Comments by "Titanium Rain" (@ChucksSEADnDEAD) on "The Jimmy Dore Show" channel.

  1. And there's more side effects than just myocarditis. No matter which way we slice it, this was always a shoddy product backed by shoddy science and if everyone was honest we'd only use it as a tool of desperation in the demographics actually prone to death.
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  2.  @lykos89  "You want to go to a different state with your friend's gun" - He worked in that city, he lived 20 minutes away from the state line. He "went to that state" in the same sense that he does that every day. "with your friend's gun to kill people" - He didn't go there to kill people. He spent the day helping the clean up.
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  3.  @lykos89  "Arson is bad. Looting/stealing is bad. Murder is worse." - Murder is a premeditated unjustifiable homicide. You can't "premeditate" someone attacking you, and self-defense is a justifiable homicide. Arson is bad. Stealing is bad. Self-defense? Not a crime. "He went to Kenosha looking for trouble." - No, he went there to help clean up the damage and provide some first aid which is why you see him with the blue latex gloves. "He wanted to kill people. He is a piece of shit." - You see, you can't prove that. I'm going to throw you a bone. Even if Kyle wanted to kill people, then he did it in a way where you can't prove he did anything wrong. Now, I don't even think he wanted to kill people, because he spent the day helping around and things only became violent when the opposing side went after him. But even if you were right, you can't prove it and you can't put someone in prison over a gut feeling.
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  4.  Nunya Bidness  "legally possessed firearm to rob a bank and a security guard is chasing me ...can i shoot him and claim self defense?" - Kyle wasn't robbing a bank. You can't even argue about the scenario without making up your own alternative version of the facts. "Kyle Rittenhouse was committing both a STATE AND FEDERAL CRIME by possessing that firearm with not legally allowed to do so" - Bernie Goetz used an illegal firearm in self-defense in New York and he only served time for the illegal carry. He was found not guilty of the charges dealing with the homicide. "one could argue but for his illegal possession he would not have been rushed (by unarmed men mind you)" - If he was unarmed he would have been an even easier victim. You really think people pick on armed people more often than unarmed. Also, one of the men attacking him was armed with a Glock.
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  5.  @lykos89  "No, he didn't have a right to be there." - Can you name this law that prohibited him from being there? "Just like anyone who came from outside the city to loot and commit property damage had no right to be there." - Disregarding the looting, can you actually name the law that said the protesters could not be there? "He wouldn't have been attacked had he not been there." - That's an awful lot like saying a woman asked for it. "Commit murder and get charged with murder" - You can't prove murder. You can't even prove reckless endangerment.
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  6.  @lykos89  "I work in a city 45 minutes away from my house in a different state. So by your logic, I live there now, eh?" - I didn't say he lived there... Do you have an actual argument or is strawman your last resort tactic? "And I know when I go to help a friend "clean up", I'm gonna take it in a mafioso sense, and bring a "street sweeper"." - He went there unarmed and was loaned a rifle. I'm pretty sure there's pictures of him without weapons that day. "If he didn't want to kill people, he wouldn't have conciously put himself in the exact circumstances where he "had to"." - You've just made self-defense illegal. By that logic any place you'd use self-defense was your fault.
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  7. People will hit you with the "that's just a conspiracy theory, what reason would they have to do that?". But you look at history and they just do things because they can.
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  8. Remember when for a hot minute some people started saying they didn't trust the vaccine because it was conceived during Trump's term?
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  9.  @deViant14  Macron is the crybaby. You're here being a crybaby. Be honest - is some media company just getting paid to keep you posting propaganda all day? Can I join in on the grift?
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  10.  @lykos89  "You said he went there like he does every day because he works there." - But I didn't say he lived there, like you implied I did. "Is his job cleaning up after riots?" - Is your job lecturing people on YouTube? "you're really gonna try to justify me killing people?" - If it's self-defense? Yes. It doesn't matter where you are, and what you decided to do to help out. Self-defense isn't conditional on decisions like that. "What about my argument makes self defense illegal?" - Because you can literally argue the same thing about anyone. Got mugged? Don't walk on dangerous streets. You're attacked by convenience store robbers? Don't go into convenience stores at night. Oh someone broke into your house? Should have moved to a safer area. "I stab a guy to death, get attacked again, stab another guy to death, another guy pulls out a knife and I slash him pretty deep." - You'd have a tough time convicting that person. Seriously. The kid isn't responsible for what the attackers did. They consented to the fight by becoming the aggressors and lost.
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  11. Iraq also started selling oil in Euros in 2002.
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  12. Also his name is "Bourla" and in Portuguese "burla" means "fraud". Just a funny coincidence.
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  13.  @mezo72271  They have armed bodyguards, most likely.
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  14.  @lykos89  "Just because something isn't illegal, doesn't make it ethical" - Then if it's not illegal it doesn't matter in a court of law. And seriously? What exactly is unethical about freedom of travel? "As far as blaming women, ha! That's hilarious." - It's not hilarious. You're blaming Kyle for being attacked. You can't even admit the attackers have agency of their own. Kyle somehow schemed to kill them, and somehow took advantage of them through mind tricks to do the deed. You are doing the "don't wear a skirt" or "don't take the bus at night" because you're taking the stance that if you go to a certain place you know what's going to happen. "to kill people " - YOU CAN'T PROVE THAT. You can't prove Kyle's intent. You've already made a judgement before the trial even started. Please. Drop it. "nice mental gymnastics there" - It's not mental gymnastics. You're the one blaming Kyle for his attackers' actions.
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  15.  @Thats_Unfortunate  And they tainted their own trials by contacting the control group after 6 months and offering them the real deal. The whole thing is fucked.
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  16.  @sleepyfish  I heard that in Australia if you have a bad reaction to the first shot, they only grant you an exemption to that same brand and you have to take a different brand for the second dose.
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  17. I see screenshots of his tweets all over and I swear to god I lose IQ points every time I'm exposed to them.
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  18. @WageSlaving2TheTop ! the point is that even without "kulaks" the USSR couldn't produce shit for the price-controlled stores. You know where there was food in the USSR? In the farmer markets without price fixing. Goddamn private farmers fed the people, not the state.
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  19. Because most of the Americans that would stand up are feeling safe in red states.
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  20. I love the meme people came up with the other day, it's a drawing of him in the speech podium saying "your balls will be swollen and you will be happy".
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  21.  @hv3115  "75% of people in Ontario who end up getting hospitalized" - And as we have seen, Hamburg in Germany did not verify status of 70% of their hospitalizations, and added them up to the unspiked numbers. They're not verifying status on purpose and registering them as unknowns, then using unknowns as "unspiked" in their official data. One region is one country has been caught lying. Do we have to do this for every single square inch of land around the world or are you open to admitting that Ontario is lying too? "omits the point that having [...] mandates to ensure a high percentage of the population is vaccinated is the humane" - Nothing humane about threatening to kick people out of restaurants, gyms and JOBS. You're threatening people's livelihoods. Morally, you're holding a gun to someone's head. You're willing to kill that person by denying them a way to make a living. "without hospitals getting overwhelmed" - Okay, and now we're back to square one. They're still claiming to be overwhelmed despite many countries having 50, 60, 70, 80 and 90% spiking rates. What's your plan of action now? More mandates? "But let's not pretend [...] dont help control this [...]" - Doesn't seem very controlled to me. You get no actual immunity, you can still spread, and the protection is only strong for 3-4 months. This means you're trying to keep it under control with an improper tool that should be a last resort and given to the vulnerable. If you try to spike the whole population, you don't have enough shots to keep the 3-4 month window with the vulnerable.
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  22. That was the narrative from the beginning. Flattening the curve still meant the same area under the curve (aka total infections), just smaller peak. Then somewhere along the line they transitioned from flattening the curve to "covid zero".
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  23.  @cl8804  HOOOOONK
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  24. @Kona Blue let's all raid Langley, they can't kill all of us. /j
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  25.  @WhyNotTruth  And did you know that what you just said has nothing to do with the original point? Stop deflecting. Are the numbers of hospitalization inflated or not?
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  26.  @GreaterThanGaming  Like said above, this stuff should NOT go into the bloodstream. If injected into the muscle, only a small amount ends up travelling to other parts of the body. If it goes into the bloodstream, it will travelled all over and accumulate in a lot of organs.
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  27.  @googlesucks7954  Did you just use brown/black face as a way to figure out someone's politics...? I look forward to Jimmy Kimmel's and Sarah Silverman's run for congress as Republicans.
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  28.  Shep VanDelay  Why would truckers steal food from the homeless? You know, it would be smarter to steal from a store that actually stocks food than from someone who begs for food.
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  29. The problem is that you had random people with different standards of training giving hundreds of shots a day. The risk increases, and in this case you definitely do not want this stuff in the bloodstream.
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  30.  @kristen7775  I don't remember his name but a few months ago a guest on Joe Rogan had a similar experience, someone he knows was about to be declared dead but as it turned out he was dehydrated due to neglect.
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  31. You're missing the point. Biden says because of the corrupt system Mexico has wealth but it's concentrated in the 1%. So the implication here is that the US is just as corrupt because the wealth is concentrated in the 1% too!
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  32. They make more money with us in the ICU than taking cheap meds and recovering at home.
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  33.  @l.w.paradis2108  "A person cannot create the conditions that require self-defense and then claim self-defense" - How did he create the conditions? By putting out fires? "Rittenhouse was in a place where he had no business being" - So people have no right to go anywhere without a reason? Papers please? Cops on every corner? "openly carrying an assault-style firearm" - Define assault-style and define why that matters. "At least two of the people he shot reasonably believed they were disarming a possible mass shooter." - So anyone can tackle you in the street and claim they thought you were a mass shooter? "Therefore, THEY had a right to claim self-defense or defense of others against lethal bodily harm." - How? They were aggressors.
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  34. I agree with the sentiment but hitting a home run with a product and then falling back into irrelevancy isn't a "failure". Only the people who tried to hop on the gold rush bandwagon "failed" because they got stuck holding the bag. The "endless growth" mindset doesn't apply to most of the market and it's not even a reasonable expectation.
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  35.  @buttercuptaylor7135  Even if I had 20 homes I still wouldn't buy one that I was sure to lose. Buying property usually is a bet against inflation because money loses value over time. Even for a wealthy person it doesn't make sense to lose a piece of property because you have more.
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  36. Wait her name is literally "Krystal Ball"?
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  37.  @WhyNotTruth  By using statistics from January to June. Meanwhile if you look at the UK they're reaching 70% of the dead being double-dosed.
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  38.  @Valorius  Not really. Their contracts leaked in Brazil and Albania, essentially governments agree to give them blanket immunity or else they can't buy the product.
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  39. It's complete bullshit, there's editing battles over pages over topics I accompanied for myself but because many of the facts were uncovered by independent people they're "not credible" while corporations with a stake in manipulating a narrative is considered a reliable source.
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  40.  @abandonedchannel281  That doesn't negate anything of what he said. The poor don't have access to capitalism because they are shut down if they try to enter the economy. Your deflection towards austrian economics speaks volumes about your unwillingness to remain intellectually honest on the debate.
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  41. It's a good thing when the rules don't make sense because at that point you can use it as a litmus test. Anyone who still believes in the rules even when they're blatantly contradictory is pretty much lost and you cannot count on them.
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  42.  @Napominis  Recently Der Spiegel revealed that in a region in Germany they claimed 90% of hospitalizations were from the unspiked... The problem is, 70% of the hospitalizations were of unknown status, and they simply put them up as "unspiked". Because those who are truthful need to obfuscate, right? I'm sorry but at this point if the mainstream media even managed to find one case of officials lying... they're all lying. Sorry. I just can't do this. Whoever put forth that data about Ontario is more likely to be among the liars and I can't believe them.
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  43.  @deViant14  I hope he continues. You benefit from people becoming more obedient and not question anything, while I benefit from people becoming less obedient and seeing the government as an enemy rather than a master. I don't care about a grift if it benefits me, and throws a wrench into the plans of people like you.
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  44. Is... is that satire? Am I getting wooshed? Because Spain is a country in Europe...
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  45. That's like wishing for a Charlie Hebdo style attack to see how well you'd react.
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  46.  @wareaglerebel8131  I really don't see the point of contention. For example, whenever the media talks about wealthy Russian businessmen they call them "oligarchs". Have you ever heard CNN call "oligarch" to every single American millionaire? That's the point, the double standard when describing inequality. Sorry, but the US has corruption too and most successful businesses have to resort to bribery. For example, if you know Sen. Feinstein you'll recognize her as one of the most anti-gun politicians in America. But she's in a committee that picks military gear for SOCOM (I believe) so there's gun industry manufacturers that send her money. So when a Navy SEAL kicks down a door and shines his rifle-mounted Surefire flashlight into a room it's because of corruption being so normalized an anti-gun politician takes money from the gun industry.
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  47. The irony is that in Starship Troopers people could lead a good life without being citizens. Service granted citizenship, but Rico's parent plead to him not to join mobile infantry because they thought it was not worth it. Meanwhile I'm a citizen by birth but I'm not allowed to go into many places.
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  48.  @oarguello  It's not really like saying any of that.
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  49.  @DanielBrinca  This. Tom Scott has videos on why electronic voting is a bad idea. Of all the ways to count votes, electronic means is the one with the most failure points. You can tamper machines, you can tamper servers, you can tamper connections, you can tamper digital storage.
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  50. Because people can listen to a song hundreds of times a year, which means music artists will get millions of plays more than a 2 hour podcast?
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  51. Because kids were out of school. They've stopped in recent weeks because at this point their target audience is in college.
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  52.  @myleshagar9722  Because they're threatened to have their license to practice revoked if they speak out against them.
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  53. These people believed masks didn't work, and then changed their mind once TV told them. Why won't The Science go on TV and say kids don't need it to calm them down?
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  54. Because of technicalities. Once a gathering becomes large enough, or blocks public access, governments require a permit. Permits are pretty much rubberstamped for the "approved" causes.
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  55.  @lacha608  You're the one misleading people. How can you come here and implicitly speak in favor of a product that's associated with passports an mandates when there's no justification to do so?
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  56. Mind that TYT started a long time ago. Many subscribers are probably people who created accounts in the late 2000s and probably even forgot their passwords by now.
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  57. All documentaries are propaganda to a degree.
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  58. Jimmy is vaccinated if that's what you're asking. But if you're still even entertaining that kind of question at this point you're beyond saving.
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  59. Pilot and weapons systems officer in the back seat were wearing masks inside the cockpit for the whole trip and had a sheet of acrylic between them.
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  60.  @davemardon6756  and during those 4 deployments how many didn't make it to 45? Mind that your "great pay and benefits" come from funds others didn't get to claim.
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  61. @Ben Daulton it was a quote from Nick Diaz, of course it doesn't make sense
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  62.  @MichaelOberhardt  The issue is that there's a reason there isn't a traditional shot for the common cold either. There's several viruses that cause the common cold, four of them are coronaviridae. We've never had a traditional shot for a virus of the coronaviridae family that worked right, and why Sinovac is "estimated" to be 40% effective.
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  63.  @russellmcafee9412  "don't misinterpret confusion as lies" - you're simplifying the situation. The people firing at radar ghosts were confused. The sacks of shit at home who have access to all the intelligence and then go on to tell the American people their sons are gonna have to die in Southeast Asia were not confused.
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  64. "Listen here, fat. Back in my day we had a pandemic. We called it the Shanghai Shivers."
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  65. Internalized huwite supremacy. They're already two steps ahead.
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  66. "Anti-black racism"? Oh so you can be racist against everyone else. Thank you Trudeau, very cool.
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  67.  @kraka2oanIner  Canada is training Chinese pilots and trying to ban toys to curb gun violence. The lunacy in the political class is the same, just takes different forms.
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  68. Then why has he been wrong since the start?
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  69. Ritual humiliation.
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  70.  @bluenami7520  "Explain Switzerland and Europe. The more money printed, the lower prices go and the stronger the currency gets." - I'm European and prices have skyrocketed since the adoption of the Euro.
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  71. "I was in the air force for 12 years. I never had to kill anyone." If you ever had to fuel an aircraft, repair it, arm it, do inventory, finance, cleaning or cooking your job existed as a support to the activity of killing. You can try to shrug the responsibility of your shoulders but if you accept to be a getaway driver and someone dies during the bank robbery you'll be charged as an accessory to that murder. It's only fair that if the state kills people, anyone who signed up for a support job is an accessory.
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  72.  @lykos89  "He willing went into a violent situation" - He went there for the clean up efforts. "hoping to take advantage of it to commit violence." - You can't prove it. Stick to what you can prove in court or you already lost. "If we apply the rape analogy you want to use against me to my logic, then women actually put themselves into situations where they are willing to be raped in order to... what?" - You're the one saying the women put themselves in that situation. I'm saying THEY DIDN'T. A woman should be able to go anywhere and dress how she wants, it's always the criminal's fault. Not the victim's. You can say there's risky behaviors, but a risky behavior doesn't justify a crime. "And who are you to equivocate rape to property damage?" - I didn't? You got something wrong there. "Do you really think a woman's bodily automity is the same as property rights?" - Huh... a woman's body is her property so she holds property rights over it. I still think you got the wires crossed there because that wasn't the argument. The argument is about delineating behaviors that people shouldn't adopt or else "they're asking for it". It has nothing to do with the property damage. "This is why your argument is mental gymnastics. False equivalency." - You're just shotgunning words now.
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  73.  @l.w.paradis2108  "You come upon a man shooting an unarmed man. You know nothing more." - The unarmed man was beating down the shooter. I know that. "If you attempt to disarm the shooter, you can claim self-defense/defense of others" - So people using self-defense have to just be beaten and possibly killed by other people in self-defense? Where does that stop? You think it's reassuring that then someone else arrives and sees someone being disarmed, and attacks the first witness, and then a third witness arrives and sees the second witness disarming the first?
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  74.  Nunya Bidness  "i wouldnt put myself in a position like that to be chased by a "mob" " - Blaming the victim.
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  75.  @l.w.paradis2108  If you had an argument, you wouldn't be ashamed to present it. You claim there's a magic loophole that automatically invalidates self-defense. It doesn't exist. That's Dunning-Kruger. Not me asking for a real argument.
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  76. Translation: "we have no idea what we're doing lol"
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  77.  @jamesmorrow1646  Sabeena Ahmed, "A five-day course of iver[...]", International Journal of Infectious Diseases; Zaki F Aref, "Clinical, Biochemical and Molecular Evaluations of Iver[...]", International Journal of Nanomedicine; F.A.Cadegiani, "Early COVID-19 therapy with azithromycin plus nitazoxanide [...]", New Microbes and New Infections; Carvallo Hector, "Safety and Efficacy of the Combined Use of Iver[...]", Journal of Clinical Trials; Abu Taiub Mohammed Mohiuddin Chowdhury, "A Comparative Study on Iver[...]", EJMO.
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  78. @WageSlaving2TheTop ! You don't even understand enough about Soviet history to even get what I'm referring to. I'm referring to the land plots Soviet citizens were entitled to work on in addition to the state-ran farms. The state ran system was incredibly inefficient and corrupt, the price-fixing attempted to hide the inflation and at times of shortage the goods were rationed. People waited in lines because they wanted to get the good products for cheap and distribution was so poor that people traveled many miles to go to the better stocked stores. However, even when the store shelves were bare the people did not starve because those farmers, which I ironically called "kulaks", sold their produce in farmer's markets. First you massacre the kulaks, then you depend on them to feed your people.
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  79.  @discowolf25  It's not a false equivalency. Don't worry, you won't hold the job for long. The 6th booster will probably do you in.
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  80.  @briandam8126  A lot of those people are living in red states so they have a false sense of security. They won't fight for the blue states because they're still comfortable.
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  81.  @ErronBrianMader  I lost smell all the time when I got sick.
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  82.  @cherokeecharlie4016  Socialism is literally the system you get when the vanguard party takes over the state, while Communism is what you get when there's a transition to a stateless society. By definition, Socialism is dependent on the state imposing it's economic will on the country.
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  83.  @itzenormous  "The idea that the poor have any access to capital, or ever did" - Okay, the poor never had access to capital. Explain how people built businesses from the ground up by themselves. "so they don't wake up and rebel" - Since you're awake, when was the last time you rebelled? "the so-called 'Little Guy' can transform himself into a wealthy business tycoon" - Nice strawman. Apparently going from poverty to comfortable middle class is the same as becoming a Rockefeller.
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  84.  @matthewsmith1779  FDR and his gang of retards created artificial shortages in an attempt to raise prices, punishing the poor. He put cronies in charge of the codes set by National Recovery Administration.
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  85. The US economy hinges on worldwide demand for the US dollar and this depends on keeping a good chunk of major oil producers willing to only deal in USD. Saddam Hussein started selling oil for Euros in 2002. Qaddafi wanted to create an African currency backed by natural resources to make them independent of Western banks. If you threaten the USD you get taken out.
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  86. You see, but then you'd post that on twitter and the capitol police would knock on your door and question you regarding the harassment incitement you posted online. That's how it works now.
