Comments by "SkyRiver" (@SkyRiver1) on "Secular Talk" channel.

  1. This is bull, there are hundreds if not thousands of ways to kill people while making them feel wonderful the entire time. These bastards just wanted to torture someone with more than their own ineptitude for a change.
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  2. The most despised woman in America says that nobody likes the candidate who has received more donations than any other in all of history. I would say that Clinton is in desperate need of an intervention -- but probably has no real friends.
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  3. So the people in my building don't pay their rent for six months: my landlord looses his mortgage and the bank decides to sell off the apartments as condos. Guess who gets screwed? Answer: everyone but the banks.
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  4. alcohol prohibition also created the first criminal millionaires., Drug prohibition has created the first criminal billionaires.
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  5. She looks like a member of a Star Trek away team that doesn't come back.
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  6.  @notabene7381  The people who voted Hitler into power are very similar to the people who voted Trump into power. They were mostly from small towns. Almost none of them actually knew anything about Hitler or his policies. They backed him out of a sense of frustration at the eternal bickering in the democratic government and they ached for a authoritarian Hero/daddy figure to take control, turn back the socialist tide, and make Germany great again. Make Germany Great Again was actually Hitlers campaign slogan. I know it's hard to believe we live in the midst of such ignorance, but there it is. The same shit, and the same dirty tricks over and over and over, and almost nobody ever catches on. By the way, if some tyrant gets complete control, one of the first things they will do is get rid of the intellectuals, because their id driven base hates intellectuals, and the intellectuals are the only people smart enough to figure out what is going on.
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  7. Tulsi For VP or sec of state.
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  8. This election is firmly in the hands of the Millennials and younger people. If they vote for Bernie in the democratic primary, he will win the election. But will they get their heads out of their phones and facebook long enough to find out where and when to vote? And will they give up the video games and social media for the hour it will take to vote in the primary. And do they even know when their primary is? If they manage to overcome their almost total lack of activism Bernie will win. But remember the OK boomers shut down the war in Vietnam. The Millenials have done practically nothing that demands actual participation and doesn't involve a rage and molly. The Vietnam war would still be going on if it had been up to them. OK Millennials -- put up, or forever, shut the fuck up.
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  9. People do not understand the magnitude of the difference between what they themselves have, and what the top one percent has. They do not even understand that if they were to count one number each second: in about twelve days they could count to a million. But it would take about thirty one years to count to one billion. These people who are billionares have a level of wealth and power undreamed of by the pharaohs of Egypt or any other big pig of history. They literally have the power of the imaginary gods and superheros of the ages. You do not know them. You will never meet one of them. You have no chance of being associated with any of them unless they can use you in some manner. If you think they are at all like you and have any of the humble human concerns as you do, or that you can possibly someday be one of them, you are a fool. If you think their psyches have not been poisoned by all the sycophants and yes-men that surround them seeking a crumb from their tables -- think again. We are ruled by the worst of us, by a bunch of psychopaths and superficial assholes.
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  10. You are correct. These deaths are the direct result of the new government policy that makes it near impossible for chronic pain sufferers to get continuing prescriptions for their conditions. But the reason it was done is because it is so much more profitable for the power elite to have you buy heroin from criminal orgs that need money laundering. Then they make money when they enforce their bullshit laws, they make money when they imprison someone at a cost that could send them to an ivy league school, they make money when the police upgrade to military hardware, they make loads of money when the criminal billionare class that they created with these laws what to invest and hide their money, and on and on. They thrive on your demise.
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  11. You guys are like the spokespersons for people finally getting it. What's behind this? . . . Class struggle. What's behind that? . . . Class struggle. What's -- Dude it's class struggle all the way down. (Apologies to the Taoist turtles.)
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  12. Why hold back? Request carfentanil for a really good time. You could just inhale a speck of it.
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  13. "Weapons of War" . . . No country I am aware of arms it's military with semi-automatic firearms. So your entire thought process is faulty to begin with. No one uses firearms similar to those that would be banned, or bought back, in their military. They are not weapons of war. An apache gunship is a weapon of war. An a-10 warthog is a weapon of war. An m4 carbine is a weapon of war. Oh it looks a lot like an AR15 -- the only difference is in the function -- DUHHHH. . . . An AR15 is a sporting firearm. Depending on the calibre it may be a legal hunting firearm. It fires one shot each time you pull the trigger. An m4 fires many shots if you hold the trigger down. An AR15 does not do this. That is all the difference. There are tens of thousands of legal registered machine guns in civilian hands in the USA and there has never been a crime committed with any of them. Switzerland has real weapons in the homes of many citizens. full automatic weapons, yet -- no massacres. Could it be that crazy individuals who want to kill a bunch of people will find a way? I think so. In a strange way, using a firearm both localizes and announces such events -- most of the time. Whereas some self assumed evil genius type could kill loads of people and never be found out. Or some stooge would take the fall, cause the police needed to make a show. Anyhow, you do know that the extreme right-wing, is extremely armed. I mean they have weapons hidden that will never be confiscated. So many that if you really knew about it, it would give you nightmares. So if that is what you want, for an armed ultra right wing, and the impossibility of defending yourself against them, or the government:. then the whole gun-control narrative makes sense.
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  14.  @pedrokantor3997  carfentanil
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  15.  @davidsandall  Obviously you are not a fan of fact checking, or you tried it and found out that your are totally delusional. Yeh why should the young people get free college and tech training when you didn't right, why should people get one payer health care and other social programs? They should all make it on their own right? Well bear why didn't you clear forest land for farming with a team of oxen and and axe? Because we try to give the next generation the fruits of our labors so society can advance, and not all be ignorant retrograde fools. Because we have a vision of a golden destiny for humanity on earth and beyond and all you have is selfish criticism of anyone who is more educated and more moral than you are. It may sound fine in your head but out here in the real world it all sound like the sour rationalizations of a fool.
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  16.  @davidsandall  Bernie agrees and voted against the bailout in the form it was forced down America's throat.
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  17. The 16 presidential election will actually take place during the Democratic primary.  Whoever wins the primary will win the election.  So get out and vote for Bernie in the primary.  Because if Hillary wins you are actually reelecting Goldman Sax for the tenth time.  Hillary is a one percent wannabe.  Bernie is of the people and for the people.
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  18. Bernie shot himself in the foot with his stance that convicted terrorists should be able to vote while imprisoned. Expect to see massive attack ads quoting this. Personally I agree with him because it hardly matters. If three million votes don't matter why would a few dozen or so matter? But the Trump cultists will not see it that way.
