Youtube comments of pplr1 (@pplr1).

  1. I like the idea China will not attack Taiwan. The catch is that Mearsheimer said Putin would not attack Ukraine and we can see how that prediction turned out.
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  2. "Russian light infantry aren't supposed to be good, they're supposed to be expendable and boy are they getting expended." Line with a point.
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  3.  @TwinGoats  "far more right than he’s been wrong" he was lying about a mass shooting where many children were murdered. That isn't being wrong. That is being deeply dishonest. If he was that dishonest about a major event covered in the news then I suspect much of what he talked about was "wrong". He wasn't banned by a censoring government for reporting (like in Russia), he was sued by some of the victims of his dishonesty.
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  4.  @lukey08  That is both a lie and an excuse. Putin recently gave a speech saying Ukrainians, Belarusians, and Russians are all supposedly 1 people thus should be in 1 nation. Except he doesn't want want to accept the idea Ukrainians are allowed to disagree. Also early into the current war Putin started the dictator of Belarus announced and displayed on a map the notion Poland would be attacked after Ukraine. He probably was not expecting Ukraine to prove Putin wrong like it did-Putin claimed Ukraine would fall in three weeks.. and it still has not happened.
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  5. I don't know but my thanks to everyone who signed.
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  6. Peter Thiel is a billionaire, he is not an "anti-establishment elite". He is simply another elite.
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  7.  @Jianju69  "you'll find there's a rational argument for why such measures are proposed" Or deeply corrupt and dishonest arguments.
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  8. Good for you for being willing to learn. I've seen people who angrily refused to.
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  9. @paulrobinson3213 So you were there during Rome's fall and saw the fixation with "gender ideology"? Now I'd guess invading barbarian tribes and Ottomans had more to do with it-but maybe that is just me.
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  10. "So you don’t like democracy?" Macron and Trump were both recently elected. However Macron didn't try to steal a previous election for President in France. Trump did in the USA. That reveals who sticks with democracy.
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  11. "The question is...which of these two would be the better president!" We can find better. That said the better President is the old guy who could use a nap and something for his throat. Biden is already a decent guy, a nap and energy drink can help him be functional. A nap and energy drink will not help Trump be moral, nor honest, nor willing to address national problems.
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  12.  @championknife  And Putin owes the people on that beach an apology for his air defense not caring if they were there. Though he also owes most Ukrainians an apology for the suffering he put them through.
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  13. So she lied about economics while pretending to not talk about race.
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  14. Because Mearsheimer is more interested in his ideology than he is democracy. Doesn't mean he is correct when he claims something. For example, he predicted that Putin would not attack Ukraine. I'll give you two guesses how that turned out.
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  15.  @StrikeBuster-b2b  When they start showing up with tanks you'll have good reason to call it an invasion. Until then you don't.
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  16. @ognilouD driB Either way it is the idea the feudalism is gone with the Iron Throne and then just comes right back. Its showing symbolism for no logical reason and then betraying that symbolism.
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  17. Well that may be worrying, classes based on propaganda?
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  18. Remember, Mr. Lindzen here tells you science isn't settled. So whenever someone tells you gravity exists tell them that isn't settled and we should not act like it does. Also it came out that at time oil and coal companies have paid this guy $2,500 for per day (yes $2,500 for just 1 day) for his work. At that rate over $100,000 in just 2 months. So he sold out science and possibly sold his soul. This is brought up in the book "The Heat is On" by Ross Gelbspan.
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  19.  @stolenname94  You claiming the undoctored footage was doctored doesn't make it doctored. It just makes your comment untrustworthy. Also last year a BLM march went past me on the street. Nobody was beat up and no buildings were damaged. Now in the Twin Cities a police station was lit on fire, but a white racist was eventually arrested for firing shots into the station. He was caught pretending to be BLM because he wanted to start a race war. Now there were a lot of vandals and looters that were not white racists but Democrats-especially Biden-didn't excuse them. Seems Republicans are more likely to be operating by double standards.
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  20.  @coyoteranger  Did the Warsaw Pact, led by Russia, ever invade its own member states? Did NATO ever invade its member states? The difference between those to questions shows why it is better for a nation to be a member of NATO.
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  21. He could be a Joffrey. Both are spoiled brats capable of making a mess of things if given a chance to.
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  22. "Then who will you vote for kamala Harris?" If Biden drops out it may be. And I would.
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  23.  @GoDuffdaddy  Actually Ukraine dropped Neutrality after Putin's 2014 occupation of Crimea but you have the basic point correct.
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  24. Wow, how did Senator McConnell end up having better judgement than the Republican supposed swing senator from Maine?
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  25. They had respawn codes.
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  26. "Not every situation is 1938, and not every leader is Hitler" Putin was making excuses for Hitler so it is a good decision to start noticing ways the 2 are increasingly similar.
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  27. From this situation is there even more reason to ask if Trump is a Russian agent? Taking a rare opportunity to do something and turning it into another chance for Putin seems oddly pro-Russian to me.
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  28.  @tarawierzba8787  Or was that Sansafinger just grabbing power for herself? She broke her oath to Jon within a day so it isn't like she has much of the morality Starks usually do anymore (Cersei and Littlefinger were her tutors). She claims Northmen shouldn't have to kneel anymore and then makes them do exactly that to her-she is a hypocrite and since she didn't even fight was just taking advantage of other people's work.
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  29.  @whereswendy8544  More like bold lies pushed by a sellout. Other people are heroes, he is the opposite.
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  30.  @saintjames1995  There is not a "Russian side". Russian occupies Ukrainian territory that Russia was about to get kicked out of so may as well damage before it goes.
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  31. Have a secure border, also have a functional immigration system. Preventing the latter makes the former harder to create yet is what many Republicans have done in recent years.
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  32. Sadly some of them will be there for four or six more years. US Senate has six year terms. This decision should not be forgotten though.
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  33.  @mir-jan3496  Russia is rich in resources but also rich in corruption. 1 of those takes away the benefits the other can bring. Japan stopped being occupied a long time ago however.
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  34.  @mir-jan3496  Corruption in Russia is worse than in many other nations. See Freedom House comparisons or other organizations that look into corruption for further comparisons. All Putin did was make sure he got a large cut from the corruption. That is how Putin ended up a billionaire. You should inform yourself more. Japan has been its own nation for decades, ditto for South Korea. With the people of each nation picking who their leaders are rather than some other nation nor some internal dictator seizing power for himself.
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  35. @cmontes7961 Isn't China going through a recession right now? Also Hong Kong supposedly had a peaceful reunification with a 1 nation 2 systems plan/agreement. And mainland China has been repeatedly breaking that agreement-not something that would encourage others to do reunification.
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  36.  @Test4Echos  I know the truth is hard to swallow when people are in cults. I've been talking with deniers for years. Some of them get emotionally attached to the lies they have been told.
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  37. Yes. And that is why when people look at Trump's plans and warn they would increase inflation and the National Debt much more than what would happen under Harris there are not emotional reasons to vote for Harris. Trump's own record supports this-he promised to get rid of the National Debt before and made it bigger instead. Inflation was higher under Trump than Obama (people may have only noticed after the pandemic when Biden was already in but the numbers are there).
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  38. Thank you.
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  39.  @BigFootTheRealOne  Problem with your theory is that last I checked it was Republicans looking for any way to avoid being held accountable.
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  40. It is actually wrong with at least 1 example. It praises Cersei for asking for Neutrality at the truce meeting about the White Walker army. But Cersei was simply dishonest as shown by the preplanned Euron secret transport more mercs (to fight Daenerys) mission. Also Cersei didn't send a force to save Jon Snow before he bent the knee, that was Daenerys on her dragons. I wouldn't be surprised if other examples from this video are just as wrong.
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  41. How much of that would be someone just repeating Putin's lies and excuses? If there is important background then discuss it, but pro-war (for Putin) propaganda these days is not that.
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  42. Lex tries to let people speak. That is often a good thing. That said this interview was still loaded with dishonesty and distortions.
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  43. Remember that Putin said his invasion would be a success within three weeks? That didn't happen. If Ukraine wasn't low on ammo they may not have had to pull out of Avdiivka. Russia has lost wars before. There is no rule saying Russia cannot lose again. We out to make sure Ukraine is properly supplied since Ukraine has shown if it is actually given a chance it can and will defend its people.
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  44. Ah yes, the nation not invading its neighbor is the bully and not the nation doing the invading..
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  45. Did the bots for Trump stop posting yet? As usual Mehdi brings up many good points.
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  46. mike edwards Thing is that inside the EU the UK had a vote. So it wasn't a "controlling partner" as much as being part of a coalition that you had a say in. Now that the UK is out they have less say rather than more.
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  47. "reason Russia is doing what they are doing is that nato and us want to put missles on Russian borders" I call bs. Putin got upset when Ukraine was going to make a trade deal with the EU. That means Ukraine would be making its own decisions for its economy rather than Moscow. Ukraine was not able to join NATO, but it could make trade agreements. That and flat out Russian Imperialism.
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  48.  @elysianfields1671  Provocations such as a neighboring nation wanting to pick its own President and make its own foreign policy decisions?
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  49. Agree.
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  50. Unless Bran used his powers to see what the possible futures were and manipulated things to create events that get him the crown. This would include making the massacre happen which means Bran is a mass murderer.
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  51.  @wehkfam5680  You could try. But, as Bernie pointed out, he would be harder to influence. Besides Trump has a record of being more in favor of supporting Netanyahu annexing land than any other US President in modern history. Does that sound as easy to influence as a person who already said she supported a 2 state solution?
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  52.  @cl5619  "Russia’s aggression for territorial control aligns with their security interests." Only if they are Imperialists bent on expanding territory when Putin already had 1 of the largest nations in the world. "There is an imperialist force in the world causing problems, and that country is " Russia. Fixed it for you. The last time the USA used force to try to gain land was something over a Century ago. When it comes to Russian attempts to use force to try to gain land that is right now. Russian officials and the current dictator of Belarus (1 of the closest things Putin has had to an ally since Putin started this war) have already threatened other nations even as this war was going on. Did the Soviet Union claim it was going to attack other nations as North Vietnam and South Vietnam fought? If not then there is a clear difference. Oddly enough Putin may be operating by his own version of the "domino theory". He may be afraid that if people in Ukraine like having honest elections (they do) then at some point Russian people may want them too.
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  53. Nice of championknife to show off how badly he needs to think about what the video just showed.
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  54.  @haruruben  Yes. But not only that. If Russia shot down a Ukrainian launched missile over a beach that means the Ukrainian missile wasn't targeted at the beach.
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  55. Seems he likes tax evasion.
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  56. It could be worse than that. Bran either doesn't care if people live or die or actually schemed to make thousands of innocents die to give him a chance at the crown. Bran was the one that pushed Jon's linage (even telling Sam that Sam should be the one to tell him) yet forgets to mention Jon's bloodline at the council meeting? Arguably Bran used Jon like a tool and got a lot of people killed along the way. If he plotted their deaths he is a mass murderer.
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  57. The guy has Ukrainian blood on his hands back when he and his allies in Congress were responsible for stalling aid to Ukraine. The claim he made at the time he was trying to save Ukrainian lives was utter bs. I consider him deeply dishonest.
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  58. Good point. In spite of the time since it was made I wanted to mention that. Plus killing her should've had Ned Stark like impacts which would kick off more wars and suffering-not less.
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  59.  @PetLifeTV25  If there is a deal then France may send in peacekeepers. At the moment it may not be a bad thought for France or others to send in troops to help Ukraine since it would probably be easier then waiting until the next war Putin starts. At least France is showing he won't walk away from Ukraine-especially not as Ukraine has done a good job at holding back Putin's army.
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  60. I'll contact my Rep. And its a sign I ought to when I see a Putin cheerleader trying to cover for Mike Johnson when blame is due.
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  61. I can believe this. I once spent a little bit of time in the Baltic and happened to come by St. Petersburg by sea. I could smell the difference between visiting there and other cities.
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  62. An interviewer does not need to scream to point out an interviewee has said something dishonest.
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  63. Reagan would. But the current likely Republican nominee for President (Trump) owes money to Putin and is probably pressuring-or already has-parts of his political party to do things to help Putin. If they have to lie to come up with excuses to do so then so be it. And yes we can help Ukraine. The same people who don't want to help Ukraine also don't want to fix things inside the USA. So the claim that money not spent on Ukraine would supposedly be spent here (in the US) is just another lie.
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  64. He speaks calmly but that doesn't mean Mr. Hanson is correct. I agree that Afghanistan was a screwup of major proportions but claiming that Biden is more radical than FDR strikes me as a person calmly saying extreme things rather than someone applying logic and reason. FDR was a major change from how things had been done before. Meanwhile with things like Global Warming that is something Biden campaigned on and has been an issue for years.
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  65. "if youre not russian citizen u cant serve in the army, wtf u smoking dude" You think this matters to Putin?? Supposedly mercenary forces are illegal in Russia as well yet Wagner was operating just fine until they turned on Putin-only after that was the organization pushed out. And yes, an interview was already done with an Uzbek guy who came to Russia to do construction work and ended up getting conscripted.
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  66. So did you start being dishonest about Global Warming as well in order to become a conservative-that is what I saw her do here. Not only by being dishonest on computer models that are often correct but leaving out many other different types of evidence that also show Global Warming is happening. And that isn't the only issue she was deceptive on.
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  67. ​ @cl5619  I pointed out you were embracing imperialism with your "main point". I also feel like I already pointed out the Black Sea coast is not Putin's personal property and parts of it have been within other nation's territory for a long time. I Putin wants to be sure he can access the Black Sea then do it through the part that is already Russian and not part of another nation. Also I already suspect I pointed out that Putin, if not stopped, continued invading of other nations that could easily result in World War Three and go into a nuclear war-something that most human beings should be concerned about including American citizens. Helping Ukraine is probably some of the best spent money by the US government in modern times.
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  68.  @cl5619  "a Military operation that is to directly provide security to one’s own national territory, national borders, is NOT imperialism" That is some heavy duty lying/excuse making for invading another nation's territory when it is was not invading Russian territory nor threatening to.
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  69. He successfully showed he would be a better US Senator than Ron Johnson.
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  70.  @yamatonadeshiko567  No. I don't believe that at all. Jon spent much of season 7 not bending the knee to Daenerys and she tried to save his life in spite of it. Give more credit to Daenerys's character then D and D do. If you look at season 8 there are things that support the argument Bran wanted this to happen so he could be king.
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  71. This is worrying about trying to hinder the EPA. The rightwingers on the Supreme Court have been pro-polluter for a long time and some of them-like Clarence Thomas-have been getting "gifts" like free vacations that would be expensive for most people from people connected to coal and oil companies. So there is reason to ask about corruption as well as ignoring long established legal practice.
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  72. Because Putin wants more and more.
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  73. It is possible to fix things by fighting corrupt as 1 of the goals. The fight never ends but battles in it can be won often enough that the standard of living is improved. There are many moments in the USA and other nations where the government was corrupt and eventually a movement pushed it out and replaced it with something better and more responsible.
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  74. I've spoken with a Trump voter who didn't believe Trump supported Project 2025. If one is lying to their own voters about it that is not a sign people want this nor a sign this is actually good policy. EDIT: Also when he talks about "burning out the deadwood" what he means is getting rid of people in government with too much integrity and replacing them with people who have far too little integrity.
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  75. If Russia was such a great place to live and Putin such a worthy King then hundreds of thousands of Russians would not have gotten out of Russia when Russia was not being invaded. I don't blame Ukrainian civilians for getting away from the frontlines or cities under repeated missile attacks. Russians left Putin's Russia without either of those being the situation where they are.
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  76. "Also the ethnic Russians in Ukraine would again be oppressed." Ethnic Russians in Ukraine have more rights and freedoms than ethnic Russians in Russia.
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  77. "putin never invaded a country when Trump was". Putin was giving Trump time to try to break NATO from the inside. No NATO means Putin's warmongering would have an easier time.
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  78. @ "look at any chart based on policy and ideology shifts over the decades" Actually I have looked and they show Republicans moving farther to the right than Democrats to the left. You can debate who is right on any particular issue but the charts I've seen show the opposite of what you claim.
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  79.  @FabGreg  Perhaps or someone who simply serves to hold a microphone. Sadly it is good practice for us to recognize when someone is allowed to say whatever they feel like regardless of it is honest or not.
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  80.  @martinduke368  Actually someone who studied power in the USA and wrote on it said that he no longer feels that power always corrupts. Instead he came to the conclusion power always reveals-basically that once someone has power then their secret desires will stop being secret because they will act on them more openly since less and less people will be in a position to stop them.
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  81. Ron Johnson acting like a jerk and managing to show (even more) that he is an embarrassment to the US Senate?? Not really that surprising.
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  82. Because these aren't facts. Mr. Mearsheimer is being dishonest when he claimed the USA "doubled down" after 2014. President Obama actually said Ukraine wouldn't be able to join NATO as long as it didn't have territorial integrity. Also it wasn't the USA but Ukrainians themselves who have argued for joining NATO after 2014 since Ukraine was officially Neutral in 2014 and Putin did an occupation of Crimea (part of Ukraine) anyway. They realized Neutrality would not protect them.
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  83. I just wanted to thank you for showing the faces of some of the people who died. I think it is important to see these are real human beings and not just numbers.
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  84.  @cl5619  I call bs. Russian government officials have already be threatening other nations even as Russia struggles in Ukraine. Recognizing an Imperialist with desires to attack multiple nations is not "domino theory", it is recognizing the patterns of a group of political elites in 1 nation. Care to explain which nations Vietnam was threatening to attack?
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  85. chickenlover I believe he means Putin would try to blame Ukraine despite te blame being false.
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  86.  @inferiorinferno8859  Good point. But Bran himself knew how to warn people and how to manipulate them. He did the former with by telling Dany and Jon about the zombie dragon and did the latter when told Sam to tell Jon about his linage. Sam was thinking about now doing it but Bran pushed him and even said Jon would trust Sam more.
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  87. I've never been drunk on the job-does that mean I'm more qualified to be Secretary of Defense than he is? She I call someone in Washington and send in my name? BTW it isn't just drinking on the job that is a problem, it is that he was picked for having a good face for tv rather than someone who actually did the work. There isn't a meritocracy pick. The comments about drinking just add to that.
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  88.  @dollarcostbackpacker1226  I think Russia may have a right to defend itself. But I'm pretty sure a defensive war doesn't tend to start by attacking another nation. That isn't usually trying to "defend". Though do those Russian's who are being dragged off by what is supposed to be their government simply for speaking their mind have a right to defend themselves?
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  89. To be clear. Democrats passed a bill doing more campaign finance reform in the US House the last term they held it. Republican US Senators filibustered the bill in the US Senate. That is not "both major party's". 1 party is clearly worse on the issue. Also it is thanks to SCOTUS members appointed by Republicans that rules related to money in politics have been weakened. Both take money, but it is wrong to say they are similar on the issue.
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  90. "The whole world 🌎 is deeply worried about the chaos going on in the USA" Actually not those from outside the USA I've spoken too. Instead they don't want Trump back and tend to either see him as a buffoon or a danger-neither is a positive.
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  91. "For the same reason Cuba, an independent, free and sovereign state wanted to have a fully-fledged military alliance with the USSR, but was forced to abandon this liberty". Correct me if I'm wrong but Cuba and the USSR had a military alliance throughout most of the Cold War. Missiles were removed from Cuba but not political agreements.
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  92. Putin said that he could defeat Ukraine in 2 weeks back in 2014 or 2015. Yet 2 years into a war Putin started most of Ukraine is still Ukraine. The idea this is a "lost war" seems to be a rather big assumption. Also if you want to avoid slaughter how about telling Putin not to start wars and not to do war crimes?
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  93. Putin started this current war even while planning to start other wars later. Ukraine is defending itself. Telling Ukraine to stop defending itself simply means Putin has can chance to store up ammo before restarting the current war or starting the next wars he was already planning to do. Helping Ukraine now is cheaper for the USA than risking what may happen if Putin's warmongering is not stopped.
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  94.  @Jonathan-gl3tf  "South korea and Japan aren't free at all. Both are countries ocuppied by US for decades now." Is this comment a joke? It is that ridiculous. In both nations the population has elected (very different from the US or any other nation picking) their own governments for decades now.
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  95. And he was a big supporter of helping Europe rebuild-something that benefitted the US in the long term.
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  96. I call bs. I watched the video of people coming up to barriers and shoving them-against police who were trying to push back but were outnumbered.
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  97.  @cl5619  "Please tell me how my security as US citizen is threatened at all if Russia takes over the Donbas or whatever they would take from Ukraine." This is just asking why people are bothered over Russian Imperialism since Russia hasn't started a war with their nation yet.
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  98.  @orangemanonsteroids8569  Yes he is. For example NASA put out a statement on the cycles he mentioned in minute 32 with an explanation as why they don't explain the warming we have seen in recent years. And NASA put out this explanation a year before this interview. So the guy knows he is full of it but figures he can get away with it because most people won't check details.
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  99. That is true. Failing to deliver better when she could is a self inflicted wound on Harris. And no, people shouldn't blame her for Biden's failures. Her failure is not to have met with Uncommitted yet or the Georgia Democratic Representative was mentioned. But voting for Trump is actually voting to reward Netanyahu.
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  100. Good way to sum it up. Bran wanted the massacre-it was part of him manipulating his way to the top.
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  101. That was probably a mistake then. Trump increased the debt the last time he was in office and if you heard about the House Budget proposal the plan is to increase the debt by Trillions more.
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  102. "the US and West left Russia no option". That is pretty much nonsense. Deciding to invade another nation or not was a decision made by Putin-not the NATO or the USA. That is trying to dodge responsibility for one's actions. Additionally Russia has been occupying parts of Ukraine for almost a decade-that is kind of the opposite of having "sought a negotiated, peaceful resolution".
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  103. 1 party is still much better on the issue. Also we didn't stop. SCOTUS may still be there but we didn't stop.
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  104. Trump's only stressing human beings out who have functional brains. Any who don't should be totally calm.
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  105. Robert George, you sound a bit like someone who was making excuses for Russia. Ukraine is its own nation with its own people with their own minds. Russia forgot that and tried to move in-or ignored it and is now paying a price for it. Plus the whole NATOs thing is largely an excuse on Russia's point since a more important driver in this situation is that Putin misses the Soviet Union/Russian Empire and would like it back. That is why he tried to say Ukraine has no right to exist near the start of this attack on Ukraine that is-rightfully-failing.
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  106. Former Trump staff wrote much of it. Talking about who else does or not read it is no promise of protection.
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  107.  @kauboy9816  Love your neighbor as yourself is the 2nd most important commandment. Yet it is not what I see from Republican candidates for office these days. Instead it is a combination of deception and scaremongering. Loving one's neighbor generally doesn't mean lying to them so you can gain power.
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  108. Thank you. And you are correct.
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  109. PBS receives some government money but I believe many PBS stations also are given donations from their viewers and listeners. So it is both a service provided for free and something people see enough value in that they give when they can.
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  110. As I just said in my own comment I was put off by Mearsheimer spouting falsehoods less than 2 minutes into the discussion. Yes there is evidence Putin planned to attack other nations after Ukraine. Putin also said his war with Ukraine would result in success within three weeks. Just because other nations-especially Ukraine-proved Putin wrong does not mean Putin didn't try or somehow was not planning/hoping to.
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  111. @docequis9796 Nope. The Democratic Party is the party more willing to talk about the impact of racism and ways to address it. Affirmative Action was an attempt to counterbalance the many ways "tolerated systemic racism" had already been in place for years. Also Trump welcoming the bigot vote is "identity politics" just without saying so. Speaking of Trump, wasn't he the guy who was encouraging police to abuse people in an earlier election? In some I see some rightwing talking points but not a lot of honesty, often the opposite. Kinda strange thing to do with a comment that has "here is the truth" near the start.
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  112. You mean like when he claimed Putin wouldn't attack Ukraine? Or that the Cuban Missile Crisis wasn't over missiles? If you've been listening to him for only 2 years perhaps that explains why you didn't notice how often he is either wrong or contradicts himself. Still, you have been warned now and should keep that in mind into the future.
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  113.  @justynlucas9876  Infrastructure bill-actually fixing things across the USA that needed it for years. Revitalizing NATO-the alliance whose nations joined the US in Afghanistan and helped keep the US and world safer. Fixing agencies that Trump broke so this nation can get closer to functioning properly.
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  114. And not just that but opposing supporting Ukraine likely makes both the USA and Ukraine poorer in the future. Not only does the USA save on money it would have to spend storing and decommissioning equipment but US weapons performing well would look good to customers worldwide-especially in Europe that may restock stores sent to Ukraine. So Ukraine winning this war would probably be nice boost for the USA economically. Supporting Ukraine now is not merely "printing money" but actually making an investment that can pay off for years into the future. And, very importantly, it is also the right thing to do. So those wanting to cut aid to Ukraine also want the US economy to do less well into the future. This is a situation where the financially and morally correct thing are both backing Ukraine.
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  115. johnfisher697 "Tell that to America about the Cubans." Would this be repeating Mearsheimer messing up history in an attempt to push his ideology? Cuba had an alliance with the Soviet Union throughout most of the Cold War. The Cuban Missile Crisis was over missiles-not 1 nation trying to seize another nation's land.
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  116. You were correct to worry. After claiming Putin would not attack Ukraine Mearsheimer seems to have switched to making excuses for Putin after he has.
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  117. "It’s super BASED" According to Putin.
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  118. Be embarrassed for yourself. He is a young guy talking about something that will impact his future and other people's future. That is thinking ahead. Your remark encourages me to suspect that soon you'll be repeating lies deniers have been pushing for the last 20+ years.
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  119. "What was the slur?" I see 2 actually. 1 was that she isn't black enough to supposedly count as black and the other is that she is supposedly deceptive or opportunistic about her ethnicity & skin color. I appreciate GOP affirmative action in action by having Bryon Donalds try to come up for excuses for Trump (a white guy). Yes affirmative action, I doubt Byron would've been picked to do this if he was white. That he also tried to come up with positives for the Jim Crow era-thus showing his willingness to sell his soul-and misrepresent history was an added bonus.
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  120. Including when Mearsheimer predicted Putin would not attack Ukraine? How exactly did that prediction turn out?
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  121. Wayne, many people who are glad to see Trump out feel he did a bad job so the expectation is that Biden is an improvement or at least won't be worse. Now that may have been shaken with Afghanistan (though Trump had a hand in that as well).
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  122.  @Imunclean  Interesting thought. Though we don't know what plot insanity was going on in Dany's mind for the TV series (at least not yet) that made her burn the city. I've seen the showmakers claim it was a split 2nd decision I've seen claims she wanted to be feared. Either way its bad and just dumb. Burned what was going to be her biggest city and any survivors will hate her.
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  123. Not just that but opposing supporting Ukraine likely makes both the USA and Ukraine poorer in the future. Not only does the USA save on money it would have to spend storing and decommissioning equipment but US weapons performing well would look good to customers worldwide-especially in Europe that may restock stores sent to Ukraine. So Ukraine winning this war would probably be nice boost for the USA economically. Supporting Ukraine now is not merely "printing money" but actually making an investment that can pay off for years into the future. And, very importantly, it is also the right thing to do.
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  124.  @speedy7040  The small council was not a democracy and was not elected. Don't forget the cutthroat was quite happy with the idea of himself telling peasants what to do. Also Bran may simply be concerning himself with how to manipulate the future more. Season 8 shows where he manipulated events to make the King's Landing massacre more likely to happen which means he wanted it to-perhaps he wants power after all.
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  125. What policies? His tax cuts didn't do much for most people.
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  126. I cannot blame Ukraine for kicking Russian's out after they moved in as colonists recently after Russia occupied the territory. That said I think an argument exists for letting whomever is there decide if they want to stay or go. Any who stays swears an oath to support Ukraine and those who go can take a 1 way boat ride to Russia.. hopefully some kidnapped Ukrainians can use the seats on the boat ride back.
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  127. Weren't the truckers getting plenty of money from down here in the USA? (Sorry Canada, not only do we in the USA export some of our bad ideas but we fund them while we are at it just to make sure somebody up there gets a headache). Ironically some truckers in the USA were promised they would get paid back by figures like Ted Cruise for doing something similar. They never got their money and there is film of at least 1 trucker complaining about the money he lost. I saw and heard some of the BLM protests in person here in the USA. I had to wait a whole 4 minutes before crossing the street (which was still perfectly fine with all the buildings and cars on it being just as intact as previously and they were usually early enough in the day I didn't have to worry about losing any sleep).
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  128. "she sounded incoherent when pressed by Dwarkesh on her contradiction regarding Nato expansion to Ukraine" Actually she referred to other nations joining NATO and that they wanted to. Ukraine would like to be in NATO but is not. Though both would like to be free of Russia. Not sure what you mean by "contradiction" here.
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  129. 'are you even going to try to explain the threat “Imperialist Russia” poses to us?' Funny thing. I had earlier today and in earlier in the conversation. Did you falsely report the reply I gave you earlier today I don't see it now but I'm pretty sure I left 1 mentioning how Russia starting WW3 could result in nukes flying and problems inside and outside of the USA. Funny your complaint over "waiting" shows up less than a day after I replied and within a few days of our previous comments.
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  130.  @coffeelink943  Same people who opposed sending aid to Ukraine often oppose even the current money "going towards better health system, education and homeless in US". Those who supported spending on those also support helping Ukraine.
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  131.  @irynahaddock3132  "Putin didn't mind Ukraine making a deal with the EU." If Putin didn't mind Ukraine making a deal with the EU then he wouldn't have contacted a Ukrainian President to try to pressure and bribe him into pulling back on making a deal with the EU.
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  132. Medhi is holding her accountable and good for him for doing it. People who are Jill Stein voters don't typically have a good excuse since Jill Stein is ok with brutality elsewhere-or at least that hasn't stopped her from accepting support from a billionaire climate denier and warmonger.
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  133.  @oldtomplatz8862  Yes, and a relative of mine may be alive because he did.
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  134. CH-Wisdom If by "insight" you mean falling for lies pretending to be the truth from a guy likely to be a sellout (likely for the cash initially and now both for the money and because he has been lying for so many years it would be hard for him to be honest) then maybe. If not then no.
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  135.  @alexmashine  Jake Broe pointed to certain people-like Mike Johnson-sabotaging help for Ukraine. Without him it would have started getting there already. Meanwhile multiple European nations already have been sending help. It is understandable to be frustrated that more US help has not gotten to Ukraine yet but other nations are trying to pick up some of the slack until it does reach there. Mike Johnson may be doing he best to sabotage things but that is not going to last forever.
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  136.  @saintjames1995  Sorry if my response seems off. Not only did I want to mention that wording bit but I wanted to point out what the Russians are likely doing.
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  137.  @BearWith_You  I'm pretty sure he would rather have his most recent girlfriend alive and riding dragons with him. He went back to what friends he had left after a future family for him died.
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  138. And farmers vote for Republicans who then say engage in factory farming or quit farming. Farmers have been hurting for awhile but there is a political and economic disconnect between what would be good for many of them and who they vote for.
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  139.  @kenirawadi4689  You're ignoring what Ukrainians want. Also Europe likely doesn't want a new warmonger (lessons from WW2 aren't totally lost on Europe) starting trouble which is why much of Europe opposed Putin so much early on.
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  140.  @donaldcalkins2355  Trump is partly responsible for those higher prices. If you want to vote for someone that doesn't come with the largest increase in prices as part of his plan then vote for Harris.
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  141.  Chris T  The US has multiple branches so 1 party can win in one branch while another wins elsewhere. As it is we don't know which party will "win" in the Senate. It is clear that voters picked Biden to be President however.
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  142. So the billions in aid already given to Ukraine weren't to help Ukrainians? And preserving Ukraine that is not controlled by Putin is supposedly showing Ukrainian's disdain? Don't get me wrong I can understand people saying the USA is being ruthless/unconcerned, except those pushing for ending aid want Ukraine it to fail and Putin to win. Also if a defender stalemates an invasion that means the defender has achieved some level of victory as the defender continues to exist.
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  143. With the power situation that Texas's Governor (Abbot) appears to have lied about why the blackouts happened. He tried to scapegoat windpower when it actually performed ok. Iowa was colder than Texas, uses wind power, and didn't have blackouts. The work was not done to make the Texas power grid handle temperature changes. That work can be more expensive so it is cheaper to avoid doing it.. until it turns out it was needed to avoid problems like blackouts. Since he is still Texas's Governor has he apologized for or doubled down on his scapegoating? I can also believe it was an intense situation. Did people who let in guests try to divide up rooms to keep people separated or was that just not possible?
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  144. I also remember when tobacco company execs lied to Congress about if it did.
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  145. Let me point out more people in the USA voted for someone other than Trump in 2016 than for him. It is a good thought to keep in mind when the word "re-elects" or a variation thereof is used.
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  146. "I dont care. I wanna live in a good state. Democracy or not democracy is not is not a determining factor." Then you should care. While not a guarantee either way having a dictatorship rather than a democracy tends to push a nation closer to the bad state end of the range while having a democracy as the form of government tends to push a nation closer to the good state part of the range.
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  147. "You're right, you should move to your favorite socialist country". I'm more worried about those who lean towards Nationalist Socialists here in the USA. Also I was lucky enough to be there when a Canadian and a guy from Texas were talking some years ago. The Texan started making remarks about "Socialized medicine". The Canadian pointed out it cost him something like $50 to see a doctor-in the USA it has cost me many times that for 1 visit.
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  148.  @lukadimnik1554  To end honest elections in Ukraine. To seize Ukrainian resources for distribution to Russian oligarchs. And to create pool of cannon fodder Russia could tap into without drawing on those seen as properly Russian (old fashioned Russian drafting or evicting of the local population so Russian colonists can be moved in). Plus to create a direct land based line of communication with Moldova so the government there could be toppled.
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  149. That is not true. What probably is true is that Trump is willing to see a lot of people as people he can exploit.
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  150. Ig2058 " I said a fully-fledged military alliance. a critical part of it – management of long range nuclear strike capability - was forcefully removed by the US". This statement is wrong on the facts. Nothing was "forcefully removed by the US". The US and USSR came to an agreement and the USSR removed its missiles from Cuba and the USA removed its missiles from Turkey.
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  151. You did not go over that Global Warming is increasing methane release thus this is probably not natural. For decades many scientists concerned about Global Warming have been worried about permafrost melting and methane trapped under it being released. This is a way Global Warming can cause methane to be released and cause even more Global Warming-a chain reaction. While I like that your video went over many things that you did not spend time on this-especially when you specifically ask where the increased methane is coming from is a very large shortcoming. Especially since Global Warming is not an unheard of topic and if it is causing more methane to be released then yes, this methane is 1 of its (and the current human use of fossil fuels) impacts.
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  152.  @davidbaldwin9830  Yes and no. It is routine for members of 1 major party to not support a Speaker from another party. I think this tradition should be yanked. That said, McCarthy had just lied about Dems on national tv and failed to including funding for Ukraine in the budget when it was asked for. Tactically it may have been a mistake for Dems to not try to make a deal with McCarthy, it was also foolish for McCarthy to lie about Dems after they voted though a budget bill he essentially dropped on them with little warning.
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  153. "where is the opinion like they are paid?" Clarence Thomas is probably the biggest example but there has been reporting of expensive "gifts" being given to SCOTUS members for years. Many people would be within reason to ask if that is bribery. Though requiring SCOTUS members to go through rightwing political litmus tests isn't exactly all that encouraging anyway.
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  154. I can believe it. He did a great video essay on a UK doctor that was pushing anti-vaccine claims while doing risky (could cause major harm to children) experiments to push is own odd competing product. He ended leaving the UK (after getting in trouble) and moved to Texas so he could cash in on gullible people in the USA.
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  155.  @trevorthompson8252  By causing bigger debts, less freedom, greater corruption, loss of experience/knowledge, and possibly a recession. Pretty sure that isn't saving the country.
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  156. Bran being king may not even work out on paper. He does nothing worthwhile and others have a better story if Tyrion's reasons are to be believed. There is the evil Bran theory that he purposefully had Samwell add stress to Daenerys's life and chose not to warn her about Euron's ambush to drive her mad and get her and Jon out of the running (plus thousands of people). But Bran doesn't even seem to think that much.
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  157. A catchphrase to cover for whatever he and his buddies think at a given moment no matter how attached or detached it is from the real world.
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  158.  @nahiyanjuardar4612  Or not. So far Trump would find a way to be worse than Biden. He has already shown it by being so supportive of Netanyahu deciding to annex land.
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  159.  @JerryJerry-o3b  Interesting. Thank you. That can explain a fair amount. Not to be unfair but after Trump's moves towards Ukraine recently it is fair to ask if there is a Russian Asset in the White House.
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  160. Thank you!! Awesome!! I wonder if a point could be made about Tyrion getting confused when in Slaver's Bay they actually liberated people they liberated as opposed to killing them all in Kings Landing. He used the same words for both but I don't think that actually means the same thing for both. Perhaps the words should be different.
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  161. Hopefully you can in the future.. despite the efforts of Ohio's newest US Senator. "Kharkov was the internationally recognized Russian spelling." So "internationally recognized" means the by corrupt autocrats in Russia and North Korea. Got it.
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  162.  @mikeedwards1096  Thank you for you reply. Like I said earlier. I'm an outsider looking in when it comes to the UK. While I wouldn't be surprised one bit if elites have undo influence in the EU it is concerning to me that what very much seemed to be elitist individuals (like R. Murdoch) seemed to be pushing for Brexit thus indicating they felt leaving the EU would make it easier for them to turn the UK into a playground for the wealthy. Something that was potentially put on display by the proposed budget that the last and shortest lived PM in recent history. I think it is very worth asking if the lowest paid are getting paid more or not. However is it true that living wage efforts/approvals were already underway pre-Brexit vote and would have occurred regardless of Brexit?
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  163. Mike Edwards You raised some interesting points that perhaps we should get into but you didn't answer the question I asked at the end of my last comment to you. Was the increasing in lowest legal wages something that was in the works in the UK before and independent from Brexit? Thus would that be a benefit of Brexit or actually not? Now you said Putin is a Nationalist but I'll disagree, I would argue he is an imperialist. Also if someone was a nationalist for his own nation then he ought to expect other people to be nationalists for theirs and potentially respect that. Yet Putin has shown the opposite when it comes to nations neighboring Russia-instead he proclaimed it is up to him on if they are allowed to exist as nations (which Ukraine currently dealing with but other nations would have to be concerned about as well). So if Putin is a nationalist he is a profound hypocrite, though more likely I argue he is an imperialist. And not just an imperialist but a kleptocratic one with autocratic tendencies. I suspect Putin merely uses nationalists so to make their nations weaker. How? Nations can be stronger as part of an alliance. Nazi Germany probably would have defeated Britain had it not been for the alliance between the USA, Britain, and Russia. Rupert Murdoch in also an odd person to call a nationalist since his media conglomerate spans multiple nations and the impact of his efforts on one issue-Global Warming-are causing ongoing problems for his home nation of Australia. Yes I've heard of the TPP (as it is called when I've heard it discussed). I haven't heard as much discussion of including anti-pollution rules and protections for workers in trade agreements as there should be. Pollution doesn't respect national borders. A person I spoke to who visited South Korea found out many South Koreans had masks before the covid pandemic simply because pollution would sometimes blow in from China and the air quality would take a noteworthy drop. Undermining workers can be done by either importing underpaid workers or by moving industries to where labor has less rights and lower minimum wage laws. To balance against both methods of undercutting labor set minimum standards in each nation. Many rightwing parties are generally not offering higher wages. They offer to cut immigration but have also undercut efforts to raise wages at home. Speaking of wages in other nations kleptocracies are relatively bad (on purpose?) at providing wages for labor. Many Russians live in poverty. The Russia uppercrust has billionaires but the wealth of Russia's society or economy is not shared. Additionally its political system is less free than other nations such as Biden's USA. Though are is plenty of corruption and rigged elections in the USA I'd argue the USA still has more integrity and that Biden was honestly elected-or at least more honestly than Putin was. I disagreed with the idea Putin was a nationalist earlier. I'll ask if Putin actually supports a different kind of globalism than Biden does. Biden's globalism has nations form agreements with each other and continue to exist. Putin's globalism is Imperialistic and he (and possibly other Imperialists he allies with) would get to decide if other nations exist if he gets his way. Protections for workers may be continue to be left to only the national level or expanded to international agreements. But if they were expanded I suspect they would be more likely to in Biden's due to the more open political system. Correct me if I'm wrong but Putin's Russia has not been that good for its people.
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  164. Trump would've been in jail already if he was most other people but he appointed Judges that kept slowing his court cases down. And that is on top of his games with lawyers trying to slow the existing court cases down.
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  165.  @martinduke368  Not quite. With the 1 view pretty much anyone who is handed power goes bad with it. There are some people who have had power and stayed at least relatively decent human beings. The 2nd part serves as a warning to watch out with regards to what kind of people you hand power to-granted, if they keep motivations hidden that can be harder to keep an eye out for but we can still try.
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  166. I see bots aren't happy with the speech followup.
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  167. "Someone needs to tell Zelensky that. Meanwhile he is jailing Catholics for worshiping." Good chance this is another Russian lie online. Ukrainian President Zelensky signed a law allowing for Christmas to be celebrated on Decemeber 25 when most other Christians do it outside of Russia and certain Eastern Orthodox groups that often have a history with or connection to Russia.
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  168.  @willaimoconnell9430  Russian colonizers but yes. After having lied about the referendum results Putin wanted to make sure people living there were loyal to Moscow-so Russians were encouraged to move it while upset locals were sometimes disappeared.
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  169. Agreed, Trump, took the Adelson money (which included support for Netanyahu annexing lands in the West Bank) and has already supported Netanyahu annexing land more than any other recent US President.
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  170. pjwhitmire2687 So far you are the only person saying the Democratic Party left him. He said he liked some things Trump did. I asked what things since many of the things Trump did weren't that good for most people.
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  171. He may be nice to listen to but incorporating his ideas into actual polices has turned out badly-Kansas is 1 example.
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  172.  @mslinda8456  Yes he may be. But an irony with Trump's broken promises is that what he argues is his most important issue is something Trump may screwup not fix.
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  173.  @dannycorsaro546  It is still there. I recommend not replying until sober.
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  174. "And an army of people to cry, "conspiracy theorist " to those who challenge them!" This leaves out the people who call bs on many conspiracy theories and that many conspiracy theorists like to dodge contradicting info rather than address it.
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  175.  @granthurlburt4062  Faking being blunt. Thus aggressive or bold lies. And yes it is an attempt to appeal to emotions. Sometimes a con artist will use it when a potential victim is on the verge of stepping away from the con.
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  176.  @orangemanonsteroids8569  I don't mind facts. Funny you bring up facts under a video with a guy whose job has included pushing BS.
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  177. patzangari6803 Who exactly claimed "peasants" are the problem? How many coal mines, oil refineries, or power plants do the "peasants" own? Industries not "peasants" are the problem and are usually pointed to as such. Fossil fuel companies trying to hide behind regular people is a false front and somewhat deceptive. Ironically enough (from the three things I mentioned before) if a typical person does own a power plant it is usually solar panels on his or her own house-I know someone who had them put on his roof and his electric bill dropped by about 2/3rds and the main thing he would change is to have more put on.
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  178.  @thefly373  People who don't clean up after themselves are a problem. Like you said reducing plastic and improving recycling are both good ideas. More use of compostable items would help.
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  179.  @jsnsk101  Getting driven out is not leaving due to a peace deal.
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  180. Chandler (conservative) and Alec (liberal) struck me as perhaps being the worst of each side. There are times Alec said things that were snarky or rude rather than focusing on the point and Chandler was aggressive early on and his points struck me as something from Prager or possibly a conspiracy theorist-which makes me wonder if he did try some research (his word for it) and ended up in 1 of the cesspools of the internet were the point is to try to pull a fast one (to trick) readers rather than educate them (claiming to be an education group like Prager does can be part of the deception).
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  181.  @customfantasyhotwheels  Many politicians have websites where they list their stances on specific issues. When talking about the election for President it is clear Trump doesn't support Ukraine so I'd say vote for Haley in the primary and if Trump wins then Biden in the general election in November. I'll look for a website but since Federal offices like US Senate and Representative in the US House are both important enough people running for them have websites supporting Ukraine is something that can either be on their campaign website or something you can call the campaign about and ask. Yes I know some may try to lie about their stance-JD Vance in Ohio tried to say opposing Ukraine is really supporting it but if you ask a specific question like do they support more aid for Ukraine and are they willing to vote to bring it to a vote regardless of what their party leader feels (important if Mike Johnson decides to stand in the way) then both of those stances or possible votes can say a lot.
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  182. Examples? Also are you supporting Trump? (who happens to be 1 of the most dishonest people in US politics today) If so you are turning a blind eye to 1 of the worst offenders.
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  183. "Don't vote for Harris Gaza can't get any worse" Sadly yes it can. Medhi correctly acknowledged that even as he criticized the Biden turned Harris campaign. Even more people can still die than otherwise would have.
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  184. Being honest about what happened on 1/6/2021 is a good thing. She is.
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  185. In 2024 now. And Mearshiemer may be just as wrong-maybe his is refining his views but maybe not. Anyway he predicted Putin wouldn't attack Ukraine. That didn't turn out true. But Putin himself predicted he could conquer Ukraine in three weeks-Ukrainians and much of the world are glad that prediction didn't turn out true either.
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  186. "Trump is competent and and did great for us." This is arguably the biggest joke of the thread.. unless the person positing it lives in Russia.
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  187.  @Thomgxx100  Some mentally disturbed people are evil. Others are not.
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  188. If it rains or not does not disprove if it is hotter or not. Especially when talking about the average temperature for the whole planet. That has gone up for the last several years and is likely to continue to.
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  189.  @HubertofLiege  "rural Americans are not interested in a government handout, that’s attributable to urban democrats" Care to explain how that works when many states make their money off of urban areas?
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  190. Some of his staffers and advisors from when Trump was in the White House wrote it. He wouldn't have to read it because they would tell him bits of it and as long as Trump got a big enough bribe or favor he would sign off on any questionable parts-which there are many. Plus he tried to put a small part of it into action as he was on the way out already. So no, Trump being too lazy to read is not a protection.
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  191.  @halimdyfan5554  Bran may not be plugged into a tree though. And if Bran didn't care about thousands of innocents dying (or even manipulated things to make it happen) he may not care about instability enough to prevent it. He may even be settling up political instability in order to take advantage of it again.
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  192. The EU has been. Plus stopping Putin now helps both the EU and the USA avoid a nuclear war with Putin later since Putin does has been starting wars for and does not intend to stop now with this particular war nor just with Ukraine.
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  193.  @saintantoine2113  Yes, pease define "woke". Also it is an irony that those states that held on to slavery the hardest and would be most likely to welcome it back are among the most anti-woke.
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  194. Excellent and thank you. I though he gave the best and most interesting answers.. especially on how Russia's dictator managed to rally nations against Russia. Thank you and him.
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  195. Actually no. Despite the horrible situation in Gaza 1 of the things the USA has done correctly is support Ukraine. Doing that helps prevent World War Three. Also the same people who support cutting money to Ukraine also support cutting money to help people in the US in need. Those US politicians using people in need to criticize helping Ukraine are actually being deeply dishonest. They also tend to support Israel 100%.
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  196. Trump and Musk. This is a result of their actions.
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  197. Thank you for listing specific parts of the video. I haven't watched all of this but I was not impressed by the Daenerys is Cersei video they made. They actually referred to things that weren't true-some of the worst of it was praising Cersei during the truce meeting when she was lying (she admitted it to Jamie later in that very episode).
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  198. @Johnny And the evidence for this comes from..? That she left letting Meereen's people pick their own leaders and the 2nd Sons providing protection? Your claim still doesn't match what happened.
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  199. Stein is getting support from Republicans. Does she not exist in politics these days to try to play a spoiler role? She is willing to be dishonest (for example claim Democrats supposedly betrayed supporters on student debt when actually Republicans undercut their efforts) to make Democrats look bad but says little about Republicans. She avoids talking about differences between Democrats and Republicans as part of the deception.
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  200. "2014 it started and Putin has every right to turn down NATO and the warmongering west, Russia has the right to defend themselves" Funny that "defend themselves" means threatening and invading nations that are not attacking Russia. Wannabe Imperialist Russia is the aggreessor in this war, not the defender. It is also committing a great many war crimes.
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  201. Actually that is the opposite is true. Most of the spending goes to manufacturing inside the USA and preventing Putin from being able to conquer his neighbors helps avoid a WW3 situation. Appeasing rather than opposing Hitler earlier opened the door to WW2, a guy called Chamberlain is especially known for being part of the appeasement problem before WW2 and he proclaimed "Peace in our time" right after cutting a deal with Hitler and not long before Hitler decided to start WW2.
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  202.  @melodylucas257  Being honestly elected by more US citizens than another candidate doesn't make someone a dictator-it makes them something much better.
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  203.  @jamesjoseph1297  When Trump was taken to court over housing discrimination. That is an example of racism.
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  204. Yes, abortion being the top issue is a sad state of affairs. However it is an irony that those voting on abortion are likely to be voting for the better candidate on a range of other more important issues like National Security (Bob Woodward's book showed 1 of Trump's own intelligence people wondered if Putin was blackmailing Trump to get his way), the National Debt (Trump promised to get rid of the National Debt but actually added much more to it), the economy (Trump doing a mass deportation will disrupt communities and their economies across the USA), and corruption (Trump's prior administration was noted for corruption and his offer from the current year to oil companies execs that they can do all the mergers and whatever else they want if they give his campaign money seems remarkably like pay to play.)
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  205. Another US citizen here for supporting Ukraine. It gives our economy a boost, gets some old equipment out of storage, and helps a deserving nation trying to put itself on a better path than its corrupt and authoritarian neighbor (Russia). Also the USA is obligated to help Ukraine since the US is 1 of the nations that promised to support Ukrainian territorial integrity and sovereignty if Ukraine gave up its nukes and Ukraine did.
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  206. They see what you don't want to.
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  207. Or Stone is showing a bias for Putin. For example discussing suppression and supposed death squads in Ukraine but not Russia where one of the most dangerous things a Russian can do is try to be a local journalist that is honest. Plus in mentioning Bucha Oliver Stone just tried to cover a Russian warcrime by saying Ukrainians would without much evidence in this current war.
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  208. Yeah, what actually caught me more was when Stone tried to cover for Russian war crimes in Bucha.
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  209.  @johnathonhaney8291  Season 8 suffered from a lack of any logic, LOTR or otherwise.
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  210. Interesting video but you got some details partly wrong and they change a grade a little. How did you miss Deanerys turning Meereen into a democracy??! (or at least starting that transition). It is discussed the same scene she decided Slaver's Bay should be renamed "Bay of Dragons". Eventually Daenerys does reopen the fighting pits on the condition no slaves fight there. so she has some flexibility that isn't in the battlefield-it takes time and convincing but she does. The old former slave said the younger former slaves that aren't stealing are still in a good position and are happily looking forwards to the rest of their lives, though he is too old to change careers from being a tutor-which is what he plans to return to. I get that contracts can be pretty bad but is a contract with an annual renewal really the same as supposedly selling oneself back into slavery-could be a step too much. Also during that discussion she does tell the old former slave that he has freedom so that contract with his former slave master is a choice he can choose to make or not make.
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  211.  @randyjon224  Could've sworn I replied to this remark or another in this thread yet I don't see my reply. Anyway nope. If some politicians were going to take care of homeless vets they would do it war in Ukraine or no. Pretty sure some of those opposed to helping Ukraine now were opposed to helping the homeless earlier.
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  212.  @michaelrch  Being anti-war includes being willing to criticize rather than excuse Putin's Imperialistic warmongering.
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  213. ABC DEF I believe that was to clear jungle, not farmlands. Not a good thing but not actually targeting crops.
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  214. Don't forget he promised to balance the budget before term 1 and term 1 (with its tax cut ended up adding Trillions to the Debt..)
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  215. Technically on Russians inside Ukraine. The Russian base is in occupied Ukrainian land.
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  216. More like deniers spreading lies as part of serving their political party and its fossil fuel contributors/bribers.
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  217. Putin is already doing what he can to enslave Russians. I would not look to him with any hope of improving the world.
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  218. Thumbs up on interesting stats but predictions didn't work out thankfully-especially for Ukraine.
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  219. Thank you again for the history and being willing to have an open discussion. I really do feel that JD Vance was doing a political stunt and because of that was acting with less integrity than you. If he cared about "Free Speech" then he would support members of the AP being able to say "Gulf of Mexico", which isn't anything close to a swear. He doesn't-that says a lot.
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  220. Except these discussions are highly censored and anything but open. I haven't finished this discussion as of yet but I've noticed neither person is getting into details of the costs of Global Warming in dollar amounts nor lives. And some of the claims made strike me as outright falsehoods or distortions such as that costs related to climate situations are supposedly down when over 600 people died due to Global Warming related flooding in Nigeria and major flooding in Pakistan related to Global Warming even more recently not only killed people but had a sizable impact on food crops grown in Pakistan-putting more stress on local food supplies.
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  221. "Genocide isn't just a single issue. It is THE issue." Not when there are multiple genocides in different places. And that is in addition to events that have large death tolls.
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  222. @stefan-xaverscherrer7648 Agreed. 1 other thing I appreciate. In the Q&A part of this around an hour and three or four minutes in Mearsheimer admits he doesn't know the terms of the "deal" that Putin offered Ukraine that he referred to as a great deal during his lecture.
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  223. Emily, you forgot that victim of gang rape killed Daenerys's unborn child. Plus don't use the look dragons excuse. People supported Daenerys because she freed slaves and tried to make life better for people.
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  224.  @LO0oLaminatedonut  Haven't heard that but even if it was true (not sure it is) then (1) it sounds like they were brought into court and a blind eye was not turned and (2) what they did (if some actually did something) was still not as an attempt to steal a Presidential Election which is what Trump tried.
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  225. I feel like I already pointed out Hungary is a taker nation when it comes to the EU and it-plus Orban's corruption-depends on money continuing to flow in from the EU.
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  226. Which is why Ted Cruz broke his promise on using the 2016 like a "referendum" to let the American people pick who should choose the next member of the Supreme Court. A referendum does not operate by Electoral College. Then again Americans had already picked someone to nominate people to the Supreme Court and he picked someone many people said was a fine and qualified man.
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  227. Which is why Trump and Putin like each other.
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  228. Ukraine's current President is a Russian speaker. Just because people can speak Russian or have at least some Russian ethnicity doesn't meant they want to be under Putin's control-a majority of Eastern Ukrainians do not.
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  229. Decent points Connor. Season 8 was character breaking done in a nonsense way to try to excuse emotional scenes that had little logic to them-and potentially ignore the moral decay of those Starks that remained (untrustworthy Sansafinger and possible scheming mass murderer Bran). Serb, I think I've seen you before but in case I didn't on some of your points. Third point) season 7 shows there is clear indigenous support-Dorn, Yara Greyjoy's faction, and The Reach support Daenerys before she even arrives in Westeros. The North may be independent but at the start of season 7 Sansa points out to Jon that Cersei is their mortal enemy and will try to kill them sooner or later. 4) Crazy women (including queens) and dragons burning towns are long running tropes. Plus the whole women getting to powerful and needing to be killed by their man is arguably a trope. 5) I call bs. If Dany were a man that wouldn't make her fight against slavery any less of a positive thing. Ditto for expanding rights for common people (turning Meereen into a democracy was a major expansion of rights). 6) There were actual pacifists in Game of Thrones. They were killed when the Hound wasn't there. Bran arguably is not a pacifist. He is someone with magic powers that used those powers to arrange the mass murder of innocents in order to get 2 people with a better claim to the crown out of his way. 7) What strings? Daenerys in season 7 offered to help Jon for free against the Night King because she saw just how dangerous he and his undead were. Jon gave up his crown for her for free after this because he saw she was worthy. Sansafinger (or Cersei light) rather stupidly betrays Jon and Dany because she is petty. No Dany means Jon and this army of the North are outnumbered by Cersei's army and both Jon and Sansafinger are likely to end up dead-making Sansafinger rather stupid when it comes to diplomacy and strategy. 8) I think you made a mistake with your numbering there. But more important is that a problem with Jon stabbing Dany is both their characters have to be really messed with to make that scene happen-plus a number of logic flaws have to be crammed into the plot.
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  230.  @akshita_travels  Sansafinger was actually pretty ambitious. She wanted to be a queen since season 1 and even lied about not knowing what Joffery had done to Arya and her friend in her attempts to keep her chance at it. Plus Sansafinger betrays an oath she made to Jon in less that a day in order to undermine a Jon's girlfriend who just risked her life honoring promises she made to Jon. Sansafingers actions were uncalled for and show her to be totally untrustworthy. But Bran is arguably worse because he used Dany's grief as a window of opportunity to mentally break her and kill many innocent people just so he could grab a crown that should've been with Jon or Dany. And the way Bran used Jon's linage to mess up Jon and Dany's relationship and then kept it hidden when the council was picking who should be king or queen shows Bran was using Jon's linage as a tool and throwing it away when it wasn't useful to Bran himself any longer.
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  231.  @boink800  So Putin admitted he violated international law by using Wagner for all these years then?
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  232. Sounds like this woman is trying to make excuses for Brexit's failures and problems. Maybe being honest about the impact of Brexit in the first place would have been a better idea.
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  233. And the irony is the white guy was right to call him on it.
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  234.  @martinduke368  Levels of scale. Never said DC doesn't have corruption and sadly it is likely I never will. That said Putin still manages to be worse. Also it isn't the nature of government to be corrupt but what effort is or is not made to prevent corruption.
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  235.  @wowwolf2678  That sounds like another in a long list of excuses to not address problems related to the particular pipeline that is most in the news (others already exist). That being it endangers local lands and waters, would aid in making Global Warming worse, and the oil is not even intended for the USA (which is the nation much of it would be shipped through and have its lands and waters damaged when spills or leaks occur-and that particular kind of oil has been noted for being more likely to be pipeline leak prone than oil usually is).
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  236.  @JimrunNewman  Ukraine wasn't in NATO. And Ukraine was neutral in the first place and Russia attacked it anyway. Ukraine wants to join NATO to have allies help defend it. Cuba kept a military alliance with the Soviety Union throughout the Cold War. The Cuban Missile Crisis was about missiles-not if the USSR and Cuba would make an agreement.
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  237.  @aaronjjacques  Democrats saying there was no election fraud doesn't make it so. However election officials and Judges with court cases about the election where claims and evidence had to be presented saying there was no election fraud adds a lot of credibility to anyone (including Democrats) saying there was no election fraud. This is something Trump lacked when he lied about there supposedly being election fraud. And I say lied because many of Trump's claims actually were checked out and found to be false-such as when he tried saying people should stop counting votes even though the way an honest election is done is by counting all the votes. As for the Mueller investigation (trying to be sure if you mean that and not the 1st impeachment where is proof), if there is nothing there then why did all these people working for Trump lying to law enforcement?
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  238. I've heard may of these lies and bits of propaganda before. Better discussions as well. If this "interview" is basically letting the Russian ambassador repeat lies told as a cover for Putin's imperialism then what is the point?
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  239. At this point the only way to vote against rewarding genocide is to vote Harris. Trump is big on supporting Netanyahu annexing land (the reason behind the death and destruction no?) In contrast supporting a 2 nation idea means that the 2nd nation has to have land that will be its own.
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  240. May be because some small groups hired lawyers and spent years looking for ways they could mess with the system. Also the USA is an older democracy with a bunch of legal legacy pieces that is a nation was writing its constitution I'd recommend they avoid. That said some of the problem is newly imposed such as a Republican internal party rule that says bills should only come to the House floor if a majority of Republican members of the House support them rather than a majority of all US House members.
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  241. An "object" isn't a being-just like a rock isn't a being. So even is such an object was created God could still be the "Most Powerful Being". That said, if the question is if God exists then that is a different question from how powerful God is. If someone met an angel and was told that angel couldn't dance on the head of a pin (to ask a different question that has been repeated many times) that would still mean the angel exists since whomever asked the angel would be talking to an actual angel.
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  242.  @LordofFullmetal  This is an old post but since nobody responded I will. You forgot details of the scene. None of the slave masters crucified wanted to end slavery. This issue was about if the slave masters should crucify children. Some thought that went step too far but that minority was overruled. Daenerys didn't know there was such a minority (nobody told her until after all the crucifying was done) so she mistaken assumed they agreed on it. When Hizdar wanted his father back and pointed this out to her she relented and let him and the rest of the slave master's families have their bodies back when she had intended to leave the slave masters hanging as they had left children hanging (as far as she knew). Essos probably thanked her for killing the Khals. She tended to put the Dothraki on good behavior while the Khals embraced slaving, raping, and pillaging. Thus Daenerys made Essos a safer place to live. She spoke with Jon about joining her or not. The army you refer to in season 7 had Randyll Tarly as its commander and had just come from Lady Olenna's castle where they killed her and took 0 prisoners (meaning they killed and looted all the soldiers defending Lady Olenna). Daenerys showed them more mercy than they showed Lady Olenna and gave every one of them a chance to live. Randyll Tarly refused. He then refused when Tyrion suggested he join the Night's Watch. Randyll was on a mission to get himself killed. Also in today's day and age that join or die thing would be way out of place. But in Westeros is was tradition. It is what Bobby B (the king in much of season 1) during his rise to power and he was not proclaimed to be mad or a tyrant.
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  243. 2 minutes in and I'm already getting unimpressed by Mearsheimer. No evidence??! The current dictator of Belarus-who has let his nation be used as a freeway by Putin-pulled out a map early in the war with Ukraine and flat out said and showed that after supposedly successfully defeating Ukraine the plan was to attack Poland! Putin may not have the army to successfully take Ukraine but that doesn't prevent him from engaging in wishful thinking and then acting on that wishful thinking. Also Putin sent Russian paratroopers to try to seize an airport by Kyiv. Combine that with the 40 mile convoy of Russian military vehicles that tried to get to the Ukrainian capital but was stopped and it is a good bet to say Putin was trying to topple Ukraine's elected government. Just because he failed does not mean he didn't try. Putin has been prone to overestimating his military's abilities by the way. Putin claimed that attacking Ukraine would result in success in three weeks. As we head closer (a few months away) to marking 2 years since Putin started this war he was proven wrong. But that does not mean Putin did not say what he did say. Now there is some value in the discussions Lex has with people. Even if those people spout falsehoods as I pointed out happened here. When Lex has an interview with someone he lets that person say their piece. They clearly are given a chance to have their say. We the viewers have to double check if what the person said was true or not.
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  244.  @yvs0911  Ukraine continuing to exist is Ukraine winning. Especially since Putin thought he could conquer Ukraine in three weeks.
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  245. Welcome. So are you here to support people like Trump trying to steal an election or to oppose people like Trump trying to steal an election? I think Mr. D'Souza discovered something that many other people already knew. He can lie related to politics like many born US citizens lie related to politics.
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  246.  @megalamanooblol  My understanding is Wagner was putting out complaints of being short changed on ammo before the coup attempt, but they were only told to leave Russia (for Belarus) and recruiting only shut down after Wagner turned on Putin. Which of those is incorrect and how?
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  247. Yeah, but Koch has held many parties. At least some of which a rightwing political activist that also happens to be on the Supreme Court attended.
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  248.  @notdoingtoomuch  Russia said that Ukraine would not exist last year. Yet Ukraine still exists. And many Ukrainians who were unhappy with the current President of Ukraine before this war have decided they like him now.
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  249. Mearsheimer claimed Putin would not attack Ukraine. That hardly turned out to be "truth".
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  250.  @DanFeldman-Edge  The USSR had an alliance with Cuba throughout the bulk of the "Cold War". There were no US military bases in Ukraine when Putin decided to invade. I've often heard claims like you made by those trying to avoid putting responsibility on Putin for his own actions. Finland and Sweden joined NATO because Putin's recent actions made it clear he is willing to rock the boat to rebuild an Imperialist Russia.
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  251. This message was brought to you by a bot created by a firm Exxon subcontracted to do PR for itself.
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  252.  @alangriffin2711  I have studied history. I've also see Mr. Mearsheimer get history wrong on multiple things-including the Cuban Missile Crisis (he said it wasn't over missiles). This was never about NATO. Putin bragged to an EU official he could conquer Ukraine in three weeks-those are the words of someone thinking not of defense but offense-he has even gone so far as to claim Ukraine is not an actual nation. This war was never over missiles nor NATO. It is and has been over Putin's desire to rebuild the old Russian empire.
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  253. @ Pretty sure I already pointed out it has been officially part of Ukraine since the 1990s. And the Soviets recognized it as part of Ukraine since the 1950s.
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  254. The earlier claims was 500 people-and Iran claimed 1000 people. Maybe the numbers are not correct.
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  255. I see Republicans have stopped lying about if Global Warming is happening and moved to lying about why. Too many record warm years to maintain the lie about there not being any Global Warming?
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  256.  @mikezappulla4092  Tulsi Gabbard didn't get on RT for being willing to be honest nor by willing to push an agenda that wasn't favoring Putin. Plus her willingness to join Tucker Carlson (Mr. lets wander around Moscow looking for things to talk up because the government there is terrible) just seals the deal.
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  257.  @dannycorsaro546  Translation: I'm totally correct in what I wrote but you would prefer not to address that.
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  258.  @victorsago  Good luck to your nation. I hope you continue to get as much support as before if not more to defend yourselves. I've already contacted politicians in my nation to urge support.
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  259.  @alpg8820  Having a dialogue with NATO is not the same as joining NATO. Russia was offered the chance to have a representative at NATO without actually joining.
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  260. destinal_in_reality If you read up on William Nordhaus then you already know a concern of his is that the price of carbon right now is artificially too low. That is because those burning carbon & putting it in the air are not paying for the impacts they are causing nor the changes that have to be made to avoid worse consequences. That you mentioned him of all people but failed to mention that concern of his makes me wonder if you (or whatever propagandist you like to follow) engaged in cherry picking his work in order to misrepresent him. And your shorter winters comment reminded me of current Republican US Senator Ron Jon (an embarrassment to the US Senate) and his remarks that Global Warming would supposedly benefit his state by making winters shorter. That was to counter someone who was testifying to Congress that Global Warming would kill people in vulnerable parts of Africa and that the math of Global Warming shows more deaths coming rather than less. Now if you can take the time to read up on what fossil fuel propagandists can say you can also take the time to look up Global Warming to see what actual scientists are saying. That you were willing to engage in or follow someone's rather deceptive cherry picking earlier makes me doubt that you are simply just looking for info since you are someone you already follow had to read through the more honesty done work of scientists in order to find the parts to their reports to deceptively cherry pick.
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  261. I see a guy lying on youtube. That hardly makes other people into "fools". Yes NASA already went over the cycles he mentioned in minute 32 and why they do not explain recent warming. And NASA did it about a year before this video so this guy, Moore, knows he is lying as he does it.
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  262.  @Arthur_Foxache  Maybe and maybe not. If Trump and his supporters are pushing for ending aid to Ukraine then maybe if he loses again in November 2024 perhaps he would lose some of his influence and support for Ukraine could become bi-partisan again.
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  263. You mean like when he said Putin would not invade?
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  264. "I could ask the same, explain how voting for Harris helps Gaza?" Thank you for asking the question. I'll try to give an honest rather than snide answer. As unimpressive as her political stances have (yet to meet with the Democratic State Rep from Georgia) she supports Palestinians having their own nation. Meaning they have to have land to have 1. Trump's actual record is he approved Israel stealing Palestinian lands. She would not, plus she moved before Biden to call for a ceasefire. That means She would probably be better than Biden in terms of limiting weapons to Israel. At the very least she would be requiring food get to Gaza. That prevents mass starvation being 1 more thing killing Gazans and even though there are food shortages now full on mass starvation could kill many more than have died already. So voting for Harris saves lives. Not as many lives as should have been saved already, but voting Harris does save some lives and also land in Gaza.
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  265. So when Wagner attempted an ill fated attack on US troops in Syria lost badly despite a US officer specifically calling their organization and asking if that was their forces trying to attack his position and the reply he got was no that it was a lie within a lie. Wagner (as was known but not admitted) was attacking and possibly under the approval of Putin? Don't feel bad it didn't go well for Wagner.
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  266. Russia had a lease. It abused that lease to use the naval base as a staging ground to occupy Ukrainian land. I think it is reasonable for Ukrainians to end the lease after they retake Crimea.
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  267.  @pz3782  If one is using aggressive lying as a method of pretending to be bluntly honest when the opposite is true then it is a form of emotional manipulation.
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  268. Mearsheimer claimed Putin would not attack Ukraine. Did that turn out to be truth?
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  269.  @jimmcneal5292  Correct. And the EU has given over $100 billion as well. But the Putin fans don't want to acknowledge that because it touches on that the EU just has to be able to defend itself and supply Ukraine and it will probably end up in better shape than Russia.
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  270. So you were part of Brexit and are now trying to make excuses for your failures too?
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  271. My deep sympathy for your nation and I hope my nation does not stop supporting yours (have argued for it in the past and will still).
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  272.  @TitleFeed  Budapest Memorandum is a promise by the US, UK, and Russia to all respect Ukraine's borders and sovereignty, it was part of getting Ukraine to agree to give up its nukes. Guess which nation broke that.
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  273. Hmm.. I left a comment yet don't see it now. Is someone trying to censor my comments? If so that would be totally Trump style.
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  274. "But if you actually desire the freedom and self-determination of people all over the world—even Muslims, even Arabs—then support for Israel is nonsensical." Thank you for this remark. It and the comments it was part of display a lot of thoughtfulness. Because of concern for people all over the world I have to vote for Harris and hope she is elected. One thing that didn't come up (correct me if I'm wrong) is that Netanyahu still has yet to reveal his plan for what happens after the "war" ends. Its hard to claim Israel is under attack since the 1940s when Arab nations were willing to start dealing with it but it cannot restrain itself enough to at least not massacre or starve civilians.
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  275. Nice video but I would've mentioned that S. Korea has to worry about relations with N. Korea as well. I'm pretty sure the prospect of either an official peace or renewed war between the 2 is not a small matter to S. Korea.
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  276. Nobody proved God doesn't exist, but an atheist guy shot a muslim woman in New England out of his own religious bigotry. Don't mistake bigotry for intellect, at best it is hypocritical.
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  277. @ He probably doesn't. I left a point that they probably came for the cheap land and then vote blue to improve the state like buying a rundown house cheaply and fixing it up once you move in. Oddly I don't see my earlier remark. Do you?
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  278. Yeah, those Ukrainians who volunteered to defend their towns are the ones fighting for money the most. PS I appreciate you sarcasm towards his dishonesty.
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  279. Yes. And it has been for a long time. At the moment it is now a profoundly deadly moral issue. Not the only deadly moral issue but clearly one of them.
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  280. "what can I say, if you are gonna rule the world, wich US led west does, then rule it by example" Except he is correct other nations choose to ally with the USA or not. US troops left Iraq when there was no agreement for them to stay and returned only when the Iraqi government invited them. Russia on the other hand tries to invade other nations in the hope of ruling with brute force.
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  281.  @iisomeoneii2091  " his fault is poking the bear. He shouldn't have crossed Russia’s line even with western encouragement". This is bs. Putin was thinking of invading Ukraine for far longer then President Zelensky was in office. Putin wants the Russian empire back. That's all there is to it. It was never about NATO nor anything any leader of an independent Ukraine did.
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  282. Night Fury, yes and no. The masks yes, the locking down no. Also to be fair to Trump his admin was given a manual on how to deal with various kinds of crisis including a pandemic. They ignored that even though some of his admin trained along side with outgoing members of the Obama admin on those situations due to the fact that they were incoming officials.
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  283. "Calling people racist doesn't work anymore." It may when there is truth to it.
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  284. No. I've seen a lecture where he forgot that the "Cuban Missile Crisis" which involved the USA, Cuba, and Soviet Union was over Missiles. Mearsheimer is something of an ideologue and thus he pays more attention to his ideology than if the facts confirm it or not. Additionally he predicted Putin would not invade Ukraine-seems that prediction of his did not hold true.
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  285. The Man I believe a majority of the Trump related court filings ended up being dismissed. For example one of the swing states that comes to mind is Wisconsin where Trump's effort to steal the election by suing to get tens of thousands of ballots tossed failed. In particular the state reserve Appeals court Judge ruled that state laws had not been broken. A majority of the Supreme court for that particular state (Wisconsin) upheld the Appeals court ruling that the ballots at hand were valid. The Trump campaign had wanted 4 groups of ballots thrown out in 2 Counties. (1) All mail in ballots, (2) all mail in ballots by individuals who were listed as indefinitely confined, (3) all ballots in Dane County that the individual voters had brought to Election officials in "Democracy in the Park" events where people turned in mail in ballots directly to Elections staff rather than mailing them in, and (4) all ballots from voters that early voted. The primary Counties the Trump campaign wanted to steal the election in were Dane and Milwaukee Counties by having US Citizens' ballots from those 2 counties not count in the election. An Appeals Court Judge made the initial ruling because the Trump campaign's effort to steal the election was done in the form of 2 separate filings at the County level in Dane and Milwaukee Counties and these 2 separate cases were combined into 1 for the sake of efficiency and speed and it may have been a summary ruling (I'm not sure). Below is link to a newspaper article on that particular court case. The article also mentioned when the SCOTUS decided not to hear Texas's attempt to steal the election in favor of Trump but that is a separate case and filing where the pro-stealing the election for Trump lawyers including Texas's likely corrupt and partisan state AG did not have their case heard in court. In the Wisconsin State Courts the Trump related legal team did get their time in court where Trump's lawyers could provide whatever evidence they felt would assist them and argue for stealing the election in favor of Trump. The Judge there ruled against depriving tens of thousands (or hundreds of thousands depending on which of the 4 groups someone wants to reference) of US Citizens their votes as a method by which Trump could steal the election and thus effectively ruled against Trump stealing the 2020 Presidential election in that state. https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/elections/2020/12/11/wisconsin-judge-hears-trump-election-case/3887419001/
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  286. "A lot of lives would have been saved" By increasing the chances WW3 starts?? Putin never planned to stop with Ukraine. Ukraine putting up more of a fight than he expected (he predicted he would defeat Ukraine in 2 weeks back around 2014) has saved the lives of people in other nations. Helping Ukraine is the least to do as a response.
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  287. The US and Russia never stopped communicating. They may not attend each others photo opts but phone calls have been occurring between the 2 throughout the war Putin started.
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  288. Good points on Donbas not being part of Russia. Also respecting the rights of Russian speaking citizens means let Russia violate the rights of Ukrainians who can probably speak Russian.
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  289. He had a reason. Russian imperialism is a reason. The problem is that it is not a good reason. Also Mr. Mearsheimer is being deceptive when he claimed the USA supposedly "doubled down" after 2014. Instead the opposite happened with then President Obama coming up with reasons Ukraine supposedly could not join NATO at that time. Ukraine itself was officially Neutral at the start of 2014, but after Putin invaded and occupied Crimea (part of Ukraine) the Ukrainians replied that Neutrality would not protect them and the Ukrainian government decided to seek to join NATO.
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  290. @vanivari359 is correct to have used the term "immigration" and not "legal immigration". Asking for refugee status and a hearing is a form of "legal immigration" so ending it (as some on the right would like) removing legal immigration. Plus the Trump admin cut the # of legal immigrants allowed into the USA when he was in office in general. Claiming this is simply about if people follow the law or not when trying to immigrate and not about cutting immigration as a whole is dishonest and was not reflected in the actions of certain rightwing people when they held office.
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  291. Tell me you didn't watch the video without specifically saying you didn't watch the video.
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  292. Many. would agree with you. But Putin does not want to end it yet. And if it is to end others want to be sure Putin doesn't try to start it again.
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  293. Since you live in a swing state I and Norm Chomsky would encourage you not to. He would simply point to the damage Trump would do with regard to Global Warming (something there is a clear difference between Democrats and Republicans on). I would point to support Stein has gotten from Trump allies and her own dishonesty. Plus that Netanyahu wants Trump back in the White House (likely because Trump already has let Netanyahu annex lands no other US President would).
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  294.  @bwiblies  Thank you for attempting to clarify that. But if you reread what I wrote you may notice I was pointing out reasons to not vote for Stein since you live in a state where your vote actually and really matters-people outside of swing states have the luxury of voting for whomever knowing it won't matter much. Inside swing states-and Pennsylvania is 1-that goes away since votes have an impact. What reasons would you vote for Stein. Would Trump have a real world impact on most or all of those issues in a way that is worse than Harris?
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  295.  @BaddeJimme  If only it was that simple. Nukes encouraged Japan to surrender, so did the possibility of facing the Soviet army. Don't forget there was a Japanese song that went something like 100,000 souls for the Emperor that was about giving Japanese civilians spears if nothing else and sending them-men, women, & children-down to the beach to fight against an allied (US) landing. As part of a encouraging the war to continue a pro-war member of the Japanese Minister tried telling the Emperor that the atom bomb took so many resources to build that the USA only had 1. He made these comments not long before the 2nd bomb was used. However it happened whomever convinced the Japanese government to surrender probably saved a lot of lives-both US and Japanese lives. Just because surrender was the correct strategic decision in the long run doesn't mean it automatically would've happened, nor as soon as it did.
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  296.  @zarasophia3714  That is actually a thoughtful long term plan. Kudos to you.
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  297.  @maquacr7014  "Trump's election helps everyone in the world. Don't ask me how." Is this sarcasm. If meant seriously then I am seriously asking how since I can start listing reasons it would make things worse around the world.
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  298. I have to call bs on a lot of things in this video. I watched the whole thing and it deserves a thumbs down by the end. I noted some reasons and about when they pop up in the video. The video seems to be confused by saying both do __ when “inverse” is the opposite. It starts recognizing their differences and then tries to pretend they are the same. Problem is that is not true. Daenerys freed many slaves, how many did Cersei? 4:40-recognizes Daenerys freed people while Cersei oppressed. Also recognized that Daenerys chained her dragons out of concern for others while Cersei let Joffery run rampant. 5:45 be like Daenerys try to reshape the world in a better way and “help those who have even less” 5:58 Cersei “hurts others for the hell of it” and chooses not to help others. 7:31-45 Cersei hates and fears the people 8:40 Cersei threatens to burn cities 9:35 video said “This is fire and blood music”, yet it ignores when Daenerys said the blood of her enemies “not the innocent”. 10:00 video blames Daenerys for her dead baby by being too trusting, there is a big difference between too trusting and Cersei choosing to kill her son’s wife (resulting in the son’s suicide). 10:10 video misrepresent’s Cersei’s letter upfront demand (and threatening?) and Daenerys more friendly letter-written by Tyrion (who wants help ending Cersei’s tyranny.) The video claims after the friendly letter Daenerys demands Jon bend the knee when he gets there and thus is supposedly more dishonest. Yet Daenerys-when Jon refuses to bend the knee-said he is a guest. Oh, and Tyrion-not Daenerys-wrote the letter, he tends to be nicer than Cersei. Actually they both tend to be nicer than Cersei. 10:24 video wrongly claims Cersei wants less from Jon than Daenerys by supposedly only asking for neutrality. Yet this is a blatant lie. We learn afterwards that Cersei had made a plan beforehand with Euron to have Euron pretend he was fleeing when he was really getting mercenaries for Cersei. She never planned to help and the whole eventual agreement to send Lannister forces was an act and big lie. If anything Cersei was trying to cost Daenerys a possible ally since it was unlikely Jon would ever ally with her. 10:50 the video shows Cersei saying she doesn’t care about checking her worst impulses or making the world a better place. It actually has gone back to recognizing Cersei. 10:55 claims Daenerys’s attempts at compromise don’t go well so she goes fire and blood. Very misleading because Daenerys tried compromises and used fire and blood when those compromises were betrayed. Daenerys is not responsible for when others betray or try to attack her-they are. The video tries to say she is. 11:50 self-centered world vision ignores that Daenerys built what she had but also tried to do it in a way that didn’t harm, even helped, the powerless. Remember season 4 when Daenerys had places to sleep and eat made for former slaves and planned to make them safe the minute she heard there was a problem. Very different than Cersei who would not care. 12:09 Cersei talks about caring about her family yet she tried to have Tyrion killed-he is part of her family. This video is ignoring things here. Selective editing? 12:29 The video looses its point when complaining about “medieval logic”. That is how society operated at the time. Neither Cersei nor Daenerys made that happen. And if complaining about them then complain about every member of a every noble family in the show. It is called a “social norm”. 12:51 Daenerys’s supposed complex resulted in her telling someone she cared about not to give up but to try finding a cure-and he did. Thus she told him to save his life when he had already given up. Not a bad thing. 13:01 Daenerys supposedly didn’t compromise?? She did that with Jon Snow in season 7 through most of the time he was her guest!! She did that in Meereen as well. This video is just wrong here-possibly dishonest. 13:19 “Daenerys is ruthless like Cersei”. No. She is ruthless with her enemies, but not the innocent. If Cersei had dragons she would’ve let them eat innocent people across the countryside. Daenerys did not. Big false equivalence. 13:20 She was talking to a guy, Varys, who had tried to undermine his prior leaders and thus didn’t trust him. When he told her just beforehand he would not give blind loyalty she accepted it. Requiring him to say directly if he thought she was failing the people to her face and how (shows she is willing to take criticism). This is both compromising and taking other people’s concerns into account. The opposite of what the video claimed earlier. 13:33 video said they look like each other Cersei in black (or dark cloths) and with crown, Daenerys in light tan and no crown. Someone can see the video is wrong or lying here. Oh, and it is right before Cersei killed Missandei-who never hurt or enslaved anyone. 13:36 Video said “Shared rage” when look on Daenerys’s face may be concern for Missandei. The video is wrong here. 13:50 Video claimed Daenerys didn’t choose between her “selfish ambition” and her “liberator identity”. Yet the main reason she stayed in Meereen so long (where video shows her) is to protect the people she freed rather than leave to grab her birth kingdom and let the slavers regain control. She delayed her ambitions-that is making a choice. The video is lying here and similar can be said about the white walker army which she goes to fight and puts her war for the throne on hold to do. 14:10 Cersei is shown using civilians as human shields. Daenerys didn’t ever do this. These are very different queens and the video is being deceptive. 14:31 Daenerys saying “I will not let those I have freed slide back into chains.” Anyone see Cersei saying or trying to do that? Nope. Different people. 15:44 We get the answer of D and D breaking Daenerys’s character to do a pre-selected plot point. This was not showing Daenerys but what D and D wanted her to do without providing good reasons for it. 15:50 If Daenerys chose “violence” then why not go directly to the red keep and burn Cersei like she would an enemy? D and D chose to make Daenerys let Cersei almost get away in order to attack civilians. This is out of character for Daenerys in 2 big ways-her protection of the innocent and her fire for her enemies. This goes against 2 not just 1 aspect of Daenerys’s character. 16:05 If Daenerys was punishing her enemies then why almost let Cersei get away? Cersei didn’t care about civilians so why burn them at all? 16:52 If belonging to that blood line means you flip out and kill everyone if your friends aren’t around should we expect that to happen with Jon Snow? If the answer is no then just maybe we shouldn’t accept the character breaking relating to Daenerys from D and D either. 17:02 repeating D and D’s weak excuses is not character development. Showing the death of someone she warned earlier that chose to pull a sword and threaten to kill her and her unborn child is not proving Daenerys is evil. This is a huge double standard. Just consider anyone in the whole series who would want someone that just threatened to murder them and their children dead-lets start with the Stark family. If they aren’t evil tyrants in the making than neither is Daenerys. 17:25 If Daenerys’s friends and advisors are killed or go distant that isn’t usually Daenerys’s choice. Which means she had no choice and this was supposedly inevitable. So the video isn’t being straight with viewers on if this was going to happen or not. 17:40. Video said “We always have a choice”, not if D and D choose to break characters and patterns of action to hit their preferred plot points. Lets let Daenerys character as it was during seasons 1-7 (season 8 was written to give excuses for this to happen, its been acknowledged that D and D had this event in mind and were trying to jump to it) make the decision on what happens with King’s Landing.. oh look no mass burning of civilians. 18:00 She doesn’t become the “mad queen” because of her genes. Wasn’t the video just referring to her bloodline a couple of minutes earlier?? This is speaking out of both sides of its mouth. 18:10 Correction.. She could’ve still been the ruler she wanted to be if D and D didn’t mess with her character in Season 8. Also if she decided to attack Kings Landing in season 7 then that would be choosing violence but a lot of her friends would still be alive after Cersei was dead, so the civilian population would probably be quite safe. I guess the real message is violence is only ok if your friends are around. Or maybe, just maybe, the video here is just trying to make excuses at this point.
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  299.  @sefalimahanti9848  Thank you.
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  300. Much of Game of Thrones was said to be inspired by pieces of real history so that makes sense.. except for season 8 (which may not make sense on with history or on its own).
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  301. I've seen Mearsheimer not know the Cuban Missile Crisis was over missiles. Not exactly the wisest image.
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  302. Probably not since he started making excuses for Putin and repeating Kremlin misrepresentations of past history.
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  303. I'm pretty sure he knows he is lying. Just doesn't care.
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  304. Considering how this comment was just made by a different account (same user using 2 accounts?) I'm pretty sure earlier response fits it too.. though maybe I should start with "Hi Ivan's other account". Anyway here it is "Hi is this 1 of Ivan's accounts or are you just repeating the propaganda he puts out in hope that Putin never reassigns him to the front? To the issue of a "gravy train", Ukraine is cheap compared to other things the US spends money on and probably a good deal since most of the money never leaves the US. Ukraine gets weapons and equipment-some of which is pretty old but that isn't a bad deal for the USA. Defending his own nation is not "his gravy train" when it comes to Zelenaksi. It is doing his job as President of a nation that was invaded." And it very much fits.. only question is if it is addressing 2 of Ivan's accounts or not.
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  305. You are likely correct. That said I treat Game of Thrones and the books as different stories as some things in them are very different including some of the characters.
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  306. They did. The Clean Air Act involved trying to make the air cleaner. The Agency that is supposed to do that has being doing its job in the years since. This is about trying to undercut it doing its job.
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  307. I don't like Piers Morgan. But I find Peter Hitchens saying pressure should be put on Ukraine to make peace after Russia has already stated that any peace negotiations should involve it keeping territory it has claimed to annex to be morally bankrupt.
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  308.  @yossarian_lives  Don't forget the appeals made to white bigots. BTW recognizing there are black or gay voters and they weren't treated fairly in the past is not divide and rule, it is welcoming in and protecting. It is also willing to be honest about the past.
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  309. To be clear, what I mean by They tend to support Israel 100% is those who wanted to cut funding for both Ukraine and helping those in need still support funding Israel. As a matter of fact when JD Vance was out arguing for cutting funds to Ukraine he was still arguing for sending weapons to Israel and 1 of his allies said anything intended to help Ukraine should be given to Israel instead. Oddly enough most US voters don't want Trump, he may get back into the White House by an Electoral College loophole that lets someone who receives less voters still get the office.
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  310.  @nunyabizznez2805  There are nefarious goals by held by those who claim to be revealing things hidden in the shadows. To say people need to be cynical about the cynics puts it too lightly.
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  311. Oh look, someone who likely cares neither for US citizens nor Ukrainian citizens.
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  312. @militant_pacifist Correct. But those details don't help the current propaganda he is pushing.
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  313.  @stolenname94  Oh, so they missed the 1 time Trump said peaceful for the have dozen times Trump said something not peaceful. Also that Trump was still pushing his lies. Also I've seen more than enough conservatives acting badly or violently to know they are quite capable of doing it, arguably more likely than liberals.
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  314. I hope your nation succeeds. Judging from this interview it is Oliver Stone who has problems being honest. I was struck when he tried to cover for what was done in Bucha.
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  315. Also my sympathy for having to put up with people (or bots?) like Vulcan Memes spreading further BS when you may actually known people on the front lines or who have been killed or harmed in this war already.
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  316. What if those films were actually deception and half truths and Mr. Stone is providing cover for Putin rather than being able to discuss his actions honestly. Judging from this interview Mr. Stone's awareness or integrity are not in a good place.
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  317. Since the in proper GoT dimension bells don't mean surrender (season 2 proved this) season 8 arguably took place in a mirror dimension with different characters that looked similar and lands named the same but with different traditions. Daenerys (the actual one) may be alive and will in the proper GoT dimension.
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  318.  @sandpiper2949  My sympathies. I hope you and your family are holding out/safe.
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  319. For trying to come up with excuses for warmongers plus forgetting history while he does it (like claiming the Cuban Missile Crisis wasn't over missiles)?
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  320. Russia starting a war to change the borders made decades ago in such agreements is not a good way to go about things-especially after Russia agreed to respect Ukraine's territorial integrity.
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  321. Makes me feel better about every time I looked at where something was made and picked one made someplace other than China. And yes I generally have been able to find things that are not. I have to look, but I can find when I do.
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  322.  @jesseling2802  Three eyed raven. One eye for each direction of time-past, present, and future. Also knowing possibly futures would explain why Bran didn't warm about Euron's ambush (something he could see in the works just by looking in the present). He wanted Missandei to die because he wanted the massacre that followed to happen so he'd get the crown. He doesn't use animals to look through time, just his powers.
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  323. This episode leaves me less than impressed with the usually good Majority Report. Taiwan is not simply a province of China's. When "China" 1st joined the UN the seat was given to Taiwan and mainland China was seen as a province of the government in Taiwan. Now the sane thing to do would've simply been to recognize there are 2 separate governments from a civil war that never had a decisive end with 1 side surrendering. During all the negotiations about recognizing mainland China that included switching the UN seat to to it the US said it will support peaceful reunification of China. If China invades Taiwan that is not peaceful reunification. Those weapons would be so Taiwan could defend itself against an invasion from China. Taiwan is not attacking China nor threatening to do so. Finland and Sweden decided to join NATO because they are geographically near Russia and Russia's current ruler has decided to start waging imperialistic wars. That is not US policy causing threats but Putin's aggression. The professor also failed to mention that Norway has long been a part of NATO and is already in the Arctic. Finland simply has a longer border region with Russia. The professor also failed to mention that China has been grabbing islands in the South China Sea based on claims the International Tribunals have ruled are not valid and compete with claims of about half a dozen other nations. This is China being aggressive locally-at least the professor acknowledged China was trying to bully other nations. 1 thing I and the professor agree on is that North Korea is ruled by a "dynasty". Whoever thought feudal monarchy would be the form of leadership selection practiced by a supposedly communist state.
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  324. Real or simply pro-Putin. I didn't see a whole lot of balance when I listened.
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  325. I'd call into question if Mr. Mearsheimer is much of an expert these days. I watched him seem to forget the "Cuban Missile Crisis" was over missiles. There are other times he manages to fail at history. Not only is he getting older but I suspect he valued his ideology over historical facts. Mr. Sachs I feel is running from his own history including that he is part of how oligarchy came to rule Russia's economy (he encouraged disregarding corruption concerns as there was a rapid privatization of the Russian economy.)
