Comments by "nuqwestr" (@nuqwestr) on "Protests turn deadly in Portland" video.

ABC News, you can't fool all the people all the time, watch the swing states, no longer swing, thanks to you. I wish I could sit down with your editorial staff to understand how you do this, lie lie lie and lie again?
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@ronperkins8427 So was Gandhi, and his movement let to perhaps a million deaths in the change over of rule.
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@freedommatters3176 I was part of demonstrations in the 1960's, was facing the draft, etc. etc., among other things. I don't see how our demonstrations had much impact on the political process. In fact, the chaos of Chicago in 1968 helped give Nixon the victory, and in 1972, the Dems were in such internal disorder they gave Nixon a 2nd term. Only his own character flaws ended his presidency. I am no pacifist, be "Civil" in your disobedience, all good, but come in my home, act out in an uncivil manner, and I will defend my property, my family, and myself. This is all a lot of noise, which we've had one cycle after another of, with little change. Real change comes from the inside out by individuals, not collectives.What change are you about? Global Warming, I'm with you, systemic racism, no, the stats clearly show the police are not systemically racist. If you are a black man in America, you have less than a one in a million chance of being shot dead by a police officer. That's from a study of 20 years of statistics gathered by a Black tenured professor from Harvard. There are science deniers on the right, but science deniers on the left, too. https://scholar.harvard.edu/fryer/publications/empirical-analysis-racial-differences-police-use-force
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Tammy, "civil war" is a technical term you may want to research. The numbers involved in violence are quite small relative to the population of America, and the vast majority of Americans are content, and not in the streets. America has had these moments before and survived quite well. No worries.
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@samu Numbers are small, nothing like the numbers in my time, the 1960;s, and elections went on with no issue. Relax.
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@kathleenr4047 Yeah, the media does such a poor job, and the schools, that people really fear it can happen. The numbers in the streets are so small, much smaller than the 1960's, and elections went on, and power changed hands, we have a great system.
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Youcanvids California is the most populous State in the Union, it is a welfare state, with Medi-Cal and other socialist benefits, which is why there are 60,000 homeless on the streets of Los Angeles.
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@Dave-yw2wc Silly, nonsense, and the numbers on the street are small, importance only inflated by the media.
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@Dave-yw2wc Perhaps you are too young to remember the contested election of 2000. System works, no worries: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bush_v._Gore
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@Dave-yw2wc Learn it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bush_v._Gore
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@michaelrobinson9639 Economy is great, Dow is back to pre-Covid numbers, the dollar is still the standard in the World, and we can afford to pay our way out of the crisis because of it. They entire economy of the world was hit by Covid-19, no comparison to what happened to Germany after WWII when the reparations they had to pay for the war bankrupted them. Totally different history, and your's is a false equivalency. My 401K is up 15 percent already this year, my vote is for Trump.
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Youcanvids No, the German Wiemar Republic was new, and weak, the economy was bad because of reparation payments forced on Germany after WWI and their industrial engine taken away in the Ruhr. This allowed a minority in Germany to gain power in the streets, then the Reichstag. Nothing like that is going on in America, it's a false equivalency :https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupation_of_the_Ruhr
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Youcanvids Both my parents were born in California in the early 1920's, and I just turned 65. If you are low-income and 65, you qualify for both Medi-Cal and Medicare. I've made good choices and been lucky, so no health problems, I live and own in a nice area, did not use any equity passed down to me for purchase, and was able to maintain a middle-class lifestyle I am content with. I'm a block from the beach, and surrounded by people of varying levels of income, lifestyle, and political persuasion. I started to look at leaving before Covid, but unable to find something, even with the equity I have, to suit me. I walk and bike most places, rarely need to drive these days, do remote consulting, but can remember traffic jams in the 1960's/70's, too. I have the feeling if I move to another state, I'd just be taking myself with me, so not sure that's in my best interest at this point. You should watch a documentary called: The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Galapagos_Affair
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Youcanvids LMAO, another Hitler apologist, as if Mein Kampf didn't exist in 1924. How else would he restore Aryan Lebensraum without a series of WARS, you must be a "denier".
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@michaelrobinson9639 America is the number one economy in the world, and the dollar its standard for the world. More people come here than leave, so his is a false equivalence.
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Dark Star Yeah, and I thought back in 1994 the Internet would make people better informed. What happened? America is stronger than Trump or one election, it was designed to withstand all of this, as it has before. I am old enough to remember the 1960's and Nixon leaving office in 1974. We live in PARADISE compared to those times. Media just crates an optical illusion of size and scope. BTW, I'm a California Dem voting Trump, is the common sense choice, but I'd never thought I'd say that! LMAO
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@kathleenr4047 The DEMS claimed election fraud in 2016 and attempted to impeach him for it. What's your point. It's all noise, political rhetoric, don't allow it to influence your judgement either way.