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  87.  @cristinasalazar9293  Just three days ago Italy announced another regional lockdown. You seem to imply it's over but it's not. Cases didn't plummet, they rose by a third.
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  88. It was self-defense. You can't go running around assaulting people. It's self-defense for Kyle. He was protecting himself from the lunatics.
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  89.  @JoJo-vg8dz  "You ARE the provocateur." - At this point you actually deserve to be attacked, and when you try to accuse your attackers the DA says you're the provocateur for being in the wrong place at the wrong time. You deserve the rules you want to impose on others.
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  90.  @Doppe1ganger  "if a gun is involved and the question is raised whether there should have been a gun involved" - If there was a violent mob involved and the question is raised whether there should have been a violent mob, you people go back to the same "muh gun" BS. The guy was attacked, three assailants wanted to try their luck, they lost. The end.
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  91. @Britain W You're being disingenuous. People are in line for a helping hand. The Soviet "bread line" was a consequence of constant production shortages (which means first-come-first-serve), stores in cities like Moscow having greater supply so people traveled far to concentrate in the same spot, and the artificial job creation from having separate lines for products and cashiers.
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  92.  @WhyNotTruth  Comments that don't address the topic at hand don't mean anything compared to the information presented.
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  93. And remember that "long covid" includes symptoms of anxiety and depression according to the NIH. You were told you had something that has a daily death counter on the TV screen, surely that isn't good for mental health.
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  94.  @gunkwretch3697  Lack of guns isn't safety either.
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  95.  @maxricemusic  It's not "scientifically defined", but we use race in scientific studies (for example regarding side effects in medication). Claiming it's entirely a social construction when we use it to determine if you're more or less likely to have an adverse outcome from medical intervention makes zero sense.
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  96. I didn't even make that link. Damn the scriptwriters for our simulation are lazy.
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  97. I bring up post-9/11 measures and it's like talking to a brick wall.
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  98.  @TrappedInTheNorth  I don't think he personally worked on it.
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  99.  @JoJo-vg8dz  "He did the worst thing a human being can do." - No, he didn't. He actually did a good thing.
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  100. It was used against Ebola I think, and it was shown to have serious side effects. Kidney failure, I think.
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  101. The street? I'm thinking Siberian work camp. Putin might be a little grumpy right now, I wonder if we can talk to North Korea instead.
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  102.  @mobus1603  You're using the stats that started the count during the January wave. Get real.
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  103.  @mobus1603  "statistics from around the world" - Okay, public health england report on week 36 to 39 shows you're wrong.
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  104. Getting paid for speeches and book deals is the "legal" way to pay for favors.
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  105. When a mortar round crashes through the prefab ceiling it doesn't care that the guy in the room is a cook. I remember in like 2004-2005 there was a mini documentary about America's Army, the game developed to air recruitment (it was actually pretty good), and how a recruiter set up LAN parties to keep kids entertained and talk to them about military careers. He asked a girl if she was interested in a career in the military after playing and she said she didn't like the killing so he enumerated some careers that don't involve combat and one of the examples was driver. Then the girl asked something along the lines of "but a couple of months ago wasn't a female driver captured by terrorists and had her throat slit?". The fact is that when you fuel a vehicle, you're fueling it so that it can go kill people. If you're a mechanic, you're fixing the vehicles that will be used to kill people. If you're supply, you're supplying the means to kill people. If you're communications you'll be working the radios to transmit positions that will receive a strike so you better hope that position was actually a Taliban compound and not a Doctors Without Borders hospital or a wedding.
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  106. I mean, he is. But if the product is already faulty by letting the proteins wander off the muscle cells even if administered correctly, imagine how much worse it is if it's blasted across the entire body by the bloodstream.
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  107.  @anniemaraj8773  it changed name to Xe and then the assets were purchased by private investors and renamed Academi. Now exists under the Constellis Group after merging with a rival. Although ownership and names have changed it still exists in spirit.
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  108.  @larsbee  Ever heard of collaborators? Many sold their their own people out.
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  109. He knew how to handle a gun. He defeated two attackers and won the gunfight against Gauge. He showed more professionalism than police officers. He showed more restraint than police officers.
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  110.  @wareaglerebel8131  "there plenty of millionaires who got their money without being slimy" - and Mexico has honest businesses as well. But when Biden goes off on Mexico claiming that their inequality stems from corruption the synapses start firing... Is the situation any different in the US? Isn't your party getting money from these rich people who keep getting richer, Biden?
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  111.  @Protectobot  Give a bailout to banks and it causes inflation in the financial sector. Give bailout to the consumer goods sector and you'll destroy the people's purchasing power.
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  112. Where are the mass arrests? Gen. Flynn and McChrystal got you good.
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  113.  @kennethmcneil3478  According to real life. He claimed Ukraine would collapse months ago. Still hasn't.
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  114. "LifeLog"
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  115.  @kingdong7517  How does it endanger anyone? If you took the shot, you should be good. ...Right?
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  116. A third of the 146 million Americans who had it now have a disability? Please look into how many of the people claiming long covid cannot prove they were ever infected.
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  117. Key factor you're ignoring, if you can spread there's no justification for mandates or passports. Every source? You looked at what, two? And one of them was quoting the other?
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  118. @Commie 1776 "I've studied the subject for most of my life, so I know what I'm talking about" - last time I talked to a your kind I was called a conspiracy theorist for bringing up the fact that Nazis started digging up their own mass graves and burning the bodies when they came across Soviet mass graves and realized that holes in the dirt don't hide evidence of crimes. Just one of your "experts" who called bs on a well documented historical event, and who stopped replying after I linked the sources. The funny thing is, he actually said that if that was true then Russia would have admitted the event was real after the breakup of the USSR. I pointed out that for the sake of easing tensions, the Soviet Union admitted to Poland the massacre was real and happened... before the breakup. in 1989. Embarrassing. Unfortunately we were shotgunning topics at each other in a comments section so he also stopped replying when I pointed out sources that studied Ukrainian population from the 1920s to the 1937 census and after taking into account forced and voluntary displacements, there were around 3 million people short - which means that despite a nominal population growth there were indeed millions of death due to famine and a million deaths that although the cause was disease, the fatality of the disease was exacerbated by the famine. Not to extend this much further, but I also pointed out that using population numbers to deny genocide is a classic Neo-Nazi tactic, and this idiotic motherfucker had the nerve to claim that as an anti-fascist he studied Neo-Nazi denial tactics extensively and had never heard of the population numbers being used as a denial tactic. That's the level of expertise you have on your ranks. Half of you people are clowns who think they're hot shit because you read a couple of books written by your people. I'm no historian. I'm not an expert at anything. I'm a dumb motherfucker. And yet I don't fall for your tricks. I don't care what Jimmy reads, he can read whatever he wants.
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  119. @Commie 1776 yeah none of you ever are. You're always the good guys. But you all "read the books" from sympathizers at worst and apologists at best.
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  120. Biden: "Guys I have a plan" Biden has left the game
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  121. Jose, you're wrong according to your own side. It doesn't stop spread, it reduces symptoms and hospitalizations. This means there will always be a reservoir of virus waiting to come back. This is the official stance of the CDC.
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  122.  @hamupinhere  "I don't care what the peasants say because I'm ballsy"
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  123. That just speaks more about your friends being dummies. Sorry to break the news, but they never created an actual thought about the subject in their heads.
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  124. "the towns are not much more the village’s" - the Kupiansk rail hub has massive strategic significance. Russia just lost an important rail connection to Severodonetsk, which threatens the collapse of another front in Luhansk.
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  125.  @jamesmorrow1646  Hospitals getting paid was the main reason.
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  126. They were clapping when Jimmy talked.
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  127.  @chuletaization  If the protests were only against the government I wouldn't have a problem, but people had to sit on the rooftops of their stores with rifles to prevent them from being burned down. That's not government.
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  128.  @throeawae2130  lmao calling people a "snowflake" when losing the argument, embarrassing
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  129.  @mdunk1664  leaders can be taken out or arrested. Decentralized is the answer.
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  130.  @l.w.paradis2108  Like I already pointed out, Bernie Goetz carried an illegal firearm in New York City and was cleared of the homicide charges over self-defense. He served 8 months over the illegal gun. The gun being illegal doesn't make the shooting illegal.
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  131.  @l.w.paradis2108  "If you see someone shooting an unarmed person" - That unarmed person was attacking Kyle. "knowing nothing more, and you try to disarm him, HOW ARE YOU THE AGGRESSOR?" - So by your logic if you see a self-defense situation, and knowing nothing more, you'll try and disarm the defender?
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  132.  @l.w.paradis2108  "Here we're talking about trained grownups" - Cops are not trained lmao "but there was no liability, for obvious reasons" - Because they were COPS. Anyone else would be held liable.
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  133.  @lykos89  "Rittenhouse committing violence as an outsider of the community" - is he an outsider when he worked in that city?
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  134.  @l.w.paradis2108  "I had students tell me they should have a right to bring their guns to class, and when I pointed out that most teachers would refuse to teach under those conditions, I was told the teachers are welcome to find other jobs." - lmao
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  135.  @lykos89  "Do you travel the world going into warzones" - So the protesters are waging war? Wouldn't that actually justify using violence to stop the violence? "strapped up" - Stay strapped or get clapped. "Are you gonna go willingly to Syria strapped to the nines to help, "clean up", or to kill people?" - You know this is BS. Kenosha was not Syria. He spent the day cleaning up and then was loaned a firearm for protection. Plus, what's even the point of calling Kenosha "Syria"? Are the protesters ISIS? "Either you are an idiot, or you want to kill people. Be glad I don't consider you an idiot." - Yeah you're just calling me a psychopath, which is objectively worse. You have no arguments, only insults.
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  136.  @lykos89  "So human life < property damage to you then? " - The people who damage property think that property is worth losing their life over. Or from another perspective, property is what we achieve when we trade our limited time on this Earth for material games. If you destroy property, you're robbing years out of someone's life.
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  137.  @l.w.paradis2108  "Openly carrying a large" - The larger a firearm is the better. The vast majority of firearms homicides are committed with handguns because they are concealable. The firearms laws say rifles have to be 26" overall at minimum and have at least 16" barrels. Cutting down a rifle to be smaller is a crime if you do not register it with the ATF. "assault-style weapon" - Define assault style and define why that matters. "of the type insurgents often use in battle" - Also the type that millions of legal gun owners use. The bolt action rifle? Used by the Nazis in WWII. Lever action rifles? Used to kill native Americans. All types of rifles were used for battle and genocide.
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  138.  @lykos89  "Riots against police brutality justifies premeditated murder" - They weren't rioting against police, they were chasing and beating a downed person.
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  139.  @l.w.paradis2108  "no father in the picture, an overwrought mother who had just declared bankruptcy in 2018 or something" - suddenly liberals are for the traditional family and financial responsibility
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  140.  @lykos89  "Stating something of no substance and providing no evidence to back it" - You keep claiming Kyle intended to kill people with no evidence.
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  141.  Nunya Bidness  Bernie Goetz illegally carried a gun in NYC and shot people in self-defense. He only did time for the illegal gun. You can still claim self-defense.
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  142.  Nunya Bidness  "all the maimed guy has to claim is that he was making a lawful attempt to disarm a minor" - Unfortunately, I'm pretty sure he actually admitted in an interview he wished he had killed Kyle. "The girlfriend of one of the men who died is already on record as saying he was trying to disarm this little murderer" - What does the girlfriend know? Maybe her man should have been with her that night instead of beating down kids.
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  143. Now do "died suddenly", USA, last 5 years.
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  144.  @discowolf25  So you're out here admitting the shot didn't work because you still ended up in the ICU? Despite the variants being less deadly than last year's Wuhan strain? Buddy, you don't have any business calling people weak. You'd die from the flu.
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  145. "Maybe when I was a child I took some paint chips and ate them... now I got lead in me" who the hell thought saying this was a good idea?
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  146. That's what they want. They become the sole provider of a service and become part of the machine.
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  147. @TheDrewSaga Yeah, I think the point is that when one crime family is "in power" they're demonized for absolute BS reasons (because the real crimes would implicate Dems), another crime family replaces them in the throne and now suddenly the media is running circles trying to excuse all their bad behavior.
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  148.  @martinfiedler4317  Democratic elections don't bust your door down at 2AM. At least with a gat I have a choice. Even if it's saving the last round for myself.
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  149.  @LyndaHill  I'm sorry, but you simultaneously believe that the situation is hopeless, but that also fighting back is useless. If you don't think fighting back has any use, then certainly you don't think the situation is that bad.
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  150. Gun charges were dropped.
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  151.  @interestedobserver587  I understand she is alive contrary to claims made online. But saying this is normal? I never had to remain 30 minutes in observation after a shot. One day I got five during an appointment. Three on my left arm and two on the right one. If it was normal to collapse after any shot then at least one of those would have caused it, no?
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  152.  @TheAbabab77  "A global community of scientists don't have an agenda to harm us" - This is far too nebulous. You don't need a global community. Just a few hundred people covering their own ass. The "global community" doesn't all study the data and take conclusions. They get information from their parent agencies. If the information was tainted, a global community can easily be mislead. You purposefully create a broad scenario to appeal to implausibility, when similar things have happened. Corporations have managed to hide their misdeeds for years until someone goes against the established science and convinces the global community that they have been fooled. "hospitals not having ICU units flooded by unvaccinated" - This s a falsehood. Not only have several countries been caught cooking the books by not verifying status on most people and flagging them as unvaccinated due to unknown status, several countries also have a 50-50/60-40 split of vaccinated and unvaccinated. Finally, you also have the issue that in many countries 60-40% of the hospitalizations are for something else and people simply tested positive when admitted.
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  153.  rs_  "the doctor has to report such incidents" - And doctors shouldn't overprescribe opioids or give weed cards to anyone complaining of an headache.
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  154.  @Doppe1ganger  "the big guy stomps on the little guy because there are no regulations" - then... why do they lobby for regulations that stomp the little guy? Why are they afraid of free markets if they'd be able to leverage them?
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  155. Cenk's nephew has time between his streams of other people's content?
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  156.  @GJ-dj4jx  "youtube does not have any rights over your content" - they have the right to pull your content or your channel at any moment.
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  157.  @dellaangel  The ozone layer and acid rain have nothing to do with climate. You know those weren't grifts because the problem was actually solved. We banned CFCs and reduced emissions. Done.
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  158.  @leonardmccannon3136  I don't think there's a source, he just posted that he recalled a conversation from years ago.
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  159.  @verxintRising  "it's not so huge for the strategic picture" - It's huge in strategic terms. The Kupiansk rail hub was a critical supply line towards Severodonetsk. Ukraine just severed another artery for the Russian forces, which allows them to create another frontline collapse.
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  160. That, but unironically.
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  161.  @mirsad96  Does that mean "American neoliberalism" or actual neoliberalism? Because most countries in the world are extremely Keynesian. "Neoliberal policies" is usually used to refer to free trade agreements, tax cuts, privatizations, etc but all of that is meaningless when businesses are regulated to protect monopolies, free trade agreements inherently leave countries out meaning that the trade isn't free and the tax cuts are not paired with a responsible "hands off" approach. The government can't be handing out tax cuts and then give massive bailouts because that's not neoliberalism. Hmmm "liber" means "free", so definitely we should spend tax payer dollars to protect the stock market. That's what freedom is all about, government safety nets. ""Free" trade competition and deregulation leads to market monopoly" - Can't protect a monopoly in a free market. "that monopoly centralizes wealth and power" - Wealth isn't a zero sum game, it is created by economic activity. And on a free market you can't just buy power. "grows a huge corporate run state" - A corporate run rate is exactly the opposite of a free market. There would be no reason for corporations to take over the government if the government can't be abused. Amazing how you people always end up admitting that the end goal of corporate control is taking over the government. It's almost like you are ready to admit government is the root of the problem.
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  162. That's extremely strange coming from Keynes, but either way he was a child abuser. He was as terrible of a human being as he was an economist.
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  163. "Democracy" is organized, it exists precisely to manufacture consent for this crap.
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  164.  @ADDMATTable  Yeah and the only reason you didn't see your dollar purchasing power go down the drain was because so much of those billions went into propping up the stock market.
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  165. @Puppet Master all anti-censorship people want all voices in the platform.
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  166. We went from "they almost never happen, shut up" to "they're rare" to "okay there's been a hundred thousand of them" to an article I just read saying that we should "expect more breakthroughs" within weeks. Can we as a country all line up and each get one free kick to the groin of the people involved in this?
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  167.  @riccardo9383  "If you see an armed person shooting people and you try to disarm them, then you're acting in self-defense" - So if you see a woman shooting an attacker in an alley, you disarm them in self-defense? "That's a much better case than a murderer" - It's not murder if it's not premediated and done with malicious intent. Shooting people fighting you isn't malicious. You can't premediate an attack.
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  168.  @mainscreen4939  Yes. By your logic then nobody can defend themselves.
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  169.  @antred11  The bailout wasn't meant to prevent people from losing their homes (many did). It was meant to prop up the economy and prevent all the "too big to fail" institutions from crumbling down and taking the entire world's economy with it. Even then, the premise was a lie. The stock market was overvalued and was about face reality. So the bailout was meant to maintain the inflated values.
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  170.  @antred11  You asked how people would be prevented from losing their houses. That wasn't the purpose of the bailout. What you're asking is inherently nonsensical.
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  171.  @thomashauer6804  I'm not sure of the goal but it seems like the purpose was to get people to accept travel restrictions. The argument was that being a celebrity or athlete shouldn't make them exempt (even though politicians flew around the world with no problem). Seems like a wasted effort because some countries are rolling back restrictions already. The whole situation was strange because in 2021 he participated in a vaccination drive, there were exposés on his investment in a biotech company that supposedly competed with vaccines but people online looked into that company and it's fake. The headquarters are in some apartment building and their supposed patents are junk.
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  172.  @pdpgb  "How is that any different from a bread line?" - In the political context, "bread line" refers to the USSR's chronic inability to produce enough and distribute it properly. If anything, I've heard of producers having trouble because they're producing more than enough but many businesses are shut down so they can't even offload what they produce.
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  173.  @grantlawrence611  More troops won't solve it. More troops means more mouths to feed, more fuel for tanks, strained logistics... and these troops will be untrained. Ukraine is fighting mercenaries motivated by money, and people who through months of conflict are battle hardened to some degree. Sending untrained troops to the meat grinder will only cause the Russian death toll to increase.
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  174. They're different and have totally dissimilar investment strategies.
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  175. If it wasn't for medical associations and other restrictions doctors could create cheap clinics and save the government a ton of money by making healthcare so cheap it would drive costs down. But if anyone tried to do that they would get in trouble.
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  176. Yeah until someone paints the road to make the computer think it's a dead end and rob the truck.
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  177.  @whatevergoesforme5129  Oh it's anything goes now. Many who got Janssen are being encouraged to get Pfizer or Moderna boosters because since it's an adenovirus, a booster would need to use a different virus or else the body attacks it because it gained immunity from the first shot. There might be Janssen boosters in production but I don't think many countries have them yet so they're advocating for mixing and matching.
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  178.  @hansreichhardtsohn4522  Do you manually type that every time or you have a notepad file that lets you copy paste your attacks on people who don't tow the line?
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  179.  Eastern fence Lizard  If there's plenty of those guys around, shouldn't that be addressed before the bug hits? And since we're a year and a half into this BS, shouldn't weight loss have been promoted instead of staying at home and ordering UberEats? Plus if in 400 people of that age group, 200 are obese... that essentially means 199 in 200 obese people of that age group survive. It's not about "deserving". I don't deserve getting hit by a car. But if I make a choice to run back and forth across a highway at some point I'm going to get hit. If people are not willing to minimize their risks that doesn't mean they "deserve" anything bad, but do we deserve to be collectively punished as a society for their choices?
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  180. Exactly. Someone smarter than me once said, there's no loyalty in telling the truth because the truth is easy to believe in. Believing the absurd is an unforgeable proof of loyalty. It's a political uniform, and when you have a uniform you have an army.
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  181.  @darlenetroise7079  the private business is being forced by government mandates
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  182.  @anthonytwohill9726  Communism isn't perverted socialism. Communism is the stateless, classless Utopian society. Socialism is when the communists take over the state and use the state to transition towards communism. That's why the USSR was the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and was ruled by Communist Parties. If anything, Socialism is the perversion of Communism because so far, no Socialist country every transitioned to Communism and instead abused its power.
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  183. No argument, just canned phrases.
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  184.  @layinlow77  "instead of having some system where it could be distributed." - That system requires keeping people working. So the problem is still the quarantine.
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  185.  @mrchrysler9736  "their drive-thru's are packed" - Fast food isn't the only kind of restaurant.
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  186. @Revolutionary Communist "Restaurants are delivering food now." - A minority of them is. Most stuff is closed.
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  187. Not at all. In fact before this happened, flu shots were losing market. Essentially only children and the elderly got it.
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  188.  @Curse44  Live rounds used on Netherlands protesters yesterday. The f1nal solut1on is still a few years down the line.