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  326. Bran either knew the massacre was coming and didn't care about other people's lives enough to even try to prevent it or Bran schemed to make the possible massacre happen just so he could get a crown. Not a sign he cares about if people live or die either way. So really not a good leader.
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  327. Correct. Someone started double checking what DOGE claimed it saved and noticed they were lying/making up numbers. He started looking into contracts and they said they canceled and supposedly saved money with and found the actual amount was less than half of what they claimed. He also noticed the normal government sites were more transparent than DOGE's messages.
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  328.  @jaggmor  Agreed. For some reason my earlier comment is not appearing but I pointed out that Trump had bigger budget deficits than Biden.
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  329. Still find this funny. As someone from Wisconsin this made the local paper. True, sad, but funny. Oh. I've heard the Sheriff once handed car keys back to person so drunk that dropped them-maybe he was trying to be helpful to make up for those times he was not.
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  330. Clarke isn't just Trump's guy, he is the NRA's too. Glad to see they really care about people's rights.
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  331.  @matsjonsson9492  That Tulsi Gabbard supported Assad when Assad used chemical weapons on Syrians. Guess who Putin supported in that situation? That Gabbard repeated Russian propaganda in the war Putin started with Ukraine. That Gabbard was on RT (an actual channel of Russian propaganda). FYI I voted for Bernie Sanders in the primary and don't regret it (I still say he would've won)-odd that you pulled "a Hillary mouthpiece" out of nowhere.
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  332. " And if I could promote anything at all, then it would be stimulating the two sides to negotiate. It would be very easy for the US to do so - just threaten to end military support and things will get back to the negotiation table within days." and "This is just plain disgusting." That would be pushing Ukraine to surrender when Putin invaded, that is not avoiding promoting anything. That is pushing for the nation defending itself to surrender to an invading Imperialist aggressor. I also noticed you made little to no mention of the many Russian war crimes and the impact they could have on any negotiations.
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  333.  @KimberlyOakley-y4j  Rightwing or leftwing if you oppose Russian Imperialism by a former KGB member then you are opposed to Putin.
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  334. Conroyrofl You seem not to have realized there is an argument that Bran arranged the burning of King's Landing to get Jon and Dany out of the way so he could be king. That is ambition and cold blooded mass murder. He used his powers to see possible futures and encouraged the one he wanted-even if it meant innocents died.
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  335. Gabbard is probably a Russian agent, lets not forget that little problem.
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  336. Also Bran may be evil. Either he doesn't care or he purposefully manipulated events to get rid of the 2 main people with claims to the throne even though doing that got thousands of people killed. Bran saw the massacre coming. He also can see the future and present so likely saw what was capable of driving Daenerys mad. Does he try to prevent that-no he pushes for it. Brain tells Samwell to tell Jon that Jon is the true king-probably sits back thinking to himself that they are both in for a unhappy surprise. Dumb and Dumber probably didn't realize they were setting up a situation where Bran could be the biggest villain with the biggest body count of them all. But the events in the show can be taken that way. And yes Bran showed he can see into the future ("Why do you think I came all this way?") so when he does something he probably knows there is a chain reaction he is starting. Even if Bran didn't evilly plot the deaths of Theon, Daenerys, thousands of people in King's Landing, plus the ruining of Jon's life he saw all that coming and didn't care. Not a sign he would be a good king powers or no.
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  337. Best of luck to your nation and I hope Ukraine succeeds. Thank you for being willing to sit through some deceptions being spread about Ukraine at what is a striking time to do so. My suspicions are that Mr. Stone has had sympathies with Putin for years and now it is Mr. Stone who is unable to tell the truth about what is going on.
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  338. I'd point out he was dishonest during this discussion. While brining up Avenatti he never mentioned (purposefully) that NPR also covered the man being charged and then convicted for his crimes. Worse Senator Kennedy flat out lied when he referred to Prager U as supposedly educational-its primary purpose is political propaganda and it has been that way for years. Now Louisiana is both a high poverty and high crime state, I don't hear much about him trying to change that. Real problems ignored and what he does talk about isn't discussed honestly.
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  339. A point made to some of our politicians. I worry some politicians do not care about US standing in the world. Hopefully there are enough with some sense to work around them.
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  340. Actually some is lying by omission (leaving out important details that would contradict her story) and some is outright lying (where she accuses modern Democrats of racism and sexism. Also considering how hard the modern GOP has been working to keep black people from having an honest election in places like North Carolina her praise for the current GOP is also a lie.
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  341.  @auag8115  In this situation the USA is trying to help a democracy (Ukraine) defend itself from a neighbor state whose ruler (Putin) is probably attacking because he is worried his own people (Russians) will realize the elections are more honest in Ukraine than Russia.
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  342. I also recommend doing a search on a podcast titled "Why is Jill Stein trying to get Trump elected?"
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  343. Funny, arguably fastest way to decrease the number of Nazis/fascists in Ukraine would be for Wagner to leave.
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  344. You are correct.
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  345. Yeah, it wasn't until this war started I looked up some of Oliver Stone's earlier work on Ukraine and lost even more respect for him. I suspect what happened is Oliver Stone made his sympathies set for Putin years ago and no is himself in a position where he cannot talk honestly about him now because it would mean acknowledging just how wrong he was earlier.
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  346. Democrats do have a platform at least half as good and that is why Stein spends most of her time attacking them-often dishonestly. For example she recently claimed Democrats betrayed their voters on student debt while pointedly not mentioning Republicans undercut Democratic efforts. She wouldn't do that if this was just about platforms. She has gotten help from Republicans. I've voted third party before but these are not the signs of someone doing a third party run based purely on promoting ideas or a platform. Heck, I've even voted Green Party before. So yes I do appreciate the value of a third party in politics. However I will not vote for Jill Stein (now or in a future election) because her actions give me reason to have distrust. Additionally if anyone lives in a swing state their vote impacts who is in the White House. In an election this important it is not the time for symbolic votes.
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  347. Agreed. Looking the other way while billionaire dictator Putin tried to landgrab was an invitation. The reason nations want to join NATO is to prevent this again. imemine-has it ever struck you that when you tell others to do some research it is actually because you do and you just don't realize they know more about it than you. And no, buying into Pro-Putin propaganda is not informing yourself. Ukraine had a very corrupt pro-Putin President that abandoned his office and ran off to Russia. If a ship captain leaves his ship in a lifeboat the when there is trouble he is abandoning his post as well. The reason there were so many protests against the corrupt former President of Ukraine is because he broke promises to try to get closer with the EU-promises that included trying to decrease corruption at home. Since he has been gone Ukraine has gone through a couple of honest elections for President-the kind of thing Putin avoids happening in Russia. Thus Zelenskyy is currently Ukraine's President, and an honestly and democratically elected President at that. Your comments seem to imply supposedly opposing tyranny while, ironically enough, supporting it politically during an actual war between an authoritarian (Putin) and a democratically elected government (Ukraine).
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  348. \U\ already will thank mine for what was sent already.
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  349. Martial law was declared due to an invasion of his nation. That is not a dictator canceling elections so much as his nation being put in an emergency situation the Imperialist invaders choice. Imperialist invaders that have a habit of holding rigged elections back home-unlike Ukraine.
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  350.  @sarar1138  Didn't we debate a bit under a different youtube video? I don't take "the Take" seriously post their "Daenerys was Cersei" video since it tried to reference things in the show that simply didn't happen that way or were not true. A+ in excuses though.
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  351. brantpam222, 1 video that comes to mind as being dishonest is when Prager tried to put racism and slavery on the Democratic Party but skip over the switch on Civil Rights that took place between the 2 major parties during the 20th Century. That is deceptive and a highly edited version of US history.
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  352.  @docequis9796  Yes. Since you asked I'm guessing you are not.
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  353.  @docequis9796  Yes. Have you ever lived in a "red state" or do you have relatives that do?
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  354.  @80s_kid.  If racism doesn't matter anymore then even if we have quotas they wouldn't matter because the percent of different groups of people in workplaces would match that in the population. BTW things have gotten better but things still happen so racism isn't gone-but that is a side point..
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  355. The irony of your statement in this situation is that Putin is trying to force something other than democracy on Ukraine when Ukrainians already have democracy and want to keep it.
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  356.  @anderspuck  Just wanted to mention there could be a reason Putin is hitting Ukrainian grain stores. He may be trying to damage the infrastructure related Ukrainian agriculture. After all, Putin tried unsuccessfully cancel further grain/wheat shipments from Ukraine.
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  357.  @monicavillarreal3902  Trump came in on Obama's economic success and tried to take credit for it. Trump also increased the national debt more in 4 years than Biden or Obama and Trump's debt laden habit started before covid hit-not after.
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  358. Yes. Or he already decided to make his own propaganda film sympathetic to Putin and is worried he cannot turn back on the deception he has already started to engage in. When he criticized Europeans for supposedly not being able to tell the truth I started asking how much of that is just Oliver Stone projecting his own inner feelings on to others.
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  359. I've heard of some people who didn't like the political views of a content creator on youtube so they repeatedly posted false complaints about the content as a way to harass the creator. It may be worth requesting if something similar happened to you on Patreon-this would involve getting (more?) details about the complaint.
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  360. Good question.
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  361.  @ushuaiajs8968  Patents for whom? Also why hit yourself? Kinda defeats the point. Additionally if you are in Florida what have you done or said about the Florida State government trying to rig elections for both the legislature and US House Representatives from FL?
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  362. Thank you for that quote. Is there a good place to find/reference it? He is absolutely correct about Orban.
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  363.  @matthieupeeters  Thank you. Thanks good, I may repeat.
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  364. Greenpeace denies he was a founder and argues more an employee. Maybe he is lying about his resume and maybe not. More importantly is that he is lying about the cycles he mentioned in minute 32 and knows it. NASA had looked into those about a year before this interview and reported that they do not explain recent warming-thus he knows he is lying and figures most people won't double check so he can try to get away with it.
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  365. Also it is funny in the comparisons that they left out blue states usually have better schools, better healthcare, and lower murder rates. The last point is especially ironic since the video tried to talk up red states being tough on crime while blue states are actually safer-for example New York has a lower murder rate than Texas.
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  366. Gee is that a new piece of Russian propaganda? Have not seen the cocaine claim until just now. Pretty sure it will turn out to be lie like the one about President Zelensky supposedly running around buying mansions though. Meanwhile he is trying to protect his people from a Russia military warcriming its way into whatever Ukrainian towns it can get into.
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  367. Agreed. I think there is something to that or at the very least it is worth thinking about. Hearing his comments in this video made me suspect Mr. Stone was engaging in deflection or projection during this discussion.
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  368. This is the same Mearsheimer that claimed Putin would not invade Ukraine. That did not turn out to be true. Now he claims Putin was serious about the Minsk agreements. That claim is very disputed-with multiple organizations saying the opposite about Putin. Also Measheimer saying the Baltic states are tiny thus to be ignored is him ignoring his own statement about spheres of influence when he feels it suits him. Moldova is a small nation yet Putin already tried to overthrow its government during the current war in Ukraine.
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  369. As much as the cynical comments are enjoyable and have some value or even truth there is still the problem that holes can get deeper.
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  370. "military industrial complex donors". Funny criticism. Trump signed off on a bunch of military spending. However he, unlike either she, is for letting a warmonger like Putin run rampant.
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  371. I suspect the next budget will reduce that to every 100 days, but we shall see.
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  372.  @joshuapaul2022  "I have nothing to do with Russia." Except here you are promoting Russian imperialism over a population that does not want it.
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  373. Rob Marks. It is rather ironic that you wrote "Unfortunately the leftist who can't argue the facts will only attack you in discussions and debates." When someone who I suspect is a "leftist" (Roger Jamespaul) was citing some facts as he had come across them.
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  374. Ukraine knowns well who their real enemy is. Back in the communist times Russia was responsible for the deaths of a couple million Ukrainians. Additionally it has not been lost on Ukrainians that Putin likes to rig elections so if he gains power over them they will not be able to pick their own leaders for as long as that power holds. Last but not least Russian soldiers have been stealing and torturing their way through areas they captured in this war. Thus Ukrainians know well that Russians-especially with Putin-is the enemy of most future hopes they may have.
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  375. I hope "paid Attention what the Russians were saying" is not code for handed Eastern Europe over to Russia without any regard for what the populations of those nations want. That seems to be what Putin is going for these days.
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  376. He does. And he doesn't usually get called on things. For example when they played a clip of the The Colbert Report and interviewed a US official as part of arguing the US caused back in 2014 all this they never mentioned the part where the official said the Ukrainians are choosing their future.
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  377. That could be the problem, Tywin didn't care if innocents die to get what he wants and neither does Bran.
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  378. If his plan is like Shock Therapy that Russia went through (with the help of Jeffry Sachs) then unhappiness in Argentina may find a way to increase and things get worse. At least if I visit I can use dollars. Now getting rid off a bunch of stuff could make things interesting, however promoting lying about Global Warming (yes it is here and human made) probably won't bring good things.
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  379. johnbodman4504 "I agree, How would America like Russian bases in Mexico?" This sounds like more of Mearsheimer messing up history in service to his ideology. The Soviet Union had some troops in Cuba-not many but some. There were no US bases in Ukraine nor a likelihood some would be built soon. That is just repeating Russian lies about NATO when Ukraine wasn't in NATO and had not been in NATO for several years. Maybe if NATO had allowed Ukraine to join then perhaps Putin would not have started his Imperialistic war.
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  380. Agreed.
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  381. It comes from US History. Believe it or not pollution became a problem that many people supported the idea of government doing something about it and some politicians way back were elected on the notion they would.
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  382. So Cotton said he should resign. Was this situation accurate as described by Cotton or was he blowing something out of proportion to misrepresent what Garland meant? Is this actual righteousness or self-righteousness pretending to be the former?
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  383. Best of luck to you and Ukraine. I hope Ukraine is able to keep its freedom and independence.
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  384. Thank you for this video. A few concerns. Bran has no desire to help anyone so why should the suffering of small (common) people end? It is fair to ask if the characters in the series were broken and replaced with look alikes just to give a preplanned ending (Daenreys going murderous or Jon going mute). Bloodline rulers don't end either-just look at the Houses themselves.
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  385.  @josephpham9078  Not if he is blaming President Zelenksy for the war Putin started.
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  386. Ukraine continued to hold its own elections and they were honest elections. Something Putin likely sees as a problem since he does not have honest elections. Also Ukraine wanted to join NATO after 2014 but wasn't let in. Saying this is all about NATO was not correct.
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  387. I voted for Bernie in the Primary. I respect him still. His words in this moment hold a lot of truth.
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  388. And Russia still gets less money than the market price.
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  389. I think this was a good interview but it really missed an important problem. Removing the legal block on fossil fuel companies getting sued for damages from Global Warming. This is a large ongoing indirect subsidy to fossil fuel companies. Maybe such lawsuits would prod the energy industry into moving away from fossil fuels and maybe not, it is worth trying and at least the bill for damages areas such as when a wildfire burns through or when a subway system is flooded would be taken care of in the mean time.
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  390. I would not accuse Lex of that. He is doing an interview and letting his guest speak.. even if that particular guest is being dishonest or projecting his own falsehoods on to others.
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  391. So accurate he managed to forget the Cuban Missile Crisis was over missiles? His claim Putin wouldn't invade Ukraine also aged so well..
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  392. Agree. Though they all had hits over the seasons, she isn't a bad leader-especially compared to Cersei.
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  393. Trump's buddy Putin would very much like to do that. However right now the war he started with Ukraine isn't going well so he is hoping Trump will fix that for him.
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  394.  @valyagul  Many people work long hours for decades and never end up billionaires. Claiming Putin is old is not an excuse nor explanation. Putin's corruption is an explanation even if it is inexcusably bad.
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  395. "I mean, the fact that Netanyahu desperately wants Trump in the whitehouse should be all the proof anybody needs." Don't make assumptions. Plus there are still people who are not muslim but see Gaza as their top issue but don't realize Trump is a conman willing to pull on their emotions. The point that allowing Trump to get back in the White House would reward those who try to commit genocide should not be unmentioned to such people.
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  396. Not really. I give the Take credit for admitting some of the flaws in season 8 but it didn't acknowledge them all and even contradicted itself. Bran can see possible futures and either didn't care about other people's lives so he let thousands of innocents die or wanted power so badly he manipulated things to make that happen. Not a good king either way and the Take missed it. The Take-by claiming Bran is both taking responsibility and not doing anything-is contradicting itself.
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  397. Actually no. Harris isn't an idiot. She is stuck trying to balance groups pulling her in different directions. Trump doesn't care if there is an ethnic cleansing so long as he can give himself pardons. Netanyahu likely prefers Trump because the latter has already supported Israel keeping land that took from Palestinians (including people who were kicked out of their homes) when the previous President (Democratic) did not.
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  398.  @IAT1964  Not in this current war.
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  399.  @justmyowndogecoin  There are not any "old treaties" that NATO violated. Also NATO is "expanding" because other nations want to join it (especially because some that are near Russia and don't want it to attack them) and not out of imperialistic efforts like Russia is currently using.
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  400.  @crispinfornoff206  Not everyone, just you. Disagree? Then show some thinking beyond the level of a bot. Granted, I could be wrong about you being a bot, but you could be wrong on criticism of the points they made.
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  401.  @jennyeisenhart9959  Ashli Babbitt was shot while climbing through a door that she and the people with her had been trying to break open by someone with the job of guarding that building. People can ask if the punishment matched the crime but she was killed while committing a crime-one the person guarding the building was obligated to try to prevent. That is not "in cold blood".
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  402.  @frankpaya690  Trump was the one that signed a deal to leave with the Taliban while not having the Afghan government at the table negotiations were happening at. Also there wasn't much of a mechanism for punishing the Taliban in the deal Trump made with them if they broke promises. Thus Trump agreed the US would leave Afghanistan but without any enforced conditions for leaving.
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  403. Pretty sure I just saw a guy encourage people to be sheep by overlooking war crimes in Bucha. I didn't realize Oliver Stone could cause my respect for him to drop so quickly. But the drop is deserved.
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  404. aaron jacques You are wrong about what legal eagle said when asking if Trump's speech incited. He said there was an argument for both sides-not that Trump supposedly didn't. Also just because Trump said no collusion doesn't mean there was no collusion. More importantly the prior impeachment effort against Trump was justified and was due to his effort to extort a deceptive political favor from a foreign government in exchange for aid that Trump would not be right to block (thus should have flowed uninterrupted to that nation without such a favor). I'm adding the extra details of why the 1st impeachment was justified as an actual abuse of power.
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  405. No. Making a problem worse is usually not a good answer.
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  406. I can. I listened to what she said earlier this month and noticed she lied about Democrats. For example she claimed Democrats supposedly betrayed their own voters by not doing more on student debt. What actually happened is Republicans undercut Democratic efforts. So what she said misrepresented the actions of both major parties. Additionally I am aware Stein has received help from Republicans.
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  407. Lets see what Propaganda U has for us today.. Free Speech.. we have it with some limitations-for example no yelling "fire" when there is no fire in a crowded people (that risks getting people trampled to death for no reason). We even have "Hate Speech" as free speech. People can yell racist slogans on the sidewalk if they want. But if they join an internet forum and it is against the rules for that forum they can get booted off no government involvement required. Now it is funny the guy doing interviews mentioned the FBI "colluding". If a Fact Checker is looking for the best available info on an issue and asks a governmental organization that may know then that is not "collusion". It is trying to things properly and get info. Not if some people are planning to commit a crime online or actively using the internet to do so then that is not free speech-it is committing a crime. This particular Propaganda U guy mentioned deplatforming a President. Would that be Trump? If so that finally happened in January of 2021. After Trump had arguably incited a riot-which is an actual crime. Now not only did that happen after Trump had arguably committed a crime but he had benefited from double standards that twitter had engaged in. Trump's comments were often seen as violations of twitter's rules that most users had to operate by at the time. So other people risked getting booted off if while he did not. That makes Trump the opposite of a victim. Going back to Hate speech. Like on an internet forum there may or may not be toleration for it where you work. Some workplaces may not have a workplace policy (rule) about bigoted comments. Some may. For people who work at the latter that means the government won't stop or fine people for making a bigoted remarks, but their boss may fire them for it. Speaking of workplaces.. I don't see a lot of conservatives getting defensive over people getting fired from their jobs for talking about making a union. Interesting that some conservatives seem more interested in protecting people's ability to make bigoted comments than if they are about workers talking about if they are getting paid well or not and if they are treated well or not and what they may or may not do to address that. Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong but I haven't seen many rightwing politicians make that a concern of theirs. One last thing. I call Prager U by the phrase Propaganda U because often enough its videos aren't educational but encouraging a certain political leaning on political issues. That is political propaganda. We have free speech in this country so political propaganda is perfectly legal. But I question if it should be tax-exempt. When people say "non-profit" I think of a charity organization that tries to help people in some fashion. That is not what Propaganda U does. It isn't an actual University so it cannot even honestly claim its goal is to educate people and prepare them for the future. Now I'm sure some working for it would be happy to mislabel their political propaganda as education, but slapping the wrong label on something does not make it that thing. Should a political PR group be treated with the same treatment as a group that helps homeless people or people suffering from some kind of illness? My feeling is no. Right now the laws let them get away with it but that doesn't mean the law shouldn't be changed. It certainly does not mean political groups have the same moral standing as organizations that actually do something worthwhile.
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  408. Oliver Stone has been a Putin shill for some years. Though I was surprised that Stone would go so far as to try to cover for or excuse Russian war crimes in Bucha (he tried to do this my dishonestly claiming Ukraine is doing the same right now when the evidence is not currently showing that). Of course he also dodged the real reason Putin probably invaded Ukraine. Putin was likely worried that at some point Russians may realize elections are more honest in Ukraine than they are in Russia.
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  409. @ "Is there even a good rebuttal for that?" You and I have made it. Once a cheaper house is bought then people fix it up to improve it. Same with voting blue in a new state. Having a lower murder rate (like many blue states have) is seen as a good thing.
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  410. All the Russian propagandists say so.
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  411. It is pure propaganda because this is propaganda. They made point of avoiding discussing Putin's support of neo-nazis and bigots in other nations. One of them even claimed the anti-Putin left supports "empire" when Putin is fighting an imperialist war he started off with a speech claiming that other nations near Russia don't have a right to exist. That is ironic.
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  412. Christoph Mahler I'm not sure everyone knows that in Syria Russia avoided hitting extremists for some time and instead focused on moderate anti-Assad rebels. Something else that didn't get mentioned here is that there were sympathies for Syrian rebels because Assad is a dictator.
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  413. Sanders is a decent person. He also pointed out some of the actual differences between Harris and Trump.
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  414. I wonder if a grumpy Russian (working for Putin?) is sending out complaints to youtube.
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  415.  @krejslayer  Ukraine is very slowly losing small bits of ground, Russia is losing both money and equipment it cannot easily replace. Thus time probably favors Ukraine. So is that actually losing or is it setting the stage for success?
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  416. Actually Trump's record shows he would be worse for Gaza than Harris-he supported Netanyahu annexing lands other former US Presidents would not. In comparison Harris supports creating a Palestinian nation.. Instead of saying people should not care about Palestinians perhaps you should point out that both the USA and Gaza would be better off
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  417. Does any of this sound planned? Netanyahu causes political headaches for the party that supports having a Palestinian nation so odds are higher it loses an election. Then Trump-who supported Netanyahu annexing lands no other US President in modern history did-comes through the election and is in a position to support Netanyahu annexing more lands.
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  418.  @trevorcrook5753  Mercenary groups-and likely private armies-are illegal in Russia. Yet multiple exist and Wagner became a well known one. And yes, they were fighting for Russia, but as mercenaries. Before Putin started a war with Ukraine they were used in other nations to do things Putin didn't want to admit to but would benefit from. I suspect with Putin having an actual war on his hands he called out to them to join in-he may have annoyed them so much they revolted later but their status as mercenaries never changed.
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  419.  @evgeniya7853  Who said he was a Russian citizen? You are the 1st person I've seen suggest it. He may simply have been grabbed and sent off to the Russian military and then Ukraine with no Russian citizenship.
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  420. @ 'New York City trying to let non-citizens vote in local elections, they argued that 2 million non-citizens are "disenfranchised" by current laws.' Thank you for acknowledging immigrants are not able to vote in Federal elections.
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  421. eliannafreely5725 That is somewhat true and I'd recommend a city of any nation beware of gerrymandering. That said in the USA look for State level efforts to end gerrymandering. That is currently a way to fix some of this. Michigan did and so did Pennsylvania.
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  422.  @dieterbarkhoff1328  The current President of Ukraine is a Russian speaker (thus likely as least part ethnically Russia). That doesn't mean he nor any other Ukrainian citizen wan't to be part of Russia. If anything they lucked out by not being stuck in Russia.
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  423. Not really. The UnSullied know they could've walked away the 1st day. Many choose to support her. Though for former slave masters your claim may be the case, but they aren't a majority.
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  424.  @jasonleslie203  Commoners did really well under Daenerys. She turned Meereen into a democracy in season six. Thus giving many of them more political power than they usually have ever had. One more reason the line about not letting people "choose" in season 8 is nonsense and character breaking (adding to the character assassination D and D had already done earlier in season 8).
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  425.  @jasonleslie203  Thank you for acknowledging Cersei was a problem. Also fantasy has been based on reality for a long time. The question is did this fantasy story break from its own internal logic and characters. The answer to that is yes. One example is that Varys should've known Cersei was still a serious problem. You are correct that Daenerys would've had to fight the Night King eventually. However it is still a positive mark for her morality that she would risk her live to try to save Jon Snow and the people on the mission with him (to grab an undead). It is another positive mark that she kept her word and did fight the undead-unlike Cersei who showed that trying to leave it to other people to fix problems was an option. I didn't criticize Jon Snow for trying to rally people against a common threat that some of them don't even recognize exists. That is a positive mark for his character. Daenerys decides to help him in that effort before he bent the knee to her thus before he was someone she had an official responsibility to protect-once he bent the knee and was her vassal she had a responsibility to help and protect him just as he had a responsibility to follow her orders at that time. But she decided to help him fight the Night King before he bent the knee. And even before that she was willing to do her part in arranging a truce talk with Cersei so he could try to convince everyone to unite against the undead threat. So Daenerys is being very helpful. That can be acknowledged without taking away from Jon being the chief whistleblower on the issue.
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  426.  @jasonleslie203  Fair enough. Despite a perhaps cavalier admission my other point about Varys was well founded. I don't think I care for the Dany nazi one though. They spent time and a quality effort on it but-perhaps like the events it was part of-it doesn't fit the character.
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  427. "during the coup in 2014" Wasn't a coup. That is a Russian propaganda way distorting it. The corrupt former President at the time did some things that spurred backlash against him. He ran because of the backlash. After he ran the Ukrainian Parliament ruled he had abandoned his office. Ukraine has had a couple of honest elections for President since (something annoying to Putin since Russia does not and Ukraine may set an example for Russia at some point).
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  428. Peterson is not an expert and Dr. Lindzen gets money from the fossil fuel industry-bringing his independence or integrity on this issue into question rather than (though also important) his expertise thus rendering it questionable. If you want people with expertise that can be relied on I suggest looking elsewhere.
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  429. Trump would welcome more insanity-not end it.
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  430. Not really. The guy just lies while pretending to be blunt. For example, NASA had looked into those cycles he mentioned in minute 32 about a year before this interview and reported that they do not explain recent warming-thus he knows he is lying and figures most people won't double check so he can try to get away with it.
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  431.  @jasonmaclean719  Inflation had largely been going down for over a year under Biden. Sure it peaked earlier in his term but that peak was lower than for a lot of other nations. Plus as a side bonus the demand for workers stayed strong.
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  432. Source? That sounds like something someone made up.
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  433. Very. If it get Ukraine an actual permanent peace I'll live with it but if not then what is the point of the thing?
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  434. Very good show but I strongly disagree on 1 think. The aid for Ukraine is not just so they can stay in a stalemate but to help Ukraine as it faces both Russian offensives and missile attacks. Israel built a system of apartheid. Ukraine did not. Please do not mix the 2.
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  435.  @MetalManiac1911  Cities are where States and everywhere else makes money pretty much. Outside of having a bunch of goldmines in the hinterlands if the cities break the rural areas will be in for a depression.
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  436.  @urbansetter1  Also the USA is still doing pretty well. Economically we have a bit of an inflation problem but most people who want jobs can still get them. At some point Cuba or Venezuela may become an actual headache but even if that happens it isn't like either could invade.
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  437. He criticized the US action in Iraq. Though not in Afghanistan since what was done in Afghanistan was done in response to a direct attack.
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  438. That would've been a good question. I may have stopped Oliver Stone from pushing distortions or covering for Putin for a second.. or he may have tried to blame Navalny for the assassination attempt against him.
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  439. DOGE is a lie. The people who actually fought Waste, Fraud, and Abuse were the Inspectors General and that is why Trump got rid of them. BTW they saved over $90 billion which is more than DOGE has come close to saving for Taxpayers.. especially since they did it without stopping things government should do (which DOGE folks do not care about). What are the odds Trump declares "Peace In Our Time" (like Chamberlain) during his speech as he tries to arrange WW3?
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  440. That would be another lie. What is going on now is both rapid and not part of a cycle-if anything it may be overwhelming the cycle and taking the global temp in the opposite direction of the cycle at this point. Don't forget some of the cycle people claimed we would see a cooler Earth back in the 1990s. That did not happen.
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  441. I notice it in the USA and try to point it out as false when I hear it. I've also pointed out that it is President Zelensky who is preventing WW3-not Trump.
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  442. @mikecaffrey6454 Didn't Putin write a paper claiming that Ukraine wasn't really an independent nation and that Ukrainians and Russians were supposedly part of the same people thus should supposedly be part of the same nation? That could easily be taken as to mean he wanted Ukraine to stop existing. Also near the beginning of the current war Putin claimed he would win within three weeks. Since Russian troops were attempting to take Kyiv that is an indication he wanted Ukraine.
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  443. "Secondly, CO2 is NOT pollution. It is colorless, order-less and virtually harmless plant food" The events of the last couple of weeks such as heatwaves, floods, and fires disproved that notion pretty well. But even if plants outside benefitted despite the heatwaves, floods, and fires humans do not.
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  444. "Having someone selected for you is the future?" Biden and Harris ran as a ticket. They were elected together. Plus Republicans tried to steal that particular election despite who voters elected. So not only were they the choice of voters but many of those against her either tried to prevent the will of the voters from going forwards themselves or looked the other way while their fellow party members did.
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  445. @ Do you mean that last 10 years while Russia has been illegally occupying and colonizing Crimea (a part of Ukraine?). No I didn't miss that.
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  446. That is sad, truly sad. And isn't life of the mother 1 of the exceptions most Pro-Life people support?
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  447. Don't fall for the Russia propaganda-especially after it was already disproven. Seach "Fact Checking Claims That Volodymyr Zelensky Bought a $20 Million Florida Mansion" or "No proof that Ukraine President Zelenskyy owns a $35 million home in Florida" and Politifact" The 2nd was from 2022 so that bit of propaganda has been debunked for some time now.
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  448.  @latishalingo4399  Or Bran manipulated events to make the massacre happen in order to open up one of the few chances he would be king. This would mean Bran is both very power hungry and a mass murder. Don't forget it was Bran who pushed (not sat and did nothing) Sam to tell Jon his linage but then never brought it up himself at the council. And if Bran can warn others about a zombie dragon he can warn others about Euron's ambush but didn't. That may mean he wanted it to happen. And yes Bran "Why do you think I came all this way" can see possible futures which means he knows which one he can subtly work for or manipulate other people to get. And he still has wants. If he looked through decades of the past to get better wheelchair design than the one Tyrion gave him that means he still wants things.. it also means he can lie to other people like Tyrion.
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  449. Do you think you would last long if you stuck your head underwater and tried to breath water for an hour?
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  450.  @carldavid1558  Which are you required to drink to live? Though if you wanted to try holding your head in boiling salt water I suspect additional problems would arise.
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  451. The irony/dishonesty in that statement this time around is that those who wanted to cut funds for Ukraine often wanted to cut funds to help Americans-however they had no problems sending more money to Israel.
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  452. Balancing the budget would get in the way of doing large tax cuts. See either the last 20 some years or the budget plans for the current congress. I'm not opposed to term limits so much anymore yet I noticed that Congresspeople new and old are part of the problem right now so I don't think they will really fix the problem.
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  453. Thanks good, was it to compensate for actions of their party protecting thousands of tons of waste being put into the air, land, and water?
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  454.  @jpoeng  Thank you and my sympathies for your cousin. I hope for Ukraine to remain free and independent. The best to you and Ukraine.
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  455. If protestors over Gaza wanted to have more say they would develop ways to protect Democrats on their side from AIPAC. That could free up some Dems to be more supportive.
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  456. My sympathy for you and those who have had to live (or been killed by) this invasion. I don't know your thoughts or even Mr. Stone's on Putin but my suspicions is Mr. Stone has been so sympathetic to Mr. Putin in the past he cannot find a way to admit he made a mistake and turn away from him-his supposed criticism of Putin involved a lot of trying to provide cover for Putin by claiming that Ukrainians supposedly did the same when we aren't seeing that right now.
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  457. Good points in this video. Glad Tulsi is not VP and this video has aged relatively well. Especially since Trump was guilty and GOP Senators just let him off anyway.
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  458. I hope things will get better but this is arguably adds to the claim that Trump is working for Putin.
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  459. Cuba had a military alliance with the Soviet Union for most of what is referred to as the "Cold War".
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  460. "Ah no, Tulsi Gabbard is nothing more than a political opportunist". This is not giving an agent of Moscow full credit for her efforts.
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  461.  @alpg8820  There were people advocating Ukraine join NATO. The nation's official position didn't change from Neutrality until 2014. Putin actions in Crimea revealed those advocating for NATO membership were correct. The problem with the neighbor's dog isn't just that it is aggressive in this situation, it is also that it has a way out of the fenced in yard of its owner and is now being a problem for others in their own yards.
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  462.  @destinal_in_reality  So you acknowledge you were abusing Nordhaus's words then? Back in the 1st Bush administration a panel that included several scientists and a couple of economists. The scientists all said Global Warming was problem that should be addressed and the economists argued that even if agriculture in the developed world lost a third of its production (harvest) that economically other areas would make up for it financially, ignoring that without food people aren't that well off and that if losing a third of agriculture in the developed world was a problem it would bring famine to parts of the developing world. Someone does not have to say the all of humanity will die to still know that Global Warming not only has killed people already but has the potential to kill many more as years come. The notion of putting profit over human lives is not lost to me but that doesn't mean it is something I or many other people would eagerly sign on for. And yes, people with money in a bank account somewhere can still die. Though people without sizable bank accounts may tend to die faster or more often. Even if there was economic growth there is no guarantee it would feed everyone. Considering part of capitalism (despite its promotion of efficiency) is rationing by wealth what food did exist may be more limited to the vulnerable than normal. There is also no guarantee that the profits of any economic growth would be spread around anyway (though this is less important than if people are starving).
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  463. Al Gore got upset about something. It just happens to be wrecking things and killing people. But many conservatives will complain he was angry to dodge talking about the why.
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  464. Then think carefully if you live in a swing state. I've voted third party myself (including Green Party). So I don't blame people for wanting to do that. However Stein has been getting support in this election who are deeply opposed to what the Green Party stands for-that is a big red flag. If you live in a swing state then your vote has a greater impact than just symbolism. If you care about the environment (such as dealing with Global Warming) or Palestinians then the better way to vote is probably for Harris. Trump has been more willing to support Netanyahu annexing land than any other US President in modern history. That doesn't sound like a recipe for peace in Gaza nor the well-being of the people living there. Bob Woodward's new book War discussed how Biden had to push Netanyahu to let food aid in for civilians when Netanyahu didn't want to.
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  465.  @craigb8228  Where? I believe the elections are likely to be in 2026.
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  466. Somehow it managed to get more surprising in season 8 yet still follow tropes and become even more disappointing.
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  467. I suspect Mr. Stone allowed his anti-NATO feelings to lull himself into a sympathy for or alliance with Putin to the point that now Mr. Stone cannot bring himself to speak honestly about Putin. This may make it very ironic that Mr. Stone criticized European leaders for supposedly not being able to speak their minds. A word often used for it is "projection".
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  468. Is it possible some of the channels putting out propaganda also started sending complaints about those channels that are putting out false information like they are? Jake and others are both competition and interferes with the propaganda they push.
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  469. The last military budget was over 800 billion, 75 billion is cheap and some of the ammo sent to Ukraine is over 30 years old. Also some of the same folks I saw saying not to help Ukraine were also opposed to spending money on the homeless when that came up earlier in the year. So the notion that money would be spent dealing with the homeless if it wasn't sent to Ukraine is actually another lie that has been making the rounds online.
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  470. Good luck to your nation. I apologize for what the current White House occupants are doing.
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  471. "And then the next administration with new 'experts' can reinterpret it. Rinse and repeat. That's not how it is supposed to work." This is confusing actual experts with political appointees. The actual experts are supposed to stay with an agency since they have training and experience. The political lackeys come and go at the top but they are not the ones doing the actual research nor should they be.
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  472. "They control policy and the aforementioned 'experts'. So no confusion. Change of administration, change of policy, reinterpretation of the law." And what happens when they start swapping out experts for political lackeys? Then you have a situation where people may not understand the science or, worse, will lie about what it says.
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  473. "but it's just so low to mock him for who he is" Didn't the person Elon is cheering for-Trump-do just that thing?
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  474. She was predicting that Putin would not honor the Minsk agreement-and she was correct.
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  475. Thank you for that comment. It gives me some hope. I think it may also be showing how long it took to get enough Harris signs.
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  476. Because you feel a need to be more indoctrination. If you want to pay money for an old guy to lie to you that is your choice. But you should probably know beforehand the guy is going to try to bs you in his book if that he lies in the interview are any indication.
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  477. So your solution is to not blame things for the effects they are causing? Sounds like both a dishonest and dysfunctional solution.
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  478. The guy is a liar. For example, NASA had looked into those cycles he mentioned in minute 32 about a year before this interview and reported that they do not explain recent warming-thus he knows he is lying and figures most people won't double check so he can try to get away with it.
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  479. Ukraine wanted to join NATO and was prevented by other European nations out of sympathy or desires to have good relations with Russia. Russia invaded regardless so the desires for good relations are no longer as strong as they were before.
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  480. Isn't Hersh the guy that was making stuff up about a pipeline a year or 2 ago? Not exactly a source of news anymore. Has not been for some years.
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  481. Your teachers taught correctly. FDR saved the US Banking system and helped the USA in many other ways.
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  482. Good catch. You noticed some of the stats that Prager made a point of not mentioning in this video-probably because they didn't want their narrative questioned.
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  483.  @edwardplackett7403  Not only is he a liar rather than a hero but he'd probably be harmful and an embarrassment to future generations of both nations.
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  484. daraharvey4519 As was mentioned before, faking bluntness is not a "real person". It is just one more way to try to pull a fast one on people.
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  485.  @mawilliams777  Already pointed out a specific fact he was lying about at a specific time in the video. Instead of talking of other people being a "fool" or "gullible" and, ironically enough, "blindly following" "beliefs rather than listening to others and facts" you read what someone actually wrote and the fact that was pointed out.
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  486.  @davidoltmans2725  "Do you really think that NASA does not know where its budget comes from?" Sounds a lot like "someone came up with evidence and I don't want to look at it because it refutes what a guy I like said." Meanwhile some of the people and organizations writing checks to Mr. Moore have become known. So pointing to who writes paychecks is not a winning argument when defending him.
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  487. I want to know how many Brand fans plus Russel himself are still making excuses for Putin now that Putin has tried to blame Poland for getting invaded by Hitler and Stalin rather than blaming the people who actually ordered the invasion.
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  488. Then vote for the candidate that would be better for Gaza. That is Harris. Trump is a big supporter of Netanyahu annexing land (just check his record) and takes Adelson money (who also supports Netanyahu). Harris would be at least as aggressive as Biden (probably more but check on Woodward's new book War) in getting food to people in Gaza and supports having a Palestinian nation.
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  489. Good luck to your nation. I apologize for the dishonorable actions by the current administration (here in the USA). I've probably never been more impressed with France.
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  490. Putin started this war not Zelensky. Putin has long been a very greedy and corrupt leader in Russia and now his imperialism is causing others to suffer in both Ukraine and Russia. It is on Putin that the blame belongs. This war was never about NATO, that is just 1 of Putin's many lies to try to cover for his own greed and imperialism.
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  491. It is a slow process but isn't there a way for a majority of the House to pull a bill forwards for a vote if they choose? May be a good time to do that.
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  492. I agree with that notion. Problem is that in order to fix it some laws have to get passed and guess who gets in the way of that.
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  493. This company PR guy is not a climate scientist. He never was. He is a "Doctor of Philosophy" which means he read and wrote a bunch but not as a scientist. Kind of like how being an English Major as an undergrad doesn't make someone a scientist. He did a stint in Greenpeace which makes him a better propaganda guy than the usual company shills because he can claim he cared about the environment at 1 time. But being a propaganda guy doesn't make him a scientist. And NASA-which has many scientists-put out an explanation of why Milankovitch cycles don't explain the Global Warming we are seeing in current years. And it put out this explanation around a year before this guy did the interview. So he knows he is lying.
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  494.  @scarba  Wouldn't be the 1st time I've seen a youtube interviewer treat a dishonest guest with kid gloves. And if you pick something he said out as not making sense then good. It means you may not have fallen for his simply acting confident even while saying things that are bs. Now some youtubers let any guest run his or her mouth and don't check what they are saying mid interview to let them say their bit. Then they let a new guest opposed to such a guess also say also say whatever they would prefer. That can balance. A question is did someone who counters Patrick Moore's distortions also get time?
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  495. Bran schemed to murder thousands of innocent people plus Varys and Missandei in order to get himself the crown. He used his powers to find a window of opportunity to pour more stress and suffering on the only queen to come to his homeland's aid (and maybe all of Westeros). He knew she would be grieving for Jorah and used that moment of weakness to make all the deaths that followed happen. So.. did that help your views of the ending? D and D may have never realized it but they were leaving bits of evidence in season 8 Bran is actually a scheming mass murderer but there you go. And even if you think that sounds bizarre I can point some out to you (did one or to already). So there is evidence for it. It may have been bad writing but it made it into the show so it is there.
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  496.  @hakz795  If you opposed the USA invading Iraq then you should oppose Russia invading Ukraine.
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  497. nathand6767 I don't live on a coast so I don't have to care as much about rising seas as someone from Florida. Have had to deal with heatwaves and storms of increasing intensity-which brings more flooding. So rising sea levels aren't the only thing happening. There have been an unusually large number of wildfires in my part of the USA and the impact of that doesn't include the impact of smoke blowing in from Canada. Think food prices are high now? Parts of my state where agriculture is big were facing a drought. Also of these things with enough time will mess with the costs most people end up having to deal with. So when it comes to Global Warming you-and any kids you have-will end up paying for it 1 way or another. And if you read my earlier message you know that fossil fuel companies are not footing the bill for most of the impacts of Global Warming when much of it is their fault.
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  498.  @kingshark5938  So yes.
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  499.  @MandalayMoore33  I had not followed OS's past, but now I know and am not impressed with it.
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  500.  @mercster  Apologies for not getting back to you sooner. I've had other things going on to pay attention to. Anyway I've been paying attention to a number of things over the years including being lucky enough to speak with an older Russian guy some years ago. One of the things he told me, though I didn't understand it as well at the time, is that Putin is bringing "the fear" back. My somewhat loose understanding of that is that the Soviet Union operated partly on fear. This relates to that the primary goal of the KGB wasn't to spy on other nations (like the CIA does in the USA and spy agencies do in other nations) but to keep the internal population spied on and suppressed. More to this specific interview I believe Oliver Stone repeated some claims made by Russia that have already been debunked. I'll have to rewatch it to double check which ones in specific but it struck me that he was basically trying to downplay Russian atrocities in this war by blaming Ukraine and saying Ukraine did it without referring to much in the way of specific events (likely because they didn't exist). And one of the few times he did refer to a specific event I believe it was a person who was arrested and exchanged to Russia after the current war began. That is not a sign Ukraine was doing terrible things that stirred up this war. It reminds me of how North Korea claims the US started the Korean war in spite of the fact that early on the North Korean army made rapid advances into South Korea and it was only after US and UN reinforcements came in that North Korean forces pulled back from South Korea. Rather odd that a supposedly "defensive" war starts with North Korea's military pushing as far as it could go into South Korea. Now I don't speak Russian so it is possible every translator that is quoting Putin or Russian internal propaganda is lying and I'm not catching it but so far we've seen Putin claim that Ukraine doesn't have a right to exist at the start of this war (indicating he planned on wiping it out), a Russian MP saying the idea of Ukraine being an independent nation is "alien", and one of the internal propagandists declaring they would simply "take" what they felt like.
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  501. Remember this when deniers claim Global Warming doesn't have much of an impact.
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  502. Possible. The Presidency and most Governorships are jobs that can end up being 100 hour work weeks. That said this is a possible problem of the need to update (not further weaken) campaign funding rules as well as some outdated legal and political traditions.
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  503. The guy lied. He tried to fake being blunt as a cover for his dishonesty. If you want an example around minute 32 he claims recent Global Warming is due to cycles. This interview was done about a year after NASA already reported why the specific cycles he referred to do not explain recent warming. So he knows what he said was false.
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  504. Having doubts about Tulsi Gabbard is a sign of clear thinking. Tulsi supports warmongering as long as it is done by Putin.
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  505. If it is the only thing you can like about him from this interview then you are intelligent enough to recognize it.
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  506. My sympathies. I encouraged our political leaders in my nation to support yours and I will again. I'm glad that we have people willing to reveal just how bad the attempt made to betray Ukraine was. I hope alternatives that Trump doesn't have control over can be assembled and are enough.
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  507. Who said the US House is really that much of a "democracy" right now. A few people are holding up something most support-that is different from "democracy". "We "helped" our allies in Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan and what did it get us? Ukraine may turn out like South Korea, but the probabilities are NOT in the favor of the West." We did? Really?? S. Korea ok-the US army was actually there and fought. Afghanistan was hung out to dry, yes we tried some help but we also left rather bad corruption in place which hindered efforts long before the US cut a deal with the Taliban and left. Iraq was given some money but also 1 of the worst reconstruction plans possible. Decisions made inside the USA allowed for things to get out of control in Iraq an that opened a door to many people getting killed. Now Iraq's government is finally somewhat in control and the US still has a small group of troops there-who came back after the Iraqi government found it having them leave resulted in other problems. Unlike Afghanistan the geographic situation for Ukraine is it actually has some friendly nations near it including Poland on its border. So it is a lot easier to help Ukraine than Afghanistan in the long run. Oh, and yes we "helped" Vietnam with a bunch of military hardware. But South Vietnam was not really a democratic government clearly supported by a majority of its population. Ukraine is.
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  508. "I also believe he does consider us weak and somewhat divided with Biden in office. I agree with that." I found it odd you included that remark when Biden was the strongest in terms of dealing with Putin. Also that Ukrainians officials resigned when many were fired for being corrupt. Now I wouldn't be shocked if it turned out there was a problem with Biden or Zelenskyy, but so far each seems to be doing ok and the former is an improvement over the prior President. Now there may not be a way to "truly know" but that doesn't mean there aren't ways to increase the chances of guessing correctly by making the guess more educated.
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  509.  @HonoluluTita  By the way. Thank you for trying to give me a serious answer to my question. It doesn't fill one of the multiple contradictions in Tara Reade's accusation but you did try to address your response in a way that was in trying to address sexual assault.
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  510. I'll take her over the warmonger in Moscow (who prefers Trump). Speaking of warmongering, which wars did she supposedly start?
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  511. Or he simply is willing to lie about it. The cycles he mentioned in minute 32 NASA already looked at and reported they do not explain recent warming around a year before this interview. So he knows that claim was a lie for some time before repeating it here.
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  512.  @mbishop5954  Other nations asked to join NATO. Funny how those who complain about "Expanding" NATO never mention that nor that Putin has said there is no Ukraine and that Ukraine is supposedly not a nation.
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  513. People can fake bluntness while lying. Seen it before. And yes, Mr. Moore is lying. For example, NASA had looked into those cycles he mentioned in minute 32 about a year before this interview and reported that they do not explain recent warming-thus he knows he is lying and figures most people won't double check so he can try to get away with it.
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  514.  @marinabreuer7740  Seems Mr. Sachs and others who excuse Putin's warmongering seem to treat Russian attempts at manipulation or domination of Ukraine as ok or at the very least not wrong enough to be worth mentioning. Of course that may be because bringing it up could be harmful to their narrative.
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  515.  @marinemarine8305  That sounds very much like Russian propaganda. Putin started this war. He has already stated multiple times and ways that he doesn't feel Ukraine is a real nation-which means he does not feel it has a right to exist. The best way to create a lasting peace when faced with a warmonger like Putin (who has been starting wars since he came to power in Russia) is to have an alliance or something that makes them think twice about starting a new war.
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  516. Trillion dollar tax cuts have a history of increasing the debt. When the House says that is their plan (and they already did) then you know they are planning to grow the National Debt not shrink it. DOGE is thinking about cutting Medicare and Social Security because the tax cut they are planning to do is so large that there isn't enough cuts they can do elsewhere to make up for it. DOGE may be the way they try to cut Social Security without forcing Congressmen to take a vote on it first.
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  517. You'd have to be a US citizen to pay into this, and even if you were the cost is very low vs the benefit so it'd be a good deal. Which makes this a good thing for US citizens. Are you opposed to US citizens or good deals?
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  518. Many of your complaints are bogus or just didn't happen. There is no genocide in Donbas regardless of how many times Russian PR lies about it. Complaining about NATO stopping ethnic cleansing in the former Yugoslavia is being pro-ethnic cleansing (that should be a source of shame for the critic rather than NATO). Neither France, nor Germany, nor Sweden, nor the USA are trying to invade and annex Ukraine right now. Putin is. Complaining about them when they aren't doing the current problem while ignoring who is causing the current problem is trying to distract from rather than address the issue at hand. FYI Cuba has a military alliance which included Russian military bases in Cuba for most of the Cold War. The Cuba Missile Crisis did not result in Cuba not being allowed to have a military alliance with the Soviet Union. Your complaint about missiles misrepresents that issue. Considering that much of what you put our is propaganda and distortions it should be pretty easy to spot who is the propagandists here. Perhaps you should not be "immoral" (as put you it).
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  519. I've voted for the Green Party in the past but I will not vote for Stein now. She has gotten help from Republicans because they and she know she is acting as a spoiler for them. That is not being an honest third party. Additionally she was dishonest about Democrats when speaking about them-avoiding talking about differences between Democrats and Republicans and actively lying about why more student debt didn't get cut (Republicans blocked it).
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  520. Global Warming related floods killed a bunch of people in Libya this year, the Canadian forest fire season has gotten longer than it once was and people in parts of the USA got to experience the haze and low air quality that sometime brought, Global Warming's instability also made a mess of Georgia's peach crop, also an underwater heatwave hit Alaskan snow crab and they still have not recovered this year meaning catching them was called off again. Those may not be a "catastrophe" but people are dead and businesses are disrupted due to Global Warming-and yes that is the phrase I still use for it with no plans to change. It is, after all, what is happening. Though calling it by some other phrase does not somehow magically mean it does not happen. Reality does not work that way.
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  521. This supposed expert claimed Putin wouldn't attack Ukraine. How did that prediction turn out?
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  522. Yes, Andrez Cabara is being honest. Mr. Lavrov himself was one of those saying there was no invasion days before Putin invaded Ukraine in 2022.
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  523. @ I know someone who moved from Texas to Wisconsin. It gets colder in Wisconsin but the power grid there works (including the Windmills that Abbott tried to scapegoat). I asked him if they had fixed that problem in Texas yet and he said no. EDIT: Wisconsin also tends to have better schools and lower crime than Texas.
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  524.  @melodysmith-kein1133  Some of the people commenting here don't want to acknowledge Putin's Imperialism because that would mean that the current war in Ukraine is not the USA's fault. It disrupts the PR being put out.
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  525. Just letting you know, I subscribed because you pointed out that your videos were being flagged wrongly.
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  526. How so? I see Dave Smith repeating a few Kremlin talking points that were not true while ignoring what someone else being interviewed flat out said Ukraine was going to choose its path.
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  527. "not voting for her, they had a year". Biden had a year. She has not. If you want to the judge her by what she has done not with her time then actually judge her if and when it actually is her time. And it isn't just fear that makes me not vote for Trump. It is the knowledge of what he already has done-both the harm he caused Palestinians & more and the potential hope that he would cut off that which Harris offers.
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  528. The people complaining Ukraine supposedly cannot win likely want Russia to win. Oddly enough right now is one of those times when it is both profitable and morally correct for the USA to help Ukraine. The people who want Russia to win and are pushing for it are basically trying to harm both the USA and Ukraine.
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  529. @axe863 Helping end a major war in a good way that results in profits for the USA is not spending "infinite" money to fix "all" of Europe's problems. Like I said before it both saves/makes the US money and is the morally right thing to do. Arguing against helping Ukraine is arguing to make the USA poorer. Please address what I brought up in my response instead of repeating something that I just addressed and is actually misrepresenting the situation. Also allies are a helpful thing to have most of the time, NATO activated when the USA was attacked on 9/11 additionally NATO helped get the USA through the Cold War.
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  530. Yeah, but it will be the Greatest Depression!!
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  531.  @zivaradlovacki2666  " is that when USA lied about weapons of mass destruction, went in on that false pretence and killed 500000 children or...?" US lying about WMD in Iraq? If you oppose larger nations invading smaller like the USA invading Iraq then you should be very opposed to Russia attacking Ukraine. The USA killed "killed 500000 children" in its invasion of Iraq? Really?? That sounds like a lie to me. Did it supposedly round up these children in the streets?
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  532. That's an interesting point. How many years ago was the Fairness Doctrine in place? If people are concerned about bias perhaps it is time to return to that.
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  533. Disrespect to Patrick Moore for lying to viewers. For example, NASA had looked into those cycles he mentioned in minute 32 about a year before this interview and reported that they do not explain recent warming-thus he knows he is lying and figures most people won't double check so he can try to get away with it.
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  534. This could be strong evidence that your gut is about the least trustworthy source of info you have access to and that you may be better off not trusting it again.
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  535. I don't have time to go through the whole video today but I'm 5 minutes in and already see a problem.  TIK seems to have confused getting rid of unions with privatizing industries. The Nazis didn't just consolidate unions into the DAF but killed former union leaders, banned unions as a whole, and didn't require the DAF to let workers pick who ran the DAF nor choose what its goals are. Unions generally get to vote in their own heads (at least in the Local I've seen). Hitler murdering labor leaders and replacing them with his henchmen is not the same thing having labor unions for workers. The DAF was an organization for Hitler and the Nazis, not for workers. Unions are bodies of workers, elected by workers, that are supposed to have the goals of workers in mind. TIK followed up with complaints by factory owners that they weren't free anymore and while it is quite possible they ran into problems with the Nazis and their henchmen deciding things that is probably still a step above union leaders that were killed or sent to concentration camps. People whom TIK did not mention. Why bring up factory owners when the focus of that point is on workers and unions? Is TIK confusing nationalizing an industry which means the ownership of a business becomes that of the government even though people who work for a government organization (its employees) aren't owners and sometimes form unions to protect their own interests and concerns? I don't know if TIK's intention is to confuses viewers or to use a red hearing to distract them-TIKs intent could be distraction and thus be dishonest or it could not be and thus be totally honest that is intent and I do not know his at this time. But, regardless of intention, he certainly did not address the issue. Regardless of if organizations are privately owned or run by the government the employees sometimes form unions to look after their interests and concerns. It is how workers protect themselves and ensure good or at least fair treatment of themselves by an organization. So even if Hitler outright seized control over a business-thus giving owners even more reason to complain-that doesn't cover or explain how employees and the organizations that represent them were banned. I don't know if TIK was trying to do a bait and switch on purpose, if he confused himself, or if what he read confused him over the issue at hand. But I can say there was an issue raised within the 1st 5 minutes of the video and he failed to address it even though this video is presented as him addressing the criticisms of a video made about one of his earlier videos. I haven't yet seen his earlier video nor a video critical of it. From the audio it sounds like a couple of young guys-likely either college or high school level-so I honestly expect them to miss more things or get it more wrong simply because they are younger and perhaps not as well studied. I can see TIK is an older (but not old) man so I would expect him to be more detailed simply because of age and the expected maturity often related to it. In perhaps a way that is arguably similar is my understanding that China also bans labor unions. It has its own Chinese Communist Party controlled organization that is supposedly filling their place but unlike unions as practiced where I come from the leaders in that organization are not elected and the goals for the organization are not put forwards by the workers. So workers in China don't have unions and perhaps China's government is similar to the Nazis in a way that many people don't realize. Political henchmen being put in charge are not proof of nor a counter claim to either Socialism or Capitalism. But they are evidence that the concerns of workers may not be the goals of the organization thus the organization is not a real workers' union. PS My apologies for a long comment-sometimes I get repetitive or long winded in a comment, but I am highlighting something that I noticed.
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  536. Dave Smith is engaging in distortion here. Mentioning little facts like that agreement would undermine the narrative Dave Smith is trying to push.
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  537. I wonder if Oliver Stone was engaging in some heavy duty projection when he talked about Europeans supposedly not being able to speak honestly about this situation. I suspect Oliver Stone is finding himself unable to be honest about Putin.
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  538. So you got your 5 rubles for today?
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  539. "I would love to watch the Vance walz debate in full with you and we can both fact check freely." I watched it the night it aired. Vance said multiple lies.
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  540. Oh look, a guy who has been paid by fossil fuel companies (as pointed out in Ross Gelbspan's book "The Heat is On") says fossil fuel aren't bad.. not exactly a surprise. Also that forest fires have started without humans starting them does not mean that humans cannot start forest fires. "Exploiting people's ignorance" is something Mr. Lindzen does these days. But he is far from the only guy fossil fuel companies have doing propaganda for them.
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  541. Telling the truth about Gabbard repeating propaganda is hardly slander. It is telling the truth. Good for Alesha Cross on knowing more about Gabbard's past than Robby.
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  542.  @crforfreedom7407  Your history is still very wrong. Kyiv is older than Moscow. Not that it matters if Ukraine was 1st a nation in 1991 or not because the point is it is an established nation that was recognized by others including Russia but Ukraine was also one of the "Republics" in the USSR or Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Also Orthodox Christianity is practiced in Ukraine to this day-so that is also wrong. Point remains that Zelenskyy was honestly elected. While I'm not a fan of banning political parties the manner in which the political parties were banned in Ukraine were only done after this war started when they were seen as a risk to Ukrainian national security-the head of the largest banned political party has Putin as godfather to his kids. That kind of thing raises some serious questions. Also Zelenskyy himself is a Russian language 1st speaker. Yet he, very reasonably since Putin is ridiculously corrupt-doesn't want Russia to dominate Ukraine. It does not matter if someone has blood or language ties to Russia. They can still recognize that their government offers them more to hope for than Putin ever would.
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  543.  @dimas3829  So you are unhappy that NATO was willing to act if ethnic cleansing was being done on Europe's doorstep? Correct me if I'm wrong but aren't massacres generally a bad thing and something best prevented?
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  544. If you liked Oliver Stone then you love "narrative control" as long as it is pro-Putin. I suspect the "alternative reporting" you mention is less actual alternative and is primarily from people pushing Putin's PR.
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  545. Interesting point. Thank you for mentioning it.
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  546.  @nomorewar4189  I think they admitted masks were the way to go-even if not at first. Trump and his followers may not but that is different.
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  547. Enough she got elected. She was the head a pro-flat tax party in Estonia and her party did well enough she was in office there.
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  548. Oh look, more bs posted under a video that specializes in bs (though at least the video had some half truths so its deception may sound better.. though that doesn't really make it morally better).
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  549.  @nicklastimmerby6146  That may actually fix the series.
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  550. No, not nice. But true nonetheless.
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  551. Not only do I doubt it but that statement is hardly "not taking sides". You side stepped the biggest reason Putin tried to invade Ukraine. Ukraine's elections are honest while currently Russia's are not.
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  552. Or just dishonest, which isn't really informative. For example, NASA had looked into those cycles he mentioned in minute 32 about a year before this interview and reported that they do not explain recent warming-thus he knows he is lying and figures most people won't double check so he can try to get away with it. Though to double check liars may be a good lesson for kids to learn.
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  553. Trump will make inflation worse. I remember him promising to get rid of the national debt and he ended up adding more to than other recent former President.
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  554.  @pk7ghalm23  It is a fair point. These members of the House should not want themselves to be shown to be as dishonest (and possibly stupid) as Ron Johnson.
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  555.  @frankrenda2519  The current President of Ukraine is a Russian speaker. The truth that scares Putin is that Russian speakers who live in Ukraine may show Russian speakers elsewhere that life can be better without having to live under Putin.
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  556. Oh look, 1 denier can talk to another. I'm sure this will an honest discussion that totally avoids turning itself into an hour and a half plus long piece of propaganda that promotes distortions and deceptions about major issues in politics today.
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  557. Is this comment sarcasm?
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  558. Lets do that after every member of the Supreme Court lives up not to being an activist and also can prove they didn't take large amounts of pricy "gifts" that can amount to bribes.
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  559. "Trump is more Robert with hints of Dani." I'll disagree. Bobby B was something of an absentee king (he had his advisors/councilors run things while he went to have fun). Trump actually had some policies that were actively bad. There were times Trump was absentee but that wasn't as often as Bobby B.
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  560. Maybe but don't get too hopeful. Besides you may have good reason to talk about Trump depending on what Georgia, New York, and who knows how many others do.
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  561.  @theman913  Yes and no. There is a question if lying about a sexual encounter is really a "high crime". Since plenty of politicians have done that and not been impeached it could be argued no. Keep in mind I've seen people lie to state legislatures and Congress-which is actually a crime and they have yet to be punished for it through either being charged or impeached. Additionally with this situation is that the same as trying to steal a Presidential Election through a violent attack on Congress (another branch of government)? I'd say no.
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  562.  @theman913  Fair enough. And I have a feeling there may be even more info to come out. That said they were in a rush to get it into the Senate's hands before Trump's term was over, after that they lost control of the schedule. I'm glad much of the stuff that has come out did. Though, like I said, I'm curious what more they will find. Thank you for your thoughts.
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  563.  @samuelblackthorne9122  While it is fair to try to be aware of the bias of one's news sources and I can appreciate your argument that you want to provide an alternative view to LegalEagle there is also a counter point as it goes to Trump. There may be media biased against him but that doesn't mean he wasn't a worse than average President on his own merits. Also I know there was media biased for him-I only have to tune into rightwing radio for that. Though after the attack on the Capitol Building in January I noticed OANN start making promotional points that really struck me as fascist, and I'm not using that word as a way of labelling anyone opposed to my political pov as some do-I actually saw a show on OANN pushing the idea that officials should just use the power they were supposedly too weak or afraid to use and that Trump should've had military tribunals for supposed traitors thus actual that show was pushing leaving democracy related expectations behind.
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  564. Doesn't work because the facts contradict the Republican narrative. For example. Minnesota and New York-both blue states-have lower murder rates than Texas and Tennessee-both red states.
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  565.  @AnnMucha  I thought I just replied to you but I don't see my reply. Anyway New York already has a large number of immigrants and already has a lower murder rate than Texas. If the Migration Policy Institute is correct then New York already has a higher % of immigrants in its population than Texas does while still being safer than Texas. 1st time I did search on AJW I got Japanese women wrestling. 2nd time I found a thing titled Sam Debates Actual Justice Warrior Sean Fitzgerald under a podcast called The Majority Report. Podcasts are nice but I'll take stats over them-though I may lidten to the debate at some point.
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  566.  @pshehan1  Thank you for pointing out a specific claim that can be checked or debunked. Funny despite the talk about beliefs and facts here you were 1 of the 1st people here to point to a fact when many of those talking about concerns of Global Warming refer to it as a religions/faith rather than studying the evidence.
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  567.  @pshehan1  "Many of those discussing climate change, those who 'believe' in it and those who reject it seem to speak from faith, not from assessment of evidence." Agreed. However in this discussion those who claim it isn't happening are claiming it is a religion while those who say it is are actually more likely to discuss the evidence at hand. Thus the irony of those using the word "religion" as an accusation at those concerned about Global Warming also not discussing the evidence related to it as much as those who are.
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  568. I keep hearing excuse makers for Putin saying Ukraine violated the Minks agreements and I often hear others saying Putin did. Funny thing though. The lands in question are all inside of Ukraine making it something of a Ukrainian internal matter. Additionally if Putin cared about feelings of people in that area then why did he chose to rig any referendum he could relating to if they should be independent or not? And that is in addition to annexing them after they are supposedly independent.
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  569.  @ivanfiorani1363  I didn't mention any of those but at least you are showing your lack of understanding of history since NATO was not involved in most of those except for Libya & Serbia and that was to prevent ethnic cleansing and massacres. Are you complaining because you are for ethnic cleansing or massacres? Additionally sure I'm pro-Taiwan. An actual democratic government that is taking better care of its people than mainland China? That is not something to be ashamed of. Are you opposed to governments having honest elections and taking care of their populations?
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  570. "Shouldn't states reconcile on their own?" Sometimes States need a place to go when at least 1 State refuses to reconcile. Guess what level of government gets involved then.
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  571. It could be that one of Putin's lackeys is running around filing false complaints. I've heard of China doing similar.
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  572. If only all Democrats knew as much as her. That she didn't show partisanship and you did reveals an amount of paranoia on your part.
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  573. You can in Texas since it is not a swing state. Anyone who is in a swing state should not. Swing state voters have votes that will impact who is actually in the White House and that could end up saving or costing lives.
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  574.  @logicallydashing  I'll admit it is hindered. But if it was totally pointless so much effort wouldn't go into gerrymandering and voter suppression. Change those things and it becomes a potent democracy. Get rid of the Electoral College and it changes to become even more potent.
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  575. Recognize a global problem or make a problem worse? Since Trump seems to favor Putin's warmongering reality indicates the latter.
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  576. You are correct the South started the US Civil War in an attempt to protect slavery. During the time the war went on Union soldiers came to have an increasingly negative view of slavery as they saw more of it up close. The length of the war also gave Lincoln-who didn't like slavery-opportunities to disrupt it, which he did.
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  577. The guy is a liar. If you want an example look around minute 32 he claims recent Global Warming is due to cycles. This interview was done about a year after NASA already reported why the specific cycles he referred to do not explain recent warming. So he already knows what he said was false.
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  578.  @Erinya558  Err you are assuming Bran would try to repair the destruction. We have seen little to no indication he would even try. One of the few things he actively did was spread info on Jon's linage at a bad time-when Daenerys was going to have enough stress already. So arguably he was setting up the dominos for the Kings Landing massacre to happen. This knocked not just 1 but 2 better people out of the running to be King (both Daenerys and Jon). With only the minor price of thousands of people's lives to do it. Take a look at the people whose lives wouldn't have been ruined or whose lives may have even been saved if Bran tried-Theon (wait 1 minute for Arya), Daenerys and Missandei (warn about Euron's ambush), Varys (warn Jon there is no chance Sansa will keep her promise). Heck, Bran could've told them Cersei was lying about the truce or which direction the Night King would be coming from and did nothing. Some of this isn't even in the distant future either-just sharing info of the present. And there are moments when Bran can see the future or has a better idea than anyone else of what will happen-such as when he said why did Tyrion think he came to the council meeting.
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  579.  @terellchapman8737  Ghost. Ghost is loyal and if he sees a problem (like an undead trying to kill someone) he attempts to fix it. Now no Ghost shouldn't be king but the people you mentioned like Gendry are not qualified to rule but showed they would at least try to do it well which puts them in a much better place than Bran who showed he either didn't care people who just tried to save everyone in Westeros would die and did nothing. Like he didn't try to do anything about the thousands that would die in Kings Landing. Or, maybe even worse, Bran planned this as his actions only contributed and never went to preventing the mass murder in King's Landing. That means Bran either doesn't care about people's lives or is a mass murderer himself. Either way Bran doesn't have the best story but is disqualified. Now if you want to ask who should rule it depends. Remove the King's Landing massacre which is both illogical and out of character and there is a goos case for Daenerys. Jon and Tyrion both have experience despite their failures and would arguably be better peacetime rulers than leaders during a war (season 8 Tyrion doesn't seem to be a good general, but maybe he is better when one isn't needed.) Arya for the same reason as Gendry. No experience but would at least try. I would try earlier Sansa but season 8 did so much damage to her character by making her an oath breaker (among Starks!!) and took away her ability to do rational diplomacy even when with a willing ally and when it is in her family's interest that I'm not sure I'd go with season 8 Sansa (to be renamed Sansafinger?)
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  580. It helps prevent WW3 and save Ukrainian lives. Good deal for both the USA and Ukraine.
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  581. I would say as bad as she has been Harris is still better than Biden-and both are better than Trump (his own record w Israel shows it). If you do vote 3rd party I think the best out there is Cornel West. Stein may be on your ballot but she just gets support from other warmongers and is costing the Green Party its credibility. It is your vote a in a bad situation without great options. I mentioned what I honestly believe the best/least bad 2 are.
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  582. There are cycles but this guy lied. NASA had looked into those cycles he mentioned in minute 32 about a year before this interview and reported that they do not explain recent warming-thus he knows he is lying and figures most people won't double check so he can try to get away with it.
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  583. "Biden is the latter day Neville Chamberlain." Not when it comes to Russia. That is the other major party option.
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  584.  @amarmahanti78  Yup.
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  585. Hi Ivan, trying to avoid getting drafted by doing PR work? Think that will last next year?
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  586. Agreed. There is a way to pull a bill out of committee in spite of a Speaker being a jerk. Not sure of the number of signatures needed but I'm for trying it. Also getting a new Speaker may actually speed the process up since Johnson is trying to be a roadblock.
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  587. More than 1 description of "Ukraine on Fire" referred to it as Pro-Putin propaganda. That is a something to keep in mind when trying to consider it in the context of current events. Regardless of whose propaganda someone is looking at it is pretty safe to say Russia under Putin invaded Ukraine and not the other way around since it was not Ukrainian tanks and troops ending up in Russia at the start of this war (in 2022) but the other way around.
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  588.  @wintyforever  Thank you for you reply. And yes, planning for the future can really end up making a difference.
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  589.  @shonithraj5383  I think it would have been better to not do anything mad queen. That really didn't improve the story when they did it and they already had the Night King and Cersei to deal with as open dangers. If they cut the unnecessary surprise supposed villain it would have less character breaking and they could have done at least one of the already known villains better.
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  590.  @shonithraj5383  Thank you. I don't think what I thought of would have harmed character build up
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  591. To be clear Global Warming is not being overtaken. Instead the Arctic air moves around and ends up going further South than it usually does. This means that when it happens the Arctic itself may end up being warmer than usual while other places get colder than usual. So again, this is not Global Warming being overwhelmed but Global Warming making different patches of air move farther than they usually do.
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  592. You say they should be coming here legally and that would be great except many of the same people pushing for border security also try to limit legal immigration.
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  593. I have to call bs on a lot of things in this video. I watched the whole thing and it deserves a thumbs down by the end. I noted some reasons and about when they pop up in the video. The video seems to be confused by saying both do __ when “inverse” is the opposite. It starts recognizing their differences and then tries to pretend they are the same. Problem is that is not true. Daenerys freed many slaves, how many did Cersei? 4:40-recognizes Daenerys freed people while Cersei oppressed. Also recognized that Daenerys chained her dragons out of concern for others while Cersei let Joffery run rampant. 5:45 be like Daenerys try to reshape the world in a better way and “help those who have even less” 5:58 Cersei “hurts others for the hell of it” and chooses not to help others. 7:31-45 Cersei hates and fears the people 8:40 Cersei threatens to burn cities 9:35 video said “This is fire and blood music”, yet it ignores when Daenerys said the blood of her enemies “not the innocent”. 10:00 video blames Daenerys for her dead baby by being too trusting, there is a big difference between too trusting and Cersei choosing to kill her son’s wife (resulting in the son’s suicide). 10:10 video misrepresent’s Cersei’s letter upfront demand (and threatening?) and Daenerys more friendly letter-written by Tyrion (who wants help ending Cersei’s tyranny.) The video claims after the friendly letter Daenerys demands Jon bend the knee when he gets there and thus is supposedly more dishonest. Yet Daenerys-when Jon refuses to bend the knee-said he is a guest. Oh, and Tyrion-not Daenerys-wrote the letter, he tends to be nicer than Cersei. Actually they both tend to be nicer than Cersei. 10:24 video wrongly claims Cersei wants less from Jon than Daenerys by supposedly only asking for neutrality. Yet this is a blatant lie. We learn afterwards that Cersei had made a plan beforehand with Euron to have Euron pretend he was fleeing when he was really getting mercenaries for Cersei. She never planned to help and the whole eventual agreement to send Lannister forces was an act and big lie. If anything Cersei was trying to cost Daenerys a possible ally since it was unlikely Jon would ever ally with her. 10:50 the video shows Cersei saying she doesn’t care about checking her worst impulses or making the world a better place. It actually has gone back to recognizing Cersei. 10:55 claims Daenerys’s attempts at compromise don’t go well so she goes fire and blood. Very misleading because Daenerys tried compromises and used fire and blood when those compromises were betrayed. Daenerys is not responsible for when others betray or try to attack her-they are. The video tries to say she is. 11:50 self-centered world vision ignores that Daenerys built what she had but also tried to do it in a way that didn’t harm, even helped, the powerless. Remember season 4 when Daenerys had places to sleep and eat made for former slaves and planned to make them safe the minute she heard there was a problem. Very different than Cersei who would not care. 12:09 Cersei talks about caring about her family yet she tried to have Tyrion killed-he is part of her family. This video is ignoring things here. Selective editing? 12:29 The video looses its point when complaining about “medieval logic”. That is how society operated at the time. Neither Cersei nor Daenerys made that happen. And if complaining about them then complain about every member of a every noble family in the show. It is called a “social norm”. 12:51 Daenerys’s supposed complex resulted in her telling someone she cared about not to give up but to try finding a cure-and he did. Thus she told him to save his life when he had already given up. Not a bad thing. 13:01 Daenerys supposedly didn’t compromise?? She did that with Jon Snow in season 7 through most of the time he was her guest!! She did that in Meereen as well. This video is just wrong here-possibly dishonest. 13:19 “Daenerys is ruthless like Cersei”. No. She is ruthless with her enemies, but not the innocent. If Cersei had dragons she would’ve let them eat innocent people across the countryside. Daenerys did not. Big false equivalence. 13:20 She was talking to a guy, Varys, who had tried to undermine his prior leaders and thus didn’t trust him. When he told her just beforehand he would not give blind loyalty she accepted it. Requiring him to say directly if he thought she was failing the people to her face and how (shows she is willing to take criticism). This is both compromising and taking other people’s concerns into account. The opposite of what the video claimed earlier. 13:33 video said they look like each other Cersei in black (or dark cloths) and with crown, Daenerys in light tan and no crown. Someone can see the video is wrong or lying here. Oh, and it is right before Cersei killed Missandei-who never hurt or enslaved anyone. 13:36 Video said “Shared rage” when look on Daenerys’s face may be concern for Missandei. The video is wrong here. 13:50 Video claimed Daenerys didn’t choose between her “selfish ambition” and her “liberator identity”. Yet the main reason she stayed in Meereen so long (where video shows her) is to protect the people she freed rather than leave to grab her birth kingdom and let the slavers regain control. She delayed her ambitions-that is making a choice. The video is lying here and similar can be said about the white walker army which she goes to fight and puts her war for the throne on hold to do. 14:10 Cersei is shown using civilians as human shields. Daenerys didn’t ever do this. These are very different queens and the video is being deceptive. 14:31 Daenerys saying “I will not let those I have freed slide back into chains.” Anyone see Cersei saying or trying to do that? Nope. Different people. 15:44 We get the answer of D and D breaking Daenerys’s character to do a pre-selected plot point. This was not showing Daenerys but what D and D wanted her to do without providing good reasons for it. 15:50 If Daenerys chose “violence” then why not go directly to the red keep and burn Cersei like she would an enemy? D and D chose to make Daenerys let Cersei almost get away in order to attack civilians. This is out of character for Daenerys in 2 big ways-her protection of the innocent and her fire for her enemies. This goes against 2 not just 1 aspect of Daenerys’s character. 16:05 If Daenerys was punishing her enemies then why almost let Cersei get away? Cersei didn’t care about civilians so why burn them at all? 16:52 If belonging to that blood line means you flip out and kill everyone if your friends aren’t around should we expect that to happen with Jon Snow? If the answer is no then just maybe we shouldn’t accept the character breaking relating to Daenerys from D and D either. 17:02 repeating D and D’s weak excuses is not character development. Showing the death of someone she warned earlier that chose to pull a sword and threaten to kill her and her unborn child is not proving Daenerys is evil. This is a huge double standard. Just consider anyone in the whole series who would want someone that just threatened to murder them and their children dead-lets start with the Stark family. If they aren’t evil tyrants in the making than neither is Daenerys. 17:25 If Daenerys’s friends and advisors are killed or go distant that isn’t usually Daenerys’s choice. Which means she had no choice and this was supposedly inevitable. So the video isn’t being straight with viewers on if this was going to happen or not. 17:40. Video said “We always have a choice”, not if D and D choose to break characters and patterns of action to hit their preferred plot points. Lets let Daenerys character as it was during seasons 1-7 (season 8 was written to give excuses for this to happen, its been acknowledged that D and D had this event in mind and were trying to jump to it) make the decision on what happens with King’s Landing.. oh look no mass burning of civilians. 18:00 She doesn’t become the “mad queen” because of her genes. Wasn’t the video just referring to her bloodline a couple of minutes earlier?? This is speaking out of both sides of its mouth. 18:10 Correction.. She could’ve still been the ruler she wanted to be if D and D didn’t mess with her character in Season 8. Also if she decided to attack Kings Landing in season 7 then that would be choosing violence but a lot of her friends would still be alive after Cersei was dead, so the civilian population would probably be quite safe. I guess the real message is violence is only ok if your friends are around. Or maybe, just maybe, the video here is just trying to make excuses at this point.
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  594. That sounds like Mearsheimer messing up on history in order to suit his ideology. The "Cuban Missile Crisis" was over missiles, not grabbing control over various lands.
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  595. At this point the greatest living war criminal hangs out in Moscow and wants Trump to be President again.
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  596. Have a link to any youtube reports on this? (That aren't run by Putin or Assad?) Right now your claims strike me as more propaganda for Putin than anything else.
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  597. More like the Ukrainians could make a choice and they decided not to choose Putin. I notice Dave Smith skipped right over that part. Kinda undermines the narrative he is pushing when someone actually acknowledges Ukrainians have a say and should be allowed to make up their own minds.
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  598.  @tomdibattista3899  Seeing Trump when he is on national tv is seeing him while he is there. Noticing he is lying when he is happens to be a sign of critical thinking and sanity. Do you suffer form cognitive dissonance often?
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  599. The answer is yes. Though not all republicans are "braindead" some of them are smart but don't want to acknowledge the truth because that would mean acknowledging the years they spent getting lied to on this issue are a waste. Not the best for personal pride. Some Republicans were willing to approach the issue with some honesty but primaries ended that.
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  600. Maybe this was a different time but with all the wars in Greek lands even though they were levy troops they still had a fair amount of battle experience.
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  601. Multiple step process. The Emancipation Proclamation legally freed slaves in most states where slavery was in practice and Lincoln (who opposed slavery) could dress it up as a punishment for Confederate states while creating a huge step forwards in an attempt to abolish slavery. If finally took Amending the US Constitution-which Lincoln also supported-to end slavery in all US States.
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  602. Or a dishonest guy pretending to be a scientist. He does know he is lying though.
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  603.  @WillReims-s2s  Yes.
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  604. Hi Ivan, did you write this 1 from Moscow or are you traveling? Love that Zelenskyy is a Jew and you haven't given up on calling him a Nazi. Speaking of Nazis, if Putin wanted to get rid of Nazis why didn't he start with the ones inside Russia already?
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  605.  @Ayo_Matrixx  Sorry. If you are inside the US you can prepare for the long struggle against it (but at the very least you can look for ways to voice concerns in a public forum so that others also see the potential impact of Trump's messes), but as a US citizen there are things you can do.
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  606. Agreed. Thing is in proper GoT she expanded the rights of common people. Trump's actions tried to deny people their rights. And yes I said "proper GoT" the mess referred to as "season 8" is so contradicted by seasons 1-7 of GoT that it arguably is not part of the same story. If anything it took place in a Star Trek mirror dimension. This would explain not just the out of character actions but why bells suddenly meant surrender at King's Landing when proper season 2 already both showed (events) and said (Davos) very clearly that they do not.
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  607. "Did you donate money to the truckers?" I thought that those who did were people in the USA who wanted to mess with Canada. This could be an early example of a Trump friendly political faction in the USA exporting problems. A bit like how Trump encouraged Brexit and then passing Brexit did a number on the British economy. 1 bit of advice I'd give to other nations is that Trump recommended something see if doing the opposite would be a better idea.
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  608. Which is why the USA is obligated to help Ukraine now.
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  609. "She’s for foreigners and Trump is for Americans. That’s the difference." That is not true. Putin is a foreigner. Also I can only think of 1 American that Trump is truly for and the primary thing Trump wants to do for him is give him pardons so he can further evade justice.. justice that most other people would have faced by now.
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  610. Media usually call an election when they think they have an estimate of who the votes favor. That is both common and honest. Imagine being so indoctrinated that you view trying to steal an election as supposedly protecting it?
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  611. Below is arguably Lincoln preparing the USA for his declaration of all slaves in the Confederate States to be considered free. That was a huge step forwards in abolitionist efforts. The quote is very relevant, and a step in a good direction. "If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that."
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  612.  @barronvonschneider2834  "You could have tagged me and added context." I did add context. That I also included the quote you made so that people could see exactly what was said in relation to the context I added doesn't change that I added context. Do you normally accuse others of your faults?
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  613. An AI may not have noticed this if it was not programed to look for it. Software is only as good as programmers make it. In the meantime it is striking the very correct doctors were made to apologize for being correct. Are the managers who pushed them to do that going to apologize to both the doctors and the parents of the victims?
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  614. Putin needs to smell the coffee. Russia stopped being a super power and his best hope to defeat Ukraine was to hope it would run out of ammo. That is not going to happen. Instead of attempts at imperialism and actual war crimes perhaps he should led Russia a different direction.
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  615. I used to, now I have the opposite of respect for him. Excuse making for Putin is not a respectable thing.
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  616. Kiki Why be so committed to Ukraine? Because it is both morally correct and in he national interest to do so. Plus Biden has seen where the failure of not doing more led to more problems rather than solving them.
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  617.  @Curt-Gevert  I see nobody has gotten into discussion of fascism despite that they should have. Umberto Eco wrote a list of fascist characteristics. Remind me when I have more time and I'll go through it with you-and that Trump has hit at least a couple of them. But a few of the characteristics of Fascism I recall from history class are centralization of power, supposedly fighting an internal propaganda enemy as an excuse for power, and lawlessness for those in power-each of which marks the Trump administration right now. Trump and Musks actions when it comes to DOGE are illegal and UnConstitutional (lawless and centralizing power). The harping about immigrants (who largely are just trying to live their lives and aren't harming other people) is part of the supposed internal enemy.
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  618. Let me contradict your arguement with 1 the last times IMO that Mearsheimer wrote something interesting. It was back in the 1990s when Ukraine was being encouraged to give up its nukes and he suggested that Ukraine should not because if it did then Russia would be tempted to invade. I'll add to it that Putin has thought about invading Ukraine for years-this was never about NATO and has long been about Putin's desires to conquer or rule over Ukraine and other places outside Russia.
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  619. Actually he, sadly, was just re-elected. During that election he voiced support for Ukraine. So the about face now reveals just how he is willing to be dishonest with voters and doesn't feel he is accountable to them for several years.
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  620.  @ForgottenHonor0  Sadly that is true far too often-especially currently it seems.
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  621. This is a war. Saying it is not when armies are being sent to fight each other seems most strange.
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  622. "How is a bill that does nothing but pay Ukrainian government salaries going to help them win a war. You need artillery ammunition, not pension payments." If the bill both helps pay soldiers in the Ukrainian army and sends ammo like artillery shells then those are 2 ways it helps Ukraine fight. Since much of it is on military equipment from the USA-probably including a bunch of ammo-it is actually very misleading to say it is just "pension payments".
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  623. "what we don’t have is the right to make up facts" I suspect that is what Misha did in this video. Yes, I figure she is probably lying to viewers. A math class that does not talk about facts or numbers but just feelings? Really??
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  624.  @JohnFreedman0  Now you're talking about Trump.
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  625. Spoken like a true Putin employee that couldn't care less about Gaza.
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  626.  @JesseGolo  Excellent comment.
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  627. That is actually more complex and thoughtful than what we got.
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  628. Opposing supporting Ukraine likely makes both the USA and Ukraine poorer in the future. Not only does the USA save on money it would have to spend storing and decommissioning equipment but US weapons performing well would look good to customers worldwide-especially in Europe that may restock stores sent to Ukraine. So Ukraine winning this war would probably be nice boost for the USA economically. Supporting Ukraine now is not merely "printing money" but actually making an investment that can pay off for years into the future. And, very importantly, it is also the right thing to do.
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  629.  @Untolddead  When responding to multiple people making the same complaint it makes sense to give the same or similar replies or counter arguments to each if the initial reply is sound. Also bots still have a problem thinking for themselves while I can.
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  630. Many people are fine with that opinion. But that opinion is not what the GOP is pushing for. It may occasionally try to hide behind it but it is not what they are trying to do.
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  631. Like when he claimed Putin wouldn't invade Ukraine?
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  632. He predicted Putin would not attack Ukraine. How did that turn out?
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  633. If I'm wearing a mask while walking alone odds are I was wearing it with other people around and will take it off when I get home like I do my jacket or coat. Sometimes I put it in my pocket and sometimes I don't. In cold weather it actually helps keep my face warmer. I support the idea of overcoming fears. I don't support subtle downplaying of covid when it killed over 1,000,000 in the US alone. I got vaccinated, later I got covid from being in a crowded room when I'd taken my mask off to eat. I'm glad I got vaccinated because I got over covid faster than I probably would have otherwise. When I caught covid beyond the annoyance of being sick it forced some changes in my travel plans.
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  634. And that side rightfully should. We are past the age where voting is limited to white land owning men instead of all citizens of age. Also the Electoral College hasn't exactly produced the best leaders recently.
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  635. Ethnic Russians living in Ukraine have more rights than Russians in Russia. Their elections aren't rigged in Ukraine like they are in Russia. They can call the current situation a war without getting arrested like they could in Russia. And the current President of Ukraine is an ethnic Russian with Russian as his 1st language. Part of the reason Putin may have decided to invade know rather than wait is that the election of the current President of Ukraine was a sign of less divisions between people in Ukraine rather than more. Also Russia violated the Mink accord and has been for years. Occupying parts of another nation is the opposite of respecting their territorial integrity as Russia promised Ukraine it would do. Additionally NATO is a defensive alliance-that means the alliance only is activated if a nation in NATO is attacked. Russia complaining about other nations joining it is Russia complaining that those nations made it harder for Russia to attack them. You also didn't mention that the reason Putin is a billionaire today is because he is both corrupt and steals from people on a massive scale. If he could conquer Ukraine that would provide over 40 million new people to steal from.
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  636.  @zeczeci9845  Pointing out when people are making excuses for Putin and even repeating Russian propaganda is helping Ukraine.
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  637. So you started selling drugs I take it. That would be making money by selling people something that will make them feel better but not fix their problems.
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  638.  @richardasmus9426  Who said Republicans take responsibility vs Democrats? Often the reverse is true-especially when government budgets are at hand.
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  639.  @Drownedinblood  Republic of China. That is the official name of the government of Taiwan. Kind of like how the official name of China is the People's Republic of China. 2 sides of a civil war that never totally finished. However the RoC when through reforms to become a democracy where the votes and views of its citizens mattered.
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  640. Interesting details about Zelensky, thank you for sharing them.
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  641.  @ronaldjunior8167  Correct. Also if the USA helped broker an agreement between different groups of Ukrainians after a corrupt former President of Ukraine fled because of the backlash his own actions created then that is not the USA invading nor even acting badly. Ukraine kept having elections for President long after and they were honest elections.
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  642.  @XMooseManX  I wasn't in Denver at the time so I cannot confirm or deny your remarks. If it happened as you describe then I support the people involved getting arrested. Not only is what you describe not the situation I've seen with my own eyes elsewhere but I've read reports in my area of police breaking open car windows in an attempt drag people out of vehicles and arrest those involved in a BLM march. One particular driver got a receipt later to cover the cost since some of the people in cars weren't even involved in the protest but happened to be unlucky enough to be driving through when the police did a crackdown. I'm not arguing for getting rid of the police nor anything like it. But when I see conservatives talk about BLM protests I doubt the full range of real life situations gets discussed.
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  643.  @XMooseManX  ​ @Da Moose Not good in LA. Arrest as many looters and people doing violence as one can. By "March" you mean the Trump rally where people gathered to cheer the idea of Trump lying about and trying to steal an election? Not exactly a good place to start with the idea of "nothing crazy". Is that the March you mean? Also by trying to steal the election and have people's votes be ignored Trump was trying to fight against freedom-not protect it. Also my experience with the words "derangement syndrome" is that usually someone is trying to let off a corrupt politician for something improper and the phrase is usually used in an attempt to distract from said politician's own actions.
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  644.  @XMooseManX  Funny thing. I didn't hate Trump, at least not before he tried to steal the 2020 election for President. I often found him entertaining but figured the good of the country was more important than my amusement so I voted for Biden. Now there are specific problems I do have with Trump like his embrace of corruption (he never made a point of fighting money in politics once he was in office and even ripped up the already relatively weak ethics policy for his administration so people that worked for him could go directly into the lobbyist business (thus keeping the revolving door between lobbyists and government spinning). He was also fine with rigged elections-such as when he complained that a court tore up the gerrymandered map that citizens of Pennsylvania had been stuck with. Wasn't a fan of what he did with the EPA either-where in seemed to seek out the most corrupt people he could find to put in charge of it (with that goal in mind Pruitt was actually a great pick). Him lying about Global Warming to the point of trying to bs people in California as Global Warming is hitting them while he is visiting California wasn't a good thing either. Though in this situation one of the California state officials made the mistake-saying he wanted to "convince" Trump Global Warming is a problem. Trump knows Global Warming is a problem and he just lies about it frequently-see "playing down" covid early on for a bit of the model or the method he tries to deal with problems he cannot or does not want to deal with handling. Ok.. I guess if I step back and think about it there are reasons I could have for not liking Trump when I think about his impact on the USA. That said I still found him amusing and the reasons I gave do go into putting the country above my own amusement.
