Comments by "Titanium Rain" (@ChucksSEADnDEAD) on "PowerfulJRE" channel.

  1.  @redleather420  Approved by people who get jobs at the company that makes the products they approve. Really makes you think.
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  2.  @harrym9655  "We need the vaccines, the vaccines have saved millions of lives" - Right now they're being proven to not work and people are taking boosters to increase the effectiveness. Grow up.
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  3.  @taaaaaaaazzzzzz  "Based" comes from Lil B Based God. Being based is achieving the state where you have your own opinions instead of folding to public pressure.
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  4.  @gregd5138  It doesn't prevent you from getting it. Hey, I got those and I never got asked for proof to enter a business or keep a job. Keep listening to the people who created this situation by saying there was no proof of contagion, no proof it was airborne, etc.
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  5. reachforacreech sexually reproducing animals who didn't have urges had less sex, thus their lineage was erased from the gene pool. Basically, all the humans alive are only alive because their ancestors were horny. A trait useful for reproduction will thrive.
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  6.  @damienholland8103  show me the numbers on long covid
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  7.  @redleather420  Multinational governments? You're joking, right? It's the biotech companies that did it.
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  8. MakeAGameWithMe But if there's love involved, you'll raise children with that person rather than hump and dump them. That increases the chances of survival of your genetic heritage.
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  9.  @silveriver9  The world didn't prepare? They silenced doctors. No compassion? China never shown show compassion for anyone.
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  10. USADA and I were never friends
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  11.  @silveriver9  First the information about it was suppressed. Then the world was told there was nothing to worry about. When we were suspicious, the China-controlled WHO said that restricting travel was unnecessary. I can't put it in simpler terms. China purposefully sent people abroad to infect the world while closing their own borders, and you claim we have no compassion. Also, tests done on blood banks confirm that Italy already had the infection by autumn/early winter. So there was no time to prepare. You don't need me to put it in simpler terms. We already had it before we know it existed.
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  12.  @silveriver9  The CDC just released a report regarding mask mandates and how they only limited case growth by 1%. But nice of your to change the subject as soon as someone turned up the heat.
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  13. @Abe Archambault And, pray tell, what good does the ventilator do when the hemoglobin is not carrying O2 like it should? Blow as much air into the lungs as you want, you're only increasing the chance of clots and pneumonia.
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  14. You signed the bill that banned machine guns, Ronnie. ARGHHHHHHH
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  15.  @wesmurphy9725  Attacks were not foiled, in fact it provoked attacks.
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  16.  @MrRandomTwat  he was never charged or convicted of those crimes.
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  17.  @z.bongerman1062  The home town newspapers had some semblance of independence, but now everything is owned by conglomerates.
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  18.  @gregd5138  "you can resume activities that you did before the pandemic" - Yes, the carrot tactic. How long until you show the stick? I really don't want to overuse the analogy but this is like a terrorist making demands. First you deny people's freedom. Then you say you'll give it back if we comply. When I was a kid I thought the "we don't negotiate with terrorists" thing was a punchline for jokes, but there's a reason for it. Once you do what terrorists say, you encourage more people to cause harm to further their political goals. "This is a statement from the CDC, you know,,,,scientists who are much smarter then you?" - You mean scientists that reacted too late when anyone with an internet connection could see that there was a contagious illness in Wuhan? A goddamn plumber could have told you there was a danger of pandemic in December 2019.
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  19.  @falten2  Oh boo hoo, science is hard. Meanwhile any layman with a pre-1990 attention span could have predicted every turn. Should we replace the scientists with plumbers and electricians? They predicted this stuff a year and a half ago.
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  20. It's actually generosity that bites us in the ass. If you're selfish, people can't affect you. If you're generous, people will drag you through the depths of hell just because they can and leave you alone to pick up the pieces.
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  21.  @Elizabeth_residencias  Rural boys in China have an obesity rate of 17.2%. It was 0.03% in 1985. In cities were fast foot is more popular, obesity rates can reach 20%.
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  22. Did they?
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  23.  @PurdueDood  Now tell me. Since when did you need an app or document with a QR code to prove you took the polio vaccine?
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  24. ​@Gianni523 "reee we're not conspiracy theorists" "reee you disagree so you're getting paid" take your meds
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  25. "I think stopping poor people to get guns is kinda the point of the laws" - Yeah and it's wrong. It's discrimination.
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  26.  @antonyjh1234  Mearsheimer literally said Putin was too smart to invade. He proved himself wrong.
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  27.  @Proper-G  " Everyone knows that the longer covid runs rampant the longer we gotta deal with these restrictions. So ppl who don't wear masks are viewed as the reason they're stuck at home. I don't think you need to be manipulated to be pissed at selfish ppl like that." - So we're all being held hostage by terrorists, and you blame the hostages trying to flee rather than the terrorists executing people. Everyone with a brain knows that the longer the restrictions are held, the longer this is going to take. The narrative was, everyone's going to get it but we have to flatten the curve. We've flattened the curve. It was understood that the moment you ease the restrictions, you'll see more cases. But we've diminished the peak. However, the narrative changed. Now there can't be any more cases. If you have good memory you'll remember that the restrictions would not eliminate the spread. They'd only slow it down. So opening up always meant a surge of cases. So now even places that high compliance are still going through their second and third lockdowns. By their own logic the more we delay the more this is going to take because the restrictions were only meant to DELAY spread not prevent it.
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  28.  @goead  Because there was more than enough footage of the original landing so they reused the tapes on other missions. For whatever reason, maybe they were cataloging missing stuff or something, they put out a request to see if anyone had them laying around which started a search through the archives and they concluded it was reused. It wasn't a big deal but people go "ermaghed they lost the tapes".
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  29.  @josepadilla-wu9yt  Funnily enough he did tweet about this situation.
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  30.  @MrRandomTwat  So if he does get a pardon on the drug charges he gets away with attempted contract killing. If prosecutors can be discredited then they're doing a poor job. This isn't about conspiracies. A man was put in jail for life over drugs, and people defend it over attempted contract killings, but he wasn't charged with those crimes. There was an attempt to, but it was dismissed.
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  31. A credit score is essentially a way to determine if you're "good for it". Anyone looking to give you credit has to protect their investment, they want a return. A background check is to see if you're a criminal. Social credit scores means you don't get to ride the bus this month because you criticized the president online. You're the one who's out of touch if you're equating not defaulting on your loans with having your entire life controlled.
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  32.  @damyr  That agreement didn't exist. We promised not to expand to EASTERN GERMANY. The Warsaw Pact and Soviet Union still existed. There is no reason why the US would have an agreement when Russia controlled the Warsaw Pact and the Soviet Union. None of those countries would ask to join NATO.
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  33. Alberturkey54 Well, but it's an objective fact that all of what you experience in this world are brain tricks. That's even where subjectiveness comes from, because not everyone reacts with the same tricks to the same reality.
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  34. Ignoring the money laundering issue, the question of value is subjective. If a painting is confirmed to be a da Vinci you have an item with extreme historical significance. If someone replicated his style to make a modern painting, you have a nice painting but not one made by THE guy. You could teach a half dozen people in the world to make perfect forgeries and get as many faux Leonardos as you want, but that's not valuable. It's like if you found gold under every rock. The more you have the less valuable it becomes. Genuine da Vincis have a limited supply. No more can be made. And if you have a painting that might be a genuine your subjective evaluation will take into account that you're "betting" that it's a genuine piece.
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  35. Tucker lmao
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  36.  @isaakjunkeer785  The underground bunkers were their protection. There's helmet cam footage, they left the tunnels and fought in the surface, but they would come back to the underground to rest and heal their injuries. If they were hiding, why did it take months for Azovstal to fall? They were fighting and Russians couldn't get close. Russia lost a ton of quality troops in Mariupol. The Azovstal defenders saved the nation by delaying the Russians and taking out hordes of advancing troops.
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  37.  @aleksanderfradkin7955  Russia was defeated in the first Chechen war.
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  38.  @i.Gnarly  People with walls full of degrees have been proven wrong multiple times, while people who dropped out of highschool have been predicting exactly how this sh!tshow was gonna go from March 2020. Get all the degrees you want, when you can't perform in the real world you need to step aside.
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  39. Snowden took his girlfriend/wife to Russia.
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  40.  @Kazerai  Discovered and kept under wraps. The 19 was retroactive, because it was named in 2020.
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  41.  @Kidsinamerica  If you force someone who works for you to do something, and they get hurt... oh boy that should be a windfall. I want to see bankruptcies.
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  42.  @inquisitorsneed2  The links get removed due to YouTube's spam filter, but I guess you'll take any dirty trick to get the upper hand.
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  43.  @RobotHau5  buddy the CIA did unethical human experimentation decades ago. They have their own black budget. If anything, I'll believe many agents and analysts are good people but the organization is corrupt to the core. You can't run a p*d0 island and have blackmail on multiple high profile people without the higher ups knowing. How does Billy C. dismiss secret service to go on trips with this guy nobody knows where he made his money without the CIA knowing?
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  44.  @SonOfGOD937  "You don’t know what rude is because you don’t understand what freedom is" - What?
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  45. It's called "vocal fry".
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  46.  @colonizingpuertoricoisunde2971  lmao that comment was outta pocket
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  47. No. There's millions of pathogens, you're only vaccinated against what? 10, 15? Are you infringing on others by not having millions of vaccines? Never leave the house again.
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  48.  @loneskankster2242  Give me the name of the person beaten to death and I will research it.
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  49.  @loneskankster2242  https://edition.cnn.com/2021/02/02/politics/brian-sicknick-charges/index.html There's no footage of Slicknick receiving fatal injuries and medical examiners did not find evidence of brunt force trauma injuries. So where did you see the footage? Where did the world see the footage? Your eyes. You claim they saw the footage. Prosecutors don't have it. Where? Did your eyes deceive you? Did you see something the world did not see?
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  50. You're not going to comply your way out of this.
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  51.  @MaynardCrow  I started slipping in "Mainland Taiwan" into my vocabulary to refer to Chay-nah.
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  52. Well MMA took off about 30 years ago, so if the average guy was 30 when he started, they're all in their 60s. Only those who started age 40 or late 30s in the late 90s could be in their 70s. Also mind that guys from that generation had previous fights in other sports, a pro-wrestling background full of bumps, many had alcohol or drug issues, etc. It's not that MMA killed athletes. It's that MMA was less prestigious so it was bound to attract people who were already damaged, physically or psychologically.
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  53.  @stanb.5261  Just stop. The Fukushima plant resisted the tsunami without issue. It was the fact that backup generators were placed below the water line that lead to disaster. The reactor design was also pretty outdated.
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  54.  @redleather420  Multinational companies with no allegiance to anyone except their shareholders, and government oversight of the same kind that approved thalidomide.
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  55. Those are actually based on something that happened in the past, rather than pure fantasy.
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  56. @Abe Archambault If you have to take 4 in a year, it's not "yearly", it's quarterly. And the flu shot is tuned for the specific variants. This is just the product not working and requiring more dosage of the same exact thing.
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  57. He lost to Brad Tavares, which isn't really a comeback. That was Joe's point, you're not the same after a shin break.
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  58.  @PavelAVasilevich  They lose more territory in a day than they can seize in a month.
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  59.  @davidhatton8748  They are. Russia is losing more territory in a day than they could capture in a week.
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  60. Plot twist: those techniques don't work and will hardly kill anyone, so it doesn't matter
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  61. william waddell You can cause a deadly brain hemorrhaging if you punch someone, does that mean boxing is some crazy deadly technique? You can kill someone if you put them in a RNC until the brain has been deprived from oxygen. If you can't control it, it doesn't work. I can put my shin into someone's temple, but I do it in a controlled manner because it's not good etiquette to knock your sparring partner out. If you can get your magical thumb into the magical pressure point that kills (hurr), you can do it at full speed but without striking. Do you know how strong the neck is? You can crank someone's neck full speed without snapping it, because it takes tremendous force. Whatever crazy technique can always be done in a controlled manner. If you can't, then you can't use it in real life because you've never used it for real either.
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  62. william waddell Semantics. If I elbow you "12-to-6" to the back of the head it's against the rules of the sport MMA (for two different reasons). But I can control it so it won't harm you. You also aren't supposed to rabbit punch people in boxing or use takedowns, but I can do a rabbit punch with no power or a takedown not meant to slam you. Even though those are against the sport aspect of boxing, you can control those techniques. Besides, you haven't mentioned which techniques you're talking about because you know I can show how they can be done with control. Keep deflecting, bud.
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  63. william waddell Well, the submissions in traditional jiujitsu and modern BJJ also cause damage (some of them can cause damage before pain becomes unbearable). But they can be done controlled.
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  64. william waddell So you are saying that a deadly technique won't cause a knockout or pain submission if done with control? I was arguing over the subject of sparring, not a fight, so nevermind some of the things I said. Unless you're speaking of twisting someone's neck, most things that kill will usually cause pain or damage. Something that won't do those until it breaks the threshold? Doubtful.
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  65. william waddell A few people? So, it's basically non-repeatable by unbiased sources? Look, some guys claimed to have made cold fusion with the use of red mercury or some shit, nobody could reproduce the results. Normally when that happens, it's bullshit.
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  66. william waddell Mystery and advanced. So basically, not even worth considering because nobody will teach them.
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  67. ***** But then they'd dehydrate themselves right up until the fight. The weight they regain after the weightins is mostly fluids. Your brain uses fluids inside the cranium to cushion impacts. You sure you want people fighting with less protection in their brain?
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  68. Theranos.
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  69. Nagasaki and Hiroshima were nuclear detonations. They were flashed with gamma and x-rays, plus thermal radiation like IR and microwave. You have a microwave oven and a cellphone that use those wavelengths yet you don't complain.
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  70. @@stewart3134 It was the borderland between Europe and the "wildlands" in the Caucasus. It had nothing to do with Russia but the fact that if you went past Ukraine, you'd be going towards the middle east.
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  71.  @comeforaride  You are allowed to trade land for time. For example Bakhmut was supposed to be a delaying tactic before getting to the next defensive line. But Russia got stuck at Bakhmut for months. So when Russia finally takes Bakhmut they will be too spent to break the next defensive line. Remember Lysychansk? Russia declared an operational pause after capturing it - because they suffered too many casualties at Severodonetsk.
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  72. Dam catastrophes have killed more people than Chernobyl.
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  73.  @dan4461  They belonged to the USSR and so what? Tons of stuff belonged to the USSR and Ukraine kept them. Not Ukraine's fault the USSR was ran by bozos.
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  74. The footage is insane. They're not trained for fighting. Meanwhile you see Houthi forces in sandals running up hills and jumping into foxholes to nail them at point blank range.
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  75.  @cristiano3939  Okay, let's tell everyone to shut up and give the floor to the people with medical degrees. Do you also shut down the people with medical degrees who disagree with the government or are you going to give them fair air time to explain why the government has repeatedly made mistakes for a year and a half?
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  76. @Stewart They used their active duty, mercenaries, reservist and volunteer battalions. They got shredded. Now Russia is mobilizing because their active duty army was defeated.
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  77.  @sudonix5923  Russia is drafting 60 year olds with cancer and herniated discs.
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  78.  @timontide6404  They bombed the shit out of everything. Do you not remember the images of cruise and ballistic missiles hitting Kiev?
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  79.  @ivanzhirkov2581  the Kadyrovites went on vacation because they're Kadyrov pretty boys. They don't fight, they're riot troops and they fake combat videos by shooting at nothing. Meanwhile Russian telegram is complaining that they've been fighting for months with no rotation.
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  80.  @sm2049  The F-35 is the best aircraft right now.
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  81.  @elvisibra  That Ru territory is being seized back by Ukraine.
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  82.  @basasure9065  Who cares? Ukraine is recapturing that territory.
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  83.  @novumdomine9925  UFO means Unidentifief Flying Object. They've always existed since flight was achieved, because we put stuff in the air and sometimes there's people watching who can't tell what it is. The Pentagon said that the Navy footage was real, which means it's an Air Force test that they're not allowed to identify. Thus remaining an unidentified flying object. Both of the "sides" in your story are composed of idiots. Both think UFO means alien.
