Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "Asmongold TV " channel.

  1. Yay, Uni-Party.
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  2. "I'm not an emotional man," he says, and then he proceeds to detail how emotional he is.
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  3. We didn't believe it would change. We just knew which way to vote for a sliver of hope that it would change. It was a choice between a death spiral and maybe not a death spiral.
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  4. We're hearing from everyone except the mother who poisoned her children against their father out of spite.
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  5. But it's exactly what you'd expect from a diehard racist.
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  6.  @BeardManAce  If he didn't know what it meant, why did he think it worth sharing?
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  7. This has been happening since 2015, at least.
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  8. Dear LA, Seattle, Portland, Chicago, and NYC: The rest of the country is sick of your BS.
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  9. In 1970, $20 would buy you lunch at McDonald's, 5 days a week, for a month. Burger, fries and a coke. School lunches were 30 or 35 cents. It was a big deal when they went up to 40 cents. Inflation is bad and it's been with us since Roosevelt.
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  10. The generational disadvantage is real. The question is what to do about it. Blacks were answering these questions without any help and overcoming quite a few obstacles, until Lyndon Baines Johnson. Then the rot set in. It switched from "Quit holding me down" to "You owe me something." That's where it went off the rails.
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  11. I didn't vote for AIPAC.
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  12. It's definitely creepy and verging on SA, but k-12 schools have pretty broad latitude, with teachers and administrators have broad powers to act in loco parentis (legal guardians) for the children under their supervision. FWIW, teachers/administrators abusing their authority have been with us since the first public schools. You have to look at the psychology of choosing a career teaching and supervising children. You get a lot of motherly and fatherly types, and you also get a lot of freakazoids, who want to lord it over others. "Finally! I get to tell the cool kids what to do! Bwahahahahaha!"
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  13. She's just not seeing anybody with that opinion on her feed or in her comments, because she's in an echo chamber, plus nobody with any sense is wasting time on her, unless it's to simp.
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  14. Translation: "The files make us look bad."
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  15. I'd agree, except it metastasizes. The Antifa Road Show.
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  16. Violent-protester fatigue is real. Vandal fatigue is real.
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  17.  @MakerInMotion  Most rich people, food is a tiny percentage of their income. Prices could quadruple and it wouldn't put a dent in their budgets. In Joe Scarborough's case, he's doubly insulated, because he clearly does none of the shopping.
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  18. Lights up the room.
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  19. Your ignorance of history is appalling.
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  20.  @garyn1780  It's pretty hard to fake dust falling in vacuum. It doesn't float around. It just falls to the ground like a great big rock, because there's no friction with air. If they faked that, then hat's off.
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  21.  @Oz_Rion  I think it's because only in America can the most insignificant people feel like the world wouldn't spin on its axis without them. Now, having kept the world turning for yet another day, I show myself to the door.
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  22. You are exactly right. And the more tears and screaming they do, the more they need an audit (or a DNA test).
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  23. He said "none of your business," but I feel like he probably voted 'D' like all the rest.
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  24. Criminal malfeasance. Billions of monorail to nowhere. Billions on the homeless. Nothing gets built. Homelessness exploding.
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  25. They don't even realize everything they say is a cry for help. Well, they do, but not in the way they think.
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  26. Tomboys are hot.
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  27. Nice.
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  28.  @rainbowprism6242  If they're so educated and so skilled, surely they can apply all that learning and skill to finding a job in the real world. Or are you saying they're utterly unsuited for any job other than government bureaucrat?
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  29.  @Doc_Cocked_Glock  That's a point in his favor. As with all of us, he has blind spots, where he thinks he knows more than he does.
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  30. YOU ARE WRONG. SEE HOW MUCH MORE CLEVER I APPEAR WHEN I SHOUT?!!!!! IF YOU CAN'T SEE THAT, IT'S BECAUSE YOU'RE NOT AS SMART AS I AM!!!!!1111111!!!
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  31. @ To me, saying "You're European" and "You're a socialist" is being redundant.
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  32. Rick sounds a lot better with a Mark Dice over-dub.
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  33. If you don't tamp down the anti-social behavior by age 4, it's ingrained for life.
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  34. Psychopath in the minimization-of-their-crimes mode. "Yeah, but they weren't very good people."
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  35.  @Fergus-H-MacLeod  Those kids don't belong in college.
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  36.  @최정현-q4x  Yes. The tolerant left, as in "absented themselves," leaving only the intolerant, who happened to be "left."
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  37.  @TheKillerman3333  AI is woke.
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  38. “He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that. His reasons may be good, and no one may have been able to refute them. But if he is equally unable to refute the reasons on the opposite side, if he does not so much as know what they are, he has no ground for preferring either opinion... Nor is it enough that he should hear the opinions of adversaries from his own teachers, presented as they state them, and accompanied by what they offer as refutations. He must be able to hear them from persons who actually believe them...he must know them in their most plausible and persuasive form.” John Stuart Mill, "On Liberty"
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  39.  @Helikaeon  CEOs taking big bonuses when the company is tanking are pretty unethical.
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  40. Everyone should learn about the Holocaust. Everyone should also ask why it's used as justification for forever war in the Middle East and around the world.
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  41. I've been saying that for years, with regard to the long march of Marxism through our institutions (which should know better).
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  42.  @acuilnos  I think Japanese and Chinese are delighted when a foreigner has taken the trouble to learn their language and learn some of their customs.
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  43. They took over colleges and universities the same way.
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  44. Antifa-tigue is real.
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  45. Exactly. People are waking up.
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  46. We all have gaps. Most of us try to either hide or close ours. Maybe this is his way of learning things that he never learned while he was totally absorbed as a developer. Same with Hollywood. Same with famous musicians. Mega hours getting good at one thing. Doesn't leave room for much else. You kind of have to live a very boring life to know a lot about everything.
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  47. 2-tiered justice is essential for communism to work.
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  48.  @denkerbosu3551  That's why I'm switching to Linux. The thing is, when you're a in a work situation, you're highly trained, and then you have to learn everything all over because they made it accessible to nitwits. I shouldn't have to re-learn how to sharpen a knife. It's all well and good for younger people, learning the crap for the first time, but for someone who's been doing computers and Internet pretty much since they were invented, they reached the point of diminishing returns a long time ago.
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  49. The father is trying to still the water, but the stabbing advocates won't let it happen.
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  50. This is why online independents have destroyed lamestream media.
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  51.  @faloughasch9239  The second one. The one who swallowed Keynesian nonsense hook, line, and sinker, because of what it could do for HIM. IOW, King-for-life Franklin.
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  52.  @shmobbin6501  I hope so. Gen Z is disadvantaged in many ways. But there's still a lot of young talent coming up.
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  53. It's the Pelosi eyebrows.
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  54.  @corneliusthecrowtamer1937  They were forced to open up, at gunpoint.
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  55.  @BaddestCat  Just keep in mind that many Democrats remain in a bubble, and to them, that's what being witty looks like.
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  56. Trump didn't stage an insurrection. That's propaganda.
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  57. Unfortunately, the Trump administration isn't disavowing the main, regime-change, proxy-war policies. Maybe a lasting peace comes of this, but I'm very skeptical. Trump admin is just as neocon as its predecessors. This sounds like Minsk III, and Russia knows that relenting will just give Ukraine/NATO time to re-build and resume the same nonsense that started the conflict in the first place. There have to be real guarantees. A cessation of military aid to Ukraine. I don't see Russia stopping until that happens.
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  58.  @pyramidion5911  Technology is good. The business models suck.
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  59.  @PythonForLifeBoys  Actually, you ARE forced to buy a new phone or PC darn near every year, any more. You ARE forced to "update" everything. You should be able to buy something and expect it to work and to be able to fix it if it breaks. The people who lecture us about the environment are trying to make everything disposable. Gross waste of resources.
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  60. MSM is trying to spin this as Orange Man being undignified and disrespectful, when this is the only way for Trump to break through their walls of willful ignorance. They're doing their best, but the video MSM is trying to suppress is totally viral outside of the Shrinking and Increasingly Irrelevant Establishment Space.
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  61. It's rough, but it's a personality type that 50 years ago would've thought you were evil because her preacher told her so. This is nothing new. It's not even more prevalent than in the past. What's different, NOW, is the Internet allows us to compare notes on a global scale.
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  62. They're splitting hairs on the definition of genocide to minimize the problem. They're not quite to the "... and that's a good thing" stage, but they're getting close, because people ain't buying what they're selling.
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  63.  @imviciously  That's what I tell people, too. But america is BASED on distrust of the state and vigilance against authoritarianism.
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  64. No. Ricky Gervais called out the BS. They're peddling BS.
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  65. Yes. Recording someone without their consent is a rat move. Calling the guy who embarrassed you a rat doesn't change what was recorded and transmitted. I know my mother would be appalled if she heard the way I cuss in private. Someone could record me and embarrass me pretty bad. Rat move, yes. But I still have to face Mom.
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  66. I'm sympathetic towards Palestinians whose main sin appears to be living on territory after which Israel lusts. The re-ified Israeli state was created by force of arms and terror. Menachem Begin was the equivalent of a Hamas leader back before Israel achieved statehood. There were people living on that land before Begin came along. Their rights are smoke in the wind. Dave Chapelle talked about this in one of his sets. When is it terrorism and when is it asymmetric warfare? Some of the most brutal fighters who committed some of the worst atrocities in history were Spanish Guerrillas opposing Bonaparte in the early 1800s and French and Polish Partisans under the Nazi boot in the 1940s. History treats them as brave freedom fighters. Many people in Palestine see themselves in the same way. I don't have to be Muslim to understand why. I don't have to be a Muslim to understand why nations in the region have undying enmity for the state of Israel, as currently constituted. I don't even fault Israel for behaving as it does. Of course it took full advantage in the 1940s. Of course it continues to rely on the USA. It wouldn't exist without seizing opportunities and milking the USA as much as possible, to preserve itself, when it never could on its own.
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  67. Every minute with Hasan is wasted.
