70s inflation and gasoline shortage. Mass unemployment. The start of aids reganomics created trickle down economics wich is why minimum wage is not inline with inflation. Because the CDC linked Aids to a gay man eventhough in Africa it was clearly not. Research was delayed and mishandled. 1980's lost greatest voice in music Freddie mercury because of this. Immigration of gay people was forbidden. Minimum wage 4.25 in 2010 minimum 7.25 thats a whole 3 dollars in 30 years not a livable wage. 1990 1st Iraq. War. Wall comes down and starts a war in Bosnia. Formally Yugoslavia. Black hawk down happens. YtoK scare in 2000 2001 9/11. Not so good old days.
As a 62 year old man I have to admit that the generation born after the 1980's did not experience the good old days. I have to admit my generation was very lucky during our younger years because we could look back on the good old days. My heart goes out to young people today. Stay true to yourself and realize it's not your fault. Corporate greed sucks and realize what's important in life. People are the most important commodity not things. Take care of each other
You have a very good point ol chum, it is unfortunate that Americans have it drummed into them about taxes etc when the reality is that an American pays more out their wage in both taxes and services ie health care payments is included in that, than any other industrial country even on the low end of industrial have more than the American. The problem will be to change the American dream etc it's no longer a dream but a Knight are that doesn't work in today's world in my eyes and the eyes of many outside America is that the American is stuck in the past and for me your still a young country compared to the rest of the world albiet apart from Australia which is just as young but they have been influenced better I would say. Tell others and such to vote with your head and not your heart and start getting politicians to stand up to the capitilist companies and start putting their foot on those snakes and stop the privatise system get better politicians to start taking back power from the companies and back to the govt coz the govt is the people as they are voted in by people for the people just a thought
@@boathemian7694 it’s not necessarily your fault. The worst thing about the U.S. is that they can’t take criticism. All throughout history, for example the red scare, the miracle on ice (where the U.S. used a hockey team as symbolism for smashing their boot in Communism’s face), and other events, they just can’t stand people thriving outside their system. You guys probably couldn’t be active because you were forced to not think outside the box for other political ideas. It still happens today at the highest levels. Anytime someone wants to relocate funds away from the military (I predict a fall in the stock market, which the tax payer who can’t even participate in the stock market will have to pay the price for, seeing as we’ve profited for 20 years on war and we won’t be able to find someone else to fight anytime soon and we did nothing to fix our economic problems while we were in war) and towards sciences to help climate change, NASA, UBI, or Universal Health care, or parental leave, or anything else they are seen as communists socialists who want to see the end of American hyper capitalism. We still go through it today but in some different forms.
"Not the first time the US won't admit to being beaten by the Vietnamese" As a Vietnamese, I thank you for the honest information you provided in the video ^.^
@Bodmerocity we were allies with the north Vietnamese, we helped them win their revolution against France, and supported their democratically elected communist party. But once we learned that ho chi min was a communist, we had to invade and support the corrupt, capitalistic south Vietnam.
@@obiomajronyekwere4469 obviously, now the rest of the world either wait for the fall of the us evil empire or accelerate it, so that humanity could return to decency.
@@smashing-3291 Wait were you implying that I was the evil selfish person or was it aimed at the people in control who don't do anything helpful for the sake of society unless they profit off of it.
This information is the problem... I swear to God I don't believe there is a pandemic. There billions of people worldwide who do NOT observe the "safety protocols" and are still alive. The crisis (like all USA wars) is based on lies.
"I DON"T CARE ABOUT LIVES AT ALL EXCEPT FOR MY OWN! I JUST CARE ABOUT THE MONEY! IT DOESN"T MATTER HOW MANY PEOPLE DIE! IF I MAKE ANY PROFIT FROM IT, IT'S WORTH IT!" - Most U.S polititians
You're going to regret this at the end of your life. You can't be an inhumane human who does not treat other people like human beings, because that makes the worst leader ever. *Governing is not all about you!* It should not be about getting everyone else to serve you. Being selfish doesn't pay. I tried it just the other day. I wanted to be happy. I thought it was the way, but it weren't.
Wanted to move to america as a kid. Still wouldn't mind spending vacation their, and maybe I would move to there but I'm a little disappointed it wasn't the perfect heaven I heard it was.
As a 74 yr. old woman I can tell you that young people today, unlike us in the 50's and 60's, are born into poverty. Their inheritance is despair. I worked my way through college on part-time minimum wage jobs. I bought a triplex on a city park lake in Seattle in my 20's. Let us acknowledge the pain of these youth and strive to help. The bounty of the 50's and 60's were the result of the lowest gap between wealth and poverty, the highest levels of unionization, the highest tax on wealth, etc. It took workers 30 years of labor activism to arrive at this level of prosperity. Can we really spend another 30 years to achieve what the rest of the world takes for granted?
Reaching that level of prosperity also took winning a world war to achieve that prosperity. All the vets came back home loaded with GI bills to buy houses in the suburbs and new cars which in turn destroyed the cities. The destruction of the cities later helped create the obesity crisis because no one walked anymore and just drove cars all around the cities. The inner cities were left to rot and crime took over while the second amendment was defended no matter how many people died from guns. Here we are now with the highest murder rates of first world countries, no health care, extreme obesity, over priced college, no worker's rights, low wages, and no retirement. Richest country in the world...
Well considering my sister is also currently working her way through college on a minimum wage job, and is doing just fine to boot, we can say that much hasn't really changed
@@anatomicalx9355 Be great to know how your sister is doing that.. If she is making $10hr @ 40hrs a week (Full time work BTW) after taxes, she is bringing home about $15K ay year (est. reduction for State, or city taxes) Regardless it's under $20k.. Please let me know what college that is worth anything will allow you the hours/time to work full time and pay less than $12k to $15k a year ??? "and do just fine"
I love how many people are like "Don't like it? Leave then!" and then fail to realize that most of us cannot afford to pack up all our stuff and go through the process of relocating.
IKR? Wish I had photos of people's faces in these conversations when I'm told this and respond, "Dude, I'm a MegaMillions lottery win away from getting on a plane...like, literally tomorrow. I'd take the lump sum and haul @$$..." Those conversations are quite rare, though. There's no point.
Honestly I'm at the point where I'm ready to cop a one way ticket out of here and just wing it. I dont have kids, still relatively young, I'm already broke here, being broke somewhere else might feel like an adventure.
I was born in the year 2000 and I can say with certainty that being a kid there was definitely good ol days, but now as I've matured and grown into a young adult at the age of 20 (almost 21) I've come to realize that you eventually reach a point in your life where you finally realize that there are no good ol days any more its just eternal suffering with a few good moments sprinkled in to make you keep going.
20? Dude, Life hasn't even begun to F*** you in the A** yet. JUST WAIT! Live it up RIGHT NOW because it all goes down hill in a few years! Physically, Financially, Socially...RIGHT NOW is as good as it will get. You have a few years of this then it turns into a long ride downhill! Then one day you will throw your back out, realize you are getting old now, and realize that this working your life away BS to pay the bills every month is some $hit!
Honestly, that "joke" never gets old to me (I put joke without quotation marks because neither the war nor hundreds of thousands of covid deaths are exactly funny, but you know what I mean)
I don't think I've ever been this early to a ST video. Can't wait to watch this! Edit: "It's not the first time the US has decided not to talk about being beaten by the Vietnamese" now this is the quality dunking I'm here for. Absolutely excellent work.
I’m subbed to you and none of your stuff gets to my sub box. Hell looking at my subscription list doesn’t show your channel, but when I click on it I’m subscribed, I’m relieved seeing your name again because I would’ve definitely forgotten if I never saw this comment.
@@YaBoiHakim I’ve been bell-ing channels since It was introduced, and looking at your channel the things on, I’m baffled because it’s clearly not working for the past year of uploads I’ve never seen in my notif box. I’ll try better to get you in my recommended but screw RUclips from literally influence-gating me from certain peoples contain for which I PERSONALLY subscribed for.
You mean, the American society above the rest of the world society. Don't put every country on the same noose, some of us do actually care and actually do something about it, unlike most Americans. not saying i disagree with what you said, because i don't, greed is a major issue everywhere, but Americans take it to the apocalyptic level
the issue of capitalist politics: we can't raise minimum wage because then the rich earn less, who then pay the poor less oh wait... so if we don't raise minimum wage, the poor earn more? why don't we just raise minimum wage in the first place?
If we raise the minimum wage then the rich will make the excuse that they can’t afford to pay them so they make their products more expensive thereby rising inflation
Why do people completely dodge that phrase? Reason we give corporations tax breaks is to drive up wages (which they don't). Then they cut a bunch of people anyway and the money "disappeared". Then, they cry to the government for more money claiming bankruptcy despite earning record profits. That's the "free shit" nobody wants to talk about.
14:29 “How many Americans have to die before we realize that capitalism is destroying us?” Angel floats in with a slip of paper that reads thus: “All of them.”
Ofc. im from nj and hurricane sandy hit hard. Food. Gone. Houses destroyed. No mutual aid or compensation. Everyone left to suffer in cold and darkness and homeless. When ppl lost homes they had no place to go and had to either find a new home or pay for renevations. We need some sort of economic planning. Decentralized imo
Or, there's only profit once in crisis prevention. Allow greed to rule now and generate immediate profit and future crises, then there's further profit in crisis response. Rinse and repeat. Capitalism doesn't just _disincentivise_ long-term thinking, it expressly *_rewards_* its opposite.
I never understood extreme Capitalism until I came to the U.S. Many of us overseas consider ourselves capitalist while still understanding that it needs proper regulation. The United States is on another level; with monopolies galore and no real social safety nets.
@@AlabasterTheGreat Meh, enough that we know one thing: the US is the biggest shithole and the citizens are submerged too deep to even see the surface.
This reminds me of that scene in Incredibles where Bob gets flamed at for help his customers, amazing how they added real world problems that while children couldn’t understand, the adults would Bob: “we’re suppose to help people” Boss: “We’re suppose to be helping *OUR* people!”
@@Lambchahp Companies are a fiction that exists on paper. Don't you dare try to deflect the blame from where it truly lies. Companies can be founded on an entirely morally justified basis, and stay morally upright until the wrong people sneak their way in, trying to warp the company into an instrument of oppression or greed.
I haven't work a mask in months and I haven't gotten sick. I mean, I've stayed home on those months, but that's just some minuscule detail we don't need that. (In case you're too stupid to notice, this is called: satire)
@@bluemaster75 oh ok. But ngl really don’t see the point of this comment. Was this some sort of joke I was supposed to laugh at or are you just calling me stupid?
@@Student0Toucher I can’t wait to see your disappointment. But you voted for him, so you can’t complain. Those who didn’t vote for him or at all however can
I still don't get why "Dead people don't buy things" isn't a bigger motivator to do some that is at least approaching the right thing. Apparently they can't give up on short term gains.
That’s why GOP attacks sex Ed, affordable birth control, and abortion. It takes a lot of poor people to make one rich person. They’re in the business of making a lot of poor people. ...edited to add... the extra poor people are replacing the people who die.
@@marlabeard5352 I'm here like "Can't it be both?" Yeah, you've got the wealthy elite wanting to keep the hierarchical status quo. You've also got a lot of people replicating the behavior of their predecessors because they're after the same golden parachutes of financial success. Lot of stuff persists just because it became the accepted way of things for a previous generation. Still trying to shake off some capitalist thinking, myself.
Long term predictions, unless blindingly obvious (like motion of planets), rarely come to pass. As the world speeds up, more factors come into play, more changes happen within the same amount of time, and what was once a medium term prediction becomes a long shot. Short Term predictions are easier to manage, easier to test, and done rapidly enough, still give great financial return. That's what I heard anyways.
Perhaps 2 reasons : First, dying people spend more money than healthy people (to the grossly expensive American Healthcare System) Second, the rate they're dying is slow enough to allow them to breed, and somteimes, breed a lot. These new generation will also buy, and there are more new children than dead parents. When the number of dead parents exceed new children, activate mass immigration, preferably the non-legal ones (and educate law enforcer to turn a blind eye), so they work for very, VERY cheap...oh and make them die slow enough to breed, but fast enough to not be able to save enough money for their children future
@@mikefialko2979 The elitist people at the top are slowly but surely destroying themselves with greed. It just hits them in a different, more slow burn-y way than it hits everyone else underneath them.
“The point of modern propaganda isn't only to misinform or push an agenda. It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth.” ― Garry Kasparov
The problem is, the truth has already been annihilated. It’s too late to reverse this without first contributing to it to get people to blindly follow a positive agenda without fully understanding why it’s positive. The second problem is that no one can agree on the same positive agenda. This will inherently cause ideological conflict between factions that ignore facts that are inconvenient to them, not because they necessarily want to ignore facts, but because they have to in order to keep up with their opposition crafting a better narrative. It’s a propaganda arms race to the bottom.