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  645.  @XMooseManX  "and you think bidens not doing those same things?" Even if he is then still not nearly as badly. "Do you really believe the democrats and Joe biden are any less corrupt than trump" Yes. "party intentionally suppressing that black population and keeping them suckling the welfare teet with no means of weaning meanwhile setting up a justice system that wouldn't allow for poor people to receive true justice?" Which part do I pick at first? This idea that it is Democrats who supposedly are suppressing the black population when it is the GOPers that are to this day trying to prevent black people from voting or the point that you don't mention where it wasn't welfare that hurt black families but a combination of de-unionization and moving factories abroad or at least where unions were weaker? The latter is something else many a Republicans have been for (Trump's willingness to engage is tariffs is something I don't criticize him for, though I can think of an additional tariff he could have done and didn't.. additionally most Republicans have been against tariffs and even some of Trumps backers still are.) And yes unions have been important because when they actually are arguing for all workers to receive a decent wage that means all workers. "The democrats are the party of false promises and pandering for votes." Better to pander for votes than steal or deny them to legitimate citizens. Also I'll lay false promises on Trump-after all covid was supposedly going to disappear by summer according to him, summer in 2020. "We talk about trump being a fascist but biden signed 50 something executive orders and sent troop into syria undermining all the good trump did within his first two weeks and americans ate it up like he was the principle spanking the bully." Because Biden has been. How many of those executive orders were simply undoing what he thought Trump was screwing up with his own executive orders? Also Biden didn't try to steal the 2020 election, Trump did. That matters when discussing who is more likely to be fascist. "Your getting f-d either way. I personally would rather not pander to the leftist lie." Seems like you are pandering to rightwing lies. Plus more often, maybe not always but more often, the truth seems to be with those you labelled "leftist".
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  646. Nothing so long as Ukraine is leading them. If the US was to step instead and impose letting Putin off for committing war crimes and potentially even give him part of another nation as a bonus for starting a war that would be inviting more wars in the region plus a return to imperialism/great power politics with big nations deciding things and small nations as victims.
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  647. ​ @bertpowers7064  They may not be any pure good guys but there are likely some guys that are ok, some guys there are horrible, and some in between. In this situation Putin decided to invade Ukraine again. So he is an invader. What are his reasons. Near the beginning of the war he made a speech where he claimed there is no Ukraine which is technically, legally, and historically wrong. Not a good reason for a war. He claimed Ukraine is run by Nazis oppressing Russians. Also very wrong. Even worse once his army took territory it went on a looting, torturing, and killing spree. Now I know some of that happens in most wars but in Ukraine it seems to be widespread and somewhat systematic. The latter means it was ordered from above. So if there is such as good guys and bad guys it is easy to say the Ukrainians are being good guys since they are defending and their nation was attacked for no good reason. I sympathize with at least some Russian soldiers because they were lied to when they were sent into Ukraine (they were told it was training and practice) and then forced (drafted). On the other hands many have been carrying out atrocities willfully. Some have been acting like they have a sense of morality such as when some aren't happy that their comrades raped and killed a Ukrainian teenager for 1 harsh example. But some have been brutal. The brutal aspect doesn't seem to be discouraged from above. And some of is under orders such as firing on civilian areas. For the broadest justice the best thing(s) would probably be for Putin to loose and for drafted Russians to surrender the 1st chance they get.
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  648.  @bertpowers7064  It would be nice if there is a workable solution but since this is the 4th time Putin has attacked a neighboring nation there may not be. Putin is likely to keep attacking other nations until he loses badly enough he stops. This wasn't over NATO, that may be used as an excuse recently but don't forget Putin's own words where he claimed Ukraine doesn't exist. That isn't an issue with NATO. Also some NATO nations held off on letting Ukraine join because they didn't want to provoke Russia. So Russia may seem to be acting out as provoked when the opposite is the case. I suspect at the heart of this is that Putin wants to be a new Czar. He really misses the Soviet Union and wants to build a new version. That should be a scary thought because the old version was built with nations captured in war. Stalin made an agreement with Churchill that nations liberated from the Nazis would have self determination. That didn't happen after WW2 and instead the Soviet Union was formed with Stalinist Russia as its controller.
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  649. I like Medhi. I feel he is correct on each of these points. I have to vote for Harris. She is better for people worldwide and in Gaza. A shame, but fewer people dying really means more survivors. Whoever refused to let the Democratic Representative form Georgia speak at the DNC is either petty or an idiot-maybe classic Hillary back yourself into a corner when you actually need to leave it. I suspect it was someone Harris inherited from the Biden campaign or older DNC.  In this short clip Medhi answered questions I've had for a long time about legal justifications to limit arms shipments to Israel. And he correctly pointed out someone in the campaign should have recognized it was not just Biden's age potential voters for him had a problem with but the policy towards Israel and Gaza. Its been months so this a reminder. Oddly some of the protestors over Gaza have done themselves harm as well. I only have direct personal knowledge of some events but where I was the initial disruptive protests by people focused on Gaza started either November or December of 2023. Since Hamas's attack-which got Israel international sympathy in October (which Netanyahu turned around dramatically to the point Israel is headed to pariah status) that was rapid politically. Yes people were dying then.   But it is 1 thing to say people are dying and this needs to stop to educate others who aren't paying attention to what is going on in other nations compared and say no conversation is allowed to happen. That is what I mean by disruptive-the initial protests I saw in person not only didn't allow for conversations to happen (including deaths from events outside Gaza such as in parts of Africa) but wouldn't agree to allow for a discussion of Gaza itself. That may have intended to raise awareness but I wonder if it built bad blood politically (at least locally within a swing state-I have no idea what the group of people within the national campaign felt). No hurt feelings doesn't excuse ethnic cleansing. But we may ended up in a situation neither side wanted because those who were the most abrasive or obtuse set the tone and held control over it for whatever reason over time. Is that a symptom of people being too willing to sit in their own silos? My increasing respect goes to Uncommitted who I believe are saying not to vote Trump nor a third party but to vote. I don't know if there is a more grudging way to say vote for Harris. It probably comes from the painful and mature knowledge that without her in the White House even more people are going to die.
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  650. If none of it happened is it really escaping tyranny? No facts or numbers in a math class? Really?? The more I think about most of what she said the less I think it happened.
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  651.  @Sh0tgunJust1ce  One of the best comments so far. Could well be true from what we see here.
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  652. "Amazing how I can't even say that Bern sold out without being auto censored" And yet here you are saying it and being wrong as you do.
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  653. Or you'll fall into a daze like a cultist.
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  654. It is rather said that the discussion on what sparked the current war is limited to NATO expansion and NATO supposedly getting "greedy" rather than Russian imperialism. I hope someone at some point mentions that nations that join NATO have to ask to get let it. Maybe, just maybe, nations near Russia are wary of Russia.
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  655.  @mvp019  These days the global south arguably has less to blame the US for and more to worry about internally. The US didn't give Brazil Bolsonaro for example.
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  656.  @mvp019  1. "By your logic, a guy could molest a neighbor's kid because the kid's father is already doing it." This is one of the most ridiculous and outlandish comments I've seen online today. It isn't just wrong but took such large jump into being devoid of logic I'm not sure how to address it at the moment. 2. "We don't do ANYTHING for human rights; it is all for corporate and elitist greed and control" Even to someone willing to be cynical about the real reasons some things are done that seems wrong and colored my by your dislikes that actual events. What corporations were helped by pointing out human rights violations in China (where a lot of US corporations make money) or even North Korea (were few if any do but North Korea is already seen as an enemy of the US so there is no money to be made by adding those points). 3. "We are using Ukraine like a cheap prostitute, all the while claiming to care about them" And how many people give cheap prostitutes both weapons and money so they aren't subjugated? Even making the additional point that the "cheap prostitute" will determine how and what terms a war is settled over? 4. "There were food issues in Syria, but without the CIA and their NGO cutouts, that never gets off the ground - we murdered by proxy and directly many thousands, not because we care about the Syrians, but because Assad signed the "wrong" pipeline deal." This strikes me as typical its outsiders any local dictator or even politician that did something that stirred up a crowd of protesters lie to try to dodge blame for his own actions. Pretty sure the crowds of Syrian protesters weren't out there over a pipeline deal. 5. "We whine about interference in our elections while interfering in damn near everyone else's elections. Look at the BS in Haiti right now." Is Haiti holding an election right now that the US is interfering with? 6. "We are the world's biggest terrorists. Full stop. It is a disgrace - but you just keep hiding behind that flag and pretending it's OK." Funny, I was and am willing to say the US has done a long list of terrible things. Yet it seems pointing out that other nations with other leaders have done terrible things as well makes me a supposed apologist rather than closer to a realist..
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  657. Biden picked a sitting US Senator. Sounds like he fulfilled the qualified part.
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  658. Because like many movies it is a story. Unlike many movies it involves real people rather than characters. While I'm sure it gets some things wrong and is too short to fully enclose all or even enough details it also shows some lessons such as leaving problems unaddressed (like Putin) can result in more problems.
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  659. "Trump managed to not proudly declare he defeated Medicare though. That difference matters." No it doesn't. Because a plan he endorsed earlier is likely an attempt to do so.
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  660. Seems like a willingness to overlook both the past (most politicians supported such laws at the time both D and R) and the present then (Trump feels no need to cut back on incarceration potentially behind his own self).
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  661. If you call the commentary shameful for being willing to criticize Trump then you were already on Trump's side and were merely pretending to be otherwise before.
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  662.  @jakob6960  Good question. And the answer-as demonstrated by Putin's actions for years, is a clear no.
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  663.  @jamesjoseph1297  You asked for an example. I gave you one that I'm sure has paperwork to back up its existence. Now more recently he was sent to court for using business funds to turn a tabloid paper into a propaganda arm for his campaign (not just covering up his scandals but also making stuff up about rival politicians.)
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  664. Have you ever listened to Kraut (youtuber's self given nickname) and his "Critique of realism"? I think it is well done and informative.
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  665.  @jarettmeyer4929  You are correct. But it doesn't hurt to point out times when Mearsheimer is repeating a falsehood-such as lying about if former US President Obama (in office in 2014) pushed for Ukraine to join NATO when the opposite is true.
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  666. They probably did. NASA pointed out the Milankovitch cycles he tries to use to cover for Global Warming and did it about a year before this interview. So Patrick Moore here knows he has been lying (around 32 or 33 minutes in) about that for some time. Didn't stop him from repeating the lie.
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  667. Wasn't since it was not a "coup". It was part popular revolt sparked by the then sitting President of Ukraine breaking is campaign promises and then using force on people who protested him for it. And part captain abandoning his ship since he ran off to Russia after creating a backlash (this was the determination of Ukraine's elected parliament back then).
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  668. I suspect some have been complaining about the USA for so long they don't know what to do when the problem is not the USA. And some of them may simply be cynical opportunists that didn't really care about what they claimed to before and that is being revealed now. The latter is why Kraut (on youtube) didn't bother to counter the points of some who supported Russia now-he realized they were using talking points they decried elsewhere and thus didn't even believe even as they repeated them now. He has a good video called A Critique of Realism.
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  669. I think Mr. Stone spent some of this interview trying to cover for Putin rather than talk about him honestly. I suspect Mr. Stone made his alliance with or sympathies for Putin years ago and now feels too attached to Putin to be honest about him now. The reference to Bucha put me off because that was Mr. Stone trying to cover for a warcrime by claiming Ukrainians would do it without providing much in the way of evidence. How much of this interview was Mr. Stone engaging in deflection or projection?
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  670. Yeah, I've been noticing the videos of Russian soldiers saying they weren't given the official stamps/paperwork they should be. They may be due bonus and the Russian government may be running low on money so it could simply be trying to avoid paying what it promised them.
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  671. You are correct. Season 8 showed Bran could've manipulated things to get himself the crown. This means he pushed to make the massacre happen-making Bran a mass murderer.
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  672. That Ukraine may win.
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  673. I loved this video because it went into a lot of history of how Russia was screwed up/screwed over after the end of the Soviet Union. Also calling for actual democracy-which Russia does not currently have. However Ukraine does. Ukraine may have as much corruption as Russia and oligarchs/inequality as well but people can vote in Ukraine and their votes are counted honesty-unlike in Russia. Something that complicates this problem is thats since Putin has used military means to occupy Ukrainian territory before if there was a "peace" right now as some call for he may simply use it a pause to rearm his military and attack again. Thankfully the winter did not turn out to be as bad as many at the time feared.
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  674.  @torgnyhansson7409  Good point. And even in Crimea Putin moved a bunch of colonists In to strengthen his occupation of that territory and felt he had to lie about the actually results of the supposed referendum there years ago-which is part of why people shouldn't trust the official supposed results of referendums Russia did more recently in occupied parts of Donbas.
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  675.  @olgazadig4961  I get the desire for ironic revenge. A problem is do you really think the people getting the taste of medicine were actually the ones who gave it out earlier?
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  676. Don't salute dishonest excuses. That is all he is trying to do right now as a distraction from Brexit's problems.
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  677. "the bar is so low trump could even clear it by accident". Don't worry that is 1 accident he probably won't do. This is a sad state of affairs. He would find a way to make it sadder.
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  678. That is a hopeful post and it really would be good if it works out that way. That said I still run into people online claiming that Nazis run Ukraine or that eastern Ukraine should be part of Russia despite already being part of a separate nation for years and a majority vote in each region voting to leave Russia decades ago.
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  679. To be clear more transparent diplomacy would be a good thing. And while those claiming Ukraine is run by Nazis are still hanging around they are generally outnumbered by people who do know better.
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  680. Is it me or did this guy claim there is no free lunch (as an excuse to ignore solar) while trying to ignore the costs of Global Warming in both money and lives. BTW my neighbor had solar panels put on his roof and he is very happy with them and the sizable drop in his electric bill.
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  681. Good for Zelensky for standing up for his nation.
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  682. Who would you have supported instead? Serious question. I'm guessing you didn't support Trump at the time and hopefully still do not.
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  683.  @DwightSchrute-r5r  Ukraine is small compared to other stuff in the budget. The military budget that Trump is for is going to cost more than 5 times the total amount sent to Ukraine. And the tax cuts he put through last time he was in cost more that twice the military budget.
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  684.  @vanbuithe9106  Sounds like bs to me-I'll point out that the US opposed hitting Russian refineries. Putin doesn't like President Zelensky because, unlike Putin, President Zelensky has been honestly elected.
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  685. +yyGODyy I liked the start of Event Horizon but the ending/last half to a third of the film was actually more of a let down for me.
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  686. Just want to point out the Gerrymandering impact. State legislatures (not the US Congress) draw the lines and rig the elections with gerrymandering if they want. Easy example. In 2012 about 53-54% of all votes for people running for the State Assembly went to a Democratic candidate. Yet after the election Republicans about about 60 of the 99 seats in the Wisconsin State Assembly. Yes a majority of people in the state vote one way and the state legislature ends up the other way in a big way. Gerrymandering should be banned, it really is messing with small "d" democracy.
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  687. New Deal Economy had been growing compared to Great Depression-which started under Coolidge & Hoover. This was prior to WW2 and one of the reasons FDR was elected and then re-elected in the first place.
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  688.  @ExpatriatePaul  " the New Deal exacerbated and prolonged the Great Depression" That is a flat out falsehood. I've heard a few political ideologues make the claim but not serious historians. The latter tend to lean the opposite direction. The New Deal increased employment and the only time employment growth slowed is when those concerned about debts slowed New Deal spending. WW2 started not long after and deficit spending started back up again as well as increased employment.
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  689.  @ExpatriatePaul  Also factors that led to the Great Depression were worsening before the stock market crash in 1929. For example, higher numbers of farmers going into debt to expand their farms left agriculture vulnerable. Additionally unemployment records were not good prior to the Great Depression but factories were cutting back on hours before the stock market crash.
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  690.  @ExpatriatePaul  "if you actually do analyze it with an objective mindset you will find that I'm right" Actually the opposite is true. Now the notion of that may conflict with your ideological beliefs but reality has contradicted ideological beliefs before so this would not be the 1st time nor your beliefs be the only ones this has happened to.
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  691.  @ExpatriatePaul  You can choose to imagine reality is on your side. People engage in fantasies all the time. Now reality and multiple facts disprove your claim. But you are not required to engage with reality nor facts in order to indulge a fantasy.
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  692. ​ @ExpatriatePaul  You can choose to imagine reality is on your side. People engage in fantasies all the time. Now reality and multiple facts disprove your claim, but you are not required to engage with reality nor facts in order to indulge fantasy.
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  693.  @ExpatriatePaul  Older than a kid and not only do I say so but so do professional historians and the actual data that is available.
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  694.  @ExpatriatePaul  "mainstream BS" in other words disagree with your ideology. Also I said both "professional historians and the actual data that is available". That means not just experts but the facts. Additionally how many of the supposed "professional historians and economists" you follow are actually ideologues?
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  695.  @ExpatriatePaul  One doesn't have to be partisan to look at what the records are. If anything being partisan or an ideologue gets in the way. In the case of the New Deal benefits-both long and short term-occurred. The employment and factory output increased above what it had been prior to the New Deal. People who cannot address the charts showing that are not being "objective" nor "comprehensive". Difference between using the word "objective" (and then not acting according to it) and actually putting it into place to at least an impactful degree.
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  696.  @ExpatriatePaul  Court cases are not typically something used to measure unemployment. Care to explain how they are in this situation beyond a few lawyers? Sounds like you have decided to "only focus on things that support your already firmly held beliefs" and "you are being neither objective nor comprehensive" And yes, I know there were court cases related to the New Deal. The impact of those court cases was exactly what on the trends I brought up earlier?
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  697. Do we share the same corrupt and dishonest governor?
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  698. Did you know that Trump has used some of the same comments as the pro-Nazi stay out of WW2 folks?
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  699. Oliver Stone's views were worse than outdated. He actually tried to cover for or excuse Russian warcrimes in Bucha but dishonestly claiming the Ukrainians are doing the same.
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  700. Perhaps that she recognizes Tulsi Gabbard probably is an agent of Putin.
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  701.  @TheBasedCanadian  Based? Not by what you've shown so far.
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  702. Putin could not care less about Russian speakers. Many Russian speakers don't want him in Ukraine because they see him for the corrupt dictator that he is. On top of that the current President of Ukraine is a Russian speaker so it is not like Russian speakers were banned from society or speaking the language (yes I know Putin claimed otherwise, that is just 1 of many lies).
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  703.  @BOX3DOUT  Most of Europe-both East and West. The West cares because this is near them they hoped major nearby wars were over and the Eastern Europeans care because this could be them. Plus specifically Eastern Europeans care because they endured control by Moscow and never want it to return.
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  704. hangyao479 Your comment includes multiple falsehoods. For example: "it was only when the 2014 maidan coup happened when ultranationalists took over kiev and imposed anti russian policies". There was not a "coup". A corrupt soon to be former President broke campaign promises he ran on and then used security forces on Ukrainians protesting against him. This resulted in a backlash that ended up with him fleeing the nation. Depending on which Ukrainian source I look to it was either a revolution by the people (most Ukrainians and not just "ultranationalists") or the corrupt former President abandoned his post-the latter is what the Ukrainian Parliament ruled. Either way Ukraine has had a couple of elections for President since then and observers have ruled the elections were done honestly. Thus that corrupt former President does not represent the will of the Ukrainian people and has not for several years. Additionally if he wanted to argue he was still President for the remainder of the term he was elected to then he could have filed a case with the Ukrainian court system at the time. That topic could have been discussed alongside his corruption. "which alienated the people of eastern ukraine, donbas, as well as the people in crimea. when the resentments escalated into seccessionism and civil war" You left out that Russia was encouraging rebels to try to seize parts of Eastern Ukraine and-at the very least-heavily supplying them. It was even a Russian anti-aircraft missile likely launched by a Russian missile crew that was responsible for shooting down a civilian jetliner-Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 to be specific. "people in crimea didnt want the UAF to start shelling them next like how the UAF were shelling the people in dobas. this led to the referendum for crimea to go back to russia" This is also a falsehood. Unmarked Russian troops seized Crimea and only several months after the occupation was in place did Putin admit they were Russian troops. The so called "referendum" was marred by Moscow determining what options would and would not be on the ballot and what the official results were. Yes, Moscow lied about both the voter turnout and what the vote tallies were. Russia's unwillingness to hold honest referendums are part of why what it referred to as referendums in parts of eastern Ukraine (more recently) that it occupies are not considered trustworthy.
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  705. 'neither side has a valid claim to any sort of "moral" high ground'. No. Ukraine clearly has moral high ground here. Ukraine did not start a war with Russia and would be perfectly content if Russia left it alone. Furthermore Putin doesn't respect for the rights of Russia citizens let alone Ukrainian ones so Ukraine is defending its people as Ukrainians would be abused and suppressed if Russia seizes Ukraine in this Imperialistic war Putin (not Ukraine nor the USA nor any other nation) launched. It so happens that other nations have an interest in supporting Ukraine since Putin's Imperialism is unlikely to be limited to Ukraine. And even in the unlikely case he doesn't (very unlikely), this still Putin launching an Imperialistic war of aggression-something much of Europe had hoped was over and limited to the past.
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  706. "according to Prof. Mearsheimer, the Minsk agreement was defacto already broken by Germany and France. They wanted to buy time." According to others Russia broke the Minsk agreement and it was not that Germany broke it so much as expected Russia to. Regardless Mearsheimer tends to take Russia's side in this war. He already treats Ukrainians as a group whose views are not treated as worthy of consideration and said that Putin blamed the USA for Ukraine having a democracy where the votes of the people there actually matter. Yes, Prof. Mearsheimer acknowledged Putin didn't like that Ukraine has honest elections and that is 1 of the things he holds against the USA.
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  707.  @MercedesBenxx  I don't see my earlier reply now. However I thought I pointed out that Mearsheimer seemed to have sided with Putin in this war some time ago-treating Ukrainians like a group of people whose views don't matter. Heck he acknowledged Putin blamed the USA for Ukrainians being able to vote on who their own President is and that those votes are honestly counted-something I would say many people would say is not a problem (especially Ukrainians themselves.) Also I believe I've read that a former German Chancellor didn't break the Minsk agreement but correctly expected Putin to. That isn't breaking it but having expectations.
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  708. That is because most people don't know enough to catch him when he tells a lie. For example, in minute 31 he mentioned Milankovitch cycles. NASA put out an explanation in February of 2020 on why those do not explain the current warming we are seeing these days. This interview was in September of 2021. So this guy has known that is a lie for over a year and said it anyway-making sure to use many big words so he seemed smarter while he lied to viewers.
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  709. I'll disagree. Daenerys has generally been quite sane through seasons 1-7, doesn't break from reality, and usually acts with clear reasons on why to do so. Saying madness on her part was foreshadowed just isn't true.
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  710. He knows some stuff that is real. Such as the importance of Ukrainian grain to the rest of the world. That said is prediction turned out to be very wrong-he both overestimated Russia and underestimated Ukraine.
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  711. Stanley, you say people should read beyond "state approved propaganda" which would seem like wisdom yet from your comment I suspect your follow up would be to provide actual state approved propaganda as a source people should supposedly follow.
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  712. Ukraine still exists. That is evidence Ukraine has been winning. The only question is by how much.
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  713. You mean showing off classified intel to a Russian ambassador was not evidence enough Trump is a walking disaster for national security?
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  714. One other thing. If The Humanist Report can dig up Biden supporters saying stupid things in this situation how about what a former prosecutor that has actually dealt with sexual assault cases thinks of the situation. Below is a ink in this very comment. Mr. Figueredo mentioned going into "details" but repeatedly did not like with the "blog post". How about he actually do that. Link: https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2020/04/29/joe-biden-sexual-assault-allegation-tara-reade-column/3046962001/
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  715.  @seanmorgan8128  Might have to?? If a Ukrainian general said that it would be in a situation where Ukrainians are trying to slow down advancing Russians by denying them a bridge to cross. That is the opposite kind of situation Ukraine is in right now where their CounterOffensive is getting going and the Russians want to slow it down.
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  716. Because people with more integrity than Trump are losers?
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  717. Really? What State, what position, and when? How would I know you aren't as dishonest as the Senator here? I've already pointed to his calling Prager U educational an example of his dishonesty-it still is.
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  718. May not like it but better then Trump getting support from the warmonger in Moscow. BTW what wars are Liz Cheney's fault in specific?
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  719. "Putin didn't start the Ukraine war" This is bs.
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  720. This video seems to be a bunch of self contradicting excuses. No having a small council is not the same as an elected parliament or even headed that way. Also Bran doesn't care about people. Either the guy was so unconcerned about the lives of people that he willingly let thousands of innocents die so he could be king or he planned and pushed for it-making Bran a mass murderer (and Bran pushed Jon's linage but not Jon supporting this. I'm off to sign the petition-waited to see if there were any excuses strong enough to get me not to. There are not. Also I may return to point out how this video contradicts itself as it tries to excuse the nonsense we saw. Yes it acknowledged how unhappy people got but goes nowhere into how the characters were broken. Yes the symbolism of the throne burning is betrayed by picking a king later in the episode. The idea Sansa is good is undone by her unjustified and aggressive (strike first rather than only if it is justified) push against someone who is helping. Sansa becomes more Littlefinger than Stark and we don't see an indiction this will be beneficial in the long term. Accepting of realpolitic without a desire to improve society or government leads to stagnation rather than improving society. Also Sansa is an oathbreaker to her own family for no good reason other than her own pettiness. That is not a good sign. Other than the excuse making in this video we don't see an idea magic is bad or even being pushed back. Bran the mass murderer used magic in order to make his unlikely climb to power possible. And the idea he doesn't have wants strikes as a lie because if he really didn't then he wouldn't good looking back through former centuries just to find a better wheelchair design than what Tyrion gave him. The evidence Bran has wants is right in front of Tyrion as Bran claims he doesn't. Perhaps he was using his knowledge possible futures to manipulate Tyrion into thinking even more of Varys's lasts discussions with Tyrion-thus playing on Tyrion's emotions. And yes Bran looked for ways to use emotional connections when manipulating people-it was Bran who pushed Sam to tell Jon of his linage because Jon is supposedly more likely to believe Sam than Bran himself. Also this was right when Sam would be more unhappy with Dany than any other time. So Bran was both taking advantage of Jon's trust of Sam and Sams own emotions. Do you know what this isn't? It isn't Bran being neutral or letting things pass. If Bran didn't push Sam to tell Jon right before the battle so to complicate things for Dany right when she could use a shoulder to lean on as she was grieving for Jorah then Varys doesn't find out just yet and uncharacteristically risk his own life to undercut her before the war with Cersei is even over. Heck if things didn't get so complicated between Jon and Dany just then maybe Dany would've taken the King's Road with Jon meaning one of her dragons and Missandei would still be alive. A Dany who still has friends to talk to may not feel alone and paranoid. May not go nuts. Which means there may be no King's Landing massacre.. So Bran schemed to get Varys and Missandei killed as well as thousands of innocent people. Not an uplifting ending after all (once one scratches the surface). I do give your video credit for noticing that anyone who isn't white suddenly became a badguy in episode six. So not only did season 8 insult women but people of different ethnic backgrounds than simply white. Anyway off to the petition for one more signature.
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  721. Both of those are often terrible sources of info. Twitter is probably still losing money under Musk but he keeps it running to spread political spin and even propaganda (all those bots he let get on).
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  722. It does. But don't forget that on youtube people are allowed to lie. I suspect Misha is doing just that. The right lies may stir up emotions. Those emotions can get people to send money or give votes. And yes, I very much and very honestly doubt what Misha claims happened actually did. A math class that never talked about facts or numbers? Really?? Now an interesting thing is I've heard the argument some people in politics do stuff like what you describe-stir up feelings about minor issues or situations that don't exist. That gives them a way to argue people should vote for them so they can fight against the imaginary problem rather than actually accomplish something. Anyway, good on you for watching a video having to critical thinking to start questioning if it actually shows what is going on the USA or even represents a real concern.
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  723. Invasion not going as hoped Ivan?
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  724. Don't know, but double the current amount would still be worthwhile.
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  725. Perhaps what you just highlighted is that in GoT Daenerys is not mad. Meaning the whole mad queen thing doesn't apply to her in GoT.
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  726. 1st you would have to be US citizen for the money to be spent "here". 2nd the same people opposed to spending money on Ukraine are usually opposed to spending it "here" (if here is the USA) so giving them what they wan't would not help anything "here" anyway.
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  727. Its good you want people to respect all. I'd recommend adding 1 other thing to your thought process. People-and they can be on either side or none-can lie. I strongly suspect that is what Misha is doing in the video here. A math class that didn't have facts or numbers? Really??
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  728. Sorry for the late reply (just noticed how long ago some people made their posts). But Jon directly challenged this idea when speaking with Daenerys in season 7. Since he is part Targaryen he may have unexpected powers too-which could put him in a position to do that even if he didn't realize it.
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  729. Not anytime soon. If anything the lesson learned from Afghanistan is not to abandon.
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  730. Conservative Southerners started the US Civil War because they were afraid slavery was going to be ended and wanted to continue it. At the time many of them belonged to the Democratic Party but in the over 100+ years that passed conservatives switched to the Republican party and so did the notion of promoting "States rights" to an extent. Democrats like Hubert Humphrey pushed their political party towards supporting civil rights during the 20th Century.
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  731. I'll actually take current Presidents over current state legislatures-especially from my state but others as well. Thanks to being able to gerrymander themselves in the legislatures are no long accountable to the citizens of their state since their elections have been rigged. Presidents still are.
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  732. Saw the graph that some deniers were using to claim that particular lie some years ago and even it showed times when CO2 increase"PRECEDES" temp rise. Additionally the people who made the graph were exposed for having removed reporting on everything else that impacts temps in order to make the deception easier. Basically they only showed the line on carbon when there were multiple things at play to cover up when carbon not just countered but surpassed the impact of the other things at work and that those things had an impact at all. This way when someone looks at the graph the edited stuff out they were never given a full picture of events. But, as I mentioned, even that selectively edited graph still showed times CO2 increases came prior to increases in temp.
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  733. I know. I wonder what Dave Smith's excuse making will look like when trying to cover for Putin trying to cover for Hitler.
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  734.  @Elena-fe3os  Funny that stevewilkins6562 leaves out that the people he (or it, if he is a bot) supports have no intentions of fixing people's problems-war in Ukraine or not.
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  735. PatrickJane-jq9zs @Elena-fe3os "Every artificially created country disappears.. Yugoslavia for example.." Modern Ukraine is probably older than you are. Ancestral Ukraine was on maps centuries ago-thus very much older than you are. Ukraine is a real nation.
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  736. PatrickJane-jq9zs @pplr1 '"Also if you want to avoid slaughter how about telling Putin not to start wars and not to do war crimes?" And what would happen?!' The current war wouldn't be going on and thousands of people would still be alive. If Putin stopped after starting this war then more people would not die.
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  737. PatrickJane-jq9zs @pplr1 "Uh huh, on which maps?! The Ukraine propagande ones?!" So is this your way of telling me you are here to push Russian propagana without directly declaring it? Go to a map of the Cossack Hetmanate from the 1600s. Additionally the modern maps of Ukraine are more recent and reach back over 30 years, more if when it was counted as 1 of the Soviet Republics is included. Good chance that is older than you are or at the very least longer than you've been an adult in human society.
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  738. For a very good cause. And by for the USA it is a good investment.
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  739. That is a good reason to not stop sending supplies. Russia is the aggressor in this situation and should not be rewarded for its aggression nor its war crimes.
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  740. And Ellen, despite all her problems, has probably been better for other people.
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  741. Are you Ukrainian? If so good luck to you and your nation. I hope Putin's imperialism fails. amondberzal So your concern is that a corrupt prosecutor should have been kept in office despite people knowing he was corrupt both inside Ukraine and outside of it? Really??
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  742. Yes he can. This same guy was pushing for Russia to annex parts of Ukraine a few years ago, so for him to claim now that all Russia wants is supposedly "neutrality" is bs on his part and he should know it based on his own arguments earlier.
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  743.  @timn5008  Or he doesn't and neither does the USA. He was elected wanting to talk to Putin to try to make peace. Did Putin want to talk with him? If there were any discussions who stopped and was it over what territory is still part of Ukraine? As for the USA.. not this time as surprising as that may be. Russian forces were on Ukraine's borders not those of the US. Those forces then invaded the Ukraine. That is how this war started.
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  744.  @timn5008  Russian security concerns aren't legitimate when they are the aggressor-which is the case right now. It doesn't matter if Putin is honestly paranoid or he simply wants to grab Ukrainian land and coming up with lies to do it under. This is a war of choice on Putin's part. He chose to send Russian troops into Ukraine-not the other way around. The idea of US bio-weapons labs being in Ukraine strikes as ridiculous. Most military bases for the US and other nations don't have bioweapons because of how special and how dangerous they are. And Ukraine has 0 US military bases regardless. Calling other people "dummy" while making ridiculous claims like that last one doesn't help your argument.
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  745. "Yes, Russia is democratic. Ukraine is (currently) not. These are facts." That is both propaganda and bs. Putin jailed and just killed Navalny because Navalny could run against Putin and potentially win if elections in Russia weren't rigged. On the other hand Ukraine has gone through a couple of Presidents in recent years-with the current President having been elected over an incumbent who would've rigged elections for himself if that was the trend.
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  746. Welcome to Global Warming.
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  747. They do that because just because they moved doesn't mean they don't want a do-nothing or corrupt government. It is a bit like buying a rundown house (cheap) and then fixing it up. Democrats move to cheaper states and then vote for Democrats to improve the state. Believe it or not many people don't want high poverty, high crime, and low education like Republicans politicians prefer to offer.
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  748. @ They know what they are doing. Why you buy a run down house because it is cheap you then fix it up because you plan to live there (unless you're flipping houses). Democrats can go to a cheap state to buy a house and then vote Democratic to make the state better.
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  749.  @vivian198  They aren't running. They are looking for a cheaper house to buy. Once you buy a cheap house you remodel it to make it better.
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  750. Same people who oppose improving schools, healthcare, and so on for US citizens also tend to oppose helping Ukraine. That reveals a lot about who is actually looking out for citizens of the USA and Ukraine vs who is not.
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  751. Trump's plan is to let polluters pollute more in the USA not to clean them up. Trump is fine with tariffs. Why didn't he ever put Tariff on China for its pollution?
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  752. Disputes and fights over the border between India and China have been going on since before BRICS existed. Also you may have noticed the that it was pointed out both the USA and China had opposed India in the past, hopefully now the USA has learned better.
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  753. "Overall trade is a good thing, it has meant that many jobs and industries have been outsourced to countries with less rigid labor and environmental laws." This seems like a contradiction in minute 7. I almost downvoted at that moment. I get you may mean this is a downside but this is why labor and environmental laws should be in trade agreements.
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  754.  @ericg4915  Totally agree. Plus the maker of this video is arguably shortsighted as a benefit of group deals is that they can place restrictions on a nation that may slowly be acting more aggressively and is possibly restarting colonialism as well. That being China. China's current government seems very opposed to democracy and individual rights-disrupting allies protecting them is shortsighted.
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  755. Just to be clear. We live in a situation where Global Warming is harming economy and killing people worldwide. Companies who make most of their money based on activities that encourage Global Warming have not been paying for the damages-meaning they are dumping the costs of their activities on others. Not only is this not a good thing but if Global Warming (which has a full impact that has yet to be seen) kills a great many people then it would be hard for them to enjoy any of the supposed financial benefits of fossil fuels. Sometimes you have discussed political problems linked with economic ones. This is probably one of those times where that kind of a discussion would be be warranted. Seeking nations with less "rigid" rules when it comes to Global Warming could end up causing problems for humanity and the world economy as a whole. As a matter of fact it probably wouldn't hurt to discuss the negative impacts of Global Warming on various national economies or the world economy at some point.
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  756.  D N A  Obama's addition was done with the intent of aiding an economy that was falling as he came in the door. Trump has no such excuse. Worse for Trump is that Obama was slowly cutting back on deficits (the amount of additional debt per budget year) when Trump came in and ramped them up.
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  757.  @stephm3659  That is a good question. Now one could attach a question over what ideologies those individuals share however if things are still the same since I was in a School of Business some trained in finance sometimes have blinders on. Remarks made by professors in finance I've heard myself include that if women want to be taken seriously in their careers they shouldn't have children and another, when asked by someone who wanted to invest in socially responsible mutual fund but didn't know where to look for one, said not to do it and focus on getting the max return. That is actually teaching bad customer service because it is saying to ignore a specific customer request without even considering trying to meet it (plus flat out disregarding any values a customer may have and thus be concerned with).
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  758.  cory trevor  Are laughing at my earlier point? If so care pay for the damages yourself? How about dealing with the families of people that died?
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  759.  @cesarcossio4042  Technically three years since many of Trumps tax cuts were brought forwards in 2017 when the GOP controlled both the House and Senate. But you are correct about asking about Trump's timing.
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  760. Tired of murders? Yes. But most of those are done by US citizens.
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  761. Actually it may be being used against innocent people right now. Don't forget that according to Tara Reade herself Joe Biden did not sexually assault her (check her April 2019 interview with The Union). I won't say he has no politics but I also recommend thinking about what this former prosecutor (including of sexual assault cases) has to say and the details he noticed. https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2020/04/29/joe-biden-sexual-assault-allegation-tara-reade-column/3046962001/
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  762. ​ @pajenn2387  There are and I can even get a link to that article if you want. That said many said it was not sexual and none of them claimed sexual assault. Compare that pattern to the pattern of Weinstein (flashing women or trying to trap them and force them) or Trump (multiple women ranging grope to rape) and there are patters but very different ones. That even the uncomfortable women are not saying groped or attempted sexual assault means the only case of someone who is saying that is actually less likely to be accurate. There actually was much more in the way of accusers against Al Franken and I was sad to see him go but as more came out I took it as the evidence stacking up against him. As more comes out it actually makes Tara Reade's claim of sexual assault look less likely. If they ever find a complaint and all it said is sexual harassment that actually hurts her current claim of sexual assault because she showed she could mention something by doing so but decided not to say the most thing. She also seems to be giving contradicting statements on if sexual assault would be mentioned. Did you read through what a former federal prosecutor (who did deal with sexual assault cases) said about what he has seen of Tara Reade and her claims?
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  763.  @FelifromGermany  Thank you for your video. I suspect JD Vance was sent there both to be seen boosting the AfD politically and also to try to do a political slap at Europe that helped set the stage for Vanceand Trump betraying Ukraine. My suspicions anyway. With political moves in the US insults and giving one's self excuse are, sadly, sometimes treated more importantly than integrity. So I don't he was truly concerned about "free speech", if he was he would be more upset about the AP reporters not being let into the the White House for being willing to say "Gulf of Mexico".
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  764. Odd seeing people using that phrase for a man who is being thoughtful enough to lay out the truth as he can best see it. Especially other people better fit the term "useful idiot" who are on the ballot this year.
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  765. So Republicans put forwards black faces to lie to black people? Trump has been lying to white people for a long time. I guess they figured they needed to do some affirmative action picks to go to different people. See the GOP is not totally opposed to DEI, it is practiced when politics is in play.
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  766. Being willing to fake bluntness while he lies to people doesn't make him a treasure. And he know he is lying. As I already said above NASA already came out with a report looking at the cycles he referred to in minute 32 and explained why they are not the cause of recent warming-and did so about a year prior to this interview. As for "living in caves and lining wool to make blankets to stay warm" that sounds like 'extremists" putting out paranoia. Thus one of the many lies deniers make-this time about people who can be honest that Global Warming is a problem that ought to be addressed.
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  767. Actually Trump is probably worse. Trump would probably tell Netanyahu to kill more in Gaza and take more lands but also be sure to stop anyone watching and reporting.
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  768. It was never a coup. Plus I read her famous phone call and-without the false claims of a coup-it isn't hard to notice she was trying to work out an agreement between different groups of people (which is what a diplomat is expected to do. Those groups included the corrupt former President of Ukraine who was fleeing his own nation at the time.
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  769.  @chrisgardner4222  That is a falsehood. She has said no such thing.
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  770.  @jenstube11  According to the propagandists that are trying to shield those who did start this war. Victoria Nuland did not command Russian tanks to start driving into Ukraine. The people who did are often in Moscow and their last names are not Nuland.
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  771. To be clear on the claimed "coup". The Ukrainian Parliament ruled a corrupt former President had abandoned his office when he fled the nation. He fled because of backlash he generated by both breaking his campaign promises and then trying to use security forces to suppress those who protested against him for breaking his campaign promises.
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  772. @ For being a diplomat trying to work things out in a tense situation? Not only was that arguably what diplomats do but it also isn't a crime.
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  773. @ Her husband making a joke-and openly acknowledging it was a joke-is not her "own proud admittance. She said no such thing.
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  774. Which war exactly? Meanwhile Putin commits warcrimes most weeks for the last few years and he is backing Trump.
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  775. Rewatched the briefing. She said money was given to local governments that Republican governors created a problem for by unexpected dumping refugees on them.
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  776. "2014 coup displacing a democratic gov in kiev" This seems to miss that 2014 was not a coup so much as a popular revolt. Additionally the government in Kyiv right now is democratic. "illegal carpet bombing of serbia" Not only was in not carpet bombing but this was part of stopping ethnic cleansing. Are you for ethnic cleansing? "illegal war in iraq looking for colin powells wmd" NATO never invaded Iraq. Are you trying to tell people you don't know the history of NATO without directly saying so? "We need to pursue peace for the sake of ukrainians, russians, europeans and everyone on the planet." You should tell that to Putin, the person who started this war.
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  777. Thanks for this video. I got turned off by Russell Brand some time ago. He tried to both sidesism and say its too complicated to discuss 1 nation moving its tanks and troops into another to take the land belonging to that nation and its people. That was not a both sides issue (it was pretty 1 way) nor was it hard to understand. He managed to combine dishonesty and excuse making on situation where thousands of people have been killed.
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  778. @MattAngiono "you mean Ukra1ne.... am I right?" I mean Ukraine but you are badly wrong in other ways. For example: "there's ALWAYS more than one side", "without understanding the history", & "was trying to negotiate the end to a crisis" I listened to multiple things people on both sides have said. Thing is the Putin leaning side tends to be laden with lies, false equivalencies, and nonsense. Putin trying to "de-nazify" a nation with a Jew as its elected President? Really?? Notice I said "elected" that happened with Zelenskyy. In comparison the question with Putin is not if he is going to rig the upcoming election in Russia but how badly. But back to Ukraine and a Putin leaning argument. I was the opposite of impressed when J. Mearsheimer tried to argue that Putin sees Ukrainians being able to elect their President as US meddling. Let that sink in.. honest elections = US meddling and a problem Putin wants to address and put an end to. A different way of thinking about it is it sounds like Putin wants to oppress Ukrainians, pick their leaders for them, and then scapegoat for his own imperialism. "was trying to negotiate the end to a crisis" Offering to put a halt to the current war so Putin can stock up on ammo and launch a new invasion in 5 years while demanding Ukraine give territory for nothing in return is not not ending a crisis but merely trying to get more of another nation's land with less effort. Putin could save Russian and Ukrainian lives tomorrow by simply having the Russian military return to Russia. He chooses not to. Plus in the meantime his forces have repeated attacked hospitals-raising the question over if Putin is trying to cause the Ukrainian healthcare system to collaspse to inflict more death and suffering. Considering that the Russian military purposefully attacked Ukrainian energy infrastructure last year trying to get people to freeze in their homes it is a safe bet Putin wants deaths to go up not down. Anyway almost missed your reply. But since I didn't I was glad to point out that you were basically repeating propaganda points made to excuse a murdering imperialist-and so has Russell Brand.
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  779. @MattAngiono "you mean Ukra1ne.... am I right?" I mean Ukraine but you are badly wrong in other ways. For example: "there's ALWAYS more than one side", "without understanding the history", & "was trying to negotiate the end to a crisis" I listened to multiple things people on both sides have said. Thing is the Putin leaning side tends to be laden with lies, false equivalencies, and nonsense. Putin trying to "de-nazify" a nation with a Jew as its elected President? Really?? Notice I said "elected" that happened with Zelenskyy. In comparison the question with Putin is not if he is going to rig the upcoming election in Russia but how badly. But back to Ukraine and a Putin leaning argument. I was the opposite of impressed when J. Mearsheimer tried to argue that Putin sees Ukrainians being able to elect their President as US meddling. Let that sink in.. honest elections = US meddling and a problem Putin wants to address and put an end to. A different way of thinking about it is it sounds like Putin wants to oppress Ukrainians, pick their leaders for them, and then scapegoat for his own imperialism. "was trying to negotiate the end to a crisis" Offering to put a halt to the current war so Putin can stock up on ammo and launch a new invasion in 5 years while demanding Ukraine give territory for nothing in return is not not ending a crisis but merely trying to get more of another nation's land with less effort. Putin could save Russian and Ukrainian lives tomorrow by simply having the Russian military return to Russia. He chooses not to. Plus in the meantime his forces have repeated attacked hospitals-raising the question over if Putin is trying to cause the Ukrainian healthcare system to collaspse to inflict more death and suffering. Considering that the Russian military purposefully attacked Ukrainian energy infrastructure last year trying to get people to freeze in their homes it is a safe bet Putin wants deaths to go up not down. Anyway almost missed your reply. But since I didn't I was glad to point out that you were basically repeating propaganda points made to excuse a murdering imperialist-and so has Russell Brand.
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  780. @lemonstealinghorsdoeuvre "What's it feel like to know you have no dignity or spine?" You tell us. 'Has schwab invited you to swim in cash yet, or do you just have to live with the word "liar!" going through your head every time you buy anything you need?' Again, tell us. If you aren't fan offended by the mere idea that some criticized your dear leader (free speech allows criticism) then perhaps your motivation is being paid to comment. And if you aren't part of making money off this then and actually are such a deep fan of his that you feel the world is made better by hoping of censorship or anyone who criticized Mr. Brand I'd encourage you to rethink some life choices. Also criticism can be healthy.. ..and from the videos I've seen of Mr. Brand where he talked about an issue I've put effort into informing myself on.. ..criticism of Mr. Brand is due.. very due.
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  781.  @lemonstealinghorsdoeuvre  "What's it feel like to know you have no dignity or spine?" You tell us. 'Has schwab invited you to swim in cash yet, or do you just have to live with the word "liar!" going through your head every time you buy anything you need?' Again, tell us. If you aren't fan offended by the mere idea that someone criticized your dear leader (free speech allows criticism) then perhaps your motivation is being paid to comment. And if you aren't part of making money off this and you actually are such a deep fan of his that you feel the world is made better by hoping for censorship of anyone who criticized Mr. Brand I'd encourage you to rethink some life choices. Also criticism can be healthy.. ..and from the videos I've seen of Mr. Brand where he talked about an issue I've put effort into informing myself on.. ..criticism of Mr. Brand is due.. very due.
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  782.  @MattAngiono  "you mean Ukra1ne.... am I right?" I mean Ukraine but you are badly wrong in other ways. For example: "there's ALWAYS more than one side", "without understanding the history", & "was trying to negotiate the end to a crisis" I listened to multiple things people on both sides have said. Thing is the Putin leaning side tends to be laden with lies, false equivalencies, and nonsense. Putin trying to "de-nazify" a nation with a Jew as its elected President? Really?? Notice I said "elected" that happened with Zelenskyy. In comparison the question with Putin is not if he is going to rig the upcoming election in Russia but how badly. But back to Ukraine and a Putin leaning argument. I was the opposite of impressed when J. Mearsheimer tried to argue that Putin sees Ukrainians being able to elect their President as US meddling. Let that sink in.. honest elections = US meddling and a problem Putin wants to address and put an end to. A different way of thinking about it is it sounds like Putin wants to oppress Ukrainians, pick their leaders for them, and then scapegoat for his own imperialism. "was trying to negotiate the end to a crisis" Offering to put a halt to the current war so Putin can stock up on ammo and launch a new invasion in 5 years while demanding Ukraine give territory for nothing in return is not ending a crisis but merely trying to get more of another nation's land with less effort. Putin could save Russian and Ukrainian lives tomorrow by simply having the Russian military return to Russia. He chooses not to. Plus in the meantime his forces have repeated attacked hospitals-raising the question over if Putin is trying to cause the Ukrainian healthcare system to collaspse to inflict more death and suffering. Considering that the Russian military purposefully attacked Ukrainian energy infrastructure last year trying to get people to freeze in their homes it is a safe bet Putin wants deaths to go up not down. Anyway almost missed your reply. But since I didn't I was glad to point out that you were basically repeating propaganda points made to excuse a murdering imperialist-and so has Russell Brand.
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  783. Hmm... I don't see either of my replies to @lemonstealinghorsdoeuvre nor @MattAngiono So at least 1 of them (maybe both) is abusing the flagging system as a way to censor other people. But just so it doesn't get missed here is my reply to MattAngiono pointing out that Russell Brand is basically repeating propaganda to excuse a murdering imperialist. Here it is.: @MattAngiono "you mean Ukra1ne.... am I right?" I mean Ukraine but you are badly wrong in other ways. For example: "there's ALWAYS more than one side", "without understanding the history", & "was trying to negotiate the end to a crisis" I listened to multiple things people on both sides have said. Thing is the Putin leaning side tends to be laden with lies, false equivalencies, and nonsense. Putin trying to "de-nazify" a nation with a Jew as its elected President? Really?? Notice I said "elected" that happened with Zelenskyy. In comparison the question with Putin is not if he is going to rig the upcoming election in Russia but how badly. But back to Ukraine and a Putin leaning argument. I was the opposite of impressed when J. Mearsheimer tried to argue that Putin sees Ukrainians being able to elect their President as US meddling. Let that sink in.. honest elections = US meddling and a problem Putin wants to address and put an end to. A different way of thinking about it is it sounds like Putin wants to oppress Ukrainians, pick their leaders for them, and then scapegoat for his own imperialism. "was trying to negotiate the end to a crisis" Offering to put a halt to the current war so Putin can stock up on ammo and launch a new invasion in 5 years while demanding Ukraine give territory for nothing in return is not ending a crisis but merely trying to get more of another nation's land with less effort. Putin could save Russian and Ukrainian lives tomorrow by simply having the Russian military return to Russia. He chooses not to. Plus in the meantime his forces have repeated attacked hospitals-raising the question over if Putin is trying to cause the Ukrainian healthcare system to collaspse to inflict more death and suffering. Considering that the Russian military purposefully attacked Ukrainian energy infrastructure last year trying to get people to freeze in their homes it is a safe bet Putin wants deaths to go up not down. Anyway almost missed your reply. But since I didn't I was glad to point out that you were basically repeating propaganda points made to excuse a murdering imperialist-and so has Russell Brand.
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  784. And since my earlier reply to @lemonstealinghorsdoeuvre was censored-likely with the same kind of abuse of the comment flagging system-I'll show what I wrote in that too. Here it is. @lemonstealinghorsdoeuvre "What's it feel like to know you have no dignity or spine?" You tell us. 'Has schwab invited you to swim in cash yet, or do you just have to live with the word "liar!" going through your head every time you buy anything you need?' Again, tell us. If you aren't fan offended by the mere idea that someone criticized your dear leader (free speech allows criticism) then perhaps your motivation is being paid to comment. And if you aren't part of making money off this and you actually are such a deep fan of his that you feel the world is made better by hoping for censorship of anyone who criticized Mr. Brand I'd encourage you to rethink some life choices. Also criticism can be healthy.. ..and from the videos I've seen of Mr. Brand where he talked about an issue I've put effort into informing myself on.. ..criticism of Mr. Brand is due.. very due.
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  785. Have to appreciate the lack of integrity some other people here on youtube have that it takes to falsely flag someone's comment because they disagree with it. The irony if it was @lemonstealinghorsdoeuvre after she complained about other people supposedly lying (likely being too honest for her) it would be the possible cherry on top-possible cherry since I don't know who or likely which of lemonstealing or MattAngi was doing the flagging of other people's comments improperly as an underhanded way censor.
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  786.  @MrJmasfca  He just did. With Russel Brand being example 1 of how to be a Tool.
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  787.  @MrJmasfca  Lol. You mean vaccines don't you? I got the covid vaccine and then did a 25 mile bike ride the weekend after. Wasn't that vaccine supposed to turn me into a cripple or some such nonsense? Didn't happen.
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  788. Which was actually out of character and just character assassination. The earlier plans for season 8 were for wildfire to be what wrecked the city but D and D were probably aiming for shock value over characters & logic.
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  789. EU is doing better than Russia. Putin is trying to hide debts as his war goes nowhere fast and inflation in Russia makes what is going on in in the USA and EU look easy by comparison. The EU doesn't have to invade China or Russia-invading and failing at it is Putin's gig. His buddy Trump may be eager to backstab Ukraine now because if he doesn't Russia may lose a war Putin started and cannot pay for anymore. Just because the USA has a Chamberlain/Russian asset in office doesn't mean the EU has to follow. Also Russia had a lot of land before Putin started a war with Ukraine, having a lot of land means nothing when the corrupt rich guy in charge wants even more.
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  790. Democracy isn't control by the elites, it is control by the people. That is why elites often dislike it and frequently try to undermine it to various degrees.
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  791. Very good and quick breakdown-it helps that you show pages. Thank you.
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  792. Possibly, I've only had the misfortune to see a few of Jimmy Dore's shows but I was very unimpressed when I did. Correct me if I'm wrong but he is a backer of the distortion that what happened in 2014 was somehow a coup when the corrupt former President of Ukraine-by his own choice-left because of a backlash by Ukrainians against him. Ukraine's parliament, an elected body with its own standing, declared the guy abandoned his office. Now yes, that corrupt former President did declare later he didn't but was he in Russia by then. If he really disagreed he could take to Ukrainian courts, they could talk with him about other issues like corruption while he is there.
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  793. Russia attacked his nation. Wanting a security guarantee is a very understandable desire for any Ukrainian leader. Being willing to step aside from a position of power shows he is more concerned about the future of his people and his nation than he is with his own political power. Putin-who has held on to political power in Russia for more than 20 years cannot say the same with any honesty.
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  794. "When you circumvent all the rules and create a case out of thin air this is what you get". That is a bs excuse. These are over 30 crimes that evidence had to be shown for.
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  795.  @leod-sigefast  Thankfully, in perhaps an effort to prevent Trump from messing up things even worse than he otherwise would, a law was passed in 2023 that prevents Trump from being able to leave NATO on his own. However Trump can still try to sabotage things.
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  796. @redshield3296 Some of the evidence Putin was planning to attack other nations came from the current dictator of Belarus-the guy who has been letting Putin use Belarus as a highway and is arguably the closest thing Putin has to a ally from the start of this war. Lukashenko (the current dictator of Belarus) put a map on display early in the current war and said that after Putin was done with Ukraine that Poland would be attacked. Now perhaps he and Putin were expecting an easy win. After all Putin himself said it would take three weeks to defeat Ukraine and-thankfully for Ukrainians' sake and possibly the world's-Ukraine has been disproving him. But even if Ukraine has managed to disrupt Putin's plans it does not change that Putin (at least) had intended to go after Poland.
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  797.  @-xirx-  That is because you, rightfully on your part, expected more of him as you may expect more from most people.
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  798.  @user-oi4bj4cv7u  I see little pictures but no arguments or actual points. That tells me you have none that are worthwhile.
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  799. "All three letter agencies that don't follow the letter of the law should be abolished." Those agencies were created by the law. They were created to enforce and follow the law. Some people who are lying about following the Constitution now are trying to wiggle themselves and their polluting buddies out of having to do that.
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  800. Stein isn't being honest. She actively gets support from and works with Republicans to undercut the Democratic Party. She claimed falsely that voters for her would've stayed home while directly trying to discourage people from voting for Democrats-notice the deception and lack of willingness to be honest about what she does? Also since Netanyahu wants Trump she is also working to reward Netanyahu for not making peace. Yes Trump lets Israel take lands other US Presidents refused to and they are both corrupt so they have that in common.
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  801. Problem is that Jill Stein lies in order to hurt Democrats-and often only democrats. She isn't honest on comparing differences between Democrats and Republicans and even sometimes tries to blame Democrats for things Republicans do-which is highly dishonest. A recent example of the latter is when Jill Stein claimed Democrats supposedly betrayed their own voters by not cutting student debt more-while refusing to mention that Democrats did and Republicans undercut their efforts. BTW Jill Stein has been getting help from Trump people this election-such as Trump lawyers. There are people out there that try to honestly run a third party. But when they exist they can talk honestly about where their party stands on an issue and where other parties stand. I've voted Green Party before, I will not vote for Jill Stein (not now when the election is both important and very close nor in the future even if the election is not close) because of her dishonesty and who she chooses to make herself a tool for.
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  802.  @MahmoudWaz  If you don't like liars then I recommend you read or listen to the podcast I just recommended. Feel free to tell me what you think about what was said in it.
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  803. If Sabrina Salvati wants to break away from corporate money then she should want Democrats to win the House back and increase their numbers in the US Senate. House bill 1 (1st bill Democrats passed the US House) not only banned partisan gerrymandering (banning a way of rigging elections in favor of a party) but also included campaign finance reform. This bill was filibustered in the US Senate by Republicans.
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  804. So is that how Trump got into office. Enough good men didn't vote? Seems possible as turnout was down in 2016.
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  805. Meeting with Assad isn't the problem, its it that Tulsi Gabbard was eager to lie for Assad. Just like she has been eager to lie for Putin.
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  806.  @brettanomyces7077  Here is an easy example. Gabbard tried to say it wasn't Assad using chemical weapons back in 2017. Others running from President Trump to a independent investigators confirmed Assad used chemical weapons. Gabbard was pushing a lie.
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  807.  @Jan.F2  Oh look at misrepresentations arise. No US soldiers did not kill over 200k civilians. That is total estimate of civilians killed and a great many of them died by insurgent hands. It claim a US soldier killed someone murdered by a suicide bomber opposed to the US and new Iraq gov is flat out dishonest.
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  808. I know somebody who actually joined a cult. He was born a few years before me. Don't assume age prevents you from signing on to something bad. In this case I'm pretty sure Misha is lying. A math class where they don't talk about number/facts? Really??
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  809. If Netanyahu is the longest ruling Prime Minister then he was part of setting the policy of oppressing Palestinians. There is a connection between the "bad person" and the policy here. Also Netanyahu may want a new Trump Presidency-some of his political allies in Israel think if Trump was in the White House he would give Netanyahu a "freer hand".
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  810. Ah, someone else making excuses for Putin's warmongering.
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  811. Trump is not a great leader and his political party did not bring peace nor wants to. Did you see that Trump's political party wanted Netanyahu to speak in the US Congress?
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  812. Tulsi Gabbard lied for Assad (about his use of chemical weapons on populated areas) and Putin (pushing excuses for Putin's warmongering). She also did some time at RT-a Russian propaganda agency. Tulsi's own actions show she is a Russian asset.
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  813. Stein is part of the 2 party duopoly. Specifically as a Republican agent. That is why some Trump supporters have been helping her. It is also why she dishonesty avoids mentioning the real differences between Democrats and Republicans-including that Netanyahu wants Trump back in the White House. Trump would let Netanyahu annex more land.
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  814. If Trump wins that would be rewarding Netanyahu for the genocide he ordered. Trump supported Netanyahu annexing lands no other US President would back during Trump term. Harris supports having a Palestinian nation, Trump doesn't. This isn't punishing genocide but rewarding it. BTW the GOP spent $1.5 mill on Stein in Wisconsin-and that probably isn't the only swing state where they did this. So people may claim there are no swing states but in practice that isn't true.
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  815. With Ukraine joining NATO.
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  816. The person keeping the meat grinder going is Putin. All that is needed for peace to happen is for the Russian army to return to Russia.
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  817. I wonder if not having proper documents is part of avoiding having to pay widows for getting their husbands killed. After all, even conscripts have families that are promised death benefits.. correct? Perhaps they are trying to cheat families out of those benefits.
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  818. jonathangolabdds9291, you forgot tax cuts. And the funny thing about the wars some rightwingers complain about is that they weren't started by Biden but certain Trumpers like JD Vance would like for them to get worse.
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  819. Seems to day it is to show what happens when someone does her homework and debates someone who does not (Robby).
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  820. I've vote for Green Party candidates in the past. I'm not voting for Stein-not now nor any other election. She gets support from Trump people because she and they know she is just their to cause problems for Democrats. Her dishonesty gives away that she is trying to be a spoiler as well. For example, Democrats tried to do something about Student Debt and Republicans hindered it. She reframing that as Democrats supposedly betraying others is very dishonest on her part.
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  821. Oh look, someone is pushing Putin's debunked propaganda. Looks like what is actually good for the Global Community isn't going to be good for his warmongering.
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  822. Trump supported Netanyahu annexing lands no other US President would. Trump gets Adelson money just like Netanyahu. Trump would be a gift to Netanyahu. Also it is not about patience before unleashing wrath-though unleash wrath after the election if you want to. It is about trying to save lives and land for them to be on.
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  823. Because you were ok with Gabbard lying in the 1st place? I watched this for the 1st time today. I noticed that it is pretty clear Robby didn't do his homework while the she did. Gabbard carried water for Putin in recent years and lied for Assad before that.
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  824. It is trying to respond to bs before too many people fall for it.
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  825.  @maryland9987  They are by a coast. Coasts are where hurricanes. Plus Republicans have known Global Warming is making problems for years. So this could be Republicans punishing their own voters.
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  826. So what were you smoking or drinking before writing that? Russia made gains early on, after that largely nothing and Ukraine largely pushed it out of significant areas.
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  827.  @kevincasey6876  "what found has Ukraine re taken ? Zero!" Could you please write in English Ivan. I know it is not an easy language but still.
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  828.  @kevincasey6876  Did you also own a bridge in New York that you plan to sell?
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  829. Funny you drop that remark here when they are talking about weed killer. My guess is that you dislike his getting caught lying about that issue because it reveals he is also willing to lie about other issues such as Global Warming.
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  830. Netanyahu wants Trump (a US President who allowed Netanyahu to annex lands all prior US Presidents refused to) back in the White House. Allowing that to happen is rewarding genocide. Oddly enough some Trump lawyers have provided help to Stein. Not much of an anti-genocide or even anti-two party duopoly sign.
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  831. So you didn't watch it then. Good to know. You are correct about orange man and Biden but that is because the documentary was trying to get things accurately.
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  832.  @ChristopherPoitras  You put out a simple narrative and the documentary contradicted rather parts of it rather than than mirrored it. You would've noticed had you watched it or payed attention while it was running.
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  833.  @ChristopherPoitras  It is 1 sided, however that is not your initial complaint. If Putin wants to share his inner thoughts during the meetings mentioned I'd be fine with that and welcome it-provided he does so honestly.
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  834.  @LoganBeaupre  Yup, but in line with some of the pro-Putin propaganda I've seen. Fair to say he was repeating distortions rather than reality.
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  835.  @paulcornwall7258  Truth. And I noticed you had no facts to add that show otherwise. FYI I visited part of Russia some years ago before Putin's current war with Ukraine. An older man I spoke with there mentioned Putin was bringing back "fear". That sound like Russia is overflowing with respect for its citizens' rights? There are probably some very good reasons Ukrainians don't want to be under Putin's thumb-including ones with some Russian ethnicity.
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  836.  @imemine6494  ".. my information is gathered from all kind of outlets.. yours is just from the MSM" in other words you have been "buying into Pro-Putin propaganda". It shows.
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  837. I believe it is "tankie" but yes. I wonder how relatives of Hungarians oppressed by Russian tanks think about Orban's earlier actions to hinder support for Ukraine. But that is a side issue and much older historically.
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  838.  @JohnnyTheWolf-d3p  Ukrainians are really concerned about Ukraine. And to his credit Biden tried to discourage Putin from invading. Putin decided to anyway. And Putin cares so little for most Russians that he is willing to use Russian bodies to cause use up the last Ukrainian bullet. Since the USA was part of encouraging Ukraine to give up its nuclear weapons the USA has an obligation to Ukraine beyond simple sympathy for a democracy under invasion by a dictator.
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  839.  @jjh2456  Wow. Did a Sansastan reply to a three year old comment of mine in a video I'd forgotten about to accuse me of being just for pointing out Sansafinger turned her back on both Stark honor and integrity in general in order to gain for herself. Granted I didn't point out that Sansafinger may be a different character than seasons 1-7 Sansa since season 7 Sansa at least pointed out to Jon that Cersei was a mortal threat to them both and turned down the crown out of loyalty to Jon (who was off trying to save the lives of everyone in The North as well as Westeros in general). So maybe that annoyed a dedicated Sansastan. So you get that. But if you want to defend honorless and oathbreaking season 8 Sansafinger that is on you. Though I can thank you for getting me to rewatch the end of the video and the complaints it had about magic being dangerous while willfully (or just foolishly) ignorant that it was trying to excuse making one of the most powerful magic users still in the story into a king that-due to his magic powers-is his own secret police (taking Big Brother out of 1984 and putting it into a fantasy setting). Noticing the details doesn't make 1 fragile, it can make 1 aware (including of logic failures).
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  840. Sure tankie.
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  841.  @Thanatos1982a  Yes. Though the irony is later Mearsheimer claimed Putin would not attack Ukraine. Seems like his thinking suffered with time.
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  842. Mearsheimer claimed Putin would not attack Ukraine. That turned out to be neither "accurate" nor "true".
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  843. Robby didn't do his homework before this show. She did.
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  844. Not far away some people were getting warm in June plus Iowa and Minnesota had flooding.
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  845.  @kathleenrogers10  Within the last year or 2 a couple of people I know visited Maine and came back telling me how unusually warm it was there. Global Warming hitting many places.
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  846. That Putin wants Ukraine-so yes it did. Now it could have gone into further detail that taking Crimea gave Putin a location to attack other parts of Ukraine and also access to a bunch fossil fuels he could steal from Ukraine like natural gas and additional control in the land near a Russian naval base.. but it still managed to get the main reason Putin took Crimea-because Putin wants Ukraine.
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  847. Thank you for the philosophy pointer. Now Platos didn't have a huge number of democracies to look at but you are correct in that he saw regular people as too emotional to rule.
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  848. It is "Democratic". I appreciate reporting on the US elections but please use the correct party names when you do.
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  849. Yes. These days I have to vote Democratic to limit the amount of corruption and because Republicans lie about most (not all but most) important issues.
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  850. Seems Ukraine only started losing ground after the initial invasion was more recently once ammo started running low. Since that problem is going to be fixed there is a good chance Ukraine will not "lose".
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  851. Season 8 is ignoring prior seasons. Like when Daenerys said she doesn't want innocent people to die or (in season 2 during Stannis's attack on King's Landing) Davos saying he "has never known bells to mean surrender". And Davos is talking about King's Landing in specific.
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  852. Growing economy while trying to address (not lie about and ignore) long term problems. On top of that Biden isn't interested in trying to steal an election like Trump tried to do in order to hold on to power. Thus far Biden will go down as been a good President (not perfect but how many perfect people are around)-very possibly a very good President.
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  853.  @jasonrusbuldt317  There was no "genocide" by Ukraine, fact-checkers looked into it and debunked that piece of Russian propaganda years ago.
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  854. In other words lets let Putin off for committing a long list of war crimes and hand of a portion of another nation as a bonus for starting a war?
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  855. How many times are you going to copy and paste that?
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  856. The person not doing his job is Rick Scott. Immigration and the border have been issues for years-far longer than Biden has been President. Meanwhile the war in Ukraine started recently and Rick Scott is helping the dictator who started it.
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  857. I guess tankies who don't want to get the point/joke are trying to look away.
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  858. Having Ukraine be neutral and not part of NATO is part of what started this war. Ukraine wanted to join NATO for a long time but wasn't let in as part of appeasing Putin. We can see the war that resulted in. FYI the same people in the USA that don't want to help Ukraine now are also usually for cutting most things that help US citizens here in the USA. So they are lying whenever they say if we didn't help Ukraine we would spend money on ____. FYI these are the same 2-face folks that also added to the national debt when there was no war nor national emergency. So they do not care about the debt either. Most of the complaints these days are just bs excuses to try to sabotage a nation that has done surprisingly well-that is Ukraine.
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  859. Not the "facts". Keeping slavery around was a chief concern for Southern politicians that started the US Civil War and they said as much-often in the declarations of succession they put through.
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  860. Oblasts occupied by Russia voted to be independent of the Soviet Union. More recently a majority of each of them that was capable of voting in Ukrainian elections (not occupied by Russia) voted for current Ukrainian President Zelensky. Now Russia does like to fake holding referendums where the official results are lies made up in Moscow rather than people living in Crimea or Donbas.
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  861. They aren't liberated, they are occupied. The people living there voted for independence from the USSR three decades ago and Putin has faked having referendums to try to hide that most Eastern Ukrainians don't want him as their President.
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  862. That sounds a lot like NATO.
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  863. Most in the US do support Ukrainian, there are a few Putin sympathizers that were trying to sabotage things.
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  864. seann cliver It is possible those are Ukrainians fighting to preserve their nation (Russia has a history of not being kind to Ukraine and a lot of Russians these days seem to think Stalin was an ok guy). It is also possible Acknod Bikes is saying the video is fake. Since Russia's foreign minister was lying about Russia supposedly not starting this war recently that is a very realistic possibility.
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  865. Tell that to All Franken who actually had several accusers. All I see here is a bunch of bs where people are trying to make claims with a video that does not support those claims. And if you are a Republican (since you mentioned Democrats) are you going to vote for a guy with over 20 women accusing him. Yes Trump has that many accusers. And at least some of them have more credibility that Tara Reade-likely most do.
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  866. Actually that Putin occupied Crimea and tried to occupy Donbas after it looked like Ukraine would come closer to the EU puts this argument into question.
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  867. The USA may suffer from 2 problems. 1st the Fairness Doctrine (requiring different sides of a discussion to be made) was ended. This allowed some tv channels and radio stations to turn into propaganda mills that have been lying to their watchers/viewers for years. 2nd Social media could use more fact checking (not less) and someone should look over the software to check on how often people are pushed into echo chambers.
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  868. It is interesting info that after the breakup of the USSR money was sent into Russia and it disappeared-meaning the corruption or kleptocracy in Russia has been running for a long time.
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  869. ​ @brantpam222  This is an example of the truth hurting. Anyway the switch in Parties arguably started with Truman (a Democratic President) desegregating the military. FDR was important in recording the history of former slaves with one of many activities that was part of the New Deal but efforts to help black people were limited in the South out of fear of annoying Southern States/politicians. It was Democratic President Johnson (LBJ) that took the step of pushing for Civil Rights despite knowing it would cost his party the South. Those Democrats that opposed civil rights often weren't the Northern liberals but Southern conservatives-who later became Republicans. Not all at once and not in the same way. Perhaps most interesting is former Democrat Strom Thurmond. He left the Democratic Party and helped build up the racist and largely Southern Dixiecrat third party. This was before supporting Barry Goldwater (a Republican opposed to the Civil Rights Act) as well as joining the Republican Party himself. And there were Republican steps towards embracing racism that also slowly happened beyond Goldwater. Nixon ran his "lily white" campaign. Ronald Reagan promoted "State's rights". Interestingly in places outside the South such as the Upper Midwest the Republican party became the party that controlled suburban areas which racism (due to not wanting to live in the same neighborhood as black people) helped build. There is also Republican Jesse Helms who is associated with the organization described as racist that did much of the work for and funded the book titled "The Bell Curve" which also has racist arguments. Now you would get some points for pointing to Planned Parenthood as being founded by a bigoted eugenist (Sanger), except the same rightwing (politically) judges Republicans tend to support with the goal of upending Roe v Wade Planned Parenthood is so concerned about now have also been undoing efforts to protect minority voting rights-especially but not limited to black voters. President Lincoln may be spinning in his grave that Trump, who welcomed bigots as "fine" people, is the last Republican President but change happens-including within political parties.
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  870. Neil Barembaum I already gave part of the answer to you in my reply to brantpam222-which I'll include in my reply to you. I'll also include some things addressing what you did and didn't bring up. For example, when the Civil Rights Act passed a greater % of Democratic Congresspeople outside the South voted for it than Republican. That little detail is something Prager purposefully leaves out of its videos and most discussions of the % of members of both parties that voted to pass the Civil Rights Act. Additionally the only Republican Senator from a Southern state voted against the Civil Rights Act meaning Southern Republicans in the Senate voted against it at a 100% rate-higher than the conservative Southern Democratic rate of 95%. Further getting into what Prager (and you) didn't mention is that outside of the South the rate of Republican Congresspeople voting for the Civil Rights Act was lower (85%) than that of Democratic Congresspeople (95%) out side of the South. As I mentioned to brantpam222 most opposition within the Democratic Party to Civil Rights come from Democrats that were Southern and had more conservative politics. So there is a major geographic issue here. To their credit most Democrats and Republicans that were outside of the South supported Civil Rights. To his credit Democratic President Johnson (LBJ) knew pushing through Civil Rights would hurt his party in the South but did it anyway. I touched on other events and figures in the switch where the Republican Party increasingly accepted racists and the Democratic Party increasingly fought racism and embraced Civil Rights. It was a process that happened during the 20th Century-which Prager (purposefully I suspect) does not do a good or accurate job of representing the videos I've seen by it put discussing the history of the time. Fun fact about Ike-who I'd give credit for trying to help black people in the South. 1 of the 1st things he did after federalizing the national guard to bring black students into school was have the news that he did so translated into other languages-especially Russian-so it could be transmitted internationally where the Soviet Union had been scoring political hits on the USA over segregation and racism. On this "major Democratic politicians saying blacks are unable to get photo ID" you didn't mention why. A lot of "photo ID" bill Republicans pushed through make it so photo IDs many people have are no longer considered valid. A % of older black people who moved North from the South often don't have the type of records people typically get at a hospital in modern times (like a birth certificate) thus for paperwork related reasons were initially prevented from getting IDs. Now the photo ID thing gets more interesting for a different reason not associated with race in that the claim was made photo IDs would bring integrity to elections and thus people trusting them. However after the 2020 election many of the ballots that Republicans tried to get thrown out in court-thus not counted and depriving citizens of their rights and votes-were cast by people who used photo IDs to get their ballots-indicating election integrity wasn't what really mattered here. Mentioning rights and voting.. something that matters a great deal in recent years is that Republicans and not Democrats have been the ones blocking updates to Civil Rights and voting bills-including after Republican appointed Judges struck down part of Civil Rights and voting protections. In my reply to brantpam222 I didn't mention that Ike (President Eisenhower) supported Civil Rights for black people. He was President long before Reagan's sympathies for "State's Rights" or Trump's activities. Including him-or not-does not contradict my point about the 2 parties switching on Civil Rights since he came and went before the change really got going rather than after. If Prager counted up the number of people in Congress who voted for and against the Civil Rights bill and made a point about which party they were part of then that also means Prager likely knew what geographic location they were from-pointedly from inside or outside of the South. That a higher % of Democratic Congresspeople outside the South voted for the Civil Rights Act than Republicans outside the South does contradict Prager pushing the narrative a higher % of Republican Congresspeople than Democratic Congress people support the Civil Rights Act. Withholding that is hiding evidence that challenges a narrative. Thus Prager was being deceptive and in a fashion beyond what is simply "opinion" since it leaves very relevant facts hidden. Anyway here is what I said to brantpam222: This is an example of the truth hurting. Anyway the switch in Parties arguably started with Truman (a Democratic President) desegregating the military. FDR was important in recording the history of former slaves with one of many activities that was part of the New Deal but efforts to help black people were limited in the South out of fear of annoying Southern States/politicians. It was Democratic President Johnson (LBJ) that took the step of pushing for Civil Rights despite knowing it would cost his party the South. Those Democrats that opposed civil rights often weren't the Northern liberals but Southern conservatives-who later became Republicans. Not all at once and not in the same way. Perhaps most interesting is former Democrat Strom Thurmond. He left the Democratic Party and helped build up the racist and largely Southern Dixiecrat third party. This was before supporting Barry Goldwater (a Republican opposed to the Civil Rights Act) as well as joining the Republican Party himself. And there were Republican steps towards embracing racism that also slowly happened beyond Goldwater. Nixon ran his "lily white" campaign. Ronald Reagan promoted "State's rights". Interestingly in places outside the South such as the Upper Midwest the Republican party became the party that controlled suburban areas which racism (due to not wanting to live in the same neighborhood as black people) helped build. There is also Republican Jesse Helms who is associated with the organization described as racist that did much of the work for and funded the book titled "The Bell Curve" which also has racist arguments. Now you would get some points for pointing to Planned Parenthood as being founded by a bigoted eugenist (Sanger), except the same rightwing (politically) judges Republicans tend to support with the goal of upending Roe v Wade Planned Parenthood is so concerned about now have also been undoing efforts to protect minority voting rights-especially but not limited to black voters. President Lincoln may be spinning in his grave that Trump, who welcomed bigots as "fine" people, is the last Republican President but change happens-including within political parties.
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  871.  @brantpam222  In other words you don't have a rebuttal but don't want to admit it. Good to know.
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  872.  @ThethomasJefferson  Funny you used the phrase "new plantation" without much in terms of describing what it did or even was. I suspect the details would undermine your claim but your have yet to show any. Also I wouldn't say the whole party is racist. Just that Republicans have become more welcoming to white racists for the electoral advantages it gave them-not just in the South (though it did) but also to an extent in suburbs outside the South that tend not to be that diverse ethnically or skin colorwise (if there is a difference). I watched what he said. It was in reference to Charlottesville. But even if I set aside the racists rallying in that town at the time and go with your argument about removing statues it isn't a good argument since those statues were put up to promote racism. The South started the Civil War to preserve slavery-specifically slavery based on skin color. The statues to display those who fought for the Confederacy weren't simply to remember who did so but to celebrate them and promote elements of the Confederacy in the South such as racism, Jim Crow, and-less well acknowledged-an authoritarian situation for black people to endure.
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  873.  @ThethomasJefferson  The history of many of these statues is that part of the reason they were put was putting black people down and reminding them that they were 2nd class citizens. That is far beyond and worse than just teaching history. Also I will argue that fighting a war against your own nation for the sake of preserving slavery doesn't make someone "great" nor an "American hero". It is that action in specific that is celebrated in these statues. Yes, I'll bet Prager has propaganda videos on what the "New plantation" is. Judging by the Prager video that misleads viewers on the history of Civil Rights and both major parties I would fully expect such a video to be laden with distortions and dishonesty.
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  874. I would question the idea of Trump being peaceful guy. He wanted to launch missiles into Mexico and he had to be talked out of starting a war with Iran. Oddly enough (despite that I'm glad Biden is not running again) Biden actually neither threatened to start nor actually did as many wars as most prior Presidents in recent history-including Trump.
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  875. Those billions are to help defend a nation that has been invaded. They are not for nor have they been going into Zelensky's bank account. I know some of Putin's PR people like to lie about that because they want US aid to Ukraine to disappear so Putin can get handed a win he has not been able to get on the battlefield despite that Putin himself claimed Ukraine would fall to his invasion within three weeks. Considering Putin plans to start more wars after Ukraine money helping Ukraine is actually money well spent because it delays or may even prevent the next war Putin hopes to start and had been planning to already when he 1st invaded Ukraine.
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  876.  @mr.octopus6972  Ukraine will, in the form of preventing further Russian warmongering and thus making it so nuclear war never happens. What is the value of having cities across the US remain intact?
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  877.  @mr.octopus6972  Yes you are, but that wasn't the specific issue we were discussing.
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  878. Who? I saw Mearsheimer say things that were false within 2 minutes of the video. Lex lets people talk and say whatever they want. Its viewers who have to double check things to determine if the things said were false or not.
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  879. Or the one doing the deceiving here is Dave Smith. Note how he stepped over when the guy on Colberte flat out said Ukraine was going to choose. That is what Putin doesn't want, for a neighboring nation to be able to make its own decisions. That Putin is willing to start a war, abuse civilians, and on because o fit shows he is trying to be a "bully" country.
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  880. Thought about it. Also considered the chance this was a trick to root out those people who realized Putin is not only bad for the world in general but also Russia in specific.
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  881. Good way to sum it up. Since Bran manipulated events to make things like the deaths of thousands of innocents happen wouldn't that make him a mass murderer?
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  882.  @barbara3911  Actually it is strongly implied he can see the future with the comment "Why do you think I came all this way." That means he came to King's landing with the purpose and expectation of being made king while he was there. One of the very few ways he could know that is if he knew the future or what possible futures where available. Keep in mind that in GoT more than one magic user has been able to see the future or possible futures. Sometimes they try to warn a character about it so the character can avoid it and at least one has said it will happen. Will the latter doesn't imply people can do anything to prevent it if they want to the former strongly says otherwise. Regardless Bran is a user of magic thus may have an ability to see possible futures. Judging by Brans actions like pushing for Jon's linage to be revealed when at that moment all it would do is cause tension between her and Jon as well as help lead to possible death and destruction. It is Bran pushes Sam to tell Jon when Sam otherwise may not have and then reveals to Sansa there is something she doesn't know by stating Jon has a choice when having that be known makes it less Jon's choice because Sansa would likely press him for information shortly after learning there would be something to learn. And at the end Bran keeps Jon's linage a secret at the council meeting when they are discussing who should be king next and potentially Jon's fate. Bran does not really have a good excuse to push so hard for Jon's linage to be known when it complicates things for him and Dany but not when it could benefit Jon but hinder Bran's rise to power. Bran was the chief person pushing this issue and for him to suddenly keep silent at the Council meeting is questionable. Plus it is Bran who decides to exile Jon. Possibly further disposing of a potential rival claim to the throne before anyone else can ask him of his linage-and in a way that Arya is less likely to be pissed about (keeping her off his case without letting her know why he may be doing it).
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  883. Sadly propaganda has an impact. Also Harris could've had a better campaign but just saying that lets a lot of very dishonest propaganda off the hook.
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  884. Hmm.. opposing supporting Ukraine likely makes both the USA and Ukraine poorer in the future. Not only does the USA save on money it would have to spend storing and decommissioning equipment but US weapons performing well would look good to customers worldwide-especially in Europe that may restock stores sent to Ukraine. So Ukraine winning this war would probably be nice boost for the USA economically. Supporting Ukraine now is not merely "printing money" but actually making an investment that can pay off for years into the future. And, very importantly, it is also the right thing to do. Also you say "fellow Americans" but I don't see much evidence you are a US citizen. It is also telling how you complain about corruption in Ukraine but are silent about Russia's widespread corruption.
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  885. Yes. And evidence came out the earlier plans for season 8 itself was for wildfire to be what wrecked the city. So D and D changed their plans in order to do character assassination.
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  886. Not in favor of war crimes, when it comes to the current war it is pretty clear Russia and Russian troops have committed most of them.
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  887. For being thoughtful and pointing out that outcomes and real people's lives are at stake both inside and outside of Gaza?
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  888.  @jefflayton153  You may find it hilarious yet it remains accurate. Bernie doesn't have the power to pick current candidates for President. Of those available 2 are likely to get into the White House and 1 of them would be worse for people around the world if he returns-including people in Gaza.
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  889.  @JohnChampagne  Tariffs could be put on big polluters like China. Many notions-democratic or not-make money off trade. If the kind of money they made was impacted by how much they polluted it would provide them a motivator to take pollution into account.
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  890. Mr. Sachs shared some pleasant lies for excuse makers for Putin's Imperialism. He called a corrupt President fleeing because of the backlash against his own actions (breaking his own promises for transparency and a trade deal with the EU then using force against protestors) a coup. Mr. Sachs also left totally unmentioned his own role in creating the corrupt oligarchy that exists in Russia today-he was on the team that successfully pushed for rapid privatization there years ago.
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  891.  @mafarmerga  Most people aren't economists and in general don't support simply moving money around. That is why I suggest the 1st thing a carbon tax should do is put money towards helping address costs where Global Warming causes damages or disasters.
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  892.  @mafarmerga  Thank you for supporting it. I think my suggestion would be less likely to fail if polled. People want taxes or whatever else to have a point. While a carbon tax does have a point my suggestion would help emphasize it. Plus a lot of damages caused by Global Warming happen inside the USA, so this would deal with situations in the US. That is within US self-interest.
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  893.  @mafarmerga  I'd like to see the poll. I doubt they asked the question or asked it the way I would have. Also I suspect a significant portion of the US population supports the idea of the party that caused a problem paying to fix it or cover damages done by it.
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  894. It isn't a failure. They move for the cheap land. Once they own it they want to improve things by voting blue. A bit like how people buy a run down old house and then fix it up. There is a reason most of the worst states to live in are red states.
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  895. "Dialogue with Russia as an equal" = ignore the opinions and concerns of most nations in Eastern Europe. Translated part of the discussion to make it clear what was being suggested.
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  896. Maybe and maybe not. Tara Reade has major credibility problems including that according to Tara Reade's own description of working for Biden (in an April 2019 interview) no sexual assault happened. If MeToo wants to make sure they support accusations when those accusations seem to actually be likely that means the may well support "the truth" as you put it.
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  897. "denying the facts.the professor has been right everything turned out true". Well this is bs. He showed he has little understanding of history-such as missing that the Cuban missile crisis was over missiles and that the Monroe Doctrine did not hand the Americas to the USA-on the latter point notice how long Canada was part of the British Empire long after the Monroe Doctrine came around.
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  898. Putin was still involved in trying to prop up Assad. Also he was probably hoping Trump would dismantle NATO for him.
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  899. He shouldn't resign because he is trying to protect his people and nation. Putin started this war. The death and destruction is because of Putin's choices. That President Zelenksy is willing to resign if it gives his nation security shows he cares more about his people and his nation than he does about his own political power.
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  900. "dont pretend to be a hero who came to save innocents from fire you started yourself. Other side is taking lives but your side chose to continue this in hope of weakening enemy using someone else's lives" There are at least 2 lies/misrepresentations here. 1st Putin started this war. The USA did not order Russian troops to try to invade Ukraine, Putin did. 2nd helping a nation defend itself is not merely weakening an enemy. It is helping preserve the freedom of the people in the nation that was attacked-that is Ukraine. If Putin wanted to save lives-both Ukrainian and Russian-he could simply tell the Russia troops to return home. He doesn't. His greed, pride, and Imperialism have been too much for him to do that so far. And if Ukraine surrendered the suffering of Ukrainians would not end. Instead Putin would just try to have Ukrainians killed out of sight and tortured as part of oppressing them rather than fighting them on a battlefield. Yes struggling in Ukraine makes Russia weaker. But that is Putin's choice and he could still end the war next week if he wanted. Putin's greed and pride have resulted in death for others-both Ukrainians and Russians.
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  901. Biden's debate performance was a national embarrassment. But his time as President has largely not been. Meanwhile Trump's time as President was both a national and international embarrassment. It seems like Trump put competent people in his campaign and is saving the corrupt or inept ones for a Presidency and the opposite with Biden.
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  902. Not just race. She is probably lying to condemn her age group too. Yes lying. No facts or numbers in a math class? Really?? The more I think about most of what she said the less I think it happened.
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  903. It that is what motivated you to vote rather than not vote at all it is probably one of the saddest reasons I've heard but also a considerate reason.
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  904. Yes it is sad, but also true. On other issues others would risk them over Israel as well. The problem with a Mutually Assured Destruction pact is it can bring mutual destruction. BTW Harris has to navigate in a political system where APIAC took down 2 Democratic Congresspeople for criticism of Israel during the year she is on the ballot. She currently represents the best chance for people in Gaza and around the world. There are multiple things her campaign should have done differently but those outside her campaign should not be ignorant of what her campaign is trying to manage at the same time.
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  905. Oh look Russian propaganda with a dash of Mearsheimer messing up on history. Most people who bring up the Monroe Doctrine online these days don't know much about the Monroe Doctrine. Also Ukraine held honest elections, Russia held rigged elections-it isn't hard tell which is a democracy. Helping Ukraine is cheap compared to World War Three plus is actually in the US interest-and the opposite of corrupt. Funny how the more corrupt politicians seem to be for Putin rather than against.
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  906. So it doesn't mention sexual assault. Like was said in the video here. Not mentioning sexual assault means that Tara Reade's current claim of sexual assault is not likely to be true.
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  907.  @isaac.anthony  If it didn't happen then she is not a "survivor". I didn't want to see Al Franken go but the evidence against him built up which means the accusations were likely true. In this situation evidence isn't helping Tara Reade. Check out what this former prosecutor-including of sexual assault cases-said. And this prosecutor worked to get justice for people who are "survivors". Link below.: https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2020/04/29/joe-biden-sexual-assault-allegation-tara-reade-column/3046962001/
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  908.  @isaac.anthony  Did her mother mention sexual assault on Larry King? Yes or No? Was sexual assault a crime then? Yes or no? If her mother, right after this happened, said she could "only" go to the press and not the police that means no crime happened which means not a sexual assault. Pay attention to a video before you claim other people have "their heads up their own asses."
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  909.  @isaac.anthony  One other thing since since you mentioned people with "their heads up their own asses". I gave you a link to the account of someone who dealt with survivors of sexual assault in a real life way rather just insulting other people online while failing to look in a mirror while he did it. Did you actually bother to read what he wrote? Yes or No?
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  910.  @isaac.anthony  Even is you were assaulted yourself (and you have my sympathies if that did happen) you have no clue if Tara Reade was assaulted because you were not with her, Biden, or both when it did or did not happen. Regardless of what you went through that does not mean you should not check what actually happened with other people. Have you read what the guy wrote yes or no?
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  911.  @isaac.anthony  "You've clearly demonstrated your a fucking sociopath and don't give a shit about anyone but yourself, and don't believe anyone unless they're on your political team." Sounds like how you have been acting so far. You spend all this time insulting other people and complaining about other people but have yet to show you actually care about other people to enough to bother to see if they are guilty or innocent before you assign blame. And if that is not true then why not? Don't hide behind your usual insults come up with an actual reason and see how well it compares to someone else's actual reasons.
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  912.  @isaac.anthony  "You've clearly demonstrated your a fucking sociopath and don't give a shit about anyone but yourself, and don't believe anyone unless they're on your political team." Still sounds like how you have been acting so far. And no you don't know if he is a predator or not because you didn't check. Maybe it is that I pointed that out that irks you the most.
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  913. I'm watching Rand Paul tell half-truths and put out hot air. I noticed he never mentioned tax cuts. Those were a way Republicans sure increased the debt. He also fails to mention an easy way to help Social Security (not pretending Medicare would be as easy) would be for the cap to be lifted. If people get paid beyond a certain very high amount most people don't get paid a year such as 100 or 200 thousand per year it isn't taxed for Social Security. Also wasn't Rand Paul opposed to something that does help Medicare-the ability to negotiate over drug prices.
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  914. Hi Ivan. So are they setting. up new torture centers now or are they going to wait a week?
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  915. He isn't an excellent guest. I haven't seem he say much that was actually impressive for the last couple of decades. I do appreciate he may try to stop getting history wrong as often as he has in the last few years but as someone who has been a professor for decades he shouldn't be getting those badly wrong in the 1st place.