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  68. Best case scenario is we quit supporting Israel, Ukraine, and Europe, mind our own business, and fix our own bleeding.
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  69. Because it gives them power.
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  70. The future has been scary for 10,000 years. Nothing really changes. Just new challenges and new trade-offs.
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  71. Middle- and upper-class white women are also the biggest winners of the welfare state. Here's how it works: Get pregnant. Move out of Mom & Dad's house. Pretend your child is immaculately conceived (no human father to be found). Your mom and dad can still help you under the table, so you're never out on the streets. Go to the welfare office and get food stamps, AFDC, and subsidized housing as an unwed mother. Once you have that going, present yourself at a local college or university and apply for federal financial aid. Pell Grants are the main ones I can think of. I knew quite a few women in college who had well-to-do parents (richer than mine) living a mile or two away. They had their little baby Jesus, the angels came down from Heaven singing "Good tidings of great joy!" and the Wise Men gave them room, board, free health care, and free (or mostly free) college. As a young man, I paid for college by WORKING. Anyway, my intuition tells me that if you really dive into the numbers on Pell Grants and financial aid for students in college, you'll find that women get most of it. The system makes it harder for men to get through college than it makes it for women. All they have to do is be loose women long enough to get pregnant, and that child becomes their meal ticket and their federal financial aid. And they will lecture you and fly into hysterics if you question what they're doing in any way, because they're strong, powerful women, who don't need no man (not when they can reach into our pockets without asking).
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  72. The system is biased against competition entering the marketplace. Government regulations are part of it. It takes a billion-dollar company to be big enough to hire "compliance officers" who do nothing but keep track of government regs that change every freaking day. A small outfit can't hire 10 extra people for "compliance." But if you have 1000 employees, 1001 is no burden. If you're a sole proprietor or have 3 people under you, hiring even one extra person sinks your business.
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  73. You should watch Freedom Toons' take on "reaching out to young men."
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  74.  @lordkrauser  You saw it, too!
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  75. Crank up Hotel California and go to work.
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  76.  @thegreatestfallout1794  Like Disney buying the rights to Marvel.
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  77. She's not losing it. She's speaking directly to her followers, who have lost it.
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  78. The hidden sub-text: Progressives are effeminate.
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  79. If they let anyone else speak, it makes them look stupid, so of course they don't like other people with an opinion that's different.
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  80.  @cheesepop7708  They're endorsed by Orange Man, himself! Don't know why, but Trump makes frequent appearances in Tony's commercials.
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  81. "Nobody elected Elon!" Nobody elected John Brennan, James Clapper, Jim Comey, Anthony Fauci, or....
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  82. What does progressivism want? Nanny government to care for all the people's needs. We used to have a word for that: FEUDALISM. "Own nothing and be happy" is what you tell serfs and slaves. Progressivism is actually regressivism. The whole point of the USA is the people asserting their right to run their own lives and not be clients of the King whom they must obey, absolutely.
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  83. While I don't approve of America's Israel policy or Israel's Gaza policy, and I despise forever war, this kind of "action" is plainly a terrorism. I'm glad I don't live in that area, any more.
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  84.  @pyramidion5911  No. We're pissed off that things used to work better for cheaper and now they cost more and it takes 5 steps to do one thing when it used to be one step. You train yourself and learn all the keystrokes and then the "update" comes out and you have to go back to using the mouse or take a week to rebuild everything so it works like it's supposed to work. I'm working on a deadline and my software takes a shit because of the latest "upgrade" or "update." Imagine you have a favorite tool, somebody steals it, then gives you a broken tool. To cap it all off, they tell me "You're welcome!"
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  85. You're becoming an apologist for regime-change foreign policy and forever war.
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  86. There's a middle path to all of this that is neither anti-Semitic nor Zionist.
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  87.  @ceadm1476  Why do you hate it when people save money? Anyone who saves money in an inflationary environment is a fool. Anyone who saves money when there is no inflation is prudent. Inflation turns economics into "spend it now while it lasts!" instead of "save for your future."
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  88.  @kaiz1845  It would matter a LOT! Retired people on fixed pensions get screwed. Anybody who saves for a rainy day is screwed. Inflation is not good. Period.
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  89.  @MichaelLewis-z1f2u  I would like to introduce you to American history: "Sound as a dollar" used to mean something. Now it means 30 cents.
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  90. The new girl has nothing original to add. She's just reading what she's told to read, and repeats things. Not one single original thought that I've seen, not that I've watched any more than the excerpts.
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  91. You are absolutely right. In the "new, improved" version, it takes 5 steps instead of 1 step, with the old version.
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  92. Didn't notice any. Did they get scrubbed in 10 minutes' time?
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  93. What she's doing is just wrong. Everyone knows it.
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  94.  @revilokid  I think most of us understood what you were saying. @R-Righteous just likes to dunk on people, apparently.
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  95.  @qc6713  As an outsider, the main problem Japan has is natural resources. It HAS to trade. If I were "running" Japan, I'd want to make it the most advanced in atomic power generation in the world, and eliminate imported oil for energy generation.
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  96.  @loyalitaeter  Maybe English is your second language, or sarcasm doesn't register, or you like to blow punchlines by saying too much.
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  97. Making himself Woman of the Year.
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  98. College students led the book burnings in Nazi Germany, or rather, their professors led the book burnings, and the ignorant students eagerly participated.
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  99. It's common knowledge. Tulsi trying to say he can't not know because he dealt with mobsters is an unnecessary claim. The fact that he posted it at all means he knows full well the meaning of the term.
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  100. The money men told them ESG was going to save them. All it meant was they could borrow money to waste on bad projects.
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  101. The divide on Israel cleaves BOTH parties. A lot of libertarians and conservatives - the good ones, in my opinion - question our endless wars in the Middle East that seem to serve no one's interests except for a small pocket of socialist Zionists in apartheid Israel. Creation of the State of Israel was the last gasp of the British Empire, saddling the USA with its defense in perpetuity. We tell ourselves "Israel is an important ally (proxy) in the region." Why do we need proxies in the Middle East? Is it so they can pull nasties that help us so we don't have to and we can pull nasties and they can pretend it wasn't them. But this isn't fooling anybody except maybe the American people. I don't think forever war is good for Israel or USA or anybody living in the Middle East.
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  102.  @alpanago2603  Not yet. That's for sure.
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  103. Not a big fan of RINO Mike Johnson, but he's right on this issue. Not a big fan of FOX, but they get this story right. This is just more of the same crap they've been doing for many years. Act upset. Disrupt everything that doesn't agree with you 100%. From Antifa raids on prayer meetings to trying a pseudo-takeover of Congress along Bolshevik lines. It's all from the same playbook, but it wears thin very quickly.
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  104. Not only that, it's ILLEGAL. Blatantly preferential treatment based on gender and skin color. Democrats fought the Civil Rights movement tooth and nail and then pretended there was some kind of great realignment. Then 50 years later, they're segregating us and discriminating against people based on immutable characteristics and calling it "equity." They haven't changed one bit. The Republicans are still much closer to being true "liberals" than Democrats.
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  105. Fascist features of the current system: State interventions in health care, education, and, as we're finding out, the so-called "free press." State interventions in every aspect of the economy, from agriculture to auto manufacturing. None of the anti-fascists care about any of that. They want more of that. They just don't like the current people in charge or any of the competition they might have in the future. America thinks the government protects them from corporations, when it's only with government interventions that the worst actors prosper. In an unregulated economy, transparency and best practices become a selling point, and customers dig deeper into what they're buying. There's no law that says a car has to be made in a particular way. There's strict liability if the car you sell is so flimsy it's a death trap. The government won't come after you. All of your dissatisfied customers will come after you and all other potential customers will never buy your product, either. It's a different kind of quality control. A better kind.
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  106. There is a fascist taint to getting into EVs when the government was doling out money for them, virtually guaranteeing him a profit if he did a decent job of it, which he did. There's a fascist taint to Space-X, where his main customer is the U.S. Government. He's just the capitalist who positioned himself for those kinds of earnings. The definition of fascism is basically public-private partnership. Anything to do with the military or space is a bit fascist. Government can't have just anybody going into space, willy-nilly, or risk giving up the high ground to independent 3rd parties. If you own space, you can literally throw rocks at any nation.
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  107. Typical college graduate, throwing around some of the words they vaguely remember, without any idea of their true meaning. This, people, is the best CBS could find to run Face the Nation. CBS is dead.
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  108. I wonder if it's greed or if they're just not getting to breakeven without the extra charges, so they resort to underhanded practices.
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  109. I feel the same way about software, in general. Instead of selling you something, they basically make you rent it and want to trick you into buying services you don't want for software that doesn't work as well as it did 3 or 4 versions previously. Adobe, Microsoft, ... I think there should be and hopefully will be a massive migration to open-source software, like Linux. The only reason software ages out is because the software companies want it to age out. It's not about hackers and security. It's about squeezing more money out of the customer by any and every means possible, and hopefully it will bring down some of the currently dominant companies.
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  110. There ain't gonna be another "Summer of Love." The worm has turned on the permissive attitude towards mostly warlike protests.
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  111. "We're following the rules." No. You're not.
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  112.  TheShadow-Knows  The white "liberals" who conceived the new plantation. Free stuff from the government was never a liberal concept. Freedom FROM the government was what liberalism was all about.
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  113.  @allegorx58  Yes. I empathize and sympathize with people who come here, illegally, to build a better life, but I empathize and sympathize more with regular people who were born here. The sheer number of illegals destroys the great life that drew them here.
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  114.  @phantomarcher9590  Not sure. Maybe you can explain it to the rest of us.
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  115. @ STEM will fund itself. The federal government needs to butt out.