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  84. Those deaths are at the hands of a malicious system that rejected the notion of ending international travel and then told people to stay home until they got critical. We know exactly how this disease kills and who are the vulnerable. They sent infected people to nursing homes. Don't come here and number the deaths because the people in charge killed them. And I will not obey the orders of murderers.
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  85.  @junglegem  Because many of the components were built using outdated methods used by skilled workers that already retired and died. Trying to remake the old Saturn V would cost more than simply starting from scratch with a modern design.
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  86.  @professorpancakes6545  The entire planet is wearing them because they're told to.
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  87.  @professorpancakes6545  "Everyone on Earth", which isn't actually everyone considering that plenty of people are violating mask mandates, and some places are removing them, was wearing masks because they faced legal consequences for not wearing. People who disagreed with masks were still forced to wear them, so they weren't wrong.
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  88.  @rubrub5264  What if he gets a pardon on the drug charges, considering that we're heading towards legalization?
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  89. It was Russia that poked. Transnitsia war, Abkhazia and South Ossetia, Crimea, etc.
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  90. Just like Anderson Cooper. Former intern for them.
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  91. Do you have a way to end it? You can still spread it no matter what you do and there's animal reservoirs.
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  92. Going to those countries is a choice.
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  93. Yeah, and there were exemptions. And my card? It's a piece of paper. My brother actually took it by mistake, and spent two years in college with my document. With my name on it. Nobody cared. Nobody checked. He accidently missed his tetanus booster shot, because I had mine and since it was marked on my card, he thought he had it but forgot. Of course it was not a government overreach. Because nobody gave a damn. You didn't have to present that card to keep your job or to enter businesses. So stop with the false equivalency.
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  94. I don't know how how much I can say without getting deleted for "spreading misinformation" because I'm not a doctor, but... essentially we understand the mechanism of infection that is killing people. We know how to save those who are critical and it's not respirators or O2.
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  95.  @antonyjh1234  8 years of civilian killings? The actual data suggests almost nobody but troops died after the first 2 years, and most civilian casualties weren't "killed" but victims of landmines and unexploded ordnance. You know, something that can only be pinned on Russia considering they invaded?
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  96. sips
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  97.  @ZeranZeran  The shelter would only be useful if you were warned. Duck and cover was developed for in case you see the flash. You only have seconds. If you duck after the flash, you escape most of the initial radiation and the wounds from the glass windows being blown into the room.
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  98. @James Madison It wasn't about expanding, it was about Germany. Why would the Soviet Union have to ask Soviet countries to not be allowed in NATO? Moscow controlled those countries.
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  99. The older you are, the less likely you'll be affected. When Fukushima happened, the older workers volunteered to be the first in the cleanup because they knew that it would take decades for cancers to appear, so they wouldn't suffer the consequences the young workers would.
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  100.  @tucci06  weird hill to die on
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  101.  @naemanmalik6107  They usually either create fictional countries, use real countries but state that there's been a revolution and it's just the government that's evil, or they make movies about historical events. On the other hand, the original Red Dawn actually had China as one of the allies of the United States, and the remake changed the invader from China to North Korea.
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  102. In the 1990s thanks to the fall of the Soviet Union, many movies that show Russians as the enemy state they are separatists or that the government was seized by ultranationalists. In Air Force One the terrorists support a dictator that the Russians helped aprehend. In Sum of All Fears the plot is that Russia and the US are tricked into fighting each other.
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  103. That's a problem with the Soviet Union, not nuclear.
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  104.  @conorcleary2100  And who are you to tell others what they need or don't need?
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  105.  @kniferideaudio  "we still have 500000 dead" - that the CDC admitted only around 4% of those were actually killed by the sickness, not the co-morbidities.
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  106.  @nixdaddio  it's not a dead virus either.... it's an mRNA vaccine
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  107.  @loneskankster2242  Post the video, then.
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  108. ​ @bruuuuuuuuuh it wasn't "random" but there was a list of cities. Could have been those two cities, could have been two others. I think part of the reason was weather reports, they needed to drop during clear weather.
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  109.  @88magikk  most lactose intolerance that is not caused by underlying conditions is mild enough that the people that have it can still consume some milk (in quantities that would be available in ancient farming). Plus the old style of processing that creates yoghurt creates lactase through baterial activity which allows lactose to be digested, I think industrially produced yoghurt is different, though. Point being many cultures in the world still used farm animal milk, even though it's more common for Europeans to be tollerant to a high degree.
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  110.  @joemoody7440  poor little bot has no arguments, just emojis like children playing with their phone
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  111.  @wacey7455  Fun fact - that research was based off westerners as well. The lab was built by French experts, and the GoF expert was Ralph Baric from the University of North Carolina.
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  112. So you're going to ignore 125,682 people walking around and causing the whole cycle to restart?
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  113.  @robertj1777  Nuclear waste is a manufactured problem. Finland is finishing up their geological storage.
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  114. "what other option was there to stop hundreds of thousands of people from dying?" - Reading the studies that detail the mechanism that's killing people. We know what's killing people and how to stop it.
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  115. ​ @harisabram4767  the problem with the power cube thing is that it uses a proprietary unit with no physical meaning. There's a reason ft lbf are used.
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  116.  @CBDguitar  Cope and seethe.
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  117.  @CBDguitar  Do you have anything to offer except sperging about Fox News?
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  118.  @CBDguitar  You seem obsessed. Still doing the Russiagate thing? Also, funny how you people now pretend to hate Vietnam draft dodgers, as if avoiding Vietnam was not a moral good.
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  119. The TrueAnon podcast hosts go to the trial every day and record a recap as a podcast. You could cover the trial yourself if you wanted to.
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  120. Mucho texto. 90% of your points are countered by science youtubers like Kyle Hill.
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  121. You mean the missile crisis, that was worse than the Bay of Pigs.
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  122. Even with more parties it will still be a two party system. The largest parties will simply form coalitions to secure more votes than the other.
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  123.  @scottcantdance804  He also pushed the AZT fraud (recently I noticed the drug was mentioned in the movie Philadelphia, if anyone remembers) and also misreported 29% effectiveness on an HIV vaccine trial in Thailand when it was actually 20%.
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  124. Because the computer back then only had to perform "simple" calculations. Your iPod also has more memory and speed than intercontinental ballistic missiles or the bombing computers in fighter jets of the time.
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  125. So you want the power of the market to adapt and reduce costs and freedom of choice, but people should be FORCED to do certain things? That would go against the free market and end up with the problems of regulation.
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  126.  @sirrathersplendid4825  You've already twisted my words and strawmanning is an admission that you're wrong. Nobody said that there was too much footage. All the existed footage already existed in more than enough backups that it was found unnecessary to preserve the data tapes and they were reused as it was standard procedure. Yes, the event was so important that many tuned in to the NASA transmission that was coming from space at the time. Not a joke. They didn't just delete it. They had an expensive tape format, the same footage was recorded on other formats, so they reused the tape. The footage was not deleted because there's copies. And the search for the original data tapes actually ended up providing NASA with higher quality copies that had been forgotten and they were restored.
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  127. @Ivan Zhao How is it incompetence to reuse expensive tape formats when you already have all the data backed up in multiple parts of the world?
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  128.  @100popsongs  Buddy. If it was FDA approved of course it wouldn't make a difference to me. leans closer but it does to other people....
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  129.  @jamesjross  Yes. The book contradicts his own after-action report, and even the report is exaggerated.
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  130.  @HeXD071b  The video taken by the fighters essentially nukes Luttrell's version of the events so we already have one person not telling the truth in this story.
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  131.  @bajenguevara  the Minsk Accords were broken by the DPR assaulting Debaltseve the day after it was signed.
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  132. Did you know we supported the Houthis? We provided them intelligence on Al Qaeda, they merc'ed them. They were a huge asset on the war on terror. Then the Saudis needed a war, now we're fighting our former allies. Therefore supporting Al Qaeda by suppressing their local adversary. So we're fighting to protect terrorists anyway. The guy tossing hand grenades. Do you even know if he was on the side of the Houthis or Al Qaeda? Could be either.
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  133.  @bradf448  False equivalency. In this case everyone is throwing oil in the fires, everyone is saying that water and fire extinguishers don't work, and people whose houses are not burning down are being evacuated from their homes for no reason.
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  134. Tell that to Israel.
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  135. "every country where guns were banned, dropped the amount of gun violence per capita" - What about Brazil and Mexico? Or even the UK? Gun crime rose after the handgun ban. You're lying.
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  136.  @VoidSurfer9  "That our military has observed vehicles performing maneuvers at speeds unknown to man" - This never happened. They had radar contacts that reported these speeds. This type of behavior was not observed through the pod footage. Meanwhile you could read up on the declassified reports of SOLVED ufo/uap contacts. Mostly quadcopter drones operating without permission and balloons.
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  137. My grandmother waited two years. Obviously she wouldn't have afforded a 70k surgery if that was the option. But what's two weeks in Canada can be years in other places with free healthcare.
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  138.  @ElmerAwesome  Yanukovych was the terror. He killed protesters and made a deal, throwing the police units who murdered protesters under the bus. That's why the security services stopped protecting Yanukovych.
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  139.  @cupofjotv8195  They had enough votes. It wasn't the article of impeachment you're thinking of that was cited.
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  140.  @Racer92  External financial support was what Putin promised to Yanukovych to change his mind.
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  141. ***** For soccer you need both explosiveness and endurance. By that logic alone, soccer has better athletes than all the sports mentioned.
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  142. I learned how to slam my shin to someone's temple for 22 a month, so I'll pass.
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  143. william waddell Kidding, my point is that my kickboxing is sort of proven vs reasonably skilled opponents and I'd rather fall back to gross motor skills in times of stress rather than complex moves.
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  144. william waddell I'd consider myself safer with a "handgun" I could shoot at a range for practice than a "bazooka" which I could never use until the time comes.
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  145. william waddell The bazooka is something that is extremely deadly, but you can't exactly use on people you like. I can trade punches 6 days of the week and none of us get killed. Needless to say, I'm better at something I do almost every day than something I can't train with other people without killing them.
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  146. I know right? People should fight at the weight they walk around, and whenever they want to move up or down they do it slowly and not in under a week.
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  147. ***** It's also stupid to cut and regain. It's a cheap trick but it also carries dangers. The only surefire way I can think of requires more than one weigh in, so that people actually make weight instead of becoming dry as a raisin.
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  148. @ Aaron (mobile is a bitch to add replies to people with common names), I agree that it would be stupid. But the sports world has it's share of nutters everywhere. American football is a glaring example. People supergluing teeth, 70% of players go broke after retirement, mouthguard company getting a slap in the wrist because they made unsubstiated claims about their mouth guard preventing concussions. Armstrong was caught with steroids but nearly everyone in the cycling world is doing them. Bodybuilders getting calf implants because they can't grow muscle there. Fighters are also on steroids on so many different leagues. Pride basically pushed roids to it's fighter rooster. Fighters going back to hard sparring sessions right after losing by knockout. Taking painkillers when their body is begging them to stop. I'm not the kind of person who wants to "protect others from themselves" - they have the right to be stupid - but the UFC (and many other leagues/fighting sports) needs to control their fighters' stupidity or else the sport may be ruined for everyone because I'd bet at least 10% of fighters would show up to same day weighins dehydrated.
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  149. Well, I'm not American so I don't know much about their football either but I came across a ton of info when researching concussions. Basically the concussion awareness exploded and everyone is after the gear that protects players (no gear is ever going to stop the brain from rattling when there's two 200lb guys sprinting at each other) which lead to this bs broscience related to gear, coaches sending concussed/injured players back into the game, athletic commissions trying to hide the facts about concussions, etc. In a perfect world the athletes and coaches would be educates in sports science. Promoters too. If the NFL is willing to chew up and spit out superstar athletes while widtholding the facts, I have no reason to believe coaches and promoters won't take a few risks just to get a payday - after all, the consequences of fighting with low cerebrospinal fluid may only appear a decade or two later so unless people drop dead on the mat I doubt they're going to lose their sleep over it. I have good coaches who always tell our team's fighters to not starve and never deprivate themselves of fluids, and they tell us that because they know some of us might do it. I'll be the first to say it, sometimes people get the superhero complex of fighting through adversity like it's a Rocky movie and I'm guilty of it too.
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  150. I'll concede that point about them being different sports, but not that long ago Bermane Stiverne had to be hospitalized after boxing dehydrated. And a study found out 39% of MMA fighters are still dehydrated two hours before the fight, 11% seriously dehydrated. Gaining back weight doesn't necessarily mean the body is using those fluids for hydration. It's stupid, but people are doing it. Maybe same day weighins would solve it but my money is on more than one weigh in.
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  151. The percentages were 2hr before the fight, not at weighin. This means that the weight regain doesn't necessarily rehydrate anyone. Being mildly dehydrated in any given day can be fixed - but it's serious if you're competing. This of course for day before weighins. Same day weigh ins would involve different kinds of stupidity. Maybe inducing bowel movements, I can guarantee they'll come up with something.
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  152. Aaron >39% >small percentage Their bodies are soaking up water without even using it to rehydrate and unless they want to piss themselves after getting clocked in the fight there's no way they can rehydrate in two hours.
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  153. Aaron "Results demonstrated that 39% of the MMA fighters presented with a Usg of >1.021 immediately before competition indicating significant or serious dehydration. The MMA fighters undergo significant dehydration and fluctuations in body mass (4.4% avg.) in the 24-hour period before competition. Urinary measures of hydration status indicate that a significant proportion of MMA fighters are not successfully rehydrating before competition and subsequently are competing in a dehydrated state." http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23439336 Don't take other people's words and give them other meaning. In a competition, "slightly" dehydrated is serious. Those 39% have levels of dehydration which are "significant" or "serious", those were the words the study used - which makes it even worse considering we're talking about sports competition. The 11% are acutely dehydrated two hours before a fight, which is asking for kidney damage.
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  154. Entertainment is subjective. Recently WWE has both pulled off edge of the seat moments and borefests. If one is following the storylines, there's bad stories too. Personally, The Shield went for too long and The Authority is just too damn repetitive at this point. Kinda like the Edge and Vickie storyline went for too long years ago. It's just as possible to not be entertained by the moves. When I was a kid I couldn't watch boxing, I was expecting Mike Tyson style knockouts. A few years ago I couldn't watch kickboxing. And until recently I hated the ground game of MMA. Some things require understanding of the principles at work to enjoy them.
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  155. ***** I don't like using the "you don't get it" argument, but I couldn't watch MMA until I learned about BJJ and how the techniques were called, etc. Then it became entertaining because I knew what was happening. I couldn't watch boxing or kickboxing until I started playing the Fight Night games and practicing kickboxing myself.
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  156. ​ @jtjames79  Secret aircraft are constantly exposed. The F-117 sightings were common, and the government just made it public anyway.
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  157. You're just attacking the man, not the arguments.
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  158.  @bobmateljan6986  They don't matter to you either. You're not capable of using them.
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  159.  @bobmateljan6986  Yeah, no arguments. Thanks for admitting your loss.
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  160. And the F-117 was known. It was presumed to be called F-19 and to have a rounded shape. The aircraft was secret, but its existence was known because people in the desert saw the F-117s flying at night. Even Tom Clancy had a chapter about them in one of his books, where he assumed they'd be used to penetrate Soviet air space and shoot missiles at AWACS to blind their situational awareness. In real life it was a bomber, and while it was considered they didn't want to ever mount a missile on a F-117 and shoot it fearing that the rocket motor would burn off the stealth coating. If you look up "F-19" you'll find scale model kits from back then. The aircraft was secret but famous enough to have model kits and videogames made about it.
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  161.  @mrmister385  First, a grainy picture was shown in a press conference in 1988, and in April 1990 it was allowed to fly in daytime in full view of spectators. That was prior to the 1991 Gulf War. Anyway, the aircraft was known. It was called F-19 by the public, and an incorrect scale model was made. Tom Clancy called it the F-19A Ghostrider (nicknamed "Frisbee" by crews) in Red Storm Rising. Microprose released a flight sim called F-19 Stealth Fighter. The fact of the matter is that people had seen triangle aircraft at night. And the sightings inspired the Testors model aircraft, which sold 700,000 units. Almost a million people bought a scale model aircraft of the presumed Nighthawk. Seems pretty well known to me.