@soul reaver What they wanted to do was instigate an economic containment of China using Xinjiang/Tibet/HK as a pretense, it's why the trade war was started in 2016. China is a nuclear power that's also neighbors with nuclear powers like N Korea and Pakistan, going to war directly with China means getting them involved too simply due to proximity and they are definitely friendlier with China than with the West. Now that the trade war has failed miserably, the only option left for the US is military invasion. Tensions are high, yes, but I wouldn't worry too much. The Capitalist elites may not value the average human lives, but they certainly cherish their own and those of their loved ones. The US is willing to attack the ME is because just like with Iraq, there's no WMDs. On the other hand, China has lots, and if total war breaks out, the capitalist elites WILL DIE. You think they're willing enough to risk their own precious lives? When they have so much money? To get all that wiped out by nuclear destruction? Even if they survive in bunkers, the land above them will be uninhabitable. Are they willing to live underground forever? You can also see the EU stepping away from the US in this regard. It's why they signed the investment deal with China deliberately before Biden took office. Fighting China headon is a death wish neither the US nor the EU have stomach for, and that's before taking Russia and Iran into account.
@@Caspianm2 George was talking about how Humanity is really destroying the enviorment for themselves, But then after humans are gone the earth will 'heal' itself. A new ecosystem will be born.
30,000 us soldiers vs half the country of vietnam? of course america would lose. and it was a time where america was still not that militarily advance unlike today. heck if america today invaded vietnam it can easily do so with only 10,000 troops. btw, i'm not even american but i can see how powerful america has become. even russia can do it but russia has the "obliterate" mentality. they would definitely send 300,000 soldiers to vietnam or even more.
"Every single aspect of our lives has been meticulously crafted to yield ever increasing profits"... and worse yet, we are so proud of our own exploitation 🙄
That's why I like the Chinese. They always think ahead, like hundreds of years ahead instead of the next election cycle like the USA. Best example is the Hong Kong deal they made with the British in the late 19th Century. It took them 100 years of wait, but they got back what was captured and occupied by the British (please don't start an argument about whether Hong Kong should be Chinese or not, that's not the point I want to make with this example).
@@DacLMK it’s hilarious how you’d completely give up having a say in your government (which is literally who controls you) for authoritarianism, which doesn’t give a damn what you think. If you think that’s safe, I guess that’s just natural selection; nature doing her beauty work
@@gagecreekmore1202 And here in lies the whole problem of the USA. I'm completely fine to not have any say in my government because I'm not a politician, nor I possess the whole government knowledge. My country was part of Yugoslavia. Yugoslavia was a nation that many people dreamed of replicating. But Tito died in 1980, and he didn't thought ahead for his successor, and chaos arose in the 80s, which it lead to the collapse in the 90s. In Yugoslavia nobody gave a damn about who was in power, they just wanted to work and live a decent life (which 90% of the population did). After you graduated high school, you had promised job at the place you studied to work, had paid vacation every year, society that respected each other (you can even sleep in the middle of the park at night, and nobody would bother you). But alas, the USA and Germany didn't like that, so they did what they're best at, destroy. Now except for Slovenia, all ex-Yugo states are shitholes run by the mafia.
@@DacLMK doing your own due diligence is a problem? Your problem is with democracy as a whole. Dictatorships could work if people were truly all benevolent, but they aren’t. Tough shit, that’s life.
@@davidalarcoavendano4286 You forget how the USA is presentng itself as the brightest star on the earth. So of course many try entering the supposed "star".
i like how in every science fiction movie the U.S. saves people most of the time but in reality cant handle its own government and tries to tear itself apart.
as a non-American who spent 7.5 years there, studying etc., this reflects my observations exactly. And the wealth inequality is directly reflected in the obesity of the poor as opposed to the ridiculous thinness of the super rich. it is almost a social status to be thin, no wonder: a pound of tomatoes and a few other veggies costs more than an entire huge pizza.
Healthy food is expensive, but most fast food places have $1 menus. Living here is terrible. We work people to death for not enough money to live, and then are surprised when people won't go back to those conditions after Covid-19 supposedly "got better"...
@@metrofilmer8894 BUT THAT DOSENT WORK. all Choices shouldn't be Greedy millionaires mentally ill, BASIC FACT DENNYERS. Because THATS WHAT IT IS. All politions should have to take a test on basic Facts and of they can't get at least a 90% they shouldt be allowed to run
America in a nutshell: America: Freedom! No more lies! People: **talk about how america is actually terrible because they can** America: Never mind! More lies!
@@jaykline8550 about how america tries to show itself a land of freedom and liberty, which implies that you can talk freely about anything and there's no propaganda, right ? Well it pumps out insane amounts of propaganda for profits (like how companies said that fat is the cause of heart stroke when it was sugar instead) which is about the opposite of liberty, and the us goverment also collected a bunch of information about people just viewing articles, which sounds exactly like the opposite of freedom of speech.
“each generation is less well off than the previous one” i really wish people understood this. we’re getting lectured by people in their 40s-80s that “well i was able to work part-time and afford college without taking out any loans” or “i was able to save up and buy a house by 20! no excuses!” when they don’t realize that the cost of living and expenses for all these things have skyrocketed while wages have been stagnant or even lost value
It's not that they don't realize it, they just don't care. A common theme of America is putting other groups down just to make themselves feel more superior by comparison. Pointing out the obvious differences in circumstances won't do anything to sway their opinion because doing so would be admitting that they had things easier than others. And the people who spew the same "back in MY day" bs will never admit to that.
@@meggaman7 Lyndon B. Johnson once said, "If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket." And I think that applies with groups in general. Convince the middle class they're better than the lower class and they're fine with their money being stolen by the upper class.
@@jacobodell5231 don't forget the middle class has been decimated. Yet, majority of Mericans still think and believe they are middle class. There's a reason the MSM never mention the poor working class unless they are doing something unsavory to the oligarchs and their property.
I honestly don’t know what is wrong with the people here and it makes me want to leave but my guess is politics. Everything here is so political now further dividing us and people get so heated if you disagree with them
@@breadd6497 agreed. There were always disagreements but things were at least fairly civil. But ever since Trump one the Demicrtas lost their minds and it caused a reaction and now just everything is crazy political
When you consider how empires that lasted millenniums were able to fall you understand how foolish America (USA) propaganda is, thinking they're gonna forever be on top of the world just because of few decades, a century at most, of hegemony. Almost laughable
The 2 super powers of the aftermath of WW2 will both eventually be destroyed by their own weight. USSR was first and the USA is just a ticking time bomb.
@@ewanstardis8462 issue with US is that they have so much money withheld by 1% that the moment they fall rest of the world will suffer immensely. If we don't see change from within soon climate crisis will be least of every ones problem.
We have devolved back into the dark ages. If you’re the one living in the castle? Good for you. You’re supported. You’re educated. Your belly is full. Your bed is waiting for you. If you’re outside of the castle? Sucks to be you. Have fun trying to make it past 30.
@@toppersundquist something super profitable could be completely useless, like crocs. Inventions should be made in order to further technology, not to make a quick buck.
@@humanoblivion2968 Crocs weren't useless, honestly they are the best sandals i've ever had when it comes to quality/price. EXTREMELY cheap and yet they can last YEARS.
Politicians can’t handle or care about crisises but when people are on the stock market they are like WEWO WEWO A NATIONAL CRISIS WE NEED ACTION RIGHT AWAY
The wealthy: poor people should just invest to secure their life and expand their wealth The poor people: actually start investing and make a killing on the stock market The wealthy: HOW DARE.. T---THE SYSTEM WASN'T DESIGNED FOR RETAIL-- PEOPLE WITHOUT CAPITAL SHOULDN'T BOTHER INVESTING
This is why i believe in syndicalism where instead of power to the goverment who will innevetably become corrupt or the rich upper class that is inherently corrupt or the owner of industry that will fight tooth and nail just so they will not lose a slightest provit, we as a cyndicalist share power between ourself in form of local union who function more as a micro local goverment be it over a dystric or neighborhood to voice our collective concern, collective interest and collective conflict of interest. Later every several years every union in the nation will select a random member to repesent their interest to the national assembly where all union who ruled over a neighborhood or dystric will voice their current concern as well as their interest thus ended up with a session of voting between diffrent policy and edict for each sector be it transportation, national defence, etc etc.
We are living in the era brought in by Reagan. Biden seems to be putting an end to the Reagan era. He handing of Covid is excellent at the moment. If this continues for a year, we might be in a new era.
I'm 17 years old this year. My best friend passed away due to covid. She caught it in the ER while being treated for a heart attack. I can't believe this was completely avoidable. I want my friend back.
@@absolutemattlad2701 same here, I'm scared for the future. The west is going to destroy itself over it's capitalist greed. I'm especially concerned for the environment.
Wow. Just wow. Being an European, even without this I honestly considered America to be among the absolute worst places in the world for a while now but that's just a nail in the coffin. Your system is awful.
The worst part is that it’s nearly impossible to change our system from the inside. In the 2020 presidential election, a candidate named Bernie Sanders ran on the platform of fixing the student debt crisis and medical debt crisis. However, when it appeared that Bernie was going to be nominated to run against Donald Trump, the Democratic National Committee ordered all of the moderate candidates to drop out of the race at the same time so that Joe Biden could win every moderate vote. Sanders was defeated shortly afterwards, and the two crises I mentioned are still being ignored today.
@@nicolasleroux5302 wait, wait, hold on. HOW in the name of all that is holy is your system even called a fucking DEMOCRACY if some influential body can just up and decide that they are going to prevent someone from running for presidency because they feel like it? Also was always wondering how is it that election always ends up being a race between two people, do voters even have a say in those initial votes you mentioned? Or is even that pretty much rigged?
@@Drakenwild I heard from somewhere that voters don’t actually vote for the president they vote for a person to vote for the president they like and these voted voters could just vote for somebody else . But this could also be false information but if it is true then America is truly fricked up
Oh yeah this country is absolutely unforgivable, I mean raising millions of people out of poverty, raising the standard of living to unprecedented levels, and liberating europe from fascism and communism? Completely unforgivable. FFS dude we're not perfect but this doesn't mean that everything we do is bad ok?
Well yeah if you can't understand a situation it often seems better than it is and most adults never actually check out all the bad shots that was happening when they were kids.
i mean, that's why something called the "edgy / pessimistic / angsty teenage" phase exists, right ? it's usually the time when most kids learn the truth that the world isn't all sunshine and rainbows as they have thought / have been taught
@@-._.-KRiS-._.- well even if i'm not a US citizen, i hope to god that the US grows up soon. worse case scenario they get stuck being a teenager forever 'till they get un-united because of something stupid
It’s kinda ironic when you think about it: capitalism is what created the “American empire” and unchecked capitalism is what will lead to its downfall🌚
@@constantineergius1626 why did the US sellout to China? Because it’s more cost effective to import than to produce. Business 101: minimize expenses and maximize profits.
@@natedagreat19 because american labor is unionized and that was the problem as well... unions are a problem and trade with our literal enemy is the other problem
@@constantineergius1626 there aren’t enough unions to warrant how much importing we do. You’re using a scapegoat on that one. Why are we trading with “enemies”? Because it’s profitable to do so. Capitalism 101: there no such thing as “bad” profits. Profit is profits.
@@Irimu_ my statement means nothing because I'm American? Well thats just incredibly ridiculous and prejudiced. And my statement does mean something - because it proves your genocidal selfishness comment absolutely false
As an Asian, I was always surprised at how so many of American cuisine is filled with sugar or fat. Pancakes with maple syrup for breakfast, high sugar content pies, cookies and cakes. Greasy bacon, burgers and pizza. There's just so many unhealthy options.
As an American, I was genuinely shocked to find out that governments in other countries put restrictions on unhealthy foods or ingredients. The mere concept was alien to me.
@@jgg204 The reason why you most likely see chinese food as greasy is probably because that is the majority of selection of dishes marketed to the western audience are altered to fit western standards. Take Panda Express, of which i vehemently vocalize is not representative of chinese food, at least of the kind im used to (Guangdong and Canto cuisine) although im sure other regions would likely agree, who specifically pick greasy or sweet dishes that would work well with a western audience and then crank it up by a lot. Also I dont understand the obsession with orange chicken.
@@awhahoo It is true. But PragerU probably won't hire better animator because they are the cheapskate who wouldn't spend a penny on making their contents more convincing. And their audience aren't good enough to see through the trash that's PragerU so why bother spending more money to update their animations?
I am 71 years old, and most children during my childhood didn't drink sugary soft drinks every day. I don't have numbers on sugar use but I am sure children consumed less sugar in the 1950's and 1960's.
The environment also wasn’t a toxic soup of agrochemicals and plastics messing with our metabolisms back then, either. Sure, we had dioxins, but nobody had spent their ENTIRE life steeped in bisphenol A or force-fed antibiotics for every little sniffle by a profit-motivated medical establishment since birth like my generation (born in the 80s). If adding antibiotics to chicken feed fattens up the chickens, why are we surprised when it fattens us up too?
"Not the first time the US won't admit to be beaten by the Vietnamese" LMFAO, better put some ice on that one... oh wait, they're running out BECAUSE WE'RE MELTING IT ALL.
Your discussion of the covid response really hit hard. It’s frustrating to see selfishness from those higher up as well as average people lead to more death. It’s honestly sickening and depressing.