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  116. So many hidden costs built into those cheap imports, too. They break or wear out, quickly, and instead of fixing them, it's cheaper to just buy brand new junk. It's way cheaper to buy a car that you can fix for 20 or 30 years, but they want us buying new cars every year. What's good for us isn't good for the automakers (as currently conceived) or the super-rich or the government/ruling class. They don't want us fixing things. They want us buying new things. How is that good for the people or the planet? If there were an automaker that operated the way I'm suggesting they should, the brand loyalty would be through the roof, and, as long as they didn't get ridiculously greedy, they'd be the most successful automaker in the world. But the government and the existing automakers would never allow that company to get off the ground.
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  117. I want to thank the entertainment industry and specifically the gaming industry, for giving so many good jobs to so many grievance-studies graduates for so long. I really appreciate your sacrifice on their behalf. We don't do enough in this country for the mentally ill, and you mainstreamed so many of them!
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  118. "Cash poor winning" meant as "cash-poor winning," as in "They had less money but they won."
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  119. FOX lost a lot of support when it pledged its allegiance to Big Pharma and forever war.
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  120. Saying who you are is sort of a tradition whenever it's your turn in the public square. You're not just some random person with unknown motives or track record. You're not a bot.
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  121. Consider that up to 90% of the current civil service is dyed-in-the-wool Democrat, and draw your own conclusions about resistance within the government to the radical course corrections that are underway. They have to be smart about how they implement their reforms. They also have to out-work the opposition. It's great that this is going out on Rogan. It spreads geometrically across the Interwebz and is embedded in the world consciousness. MSM will never lay out how billionaires hack the system, leveraging millions into more billions. Soros, Gates, and Musk are the three most obvious ones. Musk is sort of the wild card, sort of "It takes a thief to catch a thief" factor in the equation.
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  122. Iran wasn't a democracy before 1979. It was a puppet monarchy installed by foreign powers (Britain and Russia if you can believe it!) in 1941. That regime got the boot and so we (I think the USA) re-installed the Pahlavi dynasty in 1953, and it was the Shah who liberalized things to please his masters. But don't listen to me. I'm no expert. These are just things I picked up over the years, without any real serious study.
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  123. You know everything you need to know about the Wheel of Power in its name and in the big word "POWER" in the middle of the graphic. This isn't about inclusion and equity, it's about power for the people who think this stuff up and get paid to talk about it.
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  124. I'm a red hat who knows what "a priori" means, only I learned the proper Latin pronunciation from my wise old math professors. One of the reasons Bill Maher misses with me so much is his bland, bored presumption of his intellectual superiority, when, as a trained scientist, mathematician, and historian, I find him to be pretty shallow and woefully untrained in any kind of serious qualitative or quantitative analysis, which is no impediment to a career in punditry. Obviously.
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  125. It's malignant.
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  126. Some of us look at FOX and MSNBC as Uni-Party propaganda. FOX just says the same things with different emphasis. None of them saw a new drug they didn't love. None of them saw a war they didn't love. None of them ever said a word about how our food is poisoning us. None of them came right out and said RussiaGate was a hoax when it might have made a difference.
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  127.  @pulser08  Perfect quote. We defeated fascism only to succumb to it, ourselves. Sadly, the most vocal opponents against fascism are fervent supporters of its twin brother, socialism.
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  128.  @robdurfee6861  There were lots of stupid things people did in the past, like opening a vein with a dirty razor to "drain the ill humors." Nobody's saying "I want reparations from all doctors for the harm done to my ancestors!"
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  129. Notice MSDNC had zero young men in this piece? A woman and an old Democrat man talking about young men like they're an alien species, with a middle-aged woman running the conversation.
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  130. Gotta love the optics! Or ELSE!
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  131. ... and pairs her with a soy boy.
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  132. If it were 30 years ago, and it was a story about Johnny Carson being a mean drunk, we would never have heard of it.
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  133. What my generation doesn't understand is that the "fascism" against which we rail is the fascism we brought about! We took over the establishment and thought we were CHANGING things, but we are actually the new reactionaries!
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  134. "Nobody's worried about Joe Biden." This is part of their strategy. They're trying to sweep Joe Biden under the carpet, and now they stand on a rug with an obvious corpse rolled up in it.
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  135. Hasan is 100% disingenuous. He knows exactly what he's doing.
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  136. Come here, get free benefits, and vote for the party that promises to keep the free benefits coming. What could go wrong?
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  137. Remember the good old days, when the people in power were doomed when the public despised their policies? Now, the people are doomed and the politicians do whatever they feel like.
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  138. Violence for political ends is war.
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  139. Yes. People in the middle are getting screwed, but what's the solution? Put everybody under the gentle ministrations of a government infested with rats? What we need is to go back to the days when every town did the best it could, and the community hospital was supported by the local community, to the best of its ability, and not with promises they'd have to borrow from our children's futures to keep. We helped a lot more people for a lot less when doctors were hired by the local community and did their best to turn no one away. No bureaucracy. Just "All he can afford is a pig and 4 bushels of corn, so that's what I'm charging." Instead of virtue-signaling on the national stage, local do-gooders would virtue-signal in the local community by raising money for the local hospital. Make it something your community is proud of. When the feds are paying for it, you lose all of that. That's a major problem, but probably the biggest problem is the corruption that sets in when it's all centralized, and one guy screwing up or simply with mal intent, can wreck health care for everybody. (See "Anthony Fauci."). But until it starts rotting too much from within, a lot of people think they're getting something really great that they can't afford.
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  140. So hard to tell. It might be we're seeing multiple, independently-targetable warheads splitting into individual bombs. Maybe we're seeing missile intercepts. With Russian expertise advising Iran, the act of using these surface-to-air batteries exposes them to future bombardments specifically at the batteries, themselves. Iran doesn't have to actually get a hit with any of their missiles and drones, if they can sustain 5 or more nights of these attacks. It takes 4 to 1 surface-to-air missiles to take out 1 missile in the first layer, and there are 3 layers of air defense. Anything making it past the 1st layer accounts for 8 anti-missile missiles (again at roughly 4-to-1). Anything that penetrates the 2nd layer takes on average 4 missiles in the 3rd layer to bring down, if it is brought down. That defensive missiles are a lot more expensive to engineer and manufacture than the offensive missiles and drones. Iran doesn't even have to waste money on warheads, because Israel has to treat every missile and drone as if it does carry a warhead. It's very easy to overwhelm modern air defenses just by attrition, no matter how good those defenses are. In essence, both Israel and Iran are vulnerable to missile and drone attacks. There really is no defense. Western nations have better weapons, but limited production capacity for said weapons. Eventually, they will be forced to get along with other nations, and quit trying to impose their will, everywhere.
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  141. You don't want to look at them, but would you look away? Not knowing the crazy person, there's no way I'm turning my back on them, for my own safety.
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  142. Young Al Sharpton in the making! Woo-Hoo!
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  143. ... or they were traumatized in the past and this gives them something to belong to. ... or they're just really stupid people who are easy to manipulate.
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  144.  @GoTenjoyer  Obviously, you do, or you wouldn't have gone out of your way to signal indifference. You simply would've been indifferent.
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  145.  @hawgcranker420  Exactly. The big mistake is letting yourself get dragged into it. I say "Best wishes to all, but we're pulling up stakes." As an American, I fail to see why survival of ANY nation in the Middle East is ours to either promote or destroy. We don't have a dog in the hunt.
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  146. Sorry. The debt is real.
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  147.  @joekerr6035  Suggestion: Go into Apps manager and start force-stopping as many apps as possible. Best answer is to just get the cheapest phone you can.
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  148.  @lemonjz  They haven't shitcanned the Galaxy 8, yet, but they will. I loved my Galaxy 3, but when the 2nd battery on it died, NOBODY had a replacement battery. So Samsung turned a perfectly good phone into a brick.
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  149. This is pretty much what the Democrats want to do in the USA, and, thankfully, that's why they're out of power.
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  150. Cruz is telling the truth about what kids were taught in Sunday School for 80 years, at least. The slow decay of organized religion in the West has led to a real disconnect between Boomers-and-older and Boomers-and-younger, with the fissure down the middle of the Boomers. We were ALL taught that same stuff. Half the people my age and even more people older just unquestioningly believe that Israel is the Promised Land of God's Chosen People, and its existence is a precondition for the 2nd Coming of Christ and Armageddon, which we're all taught to believe is a GOOD thing. It's ironic, because Israel is very much a secular society (43% of Jews in Israel are secular Jews). The older folks don't see the irony in supporting a nation that's not very religious at all, in the name of OUR religion, which is an offshoot of Judaism. It's just insane, the blind faith and allegiance to Israel that permeates our nation, particularly our geriatric political leadership.
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  151. You can't rely on Google to give you what you're looking for, if there's anything - I mean anything - Google would RATHER show you, first.
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  152. I frequently agree with AZ, but I don't like the rantings. Same reason I can't sit through an Alex Jones show. Same reason I don't listen to sports talk, any more. Same reason I don't listen to Mark Levin. Just spit facts. Spare me the theater.
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  153.  @shaneWARs1  I comment all the time on politics, outdoors, etc. I never post about my daily activities on the Internet, unless I'm e-mailing people I know in real life.
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  154. I notice one side uses persuasion and the other side uses coercion. Coercive tactics to woke-ify entertainment in the first place, and threatening lawsuits against anyone who's critical of the results. These are top-down, authoritarian thinkers, obsessed with personal power.
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  155. Haters are low-IQ losers. It makes them feel better about themselves to have someone to dunk on. You pegged it.
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  156. It's going to get worse for overweight people over time, as the government faces insolvency in the very near future from all the unfunded liabilities just around the corner. Being overweight could become the new "unpatriotic." There's a huge bubble of Boomers hitting retirement, now, and the rest of us will be paying for all of their chronic ailments, the vast majority of which will be blamed on obesity.
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  157. Actually, we do see this behavior every day. In Walmart.
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  158. Yup. Do you think YouTube realizes that the banners are constant reminders of all the lies it's pushed over the last 10 years?