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  916. Both points are worthwhile. How does 1 wreck wreckage? On the other hand thinking a hole cannot go deeper when it can is a great way to make a bad situation worse.
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  917. I thank the Hill for acknowledging ideology can drive some media organizations. The only catch is Foxnews wasn't mentioned. Wasn't he network was created to provide PR cover for Republicans?
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  918. Voice of dishonesty and excuse making. Ignore the concerns of Ukrainians, ignore that 2014 wasn't a coup but a corrupt former President using force on those protesting his own breaking of campaign promises (at Putin's urging) and fleeing the backlash, ignore Russia meddling in Ukraine-including trying to poison a candidate for President, and certainly ignore Mr. Sachs's own role in the corruption and rise of an oligarchy in Russia (via his successful push to rapidly privatize there).
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  919. I suspect she is lying about what happened in the video. For example, that she supposedly talked about "feelings" but not facts or numbers in math class? Really?? So asking for a name would probably get her to either make a name up or lie about a college or university that does exist.
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  920. Ron Johnson does not care 1 bit about the US debt. He pushed to make Trump's tax cut bigger-thus increasing the amount of US debt. Additionally he is arguably selfish as he argued to have the tax cut expanded in a way that would benefit him as a person. Additionally some Republicans wanted to double aid to Israel, again disproving the falsehood this all is over supposed concern for the debt that Republicans seem to love to increase when the impact of their budgets is examined (increasing the national debt more than Democratic Presidents running back 20+ years).
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  921. Another day another Russian lie online. Funny thing is this lie was disproven last year.
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  922. Trying to earn your 4 rubles for the month?
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  923. How is she "actively supporting" it when she is more vocal than Biden opposing it? Moreover a clear difference between her and Trump is she supports a Palestinian nation while he does not. Trump even took Adelson money given with the expectation he would support Netanyahu to annexing land in the West Bank-not a surprising possibility for him since Trump already supported Netanyahu annexing lands no other President did.
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  924. No, sadly they don't. Instead they would rather pay back polluters and ignore both the US Constitution (if they can find a way to) and legal tradition.
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  925. Agreed. He was 1 of those in Congress that stalled the last aid package passed under Biden. And he even had the gall to claim he was pushing for peace by doing it. In the mean time Ukrainians ran low on ammo and some places were lost that may have held is supplied better and I believe some air defenses even ran low-meaning some of the blood is civilian.
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  926.  @jeremybunn8473  JD Vance tried to stall aid to Ukraine while it was needed. He was warned that it was needed but helped out keep the stall going anyway.
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  927. @Rhinopkc so Republicans who have refused to be part of solving the border problems and immigration for the last 10+ years should write the policy on how to do that. And the price of doing that is something they should do anyway? Hold your own nation hostage often? If you do does that make it easier to hold other nations hostage?
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  928. Actually he just tries to fake being blunt while lying to people. For example, NASA had looked into those cycles he mentioned in minute 32 about a year before this interview and reported that they do not explain recent warming-thus he knows he is lying and figures most people won't double check so he can try to get away with it.
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  929. I've seen better done by a youtuber named Kraut who may-or may not-be a professor. I highly recommend his video: A Critique of Realism.
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  930. That was the Oliver Stone interview.
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  931. Because it was already tried with the current President. The new President will be a new chance.. unless it is Trump who already has a record of being the most pro-Israeli annexation of land (even if other Presidents refused to support it) former President in modern history.
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  932. Also I wonder if they meant the British Foreign Minister, his last name is not Johnson but if they are referring to visiting the USA rather than Ukraine then he (Cameron) may have visited Marlago incouraging Trump to support Ukraine.
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  933. I noticed someone brought up Victoria Nuland. I read the transcript of that call. She was a diplomat trying to work something out with multiple parties including that of the corrupt former President of Ukraine that fled to Russia. That is not a coup. Ukraine's Parliament ruled that corrupt former President that ran off to Putin had abandoned that office. If he disagrees he can file for a court case with Ukraine's legal system-he can talk with Ukraine's legal system about his corruption problems at the same time. Also Ukraine has had multiple honest elections since 2014 and changed its President more than once. The current honestly elected President of Ukraine is President Zelensky. President Zelensky is currently trying to defend his nation and his people from someone who would take honest elections for President away from Ukraine and its people. The person who would like to end honest elections for President in Ukraine is Vladimir Putin.
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  934.  @Mman.  If Ukraine was defeated Putin's troops would be in Kyiv. They tried to be and failed. And quit scapegoating "the West" that is utter bs. Putin was the 1 who ordered Russian troops to move into Ukraine. That is what started this war. Nothing else did. And if I go back to 2014 it was Putin again only using unofficial troops to occupy Crimea.
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  935. ​ @alexlong3714  States decide to fund themselves. If "Southern states" don't have money it is because of decisions they made at home. I don't know about what state you are in and what things are like there but when I do my taxes I do both my Federal and my State taxes. Oddly enough, I've heard "Southern states" get more money back from the Federal level than they send in.
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  936.  @Mman.  "Ukraine has been defeated" Last I heard that 40 mile convoy from Russia was stopped and never made it to Kyiv. Saying Ukraine has been defeated is just wishful thinking by Russians at this point.
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  937.  @Mman.  And no, if someone is campaigning for WW3 it would be Putin. He started a war with Ukraine while planning to start other wars afterwards.
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  938.  @jamesmcelroy5830  ?
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  939. Trying to consolidate power in the Presidency sounds to me like centralization rather than the reverse.
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  940. Pretty sure Putin launching Russian missiles at Ukrainian cities is not Zelenskyy burning his own nation. It may be an example of Putin's frustration that Ukrainians know they have more hope for the future without his corrupt and murdering regime as overlords for them and have proven themselves very problematic to invade.
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  941. Al Thomas, many Russians may be living as serfs but a few Russians-especially Putin and his cronies-live in palaces with the money they steal from Russia as a whole.
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  942. Didn't Putin blow up some apartments in Moscow in order to start a war with Chechnya?
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  943. @ Odd then that these days it is MAGA folks cheering on those who repeatedly try to violate the Constitution.
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  944. @ MAGA is antiwar?! Many are supporting a warmonger when it comes to Putin invading Ukraine. And they may be inviting a new World War like Chamberlain did except-unlike him-they actually have history they can look to as a warning so they should know better even if Chamberlain didn't. I noticed Trump hasn't ruled out using the military to seize some of the areas he was talking about earlier and supports what Netanyahu has done recently. That's anti-war?
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  945. @ MAGA isn't anti-war. There is question if Trump will do a Chamberlain or not. If he does that will be being pro-war since Chamberlain helped make WW2 happen. Plus in invading Greenland still considered an option?
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  946. @ "you're looking at absolute nonsense" Or it is correct and just so happens to contradict what you said.
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  947. Sachs lies about what is happening in Ukraine. And hides from both Russian efforts to meddle with Ukraine (including trying to poison a candidate for President there) and Mr. Sachs own part in the rise of an oligarchy in Russia today (Mr. Sachs was 1 of those who successfully pushed for a rapid privatization in Russia while ignoring corruption).
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  948.  @cosmopessoa7195  I don't see my earlier remark.. as the latest commenter do you see a the comment I made?
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  949. Republicans are worse. When Democrats held the US House a few years ago they passed a bill that included campaign finance reform. Republicans in the US Senate filibustered it. Also Musks probably wants control over government contracts to give himself some-reeks of conflicts of interest/potential for corruption. Also Trump already said he wants to suspend the US Constitution, so yes Democrats are better for it as well. FYI Trump didn't care about if voters had to show their IDs when he was suing to try to make their votes not get counted back in 2020 in 1 of his tries at stealing that election.
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  950. A significant number of Russian speaking Ukrainians want Russia to leave Ukrainian territory. This includes the current Ukrainian President who was more honestly elected than Putin.
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  951. May Russia be free of the stain on it that is Putin and his corrupt regime.
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  952. If you haven't heard Mearsheimer has been doing propaganda work for Putin for the last few years. Notice in this discussion how Mearsheimer tried to cover for rising Russian inflation and war debts as well? There is much Mearsheimer says that related to Russia and Ukraine that turns out to be untrustworthy/false after one takes a closer examination.
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  953. The British people have already been subjected to Russian propaganda. This guy is little better.
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  954. It wasn't for me. It would've been better than Season 8. Also some people are fine with spoilers. If you are not then please don't choose to watch videos that include spoilers and leave them to those of us that are great with them.
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  955. It is called hypocrisy plus that is evidence Trump's meeting with President Zelensky was a setup. The person who asked that question was likely encouraged to in order to make it look, wrongly, like Presdendt Zelensky was being disrespectful. The goal of the situation was to both annoy Ukraine's President in order to try to blame him for any problems. This may have been the plan since Trump falsely calling him a dictator did not go down well so this was try 2.
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  956. Did you catch that there was lying about Global Warming and the evidence that shows it in this video? She may have done it in a calm voice but that is what happened. People should have values, but usually dishonesty is not a way to express them-or at least not a positive way for positive values.
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  957.  @shescraftea9107  Thank you for your reply and saying we should try to come to an understanding. We agree she did say models projections didn't turn out to be. But what she said wasn't true. Many computer models did. I recommend reading a politifact on something Charlie Kirk said a month ago. It is titled 'For climate change environmentalists, "not a single one of their predictions ever come true." It turns out they did and some people claiming otherwise after the fact are just saying some that was wrong on the facts afterwards. We agree people don't have to "hate" each other and it would be a good thing if we tried to understand each other more. I remember years ago when a repeated claim made about Global Warming was that it wasn't happening. I change I've noticed is that more people-often conservative-are now saying it is happening but then trying to say it isn't happening for the reasons the people who made the predictions that turned out to be correct said it was. I figure since the people with the models that turned out to be correct were correct about what would happen then they probably were correct about why since that is what was part of what they based their models on. Liberals and conservatives can and should talk with each other without hating each other so thank you for supporting that. Part of that discussion can be if we can test if something is true or not. We probably cannot do that on ever issue or everything but there are some things that can be checked on. Anyway, thank you again for your reply.
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  958.  @shescraftea9107  "being exploited to grow government control" I've hard this before. But it was argued by people who said cigarettes aren't really that bad cancerwise and rules related to them were simply about control. Let us therefore be careful about assumptions and ask if that particular argument itself is a false narrative. Regardless, thank you for being willing to look up information. Please let me know when you do and what you did or didn't notice.
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  959.  @shescraftea9107  Engaging in a forum is often a good way to discuss something. And good for you for continuing to question. Like I mentioned before, please let me know when you read what I mentioned.
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  960. The current war isn't over NATO, that is just 1 more lie. Ukraine wasn't about to join NATO and had not been for several years. If Ukraine had been allowed to join maybe the current war could have been prevented. Though Putin is an Imperialist and they like to start wars so that is only a maybe.
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  961. It isn't a smear when it is true. And since Gabbard lied about Assad back in 2017 and his use of chemical weapons odds are good that much of what Cross said about Gabbard is true.
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  962. If she is allowed to lie on youtube her freedom of speech is not in danger. Yes, I think she is lying. No facts or numbers in a math class? Really?? The more I think about most of what she said the less I think it happened.
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  963.  @x_asp3x_x  Thank you for acknowledging both a challenge and asking for evidence. It can come from at least 2 sources. 1 what she said. 2 me & my experiences. 3 if you know anyone who is actually in college in the USA now or recently. Possibly a 4 if you count national news reports. For 1, instead of assuming what she said is accurate listen to the specific things she claimed happened and ask if that sounds realistic. She claimed this happened in every class (was therefor planned/orchestrated) including math class but lacked facts thus numbers. Like I said before, it is not common for numbers to not come up in a math class. If anything the opposite is often true. She said all they talked about was "feelings" yet in actual situations where discrimination is a topic specific facts are brought up. With the USA it would include that slavery was practiced in the past-a fact. After slavery was ended there was a time period when governments of politically conservative southern states began imposing "Jim Crow" lows to prevent former slaves and their descendants from having the full rights most citizens should have. Later, and in more states, there were bans on certain groups of people from moving into specific neighborhoods-these bans could come in the form of houses having contract attached to them requiring that only people of specific religion or skin color could purchase the house-another fact. There are more but essentially if there was an actual attempt to discuss the history of discrimination in the USA-where she is saying she is from-there are a long list of facts people could discuss. And she claims that not only were these events orchestrated in all of her classes but in none of them did the teacher start discussing a list of facts that could be expected to be part of the discussion. The combination of claims of orchestration ("all" of her classes) yet no facts in them (despite there being facts to discuss) are both relatively unlikely. Plus they contradict. Why plan enough to have this discussion in each class yet not plan enough to bring up any of a list of available and relevant facts? The odds of 1 of these on its own are low but both at the same time?? Very unlikely. On 2, I've took a couple of courses at a tech college in recent years. In my classes what she described did not happen. My own experiences contradict the narrative she claims. I've taken a math class within the last few years and it had more numbers than I can remember. The other classes focused on their subjects. 3, do you know anyone in college in the USA right now? If so ask them if they have seen a similar event where these discussions were supposedly both orchestrated for all of their classes and lacked any facts that were brought up. 4. If you look at US news reports do a search on things like book bans. Some of the books being banned discuss bigotry and unfairness as a topic they bring up. Odd that students would be banned from reading books in a library relating to these topics but the same topics are supposedly being forced on students no matter if it is in their classes's studies or not.
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  964. I see you are here trying to earn your 5 Rubles.
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  965. If you mean the current occupant of the White House he was there already, most recently during the current war that Putin started.
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  966. I call bs. Trump wanted to launch missiles into Mexico. He is not a peacemaker. During his time as President Trump also supported Netanyahu annexing lands that no other former US President in modern history did. Also that stats show Biden is/so to be was a better President for black neighborhoods than Trump was. There is little reason to expect Harris to be worse than either of them.
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  967. I strongly suspect she lied through most of the video. Especially where she claimed her math class didn't discuss facts or numbers but feelings. Is lying to viewers part of "good work"?
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  968. Yes. I was surprised some of the lies went so far as to try to cover for or excuse war crimes such as in Bucha.
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  969. The South started the US Civil War in an attempt to preserve slavery. Multiple Confederate politicians and office holders made this rather clear.
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  970. I come from the future. Season 8 was nonsense. The White Walkers were never humanized unless they were trying to save the series by killing Bran-also no truce. Season 8's ending was not bittersweet, either bitterdark or bitterdumb if you paid attention and an unjustified happy ending for some characters if you didn't. Though it was nihilistic and hollow.
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  971. When MTGreene interrupted Biden nobody removed her. Also Trump banned the AP reporters from the White House because they didn't say the words he wanted them to when it comes to the Gulf of Mexico. That is not protecting Freedom of Speech.
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  972. Because it is both a side point and Russia is still more corrupt.
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  973.  @Kombo-Chapfika  Says a Putin propagandist who lied about how Russia's economy is doing in this very discussion. Don't forget that Putin himself said he could conquer Ukraine in three weeks and instead Ukrainians have held on to the vast majority of their nation years later.
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  974. The terrorist attack in Germany was by an anti-Muslim immigrant. The guy would arguably be an AfD supporter now in an irony. Speaking of immigration it prevents the USA from joining the club of demographic decline-so shutting it down makes the earlier problem he referred to worse rather than better. Also he missed that the US has no party of fiscal discipline. Democrats spend, Republicans tax cut-guess what happens after both to the debt.
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  975. Its Prager/Proaganda U so lets see what they aren't telling us. Yes there are Arab citizens of the nation-state of Israel. There are also some lands Israel took control over in a war with other nation-states some decades ago, the people living in these lands are not treated as Israel citizens and are often referred to as Palestinians. Thus there are three groups of people-Jewish Israelis, Arab Israelis, and Palestinians. The apartheid claims are about how the third group of people is treated-not the second. This group tries to confuse people over which is which. The reason Arab Israeli members of parliament would be able to pick who won is because the biggest political parties in that particular election were close to the number of seats they needed in order to win but not quite there. So smaller parties could form a coalition with either of the larger parties and become a tie breaker. I'm not critical of the Israeli political system that encourages or allows smaller political parties to make coalitions with larger ones. I'm not critical of the war the Israel fought and won decades ago when it was trying to (techically preemptively) defend itself against multiple neighboring nations. But there is still the question of how people are treated. And it is the third group of people, not the second, that the Israel nation-state treats the worst. And that is why Israel gets some of the negative media coverage it does. How to treat the people living on those lands nor what to do with the lands themselves has not yet been resolved after many years. Meanwhile people who are not treated well as a group an be easy for terrorist groups to recruit so no matter how thing started years ago a cycle of violence can continue today.
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  976. I would like to point out that the support for Ukraine is small compared to some other issues in the budget. Complaints about the supposed cost of helping Ukraine are often Russia funded/Putinist propaganda used to both harm US support for Ukraine and distract people from actual-and much larger-budget issues.
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  977. He may try but we aren't cooked yet. Pushing back is a way to try to keep at least some things closer to normal.
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  978. Funny, I'm pretty sure its Putin and not Zelensky who started the current war and has been starting other wars for the last several years.
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  979. Voted for Harris. She supports having a Palestinian nation while Trump does not. Trump's actions when he was President was to support Netanyahu annexing land no other US President would. More recently Trump has taken Adelson (who also supports Netanyahu) money. Trump would be a gift rewarding Netanyahu for what he has done.
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  980. His ending was more logical than what they gave us-arguably better foreshadowed as well.
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  981.  @KennyP99941  Saw the 1/6 rioters, listened to the testimony of Trump staffers, and also watched Trump himself lying about the election results. Some excuse makers for Trump complain about others propaganda-yet are often neck deep in it themselves. Are you about to tell me not to believe my own eyes when looking at any of the three points I mentioned?
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  982. "Russia strikes military targets only.. Ukraine strikes civilians using cluster ammo" Oh look, Russia lies disproven in the very video they are made under.
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  983.  @187Rajah  So are you getting your 5 rubles from the propaganda department today?
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  984. "TDS hurt that bad?" If not wanting a conman to be President is a syndrome then its probably a healthiest syndrome I've ever heard of.
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  985. Agreed. As messed up as the electoral college can be it is still better than giving the rich and powerful the ability to make one of their own even more rich and powerful with no choice for the serfs of Westeros.
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  986. Yup.
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  987. Put down the crack pipe before posting please.
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  988. Actually no. Harris is for getting Gazans food (thus avoiding mass starvation) and the creation of a Palestinian nation. When Trump was President he supported Netanyahu annexing land that no other US President would. Thus a difference.
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  989. Maybe. Though keep in mind not talking about it in history class (which usually doesn't happen anyway) isn't likely to make the issue go away. When I went into a store the guy behind the counter asked me to leave my bag. As an apology he told me he would only it only to black people but management wanted hi to do it to everyone. If there are people like-not many but I guess because I spoke to him in person then there could be a few old people that haven't given up on only letting black people rent in some areas of town but not others (the creating or continuing segregation). Now I think that is breaking down-making things more fair and less about skin color. But then there is still the problem of if segregation should be lied about in US history class because it is 1 of those things that did happen even if it is not seen as a good thing now. Also, on this video in specific I figure Misha is probably lying to viewers. Yes, I think she is lying. No facts or numbers in a math class? Really?? The more I think about most of what she said the less I think it happened. So her video is probably not a good indication of what is happening in colleges these days.
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  990. I know Gabbard lied about Assad using chemical weapons in 2017.
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  991.  @maiab.4894  They probably know. That said, being inside a hole does not mean the hole cannot go deeper. Thus it is an option of trying to make handholds to get out or, at least, trying to prevent things from getting worse.
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  992. @ No. But it isn't a reason to let up on pressuring leaders to have sense or voting for new ones.
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  993. @ Then there would be no saving the USA for some time. Before deciding to move out try making it an actual political fight. Nobody would blame you if the political fight goes badly but leaving before it is even close to done would simply make it easier for the worse side of that fight.
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  994. @ You ought to notice a large portion of the USA didn't vote for the guy. So "everyone else's" is overstating it. See where you can push back and do it in some way.
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  995. Good video and I like it and much of the going into detail in it. But we may need some nukes if aliens invade or there is a big meteor.
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  996. The 1st amount of aid helped Ukraine stop an invasion from a much larger nation plus launch a few offensives of its own that have mostly been successful (such as near Kharkiv and Kherson). This has been a very good investment so far and even may end up stopping Putin from starting WW3.
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  997. Morning404 a years old tactic of some of those lying about Global Warming is to claim that cold weather like that it may be snowing means there supposedly isn't Global Warming. There are 2 catches to this-and yes I've seen deniers try to use unusually heavy snowfall as part of pushing the lie Global Warming isn't happening. 1st warmer air holds more moisture so there is more to turn into snow or rain when it actually does either. So a denier complaining about the supposed lack of "Global Warming" during snowfall is actually looking at evidence for Global Warming rather than the reverse. 2nd, the Global Temps are rising. This means if 1 part of the planet is unusually cold during part of the year then other places aren even more unusually warm. So they are really unusually warm. 1 place getting colder and another place getting hotter by a greater amount results an an average of being warmer.
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  998. Create laws against price gouging plus try to increase the number of homes (which are in short supply) built-both were part of the Harris campaign platform.
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  999. No. But she may be 1 of Putin's agents.
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  1000. The same Trump that takes Adelson money? The same Trump that supported Netanyahu annexing land during his time in office that no other former US President in modern history would?
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  1001. Hopefully the warmonger that started this war-that would be Putin-does not profit from it.
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  1002. There is no shortage of irony when someone uses the term globalist as an insult while trying to defend imperialism.
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  1003. I'll disagree with you here. You did a both sidesism yet I'd say on bigger and broader issues that what happened with 1 person the rightwing media sources are more dishonest. Foxnews had to pay because it lied about machines in an election while lying about the results of an election for President. Global Warming is also lied about by rightwing media and it is an issue that hits cites and nations worldwide. You focused on a couple of events involving small numbers of people-not whole cities or nations . There is a difference in scale here.
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  1004. Maybe Putin has something on him or maybe Oliver Stone has let his sympathies for Putin get so strong that Oliver Stone is no longer able to be honest about Putin.
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  1005. You can say more, though odds are you would be wrong again.
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  1006. Would these moves be evidence Trump is a double agent trying to weaken the USA from within?
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  1007. On the upside at least he isn't flat out lying about Global Warming supposedly not happening even as it is happening. That is actually a plus-which shows just how low the amount of integrity is among those still pushing denialism. The downside is he seems to trying to knock renewable energy by saying their are trade offs without going into the trade offs of fossil fuels. That is not even trying to do an honest comparison. Now I do have a suggestion for helping make leaders respond more to climate security. End the bi-partisan legal block protecting fossil fuels from being sued for the damages their industry causes. These are often big companies being shielded from the impacts of their own actions. That is not how the supposed "free market" is supposed to work. Include other nations that are building coal power plants in that. And yeah, there was a lack of comparison. He showed a photo of windmill blades being buried. They ought to try to make them from more reusable materials. He didn't show you a photo of somewhere coal ash is buried or a spot where a coal ash burial site broke open and polluted a nearby river or lake. I noticed he threw out the line "unreliable grids", that made me think of current Texas Governor Abbot flat out lying about the cause of blackouts during a cold snap in his state. He tried to blame Wind Power when it actually performed closer to expectations than gas power.
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  1008. No. Trump is pro-Trump. He will cut deals with wealthy people if they give him some bribes. He would probably be happy with a uni-party so long as it let him get away with whatever he wanted.
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  1009. Probably because season 8 was laden with nonsense and character breaking. After seeing characters for 7 seasons it isn't hard to figure out at least some of them would neither say nor do the things season 8 claims.
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  1010. Galloway is not likely to run to be Mayor of London because, despite wanting a stop to the killing in Gaza, there are too many other things that would put people off Galloway like questions about if he will actually help people or just give false promises plus that he takes an immoral and pro-Putin position on the war Putin started with Ukraine.
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  1011. Well in season 8 he did manipulate things to avoid having a successful Dany or Dany and Jon rule including pushing Jon's linage when it wouldn't help Jon. Taking advantage of the window of opportunity from Dany grieving over Jorah created to add more stress and suffering for her. Plus not warning anyone about Euron's ambush or the King's Landing massacre which his powers likely told him about beforehand. Why do all that manipulation and mass murdering if Bran wouldn't get the crown he wanted out of it afterwards.?
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  1012. So the propaganda here fails to mention that Putin has been supporting and even providing some training to neo-nazis and bigots in several other nations. And it is saying what it is in public thus not "not allowedd to discuss this" when they obviously are.
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  1013. Good point. My feeling is he was repeating a story even if it doesn't fit many of the facts.
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  1014. And yet she ends up showing she did her homework while Robby did not.
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  1015.  @to4316  The CIA didn't make Gabbard lie about Assad using chemical weapons, Gabbard did that all on her own. Not knowing she did is not doing your own homework.
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  1016.  @to4316  Translation: You know I'm right but lack the strength to admit it. BTW it isn't hard to look up Gabbard trying to cover for Assad, just look up 2017.
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  1017.  @NimbleBard48  I suspect he is referring to a denier that proclaims he is a founder of Greenpeace while Greenpeace says no he is not. I've seen that particular denier lying about the cause of Global Warming. You are correct to suggest actually looking at the data.
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  1018. Ah yes, Hunter Biden is not half as bad as Jared Kushner but Republicans missed out on a chance to make a mountain out of a compared mole hill in order to distract from their actual mountain.
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  1019. While it is fun to listen to someone criticizing Murray I'm said you didn't seem to go into if what Jon Oliver said about Murray in the earlier episode was actually the truth or not (not just if it was known to be false or not).
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  1020. Ah yes.. thank you for reminding me of that particular lie. Is this particular "his house" of Zelensky's the 1 belonging to a wealthy Georgia resident who has owned it for years and has no intention to sell it anytime soon?
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  1021. His mind may work, it is just his soul and integrity that are gone. I was surprised to see Oliver Stone go so low as to try to cover for or try to excuse the war crimes in Bucha.
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  1022.  @runna-x5h  So lets have her have an administration and see how it turns out. Chances are better than Trump's did with his corruption and broken promises.
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  1023. I see Russian imperialism hasn't lost some of its cheerleaders. Funny how eager some are cheer for stopping Ukraine from having any more honest elections so a nation that does not have have honest elections (Russia) can try to rebuild its old empire.
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  1024.  @youngstowny  Saw this discussion late. Thank you for the history.
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  1025.  @youngstowny  Correct. I just noticed a 6/11/2024 Press release by a UN agency referred to "Kharkiv" in its title: "UNECE and partners renew commitment to Kharkiv reconstruction at Ukraine Recovery Conference, calling for greater support"
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  1026. Easy saying. Also wrong. Unless the USA is colonizing Gaza it isn't US imperialism. Ironically someone could ask if Israel colonized the USA since it seems to have so much sway there. But there are pretty clear differences, 1 side is saying Palestinians should have their own nation (really not imperialism) and the other side is saying let Netanyahu do whatever he wants (horrible but also not imperialism).
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  1027. Welcome to Global Warming.
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  1028. Piers Morgan ought to call out Mearsheimer for lying about which nation has the higher causality rate but failed to.
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  1029. War not going well for you Ivan?
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  1030. "You saying that shows you haven't been paying attention. Gaza has been razed to the ground, and it happened under dems. All you are saying is to let them finish the job" No it shows the opposite. Most Gazans are still alive and Biden has been pushing to get them food. Harris is more openly critical of Netanyahu-who wants Trump back. Allowing Trump back is rewarding genocide and removing the chance for a 2 state solution just after some people have gotten serious about trying for it. Also Trump's Agenda 47 shows he plans to deport anyone who supports Gaza-see item 18. I recommend pointing this out to anyone concerned about Gaza. If Trump gets back in not only would things be likely to get worse there but Trump will try to suppress advocates for Gaza that are over here. Trump claiming to be for peace after he wanted to start a war with Iran just to create an excuse to try to cling to power in 2020 is just 1 more example of him being a conman.
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  1031. So how is Moscow these days?
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  1032. Putin chose to invade. Ukraine's current President (Zelensky) is a Russian speaker and he and many other Russian speakers (wisely) do not what to be part of Putin's Russia. Don't fall for Russia propaganda misrepresenting that most people in Eastern Ukraine don't want to be under Putin's thumb.
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  1033. Do both.
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  1034. Some have donated and are glad we did too.
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  1035. Easy. If all these nations joined NATO it becomes harder for Russia to launch unjust invasions of them. Not being able to invade or dominate neighboring nations appears to be a horrible threat to Putin. Mearsheimer is just trying to explain that in words that obscure the truth as conveniently as possible-and at least he managed to forget the Cuban Missile Crisis was over missiles while he did it.
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  1036.  @zlenkodmd  " evil towards russian minority" like letting them vote in elections or speak their language while in public? The current President of Ukraine is a Russian speaker BTW. This is just Putin's PR group trying to do excuses for their boss's warmongering.
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  1037. @marceldavis5600 So Putin decided to invade Ukraine in order to seize gas and oil fields? Wouldn't be the 1st time something terrible was done over oil.
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  1038. Or facts that excuse makers for Putin's imperialism find uncomfortable. It is important not to miss how often some try to ignore the views and concerns of Ukrainians.
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  1039. This video becomes less persuasive if people apply critical thinking to the excuse making going on here. This video claims "The Wheel" is broken yet a more logical argument is that "The Wheel" won. The new government isn't "enlightened" but a bunch of nobles laughing at the notion of giving serfs a voice. And they just made someone who can serve as his own KGB (an internal spying organization designed to make sure the population doesn't become disloyal to an authoritarian government) into the king. This video also praised using Nazi images without going into what the Nazis supported that made them bad-for example the Nazi liked racism. So making Daenerys, leader of the largest multi-ethnic and multi-skin color coalition in GoT, into a bad guy if anything is pro Nazi ideology rather than opposed to it. Speaking of Nazis the video praises that speech D and D put in Tyrion's mouth. Look up Niemoller's First They Came. It is a poem about how people repeatedly ignored how people who were always innocents were abused and "taken" away by Nazis but the oppression the Nazis did was ignored at that time because it was directed at other groups based on political party, religion, or ethnicity that the poem's narrator didn't share. The slavers, rapists, and child killers that Daenerys is brutal to in Game of Thrones were not innocent (at least as far as she knew at the time she was going after them). This is nonsense making because it claims that going after guilty people for doing specific evil things means going people who haven't done anything and are innocent. That speech is also disgrace because it tries to put real live victims of the Holocaust (real human beings who were killed) on the same moral level as slavers, rapists, and child killers. That is disgraceful in itself.
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  1040. The oligarchy is the wheel.
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  1041. Well I'll disagree with you here. You did a both sidesism yet I'd say on bigger and broader issues that what happened with 1 person the rightwing media sources are more dishonest. Foxnews had to pay because it lied about machines in an election while lying about the results of an election for President. Global Warming is also lied about by rightwing media and it is an issue that hits cites and nations worldwide. You focused on a couple of events involving small numbers of people-not whole cities or nations . There is a difference in scale here.
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  1042. Jill Stein is dishonest. She is an agent of 1 part of the 2 party Duopoly. She has gotten help from Trump people-including 1 of Trump's lawyers. She isn't for building a third party but preventing Democrats from getting into office. She is also fully aware that Netanyahu would prefer Trump in the White House-thus rather than fighting genocide she is trying to help those directly ordering the death and destruction. And no, her remarks to Putin are not on record. I recommend an interesting discussion of Jill Stein by Crooked Media titled "Why is Jill Stein trying to get Trump elected".
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  1043. War not going your way Ivan? Too bad. Also Ukraine's President is honestly elected. That is part of why who is President of Ukraine can change after an election and has-kind of different from Russia.
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  1044. "Arguably Trump is soft on Russia, but i would say he has been far more hawkish against China than Biden." Actually there is an argument Biden is tougher on China. Not only did Biden keep Trump's tariffs but put in some of his own and is bringing nations in.
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  1045.  @sbrengard  " Funny. I remember Biden blackmailing Ukraine too. He even proudly talked about it." Funny that "blackmailing" was enforcing anti-corruption efforts and was supported by other nations while what Trump did was try to extract a political favor for his own political benefit. Biden's actions were to fight corruption while Trump's arguably were corrupt.
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  1046. "I often hear more ads / promo plugs than I do content". I don't usually listen to NPR most days but did a time or 2 within the last few weeks. I noticed the opposite of what you said is true. They briefly mentioned what they planned to do next near the end of the show they were doing but it the content was easily way longer than the promo for next time or anything else. I detect someone making stuff up.
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  1047.  @danedearmond4905  And yet cannot point anything out.. probably because I wasn't. Not everyone has to be dishonest when discussing politics or a specific issue-probably a shock to you but there it is.
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  1048. "TRUTH TELLER TUCKER CARLSON"  Was this statement posted as a joke? Carlson has been deeply dishonest in many ways. Some of them were proven and made public when Foxnews was sued over the lies it spread about the 2020 election.
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  1049. Oh no. If she is going to repeat propaganda properly it helps to focus on it. She did said misleading things to people on multiple issues but she had a calm attitude while doing it.
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  1050. A couple of people part of foreign affairs have said the most likely way to pave the road to a new world war is to push Ukraine to surrender to Putin so Putin can move on to starting new wars. So if someone wants a lasting peace a good idea is to be sure Putin finds out invading other nations does not get him what he wants.
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  1051.  @JohnCSmith-lp1qr  "What makes you think Russia wants Eastern Europe ? Doesn't make any sense . You believe Russia needs lands or Resources ? ....You see... you haven't paid attention to what the Russians are saying. .in the last 15.years" Why would I think Russia wants Eastern Europe when it does not need it? Because Putin is really really greedy. Additionally he has said he misses the old Soviet Union plus actually started an imperialist war with Ukraine to grab its land. And Russian complaints about states joining NATO are because it is harder for Russia to threaten those states or force them to be under its control.
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  1052. Translation: You didn't hear what you wanted to.
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  1053.  @g.e.o.r.g.e...  The people viewing her as evil make heavy use of double standards. So yeah, there is a good litmus test here.
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  1054.  @g.e.o.r.g.e...  A big double standard I've seen is when other people use violence or execute someone that is fine and they are sane but if Daenerys did it then suddenly she is wrong and on the path to madness. If executions acceptable for one ruler they are acceptable for another.
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  1055. Probably wants to carve a new Islamic state out of Russia.
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  1056.  @samuelblackthorne9122  If Obama did something as bad and as large an attack on democracy as Trump tried then he should have been impeached. But Obama did not what Trump did. Claiming the law cuts both ways is a strange thing to say when only 1 of the people discussed actually committed the offense, crime, or attack (whatever people want to call it). At best it seems like you misunderstood the situation and at worst it sounds like you want to let people off for trying to steal elections on an imaginary basis that in the past someone else may-actually didn't-but may have tried to steal a Presidential election. Said differently, at worst it sounds like you want to let someone off for trying to subvert democracy by resorting to ridiculous and unrealistic comparisons that based on things that never happened.
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  1057. At this point embracing a Mutually Assured Destruction political practice would both appear not likely to work and could end up bringing even more real world destruction outside of politics. If Kamala Harris is election she would probably want his support on something-which leaves Bernie with the ability to push for something. Meanwhile the only other person who could end up as President would be a gift to Netanyahu and has a record of supporting Israeli annexation of lands that no other President has.
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  1058. Orban is putting himself and his corrupt buddies before his own nation. They got rich at the expense of people living in Hungary and the elections they rig to hold on to power come at the expense of the freedom of Hungarians. Plus if the EU ever cuts off the money a lot of people will end up poorer in Hungary since Hungary is a taker nation when it comes to the EU.
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  1059. I don't. Mearsheimer has been full of bs about Ukraine for the last several years and some of the things he said in this discussion were outright falsehoods-such as the Russia economy supposedly being fine.
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  1060. No. The DOJ sued because VA State gov was found to be breaking the law and that law was passed to keep US citizens from being wrongly taken off the voter rolls. GOP groups have been caught trying to claim US citizens were either supposedly dead or moved as well when neither was the case.
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  1061. "Damn right we want America First!" All the motto of people who are putting America last. Irony is alive and well at least. So why do you hate America so much?
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  1062. @magicjohnson3121 "far right Neo Nazis backed by NATO" This is fantasy thinking turned into propaganda by modern Russian propagandists. "Russia has a goal to liberate those areas that declared independence" meaning occupy and set up puppet governments that declare vassalhood to Putin while ignoring desires of the population and rigging any referendum results. "Russia finally had enough of ethnic Russians in Ukraine getting shelled" Translation, Putin decided to shell ethnic Russians living in Ukraine for daring to not want to live under him. And no there was not any genocide of ethnic Russians nor shelling of civilians when Putin invaded in 2022. These are lies from Moscow and have been debunked.. debunked for the last few years prior to Putin's latest invasion. "It’s absolutely delusional to say NATO didn’t provoke this war" ironically that comment is "delusional".
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  1063.  @brittadueandersen2519  Heroiam Slava.
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  1064.  @vamoua4036  That thought doesn't change the value of Mearsheimer's predictions. Also it leaves off that for awhile Taiwan was recognized as the "one country"-even holding the Chinese seat at the UN I believe. There was a switch but the switch occurred with talk of peaceful reunification-an invasion is not peaceful. Now I think they should've just done the practical thing and declared the 2 separate nations some time ago as happened with North and South Korea but that didn't happen-too much pride and other things involved at the time.
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  1065. J Sachs can show up to spread more lies, distortions, and other pieces of propaganda if he wants to. Oliver Stone already did. So if you are saying both sides of an issue have not been given a chance to speak that is not correct.
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  1066. That would be someone at The Hill mislabeling things. Saying Ukraine should give up is inviting Putin to move on to the other wars he was already planning and is not "anti-war", its actually inviting more wars.
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  1067.  @Dead_Again1313  Examples of Putin starting wars or hinting he would? There is that this is the 2nd time he sent Russian troops into Ukraine in less than 10 years. That Putin said Ukraine is not an actual nation. His ally the Dictator of Belarus said the plan was to attack Ukraine and then Poland. Russian foreign ministry statements threatening Baltic states plus putting out an arrest warrant on the Estonian Prime Minister. Russian agents being caught in Moldova trying to arrange a coup. Also that 1 of the Russian armies that was part of the initial Russian invasion was stopped before it reached Moldova but was headed that direction.
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  1068. Does it? Here in the USA the State governments that often do more for their citizens are actually the same states that pay into the Federal government while those States that get more Federal funds than they put it are often more rightwing-southern Republican led states are often an example of this.
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  1069. So "greedy" that Poland pushed for years to get in? Really?? What interesting views come from the Russia can do no wrong (or if Russia does then it is somebody else's fault camp).
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  1070.  @kakistocracyusa  Are you claiming Poland didn't repeatedly push to get into NATO?
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  1071.  @kakistocracyusa  So the politicians elected in Poland via honest elections by Polish voters wanted their nation to join NATO and also dislike Russia.
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  1072.  @kakistocracyusa  Why are you pretending the concerns and views of the nations that joined NATO are not the reason NATO has increased in members?
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  1073. Dr. Lindzen has connections to and has gotten funding from the fossil fuel industry which brings up the question of if he is just 1 more person willing to throw his integrity away for some money. If you actually want to think for your self I'd recommend setting up a couple of tests on if the planet is getting warmer or not that you can check on without listening to people who are woke or who are paid propagandists.
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  1074. Stein is has been willing to be dishonest in her efforts to go after Democrats and largely only Democrats that is more than simply expressing a different perspective from the 2 major parties. Plus Trump doesn't believe she just get votes that wouldn't go to either party-that is probably why his lawyers were helping her out.
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  1075. Oh look, Peterson is spouting more bs, half truths, and distortions. But at least the floods related to Global Warming and people who lost their homes or died because of them (in Kentucky, South Africa, and Pakistan this year alone) now bear the cost of making Global Warming worse for him and his backers.
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  1076. I know Mr. Moore has been caught lying to people before in public before this interview yet people still act as if his word carries even a bit of credibility when it does not.
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  1077.  @luckguardian  Global Warming has been killing people for the last several years-not 5000 in the future. The only question is how much worse it will get. Do you think Russia was did or did not have problems before Shock Therapy was done to it? Having problems already doesn't mean decisions cannot make things worse.
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  1078. Okay, if you are a Republican please explain the 20+ women accusing him of things that range from groping to rape. You kinda opened that door.
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  1079. More like he is trying to come up with excuses for his Brexit failures. Also this war was never over NATO-that is just 1 more lie spread to try to cover for Russian Imperialism. Ukraine was not in NATO nor was it able to join NATO for the several years prior. This was never over NATO. Other nations want to join NATO because Imperialist Russia is a security threat to them.
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  1080.  @mandrews1245  "the US passed the Monroe Doctrine which outlawed any foreign government from being close enough" This sounds a lot like "repeating Mearsheimer messing up history in an attempt to push his ideology". No the US Monroe Doctrine didn't outlaw foreign governments. The British Empire still maintained control over lands that became Canada. Neither Mearsheimer, nor those who blindly repeat him, seem to know much history. "The Cuban crises was about a foreign country being in a position which could threaten USA sovereignty." This is shows more of a lack of knowledge when it comes to history. Cuba was never in a position to threaten US sovereignty. There was a question of if the US would invade Cuba-something that could have started a nuclear war-but Cuba was not in a position to invade the USA. That is just silly. "Russia felt NATO in Ukraine" This is repeating a lie. Ukraine was not in NATO. NATO is a group of nations that agree to defend each other if any of them is attacked. NATO primary exists to defend nations against invasion. And Ukraine was not in NATO at the time. Other nations at the time like Germany felt letting Ukraine join NATO would annoy Putin so they didn't let Ukraine join. Turns out Putin invaded anyway so maybe letting Ukraine join would've been a good idea as it may have prevented the current war. Now maybe not since Putin is an Imperialist and they like to invade other nations, but maybe it would have. Getting back to actual sovereignty. Putin has long been threatening Ukrainian sovereignty. Not only is the current war a major violation of Ukrainian sovereignty (and agreements Russia made with Ukraine) but years earlier Russia was unhappy Ukraine may make a trade deal with the EU. The EU is less corrupt than Russia so Putin probably feared a lot of Ukrainian businesses would end up doing more business with the EU than Russia. Putin wanted to be able to tell Ukraine not to make a trade agreement. That is also disregarding Ukrainian sovereignty. So please repeat this phrase in your next reply: "Ukrainian sovereignty"
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  1081.  @billybigbollox  "It is everything to do with Russia when you have been surrounded, intimidated and threatened for the last 20 years." This would be repeating a lie. Russia is 1 of the biggest nations in the world. It is not "surrounded". Russia is often the nation invading neighboring nations, it is not being "intimidated" often it is trying to intimidate. Same when it comes to "threatened".
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  1082.  @Maelli535  Thank you. It is good to remember Mearsheimer is not very good when it comes to history. I forgot to mention Mearsheimer once claimed Putin wouldn't attack Ukraine. And the Russian lies are so many.. though probably not as many as Russian war crimes.
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  1083. 1st you have to be a US citizen for it to be your "tax money"-not much proof that you aren't in Moscow right now. 2nd the money comes with monitoring and is for a clearly valuable reason. 3rd if you are Russian you already live in a deeply corrupt nation and have no excuse to complain about anywhere else.
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  1084. More than Ukraine. Mearsheimer pointedly failed to mention this.
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  1085. I congratulate you on trying to listen to more than 1 side and then thinking critically. I suspect you realized the facts tend to support Kotkin more than Stone.
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  1086. At the time major news sources were hitting Tara Reade story, as questionable as it was, Joe Biden had already won the primaries for the most part and is polling well against Trump. That is far from being on the verge of losing.
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  1087. Most times there is an election or political issue at hand the local reporting from the PBS station I watch talks to both a Republican and Democrat. BTW I was not impressed with Uri Berliner criticism. A reporter noting if the person he or she is talking to is black or white, a man or woman, and so on can indicate if there are different perspectives from different groups of people. The guy was trying to come up with excuses to criticize NPR.
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  1088. Now here is a catch. Did something like that happen in a math class? I suspect not. Which is why I also suspect that Misha here is lying. On the chromosome thing-was the teacher just being foolish or was there some complex argument about XXY people or something? Either way I feel I am allowed to disagree with how people make up labels.
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  1089. I have voted for third party candidates before and also vote for major party candidates. So I've already disproven that theme. Plus Stein's criticism of Democrats and primarily democrats to the point where she is saying dishonest things about them as she leaves Republicans typically alone or even fails to criticize them for their actions makes clear she is trying to pull from a major party.
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  1090.  @evasco1979  Not only did I already point out Stein's lack of honesty but it came out Republicans dump $1.5 million on her in the swing state of Wisconsin. So at this point does the GP actually have its "own goals"? Also I never said I was 'a "regretted voter"', are you trying to put words in my mouth? I did say I won't (and didn't) vote for Stein.
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  1091. Yeah, but it kinda missed that Bran still has wants (proven by him wanting a better wheelchair design than what Tyrion gave him) and possibly manipulated events to happen in a certain way to get himself the crown-making him a mass murderer as one of the events he manipulated into happening was the King's Landing massacre.
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  1092. The irony of this comment is that you made it as part of defending at attempt at imperialism by Putin.
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  1093. Or a liar. The claim that they supposedly talked about "feelings" but not facts or numbers in math class convinced me of that. The more I thought about the rest of what she said beyond that the more likely it seemed to me that was probably made up too.
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  1094. This wouldn't be diplomacy, it would be 1 big power making a deal with a different power on cutting up a third nation. The US was not invade but Ukraine was. Therefore Ukraine should decide what the treaty looks like that ends this. Going around Ukraine would be a return to imperialism/great power politics.
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  1095.  @chezlolxo  Actually it is quite possible Bran is a mass murderer who used his powers with magic to see possible futures and then encourage the one where he would be made king at the expense of the lives of thousands of innocent people as well as those who fought to save him from the NK. It is quite arguable Bran is evil and planning more war and suffering to further consolidate power as one of the last requests he makes is to find a master of war (providing further evidence he has wants and the claim he doesn't to Tyrion was a lie but made to make Tyrion more likely to support him).
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  1096. "it’s all catered to feelings and agendas" That may be why she made this video. To cater to feelings. I strong suspect she is lying through most of it. A math class with no facts or numbers? Really?? This young woman's claims do not pass a smell test.
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  1097. Yeah, Dave Smith is basically repeating some of Putin's excuses. Meanwhile Putin had expected to be in Poland by now-Putin himself said it would take three weeks to conquer Ukraine. A good portion of human civilization should be thankful to Ukraine.
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  1098. I've seen Mearsheimer's Monroe Doctrine commentary and I was not impressed. He get major historical facts wrong because they hinder the ideological point he wants to make. RBurns80, he also predicted Putin would not attack Ukraine if you are referring to the particular youtube speech of his I think you are. Guess how that prediction turned out. Also what happened in 2014 was not a coup. A corrupt Ukrainian former President used force on people protesting him for braking his campaign promises and the backlash got so bad he ran away. The Ukrainian Parliament-a currently legitimate and elected body-determined he abandoned his post. Since then Ukraine has gone through a couple elections for President and they have been honest elections. If the corrupt former President of Ukraine wanted he could've gone to Ukraine's court system and appealed. Of course then that same court system may have had some discussions with him over corruption. Meanwhile Putin is trying to rewrite history because Kyiv was an established city before Moscow was. And if Putin would like a return to old borders-which shows he is basically trying to restart Czarist imperialism by the way-then he probably ought to turn most of Russia over to the Mongolians since there was a time when it was largely inside the borders of their empire. FYI If you happen to get curious about what Mearsheimer got wrong with the Monroe Doctrine it happens to include that the "Cuban Missile Crisis" was over missiles and not over if Cuba had an alliance with Russia-something it had through most of the "Cold War". Additionally Mearsheimer failed to mention that the main enforcer of the Monroe Doctrine for many years was the British navy and not the USA. Why? Because the British saw it as an excuse to disrupt the colonies of other European powers at the time. Now do you think the British enforced it on themselves?
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  1099.  @zakglove6536  I doubt it. At least if he had then he would've had more energy.
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  1100.  @Foouhomeyg  Maybe, maybe not. If not he should be replaced. If so he should consider giving it a try.
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  1101. Decenium Yes and no. Trump has a bad record so most people willing to look at it with open eyes can be questioned about their decision. Back in 2020 when voters elected Joe Biden he was able to make clear and understandable arguments in public. It is possible he is still be up to doing so and people should stop waking him up in the middle of the night or something else. Whatever the reason Biden was able to speak better before.
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  1102. I think the Chinese ambassador lied about China not knowing this war was coming-perhaps to save face or standing. What they didn't know is that Putin may lose. Not only did Putin visit China not long before he started this war but there is evidence Chinese people in Ukraine were encouraged to be welcome Russians-it is mentioned around minute 8 here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8HNpULl4lI An actual Chinese person living in Ukraine didn't like that pro-Putin PR that was spreading his direction from local propaganda at home.
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  1103. So Trump knows he can lie to older (usually white) voters so he needs someone else to lie to younger voters for him? Sounds like Trump. A different person pointed out that if she cannot find connections between Trump and racism she ought to try Google.
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  1104. Actually Afghanistan is an excellent example of NATO being defensive. The USA was attacked on 9/11 and NATO responded.
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  1105. I guess the rainier NW isn't immune to Global Warming either.
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  1106. Funny I saw Democrats saying they want a ceasefire and a Palestinian nation as 1 of 2 nations there while I see Republicans saying let Israel do what it wants to. That is each being open. And Trump let Netanyahu annex more land than any other recent US President. That other US Presidents refused was a choice and supports what they said-thus showing they were being open.
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  1107.  @ericescobar7551  President Zelensky is trying to preserve the future of his people. He knows that Putin attacked part of his nation in 2014. That Putin launched a larger attack in 2022. And that Putin does not want Ukraine to exist as a nation. Thus President Zelensky knows the best way to protect his people's future is to get security guarantees that if Putin attacks again Ukraine will not fight alone. Zelensky wants a lasting peace, but Putin does not.
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  1108. 4% of people in Louisiana get news from Newspapers? Does that explain why Louisiana has such high crime and poverty rates alongside low test scores? Prager U???? Prager U doesn't do education it is source of political propaganda-perhaps this explains Louisiana's problems even more. Also a guy who points to an actual political propaganda organization and calls it educational has no excuses to complain about bias ever again. Perhaps his real problem is that PBS has been repeatedly voted the most trusted news network in the USA. Also speaking of NPR and Avenatti here are a few headlines from or shared by NPR.: Attorney Michael Avenatti, Sometime Scourge To Trump, Now Faces Federal Charges (3/25/2019) Michael Avenatti is convicted of stealing nearly $300,000 from Stormy Daniels (2/4/2022) Avenatti gets 4 years in prison for cheating Stormy Daniels out of book proceeds (6/2/2022) Seems like NPR wasn't afraid to cover him getting caught and sentenced for his criminal activity. Funny how Sen. John Kennedy here made a point of not mentioning that. Something else he doesn't go into-the content of any of those articles and follow up articles related to what they went into. Someone who complains about headlines and is afraid to talk about the content. I'm pretty sure the Senator here has more trouble with dishonesty and immorality than NPR or PBS-proof of that comes from his calling a political propaganda organization (Prager U) educational. I guess we can say we watched a current US Senator lie and thus commit an act of immorality-that kind of thing was disapproved of in the 10 Commandments.
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  1109. Bran became king because his powers allowed him to see possible futures and he was put in a position of being able to manipulate events like few others were. This he quietly manipulated things to make the massacre happen as he knew it was one of the few (if only) ways he would become king-a mass murdering king. Season 8 is so bad the writers may not have realized they left evidence Bran was manipulating things but they did.
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  1110. The burning of King's Landing was stupid and out of character for Dany. Even if she was filled with rage at seeing the keep where Cersei was she would go burn Cersei (Dany had hunted gotten back at people who wronged her before). Stopping to burn down a city actually delayed when she could Cersei hunt. Also it was to cruel for her. She had lost people before without burning down half a city. Even when she was hash (to the Tarly head and Dickon) she didn't burn the rest of the army with them. She made her example or point and moved on. Burning Kings Landing is both too stupid and too cruel for Dany to do-just not believable to me. At best a rushed job, but I'll argue contrived. Emilie Clarke did good acting, but the acting and graphics I'd argue cover for poor plot or character writing. If they thought they were doing fan service for one group of fans that pushed the "mad queen" the writers should have known they were doing the opposite for Dany's fans.
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  1111. Trump and Orban like to hang out together because both like corruption and trying to steal elections. Orban and his henchmen steal money from the EU that was intended to help his own nation. Orban also uses gerrymandering to rig Hungarian elections for parliament. Trump is already trying to nickel and dime the US Taxpayer this year while just being a candidate for President and tried to steal the 2020 Election.
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  1112. If that were true she wouldn't be getting help from Republicans this time around. She is. Additionally if you listen to her she is dishonest when it comes to Democrats in a way that detracts from them but not Republicans. BTW I've voted Green Party before but will not vote for Stein during this election and am not likely to in any future election. If you're in a swing state your vote matters and the best way it could have an impact is for Harris.
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  1113. They aren't trying to end the war. They are trying to make it easier for Putin-started this war-regroup to finish off this war and start other invasions.
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  1114.  @bubbagyro1  It is very questionable if Trump believes in God. Also he has no love for peace, his support for Putin's warmongering is actually evidence of this.
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  1115. Most slave states left the union because they were afraid without continually adding new slave states slavery would be doomed in the USA. Lincoln ran for president saying he didn't want to expand slavery into the territories (meaning no new slavery). Many slave states started the Civil War because their plantation owning powerbrokers didn't like that. That gave Lincoln the chance to change his message from no new slavery to no more slavery in rebelling (Confederate) states.
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  1116. Seems you forgot that Russia-and Putin in specific-is am imperialist. Has been for some time.
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  1117.  @activistbook3809  So your argument is now that Imperialism is ok as long as certain nations do it or only in certain regions? Not much of an anti-imperialist are you?
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  1118.  @activistbook3809  "there is only one imperialist force on the planet" So you are telling me you know nothing of human history let alone the current world situation without actually saying those words. Explains much.. and why you are an imperialist.
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  1119.  @activistbook3809  You are an imperialist. That is the kicker/irony. You support imperialism as long as it isn't from 1 source. Don't that isn't anti-imperialist its just being narrow-minded. Did you fail to touch the topic of your lack of knowledge "of human history let alone the current world situation". Perhaps I'm being unfair, it may not be a lack knowledge just willful ignorance.
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  1120.  @activistbook3809  Thanks for letting me know I'm correct.
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  1121.  @activistbook3809  Its an accurate comment. You already defined yourself and I followed up with the implications of your statements. You're an imperialist. A limited and hypocritical imperialist because you oppose imperialism by 1 source and support it from any other but an imperialist nonetheless.
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  1122.  @activistbook3809  "there is only one imperialist force on the planet bro" AND "Choosing non-alliance and defending against imperialism isn't Imperialism." The 1st is you claiming, falsely, that there is only 1 source of imperialism. Thus putting your stamp of approval on other sources of imperialism by not even being honest enough to call them what that are. And in the current situation Ukraine is defending itself against an imperialist Russia. Russia sure isn't "defending" itself (let alone against imperialism) otherwise its army wouldn't be in Ukraine. Also a bunch of the rest of the planet has good reason to disbelieve, strongly, the idea of there is just 1 source of imperialism.
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  1123.  @activistbook3809  So you are trying to dodge addressing your own earlier statements that are factually wrong. Hypocrisy (or just plain dishonesty) is being pro-imperialist today as Russia is engaging in an imperialist war and claiming to be anti-imperialist. Your support for Russian imperialism stills shows the truth about you-you're an imperialist.
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  1124. Putting America first means voting for Harris this election. Trump's own intelligence guy thinks Putin is blackmailing Trump (check out Bob Woodward's new book). Trump also grew then National Debt after promising to get rid of it. Trump makes false promises. He also had higher inflation (how much prices go up) than Obama. There are plenty of reasons to believe those who look at Trump's plans and say he would make things worse rather than better-and Trump's own record provides some evidence without them.
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  1125. Olav Riste, whom work Mr. Ganser based some of his writings on, finds Mr. Ganser twisted his work. More recently I find the phrase "NATO expansion" an interesting way to say multiple nations choosing to become NATO members.
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  1126. Are their Polish fact checkers to see if the images of moldy grain are fake? Or even if grain shipments going through Poland (not stopping in) are actually causing Poland trouble or not?
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  1127. After the 2022 election it was revealed he like to do tax evasion. Plus he was part of trying to steal the 2020 election for President. Then again if that is what has become known then what is unknown??
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  1128. Lawrence Osh You mean include Putin's lies and excuses? Not a bad though but then going though Putin's lies and excuses would take a fair amount of time. For example Putin is less worried about NATO expanding than that Zelenskyy was honestly elected and with each honest election that was more honest than those in Russia Ukraine was becoming less rather than more attached to Russia and Putin in particular.
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  1129. Weel Lou Biden getting a corrupt prosecutor to lose his job when he should've been gone earlier and was seen as corrupt both internationally (not just by the USA) and inside Ukraine because the prosecutor was corrupt is not acting "harshly in Ukraine". It is part of trying to make things better for most people-inside and outside of Ukraine. Yes I kow there is a lie the prosecutor was supposedly going after Biden and that Biden was supposedly just protecting his own money. Thing is that is still a lie and that the prosecutor was seen as-and actually was-corrupt is true.
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  1130. jmy The US war in Afghanistan wasn't overthrowing a government such as joining a faction in a civil war that was fighting against a faction that hosted a terrorist organization that carried out an attacks on the US that could be seen as cause for war if done by a nation. The situation in Libya actually involved the overthrow of a government-but by rebel groups that the US helped after the sitting dictator of Libya had been killing people who started out as mere protestors. Not a fan of the corrupt the US allowed to fester in Afghanistan nor the civil war in Libya (something a Putin henchman got involved in). But there is a difference between both of those and Putin invading Ukraine because he wants to take away the freedoms to pick their own leaders that Ukrainians have as well as grab land-which Russia has plenty of already.
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  1131.  @weelou4203  Sounds like you are trying to blame the victim. FYI Russia rates as more corrupt than Ukraine but with elections that are less honest. So the people of Ukraine have reason to not want Putin running their nation. Also trying to save his nation and people from an oppressor is doing something for his people-I suspect Zelenskyy's popularity has gone up among Ukrainians rather than down due to this war.
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  1132. We shall see in a few months. Regardless the sanctions do help prevent Russia from making some types of ammo and missiles thus limit the harm it can do.
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  1133.  @gordonmichaels600  Plenty of nations trade with other nations. That said Russia has been limited in the harm it can do to its neighboring nation-Ukraine to be specific. Also the current situation is one where there is a strong moral case for sanctions so this is hardly indiscriminate.
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  1134. Orban leeches money off the EU and runs 1 of the most corrupt governments in that group. The notion of him calling for an audit is deeply ironic. Meanwhile this money makes World War Three a bit less likely and helps save Ukrainian lives so it is a good deal for both the USA and Ukraine.
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  1135. Trump is happy to get on must stages just like he is happy to lie to people. What to each promise to work for and what is the record of each? Dems supported getting food to Gaza. Trump did not. Dems support a Palestinian nation. Trump does not. Trump has a record of supporting Netanyahu annexing land no other recent US President would. Trump and Netanyahu both get Adelson money. Trump may have told Netanyahu to continue doing what he has been during this election.
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  1136. How's your war going Ivan? If Imperialism didn't last for the British what makes you think it would last for the Russians? Also various Ukrainian politicians have wanted to get closer to non-Russian controlled parts of Europe for years. And Russia has been involved with trying influence and then quash Ukrainian decision making for years. Plus if Russia wants a navy base on the Black Sea how about it put 1 on Russian coastline rather than not Russian?
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  1137.  @А.Б-ф4з  When you guys (Russians under Putin) occupied Crimea I'm pretty sure that counts as a treaty violation-ditto with your attempt to invade in 2022 that hasn't gone too well. Because of either of those I would expect Ukraine to declare the treaty it made with Russia to allow a Russian naval base in Ukraine's Crimea to be null and void.
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  1138. I don't live in the UK but my impression is that a number of politicians and-also importantly-media outlets lied to voters. But I'm speaking with only partially educated guesses. Boris Johnson has an reputation for lying and he was a major pusher of Brexit-and perhaps like Republicans with Trump-many of the Conservative Party went along with it despite it being a bad idea. Some of the media outlets were either owned by Rupert Murdoch (known for dishonest reporting in the US) or influenced by a small number of very wealthy people who hoped to turn the UK into their playground if it left the UK. Also there are questions left by cambridge analytica (helping Brexit supporters target specific voters) and even Russian influence (did a laxity in following rules when it comes to political money in the UK allow for or encourage certain political figures to make brexit more likely to happen).
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  1139. Grogon you may or may not be correct. I don't know what the number is. A deeper question is how much of that Russian money was used to influence UK politicians and how much was simply (not that this makes it necessarily a good thing) Russian kleptocrats looking for someplace to hide a portion of the wealth they looted from Russia?
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  1140. "what little Russia did was playing both sides" Well that is bs. Even with Trump and Putin actively coordinating their efforts on the weekends it is pretty clear Putin preferred for Trump to win.
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  1141. Putin started this war. Giving him part of another nation as a reward for starting it simply encourages him to start another one again. Not to mention letting him off for all the war crimes. If you want peace then simply encourage the Russian army to return to Russia.
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  1142. Daniel T A $10 dollar discount is still a discount. Arguably the loss to Russia is more than financial with Europe. Putin may really have been hoping to hold Europe's foreign policy hostage to at least an extent. Europe may have paid for it financially but politically escaped Putin's trap
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  1143. "neither want to stop it"??!! Did you watch the debate or convention speeches for either 1? 1 has repeatedly said she wants a ceasefire. The other wants to deport Palestinians and their sympathizers. BTW Israel's current national security minister Ben-Gvir, complained the US, under Biden, has been too concerned about trying to get humanitarian aid to Gaza (claiming this is helping Hamas) and the it would be different with Trump (no effort to get aid in).
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  1144.  @howtomakealmostanything3484  In this election 1 of the few respectable candidates in Cornel West. But he may not have ballot status in the states with the most people that aren't swing states. So either some third party candidates aren't trying to get 5% or they have no chance to. Either way someone not in a swing state can responsibly vote symbolically. Someone in a swing state cannot.
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  1145. If there were political plantations he is a slave to Trump's plantation.
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  1146. I'm sure there are a few Russian lies and distortions you haven't repeated yet. You got some but haven't reposted the whole set.
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  1147.  @louise_rose  Odd they don't want to run for election based on the success Brexit has been.. oh wait..
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  1148. "Many of us knew, but you guys called us “conspiracy theorists” and wouldn’t listen. It’s only a surprise to those who haven’t known Ukraine’s history between 2014 and 2022." I've seen conspiracy theorists or, more accurately, Putin's PR folks make claims about 2014-2022. But they often deal in distortions if not outright dishonesty.
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  1149. @TeddyMonka If you started a riot 4 years ago would you have been in jail already-especially if it was aimed at a government building with the intention to steal an election. SCOTUS slowed down Trump going to jail by purposefully taking a long time to rule on immunity claims and then coming out with a ridiculous ruling on immunity that Sotomayor, Kagan, and Jackson opposed.
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  1150. @TeddyMonka SCOTUS was part of preventing Trump from being in jail already by waiting so long to rule on supposed immunity and then providing a ridiculous ruling on immunity that Sotomayor, Kagan, and Jackson opposed.
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  1151. Actually no. Trump has already taken money from Adelson this year-the same person who is a backer of Netanyahu. Trump would be a reward to Netanyahu for his actions. In addition Trump supported Netanyahu annexing lands no other US President (current or former) in modern history did.
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  1152.  @Logan9mm  A bunch of things. Some of the less well known things are cuts to local governments and getting rid of the NOAA (which tracks hurricanes.) Trying to politicize every branch of the Federal government is another-this opens the door to more corruption as well as decreases serving citizens rather than whomever the President is at the moment.
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  1153. "Putin annexed Crimea when Obama was president. During Trump's presindency he didn't move." This isn't true. 1st Putin moved to help Trump. 2nd Putin never stopped helping Assad in Syria when Trump was in office.
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  1154.  @matsjonsson9492  Trump's job for Putin was to try to break up NATO. During this time Putin had already moved into Ukraine and Trump didn't do much to push him out-even trying to withhold what Congress sent to Ukraine to try to extort political propaganda favors.
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  1155.  @matsjonsson9492  I expect Trump to push corruption, power consolidation, and possible fascism. You seem to be the only one expecting Trump would try to fix anything.
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  1156.  @carlodave9  'With all due respect, we were asked by The Party to ignore Biden’s cognitive decline—for the sake of “saving democracy.”' Funny.. I remember some signs became obvious during debate 1 and Biden being pushed to drop out by people within "The Party" as you put it. Should Biden have run again? No. But that is hindsight. How much of Trump's nonsense or lies have people tried to paper over then and now?
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  1157. Russia has been lying about its economy since at least when Putin started the current war with Ukraine. At first to hide that sanctions were having an impact, also to hide just how much debt Russia has racked up. Also the EU's economy is something like 9 times bigger than Russia's.
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  1158.  @RobertKohn-x3k  Putin told an EU official he could conquer Ukraine in three weeks.
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  1159.  @johncr1354  A lot of people in the US overestimated Putin's Russia-thing is so did Putin. Putin bragged to an EU official that Russia could conquer Ukraine in three weeks a few years ago. Turns out things didn't go how he thought they would.
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  1160.  @RobertKohn-x3k  In a comment I'm pretty sure I made but don't see now I pointed out that the EU has something like 8 times or more the economy of Russia. Even on a bad day the EU is much bigger than Russia. Meanwhile Russia has being lying about its economic stats and trying to hide its war debts since Putin started the current war with Ukraine.
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  1161. We can have people who are honestly 3rd party. But Jill Stein is not 1 of them. She gets support from Republicans specifically so she can cause problems for Democrats. She got support from some of Trump's people-they are not doing that out of the goodness of their hearts nor any belief in supporting what she claims to be for. I've voted third party before, but I'll never vote for her.
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  1162. "Trump rally who revealed Antifa operatives masquerading as Trump supporters." Tell me you are full of bs without actually and directly saying you are full of bs.
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  1163. ​ @htschmerdtz4465  There is an irony to someone complaining about others "managing false narratives" as he is busy "managing false narratives".
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  1164.  @htschmerdtz4465  And I'm serious about someone complaining about false narratives while spinning false narratives.
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  1165.  @briboker  Thank you for pointing out some of Sachs history that often goes unmentioned.
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  1166.  @DrVictorVasconcelos  And how much corruption flourished thanks to him?
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  1167.  @libertylizard_  A majority of Crimea's voters voted for independent from the USSR in the 1990s.
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  1168.  @libertylizard_  So having a free and fair referendum is being "given no choice".. really?
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  1169. I've referred to North Korea as a monarchy for years. Thank you for pointing out the trend that in supposedly modern government feudal inheritance practices continue.
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  1170. Many of the people there had never met Bran before and since he was not even around for much of the time to show how he would be a leader that doesn't explain things-even for the ones who did no who Bran was.
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  1171. Russia under Putin has already been lying about Global Warming for the last several years. So I don't see how being sympathetic to Putin now as his forces have been committing war crimes in neighboring nations is actually going to help deal with environmental dangers.
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  1172. Maybe this was a different time but with all the wars in Greek lands even though they were levy troops they still had a fair amount of battle experience.
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  1173. Maybe this was a different time but with all the wars in Greek lands even though they were levy troops they still had a fair amount of battle experience.
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  1174. Actually that situation did happen and the USA did not invade. Cuba had a military alliance for most of the "Cold War" with the Soviet Union. Though I do thank your inaccurate claim for highlighting 1 point. Putin is invading Ukraine because he wants to makes Ukraine's decisions for it. Meanwhile Ukrainians currently pick their own Presidents via honest elections (unlike Russia) and that is 1 of the many things Putin would like to steal from them.
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  1175. I see the deniers and their bots are about spreading lies and distortions. Remember when the deniers used to lie about if Global Warming was happening and now they increasingly lie about why it is happening and if it causes problems. So we can see they are trying to update their lies rather than doing something like telling the truth for a change.
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  1176. Actually he lies and tries to cover it by faking bluntness. For example, NASA looked into the cycles he mentioned in minute 32 and both found and reported to the public that they do not explain recent warming-and NASA did this about a year before this interview. So the guy here knows what he said is a lie and has for some time before saying it here.
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  1177. But is it spoken honestly or not? The claim that a that math class supposedly focused on feelings and not facts or numbers struck me as outlandish. The more I though about that and much of the rest of the video the more I realized that there is a good chance most of it never happened.
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  1178. No. But he isn't standing up for free speech either. Look at what Elon Musk did with Jack Dorsey or Block the Blue.
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  1179. Russia invading its neighbor is not Russia standing up for itself. Ukrainians fighting back against the Russian invasion is an example of people standing up for themselves.
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  1180. So Liz Cheney points out that Trump, after trying to steal the 2020 election for President may try to steal the next 1 in 2024. If so then hopefully he will maintain the pattern of failing to steal that election as well.
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  1181.  @LamiNalchor  Totally was. Are you opposed to white people having a spine or some integrity.
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  1182.  @okoo7385  Described what I saw as 2 slurs in the comment before yours.
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  1183.  @josephkain6213  "If you seek imbalance soon you will tip." Is this explaining why Trump-Vance will fall over? I can see some logic to that.
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  1184. Hopefully. Or it may have arrived already. Ukraine is going into mud season which means it is getting hard for vehicles from either side to move. That means many of the tanks and other vehicles that Ukraine has started to receive may not get used to their most effective until at least a month or two from now. Once they can be used effectively things may change.
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  1185.  @Ryan-ky1lc  Hi Ivan.
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  1186. Steal technology constantly. This is if Trump/Chamberlain annoys the EU enough maybe it will make a deal with China. Probably not but who knows since Trump is doing is best to sink the relevance of the USA.
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  1187. Thank you for your good thoughts. I hope you live a long life beyond the current war.
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  1188.  @Jonathan-gl3tf  Don't support lobbying as it comes to money buying politicians. But Russia under Putin is still worse. His government will damage businesses if they don't pay in like the mafia does in addition to doing things it shouldn't to help special friends and industries.
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  1189. Mary, many people disagree about Saddam. But not Bin Ladin, he was a clear concern for the USA. You ought to know this.. if you aren't a bot account.
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  1190.  @ЛюбовьФилиповна-ъ2ю  Thank you for your reply. Putin is corrupt. He has stolen so much from Russia and its people that he is now a billionaire. He rigs elections as well. Ukrainians are wise not to want him as their President nor to be picking their President for them. If Putin did odds are high their lives would get worse and freedoms they have would disappear. The issues with Hunter Biden are so tiny compared to Putin (or Trump for that matter) that they are a joke in comparison. And, unlike Putin, Hunter never stopped people from having honest elections nor does he have blood on his hands. Years ago an older Russian man once told me the that Putin was bringing fear back-not outside Russia but within. He also told me that Russia has always had wealth but never uses it well. At the time I had no idea how correct he would be nor how corrupt Putin would be. I don't know if I would call it wiser or more experienced but I am far less naive about Putin than I once was. A question you should ask is how many more people have to die or how much more does Putin have to try to steal before you become less naive about Putin as well.
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  1191. @user-ns9rl8pq2c Thank you for your reply. Putin is corrupt. He has stolen so much from Russia and its people that he is now a billionaire. He rigs elections as well. Ukrainians are wise not to want him as their President nor to be picking their President for them. If Putin did odds are high their lives would get worse and freedoms they have would disappear. The issues with Hunter Biden are so tiny compared to Putin (or Trump for that matter) that they are a joke in comparison. And, unlike Putin, Hunter never stopped people from having honest elections nor does he have blood on his hands. Years ago an older Russian man once told me the that Putin was bringing fear back-not outside Russia but within. He also told me that Russia has always had wealth but never uses it well. At the time I had no idea how correct he would be nor how corrupt Putin would be. I don't know if I would call it wiser or more experienced but I am far less naive about Putin than I once was. A question you should ask is how many more people have to die or how much more does Putin have to try to steal before you become less naive about Putin as well.
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  1192.  @piusnyaboga903  That may depend on whomever the Russian mafia is bribing or threatening at the moment. Oddly enough it is probably worse for many people in Russia, though that may be less the Russian mafia in specific and more a Russian government that acts as a mafia.
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  1193. @lule363 "when it was robbed by the United States" Robbed by the USA or robbed by Russian soon to be oligarchs? Seems there is some scapegoating going on to avoid looking at if problems are internal or external. Kind of like all your talk of Putin supposedly being "intellectual in economics and law" skips over that he is 1 of the richest people on the planet because he has stolen from a whole nation (Russia). And no, it is not a "throne". If Putin was an actual President when he would know his job is to address the concerns and problems of the Russian population. Not to have stolen from them nor be a lord over them. Also I never accused Putin of working hard. Granted maybe he does as starting wars and stealing a sizable portion of a nation's wealth both take time. But even if he does work hard that doesn't excuse him from that he has been starting wars and stealing a sizable portion of a nation's wealth.
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  1194. @westorzeski7189 I can see differences in just the last 24 years. 1st half of that the US invaded other nations (1st time with a clear reason justifying it and 2nd time not). Then it got over trying to take over other nations. Putin decided he was just going to keep grabbing parts of neighboring nations and more recently figured he would try to take down the whole government of 1 of them. He found out that it didn't really work but rather than leave he opted to proclaim them part of Russia no matter what the people living there think and here we are.
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  1195. Ukraine is not part of Russia thus could not to be bought or sold "from Russia".
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  1196. I'm glad to know that little bit about Sinclair.
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  1197. 2 things that are probably worth discussing here. 1st isn't Orban using gerrymandering to keep his party-thus himself in power? That is a way to rig elections. Break that and suddenly his party becomes accountable. 2nd Orban is deeply corrupt. Its been said there is a billionaire in Hungry who got the bulk of his money through government contracts with Orban (and probably his willingness to do kickbacks). This is a government funded/created rich guy-and mainly by corrupt means. If I'm wrong about either of these feel free to speak up. But not talking about either of these very important issues is a major missed opportunity. Yes Orban appeals to bigots like Trump. But failing to discuss that he still needs to rig elections to preserve his power is a terrible missed opportunity. You could even then talk about how Republicans undermine anti-corruption and anti-gerrymandering efforts in the USA. Why did you guys miss this??????!!!!
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  1198. She failed to accurately describe history. That is the problem.
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  1199. I did watch it and will again. According to Harvard's media bias chart PBS Is less biased than CNN, MSNBC, Foxnews, and the WSJ. Do they have a tilt. Sure. But not nearly as big as you make it out to be. Plus if you have a problem with bias then start encouraging your Congressmen to bring back the Fairness Doctrine.
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  1200. Not really. Don't forget he said Putin wouldn't invade. He also said multiple other things that weren't true.
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  1201. Yeah I heard that claim. Funny thing is that heatwaves, droughts, and floods can each be bad for crops to. And even if they are not they can certainly be bad for humans.
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  1202.  @thomasmartin406  You are the only one claiming "we never had floods, heatwaves, droughts before". That is putting your lie in someone else's mouth. Each of those is getting worse due to Global Warming. Within the last couple weeks heat records were broken in many places. If things were not changing so many places would not have gotten so hot.
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  1203. Problem is you are likely to go off to media sources that are far worse.
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  1204.  @lavendereucalyptus3225  Actually no. Imperialism is establishing colonies by taking and from other people and ruling it yourself. An irony here is how powerless some US leaders seem when Israel seems to be the weaker member of the alliance. In comparison why is it Ukraine has to follow a bunch of rules when facing an imperialistic invasion from Russia yet Israel doesn't and is in no danger of being occupied itself. FYI I've seen a couple of debates for US Senate candidates. There is an even more clear difference. In 1 recent debate the Democrat is for a ceasefire while the Republican is complaining the USA is in Israel's way too much.
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  1205. Democrats have been trying to do that. Republicans have actually been doing what hey can to block bills benefiting most Americans. Don't forget when Hurricanes hit both Northern and Southern states it was Republicans who wanted to withhold help for New Jersey while Democrats gave help without question to Florida and Mississippi.
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  1206. Is it not true that Trump wanted to start a war with Iran?
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  1207.  @ashton1952  It is possible he was told there wasn't enough time. If I remember what was claimed Trump thought about doing it in near the end of his term but was told there was not enough time.
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  1208. Why help a Russian asset run for President in 2028?
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  1209.  @littleghostfilms3012  "She flunked in 2 primaries, 2020 & 2024, and THEN, win the Big One?" It seems matsjonsson9492 has trouble counting. There was only 1 primary and that was back in 2020. People can debate if the Democratic Party should've had a primary in 2024 but that debate is a different than not being able to count the number of primaries that Kamala ran in.
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  1210.  @matsjonsson9492  Wow 1 sentence and the accuracy in it burns you so bad you have to reply 3 separate times. I guess the truth really can hurt. But like I said, most people aren't likely to want to vote for a Russian asset in 2028. Also for the record Gabbard was never a challenge to Hillary. Bernie was.. and he managed to be that way without Russian assistance.
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  1211. You seem to be ignoring that they are fighting to defend their own nation, specifically from a Russian attempted invasion.
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  1212.  @thehawkseye3412  Ukraine wanted to join NATO to avoid any such an invasion. Finland did for the same reason. Germany stopped Ukraine from joining NATO out of the hope it would smooth relations with Russia, that didn't happen. Additionally Russia invaded-that is the escalation.
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  1213.  @thehawkseye3412  "flirting with NATO is one of the reasons of Russian attack" This is admitting that Russia is trying to dominate and control the policies and decisions of Ukraine-which a separate nation. Russia does not have the right to do such a thing. Ukraine is a democracy with fair elections according to an organization that monitors such things called Freedom House. I do not now who Mr. Williams is but if he is saying Ukraine does not have "democratic institutions" then he is probably wrong. Ukraine does have problems with corruption, which is why the EU has been requiring reforms before it could join the EU as well. But Ukraine has indicated it is willing to reform itself in order to be able to join both.
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  1214. The US isn't prodding the Saudis to be hostile to Iran-arguably it was the other way around since the Saudis see Iran as a regional rival.
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  1215.  @dracoboomin6511  Maybe. Or maybe BRICS would find itself in a situation where 2 member nations have a war with each other or something more minor like a cold war.
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  1216.  @Cnichal  In this situation China is trying to "bully" other nations.
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  1217.  @fabianschrotter  "In addition, armed foreign formations and mercenaries must be withdrawn from the territory of Ukraine, and not just Donbass, and this applied to both sides. Just study the Minsk agreements, it's not difficult." It looks like piratesofthebarentssea just admitted Putin violated the Minsk agreement.
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  1218. Zelensky is supposedly evil for trying to protect his nation? For the Ukrainian people honestly electing him President while Russia's elections are rigged? For being the leader a nation that happens to be invaded by the corruption financed billionaire Putin because Putin is so greedy Russian lands aren't enough for him?
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  1219. You comment is pretty ridiculous and devoid of a historical accuracy in terms of what did happen in the 20th Century-including the terrible things that did happen in Latin America.
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  1220.  @philmarlowe101  I see you have nothing intelligent nor true to say.
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  1221. I see a bunch of Trump fans or bots trying to put out some heavy cope for him. He wasn't that great as a President and when he lost his bid for re-election he tried to steal the election.
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  1222. Considering that the 2 state solution proposal had been dead for years reviving it is part of trying to compromise by Dems. Also there may be a time to not vote Dem due to rightward shifting. However the best time to do so is probably not when someone described as a fascist by his own former chief of staff is on the other side of that choice. Also 1 of the things Biden got right and Kamala would hopefully continue on is efforts to reduce carbon-Trump is threatening to reverse that progress and there is a limited time span with which to act and have the best impact.
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  1223. Its not my fault if some of my morals are better than China's (from a smiling smug foreigner).
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  1224. Considering Putin thought he would be able to conquer Ukraine in three weeks and it has now been years since Putin started this war it is reasonable to notice the war is far from over-especially since most Ukrainian lands are still in Ukrainian control.
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  1225. Oh look, a group that takes Fossil Fuels money (Manhattan Institute) is on Propaganda U-which also gets money from Fossil Fuesl-to poopoo the competition when it comes to energy. All while dodging mentioning many of the costs and pollution problems related to fossil fuels. And no, neither Prager nor the Manhattan Institute cares much about the environment nor workers. They pretend to in this video and then actually fight against them.
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  1226. It arguably has more truth since the current King of England could correctly be called old even if he isn't really a dinosaur.
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  1227. Talk to the people of Tibet and the Uyghers about Chinese oppression and genocide. Also isn't the US trying to air drop food to Palestinians as part of trying to prevent an genocide? How many US troops are in Gaza right now? How many US planes have been dropping bombs on Gaza?
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  1228. Opinionated.. yes. Rubbish.. big no.
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  1229. That would be nice but if Putin was interested in peaceful dialogue he probably would not have started a war.
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  1230. I suspect much of your statement is propaganda. Oddly enough it has come out that Russia lied about the referendum turnout that it supposedly held in Crimea after occupying it. A majority of voters in Crimea did vote for independence from Russia/the Soviet state back when the independence referendum was held for all of Ukraine's independence.
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  1231. No he doesn't. The USA recognized Ukraine was attacked and gave help. Putin should pay Ukraine for the harm done to it.
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  1232. Or conservatives just lie to themselves. That is part of what this video was. It initially presents itself as talking to progressives-and 1 point does hold true (on abortion) but not others. The worst may bee claim about Global Warming and computer models-it is straight up deception.
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  1233.  @jacobjohnson6766  Tell me who the candidates for President were in the election back then and maybe we will figure it out.
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  1234. NATO never invaded Iraq. This is 1 of the many lies Putin's excuse makers repeat. George W. Bush invaded Iraq without NATO. Some of the NATO members made a point of criticizing George W. Bush's decision. Afghanistan happened because Bin Ladin committed a major terrorist attack-that wasn't NATO initialing a war. Libya's dictator at the time was about to commit mass murder of residents in a town-is mass murder acceptable now? NATO was never in Syria.
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  1235.  @queenredspecial  Possibly because it is a lie.
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  1236.  @ErickTsiknopoulos  Not just Whataboutism but flat out lies for half of it and lies by omission (not mentioning a major terrorist attack on 9/11/2001 that was the cause of what happened with Afghanistan) for the rest.
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  1237. Sachs must really hate Russia. Earlier he was part of screwing up its economy and now he is making excuses for a costly war it started so the war can continue.
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  1238. Not adequate. The primary reason the South started the US Civil War was that it wanted to continue with slavery.
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  1239. Putin would have liked to have attacked Moldova already-Transnistria is part of it-but Ukraine is in the way and doesn't die.
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  1240. Let me float the idea D.O.G.E. is basically hot air. Repeatedly D.O.G.E. puts out claims that it saved money but further investigation reveals not as much as they claimed and sometimes none-one neat example I heard of is trying to take credit for a building sold during the Biden administration. That they laid off people trying to deal with bird flu as bird flu is spreading shows D.O.G.E. people either don't know what they are doing or do not care. I don't believe them anymore-especially with claims or waste or fraud.
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  1241. Trump already gave Jerusalem to Israel when no other USA President did. That is the opposite of doing right by Palestine, and his members of his political party in Congress want to do worse.
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  1242. Good quote.
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  1243.  @aaronjjacques  I'll have to rewatch later to see if you correct-not convinced you are. That said it would be more of a reflection on the difficulties of using that law in court than if Trump tried to steal a Presidential Election.
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  1244. The blood of the thousands dead is on Putin's hands. His Imperialism started this war. Meanwhile Cummings is just trying to come up with excuses for Brexit having problems.
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  1245. A culture of lies? Not much value there. And yes he is lying. For example, NASA had looked into those cycles he mentioned in minute 32 about a year before this interview and reported that they do not explain recent warming-thus he knows he is lying and figures most people won't double check so he can try to get away with it.
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  1246. No. Jill Stein earned some of the blame. She has gotten help from Republicans. She has lied about Democrats. For example, recently she claimed Democrats supposedly betrayed their voters by not cutting more student debt. She made a point of not mentioning Republicans undercut Democratic efforts. That is misrepresenting the actions of both major parties. If Netanyahu wants Trump giving him Trump would be a reward, if you don't want to reward Genocide don't reward the person doing or ordering it.
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  1247. Why it is so bad? I remember the LotR ending happier and better.
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  1248. Feel no need to defend how the USA treated Cuba for decades because Cuba deserved more respect. Ironically Castro tried to become a US ally before the US President at the time foolishly turned him down. That said that particular whataboutism is not an excuse for Putin's invasion of a nation that actually has honest elections for President (unlike Russia) and his willful murder and abuse of civilians.
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  1249. Agreed. Seems like he is actually repeating a few of Putin's talking points. Specifically I notice they ignored the point where the State Dept guy said Ukraine is choosing.
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  1250. This is how Trump tries to arrange WW3. History teachers tried to warn others so that we would understand and what a Chamberlain is and did. He proclaimed "Peace In Our Time" while letting Hitler get stronger and even approving as he seized parts of smaller nations-with Czechoslovakia's representatives in particular not being let into the room as Chamberlain handed it to Hitler in exchange for the false promise Hitler would supposedly never try to seize more land again. Trump is corrupt enough to try to be Chamberlain on purpose.
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  1251. If Russia does something with a tactical nuke that invites a response. It will be taken seriously and because of that the response would be a serious one that-as you said-is escalating to de-escalate. By definition a war between 2 nations is not "an internal" matter.
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  1252. Your really bad and doing Russian propaganda. Even some Russian propagandists know D-Day was the USA and UK fighting against nazis. Also Ukraine's current President (the guy who was honestly elected unlike Putin) is a Russian speaking Jew. How did Nazis feel about Jews again?
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  1253. Calling military support to an nation that was invaded "garbage" and is potentially holding back WW3 is a sign you've been listening too much propaganda.
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  1254. Yes, much to her shame she is repeating Putin's talking points. Finding excuses to blame the USA rather than Putin who just happens to run the nation doing the attempted invasion that started this war.
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  1255. Agreed. My only concern is just how much long term damage can he do. That he embraces lying about Global Warming is not encouraging-that just is not a long term good policy.
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  1256. Biden has already been increasing efforts to stop fentanyl. Pull your head out of the ground.
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  1257. How much vodka did you drink before typing that?
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  1258. No she doesn't. That is to get more money for a political party. Even if that happens the result is not dismantling APIAC. APIAC will continue. This is a false promise.
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  1259. If voting had no impact then some politicians would not be so eager to hinder some people from voting or use methods like gerrymandering to rig elections. I've already seen the impact of voting. Cities around my state are getting funds from the Federal government to remove pipes that have lead in them. Cities around my state are also getting some funds from the State government to compensate for that they have been cutting budgets for years and were stuck in a financial trap was pushing them to continue that way. That a firefighter station was opened in rather than closed (as has been the trend for the last several years) was an actual newsworthy event. And that is just on how budgets and local problems interact. That isn't even touching on major national issues like worker's rights or international issues like Global Warming or wars. People with money often get their way in politics. This rightfully can breed cynical thoughts. But in order to decrease the influence of money in politics people who oppose it have to get elected so they can pass laws making rules about it or appoint new people who are willing to rule against the farce that money is simply speech. Speaking of elections. People not voting is actually had an important impact on an election I know of. Ron Johnson is a multi-millionaire and sitting US Senator. When the Trump Tax cuts were passed to help rich people they were briefly held up by Ron Johnson to be sure they benefited rich people like Ron Johnson in specific just a little bit more (his kind of business got a specific benefit). Last year he was challenged by a black guy from the largest city in the state that came from 1 of the poorest and most crime hampered zip codes of the state. Pretty sure that guy-who was never close to a millionaire and even lived off peanut butter for awhile because it was cheaper-had some ideas on how the working class should be treated and brought up how the city he was from was actually once 1 of the best places for people like him (black and from a working family) to live in all of the USA. Pretty clear personal difference as well as policy differences between those 2 people running for US Senate. There was a notable drop in the number of people voting in the city the non-millionaire candidate was from that election year compared to last. Sure some people showed up to vote but some didn't. A member of Ron Johnson's political party who happened to be on the State's Election Commission for the State this took place in referred to the drop off as a victory. Kind of odd that people not voting was seen as a victory by someone on an Election Commission. But he knew certain types of people were more likely to not vote if discouraged than others. Discouraging voting wasn't out of earned cynicism due to lack of change, it was a tactic used to prevent people who would be a change from being in a position to make or allow changes to happen. So it was a victory for that Election Commissioner's political party even if it betrayed what an Election Commissioner is kind of expected to do (be part of making it so elections are honest and people can vote). Multi-millionaire Ron Johnson kept is job. The non-multimillionaire was not elected (he the election was pretty close but not being elected is still not being elected).
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  1260. "If ENOUGH people didn't vote, it would signal a very different message TO EACH OTHER that the system is broken, and we'd be more likely to do something about it. Corrupt politicians would still be elected, but the general population would see that there's no faith in the system and we'd look for alternatives." This is false. Worse and more corrupt politicians would get elected. Some politicians want less voting because it means they are less likely to be held accountable. It is only when people beyond a politician's "base" vote that politicians are held accountable. This is not an argument in favor of sending messages. It is refusing to take responsibility for not trying to have less corrupt politicians in the 1st place.. ..and at the same time allowing the most corrupt politicians to hold on to power.
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  1261.  @jackjude  Agreed. And not just him. In a post earlier this thread I pointed to an election for US Senate between a rich guy who was a Trump backer and involved in some other stuff too and a guy who grew up and had lived poor but could talk about how families like his once had things better. Less people voted from the poor guy's city than expected and a member of the rich guy's party called that low voter turnout a "victory". Plus in some places some politicians have been trying to prevent voting by certain other groups-like college students or poor people-for years in order to keep themselves and their party in power. Funny I don't see my earlier comment right now. It was longer than usual but that doesn't mean it would disappear. Do you see it? Did someone flag it because they didn't want a real life counterpoint to what they claimed to be brought up?
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  1262.  @thekeysman6760  My comment was three weeks ago at least so I'm not sure off the top of my head. However, I think my point still holds regardless of if I was quoting the word "base" or not. Essentially that there will be a group of people that always vote for a politician or political party no matter how corrupt. Not voting results in making such a corrupt politician more secure not less.
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  1263.  @thekeysman6760  You're probably the 1st person I've come across who had a concern with how I use "" while writing online. So what I wrote probably translates well enough. I'm not sure what your complaint is at this time.
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  1264. @ "High Crime". Really?? Just looked at the murder rate for California vs Texas (where people have claimed to have moved to). Texas is higher/worse.
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  1265. @ I'm curious. I don't see a comment I wrote earlier where I pointed out that Texas has a higher murder rate than California-and other states like Mississippi have much worse. Do you see the comment I wrote before?
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  1266. @ Didn't think of that but its a good one. Gave you a plus.