@@anatomicalx9355 research from Europe shows that people that are morbidly obese have a much worse chance of dying from Covid-19 then the average. That's likely the answer right there
@@Brakiros doesn’t help that our government is literally lying to us. Out of the releases infected and death rates for covid, only 6% of it is true according to the CDC.
Obesity is not a crisis. It’s a personal choice. If obesity is a crisis as you put it, then something should be done about by the US government but you cannot control someone’s eating habits and claim to be a country that values personal liberty.
I don’t think it’s just a coincidence that our media/politics makes political discussion so toxic that most people just avoid the subject because they don’t want to personally insult people.
The time for caring about someone feelings is over. Because it is us against them. I for one want to save my people not let corporate greed and capitalists win.
@@STWD1ST well after that stuff in Nanking, I'm surprised we didn't drop a 3rd one, definitely not too far imo. Plus what if we did invade them and succeeded? America probably would have turned them into a state.
@@supersentaipepsi3736 the nuclear bomb gambit was actually a HUGE bluff made by the USA to end the war. The USA basically gave Japan a list of 10 cities they would destroy into oblivion with a "powerful bomb". The top of the list has Hiroshima, Nagisaki and Tokyo. The thing is, the US only had the time and resources at the time to develop 2 nuclear bombs, so they just pretended they had more. The Japanese didnt believe them until they first nuked Hiroshima. They were reluctant they had more until they nuked Nagisaki. The threat that Tokyo would be numbed next was too great for the emperor to ignore and Japan surrendered. With that, The US got away with the biggest and most important bluff in history.
You mean REPUBLICANS say it's communism...NOT Americans. Meanwhile, those same people cheer when Sean Hannity says he would love to see Putin "beat" Biden...Such a confused and pathetic mentality.
It's insane how hatred of communism is so far ingrained in American society to the point where most people hate communism/communists/communist countries but can't even give a proper definition of what communism is. Like, communism has nothing to do with the government. It's an economic ideology. Saying communism is where "the government controls everything you do" or whatever makes as much sense as saying "capitalism is where the government doesn't exist".
When kfc ran out of chicken at a couple of locations in the U.K. it made national news 🤦♂️ I honestly think it is most English speaking countries that loose their shit when fast food places run out of things
That's our national character. Taking the chain of supply and seemingly endless bounty it provides for granted while doing nothing to protect it or plan for crisis. Then when it hiccups, the reaction is sheer outrage. The definition of being spoiled and feeling entitled. Its gonna bite us all in the ass one day.
Don't buy the hype, it's literally just sugar. Fructose is a name for naturally occurring sugar, it's the same sugar that occurs naturally in apples. Vilifying one form of sugar over another is propaganda (marketing) by players within a competitive industry. The real answer is to just use less *sugar.* Stop putting sugar or sugar substitutes in everything. Do not replace them with an alternative sweetener, don't replace HFCS with white sugar, or raw sugar, or beet sugar, or agave nectar, or molasses...just STOP using the effing sugar. As the video mentions, members of the scientific community have been aware of the links between sugar(s) and diabetes for decades, yet even today you can find diet and low-fat versions of all sorts of foods in your local grocery. Why low fat milk? how low fat cheese (cheese is literally made of milk fat)? The continued misattribution to fat allows the sugar industry to continue shifting blame around while making enormous profits.
The last soft drink I have was about 7 month ago. I believe it was Pepsi. Too much sugar and I'm in my mid 40s. I stay away from sugary drinks majority of the time. I drink mostly plain water, hot green and herbal tea, and a little coffee once in a while. My daughter who is 8 doesn't even drink any sodas at all. I'm so proud of her even though I let her try it. She drink 1 sip and push it away. I believe school and parents need to introduce healthy food and snacks into their diet. Forgo sugary desserts and fatten food. Introduce vegetable, fruits, wheat and milk and chicken with no skin.
@@Lawrence330 the problem isn't that we're saying it's worse than rice syrup or cane sugar, it's that it's so heavily subsidized it's in literally everything you eat. My husband bought groceries and hot fat free half & half on accident, and looking at the label, it's got high fructose corn syrup and milk! That's it! It's outrageous the number of products that add HFCS because it's cheap and makes things more appealing, but also more unhealthy and, eventually, deadly.
Yeah! It's disgusting what the people on the big oil giants have done to slow down our process against climate change. These are some greedy evil people!
@@ntvypr4820 invoking party politics in regards to the issues he points out in his videos shows massive ignorance of the political problem and irresponsibility as the whole picture
@@ntvypr4820 even though party politics is ignorant and both are responsible for exacerbating our issues, there is no doubt that the Republican party is absolutely worse. it's so ironic that the first you mention is the Democrats who at least give a semblance of pretending to help
The pandemic, all it exposed, and what followed it in the time line is what's making want to leave the country when I graduate College. Someone once described the US as a "Third World Country in a Gucci Belt" Very accurate.
@@gingermuffin4292 Oh, okay. I never would have thought of that expression myself because I never saw the novelty of a Gucci belt - mainly because I do not believe in wearing belts since they make it hard for me to walk. I also do not believe in using cryptocurrencies, like Bitcoin. I do not see the value in digital currencies, except credit cards you use to buy things online or donate money to someone.
I remember watching Titanic when the ship is sinking, Murdoch throws Cal's money back at his face and says " your money can't save you any more than it can save me"
@@davidalarcoavendano4286 No one is saying it's a terrible nation (not yet anyway). And for those desperately wanting to enter.... the USA is the only nation they can reach that is significantly better than theirs. Which is a _very_ low bar to clear. And probably a lot of them believe in the myth of the American Dream.
@@davidalarcoavendano4286 because America does not bomb its own. because it typically unleashes death and destruction on people outside its borders. because it does not send terrorists to kill its own citizens, only foreigners. and up until this year, it did not try to kill its own citizens. does that answer your question?
Man, You gotta do a video about how you went from science hypotheticals to critical thinking political videos. I had a similar transition in my way of thinking as well.
Once you start applying the scientific method to things outside of science you realise that there are correct and incorrect answers In politics, it's hard to shut up about it
Personally a big part of why I became a lot more political was because I got interested in how science and tech could bring about utopian futures then realised that our current political and economic systems are either actively hindering that progress, or would ensure that the benefits are mainly felt by the super wealthy upper-class while potentially plunging the majority of people into poverty and dystopia; I imagine this is probably similar to how Second Thought evolved
It is because many people that are interested in science, like me, become disillusioned by politics and markets as we get to know more and more about our field of study. As an environmental scientist I became critical of politics and economics through the sheer incompetence of both to properly address these crises.
the lil jab at the US losing the Vietnam war caught me off guard, thank u for that I had a nice chuckle I'm not from the US and im genuinely sad for u guys, it is not OK there and I do hope it gets better
"Not the first time the US won't admit to being beaten by the Vietnamese" Breaking News: Scientists have confirmed that there is no ice cold enough for this burn in existence
@@kevinmunger1842 I could vibe check someone with a sledgehammer, but I won't. I am now superior than everyone else, because I won't use excessive force. That's not even taking into account the massive disparity in power, or the fact that using nukes would have blown what was supposed to be a regional war into a global clusterfuck, or the fact that that's a fucking stupid thing to say.
In other news: People in Texas think snow is fake and was sent here from China because a lighter leaves lighter fluid burn marks on snowballs too compacted to melt.
In 2008, I remember when the recession happened and my mother lost her job and we were homeless going from hotel to hotel until our family took us in. That’s when my good times ended. Then I lost my job in 2020 during the pandemic.
My warmest wishes for you to overcome these difficult times. May you find all the resources you need, don't give up. When you get back up you are welcome to joining the fight for the poor and working class.
DONT LET THIS IDIOT FOOL YOU, MANY PEOPLE IS TRYING TO GET INTO AMERICA FOR BETTER LIFE. THEY GET THERE WITHOUT NOTHING AND EVEN HAVE ENOIGHT MONEY TO GIVE SOMETHING BACK TO THEIR FAMILIES IN HOME. AMERICA IS LAND OF FREEDOM AND OPPORTUNITIES.
That sucks! But key is to save money when you're employed by living below your means. EVERYONE has periods of unemployment in their life. Many jobs (especially in the skilled trades) have went unfilled even during the pandemic.
@@davidalarcoavendano4286 They're ruining their lives coming here. America hasnt been the 'land of freedom and opportunities' in lifetimes, America is what the world as a country would look like, horrifying. You're simpily deluding yourself if you still believe any of that bullshit you say is true.
Video idea: I have seen a lot of videos of americans talking about how they see the USA after living abroad for some years, and I have talked over that with a couple of friends who studied for a year in the USA as exchange students, so, there is a question that constantly flies over my mind: Are americans indoctrined about being patriotic and believing that the USA is the best country at everything even though it is clear that it is not?
Yeah they are indoctrinated. An empire committing the most horrible crimes abroad must fool its population somehow into thinking it is supposedly for a just cause. The British Empire saw themselves as "liberators" even though what they did to their colonies was obviously the opposite of that. Americans are taught the same thing. They need Americans to think the "savages" of foreign nations are in desperate need of American "freedom and democracy", so it can justify wars like those in the Middle East or regime change in South America. Watch comrade Hakim's analysis of the film Aladdin to see just how bad the West's perception of the Orient really is.
Yes. Yes we are. Like, it's built into our schooling. And our media. We're like that one insecure kid in school who HAS to be the BEST at EVERYTHING and screams about it constantly, when in reality everyone else is well aware he actually smells a bit weird and gets average marks at best, but he just can't admit it.
Americans convince themselves that if they get pay increase it hurts them, but if their bosses gain wealth it helps them. Not only that they don't believe in climate change like they cannot comprehend the literal evidence in front of them. I guess that's to be expected when the country was built with everything but skill. You can't steal everything. Sometimes you HAVE to learn.
US was built on skills and also kind of blessed with resources and neighbours Its still a great country but it seems like its slowly going downhill as US govt don't realize they are here for the people not the profits. They are too corporate focussed and don't know how to say no to money or keep its people ahead of money
@@HarshRajAlwaysfree The US was built on stolen land by people they stole. Hard to be great when you start off so terrible. Everything that’s going on is just continuing an American tradition.
Nobody is free of bias. It may be the case that he's right about a lot of big picture stuff, but he could also be very wrong about a lot of specifics or the way he ties these things together. Remember that there is no such thing as politics free of opinion. We're all just making guesses based on what we think we know and how the future could be. You will rarely easily find significant disagreement in the comment sections of these sorts of videos. Controversy gets down-voted, agreement gets up-voted. This breeds echo chambers and a false illusion of accuracy. Just take his videos with a grain of salt, be open minded to the possibility you're wrong in any regard, and do your own research as best you can.
@@AnaseSkyrider Unless it's a video about china and us, then you see 2 groups of people bitching about how the opposing country is terrible and theirs are better. But the reality is, both political system are flawed for the same reason. Human greed.
@@smolpotatoe1744 Agree, but the real image is that animosity between China-USA is one-sided. The USA hates China for its economic growth and they're doing everything to stop that. Every government sucks in its own way.
Great video on this honestly. We're all waking up to what is really going on. I'm 26 and I've already had to use my very small retirement fund I had started to pay to live in a home after getting very ill and the medical bills. I barely have cash for gas day to day. Rent is way too expensive. Its hard on a day to day basis. So many people I know as well want to give up
Lol this video is such a load of bullshit. The old classic method of listing an actual problem, then linking that problem to stuff that has nothing to do with the problem, or that if it does changing it will not solve the problem but just make it worse. The USA can't manage crisis because it's leadership is not responsible for anything, and their leadership it's not responsible for anything because idiots believe everything they're told just because it sounds smart, like this video. First of all no one denies Climate Change exist. Some people don't believe humans cause. Others believe humans cause. Second off, even if that's the case, the USA is one of the FEW countries in the world that actually reduce it's contamination levels, so yeah the USA is doing it's part.
@@nicak777alex9 You haven't been around many Americans, have you? About half of them don't believe in Climate Change and the reason why they refuse to make any headway in developing alternative sources of energy is because those sources aren't part of the current profit model-their current profit model. They refuse to innovate or shift their focus into new developments because they are afraid of losing all that profit.
4:18 "A giant industry wanted to keep making money, so they threw the American people under the bus." This is the epitome of every problem we are dealing with today. Healthcare. Education. Low waged jobs with eroding benefits and zero growth prospects. Unaffordable housing. You name it.
Opiod epidemic, climate change, for profit prisons, healthcare, gun violence, you name it. Americans can die but as long as there's profits to be made, nothing will be done.
@@mindelo23 climate change is natural, theres barely any for profit prisons in the u.s, we pay the same amount people in the uk do for healthcare, (and its better, AND we do have public healthcare), gun violence is literally miniscule, germany, uk, and france all have more violent deathrates than we do, so what do guns matter?
How dare they!?! 😡 The greedy few with too much power and control over the government hindering it from progress are old, they will die out soon and their giant unethical industries may die out with them. Maybe not "soon enough" but it will happen in the next 20 years if they do not know some secret to living forever. A government that only serves the governing and ignores the governed can not last for very long.
"Not the first time the US won't admit to being beaten by the Vietnamese" Breaking news: the US has collapsed under the sheer weight of being owned that hard.