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  159. I took a "teaching online" course with a bunch of other teachers who prattle all day long about how important group work is. Well, we got our group-work assignment and I kept e-mailing everybody all week to meet and get some work done. I did my part of the assignment, and, when I didn't hear from anybody by Thursday, I just finished the entire thing. It was due on Monday. I got a flurry of e-mails and phone calls Sunday night from these clowns, and told them "Go ahead. I'm done." The project got done. Nobody pitched in. And they still talk about the importance of group work, especially the "holding each other accountable," but I know they're all frauds, and I know the group work they collect is fraudulent.
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  160.  @SonOfRussia-v8x  Pretty much. I think that's finally breaking down, though. Maybe the one good thing to come of out modern-day progressivism: exposing the hypocrisy of our "special relationship with Israel."
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  161.  @alanmacdonald1457  More like Europe is interested in their oil. USA doesn't need Middle East oil.
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  162. Devil's in the details. Define "Acting in your best interest." What a country should exist to do is to keep its people free of government overreach. Small government means peace and prosperity for the people. Always has. Always will. That's why there's always a small group of people who profit enormously from war and poverty, and those people infest the government. It's the one place they can give orders to people who actually produce things.
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  163. Pockets of nationalism arising is only a positive thing because it stands in the way of top-down globalism. But throughout history, nationalism is how governments trick the people into fighting each other. If we ran our governments with more restraint, soon it wouldn't matter which side of the border you're on. You could travel freely to and from other nations, because people's rights are respected on both sides of the border and neither country is plotting to conquer its neighbor. It's perfectly happy in its own liberty. That's the way to get rid of both nationalism and globalism. And we're a long way from it, because people who love power always climb to the top of governments, and those people love war.
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  164. Ever notice that the people who want to control everyone else have no self-control, themselves? Ever notice that the biggest, most conspicuous virtue-signalers always have the biggest skeletons in their closets?
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  165. Our military is actually quite bloated, and is not built for modern warfare. You don't win with a small number of very expensive weapons. Only the weapons manufacturers win.
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  166. Fascism isn't far right. It never was. It's just one of the variations of socialism, which is far left.
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  167. People like me do all we can to avoid buying from the mega-corporations (and that includes Amazon), and support local businesses. It's not easy to be a "locally-owned-and-operated" purist, though, because of what you say. They systematically put the squeeze on all small businesses, especially during COVID, where the small grocery down the street that you went to for years was declared "nonessential," and put on government lockdown, without a single law being passed. Just some lying/misinformed politician/bureaucrat making RADICAL declarations with the power of law, without any debate or public hearings on the matter.
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  168. This reminds me of a suburban wife getting mad at her husband because her "job" selling Tupperware was just too expensive for the husband to support any longer. "But you're talking about my JOB! Why do you hate food containers that keep leftovers fresh?"
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  169. Yes. It's no longer business as usual. The leakers are making it easier to pinpoint whom to fire/prosecute.
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  170. Japanese learned how to live sustainably and maintain peace and harmony in enormous, clean, well-managed metropolises, when Europeans were living in filth. There's a lot to be said for that. But I think the culture gave up a lot of their individuality and privacy for the greater good, and in some ways, that's sad. I'd probably be a pretty poor representative of the USA if I visited Japan. I'm too outspoken, and I probably smell bad to most Japanese, because I like nothing better than my meat and potatoes. Even if you keep yourself clean - which I do - I think the difference in diet would be pretty noticeable to a Japanese native, the same way I can smell people from some parts of China.
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  171.  @seanhack628  Maybe I wouldn't lump all lefties into one basket if I heard ONE of them condemn the terrorism from their side for the last umpteen years.
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  172. By which you mean, they're really loud and have zero charisma.
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  173.  @IDEN7I7YCRISIS  There's nothing a dishwasher that works needs updated.
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  174. It doesn't matter if it's an entirely good idea. It exists. Humans must master it or perish, just like every other new thing that comes down the pike.
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  175.  @NEETinRecovery  We gave our kids toys without thinking about the consequences.
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  176. The only thing Trump did in his 1st term that all the networks liked was when he launched missile strikes on Syria. MSM is our enemy.
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  177. Boomer Democrats have dominated the political landscape for 50 years, now, and what's the result? $36 trillion in debt. We are DEFinitely the "ME" generation: F all who came before or came after. From Wiki: "The "Me" generation is a term referring to baby boomers in the United States and the self-involved qualities associated with this generation. The 1970s was dubbed the "Me decade" by writer Tom Wolfe in The "Me" Decade and the Third Great Awakening; Christopher Lasch wrote about the rise of a culture of narcissism among younger baby boomers. The phrase became popular at a time when "self-realization" and "self-fulfillment" were becoming cultural aspirations to which young people supposedly ascribed higher importance than social responsibility." We want our free stuff and we don't want to be told what to do. I say "we," but I always voted for smaller government and less war. But I'm always out-voted by my so-called "liberal" contemporaries.
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  178. Our response to ending the would-be ethno state of Nazi Germany was to create an ethno state in the Middle East. Make it make sense.
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  179. They're trying to re-run the 2020 game plan. People won't stand for it. Mass media is running the same "mostly peaceful" game plan. People aren't standing for it.
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  180. They don't care about the environment. They care about power and control of others.
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  181.  @Awful.Productions Yes. At root, they despise democracy. They only love democracy when their guy wins.
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  182.  @marcinzysko1653  Are they?
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  183. This will shatter the MAGA coalition. I'm gettin' off the train, as we speak.
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  184. Pirating is definitely wrong. The solution, which no one wants, apparently, is to do without the product until and unless it's reasonably-priced, with no hidden fees (or ads) built into it.
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  185.  @RocSandy  But if there are people who believe there is value in the trading cards, there is value in the trading cards, and an entrepreneurial person would consider it investing. Investing, itself, is a form of gambling. I heard of Mr Beast some time ago, and when I checked out of the channel, I checked out after about 5 minutes. Seemed like it was aimed at kids or immature adults. But maybe I didn't give it a chance.
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  186. The irascible chef is a time-honored trope.
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  187. State driver's license should cover it, if they require a birth certificate be shown at least once. That said, this method is a bit fraught. If your license expires or your state ID expires or is lost, producing all the needed documents can be very difficult for elderly citizens who don't know where their birth certificate is. I have a somewhat unusual name, with two middle names. I had one social security number, but there was an issue with one being issued to me with one middle name, and a later one being issued to me with both middle names. I eventually tracked down a birth certificate with the FULL name and had to get my SS card issued under that FULL name, which was a bit of a bother, and I've heard, anecdotally, about the elderly being unable to secure driver's license or state ID, because of something messed-up with their birth certificate. Definitely something that bears looking into. State ID shouldn't expire and expired driver's license should suffice, if it was all legit up to that time. Maybe there does need to be a closing of whatever cracks there are. But no one who is not a citizen should be allowed to vote. Any who do are disenfranchising legal citizens.
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  188. Timeline to debunking has shrunk from years to months and now is often as little as a day or two.
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  189. You're way too socialist for me, man. It's not government's place to incentivize more or fewer children. It's government's job to stay the heck out of people's way and people's wallets. If you want to give to unwed mothers, then give to unwed mothers. If somebody doesn't because they think it's destructive, then they shouldn't have to. Run your social experiments on your own dime, Asmon.
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  190. We've got left and right confused. The so-called left, with its big-government entitlements, regulations, and sprawling bureaucracies is actually just a return to feudal forms, where the state/king/queen/Lords-and-Ladies provide for the peasants and the peasants, in turn, must obey them in everything. Where we're all in violation of some rule, and it's just a question of who we pissed off whether we go to jail or not. The entire socialism project is like that. Just somebody trying to figure out a way to get free stuff without actually doing any work, and all the dummies who believe you can just wave a wand, take from Joe over there (at gunpoint) and give to Pete over there, just so long as Pete remains obedient.
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  191. "Welcome to how it's always been." People have been gaslighting other people since the beginning of people.
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  192. Read up on 7 nations in 5 years plan. Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Sudan, Somalia, and Iran These 7 were targeted in 2000 (before 9/11). Iran is 7th on the list. 9/11 didn't start this talk. More likely, 9/11 was to bring this talk into reality. The first 6 have been regime-changed into the Stone Age.
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  193. They all wanted to corner the streaming market at the same time, and they all failed.
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  194. Oligarchs and technocrats around the world want to do this. We'll see which nations resist the siren song of authoritarianism. America is starting to show signs of pulling out of it, but we're the only country with a 1st Amendment. Even in the USA, censorship has been blatant. In the USA, this led to defeat of the ruling party. Around the rest of the world, I see no signs of this.
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  195. We've had a culture of lawlessness created and fostered by the Obama Administration, for Obama's political interests in particular and for the benefit of Democrat hegemony, in general. People are sick and tired of the 2-tiered justice system and the protection of criminals and takers over the law-abiding and the makers.
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  196. It's not U.S. aid. It's USAID. No "aid" in the name. It's "agency for international development," which is Swamp lingo for "regime-change front organization." A few million bucks can create a lot of chaos and strife in a small country. Perfect for cheap regime change. Buy up or just buy off most or all of the small country's media, and you have plenty left over for Rent-A-Riot activities. See "Maidan Coup" and "Virginia Nuland."
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  197. Ben Franklin was a womanizer and a terrible role model in many respects. He was still a great man for his wisdom and contributions to science, not to mention the founding of a nation. I think his sons would have been a lot happier with him if he spent more time being a father than being a big mover and shaker in world events. I think his wife would've been a lot happier if he'd been a faithful husband, which he wasn't. Asmon doesn't hide his flaws. I think that's why people like him so much. Being a superb channel operator probably means a lot of empty food cartons and empty beverage containers. What he needs is a good housekeeper/cook. He could probably afford one. Most men traditionally have a wife to support them on the house-is-a-home area, but if the household can afford it, a good housekeeper makes life better for the wife, too!
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  198. Clips of Hillary, AOC, Tim Walz, and others have recently circulated, with the exact same "salute."