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  162. EMPs will not affect all devices equally. The smaller they are, the less of an "antenna" they have to receive the pulse.
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  163.  @steveperry3572  It won't mutate you because the grid in front of the glass is opaque to microwave radiation. You rarely see mutations. What you saw in photos of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were burns.
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  164. Sure, they deserve it. But do they have the right to demand it by force?
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  165.  @glidercoach  No.
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  166.  @yothythoty729  Fake. This was before the USSR collapse, it was about East Germany. There's still no foreign bases in former GDR territory.
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  167.  @philobetto5106  The labs were built by the Soviet Union. When the USSR collapsed, the US and Western Europe had to clean up Moscow's mess.
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  168.  @philobetto5106  No promises were made in the 90s.
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  169.  @cattreeoflife980  It wasn't an agreement. America didn't break it.
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  170.  @locojambo  Russia doesn't "allow" anything. We don't need their opinion or consent.
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  171.  @cattreeoflife980  Firehose of falsehood vatnik, how much is Glavset paying you?
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  172.  @dylanfarnum4121  Yoda also couldn't tell Palpatine was a Sith Lord. Just saying.
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  173. People like SerpentZA and LaoWhy86 lived in China for over a decade. The first hand experience of actually living in a place and seeing it deteriorate is not the same an expert gets by "being to China".
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  174. Really?
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  175.  @Wargutz666  You still spread if you take it. It's still going to be a superspreader event. If they don't want the hospitals clogged, they need to stop sending people home until they're critical and then hook them into a machine.
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  176.  mortuusequusphobia  Your information is outdated. Get with the program. You guys have already admitted it doesn't make you immune or stop the spread. The justification to take it is reduced hospitalization now. You guys already lost, and even changed the definition of vaccine. Call a time out and go talk to your team because you need to follow their gameplan.
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  177.  @krisinsaigon  Hundreds of thousands of people killed every year by endemic diseases and you never cared. Now we refuse treatment because there's a financial incentive for hospitals to only deal with critical cases and suddenly it's an issue.
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  178.  @krisinsaigon  No argument, right? Ha ha.
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  179.  @krisinsaigon  Yeah I got a fat ass. You're still wrong, though.
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  180. If they change their mind all the time, why do we listen to them? If they change their minds all the time, why did the policies remain static? You're trying to call a time out. No. We can investigate. We should have done it the SECOND it hit our shores, and you want even more time. Why?
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  181.  @blockbusstar  Oh, so now there's a consensus. They're not changing minds anymore? They know best. Okay. Then how come a complete dumbass like me has been right and vindicated this whole time simply through intuition and pattern recognition? The fire department doesn't show up and decide to put out the fire with jet fuel. I don't need to second-guess the fire department, we both agree on what needs to be done. They have a fire engine and I don't. If I had the means to fight a house fire by myself I'd do it. The fire department doesn't constantly get things wrong and then call me stupid for not agreeing with them. The fire department tries to save as much as they can, the "experts" destroyed lives.
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  182.  @blockbusstar  "scientists change their minds based upon how strong the emerging evidence" - Okay, then why didn't the measures change in response? "usually when this happens there is consensus among all scientists that they indeed need to change their mind" - Okay. Where was this consensus when the measures were supposed to have changed? "Based upon your comments you don’t understand the principles of science?" - No, I understand them better than you. That's why I'm poking holes in your arguments and detecting contradictions. "well we might stop doing research in it’s totality" - Strawman argument. "And let’s dismiss every expert who has dedicated their lives on this topic" - If they're liars and refused to change their tune once the science was changing, they should be dismissed. And also be found liable for the lives they ruined for thinking they're hot sh!t and instead being wrong.
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  183.  @MbisonBalrog  They weren't the same nation. Russians always saw Ukrainians as inferior and attempted to erase them multiple times.
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  184. How do you know the radar saw the same objects? If there's radar glitches and you're sent to investigate, and you see a trash bag floating in the air, you're going to think the trash bag was the cause of the radar signals.
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  185.  @giantarcsfora9279  You should look into the declassified reports of SOLVED ufo cases. Yeah, they see ufos all the time. They report them all the time. And sometimes it's possible to pinpoint exactly what they were. You'd be surprised. But nobody likes being surprised by the truth. "radars all tracking the same objects at the same time" - I'm going to need proof of this. "Trash bags which accelerate from 0 to 50,000 miles per hour?" - Again, going to need proof of this. The acceleration values would be corroborated by sound recording (which is used in anti-submarine surveillance) and thermal imaging because anything going that fast is going to heat the air like a meteorite. So where is all the proof?
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  186. "lets say you saw someone in public reach into an old ladies purse and steal $100, the question becomes do your morally object to that? Do you say/do something? I think most people would take issue to that, change it to stealing cookies from a girl scout, whatever you like... This doesn't make a person a sheep" - You're using outright THEFT as your example. You correctly called out a logical fallacy and then you use the exact same type. "it makes them a reasonable member of society who cares about others around them" - This isn't about caring. You're giving too much credit to the mindset. They don't berate others because they actually care because they don't. It's low status people getting their rocks off. It's like being in a twitter mob but in real life. The propaganda literally tells people to be "heroes". They want that. "There is a large amount of our population who don't wear masks, and instead of reaching in and stealing money for the old ladies purse they are playing russian roulette with the lives of every single person" - This is false. The masks only decrease the velocity of particles coughed or sneezed, and capture some depending on mask efficiency (most masks people wear are extremely low efficiency). If we go back 10 months you'll see the infographs and 3d renders showing that without mask your sneeze particles can jump 20 feet or whatever and with a mask 6 feet (hence the distancing thing). You're still infecting people, but at a slower rate. Again, if you go back the narrative was that we were slowing the spread (people still get infected with masks and social distancing, just less at the same time) and not eliminating it. So no matter what you do, you're ALWAYS playing Russian roulette. The mask only loads a plastic bullet instead of a lead one. A contact shot will punch through a skull, but the bullet loses velocity quickly at a distance and becomes progressively less dangerous. "You're a monster. Literally mass murders" - Oh, you're too far gone. You're actually those people. "you will never know that number" - You will never know the number of people who starved because of the economies stalling, you will never know the number of people who died because they missed appointments or cancer treatments.
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  187. No. Read the unified rules. Control is only factored in if the fighters have a tie in terms of aggression. And aggression is only factored if the fighters are tied in score from striking/grappling. Controlling the center is the secondary tie breaker to prevent a 10-10 round. It's so far down the hierarchy it's not common for a round to be decided that way. You can factor in those all you like for your personal judgement of a fight, but that is NOT how fights are scored under the MMA unified rules. Unless the scoring is different in Canada, the judges prioritize damage/striking/grappling to see who wins the round, and only use aggression to determine who wins if the points scoring is too close to call. And if both fighters are equal in aggression the judges use ring/cage control to break the tie.
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  188.  @gavinmillar  Why do you think they're wealthy in the first place? From all the money they make off sidewalks.
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  189. "There's plenty of socialism in the United States" - I must have slept through the revolution because I don't remember the workers gaining control over the means of production.
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  190.  @PutXi_Whipped  They are. They've replaced their missiles by S-300s and Iranian drones. This means they're reducing consumption.
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  191.  @comeforaride  Russia throws men at defenses, Ukraine uses defensive positions to destroy the advances and retreats. A defensive war is easier to fight, and Russia willingly rushes forward.
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  192.  @B1sher  Not true. The name Ukraine was around before the British empire. It wasn't the border between Poland and Russia, it was the border between Europe and the Caucasus, the middle eastern pirates in the Black sea, etc.
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  193.  @B1sher  Whatever, it's still a lie that it was Russia's border. Russia barely existed at that point.
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  194.  @comeforaride  Nice cope. How's Vuhledar going?
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  195. Funny how you call it a 1000+ civilization and ignore that modern China isn't Mao's China, and Mao's China was not the KMT-lead Republic of China. How old is modern China? How many decades like Maoist China last?
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  196.  @pookz3067  The point being that Zeihan isn't saying the abstract concept of civilization won't end, but the very practical and physical concept of a ruling organization will.
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  197.  @jmccann6735  "captured on their weapons cameras" - the footage from those cameras doesn't show what was claimed
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  198.  @Bodhi594  "the Navy pilot saw this with his own Navy Pilot Eyes and Niel is saying he didn't see it" - Regarding the 80,000 feet thing
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  199.  @Zozo806  What Tyson was talking about was the drop from 80,000 feet to 50 feet. Not looking at an object 20,000 feet away.
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  200.  @robert123ro  Control codes are like a padlock on a locker. You can break the padlock and install your own.
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  201.  @takemetothemoon1089  "Neutral Ukraine" = Russia can invade when it pleases
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  202.  @bongbong6464  That wasn't the deal. It was about GERMANY.
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  203.  @bongbong6464  Serbia was genociding Kosovars. Their independence was declared 9 years after the war.
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  204.  @mykhailokravchenko4142  "Waa US is bad why am I not allowed to be worse?" Holy shit you people are psychotic.
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  205.  @konackt  They would have control if they wanted to.
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  206.  @dan4461  nobody taunted Russia
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  207.  @takemetothemoon1089  There's lethal weapons on every border. It's how borders get protected. Cuba lost the nukes, we pulled ours from Turkey in exchange. Things can be negotiated.
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  208.  @bongbong6464  Russia came to kill the Donbas.
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  209. This conflict goes back 300 years and you think America provoked it?
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  210.  @ScienceDenier  How? Because it would require time travel for that to be right.
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  211.  @ScienceDenier  What does that have to do with Ukraine and Russia being in conflict before America existed?
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  212. Not really. War is a massive drain on resources, and wipes out entire generations of people. A nuclear physicist was killed in WWI so his research had to stop. Imagine no WWI. We could have split the atom for energy first during peacetime, and not for nukes. No WWII. No Cold War.
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  213. It only affects things where other people have money on the line and want to make sure you're trustworthy. You can still live a life with bad credit, it's a crap life but you're arguably still free. A full social credit score can be used for full control.
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  214. Not how fights are scored. Strickland easily outscored DDP, and did more damage to boot. Some guys who got their faces beat edged out a decision on points. Strickland had both the points and the damage to easily get the W. Being the aggressor only counts as scoring criteria is the fighters are equal on stats. Read the rules.
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  215.  @oliviahex4994  That's not true. There were offers to treat him for free in Italy and the US, but the government said they boy could not leave the hospital. They didn't deny to pay, they REFUSED to let him leave.
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  216. No, they're low status people. That's why they cling to the system. They're worthless without it.
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  217. There's no magic bullet. The position of the seats explains the trajectory.
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  218. But almost nobody dies. In the US average age of death was like 78 and the people had 2.83 comorbidities in average. AKA a huge amount of people was already battling 3 health conditions before finally croaking. Maybe the figures have changed, point being is that the majority doesn't even notice they have it.
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  219.  @Brianchse  The CDC confirmed that over 90% of those numbers were people who passed away with a positive test, not out of the infection itself. And there's news articles reporting on how the requirements to issue death certificates blaming the infection are being changed to be more strict. You could easily find this information but you didn't, your reaction was to explode at me and make me look like the bad guy. By the way the CDC will also discontinue the PCR test after 31 of December this year and require stricter tests to identify the infection.
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  220. "we have a disconnect on the social contract" - There's no social contract, that was just a lie people bought into and convinced themselves it was real. People can't be born into contracts.
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  221. The Cuomos are perfect examples of low status people. And university professors are even better. In a natural order, they'd be bullied and kept on the bottom. So they create an artificial order where they can bully people. Meanwhile in the real world Cuomo cries about being called Fredo. A high status man would just ignore it, the low status man needs to constantly prove himself.
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  222.  @edgardevice  Are you familiar with "the pause"? 15 years where the trend line remained horizontal.
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  223.  @edgardevice  Both things can be true. Change happens though history. But in 15 years? That's small scale stuff and you insist this happens at a small scale. I like how you didn't address the argument and had to resort to some attempt at a nonsensical gotcha. I'll give you a hint. You have to demonstrate the pause didn't exist. That's how it works.
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  224. Great comment on combat psychology.
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  225. Socialism is when the workers own the means of production and profit is abolished. Public services are not socialism.
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  226. @Stewart the regular infantry is dead and wounded - Russia is conscripting 300k to replace the losses
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  227.  @davesomeone4059  Russia is still supplying because the sanctions impoverished them. They need to sell or their economy is toast.
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  228. @Stewart A feint where men died and equipment was lost...?
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  229.  @vjetar2822  But the referendum areas are being seized by Ukraine.
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  230.  @chrisquas4113  Putin is losing because his troops are getting encircled.
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  231. @Stewart Reservists are conscripts. They're "mobilized", all men can be summoned.
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  232.  @user-vs9db4tj2g  The referendum areas are already being recaptured by Ukraine. Nobody cares about the sham referenda, Ukraine just keeps rolling through.
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  233.  @CrystaliaV  Russia set up volunteer battalions.
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  234.  @fighterx4133  Russia demolished infrastructure from day one. Eastern Ukraine has issues with water supply because Russia destroys everything.
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  235.  @vjetar2822  Cope.
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  236.  @ivanzhirkov2581  It's not a normal job. If there's a war with high intensity, the military can keep you in theater for longer. Look up stop loss. Many US troops got angry at the fact that they couldn't leave.
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  237.  @ivanzhirkov2581  Ukraine is capturing annexed territory.
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  238.  @vibesanm  "so it is not some kind of a redistribution program either" - It is. The lower classes start working sooner and die earlier. The rich start working later and live longer.
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  239.  @vibesanm  "that’s the same with any kind of 401k, ira, private retirement plans etc." - The issue is that... you're taking money off workers who started at 16 and died at 65, and giving it to someone who only finished his PhD at age 30 and lived to his 90s. Not the same thing. "It is a guaranteed program, so something like 2008 happens, you won’t be left pennilessness" - It's not guaranteed according to the Supreme Court. "[some bullshit I'm not even gonna try to decipher]" - You would get more respect if you actually read what other people are saying instead of making shit up in your mind.
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  240.  @vibesanm  It's not a word game, if the supreme court determined that it's not guaranteed and the dissenting opinion literally explained how the government being awarded the right to change the conditions of social security means that it's infringing against property rights then it's clear as fucking day. "what exactly did i make up?" - Everything you said that wasn't said by me. "lot of phds and doctors end up buying 2 houses or more and will get rental income when they retire." - Isn't that more of a reason why the system is superfluous and should be more limited in scope? "That is what makes ssn a good govt pension program instead of a welfare program" - It's a welfare program.
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  241.  @vibesanm  "somewhat protects it from politicians cancelling it" - Yeah and the Fourth Amendment somewhat protects against unwarranted wiretapping. "reagan and bush have taken money from the ssn funds" - I am pretty sure that's a myth and no funds were ever taken. "it doesn't matter what supreme court said in a verdict in 1935" - It does matter. "people paid into it and they will get the benefits" - Says you. "Of course, you will hang on to a dumb technicality to show how smart you are." - It's not a dumb technicality. It's how things work. "So what do you suggest? Cancel ssn? cancel it for people making more than 75k ? people pay into it so that they will get pension later in life, up to like 3800$ or something, end of story, it is reasonably fair, if people make less but have been working for more years, guess what? they will get paid a higher percentage of the yearly charge they paid into ssn, than someone who worked for less time but made way more money. You gotta be really dumb to not get that, you think you are way smarter than you actually are." - Ironic, because you're the one writing a lot of words to end up saying nothing. "Food stamps is welfare, not social security" -You just admitted it was on your own comment!
