Comments by "nuqwestr" (@nuqwestr) on "The Spectator" channel.

  1. Board chair Penny Priztker must take responsibility.
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  2. American infection in UK. Started in the 1980s when kids sports stopped keeping score and giving trophies for just participation. 2nd Wave Feminism and "mommy talk" now all pervasive, even in our Presidential candidate, Kamala Harris.
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  3. Free Speech is one of the requirements for Free Thought. It's that simple.
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  4. Alan is cancelled in American media so good to hear him on The Spectator.
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  5. Derrick Bell wrote, "Racial Realism, the father of CRT, states racism is permanent in the American framework, so resistance must also be permanent. Bell took his lead from late 19th century legal progressives who believed "LAW" and "The Constitution" should be viewed through the lens of "contextualism" and not "literalism". Meaning changes based on context, and so should the rule of law. This is the foundation of legal relativism and the framework of our post-truth culture.
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  6. I was born in Los Angeles mid-1950s. He's using the disaster for political advantage. The Palisades, a place I 've lived in and had family who evacuated, has been a time b@mb waiting to go off for more than 50 years. Homeowners are responsible for brush clearance and can be fined starting at $500. The law was not enforced. That's a question yet to be asked.
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  7. JD Vance's wife is South Asian who grew up in a devout Hindu home.
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  8. JD Vance, Yale no Harvard
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  9. Egypt is now allowing those with dual citizenship passports in from Rafah.
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  10. Grooming began: "It was a march from Hyde Park to Trafalgar Square in central London protesting against the UK’s unequal age of consent: 16 for heterosexuals, but 21 for gay men. “One way we protested was to kiss each other in Hyde Park,” Brown remembers."
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  11. Israel has one of the most technologically advanced missile arsenals in the Middle East, including both cruise and ballistic missiles. Israel domestically produces these missiles and has also engaged in exporting missile systems to other nations
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  12. Ron doesn't like people? He just had a very successful book tour across the country?
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  13. I was draft age in 1972, my protest was in self-interest. I knew nothing of the civil war and proxy war in Vietnam, neither did the majority of my peers. I did not protest Apartheid, it appeared to be an internal political issue for a sovereign nation/state. Mandela was a terrorist, he supported other terrorist groups around the world, was friends with Castro and Khadaffy. SA is today a failed state under the ANC, but again, that's the internal politics of a sovereign nation state. There is slavery in Yemen and brutal treatment of women all through the Arab states and Iran. There's a genocide in Sudan against non-Arab peoples supported by Turkey, the UAE and Iran. Where are the "protests"? ..."an ethnic cleansing campaign against the ethnic Massalit and other non-Arab populations". From late April until early November of last year, the RSF and allied militias "conducted a systematic campaign to remove, including by killing, ethnic Massalit residents", according to HRW
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  14. Andrew, Ron got vaccinated, so not an "anti-vaxer".
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  15. US has 45,000 troops in the region, from Turkey, where US has nukes, to Iraq and even Qatar. US has installed radar in Southern Israel to protect the Eastern Mediterranean. Both Turkey and Iran have this information. The big game.
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  16. Los Angeles County is 5,000 square miles, 9 million people. Pacific Palisades is small, 24,000 in population. There are 3.6 million housing units in the county. LA DID NOT BURN DOWN.
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  17. Piers, Nate Silver is no longer affiliated with 538, he bailed April 2023.
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  18. British didn't "take over" Ottoman rule, they won a war against the Ottoman Empire.
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  19. Ron's win was less about the 20% win over Dem, but about the shear number of votes he got. Andrew, please.
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  20. How could US "pullout", we are not in?
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  21. war is a crime, a failure of civilization, something that was again triggered on 7/10
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  22. Ye made it clear he believes only he and his are Jew, and the Eastern European Jew-ish, are not. That's the most disturbing trope.
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  23. Benny never said anything about "rapes". Benny also documents the 1920s.
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  24. "mommy talk" has turned much of my American into a shit-hole, especially in my home state of California which is politically controlled by an "all mommy" teacher's union. In the late 1960s and early 1970s I bought into notion that women's voices would calm and centered our politics. Exactly the opposite happened.
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  25. UN voted partition in 1947. Arabs rejected that before Britain left. Palestinian flag was created in 1964. Benny makes it clear 700,000 Arabs were forcibly moved in 1948 after 5 Arab States attacked, writes that Ben-Gurion should have been even more aggressive moving them out. The leadership of the 700,000 didn't accept a two-State solution then, and don't now.
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  26. A friend would perhaps intervene. He said on the Lex Friedman podcast he's been off this meds for two years. He also claimed it was Jewish doctors who prescribed the meds.
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  27. 4:48 In America the Islamic lobby is CAIR. "Council of American-Islamic Relations". They are funding, in part, some the campus demonstrations.
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  28. Trump never owned that old DC post office turned into a hotel which was foreclosed on and now a Waldorf-Astoria holding, I believe. If not for Trump, that piece of history would have been torn down. Thank you DJT.