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  199. The vast majority of people don't say racist things. You get an exaggerated sense of how racist people are, because the most rabid people (of any stripe) are always the most outspoken. You're wrong about American push-back against authoritarianism. 80% of us (at least) went along with the garbage COVID policies and mandates. It's only 4 years later when it is very clear that the "experts" got everything wrong that you're seeing the rejection of legacy media, federal agencies, and the "health" care industry. I say this as a contrary libertarian kind of guy, who IS knee-jerk against governmental power moves. It is my instinct to ask why and refuse to go along until I'm convinced it's the right way to go. MOST people just want to fit in and will go along with whatever seems to be what most people are doing. If this were not the case, then the first 2-week lock-downs would've been resisted to a far greater degree by far more people.
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  200. How can eyes be so crazy and so dead at the same time?
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  201. Your typical SJW is highly intelligent, but they've squandered their intelligence on memorizing a dialectic, rather than applying their intelligence to understanding how things (and people) work. They consider me to be ignorant, because I haven't been force-fed the dialectic, with all its complicated terminology and tortured logic. As a trained mathematician, I always go back to *reductio ad absurdum*: When the result of your logic leads to the absurd, you're reasoning from a faulty premise. This goes back to the old Biblical saying: "By their fruits shall ye know them." When you see with your own eyes what's happening, and it's bad - or worse, absurd - then you know they're operating on wrong assumptions.
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  202.  @zuephillips3450  Yes. I think it's important that drug addicts receive help before anyone else. Comparison is the thief of joy. When I focus on my situation and making my situation better, that's the only way things have ever gotten better for me. Every time I saw someone else getting something for free that I didn't get, and I dwelt on it, I became resentful, and my situation worsened.
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  203. Good luck prosecuting those teachers. All that the school is really giving up, until we get back to the original definitions and intent of Title IX, is federal funding. No grants. Colleges and universities are much quicker to comply than k-12, because threatening to shut off federal funds to colleges and universities destroys their business model, which is Federal Financial Aid, on which a huge chunk of students (especially unwed mothers) depend for their college.
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  204. You were just a kid when they beat the exact same war drums after 9/11 and we went to war with Iraq with the same people telling big lies that sound exactly like the propaganda we're hearing now. Don't let them fear-monger you into another Hell on Earth for millions, possibly billions of people. Western economies are hanging by a thread. Hyperinflation is on the horizon. We're the biggest kid on the block, but not the biggest gang. Fear + Arrogance = Death Spiral.
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  205. Search for something bad about Hillary Clinton, and there'll be 100 links to how horrible Donald Trump is and what a saint Hillary is.
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  206. Yes, they were housing them in 1st-Class hotels and paying top dollar to do so, but if they wanted to cook, they could maybe set up a hot plate or something. They were put up in beautiful rooms in the middle of a food desert, and soft on crime policies made the food deserts worsen every month. It all seems like deliberate mismanagement to maintain a constant state of crisis and always presenting yourself as the solution to the problem. But also, just because they're paying top dollar for the accommodations doesn't mean the actual accommodations came with free room service or anything. They weren't getting free laundry service. It was make shift as best you can. So all kinds of problems.
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  207. "Your kid are belong to us." Washington State CCP.
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  208. Seeing the rubble in Israel, I keep coming back to a Harry Harrison trilogy: "Deathworld." The 1st installment was set on the planet Pyrrhus, a high-gravity planet colonized by the toughest people in the known universe, who took to calling themselves "Pyrrans." Making a long story short, the planet was highly unstable, with volcanic eruptions, severe weather events, and ravenous carnivores. But whenever there was an eruption or an ice storm, all the animals forgot their enmity and worked together to escape destruction. Turned out the critters were somewhat psychic. The native creatures viewed the human settlements as a natural disaster, and turned against them, in coordinated fashion. This made the Pyrrans tough fighters, with a hatred of all living things, because all living things were evolving in real time to be more deadly towards humans. The more the humans fought, the better they got at fighting, and the more deadly the planet became. The human settlers became one-man armies, and every blade of grass, every hoofed beast, every predator was set against them. There was no winning the war with the planet, but the humans just got more and more bitter and angry, and the native creatures, being telepathic/empathic, became bitter, angry, and deadly. There were humans who figured it out and lived out in the wild, with "talkers" who communicated with the animals and lived in harmony with them. City Pyrrans hated them and considered them scum. Anyway, I see Israel as the Pyrrans. The more they fight, the more hostility they engender. There's no end to this, until they learn some "talker" skills. Being more deadly just makes your neighbors more deadly and more resentful.
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  209.  @gxcreator  Must've been.
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  210. Don't be mean to Lebron. He's just been busy sounding out the words on the cover of the last book he bought.
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  211. Yes. It doesn't take many complainers to de-platform free speech on You Tube.
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  212. Comments being expunged by YouTube masters.
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  213. The police restrained the people being attacked and defended the attackers. This is an old set piece, typified by Antifa "protests" in Portland and Seattle.
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  214. Yes. Daily Wire was a bastion against the Obama madness, so a lot of MAGA types glossed over or forgave the neocon stances on the Middle East. But most people and most MAGA in particular, are sick and tired of forever war, and highly skeptical of the Mockingbird Media in that regard (including FOX in this).
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  215. And we still can't get a meaningful audit of the Dept of Defense. And the ONE billionaire who actually tried to do something to CUT government spending and root out fraud and abuse has been pilloried, with coordinated hate directed at him from lamestream media. Meanwhile, the peace candidate is contemplating war on Iran, the 7th and last nation targeted back in the '90s for regime change, now that the first 6 have been overthrown, at great cost to taxpayers and especially to the innocent people of those 7 nations. Our industrial base has been sacrificed on the altar of cheap goods and global warming, while we pay for goods from countries with ZERO restrictions on emissions, making the world a dirtier place in the name of the environment.
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  216. People who are insanely jealous about you talking to someone just tells you what it means when they talk to someone.
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  217. Rachel is exactly right, and that's why the majority voted against the party and the establishment she's always shilling for. We know where the authoritarian threat truly lies. And yes. Patriot Act and Citizens United decision are both major threats to liberty and the republic.
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  218. Steals your hat from you and then tells you that you care too much about a stupid hat when you get upset. "If I had known it was such a big deal, I wouldn't have borrowed it. Sheesh."
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  219. I'm not sure you understand the meaning of the word "endured."
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  220. Boomers becoming the very thing they thought they marched against in the youth they try to re-live at these protests, in vain. You're not cool or edgy, any more. You woke up one day and you were working for The Man, and represent the same establishment away from which Gen Z is walking, just like Chinese youth are "laying down." I think we Boomers are worse, because we went from free expression to "Protect us against anything we feel scared of, today, and every day, but don't make us actually pay for it." Our wishes were granted, and there's a $36 trillion debt we evidently plan to leave to our grandchildren...
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  221. No president has ever shrunk his agencies. Even if they campaign against something, as soon as they're in office, they LIKE that something, and try to bend it to their will. By eliminating the Dept of Ed, Trump is preventing another Obama from sending directives down the "command structure" to politicize education. ALL of the Critical Race Theory, Diversity and Inclusion Offices, and all the rest of the cultural Marxism Obama was pushing became integral to colleges and universities. It started in the postmodern-loving Humanities, and then the Humanities started colonizing all the OTHER disciplines, like an administration within the college administration. It became so prevalent in everything because #1 Dept of Ed told everyone that federal aid would be cut off if schools didn't comply and co-equal #2 College administrators and most of the teachers EMBRACED it and were basically given a green light to push it.
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  222. @Arado_Missile Guy's been spamming these vulgar mesgs all over the place, trying to get a rise.
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  223. Yes. Putin is authoritarian. But Ukrainian media is bought and paid-for by USAID, or rather, it was. What the Ukrainian doesn't understand is the harm done to his country by U.S. meddling, U.S. regime-change and subversion operations. What he can't see or is carefully steered away from, are the many provocations that gave "evil Putin" a good enough excuse to do what he has been doing, as far as most of the rest of the world thinks, especially in the Global South, but also in parts of the USA, including my house. I want the USA to be the good guys, but the permanent state, here, uses "We're the good guys" as their excuse to do bad things. Very bad things. In the name of the USA.
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  224.  @NerdOnTheStreet  No. It's easy. Just set up a filter for your children's feed that allows ONLY the channels that you have personally vetted. Then ration the amount of time they're allowed to play on the Internet. You can easily set up a timer on a computer to shut it down after x hours. I'm not sure, though, that the Internet is the problem. It might very well be the/a cure. The kids are getting their minds f***-up by the flesh-and-blood teachers at school. I'd be more worried about sending my kids to the public school than I would about their activities on the Internet. In fact, I think one of the big reasons everybody's up in arms about kids on the Internet is that an increasing number are learning a lot of things that the schools don't want them to know.
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  225. There was no internet until I was out of high school. As soon as it came out, I was using it. For ME, it was perfect, because I no sooner had Calculus II and Differential Equations under my belt than here was this computer algebra system that could perform all the calculations. Every generation after mine had this sort of capability from birth. I took a break in graduate school (math) to work on bringing the Internet to rural northern Idaho. System programmer, help desk, and general go-fer on a federal grant that brought dial-up Internet to places it had never been. In those days, capabilities were far more limited than today, but hopes and expectations for the future were through the roof, but little did we know at that time what the level of connectivity would one day become or the bandwidth, which is 3 orders of magnitude (1000 times) greater than the crap dial-up that we were so proud of. I sort of feel like I came along at the perfect time, but as a math professor, I'm seeing more and more 15- and 16-year-olds who are WAY more advanced than I was at that age. At that age, I was discovering girls and looking for the next kegger. If not for a physical handicap that said "Go to college or be a drain on society," I'd've been perfectly content just getting through high school and blue-collar work. For every kid who gets led astray on the Internet, there are 10 who figure out that what they learned in k-12 was mostly garbage, and the good stuff they learned in high school was delivered in a garbage way. Traditional schools put a lid on your learning. Technology makes the learning as fast as you can take it in. I can't tell you how many high-school drop-outs I see on the Internet who know the difference between the Frankfurt (socialist) and Austrian (free-market) schools of economics. You want kids to think more critically? Give them more word problems in their math classes! LOL! Or have them write opinion papers on historical figures. Have them write pro- and con- pieces on each. One thing I learned in school that they don't teach, today, because "the other side is evil and toxic," is "If you don't understand the arguments of "the other side," then you don't understand your own side. What I see from the so-called "left" are people who can quote Marx, but never heard of Adam Smith, and our entire education system, with few exceptions, consists of indoctrinated socialists who don't understand economics. They just see the fruits of free-market, voluntary transactions as wealth that they should redistribute by force to "those in need." I help people in need. AND I pay taxes. I could help more people if I paid less in taxes, and there'd be a lot more assistance tailored to the needs of the people I help, on a case by case basis, than all the bureaucrats and all the red tape could ever do, without the 80% overhead that government typically requires. Poverty programs aren't for the poor. They're for the bureaucrats who administer them.