What's funny is that the U.S actually won the war. You can look up the treaty and goals of the war. The N.V broke the treaty and invaded, giving the impression America "lost"
🤣🤣🤣🤣 and I'm old enough to remember that war when US war crimes against the Vietnamese people would be broadcast nightly and be on the local newspaper's front page the following morning.
The U.S. is a lost cause. I wish that more creative, intelligent workers and small-time entrepreneurs would decide to move to and help build countries that actually respect them.
Likewise, I wish it was easier to move to other countries. Some of them could stand to relax immigration policies, and/or create a more streamlined path to citizenship. Or something. I don't know, I'm not an expert. But I do feel like some of these countries who rightfully complain about how bad the US is could stand to put their money where their mouth is and help us out. There's plenty of us who don't wanna live here any more than they do.
Even when I was around 15 I realized how much I didnt want to be a adult. I could all these other kids rushing to adulthood and I'm like nope nope nope. Now I'm just a few weeks from being 20 and I'm still like nope nope nope
Born after the 80s? I was born in 78. Born during economic crisis, grew up during skyrocketing urban decay, homelessness, and another Recession in the late 80s. Plus, obesity rose during my childhood. That is why clothing sizes were deregulated so that a Marilyn Monroe size 12 is now a size 2. I am old enough to remember he start of policies of having medical assistance kids not being examined or treated until after the first person with insurance showed for their appointment. Then the culture of fear in the 90s, etc. It has been happening longer that you or even me, Second Thought. I like how you traced the origins of crises accordingly.
Robin Williams said it best: “Politicians should wear sponsor jackets like NASCAR drivers, then we know who owns them.”
@@newforestpixie5297 Al Franken went this route and was eaten by his own. We don't need someone who isn't qualified in office ... we tried that. And Robin Williams died because he had a neurological disease that made his life a living hell so he took his own life. You should know this. It's insensitive to talk trash like this.
Douglas Jackson, you said: "
Robin Williams said it best: “Politicians should wear sponsor jackets like NASCAR drivers, then we know who owns them.” How does George Soros jacket looks like?
@@bitterseeds He was devoured by his capitalist party! I miss him.
@@KathyPowers-Chicago60626 Robin Williams was too weak OR he knew too much about Hillary and committed "suicide".
@@edwarddongres7866 Found the Nazi brainlet.
Oddly enough, nobody here is defending establishment Democrats. They're *almost* as bad as your heroes.
"We are not equipped to handle crises because crisis management is not profitable"
I want that on a T Shirt
Bonus is it could be profitable
@@67kingdedede it won’t be profitable early on
Me too
This dude is extremely anti American. To say “America can’t handle crises” is objectively false. Even just from the 1900s forward the US has navigated WW1, Great Depression, WW2, Cold War, Korean War, Vietnam War, Gulf Wars, 9/11, 2008 Housing crash. Y’all let pretty words swoon y’all
@@skinsornothink1913 most of those were wars that America began or made worse and don’t count as a crisis, the only ones I would say were a crisis would be Great Depression and 2008, but those were solved by government programs and funding, not private corporations, because it required a ton of money that would have made it impossible to profit
“Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.”
― Edward Abbey
Every life form go grow for the sake of growth though. Not that valid of a quote innit.
@@kugelblitzingularity304 every animal i see in the wild seems to be fine as long as it has enough to eat
@@kugelblitzingularity304 I see what you mean, but I would say most beings (including humans) would like to grow for the increased quality of life side of things rather than imperialist expansion. I think that is what the quote may be referring to.
@@kugelblitzingularity304 Growth can be good when you grow for a good reason. Growth for the sake of growth however is like eating to get fat.
@@owencole5774 ever thought about a circular economic system instead of a growing one? Capitalist want the universe and more when we only have the earth
"for millenials and younger generations, there's no such thing as 'the good old days'. we never experienced them." oh... oh shit
That hit harder than I ever thought I would…
I mean when was the good ole days….
I was born in 1963 so I can't say there was a "good old days" unless you count gasoline going for 35 cents a gallon and candy bars for a dime. Oh wait, those contributed to global warming and obesity. Never mind.
I don't know I have good memories from a week in 1996. That was a good week pity about the rest of the decade and those since have been even worse.
Born in 65 middle of Vietnam War, 70s inflation and gasoline shortage. Mass unemployment.
The start of aids reganomics created trickle down economics wich is why minimum wage is not inline with inflation.
Because the CDC linked Aids to a gay man eventhough in Africa it was clearly not. Research was delayed and mishandled.
1980's lost greatest voice in music Freddie mercury because of this.
Immigration of gay people was forbidden.
Minimum wage 4.25 in 2010 minimum 7.25 thats a whole 3 dollars in 30 years not a livable wage.
1990 1st Iraq. War. Wall comes down and starts a war in Bosnia. Formally Yugoslavia. Black hawk down happens.
YtoK scare in 2000
2001 9/11.
Not so good old days.
"Not the first time the US won't admit to being beaten by the Vietnamese"
Apply burn salve to napalmed area
nice
Holy shit, that line cought me off guard, damn, I even laughed out loud!
Shots have been fired.
**happy vietnamese speaking tree noises**
Instant like and subscription) Level of humor -- mastermind.
As a 62 year old man I have to admit that the generation born after the 1980's did not experience the good old days. I have to admit my generation was very lucky during our younger years because we could look back on the good old days. My heart goes out to young people today. Stay true to yourself and realize it's not your fault. Corporate greed sucks and realize what's important in life. People are the most important commodity not things. Take care of each other
You have a very good point ol chum, it is unfortunate that Americans have it drummed into them about taxes etc when the reality is that an American pays more out their wage in both taxes and services ie health care payments is included in that, than any other industrial country even on the low end of industrial have more than the American. The problem will be to change the American dream etc it's no longer a dream but a Knight are that doesn't work in today's world in my eyes and the eyes of many outside America is that the American is stuck in the past and for me your still a young country compared to the rest of the world albiet apart from Australia which is just as young but they have been influenced better I would say.
Tell others and such to vote with your head and not your heart and start getting politicians to stand up to the capitilist companies and start putting their foot on those snakes and stop the privatise system get better politicians to start taking back power from the companies and back to the govt coz the govt is the people as they are voted in by people for the people just a thought
@@lordkabal2010 And we know well what, or better yet "who" happened in the 80's.
Thank you for being more understanding of current youth struggles than many others from older generations have been.
@@johnwalker1058 my son is 24 and he’s becoming very politically active, like my generation should have been
@@boathemian7694 it’s not necessarily your fault. The worst thing about the U.S. is that they can’t take criticism. All throughout history, for example the red scare, the miracle on ice (where the U.S. used a hockey team as symbolism for smashing their boot in Communism’s face), and other events, they just can’t stand people thriving outside their system. You guys probably couldn’t be active because you were forced to not think outside the box for other political ideas. It still happens today at the highest levels. Anytime someone wants to relocate funds away from the military (I predict a fall in the stock market, which the tax payer who can’t even participate in the stock market will have to pay the price for, seeing as we’ve profited for 20 years on war and we won’t be able to find someone else to fight anytime soon and we did nothing to fix our economic problems while we were in war) and towards sciences to help climate change, NASA, UBI, or Universal Health care, or parental leave, or anything else they are seen as communists socialists who want to see the end of American hyper capitalism. We still go through it today but in some different forms.
"Not the first time the US won't admit to being beaten by the Vietnamese"
As a Vietnamese, I thank you for the honest information you provided in the video ^.^
Hello fellow eastern Laotian :)))
As an American I say with great shame that my country can't beat a bunch of rice farmers in the trees
@Bodmerocity we were allies with the north Vietnamese, we helped them win their revolution against France, and supported their democratically elected communist party. But once we learned that ho chi min was a communist, we had to invade and support the corrupt, capitalistic south Vietnam.
Hello fellow rice person XD
@Bodmerocity Do you know what the documentary is called and where I can watch it?
"Come on USA, save the planet, as you do on all your movies"
- The rest of the world
In Brazil, there’s actually a meme like that
Cmon dude fictional things in movies dont happen
@@obiomajronyekwere4469 Obviously, and America is proving it.
@@liz8986 gonna have to agree on that with you
@@obiomajronyekwere4469 obviously, now the rest of the world either wait for the fall of the us evil empire or accelerate it, so that humanity could return to decency.
The video explained in one sentence:
if it doesn't make money then its not worth our time
Evil selfish people's POV btw, not the video.
@@smashing-3291 Okay how about you explain it Mr. I'm correct and your wrong
@@hooby7045 maybe try to understand what people are actually saying for once? It's not even that hard.
@@smashing-3291 Wait were you implying that I was the evil selfish person or was it aimed at the people in control who don't do anything helpful for the sake of society unless they profit off of it.
@@hooby7045 Was for big greedy capitalist corporates. Why would i call you that?
“When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent.”
-- Isaac Asimov
Therefore the intelligent have to get armed and organized
@@nil981 What do you hope to achieve with the "armed" part
@@alecciarosewater7438 I could assume its to avoid being killed by the stupid. Being 'organized' can help though.
You are back again with your f**king quotes. Go back to the hole from which you came
@@nil981 Know u think like Lenin did in 1900-s.)
"Crisis management isn't profitable."
The american problem in a nutshell.
Yet, it is! Some time down the line of course, but who cares about long-term solutions anymore.
Other side of that coin is there's a lot of profit to be made during a crisis.
@@killaknight12 obviously, yes.
I think "Crisis management isn't profitable enough." would be more accurate then.
This information is the problem... I swear to God I don't believe there is a pandemic. There billions of people worldwide who do NOT observe the "safety protocols" and are still alive.
The crisis (like all USA wars) is based on lies.
Correct neither is a cure! It is paramount for us to seek holistic practitioners - Sorry for the losses but the plandemic has been profitable!
"I DON"T CARE ABOUT LIVES AT ALL EXCEPT FOR MY OWN! I JUST CARE ABOUT THE MONEY! IT DOESN"T MATTER HOW MANY PEOPLE DIE! IF I MAKE ANY PROFIT FROM IT, IT'S WORTH IT!" - Most U.S polititians
You mean US corporatists, who then heavily influence politicians through campaign donations and lobbying.
@@yuyutubee8435 yeah but us polititians knowingly cave into them so both
…and most large mega corporations.
"All the customers are buying!"
"And the PR people are lying!"
"And the lawyers are denying!"
"Who cares if a few people are dying?"
You're going to regret this at the end of your life. You can't be an inhumane human who does not treat other people like human beings, because that makes the worst leader ever. *Governing is not all about you!* It should not be about getting everyone else to serve you. Being selfish doesn't pay. I tried it just the other day. I wanted to be happy. I thought it was the way, but it weren't.
The "good old days" for me was when I was blissfully unaware of the country's problems.
Ignorance is happiness
Wanted to move to america as a kid. Still wouldn't mind spending vacation their, and maybe I would move to there but I'm a little disappointed it wasn't the perfect heaven I heard it was.
Sometimes I wish I could have grown up in 70s or 80s America
That applies to many people like me before 2020. The coronavirus pandemic just made every problem much more obvious, plus police brutality and Karens.
@@ElectricAlien577 maybe not
As a 74 yr. old woman I can tell you that young people today, unlike us in the 50's and 60's, are born into poverty. Their inheritance is despair. I worked my way through college on part-time minimum wage jobs. I bought a triplex on a city park lake in Seattle in my 20's. Let us acknowledge the pain of these youth and strive to help. The bounty of the 50's and 60's were the result of the lowest gap between wealth and poverty, the highest levels of unionization, the highest tax on wealth, etc. It took workers 30 years of labor activism to arrive at this level of prosperity. Can we really spend another 30 years to achieve what the rest of the world takes for granted?
"Their inheritance is despair." is a pretty grim reality
Reaching that level of prosperity also took winning a world war to achieve that prosperity. All the vets came back home loaded with GI bills to buy houses in the suburbs and new cars which in turn destroyed the cities. The destruction of the cities later helped create the obesity crisis because no one walked anymore and just drove cars all around the cities. The inner cities were left to rot and crime took over while the second amendment was defended no matter how many people died from guns. Here we are now with the highest murder rates of first world countries, no health care, extreme obesity, over priced college, no worker's rights, low wages, and no retirement. Richest country in the world...
Well considering my sister is also currently working her way through college on a minimum wage job, and is doing just fine to boot, we can say that much hasn't really changed
@@anatomicalx9355 Be great to know how your sister is doing that.. If she is making $10hr @ 40hrs a week (Full time work BTW) after taxes, she is bringing home about $15K ay year (est. reduction for State, or city taxes) Regardless it's under $20k.. Please let me know what college that is worth anything will allow you the hours/time to work full time and pay less than $12k to $15k a year ??? "and do just fine"
That's because you didn't have laissez-faire economics back then unlike now.
I love how many people are like "Don't like it? Leave then!" and then fail to realize that most of us cannot afford to pack up all our stuff and go through the process of relocating.
IKR? Wish I had photos of people's faces in these conversations when I'm told this and respond, "Dude, I'm a MegaMillions lottery win away from getting on a plane...like, literally tomorrow. I'd take the lump sum and haul @$$..." Those conversations are quite rare, though. There's no point.
why? poepen leave there country to go to America so Americans can leave and come to Europa
No, you claim to want to leave but don't want to leave your bubble of comfort.
