Why the European State is Doomed (but Not the US) - Prof. Jordan Peterson 

Lol no thanks

yea dont want that stupidity coming into my house, so no thanks

Why should I read the book of this guy, that tries to read Europe from his Anglo Saxon bias. Is he Canadian? Does he speak French to start with?

@@egnazia rofl, just curious if you have read "guns germs and steel?"

@@gympump9766 no I did not...do you reco? Just browsing the Wikipedia page...I see the point of the book, but also the limits of the analysis...

More like, "hold my liquor store".

I get why you’re saying what you’re saying, but I think it’s actually ignorant.

@@witulow Same goes for your statement strangely...

@@laggaming127865 no, no, I don’t think so actually. Some of the reasoning is that people think in too limited a manner. What I mean by this is, two-fold for one: just because we live in “2020,” doesn’t actually have significance when it comes to suffering. It’s continual, it’s not boxed and pretty like people like to believe, blindly. And because of the rapid, rapid technological advancement, we will continue to be exposed, inevitably to more horrible material year after year, it’s been happening since tech’s beginnings. It’s not new. 2020 is not new, in that sense. This is part of what I mean, if you actually would care to think instead of judge.

@@witulow It was a joke son...

To be fair, even Jordan Peterson mentioned "European state". The EU is NOT a state, it's a Union. Somehow many people from North America just don't understand that Germany, France, Italy, or Poland are not the same as Texas, Ohio, Florida, or California, and the EU is not something like the US.

@@HeroChestnut The EU was meant to be a trading agreement between a small number of European countries. It likes to think of itself as a state, and effectively acts as a state with the power they have been grabbing for decades. They have also been pushing the idea that the EU is the same thing as the continent of Europe, which is factually wrong, however people seem to believe this. Hence the point JP was making about the "European State".

@@HeroChestnut JP is correct, the EU IS a state in all but name. Please read "The Great Decep" by Booker & North which charts the very beginning of the idea of European union and how each generation of politicians have turned it a power grab. The serpent is squeezing its prey until the last breath. I predict the EU will not exist in 2 years time, the scale of corruption is eye watering.

@@mypointofview1111 i agree, I've done some in depth study of most of Europes history. You guys (the EU and the EU pro) are a far cry from the HRE and you are far more authoritarian now than you were even 20 years ago. The structure that the videos from inside the meetings of the EU look more like a meeting of the CCP with the niceties taken out and switched for pure hypocritical vitriol, hate, and racism (and i mean real racism none of this watered down "mommy he said I'm not special" BS from the US and England) well it's easy to see the EU splitting up or being rendered ineffective within this decade, because why should the smaller states suffer for France's failings? Why should Germany keep paying for smaller states who don't do anything to improve themselves? Why should the citizens of a city suffer economic hardship so the citizens of another across the country can live off their hard labor? Because the state, well then they'll replace it with someone who isn't preaching down at them while they see their standards of living destroyed just to fulfill the ideology of a elite few. And when the EU tries to tell them "no you can't vote to say we won't take in 200 million shiria compliant muslims into our strained economy, well what is either going to do? Will the people just suddenly be enlightened, or will they say "no we already decided"? Will the EU crack down and remove their independence or will it just sit back bitter that it cannot control an entire nation? Many in the EU's seat of power are already openly talking about it as if it's the European Empire, meanwhile the people in it fiercely disagree with those people's views, and the EU, unlike the US wasn't structured correctly to deal with this type of insurrection, they already lost Britain, they could lose more or as they already have a large dissatisfied faction demanding change, while another large currently enraged faction is demanding more power. Europe has changed more in these last couple years than most people assume, but drawing from history, well switch out Protestant and Catholic for Nationist/Libertarian and Globalist/Socialist and you might get what's brewing in the EU. Will this break into war? Unlikely, but at the same time certain people in Europe due to Britain's actions have been pushing bills and making statements to suggest that it'll be impossible for anyone else to peacefully leave...and well with that you can't tell me that they aren't now trying, if they weren't before, to become a European Super state

@Δημήτρης Ντάβος nwo

Nothing he said was wrong

He was trying to make a meme, don't be so hard on the children.

It is still true the things about Europe, but the US Presidencialism is done. Corrupcy all over the place

Eduardo Fragoso corruption happens everywhere there’s government, they go hand and hand. But the constitution and checks/balances system in the U.S. (although still flawed in ways) is by far the greatest foundation for a country in history.

Lol the EU has millions of Muslims who snuck in before isis was even defeated. How many Africans... this is someone who likes Muslims and Africans in America. They took the Trojan horse. It’s coming.

I mean we germans did it twice so...

Europe was built by America after WW2 via the Marshall Plan

@@dpgol88 In part, but also the political structures created afterwards had 0 to do with economic aid from murica

@@dpgol88 Marshall Plan contribution was limited to nearly 13 billion USD and ended in 1951. Europe has come a long way since then. Jordan Peterson highlighted US highly remarkable human and social capital. However Europe civilization has thousands of years of history and it is very used to rebuild itself every time too.

@@fabiofanucci USA gave europe 130 billion of dollars to rebuild europe in 2020 dollars. USA didn't get the money back. You are welcome

yea we are just getting ready for WW3, but this time poland and russia will get annexed

@@timk8869 lol ww3 won't happen

@@DhilipNexus you never know... Probably not Germany well definitely but maybe russia or China

Nah we are fucked so hard but exactly by the things that Jordan Peterson is critisizing alot. We are not aloud to speak up and any critique of groups of different cultures slowly invading and treating our values like shit is basically considered racist and would end careers immediately.

@@pikamaxcp4363 Russia doesn't have a military

It's my culture too, but I don't practice it, because they would put me in a concrete box for that over here.

No doubt! Why pay your taxes if no one else is? The fact that they don't attempt to fix the problem is the most glaring point.

Only corporations and medium-to-high wage bracket earners should pay tax, and it should be a burden in direct proportion to the blessing.

I really dont understand what they mean when they say that the greeks are not payimg their taxes as a greek i pay my taxes or else i get to lose my house the only ones. That get away without paying their taxes are the ones that. Are rich that are corrupted

Leothepro, never ever seen a house with the last floor unfinished? It's like that, but every where. Legal loopholes, when it's legal to not pay taxes, we don't. Deductions they are called. Some countries have more than others, the greeks have lots. Also they cheat by not recording transactions, that's grey market. Run of the mill communism. Still don't understand? Maybe you should think a little harder. Doesn't matter really. Every western nation is technically bankrupt. We are and will be unable to collect as much taxes as we spend. Mathematical laws dictate that with compounding interests in these sircumstances, hyperinflation is just around the corner. Every fiat currency will be going down the drain, including Germany. It's just slightly slower.