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  226.  @Endaxess  The early Internet was math and porn. The porn had no filters. To encourage me to explore LYNX (the original, text-based Internet browser), my professor who was teaching UNIX (LINUX precursor) said "Type in 'big tits' or 'raw flesh,' and, painfully slowly, a high-def JPEG of a naked lady with big boobs would appear in the search result. From Germany. "Holy Moley!"
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  227. Narrative control: Broken.
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  228. The irony of a progressive calling out a race supremacist of any kind is rich! Progressives were the original eugenicists.
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  229. No way Harris was ever going to give a long-format interview, let alone one in which the interviewer might ask the wrong questions.
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  230. None of the worst ones are being caught. The worst ones sit in Congress and agencies of government. The worst ones arm-twist politicians and bribe officials so that their worst sins are given an imprimatur of legality and enlightenment.
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  231. I don't think he's jealous. I do think he's covetous, like any other socialist. A beef with a bigger channel is good for his channel.
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  232. These are standard Antifa "Hyena Tactics." It's as much to anger us as we watch, so we'll want to go down and do something about it, ourselves. The minute we do that, the script is flipped instantly to "White-Supremacist Violence." The Proud Boys took the bait in 2015-2020, and Antifa got lots of footage to spread far and wide, and to MSM, in particular, to prop up the false narrative "violent far-right thugs attack peaceful protest." This is something for vested authority to deal with, as it always was, only now the federal government is stepping in when local and state government tacitly - and sometimes explicitly - encourages the Antifa takeover.
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  233. Getting more equitable tariff structures between Europe and the USA dismantles a big part of how we induce those countries to follow our lead on war and economic sanctions, abroad. "We give you this really favorable trade situation, and you back our play in Iraq." It was the same with our carrying NATO for 80 years. We picked up the tab for their national defense, and they just followed our orders. Trump is dismantling one underhanded control system after another. The first president since Calvin Coolidge to say "I want less power. The federal government should do less." Old Silent Cal. Probably our best president, but history ignores him because he didn't actively seek to increase the scope and role of the federal government. Lincoln and FDR are supposedly our greatest presidents, but they centralized and expanded federal powers, which the elites love, but were not good for the common person.
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  234. I never got a $75,000 pay check for ANYthing when I was that young. I'd've thought "Cool! I can buy a nice car and put a down payment on a house!"
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  235. @ That sounds right.
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  236. @ These are the rules civilized society set for all of us. The fact that the "left" brazenly breaks the civil contract is why Donald Trump was re-elected. It's a losing strategy, but it can cause a lot of harm and heartbreak in the meantime, especially when the police, an arm of the establishment, have orders not to do their jobs.
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  237. Trump's right about free speech. I don't think it's YouTube's place or right to regulate what goes on its platform, if it is to be a platform. If someone uses the YouTube platform to break the law, that's what law enforcement is for. If it's just speech you don't like, then tough luck! I keep praying for some real competition for YouTube subscribers. Nobody's matched the audience, look, or feel of YouTube, as yet. I think a true free-speech platform for grown-ups would have a lot of draw. Any long-time user of YouTube knows what's up. We know what can and can't be said. We know what will or will not be removed from the public square, especially the proven-to-be-true things that have been memory-holed by Big Tech.
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  238. She knows voice acting and she knows her own self-interest. She doesn't care about the big picture. She doesn't care about all the OTHER people involved in production. What is her talent? She was born with a munchkin voice. Good for her!
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  239. It's a faith-based belief system, propped up by charlatans in academia, who, starved for something original to publish, latched on to identity politics as a "new field of inquiry." So the wokesters BELIEVE they have their beliefs from the "highest (secular) authority." That's why they claim people who disagree with them are "science deniers," which is just the new version of the word "heretic." FWIW, Michael Mann's hockey stick has been debunked. But they still believe. Just like all religions, they are truly blessed, as they come by faith to the New Religion.
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  240. Yes. As soon as the pendulum swings, there will be people who have the opposite agenda (usually the either not-bright ones or the power-seeking ones) will want to pile on and rub people's noses in it. I don't want to rub anyone's nose in anything. That's not how you house-train a dog. It's not how you bring people a little close to your world view. I just want tomorrow to be a little better for everybody than today was.
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  241. It's one thing to be biased. It's another thing to just flat get things wrong. Not only did they get things wrong, but they demonized those who got things right. Repeatedly.
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  242. This is why I moved to a relatively small town far away from any major metro area. No homeless. No violent crime to speak of. No career criminals preying on entire neighborhoods. Nobody on the street corner recruiting fatherless 10-year-olds to gang life... I still think there is a kernel of truth in the BLM protests, that NO ONE is talking about. We're basically re-living Prohibition, with thousands of would-be Al Capone's eager to supply illegal narcotics for a huge profit. Alcohol is still a problem, but we learned that Prohibition was a boon to organized crime and created an entire sub-culture of habitual law-breaking. It's much better to have it legal, tax it, and regulate it. The imperfect solution is to hold people strictly accountable for their behavior. If you drive drunk, you're getting punished. I'm not sure what my "re-imagining" of the War on Drugs looks like, but it doesn't look like what the BLM boosters "re-imagined." When you pass laws that millions of people are going to disobey, you create a society of lawlessness. When you fight a War on Drugs, you end up weaponizing both law enforcement against the people and weaponizing the people against law enforcement. Same for prostitution and gambling. These are not good things, but how do you manage the bad in the best way possible? These are the kinds of questions we need to be asking, but nobody's asking. We go from semi-police state enforcing laws millions violate to de-funding the police. Both are extreme positions. Neither is good government.
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  243.  @Erik-i2f4d  That's because the "left" grafted big government to itself, which is the opposite of liberal. It's re-branded feudalism, and hence, all the socialism and its variants are actually regressive-right. They messed with the left-right dichotomy to make it useless, painted lipstick on the feudalist pig, and presented it as "new" and "forward-thinking" and "progressive." Liberty and limited government are the original "liberal" concepts. The modern so-called left is "We want our liberty AND we want a bunch of Free Stuff from the government." Idiocy being passed down from generation to generation, and people always "surprised" at loss of liberty and economic malaise.
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  244. I always wanted to learn more about Japanese culture, but I'm such a picky eater, I think I'd starve to death.
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  245. If you or I worked at Activision, we wouldn't last long. I think weeding out anyone normal really accentuates the crazy to where the average employee thinks everyone thinks the same way. This explains why the writing in games and entertainment has gone so far downhill. No diversity of thought.
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  246. It's what "our democracy" means, by which he doesn't mean your or my democracy.
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  247.  @Murto84  Civil courts seem like the only way to get justice, and even then it's a coin flip. The criminal courts and district attorneys are hopelessly corrupt, and nothing's going to get rid of the problem, because Democrats always appoint activists and Soros gets activists elected.
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  248.  @BaconJ-y1i  Because the crap going on in colleges and universities pollutes the entire society. These are the people who will be public officials of the future, and they've been indoctrinated by people who hate life.
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  249. Damning with faint praise.
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  250. Brits better hope for Reform Party, and vote for it. Clearly the Tories and Labour are Uni-Party, united against the people.
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  251.  @arts3n  I bought Acrobat Pro because it worked so well. Then I had to upgrade and the upgrade was WORSE than the original, but there's no going back, according to them. I hope you young people figure this out. They're ruined cars and computing.
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  252. RIP. Condolences to the family.
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  253. How about this? How about abandoning Marxist ideology? How about reversing course and becoming the party of free-market capitalism, which creates ALL the wealth you're so sure you should re-distribute by force? How about becoming the party of balanced budgets and less government spending? They've about reached the limit of the people they can buy off with Free Stuff, and now we're $37 trillion in debt, with plenty of jobs for useless paper-pushers and no jobs for actual workers?
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  254. The people who scream the loudest about Nazis are the ones who want something identical to Nazism but under a "socialist" or "communist" label, which makes it OK in their smooth brains.
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  255. Every single government paycheck is money that was taken from people by force. Every other job is something that people paid to have done, voluntarily, for the value provided to a company or a customer. Every other job would exist, with or without the government. None of those government jobs would exist without all of the private citizens actually providing value to others. All we, the people need from the government is civil order, and it's not as if those 30,000 government employees in Kansas City were out patrolling the streets.
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  256. Yeah. Pretty much. Both major parties in the USA try to broaden their tents as much as possible in order to get that extra 1 or 2 percentage points they need to beat the other major party. But it's definitely worse in the Democrat party, where they'll pander to all kinds of extremes. Another factor is that it's the true believers on or near the fringe who have the most energy for activism (and are least likely to have a serious day job).
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  257. Yes. It's been a rough year, and it's because of people like the 2 on the stage.
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  258. I think it's 4D chess. They're chasing more big-government liberals into the Republican Party, so that neither party will represent the limited-government crowd.
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  259. What issues did she run on, Asmon? Other than "I'm not Trump."
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  260. Tell us it was lawfare to help the presidential campaign without telling us it was lawfare, Jack.
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  261. There've always been low-IQ and/or anti-social people. They just didn't post videos.