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  242.  @vibesanm  I looked it up before you even posted, and all the sources say the social security funds were never appropriated by the government. It's a popular hoax to claim that the government took funds and that shit spreads through chain emails since the 2000s. Just like there's a popular hoax that congress members are exempt from paying into social security and whatnot. Ya got played by modern folklore and now you'll do everything but admit but admit you were fooled. If the government has indeed reached into social security funds then at least provide the evidence for the claim. This isn't a purity test. It isn't protected. All it takes is a law to change how things work. "no goddamn thing is protected, not your life, not your right to vote, nothing." - That is correct. Do you think that is an axe murderer is about to swing on you the government arrives and say "nuh-uh, his life is protected"? If you jump off a cliff you think the government is gonna cushion your fall because you're "protected"? No. "So lets dismantle everything and live in a lawless, institution less society" - Nice strawman argument. "listening to alt right nutjobs." - Shut the fuck up. You're the nutjob calling everyone you dislike a fucking Nazi. Pathetic. "Regan and bush took funds from ssn" - Prove it. "and shows how much in absolute denial you are and how much so full of shit you are." - You posted no evidence. Fucking prove it. You can't. And you claim others are full of shit. https://www.fool.com/retirement/2018/05/20/did-congress-really-steal-from-social-security.aspx https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2015/aug/03/facebook-posts/did-george-w-bush-borrow-social-security-fund-war-/ You're full of shit, buddy. About time you admitted it.
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  243.  @vibesanm  1. Prove all of that. 2. It actually happened in 1960. It's funny how you think supreme court decisions are not relevant because of age. 3. The verdict is that you have no contractual right to Social Security. 4. "I don't think it's fair to call a program that you paid into and receive benefits as welfare" - But that's literally what welfare is.
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  244.  @vibesanm  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flemming_v._Nestor "Flemming v. Nestor, 363 U.S. 603 (1960), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court upheld the constitutionality of Section 1104 of the 1935 Social Security Act." - 1935 is the year of of the law. Yet again you've made it clear you don't understand anything about what you're talking about. "Why don't you prove all of the crap you said first?" - You've made the claims, you need to prove them. I named my sources, which I didn't even need to do because the burden of proof is all yours. "Sure, so social security is the same as food stamps." - Piss off. That's a strawman argument. Nobody said social security is like food stamps. This is like saying a Ford and a Ferrari are both cars and your reply is "Sure, so Fords are exactly the same as Ferraris". Fucking come up with better arguments. You got BTFO multiple times now.
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  245. Nobody cares about the nationality, people clearly see a guy win despite looking like he got hit by a truck and don't like it.
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  246. And the CDC said only around 4% of those are real COVID deaths.
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  247. They'd lose tons of money. Russian oligarchs pocket the money instead of producing and profiting.
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  248. The UFC drug policy is meaningless because they still have to abide by sanctioning bodies to legally hold events in the US and most of the first world. Pro wrestling isn't a real competitive sport so there's no federation or athletic comission overseeing the "fights". Unless they plan to do everything from Abu Dhabi from now on, their internal drug policy cannot save them from external oversight.
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  249. But hospitals were getting money from the government by reporting hospitalizations and deaths.
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  250. Okay. Why do climate models rely heavily on changing temperature records? Why are most alarmists using a model that is known to be wrong? The average person can't think, so let us think for them. Yeah okay.
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  251.  @MFx88  Israel already proved the herd immunity didn't work.
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  252.  @MFx88  No, you check your facts. They have 80% of adults double-dosed, still broke last year's record of daily new transmissions. No herd immunity, 3rd dose on the way. Didn't work. Check your facts.
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  253.  @MFx88  You're using total numbers. Adult populations, please. Many countries are still holding off on minors so they cannot be counted.
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  254. The average person doesn't have 100k to blow on a Ferrari.
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  255.  @zkljaja  yeah I'm not building shit here in Europe. Not gonna pass inspection or even if it does insurance will tell me to go fuck myself. Fuel is like 3x more expensive here. Plus I'm not even into car sims. I'm into flying 80 million dollar jet fighters. Simulator is the only option.
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  256.  @Nameeejz  You're attributing guilt by association without even showing there is an association. He's defending Chevron because he's saying things that might benefit the oil companies. What? I also say things that people on the far left say sometimes, doesn't make me a communist.
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  257.  @Nameeejz  By that logic I can also take something a vegetarian/vegan said and correlate it to Hitler. That's how insane that logic is.
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  258. Because a load of Big Bang Theory rejects assumed a big brained nerd would hate sports like they do.
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  259.  @Gwenhwyfar7  "they have better technology than regular people or any other government" - Not true considering how many countries buy American equipment.
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  260.  @patrickoneill1341  But the thermal footage doesn't corroborate the supersonic/diving into water story.
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  261. People inside the Manhattan project literally shared nuclear secrets with the Soviet Union. Not very good at keeping secrets...
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  262. There's no meaningful peace with Russia. They are waiting for peacs to build up their forces and attack again. They didn't get stomped in 2014-2015 so they tried again. They get stomped now, you get peace.
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  263. The problem is that the ones who took it are also circulating. It reduces symptoms. It doesn't prevent transmission. The people who told you it was essential were speaking out of the both sides of their mouth. Hence the contradictions with them saying that people who took it still need to social distance and wear a mask. We still remember that, right?
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  264. Ad Hominem.
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  265. To be fair, the average civilian isn't being sent to investigate strange contacts off the coast. The reason it's the military is because they're the ones equipped to see it. The 2017 Chile ufo footage was an airliner. People see aircraft flying, nothing strange. The Chile coast guard or navy or whatever has a helicopter with a FLIR pod, and they see an infrared signal but beyond visual range? UFO.
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  266. This is an absolute cope. We shouldn't be evil to keep others from being evil. Becoming a monster to fight monsters makes no sense, because now others can claim they need to be evil to prevent the US from getting involved.
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  267.  @NoMoeMistaNiceGuy  It's still a ridiculous point. The US Navy would essentially decimate any force trying to erase the US before it set foot on its soil. Those that would manage to get through would be stopped by the USAF, USMC and Army. Even if this evil supoerpower managed to defeat the entire armed forces... they'd still have an armed populace to control. Trying to make the US stop existing would require wiping out the entire land.
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  268.  @NoMoeMistaNiceGuy  First of all, that's a fairytale view of WWII. Germany started the conflict due to their government spending creating a bubble, the military conflict and the seizing of assets from foreign banks helped mask the impending economic crash. They were totally unprepared for the war, as evidenced by their chronic oil shortages. Their plan was seizing oil fields from the Soviet Union. The sabotage from the crews as they evacuated the region meant that the Germans were eventually repelled from the oil fields before they could restore the extraction capabilities. There was no way Americans would be speaking German, because simply put Germany lacked the capability to do so. Another aspect is that WWII only happened because of WWI. No WWI, no WWII. So in the end, you're trying to say we need violent foreign policy to make up for our own mistakes when we used violent foreign policy. It's absolutely ridiculous. So we need to be killing people in Yemen to prevent the Saudis from dealing with China? Have you thought that maybe Chinese people also think they're the ones who need to be running the markets to prevent the US from waging these conflicts? China and Russia would take part? Fine. We have been driven into trillion dollar wars. Let them fight. Let them bankrupt themselves. According to the 2010 VA statistic our veterans at one point were committing an average of 22 suicides a day. Many of them were from older generations from before the Afghanistan and 2003 Iraq conflicts but the point still stands. How about they suffer this time? If they want to put their own soldiers through this, let them. Russia and China suffer from many internal issues, some of which are talk about, others that are kept under wraps. We have our own internal issues. And you want to add wars to that? No. It's killing us. If they want to take their internal issues and throw war on top of that, it's their own suicide.
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  269. He wasn't talking about combat bows from the medieval era, he was talking about the bows from pre-historic times.
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  270. They took your freedoms and used it as a reward. You can reframe it any way you want it, but it was not worth it.
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  271. Yes you can. GSP did it.
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  272. Sometimes rich people doing things due to ego and spite align with what's right.
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  273. What does Ja Rule have to say about this?
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  274. People who took it are still spreading. It's gonna keep lasting until they actually accept reality and stop doubling down.
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  275.  @johngalt6838  If the mandates are from corporations and not the government, the corporations that required employees to take it are on the hook. Unless the company was under state or federal mandate.
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  276.  @johngalt6838  The whole point of a lawsuit is getting something done when there isn't a law to be enforced. If an employer tells an employee to walk into an unshielded reactor core in a nuclear power plant I don't think there's a law specific to that.
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  277.  @johngalt6838  Okay, what's on the books about someone getting injured or killed? I'm sure there's gotta be something about that.
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  278. Talks broke down due to Bucha.
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  279. Do you want to start an international incident by rescuing the people of NK? Buddy if you have a plan count me in, I'll save the last bullet for myself though.
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  280.  @Ken_N  There's no sitting down. The guys at the top of NK know they're done for if they ever change. They'd rather use the hermit kingdom as a leverage for economic gain. You want us to take action but when confronted you switch gears to "electing real leaders" - there's no such thing and your vote doesn't matter, you should have realized that by now - which is the epitome of slacktivism. You call for action but the furthest you're willing to go is casting a ballot to some liar who's going to ignore his campaign promises until he can fool the electorate into giving him a second term or get replaced by the next liar. You chastise people and then when pressed you give the same lazy solutions as everyone else. Also, I didn't mention war anywhere.
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  281. How? It denies people rights until they comply.
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  282.  @TheCromesd  Notice how you changed the subject. I hope you lose everything you don't have a right to. You'll come back crying.
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  283.  @TheCromesd  You started going off about rights. Are you slow? It's not subtle at all when people do that. They have a weak argument so they start going off about something else. Meanwhile the erosion of our freedoms continues while people like you go "nuh uh, it's not happening". You're going to give me some BS about how the Chinese social credit system is just about loans and ignore the real issue.
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  284.  @TheCromesd  Learn to read, you're accusing me of saying things I didn't say. LMFAO. Funny, you've been here for several posts and you've been unable to present the actual argument. Guess I was wrong, turns out you think the Chinese social credit system is bad and intrusive. Okay. Why do you want it here?
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  285.  @MREWOKONE  If he doesn't want to die why didn't he quit?
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  286. How is it a slippery slope fallacy when we just slid down it? 15 days turned to digital certificates to go to a restaurant.
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  287.  @goblue2155  China has had mass killings with knives.
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  288. ​ @attiepollard7847  Being on the backfoot is a secondary criteria to break ties. Scoring with strikes/grappling and doing damage is the priority. Once a round has a clear winner based on striking/damage, being on the backfoot counts for absolutely nothing. Untrained people can walk forward and windmill. It actually takes skill to fight off the backfoot. If all you do is walk into fists from a defensive fighter, we call that losing a fight.
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  289. That's a financial score, not a social score.
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  290. ​ @pnptcn  Manning didn't "expose" classified information. Manning stole the information and sent it willy nilly.
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  291. Mind that FDA compliance costs are a huge barrier to competition. Many countries promote generic competitors.
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  292.  @darren2658  "People just want reasonable social programs. Adequate food, shelter, education, healthcare." - So... basically everything provided to people?
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  293. Putin trying to play good guy. He wants dialog because he wants to use a pause to build up his forces.
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  294.  @martinaakervik  The Russians certainly wanted it. They also used the peace negotiations for Minsk II to assault a city while everyone had their guard down.
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  295.  @martinaakervik  No. He asked when he was going to be invited. Which is quite the egotistical thing to say. NATO already has a quasi-dictator to worry about, why invite an actual autocrat into the mix?
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  296.  @martinaakervik  People lived in peace. Then Russia came.
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  297. Yeah, it's the name of his book. San Fransicko. Sicko, from sick. It's a pun.
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  298.  @lwo7736  "it's not mandatory anywhere I'm aware of..." - So we're just going to ignore all the vectors that are being proposed to coerce people into taking it? You people always play this game, I keep seeing you people advocating to make it mandatory and then turn around and say it's not mandatory anywhere I'm aware of, dot dot dot.
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  299. In Mongolia they think the guy who got his face caved in won?
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  300. Plenty of places did that and it didn't work. If you toss out every test tube that doesn't conform to your hypothesis, who really cares about what you have to say?
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  301. And yet they keep getting caught even though they could just reveal themselves to us and cut to the chase and we wouldn't be able to do anything about it.
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  302. Russia took 6 months to take a small town, Ukraine cleared 10.000 square kilometers in a week in the Kharkiv offensive.
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  303. "Quick question how many of you teach your kids to cover thier mouth and nose when they cough and sneeze?" - Quick question, then why are we all forced to wear the mask even when not infected? I'm not sneezing. I'm not coughing. We didn't spend our day with hand in front of nose.
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  304.  @mcflynnsreturn  You're deflecting. Did you walk around with your hand covering your face all day before? Did Pasteur tell you that holding your hand in front of your face all day was the way to go? All you people can do is offer simplistic arguments, get absolutely demolished, then you resort to insults and deflection. You've dropped your initial argument already. Insults and deflection just means I've won.
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  305. Just off the flight from Ukraine.
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  306.  @ivanoranrof9577  Source on the jamming thing?
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  307.  @TheRowlandstone73  "yet he thinks aircraft carriers these days can't discern whether the objects hovering over them are fucking drones or not" - Not through radar.
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  308. Just stood there boxing and outstruck his opponent, yes. That's a main criteria to award rounds.
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  309.  @antonyjh1234  I know who he is. He is a war criminal who steals dead bodies to stage scenes. I know more than you.
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  310. "Controlling the number of doctors in our communities according to rules of supply and demand is probably the wrong way to handle access to health care." - The other way around. Supply and demand would solve the issue. The attempt to limit the supply side and increase profits by manipulating the market in unnatural ways is what lead to the modern issues with healthcare in America.
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  311.  @gfunk62  Oh yeah that's fucked up because apparently euthanasia is not legal in the UK, but the state can still force you to die. What kind of bullshit is that?
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  312.  @pedrob3953  Nice black and white fallacy.
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  313. And the guy fighting to win a MMA title got his face pummeled. Sometimes you have to work smarter not harder. The ability to block fists with your face does not score points in MMA.
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  314. You're gonna house people inside military vehicles? The US isn't sending 55 billion in cash, they're sending a dollar value of 55 billion of Cold War vehicles. Stuff that got purchased decades ago.
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  315. So there's a public military that spends trillions of dollars and a public police force that shoots innocent people and gets paid leave. Is that considered "working"?
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  316.  @thehellofajumper  ""Wrong" is a moral stance." - No shit. "The measure is pragmatic." - Pragmatic my ass. The lower classes are also the ones who are targeted the most by crime, so if anything they need to defend themselves the most. If your ideal of pragmatism is denying people's rights simply because you don't like them, you're morally bankrupt as a person. "The other pragmatic solution would be to have less disenfranchised people suppose but that would hurt someones bottom line." - But poverty doesn't create violence. It's the old correlation that never had any causation. It's the easy excuse. The fact is that criminals end up in poverty, but the poor don't turn into criminals. You can throw all the money you want into welfare that it won't change the people predisposed to criminal activity.
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  317.  @thehellofajumper  "Poverty isnt an excuse but the root cause" - That is false. It's not a root cause. The most violent periods in humanity were roughly egalitarian, when all you had was the pelt covering your skin and the food on your stomach. "poverty -> existencial angst -> (drug dependency" - Not all poor people do drugs and not all people who do drugs become addicts. "Crime (gotta eat/ gotta shoot up)" - The necessity to eat doesn't cause people to commit murder or rape. If you need to eat, at most you'd shoplift food.
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  318.  @betsybabf748  "unnecessary items being too expensive for those who haven't earned enough to pay for them is "discrimination"" - It is. If something is 100 dollars, but you artificially make it 150 you create a barrier. Anyone in the middle class can easily make up for the price difference, but someone struggling will have to reconsider. People have been killed while waiting for their gun permit to arrive. Is it reasonable to force someone to wait for the next paycheck? Also, if something was supposed to be 100 dollars and you have those 100 dollars, you EARNED it. You know who didn't earn "it"? The government pricing people out of the market.
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  319. Kyle also doesn't know what farms look like.
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  320. Forget the research, look at the poor results.
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  321. Wait for Germany to refuse to certify Nordstream 2 and Russia to shut off Nordstream 1.
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  322.  @RobotHau5  Did you read the comment? Specific agents may be actually good people unaware of the entire organization, or have somehow deluded themselves into thinking it's for the greater good. An analyst looking at satellite pictures trying to find ISIS training camps isn't a bad person. A CIA contractor doing security for a diplomat isn't a bad person. The organization behind them backs tons of bad people. Like Pompeo said, they lie, cheat and steal.