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  1267.  @Slingbld  So you're saying Patel is the affirmative action pick? Yes I agree, but more for his willingness to be a crony. However sometimes Trumpers like to prop up someone with a different skin color specifically because of the color of his skin. So affirmative action both ways is possible here.
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  1268.  @ControlledSpeech4YourFeelings  Some of that 100 million may have gone to Stein. The 100 million was to bribe Trump into letting Netanyahu annex more (including in the West Bank). Since Trump staff and lawyers have helped Stein this election a portion of it may have gone to paying them and thus paying, indirectly, Stein.
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  1269.  @ControlledSpeech4YourFeelings  I'm sure I already replied but I don't see my reply now. The $100 mil you mentioned from Adelson was to Trump-with expectations he support Netanyahu annexing more land including in the West Bank. Since Trump lawyers have been helping Stein if they were paid with some of that money then Stein has not received a full $100 mil but has arguably gotten some of it indirectly as it pays for help she got.
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  1270. Agreed, but Trump has to lie and engage in hypocrisy. If he went honest his cult wouldn't know what to do with itself.
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  1271. Even if Mike Johnson is backing Putin I hope other people in Congress step up and push a bill forwards to help Ukraine for both the good of Ukraine and the USA (and human civilization). The amount of money the US spends on Ukraine is chump change compared to the other things. The recent military budget the US Congress passed was over 800 billion compared to a bit over 60 for Ukraine-and a portion of the money for Ukraine actually stays in the USA. Meanwhile Ukraine stopping Putin makes a nuclear war less likely. Yeah, I'll agree with the idea Putin was already planning on moving on other nations if he had conquered Ukraine. So multiple nations should be very glad Ukraine has held on. Some of these wars could go nuclear. Nuclear war matters for the USA and humanity in general. Plus EU managed to come up with billions in addition the the help individual nations-some in the EU some not-have sent Ukraine. So Europe is stepping up. If the EU can do it then so can the US Congress. And a good chunk of the Congress people that oppose helping Ukraine also opposing doing things that would help US citizens so if they get their way in terms of not helping Ukraine they are also going to try to get their way again and avoid helping US citizens. So it is fair to call them out on hypocrisy when they say if we don't help Ukraine problems would be fixed at home since they don't want to fix problems at home already.
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  1272. Season 8 actually hurt Sansa's character too. She lost her morality and became more Sansafinger. Sansa broke an oath she made to Jon (which is supposed to be worth something) over what was pettiness between her and Dany where Sansa started it for no good reason (as far as Sansa knows Dany has never done anything bad to any Northerner so Sansa attempt to undermine Dany is unjustified and dumb since Sansa had reason to fear Cersei.
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  1273. ​ @icecoldham  Sansa was a Stark so oaths are supposed to matter to her. She herself even mentioned they were important in what I think was season six. Since Sansa had just met Dany she has no reasonable way to know if Dany would be a tyrant or not. If anything she should be glad Dany is around because it shows Dany honors her promises. Plus Sansa knows Cersei would try to get her and Jon (said so at the start of season 7) and Dany, in functional terms, is protecting Sansa from Cersei by distracting her. What Sansa did was not "mildly duplicitous in order to protect her family and country". Sansa knew she was trying to cause trouble in Dany's court so it was Sansa striking out when no harm had been done to her. As a matter of fact even Arya-the person who stabbed the Night King-admitted they needed Dany's help. So Sansa was trying to backstab someone else who had just helped save Westeros-including the North-from White Walkers. Sansa was not protecting "her family and country" but striking at someone who had already protected her "family" (saving Jon's life) and "country" (through defending Westeros including the North). Since Sansa didn't even claim Dany would be a tyrant that really isn't an excuse. Like I mentioned earlier, Sansa didn't know if Dany would be a tyrant or not. Judging by the facts that Daenerys freed people in Meereen, allowed them to do what they wanted with their lives even if she didn't like it, and made Meereen into a democracy as she was leaving a strong case can be made that Daenerys was not and would not be a tyrant. Jon was made King in the North not Sansa. He only gave up that crown when Daenerys showed she was worthy by choosing to risk her life both to try to save Jon's life and then do so again by agreeing to help fight the Night King despite his-then proven-ability to be able to take down a dragon. So when Sansa tried to undermine Jon's decision she wasn't just undermining who was in charge of the North (Jon not her), but the ethics and honorability behind that decision. That Sansa had Cersei and Littlefinger as tutors and models to follow in gaining and holding power can show not only was Sansa not being as a honorable as a Stark should be, but also potentially less just and less merciful as well. It is not only ironic but striking that after claiming the North should be independent because supposedly Northerners shouldn't have to kneel she then turns around and makes Northerners kneel to her as soon as that independence was granted. That is both hypocritical and self serving.
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  1274. The main hurdle is the guy who started this war in the 1st place-that would be Putin.
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  1275.  @marksprague8425  Except the most likely people to bring up pronouns these days are Republicans supporting Trump because they don't have any better issues to go with. If someone wants to be called him or her it doesn't bother me much. There are other issues that are more important. You seem to acknowledge that, would you forget those more important issues?
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  1276. Or they realized that Trump likes to make false promises. He said he would get rid of the National Debt-he made it a lot bigger instead. He said he would provide something cheaper, better, and covering more people than Obamacare only to have nothing years later. There is also that Trump tried to steal the 2020 election.
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  1277. They will, just at a lower price.
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  1278. Its less than 1/8 the military budget for 1 year. It makes WW3 a bit less likely. Priorities. And it isn't like Trump helped people with housing issues. Things like these are why Biden can and should be re-elected.
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  1279. Putin is trying to destroy Ukraine, kill a lot of its people, and deny any survivors much in the way of their freedoms. This is money well spent. Also those who tend to oppose money for America's poor tend to oppose this as well, while those who support money for America's poor tend to support this. That reveals much.
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  1280. It may have attempted to make me introspective but when Dumb and Dumber lie to me through Tyrion's mouth about events I've already see it makes me distrust the writers and not so introspective.
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  1281. Cool video. Thank you.
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  1282. Less of a hot button issue but, despite all the interesting info you put out, your claim is still wrong. Southern politicians started the US Civil War in an attempt to preserve slavery. They often said as much in the succession related documents and statements they made when trying to break from the Union.
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  1283.  @garyguyton7373  I don't trust everything a politician says. That said not only did Southern politicians care enough about the issue to put their thoughts on the matter in writing but an atypically large portion of Southern politicians were slaveowners themselves. This means slaveholders had greater control over Southern political systems than an average Southerner. And this doesn't even touch on the political power/influence of the plantation owners which were a special group of slaveowners. You laid out a lot of interesting information. Really, you did and it is worth mentioning. That said, slavery was still a primary driver.
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  1284.  @garyguyton7373  I agree differences grew over time. If you're argument is that different economics caused slavery to die off in the North but continue in the South that still leaves slavery as a direct cause of the US Civil War. There may be other factors that led to it but the faction that started the US Civil War itself did so in an attempt to protect slavery. If it had a different legal tradition or economic structure (perhaps with less focus on plantations in the "Deep South") perhaps the evolution would have gone differently. Since it didn't it resulted in something that was a source (not just a symptom even if it started that way) of strain between groups with in the USA.
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  1285.  @garyguyton7373  Perhaps you should reconsider how you divide those up. Specifically consider when someone gets a serious flu and then pneumonia. The pneumonia is a separate infection. It was able to move in because of the flu but it is the cause of its own symptoms. The pneumonia and especially not its symptoms are not symptoms of the flu-especially as they persist after the flu is over.
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  1286. She is probably lying through most of the video. A math class that supposedly didn't talk facts or numbers? Just feelings? Really?? The claim strikes me as ridiculous and probably never happened. Remember when I youtube there is no promise the people on it are correct-or even honest.
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  1287. He didn't. It is a Russian lie that has already been debunked last year. Also some of the lies said 20 million rather than 7. Meanwhile Putin is a billionaire due to his own corruption.
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  1288. So are you a Russian bot or someone in a smaller nation somewhere that thinks it would be good for a larger nation to invade a smaller one if those smaller nation has elections that are honest while the larger nation does not.
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  1289.  @RwothOkwaFranco  So being against the west or America doing bad things means it is ok for Russia and others to do bad things? Also I noticed you never addressed how Ukraine has honest elections while Russia does not.
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  1290. Putting up less than 1/8th of the military budget for just 1 year in order to have a lower chance of there being a WW3. Not a bad deal at all.
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  1291. There are differences. Kamala supports getting food to people in Gaza and a Palestinian nation. Trump has a record of supporting Netanyahu annexing lands-when Trump was President he supported Israeli annexing of lands other US Presidents refused to. Having him as President again would reward Netanyahu for his actions.
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  1292. Most Ukrainian soldiers volunteered. They know their nation has been attacked and that Putin will try to destroy it if given the chance to.
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  1293. You are aware Minnesota is something like the 15th or 10th safest state in the USA.. right? If you want a higher murder rate move to most other states.. especially Alabama.
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  1294. "I can't think of anything US has done that's actually helped the Ukrainian." Err.. helped Ukraine fend off oppression by a dictator who has no concern for if they live or die. That is probably a thing.
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  1295. China has tried to move into India's territory since before BRICS was an organization.
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  1296.  @emberfireangel4gaming22  Funny little known thing about gerrymandering in Illinois. Yes it is 1 of the states where Dems did it rather than Republicans. The then Republican governor was invited to join a lawsuit in Federal Courts to end gerrymandering across the USA by some Dems in a state Republicans gerrymandered-making it both clearly bipartisan and multiple state lawsuit. He did not. Republicans across the USA came out against the anti-gerrymandering lawsuit and thus the conservatives on the SCOTUS overruled lower Federal Court Judges to allow gerrymandering to continue. Republicans throughout the USA were willing to sacrifice Republican voters in some states in order to use gerrymandering to keep rigging elections in other states. FYI national Democrats did not do likewise.
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  1297. There is no reason for a dem moving to a red state to leave politics behind. If someone buys an old and worn down house because it is cheaper then fixing it up is a pretty normal thing to do after. Land is cheaper in a lot of red states. Once there dems want to improve things (like lowering the murder rate, better services, and so on) so blue they vote.
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  1298. Plenty of white people have voted for someone who would hurt them so there isn't a reason black people cannot join in. But at least Trump is willing to lie about supposedly saving Historically Black Colleges.
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  1299. I don't see my earlier comment that Putin wants a pause on this war only so he can stock up on ammo before restarting it. There is no promise to end this war or other other wars Putin is already planning to start until Russian warmongering stops. Now is someone here reporting it as part of trying to censor my comments? Who is here is anti-free speech?
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  1300.  @alexlong3714  When did celebrating Christmas on the 25th require being "woke".
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  1301. ​ @A66882  Not really. Calling what Putin wants "Peace" would be a lie. Putin was already planning the next wars he wanted to start even as he started the current war with Ukraine-which is not the 1st time he sent the Russian military into Ukraine within the last 10 years. Putin wants time to stock up more ammo before restarting the current war and starting new ones. That isn't ending a war.
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  1302.  @stephenadenu-mensah6538  Minority languages aren't banned. Thats an old falsehood and was debunked a long time ago.
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  1303. It is Putin's aggression and not a reaction. BTW Cuba hosted Russian troops for most of the Cold War.
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  1304. Zlaya Ba, actually I though it was interesting he mentioned oligarchs since they arguably have a relationship to Trumpism. Gabriel Frost, you seem to have fallen for Nazi PR efforts. Yes PR efforts since back in time those labeled as Socialists were popular in Germany so Nazis took the word and slapped in on themselves while ignoring the meaning. There actually was a Socialist Party in Germany and the Nazi's banned it when they finally had the chance (and other political parties as they were believers in not having further elections once they finally scrapped through 1 with a enough of the vote they were able to haggle their way into power).
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  1305. Yup. Good thing to bring up. Another situation where he lied in a big way.
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  1306.  @falf9003  Just because Texas is often hot doesn't mean things cannot get worse
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  1307. The referendums were faked. A sizable portion possible voters in Crimea actually never voted yet the supposed turnout was over over 80%. That is a sign Moscow was making up the official results to just be whatever it wanted. Also the option to stay part of Ukraine was never even on the ballot-not that Moscow was really going to pay attention to what the ballots said anyway.
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  1308. I see Mr. Sachs repeating lies and sidestepping any mention of his own part in creating the oligarchy and corruption that is in part of Russia today. It was Sachs who pushed for rapid privatization and ignoring corruption as a concern while it was done. Now it is Sacks who lies about if a coup happened in Ukraine (rather than backlash against a corrupt former President fleeing the backlash caused by his breaking of campaign promises and using force on protestors-likely at Putin's urging). Not to mention the honest elections Ukraine has repeatedly held since.
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  1309. Considering it never existed it is probably the same as before--not existing.
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  1310.  @kaihusravnajmiddinov5413  Don't know. Zelensky is a millionaire because he was a tv star in Ukraine and Eastern Europe in general before he was President. So he does have money. That said $48 mil on a boat is more than he has and sounds like propaganda strangely similar to the false-and debunked-claims he was supposedly running around buying mansions in the USA. $1 million is more within his budget but probably unlikely simply because why put so much of the money he has in just 1 item.
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  1311. Agreed. And I noticed a few people trying to do the inaccurate "both sides" claim. Democrats put forwards a bill to ban gerrymandering for US House districts in 2021 and passed it through the House. Republicans in the US Senate filibustered it. Even worse lower Federal Courts were tearing up gerrymandered maps across the USA. And then Republicans ran to conservative SCOTUS members to get them to stop the trend towards honest elections. So at the national level Republicans-not Democrats-have been protected gerrymandering when it would've been banned in 2 different ways across the USA (1 of which included both State and Federal Districts). I think it really matters to any swing state that there is no gerrymandering so that the state can swing properly-as it should according to how voters decide. But honest elections (not gerrymandered ones) should be how things are done across the USA. Yes Democrats did gerrymander in some states like Illinois and Maryland. But they supported nationwide bans on gerrymandering that would have ended it for all 50 states. Since Republicans pushed to keep gerrymandering around any state that still has gerrymandering in it today has Republicans to blame for it being allowed to continue. If Republicans want to make a change for the better then the solution is easy-pass a nationwide ban on partisan gerrymandering.
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  1312. Good for you on being helpful to others who could use help. And you are correct to question if this was a balanced interview.
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  1313. No tankie.
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  1314. Yes. Looking for a cheaper house can mean buying a fixer upper. Living there often means improving it. Voting blue is trying to improve the state as well.
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  1315. So ignore the various floods and increased timespan fire season takes place in because it supposedly isn't that much warmer? Seems like a poor reason to lie about Global Warming.
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  1316. Putin already takes her seriously. Putin was paying social media people to promote Trump. That is not the action of someone who isn't worried.
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  1317.  @DaltonReutlinger  So you think it is a good thing for Putin try to pick the US President? Were you a fan of one of those social media people Putin funneled money to?
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  1318. "Liberal border policies that have led to conflict"? Gee this reporting is not biased at all. I noticed absolutely no effort to examine the question-especially since someone called it flawed. Is the question referring to refugees as "illegal"? According to international law it is legal to be a refugee.. and this reporter seems to make no effort to discuss or examine that.
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  1319. Yes. It is like they forgot that the pain and struggle may have be done in the hope for something better.
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  1320. Yes because Foxnews and multiple other rightwing propaganda outlets don't already exist and are somehow underserved in the "free market". Also refusing to publish any leftwing columnists is totally "free market" and not at all a kind of censorship.
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  1321. So Putin has decided he wants to make Ukraine's trade and alliance agreements for it despite what its people and its honestly elected President (as opposed to Putin who is more of a fan of rigged elections) think. Thank you for acknowledging that Putin wants to oppress Ukrainians. Though we knew that already. I see someone brought up the Cuban Missile Crisis, I noticed they also failed to mention that throughout most of the Cold War there was a military alliance between Cuba and the Soviet Union. If Cuba could and did have its military alliances why shouldn't Ukraine be able to have its own?
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  1322. So is this your account that you post on whenever you aren't busy accepting bribes and laughing at how you got your current job through tokenism?
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  1323. Would make for an interesting interview.
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  1324. arminius8631 "That would be a nice change, getting tired of the pro Ukraine propaganda on CNN." Often those CNN reports include facts. Also are you in favor a dictator oppressing not just people in his own nation but nearby democracies?
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  1325. I haven't seen that many videos of TYT yet but they seem to be making sense. This is punishing the aid for what someone else did.
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  1326. robkit6681 It depends on the civilians, CNN doesn't have time to cover each 1 considering that Russia has killed over 10,000. Now they did cover Bucha where Russia soldiers tortured and killed civilians. But many other news organizations did that too.
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  1327. Translation: PBS did a good job of talking about an issue and you don't like the things that were discussed despite that they should be.
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  1328. Illinois removed Trump from the ballot. It may not last. A question here is trying to steal an election the same as insurrection. Trump tried to steal the 2020 election for President. But other politicians have tried to steal elections as well. Does that it is for President make a difference? How about he tried to use a group or rioters as part of his plans?
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  1329. And not challenging it at all when Mearsheimer lies about the USA supposedly doubling down on Ukraine joining NATO after 2014 when Obama actually did the opposite? And this is while being silent on Ukrainians being officially Neutral when Putin started occupying Crimea and only changing their official position to wanting to join NATO after Putin basically attacked and seized Ukrainian lands.
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  1330. I see some deniers are out putting out the latest dishonesty and distortions. Anyone remember when deniers were claiming there was no Global Warming at all rather than lying about why it was happening as they often do these days?
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  1331.  @dakotatango6047  No he or she is not. Are you? Worse floods has been 1 of the expected impacts of Global Warming for a long time. This is those expectations being met.
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  1332. Correct. There are people who have lied about Global Warming for years but we are seeing it outside this month.
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  1333. It isn't suing for removing illegal immigrants. The lawsuit is over trying to remove US citizens from the voting rolls at a time when that is illegal. A law was passed requiring a time period because State governments were caught trying to remove US citizens from the rolls in order to suppress the vote.
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  1334. Do I detect a few excuse makers for Putin trying to side step that the USA has allies by improperly labelling them colonies when their people elect their own governments which decided its own policy-including if to have an alliance with the USA. Reminds me of complaints of NATO "expansion". A way of trying to avoid saying multiple nations wanted to join NATO and did so.
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  1335. I remember Oliver Stone trying to downplay and dodge addressing the atrocities Putin's forces had been doing in Ukraine.
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  1336. So are you a full on Russian bot or do you just like to spread their propaganda? Most of this money stays in the USA to buy stuff from US manufacturers so that stuff-not money-goes to Ukraine to help prevent Russians from killing more Ukrainians, occupying more off their land, and denying freedom to any survivors-with the side benefit of making it less likely Putin will start another world war. Want another world war? If you do then tell Putin he can keep on invading other nations.
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  1337. Would you say that if China tried to move into the territory of your nation?
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  1338. Stone has had sympathies for Putin for years. Sadly I think it is Oliver Stone who currently finds himself unable to tell the truth about the situation.
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  1339. Bernie is arguing preventing the fascist from returning to the White House.
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  1340. Actually for awhile mainland China was seen as part of Taiwan. Instead of doing the sensible thing and simple recognizing 2 nations that are fragments of a civil war that never ended with 1 side taking full control for decades people tried to refer to 1 or the other 1 as the official government for the 2 nations in practical speaking. Texas is not an independent nation and has not been for over a century. Taiwan has been functioning as an independent nation for decades. Taiwan even reformed itself to the point where honest elections happen and citizens vote their politicians in and out. So there is pretty clear difference.
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  1341.  @KorhalKk  Taiwan has been functional and practically independent since before the 1970s. Nations still play the game of which do they recognize as China but they are 2 different governments. Also Taiwan democratized so the KMT political party can be voted in or out of office and local Taiwanese people have become increasingly powerful. Historically many of them may have seen the Kuomintang as outsiders oppressing them but now the KMT has lost the last few elections for President the local Taiwanese people can be said to have real influence over their own government. Ironically it is the Kuomintang that mainland China's government would have preferred to win the elections because there are stronger connections between the Kuomintang and mainland China. Now the KMT moved to Taiwan many decades ago but if the KMT was seen as outsiders by local Taiwanese then the officials in Beijing are probably really seen as outsiders by locals.
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  1342. This is deceptive/propaganda. It complains people aren't allowed to talk about what it does while talking about something in public. In the meantime the 2 people here avoid discussing that for years Putin has provided funding and assistance to neo-Nazis and racists in other nations. They want to avoid bringing that up here because it would complicate the narrative they are pushing.
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  1343.  @christophmahler  I didn't say "moderate Islamists", I said "moderate". There is a difference.
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  1344. If they ask for another this 1 would still be worth it. Preventing World War Three benefits the USA. Saving Ukrainian lives benefits Ukraine. This is called a win-win.
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  1345.  @andredawkins4585  So we should've sent the aid sooner and saved some of those Ukrainians.
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  1346. They like much about the places they left (lower crime and better schools usually). They just needed to find cheap houses to buy. Once they do they start voting blue as part of improving the state as they go about fixing any problems with their new houses.
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  1347. @ Since California has a lower murder rate than Texas that "know-it-all California college socialist" is probably right about some things.
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  1348. @ Considering that California sends more money into the Federal government than it gets back (unlike states like Alabama) it may start asking for some of its money back.
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  1349. @ Blue states are paying some of the Red state's bills. Try a "divorce" and not only are you likely to lose but even if you win your state will go broke.
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  1350. @ Interesting comment. Please let me know what your source is. If you cannot add a link then please put something like a name in.
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  1351. @ The supposed "locusts" are probably the ones who will make the state a better place to live.
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  1352. @ They aren't leaving deterioration. They are looking for cheaper houses-some of which probably have deteriorated that they plan to fix up. Kind of like how they vote blue as a way to fix up the state once they moved there.
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  1353. @ "just as bad as California" So that means Colorado also has a lower murder rate than Texas then.
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  1354. @ You left our that the only reason North Carolina's legislature is as red as it is is because of all the gerrymandering done to steal elections.
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  1355. @ "Many have conservative values and are looking for a better life with people that share their values." Or a worse life but others who won't question what they say.
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  1356. @ Actually it may be worse than a "hatful delusion". I've noticed some propaganda pushing the claims. This is something rightwing media sources like to say in order to distract from that red states usually have higher crime and worse living conditions-like worse schools and hospitals. This may help explain why land in some red states is cheaper BTW.
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  1357. @ Funny thing about many red states. Their land is cheaper but their elections are more likely to be rigged than in New York. So much for the idea of "freedom" in red states.
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  1358. @ "we were fed up with socialist woke policies that drove our once beloved state into a shithole" So you moved to a state that more resembles "a shithole".. good plan.
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  1359. @ "I realized that Blue states are way more intolerant of people with different ideas than red states" Is that why elections are rigged more often in red states than blue? Your own Texas serves as an example of both gerrymandering and trying to create rules specifically to make it less likely people will have their votes counted (if they try to vote early or mail a ballot in).
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  1360. @ "if those policies are so good then why flee for a red state". Often it isn't fleeing. It is looking for a cheaper house. They then vote blue to lower the crime rates and improve schools once they live there.
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  1361. ​@ "Now I understand why they opened the border." A common myth. Thing is immigrants don't get to vote unless they become citizens.
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  1362. @ Tariffs against China I could support-especially with China both stealing technology and providing its own companies subsidies. Not against Canada.
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  1363. @ "Explain to me how taxing the rich business owners won't also be passed to the consumer." History shows it doesn't. Did inflation spike when Clinton or Obama raised taxes? No, it didn't.
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  1364. @ And the Florida legislature would look different if Republicans didn't use gerrymandering to steal elections there.
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  1365. @ "It's also the first time somebody I voted for actually won an election" The standard isn't if your guy wins it is if the election is honest or not. In Florida gerrymandering is used to steal a lot of elections in the state legislature.
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  1366. @ "I am so confused about how there hasn't been another Civil War." Easy. Unneeded death and destruction. Plus even if they won then Red states would start going broke as Blue states wouldn't cover their expenses like they do now. If you don't know what I'm referring to look at which states pay into the Federal government on balance vs get money out of it. A lot of Red states are takers rather than makers.
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  1367. "intelligence is provided by the Americans" and propaganda as well as badly aimed air defense is provided by the Russians
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  1368. Byron Donalds trying to cover for Trump's screwups both in policy and his remarks outside of policy. BTW serious leadership "in the world stage" would involve not kissing up to Putin. Also something else Byron Donalds wants to cover over is that 1/6 was an attempt to steal an election for President.
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  1369. In other words you see other people having the same right to vote and have their vote count just as much as you as somehow unjust. That seems really twisted and loaded with entitlement/elitism.
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  1370. Are you planning to vote for Trump with over 20 women accusing him of things going going from groping to rape. Fair question for those worried about dex or sex offenders. Not sue if you intended to put that in there or if it was a typos. Serious about the question with Trump though.
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  1371. Interesting argument. But lets not forget that Trump still lost the popular vote twice (2nd time he also lost the Electoral College).
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  1372. Would've been a better ending than what season 8 had. Less character breaking as well.
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  1373. stvn Zhu Are you upset Taiwan offers it citizens a better and freer life than China does?
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  1374. Really. From what I've seen some of RFK Jr.'s backers are funding him because they hope he will drain votes from Biden and give Trump, a guy who tried to steal he 2020 election, a chance to get back in the White House. Biden has done stuff about Global Warming, Trump has lied about it.. and RFK Jr. seems to be helping the latter. This is doing the opposite of restoring America's promise.
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  1375.  @Kiskadee8388  That we agree on.
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  1376. Not only does Ukraine not have nukes but it turned what it did have over to Russia years ago and in exchange Russia promised to respect Ukrainian territorial integrity. Ukraine is unlikely to make the mistake of trusting Russia again.
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  1377. Actually opposing supporting Ukraine likely makes both the USA and Ukraine poorer in the future. Not only does the USA save on money it would have to spend storing and decommissioning equipment but US weapons performing well would look good to customers worldwide-especially in Europe that may restock stores sent to Ukraine. So Ukraine winning this war would probably be nice boost for the USA economically. Supporting Ukraine now is not merely "printing money" but actually making an investment that can pay off for years into the future. And, very importantly, it is also the right thing to do.
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  1378. The french tried to do peace negotiations before the war got going. Putin was not interested. To have peace you actually have to have both sides want peace. Putin would rather have imperialism than peace.
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  1379. If Ukraine is it will probably be worthwhile again.
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  1380.  @arizjones  Dems agreed to increase funding for the border, certain members of the GOP nixed it. Just like they nixed comprehensive immigration reform which could've had the border functioning better some years ago.
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  1381. I noticed he lied when going through them. Meanwhile he never went into his own background promoting corruption and oligarchy in Russia-thus that today's Russia is party his fault. BTW the whole "provoked" thing is basically trying to avoid putting responsibility on Putin for his own actions/Imperialism.
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  1382. Ukraine gave up those nuclear weapons in exchange for promises from both the USA and Russia. Those promises were broken. Since Ukraine helped build those weapons and gave up building any new nuclear weapons Ukraine did not break its promise.
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  1383.  @JackMadeu  The Soviet Union stopped existing.
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  1384. I call bs. Cycles caused by the sun are something I've already seen a denier claim. What he purposefully left out is that energy coming from the sun was at the low end of its cycle so if the claim was true we would be seeing colder temperatures rather than warmer ones.
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  1385. Its also probably a lie. A math class that supposedly didn't talk facts or numbers? Just feelings? Really?? The claim strikes me as ridiculous and probably never happened. Remember when I youtube there is no promise the people on it are correct-or even honest.
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  1386. What other channel puts on NOVA? Before you say its obsolete I want to see what else is doing the same job at least as well.
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  1387.  @danielbauer9027  Gabbard repeating Putin's lies is a thing.
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  1388. Much better and clearer narrative would be that Gabbard lied for Putin and Assad.
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  1389.  @wtice4632  What happened is I told a truth you don't like. I'll add another. Gabbard didn't just lie for Putin. She also lied for Assad, an example of this would be her trying to cover for his use of chemical weapons in 2017.
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  1390. Russian money laundering is a problem in many situations.
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  1391. I noticed you left out how Gabbard is likely a Putin agent that spent time on RT and is probably 1 of Putin's agents.
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  1392.  @planetarysolidarity  She isn't a rebel against group think so much a woman that did PR for Assad and Putin who, if given a chance such as getting this position, would likely work as a spy for Putin.
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  1393. Coming back to this I don't see liberals doing what you accused them of. While it wouldn't surprise me if it happened somewhere by someone that liked to shoot his mouth off (there are people who do) the problems may liberals have with her are much more serious. So were you just whipping out accusations to deflect from the serious problems that could arise from putting 1 of Putin's people at a high level US Intelligence post? And no, I don't call her 1 of Putin's people for anything Hillary said, I do it because of what Tulsi Gabbard did and said. Specifically lying for Assad when he was using chemical weapons on populated areas and then joining RT to do PR for Putin. While mentioning Putin lets not forget her excuse making for his warmongering.
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  1394. Biden has done more to help people inside the USA than Trump did during his term. And of the people in Congress now that oppose aid to Ukraine most of them also oppose trying to help people in the USA. So empowering them would bring worse rather than better for US citizens.
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  1395. trevorcrook5753 an Uzbek that came to Russia in order to do construction work and ended up getting conscripted has already been taken prisoner in Ukraine. Yes Putin is willing to use immigrants as a way to grab more bodies to throw into the war.
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  1396.  @aei7129  Are migrants required to become Russian citizens? I know some people immigrate to a different nation and want to become citizens but others may not and are simply looking for work and plan to return to the nation they came from afterwards.
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  1397. You are on youtube right now, don't believe everything you see. If you really came here from a communist nation like Cuba go outside, breath the air, and know that if you become a citizen you can actually vote in an election and you can also practice a religion without getting arrested. Back to youtube, I like it a lot and get a lot of enjoyment from it plus even learned things from it when people put videos on it like how to repair stuff. But youtube is also loaded with political propaganda. Which means it has plenty of lies. I'm pretty sure Misha here is part of that problem and very strongly doubt much of what she complained about actually happened to her. I'm not even sure she went to college. Apply a bit of critical thinking about the chances of some of the things she claimed happened. Such as a math class where they did not talk about facts/numbers but only feelings supposedly? Really?? I doubt it.
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  1398. Not really. He didn't question if NPR did reporting or not, just complained that some articles had headlines. Even worse he (purposefully) neglected to point out that NPR reported on and sharing articles on Mr. Avenatti including that he was found to be committing crimes and was convicted. That is Mr. Kennedy leaving important details out. Worse than that is that he called Prager U and educational organization when it is not and its primary purpose for several years has been doing political propaganda.
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  1399. A point addressed and disproven in this discussion.
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  1400. Tell me you are a Russian troll without using those specific words. @slumpmanwum That goes for you too. In a surprise to few Russia lied about what the results of the supposed referendum in Crimea were. This is not a big shock since rigging elections is a relatively common practice inside Russia. There is very little doubt Putin lied about the results of any referendum in occupied parts of Donbas (you seem to forget that Putin has not managed to occupy and oppress all of it.) Also the false claims of genocide were been debunked years ago.
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  1401. Spent a good bit of time revisiting parts of earlier seasons. The ending was crappy. The character assassinated one of the most important characters in order to excuse nonsense. And yes The Take made this up. That gets more apparent the more you think about this video and the other ones they made and how they don't match things in game of thrones nor logic. Also the new oligarchy isn't "enlightened" so much as the wheel remade and ready to roll over peasants again.
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  1402. "the racism of black people in France" What class was this and what college? Was your degree in gender studies or something?
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  1403.  @keto0303  Having a brain and pair of eyes is helpful when determining "vile behavior". Musk's actions when it comes to politics sure seems to fit it. Promotion of racists-including a violent racist in the UK-should not be taken as good or even normal.
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  1404. YES!! Or at least have new referendums done by international groups under peacekeepers in all territories that are occupied.
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  1405. Or it is being honest in this situation. To be clear I like having third parties to generate new ideas. However in this election the Republicans were found to have spent $1.5 million on Jill Stein in the swing state of Wisconsin.. and probably have spent to push her in other states as well. That is paying to be a "spoiler".
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  1406.  @CardMan91  Yes she is, or if not she certainly has Republican money heading her way-$1.5 million in Wisconsin was spent by Republicans on Stein and that is probably not the only state Republicans spent on her. Oddly enough I knew I wrong about this before yet do not see my reply now.
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  1407. That would be the typical corrupt cashing in on stocks in military related companies-wouldn't be surprised if they do that with companies aren't military related as well. However that typical corruption doesn't explain nor excuse Russian troops invading Ukraine.
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  1408.  @BAsed_AFro  LOL The US never invaded Libya or Yemen or Vietnam. It was invited into Vietnam by the South Vietnamese government. Also if there are any bioweapons (and there may not be) in Ukraine how do you know they aren't something the Soviets left behind like they did the nukes that Ukraine gave up?
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  1409.  @BAsed_AFro  After what you wrote you aren't in a position declare anyone else "a special kind of stupid"? Are you an American? If not then least that why you don't know US History.
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  1410. Said in support of a Russia that is arguably trying to commit genocide right now and started the current war.
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  1411. Did someone sign a big loan somewhere?
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  1412.  @95valero  Only when buying from Russia. Now an interesting thing is that Russia's ruble has dropped in value so does that make it easier to afford?
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  1413.  @michaelkatz275  So does that really mean Russians want rubles then?
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  1414. Do that and the West Bank is increasingly likely to be annexed. Adelson reportedly gave Trump around $100 million if he would support Netanyahu's annexation goals. That can be avoided as well as more pollution and worse treatment of immigrants if the blue candidate is elected this time around.
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  1415. Its good excuse making for the show but still manages to miss things and contradict itself. Claiming Bran is both taking responsibility and not doing anything is contradicting itself. Plus Bran may have manipulated things to get the crown-since this would involve arranging the deaths of thousands of innocents that makes Bran very power hungry (and a mass murderer).
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  1416.  @eliannafreely5725  The gerrymandered legislators were not that honorable-sadly. Instead in Michigan voters are allowed to put binding (as in will become law if they pass) referendums on the ballot if enough citizens sign the petition. Pennsylvania had a series of court cases where the Judges eventually tore up the map and had a new map made. I will commend the Judges and State Justices in both states that were part of that as they upheld the rights of the citizens of their States. The gerrymandered legislatures actually tried to fight against-via the court cases-the effort to have honest elections in their states. Thankfully the will of the citizens at large of each state ended up prevailing.
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  1417.  @eliannafreely5725  Yup. And there is the added irony that it is reactionary rightwing Judges that have often been "activist Judges" when it comes for pushing things like deregulation, weakening rules related to corruption and on. So the complaint is ironic and-often-hypocritical. I hope SCOTUS got the memo about popular feeling towards things like gerrymandering. We shall see.
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  1418. Hi Ivan. I'm not sure which is more ridiculous. Complaining NATO lied on the Minsk agreement when it was not party to that agreement or Zelenskyy supposedly did when Russia has been violating it long before he was President of Ukraine. Also speaking of "politicians launder billions" didn't Putin basically become a billionaire specifically because he is so corrupt. Zelenskyy faces honest elections unlike Putin while Putin is easily 1 of the richest and most corrupt politicians in the modern world right now.
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  1419.  @harrymills2770  Kyiv was the original Russia. Moscow was founded later and is the capital of modern real Russian wannabes.
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  1420.  @mrk6753  You are correct. Texas became an independent nation and then, of its own free will, decided to join the USA.
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  1421. "Crimea has been part of Russia since Catherine the Great - 1785". This statement is a falsehood. Crimea has been part of modern Ukraine since modern Ukraine became a nation about three decades ago. For the last decade it can be said that Russia occupied and is colonizing it but even if someone takes away that decade that doesn't change that the statement is false. Also 2014 was never a coup, that is just Russian lies being repeated. The corrupt former President of Ukraine fled after backlash to his actions-both that he broke campaign promises to do a trade deal with the EU and that he used security forces to attack protestors. The follow utter lie to Russia being "a forbidden language" is undercut by that Russian be spoken when Ukrainians feel like it-including Ukraine's current (and far less corrupt than the guy who fled his nation to Russia back in 2014) President.
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  1422. "donate a few extra million to cancer research" They could. Yet that doesn't undo the pollution they are responsible for nor engaging in what could be described as corruption within the US government.
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  1423.  @T.R.R.Jolkien  My comment does not but if I am an activist is that what qualifies me for the Supreme Court. Seems political litmus testing is a qualifier to get on that court these days.
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  1424.  @T.R.R.Jolkien  Under this article so far, probably. This is a rightwing activist move by individuals on the Supreme Court. Is being a political activist what now qualifies someone to be on the US Supreme Court?
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  1425. "We need the far right to win so the people will rise up and move left." Reagan followed by Bush (12 years of Republicans) brought Clinton (a Democrat but more of a move to the right than left). So history doesn't support this theory at the moment. Was Accelerationism thought up by a Republican looking to help Trump in this election?
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  1426. Yeah, because the over 800 billion military budget that got passed just not couldn't have anything off in it. The problem is obviously with the nation focused on defending itself from a military invasion and getting far, far, less equipment.
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  1427.  @karleells6540  Like Trump hates accountability?
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  1428. No, sadly it is probably part of a plan to drive people out and replace them with cronies and hack-or just prevent their job from being filled to prevent those jobs from being done. My sympathy for you and your coworkers. I hope many of you can make it through the next 4 years and that years better after.
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  1429. Misha or the commenters on the video? I'm suspect Misha is following a script. And I very strongly suspect she is lying (as she does). Think about it. A math class with no facts or numbers? Really?? This is youtube and on youtube people are allowed to lie into a camera.
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  1430. If civilization ends then people may not have much use for gold either. If civilization restarts then so will fiat currency. Neither provides that much advantage for gold. If things really fall apart someone cannot eat gold to live.
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  1431. "takes away their ability to cheat much" I call bs. Its often Republicans trying to steal elections these days. Be it preserving gerrymandering so elections can be rigged that way or throwing a riot in DC to try to steal an election there.
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  1432. Funny I'm pretty sure Harris said she supported having a Palestinian nation. Not a sign of wanting a to wipe a people out. Meanwhile the person running against her has made no such promise and members of his party complain that whenever Democrats bring up a ceasefire that it is meddling and Netanyahu should supposedly be encouraged to do whatever. Seems you are not correct Harris nor what the choice is.
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  1433. ​ @jasonleslie203  Books are a different story-otherwise Euron would be very different, Barristan would be alive, and a lot more people would be there. It seems like you didn't examine the excuses for season 8 and if they really held water or not. They generally don't and if you want we can go over a few scenes that prove it. Also think on the logic of this. If Dany doesn't want to compromise her ideals and one of those ideals is trying to protect or at least avoid harming the innocent then the burning of King's Landing is nonsense. As burning it would break with one of her ideals-and we already know she has kept at least some of them after arriving in Westeros because not only does she decide to put her war for the crown on hold in order to help Jon fight undead, but while she was fighting that war she did it in a more complicated manner than she needed to because she was trying to avoid harming innocents. This is not "accelerating" a character's aspects. Instead this is ignoring a character's aspects to follow a plot that does not make sense-especially when the natures of the characters involved are applied. Jon Snow abdicated in favor of her. That means she is the legit heir to the 7 kingdoms. Her being paranoid over Jon's popularity after that point is silly at best-Jon's loyalty to her (and he was) makes that popularity of his and thus him even more helpful to her. Even simpler than that they can even get married-so even if Jon didn't give up his claim it is still not much of a problem. Also as popular as Jon was in the North the other lords of Westeros that were fighting Cersei had pledged themselves to Daenerys. Yara Greyjoy stayed pledged. The idea of a guy loyal to her being popular in his hometown should not be threatening to her. The main way it could seem to be is if D and D kinda forgot how to count and thus failed to notice both there was more than 1 kingdom in the 7 kingdoms and Jon was loyal to her. Since math still works and Jon was loyal the idea this was actually a problem is vastly overstated-but that is because season 8 depended on contrived nonsense to make its plot happen. If Varys remembered that Daenerys has a record of being good for the realm in Meereen (not just claims and promises but a record that shows she acts in a manner according to those claims and promises) then he shouldn't have a problem with her ruling instead of Cersei. Especially as Daenerys very much planned to honor her promise to help fight the undead and Cersei (the primary person Varys would be helping if he got rid of Dany in season 8) did not. And no Varys was not actually helping Jon in season 8 by spreading knowledge of his claim to the throne. Not only did that ignore that Jon chose to abdicate and that he and Dany could just marry (thus combining their claims into one joint claim) but spreading that kind of info when Cersei is willing to hire assassins puts a huge target on Jon's back. Even worse at that point the armies were-according to season 8 Varys himself at the time-becoming evenly matched. So if something did happen to Dany and Jon tried to step in as leader of the anti-Cersei coalition then some groups that supported her like the UnSullied may just go home and not fight for Jon. This means that Jon would have a smaller army than Dany and thus Cersei-not Jon-would be more likely to win the war (provided Cersei doesn't just have Jon assassinated to wrap things up quickly). Season 8 didn't just break characters it was illogical and stupid if one just looks at the situation and ignored aspects of the characters involved. That season 8 (or D and D more specifically) kinda forgot that Dany cared about innocent people's lives, or that Varys cared about his own life, and on for many of the other characters only makes season 8 more illogical and stupid.
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  1434.  @jasonleslie203  A bit a small admission on his part-especially compared to the blunders he risked in S8. But that is better than nothing. I appreciated the outfits for the women as well though I admit that includes when there was not much of one.
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  1435. So how long have you worked for Putin? Do you get 10 rubles per post or do you spread his lies and propaganda for free (possibly with the bonus that it keeps you from being sent to the front).
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  1436.  @jake8077  And Trump is making it worse even as he hurts the US reputation. So what is your point?
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  1437. Just a thought worth thinking. Unions declined in power in the USA since the 1980s. This makes it harder for workers to push back against bosses or managers that mandate overtime.
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  1438. If you use the word "leftist" odds are you brought plenty of bias from your preferred echo chambers already.
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  1439. More likely she realized she can lie on youtube. Yes, I think she is lying. No facts or numbers in a math class? Really?? The more I think about most of what she said the less I think it happened.
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  1440. Nazis do not control Ukraine. That is 1 of many lies made by Russia as an excuse to start a war. Nazis hated Jews. The current President of Ukraine is a Russian speaking Jew. Thus it is easy to realize he is not a Nazi.
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  1441. I agree with much of this except I would add the point not to ignore Russia-which is an authoritarian kleptocracy these days-but add to it with the point about corporate money. I thank Chomsky for pointing out elite Republicans pretend to care about abortion.
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  1442. Correct. But this is why Prager U is actually a propaganda organization. Many of its videos are actually very deceptive by either making a point of not including information that would contradict their claims or even lying against events. Either way they hope people won't notice and thus try to trick them. EDIT: They often leave out that government corruption is made worse not better by rightwing people tends to support-for example look at increasing amounts of money in politics and that it was typically rightwing Judges and politicians that pushed for this.
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  1443.  @007kingifrit  The claim "corruption is inevitable if the government gets larger" is an opinion and not a fact. Not only that but there are people who both cleaned up corruption and increased the amount of things government did-something that theory would claim is impossible yet already happened in reality. Who does something has always mattered. You've probably known people you knew would do bad job and others who would do better if asked to do something. You've also probably learned there are both trustworthy and untrustworthy people. EDIT: And to be clear just because I don't like something doesn't make it propaganda. That Prager is done to influence politics rather than educate people makes it propaganda-especially when it comes to when videos are made in a deceptive way.
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  1444.  @007kingifrit  "all education is done to influence". That isn't true and you are making excuses for Prager being dishonest now. An actual education is to inform-that is to provide people with facts as best they are known (something Prager makes a point of avoiding). Additionally some education encourages promoting critical thinking-taking a look at a set of facts and then using them to make an argument or analysis-both making and disproving claims based on facts. Though I admit critical thinking isn't taught in many classes.
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  1445. Are Russians trying make up for the Ukrainian civilians they steal from, rape, or otherwise abuse up close when they aren't launching missiles into cities far from the front?
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  1446. Kanye is just a Trump kissup. I remember seeing his visit to the White House while Trump was in it and all he did was praise a bunch of stuff Trump did or was involved regardless of how it was turning out. Kanye didn't think about running as an independent to oppose Trump but likely out of thinking he could try to help Trump.
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  1447. cassiusdhami9215 Actually Trump could be worse and was when he was in the White House. So your comment downplays it. Also how would keeping Netanyahu around save democracy in the USA? You're arguing for Trump here Netanyahu and he prefer each other.
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  1448.  @LACYJEN1999  Did you inappropriately flag my comment in an attempt to censor it. Don't like that I point out Kanye's past. How about his more recent comments sympathetic to Hitler?
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  1449.  @LACYJEN1999  People are part of the discussion all the time without flagging. If you didn't then maybe someone else did. Regardless Kanye West still praised Hitler-and for Hitler's bigotry in specific.
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  1450.  @LACYJEN1999  Would do well to clarify which West early on. Funny thing, "genocide Joe" is likely to still be better for Palestinians than Trump-and 1 of those 2 people are going to who is President in 2025 due to the 2024 election. You may like Cornel West but he isn't a realistic choice on the ballot. Now if you don't live in swing state do whatever. If you do then how you vote matters a great deal.
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  1451.  @kinte1870  Actually no. The tax cuts came at a time the economy didn't need them. The part that is for lower end people is temporary while for the wealthier end is not. And the debts they made will have to be paid off at some point. The tax cuts were arguably both wasteful and selective in who they helped-especially once you get beyond a term or 2. Trump walked into a growing economy, did he thank Obama for it? The HBCU bill was project of a Democrat and, while I thank Trump for not vetoing it his White House did try to give less funding to HBCUs than Congress did. He wanted to start a war with Iran just to create another excuse not to leave the White House plus the disregard Trump treated Ukraine with may have given Putin ideas-granted while Putin probably would have attacked at some point the combination of chummyness towards him and extortion for Ukraine may have left Putin thinking Ukraine wouldn't be that important to other nations. I'll welcome economic development but Trump would hardly be the only person in office who has tried to do that. Second Chance Act passed back in 2008, I'm glad Trump was willing to renew it but what he did was renew it, I would expect the same from Biden or many other politicians.
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  1452. "Has Biden made ANYTHING better for you and your family?" Easy answer. Yes. Have a family member with a multiple health problems, including damaged lungs, that didn't know if she was going to survive the pandemic. Getting the vaccine out probably saved her life. I'm sure what the whole list of other things Biden has done or been part of such but having a family member that is still alive is something.
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  1453. "Don't vote Biden please help black people don't hurt us" Most black voters disagree with this, voted for Biden, and based on the policy suggestions so far its a good call.
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  1454.  @shasmeen  What issues would have made you switch in 2020?
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  1455. Ukraine can feed itself. Ukraine has been known of as the "breadbasket of Europe" for decades. As soon as Russia stops disrupting things Ukraine can get back to growing far more food than it needs for itself.
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  1456.  @Сергей-в9р3ь  Between enemies? Seems Ukraine has friends are helping it. Also isn't true the kind of tank showing in Russia's May 9 parade today were originally designed and made in Ukraine. Ukraine has smart and hard working people. That is something that can build wealth regardless of resources.
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  1457. I don't want tax dollars to cover Rick Scott's mansion anyway. That said even without government changes insurers are leaving Florida. So DeSantis is trying to use State government replace them.
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  1458. You're welcome. Hope it is very helpful.
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  1459. Good for you. I won't make the claim to never buy anything from China but I've made a point about avoiding it for years and have been able to do so often enough though it takes a bit of effort. Back when old Radio Shack still existed I had a salesman go through 2 shelves of the kind of device I was looking for to find the 2 of them that weren't made in China, I bought 1 but so a sale happened but I had to make sure to make that effort.
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  1460. Walh Damaskus. More like it shows China is being hypocritical. Also it is not the West threatening to invade Taiwan. China on the other hand..
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  1461.  @walhdamaskus2408  Are you aware that some years ago China launch missiles that landed near Taiwan because Taiwan was having an election and China wanted to scare Taiwanese voters into voting for politicians it liked. Now the current President of China has said he may not wait for negotiations to reunify China and Taiwan-and this is in addition to China making official complaints whenever T-shirt makers have an image of China that does not include Taiwan. Anyway Xi's own remarks are taken as a subtle threat China may attack Taiwan and that is a comment coming from China's President. Would you care to explain how "western medias" control the words coming out of China's President's mouth? Also how exactly did the "west started the war with russia" when the current war started with Russian troops moving into Ukraine? Does the West control where Putin puts Russian troops? Who said the "west started the war with russia"? That sounds like something Russian media would say rather than people who looked at what happened. Now China is hypocritical because it claims nations should respect other nations borders and complain about what goes on inside nations. I suspect China has argued this to try to get other nations to not complain whenever China does something put Tibet or Uyghur people in mass prisons for not being Chinese. If China wants other nations leave nations alone that includes respecting those nation's borders-Russia is not doing this. Even if you don't want your nation to put sanctions on Russia like other nations may do it would still be good to be honest about which nation started this war-which is Russia.
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  1462. ​ @walhdamaskus2408  It may seem odd but in both a practical and literal sense Taiwan is not part of China. How much history have you heard about the history of Taiwan? Modern Taiwan and China came from 2 sides of a civil war that never ended. At the start of it Taiwan's government was called China and given all or all international recognition. The US made an agreement with both on how they are to unite and China attacking Taiwan would be disrespecting that agreement. The group that won most battles and thus took over mainland China is currently referred to as China by most. But it never took over Taiwan. For awhile, as unrealistic as it may sound, Taiwan held recognition for all of China and mainland China was officially treated as part of Taiwan because people called Taiwan the word China. President Nixon lead the USA (which encouraged many other nations) to make an agreement with mainland China that resulted in it being called by the word China but that China and Taiwan would re-unite by a negotiated and peaceful way. China's suggestion for reunification suggestion was often called 1 nation 2 systems. This would supposedly allow Taiwan to keep its laws and democracy (including honest elections). It was similar to the promise China made to Britain when discussing how Hong Kong would be reunited with China. The Hong Kong reunification happened and for several years it looked like 1 nations 2 systems was working. However then China started doing things like saying certain politicians could not take office if they said something China didn't like regardless of if these politicians took office or not. Hong Kong's laws began to be set aside and mainland Chinese secret police began arresting people in Hong Kong when those people had not broken any laws in Hong Kong-again violating the idea of 2 systems. 1 of the laws Hong Kong had is that people living there could say whatever they want. China does not practice that law and arrests people for saying things government officials don't like-often now even inside Hong Kong. Thus China isn't following its 1 nation 2 systems promise. If it breaks its promise about Hong Kong then people in Taiwan have no reason to trust it thus no reason to reunite anytime soon. In addition to that there are a group of people on the island of Taiwan whose ancestors were not treated well by the capitol in mainland China back when China actually was 1 nation. So their own history gives them reason to be suspicious of China. The most realistic thing to do is simply admit the Civil War never completely ended and that both places have been ruled by different governments for so long that they probably will never reunite within 100 years. So in a practical sense China and Taiwan are not 1 nation and have not been acting like 1 nation for decades. Calling them 2 nations would simply admit that. That kind of recognition would actually be similar to North Korea and South Korea which are still 2 different nations and have been acting that way for decades. Now I'm not against China reuniting. But I am very supportive of the point that if reunification happens it should not be at the expense of most of the rights and freedoms-including democracy-that people in Taiwan have today. Also life isn't looking good for many people in Tibet nor Uyghur people. Mainland Chinese people have been moving into both lands and taking control of local lands as well as jobs and control that Uyghur people had at 1 time. So life is actually getting worse for Uyghur people and China has been trying to replace them with mainland Han people which means life may stay worse for Uyghur people for a long time. I spoke with someone that did visit mainland China. Was part of a group 1 of which said something mainland China's government didn't like and mainland China's government tracked that person down within three days and deported him. I know many people come and go from China, but the possibility that mainland China's government may deport me or put me in jail (it does that with a lot of people who say things it doesn't like these days including some people from Hong Kong) just because it decides it doesn't like something I said makes me have no desire to visit China. Anyway to another nation you mentioned. If you think it is a bad thing for the US to threaten other nations and aim missiles at other nations then is it not a worse thing for Russia to actually attack other nations and launch missiles at other nations? That is what Russia has been doing to Ukraine. And unlike with China and Taiwan there was no civil war that never stopped and both nations did recognize each other as different nations decades ago.
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  1463.  @walhdamaskus2408  National security is not arresting people for saying something a government official doesn't like nor saying voters cannot elect people anyone. That is abuse of power hiding behind the word security.
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  1464.  @walhdamaskus2408  Where is Bannerman then? EDIT: And if you don't know who I'm referring to and that phrase doesn't work then look for "Bridge Man".
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  1465. Thank you for remembering the 2000 voter list purge in Florida. Sometime I point that dirty trick out. I don't want people to forget that Trump tried to have mail in votes from entire cities thrown out and not counted (depriving people of their votes) in 2020 in an effort to steal that election. I think it is good to point out that Trump tried to "steal the election".
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  1466. I'll argue Fareed-who I often like-is wrong here. The "lawfare" was actually under done against Trump. Fareed excuses the Georgia case as valid but ignored that most if not all of the cases were valid and simply delayed until after the election. More than 1 black and non "elite" person has told me (without me initiating it) that if someone else had done what Trump did they would be in jail already. The "lawfare" isn't "lawfare" it is justice delayed too long and potentially denied. Also I'm curious just how hard a counternarrative was put out by Democrats that most of immigrants Trump wants to go after are less likely to commit crime and just want to live peacefully-yes they laughed at his eating cats and dogs comments but how many point out immigrants helped build the USA?
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  1467. He is independent. He can tell, as an independent, that Democrats would be better for people across the world than Trump would.
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  1468. That would be assuming poor Americans would get free healthcare instead. The same politicians that opposed this often also opposing helping poor Americans (such as by giving them better healthcare). The folks who tend to help poor Americans supported this because they know it is a good deal for Americans and Ukrainians.
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  1469. Because it fits. Putin has been trying to use excuses to blame Ukraine for the wrongs he is doing. Of course there is also the growing list of reported rapes done by Russian soldiers if a more literal situation is desired.
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  1470. I didn't see her addressing support she has gotten from Trump allies.
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  1471. People in Ukraine can pick their leaders and change them if they want to. They cannot in Russia. That is a huge difference. Also this difference doesn't fix corruption in itself but offer the potential for it to be decreased.
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  1472. Warmongers love Tulsi. Just look at Putin, he is still in the latest war he started and his people like Tulsi a lot.
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  1473. That has what to do with Russian imperialist invasions and war crimes?
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  1474. If you are getting suspicious Mearsheimer is doing propaganda work for Putin you have good reason to be.
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  1475. @@justanothertowerclimber9336 Since a lot of Bitcoin organizations are ponzi schemes that sounds like a really bad idea.
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  1476. M M Did you catch my earlier criticism of the video? '"Overall trade is a good thing, it has meant that many jobs and industries have been outsourced to countries with less rigid labor and environmental laws." This seems like a contradiction in minute 7. I almost downvoted at that moment. I get you may mean this is a downside but this is why labor and environmental laws should be in trade agreements'. In a nutshell, pollution does have real world costs. The promotion of using trade to undermine environmental laws without bothering to consider the reason they exist is an invitation to harmful rather than good practices. At the very least not addressing pollution is like allowing theft. If one business steals another's trucks to make its own deliveries that is not being efficient just passing costs and ignoring how much they disrupt the other business-which is out the value of the trucks plus cannot make its own deliveries-thus loosing money it normally would not. When environmental damage such as Global Warming burns down or floods out homes and businesses the initial polluters that caused that damage try to avoid paying the bill-leaving the some of the costs of their operations for someone else to deal with.
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  1477. The standard of living in Russia is much worse. If someone asked me to move to either Russia or an EU nation tomorrow the choice is easy-EU.
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  1478. He is also being dishonest and trying to cover it with faking being blunt. About a year before this interview NASA reported on the specific cycles he discussed in minute 32 and that they do not explain current Global Warming. So he knows remark of his is a lie for some time before saying it in the interview.
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  1479.  @AnInterestedObserver  He would welcome more invasions. Not just by Russia by China as well. This may be surprising since Trump has been anti-China in the past but recently he was reported making remarks saying he would let China invade Taiwan.
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  1480.  @notdoingtoomuch  You saying Ukraine will stop existing is similar to that the current Russian government has claimed it isn't really a nation despite that Russia itself recognized Ukraine when independence occurred. Russia and Ukraine both have demographic and corruption problems. An interesting video on youtube by a person who have himself the name "Kraut" points out that the citizens of Ukraine are "enfranchised" which means they have a much greater control over who runs the government and their elections are honestly done. I'm not a person who expects both Russia and Ukraine are going to stop existing. But if there is a chance they will then having elections in Ukraine means Ukrainians can pick whatever person they think would be most likely to prevent the end of their nation. The video by Kraut is named A Critique of Realism.
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  1481. Is this video to here to make people feel better about Trump and how crooked he is? Reaching into the worst to make the bad seem better. And other new (not really) ways to spice up a bad situation.
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  1482. Good thing Russia never lies.. Meanwhile it is a good thing for most Ukrainians that Putin's claims Russia could defeat Ukraine in 2 weeks turned out wrong. Though I admit that hasn't stopped Russian troops/Russian military from committing thousands of war crimes.
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  1483. Listening to factual news is a good idea. Sadly many people don't know if they are watching people that lie to them or not. I strongly suspect the woman in this video is lying to her viewers. For example, she claimed she had a math class that had no facts or numbers just people's feelings. That strikes me as ridiculous and basically putting out a lie-perhaps either for sympathy or to push politics.
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  1484. Good for her. I appreciate she took this stand for having some level of integrity in the US government. We really don't need the now aging conman back in the White House. And that is in addition to the credit she deserves for being part of hearings that went into his lies about the 2020 election and the riot he used to in an attempt to steal that election.
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  1485. Not for me. No facts or numbers in a math class? Really?? The more I think about most of what she said the less I think it happened.
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  1486. Yup. Inflation peaked under Biden and then had been going down for over a year. Trump comes along and now it looks like it will go back up again.
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  1487. Many of the Russian people don't want to fight or die for Putin's Imperialism.
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  1488. Voting to allow the greater evil allows greater evil. Trump accepted Adelson money. That means he would probably return to his prior habit of supporting Netanyahu when the latter wants to annex land (including land no other US President in modern history would agree to being annexed).
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  1489. Same folks who don't want to help other nations like Ukraine usually don't want to help people inside the US. They try to play 1 of the other to look better than they actually are but that is a deception and usually the real choice is either both or neither.
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  1490. Ukraine was officially Neutral until after Russia occupied Crimea. Ukraine moving from its Neutrality happened as a response to Russian actions.
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  1491.  @silafaupaulmeredith7251  The US offering NATO membership doesn't change in Ukraine was Neutral at the time. Also the way NATO works is that multiple nations (not only the USA) have to agree for Ukraine to join NATO plus the nation its has to decide to join NATO. Like I pointed out earlier, Ukraine did not change its official position until after Putin occupied Crimea. Also your mentioning of the Monroe Doctrine makes me suspect you listened to too much Mearsheimer and his multiple failures when it comes to history. 1st Cuba-part of the Americas-had an alliance with the Soviet Union throughout most of the "Cold War". So actual history already disproved the notion Security alliances cannot exist. 2nd both the USA and Russia have missiles that can be launched across the world. Neighboring nations are not needed. 3rd a little fact that Mearsheimer often leaves out when he brings up the Monroe Doctrine is that for years the USA didn't enforce it-the British Navy did. It was an easy excuse the British could use to undermine other powers colonies in the Americas. Did you forget that Canada was part of the British Empire for decades after the Monroe Doctrine was created. Why do you think that is?
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  1492. War is a disaster. So far it has been a worse disaster for Russia than Ukraine.
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  1493. Less than the number Putin lost in the war he started with another nation. Ukraine is protecting its territory and population. Had Putin not made the choice to start this war many Ukrainians and Russians would still be alive.
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  1494. Both Ukraine and Russia have experience with Winter, however Ukraine takes better care of its troops. The Soviet move into Afghanistan didn't go well for them and they had the resources of the whole USSR. Putin has less to work with meanwhile Zelenski can receive more than the Afghan resistence. If Putin is trying to rely on things like the dragospatrascu577 misrepresentations (since 2014? Really??) to get by then Ukraine is probably in a better situation than expected.
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  1495.  @axe863  Then support Ukraine now to avoid the bigger war Putin may start later if he is not stopped here. Near the beginning of the current war the current dictator of Belarus showed off a map showing Russia was planning on hitting Poland after supposedly winning in Ukraine (Putin claimed victory would take 2 weeks-thankfully he was proven wrong). Also right now Ukraine is saving the US some money. Instead of having to pay to decommission or store old weapons (both cost money) they can simply be given to Ukraine. Additionally both Ukraine (if it wins) and a lot of Europeans powers are going to want to rebuild their military stores-that means more customers for the USA after they used up many of their stored weapons & ammo and after the US made weapons were proven to work well. If Ukraine wins this turns into a long term financial boost to the USA. Want to see things get really expensive? Let Putin win now so he can start another war in 4 or 7 years. A war the US will be obligated to send its own troops to the frontlines for. That would be much more expensive. Also some of the same politicians who opposed helping Ukraine right now also have problems both increasing the debt and doing things that would help US citizens. So a dollar not sent to Ukraine is not going to be spent on helping US citizens-especially not by the politicians pushing against both. So this is 1 of those times when doing the morally right thing (and yes helping Ukraine is the morally right thing, it was attack by another nation which would like to steal both its lands and the rights of its citizens away) can also end up being the profitable thing. So turning the chance down would be a waste 2 ways at the same time-throwing away both potential profits and a chance to do what is morally correct.
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  1496. Yet much of what it said was correct. Now if it focused more on Ukraine it could've gone into how Putin is very concerned Ukraine has honest elections while Putin's Russia does not and that sooner or later many Russians may start asking why Ukrainians could change Presidents but not Russians. But that is not where the focus was.
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  1497. Biden started neither war. Perhaps putting blame where it is due would be good.
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  1498. Manipulating the situation to get thousands of innocent people killed just so he can get a crown seems pretty cruel and selfish to me. And I don't believe the claim Bran didn't have wants for 1 second. If he didn't have wants then the wheelchair design Tyrion had made for him would have been good enough and Bran wouldn't have zoomed through past decades looking for a different one.
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  1499. He is a smart guy but may have fallen for some Putin's internal PR or overestimation of his abilities. Putin may want to attack NATO and simply didn't realize he would lose.
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  1500. Ukraine is helping prevent World War Three. The USA is helping save Ukrainian lives. This is a good deal for both nations. It would still be a good deal if it was double or triple the size of the current amount.
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  1501. Also the amount going to Ukraine with this bill is less than 1/8th the US military budget for 1 year. So it is not costing much for the USA.
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  1502. So being willing to honestly talk about racism supposedly creates racism? Vivek is full of bs.
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  1503. I think changing the primary calendar is dumb. That said there really is not much of a primary since Biden is the incumbent. So what would be the point?
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  1504. Russia has one of the highest AIDs rates around, abortion rates, and a pretty heavy amount of domestic abuse. Not to mention it has a billionaire President (Putin) that prefers to rig elections and is only a billionaire because he is profoundly corrupt.
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  1505. The USA is probably doing better these days than Italy-not that I want Italy to do badly but Italians seem to have a shortage of kids and when I visited the drivers did things people in the USA would think of as insane. Most Italian people I've spoken to are great people. Also if you are watching this political PR video then the youtube software is probably looping you into other political propaganda videos that are trying to scare US voters or convince them of their own victimhood regardless of what the facts are. I'm older than a typical college student but I've taken a few classes as part of expanding my work possibilities. There was a guy who said women aren't mistreated in my class and nobody cancelled him and I fully expect to see him being 1 of the more talkative people next class as usual. Oddly enough only time I got a trigger warning in that class is when the teacher warned us 1 of the 3 theories we were going to discuss when talking about something was Marxist theory or that it would be brought up. BTW I wasn't trying to rip on Italian driving earlier but I was surprised when I saw 7 Italians in moving vehicles driving side by side both directions in a road with 4 lanes. In the USA traffic laws are usually followed more than that.
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  1506.  @urbansetter1  Unless you are referring to someone asking if someone else is gay out of wanting to insult them or just being curious because of their voice I've never actually seen something like that happen in person and I've lived in a city the majority of my life. I know there are some software programs out there that let you enter it with the rest of your personal info but I think I can argue software programs are usually not considered real life.
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  1507.  @anthonykostelnik3148  I'm guessing you cannot debunk a single thing I said so this is your weak response in hopes I don't notice you haven't said anything while pretending to have said something.
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  1508.  @Leodachef1  Have you checked out the national news this past week? Gender ideology is not what national leaders are talking about right now.
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  1509. @ARDDDDD11 Lol.
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  1510. Ukraine was not the nation that invaded in this war. If Russia is being pushed out of Ukraine then Ukraine is winning in a typical sense.
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  1511. Putin started this war. Russian troops and tanks moved from Russian lands into Ukrainian lands that is an attack.
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  1512. It is Toasty it is. I also noticed a few people still pushing the lie that if money wasn't spent on Ukraine it would supposedly be used to help US citizens-a lie pushed by those who have already pushed spending money on helping US citizens (notice the hypocrisy and deception?)
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  1513. Lincoln did. I noticed not only did you include only a small part of that Lincoln comment (selective editing??) but you also tried to ignore the context that this particular comment was Lincoln trying to prepare the USA for the Emancipation Proclamation where slaves in every Confederate state were declared to be seen as free by the Federal government. A move that only had impact where Union armies had control but ended up becoming a major blow to slavery as a practice.
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  1514. So the victim blaming award to today seems to go to user-em4cu7od9t. Funny thing is that Ukraine has still managed to blunt Russia and if the US keeps supplying it then it can continue to do so.
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  1515. Not really. Look up what Lynn Hummer has to say about Tara Reade. Or what Tara Reade herself had to say about Joe Biden in April 2019 (when she felt free to complain about him but never mentioned sexual assault). Or when Tara Reade was praising Joe Biden a few years before that.
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  1516. Well Ivan, a multiple nations wanted to join NATO because they realized doing so would give them some allies if Russia ever decided to attack them. Thus there is the hope it would discourage Putin from starting more wars since the odds he would lose would be higher. But the question now is just how much does Putin like his warmongering habit?
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  1517. Kotkin? Probably. And he would probably be right to.
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  1518. Thank you AOC. I think she is correct. And remember, it is a good thing people want to come to the USA. Russia and China are not the same in that respect.
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  1519. Gut government regulations like worker protects to supposedly benefit American workers.. not the best plan. And no, making environmental laws as weak as they are in China so that Americans can enjoy the benefit of drinking water that really isn't healthy for them is not a plus either.
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  1520. I'm for listening. However Jamie Dimon's comments strike me as coming from someone who is avoiding listening. Saying people are critical of Trump's followers is dodging that many criticisms are of Trump himself, his policies, and his supposed plans. None of those trio of things is a reference to Trump supporters. Jamie is misrepresenting criticism of Trump in a way done to shield Trump by avoiding the topic and even making his supporters feel more isolated thus less likely to pay attention to criticism of Trump.
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  1521. 'it was Yugoslavia, where NATO didn't care about "territorial integrity" or "rules-based order' This strikes me as someone making excuses for ethnic cleansing. NATO intervened because Europe didn't want mass murder going right next door. Also Russia started multiple wars with its neighbors-not just Ukraine but also Georgia. There is good reason to doubt Russia-especially under an Imperialist like Putin-is currently trying to establish security.
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  1522. Easy. 2017 Gabbard lied about Assad using chemical weapons. There were many people who acknowledged he did including President Trump. If other people can tell the truth about Assad then why can't Gabbard?
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  1523.  @samhatam8592  In this situation there may be far more right with US policies-and other nations trying to help Ukraine-than there is wrong. This is a situation where Ukraine was not attacking Russia but Putin decided to attack it and his forces have been found committing war crimes repeatedly-thus putting 1 bad on top of another bad.
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  1524.  @samhatam8592  Many things can be complicated. But that does not mean in this specific situation Putin, and not the USA, is the aggressor. If NATO is spreading that is at least partly because other nations are requesting to join.
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  1525. Our current President (Biden) cut the Federal deficit by over a trillion dollars. The biggest increases to the National Debt in recent decades have come under Republicans. It is one of those ironies where the facts contradict the political meme.
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  1526. Perhaps. Since I just saw someone say "time we shut down anti-American operations like NPR" you're probably on to something where censorship is concerned. @phoenixbaby4037. You should be aware that slander was 1 of the thinks McCarthy did with his unAmerican Committee. Considering that a lot of FBI agents have recently been slandered it seems like it hasn't gone out of practice.
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  1527. Not really. I saw him lie in this video. He called Prager U (a propaganda outfit) educational. He also never went into the content or followup reporting of any of the articles he mentioned. He tried to imply NPR shined the image of a crooked lawyer and when NPR reported on the crimes Mr. Avenatti committed and that he was convicted in court. That is someone withholding evidence because he doesn't want people to know the whole picture. Being "the best" is generally not lying about others.
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  1528. Ukrainians voted for Zelenskyy in an election. And there is a report that his popularity in Ukraine has gone up, not down, with to Russia trying to invade Ukraine.
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  1529. Andy Kurmann. Russia invaded Ukraine. When a nation invades another the nation that was invaded does not have to be pushed to fight. All it has to do is feel its territories are worth defending. If Ukraine had started this war then Russia's army would not be in Ukraine since it started. Instead Russia's army would mostly be inside Russia trying to push Ukraine's army out since Ukraine's army would be inside Russia as well. Both Russia's and Ukraine's armies being inside Ukraine since the start of this war shows which decided to create a war.
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  1530.  @MrKurmann  If I start from the "cold war" then I could start where it ended with the Soviet Union becoming many independent nations. This includes Ukraine which was recognized by Russia as an independent nation. If I go further back into history I can go to early Soviet times and there is Holodomor when Soviet moves had the results of deaths of millions of Ukrainian people.
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  1531.  @MrKurmann  The Ukrainian army was not threatening to march onto Russia's border when Russia invaded Ukraine. You said "politically right is not always right". I can believe that means you know Russia invaded Ukraine and it was not a proper action.
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  1532.  @martinlopez7714  Are you saying Russia and Ukraine's armies are not inside Ukrainian territory?
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  1533.  @martinlopez7714  You didn't respond to my question. And I have been learning more about this situation in Ukraine the more I read and discuss with others. That I learned more does not mean I will agree with your idea that the elected Ukrainian President should be removed. From some of the things I have found out it seems most Ukrainian peoples would disagree with the idea President Zelenskyy should be removed. Instead many Ukrainians seem to want the Russian army to not be in Ukraine.
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  1534. Not really. Russia may have 1 of the richest Presidents in the world, but that is because Putin is so corrupt and the Russian population pays the price. Meanwhile in 2014 Putin said it would take 2 weeks to defeat Ukraine and the war is going for years. But at least the Russian military has managed to commit many war crimes.
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  1535. "I know what it means, but saying such a phrase nonchalantly is insensitive and demeaning to the Ukrainians who have to die on this bloody war." I'd argue the most insensitive thing to do to Ukrainians is to not support them as they fight for the freedom against Russian Imperialism and greed.
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  1536. Arkansas is pretty red. Has a high murder rate and a subpar economy too.
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  1537. Because there were logic flaws, major contradictions, and multiple characters were broken.
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  1538. I see Propaganda U is coming up with a fresh batch. 1. Segregation? Err.. that was conservatives down South-though we still see it in Northern metro areas where suburbs have been used to segregate people by race and class-hint it isn't liberals or leftists that oppose lower income housing in these areas. 2. Liberals do approve of free enterprise. However then you have to ask if this would be a European style liberal that wants the free market to run amok or a US style liberal that recognizes regulation has an important place-often saving capitalism from some of its worst elements. This form of regulated capitalism (capitalism where you can still drink the water and breath the air-little things like that) is sometimes accused of being Socialist by those who want government to do little or nothing (maybe they just don't want food you can eat, water you can drink or air you can breath but..) 3. Liberals can believe that immigrants help an nation and make it stronger. 4. Recognizing racism as real and having impact on the USA in many bad ways is called realistic. Recognizing to oppose is trying to improve your nation-not undermine it. 5. I got to call BS here. There are plenty of examples of conservatives trying to trample free speech. Some of which are quite recent. Some new ones come from Wisconsin where peaceful protesters that stood around singing songs (of all things) were arrested at the state capital building. And a Republican Assemblyman took down a man's permit attached sign. This Republican is now a candidate for State Senate in the seat being vacated by the Republican candidate for US Senate there. Also if you sign on to someone else's privately funded and run blog or service. That blog doesn't belong to you and you have no right to it-I'm pretty sure a lot of conservatives support the idea of private property. (I also wonder if some of those banned were found to be frauds in some way-but that is a side point.) Though if there concerns about people being treated unfairly or discussions being hindered conservatives could start supporting net neutrality. I'm pretty sure conservative complaints about censorship are more paranoia and hypocrisy (pushed to generate a sense of victimhood?) than fact. After all this video is still on youtube. Oh, and how many conservatives concerned about "free speech" on college campuses would like to force liberal professors to take down office, door, or desk signs about the environment, social justice, and on..? 6. FDR was accused of being Socialist by the Conservatives of his day. So thank you for using him as an example.
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  1539. Interesting claim. Though even if true (and I have not seen evidence it is likely to be yet) it still begs the question of how does one invade what is part of its own self. Crimea is still technically Ukrainian territory and Russia lied about the referendum results so it is not like Russia's claims to hold on to it are good or honest ones.
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  1540. Have a friend in Colorado with no plans to move. Colorado as a state is doing pretty well. Meanwhile Arkansas-a pretty solid red state these days-has one of the highest murder rates in the US and an economy that is not much to brag about.
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  1541. I like the plan. I doubt that Trump would do it.
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  1542. Hey Ivan. War not going well for you so far? Its pretty clear that Putin's promise Ukraine would fall in three weeks didn't come true. Are you hoping for aid to get cut of from Ukraine so that others can hand Putin the wins Russia's military cannot? BTW I'm pretty sure most Ukrainians think a lot more of Zelensky than Putin. Probably because they know the latter is the 1 actually intent on oppressing them.
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  1543. I see some people are already passing around the Victoria Nuland name. Let me guess, a diplomat trying to talk to multiple parties (including members of corrupt former Ukrainian President Yanukovych's political party) during a tense situation to work things out is about to get relabeled a coup again, isn't it? Not repeating that lie could allow for people to ask who started the current war and they may notice Putin did.. cant have that can you?
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  1544.  @ISayNukem  Good question. That would be too honest for those looking to make excuses for Putin. Naming him or putting him on the list would undermine the proganda.
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  1545. "Putin offered to settle before and after the war began and Zelensky refused, at the urging of Biden and DC" No Ivan. Putin didn't try to negotiate he basically wanted to see if he could get Zelensky to hand over his nation and Zelenksy gave a sane response. Negotiations ended when Russian atrocities in Bucha and elsewhere came to light-trying to lie and scapegoat Biden is one of the many lies Moscow has been pushing to avoid taking due responsibility.
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  1546. Hm.. 'The girl who allegedly suffered during the shelling of the Mariupol maternity hospital and whom the Western and Ukrainian media presented to the World as a victim of the "aggressive aggression of aggressive Russia" signed in support of Putin' If anyone needs proof Russian bots/propagandists are posting on this thread consider that the woman mentioned here died over a year ago. The documentary "20 days in Mariupol" showed her being carried out of Ukrainian maternity hospital that a Russian attack hit it in Mariupol. Reports from March of 2022 are that both her and her baby died. So unless her ghost came back to support Putin (my guess is her ghost would oppose what he has done very deeply) we have people or bots repeating Russian propaganda right here. In 1781 french troops and part of the french navy helped American Revolutionaries defeat the British in Yorktown. After that loss the British Empire decided to recognize the independence of colonies that became the USA. When talking about "the money" it is not a slush fund going to buy Zelensky new houses (another Russia lie being passed around the internet) it is so that Ukraine can defend both its people and their freedom. And this after both Russia and the USA promised Ukraine support for its "territorial integrity". Putin and Russia betrayed that promise. The US should not now. US is not send a sizable chunk of our navy. Instead we are sending ammo that is sometimes 30 years old. The Ukrainians more than deserve that help.
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  1547.  @freethinker284  Putin started this conflict by officially sending the Russian army into Ukraine. I'll disagree with saying this conflict started in 2014 since more recently is when Russian troops officially moved in. However back in 2014 Putin unofficially moved troops in and it was a Russian anti-aircraft missile that shot down a civilian passenger jet. So even the unofficial history shows Putin starting this war. That he has every intention of continuing it-the talk of peace now is so that he can stock up on ammo before restarting his wars-it is safe Putin is the 1 planning to continue it.. and start other wars.
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  1548.  @ViggoMJ  "Putin offered to settle before and after the war began" Demanding a surrender before the war starts is not a negotiation. Biden didn't interrupt negotiations-Russian war crimes in Bucha did. Feel like replied to you before but I don't see it. Have you been trying to get my replies deleted? Against free speech?
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  1549.  @freethinker284  Nonsense. I read the Nuland phone transcript some Putin excuse makers mention. She was talking with a bunch of parties including the political party of the corrupt former President that ran away because of backlash to things he did. On the legal end the Ukrainian Congress determined he abandoned his office. If he wanted he could've sued with the Court system, it would give him a chance to explain his corruption at the same time. Most Ukrainians themselves are done with the guy and don't want him back. Not only that but they have held a couple different elections for President since then. Running away after annoying your own people isn't a coup, it is dodging consequences.
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  1550.  @john_cockpit  Funny, most Ukrainians would say Russia. And that we have someone pushing Russian propaganda on this thread where they pretend Ukrainian woman who was pregnant when a Russian attack on the maternity hospital in Mariupol ended up killing both her and her baby is supposedly endorsing Putin (while a ghost) manages to show both Russian harm to and lying about Ukrainians-just 1 of many examples.
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  1551. If JD Vance doesn't want to spout utter bs then he wouldn't have to worry about getting fact checked. Funny how running into someone pointing out when something flat out wrong on the facts is being treated by some Trump folks as unfair. I think fact checking should be done throughout a debate.
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  1552. Sandip Bhadani There is truth to that. This is why Finland joined NATO-an actual military alliance. Having a military alliance chances things from moral support (and often some weapon supplies) to military support.
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  1553. "No we are not! Hundreds of thousands have protested . Detroit public radio had as many black voters going trump ." Do they want to reward Netanyahu for his genocide then? Netanyahu and his top backers want Trump to win so trying to that is rewarding the people doing the killing. Meanwhile if Trump gets in Palestinians lose a chance for their own nation.. again..
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  1554. 1st of all I've seen many republicans pushing propaganda start out by claiming to be liberals or democrats so that means little. 2nd a Carbon Tax is something economists (not Al Gore) have been suggesting for years to put an immediate price and harm or bad action done that otherwise others pay for. Kind of like fines for people and companies that are caught dumping toxic junk into rivers.
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  1555. Yes, the current SCOTUS.is trying to show how a combination of political ideology and lifetime appointments with no accountability not to mention some bribery on the side combine to make them detached from reality.
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  1556. Interesting, was 1 of the Trump excuse makers offended that I pointed out you are correct? Seems my comment doing so is not here. Someone doing censorship to try to cover for Trump?
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  1557. It is pretty clear Putin is not someone to be trusted. I suspect Mr. Gray has missed (purposefully?) some of Putin's comments during the current war.
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  1558. 1st, if democracy was functioning properly he would not be speaker-no joke there is a good argument gerrymandering (rigging elections by drawing lines on a map) put the last few house members needed to have his party hold a majority. And then a corrupt former President pushes the bulk of them to put him in charge after he was part of arguing for letting that former President try to steal the 2020 election. So there are multiple reasons why neither 1 of them should be calling the shots they are right now.
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  1559. Cults don't like evidence. I do. Right now the evidence indicates Tara Reade is not trustworthy. If I want a evidence saying Biden didn't commit sexual assault when Tara Reade worked for him I can go to Tara Reade herself in her April 2019 interview with The Union.
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  1560. This video shows the Senator breaking 1 of the 10 Commandments.
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  1561. Mearsheimer has an ideology and he sometime favors it over reality. Additionally his model has sometimes led him to make poor predictions. For example he claimed Putin would not attack Ukraine. Guess how that turned out.
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  1562. @user-gy1pu3gq3d "Great powers like Russia and China will always exist and always desire territorial integrity" Russia is invading another notion-that is not preserving "territorial integrity" but violating it for another nation. Also the Communist Party of China has never controlled Taiwan. The Civil War in China failed to end with 1 faction wiping out the other. A sane way to recognize the result would have been to call both sides' regions separate nations. Yes that would've hurt their pride but many decades later is is pretty clear the 2 governments that evolved are very different. And before anyone wants to bring up the 1 China idea I'll point out that at first Taiwn-not mainland China-was treated as the 1 China and given the UN seat for China. Doing that now would be seen as silly and possibly prideful. What we have now is just the legacy of 2 nations passing back and forth prideful silliness rather than recognizing reality. Also I noticed someone brought up the Monroe Doctrine. Mearsheimer likes to talk about it but routinely avoids mentioning that the biggest initial enforcer of the Monroe Doctrine was the British navy-not the USA. Why? Because it gave the British an easy excuse to disrupt colonies of other European powers in the the Americas. Britain did not give up Canada as it did this. But the Monroe Doctrine brings up something else Mearsheimer has gotten wrong. In lecture of his several years ago he claimed the Cuban Missile Crisis was not over missiles. This is nonsense. The crisis began when the USA found out the Soviet Union was putting missiles in Cuba and ended with an agreement between the USA and Soviet Union to remove missiles from Cuba and Turkey. Cuba kept its alliance with the Soviet Union throughout the majority of the Cold War. Mearsheimer falsely had tried to claim that is what the Cuban Missile Crisis was about when events show that is not correct.
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  1563.  @jorgeandrade783  You gave an excellent reply. Excellent point Putin's own writings claiming Ukraine is supposedly not a nation.
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  1564.  @MD-md4th  "It there hadn’t been NATO in the background girding the overthrow of the legitimate Yanukovich government" This remark is utter falsehood. NATO was not involved in the revolution that happened in Ukraine in 2014. The USA may have been yet that still fails to point out US diplomats (Nuland) were trying to bring groups together to resolve the crisis and that the corrupt former President of Ukraine (Yanukovich) at the time kicked off the crisis by breaking campaign promises to the Ukrainian population and then used security forces on those who protested against him breaking his promises. He ran, of his own free will, from the blacklash that resulted from his own actions. 1 Ukrainian I spoke with referred to it as a revolution. However the Ukrainian parliament ruled the former President had abandoned his post. These are different views but in nether did a NATO cause the sitaution.
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  1565. Thank you for the history lesson. Sadly some would rather forget it than learn from it.
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  1566. Good point. Thanks.
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  1567. "Holocaust Harris" supports getting food to people in Gaza and a Palestinian nation. Mass starvation would cause the number of deaths to go up even more-much more. Meanwhile Trump has a record of supporting Netanyahu when he wanted to annex lands-a record that goes beyond any recent President and includes lands other Presidents refused to support annexing. Thus Trump would be a reward to Netanyahu for his actions. It may be a sad choice and a disgraceful choice but it is a choice with differences.
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  1568. 1 of Biden's sons was in the US military. Kind of annoying when a supposed truth teller tells a lie within the 1st 2 minutes.
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  1569. What planet are you from? Russia energy markets were already open to 'foreign "investment"' and many companies left Russia. Though I'll say this war is far from defensive from Russia's POV. Trying to restart imperialism is pretty much the opposite of defensive.
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  1570. This guy certainly counts as one of the "$cientists" rather than a scientist.
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  1571. Thank you for acknowledging the South started the US Civil War in an attempt to continue slavery.
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  1572. If it was so legitimate then why did Russia lie about the results? And why not have staying part of Ukraine as an option for voters to pick since it is supposed to be their votes rather than Russian troops making the decision?
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  1573. If I must I'll take lesser evil. In this election year that seems to be Democrats.
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  1574. Actually if you revisit the discussion Dany was arguably referring to the thousands of people Cersei was packing into the Red Keep to use as human shields. If Dany was actually going to burn King's Landing then Varys would have mentioned a million people during his discussion with her.
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  1575. Calling out Dimon's dishonesty and hypocrisy is hardly bizarre.
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  1576. Big government isn't big government if a Republican does it. FDR wasn't a Republican so he can be talked about. But Trump rounding up possibly illegal immigrants (why bother asking them if they are legal or not before arresting them?) is not. Understand the difference?
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  1577. @ Both number and intensity matter when discussing big government. Also "Invaders" is an interesting way to refer to people looking for a safer place to live or maybe just a job.
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  1578. @ Then you are expect big government on an issue you are concerned about. People can expect big government on some issues-like expecting the fire department to show up if there is a fire. But that I expecting a government to both have rules about something and act on those rules without fail.
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  1579. "Since when wanting peace is a bad thing?" Russell Brand isn't pushing for peace. Neither are most others helping Putin at this point. Putin is a warmonger. If he wins in Ukraine he does not plan to stop there, thus helping Ukraine prevents another newer war. Pushing to end support for Ukraine is pushing to harm a nation for defending itself against a warmonger-thus making things easier for the warmonger.
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  1580. Perhaps you could like him still for being willing to be honest with you even if the truth is not a pleasant 1.
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  1581. I can disagree. It praised and excused character breaking in trying to excuse the nonsense that was season 8. Also it excused oligarchy rather than recognizing that is the wheel reformed and rolling over serfs once again.
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  1582. If Mr. Sachs insists on making excuses for a warmonger like Putin then I'm ok with labeling him a villain. Especially by misrepresenting things like claiming there was supposedly a coup in 2014 Ukraine arranged by the USA when what actually happened is a corrupt former Ukrainian President fled the backlash his own actions-including breaking his campaign promises and using security forces to attack peaceful protests.
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  1583. Considering Twitter is still losing money under Musk and he likely only keeps it around as a propaganda distribution service it is ironic that he both would find ways to complain about media and now pretends to be an agent of efficiency.
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  1584. Trump is noted for his false promises. Just look at when he promised to get rid of the National Debt and made it bigger. His own intelligence guy thinks Trump was being blackmailed by Putin (see Bob Woodward). And Trump's record showed inflation went up under him compared to Obama. Considering that Trump made false promises before and that people checking on Harris's and Trump's plans say Trump will make prices go up more odds are good that Trump is just promising outcomes he won't deliver again. Plus Harris didn't try to steal the last election for President while Trump did. When talking about values seeing the actions and results of those supposed values matters-and it also can show if the people at hand really practice the values they claim to hold.
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  1585. Which values of Harris do you not respect?
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  1586.  @dougl765  Is that because you appreciate her support for Putin's warmongering?
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  1587.  @dougl765  Invading other nations, especially when they were not planning to attack Russia, is warmongering-even if he tries to ban using the word war for it.
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  1588.  @dougl765  It isn't hard to understand that when the army of 1 nation goes into another nation without permission with the expectation it will seize land and/or topple the local government that is typically seen as an invasion and an act of war..
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  1589. Judging from your comments it is safe to say you don't want to know. My guess is announce his special military operation and possibly offer Ukraine peace in exchange for a complete surrender-likely under the understanding it would never hold honest elections again.
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  1590.  @dougl765  Funny. I thought I replied already. Anyway, pretty sure I have a better understanding of what is going on there than you do. BTW having your army invade other nations that are not threatening you is warmongering. Putin did that. He has a list of reasons like wanting to steal their land to that he doesn't like honest elections but they generally are not good reasons to start a war.
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  1591.  @dougl765  I'm pretty sure Putin did a lot of things near the beginning of the war he started. I wouldn't be surprised if 1 of them was to offer peace in exchange for Ukraine giving up its own land or promising never to hold honest elections again.
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  1592.  @dougl765  Funny. I thought I replied already. Anyway, pretty sure I have a better understanding of what is going on there than you do. BTW having your army invade other nations that are not threatening you is warmongering. Putin did that. He has a list of reasons like wanting to steal their land to that he doesn't like honest elections but they generally are not good reasons to start a war.
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  1593.  @dougl765  I'm pretty sure Putin did a lot of things near the beginning of the war he started. I wouldn't be surprised if 1 of them was to offer peace in exchange for Ukraine giving up its own land or promising never to hold honest elections again.
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  1594.  @dougl765  Funny. I thought I replied already. Anyway, pretty sure I have a better understanding of what is going on there than you do. BTW having your army invade other nations that are not threatening you is warmongering. Putin did that. He has a list of reasons like wanting to steal their land to that he doesn't like honest elections but they generally are not good reasons to start a war.
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  1595.  @dougl765  I'm pretty sure Putin did a lot of things near the beginning of the war he started. I wouldn't be surprised if 1 of them was to offer peace in exchange for Ukraine giving up its own land or promising never to hold honest elections again.
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  1596. Mearsheimer predicted Putin would not attack Ukraine. His comments seem neither objective nor true.
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  1597. The USA is the reason the UK gave up its empire. The war with Japan actually delayed how soon the Philippines would become independent since the US was planning on giving it up-that is part of why local people in the Philippines were willing to help the USA fight Japan. Also the cost in lives of people in the USSR due to Stalin made his "victory" as you call it a loss.
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  1598.  @MuckyMucky-z3c  He doesn't know. He was just throwing words out there. Now maybe he doesn't like that she comes from a low tax political party. But a lot of Europeans probably agree with her that Putin should be stopped before he starts WW3. That is a lesson Chamberlain (Mr. "Peace In Our Time") taught Europe the hard way before WW2 when he kept letting Hitler grab lands-which only made Hitler want to take more..
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  1599.  @crystalgiddens7276  "you confused weather and "natural" disaster with too much co2?" No. I'm just not lying about human activities changing what the climate and thus the odds of what various weather events are. The media is at fault for not talking about oil and coal company funded dishonesty more. I remember 20 some years ago when the preferred lie by deniers was that there was no Global Warming. Now its too clear that is not true so they move to other lies.
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  1600.  @crystalgiddens7276  "you confused weather and "natural" disaster with too much co2?" No. I'm just not lying about human activities changing what the climate and thus the odds of what various weather events are. The media is at fault for not talking about oil and coal company funded dishonesty more. I remember 20 some years ago when the preferred lie by deniers was that there was no Global Warming. Now its too clear that is not true so they move to other lies.
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  1601. BS. They just put through an over $800 billion bill. Helping Ukraine costs about $60. Aid to Ukraine is cheap in comparison. Very cheap. And keeping Ukraine in the game helps prevent Putin from attacking yet another nation and potentially starting a nuclear war. That keeps a lot of people safer.
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  1602. Eastern European nations wanted to join NATO for protection from Russia so the joining NATO part is defensive on their part.