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  29. 14:06 Agreed, having lived it as a schoolboy in the early 1960s, it became baked in then, the cake being eaten now, and what a tummy ache there is.
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  30. "appeal to East Palistine", it's already solid Red. Such delusion by these talking heads.
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  31. Sure, heard that one for 2,000 years, get over it.
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  32.  @fanthony  I agree, she clerked for wo Supreme Court Justices and grew up in a very diverse area of Southern California. I'm still learning about her. "How wife's Hindu faith helped JD Vance, Trump's vice-president pick. Usha Vance said her Hindu upbringing led her to support husband JD Vance's own religious quest. Talking about raising their children in a household with two different faiths, Usha said it was important to communicate." - India Today
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  33. Agreed, the USA dropped two A-Bombs on Japan and are now close economic and political allies. USA carpet bombed Vietnam, lost, now have normal diplomatic relations. Egypt and Jordan normalized, but this is not about a post-Westphalian Peace between nation/states. The Ottomans never signed on, and neither did Islamists. They only acknowledge a Carthaginian Peace style agreement.
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  34. 700,000, not 750,000, at least get the quote correct. You have completely misrepresented his book, and I suggest you read it again. Benny Morris served in the 1967 war and in the Golan Heights. Has studied and lived the issue all his life. What would the region have been like if the UN partition had been welcomed by the leadership of the 700, 000? Choices have consequences. Post-WW2 there were 100s of millions displaced people around the world, borders being moved and some created anew, example would be India, Pakistan, and East Pakistan. The USA used an A-Bomb on Japan and are now close allies, the USA carpet bombed Germany and are now allies, the USA warred on Vietnam and lost, but now have diplomatic relations and strong economic ties. Gaza has 40 kilometers of Mediterranean coastline, could be a rich paradise, but instead, the people teach hate, resentment and violence to their children. You can be "pissed off" without resorting to barbarity and evil. T.E. Lawrence was correct.
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  35. Israel already has 50 F35s and as many F15EX ready Jets, along with it's own military industrial complex. It's stuck having to purchase NATO regulated ammo from the US, but this won't stop the hurt for hitting Iran.
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  36. LOL. but they have nuclear weapons, this place that does not exist.
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  37. Israel has one of the most technologically advanced missile arsenals in the Middle East, including both cruise and ballistic missiles Israel domestically produces these missiles and has also engaged in exporting missile systems to other nations
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  38. Brits did not help create Israel, and in fact made many moves against a Jewish state in the 1920s. Read more books.
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  39.  @berniefynn6623  no, I've been writing code for decades, all-caps is a convention for YELLING.
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  40.  @arfurascii2232  if you refuse to pay the fine you go to prison.
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  41.  @Supperconductor  global security is good for business, and why the US became the world's police force after WW2 and bailed out the UK and Europe. If not for the loans the UK took out there would be no UK.
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  42.  @rokketron  In 1945, the United States extended $4.34 billion in credit to the United Kingdom to help prevent bankruptcy after the country had devoted almost all of its resources to the war for five years. The loan was part of the Anglo-American Financial Agreement, which was signed in Washington in December 1945. The agreement also included a commercial arrangement with interest and other incentives, such as extended leases on military bases in British territory and preferential access for US corporations to civil aviation routes and telecommunications networks. The loan was negotiated by British economist John Maynard Keynes and American diplomat William L. Clayton.
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  43.  @billbadson7598  Ottoman rule included the Islamic law of Dhimmis, the original Apartheid state. The law affected both Christian and Jew. When Israel was created, Jews from all over the Islamic world move to Israel.
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  44. Join the Heterodox Academy in your area, new offices in NYC.
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  45. There was no "Saudi Arabia" at the time of the "Prophet" and Medina had a thriving Jewish community after the "Prophets' famous night journey on a flying donkey.
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  46. First Clause of the Bill of Rights. Public schools, public libraries are different when it comes to the "establishment of religion". When it comes to alphabet "literature" we're must consider age appropriate sexual content. If you don't agree there is such a thing as "age appropriate", that would be the basis for discussion and a democratic vote.
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  47. DEI is not rooted in Affirmative Action, but in American Marxism, an ideology which co-opted the liberal values of AA. Equity is simply a brand of Marxism, as Dr. James Lindsay has so rigorously pointed out.
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  48. Islam created the first legal apartheid state, Dhimmis in the 9th Century. Israel is 20% Arab/Muslim who are in the Knesset, on the Supreme Court, and serve in the IDF. Your base premise is false
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  49. Norman Yoshio Mineta (Japanese: 峯田 良雄, November 12, 1931 – May 3, 2022) was an American politician from California. A member of the Democratic Party, Mineta served in the Cabinet of the United States for U.S. Presidents Bill Clinton, a Democrat, and George W. Bush, a Republican. Transportation and Commerce.
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  50. no, no it was not, and there is live video by Al-Jazeera and TACC that shows the small footprint of the fuel burn.
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