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  189. I'm pretty sure real estate is one of the most corrupt businesses in NY. They'll never go after him for white collar crimes because of the amount of Democrat politicians he probably greased back in the day.
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  190.  @wildhaggis6326  that's cool bro. Now put that camera on a plane and try to steer a contrast seeker missile in the pitch black of a moonless night from 10,000 feet in the air and 30 nautical miles ground distance.
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  191. It's a duality because at the same time France protested every weekend for weeks in a row. The Netherlands was on fire yesterday and the police wounded two protesters with live fire. You have the biggest sheep in the world but also people willing to throw down like a good old fashioned soccer hooliganism event.
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  192. It would actually be ironic if the shot is protecting them from the flu but they always get really bad colds every single year. I used to get sick a lot as a kid, for a few years I took the flu shot, one year I had a reaction and got really nasty 4 days of fever so I stopped taking them. My colds have always been mild ever since.
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  193.  @mugetsuu23  Why would I be thankful of a nation that erases my freedoms then forces me to make a deal with the devil to get them back? Why should I be thankful of being threatened to lose my job? Why should I be thankful of being denied travel? They work? Then why are cases exploding in highly vaccinated countries? They save others? But people still spread! If you care about other people, stay home and never leave.
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  194.  @ronburgandy1475  The majority of Russia's tank count accounts for scrap or poorly maintained units. Tanks rusting in the open air need weeks if not months to refurbish, and that assuming you have the spare parts.
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  195.  @ronburgandy1475  Okay, let's take half. Out of 10,000 how much is it going to cost to refurbish them? How many crews can be trained to use them?
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  196.  @ronburgandy1475  What facts? You point to an estimated number. That's not a fact until you do an inspection of all those vehicles. The proof is that the pictures show they are rusted after being stored in the open air.
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  197.  @dylanlinzer6734  How is it full blown r-word? Child labor laws were introduced when only 3% of children were working. They essentially banned the practice after almost nobody was making money off it, it's like bragging Hillary Clinton supported gay marriage - they only voiced their support when they were sure that was popular enough not to cost them anything. That's also not the point. This was about people worshipping smooth talking politicians. You'll nod in agreement when all you have is the speech written by writers who make a living out of preparing agreeable speeches. If you knew the FDR's National Recovery Administration was filled to the brim with corporate leaders and that he and his "experts" were destroying food to make sure prices stayed high you wouldn't nod in agreement. I don't care if you like FDR or not, nor am I trying to change your mind on FDR. I'm just saying you wouldn't nod in agreement to a speech. Just like you're probably not worshipping Biden right now. You aren't, are you? Then you already agree with what I wanted to say. That's all.
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  198. Nobody ordered anything. It wasn't a retreat. It was a rout.
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  199.  @brandonleeps  Then how come it wasn't a problem in 2020?
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  200.  @PILLOCK4  If this is true, you will be able to show that rates reduced since last year.
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  201. "more traditionally created vaccines" - That won't work. Traditional shots don't work on coronaviridae. Sorry. But you're simultaneously saying "the doctors will be forced to decide who should get treatment and who not" and "responsible scientist and doctor teams seem to run around with blinkers when it comes to that topic". You essentially know that "overflowing ICUs" are an artificial problem thanks to negligence. These people are KILLING the patience through negligence at best, through malice at worst. So you know this is all fake but you still try to defend the authorities by using the numbers.... they wanted those numbers...
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  202. Under a post saying the US can't simply kill Maduro because the world is watching, people say Maduro does not kill Guido because he's actually the good guy. Kappa.
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  203. Hell March intensifies
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  204.  Jack Bradford  So? The supply chain has been severed. If you don't have people to harvest, package, ship, etc. you can't give it to the hungry.
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  205.  @misterpibb108  "This is about Russian security" - So the nuclear armed nation, Russia, is afraid of a non-nuclear Ukraine. So afraid for their security... the Russians sacrificed their army. In fact losing the 1st Tanks Guard, the armored unit that defends Moscow...
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  206.  @snapdragon9300  Trump was ready to shut down travel but was called a racist for it. I have my issues with Trump's handling of the situation but he was willing to be cautious about it at first, while the opposition screamed that we were fearmongering about the flu.
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  207. Keep on honking in the free world
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  208.  @SenorJuan2023  We did protest the PATRIOT Act. You on the other hand seem to be delighted to sandbag us over a sick sense of revenge for something we're not at fault for.
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  209.  @SenorJuan2023  Moving the goalposts.
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  210.  @olorin1710  Off topic but I don't understand of all things why people bang on the mass transit system. Sure, it's a progressive policy. But I don't see the "liberalism".
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  211.  @olorin1710  Peer review is a joke, honestly. But yes, we should eliminate corporate welfare. I just think subsidies are corporate welfare in sheep's clothing. And I don't trust The Science™. The Science™ is fully corporatized and is full of special interests in itself. The Science™ tells you to build wind farms, develops the most advanced blades for the turbines to assure you they can squeeze 33% more energy from the wind but then 15 years later The Science™ seems to have forgot to tell you that the materials are not recyclable.
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  212.  @olorin1710  On a vacuum, that's correct. The problem is, peer reviewers essentially become the gatekeepers and it's an uphill battle to get past peer review when you challenge convention. Combined with "publish or perish" mindset this leads to practices that go against science, such as p-hacking. Not sure about the tesla technology thing.
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  213.  @olorin1710  On a vacuum, that's correct. The problem is, peer reviewers essentially become the gatekeepers and it's an uphill battle to get past peer review when you challenge convention. Combined with "publish or perish" mindset this leads to practices that go against science, such as p-hacking. Not sure about the tesla technology thing.
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  214.  @haplozetetic9519  Saying researchers are going to remove the danger is riddiculous. They clearly failed with the spike protein and refused to admit the mistake.
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  215.  @haplozetetic9519  What CCP? Who said anything about the CCP? I'm talking about our own Western, supposedly "democratic", governments and their institutions lying to us. Sure, not every individual or organization is evil. But most are complicit. They had the duty to speak truth to power and only a handful of times have they done it.
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  216.  @MrJturner74  can't wait for all the people painting wrong signs on roads or messing with sensors to cause them to stop or crash
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  217.  @MrJturner74  Convoy sounds good in the open highway, disaster in actual practice. The point of trucks is that they can get to the door of businesses and even drive into warehouses. So you can have thousands of them going back and forth in all directions at any given time. If you're running a snake of containers down the highway and they're all robots that follow the leader, you might as well just send the goods by train. When the human driver needs to stop for his mandated rest time, where does the convoy park? Most truck stops wouldn't be able to handle that many autonomous trucks parking at the same time.
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  218. It's not vigilantism if you only shoot people attacking you.
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  219.  @stevemickler452  Nope. The guy who had his bicep vaporized also brought a gun. Was he a vigilante? Kyle is on trial, not the police. Convicting Kyle will not help you against the police.
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  220.  @stevemickler452  No, you said you blamed them. Not that they were vigilantes. So now my question is, since so many progressives supported leftist vigilantism, how can you question progressives now?
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  221.  @stevemickler452  Then who are you to question progressivism? That was your initial comment.
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  222.  @stevemickler452  It's not Vietnam anymore. And your own sentence says you should have learned the lesson. Police went there with guns. They were prepared to use violence on you. The "idea" doesn't matter. Ghandi, aside from being a massive racist and a child abuser, was only able to do his thing because the British happen to have one ounce of humanity in them, even though they don't seem to most of the time. MLK was not the only one involved in civil rights and even he had armed guards. That non-violence stuff doesn't work outside of very strict conditions. Kyle wasn't protesting. He was cleaning grafitti and putting out fires. He had no "idea". The people with the "ideas" attacked him. The people with the "ideas" justified his decision to be armed, to be protected from the crowd that decided to be violent. You come here and blatantly contradict yourself. So the police could protect itself from you during non-violent protests, but a good samaritan can't protect himself from a violent protest. He wasn't there to break up the protest, arrest anyone or issue citations. He had every right to protect himself and you question "progressives" for admitting that Kyle was right.
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  223. Death rates are increasing from other reasons. Cancer and heart condition deaths are up. Diabetes also seems to be on the rise.
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  224. And you and a thousand fans can listen to the same song hundreds of times spread over a year. Meanwhile you'll only listen to a 2 hour podcast once. Also, this is an exclusivity deal. If you're a huge artist who can draw a crowd, contact Spotify for an exclusivity deal. You just can't have your songs played on radio, other streamin services, a youtube VEVO channel, etc.
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  225. Russia to Ukraine: "You don't exist, you are all mentally ill, you are a mistake of history, and you will be under our command" Putin, 2021. Nice victim blaming. You probably tell women to stop squirming and it will be over soon.
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  226.  @debbiedogs1  F off. They are the bad guy. They locked down Hubei province but allowed flights out of the country. They WANTED to spread it worldwide.
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  227. Why don't have the jabbed to prove they are negative? How much is testing going to cost long term?
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  228.  @leroysnead4435  the A-4 Skyhawk doesn't have an afterburner.
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  229.  @HiddenPalm  Do you just spam that on every thread?
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  230.  @sisyphusvasilias3943  "not the CCP who is offering the real jobs and real economic opportunities" - that sounds like propaganda in the opposite direction.
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  231.  @redcapitalist  Your profile picture and name don't inspire much confidence, but I'm simply pointing out that just because there's puppet-masters behind HK doesn't mean that the CCP is good and benevolent. Governments lie cheat and steal, why is the Chinese government being praised as the ones handing out opportunities? Shouldn't people live in a world where they can survive without government handouts? What is being sacrificed in order to have those handouts?
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  232.  @redcapitalist  "well if your first premise is "Governments lie cheat and steal"" - prove the premise wrong.
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  233. And then their leader said an AR fires if you close the bolt. I love Grandmaster Jay. He reminds me of Sam L. Jackson in "Basic".
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  234. Producing for yourself is capitalism, ba-bey.
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  235. Kyle was not called to assemble. You're the racist person by saying black people attack businesses. Black people have a grievance against a white kid killing his white attackers? What?
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  236. Just stop repeating the lies. Der Spiegel reported that Hamburg in Germany was lying about the status of people in the ICU. They simply didn't verify status of 70% of people and labelled them "unknown". When publishing the data, they put them up as unspiked. If an entire region in Germany was lying, everyone's lying. Wake up.
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  237. To be fair, I always heard the term "shitlib" coming from the left. The right used to say "libtard", which is a very boomerish term.
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  238. Yeah, let's ask the guy who continues to milk his military career about his unbiased and factual opinion.
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  239. The FDA has recalled plenty of stuff they approved.
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  240. Tons of Russians are cheering. They don't want to fight and the quicker the defeat, the less chance they'll die.
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  241. This is pure Lysenkoism.
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  242.  @AdamSmith-gs2dv  So everyone should pull the trigger on their own head because you got an empty chamber? Not every kid born after the mother took thalidomide was born with malformations either.
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  243. They sure as hell brought security. Kyle is still alive, and two scumbags are not with us anymore. If he didn't have a gun they'd have hurt him. That's valid. Worst case scenario he'd have his skull cracked or left a vegetable after hitting the asphalt. You think people don't die or get severely injured?
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  244.  @amirbabfish  Yeah. Attacking someone for being armed is illegal.
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  245. "I AM THE HIGHWAY" - Chevy CEO (and Chris Cornell with Audioslave)
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  246.  @foxbodyblues6709  They can drive and shoot Russians fleeing by foot just fine. The pictures being shared privately from Kharkiv show a ton of Russians shot in the back. They should have accepted the terms of surrender.
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  247.  @kwonj126  It's 10.000km2. Get it right.
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  248.  @rahn45  Tons of bullet holes in the bodies, though. Russians who didn't accept the terms of surrender were gunned down, shot in the back. They should have given up. Also, Russia didn't defend their northern rail lines? lol
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  249. The vast majority of them occurred before there was one available. But don't let the timeline get in the way of your narrative.
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  250.  @htown11465  Is this a joke? You're bringing up deaths that occurred before the stuff was available, that's completely unrelated to the topic. It makes a difference because that's what you're arguing. Did you forget what you were even trying to say? If you want to make an argument about the US's response, then sure it doesn't matter if it's before or after. But that wasn't the argument you were making. So yes, it makes all the difference.
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  251.  @htown11465  No, it doesn't. First of all, you're wrong with two different conditions. First, the variant going around now is different. Second, the first few waves wiped out a ton of vulnerable people. So right there you have two factors you're not controlling for. He's not ignoring anything. The passports and restrictions are not related to deaths, they're a measure to contain spread. So how can people be mandated to do something that doesn't contain the spread? Want to talk about deaths? Sure. Jimmy is ranting against the mandates. Here we also have a guy who's living under a government that's threatening to unperson people based on their plague rat status. But as it turns out, those who take the shot are plague rats too. They just won't die for 6-8 months. This is evidence that the narrative we were sold doesn't work. Are you afraid of dying? Please, for the love of God take it. That's not the argument. You want me to lose my home and my job because I won't do what you tell me? That's the argument we're having here.
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  252. And it didn't even cross their minds why they would need protection if they had the stuff.
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  253. That doesn't make much sense, the Revolutionary war kicked off with the British trying to cut off the Mass. rebels from their own military supplies and although I haven't read the documents in years I do remember that gun ownership was about being ready to defend the state from the founding fathers' own writing. The concept that they came up with a bunch of quotes about liberty and addressing the concern of how would the newly formed states wage war to hide the true intent of maintaining guns in the hands of slave patrols... I mean it doesn't really make any sense considering that no country I know of put on their constitution that law enforcement and armored car drivers had the right to guns. The state simply gives gun rights to whomever they want, no need to put it on the constitution.
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  254. There's world class athletes who don't know anything about the topic. They just do what coaches tell them, and sometimes coaches are two decades behind the curve. Look at kneesovertoesguy - he looked into the cutting edge science regarding knee conditioning and his own coach at college prohibited him from doing his exercises.
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  255.  @youcancallmecoop  "I’m fine with my tax dollars going towards public health safety rather than corporate bailouts" - The testing equipment is made by corporations. The corporations are getting your tax dollars, not "public health".
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  256.  @youcancallmecoop  No, it's not. It's making corporations richer. To ensure safety you'd need to test EVERYONE because the vaxxed still spread. You're purposefully allowing superspreaders while discriminating against people who don't want to play your silly game. So you just want corporations to be richer in the end.
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  257. That's because the UK is beyond c^cked. Pretty sure 7-8 years ago some British actress was in her kitchen preparing dinner, saw a peeping tom in her garden looking through the window, and pointed the kitchen knife at him while she got the phone. When the police arrived and she reported the situation the cops cut her off and warned her that she shouldn't have pointed the knife. The fact that your nation is deathly afraid of cutting utensils doesn't say anything about morals.
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  258. >government shuts down economy >"free" market is inefficient
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  259.  @gfarrell80  Yeah but I didn't see you speak up then, so I only have the context of this interaction. In this particular case you're wrong, don't fault me for not being aware of every critique you've made in the past.
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  260.  @GRIGGINS1  "The rest is all under NDA" - it doesn't help that you use the same excuse as literally all the fake Navy SEAL stolen valor chuckefucks. "It's under NDA!" your MOS should be on your DD-214 which is accessible through FOIA. So you can't use the excuse of an NDA unless you're so super secret squirrel they actually purged your records.
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  261.  @GRIGGINS1  "Why is it that all civilians assume NDAs only apply to Special Forces and such" - because that's what fakers claim the most. "Mine had to do with special naval projects" - nobody asked about the projects, just your MOS. If it was combat or not combat. That was the only question asked. Yet you started mouthing off about NDAs, which is something that sets off every alarm. Anyone who knows your real identity can issue a FOIA and get your DD-214, that's how the fakers get exposed. You don't sign NDAs about which MOS you served under. So when being asked about having a combat MOS your NDAs don't matter worth a fuck. Mentioning them only makes people suspicious because only the fakers start talking about NDAs.
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  262.  @GRIGGINS1  no, YOU are just some guy on the internet trying to convince strangers how fucking super secret his time in the military was.
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  263. Russian logistics were crippled by the Ukrainian seizure of the Kupiansk rail hub.
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  264. Even leafy greens will make you fat, you just won't be able to eat enough of them in one sitting. The point is that fat turning into fat is false. All extra callories make you fat, and carbs are easy to indulge on. Fats are harder to stomach, pun intended. Try to eat a large Waygu steak alone and the amount of fat will make you feel ill when your body tries to digest it. Meanwhile a large pizza washed down with coke? I can do that easy and not feel a thing, but the calories are insane.
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  265.  @uioplkhj  "From" or "with"?
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  266.  @filmjazz  "Because the "problem" that voter ID requirements purport to solve is a myth (see link in my previous comment)." - where's the link? "The true motivation behind the people who argue for it is voter suppression, particularly voter suppression of the poor and minorities aka "people who tend to vote for Democrats."" - How does voting ID suppress the vote? "There's nothing that scares right-wingers more than making sure everyone in this country gets a fair chance to vote" - Go to any EU country, they issue voter ID alongside your normal ID. Not that I'm saying the EU is an example to follow or anything, but the concept that voter ID is a right-wing conspiracy to take votes away from minorities is solely an American paranoia. How does it take away a fair chance to vote?
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  267. In the Netherlands police already wounded two protesters with live rounds. Media called it "warning shots" and there's video of a man with a gaping wound on his thigh while people press on it to stop the bleeding, so it's not rubber bullets.
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  268.  @stephensdygert7600  "Acording to the economist, Richard Wolf" - No bias there at all lol "the Soviet Union was the fast growing economy in the history of the world from 1917-1950" - "Fastest growing" is a sleight of hand argument. If I go from 500 to a 1000 thousands in a day, and you go from 1 dollar to 10 dollars in a day, your wealth is growing faster than mine. Also, please notice the inherent contradiction in your argument. The Soviet Union was not marxist, but even if it wasn't you praise their efforts. Okay so are you defending marxism or the Soviet system? Sure, it's not so much a "contradiction" but an attempt to have the cake and eat it too. You want to distance marxism from the Soviet Union, but the Soviet Union was good. Even though they were evil and kept the wealth in the 1%. But they were good! Just ignore the evil. Not marxist. But good! "They could never establish a consistent tax base in the conquerd countries." - Gee I wonder what they were doing to those countries.
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  269.  @stephensdygert7600  Nice deflection. The fact you have to even try to pull such BS means we both know you're wrong.
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  270.  @stephensdygert7600  More deflection. You're strawmanning. And embarassing yourself. Your friends say religion is opiate of the masses. They're the ones who have a problem with God, not me.
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  271.  @stephensdygert7600  Take your meds.
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  272. That was sort of done. Patients who tested positive in a general area were sent to the same hospital, which were full, while many hospitals and clinics remained empty because people were told to stay away. Travis Haley, a former Marine Recon and now firearms instructor, went on a podcast to talk about his experience with a VA hospital visit. He had an appointment and when he got to the hospital he saw the overflow tents so he assumed the place was packed. When he went in he had to argue with a security guard who told him to stay away because the place was full of patients. When he was finally allowed in after proving he had the appointment, he got inside and asked the nurses if they were overflowing and they didn't know why he was asking that, the place was empty. They were not being sent C19 patients and the perception was that the place was full and everyone needed to stay away.
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  273. I'm European and it's politicized here. Introducing passports, QR codes and apps is political. France has had like 10 weekends of protests against this BS.
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  274. General Winter slaughtered Russians in Finland and Ukraine February 2022. General Winter isn't chosen by anyone.
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  275. If Russia is fighting according to Sun Tzu, which is why they sent troops to get trapped in Kherson knowing that Ukraine would drop the bridges behind them, and then left their rail hub in Kupiansk exposed to the Kharkiv offensive. Russia is just mastering the art of war by consistently doing the stupid thing over and over again.
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  276. You also tell that to women? To stop fighting to get it over with quickly?
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  277. "You can get covid more then once" - Yes, because of variants. However many I know who had it more than once felt that it became weaker the second time because they were already primed for the previous variant "You always want a backup in case your main safety precaution fails" - This isn't a backup, it's a tool for control. Erase the passport BS, and then we can talk about backups. Until then, this is 100% political.
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  278.  @skymningforelsket1302  There's no infinitely broad antibodies, same reason a person can get the cold every year.
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  279.  @HackersSun  They're pretty garbage, though. There's been billions spent on industrial plants that aren't even properly operational. Want carbon capture? Fast growing plants could be harvested and pyrolised. You get wood gas which can be used for energy, and the charcoal is trapped carbon. Bury it in soil to fertilize it. Repeat. You always capture more carbon than you release, you just have to use the charcoal as fertilizer rather than fuel.
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  280. A true democracy is still tyranny of the 51%.
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  281. They got back in 3-4 days more than Russia can take in a month. Ukraine just made the war mathematically unwinnable. Call it 1.6%. Russia bleeds for Ukrainian ground. Ukraine demonstrates they can undo months of effort and thousands of Russian deaths. They make it look easy and sends the message to the Russian soldiers - "you will die for ground that we'll recover in a day".
