Comments by "JBird" (@jbird4478) on "Sky News Australia" channel.

  1.  @SpiralMystic  What's wrong with that? We love the cute wiggle. You all know that.
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  2. I'm surprised he's capable of such a well articulated answer after his jaw hit the floor. I think I would've been left staring in bewilderment.
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  3.  @mdelcb9915  They work in Israel because the wages are like 4 times higher there. That said, there's a limited number of people who do that because Israel limits the permits. This is another stream of income for the Palestinian Authority as well, because Israel - unlike any other country in the world - gives the labor tax to the PA. What they do with the money? Digging tunnels? Idk.
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  4. She says that if the roles would be reversed, there'd be outrage, but the reverse is far more prevalent. Every adult site has a section called "18 year olds", "teens", or "barely legal", and on all of them that refers to the girls, not the boys.
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  5. In the Netherlands we recently had a youth television program about "entrepreneurs" that had about 1/3 of the time dedicated to OnlyFans girls, which they showcased as "innovative" and "entrepreneurship". It basically was an instruction video on how to become rich that way, on a public broadcaster that is solely meant for teenagers.
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  6. Because it's not just random vandalism, but targeting people simply for who they are.
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  7. Correction: everyone has seen a few minutes in one spot of an entire night in a whole city with lots of incidents, and now everyone thinks they've seen "ThE tRuTh of what happened"
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  8. I've think I've had the wrong kind of mushrooms. Where am I? Are you guys also seeing a talking dog on the news?
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  9. Imagine being mad at doctors for wanting to discuss potential risks of your treatment. You we were supposed to have learned a while ago that closing your ears and going "nananana" does not make a problem go away.
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  10. That's probably why you are not a cop.
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  11.  @vidnosh7406  That is not an excuse to go "jew hunting". And I don't know who "they" are that refuse to show it, but we've all seen it.
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  12. Because they live in a world where this is okay. If nobody in your environment so much as lifts an eyebrow to this sort of thing, you don't even wonder whether it is okay.
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  13. There is a valid argument to be against this ban. It is not what Amnesty is saying. It is that many of these women won't even be allowed to go outside anymore because of this ban; they'll be locked up inside and abused even worse. That was the point of debate in the Netherlands before they introduced the ban.
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  14. They're disrupting everyone. Obviously that includes jews, but you shouldn't frame it as if they specifically target them.
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  15. "I can be unbiased because... let me tell you my opinions on this guy"
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  16.  @smallego8068  Well, issues of morality aside, it is from a purely financial perspective also a terrible idea to promote to teenagers as a career choice. First off because the vast majority don't even make a living wage. And secondly, there's a very limited time-frame for most women to make any money at all that way. And afterwards you have gained nothing that benefits you moving forward to another career. I don't really have anything against OnlyFans itself, but to present it that way is just terribly irresponsible, especially with such a young audience. I mean, they basically presented it as if it was similar to choosing to become a lawyer, or starting a tech business or something.
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  17. It's complex, but if you know a bit about Ukraine during WWII you know that you definitely need to look into whoever you invite in that context. Ukraine itself has made this mistake many times over in the aftermath of the war. Not every Ukrainian who fought against the Soviets did so alongside the Nazis, and some of the ones that did, did so only out of necessity. This guy apparently volunteered for the SS though.
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  18.  @Bork_Cruk  No, I'd prefer them to show them in a realistic way and not a promotional way.
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  19. @Joederbo Well, I didn't say I disagree with the ban. I said there is a good argument against the ban. But that argument is not "letting women decide themselves". They don't do that either way.
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  20. That's what usually happens at protests, at least here in the Netherlands. There's too many people to take in police vehicles, so they use buses. Usually they don't even go to the police station. They just unload the bus somewhere and then go back to pick up more people.
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  21. Yes, it is. She has 28 publications to her name, all equally delusional. Some examples: "Nocturnal paradox: how breakdancing reveals the potentials of the night", about how breakdancing ehm... "can offer a means to experience and navigate the nocturnal city in new ways"; "The 'systems of relay' in doing cultural studies: Experimenting with the Body without Organs in b-girling practice" about ehm... "a practice [and] a set of practices through which the body de-stratifies from the prevailing order of domination -such as gender -And refills with intensities that cannot be reduced to the generality of representation." I don't know what any of that means, but that's just because it's outside of my academic field, which deals only with reality.
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  22.  @josephdale69  Or maybe because she is a teenager. She's legally adult, but at 18 you're definitely not fully mature.