@@stijnvisser2290 just curious, do you know what class of people migrate to this country the most?
Honestly I'm at the point where I'm ready to cop a one way ticket out of here and just wing it. I dont have kids, still relatively young, I'm already broke here, being broke somewhere else might feel like an adventure.
I was born in the year 2000 and I can say with certainty that being a kid there was definitely good ol days, but now as I've matured and grown into a young adult at the age of 20 (almost 21) I've come to realize that you eventually reach a point in your life where you finally realize that there are no good ol days any more its just eternal suffering with a few good moments sprinkled in to make you keep going.
That's something I would say, my fellow near 21 year old guy...
20? Dude, Life hasn't even begun to F*** you in the A** yet. JUST WAIT! Live it up RIGHT NOW because it all goes down hill in a few years! Physically, Financially, Socially...RIGHT NOW is as good as it will get. You have a few years of this then it turns into a long ride downhill! Then one day you will throw your back out, realize you are getting old now, and realize that this working your life away BS to pay the bills every month is some $hit!
I'm 23.....it doesn't get any better....
Perfect analogy!
“Not the first time the US won’t admit to being beaten by the Vietnamese”
OUCH
Need some stronger ointment for that napalm burn
Honestly, that "joke" never gets old to me (I put joke without quotation marks because neither the war nor hundreds of thousands of covid deaths are exactly funny, but you know what I mean)
@@Acidfrog475*ever hear of dark humor? Not laughing at the war laughing at America*
Also....in a place royally shafted by covid already due to a shitty pm thinking tourism is more important than life
@@yerfriendlyneighborhoodsco3337 True. I just innately want to make sure I'm not misunderstood. And I did clearly state I find the dark joke funny.
I don't think I've ever been this early to a ST video. Can't wait to watch this!
Edit: "It's not the first time the US has decided not to talk about being beaten by the Vietnamese" now this is the quality dunking I'm here for. Absolutely excellent work.
I’m subbed to you and none of your stuff gets to my sub box. Hell looking at my subscription list doesn’t show your channel, but when I click on it I’m subscribed, I’m relieved seeing your name again because I would’ve definitely forgotten if I never saw this comment.
Same comrade
@@Halcypian Not the first time I've been told this sadly. If I knew how to fix the issue, I definitely would. Maybe the bell nonsense fixes it?
Hakim love you ❤
@@YaBoiHakim I’ve been bell-ing channels since It was introduced, and looking at your channel the things on, I’m baffled because it’s clearly not working for the past year of uploads I’ve never seen in my notif box. I’ll try better to get you in my recommended but screw RUclips from literally influence-gating me from certain peoples contain for which I PERSONALLY subscribed for.
This video in a nutshell: We can't solve the problems of our society and planet because of greed
long and short of it
You mean, the American society above the rest of the world society. Don't put every country on the same noose, some of us do actually care and actually do something about it, unlike most Americans. not saying i disagree with what you said, because i don't, greed is a major issue everywhere, but Americans take it to the apocalyptic level
the issue of capitalist politics:
we can't raise minimum wage because then the rich earn less, who then pay the poor less
oh wait... so if we don't raise minimum wage, the poor earn more? why don't we just raise minimum wage in the first place?
If we raise the minimum wage then the rich will make the excuse that they can’t afford to pay them so they make their products more expensive thereby rising inflation
Why do people completely dodge that phrase? Reason we give corporations tax breaks is to drive up wages (which they don't). Then they cut a bunch of people anyway and the money "disappeared". Then, they cry to the government for more money claiming bankruptcy despite earning record profits. That's the "free shit" nobody wants to talk about.
14:29 “How many Americans have to die before we realize that capitalism is destroying us?”
Angel floats in with a slip of paper that reads thus: “All of them.”
All mighty empires have fallen due to greed in the end.
America is no exception
It would take war INSIDE THEIR MAP to make them come to realization
And the alternative to capitalism being..?
@@mrmr4622 *Socialism*
For your next line you'll say: "Socialism never worked, and will always lead to totalitarianism!"
@@cherrydragon3120 It’s working now and will continue to do so.
Tl;dr it’s more profitable to perpetuate suffering and crises than it is to solve them. The wonders of capitalism at play once again.
Ofc. im from nj and hurricane sandy hit hard. Food. Gone. Houses destroyed. No mutual aid or compensation. Everyone left to suffer in cold and darkness and homeless. When ppl lost homes they had no place to go and had to either find a new home or pay for renevations. We need some sort of economic planning. Decentralized imo
I make similar videos on my channel, check it out if you want! And I’d love to hear what you think about them! 😄
Or, there's only profit once in crisis prevention. Allow greed to rule now and generate immediate profit and future crises, then there's further profit in crisis response. Rinse and repeat.
Capitalism doesn't just _disincentivise_ long-term thinking, it expressly *_rewards_* its opposite.
@@Novella1 Hey man i just subbed. No doubt is it interesting.
@@sungod1384 Thank you! :)
I never understood extreme Capitalism until I came to the U.S. Many of us overseas consider ourselves capitalist while still understanding that it needs proper regulation. The United States is on another level; with monopolies galore and no real social safety nets.
This person just regurgitated what they heard in this video, they know nothing.
@bobcat baldfat drunkbeater Nah dude I wouldn’t mind if we were take. over , we need more regulations
@bobcat baldfat drunkbeater bullshit you little liar that equates to more than the US population....stop making up lies ;)
@bobcat baldfat drunkbeater damn bro where did you get this bullshit statistics from so I can avoid it
@@AlabasterTheGreat Meh, enough that we know one thing: the US is the biggest shithole and the citizens are submerged too deep to even see the surface.
This reminds me of that scene in Incredibles where Bob gets flamed at for help his customers, amazing how they added real world problems that while children couldn’t understand, the adults would
Bob: “we’re suppose to help people”
Boss: “We’re suppose to be helping *OUR* people!”
When I think about it. Companies are really selfish.
Great movie and amazing point! I loved that movie as a kid
@@theisgood0 I love that movie as an 18 year old still
@@Lambchahp Companies are a fiction that exists on paper. Don't you dare try to deflect the blame from where it truly lies. Companies can be founded on an entirely morally justified basis, and stay morally upright until the wrong people sneak their way in, trying to warp the company into an instrument of oppression or greed.
@@TarsonTalon True
“I’m surrounded by idiots.”
Karens, people refusing to wear masks, people killing each other over a fucking cloth, and lack of decency.
I haven't work a mask in months and I haven't gotten sick.
I mean, I've stayed home on those months, but that's just some minuscule detail we don't need that.
(In case you're too stupid to notice, this is called: satire)
@@bluemaster75 oh ok. But ngl really don’t see the point of this comment. Was this some sort of joke I was supposed to laugh at or are you just calling me stupid?
@@chopin6087 Some stupid joke I think. I was half asleep when writing it.
@@bluemaster75 lol.
@@chopin6087 Sleep deprivation. Every time.
In a nutshell: America’s priorities lie elsewhere than it’s population’s well-being
*/the world's
@@j.r.7339 Don't bring the rest of the world into this.
We give the most forign aid in the world. Idk why.
@@baronvonjo1929 same reason the Koch brothers bribe, sorry, donate to PBS. Control.
@@Student0Toucher I can’t wait to see your disappointment. But you voted for him, so you can’t complain. Those who didn’t vote for him or at all however can
I still don't get why "Dead people don't buy things" isn't a bigger motivator to do some that is at least approaching the right thing. Apparently they can't give up on short term gains.
O: Bro stop speaking facts the corporations will get mad.
That’s why GOP attacks sex Ed, affordable birth control, and abortion. It takes a lot of poor people to make one rich person. They’re in the business of making a lot of poor people. ...edited to add... the extra poor people are replacing the people who die.
@@marlabeard5352 I'm here like "Can't it be both?" Yeah, you've got the wealthy elite wanting to keep the hierarchical status quo. You've also got a lot of people replicating the behavior of their predecessors because they're after the same golden parachutes of financial success. Lot of stuff persists just because it became the accepted way of things for a previous generation. Still trying to shake off some capitalist thinking, myself.
Long term predictions, unless blindingly obvious (like motion of planets), rarely come to pass. As the world speeds up, more factors come into play, more changes happen within the same amount of time, and what was once a medium term prediction becomes a long shot. Short Term predictions are easier to manage, easier to test, and done rapidly enough, still give great financial return. That's what I heard anyways.
Perhaps 2 reasons :
First, dying people spend more money than healthy people (to the grossly expensive American Healthcare System)
Second, the rate they're dying is slow enough to allow them to breed, and somteimes, breed a lot.
These new generation will also buy, and there are more new children than dead parents.
When the number of dead parents exceed new children, activate mass immigration, preferably the non-legal ones (and educate law enforcer to turn a blind eye), so they work for very, VERY cheap...oh and make them die slow enough to breed, but fast enough to not be able to save enough money for their children future
“Take countries as Vietnam or New Zealand”
Me, a Vietnamese living in New Zealand:
👁 👄 👁
Me living in zeeland (Netherlands)
👁👄👁
@@Tristanimator_ that was a good one
@@Tristanimator_ aha Dutch did name New Zealand
Absolute chad detected
@@prince_yt3406 the guy that discovered it also named tasmania after himself
"Make profits or die" the true American motto
make profit and die*
No The Great United States Motto is IN GREED WE TRUST!
Boo! I thought it was In God We Trust! It seriously disgusts me that nobody important cares about the Constitution anymore.
@@mikefialko2979 The elitist people at the top are slowly but surely destroying themselves with greed. It just hits them in a different, more slow burn-y way than it hits everyone else underneath them.
Your no wrong
“The point of modern propaganda isn't only to misinform or push an agenda. It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth.”
― Garry Kasparov
Spoken like a true grandmaster
@Doomsday Clown ur username checks out
The problem is, the truth has already been annihilated. It’s too late to reverse this without first contributing to it to get people to blindly follow a positive agenda without fully understanding why it’s positive.
The second problem is that no one can agree on the same positive agenda. This will inherently cause ideological conflict between factions that ignore facts that are inconvenient to them, not because they necessarily want to ignore facts, but because they have to in order to keep up with their opposition crafting a better narrative. It’s a propaganda arms race to the bottom.
Well said. It's why inexperienced westerners buy into the whole Xinjiang crap nowadays.
@soul reaver What they wanted to do was instigate an economic containment of China using Xinjiang/Tibet/HK as a pretense, it's why the trade war was started in 2016. China is a nuclear power that's also neighbors with nuclear powers like N Korea and Pakistan, going to war directly with China means getting them involved too simply due to proximity and they are definitely friendlier with China than with the West. Now that the trade war has failed miserably, the only option left for the US is military invasion.
Tensions are high, yes, but I wouldn't worry too much. The Capitalist elites may not value the average human lives, but they certainly cherish their own and those of their loved ones. The US is willing to attack the ME is because just like with Iraq, there's no WMDs. On the other hand, China has lots, and if total war breaks out, the capitalist elites WILL DIE. You think they're willing enough to risk their own precious lives? When they have so much money? To get all that wiped out by nuclear destruction? Even if they survive in bunkers, the land above them will be uninhabitable. Are they willing to live underground forever?
You can also see the EU stepping away from the US in this regard. It's why they signed the investment deal with China deliberately before Biden took office. Fighting China headon is a death wish neither the US nor the EU have stomach for, and that's before taking Russia and Iran into account.
The planet is fine
The people are fucked
- George Carlin
Except we're literally sabotaging the eco-system and breathable atmosphere so uhh...
@@Caspianm2
There's been 5 great extinction events. Life has changed but... life finds a way. It just doesn't include the creatures it did before.
@@kcthonian Yeah, but this one was preventable
@@zinniaz05
Yeah. But that doesn't make George's statement any less true.
Nature will be fine. It always finds a way. Now, us on the other hand....
@@Caspianm2 George was talking about how Humanity is really destroying the enviorment for themselves, But then after humans are gone the earth will 'heal' itself. A new ecosystem will be born.
“It’s not the first time the US has refused to talk about being beaten by the Vietnamese” I see what you did there 😂😂
Yeah, that was particularly savage
LOL! People actually think the U.S. was in Vietnam to win.
@@3nineteen319 it was there to make another totalitarian state with another bloody dictator
Edit: it makes me sad to see the bullsh#t below me
@@3nineteen319 There is no oil in Vietnam, so why were they there.
30,000 us soldiers vs half the country of vietnam? of course america would lose. and it was a time where america was still not that militarily advance unlike today. heck if america today invaded vietnam it can easily do so with only 10,000 troops. btw, i'm not even american but i can see how powerful america has become. even russia can do it but russia has the "obliterate" mentality. they would definitely send 300,000 soldiers to vietnam or even more.