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  282. Those numbers are manipulated. Not only are some sources counting from January, when most had not gotten it, they're also counting asymptomatic cases as "hospitalizations" if people are hospitalized over something else. Look up "our most relevant metric is losing meaning", you'll find the article stating that half the hospitalizations had no symptoms.
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  283.  @kennethmcneil3478  Real life. Watch any video of his from months ago. He's saying Ukrainian frontlines would collapse. But that happened to Russia.
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  284. That's lying with stats 101. They started the count in mid January, when most people did not have the shots.
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  285. Don't they win all the lawsuits? It's been a long time since I looked it up, they lost one lawsuit in like 2008 or 2009 and ever since they beat all the MSM outlets in court.
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  286. No argument, just repeating your mantra.
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  287.  @911truthfarmer  "went to a country with socialized medicine" - but went to a private clinic and paid for his own surgery. It wouldn't matter if he went to fucking Somalia or North Korea, he looked for the best place to get surgery for his hernia - and it happened to be a private clinic where they charge for their services.
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  288.  @pyotrkropotkin406  what are you trying to imply here? The accusation is that Rand Paul took advantage of the Canadian system, isn't it? He paid out of pocket. Therefore he did not take advantage of the Canadian taxpayer. He went to a hospital that charges for their services. He was charged because he is not a Canadian citizen and he did not get his appointment through the Canadian system. It's a hospital. It's private. It charges for their services. So what are you trying to imply here?
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  289.  @pyotrkropotkin406  "You tried to make it sound like they were outside the Canadian system" - but they were. The clinic sees patients through the Canadian system (they are contracted by the government to see those patients) and by themselves as a private entity. Rand didn't sneak into the backdoor into the Canadian system. "I'm telling you that is how their system works" - but how the system works in irrelevant because Rand was never admitted through that system. "This clinic is not outside their socialized medical system" - oh my god, yes it is. So because Boeing is contracted by the US DoD to make airframes and wings for aging military aircraft, if I want to start an airliner and try to buy a 737 MAX (lol) am I going through the Department of Defense system? If a construction company is contracted by the government to build roads, hospitals, schools, etc and I contract that same company to make me a house, am I getting the house through the public system? This is starting to sound like the "you didn't build that!" type of argument regarding private businesses. So they're private, but because government exists, they're not really private. What the fuck? "Canadians get to use their clinic for free just like everything else there." - yeah. Because the PRIVATE clinic has a deal with the government where they send the bill to the government and get a huge fucking payday in exchange for seeing patients from the public system. It's good for the private business because they get a bunch of guaranteed income for the year and it's good for the state because they get a bulk discount. It's still a private clinic and Rand paid for his shit. Goddamn.
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  290.  @pyotrkropotkin406  no, you seem to have difficulties understanding it. The clinic Rand went to is CONTRACTED by the government. If you go to their website they literally explain how to use their services through the public system and simply through them as a private entity. It's not a "foreigners have to pay" deal. You can go there as a Canadian and pay out of pocket if you don't want to deal with the public system. For you to get treated there for "free" you need to go through the public system, you are told you need hernia surgery and then the government sends you their way with the documentation. You can't just show up there. I AM NOT CONFUSING ANYTHING WITH THE BRITISH SYSTEM. LITERALLY NOTHING I HAVE SAID COULD MAKE YOU BELIEVE THAT.
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  291.  @pyotrkropotkin406  Amy, please provide evidence that Rand did not pay. Prove it. Fucking prove it or admit to be a goddamn liar. Prove. It.
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  292.  @pyotrkropotkin406  1. Amy did you post the evidence? So you admit to lie, then? 2. I didn't confuse anything. I said what their website states. They are totally private. You are a liar. I sm not confusing the systems. It's not stupid to have money and pay directly, what's stupid is the state charging people who are willing to pay and don't use public healthcare. Stop lying, Amy.
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  293.  @pyotrkropotkin406  1. I am not confused. The clinic is described as private in both wikipedia and their iwn website, which includes instructions on how to be treated there both through the Canadian system and outside it. It is not a public facility as you will not get an appointment there, you have to have an appointment through the public Canadian system and then be referred to them for treatment. I did not confuse anything. Your mentions to the French and British systems were pure red herrings. I never said anything related to those systems. I simply read the CLINIC'S OWN WEBPAGE AND THEIR INSTRUCTIONS TO GET TREATED THERE. 2. You still haven't posted the evidence which means you accepted being called a liar. You made a claim, refused to prove it. You're a liar, Amy. You can't argue and you can't tell the truth - so you lie and hope others read and believe your lies.
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  294.  @pyotrkropotkin406  "they are apart of the public system of healthcare in Canada." - when a construction company is contracted to build roads, schools, courthouses, etc are they part of the public system? Answer the question. "I'm telling you that they are still part of. the public healthcare system. Something you keep trying to deny" - if they are privately owned, and they get contracted by the government to perform services, how does that make them part of the public system? Is Lockheed-Martin a public company? Raytheon? They are paid by governments to make weapons. Pretty much all their sales are to governments. Does that make them public or private? Answer the question so we can expose your double-standards. "think that their privately owned status is unusual in the Canadian system" - I never said anything was usual or unusual. Stop lying. "yet it is still classed as a public system due to how they receive most of their money" - Again, the Military Industrial Complex makes most of its money through government sales. That's where they get most of their money. Does that make them public? It's not uncommon for government buildings to have private security, a service purchased from private companies. Does that mean private security companies are public? Governments often contract certain services such as garbage collection and waste disposal to private companies, does that make them public? "In England" - nobody gives a fuck about England, I didn't say anything about England and this isn't about England. Stop bringing up red herrings. You have still not provided evidence that Rand Paul did not pay anything for the service and his treatment was paid by the Canadian taxpayer. Are you still insisting on your lie?
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  295.  @pyotrkropotkin406  You obviously don't understand how the English language works, because you're still talking about healthcare systems around the world when that's not the subject. Also, have you brought up evidence that Rand Paul did not pay? Or have you accepted your condition as a pathological liar?
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  296. And when NGOs divert a ton of money to DAs and bail organizations that let people off the hook for their mischief.
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  297.  @anonymoususername1091  if there's no gravity then how does density know where "down" is?
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  298. More like, Ukraine scored more goals in 1 minute than Russia could score in three games.
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  299.  @p3u3g3poultree7  "We all know how common colds and other infectious diseases are passed along so I am grateful for society being told to wash their hands" - But you do realize that living in a sterile world will both make you vulnerable to disease, but also cause the idle immune system to attack you.
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  300.  @LedPESRule  yeah but the problem is that the scientific community can say we are overstating livestock GHG emissions but the powers that be don't give a fuck, you need to be eating bugs or going vegan, live in a pod, give up personal vehicles to save the climate. Most plastic in the ocean comes from industrial fishing nets and Asian but oh no, you gotta stop using straws and plastic bags. The real culprits tell you climate change is a big deal and then invest in oil companies while refusing to promote liquid fuel molten salt reactors which are much safer than conventional water reactors.
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  301.  @SclountDraxxer  okay, but the moment they do anything people start calling them terrorists and saying on twitter that the president needs to drone strike them. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
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  302.  @SclountDraxxer  "Grievances with government policy have proper channels....none of them being gun related." - and what happens when the channels are blocked off or biased against the people? You think the Black Panthers never thought of asking the government to step in when police was harassing and beating their people? "such as a president not leaving office or something" - and it has happened. Athens, Georgia in 1946. The Ludlow Massacre. Or even the countless police no-knock raids. There are many instances where one can't simply go through the proper channels and must fire at government troops in self-defense or else you die.
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  303. "they did recommend" - Recommendation isn't mandate. Correct. "mass gatherings that exceeded 500 people, which was later adjusted to 50 people" - That's not social distancing, that's prohibition of mass gatherings. Correct. All you have is the schools one. But honestly, I don't care you got one right when you had to blatantly LIE about the other two. None of us are opposed to being recommended to wear masks. We're opposed to mandates. Now the CDC director is saying the masks help against the flu and common cold. We'll be under mask mandate for the rest of our lives because people like you didn't speak up.
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  304.  @Mastario  Recommendation is not a mandate. Jimmy was correct. No, mass gatherings are mass gatherings. Social distancing is the forced/mandatory closure of all businesses that do not have the space to keep customers apart (aka small businesses). Ever seen the stickers they put on the floor when you're in line at the grocery store? When those stop being recommendations and become law, that's a social distancing standard. Where I live we had a period where people could walk their dogs, but only one person was allowed and you could not talk to other dog walkers. That's a social distancing standard. If companies are mandated by the government to do remote work against their will, that's a social distancing standard. The critics have boxes full of ammo and they've been firing for two years. We're riddled with bullets. You can try to limit their supply of ammo, or you can start spitting lead back. Your choice.
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  305.  @Mastario  "Social distancing is any measure that requires you to distance yourself from people" - That's just pointlessly broad. Social distancing is the bulk of measures meant to keep people apart when they must be together. Putting a cap on events that place too many people in the same venue, even if social distancing is observed, is not social distancing. You can have 50k people at an event and have social distancing. You just need a lot of free space. "why the hell lie" - Sorry, but businesses that could not have customers without breaking social distancing rules were closed. That's not a lie, it happened to many businesses around me.
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  306.  @tru_spartan_117  First of all, the vaccinated have been forced to wear masks indoors for months. So the claim that vaccinated workers would be able to be maskless doesn't even make sense. Second, if the employer is maintaining health standards, why are they exposing their workers to maskless guests? Seems like a breach in the standards. Third, there's nothing contrarian about pointing out that the "stars" get to show their face and "the help" has to be masked. Even at a conceptual level it makes sense, the workers are not famous and nobody cares about them so they don't need to show up on pictures. However, it flies in the face of the supposed health measures. You can't call people "contrarian" when you're clearly just defending the psychopathic behavior of the elites. You're the real contrarian here, and it's you who needs to touch grass instead of simping for AOC. She's not gonna see this, bro.
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  307.  @tonys32948376  Oh yeah, those 80 year olds with comorbidies that loooove the e-cigs.
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  308. That's not true, that's just the Hollywood "bully narrative". Oh the kid gets abused at home so he bullies others. No, some people are just mean. People who don't like gays aren't gay themselves. They were just raised to not like gay people.
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  309. Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Third time is enemy action.
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  310. They ordered a regroup? Why are there tons of equipment left behind?
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  311. A lot of obesity, heart disease, diabetes and lung cancer is preventable. Where's the mandates to deal with those people who take resources away from the community?
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  312. @Commie 1776 I take you have an unbiased opinion, Mr. Commie 1776.
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  313. Maybe stop ventilating people? The disease affects your hemoglobin and the blood vessel cells. Pumping extra air into the lung doesn't put more oxygen in the blood, it just stretches your lungs and damages the tissue. We learned this last year and hospitals are still killing people. Ventilation was supposed to have been changed for O2, even India built a ton of DIY oxygen generators to deal with the shortage of medicinal O2 bottles.
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  314.  @nuclearcatbaby1131  depends how "giving" them the data was worded. If you give something to the university, they're then free to sell it. Just like websites asking to gather your information - they only want it so they can sell it.
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  315.  @powderandpaint14  It happened in the Philippines with Dengvaxia.
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  316. No, it doesn't make sense. He wanted to pretend to be a good guy and now gets to be the bad guy because he's already got the votes. It is the same situation. No, stop saying you've "learned". You people have learned NOTHING. You're the one being disingenuous.
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  317.  @editthemadparts1913  but from what I understood those weren't coin tosses, right?
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  318.  @bluenami7520  "Capitalism is a system whereby profit dictates what happens." - destroying the crops gives absolutely no profit. It's a net loss.
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  319.  @bluenami7520  ""if you worked your butt off to become a top surgeon, would you be content to live in a small apartment and work for cheap?" I would." - You say that, but you wouldn't.
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  320.  @bluenami7520  "Hope for a profit is the only reason the crop exists. Farmers don't plant for the good of humanity, but to make profit." - Literally irrelevant. We're talking about the destruction of crops and you're blaming it on capitalism. Stay on topic or just tap out.
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  321.  @bluenami7520  "I'd be embarrassed to live extravagantly." - Who cares about extravagance? You wouldn't do surgeon work for a low wage. I had jobs I'd have stayed in if they paid more. But I will not put more effort and stress into something that doesn't offer a return. I've made horizontal moves where I ended up working less for more money. I have a limited time on this life so I'm getting the bang for the buck, or in this case the buck for the bang.
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  322.  @bluenami7520  Nobody's losing or winning. You're talking about irrelevant shit. Your claim was that the destruction was caused by profit, and you backed up the claim by saying that the creation was caused by profit. "The whole reason the crop exists is predicated on profit, which makes it an example of capitalism, whether it's dumped or not is irrelevant." - And then literally making it illegal to do business is not an example of capitalism. Which is why the dumping is irrelevant. "if there is no profit in harvesting, then the crop is dumped. Profit determines what happens (capitalism) and not the social good (socialism)." - Take a step back. In market socialism doing things at a loss still punishes the system and cannot be sustained for long. In a socialist country that's actually "state capitalism" the social good does not supersede trying to keep the economy on track. FDR, which by the way I'm not using as an example of socialism before you open your mouth with a tired excuse, destroyed food "for the social good". That happened. A government that "cared" about social good did what you're complaining about. Because FDR and his cronies were such fucking retards that they confused cause and effect and attempted to end the crisis by increasing prices. This meant destroying produce. While people were starving.
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  323.  @bluenami7520  "No, I wouldn't do it for a low wage" - Then it's settled.
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  324. Also look at the replication crisis and the "p-value ritual"/"p-value hacking".
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  325. Why? Shouldn't you want your side to behave? Or do you have an interest in your side playing dirty?
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  326. Youtube blocked my posts for like three days this week. It's them.
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  327. Putin looks at a binder full of compromising photos of American politicians and asks his GRU operatives "Wow, you entrapped all of these American politicians with our honeypots?" and they're like "N-no, we simply followed them after they called Epstein on the phone..."
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  328.  @Tim_the_Enchanter  I mean, the gender studies thing is totally believable. Depending on how much they get paid over there (which should be much less than in the US), the money for those programs can hire an army of university faculty. Whenever the US govt feels it's time for a regime change those uni professors are meant to rile up students so they can have a movement, and movement turns to revolution.
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  329. There was no QR codes or tracking apps. Also nobody cares. By mistake, my brother enrolled into college with my vaccination card and missed his tetanus booster because I had mine. Nobody checked, he just uploaded the document from the scanner and they accepted without reading that MY name was on it. There's a huge different and it should be easy to see it.
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  330.  @derecksimpson6964  We've reduced spread. It bounced back up. It's coming in waves. And animals have been found to carry it too. How do you eliminate it? A year of people welded inside their homes? Even China didn't eliminate it, they just started blaming other countries for bringing it back in.
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  331. They've been gaining ground for three months now.
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  332. The space wasn't empty. It was filled to the brim with weapons, ammo and armored vehicles. The Russians fled in panic. Lose 10.000 in the offensive? Where are the bodies?
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  333. And the rapist said the dress made him do it.
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  334. That's a ridiculous theory.
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  335. Bruh it's Russia that got bogged down in a grinder of a trench warfare fight, and Ukraine danced around the map to capture terrain easy peasy. Russia is essentially depopulating itself to capture terrain that Ukraine runs through in a week.
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  336.  @jhedrich  Russian MoD announced a complete withdrawal from Kharkiv Oblast.
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  337. If they want to do good, they have weapons and know the addresses of the people oppressing us. Until they stop following orders... road to hell is paved with good intentions.
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  338.  @BertoxolusThePuzzled  You cannot in good faith promote house ownership as an investment in a discussion about affordable housing. Home ownership is a good investment precisely because the scarcity drives prices up.
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  339.  @BertoxolusThePuzzled  You're giving financial advice, which isn't the point. This is about affordable housing. If you get that 50k trailer home but the people here in this thread get what they want, your trailer home will be 25k and you get stuck holding the bag. Trying to promote homeownership as an investment as one of the benefits of affordable housing is contradictory.
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  340. Jim Caviezel.
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  341. Do you have a death wish? When the stuff gets inside your cells to produce the protein, it forces the immune system to seek the hijacked cells and use lymphocytes to destroy them. We know the stuff doesn't all stay in the shoulder and it ends up on other organs (like ovaries, which is why some women had heavy periods after the shot). If it ends up in your heart, your immune system will start attacking the heart cells.
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  342.  El-ahrairah  Yang is a neo-libertarian?
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  343.  El-ahrairah  that's not libertarianism. Sorry, but his ideas require the use of state force which goes against libertarianism. Also, I'm pretty sure that Milton Friedman did not advocate for a UBI but a negative tax rate but I could be misremembering.
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  344.  El-ahrairah  That's not UBI. Without looking it up I am still pretty sure it was a negative income tax. It was not universal and it was not basic income. Friedman's idea is simply to get some free market traction is an inherently "unfree" government project. Yang's UBI is not a libertarian idea, it's an inherently anti-libertarian and progressive idea - the usage of taxation as a wealth-redistribution mechanism and the transformation of the state into a primary "caregiver" by giving people a basic income is anti-libertarian. It differs from an auth-leftist ideal of fully state controlled services but it is still a progressive idea. "a focus on personal wealth as a solution to all problems, is clearly a libertarian concept." - then you misunderstand libertarianism. Libertarianism is not about wealth. It's about rejecting the legitimacy of the state, the boiling down of state agency a simply the use of violence through armed enforcers (police, federal agencies, military) and how the government infringes on people's rights by injecting itself into voluntary transactions. Libertarian comes from "Liber", latin for "free". "Right, this is why libertarianism is a bit of a joke right?" - yeah, it's a joke. Because people have essentially been raised in an environment where they are taught that the government is good and justified in everything it does. And somehow, we have been convinced that government agency is benevolent even though ALL government is enforced at gunpoint.
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  345.  @hansreichhardtsohn4522  Wait, but didn't Assange deny Russian involvement in the e-mails?
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  346.  @ichraumauf5532  I'll be honest, it wore me down in 2020. In 2021? It gives me energy. They wanted a war? Big mistake.
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  347. Now Luhansk is threatened because of the loss of Kharkiv. No Kupiansk rail hub, Severodonetsk is threatened. It's a major victory. Luhansk will fall as a result of this offensive.
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  348. If you want 20-20kHz of bandwidth (human hearing range), you need a sampling rate twice of the max frequency. He's a dummy thinking that humans can hear over 20kHz, especially since we lose hearing range over time (and why in the 2000s ringtone companies marketed "teens only" tones for cellphones).
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  349.  @throeawae2130  Thanks for yet again proving you have nothing to offer but name calling.
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  350.  @throeawae2130  He told you everything you needed to know. Asking for a direct link to source is downright pedantic when you can simply look it up yourself and make up your own damned mind. Are you interested? You don't need a link because you'll find what you need. Requesting a fully formatted citation is just trying to win on a technicality. You wouldn't read it if you were provided one.
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  351. ​ @throeawae2130  He gave you exactly what you needed but doing legwork apparently is consdered bootlicking these days.
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  352. It's just like that saying "when you're in power I ask for freedom because it's according to my principles, when I'm in power I deny you freedom because it's according to my principles". When Michael Moore was just some lib punching up at the conservative establishment he was all like "fight the power!", now he's punching down at us peasants now that he's at the top.
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  353. Russia hit everything in the 24th of February. They did the shock and awe thing of launching massive volleys of cruise and ballistic missiles. They didn't want to save anything.
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  354.  @ARCSTREAMS  So it was Russia's plan to get VDV, Spetsnaz, Rovsgardia and OMON/SOBR units slaughtered as a diversion tactic? The capital is never left undefended. The tactic didn't work. They'd stay there no matter what.
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  355. Mobilization would cause the Russian government to collapse.
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  356.  @kennethmcneil3478  I wrote a reply but it seems to have been deleted.
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  357.  @alskywell  If you didn't get my reply, essentially mobilization will cause discontent among the population that's tuning out of TV because they're stick of the war.
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  358. The same way that the rich get no benefit from earning a UBI, the poorer will be disproportionately affected by having to pay an additional VAT. Simply making it "equal" doesn't make it progressive.
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  359. They defeated Russian Rovsgardia and SOBR units there. The winter didn't favor Russia in Ukraine 2022 or Finland in the 1940s. Winter has crippled Russia when they were the invaders. The Chechens cry when they face combat. They are used to threaten Russian units who want to retreat.
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  360. So Russia just left the rail hub? They depended on it for supplies from the North. Now the entire Eastern front is under threat, and with it falls the Souther front too. The Russian "sympathizers" are sabotage units and artillery spotters. Collaborators, who had locals shot.
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  361.  @Supernautiloid  I think it's a little disingenuous to claim foreign countries are sovereign but then say the US needs to go back to the Paris accords.
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  362.  @Supernautiloid  There is an inconsistency. You can't say the US should abide by international accords but then say China has the right to not enter them. It's still better than saying that genocide is okay because they have a different culture, but only barely.