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  23. A what now? There is no Palestinian embassy in the Netherlands.
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  24. It's deplorable, but to call it an "attack" is a bit of a stretch. Antisemetic graffiti unfortunately shows up from time to time pretty much all around the world.
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  25.  @Bork_Cruk  Yes, it did. Especially because it was public, i.e. tax-funded, television.
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  26.  @youtubevisitor697  Their husbands or families. The reason for these things is that according to their religious beliefs, a woman can't be seen by strange men - only by their husband or father.
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  27. ​ @vidnosh7406  "As for any overreaching self defence I am sure the taxi driver community will investigate the issue and take appropriate action" 😂You can't make this s**t up. The authorities are investigating it and will hopefully take appropriate action. We don't live in a failed state with a vigilante justice system run by cab drivers. We have the rule of law.
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  28. There's also a neuter pronoun: it. I suppose we should use that for anyone who has their gender neutered.
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  29. The average joe, the voter and taxpayer, who doesn't have the time or ability to look deeper into such things. Many people get the news from TV every now and then and that's it. They never hear any critical questions, concerns, or different views.
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  30. Where on earth do you get that nonsense from? Just to nitpick on the most irrelevant detail of this nonsense: the ballpoint pen was first patented in 1888, though the diary is not written with one.
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  31. "The difference between fiction and reality is that fiction has to make sense." - Mark Twain
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  32.  @timpinxteren  I don't think it's really that bad here. Gay rights are very solidified here (and we were the first to legalize gay marriage), but the proposed self-identification law for transgenders (that would allow people to change their official gender) has been under debate for years and has just been declared "controversial", meaning it will not be decided on by the current parliament. Dutch people are progressive, but they're also fairly down to earth, so the really insane ideas generally don't do well here.
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  33. Not openly organized, but I mean... the world is more connected and smaller than ever. Nobody can really keep such things out completely.
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  34. Something also lost in the debate because of the misleading reporting in this video is that this issue has nothing to do with CO2 or climate change.
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  35.  @pontchatrain  It is not about who is accountable. The problem is how such a ban turns out in practice. Will it help those women become somewhat more free or only make matters worse? It is not as if the government can (or should) see everything that happens behind closed doors. If a man decides to forbid his wife from going outside, the government doesn't know that.
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  36.  @FoxxyCZ  Germany spends a lot of time on school teaching about the war, but they do not teach children to feel guilty. They teach about it in hope that future generations will learn from past mistakes and avoid repeating them.
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  37. If your employer has tot tell you to stop talking and get to work, there's already something wrong. I don't think I've ever heard my boss say that to anyone. We're very well aware that we are at work ourselves. Sure, we may have a chat in between sometimes, but not to a point where we'd have to get our butts kicked back to work. I'd hate to have such unmotivated people around me at work.
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  38. Well, it's important for a doctor to know because diagnoses can be very different for men and women. So if you have pain in your testicles as a woman, he knows that it can't be testicular cancer because women don't get that.
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  39.  ⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻  And nobody is gender fluid because that stuff is just made up bs.
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  40. A hermaphrodite is an individual that can produce both kinds of gametes; a phenomenon that occurs in some species, but not in humans.
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  41.  @stss2442  Yes. What she said was that she understood for some people it brought about memories of a pogrom.
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  42. She also hasn't apologized for not highlighting the "Israeli Thugs", because she did condemn some of the hooligan's behavior right away. Some things however weren't known initially, like the translation of those deplorable chants. She also kept those things separate to avoid the hooliganism from being construed as some sort of excuse, "because there exists no excuse for this".
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  43.  @nealorr5086  And what reason would the cops have then? Are you saying she paid them?
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  44. They do. French police is known for a lot of things, but being gentle isn't one of them. These types of riots are hard though. They don't start out as a big protest in a central place, but they just spring up randomly all over the place. It's not really a protest in that sense; more a burst of anarchy.