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  19. I can imagine an alternative that is outside of the usual: capitalism, communism, socialism, anarchism ruts. OK well anarchism may not be a rut, and in a sense it is almost as if an underlying subtle substrate of anarchism may be both present and necessary for the vitality of the other isms, but it seems to me that a purely anarchist state, or region, if you prefer, would be at the mercy of nations that are otherwise organized. First of all, I mention in the spirit of full disclosure that I find government and it's mechanics boring, and somehow grey and depressing, and consider the people who have a desire to acquire temporal power over the physical existence of others as sick, deeply self-deluded individuals. I think that in general our leaders, in whatever flavor basically suck ass when it comes to administering a government. We are told that governments are the most dangerous entities on earth, not to other governments or other peoples, but to their own people. But of course it is not governments, no matter the formal codification of society in the form of laws and regulations, but the people who enact same, supposedly for the benefit of society, but more realistically in the service of their own organically pragmatic predilections, whether apparent as in the case of libertarians, and various utilitarian movements, or subtle and convoluted and perhaps even unconscious as on the part of various idealists, and utopians. Anyway, enough of this and to the point. I suggest a governing system in which the body of government employees, whether a janitor or the chief executive, is chosen by testing and continual performance review. Sort of a Techno-Neo Confucianism where anyone who is able to score higher on a series of tests that are generated by machine learning logarithms to optimize a governing system that is entirely relative to an established constitution or declaration of stated national goals, such as the optimal health wealth and well-being of all citizens or the earliest possible establishment of an extra-planetary colony that is self-sustaining, or some other orientation or constellation of orientations that is established by and modified by the adult populace with varying degrees of voting powers, which degree would also be determined by a test designed to test the intelligence, knowledge and correlation to reality of their internal conceptions. They would be voting directly only for the goals and general prime directives of the nation and not the leaders or manner in which these goals are pursued except in so far as they have established restrictions on such pursuits, such as environmental regulations and standards of dignity and freedom regarding all individuals. New and future technology will allow earthlings to establish a society that is superior to any that humans themselves are capable of designing the social and physical dynamics and details of. Thusly the human race will expand into the limitless resources of the solar system and beyond, to evolve in concert with our technology to a destiny which is presently beyond the capacity of even the most creative futurist to imagine. In such a system, the tests for positions of higher responsibility would be complex and not limited to written exams, but would include virtual reality scenarios, real world assessment and performance review, as well as extreme depth of psychological testing. I might add that in regard to such "higher" positions it may well be determined and required that it would be necessary for them to experience a mental state of awareness that is beyond the consensus thought-centric and quite mechanical mental processes of humanity, whether by psychedelic agents or some other mode of transcendence. In addendum: democracies do work, I should say "can work", this is illustrated by the fact that if a problem is too complex, such as guessing the number of jellybeans in a huge urn. If enough people guess, say tens of thousands, the median of all the guesses is always more accurate than any single guess. Ok theoretically a single guess can be just as, or more accurate than the median of all guesses, but not very friggen often and it is just luck. Now if you have some agency that obscures the urn or finds a means of exaggerating certain qualities or merely using persuasion to misrepresent the number of jelly beans this will obviously fuck things up. This is analogous to the present state of the world with regard to the disinformation and propaganda generated by all manner of sources like Fox News, or any news outside of peer reviewed journals and even then. . . . So of course in this society, as it should be in ours, the penalty for knowingly reporting inaccurate information as fact would be death. No excuses.
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  20. Kile has learned how to do an ellipses with his eyes! Check it out at 0:33
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  21. Be prepared for a mammoth parade of people making its way through Mexico toward the US border and continual coverage on corporate media during the election. The ultimate scare tactic aimed at the same rust belt voters that matter the most.
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  22. Or. . . the right wing-nuts will say that Denmark and company are really capitalist countries. Which the are, but the are also democratic socialist and have a better social mobility into the upper classes than we do, even though our workers produce more per hour.
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  23. fuck twitter and fuck facebook too. I don't know anybody who used twitter and I know loads of people.
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  24. I was a Bernie supporter until he made his ridiculous comments on Elon Musk. For every day that Elon has been an American citizen, he has paid one and a half million dollars in taxes. A million and a half a day. I venture to say that he has paid more taxes in a day then Bernie has in his entire lifetime.
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  25. You know Kyle I could show your vids to lots of old people I know and they would probably be somewhat educated about issues about which they only get info from Fox etc. However you seem to insist on throwing a "fuck" or "fucken" into your spiel every ten minutes or so. I guess it's your way of trying to appear edgy or something. But in reality it's just stupid because it automatically shears off people who would otherwise listen to what you have to say. Doesn't bother me personally one bit, but it brings your potential influence to a speedy end with lots of people.
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  26.  @davidsandall  Trump reduced taxes on the middle class (temporarily) and reduced taxes on the wealthy (permanently) all the while running up the defect at a rate higher than anyone ever has. Just like Bush did before the last economic bust. Now he wants to end social security, medicare, food stamps, help with rent and heat for the needy, and emergency aid to children, to pay for the deficit he ran up. If you support trump you are one of two kinds of people: a multimillionaire: in which case your support make perfect sense, or you just another rube that got coned by a NYC conman. The biggest problem with most Trump supporters is they are one issue voters: guns, abortion, border security. These people have been played for decades by the politicians on both sides. But the fact remains that Obama deported more undocumented residents per year than Trump has. And the Republican are not ever gonna ban abortion everywhere because they would be killing the ecumenical goose that laid the golden egg. And think about this: Trump made bump stocks illegeal and they had to be destroyed or turned in without any compensation. Bernie said that was illegal, and that at the very least the people should have been compensated for their loss. I heard that Trump already has offers to be the new host on The Price is Right, after Bernie crushes that lying mentally ill Mercer puppet.
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  27.  @davidsandall  You have bought into a false narrative. The reality is that not only do the citizens of the Scandinavian countries (which you consider socialist but which are not even close to socialist) have (and feel free to fact check this) Better yet less expensive health care, free university, freedom from worry about financial ruin destroying their lives, the citizens are happier, and here is the thing that kills all your republican cult bullshit -- higher social mobility into the higher classes. Go forth and fact check and sin no more. Fat chance right? More like: no matter what the facts are -- your sticking with your opinion. Right?
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  28.  @davidsandall  Oh, and I notice you failed to respond to the fact that while running up the deficet to new heights he cut taxes. You probably like that, because it will eventually destroy the government. This is all Robert Mercers plan and you probably don't even know who he is. Well maybe you know that he owns more fully automatic firearms than anyone else in the country.
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  29.  @davidsandall  Look at the Trump cabinet and his appointments. It's Robert Mercer's wet dream. Put people who hate the various agencies in charge of them so they can ruin them and put more Goldman Sachs banksters in the cabinet than ever before. He is a fake populist and Bernie would have crushed him in 16 because the anti Hillary vote in the rust belt would have voted Bernie just like they voted Obama. Only Obama was a puppet just like Trump. Bernie is no one's puppet. The narrative you have swallowed is that it is social programs that is running America into the ground -- just like the fucken lying manipulating cheating power-elite want you to think, while all along it is the banksters and the hedge fund managers that are eating your lunch. And everyone else's. They are stealing from you in ways you do not understand and that you can do nothing about.
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  30.  @davidsandall  Truly retrograde opinions you have. You just can't see that we should be the government instead of the professional political class and we want a future for our children that is better than what we had and the opinions you are expressing are the opposite of that. And you people who are so concerned about what other people get as a result of the bounty of our culture actually hate work. I have worked all my life since I was ten. got my social security card when I was ten because I had to work in a factory on weekend and all summer long. And later when I was a glass blower I worked as an apprentice seven days a week for $2 dollars and hour for years and never harbored any negative feelings about those who had an easier life, because I loved my work. My family fought in every fucken war this nation had, including the Revolution. I can take you to a cemetery in the PA dutch area of PA and show you a line of grave stones that goes back to the French and Indian wars and I think that you are anti American.
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  31. Yeh, Shaprio is such an obvious ass I don't see why his name comes up anywhere ever. Don't give him any recognition even in the form of criticism.
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  32. You have just graduated from a thoughtful commentator on domestic politics to a Fox News clone who comments upon shit they know nothing about. My respect for you has plummeted.
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  33. What's the difference between socialism and democracy? Socialism is an economic system.  Democracy is a system of government. These are two different categories of things.  Something that Chris didn't seem to know. Socialism is the most popular economic system in Western countries like Canada (which experience no 2008 financial crisis) and Denmark (which has the highest level of happiness of all countries). Democracy is a theoretical political system that really doesn't exist on earth, and never has, unless you consider classical Athens in which the men who were not slaves or from some other place had it.  In levels of democracy in the world the USA ranks 32nd. USA was never intended to be a democracy and never has been, if it was, Al Gore would have beaten Bush because he has 1.5 million more votes.  If you haven't noticed: despite the fact that Bernie Sanders is getting record crowds even in red states, far more than anyone else, for all practical purposes he is being boycotted by all the news networks.  I guess they know that their bottom lines depend on the ads, and Bernie isn't going to spend what the others are on ads.