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  262. It's taking time to inoculate the masses against these kinds of people. These kinds of people have always been with us. They just never had instant huge platforms. Just remember that the victims of these snake-oil peddlers ALSO have huge platforms. Internet Tech is very new. Barely one generation was born to it. Time has a way of achieving proper balance. People start wising-up.
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  263. I can see a family being desperate and that be all they have (although the exact vehicle seems improbable). If they can cash in on a few videos, and buy a school bus or something, ...
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  264. Not sure how keen I am on prison for burning the American flag. I think it's disrespectful, especially to those who gave their lives for what it's supposed to represent. Be mad at politicians for besmirching the flag, but don't yourself take a dump on what it symbolizes, just because a bunch of commies hate the idea of you keeping the money in your pocket that they want for the state.
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  265. The really ironic part is they won't show any Antifa actions in Seattle or Portland in this report.
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  266. That guy losing his fiancee because of all the publicity from her stunt is just one of the harms she causes.
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  267. DOGE is moving too fast for the political class to defend all sacred cows at once.
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  268.  @kaiz1845  Inflation is NOT necessary for people with debt, although it increases the cost of lending, and lessens the hit of paying interest, ASSUMING you have enough income to service the loan. Inflation is never good for the people.
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  269. "I learned that things happened here that never should have happened." That's not taking responsibility. She makes it sound like somebody else was doing mean things.
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  270. I wouldn't mind de-funding the police, if they gave that money back to the taxpayers and communities chipped in to hire private security. I'm sure the standards would be higher, the pay would be better, and crime would plummet to near zero. Then the local police would be answerable to the people of your neighborhood, and not just the (corrupt) local government and a handful of really rich people.
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  271. I think they got the wrong address for "Who's the craziest?" contest.
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  272.  @sznikers  Yup. When you're in the middle of a big job on a deadline, you don't have TIME to re-learn everything. You don't have TIME to find where they hid everything. Microsoft and Adobe are at the top of my shit list for this kind of thing.
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  273. The only way to police this stuff is for parents to only allow channels and content they've already vetted. This is easy to program: Deny All. Allow specific channels. Restricting channels after you find them to be bad is a game of wack-a-mole. It also opens the door to arbitrary censorship by power-mad hall monitor types. You don't want either one.
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  274. I'm not sure it's criminal, but I do know that it's doing the one thing that I never thought would ever happen: The public school system being rejected by the general public, and parents finding private alternatives. By the way, private alternatives, with intelligent use of technology, is way cheaper than it was 20 or 100 years ago.
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  275. The reason we give government as little scope and power as we do in our constitution is because we know that every single office-holder has a lust for power. All the people who do NOT lust for power are OUTside government. That's why we need to flip the game on them. Eliminate the incumbent advantage. "But I have to be in office for a long time to get anything done!" Exactly. "It is urgent that this legislation be passed immediately!" Why? If you did your job in the last session, there wouldn't be anything urgent to deal with in this session.
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  276. Humanity is adjusting to social media. We're figuring out that the loudest people are just the tail trying to wag the dog. I'm one of those loud people in the comments, but I recognize that I'm swimming against the tide, and I don't pretend that my liberty and limited-government stance is very much in the minority. Most people I know are fine with nanny government. They just want it to operate the right way. I don't think the government has a business running anything but the bare minimum necessary to secure the borders, and defend the constitution. The rest is up to us.
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  277. The "American-replacement" strategy has its pitfalls. Many who come just want to work hard and make a life for themselves. Not all. But many. Those people rapidly turn into conservatives, because they want to keep what they earn, and they don't like the moral bankruptcy of the Democrat coalition.
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  278. Study some history. The electoral college is to protect small, rural states from getting steamrolled by the cities, where there are more people and a whole lot less common sense.
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  279. "It's not true democracy unless our side wins."
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  280. Just remember that it was the dregs of society that Lenin sent out to the countryside to "nationalize" everything. Ask the Kulaks of Ukraine how that worked out for them! Oh Wait! They were wiped out by all the "sharing" that was done. If they weren't murdered by thugs, they were executed for going out to their fields after the harvest to try to glean enough spillage/wastage to keep from starving. People who can not function in society harbor deep resentment towards society, and it's EASY to talk them into turning to violence to obtain retribution for how badly they were treated by society. It's also easy to convince them that they are somehow owed something by people who DO prosper. This is where charity comes in. When government takes over the charity function as it has throughout the West, it stops being a humanist thing and becomes a bureaucratic thing, and the bureaucracy has its own drives, its own interests, and is more interested in perpetuating itself, than it is interested in actually helping people. If the bureaucracy actually solves the problems it was created to eliminate, it will, itself, be eliminated. And let's not forget how much money there is in just being the middle man between the taxpayers and the needy. There isn't any 100% cure for this condition. No matter how you structure society, there will be people with mental/emotional/spiritual or physical disabilities that cause them to fail. You can't let them die, but you can't just prop them up in their state of dysfunction, or they'll "raise" a next generation that's just as messed-up as they are. I'm veering dangerously close to eugenics, here, but that's what happens when you make human compassion a function of the government. Budgets eventually have to be balanced. This means bureaucrats end up rationing the good will of all the taxpayers.
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  281. What I find hilarious is how the Democrats suddenly discovered the word "weaponization," as if it never happened, before, but now is happening all the time, supposedly, because Trump is literally the man-with-the-funny-mustache. They always accuse others of what they do.
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  282. A lot of people in my generation are fighting for a status quo that has kept them fat and happy since the '60s, and run up debt that none of us will be sticking around to pay off. Apparently, if you don't like seeing the federal government owe more money than the entire gross domestic product, you lack compassion. Where's the compassion for our children and grandchildren? We've knocked the bottom rungs off the ladder of success and told the poor "Don't worry. We'll throw you a rope. You don't need those bottom rungs. Those bottom rungs are racist. You don't need to climb. Just wait and protest until we get that gold-plated rope we're going to throw you. Soon. Very soon. Just wait and protest against the ists and phobes when we tell you to." As a member of the boomer generation who's watched us squander all the prosperity and freedom with big-government wars and big-government domestic programs, these people have been annoying since the 1960s. Yes, Vietnam was messed up. Good protest. No, the bureaucrats aren't leading us into utopia. No, we're not trusting "the experts," any more. We trusted them and they got everything wrong.
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  283. Democrats: "Trump is a threat to democracy and the rule of law." Everyone else: "Let me get this straight. You want to overturn the election and you're mad at Trump admin for enforcing the laws on the books." Democrats: "Yes, you bigot."
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  284. Police, like government, are really good at what they shouldn't do and really bad at what they should do. Mean tweets? 6 cops to arrest you in your home. Knife-wielding maniac? 6 cops to arrest you for protesting.
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  285. Ron as Hellboy was good. Ron as a person, not so much.
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  286. ... and the stock market surges 1400 points.
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  287.  @SetiKt  Nobody talks about it, but when different races collide throughout human history, people see the other tribe as monkeys. There is a strong, built-in identification with members of family, clan, and tribe. Knowing them allows you to see the human side. Asians thought Euros looked like big, hairy apes, and Euros thought Asians looked like little monkeys, when the Portuguese first arrived in the Far East. Both sides thought the other was barbaric. The Asian side was usually cleaner and smelled better. The Euro side thought its Christianity was the only civilized religion.
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  288. He's a typical liberal, with a superficial, mainstream-headline world view. He's clever enough to kind of know what story's being pushed during the 24-hour news cycle, but none of the particulars beyond the headlines really sticks with him. He is pretty clueless. He's witty, not studied.
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  289. One Patriot missile costs around $4 million. It takes multiple Patriots for each incoming missile. Each incoming missile can be manufactured for a few thousand dollars, and maybe less if you just want to flood the skies with decoys. Trying to defend against everything is way more expensive than lobbing drones and missiles at the defenses. My sense is that short of yet another disastrous U.S. intervention, Israel is 1000% cooked.
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  290. We'll see how Homan does. He appears to know his business, but he's pretty aggressive in his rhetoric, which feeds the fires of fear amongst the opposition. This needs to be handled firmly, yet gently. I don't want the Trumper crowd to get as full of themselves as the Obama crowd.
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  291. In the '90s, Republicans started really liking big government and Democrats started really liking the war machine, leaving a lot of politically homeless ex-Republicans and ex-Democrats in the middle. But don't listen to me. As a true lefty, I view nanny government - a sacred cow on the so-called left - as a very regressive thing that looks like feudalism with a thin veneer of modernity to make it seem like what we're doing now is something new. I see it as the age-old "You need me, so now you must obey me" ploy.
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  292. "My side right or wrong" is wrong. You are correct. I think most gamers get this, but basically anyone who learned sportsmanship, and the real satisfaction from winning fair and square. Some people just want to win too much, and it gives them bad karma.
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  293. Making people's days more stressful and more work, for no other reason than to make a video, is very low behavior. It's not OK to go around hurting people in petty ways. Act out and you're NOT going to be back on the street, tomorrow, and for a bunch of tomorrows after that. It's not about whether they understand or not. It's just that they won't be on the street after acting out. American cities have forgotten that. They're starting to remember. Small-town America never forgot. You go to Russia or any other country that's not overrun by immigrants, and the public transportation is like a museum. Like a palace. It costs less to maintain than the New York subway, because people take care of it, and respect it. You start acting out in a Moscow train station and you might not return from Siberia for a few years. Heh.
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  294.  @kuroganeyuu5928  Yes, it sounds like he's using the built-in webcam mic.
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  295. Exactly. An app for everything to make your life "simpler" just buries you in apps. They're not offering their app for YOUR convenience. They're offering an app to get their hooks into you.
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  296. Most of those "woke" projects around the world were just labels to put on bribes and gray/black ops. Some of it went to rent-a-riots. A lot just went to buying up or buying off or extorting news media in countries all around the world, including our own. How many teachers do you know who consider themselves "activists?"
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  297. Federal financial aid is what corrupted the education system, from kindergarten on up. Creating a Department of Education was a mistake. It should be left up to the states and local communities, and not necessarily in that order.