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  363.  @Supernautiloid  You can't use authoritarian force to compel me to obey international accords, then. I'm clearly making a reference to Biden's answer. I'm going to be generous and assume you're just gaming this discussion, rather than actually being that ignorant.
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  364.  @Supernautiloid  If the US has to obey international accords, then so do its people.
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  365.  @Supernautiloid  So that a country can obey an international accord, the country passes laws that control behavior of the collective. And the individual is punished. I can't believe I have to explain this.
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  366.  @Supernautiloid  You said authoritarian force is wrong. The question you've asked is useless, because no matter my answer the law is enforced through authoritarian force. So why should the US follow the Paris Accords if you're against actually enforcing the damn thing?
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  367.  @Supernautiloid  "Not all forms of force are unjust or immoral" - Then why is it moral to use force against American citizens but not China? "ALL laws are forms of individual punishment" - When someone commits murder do we all go to jail? No. They're not collective punishment, by default making them individual punishment. "it's own citizens following it's own laws" - You and I don't pick the laws. Don't give me that crap. Do we want to go down this road and start finding which laws you don't like? Because I'll have you say you love authoritarian force being used against people that don't deserve it. "I am AGAINST using force to compel OTHER countries to follow the agreement since we have no right to dictate what other countries do" - And you don't have the right to dictate to me what to do either. That's beside the point, but I'm glad you're leaving that out in the open. Oh look at me, I'm so moral because arbitrary lines drawn in a map stop me from using force against others, but I'll use force on my own people. Jesus, read your own posts. Either way, the accords are essentially undemocratic. We didn't vote on the content of those accords. Don't even try to BS me. It's not your law, it's not my law. It's not ours. It's an international agreement, done by a select few elites out of each country. Should we comb through the list of international agreements until we find one you don't agree with? Because I'll force you to say you love it. You tell me the muddy water is coffee, I will have to see you drink it. Without making a funny face.
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  368.  @Supernautiloid  Jesus Christ you people love making discussions harder to respond to. You didn't explain anything and in fact just contradicted yourself. You can't control me in my own home? Then exit the Paris accords. It makes no sense to argue that you can't control other people, but then defend an international agreement. The accords will punish people individually because states will have to create laws to deal with people preventing the goals from being met. And individuals do get punished through collective punishment. If an entire class is held in a classroom during recess as a form of collective punishment, the individual student is still being punished. You've just exposed yourself as someone willing to be obtuse and then end up being wrong anyway. Well done. Okay. Name the laws that go against your moral compass. Oh, so I have the right to vote against your personal liberties? You're just defending a system that chips away at our personal liberties. The contents of the Paris accords were not voted on by the people. People could have voted for Biden for a myriad reasons that were unrelated to the Paris accords but that's lumped into the deal anyway. Okay. Then start. Find out what? Your logic is that the Paris accords are righteous because they were voted on. My challenge is to have you name all the international agreements you don't like, and you come here to talk about them but you're forced to say it's okay for authoritarian force to be used against the people.
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  369. Not really, conservatism is very different here in Europe.
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  370.  @nikpatel007  But UK conservatives are cucks more similar to Clintonite Democrats than Republicans. Also, apartheid regimes were wrong but they were receiving a lot of support because the liberation movements were Marxist-Leninist or Maoist in nature. So it's more complex than people simply supporting South Africa and Rhodesia because "ahahah racism good".
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  371. Oh no, a guy who clearly acted in legitimate se-defense and committed no crime walked free. The injustice! We need to imprison people because of our feelings rather than actual law!
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  372. When the requirements change out of a sudden how is that fair? I hope you face an ultimatum so that you get to see how it feels when it's about you being forced into sonething you don't want.
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  373.  @TietCanhVit  You're still using the same excuses? Highly vaxx'd countries have their ICUs filled with vaxx'd patients. Want to prevent staff from being burdened by coof cases? Actually treat the disease rather than let people get critical and then administer antivirals by the time the body is dying from the damage and there's almost no virus left.
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  374.  @lykos89  "You don't put yourself in the path of violence" - So don't live in poor areas? Don't walk at night? Don't go to gas stations or convenience stores? Don't go to the bus station? Don't go on that underpass? "equipped with the capacity to commit violence" - I'm always equipped with that capacity. Doesn't mean I want to.
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  375. ​ @l.w.paradis2108  "be hired as armed guards of property during civil unrest" - there was no hiring process.
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  376.  @l.w.paradis2108  "why do you think Rittenhouse was indicted?" - This is an extremely funny question. Nobody wanted to actually prosecute Zimmerman until public pressure forced it. While you create a strawman you ignore that prosecution isn't purely objective. Sometimes you want to make an example out of someone. Sometimes you may not want to ruin your statistics with a failure to convict someone but public pressure forces you to. "I suggest you find out when self-defense legally applies." - I've said this about 5 times now. Bernie Goetz bought a gun, brought it illegally into NYC, carried it illegally in NYC, and walked on the homicide charges because it was self-defense. He served 8 months over the gun. But self-defense still applied.
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  377.  @l.w.paradis2108  "In the first altercation, R used his firearm recklessly. After that, he cannot assert self-defense" - Did you write that law? Buddy, you're looking for the thinnest straw to grasp. No, you won't get your magic obscure loophole that automatically grants you victory. "he cannot assert self-defense when others who saw what he did attempted to disarm hi" - Watch. "the prosecution's legal theory is solid" - Solid as pudding. "Obvious you did no research." - Obviously you have no argument. If you have nothing to say, don't post at all. If you want to be right you have to work for it.
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  378.  @l.w.paradis2108  I never called anyone any names.
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  379.  @l.w.paradis2108  I'm sorry you don't know that a theory of a case isn't the law. Zimmerman's prosecution was also a complete clustertruck and his defense failed to dismiss the charges.
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  380.  @l.w.paradis2108  "A theory of the case is not "law" but it must be based on the law" - You can base whatever you want on the law, and still be wrong. Otherwise there would be no "not guilty" verdicts. "It would have already been dismissed" - Zimmerman's case was not dismissed either. He walked. "and reason to believe that the FACTS show the law(s) was (were) violated by the accused" - Again, we only have to look at Zimmerman's case. He wasn't supposed to be charged. He had to be due to public pressure. "This is just sad." - Says the person who thinks charges not being dismissed equals conviction.
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  381.  @l.w.paradis2108  "A "not guilty" verdict doesn't mean the prosecutor was "wrong." It means he failed to prove his case." - Same thing. If you can't prove something you're considered wrong by default. Come back an prove it, and you'll be right. "If there were no way to prove the case, then it shouldn't be brought." - There was no way to prove second degree murder in Zimmerman's case either, and they still pressed on. And lost.
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  382. Hospitalization rates are low. Oh no, such a large impact, 95% of them sleeping it off at home and 4% having their stay last under a day or two. Your brother received improper care for profit. I'm unvaxxed. I had mild symptoms for a day. My brother is vaxxed. He was sick for three days. Here's the comeback, your anecdote is countered by thousands of anecdotes. Even the worst strain didn't send 10% of people to the hospital. Most people didn't even notice they had it.
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  383. Pretty much. 6-4 months is how long the effects last for most people.
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  384.  I Coroa  Where do these notes come from? Who has the legitimate claim to the resources? These "desert island full of coconuts" analogies are not very realistic.
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  385.  @coolioso808  "Capitalism isn't some force that existed before humans were around" - Buddy, the tiger needs to consume a surplus of energy, the caloric intake after a hunt has to be greater than the energy expended. That's profit right there. Even plants need "profit". "Maybe they were before the industrial revolution, but for years now, science and math based algorithms" - Okay now that's just a cope. You want life to be managed by "science" and "algorithms"?
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  386.  I Coroa  Money is simply a token of exchange. Yes, it has no intrinsic value (really, nothing has intrinsic value if you go deep enough) because it's important that money can't be used for anything other than exchange, or else the use case would be eating into your ability to do trade. You are not required to have money to have shelter, at least until the government introduced property tax. I wish folks like you would just admit they support outright slavery. You do not have a birthright claim to what others have produced. Yes, Mother Earth exists, and you'd be hard pressed to survive off Mother Earth considering how detached we are from natural order. You think working for a wage is bad? Mother Earth is a cruel mistress who enslaved you to hunger, the cold, etc. and it's you who has to work to take from Mother Earth what you need to survive the hardship it put you through. So don't give me crap about you'd rather live off Mother Earth because you'd perish within the week.
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  387.  @coolioso808  Science is simply an observational method to understand the world around us. Human algorithms can never be natural. Basic survival always means earning more than you're losing. It's all profit the way down. The point at which you're not profiting from activity, you start the process of dying. Your scientific and algorithmic resource distribution would be bound to make massive mistakes, like they always have. You people want to place all your eggs in one basket and you'll kill hundreds of millions with your hubris.
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  388.  I Coroa  "Living in tropical climate with food forest is EASY and FREE" - And you're paying for internet to come tell me that? Just go live your life. "Stupid man thinks he must live in harsh climate not designed for him" - Buddy I happen to live close to the tropics but my ancestors come from central Europe. There's harsh climate there. People wore pelts.
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  389.  @coolioso808  "You have an unfortunately flawed understanding of how science and mathematics work. A resource-based economy that is monitored and informed by science" - Buddy, archeologists and biologists have been fooled by fossils because they couldn't tell which side of the animal had legs and which side had spikes on the vertebrae. Science is a process of elimination, and it can be wrong because we drove ourselves into being wrong through false assumptions. "would not be present because the incentives are different" - Nonsense. The incentives are always present. "In a resource-based economy, it is designed to meet all people's needs first and foremost without labor-for-income or slavery." - This is a huge contradiction. If people's needs are met without the requirement of labor, where do the resources come from? Hence you inevitably will need to impose slavery to keep the machine ticking. "you think it would kill millions of people when the expressed purpose is to provide all humans with basic needs" - Because it has been tried. The use of force to keep the system in charge killed millions. The ignorance of the central planners left many without resources and killed million. "Let's use the proven scientific process to figure it out." - This is a joke, right? The scientific process created stuff that doesn't work. The scientific process created stuff that ended up being harmful. You somehow think that science's sh!t don't stink and that no mistakes are made. The process is proven. The results aren't. "yes, of course, in a resource-based economy some mistakes will be made" - And like Lord Farquaard from Shrek said, some of you may die but that's a sacrifice I'm willing to make. "no NEED for politicians" - Hold on. So who gets to be in charge of resources? Who enforces is?
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  390.  I Coroa  You're still here instead of living in nature.
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  391.  @coolioso808  "Of course science is a process. That's why I literally said, we should use the "scientific process" for resource management." - So your process will be wrong and inevitably proven wrong. Thanks for admitting it. "Sure incentives are always present." - Thanks for admitting it. "what would be the incentive" - Clearly you don't understand humans. Tons of crime is committed without the purpose of meeting any needs. "I just suggest it is not a requirement of living" - And like Bill DeBlasio said the voluntary period has expired. It starts with a suggestion, then it becomes mandatory. "Who is in charge of the resources? Basically Mother Nature. As she has always been." - So you have no enforcement and everything's ripe for the taking. I give it two weeks before everything's on fire. "which removes most of the corrupting factors" - This has to be a joke. "public database that then uses scientific and mathematical algorithms (not rocket science) to determine what resources to best use" - Tell me you don't understand science and algorithms without telling me you don't understand science and algorithms. Are you out of your mind? "You and I could access this just like we go onto an online custom T-shirt store and browse for options" - But the t-shirt store charges money. They handle their resources by getting our resources in exchange. If nobody was paying and just putting orders the shop would have no idea how to prioritize the resources. "defeatist attitude" - And you have a la-la-la-land attitude. Who's going to solve things? Science! Who's going to make decisions? Computers! It's just like an online store.
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  392.  I Coroa  Nice cope. I haven't seen any of you people use guns for anything in... decades? To be fair I wasn't expecting eco-terrorists kicking off the civil war in my apocalypse bingo card, but if that's the way we go right on brother.
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  393.  @coolioso808  Christ please stop posting novels. "This not MY process, this is the scientific process" - Don't deny responsibility now. "many positive, collaborative, healthy incentives" - Unsubstanciated. "In a more egalitarian system, there would be much less influence and reasons to commit crime" - This is disproven by history. Human living was much more violent back when it was more egalitarian. "not everything's ripe for the taking, all resources are inventoried" - And who enforces it? "An efficient system would have the resources available to produce a product, like a t-shirt, as locally available as possible, and able to use advanced automated machines, like 3D printers, to produce most items on demand" - And how would you know how much filament is needed for the 3d printer? "Again, in the US alone, 40% of all food is wasted" - That's even more insane. So now you're going to predict demand 6 months in advance?
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  394.  @coolioso808  The scientific process also surgically removed the vocal cords from beagles to study the effects of sand flies. The best tool gets misused all the time. You do know that animals have a limit to those groups, right? Do not make an appeal to nature by bringing up the other primates, because we do not live in nature anymore. Who are these scientists? Who gave them the power? Are scientists armed? Can they get fired? Buddy, the printer "knowing" more filament is needed doesn't do shit when there's 3 tons of filament in goddamn Alaska and zero filament in Florida because your fancy algorithm couldn't predict which place would need it and which place was overstocked. No, you can't predict it. The time lag between planting a crop and the produce being sent to shelves makes it nearly impossible. You can't go run to the farm, plant a tree and get more fruit in the next day. By the time you know there is a shortage, you're already several months too late to correct it. And if you correct it, you might actually overproduce because demand could drop in the next few months. This is the problem with you people. You think a sensor going off in a 3d printer will somehow make a factory in China get an extra filament roll on a ship that's going to dock near your city in 5 minutes. You are completely oblivious to all the gears that need to mesh together and turn to keep the world running, and you think this can be fixed with a sensor.
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  395.  @coolioso808  "Sensors detecting when resource refills are needed isn't impossible by any stretch" - Sure. The issue is that the sensor detects what you need now, but many things require months to create. Okay, you could localize production. But it would be insane to localize chip manufacturing everywhere. We have fabs in Taiwan, China, Europe, the US, Israel. Those are the big ones. Every country having their own fab would be wasteful in its own way. It's all redundant manufacturing.
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  396. Ah yes and then the citizens said the Russians executed their relatives on the way out just for fun.
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  397. They retreated from Kiev because Russian dead bodies littered the streets. Now they fled and got shot in the back.
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  398.  @joannesavage3709  They did that on day one. They started with a massive volley of ballistic and cruise missiles to cripple infrastructure.
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  399. That territory had the rail hubs connecting to Severodonetsk. If Russia wasn't trying to defend the territory, they exposed themselves.
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  400. I mean if I published Australian government secrets and I was in a country that had an extradition treaty with Australia, they'd get their paws on me too.
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  401.  @shawn6561  "Who are you going to replace the establishment with? People that do not have a clue what they are doing? The hell is that going to solve? Not a damn thing." - If the people in charge are too incompetent, they're less capable of going after you. Do you want an efficient and intelligent government in charge of oppressing you? No. I want politicians dumb and cops fat.
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  402. China had rolling lockdowns on a city by city basis. From the outside it looks like they're business as usual but they stagger which parts of the country have ground to a halt, instead of stopping the entire country at once.
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  403.  @YellowKing1986  "US military would recognize a drone with no problem" - except the ones they don't want you to know about.
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  404.  @johnedward8352  do you think all pilots are given flash cards to recognize projects they're not even supposed to know about?
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  405.  @johnedward8352  last year either Sikorsky or Pratt & Whitney forgot to put one of their RCS measuring models in the hangar and accidentally exposed a hypersonic aircraft project on Google Earth despite of the fact that these people know when satellites pass overhead. Sometimes you can't keep things hidden, other times you allow just a little to be uncovered.
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  406.  @YellowKing1986  "They don’t want you to know about it? So why did they just told you about it?" - they didn't say shit. If they were to open up they'd just release the model number, top speed, max altitude, etc. All they said is that they're unidentified. AKA they know exactly what it is but won't identify them.
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  407. That's a very original and independed thought, you definitely didn't learn that talking point from CNN.
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  408.  angizoink  what conspiracy theory? All the articles describe him as the pro-gun survivor.
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  409.  @philcorris5899  If Russia isn't hurting economically, why do they beg for sanctions relief? Russia makes their arms but so does Ukraine. Most of the Russian population doesn't want their sons to die in Ukraine.
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  410.  @kennethmcneil3478  Proof is real life. If Russia doesn't mind the sanctions, why do they resort to blackmail?
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  411.  @philcorris5899  How can Russia outwait the Europeans? Their army is unravelling right now, their best troops are trapped in Kherson with no way out, Ukraine succeeded even before external help arrived. Europe isn't that cold. Yes joke.
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  412. Wow, the enforcers of state violence are diverse. Truly the leftist ideal.
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  413. Wow the enforcers of state violence are diverse. Truly a leftist ideal.
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  414. 10.000 km2. Get it right.
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  415.  @miniman2132  You people promised the second coming of Christ to the masses, and now that you have to walk back the claims you're mad that the people don't "understand".
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  416. The rail hub at Kupiansk, a very important logistics artery for Russian forces in the East.
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  417.  Eric Van  That's for nerve gas, though. Chlorine, phosgene, etc. affect the lungs.
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  418. We test stuff on mice. In fact this whole ordeal started due to humanized mice.
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  419.  @XJon2011  So Russia is succeeding by making more Ukrainians side with the nah-tzees? The Ukrainian landscape now has millions of inhabitants who hate Russia with a passion. Hurting Ukraine will create more nah-tzees. If they wanted to denazify Ukraine.... they should have left it alone.
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  420. Murder also requires malice and premeditation. You can't premeditate an attack, and it's not malicious to use force against people in a fight. Your final sentence clearly shows you have no clue about the legal system. There's plenty of ways one can ne at fault for his/her own fear, and still be allowed to use lethal force.
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  421.  @sikaifu5509  The weapons charge was dropped. If a robber retreats from the household and the homeowner gives chase and attacks him, the robber is authorized to use the minimal force necessary to escape. Kyle isn't a robber. If you end up starting a fight, but you do your due diligence to escape and the fight resumes, you can resort to self-defense.
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  422. If you get a degree you'll have negative wealth. That's your debt. You need to start paying it off. If your small town needs help, who exactly is living there who can afford to pay you enough for you to settle that debt? Unless there's a really cheap business opportunity that requires the knowledge of a degree (which you can get for essentially "free" because almost every book is online) you can't just get The Degree™, built The Factory™ and give the people The Jobs™.
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  423.  @discowolf25  Are you asking that because of my profile picture? That's just a surplus helmet I have. I'm not even American.
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  424. @Commie 1776 "we must live and act according to the laws of the world in which we currently live." - not really.
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  425. Scott Ritter has been wrong the whole time, and he is also a child predator.
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  426.  @vogonjelc  Hey the drugs that prevent hospitalization are pretty cheap. They should have factored those in instead of just following the playbook.
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  427.  @vogonjelc  I don't see what communism has anything to do with this. Cheap medicine is made by capitalists. Expensive medicine is being bought by government while the cheap is banned. This isn't capitalism, it's a prohibition on free trade.
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  428.  @vincentsnow8436  Funny, because anyone who worried about the second and third order effects was accused of being self-centered.
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  429. It was a strategic master stroke. Seizure of the northern rail lines undoes the Russian defenses.
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  430. I heard through the grapevine that if the full dose was given at once the side effects were massive. So they space out the two shots to minimize the immune response.
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  431.  @lvirag8401  You're just parroting talking points. How are breakthroughs rare when they're at near parity, if not overtaking, unvaccinated cases?
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  432.  @lvirag8401  You have not cited any sources so you have no business asking for anything. Either way, just look at other countries.
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  433.  @lvirag8401  You're the one with no receipts. Thanks for playing, bucko. I got the receipts. Covid-19 vaccine surveillance report - week 36 by Public Health England. Page 20. Roughly 98% of the UK population has antibodies either through infection or vaccination. With around 52M people above the age of 18 in the UK, that's an estimated 1M adults with no antibodies. Table 4. Over a 4 week period 113,846 unvaccinated people had Covid-19 cases. That's 11% of the unvaccinated population. With the report essentially confirming a 99.5% recovery rate, every week 30k people move from the unvaccinated to the naturally immune. The unvaccinated are an ever shrinking target. Wrap your head around those numbers.
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  434.  @S.M.E.A.C  The population also increased meaning that gun ownership rates are down, and the types available are not very suitable. There's no propaganda, the Australian government banned a Turkish shotgun because it was a lever action configured in the shape of a pump action. Come on.
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  435. They do cross the blood brain barrier. Let's hope they don't unfold and become prions.
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  436. How does it make sense? The vaccination should have broken the chains of transmission and generated the fabled herd immunity.
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  437. It amounts to more land than Russia can capture in three months.
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  438. "no losses" tons of POWs and dead
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  439.  @mikemorrison270  don't ask questions, just take vaccine and get excited for ext vaccine
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  440. The French resistance accomplished very little. Not only were many groups former criminals or politically motivated goons amassing weapons for future conflicts, those willing to do real work were often scared to do anything due to reprisals so they waited for British agents to give them the green light. Want a real resistance? Wendell Fertig's leadership in the Philippines against the Japanese.