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  34. Why are you acting like some grade-school child who thinks they live in a democracy? You do not. The USA is not, was not, and was never intended to be a democracy. The system of electoral college does sort of suck, but this is not a democracy. Democracy is more or less an excuse to invade other countries, we are spreading it. But we aren't spreading democracy. There has never been a democracy in a major power on this earth, including classic Athens.
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  35. Consider this: if isis had sensor fused, and enhanced radiation weapons like the neutron bomb like the progressive cultures do, would they use them?  We do, but we haven't.  The USA could completely obliterated isis and leave the infrastructure standing, but it hasn't done this.  The USA could drop one sensor fused weapon on one of those idiotic caravans of trucks and armor and destroy them all, but they haven't done it.  In fact the USA has dozens of ways that it could destroy everyone in the isis controlled zones and it has refrained.  What would these idiots who have no thoughts outside of the propaganda of cancerous religious mimes do if they had this power.  Only idiots try to reason with mad dogs, and all fundamentalist are mad dogs.  Just take a look at the Jewish fundamentalist who stabed a gay woman to death for being gay the other day.  These friggin' brain damaged idiots of all stripes must be shown for what they are -- functionally insane.
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  36. Love the grease trap look, but how can anyone take you seriously while you are sporting the Eric Trump Wall Street psychopath look? Yeh you don't look like an edgy hollywood shaker, just someone who makes one's skin crawl with the thought of getting too near to such a grease-ball anticoiffure for fear of cooties jumping off the lard barge you wear on your head.
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  37. I am Bernie or Bust baby and this is why: Hillary = crooked Trump = conman Bernie = statesman No Bernie, I vote for Rosann Barr she is smarter than all of them anyway. Something is wrong with a system that is best described as a "hate fuck" as Bill Marher said. Our system managed to deliver the two most hated characters in the public eye. Something deeply wrong there. Don't believe for a second that these bastards are incompetent, they have intelligence and rescources that you cannot imagine, they are truly gods, compared to scum like us. That's why they have to go, because it's us or them. I disagree, I voted for the lesser of two evils before and it leaves a bad taste in your brain. You don't have to worry all that much about Trump, he is just a ploy to make Hillary palatable don't fall for it. Her and her husband are evil on the hoof. The Congressmen will kill Trump, one way or another. Also I agree with kicking out illegal aliens. Reagan allowed millions of illegal aliens to become citizens and we were promised that was the last time it would happen. Get rid of them, there are plenty of roofers and shit in PA and Alabama that will be happy to build stuff for the western states were white guys don't build, and let the migrants in to do farm work and that's it. A country more than anything else is composed of the genetic makeup of its inhabitants, that's why there are resource poor countries like Germany and Japan that are strong and civilized and places with huge resources that are horrible places to live. If you haven't noticed everyone in the whole world wants to move in with the Europeans and become citizens, problem is if sixty percent of France is Algerian or similar, you no longer have a France, you have a kind of mutated Algeria, same here, you would have to be nuts to want to live in Mexico, but if our population becomes Mexican, so does the country, and soon you just have another super corrupt country run by the mafia. Europeans are good at civilization, if they weren't everyone wouldn't be crashing the national boarders of northern and central Europe and North America. Hows that for a series of blinding flashes of the obvious. Hope it didn't fog up your pc goggles too much..
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  38. You do not realize how brilliant what is happening in the middle east is. The civilized world gets a whole lot of radicalized fundamentalist madmen from all over the world in one place so they are easier to find and kill, and they are footing the recruitment and travel expenses themselves.  If I were heading the campaign against isis, I would let this go on as long as possible, and never really wipe them out, or completely destroy their ability to recruit and carry on military actions, so that I could continue to kill more of them.  Which if you haven't noticed is exactly what is going on. As far as your theory that you can't fight a war against an idea is concerned: it is mostly just rhetoric.  We are fighting against three dimensional living beings that by their own actions have proven conclusively that they deserve to die horrible and fiery deaths.  It is working out better than can anyone could have hoped for.
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  39. Good Show. Figure out how to make Campaign Finance Reform sexy, and save the nation from the criminal scumbags that are now stealing our nation. If you have two brain cells to rub together you can figure out that the funding of politics is nothing but a system of corruption that was put in place to steal as much as possible for as long as possible. A populist movement cannot win as long as the worst among us: the Mercers, Kochs, and Goldman Sachs minions, control everything through a system of corruption that they themselves have devised. Sure it seems like there are a thousand issues: Trump giving away national assets like Putin did to a bunch of rich unevolved assholes who are proud of their predation upon the populace, and there endless red herrings that get all the single issue voters at one another's throats: climate change, fundamentalist morons who think that the world is six thousand years old and will end tomorrow, wars in support of private business interests, wholesale surveillance of the citizens, a ridiculous number of psychopaths with badges who believe they are licensed to kill, etc. etc. etc. But I am telling you that Robert Mercer understands that the lynch pin of control is campaign finance, that’s why he funds Citizens United, and Britbart, and put Trump in office by giving him key words found by Cambridge Anaylitics to repeat over and over, in near meaningless lies, that the mindless fools that watch and believe Fox New and similar founts of lies were responding to on a limbic level. He knows that campaign finance is the key to power – do you? Until this is done, the present plutocratic kleptocracy will swiftly recover from any temporary setbacks. Sorry if it boars you. It’s not up to your opinion, this is the game theory, this is the facts. Robert Mercer is using the power of AI against the population and government of the USA to make your voice and vote more meaningless than it already is. Campaign finance reform must be done, not because it is somebodies interest or pet interest, but because it is the only thing that CAN be done to stop this avalanche of shit the one percent is burying us under. Goldman Sachs gave the American public a choice in the last election and that choice was, “Would you rather live in shit or piss.” And thanks to 80,000 rust belt fools who were conned by a New York City conman, America chose shit. And until campaign finance is address and totally deprivatized you will only have a choice between shit and piss in all the coming elections. Unless a real populist like Bernie is nominated (don’t hold your breath) as he should have been, and reforms this madness. The shit we are in now is because of the neoliberal idiots who supported and cheated for Hillary and voted for her in the primary even though all the polls showed Bernie as way more likely to beat Trump than her. Trump knew it, he even said it, Cambridge Anaylitica probably told him, and still the Hillary supporters deny it. As Gurdjieff wrote, “Even God has no defense against stupidity. Blessings to those of evolving conscience.
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  40. Bernie can win, but he has to dispel the belief that he will be a force for open boarders. Bidden is too compromised. But don't worry your little head, no matter who wins, they will be owned by the big money boys. Money out of campaigns is the lynch pin. Corruption is the rule until then.
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  41. Lose your twitter mind-container.
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  42. The Patriot Act is bad, so China is not a bad acting totalitarian state. You have discovered tachyonic reasoning! . . . or a way for the implied correlations in your rant to assume the mantel of nondelegitimized nonsense.
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  43. By the way congratulations on your three year out of style hair cut. Peaky Blinders is in season five dude, and just now you get the Peaky Blinders fan club hair cut and it looks totally ridiculous. They use to cut their hair like that because of lice, what's your excuse you slave to fashion past.
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  44.  @b1bbscraz3y  Because: traditionally: the right is on the side of the oppressors. The left likes to apologize for things it had nothing to do with. The right despises them for this.
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  45. "What does that tell you"? -- . . . Cubans
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  46.  @SpinX522  Don't hold your breath waiting for a criminal enterprise to adopt policies that are in the interests of the victims that it feeds upon.
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  47. I really hope that if Bernie wins he rounds up all the banksters and puts them on trial.