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  45.  @dawsie  The Jews were forced out of Israel by the Romans, not by Arabs. In modern history, Israel has very much acted as an occupier though. It's a complex situation. Yes, you can find tons of Jewish artifacts in Israel, and there are places that are considered sacred by them in Israel. But the same thing applies to Muslims. They have been living there for centuries, and they too have many places they consider sacred. Gaza is effectively an open air prison nowadays. You can certainly put part of the blame on Hamas for that, but Israel is equally to blame. Who's not to blame though, are the normal families that are forced to live there because the borders are shut. Nor the hundreds of thousands of Palestinians that de facto live in exile outside of Israel, separated from their families. You can't "simply pay" for electricity and water in an area that is almost completely cut off from the world, run by a terrorist organization, and frankly one of the worst hellholes you can currently find on earth. Israel has had Gaza cut off for a long time, and as a result of that it is economically devastated. And now they have deliberately cut off water supplies as an act of aggression. That is a war crime under international law, irrespective of the numerous atrocities committed by Hamas. Don't be equally naive and blind-sided as the dumb lefties in this video. There's no right and wrong side in this conflict. Only misery.
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  46. First day on youtube? It always takes a while before videos become available in higher resolutions.
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  47.  @lilalicata616  Asking a child's age is completely normal. After all, what else are you gonna talk about? The "17?" was weird, but I have no idea where that came from. Me thinks he's just being demented here, but maybe a bad attempt at a joke.
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  48. What this shows you is that these responses are preprogrammed. In other words, this is just another one of those videos meant to create the illusion of intelligence.
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  49.  @JohnSmith-ks5xw  What they are showing here is a counter protester, who's sitting with an Israeli flag next to the protest. The way they treat him is wrong, but it's not some random jewish person, and the same thing would've happened if he wasn't jewish.
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  50.  @dmc3489  This isn't news. This is history.
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  51. They walk to the place and sit down. It's not rocket science.
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  52.  @sharonreichter2537  And the earth is flat. There's no point in discussion based on a fantasy of yours.
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  53.  @jamespeacock8665  Back then it was part of the Sanjak of Jerusalem; part of the Ottoman empire. Obviously the region has always existed, but there has never been a state. It has gone from the Byzantine empire to various caliphates (with lots of back and forths with crusaders and various sultanates) to the Ottoman empire to a British mandate to the current Israel, Gaza and West Bank. Where the name Palestine for the region comes from is not entirely clear; either from the Romans or the ancient Greek.
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  54. ​ @sharonreichter2537  Palestinian and Hamas flags are different things. Hamas has a green flags with Arab text (a proclamation of Islamic faith).
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  55. Those are completely different things. Bisexuality is a sexual orientation. Non-binary is a made up "gender identity".
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  56. No she hasn't. First of all, she never even called it a pogrom. She has not apologized, but she said she regrets using that word because is used for propaganda.
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  57.  @DefinitelyNotAMachineCultist  Indeed he isn't opposed to immigration itself. He is himself child of an immigrant. He wants to severely restrict it, in particular from Islamic countries. In his opinion immigrants must adapt to our culture. He is deeply opposed to Islam, that's probably why people call him far right. He views Islam not as a religion but as an ideology, and one that's fundamentally incompatible with western values. And he is anything but subtle, which I'm sure contributes to the image of far right. He keeps referring to Islamic headscarfs, and sometimes the women that wear them, as something akin to "skull rags" for example, even at one point proposing a tax for wearing them.
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  58.  @trkstatrksta8410  Same thing. The atmosphere is the air.
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  59. Not really sure. He is in a lot of ways not even right wing. His economic views are pretty left leaning; he wants to increase minimum wage, make healthcare more affordable for low incomes, and supports our existing... there's no word for this in English, essentially we get paid to go to college instead of paying for it... well, that he supports. He's in favor of gay marriage, women's rights, and he even wants to put animal rights in the constitution. How's that for right wing? Regardless, I'm pretty sure that calling someone far right is not libel or defamation, at least not in the legal sense.
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  60. Source: trust me bro
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  61.  @gg_rider  They hadn't created a state out of nothing. The modern day state of Israel was largely created under British rule of the area in the first half of the 20th century.
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  62. True. We have certain "natural" areas where vegetation grows that fairs well with less nitrogen in the soil, because otherwise it would be overgrown by other plants that favor more rich soil. This whole thing to reduce nitrogen is meant to preserve those "natural" areas. I put "natural" between quotation marks because in reality every inch of land in the Netherlands has been cultivated at some point and there's really nothing natural about those areas. They've picked some arbitrary point in time and decided that's how "nature" should stay. They call these areas Natura 2000 areas. That's what this plan officially is about. It has nothing to do with climate change as they say here on Sky News.
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  63.  @Queenofthatank  That's because she isn't covering news and is just talking about internet gossip.