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  441.  @morrnmanderson7376  The difference is that Gill Bates has not been too involved in Microsoft in years, but he finances and spearheads a ton of organizations that work directly with "the product". If you want to know more about Windows, talk to Microsft software engineer.
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  442. ​ @edgarbm6407  Wasn't that the Azerbaijani president?
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  443. In many countries there's conscription service. The US has a full volunteer armed forces. Unless there's a draft.
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  444.  @shootingbricks8554  Kind of the other way around. Effectiveness of the booster is said to be 10-14 weeks, so getting one per year only gives you a short lived protection. You could make the deliberate decision to get it expecting the winter peak, but nothing guarantees you won't get it during spring. So if you're just going to get one a year, you might as well not jump into the carousel. Either way, until the Omicron specific shot comes out, all boosters are woefully outdated because they're meant for the Wuhan variant from 2019.
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  445.  @Doppe1ganger  "Because they can" - That's not an explanation. "pure free market capitalism allows the big guy to unfairly stomp on the little guy" - Our current situation allows that. "It allows for politics to be bribed" - No, that's our current situation. In a free market economy there's no politicians to bribe because the market is free from political interference. Bribing politicians wouldn't do anything. "What do you mean "why do it?" Stupid question." - No, it's not stupid because it's a logical hole in your theory.
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  446.  @Doppe1ganger  Your entire argument is that free markets punish the little guy. But we see monopolies punishing the little guy with regulation. If what you said was true, the monopolies would open the market. But they restrict competition. So you're lying. "What do you mean "our curent situation allows that"" - Our current situation crushes competition and politicians are bribed. Are you denying this? "Why would there not be politicians in a free market economy?" - No politicians controlling the markets. Please learn to read. "If it's beneficial for the big dog to create a political system to enact policies for them, why would free market economics not do that?" - Because then the market isn't free. Duh? "A perfect slave. " - lol
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  447. Most serious side effects happen in the second shot. If it was lack of aspiration, you'd see equal distribution. Obviously injecting it into the bloodstream makes it worse. But it's bad even if administered correctly.
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  448.  @Nick-ce6lt  That's our word. But you can say "clam digga".
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  449. The only thing worse than a cop is a smart cop. I prefer not to handicap myself.
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  450.  @Yodalemos  Why? Cops are fighting us. Why would you want them to be smart? I want them to be easily outwitted.
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  451.  @VeeraBun  "I had moral convictions but then I decided to genocide people based on ethnicity" - people without a spine
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  452. Of course. Tim Cook would never do an iPhone reveal where he'd say Android phones are better.
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  453.  @JohnnyAmerique  That doesn't address the argument. Are you saying they'll stop here or not?
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  454. The data didn't change, they just finally had to admit the data said what it said. Politicians aren't changing their opinions because of data, but because of political reasons.
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  455. Not in Germany or Austria. Portugal is dragging their feet. Greece has a mandate for the elderly. Haven't heard about France lately.
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  456.  @jayellis6774  If you pay for a house renovation and the construction team crashes their van into my house, it's still their responsibility even though you paid them to come.
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  457. This isn't about caring for others because you can still spread. If anything, if you don't take it you get tested, stay home and minimize exposure for others. If you take it, you'll be spreading without even noticing.
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  458. Every victory has been Pyrrhic for Russia so far.
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  459. And yesterday a breakthrough was reported.
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  460. Also, half the people hospitalized didn't have the coof. They were hospitalized for something else and were forced to take a test.
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  461. All of that is meaningless to the case. There's no "need" to bear arms, there's a "right". The Army has extensive training and accreditation? Do not make me laugh. Stop watching movies. You're not accredited for anything, and training time is scarce.
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  462. Yeah and Nazi Germany could do that because they saved a lot of money paying arms manufacturers in debt bills they had no intention of paying, and when the walls were closing in Hitler was forced to use conquest to pay the bills. Nazis created an economic bubble. They were fucking retarded.
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  463.  @keto3883  What you're saying doesn't even make sense, please write with better grammar. Doesn't change the fact that Germany was forced into the war too soon (it was mathematically impossible to win because Germany didn't have enough oil), they were economically retarded, drove the economy into a bubble so serious it would bankrupt the country back to Wiemar levels, they did things like taking the money for the Volkswagen but none of the people who completed the payments received their cars because they used the money and factory to make military vehicles, and the only thing that prevented the bankruptcy was stealing from the Austrian, Czech and Polish banks.
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  464.  @keto3883  "there so many assumptions needed for a calculation in the first place" - You can just look at the end result - Germany had chronic oil shortages. The battle plan was for the Nazis to take over oil fields to be able to continue the war. They failed, because the Soviets sabotaged the equipment and Germany did not hold the territory long enough to get a single barrel of oil. "maybe my history lesson was wrong but it worked pretty well for the germans" - Actually the Germans lost so many infantry troops to attrition that they had to take troops from non-combat roles and put them in infantry while drafting more men for the non-combat jobs. Meanwhile the Soviets were getting fresh replacements of men thanks to American trucks. Lend-Lease, babey. "you can t know if more preperation would have worked better or not." - You can't because Nazis are economically retarded and were forced into starting the war to be able to pay off debt. "assuming the goal was war after they start building weapons makes no sense ..... sure sure." - Your English is just hard to understand because of run on sentences. The point is that the German government racked impressible debt with their massive government spending. The end goal of the rearmament is completely irrelevant. Nazi Germany was just some guy who got into so much debt he had to steal from his neighbor to stay afloat.
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  465. What did a crowd of criminals think was going to happen by chasing and assaulting a kid?
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  466. This might just be me being out of the loop, but in Europe nobody talks about that treatment.
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  467. The problem is that a decision to make the shots less painful for infants - who shouldn't be getting this particular shot anyway - when given under normal conditions has no bearing on what's being done. It seems anyone with a pulse was giving them out, and they were rushing. I don't like to gamble and we know an improperly administration can F you up.
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  468. But as we've seen, the vaccine won't help. Cases rise, lockdowns commence again.
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  469.  momentinpassing  "And if you believe they "lost" the plans for the Apollo missions" - They did. NASA subcontracted many companies to make the rockets, the companies no longer exist, many design changes were made by hand and the skilled workers responsible it have died.
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  470.  momentinpassing  Dunno what that means. If you think you can reverse engineer a bunch of rockets that have rusted why don't you volunteer to do it? And prove NASA wrong?
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  471.  momentinpassing  What simple truths? You speak of some grand truth and yet you refuse to say anything about what you believe in. You just insult people for not believing the same bullshit as you.
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  472. ​ @antediluvianatheist5262  "You don't get to tax people in your house." - You get to, if you have a roommate paying rent. "if you write '10 dollars' and borrow it off yourself, who do you owe it to?" - But those 10 dollars are absolutely worthless unless everyone else thinks it's worth something.
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  473. The long term damage is caused by no treatment. A panicked reaction. Boo hoo. If the people in charge are panicking they can quit. Supposedly we put them in charge to prevent exactly that, if they're no better than the madness of crowds they don't deserve the job. And you betray your true colors at the end. Eugenicists to the bitter end, the whole lot of you.
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  474. Facebook is DARPA LifeLog.
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  475. How did they produce casualties while fleeing and leaving all their weapons behind? Conserving forces? They're getting slaughtered in Ukraine. Russia is effectively demilitarizing itself.
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  476.  @thinkhector  The founding fathers did not invent democracy, and other British colonies are now democracies so that argument doesn't even work. Either way, this isn't about "accomplishments" but a quote regarding a moral judgement. He had no moral high horse. The painting of Keynes as some kind of anti-capitalist is laughable at best. Leftists criticized him for being a capitalist. So no matter what the quote doesn't work.
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  477. Merriam-Webster also changed the definition of "sexual preference" to offensive slur after Amy Barrett used that term. I don't think that overnight millions of people forced the dictionary's hand by starting to use the term as a slur.
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  478. It's strategic. Russia just lost the rail supply lines from the north.
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  479.  @postpunkfunk8009  You had from January 2017 to January 5th 2021 to do something. You could have showed up a day earlier.
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  480. The bigger the gun the less they're used in homicide. Most people killed in firearms homicide were shot by handguns. It's popular with EVERYONE. It's one of the most widely produced weapons. If you want an equivalent but with a different configuration, you'll be paying more for less quality. They can be had for as little as 450 dollars when the prices are low, and some have managed to build ultra-budget variants with 260 dollars by ordering iffy Chinese made parts and taking advantage of sales. How is an AR going to "draw attention" when it's the most common rifle manufactured and sold in the past two decades?
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  481. You're far more controversial for doubting the spike than the moon landing.
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  482. The experts contradict the findings to reassure you that you still need their product. Funny. "If" one lives through. Okay, below what age, I think it's 65 or 70, you have the same chances of surviving as a flu. Do you ever say the words "if you live through the flu"? No. Good, there should be hesitancy. Almost everyone who really needs it got it right in the first few months it was available. This stuff is CAUSING medical conditions on people who didn't have them. Didn't have an underlying condition before? Roll the dice and you may get one.
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  483. "if he & others followed early on, could have prevented the need for vaccines"/"they are who got us to the point of vaccines" - I'm going to have to ask you to stop. The point of the masks wasn't eradicating spread. It was limiting spread. Go back to March 2020. Everyone was going to get it. Just not at the same time. That was the narrative. Hence flattening the curve. Do you remember how people would explain the curve to you 50 times a day? It was unbearable. The area under the curve is the same. It's just spread out longer. We had like 3 curves flattened by the time the shots were made available. Nobody "got us" to any point. The point was set. Did you know that serological tests show that there's blood in Italian blood banks that was drawn in late 2019 that had antibodies for the stuff? We had months where we weren't wearing any masks and it was spreading. Then the authorities said masks didn't work. That's another month or whatever. So you can't blame Clapton.
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  484.  @Poochipup  False. SARS 1 was a MUCH WORSE disease which like Ebola allows the sick to be quarantined and the spread to be contained. SARS CoV 2 on the other hand has very mild symptoms for a big percentage of people who come down with it. The data says you're wrong. It was already over the world in late 2019. Masks didn't stop it. 320 people in an apartment block became infected because fecal matter was sucked out of a faulty sewage system. If tiny particles can get into a ventilation system and infect people in their own homes you think masks stop it? By April 2003 only 3,300 people had been infected by SARS. The spread was much slower. It's you who doesn't know history.
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  485.  @Poochipup  It was stopped due to it being a more serious disease with lower contagion. It was stopped because it was noticed early. SARS CoV 2 was already all over the world by the time authorities were still denying human to human transmission. It's you who needs to get real. If it was even more infectious than SARS CoV 2 then how come the Chinese authorities had reported 30 thousand cases a month into this BS, while the first SARS got 10x less infections? If Asians knew how to control disease, then how come China had to lock Hubei province and in the hotspots weld people into their homes? Have empty streets pressure washed with disinfectant? Clearly they couldn't pull off the same tactics as SARS. They were much more desperate. Desperation isn't an indication of knowing what you're doing. They took lockdowns and quarantines so seriously, they allowed flights out of Hubei province despite closing it off from the rest of the country. Seems like the CCP wanted the precious liberties of infecting the world. Clapton's short sightedness? But the Chinese also vaccinate. By your logic they're Asian and they know how to defeat SARS. How come they failed? They need the vaccine. You're contradicting yourself. You don't want to hear more because you know you've been defeated and you've embarrassed yourself with contradictions.
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  486. So insurers get to charge less to people shedding the stuff onto others? So private venues should be able to risk the people inside their venue by having untested people shed onto others? Nothing about this is sound. This is a mess. Pharma companies delivered half baked goods and charged BILLIONS for it. Tell them to F off and make something that actually works. Then we can have that conversation.
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  487.  @justinshin2279  You embody what everyone hates about libs. So basically we have a world where healthy people who have a low likelihood of having complications pay more insurance than the obese who took a shot that's going to wear off in 6-8 months and are going to be much more costly for the next three decades, where a venue owner can demand an experimental treatment not to mitigate actual risk but just liability because he doesn't give less of a damn if he's hosting superspreader events (but he won't just make people sign a waiver), and products made by people who I quote "are not our friends" should be imposed on people by threatening their free travel, their job, etc.
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  488.  @justinshin2279  "if it were up to me" - It's not up to you. We're working off what we have, not what you want. "I think their right to do so is plainly enshrined in the Constitution" - And venue owners should also be allowed to not discriminate for the same reasons. "For instance, I have to purchase a ticket to see a football game." - This is a ridiculous example and you know it. "I have to be SCUBA certified to go on a dive" - If you go on a dive without knowing how, you die. If you go into a venue you have a lower than 100% chance of being exposed, if exposed a lower than 100% chance of getting infected, and if infected a greater than 80% chance of not even feeling symptoms. The venue owner cannot ensure safety through vaccination. The logic simply does not support your case, unless this is about a circular exercise in ass covering. "By the way, some venues are only allowing UNvaccinated people to enter" - This clearly falls outside of the mandates and those businesses are exposing themselves to fines or closures. "it's perfectly lawful" - Only in the states that have decided to stop giving a damn. As it stands, plenty of business are ignoring the mandates but if we lose, they go down. So you better pray we win.
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  489.  @justinshin2279  This argument is about mandates, not healthcare. "I support any policy that allows insurers to charge me less for making choices that are less risky" - Even when backed by dogsh!t science? "For the insurer, the choice is simply between a person who chooses to get the vaccine and a person who does not." - Not until they start charging for everything else. "then you should support insurers being able to charge them accordingly" - No, because those people were either fooled or coerced into taking it. If insurance companies are coercing it... they can charge themselves. And the money comes back to us. "Comparing SCUBA requirements to vaccination status is not really the point" - Yes, it is. You're not asked for a driver's license to ride the bumper cars at the fair or to do some laps on a go kart. "the courts would rule in favor of businesses" - Sure, we just don't have time for courts. Things are happening now.
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  490.  @justinshin2279  "I am engaging in risky behaviors" - Not taking a shot is not risky. Look up the long term survival rates for myocarditis. "If it means requiring either vaccination or more frequent testing, I am okay with it."/" If it means forcing everyone to get vaccinated against their will, I oppose it strongly" - The hell is this wishy-washy bs? You're okay with "requiring" it but not people being forcibly jabbed? What's the difference? The former is insidiously evil, the latter is cartoonishly evil. At least being cartoonishly evil will set off the alarms and get people to start fighting, when it's insidious people at the top can treat you like cattle with a smile, the police will say "hey I'm just doing my job", and if you do anything about it you'll be called crazy. "I can tell you that businesses are not generally enforcing the mandate" - But saying the law doesn't matter because everyone is ignoring it is not enough. The actual text of the law needs to be erased and the people responsible for it need to face consequences for governmental overreach. "It's performative" - Don't care. Punitive action is necessary for even trying. Treating overreach with kid gloves because it resulted in "lol jk!" just opens the door for real overreach that won't be fought because people are already pacified by all the times it didn't amount to anything and there was no need to fight back. "when there is a public safety concern" - There's always a public safety concern. "many gun ranges go out of their way to do more than the standard check" - The hell does that mean? The gun store either performs the NICS check or the state-specific variant they're mandated to perform by state legislature. There's no way to do "more" than the standard, and the standard is all there is. With a few states having standards different from the federal one. "But the range could be liable if it was determined they did not take obvious steps to ensure dangerous people did not fire weapons at the range." - I don't know why I have to explain this, but comparing high velocity metal to a bug most people don't know they have it unless tested is simply not sane.
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  491.  @justinshin2279  1. Meanwhile in the real world, cardiac complications nearly doubled in Israel compared to the 2019-2020 average, due to a mass campaign that was not worth the trouble because it affected people who were not likely to get complications from the disease. 2. You're being wishy-washy, not pragmatic. There is no nuance in using unchecked corporate power to sidestep the issue of unchecked government power. Privatizing the means of control is not pragmatism. It's a fundamentally anti-human stance and you need to own up to it. 3. I am entitled to say that the people responsible for restrictive regulations need to suffer punitive action. If I screw up on my job, I can get fired. I care about what's happening in the real world - real politicians are using real political power irresponsibly and you're saying it's not really happening because people this time have chosen not to comply. Even though at least 60% are complying, but that's just a tiny little detail. Do you have a single argument that isn't running interference for these people? 4. That's whataboutism. For twenty years I've spoken against a multitude of issues and you don't get to shame me just because you're Johnny come lately and didn't see me do it. Meanwhile, you have a paradigm shift that's going to affect regular people even more than the War on Terror did, and your concern is "dude weed lmao". We already congratulated drugs for winning the war on drugs. You say things aren't an issue if people don't comply, seems to me drug laws are something people have no issue with non-compliance so I don't need to press that further. This is going to affect even more people than the war on drugs, essentially unpersoning them without trial or conviction. If you thought plea deals were rough, that is worse. 5. Florida is a partial point of contact state where FDLE is responsible for the check even though they use the FBI NICS system. From what I understand other states can place a NICS flag on you, and FDLE cannot do anything about it so there's non-prohibited persons failing checks in Florida. Your acquaintance may need to check the conditions for his discharge, what state it happened in, etc to get it cleared out.
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  492. @Badatallthis Stuff "The spare parts? Really? The US Military is incapable of repairing a tractor?" - You'd be surprised. "Using the same tools they use to do maintenance on OTHER immense physical machinery?" - You do realize it's not like jacking your Ford Pinto, right? You can't use M1 Abrams tooling on farming equipment.
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  493. That's nonsense. Not only the spread is high enough to not have been eliminated by lockdowns - even though a lot of flu strains were eliminated - it's already been found on other animals.
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  494.  @BlakeBigfoot  and how is that relevant? Okay, people who are 90-99% anti censorship want everyone to be allowed on the internet platforms. Big fucking difference, mate. Totally changed the conversation.
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  495.  @BlakeBigfoot  "that's a fallacy." - were you going to elaborate or do you just shout fallacy whenever you hear a different opinion? "People on the right are FAR more pro-censorship than ANY leftist" - my dude I'm not the kind of idiot who ask for sources for things that can't be proven by any reasonable metric but the claim that the left is not pro censorship is going to need some serious fucking citations behind it. I've had this discussion multiple times and the left essentially argues that to uphold leftist values reactionary speech has to be curtailed. You're just going to do the "not real leftists" thing and weasel away. I get this same shit on the guns and "personal vs private property" debates, from my own sampling done both in real life and on the internet leftists in general and even anarchist-left people are very anti-gun because widespread gun ownership would allow reactionary action. I don't even know how would a stateless society enforce gun control, but it puts a smile on my face whenever the "but muh real leftists are pro gun" people show up to the comments section. "Just because they toot the "anti-censorship" horn doesn't mean their actual beliefs and actions line up" - wow if you want to line up beliefs and actions the left has absolutely no ground to stand on considering almost every system started by the left ended up as "MUH NOT REAL SOCIALISM". "it usually is an indicator of someone who doesn't even know what censorship is. " - oh wow now I'm fucking interested, I wanna hear your definition of censorship.
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  496.  @BlakeBigfoot  by using insults you admit to have lost, thanks for playing.
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  497.  @BlakeBigfoot  so you refuse to even indicate which fallacy was used , give up and resort to insults, call me a "literal fascist" even though I hate fascism and upvote your own comment? "Real" leftists, everyone.
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  498.  @BlakeBigfoot  "You hate a concept of fascism that doesn't exist" - my family was born into fascism. We know what fascism is. You have never lived under it. "while inadvertently being an actual fascist" - proof? "just because your ideas aren't popular doesn't mean I upvote my comments. It just means your ideas aren't popular." - I clicked the notification for your comment and less than a minute after posting you already had an upvote. Your deflection of the subject to my opinions is a strong indication that I hit a nerve.
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  499.  @BlakeBigfoot  "the entire claim was a fallacy so what specifics do you want me to give?" - every fallacy can be described. You haven't been able to even describe what kind of fallacy it was. I'm not even asking for the specific name of the fallacy, just what kind of logical fault was triggered. Hell, if anything your argument in itself was fallacious because you deflected the conversation into irrelevant semantics. Like a person who doesn't wish for people to be deplatformed cannot be considered anti-censorship because he also holds the belief that (for example) he is against child porn being posted on the internet. So in an argument about deplatforming a person can't be said to hold a certain position because of opinions that are completely irrelevant and don't even matter to the topic at hand.
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  500.  @Ben-Rogue  bro the homeless are safe, I keep seeing them giving themselves vaccinations
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  501. "went right back into the economy" - and what a fool you are, you ask for money in your pocket and applaud when it goes "back" into the economy.
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  502.  James Registe  he directed the comment at someone with the hammer and sickle on the American flag. Jury's out if that's because he thinks communism is the answer, or if he thinks the USA is the new USSR.
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  503.  @comrademcsalty7676  "we-we-we're only gwonna whurt the biwwionaires!" starts lining up the lower middle class against the wall
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  504.  @Doppe1ganger  Why are people beating each other down in the streets?