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@michaelrobinson9639 What was shared was a false equivalency filled with distortion, as if Hitler had not written Mein Kampf in 1924. There's no comparison to that time and place, or the people involved, ridiculous.
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@kathleenr4047 No, Trump is a liar, an a-hole, a fraud, but would never do that. There's plenty to criticize about the guy, no need to make stuff up. When people lie about him with so much emotion, it makes me care about him, and want to vote for him. Don't lie, it's counter-productive, and will get him elected.
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Ronnie Jackson I noticed that "omission" to, and Hitler's book, where he lays out the whole war thing in 1924, LMAO.
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@kathleenr4047 Do you have something positive to say about him?
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@kathleenr4047 And that's a lie, he has many redeeming qualities, but you will not allow yourself to accept even one. That's a form of bigotry. But you are not alone, that's the time we are living in, there are those who do not see one redeeming quality in Biden, either, both positions are false, and a lie.
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@kathleenr4047 I just saw a jet take off from Israel and fly non-stop, for the 1st time, to the UAE. Trump brokered a peace agreement in the Middle East. Not redeeming?
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Youcanvids LMAO, in 1980 we all thought Ronald Wilson Reagan, Mr 666, was the anti-Christ who was going to start Armageddon for the evangelicals. Didn't happen, Ronnie did some bad things, but the system survived and prospered. I was wrong, and so are you. The State, by any other name, is just The State, and occupied by human beings, so can be easily understood. Grow-up.
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Youcanvids Nope, I'm a definite materialist and non religious Jew of both Ashkenazi and Sephardic extraction. As a child of the 60's went down the rabbit hole with the Tibetan Book of Dead, Carlos Castenada, and a lot of other gibberish. I once traded in psychedelia literature with Michael Horowitz, the once archivist for Dr Tim Leary, I had Kabbalists aunties, and a brother who became a devout Rosicrucian. That's enough for me.
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Youcanvids Oh, and my little brother, who is 52, still plays Dungeons and Dragon and stars in a heavy metal band, so there may be no help for you, either.
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Youcanvids I you like that crap, try this guy, I knew him back in the day, and he's still scamming new agers https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmhWp15VaTacZbQqL_I-HuU60bdbMNoUf
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@kathleenr4047 Trump restored funding for Historically Black Colleges so they need not come begging for money each year.
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@J B Cynical, but mostly true.
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Nah, most people in America are content with their lives, and the numbers are small, media inflates this. I was involved in mass demonstration in the1960's, this stuff is nothing compared to that, and these rioters are the same one who came out in 1999 against the WTO, same anarchinst, they all seem to live in Seatle and Portland these days. Here's Seattle 1999: https://youtu.be/_JXPIBsxdk0
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Scrambled Eggs Numbers don't compare to my protest years, the 1960's, new-left is weak, and most Americans are content, that's why even in the 1960's, Nixon won two terms, watch Wisconsin, not longer a swing state, majority Trump.
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Seattle 1999, same anarchist trying to set-off a Bolshevik style revolution, but now with the help of the media which makes it look larger than it is. ABC News is the danger, not these small demonstrations. Look at Seattle 1999 https://youtu.be/_JXPIBsxdk0
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Nah, I came of age in the late 60's when MJK and Bobby Kennedy were assassinated, there were a hundred thousand people in the streets, violence, bombings, organizations like the Black Panthers and the Weather Underground. This is NADA compared to that, in numbers and action. Enjoy the ride, it's circular, and will bring you back home, always does.
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@MJ BL You don't think both sides were "stoking" even before the election in 2016? You think it is one sided?
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@MJ BL Trump brokered peace deal between Israel and the UAE. Trump sent in troops to Idlib, Syria and saved perhaps a million people, then pulled out, although the Dems cried there would be a genocide of the Kurds, there was not. When Iran fired on our ships, Trump did not start a war, but still maintained a position of strength in the region without it, killing Iran's top general, which the Dems said would start a wider war and end our friendship with Iraq, that also did not happen. Dems said Tariffs against China and bad mouthing North Korea would start a war, it did not. Trump made a promise to bring troops home, not send troops around the world, he's pretty much done that. You can't have it both ways. Yes, his surface character is of an a-hole, in a number of ways he's a blustering fraud and clown. Those are REAL criticisms, but you and the left feel the need to make stuff up, to lie, and say he is 100% irredeemable. That's just not true, so YOU are the bigger liars, because you lie both in words and deeds.
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@MJ BL BTW, the conflict between the Hutu and Tutsi in the Great Lakes region pre-date the entrance of both France and Belgium, their departure reignited old hatreds and racism between those tribes. Same thing happened with the dissolution of the Soviet Union in Yugoslavia and the Balkans, old rivalries reappear and hell breaks out. Human behavior, world-wide, not just Western European, or even male, look into the history of Isabel of Spain, Elizabeth of England, and Catherine of Russia. There's some feminist action deserving of deconstruction and critical theory.
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