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  323. There's a difference between "knowing" who did it and having enough evidence to bring it to the DA.
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  324.  @CiGambino  "Almost zero" okay but if you dropped a million revolvers in the middle of the street and told me only one was loaded, I still wouldn't play Russian roulette. You really should look at the data coming from Israel and the UK. Taking an almost zero risk for zero gain makes no sense. The effectiveness is pathetic.
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  325.  @CiGambino  Again, the real world deployment shows that there's no gain for certain age groups, and the gains are minimal for the age groups in which it works. There's a reason Israel might have to go into lockdown again.
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  326.  @CiGambino  Public Health England's technical briefing number 20 says otherwise. 47K cases with 408 deaths for two doses. 151K cases with no doses, 256 deaths. By your own logic, this is the only metric that matters. You've lost. Israel is showing extremely poor effectiveness and is introducing restrictions. They might have to go under lockdown as the attack rate for the double dosed is roughly the same or in some cases higher than no doses. With respect, you're wrong.
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  327.  @CiGambino  The attack rate is similar for double-dosed and no dose. Only the the age group 70+ and above are showing moderate effectiveness, with the 60-69 age group showing negative effectiveness. The 20-29 group shows 3 percent effectiveness. Womp womp.
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  328.  @CiGambino  What are the researchers saying? What part of the tale am I missing? This isn't perfect being the enemy of good. Your own narrative requires perfection. We already had the good. You promised the perfect. We don't have it. Now nothing changed. No, I didn't expect anything to be perfect. I just didn't expect such a debacle. The point of your narrative was doing it for the community. It's not working. It works at a personal level. It protects YOU by reducing the severity of what happens to YOU. It doesn't protect others. That would be the perfect. We don't have perfect. I already had the good. So give up.
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  329.  @CiGambino  You're changing the subject. You really got beat so bad you had to flip the conversation around? The ICUs are full because there's no prevention or early treatment being done. Overwhelmed with whom? Data from other countries is already showing that the majority hospitalized have the double dose. Yeah, they "work". In very specific age ranges (3% efficacy in my age group per the Israeli data, which is PITIFUL) and only at reducing symptoms, not transmission or preventing mutations. They NEED to work perfectly by your own standards. If they don't, it makes everything WORSE by generating resistant strains. Jesus. The verdict isn't out. Look at the Israeli and UK data. Specifically Public Health England's Technical Briefing 20 from 6th August 2021. The double-dosed group has HIGHER FATALITY than the zero dose group despite having LOWER cases as a whole. There's talk of a third dose because antibody levels plummet after 3-6 months. It's not the best tool, because it DOESN'T work except at saving the older age groups, which is 70 and above because 60-69 actually has NEGATIVE efficacy according to the Israeli numbers. In fact, it's a terrible tool because of the potential that resistant strains are being generated.
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  330.  @CiGambino  I guess you understand the message better when delivered by a celebrity: /watch?v=qNLgBh-S5Ik 1. "I countered explaining that were all in this together" - Not with a solution that only works for yourself, and might actually endanger others. 2. You're calling me a liar because you didn't look at the report I told you about. You're just in denial. 3. Israel is putting restrictions back into place. They'll probably lockdown again. 4. You don't care about truth, you care about what you're being fed. Maybe it tastes good, I've never tried it. 5. You're the one dealing in absolutes, pal. That's why I'm suggesting doing this the smart way, while you have the hammer and see everything as a nail.
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  331.  @CiGambino  Oh, it's not conclusive. So after a year and a half of listening to non-conclusive reports you want to pick and choose. The CDC director Rochelle Walensky pretty much admitted that what I'm saying is right and you're wrong. Mask up, bucko. No, you haven't provided anything rational because it all hinges on what you hope is true, not what the actual authorities are saying. You can agree to disagree with reality what you want. But you can't disagree with the CDC's call to reinstate mask mandates that proves me right. You're the one not interested in having a good faith discussion. You reject reality and replace it with your own.
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  332.  @CiGambino  Red Herring. You ran out of arguments so you bring up Onnit and Joe Rogan, which I never discussed. It's also an Ad Hominem. Two fallacies in one post.
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  333.  @CiGambino  I never questioned your opinion on Onnit. I don't advocate for it or consume it. I looked at the science, it seems like Onnit overstates the benefits and remains unproven. So what?
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  334.  @CiGambino  Yeah but when given a link it opens on the browser, the button that acts as "swipe" is almost imperceptible. 1. You can find information that isn't about chickens from established sources - not Vanden Bossche, by the way. Nitpicking the detail that humans and poultry are different is strange. 2. Yeah there's a trend line but you can see dots all over the place. With a high enough population carrying up to 27 days at the same levels of the dirty unvaccinated, yeah man we ain't winning the fight. 3. That data is coming from the US, which is only recording hospitalizations. I'd like to see international data. 4. Sure, I don't know who said otherwise. 5. Emergence? Too late. We need to check for spread. Like shown India has low vaccination rates and China's Sinovac appears to be less effective, as expected. Telling the X million Americans who haven taken it to take it when there's almost 2 billion hosting the thing... Buddy... 6. Again, if the argument is "slow down the spread"... we tried that. Didn't work. Even with slower spread it hangs around and peaks later. And to answer the question, you'll gladly give you the honor to pull my plug if I come down with the coof. 7. CFR for 12-30 averages closer to 0.028%, not .10% per CDC data. Additionally, Israel saw an increase in acute coronary syndrome and cardiac arrest in the younger age groups compared to the 2019 and 2020 average. A very small percentage compared with the number of vaccinated of course, but risks have to be weighed. Again, per CDC data ages 0-17 had more deaths than the flu, but less than half than the ones by pneumonia. A mass campaign targeting the youth, even with very low chances of side effects, is gonna affect more people than the ones we lost. Same reason the British didn't fire AAA at incoming V2s over London.
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  335.  @arthurborlet  They wouldn't be "encircled" if they stopped invading countries.
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  336.  @clintonmorgan9068  No, it's because the US actually studied nuclear detonation survival by interviewing the Japanese who made it out alive from Nagasaki and Hiroshima.
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  337. You don't understand what low status means.
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  338.  @joelmiddaugh8229  Low status is derived from projection of inferiority towards the self. It involves seeking offense in what is not offensive, obsession with proving that inferior groups are not inferior as a way to cope about their own inferiority, the need for an aggressive confrontation from outside elements to justify their views on the world, thirst for power as a way to compensate for their low personal power. Status is completely unrelated to class. So many in the upper classes today are absolute low status males who'd have gotten their ass handed to them in a primitive society.
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  339. Okay but half of it is lies and the other half misrepresentation.
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  340.  @raaid85  No, truth is universal. And Dave Smith is lying. The Minsk accords were broken when Russia told their minions, their slaves, to attack Ukrainian forces in Debaltseve the day after they were signed. Russia sees accords as weakness, you never obey your enemy. So they ordered the attack when Ukraine had its guard down.
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  341. Fuck taxes.
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  342. It would be fucking hilarious to be pushing for doctors to get paid less, you'd get a million blue checkmarks on twitter crying about they're in the frontlines fighting against the virus.
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  343. They didn't assassinate a president because the shooter had tried to kill a former US Army general too. He was a Soviet fanboy.
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  344. The guy who can't prove he has a degree and made mistakes in his forgery of the document that supposedly proves he worked for the govt?
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  345. That's false. The Star Wars program had very limited effect on the Soviet economy.
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  346. Forget success. We're talking about who gets to ride a bus, enter a restaurant, etc. I don't want to be rich, I want to not be treated like an animal.
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  347. It would be easier to just infect a person and send them in an all expenses paid vacation.
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  348. It's only illegal to publicly expose secret evidence. He can talk, he just can't talk about secrets outside closed door hearings.
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  349.  @TheStoryUp  they won't start rolling until you are in place and wearing the seatbelt, so...
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  350.  @robfut9954  You're just playing dumb. I know you're not. There's millions of dangerous pathogens in the world. You will keep breathing them out, forever. You're welcome to change your mind. Because if you decide that breathing out is a violation of others' rights, I want to see you held accountable for it for the rest of your life.
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  351.  @stevebassett9755  "the net effect.. is increased violence." - and yet violence dropped by 50 percent in the US since 1994.
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  352. That's because it's not true.
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  353.  @Jerkzilla  I'm European and that is a pretty bad take. Most of the people who want to sacrifice individual rights for "community" are city people who have no actual community.
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  354.  @conorcleary2100  Then you have no argument, you're just sharing your personal story. "January to may there has be 168 mass shootings" - That is false. You're pulling numbers from a source that purposefully ignores the definition of mass shooting. There's only been one mass shooting in 2020 so far.
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  355.  @conorcleary2100  There's no "magic" number, there's a definition and if someone is misusing it they're exploiting your emotional reaction. Two criminals shooting each other over a drug deal won't even make the news in many countries but according to one dipshit online it's a mass shooting. And in people's minds it's the same thing as someone entering a school and gunning down children. We've seen BB gun and knife incidents being mistakenly inserted into that database, we've seen a case of self-defense, a cop having a negligent discharge and two separate shootings between two gangs that happened in the same day and were condensed into one event count as "school shootings" so you can stop using sources which even liberal-leaning publications have called dishonest.
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  356. We only have to look at crowdfunding to realize that's not true either. So much garbage and cash grabs have been made by teams who had it all without publishers breathing down their neck.
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  357. Next time Joe is gonna ask his local farm supplier to not offend your sensibilities.
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  358.  @terrorswrath6806  Yeah I'm embarrassed for your jealousy of Rogan's wealth. Just stop listening, I don't even listen to the podcast and you don't hear me complain. It's not for me.
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  359. Imagine if a mass shooter went on to a place full of Mexicans to kill people and Trump appeared on TV wearing a sombrero like Jacinta wore the hijab.
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  360.  @HSMak  That's not how studies work. Previous studies wouldn't say anything about vitamin D's role in a body infected with the novel corona virus. If there's a cheap, safe alternative to an experimental vaccine you put the money on that study, if it confirms that vitamin D works then it's not a waste. Get out of here with these half baked excuses.
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  361.  @HSMak  First of all, you're twisting the argument. This isn't about cures. Second, why are vaccines needed? They're not a cure either. Third, the use of mockery and strawman arguments is an admission of loss. It's the equivalent of panicking and tapping out once someone gets your back and puts and arm around your neck. If all your argument resorts to insulting others and using logical fallacies to make them look bad, you've just embarrassed yourself in front of an audience. Thanks for the verbal sparring. You quit. You lose.
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  362.  @HSMak  Uh, this vaccine doesn't actually make you immune, it just suppresses symptoms. Meaning that people who are vaccinated are still spreading. You come here pretending to know everything but you haven't read a single paper on the subject. The trials conducted measured the vaccine effectiveness by measuring symptoms, and people have been infected post-vaccination. Multiple of the vaccines are also having issues with side effects on the elderly, or straight up not working on the elderly. Meaning that the people more vulnerable to the disease may not get the protection they need, while vaccinating the rest of the population will not protect them.
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  363.  @HSMak  The immune response is supposed to be primed to fight off infection, thus making a person immune. If that's not the case then how can you explain the eradication of polio or measles? We'd still have polio and measles transmitting from person to person.
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  364. "Why are we so tired of our actual reality" - you mean like when cavemen made cave paintings and watched fire crackle? - you mean like when the ancients looked at stars and told tales? - you mean like when people were entertained by bards and plays? - you mean like when people went to the opera? - you mean like books? - or even modern Hollywood?
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  365. My brother signed up for college with my vaccination card by mistake before the pandemic. He had missed his tetanus shot because my shot was marked there and he thought he had it. Nobody checked. The wrong name was on the card. They didn't give a damn.
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  366. Because the media told you that everyone online is Q. You used to call people "conspiracy theorists" but the media told you about Q so now you always mention Q, even if the subject has anything to do with the conspiracy theory that the intelligence community was secretly arresting the deep state.
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  367. But then you're just paying for healthcare twice. Great. That defeats the entire purpose.
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  368.  @freddymarcel-marcum6831  If private healthcare can be had for 15 euros a month why is there a universal healthcare system? It's so cheap even someone on welfare can afford it.
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  369.  @freddymarcel-marcum6831  Still doesn't answer my question. The real answer would be that most likely the private sector is subsidized by the taxpayer meaning that providers have lower operational costs, which allows insurance companies to charge very little. In the US the medicare/medicaid recipients are subsidized by the private insurance customers. But of course, being able to see the nuance requires a little more effort than saying "muh rights".
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  370.  @freddymarcel-marcum6831  The police are some of the biggest violators of human rights. They're not gonna get rid of burglars, they're gonna show up too late and take notes in case I need to file an insurance claim. I'm the one who has to face the burglar. I will gladly pay for a fire brigade to put out a housefire, but I can deal with the yard. "I'm not a math surgeon, all I know is is that it fuckin' works over there" - But like... you realize that if what I said was true... then taxpayers are paying for the private system in Europe. How is that fair? That the rich are getting private healthcare for pennies while the poor need to deal with the public system? Is that "working"? "nobody in Europe is talking about going to the American healthcare system, ok?" - That's a strawman argument. I never said anything positive about the American system.
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  371.  @freddymarcel-marcum6831  Oh wow you managed to combine the most insufferable parts of leftism and right-wing. The love for the state programs and being a cop bootlicker.
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  372. Because the UK, France and the US promised Ukraine security in exchange for them giving up their nukes in 1994. They were also a NATO candidate in the 2000s and a EU candidate in 2014. It's defense. Russia attacked, NATO is backing the defending side.
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  373.  @davysanders4922  What's the problem of his handling? He asked a few dumb questions and called the virus intelligent, that's the extent of his failings.
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  374.  @alien1162  Uh, sweaty, liberals rehabilitated Bush. And John Bomb Iran McCain.
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  375.  @loneskankster2242  "I watched a woman in Trump flag get shot in the neck" - So we're the ones getting killed by govt goons. "I watched Trump supporters beat a man to death." - No, you didn't.
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  376.  @pipedreamteam4184  That according to the CDC essentially only 6% of them actually died of COVID?
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  377. Being racist doesn't get you high of your own farts.
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  378. Still got bashed, though.
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  379. The Duran is not balanced lmao it's ran by a full blown Russia shill.
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  380.  @Derek_T  You're right. Everyone's different. That's why something different will come up, and other people will feel worse than you. Nature will not just stop after we're done. Are we going to have to take these extreme measures and take experimental stuff every couple of years? I'll take a "sicker than I ever been" with a novel bug if that's the cost of freedom.
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  381. That works on radar cameras depending where you live. I know people who sent letters disputing the calibration of the radar and the fine was thrown out.
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  382. It's always evolving. That's what viruses do. You're already letting it turn into a social credit score. Piece of paper? Tracking apps and QR codes. Lucky you that your country is using paper.
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  383.  @diegesis6791  I didn't assume you were a foreigner, you lunatic. In my country we are given a physical card but we're supposed to switch to the government app. So I simply said I'm glad that in your country you can just use the card. "viruses mutate but only evolve if they overcome our immune system" - What a bunch of BS. Evolution is simply genetic changes creating something different. It doesn't have to overcome the immune system, in fact things can evolve to become weaker. Evolution doesn't mean something getting better, in fact in some cases evolution creates things that are worse. Like the animals that have teeth that don't stop growing and eventually curl back into the skull if they don't break off. "that's what they're trying to prevent with the vaccine" - But it only prevents hospitalization. If that's what they were trying, they need to try again. "I don't mind a social credit score as long as it's only for the vaccine" - Yeah and have you thought that maybe things start that way? To get us used to them?
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  384.  @diegesis6791  I'm the one "losing it" but you're the one offended at someone saying they live in a different country than you. Projection at its finest. "is a virus that is more adapted to its environment so right now for our situation’s sake evolution means adapting better" - Which means becoming less deadly so that it can transmit further without being detected. The problem is solving itself. "So trust me when I say vaccine doesn’t only prevent hospitalization -or don’t trust me. Natural selection." - You're not "trustworthy" compared to the authorities that have admitted you're still transmissible. So as it stands, it's only something that protects you, not others. Especially since someone visibly sick will be isolated, while someone with suppressed symptoms will be going out and about infecting everyone. You also don't understand how natural selection works. It's amazing how you people don't even understand the concepts you talk about. You people act like eugenicists, but then forget that eugenics was even supposed to do.