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  505. Keep telling yourself that.
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  506. It's a win because now the rail lines from the North are threatened. Another Russian position will become indefensible as supplies are strained.
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  507.  @repit5014  China did close Hubei province while allowing flights out. Say what you want, but they knew it was dangerous to their country and said "fuck it let's spread it worldwide".
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  508.  M Jankovic  Novak was a stunt. His charity organization is involved with the WEF.
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  509. Kherson didn't fail. There was another breakthrough yesterday. Russian troops are getting close to being cut off in two and isolated.
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  510. Hey, I was the schizo noticing something was happening in China and telling everyone to start prepping like two months before the Great TP Rush of 2020. Happens to all of us.
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  511.  @PistonHonda87  You don't know how percentages work oh my god it's clear you people never went to school.
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  512.  @pdpgb  Nah, there were lines for high-demand goods even if you could afford it. We associate the bread line with extreme poverty but the reason the expression caught on and became culturally relevant was because there were queue lines even during the good times. When Mikhail Gorbachev wanted to curb alcoholism the state put restrictions on sale of hard liquor and the time of day you could purchase it so lines formed for alcohol as well, not just food. Waiting in line happened even for books. Lines formed at the stores because the government fixed the prices (hiding inflation). People who produced food independently were able to sell it at local markets but there the prices were higher due to inflation, so it was always preferable to get your groceries at the store with regulated prices. Even during the good times, when there's no famine at all, it was preferable to take your chance at waiting in line as you'd spend less money on food and this normalized a behavior that you'd only see in times of crisis. The poor allocation of resources causing some areas to have extra stock while others had shortages, plus corruption at the distributor level diverting products towards the "grey market", had the compounding effect of people travelling farther to go to stores. This "extends" the cultural memory of standing in line for food because it happened even when people weren't facing extreme poverty. "But I don't see any problem with the concept in general. Sure it's better if they don't have to wait in line too long but we're giving food to hungry people." - The problem isn't "you have to wait for food". That's not the critique. It's how poorly managed production was in the Soviet Union. It's not a bad thing to have charity in times of hardship, the problem is when the hardship was caused by the state's own incompetence and now your survival depends on charity.
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  513.  @jamestabi2032  They are showing. The internet is full of pictures and video.
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  514.  @dzonthego  Doctored footage? How did you tell?
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  515.  @kennethmcneil3478  You let Russian corporate media do your thinking for you.
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  516. Strategically important because the rail hub leads to Severodonetsk. Russia pulling out means that Ukraine has the initiative to cause another collapse in Luhansk. And if Luhansk collapses, so does Donetsk.
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  517.  @lolazal1  that's not the topic at hand
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  518.  @lolazal1  No, he just said that we can't just take the actions of the people off Cuba at face value. You brought up M4A as a reason why people aren't beaten into submission. Well, if you go to Cuba and get a cellphone card to get internet access, people will warn you to not look up certain political stuff because the internet is monitored. I wouldn't trust that government, even though they may provide public services.
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  519. You've already accepted the narrative of our masters. So because we're noticing that Big Pharma made a bad product, we're anti-vaxxers. Because we're noticing the passports, QR codes and tracking apps, we're anti-vaxxers. Because we're noticing that our jobs are being threatened, we're anti-vaxxers. Stop being their lapdog.
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  520. And that's why you lose. You'll stay home and act like criminals have more rights than you, and allow the conviction of people who were in legitimate danger. One day you will not leave the house because you know everywhere is dangerous, and anyone who still has a pair will be in jail because his attackers are victims. The "medic" the protesters had was pointing a Glock at Kyle. So they were armed. It would be a good precedent. Because if Kyle gets convicted you might as well toss the guns into a molten steel puddle. Just give them up. You think victim blaming is good, well you will be blamed if you ever have to use them. So you have no business owning them.
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  521. Darwin is survival of the fittest. Culling the weak makes the species strong. Nature is extremely cruel and does not protect the weak. That joke doesn't even work because the real Darwin award is protecting people so much, we all become vulnerable as a result and go extinct.
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  522. Still doesn't change the fact that it's literally impossible to have all workers and all workplaces connected. The public transportation solution happens in centralized and densely populated areas, but not in more rural areas.
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  523.  @jnorth9431  the institutions that help the homeless don't have pasteurization facilities.
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  524.  Vasilijan Nikolovski  The second you start claiming that the needy should be drinking spoiled milk you sound like a moron.
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  525.  @dougs78records64  so your democratic socialist system wouldn't shut down anything at all during the pandemic. I'm glad we're all in agreement that the government enforced quarantine is the problem.
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  526. Nationalization is a horrible idea but the entire game is rigged. You try to compete? You're taken off the Apple and Google Play store. Now only the tech literate are able to install those apps. People keep using them? Hosting services remove them from their servers. You try to find a new server? Your money isn't good anymore, payment processors will refuse to do the transfer to host your service. You create your own payment processor? The banks will refuse to transfer money through it.
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  527. I saw a tourist in my country, probably American but I can't assure you, wearing a shirt that said "science will win" and had Pfizer's logo on it. Like, why are you in holiday in a foreign country in the middle of a pandemic, weird guy?
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  528.  @jupitercyclops6521  No offense, but Pfizer seems to be more popular in the US and the slogan "the science will win" is more of an American phenomenon due to how the Republican party is portrayed as being "anti-science". Forgive me for noticing the odd person out. This guy can afford a vacation, because he's a bugman who can work at home. I'm not working white white collar jobs, but most people in my circle do. They kept working from home and getting paid as usual. I know people who took vacations during this period despite the restrictions. It wasn't one of us because he was in tourist getup. Cargo shorts, those wallets that are suspended by a cord around the neck, walking around town with a camping backpack, and his family was with him in similar vacation attire. Sorry I didn't paint the whole picture, but a lot of tourists stick out like a sore thumb.
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  529. They took back more land in 3-4 days than Russia could take in a month. They took back more land in a week than Russia could take in 3 months. Mathematically, Russia cannot win the war. A 3-4 day offensive can undo months of Russian gains. There was tons of armor, Ukraine captured it. There was air support, but Ukraine shot it down.
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  530.  @Angelum_Band  I pay my bills with the joy of watching Russian tanks pop their turrets off.
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  531.  @kennethmcneil3478  Real journalists on the RT payroll?
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  532. Trumptards of the left? Wouldn't the Hillary fanboys or Russiagaters be the Trumpers?
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  533.  @memg5742  1. Nobody should have been there, they were there anyway. Playing the "if" game is no good. 2. He worked there and his father also apparently has a house there. 3. If you were in a dangerous place it's morally wrong to be armed? 4. How did he play vigilante? He was attacked. He wasn't arresting or threatening anyone. 5. Victim blaming. It's always the victim's fault the victim was in the wrong place. We automatically absolve them. 6. The people who are dead weren't worth much alive. He shouldn't pay a heavy price. Just look at Rosenbaum's list of crimes.
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  534.  @memg5742  Doesn't matter. He was indeed in immediate danger. You people hated police officers last year. You can go with a gun anywhere where carry isn't prohibited. Doesn't matter if it's not his job. It's also not my job to drink beer, I'll crack open a cold one occasionally. Kyle didn't appoint himself law enforcement. He wasn't a vigilante, he wasn't aggressive towards the protestors. It's not a first amendment right to attack someone. Kyle didn't shoot the protestors. He shot people attacking him. You can't use first amendment as a defense. It wasn't wrong for Kyle to be there either. It wasn't an assault rifle. His actions had consequences - two criminals are no longer a threat to the community. Read their rap sheets.
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  535.  @happyaxolotl3736  If someone was exposing p3dos but made the decision to attack an armed person, that makes them a noble person who decided to throw away their nobility to become an attacker.
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  536.  @memg5742  If you don't hate police, you're not paying attention. It wasn't an assault rifle. If you want to use specifics for shock value, I'm going to nitpick the specifics. An assault rifle is an intermediate caliber rife with a detachable magazine that can switch between semi-automatic and automatic fire modes. Since the Hughes Amendment to the 1986 Firearms Owners Protection Act (signed into law by Reagan, no less) that automatic weapons cannot be purchased by civilians. If Kyle couldn't have an automatic weapon, he didn't have an assault rifle. Don't want me to beat you over the head with details about guns? Don't open the door to scrutiny. Vigilantism: "Taking the law into one's own hands and attempting to effect justice according to one's own understanding of right and wrong" - a protection service isn't vigilantism. A security guard is not law enforcement. Kyle was not taking the law into his own hands as he was not arresting or issuing citations. He wasn't attempting to effect justice as he was not doing anything other than putting out fires and scrubbing graffiti. That's not "justice". It's not LE's job to protect people and property. Supreme Court already ruled that they have no duty to protect. Protesters that didn't attack people were not shot. So how is that related? "Kyle showing up with an AR-15 style weapon (that’s not an assault rifle? what are you calling it?)" - As seen above, assault rifle is a specific category of weapon. Don't get surprised and ask if that's not an assault rifle. Ask yourself who told you about the term "assault rifle" and what you were told it was. "assault rifle-style weapon" - Now it's your turn. In detail, explain to me what assault style rifle even is. And what you're trying to say. Don't give me the buzzword, just spell it out what you think is wrong about the AR and it being used.
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  537. Don't know if it's this one: Sohrab Lutchmedial, who was a cardiologist at the New Brunswick Heart Centre. His ethnicity was Indian but he worked in Canada.
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  538. Nobody made a decision. The panic was set in before anyone in high command knew what was happening.
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  539.  @jackiecooper9439  Yeah they're in favor of hurdles, sure.
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  540.  @jackiecooper9439  I sincerely hope you're a paid shill. If you do this for free, you are truly lost. You've created a hellworld and forced us to live in it.
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  541.  @jackiecooper9439  You support tyranny for your convenience. You acknowledge and simp for corruption. QR codes are a hellworld. You've created a world where we're slaves with barcodes.
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  542.  @jackiecooper9439  Being under constant surveillance isn't bureaucracy. I'm not American.
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  543.  @jackiecooper9439  They know I keep podcasts or clips running in the background for long periods of time, and if they're tracking my location they know my commute from work to home. I've never provided ID not even to get past the age filter, I used a temporary credit card for online purchases.
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  544. It makes a difference. The Ukrainians just cut the rail lines from the North meaning that the Luhansk oblast is now under threat.
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  545. And then get sued because someone got E Coli.
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  546.  @peterwest323  But they haven't changed the formula, right? If you get a booster it's still for the 2019 Wuhan strain. We're several strains ahead.
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  547. It would make the hosts severely ill and thus be extremely noticeable, making it easier to stop the spread.
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  548. The UK has a rolling 7 day average of fatalities higher than same time last year.
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  549. Probably not, but stay off boosters.
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  550. Then it's just endemic?
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  551. Sorry man but that's an incomplete explanation. The fact is that the stock market is overvalued. The "wealth effect" theory proponents argue that maintaining the sham is required to keep people spending. When you add bailouts to the mix, it gives investors the incentive to take the gamble on riskier investments. The financial sector needs to be punished for bad investments or else you're compounding the problem.
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  552.  victor soto  >prestitigous institution >place of knowledge Did you watch the video?
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  553.  victor soto  so you graduated from a place that teaches future war criminals, serial rapists and vulture businessmen?
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  554.  victor soto  so there was no drinking, no sex, no racism and definitely no crass jokes in that establishment, ever! And professionals never commit immoral acts! It's the poor people working low wage jobs who actually drop bombs on civilians and murder prostitutes! You keep digging yourself deeper.
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  555.  @SatanicKale  You said she was less qualified. Cenk just said she was the smartest. That's not mutually exclusive.
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  556. It was legal. All weapons are military style. Rittenhouse did need to shoot people. They were attacking him. All weapons are assault weapons. You beat someone with a wooden chair, it's assault with a deadly weapon.
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  557.  Eastern fence Lizard  "The rich people who have done this to us have personal chefs and people to grocery shop for them" - This is a massive cope. If it took chefs and assistants to be healthy, then obesity rates would be 99%. Clearly, there's plenty of people who can cook and shop no matter the income level. Trump has been out of office for almost a year and you're still letting him live rent free in your head. There's so many out of shape rich people it actually debunks your argument. "almost no one succeeds long term" - Doesn't need to be long term, only until the coof is finally endemic and becomes the common cold. "Expecting this to change overnight and somehow have foreknowledge of the pandemic in order to address it before it hits is not at all reasonable." - We had foreknowledge. You people called us racist conspiracy theorists for saying something was happening in Wuhan. Either way, if a disease threatens you with death and you can't change overnight... again that seems like a personal problem. Why should I suffer? "Losing weight and keeping it off basically means changing everything about being an American" - No, it doesn't. "Do you really think people are going to just stop eating foods they have been eating all their lives, to stop playing addictive video games or binge watching Netflix?" - Excuses. You can do that and still not put on weight. It's called moderation. It's called not overeating. Listen to yourself. So if danger of lung cancer is looming, you're really going to argue you're not going to stop smoking because you've been doing it all your life?
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  558.  Eastern fence Lizard  "if it were really so simple why would we have a population where 2/3rds are overweight or obese?" - Because people are so stubborn they can't do simple things. "Few people know how to cook anymore" - There's literally books and youtube channels about it. Anyone can cook. "we don't teach it to our children in school" - I think it was Mark Twain that said to not let schooling get in the way of education. School can't teach everything. "they are bombarded with processed food advertisements all day long" - And telling kids about advertising and how it manipulates people is too hard? This is literally just excuses. "We don't as a society promote and value human health" - More people than ever are going to gyms. At least until they closed down.
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  559.  @susanmercurio1060  Did you research the Kupiansk rail hub? Russia just lost it. It's going to cost them Severodonetsk.
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  560.  @TrappedInTheNorth  He didn't have to "pressure" the scientists. Funny thing is that scientists in contact with the Wuhan researchers were also in contact with Moderna. Remember the articles saying they had a vaccine in 48 hours after the gene sequence was released? That was a lie. They had backdoor access and were working on it since 2019. The people who made the virus are in essence in cahoots with the people selling the cure. Trump was panicking because he wanted the reelection, but this is all on the pharma companies. They were not under pressure.
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  561. You mean like the Russians took down MH17?
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  562.  @kf8346  If anyone's being dishonest, are the people deathly afraid of anyone mentioning any sort of discomfort. Even correctly administered injections can lead to swelling and pain. Doing it incorrectly can actually be so much worse. Hitting a nerve during the procedure can be very damaging. So don't be defending improper practices to push your narrative.
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  563. How would tax cuts increase tuition costs? The costs started rising because of the 1978 Middle Income Student Assistance Act. From 1965 onwards banks had the loans backed by the government in case students defaulted. In the 70's Sallie Mae started buying the loans off banks. The socialization of risks and privatization of cost obviously created an incentive for more loans to be issued by the banks, which always had their money guaranteed. Combine this with the 1978 expansion of federal assistance and prices can simply rise unchecked.
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  564.  @yarnpower  "Tax cuts meant less income for the federal govt." - but that's false. Tax revenue actually increased. In 1980 receipts were 517k Million dollars, 1981-599k M, 1982-617k M, 1983-600k M, 1984-666k M, 1985-734k M, 1986-769k M, 1987-854k M, 1988-909k M. The income actually grew, in fact almost doubled. "so they in turn had less to send back to each state" - not only is the premise that the government was taking less tax income false, but even if that was true that doesn't cause tuition to rise. States could easily bump sales, property or income tax. I want some documentation proving that state governments all together decided to increase tuition as a tax collection scheme because there have to be meetings on record and bills passed that put this theory on paper. "Private colleges then felt free to raise their rates." - that doesn't even make sense. If state college becomes more expensive for factors unrelated to private schools then they get a boost in enrollment. That could explain a slight increase in tuition costs simply because demand is higher than the supply - more students trying to join than a college can accommodate - but it wouldn't explain a 1000 percent increase over the last few decades. Are the states still trying to cover up a budget hole after all these years? Please come to your senses. Are private colleges still in a race to the top with states trying to raise an infinite amount of taxes by bumping tuition costs? Or does the existence of laws that make banks profit off excessive loans create a spike in demand that allows the supply side to keep increasing prices?
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  565. The hell does that mean? So it didn't happen, but if it happened it couldn't be this because of the molecular structure...? What homework?
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  566. Oh, not perfect. Nobody asked for perfection. You people read from a script. Nobody said it had to be perfect. But we were told we had to get it to prevent the spread. It doesn't. So how come we're losing freedoms over it? It's not similar at all. The flu shot is reformulated every year to match the predicted strains that are going to be the most serious.
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  567. What did he do "wrong"? What was the great moral violation comitted here?
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  568.  @JusSick24  "purposely used the N word 10 times" - I'm still going to need you to explain how the fuck is that a moral wrong. Who is the victim? "then texted something along the lines of "kill all the Jews"... while being Jewish..." - how the fuck is that a crime? Since when is self-deprecating humor morally wrong? You have not explained the alleged lack of morality or named a victim. "you like it so its ok to support racism and genocide..." - fucking love it when you slimy fuckers do this. You know you're fucking wrong so you have to turn this shit personal because you can't answer the question. Stuck in a corner? Accuse others of racism and genocide. Like fucking cowards. Never admit they're wrong.
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  569. Zimmerman was just on the lookout. By that logic nobody can go anywhere. There's dangerous people everywhere and they rule the streets. Only criminals and uber eats can move around now.
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  570.  @mikemurray2027  you're going to explain to me how people fleeing US aggression flee to the US rather than literally anywhere else
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  571.  @mikemurray2027  But they'd be better paid and have better care in other countries. What does it matter if the US has the wealth if they are not going to get a cut of it? If you were Iraqi, would you seriously think "yes Americans killed my family and destroyed my home, I will move there and work for under minimum wage and no healthcare because that's where the wealth is". Do you think this makes any sense at all? "you can't deny that there is US aggression against the countries these poor people are fleeing from, nor can you deny they are fleeing." - Weird way to frame the discussion. Of course I can't deny it, I'm also against US imperialism and foreign intervention. That doesn't mean I can't question the logic I'm being fed, especially when it suspiciously lines in with establishment talking points. "If you maintain they are coming to the promised land of the USA" - Why is it a promised land? "why then are they fleeing other capitalist countries that are allies of the USA" - Don't see how this makes the US a people magnet. "whose leaders have been installed by the USA" - Still don't see how this attracts people. "whose economic and social policies have been forced on them by the USA" - Still not seeing how this attracts people. "with bombs, terrorism, death squads, genocide, assassination, etc etc?" - THIS SHOULD SEND PEOPLE RUNNING THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION. Again, I am against all of those things. You don't need to pitch this idea to me. All I'm asking is, can you explain why people who by all accounts should hate the US, and will live very poor lives in the US, decide to move to the US? Because none of what you said actually answers the question. If China destroyed my home, why would I move to China? If my government was a China puppet, why would I move to China? If my home country was an ally with China, why would that make me want to move to China?
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  572.  @mikemurray2027  Can you stop posting multiple replies? You have time to structure your argument, just add them all up and hit post. Shotgunning doesn't earn you points. - I simply asked a question and you're not answering. The US isn't bombing 90% of the countries in the world. The US isn't bombing the UK. Or France. Or Germany. Italy. Norway. Or even China or Russia. - Can you stop gloating about what's not being contested? Yes, it's not being contested because that's not what being argued. Again, all those things make the US an awful pick. Find peace in the US? Why not pick a country with less gun crime, then? Why not Canada? The US isn't bombing Canada. - You're still not answering the question. I'm not bothering you. I'm just exposing the fact that you can't answer a question. You've been fed establishment talking points and repeating them. When actually asked to explain those talking points, you tap out. You're dismissed.
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  573. Okay, and now they just exposed the South. The rail hub at Kupiansk allows Ukraine to starve the defenses and maneuver into Luhansk.
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  574.  @coachwhitford7315  "bring ukr forces back to Kiev" - This didn't happen. Army bases are spread around the country, and they have Territorial Defense Forces. Nobody was cut off. The capital is never undefended. How was it a trap when Russian special forces, airborne units, etc got slaughtered trying to reach Kiev? A mad rush through roads meant the Ukrainians only had to hide and fire rockets at passing vehicles to create massive casualties. The pictures are online, burned out IFVs and trucks with lifeless bodies collapsed around them. This was a trap? For the Russians. They stepped on it and paid dearly by losing elite fighting units.
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  575. @Eran Riblo They sacrificed the norther rail supply lines, which means a ton of captured territory is under threat.
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  576. Russia took 3 months to take two steps. Ukraine took 4 steps in 3 days.
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  577.  @tbtb9595  It would have had the civil war after the USSR collapse and ended up under Taliban control anyway. Sorry but I can't stand you people who defend the Soviet Union for doing the exact same shit as the US - trying to have a puppet regime in Afghanistan.
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  578. Biden you crazy old man, stop creating alternate accounts.