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  48. Everybody (even politicians) knows what's wrong with the political system and have for over fifty years and nothing has been done to change things. The lynch pin of all that is wrong with the USA is campaign finance. All private money must be out of politics entirely. No funds of any kind from the private sector to politicians ever without jail time. What is now "business as usual" was not so long ago criminal activity. All campaign contributions are bribes, all PACs are anti-American. America is now owned by a few families, that is why you have such problems. All billionaires are inherently evil because no one makes and keeps that much money without being a scumbag. Think about it this way. If I gave you a dollar every second for twenty four hours a day it would take about two weeks for me to give you a million dollars. It would take about thirty two years to give you a billion dollars at the same rate. It would take 31,700 years to give you a trillion dollars. When our republic was founded severe restrictions were put upon the establishment of corporations. They had to be for the benefit of the pubic and they were only licensed to operate for thirty years at a time. We are now seeing the reason for this. The founding fathers knew that if wealth concentrated like it had in the hands of the royals and bankers of Europe it would be the end of the power of the people in our democratic constitutional republic. By the way the only real democracy on earth is Switzerland, a place with lots of firearms in civilian hands and no mass shootings. A place where heroin addicts are give drugs in a clinical setting which has no drug lords or junkies ripping off everything that isn't nailed down to support their habits. But we decided to do the same things that don't work over and over. We are idiots.
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  49. As we use to say. . . "Tell it like it is Kyle!" Right on brother Kyle. Hows that for nostalgia?
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  50. Think about this: El Paso Texas and Juarez Mexico are the same city split by a boarder. Until recently El Paso was one of the safest US cities, and I think the shooter came from somewhere else, and it probably still is one of the safest. On the other side Juarez is one of the most dangerous cities on earth. Why? Decriminalize all drugs and establishing sanctuary areas where any drug can be legally purchased over the counter without a prescription at a drug store, will end the narco dominance of Mexico and Central America.
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  51. I could have played an mp3 of this for my aunt, when I take her out to eat this weekend, but you said "Fuck" so now it will have the opposite effect that it would have if you had been more thoughtful. Why do you insist on alienating the elderly who might otherwise be persuaded with moral and ethical arguments? Smarten the fuck up bro.
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  52. We are in an age were irony is no longer ironic. You can thank Trump and his cultists for that. Peterson is and always was an imbecile. His take on things is to real wisdom like pro wrestling is to MMA.
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  53. Every time that the ability to buy a gun is threatened, thousands of people who would never have ever purchased a gun buy one. Are we going to give the gun dealers windfall after windfall with this vacillation?
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  54. Trump's tweets have now been renamed quacks. Donald Lame Duck, quack, quack quack -- ad nauseam.
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  55. Nomiki Konst says that Bernie cannot be cheated with super delegates. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACn94wTAZJ4
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  56.  @DraconianPolicy  In my view the bases from which the people, at a fair for instance, would arrive at their individual estimates of the number of jelly beans in a large urn is subjective also.  They have no real objective measure either of the total volume of the urn or the volume taken up by each bean.  It is a guess based on limited, though unobscurated perception, and no real possibility of actual measurement.  This is a phenomenon that is noted by the emerging field of epigenetics. Pardon the pun.  So we have an actual situation wherein ants are able to function as an efficient colony, or humans are able to make the most accurate estimate of the number of beans by the average of all guesses. If you are interested in an entertaining exposition of same, Radio Lab did a show about this entitled Epigenetics, or something like that, .  If the result obtained by the mean of all the guesses were dependent on some form of objective measurement, then of course your objection would be valid. However this is not the case. This phenomenon would be equally in effect in a voting process that determined the goals and objectives of a government {not the winning candidate} when such choices were presented to the public without any spin of any kind.  For instance instead of voting for a person, all voting would be upon issues such as. "What percentage of the national budget should be spent on the military?" With a blank space in the ballot were a citizen could provide a percentage they believe to be appropriate.  Remember: this citizen has not been subjected to any disinformation or propaganda, or even any idiotic pundit spin, just such facts as are available at the time, without "expert" prognostication about the resulting impact of various outcomes.
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  57.  @DraconianPolicy  Certainly though it can be said that there is no correct answer to such questions as that about the military budget, it could be seen that outlier answers such as "We should spend one hundred percent of the national budget on defense", will be balanced out by both the mass of opinion and the outlier opinions on the opposite end of such a continuum. It really doesn't matter to the mechanism in play if there is an objectively correct answer. This will still provide the best possible option at a higher rate than any other method that can be employed. You bring up the objection that everyone will be bringing their own prejudices to their personal opinions when they vote. Thus the death penalty for anyone that propagates falsehood or unsubstantiated news as facts.  Try to imagine a culture that is not awash in disinformation and propaganda by various interests. One were the pundits, instead of filling up air time with what will increase advertising revenue, will simply say, "I don't know." or "This matter is unknown or still in question." when addressing any issue that is not a proven fact. (Strangely reminds me of the Platonic debate as to whether new poetic forms would lead to the degeneration of society.}  As long as the populace is not immersed in disinformation from which they form their opinions, their individual attitudes will only serve to insure the effectiveness of the results of such questions. Though really this "democracy really works, but not why you think it does" proposition is a minor and really fungible element of the Techno-Neo Confucian course that I have proposed. We presently live in a world were some governments call themselves democracies and some communist, but the reality is that in both cases, with few exceptions, they are both functionally fascist.
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  58. ​ @DraconianPolicy  Good points. Remember, I said that the best possible outcome was relative to the goals already defined by the populace itself. There is no doubt that not everyone would agree that any particular result chosen in this manner would be the best possible outcome. The reason an urn with jelly beans is chosen as an example is basically because it has been used to illustrate this quite unconscious ability of aggregate "minds" (most importantly to the un and pre conscious neural functions) to reach a conclusion that is beyond the abilities of a solitary mind to reach. The urn and beans is an example that is used because it is too complex of a problem for the average person to accurately resolve by the available methods. I will mention if it isn't explicit that we are dealing with a huge urn of a shape complex enough to defy the use of simple geometric formulation. But to simplify: my position is that the same aggregate unconscious dynamic will give as much advantage in reaching decisions that are most congruent with the goals for society: that the populace has already chosen. Decisions on policy that are far more effective in reaching the stated goals of such legislation than would be those not only of the average person but also so-called leaders and pundits in the very fields addressed. In the realm of symbolic logic you are correct to point out the distinction between the urn problem and more seemingly abstract and complex situations with divers variables. In this sense I agree with your objections, however I submit that this dynamic if properly employed will be effective even though it's mechanism is not fully understood. I found the RadioLab show that I had recommended. It is very entertaining. Emergence aug 14, 2007 and touches on various counter intuitive results of emergence. (I don't know why I remembered this as a show on epigenetics but I was incorrect) It would be interesting to set up an experiment to investigate this effect. You have pointed out in your discussion how the best possible option is subjective, I maintain that this is not the case because the result could be judged in an objective sense relative to an already stated goal. This discussion could go on, I suppose, however I believe that with a large enough sample it could be experimentally illustrated, even if the underlying mechanism of such a processed decision cannot be currently delineated. Did you know that the only democracy in the world today is in the nation of Switzerland? I also cannot think of any in past history, despite all the praise for past slave holding republics and such.
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  59. Don't want to spoil anyone's fun, but the truth is: it doesn't matter a bit what anyone thinks about any political issue unless they have mega bucks or can legally order armed men to act, legally or otherwise. That's the fact, your vote doesn't even matter at all, or your opinion on anything concerning real power. Of course you are free to goose your own hormones by believing otherwise and expressing your opinion and criticism, but it's all pouring from nullity into the void. A waste of time, and an act of narcissistic limbic masturbation, except for the people making money off your belief that it matters what you think, say or write -- it doesn't -- not at all. Including this statement, seeing as like maybe 1% of any readers will realize this fact with the right joy because of their release from delusion.
