Comments by "" (@timogul) on "USA TODAY" channel.

  1. It can be, depending on how you frame the discussion, or in how you express the position. The video goes into that.
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  2.  @davidanalyst671  No, I'm pretty sure he was talking about the Olympics.
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  3.  @jessicaa8038  No, that's not what's happening. Those discussions are still taking place. The student protests are not a part of that discussion.
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  4.  @JBBost  No, anyone who is arguing that concerns over rising antisemitism are unreasonable is arguing in bad faith.
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  5.  @thrashtronaut999  Because Hamas was using that facility as a shield. Whether it worked or not is irrelevant, the fact is that Israel would not have bombed it had Hamas not been using it. They were the ones who broke the law.
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  6.  @jessicaa8038  They are (exercising their first amendment rights), in most cases, but even though they have the right to do something, actions have consequences, and they are responsible for those consequences. If their exercise of first amendment rights is causing harm to others, then they bear moral responsibility for that harm. There are different ways to discuss this topic that do not lead to antisemitism, public protests are an imprecise tool that lead to collateral damage.
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  7.  @jessicaa8038  I don't believe that every person involved in the protests is antisemitic, or is expressing antisemitic viewpoints, nor is any serious person making that claim. I do think that some participants in these protests are antisemitic and/or are expressing antisemitic viewpoints, and that the inevitable chaos of a public protest provides these people cover for their actions. I further believe that the public protests accomplish nothing of any value toward their stated goals, while at the same time there is an active rise in antisemitic content, so that is what we need to be focused on preventing, however one feels about the war Hamas launched in Israel.
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  8.  @jensonee  So you believe that hate crimes on Us soil are "a distraction" from students having camp outs in the quad? This is what people mean by "antisemitism is on the rise."
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  9.  @spiritualpath8888  I don't have so large an ego as to think that the world has much of an opinion of me at all.
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  10. Nothing, so why bring it up in a discussion about antisemitism?
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  11.  @jlvv_1  No, that's not why.
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  12. And nobody said that it was.
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  13. "My black friend said it was ok to say it. . ."
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  14.  @heatshield  Ok, well let's handle the first cases first, and then we can consider more recent ones.
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  15.  @legaleeblonde4310  The fascists are in the previous administration, not the current one. The current administration is ant-fascist.
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  16.  @legaleeblonde4310  If you understood the constitution, and were being honest with yourself, you would agree with me.
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  17. Hopefully, yeah, but I worry they will wait too late to do so.
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  18.  @bg5561742  When were Democrats EVERY against vaccines? Show me some evidence of that.
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  19.  @cliffy00  I trust them to want to make money, and not want to be sued into oblivion for pushing a product that wouldn't work or was dangerous on this scale. If they make +30B+ from vaccine sales and then it turned out there was anything wrong with it, they would stand to lose twice that, and the government would be the first to collect. But I'm not concerned that there is anything wrong with the vaccines because they have been vetted by all sorts of unrelated agencies that could not possibly have a shared interest in misleading anyone, and have also been given to more people than most drug tests ever see without any serious complications, so it's basically a non-issue outside of the tinfoil haberdashery.
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  20.  @cliffy00  You can't sue individually, but if there were significant side effects then the government would sue (and do a much more effective job at it than your lawyer could ever hope to). Also, they are only protected form unintended side effects, so if they did deliberately cut any corners or sweep anything under the rug, that would blow their shield wide open, terrible idea for them to risk. And again, we don't have to trust them, because their product has been verified by numerous independent sources already. I'm no fan of big pharma overall, I think that the industry should be nationalized and all drugs should be funded via grants and sold to the public at cost, but they manage to do miraculous work when they set their mind to it, and by all reasonable indications the various covid vaccines are safe and effective, at least when compared to the virus itself.
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  21.  @lizadivine3785  Military are already required to get plenty of vaccinations. This is just one more.