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  579.  @ezorro5920  she backtracked her opinions on Israel pretty quick
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  580. How have the policies changed with the situation? Many countries are throwing in the towel because the scientific consensus is that it's unstoppable, mild and close to endemic. And yet, some countries are rabbidly pursuing a useless strategy. How does that make sense? Yeah, I think even a trucker can notice something's up.
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  581.  @radiotec76  so basically if I have a grocery store in a remote area that serves a small population, and thus doesn't make enough profit, I can't hire anyone to help because my business doesn't deserve to exist?
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  582.  @radiotec76  so the person I can't hire anymore should stay home getting paid 0 dollars?
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  583.  @radiotec76  no, I am not. It wouldn't be starvation wages if it wasn't for the rampant inflation. You still have not given a satisfactory answer, should businesses close down and tell people to go home without a job if those extra sales and profits cannot cover your magic number? Yes or no?
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  584.  @radiotec76  "So you would like to pay a liveable wage if it weren't for inflation." - you need to speak in terms that make sense. A person gets hired to perform work that adds to the profits. If the wages paid to the person surpass the extra earnings created by that labour, it stops making sense to keep the person around. This has zero to do with livable wages. "Price hikes on key items like gasoline have a knock on effect with others or would you just keep you prices where they are at and loose money?" - and if the cost of energy increases then that means the costs of many goods will increase because fuel is used to power machines and to transport said goods. A price hike on gasoline can take a huge hit on the economy. "No, you'd raise prices on what you're selling. If prices of things go up why not people's labor?" - and that's what I am trying to explain. If prices raise on what you are selling the economy will slow down. "If you have to pay your workers a wage so low they have to take a second or even third job just to pay the basics" - what if they don't have to? Maybe they have another income at home from a husband/wife. Maybe they live with their parents. Maybe they live with other 3 people sharing a cheap house. Maybe the government should take action against inflation to make sure the cost of living falls in relation to wages. "then it's already failed and shouldn't exist." - which doesn't make any fucking sense. If hiring an extra person generates (say) 15 dollars an hour to my business and I have to pay 15 dollars an hour for that labour, I get 0. That doesn't mean my business is failing. It just means that it makes zero sense to add a cost to my business that brings no return. "It's strange your even debating this" - how is it strange? It's fucking maths. If I look at the cost of hiring someone and the theoretical revenue I can get, and I realize it's a bad decision to hire someone that job position is eliminated. "And finally do you really want to pay workers so little" - bro if you could make me 300 dollars an hour I'd certainly pay you 200. But if you only generate 15 dollars/hour I can't give you more than 10. I am always astonished at the divide, of course there's asshole bosses everywhere but straight up assuming that if I were a boss the wages I would be paying would be too low on purpose?
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  585. Yeah, it always starts like that. The TSA and the PATRIOT Act was also just meant to stop the bad terrorists.
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  586.  @stevebreedlove9760  Don't slap a tag on your shirt saying "male feminist" for clout, that's all we're saying. Huge red flag.
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  587.  @s.ormgamalson6489  Unfortunately feminism has been co-opted by people who do not actually want equality.
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  588.  @Nick-yv1wy  It's about the act, not the target of the act.
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  589. Like others have mentioned, those NG personnel are most likely medical staff in the military but their main job is the medical field in the civilian sector. So they'll be taking their own jobs away by being temporarily pulled from their civilian job and then do it through the NG. That's the insanity.
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  590. BS. They're still having cases but simply downplaying the issue.
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  591.  @jackandblaze5956  As stated in the original comment, they make the bulk of their money from people who aren't health conscious. That's not a Randian notion. Ayn Rand's argument would be more akin to the greed and self-interest being the real charity, not who to turn away or serve.
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  592. A different investment manager. They actually have similar names on purpose, because one was created by a person who split from the other.
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  593.  @charlenefrench5404  Two people wounded is what the news are saying. I've only seen video of one person wounded in the leg and the people nearby started doing a tourniquet so he probably made it.
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  594.  Eastern fence Lizard  "DYou think rich people are stupid?" - Well, you do. Because you're the one saying that they're ignoring the problems and will have to deal with them in the future. If they weren't stupid, they'd do things that actually benefit them in the long run.
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  595.  @antediluvianatheist5262  "You described trickle down economics, and insisted it wasn't." - No, he didn't.
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  596. Federal cases are not livestreamed.
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  597. FLIR footage is grainy, deal with it. Look up videos of people hunting wild hogs at 100 yards with thermal imaging, it's blurry as shit for how close the object is. An object several miles out is obviously going to look blurry.
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  598.  Marten Dekker  those can't be balanced, they're mutually exclusive
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  599.  Marten Dekker  Don't know why your comment disappeared but "regulating" capitalism is still capitalism, public services are not "socialism". Socialism doesn't mean free stuff. Socialism is defined by the prohibition of capitalism - property and profit are banned. The funds for the libraries, roads, healthcare, education, etc are simply "skimmed off the top" from capitalist profits. That's how it works in most of the western world. It's not socialism. Socialism is arriving at the factory, taking the owner up to a wall and executing him so that the "workers" (represented by the state) can collectively own the factory.
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  600.  Marten Dekker  Social democracy is still a liberal, thus pro-capitalist, ideology. Tyrannical socialism? I'm sorry, but you can't go around saying others are wrong when it's literally you who hasn't spent a minute learning the theory. Socialism has ALWAYS been a post-revolutionary system meant to transition the state into a stateless system. Within socialism, the vanguard party takes control of the state and uses its power to bring about the implementation of communism. You can literally look this up. That is why there was a Union of Socialist Soviet Republics, and all of these Socialist Republics were controlled by their respective Communist Party. Have you ever wondered why Communists controlled states when their ideology is meant to be stateless? That's why. They were meant to use socialism to transition to communism. If you're out here genuinely arguing that socialism is actually a pro-capitalist system and the "socialist socialism" is the tyrannical variant... Please brush up on your definitions.
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  601.  Marten Dekker  Sure, that's why "liberal democracy" is a thing. Sorry, but liberalism is inherently capitalist. You should look up what liberalism means. Libertarians are often called "classical liberals". "A country that has a fairly regulated capitalist market, and socialized healthcare, education, transportation, roads, libraries, and basic welfare income for the disadvantaged... Is not only capitalism" - But it is capitalist nonethelesss. "and it is not only socialism it is a blend of the two" - There is no blending. You can't blend poison and antidote. You can't blend matter and antimatter. Socialism is the antithesis of capitalism and prohibits capitalist activity. You think socialism is simply government doing stuff. That's not what it means. "Just because you want to use the term socialism to only mean the all encompassing form , is daft..." - It's not me! The people who created socialism wanted it that way! Go tell real socialists that they're still capitalists. See how that goes. You're the one who wants to use "socialism" to mean something it doesn't, the reason why not being clear, and insisting everyone else is wrong. Including socialists themselves.
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  602.  @kensurrency2564  Pretty bad case for socialism when both Stalin and Mao managed to "hijack" the movement. Seems like you people have a hand for picking the worst possible leaders.
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  603.  @vinnyb3978  Seems to me like the free market is solving the farming problem, then. Government regulated markets choke farms out of existence? The farmers use the free market.
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  604. They'd rather you collapse on the way home than get scared from the ouchie.
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  605.  @DutchStar  Trump fell in line quickly.
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  606.  @deancooper7760  "bail your free trade asses out when your capitalist dreams collapse" - What? All this garbage was created by government action. The capitalist dreams didn't collapse, the central banking/fiat currency/nanny state dream collapsed. The bail outs interfere with the free market. "Free traders didn't allow America to process the slave grown cotton. No, the cotton was sent back to England where child, prison, and sweatshop labor turned it into cloth." - "Free traders" restricted trade? Ahahaha.
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  607.  @jhedrich  This changes the outcome. Ukraine cut off Russian supplies from the north, because the rail lines from the east don't fully connect to Severodonetsk.
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  608.  @MC-wh3xm  The entire war was lost for Russia in the 24th. This just accelerates their defeat.
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  609.  @GregDeman  Whatever their goal is, it's not being completed.
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  610. @Rick Ramsey And we'll continue burning fossil fuels because developing countries want a fair shot at development too. Don't worry, documentaries wouldn't have killed fossil fuels.
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  611. @Rick Ramsey We'll have lost a few small islands because the sea level infiltrated fresh water supplies but that's pretty much it.
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  612. @Rick Ramsey Considering that climate models predicted warming 2.2 times higher than we had from 1998 to 2014, you can multiply those decades by 2.2 to get the real number. Either way, we have nuclear. Just saying. There's an easy way out for this.
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  613. @Rick Ramsey "We could easily have our own Fukushima event here" - It was called Three Mile Island. Fukushima was an alignment of the planets event. The plant resisted the earthquake, it even resisted the tsunami despite the undersized sea wall. The switching stations and diesel backup generators were placed in the basement levels, which flooded... Without that, people today would think Fukushima was a type of sushi roll.
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  614. Doesn't matter when fleeing Russian troops are being chased on the road by wheeled vehicles.
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  615.  @waterandafter  you can't be a platform and exercise editorial rights over what gets published. Nobody forces you to be a platform, you voluntarily become one in exchange for special privileges such as legal immunity. If you don't want to be a platform then simply give up your legal privileges. That's all we're asking for.
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  616. "When you're less likely to be infected, less likely to have a high virus load, and clear the virus faster, that means you're less likely to infect others." - But you're still infectious, meaning that all you're doing is delaying the inevitable. "Only the delta variant" - And we have incoming variants that are also resistant. That's the evolutionary pressure. If anything, the unvaccinated are keeping the non-resistant strains alive. "This is typical of none of the dozens or hundreds of daily contacts people have." - This seems like more of a critique of the lockdowns than anything else. If the people who are in close contact and then have hundreds of daily contacts are not the issue, then the lockdowns were a crime against humanity. "Households with vaccinated people who never caught the virus are omitted." - What would be the point of including them? To measure effectiveness you have to narrow down on the ones who were exposed. That's how the trial of the shots was done. Not focusing on the 43k people who never got infected. But the 177 unvaccinated who got sick and the 8 vaccinated that got sick. Those who got exposed? They don't matter. Can't measure effectiveness without putting the stuff through the paces. "the less the strain on health services" - They're strained not by being overwhelmed, but due to continuous pressure. There's staff shortages, people quitting. "Subsequent variations are expected to be less lethal; it's better to be infected later than sooner." - So we should have locked down the vulnerable and let it burn through the healthy to generate the less lethal variants? We instead let it burn through the elderly and then the less lethal variants spread to the healthy. Great job. We did it. "Medications and treatment protocols are being improved and developed; again, later, rather than sooner." - They were known pretty soon. We know exactly the mechanism that is killing people. But if you treat them... there goes the emergency use authorization. "There's even a new generation of vaccines coming, which will, hopefully, provide even better protection" - Don't hold your breath. It's a money making racket and they're dishing out a third shot of an outdated variant. This is an instance where we can't help but talk past each other. All you're saying is technically correct. And I believe it's absolutely worthless. Oh, this only applies to Delta? Tough titties, the shot is made for the 2019 Wuhan strain, a two year old strain. There's more variants coming and they're also under evolutionary pressure to infect the vaccinated. If daily outside contacts don't matter, then there's no public service being done. Sorry to be an asshole about it. I'm not questioning the things you're saying, which are probably all true. But there's logical reasons why those things are absolutely worthless to me and many others. I'm happy to see you're also against mandates. I simply think the corruption goes to the top and there's no "actual" benevolent way to implement the measures they want. I think their measures actually made things worse and they killed people for money.
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  617. "As the putsch regime forces have since found other supply routes, Izium has no military importance for either party" - False. The rail line from the East does not go into Severodonetsk. This means a critical defensive position had to be supplied by rail from the North. The seizure of Kupiansk will undo the entire defense of Luhansk, which will undo the defense of Donetsk. This offensive greatly accelerated the collapse of more fronts in the East. Russia does not have the resources to commit, they already deployed 120 of their combat capable 170 BTGs (Shoigu, 2021). All they can do now is throw untrained men in antique tanks at the meat grinder. Russia tried shock and awe the first day. They launched massive volleys of cruise and ballistic missiles. They were under the moral barrel. Russia has shown to be beneath any invading force I've ever seen in the modern world.
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  618. Strategically significant. Russia lost a rail supply line.
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  619. If you put that money on consumer goods you destroy the purchasing power of the dollar.
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  620. Because back then people didn't know FDR and his lackeys thought destroying food and paying farmers to not produce would alleviate poverty.
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  621.  @dylanlinzer6734  Don't turn this on me, bub. If you ban child labor after it's already on decline you're not a hero. And I'm not a bad guy for pointing it out. "Ohhhhh noooo this means you're okay with child labor" go bother someone else. You're only resorting to this tactic because I touched a nerve. Let me be clear: it's extremely likely that most of your heroes were absolute POS'es. If you go through life accepting that maybe mainstream narratives stem from historian bias and/or cults of personality, it's not gonna hurt as much when you're confronted with who they really were. And you won't have to shoot the messenger.
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  622.  @blogintonblakley2708  Scott Ritter? So now we listen to p-a-e-d-o files? Patrick Lancaster the faker? Did you see the video where he pulled a body from a morgue to stage an attack?
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  623.  @PunkOnARant  "I mean you could call WATER an "experimental substance"" - Water has existed in the universe for billions of years and it's the basis of life. "some guy on the internet says "we are being lied to"?" - You can just look at the numbers. The number of cases we're seeing in many countries make it mathematically impossible for the unvaccinated to be the ones getting infected. "i would assume that your politicans with staff are being closely monitored in regards to covid, probably tested very often for it" - That's not an excuse. "Usually a vaccine mandate only means that people who attend different things, such as concerts." - Then you are wrong. The US president issued a mandate that essentially forces all workers in companies with more than 100 workers to get it. "A vaccine mandate only means that us who choose to be vaccinated would get to do things such as go to concerts, and you who choose not to would not." - That right there says why it's a bad idea, you want a two-tier society. "By being against a vaccine mandate for things like concerts, you're actively opposing my freedom." - BS. The vaccinated can still spread. So when you attend your concert, you're exposed to untested vaccinated people. "For why should I not be able to do things i want because YOU choose not to be vaccinated?" - The other way around. Why should you be allowed to say who has freedom? Why should be be able to spread the disease to others by presenting a card? "So a vaccine mandate is good because it allows freedom" - IT DENIES FREEDOM. This is blatant 1984 newspeak. War is peace. Ignorance is strength. Papers please is freedom. "and why your politicians and their staffs probably dont require vaccinations." - That doesn't even explain it. You're just saying you justified it without justifying it!
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  624.  @PunkOnARant  "Okay. I dont really care." - You meant to type "I was wrong, sorry". That's what you say when you are wrong and act like you aren't. "i dont even see why we're talking about their work place related issues now" - Because the mandate was introduced through workplace regulations???? "they'd have to stop with concerts and stuff again of course. Easy as that." - This is completely disconnected from reality. If the economy stops again it will be a catastrophe. "So you're against me being able to go to a concert" - I'm not. I'm against your hypocrisy. "not doing math guessing games" - Where are the extra people coming from, then? Math doesn't lie. "That's really unsolidaric" - It's also "unsolidaric" to demand people who have a 1/5,000 chance of developing myocarditis or pericarditis to take the shot at their own risk so that you can go to concerts. "WHY are vaccine mandates BAD?" - Because it denies freedom. "You want me not to go to concerts" - No, I want you to stop being a hypocrite and thinking you going to concerts is the biggest problem here. "so you'd rather have a shut down" - No, this is you strawmanning what other people say.
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  625.  @PunkOnARant  So you scatter a bunch of nonsense that has to be addressed separately, and then complain that you can't work with that? It does work on youtube. It had worked for 13-14 years so far. They're not out of context. Do you understand what context is? If I am addressing separate claims, each of them are addressed separately. The context is available for everyone to see, it's on your comment. This is not decontextualization. You're just using an excuse without even knowing what it means. I'm also not strawmanning. I'm addressing specifically what you said. I never argued against concerts. You're the one strawmanning. I'm not having it both ways. It's you who's misreading. You don't want people to "freely chose" if their choice is being made under coercion. There's no ad hominem anywhere. Do you know what ad hominem is? Ad hominem is "you can't trust what he says, because he shoplifted once". Ad Hominem is attacking the man rather than the claims. I only attacked your claims. Again, you misuse the names of logical fallacies as excuses when you don't even know what they mean. Again, you accuse others of using logical fallacies but you ridicule all opposing arguments. I am for your freedom because I don't think you should be controlled by mandates, QR codes, tracking apps, etc. You're not being offended. You're being told the consequences of what you support.
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  626.  @Bazompora  "Maduro is elected" - plenty of dictators were elected. My family lived in a dictatorship too, and the dictator was elected. Then the military got fed up and started a coup. I see Maduro apologists and the parallels between situations and I figure that you people would rather my family live through dictatorship and have me be born into a dictatorship.
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  627.  @mikemurray2027  We got co-opted by big business.
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  628. It's not vigilantism if it's only defense of the self. People don't have the right to stop someone who defended himself. None of this would have happened if the criminals out that night didn't decide to chase Kyle.
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  629. They're so clever that they lost the rail hubs in the north? Now the East is threatened. Russia will suffer more defeats as a result of their supply lines being cut.
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  630.  @rudedude1686  Right. Just like that Ka-52 hit the bridge support and claimed it was a barge.
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  631.  @rudedude1686  Nah, Russia losing will benefit me greatly. It was Russia who pressed the gun against the middle class. They pulled the trigger. It misfired. One someone wants to kill you and misses... That's when you take their gun and cave their face in with the cold steel.
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  632.  @Yodalemos  Funny thing is in Europe there's massive violations of gun safety by cops but because there's no gun culture that goes unpunished, but cops that do use the firearm justifiably can get jail time. This happened in Portugal, some irresponsible parent decided to do a robbery with his kid in the car and when a police officer was shooting at the car in an attempt to disable him, he unknowingly struck the child killing him. The cop was sentenced to something like 8 years but he served less, I think. Shouldn't the criminal father have been charged instead? He was the one who placed the child in the path of those bullets. That cop then became the poster boy for the "muh cops are unfairly treated" shtick of a right wing party. Well they're not unfairly treated, it's just that the justice system is r-tarded.
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  633.  @Yodalemos  The thief was not just "escaping", the shots were directed at the vehicle because the fleeing suspect was using the van as a weapon and threatening both bystanders and officers' lives. Honestly he should have directed the gunfire at the driver's head, but that might have not got the limp body to release the throttle, while a busted engine will resist the turning of the crank and thus stop the axle.
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  634.  Jack Bradford  I'm not defending the military.
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  635.  @Baffi_  Ventilation actually helps the death spiral. Not only it injuries the lung tissue and contributes to inflammation, it also promotes the formation of oxide radicals. How is it better for the economy? Until very recently people had to be in isolation anyway. And close contacts too. So you could be near someone who tested positive, stay negative, be told to stay home, then come back to work and then have contact with someone who tested positive. Businesses were complaining about the restrictions due to staffing issues. How is it better for the economy to have this revolving door?
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  636. Yeah, if only those "other studies" were looked into... and the use of person-days was being used to propagate misinformation when it comes to layered efficacy...
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  637.  @rahn45  So they left a skeleton crew to defend the Kupiansk rail hub? Now the east is threatened. Ukraine will cause another frontline collapse.
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  638. People in red states feel safe. That's a lot of people who have been pacified and reduces the will to fight.
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  639.  @studiobauhaus7740  Russia destroyed Syria.
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  640. No offense but that's the definition of too little, too late. If people are coming down with delta, it's too late. Omicron will have already outcompeted delta by the time you see the results of the lockdown due to the time lag. If anything you may contribute to household spread of delta and prevent omicron from taking over.
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  641. Usually private investors. There's money people who agree to finance for the first few years in the hopes that it gets big and they collect their returns then. Some carefully pick what they invest on, others have a shotgun approach and will finance anything in the hopes that one becomes a huge deal.
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  642. The government shut everything down! If government was growing the food then they'd have to break their own quarantine rules.
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  643.  @timn5008  "This is what Wall Street andd the Corporate world want" - Wall St and corps have been making bank from people being locked inside homes. You got it the other way around, bub.
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  644. @RottenProduce As long as I can get you first if you don't have a sealed CBRN Hazmat suit.
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  645. BS. That's a clear moving of the goalposts. First you people wanted herd immunity now you're claiming it's just about deaths and don't care about cases, but you'll use cases as justification for more lockdowns. Get the hell out. Also, the UK is seeing more daily average deaths than the same period last year. Explain that.
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  646. It's a RNA virus so it doesn't have DNA.
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  647. Is it 6 months for the certificate or final results of an autopsy? Six months seems unreasonable, imagine all the dead people with all their bank accounts, contracts and IDs still active because no certificate got emitted for six months.
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  648. It wasn't automatic.
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  649. Number one in paying hospitals to declare everything as C19.
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  650.  @tiptoucher3694  just a question, how exactly do you think that the armed forces test experimental aircraft that cannot be disclosed to the public?
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  651. What's the misinformation?
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