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  64.  @MG53v8  That depends on the type of vegetation. With more nitrogen you'll typically get more grass and weeds, and that can be a problem for other plants, not the nitrogen itself. The limits that have been set also vary per area for that reason. We have lots of areas with heath for example and the limits there are very strict because that would otherwise quickly be outgrown. The situation is a bit upside down. Nitrogen is a nutrient for plants and makes the soil more fertile, but they are trying to protect the natural landscape of less fertile soil. Our prime minister even went so far to say the plantlife would otherwise become "lazy".
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  65.  @laylaali3849  That is a ridiculous situation apart from this. Education should be accessible for everyone, and when it isn't at least scholarships should be based on academic performance.
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  66. Me, as a non-Australian: What even is Myer? Googling... Oh, it's a department store. Ehm... can someone make it make sense?
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  67. Yeah... restricting free speech, great news. This is just the same as those pronoun laws in Canada but reversed.
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  68.  ⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻  No. I'm just in favor of free speech.
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  69. @Elijah Clayton Free speech means allowing others to say things you don't want to hear. There is no such thing as selective free speech. There's free speech or not.
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  70. I thought you were in favor of free speech. Gender neutral language is ridiculous, but this is just the same thing as the Canadian pronoun law, except the other way around.
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  71. But this one is saying you can call her any pronoun. I can live with that.
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  72. You can't have a phonetic spelling of names in English, because English itself is far from phonetically consistent. So my best guess is the person was given IPA spelling but can't actually read IPA.
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  73.  @nettles6055 You consider some unknown girl having a minor rant about some mundane traffic issue "news"? Was that before or after she talked about the situation in Ukraine or Yemen?
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  74. I know nothing about this, other than this video, but what I see here is the restaurant owner attacking the protesters. It may be obnoxious, but they are allowed to stand outside with their signs.
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  75. They don't speak the truth actually. They claim this is because of climate change and net zero emissions, but it has nothing to with that, and neither the proponents nor the opponents claim it has anything to do with climate change.
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  76. She's 18 so legally adult.
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  77.  @Thomas-xd4cx  No it's not, and yes I'm Dutch
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  78. This is a green agenda already, but it has nothing to do with climate change. It has to do with the preservation of "natural" landscape.
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  79. Of course Peter Daszak did not ask for that, because he is personally listed as the project leader for the NIH sponsorship of the gain of function research at Wuhan.
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  80. Nobody will. At the end of the day, China simply will not accept that, and enforcing accountability would mean war. And that's not worth it.
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  81. 3:23 That's not German police. It's Dutch police.
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  82. The world isn't so dumb to think that a bunch of hooligan thugs is in any way an excuse to go on a "jew hunt". Apparently you are, but fortunately the Dutch government is not.
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  83.  @remondmsa  The problem with that view is that between the lines, he implies that all jews are somehow responsible for the behavior of a bunch of hooligans. Yes, there were many hooligans behaving abhorrently, but innocent people shouldn't be the victim of retribution for that. Yet that is what happened. People were, as they said so themselves, "on a jew hunt". It is as if you were to say "people don't hate Muslims because they're Muslim but because of 9/11".
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  84. The nitrogen cuts have nothing to do with net zero emissions or with climate change. This report is very misleading. The nitrogen cuts are to protect what the governments considers nature. Though nitrogen isn't harmful to nature, certain types of vegetation grow better with less nitrogen and the government decided which type of vegetation should be protected per area. It is worth noting that the Netherlands does not have any truly wild nature, so basically they planned the landscape out as if it were one giant garden.
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  85. Bullshit. Youtube can remove your comments or ban you, but they never tell you the reason other than "violated community guidelines".
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  86. I think this is actually a fairly reasonable response. She thinks differently about trans issues obviously, but this isn't some delusional answer that denies reality.
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  87.  @toydigger  That's a great argument in kindergarten, but not in the real world. And even if you were to accept that argument, that's not an excuse to attack random people who happen to have the same ethnicity.
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  88.  @VoornaamAchternaam-kr4vk  ME = riot police, for non-Dutch people ;)
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  89. Don't forget the Macarena.
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  90.  @dilmaarora5316  I understand your hope. The problem is that laws don't always work the way you want them. These women have to wear this because the extremely conservative community they belong to makes them do it. First their parents tell them to, and later their husbands. They do this because they believe a woman is not allowed to show her beauty to others. So if you make it illegal to go outside dressed like that, there is a real risk many of these women won't be allowed to go outside at all. And that would only make it worse for them.