Giannis ram How is it generalization? Where do you think the majority of taxes come from? Companies.

@@benji4037 Generalization as in that Jordan implies that ALL Greek civilians don't pay their taxes. While Giannis ram is saying that only the Greek companies don't pay taxes.

Και οι απλοι πολιτες τα ιδια κανουν φιλε Γιαννη. Ποσοι Ελληνες περνουν"μαυρα"; Δυστηχως ειναι πολλοι, οχι ολοι αλλα πολλοι.

American companies also do not pay taxes. Most taxes come from middle class income tax.

@@HappyPrometheus he was not talking about persons was he? He explained the structural differences.

Hahaha, I have a feeling he’ll be eating his words very shortly.

Carl Petersson It started with Brexit.

Carl Petersson do you know what the reverse card in Uno does?

Carl Petersson and now Italexit ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-NTiGEzAwf28.html

Carl Petersson unsurprising. If you play the reverse card everything goes backwards, in other words if Europe plays the reverse card, the USA becomes the one that’s going to destroy itself, not Europe. When you realise this, then you’ll see that your reply is just a rant that has nothing to do with the original comment.

This guy's an idiot!

@@dobindobs7977 He has a point. EU is too big. Corrupt poor countries like Romania and Greece are damaging the entire structure.

IN INDIA TOO .

People go to jail governments don't, look at Spain

Dobin dobs The term "European state" is more of a colloquial one. It demonstrates that Europe is increasingly becoming a singular, increasingly unitarized superstate. When people employ the term "European state" they are making a distinct, analogous reference to Europe in its current condition - not as an official or alternative name for the European Union.

Shut up nazi gold hoarder.

A terrible idea I'll be honest, and I don't mean to bash on the Swiss system, it's great when you have a realtively small population that isn't too varied in it's values, and for decisions that can be made locally, it's about the worst idea you could possibly have for a system spanning hundreds of millions of people from Spain to Estonia, Sweden and Greece. You need compromises, and that always means a minority will also lose out, otherwise you end up needing close to unanimity, which kills any decision making completely, which is in turn even less democractic, like letting a singular country block a motion against all remaining members, which is the issue right now. You can't argue the EU is undemocratic because it isn't from the bottom up, the criticism with European democracy is that it's very beureaucratic, the European Comission is not directly elected by the citizen even though it is the executive of the EU, and the EU parliament does not have the power to propose legislation, even though they are the organ voted for directly by European citizen. Hence a small minority within a singular country can block what would be a majority due to unanimity requirements, and some people think things should be more directly elected. The EU is still mostly run by the states that make it up, even though it's central institutions have been growing in power, especially within the last two decades, but the nation states still hold the majority of the cards. The Parliament as Council are as democratic as any country though, figuratively since the parliament is directly voted for by the citizen in each country, and literally since the council is made up from each head of state, meaning however democratically elected a head of state is, that is just how democratic it is in the EU, since it's the same election we are talking about. The commission could arguably be made more democratic, although it is still a measure if indirect democracy, since the EU council, or in other words, the head of state you voted for, gets to suggest who should be on it, and then the parliament, who you also voted for, needs to decide wether they are acceptable. It's not a direct mandate, but they aren't some weird beuraucratic dictatorship by any means, although I suppose you could call the commission partially technocratic. Either way, I apologise for the long comment,I just wanted to clear up some of the confusion about the EU system.

You just to forgot to speak about the money laundry that suporte your country,,hehe

Stay in laundry money machine , little beautiful garden of yours , happy, while others just don't do it,,

An i just love the

If you earn your living by talking, you get impressively good in just a few years. It happened to me, too. :-)

Hahahahahaha

It takes practice. Try talking to yourself, helps a lot

Rethoric is your most powerful weapon

Don't stay ashamed. Just learn from him a little.

Oh my god so fucking well defined

As I've travelled, I've noticed a correlation between the country's inability to have people form and stand in line and corruption. Countries that can form lines automatically seem more law abiding, we Stand in line, largely avoid corruption and pay taxes.

I pay taxes because I want paved streets and health care. Which, by the way, in my country, are both great. 🙂

@@MrRar66 Yes, sadly my country is not one of those and i think that of @Joe neither

@@Zett76 it seems you live in a country that knows how to do it's stuff well

Suited? The two parts of the country were at each other's throats and only through a long and bloody civil war were the states finally unified. New York and Texas may speak the same language but they're definitely completely opposite cultures. The US Supreme Court had to rule cessation is illegal: that's how destined they were to form a union.

Plenty of countries have had civil wars, most countries have been split apart or arbitrarily unified at some point. Most European countries are a collection of previously warring regions that eventually were forced to work together due to some existential threat or tyranny.

The big problem with the EU is that the idiots implemented a monetary union without having first a fiscal union to support it. You need a homogenous area to implement a single currency in a stable fashion. After this fact, the EU creeped it's mandate towards a political union in order to enforce this fiscal union in order to save the currency. It makes me wonder if this was by design in order to push the EU superstate forward. Right now, the EU is heading towards inevitable failure indeed because of this, member states will not stand for a political union in this fashion, they will move away from the EU either peacefully or by force. Greece is stuck in it's current predicament and needs to devaluate in order to pull out from this shit. Since that isn't a viable political option right now, the people eventually retake matters into their own hands, and if history is an indicator, them greeks aren't to be messed with once they're riled up.

That is why the EU is necessary as the only way to ensure stability on such a small continent with so many different cultures and languages. The other alternative is a divided europe in constant risk of war and friction. Anyone who cant't see this is lacking analytical skills.

AwoudeX I haven't seen such ignorance in a comment which sounds intelligent on the first read :D

I highly doubt we wouldn’t pay taxes if we weren’t forced to… it’s like saying “oh if mom let us have candy for dinner life would be great” and that’s not true… if we didn’t pay taxes our roads would be shittier our economy would be non existent we wouldn’t be able to fund things like licenses schools and other publicly funded programs… so If we weren’t obligated to pay taxes things would go to shit and we’d soon realize we must pay taxes

We pay taxes, as individuals, because we fear being punished as individuals if we don't. What he meant here is that we could all stop paying taxes if we all did it together. They can't lock us all in jail. So why don't we all stand up and stop paying? The problem is that so many people think that taxes are a good thing, and they don't want to lose the things those taxes pay for, because they believe that the govt. is actually there to help them, to serve them. The vast majority of people don't realize that politicians are really just very sophisticated parasites who bribe us with "free stuff" to get us to pay them money that they don't really earn. The people of Greece figured out that they outnumber their parasites and decided that they don't need the "free stuff", so they stopped paying them.