"Every single aspect of our lives has been meticulously crafted to yield ever increasing profits"... and worse yet, we are so proud of our own exploitation 🙄
Yeah and those who see the problems are commonly mocked
The Story of the United States: Short term thinking leads to long term consequences
@@altrag lol crash
That's why I like the Chinese. They always think ahead, like hundreds of years ahead instead of the next election cycle like the USA. Best example is the Hong Kong deal they made with the British in the late 19th Century. It took them 100 years of wait, but they got back what was captured and occupied by the British (please don't start an argument about whether Hong Kong should be Chinese or not, that's not the point I want to make with this example).
@@DacLMK it’s hilarious how you’d completely give up having a say in your government (which is literally who controls you) for authoritarianism, which doesn’t give a damn what you think. If you think that’s safe, I guess that’s just natural selection; nature doing her beauty work
@@gagecreekmore1202 And here in lies the whole problem of the USA. I'm completely fine to not have any say in my government because I'm not a politician, nor I possess the whole government knowledge. My country was part of Yugoslavia. Yugoslavia was a nation that many people dreamed of replicating. But Tito died in 1980, and he didn't thought ahead for his successor, and chaos arose in the 80s, which it lead to the collapse in the 90s. In Yugoslavia nobody gave a damn about who was in power, they just wanted to work and live a decent life (which 90% of the population did). After you graduated high school, you had promised job at the place you studied to work, had paid vacation every year, society that respected each other (you can even sleep in the middle of the park at night, and nobody would bother you). But alas, the USA and Germany didn't like that, so they did what they're best at, destroy. Now except for Slovenia, all ex-Yugo states are shitholes run by the mafia.
@@DacLMK doing your own due diligence is a problem? Your problem is with democracy as a whole. Dictatorships could work if people were truly all benevolent, but they aren’t. Tough shit, that’s life.
“Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche
well said
This is one Nietzsche quote I like
That is what I call the willfully blind.
When you believe a lie for too long, the truth doesn´t set you free. It tears you apart.
""Bullheaded & stubborn " but left out stupid & lazy & easily fooled.
"it's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled"
~Mark Twain
"i get quoted a lot" Mark Twain
“N***** Jim”
~Twainy Boy
SO WHY MANY PEOPLE ARE TRYING DESESPERATLY TO ENTER AMERICA IF ITS SO UGLY? MAYBE YOU DONT KNOW YOUR FACTS SIR
@@davidalarcoavendano4286 You forget how the USA is presentng itself as the brightest star on the earth. So of course many try entering the supposed "star".
That's cutting deep.
i like how in every science fiction movie the U.S. saves people most of the time but in reality cant handle its own government and tries to tear itself apart.
That is why the real US government should follow the example of the fictional US government from Independence Day.
Good point!
They do save some people, those numbers are always the ones they show. The numbers they never show is how many people they threw under the bus.
as a non-American who spent 7.5 years there, studying etc., this reflects my observations exactly. And the wealth inequality is directly reflected in the obesity of the poor as opposed to the ridiculous thinness of the super rich. it is almost a social status to be thin, no wonder: a pound of tomatoes and a few other veggies costs more than an entire huge pizza.
Healthy food is expensive, but most fast food places have $1 menus. Living here is terrible. We work people to death for not enough money to live, and then are surprised when people won't go back to those conditions after Covid-19 supposedly "got better"...
Politicians need term limits, psychological evaluations, and constant drug tests.
True
Or Voters could choose not to vote the same politicians that have caused issues into office each election cycle
@@metrofilmer8894 BUT THAT DOSENT WORK.
all Choices shouldn't be Greedy millionaires mentally ill, BASIC FACT DENNYERS. Because THATS WHAT IT IS.
All politions should have to take a test on basic Facts and of they can't get at least a 90% they shouldt be allowed to run
@@JesusChrist-sm4bm you could give them the answers and they would still get less than 50%
@@SilverGamingFI honestly tea
America in a nutshell:
America: Freedom! No more lies!
People: **talk about how america is actually terrible because they can**
America: Never mind! More lies!
Whe has America ever said freedom, no more lies lol. That just makes no sense
@@jaykline8550 about how america tries to show itself a land of freedom and liberty, which implies that you can talk freely about anything and there's no propaganda, right ?
Well it pumps out insane amounts of propaganda for profits (like how companies said that fat is the cause of heart stroke when it was sugar instead) which is about the opposite of liberty, and the us goverment also collected a bunch of information about people just viewing articles, which sounds exactly like the opposite of freedom of speech.
@@confusioned2249 how is that the opposite of freedom?
Being watched isn't good at all but it isn't taking action to stop you
America was a wonderful country, it has sadly fallen from grace due to the people tolerating the leadership's shiz for far to long.
@@Raving_Rando i wouldn't say that,I would say people have gotten more stupid and radical
To quote a post I saw that relates to this:
“The US’s infrastructure is designed for a climate that doesn’t exist anymore.”
Hello there!
Yup quite literally now.
“each generation is less well off than the previous one” i really wish people understood this. we’re getting lectured by people in their 40s-80s that “well i was able to work part-time and afford college without taking out any loans” or “i was able to save up and buy a house by 20! no excuses!” when they don’t realize that the cost of living and expenses for all these things have skyrocketed while wages have been stagnant or even lost value
I guess you have to carry around a bunch of charts showing wages vs productivity vs costs of college etc
It's not that they don't realize it, they just don't care. A common theme of America is putting other groups down just to make themselves feel more superior by comparison. Pointing out the obvious differences in circumstances won't do anything to sway their opinion because doing so would be admitting that they had things easier than others. And the people who spew the same "back in MY day" bs will never admit to that.
they realize it, they just like to add salt to the wound.
@@meggaman7 Lyndon B. Johnson once said, "If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket." And I think that applies with groups in general. Convince the middle class they're better than the lower class and they're fine with their money being stolen by the upper class.
@@jacobodell5231 don't forget the middle class has been decimated. Yet, majority of Mericans still think and believe they are middle class. There's a reason the MSM never mention the poor working class unless they are doing something unsavory to the oligarchs and their property.
It's just mind-boggling that so many Americans can't see this for themselves, when it's so obvious to us looking in from the outside.
See what
@@jsebby2284 thanks for proving my point.
I honestly don’t know what is wrong with the people here and it makes me want to leave but my guess is politics. Everything here is so political now further dividing us and people get so heated if you disagree with them
@@huangec you don't have a point lol
@@breadd6497 agreed. There were always disagreements but things were at least fairly civil. But ever since Trump one the Demicrtas lost their minds and it caused a reaction and now just everything is crazy political
If Rome went down; we shouldn’t be surprised that the US eventually will go down as well.
When you consider how empires that lasted millenniums were able to fall you understand how foolish America (USA) propaganda is, thinking they're gonna forever be on top of the world just because of few decades, a century at most, of hegemony. Almost laughable
@@areswalker5647 The biggest empires (like Rome & Mongolia) fell apart internally.
The 2 super powers of the aftermath of WW2 will both eventually be destroyed by their own weight. USSR was first and the USA is just a ticking time bomb.
@@ewanstardis8462 issue with US is that they have so much money withheld by 1% that the moment they fall rest of the world will suffer immensely. If we don't see change from within soon climate crisis will be least of every ones problem.
@@zenogstwitch8296 yh and their army scares other “terrorist groups” so the second the US collapses they will seize the moment
We have devolved back into the dark ages.
If you’re the one living in the castle? Good for you. You’re supported. You’re educated. Your belly is full. Your bed is waiting for you.
If you’re outside of the castle?
Sucks to be you. Have fun trying to make it past 30.
Progress should be measured on how it helps humanity, not on how profitable it is.
But then how do you tell who's winning?
@@toppersundquist something super profitable could be completely useless, like crocs. Inventions should be made in order to further technology, not to make a quick buck.
@@humanoblivion2968 Agreed. I should have put sarcasm tags on my response.
@@purpledevilr7463 what, is that in reference to the Bethesda’s horse armor cash waste?
@@humanoblivion2968 Crocs weren't useless, honestly they are the best sandals i've ever had when it comes to quality/price. EXTREMELY cheap and yet they can last YEARS.
Politicians can’t handle or care about crisises but when people are on the stock market they are like WEWO WEWO A NATIONAL CRISIS WE NEED ACTION RIGHT AWAY
The wealthy: poor people should just invest to secure their life and expand their wealth
The poor people: actually start investing and make a killing on the stock market
The wealthy: HOW DARE.. T---THE SYSTEM WASN'T DESIGNED FOR RETAIL-- PEOPLE WITHOUT CAPITAL SHOULDN'T BOTHER INVESTING
This is why i believe in syndicalism where instead of power to the goverment who will innevetably become corrupt or the rich upper class that is inherently corrupt or the owner of industry that will fight tooth and nail just so they will not lose a slightest provit, we as a cyndicalist share power between ourself in form of local union who function more as a micro local goverment be it over a dystric or neighborhood to voice our collective concern, collective interest and collective conflict of interest.
Later every several years every union in the nation will select a random member to repesent their interest to the national assembly where all union who ruled over a neighborhood or dystric will voice their current concern as well as their interest thus ended up with a session of voting between diffrent policy and edict for each sector be it transportation, national defence, etc etc.
"Do your job Congress"- Mark Cuban April 2020. Notice he doesn't say that anymore.
We are living in the era brought in by Reagan. Biden seems to be putting an end to the Reagan era. He handing of Covid is excellent at the moment. If this continues for a year, we might be in a new era.
@@cyancoyote7366 yeah remember the game stop stock
I'm 17 years old this year. My best friend passed away due to covid. She caught it in the ER while being treated for a heart attack. I can't believe this was completely avoidable. I want my friend back.
I'm also 17. I'm scared of the future here.
@@absolutemattlad2701 same here, I'm scared for the future. The west is going to destroy itself over it's capitalist greed. I'm especially concerned for the environment.
It's ok bro, RIP to your best friend.
Rip to youe friend im sorry for your loss.
I’m also 17. I feel like capitalism has failed us and I see a mediocre future for the younger generations.
Wow. Just wow. Being an European, even without this I honestly considered America to be among the absolute worst places in the world for a while now but that's just a nail in the coffin. Your system is awful.
The worst part is that it’s nearly impossible to change our system from the inside. In the 2020 presidential election, a candidate named Bernie Sanders ran on the platform of fixing the student debt crisis and medical debt crisis. However, when it appeared that Bernie was going to be nominated to run against Donald Trump, the Democratic National Committee ordered all of the moderate candidates to drop out of the race at the same time so that Joe Biden could win every moderate vote. Sanders was defeated shortly afterwards, and the two crises I mentioned are still being ignored today.
@@nicolasleroux5302 wait, wait, hold on. HOW in the name of all that is holy is your system even called a fucking DEMOCRACY if some influential body can just up and decide that they are going to prevent someone from running for presidency because they feel like it?
Also was always wondering how is it that election always ends up being a race between two people, do voters even have a say in those initial votes you mentioned? Or is even that pretty much rigged?
@@Drakenwild I heard from somewhere that voters don’t actually vote for the president they vote for a person to vote for the president they like and these voted voters could just vote for somebody else . But this could also be false information but if it is true then America is truly fricked up
@@pinkfridge6111 The electoral vote is basically all that matters, popular doesn't necessarily do much anymore.
@@Vatrien Okay thanks for the information
This country and government is absolutely unforgivable...
Oh yeah this country is absolutely unforgivable, I mean raising millions of people out of poverty, raising the standard of living to unprecedented levels, and liberating europe from fascism and communism? Completely unforgivable. FFS dude we're not perfect but this doesn't mean that everything we do is bad ok?
Yeah, it really is sad.
@@riglancer5473 we’d be better off if the British won the revolutionary war and that’s a sad reality.
@@hithere5553 How do you know?
@@riglancer5473so we should settle for mediocrity? We aren’t the worst but we DAMN sure are not the best.
I’m convinced “the good ole days” is solely based around the term “ ignorance is bliss”:/
Well yeah if you can't understand a situation it often seems better than it is and most adults never actually check out all the bad shots that was happening when they were kids.
i mean, that's why something called the "edgy / pessimistic / angsty teenage" phase exists, right ?
it's usually the time when most kids learn the truth that the world isn't all sunshine and rainbows as they have thought / have been taught
@@exxelsetijadi5348 That's exactly what it feels like the US is going through right now; its teenage phase.
@@-._.-KRiS-._.- well even if i'm not a US citizen, i hope to god that the US grows up soon. worse case scenario they get stuck being a teenager forever 'till they get un-united because of something stupid
Yes. The good ole days are when people are thinking back to the time when they were young.
It’s kinda ironic when you think about it: capitalism is what created the “American empire” and unchecked capitalism is what will lead to its downfall🌚
na selling out to china and a collapse of individual imitative, the victim mentality and no fault divorce are the real issues
Unchecked capitalism lol. You clearly.know nothing about America
@@constantineergius1626 why did the US sellout to China? Because it’s more cost effective to import than to produce.
Business 101: minimize expenses and maximize profits.
@@natedagreat19 because american labor is unionized and that was the problem as well... unions are a problem and trade with our literal enemy is the other problem
@@constantineergius1626 there aren’t enough unions to warrant how much importing we do. You’re using a scapegoat on that one.
Why are we trading with “enemies”? Because it’s profitable to do so. Capitalism 101: there no such thing as “bad” profits. Profit is profits.
To quote another, "The US is a third world country in a Gucci belt"
How ?