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  91. @Joederbo Oh, sorry. I apparently misunderstood your comment.
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  92. Save the planet by protecting black transwomen. You can't make this shit up.
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  93.  @monikakrupczewska5151  No, because the cops can't be everywhere at the same time. With one big group, the cops can just enclose them in a street with two lines of cops. This is like a cat and mouse game. Out of nowhere a small group of people start creating havoc somewhere, and when the police arrives often the group has already disbanded and moved in different directions. So the police can catch some of them, but they can't contain the situation.
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  94.  @monikakrupczewska5151  Yes, but this isn't one group. This is just a part of the population; mostly youth that live in the banlieus - ghettos, essentially. These aren't organized protests. They are just groups of angry people that randomly pop up all over the cities.
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  95.  @harnessriscallous7466  It was a dictatorship, but much better than the one that replaced it
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  96.  @SueBrown-c5d  Damn, this is annoying. Go look up footage of parades of Hamas. They're not carrying Palestinian flags. They carry their own flags. The Palestinian flag is older than Hamas. Like I said, there is no point in discussion with people who refuse to accept universally accepted facts that can be verified by reading a goddamn article or two.
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  97. I haven't seen one Hamas flag. Hamas flags are illegal here in the Netherlands. They are interpreted by the government as inciting violence, which is a criminal offense. That doesn't mean they don't pop up from time to time, but I haven't seen one in relation to these events.
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  98. "They're not wearing MAGA-hats. These are his voters." Yeah... it's a two party system. It is honestly ridiculous to put him in the same "camp" as these protesters. Politics is not a football match between two teams.
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  99. This whole left/right thing has become so bloody stupid. "Oh no! He belongs to the other side. And the other side is always wrong." It's just primitive tribalism, no more no less.
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  100. The state dep. has taken the fact sheet offline. It is (for now) still on the internet archive's wayback machine.
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  101. So his defense is that the complaints come from far right people? Is he really arguing that his political opponents are not protected by the same laws as others?
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  102. Why though? Who would benefit and how?
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  103. It takes one to know one, I guess
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  104.  @winstonsmith7801  Do you speak Dutch? Because I do, and I watched the initial press conference, the debate with the mayor and city council, and this interview in which she reflected.
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  105. Where I live lots of people opened their homes for Ukrainian refugees. If you do not have an actual private room for them the government won't even allow it. It isn't as simple as just giving them a place to sleep. You can't just drop often traumatized human beings in a random family's home in a country they do not know with a language they barely speak and expect that to go well.
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  106. It's subjective of course, but that doesn't mean there is no difference between being sincere or not. The hosts here pretending not be aware of that, for example, does not seem sincere in the slightest.
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  107.  @Kayuu7  Police here is getting fed up with climate protesters here in general. I can't really blame them. Nothing wrong with protesting, but they do it every damn week it seems, and every time it costs a ton of time for the police that they could better spend on other things. What they did is a wrist lock. It's harmless, but it hurts like hell unless you cave in and follow their movement. It's to make people walk basically, because these climate crazies just play dead when they get arrested and the police spends hours dragging and carrying them otherwise.
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  108. That's what usually happens at protests. There's too many people to take in police vehicles, so they use buses. Usually they don't even go to the police station. They just unload the bus somewhere and then go back to pick up more people.
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  109. So Peterson went from expert on English pronouns to expert in international military conflict? GTFO. Give me one good reason why I should listen to him on this subject.
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  110.  @gepettosplaylists  That is normal. I live here. I've seen and been to demonstrations here many times. Sometimes those people get a fine, but mostly the police is just removing them from the scene. They are driven to some other place in the city and just let go.
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  111.  @innova1335  The police here and in the US are really no comparison. People generally have nothing to fear from them, not even when breaking the law. They are well educated with much emphasis on deescalation. The police academy here is a full education. It takes three years, and after that they can specialize in various areas. They also have the benefit of course of not having to fear guns all the time, which means they generally don't have to fear citizens either. I've been arrested without even being touched, not even to put handcuffs on. Only at jail did they quickly pat me down. That would never happen in the US.
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  112. It's sad that this is almost the only channel reporting on this, because I hate the fact that it rides on the wave of popular left/right divisiveness. This isn't about the left versus the right. This is about the elite versus the people. Normal left wing people dislike this just as much as you do.
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  113. We can't make such laboratory babies. There is some theoretical and experimental research regarding that but it's nowhere close to being an actual option for humans.