@@livewire2759 The logistics required to supply hundreds of millions of people in the 21st century require a bit more work than ancient/classical Greece. I understand your sentiment that taxes are something that we as a collective can get rid of, but I don't think it's a good idea.

@@JenkinsBattery You're right, but I disagree. LOL Yes, modern govts. are so convoluted, there's no way we could simply stop paying taxes and expect everything to be A-Ok. First of all, we need to convince everyone, not only that they CAN survive without govt, but that they'd be better off without it, and even then we would have to cut govt. spending gradually so that the services it provides can be replaced by private providers and charities. Since all of that goes against the nature of govt. and the nature of popular voting, I'm quite sure that'll never happen. Secondly, if we did suddenly stop paying taxes, the govt. would just print more money and borrow more from other govts., like they already do, so we would have to stop taxes worldwide and stop all govts. from printing their fiat currencies. Obviously that's not going to happen in our lifetime. Third, what will most likely happen is that the govt. will crush itself under the weight of it's already astronomical debt, no matter how much they tax us, and it will collapse, taking society with it just like it did in ancient Greece. Therefore, since ending taxation will essentially have the same effect as what is inevitable anyway, the choice really comes down to whether or not we want it to happen sooner rather than later...

@@livewire2759 Private providers and charities. Why would these provide better services? How and who is regulating them? What is stopping say, a Russians from investing into key American resources and industry. (It's not like a private institution will say no to money if someone is offering). This is the answers government provides, efficient? No. Cheap? No. But what it has is scale, private company can pave roads for Chicago metro area, government can get 300 companies to pave roads for all of US without compromising they can coordinate and regulate to a scale no company/charity can match. The money lending thing. That's not how it works. The government is given loans by other countries/international organizations through the world Bank, they are approved because the bank understands that the US will not default on its loan because of taxation and its willingness to take on more debt. You take out a big portion and I find it incredible that the world Bank will approve this loan. The US even got alerted by the world Bank because we refused to raise the debt ceiling, brought us from AAA to AA rating for the first time in a long time.. If there is more I will write more, but I cannot read too long post cause mobile formatting is hard to chat will. Interesting viewpoint you have overall. Especially that government can be replaced by private entities. Isn't this anarcho capitalism? Hello I read the last part of your reply. This edit will be my reply to that. I agree that US government will likely destroy itself. Empires come and go century after century. We don't like to think about it, but it happens to everyone.

Ya like even from what little context was given I can kind of see where he's coming from. Due to how the EU works we want to work together, unlike the US that HAS to work together. Issues with Poland and Hungary vetoing in votes is occuring which may become an issue but on the whole I'd disagree with Jordan, though I'd note his opinion and concern.

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Don’t forget that The CCP is funding and instigating the violence even more

A culture war, involving the fringe leftists vs. regular leftists living in democrat run cities.

Finally we found one of the few americans that can explain the situation the same way we see it from outside the US

Like it or not, the USA is the only thing standing between evil ruling the entire world and free people. We go down, and the rest of the world will follow. It all boils down to Good versus Evil. Pick a side. Choose wisely.

@@griggsgibs3933 CCP is whats going to save the human race when USA falls.

It’s the European state that’s the issue. It just isn’t set up in a way to support new members, or represent existing members in any meaningful way. That is what will doom it.

@@knifedance2402 There is no European state.

he's usually all over the place in his lectures

@@Ninjaananas Don't tell them.

He just doesn’t have a good argument. Look at the US vs Europe as of today. Europe is in a far better place than America right now.

the truth has been spoken!

Can you explain? I don't know how taxes work in Greece. Regards from Germany 🇩🇪🇬🇷👍🏻❤️

@@Winston.S.Churchill thanks 👍🏻👋

At this point, because my husband has a decent paying job he has 47% of his wage going to taxes. If we lived on the other side of the language barrier we would pay less taxes (talk about a wacko country) Greetings from Belgium 🇧🇪👋🏻

@@Winston.S.Churchill not in my country. Cash or nah you shall pay 🤣😂

It might as well be, if a EU country doesn't abide by their rules, boom sanctions/EU fines.

@@ErisDas which is exactly what they are doing to the UK now with trade deals, business, covid vaccines and the lists goes on. I really can't wait till we have nothing to do with Europe anymore. Blow the channel tunnel up and instead of going to Spain on holiday we should just fly somewhere else that's warm. EU are horrible bastards

@@tomw6947 I know that but I don't think OP knows that.

This is the first time I have disagreed with this man... He should stick to psychology. This is not his field and it clearly shows. He has no idea what European UNION (EU is not a state nor will it ever be) is and how it works... Everyone in the EU knows what Bruxelles is. No one says they don't want Bruxelles to make decisions. Without Bruxelles you don't enter the EU. So basically when you agree to enter, you agree to them "being in charge", and even better, you can't enter without their say so. He oversimplified a very complicated system and he should either learn some more about this topic or avoid talking about it because this was slightly embarrassing...

@@ErisDas yeah well... No one forced them to enter the EU. They made that choice... So, you want to be a part of something but not follow the rules everyone else is following? Tough shit, it isn't how it works. Respect the rules everyone plays by and you won't get fined. Got a problem with that? You can always leave. No more financial support, no more easy border crossing, no more crediting your citizens entrepreneurship, no more support in case of a major catastrophe... ETC. You have a bad case of tunnel vision.

Americans see this sort of thing all the time, and the critics are a whole lot more scathing in their words.

How do you know he's right?

Canada is one of your closest allies? He's Canadian.

​@@jessestamWhat does that mean? I don't understand what you're implying by stating his nationality.

​@@tarhunta2111not necessarily in the positives but its still reassuring to hear something nice from someone like him. He's helped me tremendously with my own self image and outlook on life.

I suppose that’s true to an extant, but the same can be said about every other law we don’t break.

Payroll taxes make them difficult to avoid too. You never hold the money to begin with, you just get what's left.

The love to make high profile examples to keep everyone else in line.

The super rich don't pay their taxes. Trump is not being punished.

@@Print229 Warren Buffet the US #1 example.

@Paul Wember what do you mean 1945. We've had a war in 1991.

@@davidglazer8202 Not even close to the scale of the Great War and World War II.

@Shay Zah lol you should probably learn American history (and north-american) there was plenty of wars in the last 400 years and the last one on american soil was the american civil war at the end of the 19th century. Europe has more history so obviously has more war.