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  60. There is still a way for Trump to stay in office by constitutional fuckery. All states are not required to have electors vote in congruence with the popular vote. If Trump can rally the governors in the red states who do not require this to instruct the electors to vote for Trump he can still maintain office. It has nothing to do with court cases, court cases are just round one. This TED talk will telll you the details. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZWRhLW7Y8w
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  61. You should not talk about this because you obviously know nothing. There has been no peace and stability in Kashmir since the sixties. No I am not an Indian troll just look at my channels. You should just stfu.
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  62. If you look at nations and empires and such as organism, and their politics as feedback system within that organism: it can easily be seen that political power has only been gained by two modes. This has been true from the time of the electors of the Holy Roman Empire and even before. You either gain power by giving some of the wealth and power of the elites to the commoners or by giving that of the common people to the elites. This can almost be seen as the breathing of a nation over time. It is long past time that America took a long deep inhale because every politician since Reagan has been presiding over a fire sale of the wealth and power of the common people to the power-elite.
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  63. I am mean when the right wing-nuts start baiting progressives. They are stupid and ingnorant and almost never respond further. Step right up regressive fucks and I will rip you a new one.
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  64. Tulsi will go where Bernie, or any front runner cannot go. She would make a perfect VP, for many reason. People would really hesitate to shoot Bernie if Tulsi would take over as pres.
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  65. You miss the evil genius of it: this kid showed initiative, and was charitable, and is a microcosm of the right-wing urge to stop all government funding of programs like food stamps, and ssi, and everything they can, and have the churches and the rich give what they want to whom they want under the conditions they want. Which would be a paltry amount insufficient to make any difference to all but a few chosen recipients who had better damn well be snivelingly grateful. The reality is this: the higher the total worth of an individual the less a percentage of it they give to charity.
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  66. This video may be of interest to some of us. I hope she is correct. Why Warren and the Superdelegates can’t rig the election https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACn94wTAZJ4
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  67. CNN has to manufacture consent to make their commentaries seem relevant. It's easy to seem mean when you are responding to idiots with facts and they think there are alternate facts. They usually hear these alternate facts from Trump or corporate news, or one of the myriad fake organizations which usually stand for the opposite of what their names imply, like Citizens United (which is really billionaires united) and Robert Mercer or the Koch brother (may the other rot in hell) are usually behind them.
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  68. Trump and his supporters remind me of hippos. All the hippos follow the alpha male hippo around and just delight in him spraying them with poop. He poops in their faces and they eat it up, they love it. Trumps psychotic word-salad during rallies and such is just like alpha male hippo shit.
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  69. Listen Millennials and younger: You want Bernie to win. The only way that Bernie can win is if you people vote in the primary. If you personally do not vote in the pimary Bernie will not even be the democratic candidate. Get you heads out of your phones, put down the video games, forget about your facebook personna and do the little bit of research to find out how and where to vote in the primary. If you can't do that little bit of work and focus, like you didn't in 16, Bernie doesn't stand a chance, because most of the democrats older than you are for Biden. You have them outnumbered but you have to get your shit together or your dreams will become another four year long nightmare.
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  70. His tweet is called a false equivalency. The flu has already spread throughout the US population. The corona is just starting -- with a four day doubling rate. You figure it out. It is ten times more fatal than the flu. Remember the chess player who took a grain of rice on the first square of a chess board and double it every square, and by the end of the sixty four squares you own the world. This will not be over in a few weeks, it will go on for months and almost everyone will get it. Hand washing etc is bullshit. You breath the air that someone who is infected has breathed out and you have it. And they may not even symptomatic. Males in good health in their forties seem to have a high fatality rate. This is gonna suck big time and go on until everyone is exhausted, plus we get all our drugs from China and India and have no stockpiles of necessary medical devices. Fucked.
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  71. When PBS became dependent on private donors it's objectivity went down the toilet. They are now as biased as the rest of the corporate news. And they have turned off the comments on the clip you are addressing on YouTube. What a bunch of babies. I guess they need a safe-space to protect them from viewer comments.
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  72. Every time you just don't know what to say because of the absurdity of something it cracks me up. I concur these people are absurd and ridiculous.
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  73. It's nothing personal (except if you have a conscience) it's like rock-paper-sicssors: Trump beats Biden, Bernie beat Trump, Warren cries, "wee wee wee all the way home." Mixed metawhores: always a delight.
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  74. Don't hold your breath. Reparations will never fly. The Congress will never go that way. Personally I am waiting for my reparation check from the Vatican, because the Roman's enslaved my Germanic ancestors. Same chance as American reparations: none.
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  75. News flash: CNN, MSNBC, and the usual suspects report:. . . In the primary race between Sanders and Buttigieg, Pete came in second over all, while Sanders came in next to last. Democracy and the so called representative democracy, democratic republic or constitutional republic are very different things. They are forms of democracy. In most cases minus the democracy part. When people blithely state that we live in a democracy it is incorrect and misleading, like most of the paradigms that the public is continually bombarded with via the corporate news. A republic is just a way for the plutocrats to stay in power and still have people think they are in a participatory democracy. The only democracy in US government is is that of congress, and they are 98% owned by the power-elite that decide who will run and fund their reelection campaigns with the legalized bribes of their campaign contributions. There is representation, but not for you and me. We live in a farce. Are you not paying attention? Do you think that this cheating is something new? Your "representatives" are not there to represent you, they are there for the most part to make sure that the voices of the people never get heard, and if they get heard to never be acted upon. Or if they are once in a blue moon forced by popular uprising to act for the people, soon as the masses disperse they will dismember the body that threatened their power one discontent at a time, jailed, disappeared, or simply smeared and ignored by the corporate media. Have you not been present? Look around. . . . Real democracy, true democracy exists nowhere on earth other than present day Switzerland and never has (that I am aware of). Representative democracy is a convoluted fraudulent conception. Democracy is something that we are continually told we have, which we do not. We have democracy in the same sense that the slaves, women, citizens without land, and foreigners had a democracy in the golden age of Athens. Only they knew that they did not have a vote or any real participation in the government. Most Americans do not know that. It should be obvious to anybody with the slightest ability to perceive what is actually going on that this is a conceptual illusion that is used to mislead and quell the disenfranchised mob. Bring on the super-delegates, the Iowa national delegate formula, the electoral collage, the PACz and Citizens United -- a democracy would not abide these contaminants, or entertain their adoption for even a moment. A democracy and the state we live in are two very different things. In a democracy the one with the most votes is not the loser like in the USA. The courts have decided that even determination of who will be the candidates, such as occurs in the legendary smoke filled rooms of the DNC and RNC has no legal obligation to be fair or democratic in our two party system. . . . ??????? We live in a kleptocracy with a democratic shroud over it, and most people, like almost all people, do not understand how their rights and money are being stolen from them by corporate pilferage and plunder. In fact our present government is functionally a cryptofascist kleptocracy in which all real power, control of the men with guns and uniforms, the state, and the economy is held by a small group of lying psychopaths. Like Robert Mercer,, the Koch brother, Bezos and the mob of banksters that suck up the wealth of the nation like vampires and offer nothing but bullshit and corruption in return. And you CNN, are a big part of it. In fact people will come to recognize that you are a key member of the new axis of evil. FaceBook -- Buttigieg -- CNN https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfQ7Zo6m9yg
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  76. More like 1984 than Brave New World.
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  77. In the end this will be good for Bernie, just like Warren's nonsense.
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  78. If you know what is really going on; you know that this is Robert Mercer's budget.
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  79. @Matthew Mueller The military does not use semi-automatic AR15s, that is what we are talking about, not .50 cal sniper rifles. The M16 is not semi. It has a full auto setting. 9mm is a handgun. What does that have to do with anything?