Have you been paying attention to the video?
"Genocidal selfishness" probably the best description of the American spirit I've heard
America is literally the.most generous country in the world
@@jsebby2284 Says an American.
@@Irimu_ thanks for the meaningless statement
@@jsebby2284 It's not meaningless. It's stating that your statement means nothing.
@@Irimu_ my statement means nothing because I'm American? Well thats just incredibly ridiculous and prejudiced.
And my statement does mean something - because it proves your genocidal selfishness comment absolutely false
As an Asian, I was always surprised at how so many of American cuisine is filled with sugar or fat. Pancakes with maple syrup for breakfast, high sugar content pies, cookies and cakes. Greasy bacon, burgers and pizza. There's just so many unhealthy options.
As an American, I was genuinely shocked to find out that governments in other countries put restrictions on unhealthy foods or ingredients. The mere concept was alien to me.
@@prestigev6131 wait until you here about the restrictions on marketing junk food to children, something the supersize me guy tried to talk about
@@mr.m2659 don't forget the ban on advertising pharmaceutical products.
America loves selling drugs.
asian food is quite greasy too, especially chinese food
@@jgg204 The reason why you most likely see chinese food as greasy is probably because that is the majority of selection of dishes marketed to the western audience are altered to fit western standards. Take Panda Express, of which i vehemently vocalize is not representative of chinese food, at least of the kind im used to (Guangdong and Canto cuisine) although im sure other regions would likely agree, who specifically pick greasy or sweet dishes that would work well with a western audience and then crank it up by a lot.
Also I dont understand the obsession with orange chicken.
Imagine you had the same marketing budget as PrgerU.
All that money and PragerU still have to recycle their boring animations. Clearly money can't buy skill
@@minhducnguyen674 money can
However, uou need smart spending and planning too.
@@awhahoo It is true. But PragerU probably won't hire better animator because they are the cheapskate who wouldn't spend a penny on making their contents more convincing. And their audience aren't good enough to see through the trash that's PragerU so why bother spending more money to update their animations?
The only problem is that PragerU is sponsored by fracking billionaires.
That would be pretty rad. Also, PragerU stinks and they have Horrible ADs and Misinformation.
I am 71 years old, and most children during my childhood didn't drink sugary soft drinks every day. I don't have numbers on sugar use but I am sure children consumed less sugar in the 1950's and 1960's.
The environment also wasn’t a toxic soup of agrochemicals and plastics messing with our metabolisms back then, either.
Sure, we had dioxins, but nobody had spent their ENTIRE life steeped in bisphenol A or force-fed antibiotics for every little sniffle by a profit-motivated medical establishment since birth like my generation (born in the 80s).
If adding antibiotics to chicken feed fattens up the chickens, why are we surprised when it fattens us up too?
I'm afraid that nothing will change within the US in the next two decades.
That will bring about the end.
Put an extra zero behind it and it will be more realistic
"Nothing will fundamentally change." - Joe Biden
@@ongoinglife Scary shit
Nothing will change. This country runs on money and as long as there is a way to get it, then screwing over people becomes okay. This is sad.
11:50 “Our bullheaded stubbornness and GENOCIDAL selfishness has contributed countless bodies to the pile.”
That just fucking broke me... 😰😢😰😢
Humanity biggest danger is humanity
@Daphne Van Zant for the most part anyway
Hall ya merica
Nope not really you give anyone wealth and power like that and they will do exactly the same thing
@@henrybakers5279 Have you seen all the good Trump has done. If you can't, it just means your blinded and brain washed by the leftist propaganda
"Not the first time the US won't admit to be beaten by the Vietnamese"
LMFAO, better put some ice on that one... oh wait, they're running out BECAUSE WE'RE MELTING IT ALL.
Oof!
Noice
"Crisis management isn't profitable"
...
I felt that
Your discussion of the covid response really hit hard. It’s frustrating to see selfishness from those higher up as well as average people lead to more death. It’s honestly sickening and depressing.
I still find it kinda funny, in a morbid way, that a disease with less than a .5% fatality rate managed to kill so many people.
@@anatomicalx9355 research from Europe shows that people that are morbidly obese have a much worse chance of dying from Covid-19 then the average. That's likely the answer right there
@@anatomicalx9355 when you multiply that percentage by how many people got the virus, it makes more sense
@@Brakiros doesn’t help that our government is literally lying to us. Out of the releases infected and death rates for covid, only 6% of it is true according to the CDC.
"you wouldn't necessarily think to call obesity a crisis"
Almost every other country across the world: ???? Yes you would????
Yea
When 42% of your voters are obese, are you really gonna tell them their existence is a crisis lmao
tHaT's FaT sHaMiNg
But I'm just a tiny bit overweight, barely twice from what my normal should according to medical charts, surely that's not "obese"?!
Obesity is not a crisis. It’s a personal choice. If obesity is a crisis as you put it, then something should be done about by the US government but you cannot control someone’s eating habits and claim to be a country that values personal liberty.
I don’t think it’s just a coincidence that our media/politics makes political discussion so toxic that most people just avoid the subject because they don’t want to personally insult people.
The time for caring about someone feelings is over. Because it is us against them. I for one want to save my people not let corporate greed and capitalists win.
“The us is prepared to protect themselves respectfully”
Japanese: we destroy 3 boats they drop the sun on us twice
underrated. waiting for this to blow up
"waiting for this to *blow up*"
Well not neccesarily. The japanese did plunder a big part of Asia though the whole nuclear bomb thing was definitely overkill
@@STWD1ST well after that stuff in Nanking, I'm surprised we didn't drop a 3rd one, definitely not too far imo. Plus what if we did invade them and succeeded? America probably would have turned them into a state.
@@supersentaipepsi3736 the nuclear bomb gambit was actually a HUGE bluff made by the USA to end the war. The USA basically gave Japan a list of 10 cities they would destroy into oblivion with a "powerful bomb". The top of the list has Hiroshima, Nagisaki and Tokyo. The thing is, the US only had the time and resources at the time to develop 2 nuclear bombs, so they just pretended they had more. The Japanese didnt believe them until they first nuked Hiroshima. They were reluctant they had more until they nuked Nagisaki. The threat that Tokyo would be numbed next was too great for the emperor to ignore and Japan surrendered. With that, The US got away with the biggest and most important bluff in history.
Americans: "We need safety nets"
Other Americans: "NO THAT'S COMMUNISM!"
You mean REPUBLICANS say it's communism...NOT Americans. Meanwhile, those same people cheer when Sean Hannity says he would love to see Putin "beat" Biden...Such a confused and pathetic mentality.
Welcome to America where everything becomes political just to do a little thing
@@theconscientiousperfecter To be fair, Republicans _are_ Americans.
@@-._.-KRiS-._.- Obviously...I meant they were the group amongst Americans most likely to engage in that rhetoric.
It's insane how hatred of communism is so far ingrained in American society to the point where most people hate communism/communists/communist countries but can't even give a proper definition of what communism is. Like, communism has nothing to do with the government. It's an economic ideology. Saying communism is where "the government controls everything you do" or whatever makes as much sense as saying "capitalism is where the government doesn't exist".
I was once at a Red Robin and they said they ran out of burgers for the night. People were ANGRY. That was a real American crisis.
Are you a Karen 😂
I mean I’m a Texan and I eat healthy, I watch tv but not too much , only have a sports car, and I don’t watch football
When kfc ran out of chicken at a couple of locations in the U.K. it made national news 🤦♂️ I honestly think it is most English speaking countries that loose their shit when fast food places run out of things
@@grugamersriseup7299 It says "The people got angry!" not him.
That shows "disorder".
That's our national character. Taking the chain of supply and seemingly endless bounty it provides for granted while doing nothing to protect it or plan for crisis. Then when it hiccups, the reaction is sheer outrage. The definition of being spoiled and feeling entitled. Its gonna bite us all in the ass one day.
Best line: "It's not the first time the U.S. has decided not to talk about being beaten by the Vietnamese."
Shots fired lol
I lost it when I heard that
That line was Turtle Approved 👍
They didn't beat us, they survived us. you ever look at the stats
@@erica.7231 A win is a win regardless of how many may have perished. A pyrrhic victory at the least for the Vietnamese.
Alternate Title: America suffering the consequences of what America did in the past to the world.
it's called karma deal with it
All games of Jenga end the same way: total collapse. The only variable is when.
All government types are jenga, if you think you're not playing, then you've not looked at the game.
That’s poetic
When is not a variable...
Four words, High Fructose Corn Syrup. It's in everything
@Daphne Van Zant yes but the companies that make it would lose money so there is no way they would
Don't buy the hype, it's literally just sugar. Fructose is a name for naturally occurring sugar, it's the same sugar that occurs naturally in apples.
Vilifying one form of sugar over another is propaganda (marketing) by players within a competitive industry. The real answer is to just use less *sugar.* Stop putting sugar or sugar substitutes in everything. Do not replace them with an alternative sweetener, don't replace HFCS with white sugar, or raw sugar, or beet sugar, or agave nectar, or molasses...just STOP using the effing sugar.
As the video mentions, members of the scientific community have been aware of the links between sugar(s) and diabetes for decades, yet even today you can find diet and low-fat versions of all sorts of foods in your local grocery. Why low fat milk? how low fat cheese (cheese is literally made of milk fat)? The continued misattribution to fat allows the sugar industry to continue shifting blame around while making enormous profits.
The last soft drink I have was about 7 month ago. I believe it was Pepsi. Too much sugar and I'm in my mid 40s. I stay away from sugary drinks majority of the time. I drink mostly plain water, hot green and herbal tea, and a little coffee once in a while.
My daughter who is 8 doesn't even drink any sodas at all. I'm so proud of her even though I let her try it. She drink 1 sip and push it away. I believe school and parents need to introduce healthy food and snacks into their diet. Forgo sugary desserts and fatten food. Introduce vegetable, fruits, wheat and milk and chicken with no skin.
@@Lawrence330 the problem isn't that we're saying it's worse than rice syrup or cane sugar, it's that it's so heavily subsidized it's in literally everything you eat. My husband bought groceries and hot fat free half & half on accident, and looking at the label, it's got high fructose corn syrup and milk! That's it! It's outrageous the number of products that add HFCS because it's cheap and makes things more appealing, but also more unhealthy and, eventually, deadly.
Even cigarettes dude. Haha.
This really has the "As long as I'm rich everyone else can suffer" vibe
Thats capitalism for ya
Yeah! It's disgusting what the people on the big oil giants have done to slow down our process against climate change. These are some greedy evil people!
The Dimocrat Party Mantra.
@@ntvypr4820 invoking party politics in regards to the issues he points out in his videos shows massive ignorance of the political problem and irresponsibility as the whole picture
@@ntvypr4820 even though party politics is ignorant and both are responsible for exacerbating our issues, there is no doubt that the Republican party is absolutely worse. it's so ironic that the first you mention is the Democrats who at least give a semblance of pretending to help
The pandemic, all it exposed, and what followed it in the time line is what's making want to leave the country when I graduate College. Someone once described the US as a "Third World Country in a Gucci Belt" Very accurate.
Every single time I hear that expression, I can understand the third-world country part, but I never know what the Gucci belt part really means.
@@adampkalb probably something that's really nice or viewed as nice/expensive
@@gingermuffin4292 Oh, okay. I never would have thought of that expression myself because I never saw the novelty of a Gucci belt - mainly because I do not believe in wearing belts since they make it hard for me to walk. I also do not believe in using cryptocurrencies, like Bitcoin. I do not see the value in digital currencies, except credit cards you use to buy things online or donate money to someone.
I remember watching Titanic when the ship is sinking, Murdoch throws Cal's money back at his face and says " your money can't save you any more than it can save me"
murdoch was wrong
SO WHY MANY PEOPLE ARE TRYING DESESPERATLY TO ENTER AMERICA IF ITS SO UGLY? MAYBE YOU DONT KNOW YOUR FACTS SIR
@@davidalarcoavendano4286 No one is saying it's a terrible nation (not yet anyway). And for those desperately wanting to enter.... the USA is the only nation they can reach that is significantly better than theirs. Which is a _very_ low bar to clear. And probably a lot of them believe in the myth of the American Dream.
@@davidalarcoavendano4286 because America does not bomb its own. because it typically unleashes death and destruction on people outside its borders. because it does not send terrorists to kill its own citizens, only foreigners. and up until this year, it did not try to kill its own citizens. does that answer your question?
@@MrMezmerized THEY CAN GET MONEY THERE AND THEN GO TO YOUR DREAM COUNTRY RIGHT?
Vietnam 2 - USA 0.
Damn, I can feel anger in your voice.
Not surprising. Imagine actually having to live that reality. It's made me genuinely grateful I had the great fortune to be born elsewhere.
Vietnam beat Covid19 too
Man, You gotta do a video about how you went from science hypotheticals to critical thinking political videos.
I had a similar transition in my way of thinking as well.
Crazy!