Shay Zah So the Civil War never happened?

Shay Zah That’s absolutely true: we’ve certainly never suffered anything near what Russia went through in the two world wars, to say nothing about having Stalin around. But your first comment was worded incorrectly. What you meant to say is that we’ve never had to ward off a foreign invader from our own soil.

Thanks! Good correction. The correct term is “home nations”. The UK has 4 home nations - England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

Traditionally North Americans have always shortened the UK to England! The way brits call those who live in USA Americans while people from Canada to Argentina are also Americans!

steve gordon It’s not most brits mate. It’s most of the world including the US. Most of the world refers to people from the US as Americans

@Steve -We don’t call Canadians “Americans” we do actually call them Canadians.

@@stevegordon5689 USA stands for United States of America so there's no other way to called them but Americans. you can refer to both Americans and Canadians as north Americans and Argentinians as south Americans as much as they hate to be called that way lol. there's a physical separation between north America and South America which is the Panama canal so, in my opinion, they are different continents and referring to Argentinians as just Americans would be wrong

That's a compliment. 🇩🇪 Greetings.

charlie rammstein It's a very good question. I feel like what's happening in Germany now is not a good evolution (Entwicklung). We do have the left ruling and people are mostly leftist, some far left, some radical left. That's because people are shamed for having a different opinion. You get compared to N*zi very quickly and that's the ultimate devaluation of any valid argument you might have. You get right to the bottom of accusing someone of the worst possible intention. Right wing views, even if they are not radical, are not accepted by the average German and you are called out as fascist N*zi way too fast. The right and the left need to talk, just like Peterson said, instead of calling each other stupid names like overgrown children! The refugee crisis was too much for Germany, too much for our social system. The problem here is: Immigrants rarely immigrate in Germany. They just move over and bring their dominate culture. Paired with Islam that brings huge differences. They live out their being in their own groups, the people who are close to them are mostly from their home country. And no wonder, I don't say that I don't understand it. It's a natural human instinct to stay with people you can relate to rather than with absolute strangers. It's just not good for Germany. And I care about the health of my country. 🇩🇪 My biggest worry is the existence and further emergence of parallel societies. Turks stay with other Turks within their Turkish community ever since they moved to Germany in the 60's. It's the same pattern now with refugees from Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq and all those countries. It wasn't just Syrian refugees who came to Germany to escape war in 2015... Angela Merkel is not central anymore and neither is her party which is the biggest party in Germany (CDU), traditionally. They all moved further to the left and crave social justice. As I stated already, it's difficult to have an opinion that goes against mainstream in Germany. That's because, as far as I can tell, people are too afraid of our own past and never forgive our ancestors. It's time to forgive, I say. But never forget. Never forget what happened and what that tyrant Hitler brought. He brought pure evil and destruction, suffering. Never forget Holocaust. Let's talk about parties: I'm personally not far right-wing and don't wanna vote for AfD party because there's some people that you could describe as actual fascist. They like to generalise and stigmatise foreigners. That's not my approach. I don't blame them for everything. But there are problems because immigration does NOT work here. I don't wanna vote for CDU anymore either, because the party got literally flooded with leftist people. Maybe FDP but they are pure capitalists and lack some common sense. It's my favoured party though, currently. Gotta choose the lesser of two evils. I hope this answer was sufficient. I like your name btw, Rammstein is an awesome band! Maybe you're German too, I don't know. Have a good day everyone.

​@@Lightnings I disagree. Lots of things that happened here especially in the last months indicate that Germany is about to become even stronger. Handling the crisis MUCH better than every comparable country in the western word as well as great decisions to recover the german industry proof that we actually have GREAT leadership (check the US on the other hand to see what terrible leadership can do to a great country) and a much brighter future than most people think. Especially IN Germany people (probably for historic reason - "german guilt") tend to think way too negative about the country. I personally didn't like what happened in 2015 but recent years (actually almost everything that happened since ww2) clearly demonstrated that if there is a country that could handle these events and actually make them an advantage, it is Germany.

@luciddreamerROM Da musst du wirklich aufpassen. Dieses "D wird den ganzen Mist bezahlen" ist eine rote Fahne. Dahinter steckt nämlich der "wir werden unfair behandelt / ausgebeutet" Mindset und den nutzen radikale Kräfte, rechts wie links, ÜBERALL auf der Welt um Stimmen zu sammeln. Eine sehr alte Manipulationstechnik, die noch immer bestens funktioniert. Donald hat seinen gesamten Wahlkampf darauf aufgebaut. Auf Merkel einzuhacken ist leicht. Sieht man genauer hin, erkennt man sehr gut, wie maßvoll und klug sie IM Interesse Deutschlands handelt (genau das Gegenteil wird ihr von rechts immer wieder zu unrecht unterstellt, wie gesagt eine Manipulationstechnik). Dafür, dass wir quasi seit JAHREN nur belogen und ausgebeutet werden, wie es heißt, geht es uns und dem Land verdammt gut, oder etwa nicht? Ich weiß, dass es im europäischen Vergleich schon eine Lüge ist, dass die Deutschen so super reich sind - Staat und Unternehmen sind es, Bürger nicht unbedingt. Ändert aber nichts daran, dass der Lebensstandard hier stetig gewachsen ist! In diesem Zusammenhang gilt es zu berücksichtigen, dass Deutschland vor nicht langer Zeit völlig zerstört war. Betrachte die Sache in diesem Kontext und du wirst sehen, dass hier verdammt viel sehr viel besser läuft als behauptet wird. Wir haben nur noch eine große Krankheit in der Gesellschaft (die haben aber alle westlichen Länder), die wir besiegen müssen: Political Correctness. Das dürfte auch den Zulauf für Extremisten und Verschwörern versiegen lassen.

@luciddreamerROM Weder die Grünen noch die CDU sind Marxisten. Und der Islam macht hier kaum Probleme.

Sort of. If you look at the deficit in terms of % of GDP, or total productivity, the US isn't in as bad a spot as most people think. The bigger, and related, problem isn't the deficit per se but the continuous printing of money to enable the deficit. That's one of the principle drivers of inflation which is then essentially a tax on all of us (because the money we have is worth less and less every year) to pay for the deficit spending in DC.

You see, the US has its own currency, and more importantly, the dollar is the reserve currency of the world. Greek has given up its monetary policy and it's currency away.

Lord Malberry and when it collapses,we're FUCKED seriously both in the US and EU.