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  298.  @pheunithpsychic-watertype9881  I think maybe you're confusing Arwen of Rivendell (elf) with Eowyn of Rohan. There is much "win" in both names. And Eowyn was pretty faithfully portrayed. She was a shield-maiden. Women didn't go out on recon missions like the men did, because their job was to defend their homes. Speaking of which, I know the orcs are supposed to be bad and they should be able to overrun a village rather easily, but I expected the villagers to put up more fight. I have no idea how that would have moved their completion date back, how much it would cost, or if it would even make the final cut in an already-bloated run time for American theaters. They might have cast a bigger woman or more obviously athletic woman. She might've been more believable trying to pass as a man that way, but as I recall, the riders immediately around her knew what was up and they respected her decision. I personally would probably watch an "Adventures of Arwen," especially if Liv Tyler's still got it, which I think she does. I think she was centuries-old by the time she met Aragorn. Google says she was 2700 years old and Aragorn was 20 the first time they met. Imagine how skilled of a fighter she could be by that age! I think Rings of Power tried to build that into Galadriel, but they made her a Mary Sue. It's not she's the only "millennial" who ever picked up a sword.
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  299. Trustafarians.
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  300. Most kids, nowadays, don't go to church. Most churches these days have different politics than they used to have. What Asmon doesn't realize is how we were ALL taught in Sunday School about Biblical prophecy and how important it is to back Israel. Church, State, and Manifest Destiny were all working together in the early-late 20th Century. It started petering-out in the '90s, near as I can tell.
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  301.  @lenk172  You mean "short term economic gain." When the political class plays games to artificially boost their economy, the foundations of the economy weaken.
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  302. I guess you're too young to remember "WMD's." Same lies, different day. Same results. Money down the toilet and death.
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  303.  @OfficerSheevaMunacoUTTP  Some of us would like to see America and the rest of the world prosper in peace. The US government definitely needs to stay in its lane and repudiate all its meddling in the last 80 years, at home and abroad.
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  304. Muscular dystrophy is the absolute worst.
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  305. Don't know if this will get scrubbed, but I suspect that it will, because it returned error when I tried to edit. Public officials shouldn't be able to run out the clock on statutes of limitation. When the crimes are committed against ALL the people, it should be like murder: no statute of limitations. The power of government is so great that corruption and criminality literally costs lives. Violation of the public trust should have no statute of limitations. The Obama admin waged war against these United States. They occupied the highest offices in the land. There should be no statute of limitations on this kind of thing. Another thing is that if you want to be utterly free of any investigation by the Inspector General, just resign your post. A switch is flipped, and all IG investigations into you are immediately halted, because you're no longer an employee. That's a lot of rot as well.
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  306. They can double-dip and pull the old "you will own nothing and be happy" switcheroo, and probably get away with it. The miscalculation is that they may keep that 3 months' worth of the 6-month subscription you canceled, but they will NEVER get you back as a customer. This is these companies cutting off their noses to spite their faces.
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  307. Hey! Tommy, Tommy!
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  308.  @loyalitaeter  Hasn't anyone taught you to use the sarcasm key? Me neither. I get you, better, now. We cool.
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  309. They view the Tesla vehicles and the people who own them as objects. These are not good people doing these attacks. They're people who go through life running roughshod over anything and anybody they choose.
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  310.  @KolorowyWiater  Nobody said that. The observation is that they don't really care about the environment, and never did. You know what the worst thing for the environment is? WAR.
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  311. Complaining about losing $3 thousand a month and then saying "I don't have a pony in this race" doesn't make sense.
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  312. They did and are doing everything they can to obstruct border security, or the border would've been secured 8 years ago.
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  313. Newscum hits a new low.
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  314. She wears clown glasses, just in case you don't get the joke. I do like her dress that was made from a restaurant tablecloth.
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  315.  @BOT-_-JERRRY  He could be an exception to the rule. I think they tried to raise him right. He's no Hunter Biden. That's for sure.
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  316. The national debt is so high because of defense spending and entitlements. USAID is just a drop in the bucket. But the harm done by that one drop is enormous: Funding regime change around the world. Rent-a-riots. Buy up or pay off radio/t.v./websites to propagandize here and abroad, interfering in free speech everywhere.
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  317. I disagree. I don't think they're importing Democrats. They're importing bodies which are counted in the census. They don't need more Democrat voters. They want more electoral votes from the states that are already Democrat. Those are all the sanctuary states that were already going to the Democrats. That's a big part of it.
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  318. Dude. I LOVE my toaster! Seriously, it's the first one I ever bought for myself. Ever since I left home, there was always some woman, either in my family or otherwise, who thought they'd help me out with a toaster. They all sucked. This one, I actually shopped for, and it's the only one I ever liked. We're not getting engaged or anything, even though I think "Betsy" is angling for a deeper commitment. She's so hot!
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  319. The people who hate you spent years in college learning a dialectic that denies objective reality and centuries of Man's attempts to understand reality. Science? Subordinated to feelings. Morals? Subordinated to feelings. Language? Subordinated to the goals of those who seek power in a new reality they created in their heads, but which never holds up to any kind of real scrutiny.
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  320.  @vanripem  Were? I know a bunch of aging hippies and they ARE sad (not "were" sad).
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  321. ... while doing everything possible to piss off anybody to the right of Antifa.
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  322.  @c0wb3llh3r0  If it went viral in the local community, which it would, it would be seen as a threat and/or incitement of violence. If it were a student, they'd be expelled, for starters.
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  323. There's a hint, a trace of Zionist assumptions in Asmon's and Nux's content. Hasan's making the point that the "terrorist" we all despise is a guy who saw half of his neighborhood blown to smithereens. As Dave Chappelle said, it's asymmetric warfare. The USA doesn't think it's in a war. It's just dropping bombs on civilians on the other side of the planet. Hasan's over the top, but America DOES need to re-think its relationship with Israel. Also its relationship with Europe. Europe has enjoyed the benefits of statehood without any of the responsibilities of statehood. Preserving the function, if not the form, of European empires from centuries ago is not what the Founding Fathers had in mind, but it's become that, since we first got suckered into European wars that then became known as World War I.
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  324. Celebrity ruins the best things in life? I guess my definition of "the best things in life" is quite a bit different.
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  325. It's weird how age restrictions kill a video. Isn't most of this stuff for adult audiences? Isn't most of their audience adults? Shouldn't the default be "for adults?" Then, if you want kids watching your stuff, shouldn't you take pains to be G-rated? Even my math videos are aimed at an adult (college-aged) audience, not that there's anything that would be considered PG, R, or X.
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  326. Yes. In the absence of religious dogma to guide them, many people will turn to political dogma to guide them.
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  327. If Brando had stood on stage as himself, people might realize how much of a nothing he was.
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  328. Rainbow flags flying proudly and loudly in schools across America. The indoctrination is very strong.
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  329. Yes. Tim is a drama queen. It makes him hard to watch or listen to. He wants the viral clip to boost his brand.
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  330.  @BudTuggly69  It's definitely a race between the people and a very small group of pretty greedy and malicious elites that want to dictate to the people. I get pretty black-pilled, at times, but then I remember how much worse it was 60 years ago, when we were controlled and had no idea we were being controlled. The "herd" is rapidly achieving immunity from certain cancers, due to peer-to-peer communications such as we are enjoying, now.
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  331. This idea that tipping is bad is why so many restaurants are collapsing. People pushing a higher minimum wage, when it was never about making a living off what the restaurant paid. I don't care if the minimum wage is $20/hour. If waitresses can't earn good tips, the job sucks. But we had a different culture back in the '70s. Leaving a big tip was a status thing, and you see the table next to you leave $5 or $10 after they settle, it encouraged you to do the same. If you could work 8 or 10 tables in an hour, and you were getting $5 or more per table, you were making $40 or $50 per hour, just in tips. The salary was better than nothing. It might pay the rent all by itself, but you weren't going to afford anything else. With more and more people stiffing the wait staff, those jobs are much less attractive. People wonder why gen Zers are the way they are and I think of a kid making $10 or $15 an hour who doesn't get to keep their tips. No wonder they're slow.
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  332. Imagine the mental weakness you would get it you were so pretty that everyone around you agreed with everything you said.
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  333. Guy's been detained over a year. No way of knowing how he might have been brainwashed by his captors. Most here are too young to remember Patty Hearst. Most here have at least heard of "Stockholm Syndrome." You can't go by any released hostage's behavior immediately after release. I wouldn't read anything into what happened on stage. Maybe it would be helpful to read a little about "asymmetric warfare" or "Spanish guerrillas opposing Napoleon Bonaparte." Spanish guerrillas were not nice people. They committed many atrocities. Such are inevitable when one country is under the heel of another country. If I recall correctly, Hamas was a creation of Israel. I don't know if it was to moderate Palestine or to radicalize it as much as possible. In any case, what we see now is a concerted program of demonizing Hamas at every opportunity. We have two sides, each of which is saying "Don't look at what we have done in retaliation. Look at what they did to us, first." I can't sit in judgement on either side of the conflict in the Middle East. All I know is that I don't want to add to it, and we're the instigators of the whole thing, and we've been throwing billions of dollars every year at perpetuating a very bad situation for everyone in the reason.
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  334. This is the one advantage of the far left: They complain about everything. The rest of us see something we don't like, and we speak against it. We don't cry to Mommy because people are mean.
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  335.  @GibbDibb  I'd argue with you but I'm afraid you'd try to get me banned.
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  336. I don't consider it moving to the right. I consider it a re-discovery of true liberalism, which got hijacked by a bunch of people who are leading us into feudalism in the name of enlightenment, equity, and inclusion.
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  337. They wouldn't need donations for the LA fires if the money taxpayers already paid weren't wasted.
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  338. Tommy Robinson was arrested for reporting on grooming-gang trials from the courthouse steps. This is pretty standard reporting in the USA. Reporters stand on the steps of the courthouse, informing viewers of the day's proceedings. That's illegal in the UK, where free speech is a myth.
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