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  114. It's the same in Dutch where "good morning" is "goede morgen" which obviously came from the Dutch word for "mourning" which is "rouwen". There's no connection between the English "morning" and the Dutch "morgen" whatsoever, but the connection between "morgen" en "rouwen" couldn't be more obvious. They just changed a few letters.
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  115. This is a bit unfair to that last girl. Of course, you can't expect all those things after just graduating, but that doesn't mean it can't be frustrating to start out, and she's just venting that frustration. We've all (well, lots of us) been there. We just didn't have the culture to share those kinds of moments with the world.
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  116. I genuinely don't understand what they mean with "no climate justice on occupied land". They want climate justice except on occupied land? I mean, politics aside, this is just a confusing chant.
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  117. It's just another of those videos that are meant to create the illusion of intelligence. After it says the Sky News hosts are all knowledgeable and professional, he should have asked it what made it think that. It would have started hallucinating, i.e. given a nonsensical answer, because that isn't in the data they fed into it prior to shooting this.
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  118.  @Angel_11_legnA  Ah yes. Just another 16 year old with toy ears who's so shy she physically ducks and curls up in her own arms when spoken to.
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  119. It does. You're just looking at that wrong. She was at the United Nations because they wanted that, not because she wanted to and they accepted. It was just a propaganda stunt. The UN is a very strong advocate for the exact same things as Thunberg, but by presenting her as this underdog teenager fighting for a good cause, they managed to turn half a generation into activists for their agenda. They all think they're fighting against the establishment but they want the same things. Governments can't do much without significant support of the population though, so that stunt with Thunberg at the UN was a brilliant move.
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  120. It's not even just trespassing. It's contempt of court because he already had a court order to not go to the school. He had already ignored that and spent time in jail for that, only to go right back at it again. In addition, he wasn't even fired for refusing to use those pronouns. He was fired for gross misconduct because he kept publicly rallying against it, and violated the transgender student's privacy while doing that.
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  121. ​ @timo386  Just have a look at her career. Her entire research career consists of complete horseshit, yet she seems to be doing fine. All of her publications are just utter word salad with no substance; all related to breakdancing.
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  122. Insect are dying out due to pesticides, fish are disappearing, agricultural soil is showing less and less microbial life, seas of plastics are floating around, rich bio diverse forests are cut down an replaced with monocultures, ... green politicians: we need a carbon tax trading scheme.
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  123. Why do we even give vaccines to people who have only weeks to live? These people live in nursing homes. That is their final resting place. They aren't taken to a hospital for surgery anymore either. These people deserve their last days in decency, not as part of some pharmaceutical frenzy.
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  124.  @SpiralMystic  Yes, lets call all straight men creeps because they like certain things about women.
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  125. You can see there are people waiting for him there. For once he actually doesn't wander off and seems to go where he's supposed to go.
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  126. But he's an expert cross country skier He's asking the wrong questions to the wrong person.
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  127. Well, they revoked her visa. If the UK is anything like the rest of Europe, that is still a long way from actually whooping someone back on a plane.
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  128. Viruses mutate. That's natural. There have been thousands of mutations already. What's also natural is that they become less lethal over time. Successful viruses don't kill their hosts; they evolve to coexist. A mutation that is supposedly both more contagious and more deadly makes no sense at all.
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  129.  @simonharris4873  Of course they do. Mutations in viruses are no different then evolution in organisms; successful ones survive and others die out. Mutations that are more deadly are less successful because they spread less.
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  130.  @frederiksmees5503  Agreed. Living is more than not dying.
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  131.  @simonharris4873  And it takes much longer for them to die. If it becomes more harmful, more people will end up in the hospital, and more people will die. The virus can reproduce all it wants but dead people don't infect others. And walking around 3 days before ending in the hospital is a very different situation from walking around with no symptoms for 3 weeks.
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  132.  Anderson Paak  The Washington Post also reported on this. Besides, the research in the WIV with the EcoHealth alliance and Peter Daskzak is publicly available. Marion Koopmans also declared her three years advisory function for the Chinese government in her statement of interests for her current function for the Dutch government. I haven't looked at the other guy, but I'm pretty sure you can verify this yourself as well. So tell me, what's false?
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  133. Israel doesn't contest the absolute death numbers. They come from the Gaza ministry of health, which, while ultimately under Hamas control, is itself a civil organization. Regarding the natural deaths: They are not omitted. They are included in those numbers. They are total number of deaths, regardless of cause; basically they are simply population statistics.
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