No, you've got it backwards. If anything, government spending is a net drag on the economy because it uses up resources that would be used more productively by private enterprise, and crowds out private capital investment by borrowing too much money. The economy is the engine; the deficit is the caboose. If long-term deficit spending could make an economy grow, the Weimar Republic would have survived.

you mean debt. debt and deficit are not the same thing.

It's a problem if there's a government spending money they don't have, putting up the nation as collateral, like in the US & Britain

Well he is correct, it is a state, has been since the lisbon treaty.

@@roeng1368 um what... No one ever speaks about a state

@@hercegadria5382 Just because no one ever speaks about it doesn't mean that it isn't so. Do you think that the people who made it into a state want people discussing that fact?

@@Kaspisify So, states can be member of this state? What is the difference between the EU and the European State?

It has it's own constitution, a parlament, a flag. It has borders. How is it not a state?

Bu still, as a mason or whatever your occupation is, you could still work for someone who pays you in cash. And I believe this happens in the UK, just not as much as in Greece.

It‘s called schwarzarbeit in German and the dictionary says it’s the same in English: black labour, or also undeclared work, work on the side.

@@TheMichaelK As he said black labour is only feasible for the self employed in the uk as your income tax is taken at source by your employer before you are paid

@@Saxonx500 I don’t get you guys. If someone is a car mechanics then this person could just fix something in someones car for direct cash. Same for haircutters and many more professions. Doesn’t matter if self-employed or not. You just take the cash and don’t tell anyone, and then it’s black labour.

@@TheMichaelK It's not seen that way so much here because most people are employees- the self employed can do jobs for cash but it is actually not that beneficial anymore as so many other things are tied to it e.g. mortgage options, loans, insurance etc. More often jobs on the side are done as favours as mates rates and on that basis they don't make any profit just get something for their time - that black labour though is why governments want the Great Reset so we all have to move to a cashless society and everything is taxed

Britain has it right. Soon, Poland will.

@@michaelcap9550 2 years later ... The Polish government has only turned its people against the EU and especially Germany to distract from its own failures. The many billions are still received ungratefully and disrespectfully.

Is the Canadian structure significantly different from the US? I know they call them provinces instead of states but are they significantly different?

@@the1exnay The Canadian provinces do not have constitutions and are mostly subordinate to the capital (except for Quebec which is special), while US states are nominally sovereign, having their own constitutions, citizenships, and military forces.

@@the1exnay Canada has a parliamentarian system, leader of the party (voted for by party members) that gets the most seats in parliament becomes Prime Minister. We also don't have an Electoral College, so we're a democracy, unlike the US, as Americans defending the EC like to remind people. Every person's vote across the country holds the exact same weight, unlike the 3:1 ratio going from Wyoming to California, I believe? Yes, this results in some regional interests getting less spotlight than others, but the people crying "Wexit" are indeed a vocal minority. I would prefer they stay that way, instead of the cacophonous MAGA cry. We also have a public, single payer healthcare system, our universities are almost all public, we have private K-12 schools, but their presence is way smaller than in the US, if you're serious about academic achievement, the public system will serve you just fine. There's less of a class divide, there are better countries to live in if you're interested in becoming ultra-rich.

Daddy Government you must’ve misunderstood me - a population without debt is one that can be indebted. A new growth opportunity for a bank. That’s why Greece was brought into the EU.

You realize that Greece joined in 1981, that’s 37 years ago! And at that time there was no Euro yet... so your whole comment makes no sense

WinJinn Structural changes in an economy take time to materialise. 40 years is just about right. Also, the Euro is not required to make the argument I was making. It was about private debt differentials. When Greece joined the eurozone in 2001 the problems were exacerbated. There is a deeper part to this story too but perhaps it’s not the place. Let’s say that someone realised that Greece is about to collapse and default. The Euro effectively protected the predatory financial institutions from Western Europe from taking responsibility for their inability to assess credit risk and greed.

Also, you must understand that just because a particular explanation seems common sense does not mean it's true. That is the problem with intellectuals like Jordan Peterson. When they enter an area they have only superficial knowledge about, their followers who are equally ignorant on these topics will believe every word they say. Peterson has allegedly (and I do believe it) spent decades delving deep into psychology and philosophy. For him to be able to make definite claims about the global economy I would expect at least the same amount of time devoted by him to these topics. Otherwise it is just propagating common-sensical but untrue propaganda.

Just because some people are smart and proficient in certain fields, doesn't mean they would be proficient on other. He is not an economist, he is a clinical psychologist and that is his main field of expertise and there he has a lot of interesting thing to say that a lot of people really should listen to. But when he gets outside of his field of expertise (like when discussing economics, or history of soviet union or whatever) it becomes apparent that he talks about something that he doesn't know. And that's ok, we can't know everything. Listen to his stuff with understanding that he is a human with his own limitations and don't expect perfection from people no matter how smart they are.

he probably hasnt

He shops at whole foods

@@agentdanish he looks sick like a vegan

@@thomaspayne6866 he was sick, heavily too. For a extensive time

@@thomaspayne6866 he’s been on carnivore diet actually

Ok, I understand Bert. I did business with the UK in the time of the BEF(Belgian Frank), before the euro. The transport costs between Flanders and England are low. It was an export business for the UK. Kitchen towels, toilet paper.... For British tissues. It was a good business and the friendship was very good. It really worked. The market was Belgium and Luxembourg for us. I my eyes the EU is a too money wasting political union.

Germany, after getting anahilated 2 times in 2 WW's?

@ihategooglespooks there was this thing called the treaty of Versailles after WW1 and Germany still became the No.1 superpower in a span of two decades. Even though the Marshall Plan greatly helped Germany, they could have gone through without it

@Andro Santos Evil puppet masters.......The Demonrats.

@@BuJammy Dr. Peterson's not talking about specific countries in Europe. He's talking about the EU as a whole. As a united conglomerate of nations, Europe hasn't been through anything, and the EU is already showing signs of collapse. This is the point he's making. Not that specific countries inside the EU haven't historically recovered from great trials. Also, the US is a very young country when compared to the nations of Europe. And still, at less than 250 years old, it's already had a profound impact on the rest of the world. For example, had it not been for US involvement in WW2, the whole of Europe might be part of a thriving Soviet Union. So saying that the US would not have survived some of the things European nations have, is a bit premature. Only time will tell.

​@Andro Santos America's current period is analogous to Germany's Weimar years. The Dems are egging identity groups to go militant and attack the Republican base. Eventually, conservatives will have enough

Should be but isnt anymore, is more of supranacional empirealist organization

no, quite the opposite the US sees the EU as a tyrannical rule and always has the reason the US became a thing is because they hated European politics and centralism

Psychology*

He sucks at psychology too

Welfare state will turn Europe in a shit hole real soon

“What went wrong”. Eh..? The EU is now generations old and if you ask me doing very well thank you. In fact I predict it will go even more well now without “wrecking ball” UK to hinder it. Does it have issues and need reforms, yeah, sure. Same as most places, including USA. If it’s so bad why are counties queuing up to get in it?