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  22.  @lizadivine3785  Nope, it happens from time to time when the situation is serious enough. The only corners cut were in red tape, not in medical procedure, and the only added risk was to early testing volunteers, because they were overlapping some steps that could have led to problems there (but didn't). They were fully tested before the emergency authorization, and have already been given to more people than any clinical trial in history, with very minimal side effects. Full approval might happen by the fall, but waiting that long would be a complete waste of time and lives. The polio vaccine was approved within a year of testing, and it's already been a year since the covid vaccines entered testing. Everyone in the world got the polio vaccine.
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  23.  @lizadivine3785  I understand that they are different vaccines, the polio vaccine was definitely more risky than this one, yet they still approved it only a year after testing began on its use. That was my point.
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  24.  @lizadivine3785  Hospitals hire dumb people to work grunt jobs sometimes, it happens.
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  25.  @lizadivine3785  Well, you were the one that asserted that you "worked in a hospital," even though your pushing tabloid rag arguments as to why you should ignore the actual doctor and nurses who KNOW how medicine works and are begging people to stop dying of "stupid."
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  26.  @bg5561742  Find me some evidence of Democrats being against the vaccine? Democrats were in favor of vaccines the entire duration of the pandemic. Where do you even get this stuff?
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  27. @ Yup, back in the day they used to call that "cutting off your nose to spite your face." But I'm sure that's also somethign kids do on Tiktok these days.
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  28. Being anti-genocide would be pro-semitism, it would be siding with Israel.
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  29.  @WilcoxNotreallythere  "Them." Yeah, wouldn't want to be acused of antisemitism there. . .
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  30. No, the funny part is that some people actually believe them when they say that.
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  31. Etymology and definition are separate things.
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  32.  @heraclesreborn  I'll repeat, "Etymology and definition are separate things."
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  33. Never confuse the terminally online with hard truths, they can't handle it.
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  34. But they can only speak in bad faith arguments, so of course they will continue to raise the "so you're saying protest is antisemitism" arguments. If they were actually knowledgeable and nuanced, then they wouldn't even be protesting.
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  35.  @4_vaccuum_salesman_of_marr944  "Aspirsions." And the title is accurate, Antisemitism is rampant, and Campus protests are not helping.
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  36.  @lynxminx4  I do think it's fair to say that the anti-Israel protesting has provided a lot of cover to more open antisemitic behavior, would you not agree?
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  37.  @lynxminx4  But it is reason enough to be careful HOW you express yourself about the war, and to try to avoid doing so in ways that might be co-opted by bad actors. For example, causing chaos at universities.
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  38. Or so an antisemite would say.
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  39. Kids are just very into antisemitism these days. Probably a Tiktok thing.
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  40. They can when it presents a potential harm to others. This is why businesses are allowed to drug test.
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  41.  @tiffanysmith3210  There is no serious risk of contagion with HIV in the workplace. It is not airborne, unlike covid. It is a stupid comparison to make. To you it might fall into the same category, but that's really a "you" problem, because it doesn't fall under the same category under the law. It falls under a different category. This isn't even about government mandates, this is about employer mandates, so it would be between you and your employer.
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  42.  @Bryan-Hensley  They aren't giving TB tests, they are requiring proof of vaccination. TB may be a dangerous virus, but it is also extremely rare in the developed world. Businesses might require TB testing, and would be allowed to do so, IF there were a TB pandemic going on at the same scale as covid. But there isn't. Boom.
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  43.  @legaleeblonde4310  I agree, but it's the law now.
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  44. We had that already. His followers wear his mark across their brow, a read cap that reads "MAGA" for "Our-MAGA-Don."
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  45.  @Jetairplane  Yes, getting sneezed on could get you killed if they had covid and weren't vaccinated. Good point.
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  46.  @Jetairplane  I'm not sure you understand that metaphor. The "kool aid" in that metaphor was poisoned by a death cult. In this case, "drinking the kool aid" would be following the advice of the death cult that is "anti stopping covid from killing people."
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  47.  @legaleeblonde4310  Who's telling them about it first?
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  48.  @libbytaylor84  They can be, under certain circumstances, but in this case SCOTUS said he'd be immune. so whatever.
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  49.  @kemradovich2874  Right, so he's voting for Biden. The Constitution destroying side is the other one.
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