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  385.  @diegesis6791  You're the one challenging convention here. You're the one who needs to publish the article stating the vaccinated to not spread.
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  386. No, I'm not working together with the people who shot Duncan Lemp during his sleep.
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  387. He didn't say anything about the working class.
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  388.  @pccalcio  "without heat plums" - You can see the heat plume on video. "rotating on themselves" - That's the gimbaled optics rotating to maintain track. "goin through multiple mediums, air and water, seamlessly without displacing water" - This is not on video.
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  389.  @pccalcio  I have. Both Thunderf00t and Mick West have debunked the claims.
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  390.  @pccalcio  Mick West has shown how the plume ends up looking like a glare at distance. Mind that years ago his site Metabunk was able to identify the Chilean UFO as a commercial flight that was 60 miles away.
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  391.  @skepsisrollins1711  We can't crack open the brains of the eyewitnesses to get their footage from the Eyeball Mark 1 Mod 0. The best we have is the footage captured by the pods. It is explained by basic geometry. If you had an argument, you'd make the calculations and explain why. You can't debunk the debunking so you resort to attacking people's credibility. Again, if these people had no credibility, you'd be able to disprove them in minutes. Nobody ever does this. Meanwhile, eyewitness testimony is known to be unreliable. I'll trust the recorded footage over people, sorry.
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  392.  @pccalcio  No, I trust geometry and elementary school maths. Again, notice how you went straight for the Strawman Argument. You're just admitting you have no other argument. Or you simply never made it through elementary school. Pick your poison. Fighter pilot commander David Fravor already exposed himself for having a huge ego and thinking he's infallible. I trust the calculations over a person who gets angry when questioned and also can't understand the elementary school geometry.
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  393.  @pccalcio  There's no champion here, only maths. Debunk the calculations. "as if he could give a more trustworty testimony" - There's no testimony, only calculations. Debunk them if you can. "rather than a first-hand encounter of a fighter pilot commander" - Who when questioned about West's analysis, he started huffing and puffing instead of debunking the calculations. He was a fighter pilot, he should understand elementary school maths. "and of the entire radar and sensors crew" - Do we have that radar data publicly released? "Then you resort to high school bullying." - You're the one bullying everyone who doubts the story. You have no standing here. Still waiting on those calculations.
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  394.  @pccalcio  "an entire squadron" - Of which only two have come forward in interviews to give their testimony, correct me if I'm wrong. "and then reviewed video footage and radar footage" - By the way the radar data was obtained right after a radar upgrade. The 0.78 second drop from 80,000 feet to 50 feet would also create a massive sonic boom and thermal signature (space shuttles entered the atmosphere at mach 26 and they burned through heat shield tiles in the process) that was not detected by any other sensors. Radar glitches would explain it. Additionally the phenomenon entering water at high speed would have created massive cavitation that would be detected by a submarine that was nearby. "here you talk about a dude who's a debunker for a living, that based his debunk on the interpretation of a video" - Because it's what we have available. If you had no video, you'd dismiss eyewitnesses as unreliable. You've seen footage, now they might have a point. What happens when the footage is explainable? Back to square one. "without training" - Yes, the massive amounts of training it takes to draw a few triangles to prove a point about perspective.
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  395.  @pccalcio  "tens of testimonies have been registered." - Only four people were involved in Fravor's flight. I need those other two's description of the events. "after resetting the radar" - Resetting doesn't make errors go away by magic. "A possible radar malfunctions has been therefore ticked off." - No. There's multiple errors that do not go away with a reset. "you have military officials talking on TV to urge a more in depth investigation, you just don't want to look at it as information" - Again, the Chilean military was unable to identify a UFO that Mick West and the people at Metabunk were able to identify as an airliner 60 miles away. Military officers don't know what they don't know. "do you really want to compare the training of a debunker" - No, I'm mocking the fact that an elementary school kid can understand the principles involved. I'm not comparing, I'm mocking. Because frankly it's embarrassing. "with the training a fighter pilot has to go through" - They're not trained to know what they don't know. Again, UFO footage has been solved by nerds on the internet that the military couldn't solve. Being trained to fly against other aircraft doesn't make someone an expert at identifying things they've never seen. "so in a trial, a direct testimony has no value, right" - You do realize that the more we understand about the topic the less eyewitness testimony is considered credible, right? You've seen the test where witnesses asked about the velocity of a car that rammed another at 30 mph said they witnessed a 60 mph car crash simply by changing the phrasing of the question, right? Simple words can make people misremember their memories. "I'm having fun XD" - No I'm having fun because it's amazing how you still haven't debunked elementary school math, a former fighter pilot embarrassed himself because he can't debunk elementary school math so his only response is getting angry on Lex Friendman's podcast, you think that pilots are superhumans and they're trained to identify every single object or phenomena and that eyewitness testimony hasn't been scientifically tested to have massive problems with how reliable it is. The more this goes on the more it shows you're afraid of checking the calculations. Mick West's math is available for anyone to debunk and you're all unable to fight him with actual evidence so you have to engage with strawmen, Ad Hominem and Appeal to Authority fallacies. I'm the one having fun because it shows how many people are afraid of numbers.
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  396. Problem is, McCarthy was right.
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  397.  @dustinjones8887  The Greyzone is RT affiliated and Scott Ritter is a pedo.
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  398.  @joemoody7440  Russia never upheld Minsk 2, they ordered their DPR minions to attack the day after it was signed.
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  399.  @joemoody7440  the bear got savaged
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  400. How does it endanger the lives of others? You can still spread. In fact, you're less likely to notice so you'll endanger even more. But thanks for admitting you compare this to the criminal justice system. You see people as criminals.
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  401.  @jlove8445  There's no world war dawg. In world wars everyone is fighting all over the planet and countries are armed to the teeth. Russia is down to T-62s.
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  402. Control does not factor into a decision unless Aggression is equal for both fighters and Aggression does not factor into a decision unless both fighters are tied in score. Sean outstriking DDP in a round automatically wins the round no matter what make believe rules you read. It's the Ultimate Fighting Championship, not the Ultimate Pacing Championship or the Ultimate Control Championship. Walking forward isn't fighting. If the guy walking backwards lands more shots than you going forward, he's beating you.
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  403.  @PutXi_Whipped  Wiped out people with 3-4 co-morbidities? Is that supposed to impress me? It wasn't from an American lab because Shi Zhengli had to go back and make up the ratg13 virus to make it look natural. Why would the Chinese be covering their tracks if the virus was American made?
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  404. "It's not to protect the person wearing it it's for the people around them" - When you cough or sneeze you create a high pressure zone inside the mask. What happens? The mask is pushed off your face. When you inhale, what happens? The air is sucked in faster than it can move through the restriction, creates a low pressure zone. What happens? The mask contracts and hugs your face.
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  405.  @bballjulien  You didn't understand what I have written. You just think it looks similar to something else so you've access the pre-planned argument and type it without paying attention Pressure differentials exist even in the atmosphere where there's no restrictions. The doctors thing isn't even relevant to this discussion. Please read again, understand what's being said and then you may respond.
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  406.  @bballjulien  I said, blowing creates a positive pressure zone, which presses against the mask. Inhaling creates a low pressure zone, which sucks the mask in. How that is related to doctors beats me.
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  407.  @bballjulien  We're not talking about surgeries. Again, you read something you think was an argument you already seen, and you had a ready-made counter argument. Within context, the response makes no sense.
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  408.  @bballjulien  No, it isn't because during a surgery you're not using the mask to stop viral aerosol transmission. I had a surgery last year. I had to get tested because if I were to be put under surgery while positive, they'd have to do it in a different room and wearing different equipment.
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  409.  @bballjulien  No, it's not complicated. Surgical masks were not made to stop viral transmission. I had a surgery last year, and had to get tested. If the surgical masks were that good, why did they bother testing me?
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  410.  @bballjulien  But the mask is being advertised as stopping aerosolized, asymptomatic spread. By your logic all we need is spit guards in front of cashiers and don't talk to strangers. Nevertheless, if you forcefully blow air out of your mouth through a sneeze or cough the mask will be blown away from the face, expanding the gaps through which the droplets can escape. If you're another person, inhaling will suck the mask into your face preventing you from contacting the infectious particles. So the mask works better at protecting you than protecting others.
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  411.  @bballjulien  This blow out says more about you than me.
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  412.  @gordonramsey6364  "socialism is working just fine in Canada" - Canada isn't socialist. "They have coronavirus under control," - But other countries don't have it under control. All systems fail if they get hit like Italy or Spain did.
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  413.  @KingstonHawke  "There’s no great argument against considering health care a human right" - Yes, there is. It's a right that can only exist by violating others' rights.
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  414.  @KingstonHawke  I work for a wage. A part of my wages is deducted. I can't refuse to pay. How does this not violate my rights?
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  415.  @KingstonHawke  "So, the police are slaves?" - supreme court says you're not entitled to police protection
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  416. What deep analysis? All they do is recite Russian propaganda.
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  417. The defense industry is a massive fucking scam, though. Look at the F-35, an amazing plane that suffered boondoggle after boondoggle because politicians want to treat it like their personal jobs creation program.
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  418. It's important to consider that WW2 wage ceilings mandated by the government caused employers to offer benefits as a way to pay "more". Eventually the government also passed legislation that made healthcare benefits tax-free. There's almost no consumer choice.
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  419.  @robertj1777  It's not too dangerous to move. They could be moved right now. The issue us that the Yucca Mountain project was not completed so there's nowhere to go.
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  420.  @winterh46334  They're not financially viable because nuclear can't throttle so they sell power ahead of time for cheap, while gas plants can fire up to meet the grid needs and thus demands a higher price.
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  421.  @davidgeary490  You'll need nuke plants to make the hydrogen. First you need reverse osmosis to desalinate water or else you create chlorine in the electrolysis process. These power intensive processes are well suited for nuclear.
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  422. Huh, the band aid is used to keep the wound closed (so that it doesn't get pulled apart) and to promote a moist healing environment. However, excess moisture or not re-dressing the covering when it's caked in drainage is actually bad for you. If your skin is for example turning white around the wound, REMOVE the band aid and let it "breathe". Infection is prevented through the bleeding itself, by washing with water/saline and by letting a scab for over it. And by the immune system, while we're at it. But the band aid itself doesn't prevent infection. If you put a band aid before washing you're actually promoting the infection by letting the debris stay inside.
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  423.  @pouletbaconcarbonneau5879  But it doesn't. It's the cleaning of debris that prevents the infection. Covering it up with a bandaid only prevents the wound from being split apart and keeps it moist. It's not meant to do anything against infection.
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  424.  @SpaceCadetLaC  If it was my mom, I'd straight up "take care of it" myself and face the legal consequences. Just because it's my mom it doesn't mean I want the legal system to be changed to more easily get innocent people in prison. I'd rather do time as a guilty man for the assault, at least that would be justice.
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  425. "How can he support free market capitalism and in the same breath turn around and say the government is not allowed to bulk purchase medical care for people" - because that's not a free market? "Before car manufacturing was shipped overseas, car companies were heavily regulated but were still the leading industries economically" - Dude, what? Foreign manufacturers started crushing the American car industry before it was shipped overseas. "you shouldn't want your pharma manufacturers selling you poison" - But they do and the FDA allows it.
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  426. Uh, no. That's how you get massive perversions of justice. People on death row have been exonerated. If we can find innocent people "guilty" in a trial imagine how many would be incarcerated by "common sense".
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  427.  @Aebarman  It is bad. It only takes a few seconds to think where the money comes from and where it goes to.
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  428. You have a choice not to drive, to not use credit or to not leave the country. The NSA thing just proves our point, not yours. You people accepted the loss of freedoms in order to take down the big bad terrorists, and didn't listen to us.
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  429. Look up why he spent time in prison.
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  430. They are livable. The cities were rebuilt.
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  431. That's not scoring criteria, though. It's a fight, not a kata competition. You don't get style points. Clocking your opponent does.
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  432. Area 51/Groom Lake was where they kept recovered/stolen/bought MiG aircraft. Now we know the program was called Constant Peg but the US didn't want the Soviets to know they had a fleet of Soviet aircraft and American pilots and mechanics trained to fly and maintain them. They brought pilots into Groom Lake to fly against MiGs in secret, then those pilots would teach the rest of their squadron. Now the information is talked about openly, but nobody cares that Area 51 was where the military was conducting mock air battles away from prying eyes.
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  433.  @CBDguitar  You keep calling people weak and gullible but you have no facts. You only have insults. Here's a tip: you have no argument. When someone has no argument RUN.
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  434.  @CBDguitar  The weak and gullibles that actually pay attention to the news? Matt Taibbi has schooled all the Russiagate stooges.
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  435.  @CBDguitar  Sure. How is that related? Maddow used the same defense, I believe. Stossel sued a factchecker due to his posts being erased from social media and in court they also used the defense that it's just opinion and not an actual fact check.
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  436.  @CBDguitar  And what does that have to do with anything?
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  437. Not if the competition is worse.
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  438. We're persistence hunters. We have better cardio and we have more efficient running biomechanics. We didn't survive by fighting monkeys, we survived by chasing larger animals until they gassed out. You find that often survival strategies don't always reward the fittest, just who gamed the meta. There's fish which survived millions of years simply because they lay tends of thousands of eggs. They're bad at surviving on their own, but as a collective they keep on trucking by spamming a ton of offspring. Humans gamed the meta by chasing animals which sprint away from sprinters like cheetahs. We don't need massive strength, just numbers and persistence.
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  439.  @craigstapleton1943  the objective truth is that Russia invades, murders, rapes and pillages. That's just historical fact.
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  440.  @llamagon1882  He is wrong on appeasing Russia, trying to convice you there was a NATO deal, etc.
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  441.  @parabellum2674  NATO said that the process to join will take longer than Ukraine winning the war. They didn't reject Ukraine, it's just that NATO ascension takes several years even on a fast track program. Either way, Ukraine will retake Crimea now. Once that bridge gets hit again Russian forces will have to give it up just like a few potholes in Antonovsky bridge forced them to give up Kherson city.
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  442.  @parabellum2674  That's just copium because you know that they'll be accepted as soon as he conflict ends. No, it would prevent conflict. Same reason Russia has not invaded the Baltics.
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  443.  @parabellum2674  Okay, but Ukraine would reply in kind. Russia wouldn't have the western backing so every hit would affect them more than it would the Ukrainians. Manpower alone isn't enough. Ukraine mobilized men it could push through the training pipeline. Russia mobilized a bunch at once. More than they could train, even. Which is why many are still receiving training now. It's like eating several meals a day versus eating one big meal. You're trying to make a big distinction when it's meaningless. Russia dumped men in bases in derelict state or even empty fields. They conscripted more than they could actually process into the training program. If Russia does another round, it's either going to be smaller, or again they'll have to place men in waiting for months until training is available. Another aspect is that the Belarusian military is being used to train Russians. Many Russian instructors were KIA/WIA in the early war. Anyway, if Russia wants to prolong the conflict, Ukraine can just do the same to them. At that point, the rest of the world won't blame Ukraine when they start systematically targeting Russian industry to collapse their economy while defended by Western AA.
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  444. I'm not American. Strickland won.
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  445. It isn't. Nuclear waste is made into an issue to prolong political bickering.
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  446. Subsidies in education drive costs even further.
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  447. ​ @alejandrofrade325  As someone living in the "other nations" the problem is exactly the same. Government pays for X, we get X. Does maybe the X not cover ambulances where you live? Tough luck. It's not apocalyptic but we're really not living the high life.
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  448. Doesn't matter if you take it or not, it still spreads and mutates.