@@229andymon Europe is only rich because of free market system you had before 1930s. Welfare state is doomed since it started, you cannot stay rich for too long without wealth production.

@@whiterunguard3246 So there’s been no wealth production since 1930? Capitalism is there to serve humanity, not the other way round.

Uh… no

How?

European union didn't keep the peace for seventy five years you moron it was not! And half of Europe wad in the Soviet union until 1989 / 1990 dickhead

Nato

Can you tell me why japan for example is not attacking and raping south korea again, eventhough it didn't join a totalitarian union with south-east asia? It wasn't the millions of deaths, it was the EU ofc!1

@@kkonakkona2236 they are still not allowed to have a big military and are occupied military by the us

Marc Borley imbecile - France is not in nato.

Yeah that’s kind of true. I’m from Germany and I think our relationship with Turkey nowadays really became a problem over the years. Currently we have a population of about 5Million Muslims in Germany - with the largest part of them coming from Turkey. About 20 years ago the government signed a bill that made young Turkish people who live here getting the German citizenship for free - wich makes them now actually EU-citizens as well. If you look at the politics of Turkey nowadays on the other hand you can clearly see that things have changed. Erdogan just does what he wants and he has no respect for the EU borders or anything. So I think it really is time to point the way into another direction regarding the relationship with Turkey. I think people in Europe nowadays need to stick together more then ever and Turkey is no part of the EU.

@@florianlion8215 Because of Turkish There was the first vaccine for covid-19 got invented Hope turkish peoples living in nazi state will realize that they will never get credit for their works and move again in turkey or US or Canada

@@thinktank8471 That’s my opinion. Deal with it. Covid vaccine has nothing to do with foreign politics! And who do you even think you are to easily use words like Nazi state what so ever? Get lost 🤧

anything such as a sourced fact to back up what you are saying?

χρονης κ. They actually want even more power than the US Federal Government has. There is no limit as far as control is concerned. The evidence is that 'they' hate the nation state, and have advertised that 'nations create nationalism and nationalism creates war.' They hate that Germany can say jump and enough nations say 'how high' that QMV is meaningless as it's effectively a German vote for what Germany wants. They want and will get the nation states demolished under the guise of regional and city assemblies, they have already promoted this as 'bringing democracy down to the people' what a ridiculous statement. Regions and city assemblies will be non legislative, they won't produce laws, as to do so would be contrary to subsidiarity and proportionality as region 12 can't have laws which may effect people from region 13 when they visit, they will just run their areas like super-councils, police EU rules and laws and be a conduit for the application and implementation of grants and subsidies. They will be self sustaining meaning regional taxes as well as federal taxes, and the lord help them if the can't as their MEP's will be at the beck and call of the Commission to get any financial help. So there will be only one legislature the Commission, what happens to the Council is anyone's guess as there won't be any countries to send representatives and too many regions and cities to effectively make the decisions currently made by the council, (ever wonder why Junkers wants to be president of the Commission and now the Council, dictator in waiting perhaps) Then there is the EP, poor little MEP's stuck between pleasing their region's electorate to retain their place at the trough and trying to get a deal for them and pleasing the Commission who will provide it. The people who designed the new Europe did it through decades of well thought out actions and every step so far, barring the occasional blip, is going as planned, except for Brexit which has annoyed them even more than you would believe, the audacity of the people to not go with the plan. I sincerely hope the EU dies a death without taking the people who have been lied to for year by their national politicians dying with it.

William Ferguson , learned something here. thanks. never could get why"unity" was though to be such an obviously great idea. all yer eggs in one basket is probably foolish on some level. rush to globalization? too many closed door happenings. :( checks & balances? not really working that way. creation of a government with no purpose but bullying the less powerful. humans aren't really very good at the "common good " thing. think communism. watch those forks in the road please

Both you and Peterson are dead wrong. For one a confederation consists of independent nations which elected to work together based on a treaty while retaining full sovereignty. The EU members handed over part of their sovereignty to the EU institutions hence it simply cannot be called a confederation. It's not a federal state either since outside of its competencies (through the various treaties unanimously agreed upon by the member-states whose governments have the power to conduct foreign policy and bind their nation) the EU has no say in the internal politics and policy of the member-states. If the EU oversteps its bounds any member-state or even every citizen can appeal to the Court of Justice of the EU which is wholely independent of the other institutions. EU legislation is proposed by the Commission and voted on by the European Parliament and the Council of Ministers: the EP is elected by the EU-citizens and the Council of Ministers is made up of democratically elected representatives of the member-states. How exactly is this undemocratic? Where are these 'unelected fanatics who dictate their will upon us' you speak of? In almost any democratic nation on earth the laws aren't voted on by the citizens directly but by their chosen representatives: how is this different than how the EU works? The only political institution that is not elected democratically is the European Commission and they don't have the power to make law: they can only propose bills (in a manner of speaking) and carry out EU legislation. If you object to EU policy you should blame your EU MP's and members of your government who actually make the laws and they are quite certainly democratically elected given that all EU-members are democracies under the rule of law. If you have a problem with politicians deciding policy (which is their damn job) you should move to Antarctica or any territory where there is no government and hence no politicians. The problem with referenda is that a lot of people simply do not understand what the issue is about, what the EU is and how it operates as you so aptly demonstrated. Hence they are very susceptible to propaganda and lies as the brexit campaign made crystal clear. As sir Winston Churchill famously remarked the best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter. If it were mandatory for each voter in EU-referenda to prove they actually knew the facts (regardless of how they feel about it or their political leanings) I wouldn't have a problem with it but that clearly isn't the case. How is it reasonable to decide on something one doesn't have a clue about? How many EU-citizens of voting age have a working knowledge of EU law or its history? How many take the time to inform themselves about current political issues through unbiased sources? How many actually care about the long term effects of certain decisions and are able to properly assess the pros and cons of each position? If the EU ever falls apart the likely result is war or at the very least large scale impoverishment and unseen economic competition not to mention vassalage to nations that were smart enough to realize cooperation and unity is better than the alternative. Be very careful what you wish for.