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  1603. More likely to steal US technology. Some people have already been caught doing that. However I wouldn't buy what Misha claims that quickly. No facts or numbers in a math class? Really?? The more I think about most of what she said the less I think it happened.
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  1604. "see Miami..for further reference"?? Miami is raising some roads and sidewalks because the place is flooding more with higher sea levels. Even worse people don't need predictive computer models that have increasingly been correct (not wrong) but just look at changes in the last couple of decades where records show higher temperatures. Rightwing censors also have tried to ban discussion of Global Warming when they got control of state governments. Rick Scott in Florida when he was a governor is not the only example. Scott Walker in Wisconsin did so as well with publicans by the state's Department of Natural Resources and Matt Adamcyzk-the last Republican state treasurer for the same state pushed through a ban on it being mentioned by state employees whose work relates to public lands. It isn't simply refusing to believe computer models. It is being dishonest about them and the many other pieces of evidence that show Global Warming has been happening. Of course a new lie added to that is that-since the evidence is getting too large to deny-finally admitting Global Warming is happening but lying about burning fossil fuels as a cause. The initial lie was about the what, not it is moving to the why.
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  1605. Gabbard is probably 1 of Putin's agents. She could get people killed or at least pass classified information to Putin.
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  1606. Republicans have been dumping money on Jill Stein in Wisconsin and Georgia. She is not here to save the world, she is here in an attempt to try to help the worst available.
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  1607. If Russia uses a nuke then other nations will feel obligated to hit Russia in some way.
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  1608. I didn't know that being able to lie into a camera was part of empowerment. And yes, I bet she is lying. A math class with no facts or numbers? Really??
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  1609. "Turns out enabling the Jenna-ciding of people (Biden/Harris) is worse than someone saying mean words." At least Harris has been pushing more to end suffering of Palestinians. Trump doesn't care about genocide and Netanyahu sees him as an ally. Letting Trump back in the White House would send the message genocide is ok.
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  1610. If you want to punish actions on Gaza then doing reward those doing or ordering the actions. Netanyahu wants Trump, giving him Trump would be a reward for his actions on Gaza. Also Trump has show he is willing to abuse the election process. It may be harder for any other political party-lesson learned or not-to win elections in the future if those elections are made less fair. To have a more possible "in future" better to avoid Trump now.
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  1611. Florida's murder rate is worse than New York's.
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  1612. Coming from someone who "is totally evil and can’t understand right and wrong"? Or, at the least, follows a guy who is and does so with the dedication and open mindedness of a cultist?
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  1613.  @jmss7613  True.
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  1614. Which wars? Before he was President Trump supported W Bush's war on Iraq. After he become President Trump supported Netanyahu annexing lands no other recent US President would. Plus both Netanyahu and Trump get money from Adelson. And that is in addition to Trump's "Muslim ban" and promise to deport people who protest for Palestinians (Item 18 of Agenda 47).
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  1615.  @liuj88  She would still make sense.
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  1616. Except she made better sense than Robby-probably because she did her homework and Robby didn't.
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  1617.  @liuj88  Funny, I didn't mention Russian propaganda the comment you replied to.. guilty conscience? You can check yourself but back in 2017 she was lying about if Assad used chemical weapons.
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  1618.  @liuj88  I thought I replied earlier but I don't see it now. Do you need proof that Assad killed Syrians? That is something she mentioned and it wasn't long ago reports of a Syrian mass grave being found hit the news.
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  1619. Does this mean he is really that worth watching? Carefully framing a problem in order to push others towards his beliefs begs asking if people are being brought towards or away from the best answers.
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  1620. If they focus on moving to red states they will find higher crime rates like in Mississippi, Arkansas, and so on. The irony of Republicans being tougher on crime is that it is something of a bad joke-especially when you look compare states to actually see the results.
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  1621. They weren't moving out of "trash", they moved for the cheaper land. Like buying a rundown old house. Get it cheap then fix it up to make it livable. Improving red states is a reason to vote blue. As things are most of the worst states to live in are currently red states.
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  1622. You are aware the authoritarian you support finally got around to meeting with President Zelenskyy.. right?
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  1623. In GoT she is not "overthrown". She leaves the city transitioning it to a democracy, protected by the 2nd sons (with rules-likely to prevent Daario from staging a coup against whomever the people elect), and with a growing economy. Also she reads about Westeros since season 1 with the books she was given. You make references to things in GoT that either didn't happen and say other things didn't happen when they did. Even her bend the knee or die policy is straight out of Westerosi established practice as Bobby B. did it during his rise to power. And she never turned down the notion of sending people to the Night's Watch if they opposed her (the Night's Watch is very Westerosi), instead those people refused (Randyll Tarly) in order to support a person (Cersei) that was so concerned about the local culture that she blew up the biggest temple of the largest religion in Westeros. But maybe Randyll is confused, after all he kinda forgot that Daenerys was born on Dragonstone which is part of Westeros.
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  1624. I've voted third party before but will not this time. Not only is it a choice of 2 people on who will get into the White House but it turns out Republicans have spent will over $1 million on the Green Party in Wisconsin and probably almost as much in Georgia. That is being an agent of the duopoly and lying to people about it. If I'm stuck with a duopoly at them moment at least I can pick which part.
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  1625. Last I heard the EU has a parliament which people are elected to. That doesn't sound like a dictatorship.
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  1626.  @signletters  If it is then it is a lot better than the third Reich. Odd that a legislature cannot propose laws or rules. 1st I've heard that. If true then at least the elected people have approval/disapproval power.
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  1627. Trump earned it. But if Republicans win the House I wouldn't be shocked to see them try it because some are bored or MTG said to.
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  1628. Climate Change/Global warming doesn't care about people's emotions. Now oil companies have been running a propaganda campaign lying about Global Warming since the 1980s. So they do care about controlling people's emotions. Meanwhile things like the flooding that happened in Kentucky is getting worse thanks to Climate Change/Global Warming. Seems like oil companies lied while other people paid the price-sometimes with their lives.
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  1629. My Governor didn't ignore the pandemic to do check list his administration was handed and even had a practice session with (and on other possible emergencies) when they came in the door. This President and his admin did. EDIT: Also you mean the blue states that often pay for the red states since the latter basically suck the money out of the federal government like a bunch of leeches and somebody has to pay the bills?
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  1630. There are many military vets in the USA that already were in a war and are disgusted by Trump/Chamberlain version 2.0 trying to backstab Ukraine.
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  1631. Or a national mark of shame. He comes from a high poverty and crime state yet doesn't want to do anything about it. But he did manage to sneak in a lie about Prager U (a propaganda organization) by calling it educational.
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  1632. She may be paid to make these videos. Or she may have just decide to make them hoping someone who notice her and send her sympathy. Either way people lie for a wide range of reasons. I'm very strongly suspect she is lying. A math class with no facts/numbers? Really??
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  1633. It is a sad state of affairs. Yet ironically they are voting for the better candidate on other issues. When 1 of Trump's own intelligence officials is wondering if Trump is being blackmailed by Putin and Trump himself is threatening to do damage to the US-mess up the economy plus add even more to the National Debt than he did last time. There are much better reasons to vote for Harris-even if just for this election.
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  1634. Yes, it is a sad state of affairs. Yet ironically they are voting for the better candidate on other issues. When 1 of Trump's own intelligence officials is wondering if Trump is being blackmailed by Putin and Trump himself is threatening to do damage to the US-mess up the economy plus add even more to the National Debt than he did last time. There are much better reasons to vote for Harris-even if just for this election.
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  1635.  @milangrujicic4679  Putin being in the KGB isn't fighting in the front line. It is spying on people to try to blackmail them into being submissive. Good Riddance to the USSR.
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  1636. Perhaps less than a year. In April of 2019 Tara Reade was not claiming sexual assault happened (see when The Union interviewed her). Tara Reade made positive comments about Joe Biden few years earlier than that.
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  1637. This video doesn't pay attention to a number of problems. Using trade to avoid labor and environmental laws can mean slowly undercutting them at home so they come closer to the nation one is outsourcing to. I think it would be a very bad thing for Americans if the USA adopted China's like of environmental laws such as those to protect drinking water. This only gets worse if Global Warming is considered. Plus Trumps plans has also been a failure in major deficit spending and tax cutting during a time of economic expansion (which is what the economy was doing when he came into office) now a crisis comes along and the bills the USA will end up paying to deal with it will only be that much larger.
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  1638. School should be to teach. That is why many are complaining about them-they may teach too well. I'm pretty sure Misha here is lying about what happened at her college.. if she went to college in the 1st place. Watch her video and apply a bit of critical thinking about the chances of some of the things she claimed happened. Such as a math class where they did not talk about facts/numbers but only feelings supposedly. Doesn't sound like any math class I've been in-possibly ever. Plus that this supposedly happened in every class? Really?? I expect someone may well have wanted Misha to lie. It is probably whoever wrote the script for this video. Don't forget that this is youtube. And on youtube there is not much stopping people from lying to a camera if they feel like it-or are paid to. Don't get me wrong, I like youtube a lot and probably visit it most weeks. But I've known for years not to believe everything some people claim on it.
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  1639. The US is not putting nuclear missiles in Taiwan. That is a very big difference. The Cuban Missile Crisis was resolved by removal of missiles from both Cuba and Turkey for the relief of both the USA and USSR. Taiwan being able to defend itself is not the same as nukes pointed at Beijing from Taiwan.
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  1640.  @Sarah-eh7bw  You realize this means Bran either saw that thousands of innocents could die but didn't care or even manipulated things to make the massacre happen-making Bran a mass murderer. Not a sign of a good king either way.
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  1641.  @Corbots80  Since when?
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  1642.  @Corbots80  Never heard that before.
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  1643. "From Liberalism to Despotism" I feel like someone may be offering to charge me money in order to feed me propaganda-thus using my time and money. Noteworthy point, it wasn't the followers of "Liberalism" that decided to use gerrymandering to rig the elections all over my state. Now yes, I'm sure followers in some states were, yet at the Federal level they were willing to put to a limit or outright stop to it in all states-those run by followers of "Liberalism" and those not. Yet that didn't happen not because of the followers of Liberalism but those who opposed their party. If we are to talk of "Despotism" why is it that it turned out those closer to "Liberalism" were willing to let the citizens of my state pick who their representatives are while those who are not were not?
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  1644. X In other words a propaganda delivery service that has been losing money but 1 guy choose to keep around anyway just so he can have his personal megaphone (and manipulate things to have bots give his comments likes while he censored some of his own critics).
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  1645. Elon Musk pushing bs. Remember the old days when he promised to be neutral? Even against the far right and far left equally? Sure didn't last. I don't blame Trump for hitting the ground while being shot at-though Elon forgets he was fist pumping while surrounded by secret service. Worse Elon is praising a guy who tried to steal the 2020 Election and falsely claiming we need to have him back to supposedly have a Constitution (the thing Trump said he may have to suspend).
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  1646. That very lie was used by deniers was made back when Bush 1 was in office in the USA. It didn't get cooler since.
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  1647. So does Putin pay you in rubles or rubble? And no, the US didn't goad Russia. If anything the US was soft with Russia and has now seen Putin didn't care. Also the damage done to Ukraine is being done by Russia, trying to dodge that is trying to dodge responsibility for Putin's actions and your own in trying to help him.
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  1648.  @hamsaabdi8403  Judging from this exchange.. you are very correct.
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  1649. Want to be sure there is balanced reporting? Bring back the Fairness Doctrine. Also whenever I tune into the local PBS station for an election or discussion about a political issue I've noticed they tend to have both a Democrat and a Republican speaking.
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  1650. In one of the debates Mearsheimer took part in he tried to argue that Putin saw Ukrainian people have a democracy (you know, being actually able to vote their leaders in and out of office honestly) as an unwelcome US influence. That is a pretty compelling argument.. that Putin does not have the best interest of Ukrainians in mind nor does he want them to have the freedom to make their own decisions.
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  1651.  @scottnineteen  Actually that is a very misleading way to refer to what happened in Ukraine. I'm guessing you are referring to 2014. To the worst part I'll point to 2 Ukrainian sources 1st is a the Elected Ukrainian Parliament at the time (which ruled that former President abandoned his office) and the 2nd is one of the Ukrainians I've spoken with online since all this started. The 2nd said the former President broke his campaign promises which resulted in a protest and then used force on the protesters which had a backlash that resulted in not just more protests but a popular revolt. Ironically enough there is an argument that the former President fled Ukraine because some of the security forces that were working for him felt he may betray them and leave them hanging out to dry in a deal with the opposition and getting all the blame from when force was used. So that is why a number of them pulled back in the capital-Kyiv-and he suddenly felt very vulnerable.
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  1652.  @anatoliismikhula9501  My sympathies for your nation and I hope things go well for you and it now that the aid bill is passed. "EuroMaidanWasAnInsurrection" and travishite3950 seem to be repeating Pro-Putin propaganda without acknowledging how corrupt Russia is nor that, unlike Russia, elections in Ukraine are honest. Thank you for the additional info.
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  1653. EuroMaidanWasAnInsurrection "Regardless I'm attempting to point you in the correct direction" No you're not. Or if you are trying you are failing badly since repeating Putin's propaganda is dodging around the points that Ukraine has honest elections, Russia does not, and this is 1 of the reasons-also imperalism-that Putin wants to conquer Ukraine. I noticed you didn't address that a corrupt former President of Ukraine, Yanukovych fled Ukraine (after breaking his campaign promises and using security forces on people who protested him for it) and that the Ukrainian Parliament ruled he abandoned his office plus a sizable portion of the Ukrainian population was glad to see him gone. Furthermore Ukraine has had a couple of honest elections for President since then (again, different from what Russia does) and the current President of Ukraine is the choice of the Ukrainian people. So why are you so eager to deny the Ukrainian people their own choice in who is President of their nation? Why are you so eager to help Putin's imperialism and profound corruption. Putin is a billionaire thanks to how corrupt he is. Yet you are silent on that.
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  1654. Not really. He claimed Putin wouldn't attack Ukraine (was supposedly "too smart"). Didn't turn out that way. Mearshiemer has also forgotten that the Monroe Doctrine was not some mark of US control over the Americas (never caused British never give up Canada). And not noticing the Cuban Missile Crisis was over missiles revealed that Mearshiemer is pretty bad at history.
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  1655. JCDenton3 "He was accurate with Monroe doctrine" no he wasn't. To Mearsheimer the Monroe Doctrine is the US establishing a sphere of influence, not trying to limit how many other nations-including empires-are already active in what Mearsheimer would describe as a US sphere of influence. You're trying to put forward a more accurate description as his when he did not. The USA has been hostile to Cuba for a long time, however that is also not the direct cause of the Cuban Missile Crisis. Additionally Cuba and the USA maintained a hostility towards each other long after the Cuban Missile Crisis was over. I know Castro could've taken a different direction. Same is true for Ho Chi Minh. That is reason to question or criticize some of the historical decisions made as part of US foreign policy. However that history does not unmake Mearsheimer's failures when it comes to describing history.
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  1656.  @Jimbo2193  I think you left out Belarus and, since it does have a toe hold in Europe, arguably Russia. I do find it interesting you say the "gravy train" is about to stop.
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  1657.  @youkosm  Correct.
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  1658.  @cl5619  "If Russia loses territorial control over the Black Sea coast and that falls into the hands of the US/NATO, the country is toast." Turkey has part of the Black Sea coast and has been part of NATO for a long time. Significant parts of the Black Sea coast do not belong to Russia-even ignoring Ukrainian parts. "Nevertheless, I don’t care who runs the Donbas and Crimea. It’s not my problem… but it is my problem that my wealth is confiscated and then transferred to the Ukrainian government." So you agree with my response to the earlier part of my comment. Good. That said you would have to be a US citizen for it to be your "wealth". Even if you are its a small amount compared to the Federal Budget and a good deal in comparison to increased changes of a nuclear war. So you are making mountain out of a mole hill and over something that is positive for both the US and world in general. "But let’s go a step further… let me accept your assumption that Putin will go further once they win Ukraine… to say, Poland and the Baltic states. Why is that my problem as an American citizen?" 1st, are you an American citizen? You say so but you could be Chinese or Russian for all the internet goes. Now a problem for the world including US citizens (if you are or are not 1) is that attacking more nations like Poland and the Baltic States is an easy way to kick start World War Three. Since multiple nations involved have nuclear weapons this means a possible nuclear war.
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  1659.  @cl5619  Putin wants to reclaim the old Russian empire. This isn't "domino theory" but statements made by Putin, Dmitry Medvedev, and the current dictator of Belarus (something of an ally to Putin now). Ukraine is only 1 nation on Putin's list. Some of the other nations on that list are NATO members and an Imperialist Russian attack on them opens the door to nuclear war. That would be bad for humanity (inside the USA and outside). Losing in Ukraine would hamper Russian Imperialism and thus make the odds not quite as high there would be a nuclear war.
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  1660. True, or really really drunk when writing.
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  1661. You are Ukrainian I take it. Good luck to you and your nation. I hope Putin's propaganda crew and political sabotage don't prevent other nations from continuing to support you.
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  1662. Vance went on to visit the Nazi party 2.0, do you think the Nazis were pro-democracy during their time in power back in 1930s Germany?
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  1663. "you have 2 choices in the USA , either Dem or Republican , of those 2 , one is basically soft communism ( Dems ) , the other stands for Freedom and Democracy & Captialism " In the 2024 election the supposed "Republican" is anti-Freedom and Democracy but likes corruption and has kleptocratic allies that have been caught pushing help his way. The party for honest elections & Democracy is the Democratic Party.
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  1664. Voting Green saves no-one this election. I've done it before BTW. An election where more pollution, potentially mass abuse of immigrants, harm to election integrity, and rewarding Netanyahu for his actions (Netanyahu wants Trump-the biggest supporter of Israeli annexations of any recent US President-back) are all present but will probably not be the next election tell me this is not the election to do that.
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  1665.  @juanmarelli7450  Taiwan does't have all the US's attention. Otherwise the US would be supporting Ukraine more as a way to send a signal about Taiwan. Those who want to sabotage aid to Ukraine should not be expected to protect places and peoples since they already showed their disregard for US credibility.
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  1666. Didn't know being more likely to live in a state where the elections for state legislature are rigged is "more freedom" and where the murder rate is higher is "more safety".
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  1667. I call BS. If there is a fire people call the fire department. If a nation invades another nation the nation on the receiving end of that invasion is correct to call any friends and allies it has. The USA has an obligation here not just because Putin's invasion is outright immoral but because the USA encouraged Ukraine to give up its nukes. It would also be bad planning for the US to not help since Putin was already thinking about what nation(s) he would invade after Ukraine when he started the war with Ukraine-Putin openly said he would win within three weeks. So if Russia is not stopped in Ukraine and stopped soundly then Putin will probably look for another chance to attack only this time he will make sure to have saved up more ammo.
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  1668. Also the Larry King clip undermines Tara Reade's claim of sexual assault in the exact way you pointed out that a complaint with no sexual assault would. Sexual assault was a crime in the 1990s. If the "only" place Tara Reade could go to was "the press" and not the police that means whatever happened was not a crime. Since sexual assault is a crime it didn't happen.
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  1669. I'm not German but I find myself more impressed with the Green Party in Germany than in some other European nations like the UK. Had some of the better people left the larger German political parties like the SPD and CDU for the smaller (but growing) Green Party in Germany?
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  1670.  @anthonyml7  Peter Zeihan pointed out how Trump was taking a loss for Putin (Syria) and threatening to turn it into an opportunity (in other nations in the Middle East). Trump also seems to be undercutting Ukraine after appearing to support them earlier (get minerals out of them for doing little or nothing, say Russia will keep occupied lands without penalty, and on). Plus I believe there is history of Trump getting loans from Russians during the Great Recession to avoid getting bankrupted (again). So Trump may owe Russian oligarchs (Putin indirectly) or Putin himself.
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  1671.  @anthonyml7  I think I already pointed out Trump seeming to betray Ukraine. In addition he has a history of both saying things positive of Putin and of taking Russian money to help his business.
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  1672.  @anthonyml7  You're welcome. Though what nation are you living in that Trump falsely accusing Zelensky of being a dictator didn't make the news?
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  1673.  @anthonyml7  I saw a clip of Trump shooting his mouth off. The question is not over believing everything you read but what you believe of Trump and when. On the down side what he said was not good by far, on the up side it isn't uncommon for him to contradict himself.
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  1674. "tell me a single way putin is doubling down?" Putin is doubling down by repeatedly sending in more troops after the initial invasion attempt stalled.
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  1675. It was a corrupt President abandoning his post-that is not a coup. Additionally Ukraines elections for President have been honest-making the Ukrainian government better for and more concerned with the people of its nation than Russia.
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  1676.  @NICHOLASBYRNE3931  Is that a backhanded way of acknowledging that a specific former President of Ukraine abandoned his post and-as important-that the following elections in Ukraine were done honestly thus President Zelenskyy is honestly elected?
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  1677.  @NICHOLASBYRNE3931  Funny I thought Neo-cons got were blamed for when the USA invaded other nations rather than helping other nations that have been invaded. Further, referring to the honestly elected government of Ukraine as the proper government as "perverse" is itself "perverse".
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  1678.  @NICHOLASBYRNE3931  Ukraine was not threatening to take up or avoid a petro dollar when Russia invaded so I'm pretty sure that isn't the issue for this war.
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  1679.  @steppinstone  That is both a concerning and thoughtful point.
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  1680. To be fair they don't. Do any politicians outside of Israel (or Russia) support genocide openly? Those who do like Ben-Gvir support Trump. But he has recently been pretending to sympathize with voters in Michigan to get their votes so he will be in a position to deport them later. This is more what political figure does the least looking away. Trump (based on his actual record) is for letting Israel steal land. Harris is not, but her political posturing could be much better.
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  1681. A GOPer gave provided this link promising it would show Biden molesting people. I watched it and saw 0 molestations. Seems there is a bait and switch going on.
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  1682. Don't need that to know this guy lies. For example, NASA had looked into those cycles he mentioned in minute 32 about a year before this interview and reported that they do not explain recent warming-thus he knows he is lying and figures most people won't double check so he can try to get away with it.
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  1683. No. It is worth it. It helps prevent World War Three which benefits the USA and a bunch of other nations. It also saves Ukrainian lives which benefits Ukraine. Basically a win-win.
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  1684. China surpassed the USA in CO2 emissions. That said both nations should cut back on emissions.
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  1685.  @W1thcdoctor1987  That is why Trump not putting a tariff on China for Carbon emissions was a failure.
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  1686. W1thcdoctor1987 China uses more fossil fuels than India or the USA. I don't believe it produces them. Regardless the UK and EU recently agreed to put a Carbon Tariff on products coming to them from highly polluting nations. Sounds like an interesting idea that may be worth copying.
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  1687. Both warmongers? Really? What wars have Biden or Harris started recently? How about Obama before them? There are plenty of reasons to criticize Harris or Biden and expect either of them to do or be better. But to say "both escaped lunatics" is to say something false.
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  1688. I'm sure plenty have heard PR people try to cough up excuses for Putin. Sachs doing it simply adds his name to the list of those without integrity on this topic.
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  1689. Yes. Companies pay deniers like this guy to go do PR for them so they can try to rake it in a little longer. Very short term thinking-and very dishonest-but its gets both this guy and those companies some money. Think of all the times you've heard of companies cutting corners to save money and it leading to problems later. This guy and his willingness to lie about Global Warming are part of that just on a larger scale.
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  1690. Agreed, if Ukraine was ever going to blow the dam it would be to slow a Russian onslaught, not to hinder their own offensive. Plus there is video of a Russian soldier acknowledging that he was part of the group that put explosives in the dam. Now if Russians were putting explosives in the dam so they would blow it up whenever they felt like it then maybe, just maybe Russians decided to blow it up just when Ukraine may be slowed down by it not being there anymore. Plus to deny them the chance to get it back.
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  1691. Putin's Russia has been invading other nations for several years. To say he waited too long to start another war pretty off.
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  1692. Thank you. You are both a human being and an aware person.
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  1693. There are a few things worth noting to highlight now Mearsheimer is trying to bs people. While is a terrible loss of life more Russia's military has taken more casualties than Ukraine's military has. The only way there are more Ukrainians dying in this is if someone counts the Ukrainian civilians that were killed-often in their hometowns due to Russian strikes rather than on the battlefield. Ukraine is still holding on to Russian territory using a small strike force a couple years after Putin started a war with Ukraine. At the current rate Ukraine can hold out for decades when it comes to losing territory to Putin's forces. Russia likes to lie about its economy but the weight of Russian war debts (including those Putin tries to hide) are sizable and growing-the inflation Russia's economy faces is high and growing. If you look at a map Putin as yet to fully control any of the Oblasts that Mearsheimer wants to hand over to him. This means Mearsheimer wants to hand Ukrainian territory to Putin that is still under control of Ukraine. Mearsheimer is cheerleading/scaremongering for Putin while not admitting the biggest obstacle to peace is Putin and Putin has been since he started this war.
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  1694. Thank you for pointing out why you feel the way you do and showing you have reasons for what you think and do. I recommend reading through this. It is written by a former prosector who looks at facts and details-it may make you feel better about your position. https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2020/04/29/joe-biden-sexual-assault-allegation-tara-reade-column/3046962001/
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  1695.  @ihdieselman  It doesn't. What Trump is doing now is laying the groundwork for a massive new war.
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  1696.  @destinal_in_reality  Realize that in this situation of companies putting profits over human lives even if I think that the human race will survive it doesn't mean I do nor should have any sympathy for doing nothing. At least many people who are concerned this could result in end are more likely to actually try to fix the problem.
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  1697.  @destinal_in_reality  They are leaving bills they caused unpaid. Also I do doubt we "demand" fossil fuel companies cause problems. If we did then they wouldn't have had to put forward a years long propaganda effort 1st denying that Global Warming even existed and then 2nd claiming it didn't have negative impacts.
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  1698. He may not have believed Oliver Stone's lies and distortions but felt Oliver Stone should be allowed to say them. Meanwhile Putin and his gang are looting Russia and committing war crimes in Ukraine.
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  1699. An actor that manages to be a better President for his nation than Putin.
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  1700.  @JesusLopez-s6r  Putin is trying to kill Ukrainians in their homes with missile and bomb attacks plus deprive them of the ability to elect their own leaders if their town is occupied by Russian troops. Ukrainian President Zelesnky is do what he can to arrange defenses against that and protect but Ukrainians and Ukraine as a nation. I see you put up a Palestinian flag. If it is wrong for Israelis to kill Palestinian civilians and take Palestinian homes and lands then it is not also wrong for Russians to try to kill Ukrainian kill civilians and take Ukrainian homes and lands.
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  1701.  @JesusLopez-s6r  Funny, I think I replied to you before yet I don't see it now. Anyway Putin's attacks are killing people in their homes while Zelensky is trying to protect his people. Odd you wave a flag you do. Do you support killing civilians and stealing people's homes?
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  1702. Pretty sure discovery of Russia war crimes had more of an impact than any remarks from Biden. But then again the point of the comment you made is to try to direct blame other than where it belongs.
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  1703. I see Ron Johnson was trying to wiggle out of his own downplaying of the attack on the Capitol Building and the attempt to steal an election. Also was the discussion about this a few seconds or almost an hour? That is a sizable difference in time. He said he wants a referendum yet criticized the Governor of Wisconsin for trying to put referendums in place so people could decide important issues. RonJ is being deceptive.
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  1704. Trump didn't grace the office of the Presidency, he brought embarrassment to it.
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  1705. I felt like I was watching an interview with someone too scared to tell the truth because he has already engaged in turning part of his life into a lie and know doesn't know who to turn to the truth.
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  1706. So basically he is unhappy that the UK and other nations are opposed to Putin restarting Imperialism. Too bad. Given that Ukraine has honest elections for President while Russia does not there is more reason to be sympathetic to Ukraine than Russia in the current war. That, and the many Russian war crimes.
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  1707. Economic stats disprove that, not to mention that Russia has far less press and free speech freedoms than Europe but tends to rig its elections more.
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  1708. Are you Russian then?
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  1709.  @arthurpetrashov5088  You have more experience watching Russian tv than I do then. However is it possible that this documentary has more truth in it than 1 n Russian tv, that Putin's has wanted control over Ukraine and responses to his own earlier actions were comparatively soft?
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  1710. Acknod Bikes. He is writing Slava Ukraine because he supports the nation that is being invaded despite not attacking its neighbors (Ukraine) over the nation that is invading its neighbors (Russia).
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  1711. Democrats seem to be standing for not rigging elections and Trump the opposite.
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  1712. Trump's lawyers have provided help to Stein. Not a big sign she is breaking the 2 party system.
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  1713. Your example is getting close to.a decade old-as far as we know-didn't happen with Ukrainian government help, especially not the current Ukrainian administration. Meanwhile being a journalist is risky in Russia right now.
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  1714.  @jimwonderwood7651  Yeah, go to a nation at war where its very existence as a nation was threatened by the war at start propagandizing against the nation. Great idea (that is sarcasm). I noticed you did not disprove my point about your complaint being old news that has largely been against the larger trend for Ukraine. Also while it is usually not a good thing if a nation hinders freedom of speech (that is speech and not money pretending to be speech) one of the few times when censorship would be more understandable is during a war where the survival of the nation itself was one of the things at stake. May not like it and it may not be good but it is understandable. Remove the crisis-such as the current war and see if such censorship stays. If it doesn't that is evidence it was a product of the crisis rather than the nation itself. Though that is already evidence any censorship now is a product of the crisis rather than the nation-censorship and bans on political parties were largely not happening before Putin started this war. Additionally people like Gonzalo Lira were not just shooting off their mouths but trying to pass info to Russians. Being a spy is not free speech.
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  1715.  @tomrose2086  If the messenger has been paid off that is an important consideration when asking if he is credible.
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  1716. "Comparing humanity’s understanding of gravity (which we can test" We have been doing tests on both. "If these models could make near term, testable, predictions (like point x on the earth will be y temperature at time z, given a specific set of conditions) then the long term predictions they make would be easier to believe and for humanity to take action on." We now have decades worth of testing to show many models and their predictions have been correct. Now complaining about if the rain is an hour or 2 later or earlier than a local weatherman said then climate predictions should be ignored. It is pretty different from predicting the week's weather rather than the climate spanning years.. weather vs climate. I hope you aren't arguing that.
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  1717. I'll think about donating then. I know the local station makes a point of mentioning they get more from listeners than the government but basic math and finances say money from both matters.
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  1718. The attempt at stealing the 2020 election was done by Trump and it failed.
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  1719. Orwell had a lot of foresight and I'm glad he wrote what he did. I find it ironic that people complaining about Socialism crushing liberty often find themselves supporting conservative leaning political figures that favor rigging elections, preserving corruption, pushing propaganda, and promoting censorship. On the positive side democracy's value was not missed by Orwell. If he was physically walking the streets today I wonder if he would be both scared and hopeful by things today.
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  1720. Jill Stein got support from a warmonger and climate change denier. Not exactly someone standing on ideals-and a big red flag for anyone who actually is. I've voted for Green Party candidates before but I will not as long as she is at the top of the ticket.
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  1721. Ukraine was officially Neutral until after Putin attacked in 2014. It is Putin's fault Ukraine wants to join NATO so badly. Putin should suffer the consequences of his actions.
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  1722. Change never happens? Lead pipes have been a problem in my community for decades and in the last few years money came from the Federal Government to help fix it. Global Warming has been known about for decades yet in the last few years I've seen cars that don't run on gas driving down the street. I know someone an insurance company dropped. Now that Obamacare is in place that same move would be illegal. Plus near the start of Biden's term the US House passed a bill banning gerrymandering-had US Senate been slightly different it would have become law and made it illegal to rig elections by drawing district lines. 1st time a bill like that passed either part of Congress in some time. I've seen multiple attempts and actual changes. That is very much action. The only thing that current gives plebs a chance is voting in (or out) the correct people.
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  1723. user-mq1ue1mp9t "How many mansions does Zelensky need?​" I see proof that debunked Russian lies have made it to this thread. I Putin is pushing propaganda hard enough it can reach the USA it means he must really be worried about the aid Ukraine could receive in response to his warmongering.
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  1724. Actually it isn't about platform. The Democrats don't have a terrible platform-especially when compared to the Republican current platform. Additionally Stein is being actively dishonest about what Democrats do. For example, Democrats tried to do something with student debt and Republicans undercut the effort. Stein claiming Democrats betrayed their voters on the issue is flat out dishonest. Trump people have helped Stein. If she is getting help from the GOP she isn't an honest alternative to the 2 party system but simply a method by which 1 of those parties tries to attack the other. Jay Sekulow (a Trump lawyer and public booster) has been helping the Green Party out this year. Other Republicans have too. If Stein was simply running on her own ideas-and especially if she wanted to be against both major parties-then she wouldn't be getting the help she has from 1 of them nor focusing her criticisms primarily against just 1 party. These are not indications of someone who is just standing on platform and ideas.
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  1725. Tormund forgot he has ridden a dragon. I'm sure there are more things but you managed to hit the big ones with characters going way out of character.
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  1726. You're not going to learn much about NPR from him. I noticed he never went into detail about NPR and managed to complain about headlines but never if the reporting in the stories under those headlines was any good or not. Even worse he made a point of not acknowledging that NPR covered the Avenatti guy getting caught and convicted.
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  1727. And ironically enough Putin tried to come up with excuses for Hitler.. perhaps because he was trying to cover for his own actions.
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  1728. Pretty sure stealing elections is not a way to stop corruption. Especially since the current republican nominee for President is deeply corrupt.
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  1729. Immigrants aren't allowed to vote in Federal elections, stop letting the paranoia-or propaganda-get to you.
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  1730. It isn't like Trump didn't do plenty he shouldn't be bashed for. I thought it was light on Trump.
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  1731. ​ @damongulick3497  Trump has cheated people working for him-for example he had immigrant workers snuck in to tear down part of a building and then didn't even pay them the lower pay (compared to regular workers) that was promised. Now that doesn't relate to Putin-which this documentary focuses on. But it could have spent more time on the Russian money the Trump organization has taken in.
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  1732. I would hope so. Have a link to an update?
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  1733. Trump grew the debt last time he was in the White House and the current US House Budget proposal would grow the debt by Trillions more.
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  1734. I would praise that event if it happened.
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  1735. Would this be another reference to distortions put out by Putin as he tried to come up with excuses for his current imperialist actions?
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  1736. At this point with Russia's foreign minister trying to claim-in public which properly laughed at him-that Russia didn't start this war it is very realistic to think what you heard was propaganda. Also, unless he got his wife pregnant the year they married then any children he has are likely to be relatively young and quite possibly too young to be in the military so odds are you heard propaganda.
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  1737. Actually they learned plenty. They move to red states for a piece of cheap land and like an old house that got run down they vote blue to fix the place up and improve it.
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  1738.  @drmodestoesq  What you said is true.
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  1739. Don't forget that last time Trump tried to sue to make it so US citizens from those Counties wouldn't have their votes counted. Thankfully he failed but that is Trump showing he was ready to try to steal the election then. And his false promises (see his promise to get rid of the National Debt only to make it much bigger) means he is more willing to say what he things people want and then not deliver it.
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  1740. He is a denier that probably gets promoted by the fossil fuel industry. Between his ego and potentially the money there is a 99% he keeps on denying no matter what reality does.
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  1741. Moving in order to vote for the worst candidate? Trump is big on false promises. He claimed he would get rid of the National Debt-only to make it bigger. That he would fight corruption-only for it to mark his administration. That he would give people something better, cheaper, and covering more people than Obamacare-only to have nothing years later. You aren't from Wisconsin you could be forgiven for not know he tried to steal the election here 4 years ago except now you've been told by 1 of the US citizens whose ballots Trump didn't want counted-because counting the votes properly didn't give Trump what he wanted.
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  1742. Not panicking, also the reason that wasn't gone into enough on this is that Putin's war on Ukraine is also because he doesn't like that Ukrainian Presidents are honestly elected while Putin is not.
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  1743. If people were prosecuted for treason and punished then Trump would be in prison already.
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  1744. I tell people GoT is a good series just to remember that is only has 7 seasons, possibly six.
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  1745. I understand that is a lie misrepresenting the current GOP position. When Trump was in office his administration cut legal immigration. Cut, not kept the same. Claiming it is just about illegal immigration misrepresents the situation.
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  1746. "It means more votes for them. Bring in the uneducated masses who won't ask questions and just vote democratic because of all the handouts." This would be another lie. If someone is not a citizen he or she doesn't get to vote in Federal or State elections.
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  1747. I don't see my earlier comment. Did someone flag improperly (it didn't break youtube rules) in an attempt at censorship?
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  1748.  @ofranciscofasho  Actually those of a certain age or younger may.
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  1749.  @DANCERcow  Immigration built the USA. It has been good for us. Side note, do you see where I pointed out the claim brining in undocumented immigrants to supposedly create Democratic votes is a lie because people who aren't citizens aren't allowed to vote in Federal or State elections? I know I said it but I don't see it.
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  1750.  @mafemartinez2235  Thank you for the theory, but the problem with it is even if some words like swearing result in an auto-delete my prior comment didn't have any.
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  1751. Letting Dave Smith bs about Ukraine isn't exactly a high point for Rogan. I notice that Rogan never called Smith out that the guest on the Colbert show directly said Ukraine was making its choice.
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  1752. Are you talking of a Ukrainian prosecutor who Biden wanted to loose his job? According to Ukrainians I've seen mention that he prosecutor was corrupt and not looking into Burisma when he was removed.
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  1753.  @scal5134  I've already known Hunter Biden was on the Burisma Board-and that does look corrupt. However, that does not change why the corrupt prosecutor lost his job and it does not change what he was or was not doing before he did. And according to Ukrainians I have spoken with the prosecutor was not investigating Hunter Biden and instead was allowing corruption.
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  1754. "vote for some type of third-party or communist party" This sounds like a good way to make Trump President and have a many things go wrong both within the USA and around the world. "campaigning on the fact that the other political party is running Nazis" No, this is nonsense. I remember when Democrats ran against Romney-they didn't apply the Nazi label nor donation to him to put him at the top of the GOP primary that year.
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  1755. Maybe, still every day means there is still some time.
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  1756. Translation, you were really hoping Putin would win and the invasion isn't going so hot. And it doesn't make you feel better that some called Putin out on his excuses and distortions.
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  1757. Not really. Mearsheimer flat out lied about the situation and repeated Russian propaganda and nobody got into any statistics to test who is correct. Inflation in Russia is very high right now and Russia has lost over half of all the tanks it had (including those in storage). While living in a Ukraine under frequent missile and bomb attacks isn't good for Ukrainian civilians Mearsheimer was dishonest about both Russian loses and Russia's how economy is doing.
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  1758. Would Elon Musk bye trying to undercut the USA and possibly put himself in a position to sell the USA out to a rival nation he wants a favor from?
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  1759. For Putin? I would say Assad but he isn't around anymore despite that she was willing to lie for him back in 2017 about his use of chemical weapons.
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  1760. You left out the best part. His friend got to be the richest man in Hungary because of a very corrupt Orban throwing him government contracts regardless of how overpriced his corporation's bids are.
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  1761. Except the Dragons resemble air support rather than nukes. Remember during the actual battle part of the battle of King's Landing there were little or no civilian deaths. That means a city was taken with a record low of civilian deaths. Afterwards is where the nonsense massacre happens. Nukes generally aren't done in a fashion that has less civilian than military deaths. So the symbolism-if that is what it is-is technically wrong.
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  1762. Do you not know much about US history, the English language, or both?
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  1763. Hi Ivan, 2 week invasion not go as planned?
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  1764. Sorry. Season 8, perhaps due to bad writing includes some things that indicate Bran may have been pushing for the massacre in King's landing and manipulating things so people would die. This makes Bran a mass murderer. Like I said this could be due to bad writing but there are scenes where Bran does things that make the massacre more likely to happen-since he can see possible GoT futures this means he is a plotting mass murderer.
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  1765.  @ebazileyes1475  He is correct. Especially when it comes to former Warsaw Pact members. There is a reason so many of them want so little to do with Russia.
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  1766. Did Putin do a 2 hour interview recently?
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  1767.  @TLaguna  LOL. Ukrainian President Zelensky has 57% support or higher. The people of his nation appreciate that he isn't willing to sell them out to be oppressed by Putin.
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  1768. They aren't "ruined" states. People are moving to red states looking for cheap land. A bit like someone may buy a rundown old house cheap and then fix it up to make it livable. Move to a red state then vote blue to improve it. BTW of the 10 worst states in the USA most of them are red states.
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  1769. The rigged referendums Putin held in the parts of Oblasts he occupied represent the will of select people in Moscow-not Donbas.
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  1770. Oh look, somebody is parroting Putin's disinformation about when Putin's preferred President fled the nation of Ukraine after backlash from some of his actions. Also NATO is 2 nations larger and Ukraine may join the EU.
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  1771. The US may be tired of putting Putin's preferences above their own after 8 years of Trump. That would work against Gabbard and for most people who like nations that have honest elections.
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  1772. It actually may be worse than that. Even without the rush the situation that was created in GoT does not logically go to the ending that was provided. So it still makes no sense and is unjustified (unjustified character breaking).
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  1773. Don't let this video get you bent out of shape. I strongly suspect the woman in the video is simply lying. The claim that they supposedly talked about "feelings" but not facts or numbers in math class convinced me of that. The more I thought about the rest of what she said beyond that the more likely it seemed to me that was probably made up too.
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  1774. Yup. Bringing disgrace to the US Senate. If he is for giving Russia territory that belongs to another nation what are the odds he is also for lifting sanctions. Europe is in better shape for this winter than the last. Ukraine would like help because Russia keeps trying to knock out their power/heat-and he wants to help Putin do that.
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  1775. Oh the irony, someone claiming to support the "working class" is here trying to support a modern day wannabe Czar (Putin) who became a billionaire by being willing to steal from his own nation/people.
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  1776. I have to say some people did talk about the accusation against Biden. But that it was from someone who (that just happens to be a woman) that lied to and ripped people off, plus had actually been praising Biden and talking up the time she spent working for him a few years prior to when she made the accusation. I can appreciate that you are pointing out we don't have the same rules for the same actions. However their was less in the way of consistency (thus believability) with Tara Reade (the Biden accuser) than Christine Ford who accused Kavanaugh-the latter had records proving she had been saying what she had for years while there are records of the former saying contradicting things.
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  1777. Actually most of the 10 worst states in the USA are run by Republicans. People move to red states for the cheap land but-like fixing up a rundown old house-often vote blue to improve the place once they live there. FYI most of the highest murder rate states in the USA are solid GOP states.
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  1778. Ironically when comparing the last 2 Presidents it has been Trump who threatened to or did start more wars during his time as President than Biden. Trump wanted to fire missiles into Mexico and start a war with Iran. Biden did not. And Trump would be a reward to Netanyahu for all the destruction Netanyahu has brought.
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  1779. That was avoided thankfully.
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  1780. @Individual_Lives_Matter Yes. Saved the US banking system. A further leftwing complaint about FDR is that without his banking regulation there was growing political acceptance of the idea of nationalizing banks during the Great Depression. Additionally having the banking regulations they did made banks more stable and trustworthy.
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  1781. The reason to not have antibiotics used in factory farms is to prevent bacteria from becoming antibiotic resistant. MDROs (Multi-drug Resistant Organisms) are a problem that has been getting worse for years and your claims of concerns being "poppycock" make the problem worse not better.
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  1782. Unfortunately it is also repeatedly dishonest. Sometimes outrightly and sometimes by pointedly leaving out details that contradict its narrative. Straight up lying occurred on issues related to Global Warming and authoritarianism. The computer models are frequently correct and she left out decades of evidence of multiple kinds that-looking backwards rather than modeling forwards shows Global Warming is happening. More than once political conservatives at the state level have even tried to ban discussion of Global Warming in order to help cover it up. But that brings us to aspects of authoritarianism. Are political conservatives for protecting workers that want to speak of forming a union? Are today's political conservatives in favor of ending gerrymandering? (A practice which lets either major party rig elections in a state thus denying the will of the people in picking who represents them in the state legislature.) The answer is no. Interestingly enough it was the progressives who are and Democrats (progressive and not) who actually put forward bills to stop the practice only for Republicans to filibuster them.
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  1783.  @P1GLATIN  Nice thought but supposed "non profit" organizations get involved in politics all the time. Prager itself does a lot of politics. Many of the videos it has on youtube aren't actually there to educate people but to convince them to support the GOP. That is why a Prager video on the history of slavery, racism, civil rights, and both major parties is done in a misleading way that actually hides some of the history from viewers but does so in a way that actually helps the GOP (such as leaving out the process of the 2 parties switching positions on civil rights as took place during the 20th century.)
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  1784. NPR: Remembering George H.W. Bush, A Champion For People With Disabilities. (12/3/2018) Seems you're not being accurate.
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  1785.  @valkyriealpha  Thank you for the acknowledgement. All I did was a google search, not the hardest thing I have done all day. Since people were talking about bias I checked out a media bias chart. NPR is left of the middle but not by much-and it is closer to the middle than CNN, NBC, Foxnews, and WSJ. Though the WSJ closer to the middle the rest of the 4 I mentioned (and Forbes is closer than it).
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  1786. I strongly suspect the woman in the video is lying about most of the things she claimed she experienced (starting with the claim they talked about "feelings" rather than facts or numbers in math class). What does it say that many people watched this video and didn't think critically for a moment. Was it made to inflict "emotional terrorism" or coddling?
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  1787. Would Russia trying to buddy up to think tanks explain John Mearsheimer? He may be lost in his ideology but I've seen him make claims about history that are not true and repeat some of Putin's excuses when this is Russian Imperialism.
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  1788. Hi tankie.
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  1789. Trump had 4 years. That is incompetence plus corruption.
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  1790. Is he as full of distortions as Dave Smith here? I noticed how Dave Smith tried to paper over that Ukraine was making its own decisions and the distracting Russia was done so that Ukraine wouldn't be invaded and could continue making its own decisions.
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  1791. As in very dishonest. Mr. Sachs has history promoting oligarchy in Russia (he is part of the reason it is so corrupt now) and now he lies to excuse Putin's imperialism. There was no coup in 2014. A corrupt former President of Ukraine fled because he broke his own campaign promises and got scared of the backlash from his using security forces to attack those who protested him for the former. The Ukrainian parliament declared he had abandoned his office and Ukraine has held honest elections since.
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  1792. Which is why Finland joined NATO. Still things to worry about now, but there is some added safety.
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  1793. Aggressive lies pretending to be blunt honesty are only pretending. He claimed correlation isn't causation. Decades ago predictions were made related to Global Warming and now many of those predictions are coming true. That means there is probably something to the theories behind them. Also there are reports he is not a founder of Greenpeace. He worked for it for about 5 years and then realized he could make more money working for those the organization opposed. Even if he was a "founder) and he may not be that is a sellout.
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  1794.  @linksrat  I wouldn't be surprised if someone who wasn't a denier lied so not every lie. That said, most of the lies have been coming from the denier side. And many deniers keep being deniers despite any evidence reality presents. Thus denial is a cult.
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  1795.  @lynnmarie2962  "ad hominem attacks, because you have no honest specific rebuttle" Funny I already pointed out an example of a specific then he said that was a lie and mentioned both a source and time period to back that up as evidence. Meanwhile you said this.. "you're speaking about yourself, comrad". I guess you were talking to a mirror. I didn't realize at first you were either commie or Russian but neither of those stops you from being a figure of dishonesty or irony.
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  1796.  @thefly373  Well educated can be lazy in a moment. That can easily happen with people that are not only well educated but hard working if they aren't thinking about where they put their can (or whatever) or if they got into a habit of not caring.
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  1797.  @appaloosa42  You probably won't find your way by listening to the guy in the video. The upside is at least you many know 1 place not to look.
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  1798.  @appaloosa42  I already pointed out an example of him lying in this thread. Also a thing about the truth is it is the truth regardless of timing. You can watch a video where he lies to people and hear he lied after or before you watched it. Either way does not change that he lied in the video.
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  1799.  @appaloosa42  From what I already said. "NASA put out a statement on the cycles he mentioned in minute 32 with an explanation as why they don't explain the warming we have seen in recent years. And NASA put out this explanation a year before this interview."
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  1800.  @appaloosa42  More than this guy. Plus is that question part of trying to not look something up after you said you would? How about following through on it like you said you would.
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  1801.  @Gladescat  Good point, thank you.
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  1802.  @harryflashman4542  From a comment above in this thread. "For example NASA put out a statement on the cycles he mentioned in minute 32 with an explanation as why they don't explain the warming we have seen in recent years. And NASA put out this explanation a year before this interview. So the guy knows he is full of it but figures he can get away with it because most people won't check details." Seems you spoke without reading through the thread.
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  1803.  @mawilliams777  No. It is not manipulation, rational thought involves trying to get to the truth whatever the truth is. Also labeling discussions/arguments as manipulation would be incorrect and risks papering over that this guy is being dishonest and manipulative with the implication that everybody does it so it is supposedly ok. This guy is doing something dishonest and his manner is part of the ploy. Now you are acknowledging he is doing it which arguably a step forward so thank you for that but there are still basic facts that relate to the issue at hand and there is an expectation he would be honest with them. Misrepresenting those facts is something he can and should be called out for. Also for all I know he could've tried pushing bs while at Greenpeace and it cost his job at the time. His time at Greenpeace seems largely in the past and is less noteworthy now except for being used as a resume flag he waves around to increase his value to his current paymasters/employers.
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  1804. ​ @harryflashman4542  I read it at the time but your reply prompted me to reread it. It mentioned multiple reasons the Milankovitch cycles do not explain current warming. I'll list some off. 1. The cycles run long and are typically slow while current warming is much more rapid. 2. The amount of energy currently hitting the Earth from the Sun has not changed in a way that would explain current warming. 3. If the warming was due to the Sun then it named 2 layers of the atmosphere that would both be getting warmer-instead the upper layer of the 2 is actually getting cooler while the lower warms. 4. The current point Earth is in with the cycles would actually push towards cooler rather than warmer temperatures (meaning they would currently have the opposite impact than what he claims in the video). 5. When the cycles have had an impact estimates put the amount of carbon in the air between 180-280 parts per million and when the amount of carbon in the air surpassed 350 parts per million due to the amount the humans (via current economic practices-my addition), it overwhelmed the impact of the cycles-with current CO2 levels being at over 400 parts per million. Like I said before. NASA pointed out these cycles do not explain recent warming about a year before this interview took place. So Mr. Moore really does not have a good excuse for claiming this during the interview.
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  1805.  @mawilliams777  Care to define what "woke" is? I've seen people toss around the word as if it means something but often without defining it. I can guess it simply means whatever they don't like. As for how I use "rational thought" that should work in most dictionaries in the real world.
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  1806.  @alexdetrojan4534  "I see we've found the eco fascist bot..." Translation: You don't like it that I caught the guy lying.
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  1807. Bran seems to have gotten away with manipulating events to cause the deaths of thousands so the end is pretty dark already. Also don't forget Daenerys let the people of Meereen do what they wanted with their lives even if she disliked it and put a democracy in place as she left. So she actually doesn't fit the role of a tyrant.
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  1808. Hi tankie. The slavery narrative is very present during discussions of the US Civil War-trying to protect it is why the South started the US Civil War.
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  1809. Ahh new and upgraded lies about Global Warming. Instead of lying about if it is happening move to lying about why it is happening.
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  1810. 1. For all the evidence has shown it is within the realm of the possible that Russia blew up that pipeline. And there is stronger evidence Russia cut a communication line in the Arctic long before the pipeline. 2. Last we checked Iran was supplying and not on the receiving end of "terror drone" attacks. When its government wasn't too busy beating down its of female citizens that is. 3. Hasn't that been happening for years. Rather terrible but hardly new. Oddly enough it is the current US President (Biden, who is helping Ukraine) that opened up an embassy to Palestinians meanwhile the former President (who is more pro-Putin and is not named Biden) was giving Israel encouragement to do whatever it wanted no matter how much Palestinians had a problem with it. 4. A troubling thought if true. Speaking of Syria and rules, why was Assad blocking aid to rebel held areas after the earthquake? 5. Believe it or not Russia invading another nation and declaring it doesn't exist anymore when it has for decades (if not much longer) is breaking some rules.
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  1811.  @jiridrapal7512  1. Putin was already costing Russia billions of dollars with this invasion. Additionally withholding gas after having made contracts to sell to to Europe was Putin willfully risking billions of dollars of revenue-especially if Russian gas companies were sued over breaking contracts. If Russia blew the pipeline it could still do what it was doing (withholding gas from Europe) but claim it wasn't breaking contracts and be sued for it-and it had already been withholding gas. So there is a motive for Russia to have blown the pipeline. 2. Not sure what you mean since German didn't elect a new national government after the pipeline blue. Elections for the German parliament were already done. 3. Funny thing Biden had already stopped US opposition to the pipeline. Now that was before Russia's invasion but, if taken as a signal it was the opposite of what you claim. 4. I watched an interview with that journalist. He made a lot of accusations but provided little evidence to support them. He had made noteworthy articles decades ago but in recent years seems to have fallen into conspiracy theories. Right now there is a list of suspect nations, both the USA and Russia are on that list because both may have motives. But the evidence to claim either for sure did it is rather lacking. And, like I said earlier, the reporter was lacking in evidence that would either prove the USA did it and also lacking evidence that would disprove other nations on the suspect list did it such as Russia. 5. I notice you haven't directly addressed what I said earlier. That may mean you don't have a good response for what I said. I even numbered (like I am again with this new comment) it so it would be easier to bring up a specific point. 6. The aid Assad was withholding was international aid coming from other nations to help victims of the Earthquake. The rules related to that aid indicate it should help victims no matter where they are in Syria. By stopping it from reaching some places Assad was both breaking the rules and being cruel to people. 7. Not a fan of military wars for oil. And don't approve of it being done if Syria if that is why those troops are there. But that you did not mention some of the things I did makes me wonder if there are important factors in the situation you are leaving out there too.
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  1812.  @jiridrapal7512  Please number issues like I am in order to keep track of them. Anyway.. 1. It may not be up to Russia's government if a company is sued. In a joint venture part of 2 different companies is involved in each nation and the contract may even specify that court cases are handled in a specific nation. That means even if Russia's judicial system is corrupt enough to do whatever Putin wants regardless of what the law is that it still would not be up to a corrupt Russia judicial system. It could even be a third party nation that just doesn't have to be corrupt like Russia's judicial system and the company is still in trouble. 2. Of the company or of specific people? On the 1 hand if it was of the company then whatever part of Nordstream was available may have already been seized meaning it wasn't Russian property anymore. On the other hand sanctions have often been applied to specific people or organizations. Thus an ordinary Russia like a college student that was visiting outside of Russia at the time Putin tried to invade Ukraine would still have all of his or her property such as any car, cloths, and money he or she brought with him or herself. 3. Already went over why Russia still could be sued if it broke contracts. Also the Russian companies that were supposed to be shipping gas to Europe but not were doing things like claiming the pipelines they would do it through were temporarily down due to being maintained or something like that. Not an outright refusal to honor the contract. Thus Russian companies were still pretending that they intended to honor the contract. Why pretend if they had nothing to lose by breaking it? 4. Already went over that it has not been proven the USA blew up the pipeline. A guy can claim it is but people can claim many things and those claims still not be true. 5. If you have evidence it was martians than feel free to present it. What you don't have is evidence it was the USA. Not only have you not but I listened to the reporter speak who claimed it was and he did not. 6. Even if it was the USA you have yet to address that Russia has likely been conducting sabotage 1st with the Arctic communication line that was cut before Nordstream was blown. If Russia did that should NATO declare war on Russia?
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  1813. Completed your comment quota yet Ivan? If you don't make it this week you may get sent to the front.
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  1814. They move to a red state and find out the land is cheaper because red states don't fix their problems and the people who moved want those problems fixed. Better schools, better healthcare, and lower murder rates are something blue states often have and red states do not.
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  1815. Technically W used Saddam's WMD as the legal excuse for that war. But even if you don't like legal technicalities and simply oppose large nations bullying smaller nations that means you should oppose what Russia is trying to do in Ukraine. Also Russia has hit hospitals and shelters for civilian women and children. Hardly "pussy footing". More like Russia has been failing despite being willing to war crime.
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  1816. Don't worry. Season 8 wasn't worth it and arguably didn't happen in proper GoT anyway (that would explain both characters acting out of character and bells suddenly meaning surrender in King's Landing when season 2 shows they don't.. showing it very clearly). Thank you for the video otherwise.
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  1817. "Palestinian and Lebanese Americans they are literally loosing family members and the largest group of Palestinians in America live in Michigan. You literally are in a bubble." Bubble or not he is correct. At least Biden is pushing to get food into Gaza and Harris is for a 2 state solution so Palestinians can have their own nation. Netanyahu wants Trump so allowing that is rewarding the people actively committing the killing.
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  1818. I see you are pushing lies papered over with high language here. There were dozens of court cases on the legality of the 2020 election and they largely said it was legal. Moreover the misrepresentations requested by the losing side in court had the intent of denying large numbers of citizens their right to vote.
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  1819. Did you bother to watch this before making that remark? Obama wasn't covered in glory here. Though maybe "fool, blind, weak" is presented because it became an accurate description for the red political party went towards and may well be growing in its ranks.
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  1820. Invasion not going well for you Ivan? Too bad.
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  1821.  @Goober-us6ql  President Zelensky was a President before Biden was. Kinda hard to be a "puppet" when had the office 1st.
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  1822. Trump's current actions (which I suspect Mr. Sachs would like some of) risk bringing a worse war later.
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  1823.  @leclairvoyance  That you for that sound point.
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  1824. There may be worse problem than black or hispanic people going turned off by Joe Biden. Trump has figured out that he can have others lie to black and hispanic people over the radio. Thus this could be a problem of media deserts letting propaganda thrive.
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  1825. He fully acknowledged that Putin is a strongman. I find it odd that he never mentioned an additional reason Putin may want to wipe out Ukraine is that if it becomes a success it will be a hard to ignore example right on Russia's border.
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  1826. Figuring out she can be dishonest on youtube is not new. People have done it for years now. Yes, I think she is lying. No facts or numbers in a math class? Really?? The more I think about most of what she said the less I think it happened.
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  1827.  @SosAisMLife  Thank you for asking both questions. I voted for Bernie in the primary and am not sorry I did. I think he has been right more than some care to admit. He has also been very right on many of the issues that Trump would make worse. Do I want a polluted nation or world? No. Do I want a job that I can have some rights at? Yes. Did Trump try to prevent my vote from counting 4 years ago and thus try to steal my rights as a US Citizen? Yes. On the horrors that happened in Gaza is Trump likely to do worse? Yes (He already agreed to let Netanyahu annex lands no other former US President did before him, that means he is willing to do other things no US President would that favor Netanyahu).
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  1828. I see. It was the USA that ordered the Russian military to move into Ukraine and not Putin. Perfectly logical thinking.
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  1829.  @justwondering1  Yes it can be.. until reality does a hard stop on someone. Sadly I think that hard stop will come for a lot of other people before it reaches Dave Smith. And, worse, if it does reach Dave Smith that means a lot of other innocent people will have paid the price before him.
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  1830. Ah the good old "its not my problem" response because my central air prevents me from having to face the realities of problems that other people who work outdoors do. Not even slowed down 1 bit by the fact that many people don't have air conditioning in their homes are you?
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  1831. People have lied to each other for a long time. That people have figured out how to do it on youtube is just a modern update. Yes, she is probably lying. No facts or numbers in a math class? Really?? The more I think about most of what she said the less I think it happened.
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  1832. People have lied to each other for a long time. That people have figured out how to do it on youtube is just a modern update. Yes, she is probably lying. No facts or numbers in a math class? Really?? The more I think about most of what she said the less I think it happened.
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  1833. Amending the Constitution could be a huge step forwards-if those doing it didn't have a horrible goal like rigging elections or enshrining corruption. That said there are many things that can be done without changing the US Constitution directly. Pass a Federal law banning partisan gerrymandering (rigging elections by drawing district lines). Do that and many of the stick in the mud obstructionists whose main goal is to sink deeper into the worst cesspool within their political party who are in the US House right now suddenly become accountable to voters. We may even have a different Speaker for the US House right now if such a practice was in place.
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  1834. This was never about NATO. Ukraine was officially Neutral when Putin sent forces into Crimea and occupied it. Putin has stated Ukraine is not an actual nation. That is Putin deciding he will not respect other nations nor the will of their people.
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  1835. Same, but at least parts were laughably bad and illogical. Also do a search on what Davos (spent much time in King's Landing) has to say about Bells and surrender in season 2. Just my suggestion to you in what I hope results in you getting a kick out of when you realize what it means.
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  1836. Been told the opposite actually.
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  1837. Most people aren't historian enough to get the reference nor care that much. And those who do know history probably know just enough to remember something about Africans and the slave trade.
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  1838. I call bs Ivan. The former corrupt President of Ukraine back in 2014 unleashed security forces against protestors. Just because he didn't like the backlash doesn't mean it wasn't his fault. And yes I listened to the Nuland phone call. It doesn't say what a lot of Putin's excuse makers say it says.
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  1839. Senator Kennedy lied during this interview-hardly exposing the truth. He called Prager U (a propaganda outfit) educational. He also never went into the content or followup reporting of any of the articles he mentioned. He tried to imply NPR shined the image of a crooked lawyer and when NPR reported on the crimes Mr. Avenatti committed and that he was convicted in court. That is someone withholding evidence because he doesn't want people to know the whole picture. So not only did he not expose anything but he lied.
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  1840. Did The Humanist Report believe Tara Reade in April 2019 when according to her interview with The Union no sexual assault took place? Fair question. Biden may be learning the hard way not to simply say "believe" someone without checking evidence. There is evidence related to Tara Reade that doesn't help her credibility and is worth noting. Also the US Senate under Republicans refused to release any complaints related to Tara Reade as Joe Biden had requested. Why is that? If there is a rule why don't they change it since McConnell has shown he is willing to change rules.
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  1841. Not a "Brit", from the US, but I look at this and figure the political class liars and charlatans very much includes Brexiteers. When we had our Civil War the southerners who wanted to break away said they were doing it for rights but really were reactionaries intent on preserving a system of tyranny (slavery). Also we change Presidents every 4 or 8 years-and representatives ever 2 years if we feel like it (and provided someone doesn't rig the election), yet the UK is not in a position to change if it is a member of the EU or not every 4 or 8 years. So protecting people's ability to change their mind (as they can in a democracy) isn't something sticking to one and only Brexit vote really does.
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  1842.  JohnB Wright  And then enough people have changed their mind about leave that they would rather not do it-especially since many were promised something different from what they see now. So leave is not the majority is anymore. Since there seems to be 3 options on how to go forward they should hold a referendum on which to do-including narrowing it down to 2 which would be the final options. In the US the first election would be similar to a primary.
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  1843. ​ JohnB Wright  I wouldn't be surprised if a minority of people are furious but they are still a minority. Also when politicians lie people have a chance to vote them out next election. What way did Brexiters give people of the UK to rejoin the EU if it turns out the promises being made were false ? (and it seems they were)
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  1844.  JohnB Wright  Perhaps. And I welcome more democratic elections. Especially if they include one with the 3 options using that vote to narrow to 2 and letting the winner of those 2 stand for Brexit. If you are correct (and I was wrong) about how people feel then you have nothing to fear from such a vote. Part of the reason I said what I did is because I checked polls on Brexit earlier this year from the UK and the % of people who said they would vote for remain increased. Since you mentioned Mr. Farage I'd point out that here in the US he has visited to support Trump-who actually got less votes than main person he ran against. Yes I know there is a legalistic loophole that gave Trump the White House anyway, but where I am I may have more to complain about when it comes to democratic elections and not following the will of the people than you do. That said I currently look forward to the next elections and would actually be happy if they came as early here as the ones you referred to over there.
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  1845. The Duopoly was never under threat. Stein is no threat to it and knowingly never will be. Of the 2 actual choices the Duopoly has produced Harris saves more lives.
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  1846. Gabbard and Musk are pushing to stay on good terms with Putin. Not build US infrastructure-though Musk wants to put himself in charge of government contracts so he can cash in on them even more.
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  1847. Hi is this 1 of Ivan's accounts or are you just repeating the propaganda he puts out in hope that Putin never reassigns him to the front? To the issue of a "gravy train", Ukraine is cheap compared to other things the US spends money on and probably a good deal since most of the money never leaves the US. Ukraine gets weapons and equipment-some of which is pretty old but that isn't a bad deal for the USA. Defending his own nation is not "his gravy train" when it comes to Zelenaksi. It is doing his job as President of a nation that was invaded.
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  1848. @lucyyl.5454 "It is better to be mister Putins friend, and stop the madness" Putin is the guy who started this war. He only wants to put it on pause (not peace but a pause) so he can store up more ammo before restarting it. And he was already planning more wars even as he started this war. Rewarding Putin for his warmongering is encouraging madness-not stopping it.
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  1849.  @andrewnorris5415  J. Sachs is a shill. Mearshiemer is not but he is wrapped up in his ideology that only the views of big nations matter and small nations and their peoples' views do not. Not sure about J. Baud as most of what I've seen about his is efforts to sell books.
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  1850.  @hakz795  "I don't care about Russia or Ukraine. I'm just calling out hypocrisy" By throwing in red herrings or being a hypocrite yourself? The current war is a war Russia started with Ukraine in order to steal Ukrainian lands and suppress the Ukrainian people. Oddly enough there may have been less lies by the W administration in the USA when he started the war with Iraq than Putin pushed with Ukraine. And the USA left Iraq years ago, Putin has been saying he never wants to leave Ukraine.
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  1851. Love the video but 2 things to add. 1st, Serious Suggestion, talk about removing the block on lawsuits against fossil fuel companies for Global Warming damages. They are causing the problem, they should pay for it. 2nd I'm not sure putting soup on a painting gets the message across-it is a fight for attention to send the message but does that kind of event just annoy people and make it easier for fossil fuel propagandists to send the wrong message?
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  1852.  @nathand6767  "Desalination plants along with plumbing solve the draught issue" Great, who is paying for that considering that desalination is current not seen as cheap process? Fires are going down according to who? How does the increased fire season (time in which fires are likely to start due to changes local temperatures & weather situations) get factored in? Why does this remark seem so similar to a claim made by Trump when he visited California when he was President-a claim that was rated false. "localised increase in fire risk (see Maui, can provide evidence here too)" as can changes in weather conditions. 1. My state has seen droughts and increased rainfall when it does rain. 2. Who said it is "tax money". They should pay their standard taxes like any other company. This is something in addition because of damages specifically related to Global Warming-something I would be interested in seeing estimates of, especially over the next 100 years.
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  1853.  @kingshark5938  Is that a yes?
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  1854. "Yes. You are seeing the same real world." Or he said something similar to the PR casteretpollux prefers and likes the idea of not have having to address the problems what he was part of or supported actually caused.
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  1855. ​ @kingshark5938  Thank you.. and yes it is.
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  1856.  @hello-mynameis  I actually forgot because I'd watched this video over a week ago. I started to rewatch it where it related to Ukraine and noticed very heavy distortions when he discusses European reactions to Putin's Russia trying to invade Ukraine. He claims that Europeans supposedly were too scared to say what they really think and that it is US power (in that the US is supposedly pushing this) that is getting non-NATO nations to try to join and NATO nations to increase military spending. That is nonsensical. It isn't that Europeans saw the US invasion of Iraq under W as a time when they could speak and somehow not recently but that Europeans saw Putin's actions as immoral and threatening their to own long term safety. When Trump-a US President-visited parts of Europe plenty of Europeans felt free to show up and protest. That was just a few years ago so there has been no shutting down of Europeans ability to speak since W was President. Oliver Stone is trying to dodge admitting that Putins actions are very unpopular in Europe and properly so. Also when Oliver Stone even contradicts himself by claiming being in NATO required other nations to join in US wars when many NATO members did not join W's invasion of Iraq. Plus when he complained about US nukes supposedly being put in other nations' territory he ignores that generally they are not and that France in particular has its own nuclear weapons program that is separate from the USA. One more thing if the USA and allies were supposedly "ready" for Putin's invasion as Oliver Stone claimed and this was just a big trap for Russia around minute 58 then why is it now-in February of 2023 that that US and most NATO members with "modern" tanks are getting around to sending them when Putin invaded in February of 2022? That really doesn't make much sense.
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  1857. Yes, and when Mearsheimer comes up with excuses for Putin now it looks even more ironic. At least Mearsheimer told us Putin wouldn't invade Ukraine so we can no that didn't come to pass.
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  1858. I think mooncake387 also has a few bridges to see in the New York area if anyone is interested.
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  1859. They can support her because supporting her means trying to save lives and supporting having a Palestinian nation.
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  1860. It probably is. I you are a young man living in Russia I suspect your best chances are to learn to hide well or find some other nation to get to if Putin starts another draft.
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  1861. In other words you like the man's lies.
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  1862.  @Xycomm  Orban, whom Trump has praised, said Trump would cut off aid to Ukraine if he got back in the White House.
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  1863.  @galinalikhovetsky2896  Because 1 US candidate supports Ukraine and the other seems to be doing favors for Putin.
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  1864. She knew what she was talking about and Robby did not.
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  1865. "- passed $95 billion aid package for Israel, Taiwan, Ukraine" Except for the Israel part that is a good thing. Putin is an imperialist warmonger. "- In total , approved $200 billion in Aid for Ukraine" Again, this is a good thing. It may also help prevent WW3.
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  1866. Encouraging others to be more serious is often a commendable thing. And I appreciate that you are encouraging people to be civil with this comment. I wanted to let you know I have do see a problem with part of your video and I added a comment addressing it specifically. I haven't seen the rest of you video yet (only just started) but wanted to mentioned this problem because I believe I valid point. If you feel you addressed this point elsewhere in the video please let me know where and I'll make a point of viewing near that timestamp even if I don't finish the rest of the video today.
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  1867.  @matsjonsson9492  "Shillary mouthpiece spotted" wow, you must hand that remark out to anyone who disagrees with you. Great way to have no regard for what actually did or did not happen. Anyway that Tulsi Gabbard repeated Russian propaganda and excuse making for the war Putin started with Ukraine is not new news. Rather than being a "Bold claim" it is simply a truth that is getting more attention now that Trump put her forwards.
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  1868.  @alexandercampbell0001  Interesting point if it is.
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  1869. She is talking about Elon Musk being a hypocrite when it comes to free speech. This isn't something that is news either. People were talking about writing about it last year. So she seems to be better informed than either of the 2 other people at the table.. unless they knew about Elon Musk's hypocrisy and just are covering for him.
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  1870.  @ajwinslow1  Yes, but some people can be very hypocritical.
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  1871.  @1982JoseB  Except when she is the most accurate 1 on the panel about if Elon Musk is against or for (and practices) censorship.
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  1872. I have before. Doing so in this election would be ignoring many of the issues that motivated me to respect Green Party candidates before.
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  1873. kraine wanted to join NATO and was prevented by other European nations out of sympathy or desires to have good relations with Russia. Russia invaded regardless so the desires for good relations are no longer as strong as they were before. And it has been said that this war is a consequence of not letting Ukraine join NATO.
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  1874. Who says she was ever in. The more I think about what she said the more likely I think she was lying. For example, that she supposedly talked about "feelings" but not facts or numbers in math class? I doubt that happened. If she was lying about that how much of the rest of the video was she lying about. My guess is a lot.
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  1875. That is funny. I figured she was probably just lying about what happened. Yeah, the woman in the video is probably lying. The claim that they supposedly talked about "feelings" but not facts or numbers in math class convinced me of that. The more I thought about the rest of what she said beyond that the more likely it seemed to me that was probably made up too. But is she lied about her name or gender that makes it funnier. Good catch.
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  1876. No. Because odds are she will have more important things to talk about with world leaders and will. Trump, however may try to duck out with Putin to ask what else he has to do to pay off Putin.
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  1877. Decidedly better than the plan they had.
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  1878. The Russian trolls are out in full force. Ukrainians have proven much tougher on the battlefield than Russians expected so now Putin is hoping to convince US politicians to act against the US's interest by allowing or even encouraging Putin's warmongering. If Ukraine gets more aid from the US then Putin's headaches will continue. There is a reason Russian trolls are out right now.
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  1879. Hi bot. Are you, or your maker, even in the USA?
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  1880.  @DaleMeese  Region?
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  1881.  @DaleMeese  The part of the USA Moscow is in?
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  1882.  @Flash3-22  They aren't-he knows that. He is pushing a distortion about crime because rightwingers complain about crime in Democratic cities while ignoring it in Red States-which often are worse in multiple ways than Blue States.
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  1883.  @DaleMeese  Russia, Russia, Russia is more accurate than ever. Not only did Trump get money from Russia when he needed loans for his "business" but fake stories aimed at US citizens often come out of Russia and of those that mention the election they tend to push Trump.
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  1884. Sounds like you're European. What nation?
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  1885. Musk is trying to make the government fear a reach guy who wants more contracts.
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  1886. Meaning truth that is uncomfortable to you.
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  1887. I remember a Russian claiming the war would be a week or two. If I find a source or someone referring this I'll come back. Some of the tanks Ukrainians captured from Russia had dress uniforms in them-so the suspicions were that Russia had planned victory parades in Kyiv after that convoy controlled the city. Instead 2 earlier counter offensives took back parts of the territory Russia's army had moved into early in the war. It was early in the war Russia's military took control of most of the territory it did. If it is true that many resources are in Eastern Ukraine that may be the reason Russia invaded. Not other claims Russia has made such as that it was doing a deNazification effort.
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  1888. The Democratic Party already has. It was Democrats calling for a ceasefire. It was also Democratic President Biden pushing for it that resulted in much of the food that got into Gaza that has. Bob Woodward's new book War mentioned that Netanyahu wanted to cut off food to Gazans-that is creating mass starvation. Also Trump supported Netanyahu annexing lands no other US President would back when Trump was President. 1 more of multiple differences.
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  1889. Yeah Trump was probably selling out the USA but his auction was supposed to be secret-not open. Besides, sure he stole boxes of classified stuff whereas Pence or Biden only had a few things that doesn't mean he cannot run out. Plus many times do you think he can find employees willing to have security footage erased so he can keep lying to the Feds about having given it back? Pence and Biden simply let the smaller amount they had get collected but they were never going to need to cash in like him. Trump has to hold on to as much as he can. Every bit he looses is a potential payment lost.
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  1890.  @roccociccone597  Do you see a comment from me? I pointed out, with some joking, that Pence and Biden both took less classified stuff home than Trump and, unlike Trump, cooperated in giving it back. I think I finished by pointing out Trump wouldn't fall for the same because every document returned is a possible sale lost that he wouldn't be able to use or cash in on. I ask about this because I don't see my comment and wonder if someone flagged it in an attempt to do some censorship. Obviously the comment I'm asking about is not this comment.
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  1891. Trump may be selling classified stuff he had access to, however he could also be holding on to if for ransom in case he is found guilty in the range of cases the evidence seems strong in relation too. Though since he already took in a bunch of Russian money rather than selling the docs he may simply slowly be paying off a few loans.
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  1892. Tulsi Gabbard earned the distrust headed her direction. There are going to be enough Putin lackeys in the Federal government already without her around to add to the number.
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  1893.  @anthonymorris9701  More like a Putin agent.
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  1894. Ah yes. Blame the President of the nation being attacked by a wannabe Imperialist Russia under the control of the corrupt billionaire Putin. And then after blaming him blame the CIA which wasn't part of this invasion. Blaming the person who started the war for the war is apparently unthinkable.
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  1895. "Zelenskyy was the third choice for Ukraine's president." Not according to Ukrainians. They-not the CIA-voted for him to become Ukraine's President. Elections in Ukraine are honest-unlike in Russia.
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  1896. Funny. I'm sure I pointed out earlier that President Zelensky was elected by the Ukrainian people-not the CIA nor any other group. In Ukraine the elections are honest-unlike in Russia.
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  1897. I agree it isn't a good reason to pick a President. Yet those college kids are, ironically enough, picking the better candidate this year. Trump's dishonesty matters because he is making false promises about the impact of his actions. Trump promised to end the National Debt-he grew it instead. He promised to end corruption-his administration was laden with corruption issues instead. His own Intel guy worried Putin is blackmailing him according to Bob Woodward's new book-that is a pretty big danger to National Security. And these days Trump is promising to cut costs yet inflation (how much prices go up) went up under Trump compared to Obama. That gives good reason to believe it when people check on Trump's current plans and say he will make prices increase more and the National Debt get bigger than Harris will.
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  1898. "The will own nothing and be happy". You are pushing for a guy that will bring the next recession-that doesn't put you in a good spot to criticize them for expecting to own nothing. No, Trump didn't bring a great time. Things were getting shaky before the pandemic started but that it started at all gave him something to hide his economic failures behind.
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  1899. You don't need this kind of video. Republicans may like it because it gives them dishonesty they want to hear rather than challenging them on if they are honest about an issue. This video flat out failed to be honest about Global Warming. Not only are the computer models often correct but there is other evidence she didn't mention also indicating Global Warming is happening-much of it the now decades of recent records showing there is a warming trend. I also noticed that in her discussion of authoritarianism she implied it was simply taxes and regulations rather than undermining the will of the people.
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  1900. Not really. I noticed he didn't do his homework while she did.
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  1901. Not really. I just did a "I come from the future". There was no truce with the White Walkers. Neither Jon nor Dany died in a hero's fashion (what he proposed would actually be more logical than what happened in season 8). But Sansafinger gained power by loosing her humanity and being untrustworthy. Season 8 was nonsense and broke with its own series (see season 2 on bells).
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  1902. I came back to reply to something else championknife said but noticed this "Learn more about the fact that the inhabitants of Crimea have always considered themselves a part of Russia." Here he is flat out lying. A majority of residents of Crimea voted to leave the USSR and be part of Ukraine back in the 1990s. Additionally Russia lied about the results of the referendum they did in Crimea after occupying it-as some residents knew Putin's regime would. After such comments (and a couple of other things) it is clear there is good reason to question the honesty of the claims made.
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  1903.  @haruruben  Probably not.
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  1904. His own record from when he was President disproves that thought. The failure, screwups, and broken promises were many and some of the damage will take years to fix. He claimed he would pay off the National Debt-and then increased it while President. He promised to fight corruption-only for his administration to be notably corrupt.
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  1905. Tara Reade said no sexual assault happened in April 2019 yet changed her mind after. Is she having memory problems?
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  1906.  @HonoluluTita  She was not a "young" person in 2019 when she did the interview. At least not much younger than she is now.
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  1907. Yes.
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  1908. Trump benefits Putin and Netanyahu-that is why both wanted him in. We are now seeing both benefit from their manipulations.
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  1909. Trump came close to starting a war just to make an excuse to stay in office after losing in 2020. It was up to some military officers to tell Trump it was a bad idea and would not work. Claiming Trump is for peace is a bad joke.
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  1910.  @BigBucBrew  Actions speak louder than words. Some of his online folks were already caught pushing Trump. That endorsement is trying to cover for what he has already done.
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  1911.  @BigBucBrew  Heck, 1 of Putin's favorite former Democrats, Tulsi Gabbard, is backing Trump.
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  1912. Because Democrats are actually trying to save some lives in Gaza while Stein is trying to boost Trump and thus reward Netanyahu (who wants Trump back in office). Democrats arrogant? Sure. But don't miss Stein's dishonesty here. Not only did she claim there was no difference on Israel and Gaza (a lie) but she purposefully avoided mentioning Republican undercut Democratic efforts on student debt-very dishonestly labeling it a betrayal (supposedly by Democrats) when what actually stopped it from happening is Republican efforts.
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  1913. Actually he arguable did. Republicans arguably used dirty tricks to steal that election. I'm not just talking about SCOTUS breaking its majority's own traditions to hand the election to GWB (which it did) but that at the state level many honest voters were purged from Florida's voting rolls. They were put on the felons list when they weren't felons and likely number in the thousands. They also tended to lean Democratic. Consider thousands vs a bit over 500 as the supposed deciding # for the key swing state in the 2000 election. I recommend checking out a Politifact from 6/5/12. It was titled "Bill Nelson compares Rick Scott's voter purge with a 2000 attempt".
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  1914. I can believe the USDA is corrupt. That doesn't mean that Putin is somehow not a warmonger after invading neighboring nations. Nor does it mean that Dave Smith is not distorting things by trying to pretend Ukraine wasn't making decisions for itself-something mentioned in the Colbert show that Dave Smith avoided discussing.
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  1915. The Tax Cuts as proposed by the US House are about $4.5 Trillion. How many homeless veterans could've been helped by that money? On top of that it looks like DOGE is being used to fire people without regard for how good a job they do-and many of them are veterans. These cuts are probably to make way for the Tax Cuts, so not only are homeless veterans not being helped by the Tax Cuts but veterans are losing their jobs to make room for the Tax Cuts.
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  1916. Mr. Putin has already killed many women and children. Many hospitals have been hit with Russian missiles. 20 Days in Mariupol shows a pregnant woman who died because of a Russian missile strike on a hospital.
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  1917. Sachs lied about what led to the war-such as the "coup" that didn't really happen. A corrupt President fleeing because of the backlash against his own actions (breaking his own promises for transparency and a trade deal with the EU then using force against protestors). He also left out that Putin wanted to conquer Ukraine for years.
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  1918. Says largely no-one looking at recent polls.
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  1919. Since odds are low the corrupt Dictator of Russia and his stripper poll equipped mansion are actually on God's side at this moment that does not say much for Russia's chances.
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  1920. So dishonestly explained. There was no coup. A corrupt former President fled his own nation due to backlash he created with his own actions (breaking his campaign promises and then using force on those who protested him-the 1st was clearly due to Putin's urging, the 2nd may have been as well). Meanwhile Mr. Sachs hides his own history in forming the corrupt oligarchy that is in Russia today-he successfully pushed the rapid privatization there years ago.
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  1921. It was a face slappingly bad answer. She already started to try to say something different. Harris is probably trying to balance contradicting interests (looking loyal to Biden vs others plus that she has actually been there for some of the good he has done-not much with Gaza but definitely with other places). She is still the best chance to prevent Trump and she would be better for Palestinians than him (he gave support for Israel stealing Palestinian land when he was President). Outside her failures on Biden she would be better in the US and around the world. She is not in a position to order an arms embargo, but she could at least meet with UnCommitted. If someone is in a swing state Harris is probably the best option just because votes in swing states really matter. If not in a swing state then vote how you feel. If unhappy with failures on Gaza or elsewhere Cornel West is probably the moral option. I've voted Green Party before but will not vote for Jill Stein-she has been too connected to a billionaire that is both a climate denier and a warmonger.
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  1922. Sadly all Isis beats all of these though Scientology belongs on the list too.
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  1923. 1st you would have to be a US citizen for it to be "our tax money". 2nd it is a very good investment. Stopping Russian imperialism may prevent WW3.
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  1924. If this guy is using his background at MIT and as a scientist to give himself credit then check out what some of the other scientists at MIT say-both about him and his claims. https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2017/03/08/mit-professors-denounce-their-colleague-letter-trump-for-denying-evidence-climate-change/86K8ur31YIUbMO4SAI7U2N/story.html
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  1925. Transition for most people to Putin agent - Bad.
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  1926. It has its positives and negatives. A parliament can enact important changes or change what the last parliament did back to what it was. I'm not sure what the flaws in Indian politics are but 1 of them in the US is that currently money is seen as speech thus price can be put on it and bribes can flow to politicians. Much better than Russia right now though still has problems that should be fixed.
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  1927. 1. Your numbers are wrong, and more Russian than Ukrainian soldiers have died in this invasion Putin began. 2. Leaders of multiple nations tried to start diplomatic efforts with Putin to avoid and then stop the war. Putin refused-President Zelensky even invited Putin to a Peace Summit and no Russians came. 3. Putin started this war, the deaths that occurred are do to him.
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  1928.  @kadovax6567  He does. Though he may have used different lies with Tucker Carlson-not that Mr. Carlson would be willing to challenge him on his lies.
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  1929.  @giftedtheos  Or worse, Mr. Mearsheimer is lying. In this video he claimed that the USA supposedly doubled down on Ukraine joining NATO after 2014. That is an outright lie. US President at the time was Obama and he was coming up with excuses Ukraine couldn't join NATO-likely because he was listening to supposed "realists" like Mr. Mearsheimer.
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  1930.  @MrRawnerves  You misrepresent situation. Gorbachev had no such understanding and the US President Jame Baker worked for at the time refused his idea. To this day there is no document that NATO made promising to prevent other nations from joining (notice I said join rather than the somewhat misleading "expand") it. It is a lie to say NATO expansion caused this war. Ukraine was not about to join NATO and Putin attacked anyway. Additionally Ukraine was officially Neutral at the time Putin decided to occupy Crimea-that act of aggression spurred Ukraine to officially give up Neutrality.
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  1931.  @lichtloper  MrRawnerves is wrong and you are much closer to the truth than he is. Also Mearsheimer lied about what happened during/after 2014 during the administration of then US President Obama (who came up with excuses Ukraine supposedly could not join NATO-likely because he was listening to so called "realists" like Mearsheimer.)
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  1932.  @Anna_Key  The official 1990s map of Ukraine disproves that.
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  1933.  @ifbfmto9338  Yes we do. 1st the US signed the Budapest Memorandum which was promised Ukraine respect for its territorial integrity in exchange for it giving up its nukes. If the USA ever wants another nation to give up nukes again Ukraine should be supported. Also Putin doesn't intend to stop with Ukraine, therefore to avoid more problems later stop Putin now.
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  1934.  @feliksplotnikov6408  That would require Mearsheimer to have something worth teaching-something Mearsheimer hasn't shown in some years.
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  1935. It may be worse. If Bran knew possible futures then he either let thousands of innocent people die just so he could get a crown or he schemed and plotted to make such an unlikely event take place-at the cost of thousands of lives. Which would make Bran a mass murder.
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  1936. Yes there was. Not only were the usual wars still there but Trump wanted to start a war with Iran before leaving and general in his administration had to tell him not to.
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  1937. We would have less heatwaves now if a bunch of liars didn't undercut dealing with Global Warming back when it had less of an impact. BTW those funding the liars are living in nice mansions as their companies rake in a lot of money and don't have to pay for the harm they do.
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  1938. The earlier plan for season 8 was for wildfire to wreck the city, that would've been more logical and within character. D and D traded in what little logic season 8 had left for shock value & character assassination.
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  1939. "he's the one fighting for family, values and truth" Not sure if this is the biggest lie or biggest joke of the thread. There is a stripper pole in Putin's place which he built with money he stole by being profoundly corrupt. In addition to all the lies Putin has told there is a question of just how many kids he has. And this isn't even getting into how much blood is on Putin's hands-often of innocent people or people with better morals than Putin.
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  1940. And yet she is better than Trump in many ways. Not a National Security risk (Trump's own intelligence guy thinks Putin was blackmailing him-check out Bob Woodward). He would add more to the National Debt than Harris would. And that Trump promised to get rid of it only to make it much bigger is 1 more false promise by him. Last time he tried to steal the election by not having US citizens votes get counted from Milwaukee or Madison-yeah that may include you if you lived there 4 years ago.
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  1941.  @dannydavis2724  I like PBS a lot. Don't see nearly as good science shows like NOVA on any other tv channel around.
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  1942. Over this? If so then ask if it is true or not. According to Tara Reade herself there was no sexual assault (her April 2019 interview with The Union). Also here are some thoughts to think on, worth at least reading. https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2020/04/29/joe-biden-sexual-assault-allegation-tara-reade-column/3046962001/
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  1943. I've heard that Ukrainian President Zelensky backed off of plans to fire him. Is this incorrect?
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  1944. "including Chechnya, Georgia and Ukraine!" All places Russia-not the USA-invaded. Seems pretty clear their is some heavy excuse making going on for Putin here. Chechnya was even treated as an internal issue and ignored by the USA despite the massive destruction Putin commited on Grozny.
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  1945. M. Xante is it somehow not cartoonish brainwashing? I thought the point of "conservative media" was to provide a "safe space" as this video portrays it where ideas contradicting the general narrative are either banned or mocked.
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  1946. Not quite. A long time ago a separate group of English speaking individuals seized power in Hawaii and that is when it was arguable Ukraine. But a funny thing happened. The US President was disgusted enough with their actions and how they took power that he blocked their requests to make Hawaii a US state. I don't know if coup was the right word but Hawaii was not an done by a US invasion.
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  1947. I would expect Global Warming has already come up. Plenty has already been done on American Indians and their suffering. Though do you care about that or merely mention it to try to distract from Ukrainians suffering due to Putin and not the USA?
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  1948.  @KarthikKarthik-jn6xi  "let's say Russia toppled canada and Mexico govt and put puppet and put Russian military over Canada" This analogy is wrong. The Ukrainian people scared a corrupt former President off that was Putin puppet and have been holding honest elections since. The USA didn't elect Zelenskyy, the Ukrainian people did and over a different Ukrainian President that was already in office and Pro-West. I've seen talk of big powers toppling governments in Ukraine already and it is actually very wrong because it routinely ignores the will of the Ukrainian people and is often put forwards that way to paper over that President Zelenskyy is honestly elected while Putin is not. "Putin attacked Ukraine after NATO's relentless expansion" Ukraine wanted to join NATO, Germany vetoed it to appease Putin and Putin attacked anyway. Not only was NATO expansion not the main reason Putin attacked but it was hardly "relentless". Also calling it that overlooks that nations have to request to join NATO thus it involves both current NATO members not vetoing a request to join and the potential new member nation wanting to join enough that it asks to. "Russia attacked Ukraine after many failed negotiations with USA" This goes back to the earlier problem of trying to pretend the Ukrainian people themselves don't have a say. They didn't want Putin running their nation-they still do not. "Even after world war 2 there are many instances where one country attacked another sovereign country" There are but for awhile the number decreased. Also there are times the attacking nation was punished for launching the attack. But even if someone sets aside and ignores those times the attacking nation was punished for attacking that still does not mean Ukrainians want Putin running their nation-they did not and still do not.
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  1949. Tara Reade changed her story on if she was sexually assaulted by Biden at all since an April 2019 interview last year. That is a pretty big change. Also other details in her story contradict. I don't believe Joe is guilty.
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  1950. I'm all for being respectful during a discussion but one of the reasons that this man may have been invited on in the 1st place is because he could be used to spin pro-Russian propaganda. Notice how both Mearsheimer and the host claimed that losing this war would result in the end of Russia. Yet the only nation that would cease to exist if its army gave up is Ukraine. Russia could bring its army back home and continue existing for a long time. Also Mearsheimer tried to blame the war on Biden when it is not the USA trying to invade Ukraine right now.
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  1951.  @paulrand7861  That would be a flaw of his.
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  1952. Do you get paid in rubles for such remarks?
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  1953. David Brooks represented the GOP for years on the NewsHour. He may not anymore because the party left him rather than the other way around. Years ago they had a show called the Wall Street Journal Editorial report-at the time I sure most people on it wouldn't call themselves leftwing. When I listen to local PBS stations they often interview both a Democrat and a Republican when it comes to politics. Seems like you're misrepresenting the situation.