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  80. @Matthew Mueller Yeah, I don't consider handguns weapons of war. Other than that only specialized sniper rifles are semi-automatic. Firearms that have a selector to fire full auto, bursts or semi are not semiautomatic firearms they are fully-automatic. Your arguments are tiresome, trite, and semantical and really amount to nothing worth noting. No country arms it's troops with semi-automatic firearms.
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  81. @Matthew Mueller The fact remains that no country arms it's military with semiautomatic Armalite Rifles. If you really think that a select fire weapon is a semi-automatic firearm, try drilling the hole and dropping a select fire sear into an AR then go to the local BATF station and tell them it is a semi-auto. See what they have to say about it and write me from prison. You come off like someone who learned about firearms online or in games. You description of what an automatic weapon is is also incorrect.
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  82. @Matthew Mueller Get real. This whole argument started with Klonoski's statement that the AR15s in civilian hands in the USA are "weapons of war". He said this repeatedly. I corrected him and you come along and say a select fire AR is a semi-auto. If it were, you could buy one. It is not and you can't unless it was manufactured before 1986, you pass a background check, pay the tax stamp and anti up the twenty grand that it would cost for just the sear. That's the law. Semiautomatic firearms are legal to make and sell, select fire firearms are not, unless it is sold to LE or to another class 3 manufacturer -- Why? Because they are fully-automatic weapons.
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  83. @Matthew Mueller You got it backwards, it is an automatic weapon some of which have a semi-auto setting. Some also have a two or thee shot burst setting instead of semi-automatic. Warfighters also take knifes into battle. That does not make a knife a weapon of war. Like I said your arguments are semantical and trite and actually amount to nothing. What's you point? To be a puddin head? This dude repeatedly called the AR15s owned by civilians in the USA weapons of war. They are not. You point is trivial and meaningless.
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  84. @Matthew Mueller Like I said little fella, your arguments are trivial and irrelevant. No army on earth sends men into battle with semi-automatic AR15s. That is what the original statement you are contending said. The fact that you can fire an m4 in a semi mode does not make it a semi-automatic firearm. Like I said ask BATF about that. They are the ones that write the laws about it. You are just denying the reality that AR15s are not a weapon of war any more than a more traditional looking semi-automatic firearm is. You can dwell on the trivial factors that are irrelevant to his erroneous statement only because your head is trivial and really idiotic.
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  85. @Matthew Mueller You think I am concerned with what you said. . . I am not. I couldn't care less what you said. I was talking about what Kyle said. But you had to correct me with your insipid stupidity about semiautomatic firearms. Your an idiot who can't see the forest for the trees. But instead of realizing what the conversation is actually about, you insist on dwelling on meaningless details, like m4 are select fire and therefore can fire semiautomatically. No shit Sherlock, did your mama teach you that? Or that troops carry semi auto side arms that they can use to blow their own heads off if all else fails, because they ain't gonna penetrate even the weakest body armor or even a ballistic helmet. So cheers to you for the blinding flashes of the obvious. Now go play with yourself little boy because I am tired of responding to an imbecile who doesn't understand what the conversation is about. It's not about what you want it to be about -- child -- it's about Kyles use of the term "weapons of war".
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  86. You introductory sentence gave me the first good laugh of the day. I feel the same'
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  87. Now your doing the "fuckery" thing too. Fuckery is not a word. And even if it was a word, how does it reflect on one's relationship to fucking if you use it as a negative. Think about it, every culture has a category of words they use as "curses" like in France most are connected to Religion or the Catholic church, like the exclamation of "Hotsi" which means the sacred host, or another one means god made of pubic hair, but in the good old USA it is sex that becomes the curses. This indicated a society that is sexually demented. Try: fraud, deceit, cheating, flimflam, treachery, etc. You can do it, you can use a real word.
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  88. News flash: CNN, MSNBC, and the usual suspects report:. . . In the primary race between Sanders and Buttigieg, Pete came in second over all, while Sanders came in next to last. Democracy and the so called representative democracy, democratic republic or constitutional republic are very different things. They are forms of democracy. In most cases minus the democracy part. When people blithely state that we live in a democracy it is incorrect and misleading, like most of the paradigms that the public is continually bombarded with via the corporate news. A republic is just a way for the plutocrats to stay in power and still have people think they are in a participatory democracy. The only democracy in US government is is that of congress, and they are 98% owned by the power-elite that decide who will run and fund their reelection campaigns with the legalized bribes of their campaign contributions. There is representation, but not for you and me. We live in a farce. Are you not paying attention? Do you think that this cheating is something new? Your "representatives" are not there to represent you, they are there for the most part to make sure that the voices of the people never get heard, and if they get heard to never be acted upon. Or if they are once in a blue moon forced by popular uprising to act for the people, soon as the masses disperse they will dismember the body that threatened their power one discontent at a time, jailed, disappeared, or simply smeared and ignored by the corporate media. Have you not been present? Look around. . . . Real democracy, true democracy exists nowhere on earth other than present day Switzerland and never has (that I am aware of). Representative democracy is a convoluted fraudulent conception. Democracy is something that we are continually told we have, which we do not. We have democracy in the same sense that the slaves, women, citizens without land, and foreigners had a democracy in the golden age of Athens. Only they knew that they did not have a vote or any real participation in the government. Most Americans do not know that. It should be obvious to anybody with the slightest ability to perceive what is actually going on that this is a conceptual illusion that is used to mislead and quell the disenfranchised mob. Bring on the super-delegates, the Iowa national delegate formula, the electoral collage, the PACz and Citizens United -- a democracy would not abide these contaminants, or entertain their adoption for even a moment. A democracy and the state we live in are two very different things. In a democracy the one with the most votes is not the loser like in the USA. The courts have decided that even determination of who will be the candidates, such as occurs in the legendary smoke filled rooms of the DNC and RNC has no legal obligation to be fair or democratic in our two party system. . . . ??????? We live in a kleptocracy with a democratic shroud over it, and most people, like almost all people, do not understand how their rights and money are being stolen from them by corporate pilferage and plunder. In fact our present government is functionally a cryptofascist kleptocracy in which all real power, control of the men with guns and uniforms, the state, and the economy is held by a small group of lying psychopaths. Like Robert Mercer,, the Koch brother, Bezos and the mob of banksters that suck up the wealth of the nation like vampires and offer nothing but bullshit and corruption in return. And you CNN, are a big part of it. In fact people will come to recognize that you are a key member of the new axis of evil. FaceBook -- Buttigieg -- CNN
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  89. News flash: CNN, MSNBC, and the usual suspects report:. . . In the primary race between Sanders and Buttigieg, Pete came in second over all, while Sanders came in next to last. Democracy and the so called representative democracy, democratic republic or constitutional republic are very different things. They are forms of democracy. In most cases minus the democracy part. When people blithely state that we live in a democracy it is incorrect and misleading, like most of the paradigms that the public is continually bombarded with via the corporate news. A republic is just a way for the plutocrats to stay in power and still have people think they are in a participatory democracy. The only democracy in US government is is that of congress, and they are 98% owned by the power-elite that decide who will run and fund their reelection campaigns with the legalized bribes of their campaign contributions. There is representation, but not for you and me. We live in a farce. Are you not paying attention? Do you think that this cheating is something new? Your "representatives" are not there to represent you, they are there for the most part to make sure that the voices of the people never get heard, and if they get heard to never be acted upon. Or if they are once in a blue moon forced by popular uprising to act for the people, soon as the masses disperse they will dismember the body that threatened their power one discontent at a time, jailed, disappeared, or simply smeared and ignored by the corporate media. Have you not been present? Look around. . . . Real democracy, true democracy exists nowhere on earth other than present day Switzerland and never has (that I am aware of). Representative democracy is a convoluted fraudulent conception. Democracy is something that we are continually told we have, which we do not. We have democracy in the same sense that the slaves, women, citizens without land, and foreigners had a democracy in the golden age of Athens. Only they knew that they did not have a vote or any real participation in the government. Most Americans do not know that. It should be obvious to anybody with the slightest ability to perceive what is actually going on that this is a conceptual illusion that is used to mislead and quell the disenfranchised mob. Bring on the super-delegates, the Iowa national delegate formula, the electoral collage, the PACz and Citizens United -- a democracy would not abide these contaminants, or entertain their adoption for even a moment. A democracy and the state we live in are two very different things. In a democracy the one with the most votes is not the loser like in the USA. The courts have decided that even determination of who will be the candidates, such as occurs in the legendary smoke filled rooms of the DNC and RNC has no legal obligation to be fair or democratic in our two party system. . . . ??????? We live in a kleptocracy with a democratic shroud over it, and most people, like almost all people, do not understand how their rights and money are being stolen from them by corporate pilferage and plunder. In fact our present government is functionally a cryptofascist kleptocracy in which all real power, control of the men with guns and uniforms, the state, and the economy is held by a small group of lying psychopaths. Like Robert Mercer,, the Koch brother, Bezos and the mob of banksters that suck up the wealth of the nation like vampires and offer nothing but bullshit and corruption in return. the new axis of evil. FaceBook -- Buttigieg -- CNN
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  90. I must confess. I. . . am the Bernie Bro. No. . . I am Bernie Bro. I am Bernie Bro. I am Bernie Bro, , , and so on. (recited to the tune of I am Spartacus)
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  91. False equivalence is a common result when an anecdotal similarity is pointed out as equal, but the claim of equivalence doesn't bear because the similarity is based on oversimplification or ignorance of additional factors.