William Ferguson. Were you drunk when you wrote that? There is a very definite limit to the power of the EU institutions as they only have competence over matters granted to them by the treaties which were voted unanimously by the member-states. In order to for the EU to 'demolish the nation states' all governments and parliaments of the member-states would have to agree to their own dissolution. Do you really not see how silly you sound? You seem to excell at conjuring up political fantasy based on nothing but your own prejudice. Try your hand at political fiction instead of spouting nonsense and conspiracy theories. The EU wasn't 'designed through decades of well thought actions' or else it would work a whole lot better and the whole construction wouldn't be so piecemeal and haphazard. It's now more democratic than it has ever been and in order for the Commission to become the sole legislature (in reality it has no voting nor veto power) the EU treaties would have to be rewritten thoroughly: something which no member-state will ever agree to as it would negate the influence they have through the Council of Ministers and the Council of the EU. The only alternative is a bloody coup d'état: who exactly will execute this? The men in black helicopters? The illuminati perhaps? My guess would be that you're a Brit who's starting to realize the enormous mistake his country has made leaving the EU and now feels the need to exact some petty revenge. Other than some form of mental illness I don't see any other reason why anyone would completely go off the rails and mistake fantasy for reality. Nothing of what you wrote here is based on actual fact: it all exists solely in your head. Wake up and smell the psychosis already. If any of this would be even remotely true why on earth do they not hasten to declare their support for Catalonia in their quest for indepence from Spain? After all it would be a great first step towards 'demolishing' the nation states wouldn't it? Do enlighten us great prophet: take some mescalin or psylocibin and reveal to us the future....

Alex Pounder no they don’t

Income tax in Texas is 0%. So... Texans dont pay income taxes.

@Alex Pounder I wonder too... :)

@Alex Pounder Yeah they attach to an outlier of a story and run that same story for months and never run the full story. There's a reason people who only watch CNN get surprised when most cops don't get charged or are found innocent. They don't tell or show you the part where the "victim" was spitting covid in their faces or dropping the cops on their heads or rushed for a cops weapon when there's almost always more to the video that shows all of these things. Why do you think they would ever leave out those details?

@Alex Pounder I have thought heavily on that very thing but the truth is that the UK police solve a lot less crime. They try but they've had their teeth taken from them. A criminal has no need of force when they're probably going to get away without needing it. Floyd was a big dude, he was also obviously on drugs and announcing he was spitting a deadly contagion on the cops with a history of violent resistance and violence toward regular non police citizens. The final bit of the video with zero context is horrible optics for sure but with everything else factored some people are less deserving of someone going easy on them and floyd was one of those people and it wasn't the knee that did it, his heart did what hearts do when on Fentanyl or meth and he was on both. Any stress inducing situation would most likely caused that particular heart to stop beating and it's a shame but you cant blame the cops for the drugs in his system and you cant blame them for knowing how he was. You don't have minorities in the UK trying to create subcultures and when they do they arent violent subcultures like a lot are here in the states. 13 percent of our population happens to commit half the violent crime and murder here and no amount of policy will stop humans from noticing such a shocking trend but when that isnt talked about it makes us or at least our cops look really racist because that 13 percent is the same demographic. I'm in no way saying they're that way because they're of that demographic, but that they are suffering the negative side effects of developing a violent subculture, which any demographic is capable of doing. They obviously didn't do it in the UK. Sorry for letting it get long winded, there's a new language and layer of clarification required for certain topics if people can't see you to notice you arent white and I don't want side comments from other people calling me, a black American, racist just because they think I'm white for the stances I take.

No, they just try to blow up Parliment in Europe. The Capitol building has been "occupyied" 3 times in recent years by activist groups in various locations of the building. It's a public building and few areas are off limits. With video and new information released and considering that the latest occupation happened when the activists were let in by the police and then later stopped by a very small handful I believe it is a stretch to say the place was "stormed".

He said it may "look" like America is down for the count. But we would come back.

@@brandoncole2639 So do you know what he was referring to, or are you just nit picking?

They’re printing money and will make the dollar drop in value. We are losing our freedoms. Our politicians are selling us out to CHINA. Look up the economic collapse of Argentina. We are following their footsteps.

exactly this.

Yeah but he's Canadian. And Americans have a historical record of going through tough times and only rising from the ashes stronger than ever. Time and time and again. One day our lucky streak will end and we'll collapse just like every other historical world power. But for now, we're okay.

It's so easy to turn a blind eye to the controlling nature of the EU, isn't it?

I am an Indian but I know how America rose stronger after crises like the gr8 depression,ww1,ww2

StarWarFan yeah and so has many other nations, so to say it’s an “American thing” is wrong

He rite

the first time he talks from popular stereotypes, instead of researching...

Are there many germans going to Greece looking for Jobs or the sun? Are there many mediterraneans going to Germany looking for the sun or Jobs?

@@ezequielvega3120 I think you misspelled "southamerican wetbacks" going to the "US for beans". You got a little confused there :)

@@abelnicolae you were pretty close, however, a bit confused I might say. Actually, beans, onions, strawberries, etc. are asking for the "wetbacks". Drybacks would understand it but keep it quiet. You wouldn´t. Nothing wrong to make money out of the sunny days.

State in the sense of government. Did you think he meant a state as in the fifty states...lol

You've heard of the European Union, right? They have a government, a military, a central currency, etc. It's basically an Empire!

Adopting the euro is a requirement for all new EU states already. A military union is on the way.

ed3tun state also means government

Skozerny the UK, Denmark, Sweden, Poland, Czech Republic, Hungary, Croatia, Romania and Bulgaria are all part of the EU and do not use the Euro. (The UK hasn't officially left the EU yet)

Go on then, elaborate your point.

I don't think so ... Americans still have some values they share and they are one nation. Thats not the case in the EU. If you think that bulgarians like me give shit about the british or the germans ... they are completely different cultures. One big crisis and you will quickly see how everyone goes their separate way and nobody would give a shit. Hell ... the west is so far left culturally that they would think that all of us are some sort of a nazi when we stand against mass migration into our own countries or express patriotism ... or concern for islamiation ...

Usual Ra-ra

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yeah have europe stay united and let them destroy all of its countries industry and economy so theyre all in debt all of the time, essentially making them puppet states, destroying their history, symbols, cultures and traditions so that they can eventually unite and form a massive power to take over the world? yeah i rather not have that...

interesting philosophy. Why do you believe in this? Can you provide some facts, I really want to understand your point of view, but at the moment it makes little sense to me.

What is passing?

Well, the EU (essentially a puffed up trading agreement) likes to think of itself as the rulers of the continent of Europe, and has little regard for the independence of its member states, so yes, he does have a point.

all the seemingly patriotic europeans in COMMENTS SECTION would have been better off if they would have fought migrant crisis with half this vigour. huh! Germany france sweden UK Gonna be Sharia nation in 100 yrs

Sure operates like a federal state. That’s why Brexit happened.