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  1954. Not only that but if he is critical of California is he also critical of state (often in the Deep South) who do worse with their educational systems? Is education the goal here? You raised a good question. Just trying to add to it.
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  1955.  @WhizzingFish12  Maybe and maybe not. Is teaching about slavery and the Jim Crow era considered CRT? Are they still allowed to be discussed in K-12?
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  1956.  @WhizzingFish12  "that blacks have been president".. "blacks"? I can think of just 1 actual black person who became President.. and the incoming President tried to push the claim he wasn't a US citizen. Black business owners and millionaires are true. Yet that doesn't mean that into the 1960s many black people were denied full equality and prevented from living in certain areas, prevented from voting in some states, and son on. The USA has made a lot of progress but it isn't like US history isn't US history.
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  1957.  @megarotom1590  No we didn't. 1st, look up the Ukraine Support Tracker-it show the US spent less on Ukraine than Europe. 2nd, JD Vance wasn't claiming holding up aid to Ukraine would make Europe spend more-he lied and claimed it would supposedly save lives by ending the war. Instead Ukrainians began to run low on ammo (including air defense) and more people died. When did "emotional blackmail" become a phrase used to try to excuse lies and utter bs?
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  1958. Foxnews is not the only propaganda organization pushing paranoia about crime in safer blue states than more crime land red states. Prager (not actually a) U has a video that claims to compare blue states and red states while arguing red states are supposedly better. It never does a murder rate by state comparison. The state by state comparisons debunk a lot or rightwing claims about being "tough on crime". Minnesota is 1 of the safest states in the USA yet Prager finds way to complain about riots there but not that its murder rate is far lower than Texas or any of the other red states that Prager praises in that video. New York has a lower murder rate than Florida or Tennessee. With all the problems Illinois has go to the neighboring red Missouri and the murder rate is still slightly higher. Crime can be a problem, but that Republicans somehow stop it is generally a scam. As may know red Alabama is usually one of the worst states when it comes to murder rates.
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  1959. Sachs lies to excuse Putin's Imperialism and it was Sachs's own efforts that helped cause Russia's corruption and oligarchy today. He was pro-rapid privatization and ignore corruption while trying to side step that Ukraine elects its own leaders now and the corrupt former President that fled in 2014 did so because of the backlash against both the breaking of his own campaign promises and his use of security forces (possibly at Putin's urging) to attack protestors (something many Ukrainians really didn't like).
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  1960. "Ukraine don't have a choice they have zelensky as their king" Funny, Zelensky was honestly elected. Had the election been rigged then the prior Ukrainian President would still be President. Meanwhile Putin jails and assassinates people to avoid facing an honest election.
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  1961. If the "blog post" about stealing money was actually read it points out both that Tara Reade can be dishonest and manipulative and-to the Biden point-that Tara Reade has told people working for Joe Biden was a positive experience for her. If we are going to discuss character (such as the media figures) in judging the situation with Tara Reade how is it wrong to examine Tara Reade's character if judging her credibility? Tara Reade is making an accusation so her record of honesty or dishonesty matters.
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  1962. Tulsi Gabbard herself and her willingness to do things like lie about Assad using chemical weapons proved Tulsi could not be trusted.
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  1963. Mr. Moore is actually something of a liar that tries to cover for himself by faking bluntness. For example, NASA looked into the cycles he mentioned in minute 32 and both found and reported to the public that they do not explain recent warming-and NASA did this about a year before this interview. So the guy here knows what he said is a lie and has for some time before saying it in this interview.
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  1964. Or they are more correct than you would like to acknowledge. This is Putin moving his nation's army into another when his nation was not attacked. Putin started this war. And that Putin has imperialistic goals does not make it better.
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  1965.  @MrBahjatt  1st, there was no coup. I have 2 Ukrainian sources. 1st a Ukrainian person I spoke with and 2nd the elected Ukrainian Parliament at the time. The Ukrainian parliament declared Yanukovych abandoned his office. The Ukrainian I spoke with described a situation where there were people protesting Yanukovych over breaking his campaign promises and he decided to use force on them which resulted in more Ukrainians getting upset and not only protesting but engaging in a popular revolt. So calling it a coup is actually misleading as many Ukrainians felt he had betrayed them and gone against the practices of Ukraine. And he fled when his own actions resulted in a backlash and unrest. Where do you get the 14,000 number? Politifact (an organization that tests if politicians are lying by seeing if their words match the facts) referred to the UN Commission on Human Rights and found the number of civilian deaths to be much much lower than that. With most of those taking place in the earlier fighting between 2014 and 2016 and less than 500 civilian deaths from 2017-2021. While civilian deaths are bad that shows not only were Ukrainians not trying to commit genocide but the deaths were dropping and had been since partway through former President Poroshenko's term in office. Also the current President of Ukraine-whom Putin would like to kill-is a Russian speaker. Many of the Russian speakers that Putin claims he is supposedly protecting don't want him to control their government-1 of the factors in that probably is because they know Putin doesn't support having honest elections and many of them do. To them Putin is not bringing liberty but oppression.
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  1966.  @saintjames1995  Putin did 2 things. 1 short term and 1 long term. Short term they removed a bridge (by destroying most of the dam) that Ukraine-if it was able to secure it-would be able to use to cross that river. Also possibly disrupt amphibious crossings by changing both the water level and speed. So in the short term Russia may have complicated part of the initial offensive push. Long term is worse because it took a sizable portion of Ukrainian farmland off the market for years. Both Ukraine and Russia are agricultural exporters so this hurt the economy of Ukraine and-besides potentially creating a food shortage in nations that bought food from Ukraine-it deceased the amount of competition Russia would face in the field of agriculture internationally.
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  1967. Jay Belle I said this to someone else but it bears repeating. Putin did 2 things. 1 short term and 1 long term. Short term he removed a bridge (by destroying most of the dam) that Ukraine-if it was able to secure it-would be able to use to cross that river. Also possibly disrupt amphibious crossings by changing both the water level and speed. So in the short term Russia may have complicated part of the initial Ukrainian offensive push. Long term is worse because it took a sizable portion of Ukrainian farmland off the market for years. Both Ukraine and Russia are agricultural exporters so this hurt the economy of Ukraine and-besides potentially creating a food shortage in nations that bought food from Ukraine-it deceased the amount of competition Russia would face in the field of agriculture internationally.
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  1968. Many of us find a great deal of fault with this.
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  1969.  @g.e.o.r.g.e...  Really? She is actually one of the better ones. I'd hate to see what you think of Jon after he hung a kid.
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  1970. I suspect what you are seeing are the impact of different groups trying to pull a politician in contradictory directions. Harris, to her credit, isn't trying to lose. But someone-possibly someone she inherited from Biden-failed her badly.
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  1971. By doing her homework when Robby did not? That isn't "poor judgement".
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  1972. Nope. Dictatorship and oligarchy do quite well in episode six. Democracy got laughed at.
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  1973. Actual citizens are losing here. The winners are polluting companies that are paperwork citizens (what is referred to as a "legal fiction").
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  1974. I call bs. Typhoons/tropical cyclones have been hitting Vietnam for years. BTW, there was an operation Popeye but it ended without much in the way of evidence that it had any impact. And claims that it Vietnam was a target during that war sure don't explain storms later when it was anything but.
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  1975. Sachs is pretty much a propagandist these days so embracing him shows a lack of concern for a person's credibility. Mearsheimer at least has an ideological thought pattern. But support for that though pattern should be questioned since Mearsheimer once mentioned that Putin sees Ukrainian people having a democracy (that is the ability for them to pick their own leaders) as an unwelcome US influence to be ended. That says a great deal about Putin's disregard for the desires of Ukrainians.
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  1976. Most of the people at her rally were probably Christians. The people kicked out were disruptors. Also Trump has objectively been the worst candidate for some time now. Broken promises (supposedly will get rid of the National Debt only to massively increase it while in office), bad/bigoted ideas, and now possibly with dementia.
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  1977. In sum then, you didn't hear what you wanted to hear and need to cough up an excuse to let yourself pretend to not hear it.
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  1978.  @sneetch42  I listen to many things. That said the "western narrative" as you try to write it off fits the facts much better than Russian claims they are trying to de-Nazify a state with a Jewish President.
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  1979. 'The girl who allegedly suffered during the shelling of the Mariupol maternity hospital and whom the Western and Ukrainian media presented to the World as a victim of the "aggressive aggression of aggressive Russia" signed in support of Putin' If anyone needs proof Russian bots/propagandists are posting on this thread consider that the woman mentioned here died over a year ago. The documentary "20 days in Mariupol" showed her being carried out of Ukrainian maternity hospital that a Russian attack hit it in Mariupol. Reports from March of 2022 are that both her and her baby died. So unless her ghost came back to support Putin (my guess is her ghost would oppose what he has done very deeply) we have people or bots repeating Russian propaganda right here. In 1781 french troops and part of the french navy helped American Revolutionaries defeat the British in Yorktown. After that loss the British Empire decided to recognize the independence of colonies that became the USA. When talking about "the money" it is not a slush fund going to buy Zelensky new houses (another Russia lie being passed around the internet) it is so that Ukraine can defend both its people and their freedom. And this after both Russia and the USA promised Ukraine support for its "territorial integrity". Putin made Russia betrayed that promise. The US should now. US is not send a sizable chunk of our navy. Instead we are sending ammo that is sometimes 30 years old. The Ukrainians more than deserve that help.
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  1980. Moore claim he was a founder, now Greenpeace said he was not but are you willing to call him out on another of his lies? And even if what you said about him trying to save whales was true that does not excuse his willingness to lie for multiple companies that cause environmental harm for many years after. FYI it isn't because he wouldn't drink week killer but because he said it would be fine to cover for a company that had given farmworkers who were repeatedly exposed to it health problems.
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  1981. If moving to a red state definitely bring one's politics with them. May be 1 of the few ways to fix up the place(s) and get better schools and lower murder rates.
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  1982. He really let both people speak. I can understand people being upset as he let Oliver Stone spread lies and distortions but I came to the realization he is a believer in letting the guest say what he or she wants to say (even if a guest is as dishonest as Stone was).
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  1983.  @djjayonebeats9429  Not really. After he claimed a couple days before Russia tried to invade Ukraine that there was not going to be an invasion. That is the opposite of even close to being honest. Also trying to claim other nations had started the current was is very much the opposite of honest. I suspect the average politician has told fewer massive lies.
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  1984. ​ @djjayonebeats9429  Thank you for admitting that what Mr. Lavrov did right before the invasion was repeat a lie (he was not the only person to claim the Russian military was just doing training operations before it moved into Ukraine). That said, not only is this a clear and outright war but Russia started it by invading. If you argue there was a war that started back in 2014 or 2015 then I'll disagree with you on saying this war is part of 1 of those even though I understand it and you aren't the only person to say the war started back then. However even if we are looking back to those years then Russia still started the war. Crimea was done by.the Russian military which simply wasn't admitting it was the Russia military as it illegally seized control of Crimea. If you say Donbas was the start of the war then Russia chose to jump into an internal conflict inside Ukraine with its own military-and was likely responsible for shooting down a civilian passenger jet at 1 point. In both 2014 and 2015 it was the Russian military as it was temporarily pretending not to be the Russian military. Thus it was Russia's military but not officially. In 2022 it was officially Russia's military trying to invade Ukraine thus Russia started this war officially.
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  1985. "So why has Ukraine lost 20% of it land mass so far?" Ukraine still exists. That matters. Several years ago Putin himself claimed he could defeat Ukraine in three weeks. That has not happened.
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  1986. Thank you for speaking up as a Ukrainian and thus someone who is actually there and saw the situation 1st hand. Good luck to you and your nation.
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  1987. Jill Stein will never be able to push for a Palestinian nation, nor will she have the ability to make sure people in Gaza are able to get food. Trump has not evensaid he will try to do these and has supported Netanyahu annexing more land when other former US Presidents did not.
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  1988. Kamala has already been better than Hillary in multiple ways and with far less time than Hillary to prepare. I agree not saying what her differences with Biden are was a mistake but I suspect that mistake is getting fixed to at last a degree.
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  1989. You forgot that aliens are involved and are transporting key people from place to place. Plus the dinosaurs are still around and just hiding.
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  1990. "Trump is Americas best hope to continue being the leader of the world." According to Putin? I sometimes check out news reports from other nations, especially in US allies. They are not impressed with Trump.
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  1991. "Trump shtick, said worse about Ted Cruz and Rubio, both support him, just the game." Or a sign of rock bottom integrity or that people are punished in their political party for holding to what they think.
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  1992. I see the word "pawn" used with no acknowledgement that his nation was attacked. Putin decided that Ukraine shouldn't exist. President Zelensky and many other Ukrainians refused to submit to Putin's attempt to destroy their nation.
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  1993. Or it is 1 of the best investments the USA could make right now. It is preventing Russian imperialism and possibly WW3.
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  1994. Then probably vote for Cornel West. Jill Stein is ok with genocide elsewhere as long as Gaza gets headlines. As someone thinks at least some lives saved is better than no lives saved I'll vote for Harris (plus she actually gives Palestinians a chance to have their own nation when Trump does not). But if you feel the least bad option is not a good enough choice then the remaining option that I'm aware of is Cornel West.
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  1995.  @Jianju69  "I'd say one major reason the Heritage Foundation is opposd to the NWS is because it's become so heavily political, removing itself from its core mission of providing scientific data." Here dishonesty and corrupt arguments are already appearing. Certain special interests groups don't like the NWS because it is providing scientific data accurately when those groups would prefer to lie about what the data shows. Their solution is to get rid of the data.
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  1996.  @rafichowdhury8202  "Heritage Foundation is opposd to the NWS is because it's become so heavily political, removing itself from its core mission of providing scientific data." What this means is that the Heritage Foundation doesn't like what accurate "scientific data" shows so they are trying to get rid of the data as a method of not letting facts get in the way of an agenda (such as lying about Global Warming).
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  1997. Yet here you are commenting. And doing so when Robby was making himself look foolish and she showed that she had done her homework.
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  1998.  @Nanno00  Don't have to be a fan to tune in today and notice she did better than he did. Though I did notice a bunch of people trying to ignore that point so I felt it was worth being direct about.
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  1999. Way to say you don't watch the channel nor know what you are talking about without directly saying you don't watch the channel.
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  2000. The people moving aren't fleeing, they are looking for cheaper housing. A lot of them vote blue because they like things blue politicians tend to make happen like lower crime and better schools.
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  2001. @TylerSowers-u8d If the people coming want to improve red states by bringing blue politics with them then that is their choice. They are citizens and citizens-unless currently doing time for a felony-get to vote how they will.
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  2002. It is not "his" money supply. It is to help defend Ukraine from a warmonger that wants to take away Ukrainian people's freedom. Yes, Putin is the warmonger in this situation. He occupied Crimea years ago and decided take a shot a much of the rest of Ukraine recently. And even during the start of the current war Putin kicked off he was already planning wars with other nations. Zelenksy is doing his job trying to defend his nation and people.
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  2003. Putin's Imperialism started this death and destruction.
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  2004. Really Ivan? Pretty sure a lot of people expected Ukraine to fall a long time ago and found out they were both underestimating Ukraine and overestimating Russia. Also since Russia is doing the invading here it is pretty clear this is not a war for Russia's "defense".
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  2005. Here is a lie that still bothers me: Global Warming is a hoax. I still see this lie every once and awhile. This lie has been going around for years.
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  2006.  @Nylon_riot  By "free" do you mean rigged elections? Correct me if I'm wrong but I've heard the gerrymandering is set in West Virginia. Doesn't mean it isn't a red state but, like of state legislatures in a bunch of red states, that wasn't enough for them and they opted to pad their numbers.
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  2007. @ There are plenty of better states. Texas isn't that great when it comes to crime-its murder rate is higher than California's.
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  2008. @ The living standards are higher, crime lower, and elections more honest in both Minnesota and Wisconsin compared to Tennessee and Kentucky.
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  2009.  @nagphillips7886  I'm still young enough I can shovel snow. I've also noticed there can be a tradeoff between snow and mosquitoes (less of 1 means more of the other). Also some of the things are find I like are often in cities-so avoiding them would be a problem for me. Plus Texas has its own weather problems-often heat related but sometimes hurricanes too.
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  2010. "It's never about democracy, it's all about resources." Actually Putin and Mearshiemer revealed it is about both. I a latter debate (where someone could directly question his claims) Mearshiemer admitted that Putin resents the USA for that Ukraine can have honest elections (democracy). Thus Putin wants to put a stop to democracy in Ukraine in addition to taking its resources as fuel for his imperialism.
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  2011.  @EndIsAtHand  Focusing on its own resources would make Russia a lot of money but would be a distraction from Putin's Imperialistic goals. So while most people in Russia would probably benefit if that happened it doesn't fit Putin's plans.
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  2012.  @不染铅华  Odd you make that remark while the current war at hand is a war stated by Putin-someone who is suppressing "peaceful protest" and "human rights" at home.
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  2013.  @Damn6real  Ukraine has had fair elections for the last 2 Presidential Elections, Russia has not. Your complaint does not contradict his point.
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  2014.  @aneurindavies5943  '"War is Never Fought for Freedom; It is Always Fought for the Rich" Maj General Smedley-Butler.' And Putin may be lending something to that argument. Due to his corruption Putin is very rich (billionaire) and he started this war for multiple reasons-1 of which includes suppressing the freedoms of Ukrainians so he sure is not fighting for freedom.
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  2015.  @不染铅华  And you probably speak wrongly. Chinese people in Taiwan are typically much better off than in mainland China. Mainland China is both much more corrupt (which is not efficient) and also not a democracy. Meanwhile Taiwan is a democracy and has much better living standards.
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  2016.  @GeneralSteinberg  Russia has not had hones elections in a long time. Yes they pretend to have elections but not only are Russian elections frequently rigged but people who pose a real challenge to Putin risk getting jailed, killed, or both.
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  2017. Have they called for interviews with Republicans to be ended? When I turn on PBS I see the local reporting usually interviews both a Republican and a Democrat when it comes to politics.
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  2018.  @AbaGootu  It is something Putin felt for a long time. In my mistake it was two rather than three weeks. Putin said it to then European Commission President Jose Manuel back in 2014. There is mention of this in a 9/2/14 Reuters article and Time Magazine article. Time is titled "Putin Boasts of Being Able to Take Kiev in 2 Weeks" the Reuters article is titled "Putin comment on 'taking Kiev in 2 weeks' taken out of context: aide" where a Russian aide said it was "improper" for Putins comments in a discussion to be made public. This means the remark was made. The idea Ukraine would be easy for Russia to conquer remained-more recently Russian propagandists claimed it would only take days. I'll dig up a video showing 1 of them claiming this.
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  2019. Tucker Carlson is a useful idiot. But at least Russia having a subway system and grocer stories proves it is supposedly great and not a worse place to live than the USA or even most nations in Europe.
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  2020. Did you or someone else flag my comment when I pointed out Tucker Carlson is a useful idiot? Trying to censor a comment doesn't detract from the comments truthfulness.
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  2021. Who said Gaza is a Muslim issue? It has been a humanity issue for a long time.
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  2022. "But majority of Americans have sympathy with Gaza people but may not their priorities in this election." Yes and no. A lot of people put other issues as their top issue like the economy. But those who make the people of Gaza their top issue may actually vote to hurt them. Trump has offered to less than Harris for the people of Gaza-she supports Palestinians keeping their land and getting food while Trump does not. But people concerned about Gaza are so upset they may not vote for Harris-a few may even vote for Trump which is asking for more harm. Ironically the same risk comes with people voting for Trump for the economy-his plans increase the chance of a recession. Perhaps this election is odd that some people may vote against what they say they care about the most.
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  2023. "it's a solar cycle lady." No. NASA already pointed out that increasing heat over the last several years is not due to solar cycles. The guy who claimed it is likely is a fraud getting paid by various companies (including those related to fossil fuels) to do PR for them. Yes, human did this-and the specific humans involved don't want their money flow slowed down.
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  2024. Gotten your 5 rubles for the day I see.
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  2025. What they don't mention is the labs were part of the US cleaning up after the Soviets nor that Putins allies/excuse makers try to misrepresent the situation.
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  2026. People usually don't want bad things to happen. Since Global Warming does a lot of bad things a lot of people don't want it. And it doesn't help that there are people like Mr. Moore here who are willing to lie about it since their dishonesty is more reason for unhappiness rather than less.
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  2027. True. But you forgot to give some examples how. 1st since Netanyahu wants Trump back it would reward those who have actually been killing people. 2nd Trump would sink a 2 state solution idea so there goes hope for Palestinians getting their own nation.
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  2028. He may try, thus Putin would start another war. Starting wars seems to be a thing of Putin's. And he may be especially angry with Ukrainians for deciding that they will pick their own Presidents rather than let him do it. He and his PR people kick misrepresenting what happened in 2014 Ukraine as a coup because they don't want to admit that what happened is a corrupt former Ukrainian President broke some campaign promises he made, then unleashed security forces on people protesting about it, then got scared and ran off when the backlash from the Ukrainian public began to be felt. A freely elected Ukrainian Parliament declared he had fled the nation and the Presidency. And then Ukraine kept on holding honest elections including electing a couple of new Presidents. If Russians could change who is President in their nation as easy as Ukrainians can that would be a very scary thought for Putin. Putin's preferred elections are rigged. That is why results of the supposed referendums in areas of Ukraine that Russia occupied were so predictable. The proclaimed results would be whatever Putin wanted, no need to list in public what the actual vote count was because how the people in those areas voted was never the point. FYI yes evidence has already come out that the supposed result of the referendum in Crimea was a lie. So I have little doubt that the official (according to Putin) results of supposed referendums in other parts of Ukraine that Russia occupied were also lies.
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  2029. Good call. I just pointed out he lied to people by called Prager U educational when it really does propaganda but you noticed what he doesn't want said or discussed. Here is something else that doesn't get discussed much. He represents a high poverty and high crime state. What does he do to change that..? Typically little to nothing.
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  2030. Thanks for that bit of history. Any sources you can suggest so I can look them up and potentially share them?
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  2031. Oh look, more BS on youtube. Putin himself claimed that Odessa should be part of Russia. Odessa is not somewhere the Russian army has been able to get to at this point and it is not a city populated by people who think of themselves as Russian. This is straight up Putin admitting he wants to grab land (and important areas like port cities).
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  2032. Best of luck to your nation and I hope it prevails. My apologies my nation has not done even more to help. And yes I'm pretty sure the guy-Denis Smith-is repeating lies. I notice how he tried to ignore the foreign policy person talking to Colberte said that Ukraine was going to chose. That means Ukrainians have a choice-something that most annoy Putin no small amount.
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  2033.  @classicist17  Isn't suppressing gay people a more big government type activity? Also why can't someone vote Democratic because they want to National Debt to stop growing so quickly or at least for there to be a reason for when it does? (Yes, Republican Presidents have often grown the National Debt.)
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  2034. I see Mr. Sachs is lying about Ukrainian history again. There was no coup. A corrupt Ukrainian President broke his own campaign promises to increase transparency and do a trade deal with the EU (both of which Putin didn't like) and used security forces to attack people who protested him. He then ran off to Russia when the backlash to his own actions scared him. BTW Mr. Sachs here is to blame for the corrupt-as in kleptocratic-and Imperialistic government Russia has today. He was 1 of the guys in Russia pushing for oligarchy via rapid privatization and ignoring corruption as Russia tried to change its economy. That little bit of history should not be ignored.
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  2035. If your concern actually is "nothing being out of bounds" that means you are supposedly voting on morality rather than pragmatism. I prefer both-thus for Harris even if when it comes to Gaza pragmatism plays more of a role. But Green is not a morally upstanding way to vote this year considering Jill Stein's own connections to a warmonger and climate denier. For a party that supposedly is based on principle that is profound contradiction.
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  2036.  @ObserverMan-i1e  No, your not. Especially since you know both that Trump would be a reward to the people who ordered those massacres. Perhaps I should've pointed out that it was a billionaire warmonger and climate denier who has been party to massacres. That really is not good.
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  2037.  @ObserverMan-i1e  That warmonger and climate denier is connected to plenty of massacres. No, you're really not good.
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  2038.  @ObserverMan-i1e  Stein isn't getting 5%, I could bet on it since she didn't get on the ballot in places that aren't swing states that she would need if she actually intended to get 5%. But seeing that your response to hearing she is connected to a warmonger and climate denier with massacres on his "cool" that reveals your concern is not morality.. if it ever was. Guess "nothing being out of bounds" is actually kinda ok for you.
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  2039. I listeneed to NPR/PBS during that time and did not hear that phrase used. I heard insurgents or something like that but not "freedom fighters". You making that up?
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  2040. Only dire for people who are concerned over things like human life, possible nuclear war, or just general warmongering. But a nice boon is that many of the current tankies like to lie about how much money they would spend helping people back home instead of Ukraine when they have been cutting funds at home already and basically hope people in their own nations and in Ukraine end up having worse lives.
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  2041. No. Yanukovich undid that by breaking his own campaign promises at Putin's behest and then using security forces to attack protestors-likely also at Putin's behest. The man fled the backlash he created with his own actions. Meanwhile Ukraine has held multiple honest elections since he was gone.
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  2042. The Soviets already formed a military alliance with Cuba during the Cold War and the US did not send its military to invade (that is part of why some supporters of Cuban expats feel Bay of Pigs was a failure). Anyway the talk of NATO expanding routinely forgets to mention that nations asked to join NATO. And this was likely out of fear of Russian bullying in the area-fears that seem to be well founded.
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  2043.  @maryhuckaby2239  Did a quick look up on "Aegis" missiles including setup for Poland. I came across discussions of missile "interceptors" and missile "defense". Thus making it harder for missiles to be shot at Polish cities. Putin has a great deal of explaining to do if his argument is that Russian security needs the ability to shoot missiles into Polish cities. "Zelensky SAID he was going to get nukes. That was one of the events that prompted Russia's intervention." Considering that Ukraine had nukes years ago and gave them up in exchange for security guarantees from the USA and Russia this claims smacks of bs on its face. Now Ukrainians have said that Russian violations of that agreement such as Putin's earlier invasion of Crimea in 2014 put the requirement that Ukraine should continue to honor the agreement in doubt-but Ukraine has not started to build a nuclear weapons program. Like many things Putin claimed near the start of this war, that is another lie. "The other was the clear peril to Ukrainian ethnic Russians in the Donbass from the U.S./NATO/Kiev military." Speaking of Putin's lies this sounds like another one. Putin has been falsely claiming genocide was happening against Russian speakers for some time now. Not only has Russia provided little to no evidence for these claims (because they are lies) but Ukrainian President Zelenski is a Russian speaker as his 1st language.
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  2044. The guy is a liar. For example, NASA had looked into those cycles he mentioned in minute 32 about a year before this interview and reported that they do not explain recent warming-thus he knows he is lying and figures most people won't double check so he can try to get away with it.
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  2045. Putin isn't defusing anything. He has been thinking of launching another invasion of Ukraine for years. He already taught Ukraine the hard way that Neutrality is no protection by doing a covert invasion back in 2014 while Ukraine was officially Neutral.
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  2046.  @peetky8645  Actually which "her" are you referring to?
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  2047. Yes, Gabbard sure has cheered on people who committed war crimes. But to add to that she also lied about some of the war crimes they committed-such as lying in 2017 about Assad using chemical weapons.
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  2048. The aid is tiny compared to other things. My guess is in the millions or-at most-2-7 billion. Sounds huge right? Compare that to the military budget that Trump pushed through the last time he was President was over 800 billion. His tax cuts were over 2 Trillion. The math doesn't support your complaint. Speaking of supporting "the American children", the last President to do that is named Biden. Trump wants to cut support for children in the USA. You are repeating a deception.
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  2049. Mr. Peterson knows. He willingly works for the psychopaths.
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  2050. This message would be fine until he gets to the politics towards the end. He is also wrong about who is obsessed with money and why. Once people have enough money to get by comfortably it isn't a constant worry. I'm sure there are exceptions to each but arguably those "obsessed" are the poor and rich. The former don't have enough to live securely while the latter don't care about if they live securely or not and simply want more money regardless. He is also wrong about taxes. In modern history the Federal government has done multiple tax cuts and they usually make the national debt worse. So to deal with debt-something people who are financially literate should care about-these tax cuts should go away. But he didn't mention that.. I'm for being financially aware. But I saw just a bit of the opposite being pushed partway through this video because it served a certain political agenda. FYI Haven't rich people repeatedly gotten a major part of the benefit from tax cuts over the last several decades? Hasn't the debt been growing for most parts of the last several decades? So the problem of taxes being too low is not a new problem. And if you live in a state that has a "flat tax" that means your state government may have increased taxes on most people-including poor people-in order to give rich people in the same state a tax cut.
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  2051.  @kokucat  Maybe a library at some point. At this point I have no intention of spending money on his book or him. If and when I do I'll see how reasonable (or not) his arguments are to the points I raised. From what I saw partway through the video I don't have the highest expectations on the specific points I raised..
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  2052.  @zivaradlovacki2666  "well it sounds like you are ignorant because if you were not, you would know that 500000 children died in Iraq during USA and UK invasion" It sounds like you are repeating a lie. Many people have criticized George W Bush for invading Iraq but those criticisms do not include "that 500000 children died in Iraq during USA and UK invasion". I think you are repeating someone else's lies while not knowing what you are talking about (being ignorant). Albright was not even part of the George W. Bush White House. So you have proven you don't know what you are talking about-thus are "ignorant". Now she was Secretary of State during the time Clinton was President but Bill Clinton did not invade Iraq. He was President after Saddam had invaded Kuwait and then been driven out. To repeat there were no invasions of Iraq during the time Bill Clinton was President. Now there were sanctions on Iraq after it invaded Kuwait. And it turned out Saddam's government lied about a rise in infant mortality during those sanctions. But the sanctions were a result of Saddam invading another nation. And even with those sanctions it appears Saddam's government lied about infant mortality as part of a propaganda campaign. Oddly after the George W Bush invasion of Iraq there was a claim that the invasion was a good thing because infant mortality supposedly suddenly dropped. But it seems what actually happened is that the government in charge of Iraq stopped lying about the number of infant deaths. There is an article about this titled "Changing views on child mortality and economic sanctions in Iraq: a history of lies, damned lies and statistics"
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  2053. "well it sounds like you are ignorant because if you were not, you would know that 500000 children died in Iraq during USA and UK invasion" zivaradlovacki2666 you have already shown you are "ignorant" with this comment. Perhaps you should stop falling for propaganda so much. It seems you fall for it so often that not only do you not know that it is often lies but you don't know which lies are about what. Saddam's government lied about the impact of sanctions-not an invasion since Saddam himself had done the invading and his invasion of Kuwait is why sanctions were put on Iraq. But even if Saddam's government didn't lie (and it often did). That does not change that you repeated some Russian lies during a time of Putin's attempted invasion now (not years ago). The same Putin who is a billionaire due to his corruption and his willingness to use the Russian government to steal from the Russian people and nation. And no, he didn't invade Ukraine to fight off an imaginary Nazi government. President Zelenskyy is not only Jewish but speaks Russian as his 1st language. Putin invaded Ukraine, in part, to topple the elected government of a Russian speaking President. Why did Putin actually invade? Probably a list of reasons. Putin misses the old Russian empire-so this is his attempt to return to Imperialism. Putin probably wants Ukrainian lands and resources-after all Putin got to be a billionaire by being both corrupt and very greedy. And Putin also doesn't like that Ukraine has honest elections while Russian elections are rigged. There may be more reasons that Putin invaded but that trio of reasons is probably very high on the list. So when you repeat excuses for Putin's war of aggression you should remember that you are making excuses for Imperialism, land and resource grabbing, rigging elections, and so on for a corrupt billionaire. Now is that what you really want to be doing? If you were actually concerned about wealth gaps in the world perhaps you would at least consider not supporting a corrupt billionaire as he both tries to enrich himself further and get thousands of other people killed.
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  2054. Same Trump that supported Netanyahu annexing land no other recent US President would? Same Trump that, like Netanyahu, gets political money from Adelson? The same Trump who has not said he would support a Palestinian nation now as many Democrats do?
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  2055. Did someone have my earlier reply flagged? I didn't delete any and I came to reply to FullMetal replying to me (I see he is replying to me so I know I left a comment) yet it is not there. FullIMetal. I'm not sure what my earlier reply to your comment was. That said, this war is going badly for Russia. Not only were Russians (not just the USA) expecting to have a victory in months but even if Russia finally takes Bahkmut that is after months-not weeks-of trying and only 1 very small city after Ukraine has already had 2 very successful counteroffensives. There aren't riots in Russia as far as I know. However hundreds of thousands of people fled Russia. That doesn't happen if there aren't internal problems. Also polls from inside Russia aren't necessarily that trustworthy (people don't know if a supposed pollster works for the secret police or not) but from what little polling I've seen support for Putins war actually has been slowly dropping-that means support for it already peaked and is currently on the downside.
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  2056. Would this be heat waves encourage stronger storms thus Global Warming related?
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  2057. Sadly it doesn't look like Putin is in personal danger right now.. though I could be wrong since he seems to not want to let most people to sit anywhere close to him.
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  2058. Maybe and maybe not. If I thought people were good then I wouldn't want government to help people deal with criminals-either muggers or scammers and on.
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  2059. @ It would be unnecessary because, if people were good, then no mugging nor scamming would happen.
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  2060. Actually dishonesty. Calling Prager U educational rather than a source of propaganda is flat out lying to people.
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  2061. It is actually dishonest when it gets to complaining about "Democrat run" cities and I just mentioned why-it ignores that crime is usually worse in Republican run States and that the State government usually makes laws on both guns and crime.
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  2062.  @alwaysfreedom9354  Murder rates disprove your claim about different states. Perhaps less political propaganda and more facts would be useful.
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  2063. I've heard Greenpeace is also saying he was not 1 of their founders. If true that would mean he is lying about his biography. Now Greenpeace may be lying because that would be an embarrassment but since I've already seen the guy lie couple of times in this video and I'm not more than a third into it I'm thinking it is more likely the dishonesty is coming from him.
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  2064. Don't worry, the same people that want to cut funds for Ukraine (put send more to Israel) also want to cut funds to whatever may benefit people across the USA.
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  2065. 'They gave it to the " migrants' probably not. That ignores that they don't like to give it money to anyone in the USA neither immigrants nor citizens.
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  2066. Shapiro's comments on Global Warming are striking. He admitted it is happening but argued we shouldn't do anything about it. Thus he encouraged people writing off the future living conditions of their own children. Plus stepped over the issue that those homeowners who will end up with worthless land will not be compensated by those causing the loss of value-thus accepting the notion of people/organizations not paying for dealing with the bills and damage they cause.
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  2067. @Red Herring Didn't happen. Whatever was supposed to cause it was likely overtaken by Global Warming. Or it could be the smaller group of people that predicted it were wrong. Meanwhile the larger group of people that predicted Global Warming have been proven correct as evidence from last 40 year shows.
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  2068. They only fail if they Putin's preferred candidate (Trump) manages to Electoral College his way back into the White House. Most voting US citizens know better so the popular vote is going to go her way pretty easily.
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  2069. Different stories. People say D and D ran out of books but if you read the books you may notice they were breaking from the books long before they ran out of book material they could go to.
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  2070. Which would be a reward for Netanyahu. I agree Harris and Biden should have done and said better. But they are still both clearly better than Trump (who was more willing to let Netanyahu annex land than any other recent US President). Letting Netanyahu get what he wants would be allowing for a reward for genocide.
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  2071. Is "Live Not By Lies" itself embracing lies-especially by conservatives who are looking to self proclaim victimhood? (Often while holding a great degree of not just freedom but influence.) I've lived through both when there was a gay marriage ban in effect in my state and when it was overruled by the Federal law via the US Supreme Court. Gay people, not conservatives, were denied the legal rights and abilities others had. If I go into a church today when gay marriage is allowed the pastor if not required by law to perform any if he or she does not feel they are part of his faith but gay couples now get the same rights only heterosexuals already enjoyed. Additionally in this video I noticed nods to conspiracy theorists as if they were being oppressed (anti-vaccine stuff) yet it was rightwing conspiracy theorists who joined in the attempt to steal a Presidential election after the candidate they supported lost in 2020 and in that attempt to steal an election deny other people their votes-thus their liberty. I noticed this video wrongly portrayed environmental (fossil fuel) protestors as somehow being paid off by the government (even getting a concert seats or, the horrors, better "medical care"). When I've gone to a hospital they never asked me if I protested against fossil fuels. Same thing fails to happen when most people buy tickets to a concert. Better healthcare would simply be a good thing for the government to insure citizens get. But there are reports some people advocating in relation to Global Warming did get benefits. With both Koch and Exxon-Mobile both having spent (at least) millions of dollars on those deny it is happening.
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  2072. Except that Tulsi Gabbard did. So it is holding Gabbard responsible for her own actions.
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  2073. I've never seen Rising bs so full of BS and have such a failure on the sides of both hosts. Ukraine was invaded. It was not "drawn" into a war by the USA. Briahna Joy Gray's comments were disgraceful in this regard. Robby Soave failed to point this out and also failed to acknowledge that there will be no peace. Putin was planing on attacking other nations after the current war he started with Ukraine and had already invaded Ukraine less than 10 years ago to occupy Crimea. Plus the existence of Israel is not in danger from Hamas and Hamas is not threatening to start a nuclear war. Putin already has. Robby Saove was utterly full of bs when he said the opposite on "American interests". And joking about "lives are on the line if you don't send this"???? Yes thousands of people have died already and more are likely to if Putin is not stopped. 2 disgraces having a nice talk online, how grand.. Putin made the decision to start wars and for a lot of people to end up dead. The sooner Putin is stopped the fewer people die. Giving Putin what he wants in Ukraine doesn't stop Putin because Putin was never planning on stopping with just Ukraine.
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  2074. When did bs become "truth bombs". Burning methane is still putting CO2 from deep underground in the air. I'm glad it puts less there than coal but it still is doing it. So no, it is not "very clean" as he claims less than three minutes in. Plus there are complaints by some selling it they shouldn't have to make sure their wells and pipes aren't leaking. Does this mean leaking pipes are a good thing? A lot of people worried about Global Warming don't mind if we use nuclear-I'm in favor of using breeder reactors to cut nuclear waste like the french do (yes France gets a lot of its electricity from nuclear power). Peterson here is coughing up excuses-often deceptively-to scapegoat his political enemies here, nothing more nor less.
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  2075.  @alexl4342  Good catch.
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  2076. Good show.
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  2077. It is your choice. However if you want to vote for saving lives that means voting for Harris. Trump would be a reward to Netanyahu (he has a record of supporting Netanyahu annexing land) while Harris supports a Palestinian nation-meaning both land and Palestinians living there.
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  2078. Which college and what exactly were your experiences? I strongly suspect she is lying through most of the video and probably never had most of the experiences she claims-such as a math class that never talked about facts or numbers but feelings.
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  2079. SCOTUS hasn't ruled on letting state legislatures rig elections yet so we will see if that is the case or not.
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  2080. Correct and thank you for saying this. It is even worse in the Bran didn't warn Dany about Euron's ambush (leading to the death of Missandei and supposedly one of the things that led to the nonsense burning of King's Landing). But Bran did make the effort to push Sam to tell Jon about Jon's linage just when that would complicate things when Dany (grieving for Jorah) could have used a shoulder to lean on. Perhaps Bran pushed for the massacre.
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  2081. Being on Prager is often a reason to be less than impressed. That this professor told then VP Pence not to break the law is a reason to be more impressed.
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  2082.  @TheFireMonkey  1st time most people voted against Trump. A couple of things helped Trump in 2024. The rightwing propaganda sphere kept supporting him and tried to help him lie his way out responsibility for the 1/6 riots. Many people were actually unhappy with prices. And many people were gullible to fall for his false promises. The last group is likely to be the 1st to learn. Those in the propaganda sphere/eco chamber have difficultly telling truth from fiction (which is the point of the eco-chamber).
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  2083. Actually many people are mad because of the nonsense burning of King's Landing and that Daenerys has been sane throughout seasons 1-7. Sometimes displaying emotions, sometimes being logical, but generally being sane. Her coin landed sane side up a long time ago but they flipped it in season 8 for shock or emotional value-or just to come up with excuses to have Jon stab her in an arguably sexist trope (women cannot be allowed to have too much power and if they gain it a man must kill them-preferably the woman's husband or lover thus reinforcing who properly wears the pants in a household.)
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  2084. Good points, I appreciate the argument that Morgan is trying to be helpful to Mearsheimer's narrative and had not thought about it myself. I noticed he doesn't point out when Mearsheimer lies to his (P. Morgan's) viewers but not that there may be a motive behind that.
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  2085. That is repeating a deception. There was war in Syria under Trump plus Trump was for Bush invading Iraq. Plus Trump wanted to both fire missiles into Mexico and start a war with Iran. Trump is not for peace. He does get funds from someone (Adelson) who supports Netanyahu and would be a gift to Netanyahu. Earlier it was Trump who supported Netanyahu annexing lands no prior US President supported in modern history (current and former) had.
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  2086. @e_cher Agreed. And it is probably that Ukraine has a democratic government with honest elections-unlike Russia-that is 1 of the reasons Putin wants to overthrow its government. Notice how Dave Smith repeats a Kremlin talking point while avoiding addressing what contradicts it in this video. Specifically that the international affairs guy pointed out that Ukraine was going to choose. That is something Putin does not like. Ukraine rather than he gets to make up its mind.
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  2087.  @Ronmon100  No she isn't. Though a she that did lie would be Tulsi Gabbard back in 2017 when she (Tulsi) was trying to cover for Assad using chemical weapons in populated areas. I checked it out. You should too.
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  2088.  @rexrogers1859  So how is it McCarthyism to notice Gabbard lied about Assad using chemical weapons?
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  2089.  @andrewjohnson8507  Easy. She mentioned Assad was killing Syrians (his own people). Gabbard lied about Assad using chemical weapons back in 2017.
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  2090.  @Ronmon100  Pretty sure I just pointed out an example of her being dishonest.
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  2091.  @richarthur3069  How often have you heard of Pelosi denying Assad used chemical weapons? And this is assuming the meeting you described took place.
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  2092.  @RichardPepperman-kk9yb  You mean her own actions are embarrassment enough? I guess that is one way to look at it.
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  2093.  @xaviervelascosuarez  Because she is repeating excuses from Russian imperialism and warmongering-especially when it comes to Ukraine. Also Gabbard tried to cast doubt on that it was Assad who used chemical weapons.
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  2094.  @TimothySagawa-xx8of  It is a fact that Gabbard tried to push the notion Assad didn't use chemical weapons when he did. How about you not try to excuse apologists for warmongers and mass murderers?
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  2095. Not as good a analysis as you may think. It ignores the damages pollution does-in economic and other terms. That is a sign the theories the maker of this video operates on have a problem when they reach reality. And yes pollution has notable economic costs-be they from Global Warming's floods and fires or to what happens to land values when the water stops becoming drinkable.
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  2096. It is an interesting video especially when it get to are specific parts of the West failing to be effective in what or how they support Ukraine. Crfor Freedom. I've seen pro-Russia people try to argue the referendums Russia lied about the results of are supposedly valid. As Freedom House rates Ukraine as holding honest election thus it is a democracy. It has problems-like with corruption-but it is better than Putin's Russia in that regard.
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  2097.  @crforfreedom7407  I suspect Andos Elemas was pointing out that Orthodox Christianity was not banned in Ukraine so your claim that is was is flat out wrong. To get back to Ukraine. The people in all regions of Ukraine already voted for independence from Russia and the USSR in 1991. So people voted and Russia is currently disrespecting that vote. All regions-including Crimea and Eastern Ukraine-had a majority of voters voting for Ukraine to be its own nation.
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  2098.  @Moonlight-řæven  People can be very smart and not go to college. However most people have to be at least somewhat smart to do well in college. And a lot of dumb people never made it to college. To be clear I don't hold not going to college against someone, but I don't see it as an excuse to falsely proclaim their intellect either.
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  2099. I bet most people would not pick Bran.
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  2100. Ah yes. The old scapegoat immigrants thing. Just rewatched part of a White House press briefing twice. The question was asked what the Federal government was doing to help local governments that Republican Governors sent people seeking refugee status to with no warning. That is not the same as giving money to immigrants. And it sure wasn't the same amount as what it would take to rebuild towns and cities after a record hurricane. Last, the spokeswoman for the Biden administration mentioned they were trying to rebuild the asylum system after Trump had wrecked it. If it has been rebuild in the 2 years since then it means FEMA may no longer be turned to as a stopgap for a batch of refugees being dumped somewhere.
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  2101. I saw this analysis. It was wrong and tries to excuse the nonsense. Plus missed that having an oligarchy reforms the Wheel meaning it was not broken and now has Bran to be its own secret police/internal spy agency.
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  2102. A remark in support of helping a guy (Putin) who misses the Soviet days.
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  2103. Yes we are. Often many of the same people worried about Global Warming also don't like deforestation. And many deniers push for deforestation. An easy example is Brazil where cutting and burning of parts of the Amazon forest was pushed by Bolsonaro who also hurt Brazil's effort to deal with Global Warming.
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  2104. Immigrants are fresh workers. They can help revitalize a town-especially if they are working age. There are some adjustments issues but overall they are a benefit. Republicans don't bring this up because they want to scare people and Democrats should but may be afraid of turning off voters Republicans have already made paranoid.
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  2105. I know some have pushed suspicions Trump is working for Putin (I haven't dismissed thoughts about that from my own mind). But it could also be that Trump isn't the good. It wasn't something that was talked about last year (missed opportunity?) but some historians ranked Presidents and Trumps 1st term put him among the worst.
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  2106.  @stream2watch  You are correct.
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  2107. Putin gained support with the war rallying near the start of this war but has been losing support since.
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  2108. No he isn't a lobbyist, he is just a propagandist willing to spread lies and disregard the harm his those who pay him cause to others such as farmworkers so they can keep harming others or at least to avoid taking responsibility. He doesn't care if his lies help harm or kill others. That is worse than a typical lobbyist.
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  2109. BS. Ukraine was neutral in 2014 and Putin attacked it then-more covertly but still did. Ukraine learned the hard way already that Neutrality doesn't protect against Putin's desires. And Putin has been planning to attack Ukraine for years. Putin doesn't say Ukraine isn't a real nation simply because out of concerns of NATO membership. Don't fall for the Russian propaganda-especially when it is even contradicted by the internal propaganda Putin does.
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  2110.  @mih9356  She is smart enough about history to know Putin doesn't plan on stopping. She is also good enough at math to know the EU put together has more people and a bigger economy than Russia. If nations that are part of the EU can get themselves to build enough weapons they will be in a better spot than Russia.
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  2111. Better as in worse schools and higher murder rates? I'll think I'll not move to a red state.
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  2112. Since 1860? Is someone upset the US Civil War ended slavery in multiple states?
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  2113. Also a lotto Federal employees have been helping people already because a disaster hit and they are US Citizens who could use a hand. Not because someone is threatening them.
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  2114.  @F8dg9  Probably not. And he or she is correct.
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  2115.  @Chipolinou  In 2014 or 2015 Putin himself told a UN official Russia could defeat Ukraine in 2 weeks. 2 weeks is longer than a trio of days but it is far shorter than 2 years-and Ukraine is not defeated now. When discussing ignorance it helps to be aware-including of Putin's ignorance or arrogance.
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  2116.  @lindadixon5306  Even if true it would still be a good investment.
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  2117. Ah yes, the old Ukrainian Nazis distortion. I kinda doubt Ukraine would have a Russian speaking Jew as its President like it does right now if Nazis actually ran Ukraine.
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  2118. Actually without Republicans using gerrymandering to rig elections in enough districts to have the small House majority they do they wouldn't be in a position to threaten to cut aid to a nation with elections that are probably more honest than our own (in the USA). Of course if you're Russian your elections are rigged and Putin is essentially going to be your President for Life. So I guess, if I was mistaken to think you were from the USA, you blew your chance on having honest elections, democracy, and a better nation to live in some time ago.
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  2119. "Trump is America's no.1 choice. Democrats should respect democracy!" Democrats did and do. It was Trump who tried to steal the 2020 election and even started a riot as part of trying to do so.
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  2120. "This what you call RINOS." Maybe, but remeber the old days when Republicans wanted "limited government" or "Law and Order" rather than membership in a personality cult for a criminal that started a riot as part of trying to steal an election?
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  2121. How many lies and misrepresentations can 1 person put in just 5 minutes? Looks like a lot judging by this. A few little things she didn't mention. Dixiecrats (pro-segregation Democrats that left the Democratic Party over its support for Civil Rights, including support for them from Democratic President LBJ). But lets go back a touch further-Harry Truman, also a Democratic President desegregated the military. Now why would Democrats be doing these things in the 20th Century and the GOP moving to things that make it harder for minorities or celebrate racism? (like Ronny promoting "State's Rights" in a Southern state where voting rights activists were murdered) Answer is they wanted to get the bigot vote and turn the "solid South" from Democratic to Republican. It worked for at least a while and all it cost them is a good chunk of their morality and a claim to Lincoln's legacy.
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  2122. Agreed. I think it should be pointed out to activists that Palestinians would face worse under Trump. He may claim otherwise when in front of them like a typical both sides of his mouth conman/politician but Netanyahu wants Trump back because getting Trump back in would be a reward for attempting genocide. I noticed Harris is more critical of Netanyahu than Trump and she supports a 2 state solution-he no. Also Trump officially said he wasn't to deport those concerned about Gaza-just look up Agenda 47-look for issue 18.
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  2123. Is it still a democracy? If it is then you still have a chance to correct things including both the Trump-lite President down there and corrupt people impeaching others supposedly over corruption in an attempt to avoid facing their own court case.
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  2124. casey 7 are you saying rightwing elites and autocrats from across the planet are getting together to undermine democracy as 1. Maybe, though different rightwingers would have to agree and I don't always see them doing that-Trump would have to agree with french elites for example.
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  2125. Thank you for showing me you sympathize with rapists while trying to not actually say you sympathize with rapists. And no, neither a rapist nor Putin, gets to use the excuse she knew there may be a rapist in town thus it is her fault for being raped.
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  2126. Are you arguing for or against defunding PBS? Your comment seems to support keeping it around yet you said that they could cut it-was that a typo?
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  2127. Yes it does. Yet it does not sexual assault when that would have mattered more. Going by the point mentioned in this video that makes it less likely the sexual assault accusation is true and more likely that it is not.
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  2128. Or the woman in the video is simply lying. The claim that they supposedly talked about "feelings" but not facts or numbers in math class convinced me of that. The more I thought about the rest of what she said beyond that the more likely it seemed to me that was probably made up too. So avoiding campuses would probably paranoia or deception put into action.
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  2129. That is reasonably. They have been doing a heroic job. That politicians in the USA would sabotage them after Ukrainians (with earlier US helped) have turned what Putin claimed would be a three week win for him into a 2 year actual fight speaks badly for current US politics-possibly very badly. But if things get bad then sadly, the Ukrainians will feel it the first.
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  2130. Dumb and deceptive all in 1-and I mean the video rather than the guy who is trying to play dumb.
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  2131. Not convinced he is. If you want to examine if he actually is guilty then ask why doesn't Tara Reade mention it in her April 2019 with The Union when she felt free to complain about Biden. Or why the caller on Larry King's show actually means a sexual assault is less likely to have happened rather than more likely (if someone is sexually assaulted the one of the first places to consider going is the police rather than the press-if only the press then whatever happened was not a crime thus not sexual assault).
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  2132. Since Stein reportedly received help from Republicans it is unlikely she intends to end the 2 party system.
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  2133. That would mean leaving red states. Red states typically have higher murder rates. New York state is safer to live in than Florida or Texas. And Minnesota is even safer to live it (yes I know a lot of rightwing propaganda groups like to pull a fast one on people by mentioning a riot where a police station burned, but they make a point of avoiding the annual murder rate-and that a rightwing guy who wanted to start a race war came to Minnesota from Texas and ended up going to jail for firing into the police station, doesn't excuse the rest of the rioters but it does show propaganda folks want to keep some things quiet). Really bad states relating to murder rates tend to be Mississippi, Louisiana, and Arkansas.
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  2134.  @LOgomon20  Yah, but crime is good for making news and propaganda. So as long as people don't do things like check rates it is easy to get them scared and or energized. That both gets people interested in watching the news and also more willing to vote for politicians who make false promises of making things safer.
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  2135.  @Cornelius1988  Does that explain higher crime rates in Arkansas? Rural areas have murders as well. On "urban areas" there are "bad" neighborhoods" in most cities across the USA. Yet why is it that blue states-with sometimes larger urban areas-have lower murder rates than red states? Moreover why is it that many red state voters don't know their state has a worse murder rate than states they worry about going to?
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  2136.  @Venmerr  Good observation. Republicans tend to have a better propaganda machine so that makes it easier to increase fears. If people actually treated crime as an issue to vote on or move on then a lot of people in red states would suddenly start voting for Democrats or moving to blue states as red states tend to be higher crime in addition to higher poverty.
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  2137.  @BillDoughzer69  Sometimes they don't. I've seen people online complain about crime in New York and also think about visiting Florida. And this is after Florida has after murder rates have been higher in Florida for some time now. What a lot of people "see" is propaganda and fear mongering. They don't even check on what reality is.
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  2138. @CONVERGENCEPOINT-ku2ph Republicans often claim to be "tough on crime" while the states they control have higher crime. Perhaps politicians are causing higher crime. A problem is they lie about it to their voters and many of those voters don't check the facts. Thus politicians in Tennessee, Texas, and especially Mississippi can repeatedly run on being "tough on crime" but are never held accountable for having more crime in their states.
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  2139. @ You are aware that most crimes are committed by citizens.. correct? If not well now you are.
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  2140. @ Who are you replying to? Are you attempting to point out that murder rates (murders per capita) are usually higher in red states? If so then you are correct.
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  2141. Glad to hear from someone in Argentina. And a lot may need to be done there. That said the prior President, if this video is correct, wasn't a Socialist so it should be asked if the word is being abused. Also it seems like Milei is promoting a lie about Global Warming. That isn't a good sign nor someone can actually deal with hard decisions if his response is simply to repeat a lie about them rather than face them.
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  2142.  @elpibelol5005  Socialism and fascism are generally 2 different things. Now if you have Italian fascism that is indeed dated.
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  2143.  @torretacosmica  From the sounds of what brought it down Peronism isn't that. It is just politicians doing kickbacks on large scale. Granted I'm an outside looking in but my understanding is there was massive corruption draining the nation. Keynesianism isn't that.
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  2144.  @torretacosmica  I'm likely to believe you if you say Argentina's judicial system has corruption. But judicial systems are when Keynesianism is about. Keynesianism is an economic theory. Corruption is something different and in itself doesn't rely on any economic theories. All it needs is political figures willing to abuse their authority for financial or some other gain (such as a benefit for their political party that goes beyond and possibly against what voters support).
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  2145. There is a petition if you want to add a signature (and if you haven't already).
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  2146. He is talking with a guy (Mearsheimer) who didn't notice the Cuban Missile Crisis was over missiles.
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  2147. Because he wanted to be king and manipulated events-including pushing for the massacre of thousands of innocents-to make that happen. Yes Bran still has wants. As the fact that he wanted a better chair design than the one Tyrion gave him shows.
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  2148. Robby didn't do his homework. His cohost did.
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  2149. So there is a profit in green energy just not enough? Sounds to me that some investors would still invest. Yes many people are willing to choose slightly less profits for not taking part in a bad thing. Also if fossil fuel companies suddenly had to start paying the bills related to Global Warming maybe that would have an impact too.
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  2150. Wasn't Gohmert one of those that supported throwing away thousands of people's honestly cast ballots in Wisconsin as well as other states? That is the move of someone with little integrity and even less respect for doing elections honesty. Gohmert may be extraordinary, but not in a good way.
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  2151.  @stepn2dlight  Or I told you a truth you don't want to hear. Mr. Gohmert supported having many US citizen's votes stolen from then after they had voted. That is dishonest and disgraceful.
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  2152. No. I don't believe Tara Reade. According to her own words in 2019 (April, The Union interview) no sexual assault took place. But now she changed her story and it supposedly has. That is a big jump.
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  2153. And check out what a former federal prosecutor that dealt with sexual assault cases thinks. It may change your mind on if Tara Reade is credible or not. https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2020/04/29/joe-biden-sexual-assault-allegation-tara-reade-column/3046962001/
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  2154. Go get more support from Trump people? No? Then why has the GOP spent time and money on her? Also.... "Putin endorsed Kamala. Look it up." That was a cover to try to distract from his (Putin's) actions. Russia was already caught paying influencers to spread pro-Trump messaging. Actions speak louder than words when it comes to Putin, also you know he has lied before right?
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  2155.  @ronalaska2472  Funny, there are a trio of replies but I only see your's and mine. Anyway, your initial comment strikes me as ridiculous and your follow up hasn't helped. Especially by claiming nonsense is supposedly "obvious".
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  2156. A lot of the same people who couldn't care less about Ukraine couldn't care about poor people in the USA. So saying don't help Ukraine to supposedly help people in the USA is basically a lie.
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  2157. Perhaps it is divide and conquer. The to propaganda guys in the video here (yes this is propaganda sympathizing with Putin) avoided mentioning that Putin has been supporting neo-nazis and bigots in other nations for years. The pointedly avoided saying that because it would be a problem for their message, which they were able to talk about in public while claiming they could talk about. They are being hypocritical or dishonest in this video.
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  2158. "The problem with the predictions is that reality keeps refusing to go along with them at all." This isn't true. A number of expectations related to Global Warming have come to pass-such as floods increasing.
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  2159. Seems she did her homework while Robby didn't. What is his excuse?
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  2160. Lying about Prager U (called it educational rather than acknowledging it is in the propaganda business) and doing nothing to fix the high crime and high poverty state he comes from are not the signs of being "a good man".
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  2161. Hi Ivan, speaking of yachts how is your boss's yacht doing these days. I know Putin has managed to avoid getting it seized like happened with a few of his oligarch buddies but even if it was he still has that palace built with billions he stole from the Russian public in he and his henchmen's many corruption schemes. Do you ever get tired of trying project your boss onto other people? Does your job get harder with Putin's corruption being so massive that it makes him a billionaire and 1 of the wealthiest people in the world? Then again if you work for Putin's propagnda machine you've been having a lot of practice these last few years. Maybe you got overtime pay when Russian warcrimes were first hitting the news.
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  2162.  @StefanWeber-n6e  He said Putin was "too smart" to attack Ukraine. That means Mearsheimer both thought attacking Ukraine would be a bad idea and that Putin would not do it. Mearsheimer was wrong. Additionally he claimed the Cuban Missile crisis was over spheres of influence and the Monroe Doctrine-not a navy base. However both his claim and your attempt to cover for him are wrong in that the Cuban Missile Crisis was over missiles.
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  2163.  @StefanWeber-n6e  Seems you are trying to cover for Mearsheimer. BTW Putin already tried to attack more than the East of Ukraine. That is what that convoy that tried to reach Kyiv was part of early in the war. Also we don't know how people in the east feel-Putin isn't about to hold honest referendums there. Now there may be a mix of views in Eastern Ukraine but a majority of people there voted for independence from Russia/the USSR back when that question was on a referendum ballot.
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  2164.  @angamaitesangahyando685  Interesting theory. But I expect most would not believe it. I will credit those Russian anarchists for realizing that Putin may have alternative interests and not be working for what would be best for the Russian population though.
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  2165.  @StefanWeber-n6e  "your language are under surpression". That would be repeating Putin's lies and propaganda. Ukrainians can speak Russian if they want to. The current President of Ukraine is a Russian speaker. Ukraine has honest elections while Russia does not. So if people value their political freedom that means staying Ukrainian. Plus Ukraine's current President is not a corrupt billionaire, Russia's is. And standards of living have a better chance of increasing where there is political freedom since that opens the possibility to end corruption. Corruption that can come at the expense of people's standard of living. Judging by the Russian troops stealing Ukrainian washing machines and even toilets it is not unthinkable to guess many Ukrainians live better than many Russians despite Russia having so many corrupt billionaires (some of which have exploited Russians).
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  2166.  @StefanWeber-n6e  I thought I may have replied to this already but I don't see a reply here. 1st States and their populations decide if they want to be in NATO or not. Having an election means people can elect politicians that decide just that. Also the Russian language supposedly being suppressed is just so much Putin propaganda and nonsense-the current President of Ukraine is a Russian speaker.
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  2167. It wasn't just rushed. They even changed things to make it worse. FYI strong evidence has come out that revealed the earlier plan for season 8 itself was for wildfire to be what wrecked King's Landing but D and D changed that-they aren't explaining why but putting shock value over logic & character is probably 1 reason.
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  2168. Russian sympathizers in the US House have been stalling new ammo and replacement missiles being sent to Ukraine for 7 months-that is changing this week.
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  2169. We could do away with the electoral college to fix that.
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  2170. Thanks. Is fair to ask if Trump a Russian asset? He has hurt the USA diplomatically, economically, and is straining military alliances.
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  2171.  @randolphholland6942  So is this how Trump hopes to get elected? Try to split votes of those who don't want him?
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  2172. Interesting discussion but all have been deeply wrong about recent events. It is almost a year now and Ukraine is surviving. Chomsky is sometimes interesting but his anti-US bias hinders his ability to go into just how bent on aggression leaders of other nations can be. Mearsheimer has increasing drifted into an being a Putin apologist after writing that Ukraine should not give up its nukes.
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  2173. According to this video the guy with that sign is an agent with the "Russian special services". Near the end of minute 22. (remove spaces) h t t p s : / / w w w . y o u t u b e . c o m / watch ? v = FKTdtQpQK44
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  2174. Why not pass a bill providing all US Citizens with IDs and also registering them to vote at the same time. BTW some of the GOP doesn't care about IDs anyway. Voter ID is part of the law in my state and Trump tried to steal the election in 2020 anyway.
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  2175. Did someone delete or flag my earlier comment? I pointed out that in my state IDs are required for most people in order to vote. Despite that Trump tried to have my ballot and the ballots of thousands of other people thrown out rather than be counted because it isn't Voter ID that really mattered but which excuse to try to steal an election by.
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  2176.  @MARR_2024  Also plenty of states require photo IDs to register to vote. Yet that doesn't stop Trump from claiming the election was supposedly stolen in 2020. Of course it doesn't matter if the vote count was correct or not, he just wanted to spread lies to get people to help him in his attempts to steal the election. Foxnews was successfully sued for its part in spreading his lies. I feel like I mentioned something about this already yet I don't see my prior message.. do you?
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  2177. "This woman was a cheater for Kamala debate" Do you mean she pointed out when 1 of Trump's lies was too ridiculous to go unquestioned or unchallenged? If so then I'd say that isn't cheating. I think they ought to have fact checkers for most debates. If the candidate wants to respond to a fact check sure, but it is a good thing if someone points out when a claim is flat out false.
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  2178.  @lauram9889  Say, did you see any other comments by me here? I could swear I already commented on people needed an ID to register on my state. Yet I don't see my comment here.
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  2179.  @Jen-p2d7c  That could be taking as paying for lies as well as truth. It doesn't confirm much either way. FYI in my state in order to register to vote someone has to show 1 of a limited group of kinds of ID. And ID is generally required to get a ballot too.
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  2180. Being "against" "climate change alarm" without the typo means supporting lying about Global Warming and those who are trying to prevent worse damage from it.
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  2181. Argentina has problems. However this guy may put the "Shock Therapy" too it which encouraged Russia to go fascist. Now if Argentina's inflation problem breaks that is great. On the other hand he should not be pushing not just lies but old and long debunked lies about Global Warming-and he very much seems to be pushing those lies.
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  2182. Lol. That is a funny way to describe it. Thank you. I think she is trying to be a nice person so I don't want to pick on her. I don't know why she said what she did.
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  2183. Actually some polls of Ukrainians showed that the vast majority -something like well over either 80 or 90% do not want to be part of Russia.
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  2184. Netanyahu wants Trump win. Trump was more willing to let Israel annex land than any other US President in modern history. Plus if you have access to C-span I recommend looking at the US Senate Debate in Wisconsin last week. The Republican (Hovde) said it was a problem and wrong that the US tried to stop Israel from causing so much death and destruction (he phrased it as meddling). Check out Bob Woodard's book War and how he mentioned that Biden had to push Netanyahu to let any food in for Palestinian civilians in Gaza. US meddling is trying to save lives by preventing starvation. BTW the Democratic candidate (Baldwin) supported a ceasefire. Stein is pointing blame at Democrats and saying there is no difference when there very much is one-responses to the destruction in Gaza show it. Interestingly enough Stein has been getting help from Republicans in this election. I recommend looking up a Crooked Media podcast titled "Why is Jill Stein trying to get Trump Elected". On Gaza in specific I recommend a Politico article titled "Far Right Israeli Minister suggests Trump would be better than Biden". If you live in a swing State I'd recommend a vote for Harris both for Palestinians and for people living all over the World. If you don't live in a swing state and really want to vote for a third party there are some out there-I'd recommend a different third party than Stein 'ssince, despite that I have voted for a Greene Party candidate before, I cannot recommend them while Republicans are supporting them (and some quietly have this year.) If you care about genocide of children I'd recommend not rewarding the person ordering much of the destruction-that would be Netanyahu. The best way to avoid rewarding Netanyahu would probably be to give him someone he doesn't want as the US President (which would be Harris).
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  2185. In Ex machina I think leaving Caleb trapped is both cruel and dumb. He already proved he would help her and the robot leaves him.
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  2186. Was JD Vance trying to steer or instigate? I would like to see the minutes before the video but I've heard JD Vance was the 1st to pull out falsehoods/insults at Ukraine.
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  2187. I think saying "fossil fuels" is fine I have a big problem with that you did not go over that Global Warming is increasing methane release thus this is probably not natural. For decades many scientists concerned about Global Warming have been worried about permafrost melting and methane trapped under it being released. This is a way Global Warming can cause methane to be released and cause even more Global Warming-a chain reaction. While I like that your video went over many things that you did not spend time on this-especially when you specifically ask where the increased methane is coming from is a very large shortcoming.
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  2188. Haven't heard of those cities getting hit by cluster munitions however if they were it comes long after Russia was using cluster munitions on Ukrainian cities-the "Collective West" only approved sending cluster munitions to Ukraine in 2023 after Russia had been using them on Ukrainian cities for more than 1 year.
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  2189. Yes, especially since criticism of Putin and his war can result in jail time.
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  2190. 1st you'd have to be a US Citizen for it to be part of "our government". 2nd it would have to be a scam to be scammed "again". I'm sure the 2nd is not true and strongly suspect you are wrong on both.
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  2191. Most people never wanted it. Putin wants it because he wants Ukraine and has for years. Ukrainians understand that if they don't stop Putin now he will keep coming-they don't want the war but understand it is either now or again and again and again. Zelensky likely said he would give up land for NATO membership because he knew the latter would likely prevent the again and again and again possibility.
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  2192. Would this be from when she reported on India stopping Chinese forces that were trying to go through Indian territory?
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  2193.  @pepincuatro2865  Funny that those US Presidents most accused of being Socialists recently happened to do a better job handling money (lower deficits) than those who were supported by those throwing around the world "socialism".
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  2194. I have been listening and reading about Tara Reade's story and I see number of holes and contradictions. Tara Reade never mentioned sexual assault when complaining about Joe Biden to The Union in April 2019. Even worse if that is her mother on Larry King then a sexual assault likely did not happen because the caller on Larry King claimed the "only" people she could talk to were "the press" when police can be talked to about sexual assault. By saying she could not talk to anyone but the press the caller (if it was her mother) admitted a crime did not take place thus police should not be involved. Sexual assault was a crime in the 1990s so yes the police could have been contacted if it actually happened.
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  2195. Some of them may. Sadly some don't want to realize how big a liar Trump is... and I wonder if more than a few accounts positing here are bots.
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  2196. In most Western nations the elections are done honestly thus are "democratic". That is also true in Ukraine. Russia not so much. And while I know multiple nations in the "West" have a bad history that doesn't excuse current Russia for trying to restart imperialism. Something the US did not do even in Iraq.
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  2197. If the prior President is already rightwing it isn't really a rebellion against socialism.
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  2198. Nobody here is encouraging you to vote Republican. The question is can you vote to save some lives or not.
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  2199. Hello from not Moscow. If you think Putin invaded due to US hegemony then you should really get more sources of information as you seem to have missed that Putin is very willing to lie to you and has already.
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  2200. Except she did. On top of that the podcast "Why is Jill Stein trying to get Trump elected" argues the details of the situation contradict the explanation she tried to give here. That makes the comments anything but "naive".
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  2201. Hard to argue that when Ameshia did her homework and Robby didn't.
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  2202. That is probably because Russian claims of genocide in Dombass supposedly carried out by Ukraine have been debunked for years. There has been a conflict between the Ukrainian armed forces and Russian backed separatists but civilian deaths have been way down for years in that fight. Funny how Russia wants to abuse and misuse the word genocide while then committing war crimes.
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  2203. Gabbard lied about Assad using chemical weapons back in 2017. Others running from President Trump to independent investigators confirmed that Assad used chemical weapons. That is a bit of evidence about Gabbard.
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  2204. If you want to discuss peace start telling Putin he should leave Ukraine. Putin chose war and has chosen to continue it now. All that is required for peace to happen is for the Russian army to return to Russia.
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  2205.  @asianj3sus862  If you don't want a nuclear war than stop Putin from starting 1. He is currently the only leader to have threatened to do so. Putin is a warmonger, what he wants now are 2 things-1st a chance to rearm his army for his next war and 2nd to keep lands stolen during his wars. Peace now while he is still occupying land thus rewarding him starting this war means that he will simply start again after he has more tanks.
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  2206. This video brings up another reason why environmental and labor standards should be part of any trade agreement.
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  2207. She did her homework and Robby didn't. She isn't the one who wasn't "ready".
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  2208. Don't. He doesn't deserve it. His lies here and his part in the rise of oligarchy in Russia are reasons not to.
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  2209. Maybe most serious historians had no interest in defending Putin. Thus, as you hinted at, the bottom of the barrel had to be scraped to find someone to argue for Putin.
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  2210. That Ukraine has resources and potentially the kind of resources that can compete with Russia is seen as 1 of the reasons why Putin may have actually started this war. Thus Putin wanted to gain control over even more resources and eliminate business competition at the same time. And no, Putin's kleptocracy isn't about being "loyal enough" to Russia. Its about being corrupt enough to pocket a fortune even if it is at the expense of the Russian population.
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  2211. Arguably Democrats didn't go after Trump hard enough. Regardless Trump abusing his power was a valid reason for impeachment. Ditto for trying to steal the 2020 Presidential election later.
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  2212. It actually doesn't make sense. A bunch of nobles laughing at the idea of giving serfs a voice is not a new "enlightened" government-it is a continuation of the wheel. And the speech this video proudly references related to Tyrion is arguably a disgrace. And season 8 arguably embraces some Nazi racist ideology rather than opposes it. This is a copy of something I just mentioned to someone else but the same details apply, so my apologies if you noticed I repeated myself. But some of the details here remained the same. This video also praised using Nazi images without going into what the Nazis supported that made them bad-for example the Nazi liked racism. So making Daenerys, leader of the largest multi-ethnic and multi-skin color coalition in GoT, into a bad guy if anything is pro Nazi ideology rather than opposed to it. Speaking of Nazis the video praises that speech D and D put in Tyrion's mouth. Look up Niemoller's First They Came. It is a poem about how people repeatedly ignored how people who were always innocents were abused and "taken" away by Nazis but the oppression the Nazis did was ignored at that time because it was directed at other groups based on political party, religion, or ethnicity that the poem's narrator didn't share. The slavers, rapists, and child killers that Daenerys is brutal to in Game of Thrones were not innocent (at least as far as she knew at the time she was going after them). This is nonsense making because it claims that going after guilty people for doing specific evil things means going people who haven't done anything and are innocent. That speech is also disgrace because it tries to put real live victims of the Holocaust (real human beings who were killed) on the same moral level as slavers, rapists, and child killers. That is disgraceful in itself.
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  2213. Good catch on your part. Mr. Moore is something of a shill for whatever big company did something harmful and now wants someone to do PR, even if it is dishonestly done. If you watched to minute 32 you may noticed he claimed specific cycles were responsible for current Global Warming. This is NASA already reported on those cycles about a year earlier and that they do not explain current warming. So the guy knows he is lying to people.
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  2214. I expected Tucker Carlson to push bs in defense of Trump or someone connected to him. I don't feel disappointed.
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  2215. Actual peace or just time for Putin to give his army more ammo and weapons before he restarts this war or starts a new war? Actually peace can be a good thing but that does not seem to be what Putin wants-he could create that simply by having the Russian military return to Russia.
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  2216.  @malopemaliyamungu5243  Please stop trying to excuse Russia for starting wars. NATO didn't invade nations on the border with Russia, Russia did. The reason many of those nations want to join NATO is because they know Russia may abuse them if it has the chance.
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  2217.  @shremich4583  Interesting. What court case and can you provide any other info to use for looking it up?
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  2218.  @charlottesmom  Thanks. Though I'd add one is not required to count season 8 as part of proper GoT. Season 8 is so contradicted by proper GoT seasons 1-7 it arguably isn't part of the same story. Not just the out of character actions but that bells suddenly mean surrender in King's Landing when season 2 both said (via Davos) and showed (via events when Stannis attacked) that bells do not mean surrender in King's Landing.
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  2219.  @georgec1748  Other dems are already going to investigate the attack on the Capitol Building. Additionally it was largely Republican Senators that didn't want witnesses. I was ok with them and I noticed a lot of congressional Democrats were. Not sure what you mean by tampering with evidence but if it is supposedly that they didn't mention Trump say "peaceful" they did, and the much more frequent number of times he said something that would encourage the opposite.
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  2220. Saving lives is the lesser of 2 evils? Maybe. But it still means saving lives. Plus allowing Trump to become President again would be to reward Netanyahu-the actual genocider giving orders to make it happen.
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  2221. I remember when people were fighting against gerrymandering in Wisconsin (Lawsuits that ended up going all the way to SCOTUS) and Josh Hawley, then as AG from Missouri, was 1 of the Republicans that signed off on a letter to the SCOTUS that supported gerrymandering. Long before he supported Trump's rioters he showed he supported rigging or stealing elections-in that situation by drawing lines on a map that undermined the ability for people to be honestly represented in the State Legislature.
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  2222. I thought she actually has family that are immigrants from India. So wrong kind of "Indian". I don't think that makes her a bad person in any way BTW, just trying to clear up her linage.
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  2223. If Putin was near the end of his Presidency then maybe he should think of creating a better legacy for himself that harming both Russia and Ukraine and being guilty of a growing list of war crimes.
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  2224.  @paspa  Thank you for being respectful. If this attempted invasion was about US missiles being in Ukraine or not then the invasion never would have happened since there were not US missiles in Ukraine nor were there much in the way of plans to put any there. Also attempting to invade another nation-which is what Putin did do-is not attempting to negotiate a peaceful resolution. And there wasn't much fighting going on in Crimea years ago-Putin just decided to invade then too but with fewer troops and in a smaller area. There may be a problem with people being thirsty for power in this situation but one of the people who clear is thirsty for power is Putin. Also Portugal is the birthplace of modern Brazil (a nation that once was Portugal's colony) yet it would still be wrong and an invasion for either of these 2 nations to try to invade the other today.
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  2225.  @paspa  The US lived with Russia having a military base on Cuba for decades during the Cold War. So claims I've seen about what the USA would and would not accept seem to not be accurate. Additionally Russia started the war and more of the UK's problems with PMs relates to those PMs own push to have a "hard" Brexit and the economic as well as budget trouble that created. You were respectful before but please don't tell me "You are welcome" for telling me things I know are not accurate. That really isn't respectful nor true.
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  2226. Lol. The guy was wrong about the implications for the Monroe Doctrine and wrong about missiles being the reason for the Cuban Missile Crisis. He proved he wasn't good at history. Considering he also said Putin would not attack Ukraine he showed his predictions are that great either.
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  2227.  @Beelzebubba2024  He said Putin wouldn't attack Ukraine. That isn't what happened. Though perhaps he is correct to say attacking Ukraine would "wreck" Russia. Perhaps Putin's Imperialism really isn't good for the Russian economy.
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  2228. And yet the US was one of those nations supporting debt relief for some third world nations that were in debt traps. The US has done plenty that was selfish yet that was willfully helping other nations.
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  2229. Its already been explained. Sun light hits the Earth and CO2 keeps more of the heat here than drifting off into space which is very very cold. There has been declining opposition to nuclear power for the last several years despite the problems that have happened such as Japanese nuclear regulations not being that strong.
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  2230. Don't know. Since time is working against Russia at the moment (economic problems and having lost over half of all Russia's tanks) the question is do people want to spare Putin or not? Will this be forcing a loss on Ukraine after it has successfully itself against Putin for the last few years?
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  2231.  @glennwilcock4593  And rightly so.
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  2232.  @user-fi2tl9zc9k  Many of the nuclear warheads in both the USA and Russia are from a time when the Soviets and USA did not get along. For a time the USA tried to get along with Russia. That may be part of why the US response to Putin's occupation of Crimea was so muted. Eventually the USA realized that Putin doesn't want to be friends. EDIT: David Sachs may be part of the reason the US-Russian friendship ended since he was part of a US team that gave very destructive advice to a Russian government trying to adjust to its new situation.
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  2233.  @Whichevertea23  I actually appreciate that you value public transportation. The problem is the part you call competent generally does not. Where I'm from it has been republicans who are the driving force for cutting public transportation. On a related note about competence. Remember how many years people like GOPer Paul Ryan complained about the debt? For the last 30 years GOPers grew debts faster than Democratic ones. Democratic Presidents actually got deficits heading in an area where they were could be put under control while Republican Presidents blew that up. And while there are many reasons the national debt may grow one of them is the tax cuts Republicans support that do not pay for themselves.
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  2234. I find it odd for people to complain about the "war machine" supposedly of NATO when it is not NATO but Putin attempting to invade another nation (Ukraine).
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  2235. Ending with master of the coin that doesn't know what a loan is-what could possibly go wrong?? Also I think they should have dumped the mad queen thing. Multiple people have done a very good putting youtubes on why her massacre at Kings Landing was out of character as presented in the TV show. Time wasted on it could've helped elsewhere.
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  2236. Droughts and floods are made worse by Global Warming. Ron (is a) Johnson has been full of bs and lack of concern for others for a long time. Funny thing, back when Bush Sr was in the White House and thinking of doing something about it (unlike Reagan) some scientists put together a report warning about Global Warming and some economists joined in the report. The economists said whatever dollar value lost (yes lost) in agriculture would be made up for in other parts of the economy such an industry in the "developed" world. It seems impacts on developing nations were disregarded, long term thinking was disregarded, and the realization that profitable or not people typically still need to eat was disregarded. Meaning rightwing disregard for Global Warming's impacts on developing nations has been disregarded for a long time. Some of the same lies used about Global Warming were spouted then too-such as the claim any current warming was due to "cycles" and 1 of the liars in this regard even said cooling would start to occur after a few years when the next part of the cycle happened.. instead a few decades later things are warmer. Interesting video was done on this history by a youtuber Simon Clark. It was titled Global Warming: The Decade We Lost Earth. I'll add that I still call Global Warming by the phrase "Global Warming". It is what is happening. Also if Frank Luntz (then a political consultant) can send out a memo in the W administration saying to use the phrase "Climate Change" because it sounds less scary than Global Warming then maybe his remarks should be thought about and the opposite of his suggestion done. Especially as-like I said before-Global Warming is what is happening. BTW thank you for paying attention to Wisconsin's modern political history.
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  2237.  @andyduhamel1925  I can believe that. They can probably understand it very well. Thus they understand when Putin's government said it wants to protect "the rights of Russian speaking citizens" then know what he means is "violate the rights of citizens who can speak Russian".
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  2238. That is your choice. However if it out of concern over the situation in Gaza you should be aware that allowing Trump (who has been willing to support Netanyahu annexing more lands than any former US President recently) back into office would be a reward for Netanyahu. And right now the choice is between pro-annexation Trump and a person who has tried to get Gazan's food as well as push for Palestinians having their own nation.
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  2239. Except 2 problems. 1st, the folks and D.O.G.E. are liars and possibly fools as well (claiming a building sold during Biden's time was part of their savings and firing people who deal with bird flu as bird flu spreads). 2nd, anything D.O.G.E. saves-which is likely to be far less than proclaimed at the moment-is likely to disappear into trillions of dollars worth of tax cuts. How many bank accounts do you know of that get bigger not depositing money in them?
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  2240. You would have to be a US citizen for it to be part of "our money". Chances are you are not. Meanwhile it is a good investment for the USA.
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  2241. Not only are blue states usually maker states that send more money to the Federal Gov than they receive while red states are taker states that do the reverse but blue states are usually safer places to live with New York having a much lower murder rate than Texas.
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  2242. Are you aware there are disputes and sometimes fights over what the borders are between some BRICS members?
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  2243. Would this be a repeat of 1 of the many lies Trump made back when he was President? Kinda remember it being debunked then as well as his whole lets lie about Global Warming in general move.
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  2244. There was a point raised in this discussion that nobody addressed so I'll try. How to deal with Global Warming while having less government? Have the government get out of the way when it comes to suing fossil fuel companies for damages related to Global Warming. There is a Federal block on lawsuits towards fossil fuel companies when it comes to harm caused by Global Warming. Usually if a company wrecks someone's house-say a delivery truck for crashes through the front door-whoever owns the house can sue. But fossil fuel companies supposedly cannot be sued if the Global Warming use of their products creates happens to burn down a town. That is not really a capitalist as being capitalism typically involves paying your own bills-including bills for the damages you or your company cause. Now I'm ok with the government trying to do something about Global Warming because I think the government should try to deal with many problems. If there is a street gang causing problems it is reasonable to call the police. That is getting the government to respond to the gang. Same basic principle with Global Warming. I saw being concerned about Global Warming being inaccurately labeled a "religion" in some comments here. I have no problem with religion and go to church every Sunday. But that isn't what addressing Global Warming is. Being concerned about Global Warming largely comes from either looking at the evidence yourself or talking to people who did. Yes evidence can and does exist to support religion (there are places in the Bible that still exist today if people want to visit them) but the level of provable evidence at your fingertips at any given moment is usually very different. I'm not ashamed to call my faith (my religion) my faith and still be part of it. As a side note.. someone made a remark of computer models supposedly being all wrong. There are computer models that so far have gotten things correct. So a claim I saw otherwise strikes me as wrong-flat out wrong. Someone claimed humans couldn't impact the atmosphere on a wide scale. The issue with Ozone holes and CFCs disproved that. With the impacts of both earlier use of CFCs and of no longer using CFCs nearly as much both also being reflected in changes in the Ozone layer. If someone is feeling especially bashful about humans and supposed inability to have an impact I'd ask if a human living in the USA can drive a car from 1 side of the continent to the other and stay on man made roads the whole time. That is a pretty impressive span of asphalt, steel, and concrete. Humans have been burning over 7 billion tons of coal per year for years. That is well over 7,000,000,000 tons in just 1 year. Recently it became 8 billion. So the notion that this may have an impact in some way should not be too surprising.
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  2245.  @ivanfiorani1363  I see you complaining.. but not contradicting single thing I said. Thanks for letting me know I am correct.
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  2246. Absolute Monarchy Now! If you actually want Absolute Monarchy then you should probably move to North Korea to see what it feels like.
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  2247. Correct. This is corrupt and imperialistic Russia proclaiming they are supposedly defending themselves by invading other lands.
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  2248.  @bubs9155  I thought the USA was criticized for invading Iraq? Also there usually should be a really good reason to start a war. That Putin-who is already a billionaire because he is so corrupt-wants control over more land is not a good reason. That Zelenskyy is honestly elected and Putin is jealous because Putin is not is also not a good reason.
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  2249. Not really. He was willing to engage in dishonesty here, ignore the concerns of Ukrainians (people on the receiving end of much of this), and kept mum about his own role in the rise of oligarchy in Russia (his experience includes successfully pushing for a rapid privatization in Russia while willfully ignoring corruption.)
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  2250. Gabbard lied for Assad back in 2017, specifically on his use of chemical weapons. Her own lying about who killed a bunch of people is a pretty good reason not to trust Gabbard.
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  2251.  @andrewdonohue1853  A lot of farmers are social conservatives these days. I don't blame them for having beliefs. That said, their support for Trump is self destructive. 1 of the many problems farmers face is competition from factory farms, and a Secretary of Agriculture under Trump essentially said he didn't care about small farms-that farmers should go big or get out. There are some longstanding issues like farmers don't like to deal with regulations but there are also some issues that Trump may make worse such as having too few workers (which Trump's anti-immigration efforts would do the opposite of help) and uncooperative weather (which Global Warming can make worse and guess what Trump's approach to that is).
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  2252. I take it the war your guy started with Ukraine has not been going well. Perhaps that is a good thing.
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  2253. "polymarket has trump in the lead". Isn't it owned by 1 of the guys supporting Trump?
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  2254.  @ryangraham71  I never said it was a vote for another candidate. What I did say is that in certain states (in a system that probably out to be done away with since it is not "TRUE democracy") some people's votes have more of an impact than others. In those states the real impact on many issues a lot of people say they care about will be decided-potentially including how well the right to vote will be protected.
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  2255. Mearsheimer has been doing propaganda work for Putin the last few years, why wouldn't Mearsheimer say that now as part of the pattern?
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  2256. I'm waiting to see if Russian trolls pop up here as often as elsewhere. Putin has not had success on the battlefield. So to get around the Ukrainians who are, pretty heroically, stopping him he looks to corrupt politicians elsewhere to undermine their own nation's interests and Ukraine's to help Putin by sabotaging Ukraine from behind-by cutting support Russia cannot do by itself. And no, it isn't that there are money problems. A well over $800 billion military bill is going through as we speak and it costs far, far less than that to help Ukraine. It isn't that there are popularity problems. Even if supporting Ukraine even more is less popular there are still pretty sizable numbers of people who want to maintain aid at the current level. It isn't ideology, some of the people who wanted to cut aid to Ukraine wanted to double military aid elsewhere. So claiming they want peace is a lie and can easily be called for the excuse it is by most people who examine such claims. Sadly that leaves it to corrupt politicians and how they are connected to or owe Putin. Some may owe him a lot of money and others may as well but they are also forces for corruption Putin himself is very corrupt thus their ally. Edit: Also in that press conference Putin claimed that Odessa-a city that is very much not Russian and Russian troop have never occupied during this whole war-is supposedly Russian. Thus showing he is trying to go around landgrabbing. Any excuse put forwards by his propagandists is undercut by that.
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  2257. I hope not but Trump may make WW3 more likely. Ukraine has been taking Putin's warmongering and holding it back. Betraying Ukraine would be like the betrayals of other nations when Hitler wanted to seize them and other nations let it happen-that ended up making Nazi Germany stronger and more aggressive rather than less. If Trump turns his back on Ukraine then he invites WW3 by being like a Chamberlain who invited WW2 while claiming appeasing Hitler would do the opposite.
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  2258.  @KRD2001  I suspect you're talking to a Trumper who is trying to yank chains.
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  2259. And thus allow Oliver Stone to prove he not a great man. How many times did Oliver Stone complain about others supposedly not being able to tell the truth when Stone himself was not.
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  2260. Would your statement be part of a new flavor of tankie?
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  2261. I wonder Misha gets paid to put out videos like this to make older rightwing people feel better regardless of what the facts are. Usually when I talk to people when there is a disagreement online if people bother to discuss facts it is usually the leftwing people who come closer to them. For example, are most of the 10 states with the worst murder rates Red States or Blue States and why is the crime rate in them so bad?
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  2262. As 1 person put it.. this guy voted for the Leopard ate my Gace party and then was surprised when Leopard decides to ate his face (or his wife's freedom of movement).
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  2263. We are the Party of Putin and it is time for 1 more of his agents to try to give me a PR boost. Otherwise the USA may not be in danger of a new recession and Russia may lose on its warmongering.
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  2264. Irony is, did they get right what D and D got wrong in season 8-perhaps they were paying more attention than D and D and could've made a season 8 that made sense.
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  2265. Good video and the anti-gerrymandering referendum mattered a lot. Stopping Republicans from rigging or trying to steal elections (again) resulted in the voters having votes that mattered. I noticed it has been Republicans stopping a national ban on gerrymandering getting through Congress. Pity more of them didn't support honest elections. And no, trying trying to lie about an honest election that he lost is not making things more honest. How do I know he lost? He tried to lie about the election results in my state and I checked on the details. I feel much better about mail in ballots where I live and that they result in honest elections that Republicans lying about elections and trying to move district lines to steal them.
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  2266. China has tried to move into Indian territory for many years. Would you be satisfied if China tried to do this to your nation?
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  2267. "Overall trade is a good thing, it has meant that many jobs and industries have been outsourced to countries with less rigid labor and environmental laws." This seems like a contradiction in minute 7. I almost downvoted at that moment. I get you may mean this is a downside but this is why labor and environmental laws should be in trade agreements.
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  2268.  @mannyfarfan9984  Or it can be good in the short term but bad in the long. You just got a shirt cheap-good, but what are the other costs associated with that? What if the town you live in lost its primary industry wages are dropping as workers look for jobs-bad. What if the nation with the factories making the cheaper shirts has less "rigid" environmental laws so never does anything to help deal with Global Warming-also bad.
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  2269.  @mannyfarfan9984  Thanks for acknowledging that. Just saw your comment now for some reason (not sure why I didn't get a notice before). It isn't that trade has to be perfect but we should be more honest about what the upsides and downsides are so that the rules made relating trade can respond to those issues.
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  2270. Feel free to anti-woke. But keep in mind must of what she was probably a lie Yes, I think she is lying. No facts or numbers in a math class? Really?? The more I think about most of what she said the less I think it happened.
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  2271. Because in this situation that would be yet another lie, he is already full up on those. Putin's warmongering is about trying to restart imperialism.
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  2272. In this case even if that quote is correctly quoted (I've seen fake quotes before) and the excellent author is correct there still is that a well educated (or well enough) citizenry makes the cult of IGNORANCE a minority thus handing control to the minority enables the cult of ignorance rather than hinders it.
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  2273.  @keepingit8797  The reason is because cultists don't like what it tells them and the propaganda people found can put to together a string of words regardless of the truth or lack thereof in those words. On being true (or accurate) mosts CNN watchers are not cultists, yet that is an increasingly reasonable thing to think about the GOP base. How many of them live in an echo chamber and do not hold their leaders to the same standards of truth/honesty that would be expected of most people?
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  2274. Ooh. Michael Moore was involved in a documentary that pushed outdated (and sometimes disproven) claims about renewable energy to support the even older claim that we supposedly need population control. Does that make any rightwinger support Moore now?