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  449. The government had to remove fuel subsidies due to a IMF deal for refinancing, but the IMF recommended adjusting the prices slowly and having an information campaign to make sure people were aware of the fuel subsidy issues. The government didn't do that. They just jacked prices on fuel, which greatly affected an economy where cheap fuel is a commodity that makes access to water and food possible for many. The government is at fault for giving people a reason to protest. Then an al-Qaeda attack killed 47 protesters on the Houthi's side so the conflict escalated. It's the government's own fault that they got ousted. If you can't handle the stinger you don't take a swing at the hornet's nest.
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  450. There was actually a case where people working on top secret projects started talking about it on FARK on an old thread that nobody paid attention to.
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  451.  @humanbeing8400  Radioactive isotopes have a half-life. The most dangerous isotopes are gone within 3 weeks.
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  452. Those are not taken into account unless the fighters are tied in the stats. If you walk forward all round but eat shots, the other guy wins via scoring. That's the rules.
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  453. Some countries have not resisted in any significant manner. And the countries seeing significant resistance are bringing in serious government enforcement.
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  454. It's not sensible to reward bullies.
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  455. Most of the "cost" isn't monetary but weapons that were purchased years ago. The war was paid by your parents, maybe, and even then they would have paid even if the vehicles were tossed into the sea to make coral reefs.
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  456. The longer the half life the SAFER it is. You can touch uranium with your bare hands. It's short lived isotopes like Cesium 137 that kill quickly.
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  457. How many trillions of gallons in the Pacific Ocean?
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  458.  @pak47man  That adage is a rule of thumb we created because we literally cannot get scientific evidence either way. The radionuclides in the food chain were within safe levels. The runoff isn't pure nuclear waste. It's nuclear waste already diluted in water. A slow release allows dilution to a point that even fish near the coast of Japan were safe to eat. If anything, you should be more concerned about mercury levels in your fish.
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  459. Walmart forces you to take in information anyway.
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  460. "Also if you put a small tax on stock market profiteers, it would more than pay for medi-care for all." - You got the numbers for that?
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  461.  @user80014  Explaining what? That you still host and transmit even if you take it? Therefore the mutations still happen unrestrained?
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  462.  @user80014  Read what? That what he is describing is also happening in the people who took it?
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  463.  @user80014  FACT: Irrelevant. You're transmitting, it mutates. You've already accepted defeat by your own logic. Act accordingly. FACT: Irrelevant. You're now using personal benefits when your argument is the collective. You've already admitted that from a collective standpoint, it doesn't matter. FACT: Most people are unaffected anyway. Provide perspective. FACT: Israel is most likely going to go under lockdown. Ages 20-29 only have 3 percent effectiveness. FACT: Nobody's talking about impenetrable firewalls. Strawmanning is an admission of defeat.
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  464.  @user80014  Don't need it.
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  465. How much would you pay to not breathe coal. Imagine if we never had nuclear. How many coal plants would we have built to compensate?
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  466.  @darthmercur3067  Take your meds.
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  467.  @darthmercur3067  Meds. Take them.
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  468.  @darthmercur3067  You're spamming and obsessed with Trump.
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  469. "Health Care is a moral obligation in the western world" - Not when the moral obligation is to steal from my paycheck. That's immoral.
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  470. Switch your home to your workplace, and you're not claiming it's a crime but they're trying to take ownership of the company.
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  471.  @JackJack-pr6mv  So?
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  472. ​ @dailycash9777  Finished 5 rounds, 4 of which he got outplayed.
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  473. Sicko. It's a pun.
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  474. The drone program in Yemen started before Saudi intervention.
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  475. If you need a VPN, there's a lockdown.
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  476. Now I want to hear the harrowing story of Randy Gottlieb, Confessions of a Former Crack Addict.
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  477. ​ @communism-is-tits  more people with cameras on their phones means more videos. Especially since the cameras have worse optical quality than proper movie/TV standards.
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  478. But the US spends more on welfare than the military.
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  479. Nope. Duck and cover was known to be a life saving measure thanks to interviews with Japanese survivors. People who instinctively ducked and cover survived a nuke dropped right above them while Japanese people who stood to look at the flash died.
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  480. There was internet in the 80s and 90s, only nerds used it though.
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  481. How is it a civic duty? It doesn't protect others because you still spread. For the young risks are high enough that there's no benefit. Fever? People are getting heart damage. You can't cure that with advil.
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  482.  @adamn389  I don't think I got the notification, or maybe my reply got deleted. You can't comply your way out of this. Want to go back to normal? Just do it.
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  483. You're supposed to dose it yourself. He never told people to go to the local farm supply store either. Only Pfeizer is FDA approved (where I live I cannot get Pfeizer or Moderna because it's considered unsafe for my demographic, only J&J) and the FDA is in cahoots with Pfeizer. Don't care if it's approved if people who leave the FDA get cushy jobs at Pfeizer. To any sane person the level of corruption should automatically disqualify the approval process until an independent third party audits the process.
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  484. Neocons are people on the right who are less traditionalist and more globalist than palocons. They exist and they're a problem.
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  485.  @firdaus125  He's right. A person is more likely to be killed by lighting strike than die in a mass shooting.
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  486. Expensive to launch, an explosion in the air is more dangerous than just dumping it in a landfill.
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  487. People who took it are contagious too. Wear a mask, I hear it works.
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  488. Yeah governments killed a quarter of a billion in the 20th century alone. Obviously the virus with 99.something survival rate and kills mostly people with three simultaneous co-morbidities is more important than that.
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  489. Yes, that's what they do. They've always done that. That's nature. And it has been that way before we existed.
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  490. "PROPERLY fitted mask" - Nobody's doing that. It's glorified socks with massive gaps. "you really should just listen to those who have a background in hard science" - If a background in hard science makes a person ignore reality while praising the virtues of lab results, I will not listen to that person. Intercepting 60% of particles fired through a tube into a multi-layer mask with different materials to exploit both mechanical and electric charge filtering while the cloth itself is wrapped around the tube and held in place tightly with a rubber band sounds impressive. It's not real. The real mask is made from a single material, it's single layer, has a cute print in the front because it's more fashion accessory than PPE, it's one-size-fits-all so it doesn't actually probably fit anyone's face, it gets tossed into the back pocket of the owner's jeans and it is handled several times a day. It's probably been washed 10 times since last March.
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  491. ​ @pavmik1  You misunderstood the scoring criteria. Aggression only matters when the scoring is too close to call. From the moment a fighter outstrikes the other he's ahead in score and aggression is ignored in the round score. It's a tie breaker.
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  492. They don't. There's no worker's ownership of the means of production.
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  493.  @GeoFry3  Under communism there's no state and ownership is defined differently. You can own personal objects but not "property" such as a house or a factory. If you vacate a house it becomes public because you can't own it.
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  494.  @GeoFry3  Like, do you want to use definitions or not? Cuba isn't communist, China is nominally a socialist state and the Soviet Union's full name was: USSR. Union of Soviet SOCIALIST Republics. Because if we're playing fast and loose with definitions and nothing matters at all then everything is socialism and when everything is something, nothing is. You gotta understand something. Communism is stateless. Socialism is a state taken over by communists, who take charge and in theory attempt to lead the country into transition to a stateless society. When communists take over capitalism is prohibited. Capitalism is not prohibited in the US (albeit regulated) so logic states that the US does not have the mutually exclusive condition of being a socialist state. "Still basically describing the US military" - No. There's an hierarchical order that is literally divided by class (officers vs enlisted). The US government owns all the property and means of production within the military.
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  495. If Canada was flying their CF-18s over US soil and dropping bombs on Americans would you not fire rockets at them?
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  496. There's no conspiracy among witnesses. Eyewitness testimony is laughably unreliable, with studies showing that people misremember speeds just by asking an estimate for the "car accident" and "car crash". Say "crash" and people add 10-20 mph in their brain. When you can't identify something, your brain fills the blanks. That's why the pile of clothes looks like a monster when you open your eyes in the middle of the night.
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  497. ​ @GhostSal  They're not "putting pressure", the cold hard fact is that in the UK the NHS cost 11% of the budget. In the 2010s it climbed to 29%. It's on the way to be a third of the budget and that's unsustainable. So you look at the British healthcare under strain and think "it's a conspiracy!" but no. It just costs money. People don't want other govt services to be cut. People don't want to pay higher taxes. Something has to give.
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  498.  @GhostSal  I had to look it up again. It was 29% of the public services budget, not the total budget. "In 1955/56 health spending was 11.2% of the public services budget. In 2015/16 it was 29.7%.[52] This equates to an average rise in spending over the full 60-year period of about 4% a year once inflation has been taken into account." [wikipedia] Although the percentage of the total budget isn't as dramatic, the rise is the same.
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  499.  @GhostSal  Okay, but that doesn't change what I said. From the initial setup until now, the NHS cost nearly tripled in relation to what the British government paid for services. Forget about America. My point is that the NHS either suffers cuts, or costs spiral out of control. It's not about the UK or the US being worse. It's just that costs increase. That's unsustainable long term, either the government has to collect more revenue or the service has to compromise.
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  500.  @GhostSal  But it's not "intentional", they simply can't afford to drive up the budget. Do you want to pay more? Because that's the alternative to the service being cut to what the state can pay.
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  501. Bernie Sanders was like "tax the millionaires" then "tax the billionaires" because he made some good money. His economic ideas are "we have too many kind of deodorant" not understanding that the deodorant companies employ people. Reduce the options, people have kids to feed. Actually listen to Bernie over the years and figure out how he's not the same as others.
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  502. But DDP is the one who looks like he had a conversation with Strickland's father.
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  503. Kasparov is pro-Ukraine.
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  504.  @elloowu6293  Trump asked doctors IF there was something that could kill the virus in a minute after injection, LIKE disinfectant does. He never said people should do anything.
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  505.  @elloowu6293  You've retracted your original statement so my work here is done. Also, can I get the numbers on the Trump supporters who did it?
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  506. Sorry man but even though I hated the Russiagate crap the only Russian-made thing I'd like to have are AKs.
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  507.  @samaten1386  "now we have government officials giving credit to the footage" - Because unlike the fakes, the footage is real. And mind, they simply said the footage is real. They didn't say what it was.
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  508.  @samaten1386  "why are they being "so open" about the UFO phenomena in this moment and not in the past?" - I'm not entirely familiar with the historical precedent. When footage of UFOs (or UAPs) was obtained through legitimate means did the government ever deny the footage was real? Because most of the UFO denial from the government was them covering up for secret aircraft or early warning systems that detected nuclear tests in the Soviet Union through high altitude listening pods. "do you believe this is the first footage of this kind ever being leaked?" - From the US? I'm unsure, but Chile did release footage of an unexplained flying object in 2017. It was the one that "pooped" black clouds. When the internet got to the footage, they determined it was an airliner being picked up by thermal camera. Lining up the footage with the position of the Navy helicopter that took it made the phenomenon line up with an airliner that was flying 60 miles away, flying into the Pacific Ocean.
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  509. He doesn't have to acknowledge anything. If you fight off a bacterial pneumonia with antibiotics do you have to specify that you took human antibiotics and not fish antibiotics? People are only getting the horse stuff because doctors are refusing to prescribe it, and even those who get prescriptions are being rejected at pharmacies. This entire situation was created by the powers that be, not Joe.
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  510.  @tonynguyen7495  I know a ton of people who took the horse stuff because they couldn't get prescriptions. DISCLAIMER: Don't do it. Get a prescription. But they're fine, there's a ton of resources to figure out the dosage.
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  511. Actually there's an even split. And the studies saying it doesn't work involve people in critical condition where the virus is already done, it's the inflammation and oxidative stress wrecking havoc in the body. Because the mechanism of operation is by preventing the virus from binding to cell walls, those studies essentially only prove it's not effective when you give it to people too late.
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  512. Russia lies all the time. Okay - let's listen to Russia. Moskva sunk due to accident. Snake Island was goodwill gesture. Now that Ukraine is recapturing territory they say they don't know where the borders are. Listen to Russia, you'll go insane trying to salvage any coherence.
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  513.  @fakeascanbe423  How am I a hypocrite?
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  514.  @jrex3  They're right.
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  515. Most people can't squat 300lbs either.
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  516. Killing bad people leads to PTSD too. One guy who volunteered at the start of the Ukraine war shot a Russian, even though he knew he was justified in shooting the invaders executing civilians he still said it felt like murder in interviews.
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  517. "Huhhh this guy was speeding? I wonder what the backlash would be if I did drive by shootings"
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  518. Trump shouldn't have the power to do it either. The problem isn't that Trump, or Biden, or the green alien can do it. It's that none if them should be able to.
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  519.  @LSturdy  It's not a matter of pretending. Trump didn't want his feefees hurt by mean tweets, the opposing side is using government institutions to control discourse.
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  520. lmao
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  521. Not true. 1917-1921 the Ukrainians were able to stand their ground against the Bolsheviks so a peace deal where Ukraine SSR would be one of the founding Soviet Republics was reached. They weren't "absorbed" by the USSR. They earned their status as a republic by fighting off the invaders. Those areas are ethnically Russian because of forced displacement during Communist Party rule. Moscow saw fit to take natives and send them to remote areas and replacing them with Russians. Theres's a region in the far east of Russia called Ukrainska.
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  522. Russia started the war. They always invade. They did it to Chechnya, Moldova, Georgia and now Ukraine. Russian imperialism is older than the United States. Do not flatter yourself. Do not be egocentric. This beef is centuries old, it was never about you.
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  523. Maybe European countries should pick up the slack (I say this as an European). I also don't want to pay more taxes over it. Let the govt figure that out.
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  524. "We have a blended socialist capitalist economy" - That doesn't even make sense. Socialism requires the prohibition of capitalism. "Obviously The police fire and military are socialism" - They're not. They're paid off your paycheck. In socialism, you wake up to go to your factory and there's no boss. You and your coworkers control the factory. None of you can make a profit. That's socialism. Abolishing private ownership of the means of production.
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  525. Clothes are comfy. Meanwhile you'll wear the mask forever.
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  526.  @nosugarcoating6793  Exactly. Only an ignorant person would compare nudity with not being forced to wear a muzzle.
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  527. The concrete dome over the reactor can handle a 747. Aircraft are lightweight aluminum and composite. Empty tubes.
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  528. It's not because it's not even about the virus. It's about people, they're telling us to hate our neighbors.
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  529. Flu deaths are estimated through models because many cases are undiagnosed and thus underreported. There's actually a study about how during the swine flu the normal influenza was undercounted by a factor of 5-6x.
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  530.  @MrMoss786  John Mearsheimer said Ukraine should keep the nukes in the 90s.
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  531. "countries with a national health service still have health insurance options" - But then you're just paying for healthcare twice, the one you use and the one you don't. "prices are lower because the state negotiates de prices to be lower because is the biggest insurer and has more lea way!" - It's the opposite. Imagine the public outcry if the state refused to buy something if it was too expensive. The state would get forced to go back to the negotiating table and give in.
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  532.  @vascocardoso3131  "I live in a country with such a system." - How is that in any way related? "This is false, the insurance premiums are laughably lower" - That doesn't make it false. "the NHS pays the same for your illness treatment with or without insurance" - Dude what the fuck does this mean??? So you pay for insurance, but the NHS covers it anyway? What the fuck? "the insurance provides an extra on top of the basic care, it allows you to use private clinics and doctors to get care faster" - But again, you're paying for a healthcare system you're not using, and then for the one you're actually using. "I challenge you to find a treatment that costs less in the US than in other countries with a NHS." - I challenge you to find the real values that the government pays. "US health costs per capita are one of the highests, while you median quality of care is not that great" - This is completely irrelevant. I am not defending the US and yet you keep talking as if I did. "If you fancy a read to see how preposterous your prices" - YOUR prices? I'm not American.
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  533. "We accept claims like masks and vaccines work because we have plenty of evidence from the past to indicate that." - How does evidence from the past apply to a new vaccine? It literally has no past. It just started existing. And it's made by a company with a history of lawsuits that makes it untrustworthy with new, not-established products with a track record.
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  534.  @sonofbarrel361  People with a history of lying want us to trust their evidence. Ha. Actually, it was from scratch. From what I understand, it's the first mRNA vaccine, right? A bad history teacher won't leave people with life-long problems. The vaccine for the 2009 pandemic caused some people to develop narcolepsy. It was extremely rare, but people got stuck with a condition because of it.