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  92. There is no evidence that UFOs are real because they do not know if the phenomenon they are observing are flying or are an anomalous natural phenomena we are unfamiliar with. They all look suspiciously like unflying objects to me, they look like reflections or something moving like it is not flying but is being projected. Maybe it is even a form of communication from a strange alien other dimensional form of intelligence that we think are flying objects. That would be like thinking that word sounds are cars.
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  93. Morphine or paraghoric was made illegal in the UK because all the coal miners were getting fucked up on paragoric and not buying alcohol. Morphine preparations were cheaper and a much better high. So the distillers had it made illegal.
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  94. If over three million votes don't matter, what do a few dozen imprisoned terrorists votes matter? As far as the total number of imprisoned people goes you must realize that about half of them are in there because some cop lie-evied in court. Or they had some pot or coke. He is right and so are you. It was an answer that will echo through the whole campaign. But he shot himself in the foot.
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  95. Wondering how is it possible that many superbly successful and otherwise normal and intelligent people can still be Trump supporters (or perhaps I should say believers) after his tens of thousands of lies and idiotic actions? Well this few minutes of an old Radiolab show about lying and self-deception may explain a lot. And I do mean A LOT. The blinding flash of the obvious starts at 46:57 -- though the entire show on deception is certainly entertaining, this little segment on self-deception is profoundly explanatory about Trump and politicians in general. Slide the slider forward to 46:57 and understand the mystery of the cult of Trump. https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/episodes/91612-deception
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  96. This is the man who called for the death of drug users while he had his secretary out coping illegal opioids on the street. And his wig sucks.
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  97. They don't know the difference between communism, socialism, and the form of capitalism known as democratic socialism. All they seem to have learned is the brainwashing that the power-elite spoon feeds fools 24/7. Fact: All the democratic socialist countries are capitalist. Fact: Neither Venezuela, nor Cuba is a social democracy. Fact: All the democratic socialist countries have, better and less expensive medical care than we do -- unless you are very wealthy and even then in many cases they are superior. Fact: All the democratic socialist countries have free or very inexpensive higher education. Fact: All the democratic socialist countries have financial safety nets and inexpensive or free childcare, and maternity leaves for both parents. Fact: All the democratic socialist countries have paid vacations that are usually about five weeks a year. Fact: The citizens of democratic socialist countries are happier than Americans on average. Fact: And this one should just make you slap your face if you have a brain in your head: All the democratic socialist countries have higher social mobility than the USA. That means that if you are born into the lower financial class you have a better chance of ending up rich in Denmark then you do in the USA.
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  98.  @davidsandall  Here's the thing about Bernie -- you know what you will get because he is honest. I don't want to not be able to sell my ARs if I want to - which I don't. I don't think that people should be rewarded for breaking our immigration laws -- even if it was their parents who did it. I do not think abortion is a good thing, I hate the whole idea that a person would end a growing human life because they were incompetent in their birth control (although sometimes it doesn't work as advertised) But I am not a woman and will never have to make that decision, so I bow out. But to me, getting rid of some of the scum in government, getting a harness on the banksters and especially getting money entirely out of elections is worth the sacrifices and I know Bernie will do everything that can be done to get the legalized bribery of campaign contributions and PACs out of government. So I compromise on the guns and undocumented immigrants.
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  99.  @davidsandall  I don't think that, and I don't know anyone who does. But I do think that the nature of work will change drastically in the years to come, and if we don't let a few thousand people own everything there will be a lot more freedom to pursue one's interests instead of struggling to keep body and soul together. We are already in a situation were most of the workers who have been displaced were displaced by automation. There are already expert AI systems that can read an xray or cat scan a thousand times better than a human. But as it stands now only a very few will reap the great wealth that is being created by new tech. This will lead to destruction of America if the one percent is allowed to run the government and media as hey have for the last forty years..
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  100.  @davidsandall  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WO7XxXI27s
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  101.  @davidsandall  Get real. Bernie has been at the center of confrontation since the early sixties. The only national candidate with and actual record of confronting and speaking truth to power for fifty years. Even being arrested for demonstrating. People who are afraid of confrontation don't protest in the streets or defy the corrupt power elite. Bernie will crush trump, because trump is an act, like pro wrestling he is all lies and fake. Only the trump cultists will not see the piece of shit that he is if he debates Bernie. My money says he will refuse to appear on the same stage as Bernie because at heart like all bullies he is chicken shit.
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  102.  @davidsandall  Over 15k people at the rally in Tacoma.
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  103.  @davidsandall  Wrong. Bernie is the poorest senator. His wealth is mostly in the houses he owns. He has a house in Vermont where his home is, he has a house in DC were he works, like all senators, and his wife's parents left them a house. He also wrote a NY Times best seller and still his entire worth is only two million dollars. You are so wrong you couldn't be more wrong. One out of every two hundred Americans is a millionaire, and most of them have more money than Bernie. But you just condemned Trump and every other congressman in DC as being crooked. With few exceptions you are correct they are mostly owned by the banking industry and other corporate elites, but Bernie is one of the exceptions. Stop spewing republican talking points we heard them all before and they are all spin and lies told to the truly brainwashed.
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  104.  @davidsandall  Sorry you have just proved that you are a hopeless fool and I can't waste anymore time on your bullshit.
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  105. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAOVUo5TYJM&t=62s
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  106.  @truhhhhhhhokIII3  Don't you mean the meth?
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  107. That won't happen Kyle: the government will not legalize drugs. Because the bankers and lawyers that clean up the money that the cartels make don't want that, and they are the ones that own the government through the corrupt campaign finance system. All Private money must be out of all elections and all comments on elections. No PACs no Citizen's United bullshit. All of it out. That is the lynch pin for all your complaints. And nothing can be done until this legalized source of corruption is ended.