Cole Joseph They were aiming for The United States of Europe. We English saw it coming years ago. So glad it all fell apart in the end.

@@Coltnz1 please... You are as ignorant as Trump

I live in Ireland and I have a love hate relationship with the eu and I feel like it doesnt have my peoples best interests at heart i love my country my ancestors fought very hard to give us freedom so then we gave it up to countrys that do not have a track record of working well with each other, I don't think the European Union will make life in Europe any better where all so close yet so different

They don’t have the same flexibility as US is his point

@@shanemoran4145 Yeah, but without a Union and US support "not working well with each other" would spiral into real conflict and new border lines. As it always has happened before a Union.

@@KyleJBales you know what your not wrong Europe has had way to many wars

the difference is that americans live in alabama and california, in the eu its much more complicated because germans and greeks are different kinds of people. plus alabama is a state not a country, being a country complicates things even more, its a logistical nightmare

Maybe you should learn to spell before you comment your drivel. Also nobody likes the EU

Go home, you’re drunk

​@@grimefighter8867 😂.

@@jwm6314 wtf are you talking about hahahaha. 1st the yellow vests are not terrorists and just constantly vandalize things. There are clashes but it very rarely results to what you see on the media, because all those times it doesn't, it doesn't make it to the popular news sites 2nd we have free speech, how do you not understand, it's that simple, we have free speech. "bUt YoU cAnT sAy HeiL hItLeR" well yeah try going in front of the white house and keep screaming "the president should die" or "I want to kill the president" and let's see how long it takes for someone to take action... Also on the media we can write whatever we want 3rd how is Belgium in a fight? What? 4th the US has way more cases than Europe. If you see the percentage of people that are infected in the US that is also much worse than in Europe, and it is exponentially becoming even worse than what it is now. 5th the only violent protests in Europe were in the uk, no other country had any significant protest

@@chappie3642 I'm from England and I can confirm there was almost nothing violent about the blm protests, one person threw a bike at a horse and some horses got spooked n bolted. then some football hooligans decided to "defend" statues which was weird, they clashed with the police more than any blm protest here in England. And we had protest in basically every single town peacefully

@@jwm6314 Believe in whatever propaganda that keeps you thinking America is the greatest and everywhere else it's worse 😬

@@ji-di7zr wut

We will see about this only after the EU economy collapses in subsidiaries, anxiousness about the commission and dept problems. The US government deals the economic shit to people quickly and doesn't try to hide the fact. People have to build a new start. The EU makes every crisis long by sweeping it under the carpet. Basically no1 is responsible of anything + free money for everyone, but by time, the competitiveness just gets worse and more jobs go overseas.

The US funded the rebuilding of Europe and NATO kept the peace. Its a success yes but I can't stand when people somehow suggest it was thanks to the EEC and EU

Agreed. The Europeans didn't storm in and kill and steal the land from the original inhabitants whilst importing enslaved people and giving them and their children the status of 'goods'

It's a terrific success story except for the fact that the EU is basically communism through the back door. The EU's future was written when it changed from a trade bloc of 6 countries to a legislative dilatory bureaucratic nightmare with 28 (now 27) countries. All with different economic strength and weaknesses, tied to one currency, that is failing and everyone speaks a different language literally. It was predicted to become exactly what it became.

@crouchingtiger9108 your understanding is completely flawed and misinformed, and indeed uninformed. The European project was always aiming at an "ever closer political union" and a "united States of europe" as set out in the preamble to the Rome treaty. Communism? The EU was a bulwark against communism and had that raison d'etre- to make Europe self suffient in food should there be war with the ussr. It won the Cold War as much as, and more than, nato did. You have no understanding of the history or rationale behind this institution.

@@crouchingtiger9108 Don't talk online extreme right wing trumpy trash. I grew up in England in the 1960s and the country had Nationalized water and electricity and gas and an airline, and even trucking. It had nationalized health care which continues. I went to Communist countries like Yugoslavia and East Germany....... and England was not anything like that... I support the EU if only for keeping the peace in Europe. My grandad was killed in the attack on Oppy Wood Thursday 3rd May 1917 at 3.45am.

You were against Trumpository buying Greenland then ?

It's called the Tower of Babel, by Petr Bruegel

Because a small couple of countries is still able to pay the bills (only six net contributers since UK left) but due to covid-19 they won't be able anymore. With European central bank buying state debts making it possible for countries like Greece, Spain, Italy and France not to reform it is a death lock. As citizen of the Netherlands I am quite fed up spending over 50% on taxes and be able to retire on 67 to finance countries where citizens hardly pay taxes and can retire at 60. Solidarity only works when it comes from both ways.

@@frankpost62 shut up and pay for me, thanks.

or against themselves, since the majority of gun-related deaths are suicide....anyone who thinks owning guns is a good idea has a low IQ and no spirituality whatsoever.....

there is nothing wrong with owning guns

that amendment was for the purpose of having an armed militia, in case england or some other country decided to try to take over the newly formed country...it is irrelevant now, and if the government wants to control its citizens, having some weapons isn't going to help much against that, since the government already has more weapons...thankfully i do not live in your country, with all those people brainwashed into thinking owning guns is somehow a good thing....

+knight2d both jesus and the buddha would disagree with that statement....

what you fail to understand is that if we ban guns it would only disarm the law abiding citizens.

Yup. Grow up, Europe, and pay your share. Or do something else, like ... defend yourself. It's been 6 decades since WWII.

Haha ye

Not most capitalist except in decades past.

We also wont be in the European State come 2021.

@Tiger Tamer This video is literally about the EU being doomed to fail.

@Tiger Tamer The fact that you disagree with him doesn't make his assertions unfounded. There's all manner of evidence to support the claim that the EU is regressing.

Good job. Go get ‘em.

You will love Peterson's videos. Enjoy!

Lol I was about to type the same thing.

Clearly the master plan is to transition it into a European state.

@@thomaspayne6866 it may or may not come to a European state. At least for now there are many different opinions on that topic. I don't see the possibility of a European state in the near future.

@@thomaspayne6866 Fact is: It isn’t and Pete is talking bs. But that’s nothing new...

Very well said

Though the lack of EU patriotism is bad imo..we are fragmented and facing the world without a united Identity is weakening imo..I don't know how or if this can be solved, but if there is one thing I envy the Americans, then it's their patriotism (yeah, but that's like the only thing worth of envy)