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  535. If everyone decided to fight it they would have to blink first in the staring contest. Just saying but the defeatist attitude sells out everyone down the line. Now those who wanted a choice can get purged.
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  536. They didn't erase him lmao it's easy to find the details on his life.
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  537.  @falten2  I'm not American.
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  538. We evolved for long distance running so we don't need to climb and hang on trees.
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  539. It's also human medication, that's a fact. You can lie with the facts. All day long. It's you who's spreading BS.
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  540. Joe Blow the IRS desk jockey can't go around exposing your finances either. Does that mean you're an alien?
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  541. ​ @gbcrump  Ethics is irrelevant here. Even if the service was provided at cost value to eliminate the profit out of the equation, there's a balance sheet that comes out with the loss somewhere else. It's not more "ethical" when the loss simply goes where we won't see it. Our wallet just appreciates it more.
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  542. ​ @thepowerofmyth  Fun fact, even if you erased capitalism out of existence, you'd still need profit. If you banned nutrition as a field of study, people would not stop starving or getting heart attacks. Capitalism is just the theory. Having enough resources to run a system is practice.
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  543. Periods of freedom correlate to economic development and innovation. This is known.
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  544. That's like saying MMA can't be all wresling so Ben Askren didn't deserve any W. If you can outstrike a mixed martial artist, you're winning. It's a fight, not a kata demonstration.
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  545. Lee Harvey Oswald was a Soviet Union fanboy. Of course Stone deflects by accusing him of being a spy. He can't let it trace back to his beloved Mother Russia.
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  546.  @tiagomelo1887  The Californian economy taking a hit will affect all states that provide goods and services to Cali.
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  547. The point of a wrestle takedown is to rob the explosive power of striking. You need the legs to drive your weight around to hit the opponent with power, otherwise all you have are the much weaker "arm punches". If the opponent gets up and keeps striking you, he's the better fighter. It doesn't matter how much effort it took to take him down. Much like a spinning kick that doesn't drop the opponent doesn't make up for getting outstruck with jabs. Sure, the spin kick takes much more effort. But you get rewarded for getting results, not attempting to get them. People have accidentally killed attackers in self-defense by punching or kicking and the guy's head hitting concrete or those anti-parking bollards. Striking can end people with one-shots too so it's not exclusive to wrestling.
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  548. Octagon control is the secondary tie breaker to prevent a 10-10 round. Doesn't matter how much control you have if all you do with it is getting your face caved in. Read the rules: first criteria is scoring; if scoring is tied the secondary criteria is aggression; if both fighters are tied in aggression then ring/cage control is the tertiary criteria. It's so far down the hierarchy of scoring rules it basically only ever matters when two fighters are equally matched.
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  549. The CDC admitted that 96% of that number is "died with" not "died from".
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  550.  @ilyap1503  We test human vaccines in mice.
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  551.  @ilyap1503  Evolutionary pressure works similarly on all animals.
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  552. The US didn't go there to conquer. It set up new goverrnments and left.
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  553. No-one bats an eye, precisely because no-one bats an eye. I personally know of a case that happened to me and my brother, he took my card by mistake and enrolled into college. Nobody checked. The document had my name on it, nobody cared. So yes, this form of control completely outpaced everything we already had.
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  554.  @Butters-_  I'm talking about the fact that nothing was enforced strictly. No, I'm not talking about ID. He wouldn't have been able to sign up with my ID because it wouldn't match his school record. They had his name, they had his ID, he presented the WRONG document and not a single person looked at the fact that the name was wrong. Nobody cared. There were exemptions for children too. And if you lived in a district where for some reason no school accepted exemptions, you could homeschool. People "accept" it because it's also done in the interests of children by protecting THEM, and those shots have years of safety records that show adverse effects are rare. Now you want people to be subjected to a rushed product that's losing effectiveness anyway. Stop deflecting towards other issues. For people who consider a fetus life, there's no civil liberty in denying life. That's a moral divide you will never solve by pleading to one's sense of liberty. That's completely unrelated and not in any way equivalent.
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  555. ​ @jordan8056  last I checked, the prosecutors said they had no video evidence to charge anyone with homicide. So how can HBO determine guilt?
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  556. ​ @jordan8056  Which officer was stabbed.
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  557. @Hue Wong Because several studies have been done with different methodologies and different sample sizes. These studies have to extrapolate and estimate for a larger population by taking a sample size that can go from hundreds to thousands of people. For example, you can be sure that it's higher than 100k because the study that extrapolated 130k defensive gun uses per year was literally rigged to reduce the number of responses. On the national crime victimization study only people who said they were victims of a crime were asked if they used a firearm for self-defense. This obviously suppresses the number of people who have used firearms in self-defense but don't consider themselves victims because they thwarted the crime, so they never got the defensive gun use question. Middle of the road estimates shoot for that 500k to 700k number, the studies that go over 3 million have problems with a few people reporting multiple defensive gun uses so they tip the scale. So one study reported 5 million, which is exaggerated.
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  558. But a more offensive style would give the title to DDP on a silver platter. The awkward blitzes have caught many talented fighters because DDP is willing to just walk forward and clash bodies which gives him a free takedown. Fighting defensively punishes the awkward guy.
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  559.  @ricomajestic  You moved the goalposts. The 9/11 attack was a well financed attack on the US as retaliation for US intervention in the Middle East. The following attacks as retaliation for Afghanistan and Iraq were less organized and financed, plus had to go against a stronger surveillance apparatus. But countries like Spain and the UK suffered public transportation bombings as retaliation for their contribution to NATO efforts in the Middle East. And France was targeted by massacres that served as retaliation for actions against ISIS. So in the end, if any attacks were foiled it wasn't due to troop presence in Afghanistan or Iraq because terror cells moved around the world. When Qaddafi was killed and Libya went downhill, it became a hotbed for terror groups. Al Qaeda has cells in Yemen. Bin Laden spent a lot of time in Sudan before he asked the Taliban for asylum.
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  560. @Evaldas Pauliukonis Those regions were taken in the early days of the war. Russia only has partial control of Zaporizhzhia and Donetsk. Also, recent Ukrainian advances are threatning Luhansk and the north bank of the Dnipr in Kherson so the Russians are about to lose more.
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  561. This, but unironically.
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  562. It's a mandate the moment OSHA had to get involved. Also, you're deflecting unchecked government power towards unchecked corporate power. That's cowardice.
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  563.  @adalbertoruize  Like I said, cowardice. You changed your tune the moment someone pushes back.
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  564. How is it a slippery slope? It's happening right in front of us. Yeah, they banned full autos in 1986 and now want to ban semi autos. Biden says he wants to ban 9mm pistols. How is it ignorance? You're the one who's ignorant of how gun control moved inch by inch.
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  565.  @BeingFireRetardant  SmallArmsSolutions has a video on the JFK ballistics. The head moves back because the ejected mass created a recoil force greater than the force imparted on the skull by the bullet.
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  566.  @scroopynooperz9051  The bullet pushes mass out of the way and imparts little momentum, the skull and brain mass ejected forwards causes a recoil backwards.
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  567.  @calebharris4127  Did you notice the part where he said that instead of buying more equipment, they just train?
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  568.  @dolphin069  Not really. The third phase of the trial just measured symptoms that started to get tracked after two weeks of taking the second dose and assumed a 95% risk reduction from a very small number of people in the control group who got infected. This is not proof, it's inference.
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  569.  @dolphin069  Pfizer, third trial. The J&J was similar if I remember correctly, just with different number of people involved.
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  570. If you don't fight it now, you won't get a chance later.
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  571. He did do enough. Outstruck his opponent and turned his face into a blueberry muffin. Nothing else was required of him.
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  572. He took a plea deal, no evidence of crime was required.
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  573.  @prashantnegi007  The worst part is the hypocrisy.
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  574. Being on the defensive isn't a deciding criteria unless the scoring is too close to call. If you outstrike the opponent you win the round no matter if offensive or defensive. It's martial arts. If you win a war defensively you won, if you're attacked in the street and fight defensively to protect yourself you won, as a sport and combat art there is art in the ability to score while playing defensively so you won. When the aggressor is able to overcome the defense and score the same as you, he wins by virtue of aggression. Not if he gets tagged all round.
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  575. Izzy went defensive but he got beat - dropped even. Sean walked forward, defended Izzy's strikes, and scored more than Adesanya. DDP walked into Sean's fist all night, which Izzy did not do to Sean when he had the chance.
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  576. What are the stats?
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  577.  @kevinb6831  All air force bases have armed guards. Obviously they have less lethal means to stop people so they can throw the book at you, but don't go up there and expect to not have rifles pointed at you.
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  578. Nobody cares about nationality, you think people got congratulations when Brazilians or Russians got titles?
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  579. Russia broke Minsk II the day after it was signed. The Battle of Debaltseve was an advance that forced the Ukrainian government forces out of a town they controlled after a ceasefire was declared.
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  580. He gave money openly, but nobody knows about it unless they heard it from the "crazy internet people". Also, plenty of these outlets deserved to shut down. News outlets should trade in trustworthiness and at a time where trust is at an all time low, it's the job of the market to cause bad business to fall and give room for good business to flourish. Just by thinking a couple of seconds longer you'd have figured out that you're defending a bailout of failing businesses. They're failing because they can't be trusted. And now they have a hand that feeds them, and you don't bit that hand.
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  581.  @Novastar.SaberCombat  ask Gates about his time with Jeffy E.
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  582.  @rikflare7970  That's why it would be a government settlement. The settlements don't come from the companies.
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  583. He's always been like this. He's right in this case, as much as it pains me to say it.
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  584. Exactly how would anyone be compromised if not for the implication that the girls were underage? Just the fact that Joe is saying that anyone photographed near Epstein has to fear for their reputation means he acknowledges the underage part.
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  585. Russia doesn't have enough materiel and manpower to fight Ukraine, how are they going to fight the world?
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  586. He has a terrible take. In fact, in the 90s he used to say Ukraine should keep their nukes.
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  587.  @conorwhite2066  Yeah okay but now Mearsheimer switched tune, that's my point. He would want Russia as a wedge against China at the expense of Ukraine, which means what he says now is his personal political bias and not actually academic in nature.
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  588.  @feetsies  "reward for meeting quotas" - The issue is that you're introducing something that can be "gamed". There's a reward for meeting quotas? Then people will try to do whatever gets them to meet the quota with the least effort possible.
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  589. You can choose not to go to Africa.
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  590. He's right, though. Plus your own nose mucous is a line of defense, it can capture particles without them entering your body. So when they dig up your nose, you can contaminate the swab with particles that never infected you
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  591.  @FH-cn3mg  Roswell was the crash of a high atmosphere nuclear detonation sensor.
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  592. The point is that the information has to be absorbed and the context to why it might be needed is not important. If you're receiving a set of instructions on how to survive a nuke, your brain will instantly come up with questions like "why would my country get nuked, why would my city get nuked, why haven't anti-missile systems stopped the nuke?" and the point is to get your mind to stop wandering and just focus on the information.
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  593.  @fauckcryptic3977  "they made up the word" as if we don't know damned well where it comes from.
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  594. Oliver Stone, Putin's friend and whose son works for RT.
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  595. Nonsense. You pay for the bus fare. It costs money to keep it running. It's a transaction. And if you don't want to take the bus, you can drive. Or walk.
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  596. But all cops signed up to be bastards. They looked at the law, said "I want to enforce this", they looked at the government, said "I want to be a violent tool for this institution". How is he a smoothbrain for realizing cops are the ones enforcing all the government BS?
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  597.  @randommexican5664  Voting is just a silly popularity context. People voted for Obama to end the wars and close Gitmo. We're still in the wars and only now started talking about Guantanamo Bay. If politicians are just going to lie to get in office, how can you hold voters accountable for anything? "you vote for someone else" - Thanks for the advice man, never tried that. You're just passing the buck. Oh you don't like Biden? Vote harder next time. 4 years. You didn't like Trump? Sucked to be you for 4 years. You didn't like Obama? You didn't like Bush? Vote harder dude. Just ignore that the people you vote for LIE, and there's millions of people voting against you. "You don't go after the cop who is enforcing a law" - Actually, I go after them. "that was legislated by people who were voted in lol" - Those people would have no power if not for cops. They could legislate all they wanted, nobody would hear them outside the echo chamber. It's cops who look at the laws and say "I agree with using violence to enforce all of this, even what I disagree with". If cops are so innocent, they could just not join. Or resign. Being complicit makes them guilty. If a cartel leader orders a journalist or judge to be executed, the sicarios are not to blame? Only the head honcho is at fault? Not the thousands who signed up to serve the cartel? "why most people immediately dismiss most libertarians" - Most people are dumb. Being dismissed by most people is a sign of intelligence, if anything. "Being an edgelord isn't a tenable political platform lmao" - Neither is being an order follower or a government simp. You support the system until the day the system decides to screw you over. It's never tenable. The only tenable platform is being in control. And govt. simps are not in control. They're just the useful idiots who get sacrificed.
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  598.  @damienholland8103  First, FDA approval means nothing. Plenty of things get pulled from the market despite being approved. Reducing death is accomplished with early treatment and providing the prophylactic shot to the elderly and people with several comorbidities. Long covid is too broadly defined.
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  599.  @faboolean7039  Africa created omicron, or so the experts have been saying, which is nothing to worry about. Also, it's a moot point. Mute is someone who can't speak.
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  600.  @damienholland8103  Yes, they are. The average age of death is over the average lifespan in most countries, and comorbidities are a common denominator. The CDC director, Dr Rochelle Wallensky just said that 75% of the people dying had 4 co-morbidities. The definition does matter. Having a cough 5 weeks after recovery is a "long term symptom" that isn't uncommon even after a cold. The NIH also puts depression and anxiety under long covid, even though those are conditions are not a result of viral infection. So yes, it does matter and you telling me that it doesn't only tells me that you want to fraudulently increase the incidence of the problem. Their life before and after has changed??? If we accept a strict definition of causing long term disability. You're not willing to do that. I just asked you to limit your concern to actually life changing conditions and you say you didn't want to because it doesn't matter!
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  601. You could, but you aren't.
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  602. Turkey is in NATO too. You thought that was a gotcha?
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  603. Houthi forces were helping the US fight Al Qaeda Yemen. We gave them intel, and they killed them for us.
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  604. ​ @nikolaboskovic5793 He served a couple years in prison.
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  605. Tidal is garbage.
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  606. No. Socialism is worker's ownership of the means of production and the prohibition of profit. Communism is when you have that in a stateless society. That's why the USSR was controlled by communist parties. They were nominally socialist states, lead by communists. The communists were meant to oversee the transition from state to stateless.
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  607. He's a radical feminist?
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  608.  @vangoghsseveredear  Strawman argument. You've already admitted your loss. Thanks for playing.
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  609. Something wrong with satellite photos?
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  610.  @atmosrepair  The running apps worked much better though, because when the geolocation heatmaps were released they revealed the outlines of buildings of secret American bases because people tended to run in a straight line along the walls.
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  611. But they are. Russia wasted ten thousand men assaulting a small town. Meanwhile Ukraine recaptured Kharkiv in a week and forced Russia to retreat from Kherson city without a direct fight by starving them of supplies. Not to mention Russia had their strategic bombers damaged by long range drone strikes and had to relocate them almost to Mongolia.
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  612.  @ImmortalWombat  Russia is using everything. Their superior tech? A handful of Su-57s and T-14 Armatas which are basically prototypes.
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  613.  @martinmanky9015  And yet Russians are in the run.
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  614.  @Ominiumshadow24  All you bots cry about CNN.
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  615. He didn't say they were making them deadlier, just spread more.
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  616.  @duramaxdad  The first SARS had a 46% fatality rate or whatever. This one has like a 0.05% fatality rate, with a 1-3% fatality rate with the elderly. It's extremely mild in comparison.
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  617. H2 power doesn't exist. It's just a way to store energy, not a source.
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  618.  @scruffydelilah1186  And it didn't work. This is the first one to reach humans.
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  619.  @adamplevey8385  If there's enough of us at the camp, maybe we can overpower the guards.
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