Once you start applying the scientific method to things outside of science you realise that there are correct and incorrect answers In politics, it's hard to shut up about it
Personally a big part of why I became a lot more political was because I got interested in how science and tech could bring about utopian futures then realised that our current political and economic systems are either actively hindering that progress, or would ensure that the benefits are mainly felt by the super wealthy upper-class while potentially plunging the majority of people into poverty and dystopia; I imagine this is probably similar to how Second Thought evolved
I came here into politics from science i space videos 🤣😂
It is because many people that are interested in science, like me, become disillusioned by politics and markets as we get to know more and more about our field of study. As an environmental scientist I became critical of politics and economics through the sheer incompetence of both to properly address these crises.
the lil jab at the US losing the Vietnam war caught me off guard, thank u for that I had a nice chuckle
I'm not from the US and im genuinely sad for u guys, it is not OK there and I do hope it gets better
Ah the Vietnamese beating the US how I love thee
"Not the first time the US won't admit to being beaten by the Vietnamese"
Breaking News: Scientists have confirmed that there is no ice cold enough for this burn in existence
Even if they tried, freeze burn. Double the ouch.
@@randomsandwichian WE could have used nukes. WE did not.
But ackchyually we would have won if it weren't for those meddling anti-war protesters!
@@kevinmunger1842 I could vibe check someone with a sledgehammer, but I won't. I am now superior than everyone else, because I won't use excessive force.
That's not even taking into account the massive disparity in power, or the fact that using nukes would have blown what was supposed to be a regional war into a global clusterfuck, or the fact that that's a fucking stupid thing to say.
In other news: People in Texas think snow is fake and was sent here from China because a lighter leaves lighter fluid burn marks on snowballs too compacted to melt.
In 2008, I remember when the recession happened and my mother lost her job and we were homeless going from hotel to hotel until our family took us in. That’s when my good times ended. Then I lost my job in 2020 during the pandemic.
My warmest wishes for you to overcome these difficult times. May you find all the resources you need, don't give up. When you get back up you are welcome to joining the fight for the poor and working class.
DONT LET THIS IDIOT FOOL YOU, MANY PEOPLE IS TRYING TO GET INTO AMERICA FOR BETTER LIFE. THEY GET THERE WITHOUT NOTHING AND EVEN HAVE ENOIGHT MONEY TO GIVE SOMETHING BACK TO THEIR FAMILIES IN HOME. AMERICA IS LAND OF FREEDOM AND OPPORTUNITIES.
@@davidalarcoavendano4286 the comments didn't specify if they were fresh from the port immigrants, the could have been us citizens.
That sucks! But key is to save money when you're employed by living below your means. EVERYONE has periods of unemployment in their life. Many jobs (especially in the skilled trades) have went unfilled even during the pandemic.
@@davidalarcoavendano4286 They're ruining their lives coming here. America hasnt been the 'land of freedom and opportunities' in lifetimes, America is what the world as a country would look like, horrifying. You're simpily deluding yourself if you still believe any of that bullshit you say is true.
Video idea: I have seen a lot of videos of americans talking about how they see the USA after living abroad for some years, and I have talked over that with a couple of friends who studied for a year in the USA as exchange students, so, there is a question that constantly flies over my mind:
Are americans indoctrined about being patriotic and believing that the USA is the best country at everything even though it is clear that it is not?
Oh big time even people who are well informed and not republican or are apolitical still have those beliefs ie my parents
Yes.
Yeah they are indoctrinated. An empire committing the most horrible crimes abroad must fool its population somehow into thinking it is supposedly for a just cause. The British Empire saw themselves as "liberators" even though what they did to their colonies was obviously the opposite of that. Americans are taught the same thing. They need Americans to think the "savages" of foreign nations are in desperate need of American "freedom and democracy", so it can justify wars like those in the Middle East or regime change in South America. Watch comrade Hakim's analysis of the film Aladdin to see just how bad the West's perception of the Orient really is.
Yes. Yes we are. Like, it's built into our schooling. And our media. We're like that one insecure kid in school who HAS to be the BEST at EVERYTHING and screams about it constantly, when in reality everyone else is well aware he actually smells a bit weird and gets average marks at best, but he just can't admit it.
American supremacy is a core value to many people. If you don't believe America is the greatest country in the world, you're an unappreciative brat.
This video makes me so proud to be american
It really brings a tear to my eyes and makes me feel super patriotic
Damn I hate this place
Americans convince themselves that if they get pay increase it hurts them, but if their bosses gain wealth it helps them. Not only that they don't believe in climate change like they cannot comprehend the literal evidence in front of them. I guess that's to be expected when the country was built with everything but skill. You can't steal everything. Sometimes you HAVE to learn.
you can't fix stupid...
US was built on skills and also kind of blessed with resources and neighbours
Its still a great country but it seems like its slowly going downhill as US govt don't realize they are here for the people not the profits. They are too corporate focussed and don't know how to say no to money or keep its people ahead of money
As an American, please don't say Americans. Vast Majority of Americans will do fine though. Smh.
Don’t think I’ve met anybody like that although most Americans believe in climate change
@@HarshRajAlwaysfree The US was built on stolen land by people they stole. Hard to be great when you start off so terrible. Everything that’s going on is just continuing an American tradition.
I love the fact that you’re full of critical thinking and 0 brainwashing
Nobody is free of bias. It may be the case that he's right about a lot of big picture stuff, but he could also be very wrong about a lot of specifics or the way he ties these things together. Remember that there is no such thing as politics free of opinion. We're all just making guesses based on what we think we know and how the future could be.
You will rarely easily find significant disagreement in the comment sections of these sorts of videos. Controversy gets down-voted, agreement gets up-voted. This breeds echo chambers and a false illusion of accuracy.
Just take his videos with a grain of salt, be open minded to the possibility you're wrong in any regard, and do your own research as best you can.
@@AnaseSkyrider yeah you always want to be skeptical.
@@AnaseSkyrider Unless it's a video about china and us, then you see 2 groups of people bitching about how the opposing country is terrible and theirs are better.
But the reality is, both political system are flawed for the same reason. Human greed.
@@smolpotatoe1744 this
@@smolpotatoe1744 Agree, but the real image is that animosity between China-USA is one-sided. The USA hates China for its economic growth and they're doing everything to stop that. Every government sucks in its own way.
Whenever Second Thought says "this video could easily be an hour long" I always can't help but think "yes give me that I want it"
I’m sure I will eventually :)
Great video on this honestly. We're all waking up to what is really going on. I'm 26 and I've already had to use my very small retirement fund I had started to pay to live in a home after getting very ill and the medical bills. I barely have cash for gas day to day. Rent is way too expensive. Its hard on a day to day basis. So many people I know as well want to give up
This should be retitled "how companies lie and hide things from the public"
Not much of a difference
"The biggest profits are right at the edge of the cliff." Very well said.
"Everybody's very fat, everybody's very stupid and everybody's very rewd" - Jeremy Clarkson
Couldnt have said better myself
Lol this video is such a load of bullshit. The old classic method of listing an actual problem, then linking that problem to stuff that has nothing to do with the problem, or that if it does changing it will not solve the problem but just make it worse.
The USA can't manage crisis because it's leadership is not responsible for anything, and their leadership it's not responsible for anything because idiots believe everything they're told just because it sounds smart, like this video.
First of all no one denies Climate Change exist. Some people don't believe humans cause. Others believe humans cause. Second off, even if that's the case, the USA is one of the FEW countries in the world that actually reduce it's contamination levels, so yeah the USA is doing it's part.
(Off topic) I like how you use that symbol for your pfp
@@nicak777alex9 You haven't been around many Americans, have you? About half of them don't believe in Climate Change and the reason why they refuse to make any headway in developing alternative sources of energy is because those sources aren't part of the current profit model-their current profit model. They refuse to innovate or shift their focus into new developments because they are afraid of losing all that profit.
@@nicak777alex9 You could've made that into its own comment, so why tell ME that? I was making a Top Gear reference
All of us proud Americans agree that the us needs to improve so thank you for bringing awareness to a lot of the problems the us has 🇺🇸
4:18 "A giant industry wanted to keep making money, so they threw the American people under the bus." This is the epitome of every problem we are dealing with today. Healthcare. Education. Low waged jobs with eroding benefits and zero growth prospects. Unaffordable housing. You name it.
Opiod epidemic, climate change, for profit prisons, healthcare, gun violence, you name it. Americans can die but as long as there's profits to be made, nothing will be done.
@@mindelo23 climate change is natural, theres barely any for profit prisons in the u.s, we pay the same amount people in the uk do for healthcare, (and its better, AND we do have public healthcare), gun violence is literally miniscule, germany, uk, and france all have more violent deathrates than we do, so what do guns matter?
@@mindelo23 oh and, the u.s is the country that has lessened their emissions the most. If you wanna cry about climate change talk to india and china
@@josephg.1.130 hahhahaahahahaahahhaahaahahahaahahahahaa bulshit
How dare they!?! 😡 The greedy few with too much power and control over the government hindering it from progress are old, they will die out soon and their giant unethical industries may die out with them. Maybe not "soon enough" but it will happen in the next 20 years if they do not know some secret to living forever. A government that only serves the governing and ignores the governed can not last for very long.
"Th biggest profits are right at the edge of the cliff." Beautifull and sad. You're the best thank you for what you do.
Thank you so much!
It's painful knowing the people who really need to see this are the same people not subscribed to channels with these kinds of videos
RIGHT
@@matthewsommerville88 worth a try at least
Nobody sensible wants to see this anti western garbage.
It's really a sad time to live in the USA. All we care about in the US is making money and being profitable... ~~and that's what will end our nation
“When you're born you get a ticket to the freak show. When you're born in America, you get a front row seat.” - George Carlin
Theyre not in the front row seats, thats canada and mexico. No, The US are the clowns in the circus
SO WHY MANY PEOPLE ARE TRYING DESESPERATLY TO ENTER AMERICA IF ITS SO UGLY? MAYBE YOU DONT KNOW YOUR FACTS SIR
@@davidalarcoavendano4286 They believe the propaganda that is sold to the American people by the corporations.
@@davidalarcoavendano4286 because its their only option time from time
@@davidalarcoavendano4286 nobody from Europe is trying to flee to the USA. That's for sure
"Not the first time the US won't admit to being beaten by the Vietnamese"
Breaking news: the US has collapsed under the sheer weight of being owned that hard.
What's funny is that the U.S actually won the war. You can look up the treaty and goals of the war. The N.V broke the treaty and invaded, giving the impression America "lost"
@@KraNisOG "Not the first time the US won't admit to being beaten by the Vietnamese"
🤣🤣🤣🤣 and I'm old enough to remember that war when US war crimes against the Vietnamese people would be broadcast nightly and be on the local newspaper's front page the following morning.
@@edwardmiessner6502 that war was just one big war crime on both sides
@@threadretributionist he is right tho
The U.S. is a lost cause. I wish that more creative, intelligent workers and small-time entrepreneurs would decide to move to and help build countries that actually respect them.
@@kennyholmes5196 Cool I'm gonna die of a preventable illness before then so I don't really care
Moving is expensive and difficult to do, a lot of people can't do it.
America is an open air prison.
@@kaeleklund6728 are you serious? Im so sorry
The u.s is impossible to fix. We have to collectively split into 5 separate countries.
Likewise, I wish it was easier to move to other countries. Some of them could stand to relax immigration policies, and/or create a more streamlined path to citizenship. Or something. I don't know, I'm not an expert. But I do feel like some of these countries who rightfully complain about how bad the US is could stand to put their money where their mouth is and help us out. There's plenty of us who don't wanna live here any more than they do.
There's one word I would really have liked to hear in this video: Corruption.
Sad that the concept seems largely forgotten.
"This video could easy be over an hour long."
Palpatine: "Do it."
Do it
U.S.A: “we have the high ground”
@@Nelleil_86
Wide ground*
a more in depth video would be really nice
@@mirzahamzabaig5667 hahaha
It's nice to see Yugopnik collaborating with you I NEVER thought it would happen.
Gotta build left unity!
@@SecondThought i don't like left or right. i like center
@@thedarkdragon1437 you do you but center doesn’t do much tbh
@@agentc7020 Lmao, maybe not in the US, but in my country, central parties do the most
@@thedarkdragon1437 ah yes, my bad, I was speaking for the US because this is a US centric channel, sorry for assuming.
the 'good old days' was when i was between like 4 and 14, when i didn't have to worry about a damn thing
@@parispc 13 YO here
Yeah.
I can distract myself but I eventually come back here
Miss those days 😢
and when u was 0-4 years old u had to worry about bills and stuff?
@@BobuxGuy fair point. More like 'i don't remember a damn thing that happened'
Even when I was around 15 I realized how much I didnt want to be a adult. I could all these other kids rushing to adulthood and I'm like nope nope nope. Now I'm just a few weeks from being 20 and I'm still like nope nope nope
Born after the 80s? I was born in 78. Born during economic crisis, grew up during skyrocketing urban decay, homelessness, and another Recession in the late 80s. Plus, obesity rose during my childhood. That is why clothing sizes were deregulated so that a Marilyn Monroe size 12 is now a size 2. I am old enough to remember he start of policies of having medical assistance kids not being examined or treated until after the first person with insurance showed for their appointment. Then the culture of fear in the 90s, etc. It has been happening longer that you or even me, Second Thought. I like how you traced the origins of crises accordingly.