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  108. Just a moment of history here: When Jimmy Carter was president (the last good man to serve in that office: though a man of his times) he laid off a large number of CIA workers because of the dirty tricks they had been caught at. They in turn went to work for the Republican National Committee with the sole goal of getting rid of Carter. Many of these operatives had specialized in destroying economies in South America that threatened American investments with popular movements. These people went to work to wreck the American economy to get rid of Carter. And they did it. Remember the lines for gasoline and the line at unemployment offices, remember the hostages that were only released in Iran when Regan was sworn in? Then Regan proceeded to illegally sell arms to Iran, bring cocaine (via Bush connections in the CIA) into the American ghettos and use the proceeds to finance antipopulist movements in Central America called the contras that basically tortured and massacred all the populist strongholds of normal people who opposed plutocracy. When Bernie gets elected expect the same. We will have people striving to wreck the economy and blame it on Bernie's policies to get him out of office. They will probably be successful. Forewarned is forearmed.
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  109. So what are the chances that body-double Melania is just the real Melania but after she had some work done, while she pretended to have CoVid. I say one hundred percent. You heard it here first, because I made it up, but it's still true.
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  110. Nomiki Konst says that Bernie cannot be cheated with super delegates. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACn94wTAZJ4
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  111. All Trump all the time. Sounds like the seventh level of hell to me.
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  112. The USA is not a democracy. It was never intended to be a democracy by the founders. It is a constitutional republic, which is a form of government designed to present the illusion of democracy to the populace while keeping real power and wealth in the hands of a few families and power elite plutocrats. This may or may not be a good thing. A real direct democracy, which is only evident in a few regions of Switzerland and nowhere else in the world, or history, would be a catastrophe in a culture which is most typified by it's public information being basically one or another narrative that are actually partisan webs of lies, as are evident in all our mass media venues. You cannot have an effective democracy when there are no controls on the dissemination of disinformation and false narratives, by corporations chasing advertising revenues and scoundrels seeking power. To think this will ever amount to anything other than the hodgepodge of insanity that is our public forum of debate is itself insane. It's time to grow up and wrest the sinews of our culture from the vision-less power seekers who control it. Human culture must evolve to propel humanity into it's possible golden destiny on earth and among the stars. It is time to seriously move toward a culture that is a true meritocracy, a neoConfusian techno-meritocracy where there are government upgrades and not elections. Time to give up the old paradigms which are based on war and campaigns, deceit, and the scum rising to the top. We have the technology and science to design a system that can truly determine the best candidates for positions of collective responsibility, by extreme and unbiased vetting, background checks, psychological tests, judgement evaluations by performance in intelligence tests and performance in virtual scenarios, evaluation of past performance, sophistication of problem solving abilities and other verifiable objective methods rather than the standards now in use, (sex appeal, appearance, psychopathic tendencies, the ability to lie convincingly, what family you were born into, the animal lust to pursue power and how much you promise to steal for or from the one percent.) Also there must be consequences for the dissemination of disinformation and conspiracy fantasies in mass media. I suggest caning and banishment after the confiscation of all wealth.
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  113. If the conservatives actually ever make abortion illegal, they will lose half their voters because the right to lifers will no longer have any reason to vote for them. That's why they will never really go all the way with it.
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  114. I gotta tell you Kile: when you do the silent elipse thing with your eyes it always cracks me up. Mainly because that is exactly how almost everything that corporate new reports and the republican believers say, make me feel. It is comi-tragic, but come on, it's also fucken hilarious. A true confederacy of dunces.
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  115. Don' t use that word even if it's true because I think other people don't know what it means. What a dunce.
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  116. News flash: CNN, MSNBC, and the usual suspects report:. . . In the primary race between Sanders and Buttigieg, Pete came in second over all, while Sanders came in next to last. Democracy and the so called representative democracy, democratic republic or constitutional republic are very different things. They are forms of democracy. In most cases minus the democracy part. When people blithely state that we live in a democracy it is incorrect and misleading, like most of the paradigms that the public is continually bombarded with via the corporate news. A republic is just a way for the plutocrats to stay in power and still have people think they are in a participatory democracy. The only democracy in US government is is that of congress, and they are 98% owned by the power-elite that decide who will run and fund their reelection campaigns with the legalized bribes of their campaign contributions. There is representation, but not for you and me. We live in a farce. Are you not paying attention? Do you think that this cheating is something new? Your "representatives" are not there to represent you, they are there for the most part to make sure that the voices of the people never get heard, and if they get heard to never be acted upon. Or if they are once in a blue moon forced by popular uprising to act for the people, soon as the masses disperse they will dismember the body that threatened their power one discontent at a time, jailed, disappeared, or simply smeared and ignored by the corporate media. Have you not been present? Look around. . . . Real democracy, true democracy exists nowhere on earth other than present day Switzerland and never has (that I am aware of). Representative democracy is a convoluted fraudulent conception. Democracy is something that we are continually told we have, which we do not. We have democracy in the same sense that the slaves, women, citizens without land, and foreigners had a democracy in the golden age of Athens. Only they knew that they did not have a vote or any real participation in the government. Most Americans do not know that. It should be obvious to anybody with the slightest ability to perceive what is actually going on that this is a conceptual illusion that is used to mislead and quell the disenfranchised mob. Bring on the super-delegates, the Iowa national delegate formula, the electoral collage, the PACz and Citizens United -- a democracy would not abide these contaminants, or entertain their adoption for even a moment. A democracy and the state we live in are two very different things. In a democracy the one with the most votes is not the loser like in the USA. The courts have decided that even determination of who will be the candidates, such as occurs in the legendary smoke filled rooms of the DNC and RNC has no legal obligation to be fair or democratic in our two party system. . . . ??????? We live in a kleptocracy with a democratic shroud over it, and most people, like almost all people, do not understand how their rights and money are being stolen from them by corporate pilferage and plunder. In fact our present government is functionally a cryptofascist kleptocracy in which all real power, control of the men with guns and uniforms, the state, and the economy is held by a small group of lying psychopaths. Like Robert Mercer,, the Koch brother, Bezos and the mob of banksters that suck up the wealth of the nation like vampires and offer nothing but bullshit and corruption in return. And you CNN, are a big part of it. In fact people will come to recognize that you are a key member of the new axis of evil. FaceBook -- Buttigieg -- CNN
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  117. The corporate news is still trying to black-out Bernie. Bernie, and Tulsi are the only candidates with any integrity, something the networks and cable news despises. Bernie understands that the lynch-pin of all the legalized corruption in our constitutional republic is campaign finance. What now passes for "business as usual" was not long ago a criminal act. But many progressives do not understand this. They are bored by the subject but excited by all kinds of meaningless PC rhetoric. While I was at a Nader rally in Santa Cruz back during his 2000 run, he said he had time for one more question. I yelled out "Campaign finance!" When he indicated that this was the subject he would address there was an audible groan from this most progressive crowd in America's most leftest town, . I guess most people never consider the fact that if Nader had won, we would have never attacked Iraq and the 2008 great recession (where-in the same people who caused it were put in charge of fixing it and managed to steal trillions in public funds for themselves and the institutions they hid their criminal activities behind) would never have occurred. And I would like to remind everyone that the criminals behind this, who had bribed the legislative branch with campaign contributions, were also the people who changed the laws to allow this disastrous turn of our republic. Which was unequaled until the retrograde idiot section of the supreme court passed Citizens United and other decisions of a antiAmerican nature that benefited the one-percent and their brain-washed right-wing idiot minions. Sorry if this comment went on for longer than a Twitter-brain can attend to. But if you notice, the comments that always get the most likes are always the most obvious and usually the most knee-jerk in nature. Never believe the "first-story": whether given by the government, the corporate news, the republocrats, or your own reactionary quite mechanical mind
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  118. His rants make a lot less sense since he isn't high on oxys. That's kind of strange. Maybe he doesn't remember what he said because he was nodding out on the air?
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