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  2275. Geopolitics exists yet so does morality. The existence of 1 does not disprove the other. Claiming so is using cynicism as an excuse to look the other way.
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  2276.  @President.GeorgeWashington  If you follow the direction the thread of comments after your initial remark went it drifted into the "no good or evil" cynicism I was remarking on. Though in your initial comment you said "Geopolitics shows us there are no "good guys and bad guys". Which lends itself to arguing there is no good or evil-a sentiment that is factually wrong. Nations may often act in their own interests in an amoral fashion but not always. And even if the governments' actions are amoral that sure doesn't mean they each cannot be examined to see if they are what people would define as good or evil.
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  2277. I agree with much of your list. The "mad queen" was not justified by Daenerys character (at that point and maybe not ever). People could rewrite the script to make it more possible but at the time this happens to her she has worked for good more than ill and while facing a cruel and dishonest enemy. At best it was poor pacing and possibly just forcing a character to be out of character to serve excess storyline that actually didn't bring much to the story in the end.
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  2278. Perhaps but several red states have single party rule and no socialism. They do have higher murder rates and several have underperforming economies on top of that but no socialism.
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  2279.  @BarbEbersole  Easy. It helps Ukrainians protect their cities and towns from Russian missiles. Those who put out the argument saying helping Ukraine prolongs the fighting often don't care about saving Ukrainians, they actually are trying to help Russia win by cutting supplies to Ukraine. If you remember what happened with Bucha when Russian troops occupy an area war crimes like torture, rapes, and murders of civilians follow. So having Ukraine lose would still involve deaths of Ukrainians-Russia would just try to keep the press from taking photos. If you wanted the war to end the war could end tomorrow if Putin stopped invading other nations. Just have the Russian military go home. But those complaining about supposedly prolonging the war usually do not suggest having Putin stop starting wars. That reveals a deadly hypocrisy. Also Putin's military was actually losing territory it occupied until Ukraine began running low on supplies. The notion that Russia would easily win was disproven a long time ago.
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  2280. "Well said. I'm voting Jill Stein. By pushing us to support Kamala Harris over Jill Stein, Mehdi exposes himself as a sellout". Is this the 1st bot post of the thread? BTW maybe Jill Stein would actually have some credibility if she didn't get support from a billionaire climate denier and warmonger. I've voted Green Party (which is supposed to have ideals) in the past, I'm thinking never again until she is no longer at the top of the ticket.
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  2281. I'm still glad about it, especially vs the person before him and how corrupt and incompetent that guy was.
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  2282. "cannon fodder for NATO's power play". Really?? You seem to be laying the propaganda pretty thick here. Ukraine wanted to join NATO earlier and wasn't let in. With the current war that Russia started showing that appeasement often doesn't work the nations that opposed Ukraine joining earlier are likely to think differently. Also Lex Friedman already interviewed Oliver Stone and let Mr. Stone's propaganda efforts (making excuses for Putin) flow. Out of the many choice distortions here I think another ironic one is "our cynical pawn". Ukraine is not a pawn. That is what Putin would prefer. Specifically for it to be his puppet-though if reports he wants to absorb Belarus when its current dictator dies are true them maybe even that would be enough for him right now. You call for Mearsheimer to speak. He can, but 1 of the things he has already said is that Putin sees actual democracy in Ukraine-where the elections mater and vote totals are reported honestly-are something he holds against the USA and sees as US interference. If accurate that is some pretty twisted and yet revealing thinking on Putin's part. It shows he wants Ukrainian citizens to not have a say in who runs their (not Putin's nor the US's) own government. Kotkin directly addressed the invalidity of Putin's actions. He mentioned Russia already recognized Ukraine as a nation. This means, as its own nation, Ukraine has the ability to make decisions for itself. Kotkin interestingly compared the Russian complaints Ukraine was thinking of joining NATO as an excuse to start a war to a rapist complaining a girl was wearing a short skirt as an excuse for raping her. Neither excuse actually excuses the action. In both examples the perpetrators are trying to cover for their unjust actions. Also as Kraut correctly points out, it is followers of supposed "realism" like Mearsheimer that provide cover from terrible things like military coups in Latin American. They put forwards the idea that big nations should be able to bully small ones and that they can be party to any horrible action as long as it is within their "sphere of influence" as Russia would like Ukraine to be and realists have already treated Latin America as for the USA. If you support the things Russia has done in Ukraine no matter how horrible then you should support the horrible things the USA approved of or did in Latin America. Not to would be hypocrisy on your part. If you oppose things like torture and military coups in Latin America (not approve of them because they are supposedly in a US sphere of influence) then you should oppose Putin's murders, support for oppression in, and now war in parts of Eastern Europe-including Ukraine.
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  2283. Trump tries to convince them he will make things better. Since he is an ally of Netanyahu (more than Harris is by far-she is willing to criticize Netanyahu over civilians dying-letting Trump back into the White House would be rewarding genocide. Plus Trump won't push Netanyahu to let food in like Biden has nor for a 2 State Solution like Harris will. On top of that Jill Stein-the Green Party candidate who got support from a warmonger and climate change denier-may get a few more votes as she is at the top of ticket that I once voted for and probably will not again until after she is gone. So not only does someone actively committing genocide get rewarded but someone else who is working to undercut the ideals she is expected to support may get some more recognition.   Sometimes people don't realize just how deep a hole can go.
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  2284. I have to call bs here. I've seen and read people on the political right complain about "Democrat run" cities-like was mentioned around minutes 12 and 13. This is deceptive. Usually blue states have lower murder rates than red states. It is the State government that usually makes criminal and gun laws-not the city. No joke on crime. The murder rate is much higher in Texas than New York. Alabama is often among the worst states out of the whole USA when it comes to the murder rate. Anyone remember how blue Minneapolis in blue Minnesota had some riots? What a lot of the rightwing media covering that story did not tell people is that Minnesota is frequently among the top 15 safest states-that is lowest murder rate. Remember when that Congresswoman Gabby Giffords was shot by a mass shooter? There were a couple of concealed carry gun owners in the crowd. So don't necessarily expect people carrying a gun to prevent a mass shooting. It is great when it happens. But it is also great when someone without a gun catches a gunman at the door of a building stops him there. I have an interest in history which may be why I came across this video and have listened to most of it before starting to write this comment. But I just had to stop when I started hearing political talking points that I knew were deceptive. And yes, complaining about cities without looking at the metro areas those cities are part of and especially the states those cities and metro areas are in is deceptive.
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  2285. I see 2 replies listed yet only 1 is visible.. Anyway. Does anyone think that only Red States have Blue cities?? Why is it that Blue States with Blue cities are safer and have lower murder rates than Red States? You mentioned Chicago. Yet Illinois with Chicago is still slightly safer than Red Missouri and easily safer than Red Alabama. Why is Blue New York much safer than any of these?
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  2286. Partly because Biden is a US President and this is a US ally. However don't be surprised to find out Netanyahu has been scheming to get Trump back so this would be rewarding Netanyahu for his killing of Gaza civilians. Also Putin probably has a hand in this. He has agents in the US and he is looking for ways to cause problems for the current only candidate who would stand up to him (that is Harris rather than Trump). So combine actual grievance, some bad internal treatment by the established Dems (allowing a Speaker at the DNC should have happened), plus some actual bad actors looking to take advantage of the situation.
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  2287. Funny how the opposite of most things you said are true. Even Russian speakers in Ukraine don't want to be under Putin's thumb-that includes Zelenskyy himself who was raised with Russian as his 1st language. Additionally Putin is a billionaire due to being so corrupt himself. Ukraine is defending itself against an invader and will likely survive. France and Germany don't even have that worry right now.
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  2288. @paulgibbon5991 I'm not sure if you struck a nerve or if clydewillis is just trying to take his emotional stress out on you because he ran away from boink800 because his intellectual dishonesty was being brought to light-specifically calling both sides supposed warmongers when 1 nation was on the receiving end of an invasion attempt and the other nation has yet to leave the lands it has illegally and immorally occupied.
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  2289. You mean you agree with Mearsheimer when he claimed Putin wouldn't invade Ukraine?
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  2290. Hi Ivan, invasion not the three week success Putin promised it would be? Too bad. FYI it is spelled Gaza and NATO is not involved. But you probably knew the 2nd part of that and spoke the falsehood anyway.
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  2291.  @lauchlanguddy1004  Nor should it.
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  2292. "Putin haven't invaded a single country that wasn't bombing civilians at Russian borders. What are you on about?" Is this the latest update to the lie that Putin supposedly invaded Ukraine to prevent a genocide? A genocide that was not happening and had not been despite Russian lies for years.
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  2293. 1 cutting thing about Trump is he isn't there and will not face questions as tough as Harris did.
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  2294. Well tankie, he was probably hoping with a 2nd term Trump could've ended NATO for him-which, if successful would've made taking not only Ukraine but other nations afterwards much easier for him. Now Putin is still trying but it is a lot harder.
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  2295.  @volslover1504  I would have more sympathy for the argument he was trying to increase funding for NATO rather than break it-from my POV breaking it seemed like a 2nd term possibility/goal with him. Also if comparing Trump to Biden on racism Biden is better for black people by far and happens to get less support from racists. So maybe what you said on that is not an accurate representation of the situation right now.
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  2296.  @volslover1504  That comment means little when coming from a someone holding a cup of kool-aid in his hand.
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  2297.  @volslover1504  right back at ya.
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  2298.  @volslover1504  Lol.
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  2299. I see some repeating of Russian falsehoods but not much else. Eastern Ukraine generally speaks Russian but largely does not want to be under Putin's thumb right now. If that wasn't the case Putin's government would not have had to lie about the supposed referendum results. Instead it did. As 1 Eastern European who was not part of this discussion put it they dragged NATO eastwards. They had lived under Russia in the Soviet times and knew it was not liberation-thus they wanted protection against a nation that had been willing to dominate them in the past.
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  2300. ​ @VLK-73  I guess thank you for highlighting the value of NSM since I'm pretty sure it is closer to the truth than what you wrote. Anyway had a conversation with a Russian speaking Ukrainian online. He pretty much hates the idea of Putin taking control of Ukraine and thinks of him as a murderer. That is the opposite of "being protected". If people Crimea were being protected then Putin wouldn't have lied about the Referendum there. That the option to stay part of Ukraine wasn't even on the ballot is a since that Putin was intent on his will being followed regardless of the views of the people there. If Putin were honest then he wouldn't limit options. Though lying about the results is still remarkably bad and, again, shows Putin was not intent on letting anything other than his will be reflected in the results. And I've heard the NATO bit before. 1st I put less credibility in it since Putin himself expressed no problems with NATO expansion at 1 point. But even worse is that Germany held up Ukraine joining so Ukraine wasn't even about to join NATO and Putin attacked after Germany tried to appease him over the issue. That reveals it is a likely a lie and has been for some time. And even if it was not a lie the whole rapist analogy fits since people generally aren't allowed to rape women even if those women put on a short skirt. So Putin has no good excuse for his imperialism.
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  2301. ​ @VLK-73  When talking to individual people there is probably some luck of the draw, but if what you said was correct about Russian speaking Ukrainians supposedly supporting Putin the odds would be against with Ukrainians like the 1 I spoke with having the views he does. Instead the opposite is true. Where do you get the Dnipro River idea from? I doubt that it is true. Especially since a majority in each of the areas East of the Dnipro River voted to be independent back in 1991. It was a closer margin than in Western Ukraine but it was still a majority in each of the Eastern regions. And those vote totals are something that goes beyond luck. Putin did not complain about NATO enlargement when he was in Rome 2002 and spoke of deepening NATO-Russian relations. Now that was only slightly more than 20 years ago but enlarging NATO was a topic at hand during that time. Now even if Putin does mind there are still 2 points which makes that not a good excuse. 1. Germany had been blocking Ukraine from joining NATO so Russia already had the appeasement it wanted before Putin tried to invade in 2022. 2. As Mr. Kotkin correctly pointed out that even if Putin minded is not an excuse and has no more validity than a rapist claiming a woman invited rape by wearing a short skirt (or some other article of clothing). Which of those 4 nations has the USA tried to annex? None. Where where you in 2001 when the USA was attacked? It is well established that if a nation is attacked it is not imperialism for that nation to go to war. The worst of those examples morally is probably Iraq-no massacres to try to prevent and outright invasion of a nation that was not planning to attack the USA as far as most people know.. and the USA didn't try to annex Iraq. Instead the USA withdrew its troops from Iraq when an agreement could not be made between the Iraqi (elected by the Iraqi people) government and the USA that would allow US troops to stay. That is not the action of an imperialist. So even in the worst morally of the 4 situations you mentioned it wasn't imperialist. Now if you opposed the USA's invasion of Iraq because you believe big nations should not be allowed to invade smaller nations then you should oppose Putin's invasion of Ukraine for the same reason. Meanwhile, Putin declared that Ukraine's government has no right to exist-disregarding that it is elected by the Ukrainian people-and already tried to annex parts of Ukraine. That is imperialist. The "real" aggressor in this situation is Putin. There is no silence or "crickets" about that. "Russia stands up to something" Russia is not standing up to anything in this situation. Russia is invading. Another nation-Ukraine-is standing up to Russia. Since you mentioned Afghanistan earlier and Russia falsely standing "up to something" earlier I'll point out it was report that Putin offered GWBush all the support he could want in Afghanistan if Putin would let Russia have control over Eastern Europe. GWBush did not accept because he was not in a position to accept as it would be ignoring the views of nations in Eastern Europe and that they were their own nations and not part of any empire. Thus Putin may have had imperialist urges and a disrespect for seeing other nations as other nations for years. "This type of hipocrisy is literally mind bobbling and it all comes from your side." This not only is this statement false but I would ask if your "side" is projecting.
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  2302.  @VLK-73  You never answered my question of which of those 4 did the USA try to annex. Nor where you got your Dinpro River idea. When I referred to "2001" that was a reference to 9/11-not Iraq. I don't think it was an "inside job". Speaking of inside jobs I think there is a stronger argument that apartment buildings that were bombed inside Moscow before the attack on Chechnya were an "inside job" but that also is a different topic. In the current war there isn't even an "inside job" cover-not that it was make Russia attack Ukraine better if there was as it would still be an invasion with Russia deciding it should be able to decide what another nation's policies and Presidents are if not an outright land grab.
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  2303.  @VLK-73  I saw your shorter post 1st-which is why I responded to that as it was the only reply you made. Anyway to address this comment.. "The Dnipro river is a rough divider that is used by historians and analysts, as far as which side is pro-Russian or anti-Russian. There is of course some overlap, but for most part the eastern part is pro Russian, because of the proximity to the Russian border and these people lived there for long time as Russians and part of the Soviet Union....it only makes sense" You said "used by historians". That is not a test of if the people living there like Putin or not. Moreover I already pointed out that in each region of Ukraine a majority of people voted for independence in 1991. While the margin was smaller in places closer to Russia the vote there was still a majority in favor of independence. So the history available doesn't directly disprove the idea that Russian speaking Ukrainians like Putin it does directly disprove the idea a majority of them see themselves as part of the Soviet Union or Russia. It does not make sense to claim that people who voted for independence a few decades ago supposedly want Putin now. I think it is quite possible a majority of them or their children who were too young to vote back in 1991 see Putin as a murderer and do not want him in control of where they live. Your Mexico scenario is wrong or a very misleading way to try to refer to Ukraine. President Zelenskyy was honestly elected-not appointed by the USA. "Russia would then install their puppet regime and flow weapons and military consultants into Mexico" Wasn't Obama criticized for not sending weapons to Ukraine? Again the history disproves rather than supports your analogy. And, again, President Zelenskyy was honestly elected by Ukrainian citizens as a whole when they voted-not installed by some other nation. "If the Cuban missile crisis could be used as an indicator, we already know the answer to that one." The US government didn't like Castro's revolution. That said, it never invaded officially itself (Bay of Pigs arguably failed or failed sooner because the US did not use its official military) and the "Cuban missile crisis" was over missiles. Not a coup. The Bay of Pigs makes me think a bit of Russian supported separatists in Ukraine's east-except it was actually Russia soldiers that shot down that civilian passenger jet as the supposed separatists order. And didn't Putin pro-claim the supposed areas separatists control are part of Russia anyway partway through this war? Not really aiming for independence after all. "Russia's patience had finally run out and this is the result." Other nations get to choose if they will ask to join NATO or not. If Russia doesn't like that then there is a question of if Russia had any "patience" in the 1st place. Instead such claims reveal that Russia views itself as having the authority to make other nations decisions for them regardless of if they agree. Out of order in terms of when you mentioned it but this was worth returning to.: "If you want to see some actual, independent journalism on this topic, look up Eva Bartlett." I did look up Eva Barlett. I found out she writes columns for RT-Russia Today. That is the opposite of "independent journalism". I already watched the discussion when Lex interviewed the person who made the documentary "Ukraine on Fire". That person is Oliver Stone. I felt he was full of distortions and excuses in that interview and would fully expect the same of a documentary he made.
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  2304.  @VLK-73  I'm only going to rely 1 time with 1 comment to the 4 you made. 1st and most telling is that you-not any media but you-said Eva Bartlett was an "independent journalist". I checked and found out she writes for RT or Russia Today so that is not true. Not only is it not true but when I pointed it out to you your response to to repeat the "independent" falsehood. And after you repeated a falsehood after I pointed out why it was a falsehood you called me "brainwashed" near the end of you last comment. Now there are other things I can point disproving the narrative of your comments such as that Zelenskyy recieved a majority of the vote from Eastern parts of Ukraine Russia didn't occupy and thus were still able to have honest elections while a significant portion of the people there are Russian speakers. But there is a problem. People can start having a discussion or even a disagreement with very different views but if they go over the evidence honesty they can see which of them is correct, if both are correct, or if neither of them are. But going over the evidence is very different from willfully ignoring the evidence and even trying to dodge it by complaining (or projecting) about other supposed propagandists and repeating a falsehood after why it is false has already been said. Maybe its just that I'm tired but when that happens it is a sign of dishonesty and also that still going on with the discussion is a waste of time since evidence will not be discussed honestly. I do not feel a need to waste my time right now. I don't know if I will return to this discussion thread. If you want for there to be a chance that I do you should start next reply you make with acknowledging that Eva Bartlett writes for RT or Russia Today.
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  2305. "Trump has 930 buisness ventures and over 8 billion dollars." % of those that are scams? Also Trump may not be a billionaire at all. He may simply be lying about how much money he has again. Kinda like he lied about releasing his tax returns.
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  2306. @CoryRoe-l2n Just in case you missed this.. "Trump has 930 buisness ventures and over 8 billion dollars." % of those that are scams? Also Trump may not be a billionaire at all. He may simply be lying about how much money he has again. Kinda like he lied about releasing his tax returns. So odds are good you are repeating bs.
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  2307.  @commanderiosifstalin4938  Putin tried to claim that. However, like much of what Russia has claimed, it was a lie. People looked into claims there was supposedly a genocide in Donbas, they found the claims were false.
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  2308.  @commanderiosifstalin4938  There was no 2014 coup. Calling it a coup is a lie. A corrupt former President of Ukraine fled his nation after generating backlash to his own action of breaking his campaign promises and then trying to use security forces on protestors (actions that at least 1 if not both came with Putin's urging). The Ukrainian Parliament ruled he had abandoned his office. There were no war crimes in Ukraine 2022 until Russia started committing them.
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  2309.  @BeginnerDad  Did you notice he tried to blame NATO for GWBush invading Iraq? This is a falsehood. Not only did NATO not invade Iraq but some members of NATO were very critical of the decision by the then US President GWBush to invade. So he is falsely blaming NATO. Same with Syria. He also tries to dodge discussion of the history of ethnic cleansing in what was Yugoslavia that led to NATO involvement and that Russia is currently involved with 1 of the factions in the ongoing Libyan civil war thus part of the blame for the destruction that has been happening in Libya for the last several years lands on Russia.
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  2310. Putin does. Putin started it and wants it to continue. Putin may pause it now since Russia has lost over half of its tanks and may want to make more before restarting the war but Putin has wanted this war for years. Ukrainians did not but are defending their nation anyway.
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  2311. A claim that is both wrong on the facts in general and mentioned in the video in specific. But Netanyahu would be rewarded for his actions by a Trump Presidency.
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  2312. This is part of Global Warming. Heatwaves and more floods.
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  2313. Would not be surprised if he puts in longer hours than you.
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  2314. Please don't put Alex Jone's face on Spider Man, that is an insult to a fictional character as Jones himself has tried to present fiction as fact rather frequently.
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  2315. Nice video but it doesn't go into the developmental/economic history of each nation. For example, during the time both nations were led by dictators the dictators of the Dominican Republic had more long term thinking where they tried to conserve their woodlands-yes they would use trees but they were careful about how many and also made sure to plant new trees to make sure the forest was never stripped. Haiti's dictators were more short sighted and stripped the forests, to make the impact even worse the kind of trees in Haiti (possibly due to the weather) grow slower so a stripped forest would take longer to regrow in Haiti than the Dominican Republic. I'm sure others can get deeper into foreign governments and corruption disrupting Haiti's development as well. When asking why a 2 neighboring nations are different it can really be important to look into the internal development of each and the related policies the governments of each put into place at different times.
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  2316. Could you please pin links to the missing websites the Trump took down and backup copies of the websites so people can see what Trump doesn't want seen?
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  2317. 2 people willing to trade distortions and lies if it suits their political goals can end up being quite agreeable with each other. Also Venus gets quite warm with its greenhouse effect and yet the fossil fuel guy (more directly related to the industry of the 2 though I'd expect both are on the take from it) has yet to suggest Venus a great place to settle and grow things.
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  2318.  @ericyarmey4454  He was the one praising a the notion of increasing the greenhouse effect. I just pointed out where that can go. A better question for you is do you want Earth to become like Venus since you seem to want to defend this guy.
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  2319. After Russia's initial invasion Ukraine only started losing ground after running low on ammo due to Putin sympathizers sabotaging aid for the last 7 months that most US citizens support going to Ukraine. Now that problem has been fixed.
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  2320. Hardly. Otherwise land wouldn't be so cheap there. But once they move there they want to improve things so voting blue is a way to do it.
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  2321. Seems you made a good comment. The Russian trolls and a few cheerleaders for warmongers noticed and had to respond
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  2322. BS The same people who oppose funding for Ukraine now are often trying to fight against accountability inside the USA.
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  2323. Good call. It may be worse. There are serious hints Bran can see possible futures which means he can manipulate others to encourage one future or another to happen. That the future he chooses to encourage to get the crown involves the massacre of thousands of innocents that kinda makes Bran a mass murderer.
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  2324. "Why should we foot the bill for Ukraines problems?" Ukraine winning saves the US money in the long run. Plus if Putin wins then he may start a war that directly involves the US later. That can mean not just spending more money but also US lives.
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  2325. The guy who wants Peace is Zelensky. If the Russian military would go back to Russia and stop attacking others there would be peace. Putin was already planning on attacking other nations after Ukraine. Having Ukraine surrender now would simply give Putin time to stock up on ammo so he is less likely to run out during the next war he starts which could be Ukraine again or someplace else-possibly someplace that would start a nuclear war. If you want peace how about stopping Russian warmongering that is what these wars are starting from.
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  2326. "It is if you like WAR". Please list the wars Liz Cheney started. I remember her from the 1/6 committee-maybe others forgot. I remember something else. Despite Trump claiming to be for peace he thought about launching missiles into Mexico and had to be talked out of starting a war with Iran. And that is without going into Trump setting up a possible third World War.
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  2327.  @tiffanybroce7855  Yes, after getting caught having people push Trump online. Plus it should not be ignored Putin's favorite Democrat-Tulsi Gabbard-is pushing for Trump.
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  2328. Agreed. Best way to approach season 8. Since it was contradicted by much in seasons 1-7 it can be said it doesn't belong as part of the story, maybe some other story but not GoT. And it isn't just the characters they messed up. In season 2 Davos (from King's Landing) said he "has never known bells to mean surrender". That makes a good chunk of episode 5 including its name nonsense (unless it happened in a Star Trekish mirror dimension).
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  2329. Interesting but he left some points out. 1st what is the cost of the roads he just mentioned? Do they come close to recovering their capital costs? I suspect no. 2nd, lines may run on diesel now but why not recognize that a train running on diesel still puts out less emissions per person than the same number of people driving. 3rd what about if the extra step is taken to electrify train routes? The company contracted to do the route in my state has experience with electric trains already.
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  2330. "The most significant difference between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris is Mr. Trump’s willingness and ability to expertly wield his presidential power to preserve and advance the position of the United States and its citizens." His multiple screwups including on something as impacting as covid showed this is bs. Also Trump wanted to shot missiles into Mexico and start a war with Iran, this Trump is a peacemaker claim is more dishonesty. He may set the stage for a new World War when better Presidents could prevent it.
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  2331. I don't thank Mr. Sachs for his lies here. Such as calling a corrupt President fleeing because of the backlash against his own actions (breaking his own promises for transparency and a trade deal with the EU then using force against protestors) a "coup". Nor his ignoring of repeated honest elections in Ukraine. Nor the role Mr. Sachs played in causing Russia to become the corrupt oligarchy it is today-he was 1 of the team pushing rapid privatization some years ago.
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  2332. "time we shut down anti-American operations like NPR"? Sounds like someone is getting his/her censorship monkey excited.
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  2333. Be ready to remind people of the corruption and problems they cause over the next 4 years and be ready to protect honest elections between now and then-Trump tried to steal the 2020 election I would say hopefully he will not try something like that again but hope isn't something to count on. Therefore do look for ways you can help ensure elections stay honest.
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  2334. Not really. She has gotten support from Trump allies to act as a spoiler and since Netanyahu wants Trump back that would actually be a reward to Netanyahu for much of the death and destruction he has caused.
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  2335. Neither one is really that moral in season 8 though. Bran either didn't care if thousands of innocents died or manipulated things to make that happen just so he could crown grab. Sansa or Sansafinger(as her tutors were Cersei and Littlefinger) becomes an oathbreaker within a day of making an oath to Jon (of all people) and is a selfish hypocrite by making northmen kneel to her after saying they shouldn't kneel anymore.
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  2336. Well, I strongly suspect she is lying in a youtube video to people. That is pretty misguided in itself. Yes, I'll bet she is lying. A math class with no facts or numbers? Really??
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  2337. Correct on the verbage. But the result is still an economic downturn if not collapse. Thus a good reason to not use it for finances.
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  2338. Lol. That is a funny but interesting counterpoint.
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  2339. The US was often rolling over for "the bear". Also this documentary did not go deep enough (IMO) into that Putin is disturbed by the notion that Zelenskyy is honestly elected while he is not.
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  2340. More like excuse making. He lost his job and his political party is likely to take a well earned loss. He is looking for some kind of scapegoat for the failure of Brexit to provide much of anything for the UK. Though he gets some credit for the minor criticism of Putin. Though he is still rather light on it-especially since he failed to mention Putin's deep corruption.
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  2341. You really are living down to the label of "SpinDoctor" aren't you? BTW I don't mind the 2 Korea's uniting-just not in the way North Korea tried by invading South Korea. Meanwhile the 2 nations are more likely to shoot artillery shells at each other and South Korea is a prospering democracy where its people vote in and out their politicians while North Korea is something of an aristocracy where people and their families are put in labor prisons if they protest against their rulers and life for most people is far worse than the North Korean ruling class. Though members of the ruling class aren't immune to political executions.
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  2342. Acknod Bikes. It is a reference to Russians drinking vodka. I don't if "dr" ron is claiming to have information we don't as to why Ukraine should've supposedly left Bakhmut earlier when its defenses seemed to be holding. But his remarks could be taking as pro-Russian.
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  2343. Most of Europe already puts in their 2%, those closer to Russia have been putting in more than that.
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  2344. Said by someone who does not have to be a Westerner (though may be anyway) to show his own arrogance.
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  2345. Interestingly enough many expect India to replace Russia in political power (Russia losing and Indian gaining). That is 1 change that would occur within BRICS regardless to what happens with China.
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  2346. Not really. I caught him sneaking in that Prager U (a propaganda bunch) is supposedly educational. That is straight up lying to people and with false claims like that he provided a good reason to keep other organizations around.
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  2347. Funny thing about this particular deceptive claim is that the people who claim it is too expensive to help Ukraine today in order to supposedly help people domestically (even though helping Ukraine does do that in the long run) are often the same people who say spending money domestically to help people here is too expensive and shouldn't be done. In sum they don't want to help anyone-domestically or elsewhere and even if it is a crisis like an ongoing war.
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  2348. Giving Putin-the guy who started this war-part of another nation as a bonus for starting this war is inviting more wars. Also ignoring Ukraine in making any "peace" deal (actually time to rearm for the next invasion Putin wants to do) would be a return to imperialism/great power politics where big powers get to decide things and smaller nations are ignored-even when their (the smaller nations) fate is in the balance.
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  2349. To be fair the danger is probably less to the people eating the food and more to the farmworkers working the fields and getting exposed. Smaller group of people at risk of cancer though it still means Mr. Moore is willing to lie, and keep lying, as long as the danger is to other people and not himself.
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  2350. It is common sense to try to defend your nation and Zelensky is trying to do just that. Putin sympathizers in the USA House of Representatives have been stalling help to Ukraine for 7 months but their ability to do this is being overcome by other members of the House of Representatives this week.
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  2351.  @tomdibattista3899  In other words you have rampant cognitive dissonance. Got it.
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  2352. Called a good investment. Helping Ukraine top Russian imperialism may prevent WW3.
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  2353. If Galloway supports and respects the ability of people to resist occupiers then he should be supporting Ukrainians opposed to Russian imperialism-especially those in areas of Ukraine occupied by Russia.
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  2354. This is a decent video. Don't go with Prager for too long though. Sadly the organization was started less to be educational and more to push partisan PR. Now partisan political folks can push their PR, but they are often honest enough to not call themselves a university when they do it. I hope S. Africa gets a less corrupt government-from across the ocean(s) I've read that can be an issue (though hopefully one that can be fixed.)
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  2355.  @RodMartinJr  Some people don't have the time to take apart and examine all the videos Prager points out-including the wide number of them that include dishonesty of some form or another. If they did then what you propose is a worthwhile idea. As things are Prager seems to exist for politics. I've seen over a dozen of their videos and most are basically undercutting liberals. One of the videos that is very partisan and also misrepresents US history focuses on Civil Rights and the Democratic Party. It ignores and misrepresents much of the 20th Century where the Democratic Party increasingly became the party of fighting for Civil Rights while the Republican Party became the opposite. It starts with, correctly, mentioning that the Republican Party opposed slavery but tries to rewrite history and leave important details unmentioned to mislead viewers about the history of both parties. EDIT: Anyway thank you for asking for an example and if you want I'll go into further details later-probably weekend after next if I can dig it out.
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  2356. "Also Kamala is a right winger." In the US Trump calls her a Communist or Marxist often enough. Granted she is running in the USA so that makes her more right wing than most humans.. but a better option for most humans inside the USA, in Gaza, and the world in general.
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  2357.  @spyfire242  Some people do care. Enough to sway the nation? Maybe and maybe not. It doesn't help that AIPAC showed it can defeat Democractic Congresspeople that do make a point of caring-that can make some politicians tread carefully. Meanwhile Republican Congresspeople care but more in a making sure Israel has plenty of bullets kind of way-(perhaps why Netanyahu wants Trump to win) yes the same people who complain about tax dollars being spent are also the most happy to spend them on Israel.
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  2358.  @phloxdiffusa  This would be 1 exception worth considering.
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  2359. Trump seems to like to cause people problems. My apologies on behalf of the USA and I would seriously doubt much good would come from any advice of his to the UK.
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  2360. It isn't honest nor science. He is doing PR and knows he is lying. For example, NASA had looked into those cycles he mentioned in minute 32 about a year before this interview and reported that they do not explain recent warming-thus he knows he is lying and figures most people won't double check so he can try to get away with it.
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  2361. Bran had good intentions? I didn't see him showing any at the end. You are correct in the Bran could've manipulated this all-including the King's Landing massacre into happening. There are specific points in season 8 where his actions make the massacre more likely to happen and if Bran can see possible futures that says some bad things-like he wanted it to happen.
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  2362. @TK Wallace I think the Take contradicted itself by implying Bran was both taking responsibility and then doing nothing. Perhaps he used his powers to pick which possible future he wanted and subtly worked for it to happen-which means Bran wanted the massacre to happen and was after power after all, even willing to kill thousands of innocents to get it.
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  2363. He is brilliant. Yet he has also been wrong. He was expecting Ukraine flat to lose last year and instead Ukraine has shown in can win. He is correct about some of the tactics Putin is using but overestimated how well they would work.
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  2364. Or avoid it. Ukraine was the nation that was invaded so it should determine what the peace treaty looks like in the 1st place. 2nd Chamberlain is partly to blame for WW2, so becoming like Chamberlain right now would probably increase the chances of WW3 rather than avoid them.
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  2365.  @dougm2250  Chamberlain!
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  2366.  @dougm2250  Most Nazis lean GOP (see skinheads for Trump). And yes, I know about Chamberlain's failure. That is why I mentioned it. Currently the biggest advocates of letting Putin do what he wants and ignoring it thus starting WW3 are in the GOP such as Marjorie Taylor Greene.
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  2367. And yes, the writers of this letter are either fools or should be ashamed of themselves. But it was yanked within a day of being released. Can the same be said of MTG?
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  2368. Thank you for these videos. I remembered that the Soviet Union had landed a probe on Venus that sent back information about the temperature but these added to both my historical knowledge and showed how repeated tries successfully resulted in more and more information making it back.
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  2369. Haru Krentz The USA put up with the Soviet Union having a military base in Cuba during most of the old war. There was a problem over missiles (which were removed due to a deal between Kennedy and Khrushchev) but the soldiers stayed.
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  2370. Do you want elections to be honest and for US citizens to be taken care of? Republicans are offering the opposite of both. It is Republicans who want to cut social spending. Even with disasters (something that has happened this year). Don't forget when Hurricanes hit both Northern and Southern states it was Republicans who wanted to withhold help-such as for New Jersey while Democrats gave help without question to Florida and Mississippi. On Putins war.. Putin started it. Giving him part of another nation as a reward for starting it simply encourages him to start another one again. Not to mention letting him off for all the war crimes.
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  2371. Jeffrey Sachs has already sold his soul to China. He was one of those pushing the Chinese claim covid was made by the USA.
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  2372. Oddly enough the guy who may actually be a "useful idiot" who Bernie encouraged people prevent from getting into the White House again. And did so for the sake of lives around the world-both inside and outside of Gaza.
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  2373. 1 party is still clearly worse than the other. It has largely been appointees from 1 party to the SCOTUS that are looking to tear up campaign finance laws.
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  2374. Old Sansa or the petty and oathbreaking Sansafinger that season 8 gave us?
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  2375. As bad as those corporations may be they did not decide Ukraine would not be allowed to ship grain to Africa. Putin is the person who decided to try to do that. Complaining about lobbyists is often good. But it is not a reason to ignore the specific person who was willing to cause a problem.
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  2376. Wisconsin is a purple state. I wonder how many people remember that Trump tried to steal the 2020 election by attempting to steal the right to vote away from 200,000 US citizens here 4 years ago. And that is on top of promising to get rid of the National Debt only to make it much bigger. For those worried about inflation-how much prices rise-it is ironic that Trump promised to fix it when inflation went up under him compared to Obama and Trump's current plans would increase costs according to those who checked them out.
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  2377. The warmonger Putin is for Trump this year.
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  2378. Koch Bros bought it. Have a couple of billionaires spending money telling significant portion of a third party that they really support you and over time the propaganda can sink in and have an impact. Liberty for the boss rather than the worker can get encouraged then.
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  2379. Yes in my state I'm under the impression a majority of the budget comes from donations. That said the money from government sources is still useful.
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  2380. Some folks who oppose sending help to Ukraine also tend to oppose helping US citizens. For the sake of people in both the USA and Ukraine it would be a good thing if those folks lose.
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  2381. Nice to see a video that tried to think about this. But I feel like the duality angle-while new and interesting-doesn't follow on the idea you have a choice. Anything Dany's brother related don't strike me as bad on her after all he did. The video claim Dany had a choice but the decision making process of a individual doesn't fit. It may encourage for people to watch again for more detail but the whole her friends died so she killed people that never hurt her and would have lived under her rule breaks that. She has a dragon and an army, if she wants fear she can deploy it when needed-this was not. It is a well done video encouraging more looks but I feel like it fails to live up to the idea that people have a choice because it restricts Dany going Mad Queen on if someone else killed her friends-and this results in her not punishing the someone who did it but those who did not. Even self-centered doesn't mean mass murderer.
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  2382. Bran was willing to manipulate others into causing a massacre of thousands of innocents that he was one of the few (if only) ones that even knew was a possibility. That is pretty power hungry. Bran could have chosen not to have a massacre but that would mean Dany or Dany and Jon get the crown.
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  2383.  @rozwalters5812  Yeah. But sometimes that is the French way in politics. I think he out to try to work better with the people in France's Parliament but I'm not an expert on what agreements could be made.
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  2384. @Ashphinchtersayswhat Not in Ukraine. Those deaths are due to Putin's actions.
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  2385. "Trump winning opponents of genocide over to his camp, it is about people not turning up to vote for someone supporting genocide" No on both. As a proper conman Trump has tried to trick so Gaza activists to join him when he has no intention of helping. Netanyahu wants Trump to back so allowing that to happen would reward those who commit genocide. Harris doesn't support it, Netanyahu does. Are Gaza activists aware enough to see through Trump and not reward Netanyahu? I'm glad 1 think that was mentioned is the complicating factor of AIPAC. AIPAC showed it can take down a candidate in a primary and activists supporting Gaza have not shown they can protect political figures that support them.
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  2386. India and Mexico are actually in the process of growing economically. Additionally if Russia had gone democratic that would likely have avoided the waste (in lives and resources) of the current war. Last but not least, there are levels of corruption in many democracies but democracy does offer a way to chip away at corruption by getting rid of politicians that are deeply in bed with the corruption. No promise that it will happen but it can.
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  2387.  @JAMAICADOCK  Never said it wasn't squalid in developing nations-democracies or not. That said India is still rising as a nation. Russia and China are both very corrupt and they don't have narco-cartels as an excuse as Mexico does. I suspect both-especially China-have a drop off in living standards in rural areas vs major cities. Much of Latin America and Africa are currently democratic. Asia is more questionable.
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  2388. We do have more military equipment to spare. So the USA would hardly be blameless if Ukraine runs short when it is both clearly fighting hard and on the morally right side of this war.
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  2389. I noticed that. Some may be genuine, some may be paid in rubles. Not always sure. But giving Putin what he wants after he started this war is not making peace, it is inviting more wars.
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  2390. If you want peace then don't give parts of other nations as a bonus to the guy (Putin) that started this war. The US ignoring Ukraine and making its own deal with Putin would be inviting more wars in the region plus a return to imperialism/great power politics with big nations deciding things and small nations as victims.
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  2391. If you support peace you should be writing letters to Putin encouraging him to stop starting wars and stop continuing them. Also that is required for peace to happen in this situation is for the Russian army to return to Russia.
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  2392. FYI there is strong evidence that the earlier plan for season 8 itself was for wildfire to be what wrecked the city. Some of the special effects people acknowledged some scenes with burning buildings were initially supposed to be wildfire/burning green. Additionally a piece of artwork commissioned for season 8 itself showed all the buildings in a scene burning green-in GoT dragonfire doesn't burn green and wildfire does. The note the artist wrote for the piece even specifically referred to wildfire interrupting a battle. Now if the show writers (D and D) were making changes that big as to why a major city burns and doing so after they had already started making season 8 it is safe to say they really weren't following some thought out plan supposedly put together from the 1st season. If such a plan even existed they had no qualms about making major changes to it on a whim.
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  2393. Excellent video maker.
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  2394. True. Though most of what she claimed probably never happened. Yes, I think she is lying. No facts or numbers in a math class? Really?? The more I think about most of what she said the less I think it happened.
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  2395. Probably from people who are there and can see that many Russian attacks are hitting homes and apartment buildings. She did make the mistake of not mentioning why a "double tap" attack occurs. It is 2 attacks 1 following the other after a bit of time passed so that people like firefighters, ambulance workers, and others are killed when they go to the location a missile has hit in order to help any victims of the 1st missile attack.
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  2396. @lippydalips4537 You are correct. @jaredschmidt8013 You are "gaslighting". Or just straight up lying. NATO never overthrew any "democratically elected government" to install a "puppet regime". If you refer to 2014 not only was NATO not involved but that was backlash by the Ukrainian public against a corrupt former President who used force against people protesting him because he broke some campaign promises. The backlash was strong enough he ran away and the elected Ukrainian parliament decided he abandoned his post. That corrupt former President can appeal to Ukrainian courts but while he is at it he can also discuss some corruption issues with them. Since then Ukrainians have gone through a couple of elections and, unlike Russia, their elections for President have largely been honest. So the only 1 trying to overthrow a democratically elected government in order to put a puppet in place is Putin-the guy whose talking points you've recycled a few of.
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  2397. "Are you angry you were convinced to get an experimental vaccination and told to carry a vaccination card to travel to certain areas and or lose your job as well for not complying?" In a word, no. That experimental vaccination probably saved my mom's life once she caught covid. Meanwhile a anti-vaccers have gotten a bunch of people killed, sometimes notable anti-vaccine people (where they arguably are adults who made their decision) and-depending on the vaccines avoided-sometimes children (of whom the same cannot be said).
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  2398.  @SKULLKR3W  I agree. I'm just curious what your source is.
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  2399. But did this happen in highschool or college? The claim that a that math class supposedly focused on feelings and not facts or numbers struck me as outlandish. The more I though about that and much of the rest of the video the more I realized that there is a good chance most of it never happened.
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  2400. Nice video. Only complaint is that gravity may not make someone fall faster. A metal ball falls just as fast as a metal ball that weighed multiple times what it did. Gravity pulls at the same speeed, the change is the amount of force involved.
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  2401. I wonder of Putin gave Oliver Stone a bunch of money when he needed it or if Oliver Stone simply decided years ago he would sympathize with Putin and now finds himself unable to tell the truth about Putin.
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  2402. Most of the people who left Ukraine are women and children. Seems you're doing a bit of bait and switch there. Thankfully (for pretty much most of humanity) Russian large scale offensives have generally been blunted, stopped or pushed back.
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  2403. Trump wanted to launch missiles into Mexico and praised Putin for starting a war with Ukraine, he is not a man of peace. When he was President he also supported Netanyahu annexing land no other former US President in modern history would.
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  2404. Note sure what barronvonschneider2834's point is by putting out that quote of Lincoln. Not sure how it relates to the specific question asked of Nikki H. That said the quote was historically Lincoln getting the USA ready for his latter declaration of all slaves in any state that was part of the Confederacy to be considered free. Thus a major help to abolitionist efforts.
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  2405. @JohnEglick-pl1sb not only was slavery the reason Southern politicians started the US Civil War-something they acknowledged in writing-but before that point the South was arguably overrepresented in Congress. The 3/5ths clause when determining representation in the US House meant that slaves would not be able to vote but their numbers added to the impact of their masters political power. Non-slaveholding states did not get the same boost in the # of representatives in the US House because they didn't have a population of slaves that could count towards their proportional representation but not be part of the actual voters on election day.
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  2406.  @scoby41  Helping Ukraine defend itself from a war Putin-not Ukrainians-decided to have for a relatively low price is not providing much protection. And would be far less expensive in the long run than WW3-which is where Putin is heading if not stopped.
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  2407.  @Youtubesucks15  Considering they already put in more than the USA and are likely to be Putin's target at some point after Ukraine it makes sense for Europe to help Ukraine defend itself against Putin's warmongering for a decade if not longer. Better the war (and war is all Putin is offering) stay farther away from your own nation's borders than closer.
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  2408.  @InqvisitorMagnvs  Possibly very true. We'll see if it responds to my comment on.
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  2409. Trump can only lead us down wrong path if he gets elected. I'm hoping to help prevent that.
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  2410. Hi tankie.
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  2411. Are you planning on killing people for having different beliefs? If no then good. I think it is a sign you are trying to live as a good christian including abiding by the 2nd most important commandment (love your neighbor as yourself).
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  2412. I strongly suspect she is lying about what happened in the video. For example, that she supposedly talked about "feelings" but not facts or numbers in math class? Really?? So asking for a name would probably get her to either make a name up or lie about a college or university that does exist.
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  2413. Odd how correctly you say they omitted it yet Biden was still the hardest on Putin. In comments further below others accuse Biden of blowing it up (without the evidence to support the claim). Regardless it is a fair point to make that it should have been included. That said it is less important than discussing an active shooting war so if a choice had to be made in terms of what to cut then it is not unreasonable to say they included something more important.
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  2414. True. Plus the rest of the EU just told Orban to stop messing with supplies to Ukraine (he threatened to veto the latest EU support for Ukraine and may have been told other members of the EU they would veto his ability to veto if he did) and at it seems to have worked-thus the EU has agreed to do something worthwhile to help Ukraine. Is there a good way for the US to follow that pattern?
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  2415. "i hope US citizens get to keep their tax money for themselves and not to send it to foreign corrupt governments. individuals could still send their money if they so wish" The US government should stop sending help to Ukraine when the Russian military stops attacking it. Not before. Funny how a trio of things that are left unmentioned here are 1st how profoundly corrupt Russia is, 2nd many of those who oppose helping Ukraine oppose helping US citizens so it isn't like that money would be spent on US citizens anyway, and 3rd the amount of money that goes to Ukraine is small compared to what the US government spends anyway so it is hardly a hardship.
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  2416. "and even Brazil wants to join BRICS" This would be you showing you don't know what you are talking about.
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  2417. I was pointing out you don't know what you are talking about a you didn't catch a few things you are missing. 1st, Brazil has been part of BRICS for a long time. 2nd, multiple nations that are part of BRICS are rivals and may even go to war at some point. 3rd, some nations may not want to pay for their rivals screwups-an easy example is do other nations want to cover the costs of Russia's unjustified current attempted invasion of Ukraine? They have their own economies they could spend that money on and so probably would not want to.
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  2418. "First, in politics, objective reality means nothing. Russian perspective means everything, and they see the world through the existential lens." This is either an argument to let Russia lies & propaganda dictate how the rest of the world acts or delusions. Neither are good arguments. Considering that Putin went through another rigged election there is a good chance he knows he is lying-1 of the many things he resents Ukraine for is its honest elections. Now maybe Putin is delusional but such delusions are unlikely to end with compromise.
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  2419. My apologies for what the Orange man-child in the White House is doing to you guys. I have little doubt it will cause problems for both the USA and Canada if he keeps going at it. Sadly that may be the point. I noticed President Musk likes Argentina's current President and was happy to get a show chainsaw from him. Thing is Argentina's current President put Argentina into a recession and more than doubled the poverty rate.
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  2420. Gabbard wanted the US to intervene in order to help Assad and supported Putin starting a war with Ukraine. Neither of those signs of someone who wants peace.
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  2421. Mearsheimer is providing a propaganda pill. Lying about the state of Russia's economy and military is shilling for Putin.
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  2422. Sounds like the event Stein claimed to have supposedly stood up to Putin at while never actually standing up to Putin.
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  2423. Hi Ivan, the three week invasion not going how Putin promised? Ukraine still exist despite your leader's efforts? Oh well.
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  2424. Or this guy could say multiple things to Jeffrey Sachs.
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  2425. I see Jimmy Dore is pushing Putin's propaganda. The former officer on Fox Business has been pushing the idea Russia should annex part of Ukraine in past years so that he goes on the air to push Putin's propaganda now shouldn't be a surprise. He knows very well that Putin wants more than "neutrality" since he himself had come up with excuses earlier to encourage other people to let Russia landgrab. To say Russian forces were "too gentle" when they are hitting civilian areas is also bs. Also exactly who and what is "debunked as lies" according to this former officer? I can remember earlier this year when Putin himself said the Russians troops were just doing training and would be heading home afterwards. That turned out to be not true as those Russian troops are now very much inside Ukraine and attacking Ukrainians. This guy went on Fox Business to push bs and when that wasn't enough Jimmy Dore just repeated it on his show.
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  2426. Probably, however now 1 of the things we can do is take his advice seriously.
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  2427.  @firekingsmom2958  If the law matters then no. But Trump doesn't care about the law too much. Don't forget he already said he would deport the Haitian refugees in Springfield Ohio and they are legally there.
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  2428. The point of the EU is it is big enough that its economy can match China's. Since China is facing both a debt problems and a shortage of young people that is not an impossible task.
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  2429. They both are.
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  2430. I see the sarcasm is strong with you.
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  2431.  @Warie101  It was both a modified quote from a movie and a compliment. He was being very sarcastic and did a good job of it.
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  2432. Don't forget that it was realists with arguments in favor of big nations having "spheres of influence" within which they got to bully smaller nations that are arguing in favor of Russia now. If you want people in the different nations in Latin America to have the freedom to chose their own governments (such as elect them) then you should support that for Ukraine as well.
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  2433. "Now, even many democrats more and more openly express concerns about Biden's declining cognitive abilities." I saw 2 videos not long ago. 1 was of Biden supposedly waving and staring into nothing and the other was of him waving and giving a thumbs up to some pharachuters. Thing is they were from the same event. The video making Biden look prone to wandering and staring into nothing was edited to not show they people he was looking at and signaling to.
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  2434. Dems supported getting food to Gaza. Trump did not. Dems support a Palestinian nation. Trump does not. Trump has a record of supporting Netanyahu annexing land no other recent US President would. Trump and Netanyahu both get Adelson money.
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  2435.  @ironblud  "endless corruption for personal financial gain" Sounds like the Trump White House.
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  2436.  @ironblud  "What was so horrible about Trumps first term as president?" He was corrupt-appointing lobbyists to run the agencies keeping track of the companies the lobbyists worked for. He tended to make problems worse rather than better-increasing the amount of pollution rather than decreasing it, promising to get rid of the national debt then increasing it by a lot and more.
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  2437.  @user-cq6dg6ql9j  Government jobs are part of GDP. Between the 2 candidates 1 see a woman offering to do something about price gouging and a guy who would further enable it-provided he gets a kickback.
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  2438. Or he figures people won't double check when he lies to people so just does that.
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  2439. Mr. Mearsheimer displayed the opposite of historical knowledge during part of this video. Former US President Obama was coming up with excuses Ukraine supposedly couldn't join NATO after 2014-this is the opposite of the USA supposedly doubling down like Mearsheimer claimed. The problem Mearsheimer isn't acknowledging is that Obama did listen to the supposed realists and as he did Putin was dreaming about conquering the rest of Ukraine.
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  2440. You would have to be a citizen of the UK or some other "Western" nation in order to be part of the "we" you refer to. Don't see much evidence you are. As for Cummings, he is probably just looking for a way to come up with excuses for Brexit's problems.
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  2441. @ Good point. Democrats and Republicans were happy to talk about Jan 6 before but not now. Interesting the Epstein files are not getting released either.
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  2442. @ Yeah, I saw multiple BLM protests as they passed me on the street a few years ago. Nobody breaking doors or windows-different from what I saw in the videos from Jan 6th.
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  2443. Thing is she is probably lying. The claim that they supposedly talked about "feelings" but not facts or numbers in math class convinced me of that. The more I thought about the rest of what she said beyond that the more likely it seemed to me that was probably made up too.
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  2444. Except Putin is currently the only leader that has been threatening to use nukes during this situation and also that Putin-not Biden is currently trying to wipe another nation off the world map (and thankfully failing).
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  2445. You are correct. But you forgot to mention 2 things. 1st, Biden has been pushing to get food into Gaza and Harris will push for a 2 state solution. Netanyahu doesn't have to worry about either if he gets Trump in. 2nd, Allowing Trump back into power would reward genocide.
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  2446.  @eemoogee160  Hmm.. "feckless".. sure. But "war mongers"? No. Big no. Woodward's book is revealing Biden put effort into trying to talk Netanyahu down. Do you often call those trying to avoid larger wars warmongers? Are you supporting the same Jill Stein that got support from a warmonger and climate change denier? BTW I've voted for Green Party candidates before and plan not until she is no longer at the topic of the ticket.
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  2447. You claim has already been disproven during the Cold War-the Soviets made a military alliance with Cuba through most if it and Cuba is still there today.
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  2448.  @barronvonschneider2834  And your point is what exactly? Each time I was responding to a quote you made but didn't include the context of.
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  2449.  @princybella6  That "Border States" weren't included does not mean the that Emancipation Proclamation (aimed at Confederate States) was not a huge step forwards in ending slavery, it was.
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  2450.  @barronvonschneider2834  You: "You could have tagged me and added context." also you: "It didn't need context". Kinda contradicting yourself to an extent. Also the context was useful to avoid missing the point that it was part of a major step forwards in abolishing slavery.
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  2451. goddosyourself7970 Yes edgelord, it matters if it died. Both morally and legally.
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  2452. I see someone has drunk too much Russian propaganda for today.
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  2453. He is a decently well known actor in Russian speaking areas who is also a better President than Russia has right now. On top of that he was honestly elected-unlike Putin.
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  2454. Exact quote from Myorkas and source please.
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  2455.  @ElizabethF2222  Source? FEMA website does not say that. Under its Rumors section it directly said the claim FEMA money was spent on "border related issues" is "false". So you are repeating falsehoods.
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  2456.  @jeffmancuso2715  I see people claiming something and not being able to cite an actual source. The closest thing to a source that was mentioned actually (the FEMA website) said that what was being claimed is false. My guess is if there even is a video of Myorkas-a huge if at this point-talking it was selectively edited to misrepresent the situation or whoever is spreading it lied about what he is referring to. And that is if there even is such a video.
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  2457. But at least 1 of them reference his own earlier bs when trying to make a claim.
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  2458. Good question. Don't know the answer. Historically Russia has been responsible for the deaths of millions of Ukrainians so there is very good reason for Ukrainians (of most ages) not to want Russia controlling their lives and they are fighting for their nation's survival. That said Russia puts out plenty of propaganda so it wouldn't be any shock if this video was 1 more piece. Recently Russia's foreign minister was laughed at for falsely trying to claim Russia didn't start this war.
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  2459.  @brainwawe  Thank you. Oddly enough I cannot see my earlier comment any more. Though I suspect I mentioned that back around 2014 Putin said he could defeat Ukraine in 2 weeks and now in 2024 the war Putin started has gone into years and Ukraine still stands.
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  2460. It is even worse because they don't care about any tax policy as it relates to Bran. So this claim to critical thinking seems to be fake.
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  2461.  @IntellectOnly  Don't get?? I don't know why he tries to cough up excuses for Putin but that doesn't mean I cannot spot that he is. He wants so speak of lies? How about the lies of omission he does in this interview. He never mentioned Putin declaring Ukraine was not its own nation. He doesn't go into that Russia invaded Crimea back in 2014 and that Ukraine has been blocked from NATO membership by multiple members of NATO in the years after. Nor does he mention that Putin's kleptocratic government recreating a system that is edging closer and closer to that of Russian Czars-who were often starting wars. The USA didn't order the Russian military to invade Ukraine, Putin did. Mr. Sachs spent several minutes trying to dodge acknowledging that fact and his (Putin's) responsibility for the current situation that goes along with it.
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  2462. Russia is losing so far. Putin has said he could conquer Ukraine in three weeks. Instead it is years later and Ukraine is very much still there-even preventing WW3 while it is.
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  2463. 1 other thing. Elon Musk has been censoring people. Not only did he go along with it when some other nations wanted to censor Twitter (so much for being pro-free speech) but Elon Musk censored Jack Dorsey (someone who has a more than a little experience with Twitter). Taking a look at the book bans and banning talk of Global Warming by DeSantis and Elon's prior liking of the guy its safe to say Elon doesn't have much of a problem with folks censoring stuff.
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  2464.  @anonygrazer3234  Having rules against posting racist stuff like Neo-Nazis like to is not the same as trying to censor people who used to be part of the company you now own because they can point out how inaccurate your claims are. 1 is a general behavior rule while the other is censorship for personal gain, playing politics, or pride.
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  2465. Hah. I've seen this lie about a half dozen times already. The same people that want to cut aid to Ukraine want to cut funds for things that help at home.
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  2466. So you complain about genocide and corruption only to reward it? Really?? You argued "for the sake of campaign contributions" yet I'd like to know just how much money Adelson (who also sent funds Netanyahu's way) has sent to Harris. We know Trump has taken in $100 million of Adelson money. We also know Trump supported Netanyahu annexing lands no other recent President had. BTW people tried Trump as the "nuclear option" to blow things up back in 2016 and part of that legacy is are SCOTUS members who have protected corruption both in politics and amongst the court they have membership. The system doesn't necessarily get fixed by blowing it up. It often gets fixed by people who want to reform it. Ironically blowing up systems is something fascists seem willing to do in order to consolidate power for themselves. Something that would be less concerning if there wasn't the possibility 1 notable fascist is actually on the ballot.
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  2467. Good for these people that they can recognize some of the problems Trump poses. Especially the 1 woman who pointed out her husband supporting Trump means he would be supporting someone that does not live up to his own self proclaimed ideals.
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  2468. So you watched a youtube video where the young woman probably lied to you a bunch of times. It happens. Youtube generally does not stop people from lying in the videos they put out. So that is what we have here. If you watched a bunch of other videos where people were also dishonest that doesn't actually give you a good spot to judge how things are. See if you can find someplace else for your info where there is more honesty.
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  2469. Because of the impact putting his suggestions in place would have.
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  2470. Not really a movement. More an agent of the GOP trying to swing another election the GOP's direction. If Stein wasn't an agent of the GOP why would she get help from 1 of Trump's lawyers and 1 of his billionaires. I also noticed she was purposefully dishonest about differences between Republicans and Democrats on Gaza and lied to people about Republicans undercutting Democratic efforts on student debt.
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  2471.  @RashidNextLevel  A "moral voice" wouldn't have to lie about the major parties-Stein does. For example she falsely claimed Democrats supposedly stabbed their voters in the back cutting Student Debt while never mentioning the role Republicans had in undercutting Democratic efforts. I've voted Green Party before but there is no way I will with Stein on the ballot. She has been getting help from Trumpers too.
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  2472. Rogan endorsed Trump. I may think that Harris should've gone on Rogan's show but Rogan's action shows an utter lack of judgement and taking things-like Trump's own record-into account.
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  2473. Finland wants to be in NATO. They are on the border of a larger nation (Russia) with a warmongering ruler (Putin). That is a pretty good motivator. Finland waited until Putin's warmongering got bad enough. Other nations didn't wait that long like the Baltic states because they are much smaller and a Russian turn towards aggression would've been an even greater threat to them. Also if you pay close attention to the Colbert video rather than Dave Smith's misleading descriptions of it you may notice the guest on Colbert's show said the Ukrainians are making a choice. The trick was getting it so Ukrainians could make their own choices without Russia invading them to prevent them from having the ability to make their own decisions.
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  2474. Instead of imaging people chanting look at the facts of what we do know about Tara Reade and the chances her current (since by her own description in April 2019 no sexual assault took place) accusation is true or not. Facts matter.
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  2475. @Runk-u3y I think Putin has other and more active propagandists. That said Mearsheimer has done his share of bs. Perhaps the last time he had an interesting idea is when he opposed Ukraine giving up its nukes out of the concern that if it did then Russia would be tempted to attack it.
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  2476. Don't think it was more educational than it actually was. Oddly enough John Kennedy said Prager U was an educational organization-this is a lie. It actually deals in political propaganda and that has been its purpose for several years. I noticed he pointed out NPR interviewed Mr. Avenatti. What he (likely purposefully) avoided mentioning is that NPR reported on and shared information about him during much of his time in the public spotlight-including that he was charged with committing crimes and later found guilty in a court of law. If you want examples as proof here you are. Attorney Michael Avenatti, Sometime Scourge To Trump, Now Faces Federal Charges (3/25/2019) Michael Avenatti is convicted of stealing nearly $300,000 from Stormy Daniels (2/4/2022) Avenatti gets 4 years in prison for cheating Stormy Daniels out of book proceeds (6/2/2022) John Kennedy didn't mention that nor did he even try to get into if any of the details reported in the stories he had headlines of were wrong or were good reporting as far as most people (including the reporters doing the work) knew. His criticism is done in a misleading way and what he mentioned about Prager U was an outright lie. Trying to be educated is a good thing and listening to others is an important part of that. But be careful about being tricked by people who are being dishonest to manipulate others.
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  2477. Republican propaganda is plenty active online it seems. Maybe is they were as concerned about fixing problems as they were as lying about them or creating more then things would be even better here in the USA.
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  2478. BS. She there to reward Netanyahu but getting Trump into the White House-Trump was the 1 who was willing to let Israel annex lands no other US President would.
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  2479. The Republicans have spent $1.5 million helping her in the swing state of Wisconsin and that probably is not the only state. So it isn't like money isn't coming her way. Granted it is money that comes with the intention of undermining the things the Green Party stands for but it is money coming Stein's way.
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  2480. He often is. But not always. Back in the 1990s he wrote against Ukraine giving up its nukes and pointed out that if Ukraine did then Russia may be tempted to attack it. Seems he lost his better judgement since that point.
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  2481. Biden did that in a show of civility-not out of support for Trump (who he opposes openly).
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  2482. He was wrong on the facts in this very video. Former US President Obama was in office in 2014 and he listened to realists like Mearsheimer. He came up with excuses why Ukraine supposedly could not join NATO. Claiming the USA was supposedly doubling down is a lie.
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  2483.  @andywilson2406  Correct. And, unlike the Warsaw Pact, NATO has never invaded a member nation. Defensive alliance vs system for Moscow to maintain control over other nations regardless of if the governments or people there wanted it-see Hungary for the best known example.
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  2484. I wonder if not having proper documents is part of avoiding having to pay widows for getting their husbands killed. After all, even conscripts have families that are promised death benefits.. correct? Perhaps they are trying to cheat families out of those benefits.
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  2485.  @LaMostraVia  Like I said ealier. Moral interest and national interest. Plus Biden has experience-he saw what happened before when Putin was not checked. Now you may not want to get into if what Putin is doing is right or wrong but that it is wrong makes it very easy for many people to oppose. So regardless of what you want that is still a factor. Also the pattern of the initial invasion suggests Putin had other nations in mind to attack after Ukraine. Thankfully Ukraine proved harder than he expected. Putin's statements can lead 1 to believe he wants to reconquer any territory a Russian Czar once held-which involves multiple nations of which Ukraine is only 1 but still a large 1. Additionally some strategic theorists argue he wants to extent Russian control out to a string of mountains that go though part of Europe-thus again meaning several nations are what he has in mind to attack at some point. Setting all that aside it is still a blatant display of imperialism. That alone makes this destabilizing because borders stop meaning anything if imperialism gets going again. FYI Some of the nations Putin would like a chunk of are already in NATO-thus attacking the could mean nuclear war. Best stop Putin before that happens in order to make that possibility less likely.
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  2486.  @billybarnes1763  Buying time for re-equipping and stocking up on ammo is not making a peace deal. Ironic that you call others "sheep" yet repeated a the "peace" lie. And no, NATO did not "encroach" so much as other nations-correctly as Putin is showing-wanted to join NATO for their own safety.
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  2487.  @billybarnes1763  "Youd do well to study history" Not going to fault you for the typo-I make them to anyway. But I do know some history. For example that NATO never invaded 1 of its members to crush a popular revolt while the Moscow controlled Warsaw Pact did. Also 1 of the primary things the KGB did was try to keep the population under control. Now more recently the US was so eager for Ukraine to "stock up" that under Obama it refused to provide weapons. Now if I was Ukrainian and Russia has moved its army into Crimea (part of my country) as well as given a rebel group in the East control over so much weaponry that it shot down a civilian passenger jet then getting more weapons would be a sane thing to do considering how unneighborly a neighboring nation was. Also Ukraine wanted to get into NATO for years and Germany vetoed it at the time in an attempt to appease Russia. Which Putin disproved the value of last year. Of course that would be to miss 1 of the main reasons NATO is brought up in discussions like this. To try to provide cover for arguing that imperialism is ok as long as it is being practiced by Putin.
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  2488.  @billybarnes1763  "you are a pro NWO stooge that drank WAY too much of the anti-Putin punch" I see.. the only way to oppose a supposed "New World Order" is to embrace dictator run imperialism. The sad irony of you running off to conspiracy land is that you are supporting authoritarianism in the real world.
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  2489. Mr. Sachs sure was there.. he helped make Russia the corrupt oligarchy it is today. He was 1 of the crew that pushed for rapid privatization in Russia years ago. Today he repeats lies to excuse Putin's Imperialism.
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  2490. Lol, you said it in a rather blunt way. But sometimes obvious questions have to be asked to be sure an issue is addressed directly.
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  2491.  @Randomcliff01  "We have also seen another movie before "The Fall of the Soviet Union" now we are seeing revenge drama where the US pays for the way they betrayed Yeltsin, bombed Yugoslavia but never atoned for the sins, etc." Is this a statement by someone living in Sweden or Russia? I noticed he left out that bombs were dropped on Serbs in the former Yugoslavia to stop/prevent ethnic cleansing. Also that Yeltsin betrayed Russia by both promoting Putin and consolidating power in Russia's Presidency.
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  2492. You are only the 20th person I seen come up with this already disproven analogy. Cuba had Soviet military bases through most of the Cold War. Also the "world community" seems to take an increasingly sour view of nuclear powers absorbing other nations-perhaps it is sane for them to do so.
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  2493.  @gondolacrescent5  Actually I already disproved your analogy in my earlier reply. I already pointed out that Cuba made an alliance with the Soviet Union during the cold war-an alliance that even included Russian bases and military forces inside Cuba. That you aren't the only person making an inaccurate analogy doesn't make the inaccurate analogy somehow accurate. Swap out Canada for Cuba and China for Russia in your analogy and we end up discussing something that already happened.
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  2494. Piers should've pointed out when Mearsheimer lied, for example claiming that Ukraine took more causalities than Russiai.
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  2495.  @davidl.7317  I see he didn't reply to you.
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  2496. Actually he is lying while faking being blunt. For example, NASA had looked into those cycles he mentioned in minute 32 about a year before this interview and reported that they do not explain recent warming-thus he knows he is lying and figures most people won't double check so he can try to get away with it.
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  2497. He is referred to as the likely nominee at this point. Plus he already installed a lot of his followers in positions of authority within the GOP.
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  2498. He doesn't try to do much to change Louisiana's status as a high crime and poverty state but during this commentary he finds time to be dishonest-such as calling Prager U educational when it longtime primary focus has been making political propaganda.
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  2499. Because this would be ignoring the desires of Ukraine and a return to imperialism and great power politics were side nations are told what will happen rather than deciding for themselves. If Russia's army returned to Russia that would bring peace and would be a good thing. If we simply have a ceasefire now then Putin will rearm for his next attack (Ukraine is not the 1st neighboring nation he has) and he will attempt to hold on to all Ukrainian lands the Russian army currently occupies, continue to oppress any Ukrainian citizens currently under Russian occupation, and not be held accountable for the large number of war crimes Russia has committed during this war.
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  2500. Hopefully it won't go nuclear. There is a problem that Ukraine is probably the third neighboring nation Putin has attacked. So if Putin get a form of "peace" that lets him keep Ukrainian land he occupied then it invites him to do it again. Thus we don't get peace but a rearming pause before the next war. If Putin keeps going he will eventually hit a NATO nation and then it probably will go nuclear in the worst way. So having him lose in Ukraine is probably the best outcome in the long run and this would be nuclear or not with a strong preferably not.
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  2501.  @gwenhetzler1081  I'm sure most parents want their daughters, and sons, to grow up and not be victims of a war. That is a very human thought. She probably has better odds of growing up in a safer world if Putin is stopped now. If he is successful in his war on Ukraine he will probably start other wars plus be an example for other authoritarian potential invaders to follow.
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  2502. By "good" do you mean deceptive? For example, you notice how they claimed to compare states in this video and then suddenly never actually compared crime rates in different states? That is because blue states often have lower crime rates. They mentioned both New York and Texas in this video, but not that the murder rate is much higher in Texas than New York.
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  2503. I'm curious, why all the talk of court systems and a specific court case under a video not about them that does have some important info about something else?
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  2504. Putin didn't win election-he rigged it.
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  2505. Correct. Why would people from the North want to be independent if they wanted a Stark king and see Bran as a Stark. Perhaps this is a sign Sansa has gone Littlefinger and is actually out for herself-being so immoral as to abuse the sacrifices of others (the Northerners) for her own personal gain. If Northerners weren't supposed to kneel anymore why does she make sure they do to her-kinda self serving and hypocritical.
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  2506. More likely this guy is a liar and fraud. For example, NASA had looked into those cycles he mentioned in minute 32 about a year before this interview and reported that they do not explain recent warming-thus he knows he is lying and figures most people won't double check so he can try to get away with it.
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  2507. You should believe lies less often-much less. Not only was President Zelensky elected President with a clear majority years ago but most Ukrainians still support him now.
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  2508.  @debbiekern2841  He does not claim that, a poll done of Ukrainians shows it.
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  2509. Seeing your nation invaded is a good reason to ask for help.
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  2510.  @paulhrabina161  Does getting a speeding or parking ticket make people "criminals"? If you say yes then you are being consistent. If you say no you're not. Being inside the USA without proper paperwork is not following the proper procedures. However it is also not raping, nor mugging, nor murdering people. The latter is what is more often thought up when "criminals" are discussed. Also the US Constitution Article 1 Section 8 seems to contradict you on DOGE. Moreover what specific sentence or sentences in Article 2 give permission for DOGE to be doing what it currently is?
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  2511. Another day another distortion. Those who would like to undercut Social Security tend to also want to undercut Ukraine. That reveals something.
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  2512. No they don't. Conservatives don't care about character these days-see the White House for evidence. But it is not limited to there. But Conservatives not caring about character does not prevent them from claiming to-it is just one more lie.
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  2513. Very good question. Mearsheimer did predict that Putin wouldn't invade Ukraine (argued Putin wasn't that stupid) but since that didn't hold up Mearsheimer has gone on to making excuses for Putin.
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  2514. I do, yet that was not 1 of Putin's aids. It was the then sitting President of Russia. I have zero doubt that Putin tried to influence elections. You can question what % of Trump getting 1 term in the White House was due to Putin vs other factors but Putin did try to influence the election.
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  2515. I welcome it as would many Ukrainians. Ukrainians have earned and fought for their freedom.
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  2516. Oh look, another bot in service of Putin.
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  2517.  @Reciya-f3y  Correct.
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  2518.  @nelsonking  I call bs. Putin has been thinking about invading Ukraine for the better part of aa decade and has been claiming Ukraine has never been a real nation. That isn't about NATO that is about Putin wanting the Russian empire back. Also to call what happened in 2014 a coup is to repeat a lie. A corrupt former Ukrainian President fled after both breaking his campaign promises at Putin's behest and then using security forces on protestors-which resulted in a backlash he didn't care for. To many common Ukrainians it was a popular revolt. To the Ukrainian parliament and legal system it was that the particular corrupt former President abandoned his office-neither is a "coup".
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  2519. They sound useless. What State are they from? Though out to know that if Putin is not stopped in Ukraine he will try to start new wars in other nations. His buddy the current dictator of Belarus already let word out that attacking Poland was on the agenda after the invasion of Ukraine was supposedly successful. War with Poland puts US troops on the frontline and nuclear war as more of a possibility. Helping Ukraine now is the sensible thing to do. Anybody who wants to protest against war is welcome to, in this case it should be done in the nation that started this war and against the person who started this war-that would be in Russia and against Putin. And I've heard the supposed story that nations joining NATO is why this happened-framed by Putin's excuse makers as "expansion" rather that governments of nations wanting to join and doing so. 1st that claim is BS because Ukraine wasn't about to join NATO as some NATO nations had already been holding off on letting Ukraine join NATO as an effort to appease Putin-we can see how well that effort at appeasement went. 2nd complaining that other nations are deciding to join NATO is evidence just how little respect Putin has for other nations being able to make up their own mind.
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  2520. Hopefully one day Palestine will be free. Hopefully one day Russia will be free. Right now neither are.
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  2521. Trump pushed that lie back when he was still President. It was debunked then and has not stopped being a lie since. Debris removal does not change Global Warming nor its impacts like new record highs. Plus if I remember correctly while Trump was pushing that lie many of the fires were on lands not even managed by the CA State gov. 1 other thing, debris removal does not stop the fire season from starting earlier and ending later-that is something climate thus Global Warming related.
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  2522. Good catch. In my first comment I included this: '"Overall trade is a good thing, it has meant that many jobs and industries have been outsourced to countries with less rigid labor and environmental laws." This seems like a contradiction in minute 7. I almost downvoted at that moment. I get you may mean this is a downside but this is why labor and environmental laws should be in trade agreements'.
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  2523. War not going well for you Ivan? Also people on TV are sometimes allowed to voice their opinions, funny thing is that if such an opinion is supported by facts or evidence it becomes more rather than less credible. I know things may not work that way in Russia, but still.
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  2524. The elected President in Ukraine is a Russian speaker. The majority of Russian speaking areas in Ukraine voted to not be part of Russia. Russia started this conflict because it wanted to control Ukrainian lands. There was no suffering of Russian speakers in Crimea in 2014 and Russia just invaded-it lied about invading at first and sent soldiers that had any marking of which nation they were from removed. Months after Crimea was occupied by unmarked soldiers Putin admitted he did it.
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  2525. Russia and Putin are the ones causing suffering for the Ukrainian Peoples. The EU has been trying to help Ukraine throughout this and for the last 7 months help from the US has been stalled because of Putin sympathizers in the US House (a stall that is being overcome this week). Want to end the suffering? Get Putin to stop invading.
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  2526. That is what should happen. Not sure if the law allows it. If the US Congress votes to send money or equipment to another nation it may be illegal for a US President to try to stop it. Now that may change if the nation breaks a US law-but that may be what is required. And even then wars don't stop. When Trump and his allies stopped US support from going to Ukraine that did not stop the war there immediately. The only people with the power to stop the war "immediately" do not want to. Outsiders can push them but even then that doesn't happen "immediately".
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  2527. What state are you in and what was the issue? I'm pretty sure Misha is lying. Yes, I think she is lying. No facts or numbers in a math class? Really?? The more I think about most of what she said the less I think it happened.
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  2528.  @elsadunand208  Nice to meet you. What was the issue you and your friends had a disagreement over? Also keep in mind that this youtube is aimed at US internal politics-which is why it is probably very dishonest. Free speech is a good thing, but keep in mind that in the USA its been taken to mean it is legally acceptable for people to blatantly lie and it is up to voters to figure out who (or if everyone) is lying and about what.
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  2529. You can do each of the trio of rules you mentioned while still being honest about Global Warming happening. Odd that someone would suggest it as an either/or. Texas already proves you can build in flood zones and still lie about Global Warming so if it can do both in a foolish way why not do both in a smarter way? Though a side detail I've heard about Texas is a developer can knowingly build houses in flood zones and then sell them without warning customers.
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  2530. No, Treebeard cared if people or forests were killed. Bran may not.
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  2531. Perhaps. Or maybe Oliver Stone got money from Putin. Filmmaking can get expensive and Putin and his gang have stolen a lot of money from Russia so someone with as low integrity as Oliver Stone has displayed in this interview may have decided he was willing to do propaganda in exchange for cash. Or maybe Stone has gone so far with his sympathies for Putin already that he simply cannot tell the truth about Putin today-thus his remarks about Europeans was really Oliver Stone projecting about his own situation.
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  2532.  @DoloresJNurss  That would be very interesting. I would love to have more info on that.
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  2533. Translation he said many well informed things.. but you don't like them so you end a comment calling someone who is very well informed the equivalent of a moron. Funny thing is he wasn't imperialist and was critical of how the "West" can operate its power-yet you accuse him of such anyway.
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  2534. That was the agreement Putin had with Ukraine before he started the current war. As you can see Putin started the war anyway. Putin has been planning to attack Ukraine for years. To think this is all over NATO is to fall for Russian propaganda.
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  2535. @damirmilanovic3043 Yup. Now KGB is the old name but is is where Putin came from. And 1 of the things he hates is that Ukrainians have been able to make their own decisions. @jaredschmidt8013 "That’s the propaganda you’ve been fed by your western overlords." This line is pretty rich coming from you since it seems repeating propaganda is exactly what you are doing. Viktor Yanukovych was corrupt, broke his campaign promises, used force on those who protested him, and then fled Ukraine when the backlash for his own actions scared him off. Since Ukraine has been rid of Yanukovych they have held a couple of elections for President. Honest elections-unlike in Russia whose propaganda you some to be carrying. And here you are while Putin, not the USA, wants to overthrow an elected government to install a puppet. "America is the most propagandized country in the world", not only are you very likely wrong on this (despite the amount of political propaganda that does circulate the USA) but you've been trying to distribute propaganda. That doesn't put you in a good place to complain about propaganda.
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  2536.  @saxyrep1  I already put more effort in to fixing things in real life than most folks. Doesn't mean I cannot enjoy some entertainment on my downtime. Or that I want that entertainment to turn into trash after I've already started spending my time with it.
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  2537.  @saxyrep1  Its already been paid for so telling people not to be "entitled" is telling them be happy to fork over money for what turns out later to be a lemon. Plus I already invested my time into it because it wasn't trash at one point. You talk about other people being entitled but seem to think their time or money means nothing. Ever look in the mirror when using the word?
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  2538. Since what she described likely did not happen it is less relevant than you'd think. Yes, I think she is lying. No facts or numbers in a math class? Really?? The more I think about most of what she said the less I think it happened.
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  2539. Funny thing, even is she worked for the CIA-and there is not evidence yet that she does-that in itself would not make her description wrong. Odd how people who happen to be knowledgeable enough to know and point out how when something immoral is being done must work for the CIA to do so. I was not aware the only place people who are both moral and knowledge can find employment is the CIA but if you say so..
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  2540. Yup.
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  2541.  @bgill7475  Because she worked for Putin. If given a top level job in US intelligence odds are high she will work as a spy for Putin.
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  2542. Yeah, but he does not care. It would interfere with his lying to people.
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  2543. He is standing up for his nation and the freedom of his people. That is doing something honorable and understandable. Russian propaganda tries to lie about him and money or supposed mansions but that is simply because it is a tactic to lie about leaders of a nation on the other side of a war.
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  2544.  @stu281  Yes they did. Not only was it pointed out that the Soviet Nuclear program included Ukraine but since Ukraine helped build some of the Soviet nukes they could have both tried to break through the security related to the launch codes for the nukes there at the time and build new nukes. Considering Ukrainian abilities both are possible-it would take time and effort but would've been inside the realm of the possible.
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  2545.  @indycoon  The USSR was dissolved and equipment from it often left in whatever nation that equipment happened to be in at the time.
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  2546.  @indycoon  A Russian Speaker is the current President of Ukraine and Putin wants him dead. The Russian language has not been banned nor have ethnic Russians lost their ability to vote. To claim this is supposedly to protect ethnic Russians is to repeat a propaganda lie. Many (probably most) ethnic Russians do not want to be under Putin's control.
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  2547.  @stu281  The Red Army stopped existing. The nukes were left in Ukrainian territory thus in Ukrainian possession. If the UK dissolved and the a former UK military left a bunch of equipment in Wales then the government in Wales would have access to it and could decide what is done with it.
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  2548.  @stu281  Source? Also Ukraine was offered money to turn over the nukes to Russia-it took the money. Why would Ukraine be in a position to turn if the nukes if it supposedly had no access to them?
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  2549.  @indycoon  The Budapest memorandum was part of an effort to reduce the amount of nuclear weapons in the world in general and Ukraine in specific. Also it was never about how close they were to Europe but simply as part of an anti-nuclear weapons effort. Putin's attack on Ukraine is decreasing the chances other nations were ever give up nuclear weapons.
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  2550.  @stu281  You made the claim. If asked for a source you should be able to provide. Plus if I apply the logic then Russia removing military installations would include removing the nukes, thus they wouldn't have been in Ukrainian territory anymore.. yet they were.
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  2551.  @stu281  I see you have yet to name a source. Also from the history that played out there is good reason to question your interpretation. Why would others be encouraging Ukraine to give up nuclear weapons if there were no nuclear weapons to give up? Seems very odd.
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  2552. "Do your own homework." Funny that is what I was encouraging you to do.
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  2553. "yeah but I’m right and you’re dead wrong." In your own mind.
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  2554.  @stu281  Lol. See someone is mad about being questioned.
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  2555. 1 of the best investments the US could make. Good thing it did for both the USA and Ukraine. Or do you think waiting till Putin starts WW3 would be a good idea. It would probably end up a lot more expensive at that point.
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  2556.  @johnprather1571  "Military Operation" sounds like a war. With armies of hundreds of thousands of people fighting and tanks that is a war. It seems like this is trying to pretend a war is not a war.
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  2557. Inflation has been going down since 2022. Putin doesn't have an agent in the White House anymore. And a bunch of other nations respect the US more than when Trump was around. There are other bonuses too such as disasters getting dealt with without Trump requiring people to pay him homage 1st.
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  2558. Hasn't Jeffrey Sachs gone off the deep end in recent years-though interestingly enough finding time to take China side in whatever issue comes up in recent years. Also it looks like the death rate for journalists dropped with the Zelenskyy Presidency-perhaps a sign he is doing something else correctly as well.
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  2559. You have some good points. What you may not have realized-or may have which is why you provided some of the examples you did-is that Prager U is not really a school but a political propaganda organization. Its goal is not to produce well educated individuals but to convince people to vote for a specific political party-even if the reasoning given is deceptively done.
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  2560. The best chance to give our children a better life is to vote for Joe Biden. Also Trump doesn't have to be racist in order to push racism and get the bigot vote. That said he did try to keep black people out of some of his apartments and Project 2025 isn't actually that good for gay people.
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  2561. There are many things that could be said about Argentina and Milei. A very fair criticism of him is that he is dishonest about Global Warming.
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  2562. We are a Representative Democracy based on a Constitution. Now someone that violated that constitution would like to get back into the White House. The best way to avoid that is to vote for Vice President Harris (not former President and current convicted felon Trump).
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  2563. I see a guy lying and not getting called on it rather than a discussion. For example, NASA had looked into those cycles he mentioned in minute 32 about a year before this interview and reported that they do not explain recent warming-thus he knows he is lying and figures most people won't double check so he can try to get away with it.
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  2564.  @danangell5482  Think it would be mentioning that of the 10 worst states in the USA most of them are red states?
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  2565.  @Wolfe-xz6tr  In invites corruption. Most free nations should avoid it.
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  2566. Delaware too safe for you? Louisiana has corruption and a higher murder rate to keep things interesting I guess..
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  2567. Higher. He likely expects better from both of them than Putin.
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  2568. Combination between propaganda and forgetfulness. Possibly also making the mistake that since the USA made it through term 1 and recovered that recovering after term 2 would be just as quick.
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  2569. Trump probably is (in addition to being a criminal in other ways), but the person talking is Liz Cheney.
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  2570. Use your own roads to get around. Be sure to dig a well to get your own water too.
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  2571.  @corycrandell2682  No your gas taxes don't. In my and most other States gas taxes only cover part of what it costs to pay for roads. Plus if you use a freeway odds are the Federal government paid for most of building it and what the State does is maintain it. State or Federal it is still government.
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  2572. It is so nice they don't require people to pay to receive lies and propaganda. It may be even nicer if Russia was not pushing lies and propaganda nor unjustly invading other nations to oppress the people in them.
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  2573. Good point. Especially on the Larry King bit. Sexual assault can actually be ruled out with that video because the police can be called for sexual assault not "only" "the press" as the caller said in the Larry King clip.
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  2574. A lot of people are political and a lot of people are not. Since a college is (at least in the USA) supposed to show a wide range of thoughts it probably is a loss if nobody brought up politics in the UK.
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  2575. 1 other thing, you are on youtube. A lot of political actors like to make commentary on youtube and this particular woman is just 1 of many. I strongly suspect she is among the dishonest ones since her claims struck more as both false and outlandish. For example, the claim that a that math class supposedly focused on feelings and not facts or numbers?? The more I though about that and much of the rest of the video the more I realized that there is a good chance most of it never happened.
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  2576.  @johnparsons1466  Yes, he is wrong. I'm pretty sure Zelensky and most Ukrainians would be happy if Putin ordered the Russian military to return to Russia territory (actual Russian territory). That would end the war and cut Western military aid. The military aid would be cut, but actually cut when there is good reason to cut it-not as an attempt to help Putin out.
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  2577.  @johnparsons1466  "Putin won't leave until there is a change of government in Ukraine." Thank you for telling me that Putin wants to end honest elections for President in Ukraine, however I knew that already. Also Russia doesn't even occupy all off the 4 oblasts in E. Ukraine nor should it. That would be stealing more lands for Putin than the situation on the ground shows let alone what things should be. If Ukraine is running low on ammo then it is in interest of both the USA and Ukraine that Ukraine gets more. Also I recall Putin promised his invasion would have victory in three weeks. Didn't happen.
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  2578.  @johnparsons1466  "Putin won't leave until there is a change of government in Ukraine." Thank you for telling me that Putin wants to end honest elections for President in Ukraine, however I knew that already. Also Russia doesn't even occupy all off the 4 oblasts in E. Ukraine nor should it. That would be stealing more lands for Putin than the situation on the ground shows let alone what things should be. If Ukraine is running low on ammo then it is in interest of both the USA and Ukraine that Ukraine gets more. Also I recall Putin promised his invasion would have victory in three weeks. Didn't happen. I noticed this reply of mine didn't appear when I replied to your prior comment. I checked back and saw it was still missing. If it finally appears my apologies for repeating myself, though I wonder why it wasn't visible after I posted the 1st time.
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  2579. In the case there is only 1 person defined as a fascist with seriousness. He already helped the 1 percent. There is a big difference between him and the other option in many ways.
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  2580. Thank you for being interested in the USA. This is probably one of the better Prager videos. Sadly most of the other ones (at least from earlier years) fell into partisan PR. Still there is a great deal of history the US has to offer if you are interested.
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  2581. US SpursFan Actually there isn't a record of him saying that and the earliest recorded quote comes from the 1950s rather than the time he lived. The phrase may have been invented by someone looking to counter the point taxes are the price paid to live in a civilized society-but that is just me guessing.
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  2582. Good Question. Now normally I'd say since the Pentagon failed its last audit there is probably spending there that should be cut. However since he mentioned weapons that would help fight the next war rather than the last war there is both some positive possibilities and some negative ones. Old weapon systems can turn out to be important-just look at artillery suddenly mattering in the war Putin started with Ukraine (artillery guns are not a new idea). Will new systems work as hoped-I hope they aren't suggesting building Skynet.
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  2583. India and China have fought battles in the past over where the border is. There is still disagreement over this to this day.
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  2584. ​ @JohnDoe-tt9oi  I see you don't like when someone cuts through propaganda. Too bad. Putin running amok would be a very bad thing. It is a good thing when very bad things can be avoided or prevented.
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  2585.  @JohnDoe-tt9oi  "stop spreading propaganda" I'm not. Are you?
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  2586. The facts include that in 2017 Gabbard lied about Assad's use of chemical weapons.
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  2587. Was Tulsi Gabbard getting through the Senate key to Trump's sudden switch? Was he just trying to calm Senators until select people were confirmed?
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  2588. A feeling that can be easily disproven by comparing Trump and Harris.
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  2589.  @insomb  Even if true of the 2 candidates 1 pushed for getting food to people in Gaza and the other has a record of supporting Netanyahu annexing land (including land other Presidents would not) beyond any recent President (current or former). That is a difference.
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  2590. Someone complaining about supporting an elected government (Ukraine) facing an imperialistic authoritarian kleptocracy (Russia) and trying to claim to be against being "totalitarian" at the same time is "morally bankrupt".
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  2591. There was a need to leak it. Trump was engaging in an attempt abuse of power.
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  2592.  @jaimeflores7730  There is an allegation Bondi let Epstein slide. Plus Florida's government is often seen as corrupt.
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  2593.  @jodoyo733  Hmm.. I mentioned an example (for jamieflores7730) yet I don't see my earlier comment. Do you?
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  2594. BS. Ukraine has suffered repeatedly due to Moscow and it finally has a chance to be free. That is what Putin wants to suppress. Wanting to decide your own fate is not being played by the US.
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  2595. " No way America will allow Mexico to join China alliance,"   Cuba held an alliance with the Soviets throughout most what was called the "Cold War". The 1st line strikes me as repeating 1 of Mearsheimer's falsehoods.
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  2596. I'm not convinced Russians follow Putin so much have been convinced there is no alternative for them.
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  2597.  @zhoubaidinh403  That is because his reputation has been going down in recent years and there isn't much evidence to support his story. He won a Pulitzer but that was multiple decades ago and his recent work seems more conspiracy theory than journalism.
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  2598.  @steveagola9317  There are limits. Plus a number of Chinese companies want to make money via nations that are putting sanctions on Russia. China may be trying to subtly help Russia but Russia arguably has embarrassed Russia because instead signing on for joining a quick victory party China may watch Russia go through a well deserved loss.
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  2599.  @KatariaGujjar  I know. That said China is not currently an eager ally since Putin likely promised a quick victory rather than possible use of nuclear weapons and a long running embarrassment.
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  2600. The guy may not even be being honest about his bio (Greenpeace says he isn't a founder and stopped working for them back in the 1980s). I already pointed out 2 of the times he flat out lied above (cycles in minute 31 and supposedly bringing "balance" to the Carbon cycle by making it so there is more carbon in the air than there has been in over 400,000 years.)
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  2601.  @ginawhiteley8834  So Mr. Moore is a save the whales and ruin the rest of the environment kind of guy? Ok then. Also wouldn't he need a degree in something (or at least in something related) in order to create a college program of a specific type?
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  2602. If they do they are likely to improve that Red State when they do. Most of the worst states in the USA are Red States, many of the better states to live in are Blue states. Democrats moving to a Red State is for cheap land is like someone buying a run down old house. Buying cheap and then fixing it up to make it a better place to live.
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  2603. "So Russia’s actions are unjustified?" Russia's actions have been unjustified for some time. Now it has just done even worse.
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  2604. P. Moore lies and tries faking bluntness. For example, NASA looked into the cycles he mentioned in minute 32 and both found and reported to the public that they do not explain recent warming-and NASA did this about a year before this interview. So the guy here knows what he said is a lie and has for some time before saying it here.
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  2605.  @WALAdem  Russia already said it will not support any peace unless it includes giving it territory it has illegally and immorally taken from Ukraine. And many nations discouraged Russia from starting the war in the 1st place. Now that Russia insisted on starting a war pushing Ukraine to engage in peace talks on Russia terms would be rewarding Russia for starting a war-thus encouraging war.
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  2606.  @WALAdem  Thank you for acknowledging it is a tricky issue. Don't forget this isn't the 1st time Putin has attacked Ukraine. Back in 2014 Russia seized Crimea and Ukraine was not encouraged to fight back nor sent much in the way of weapons then and the current war is arguably the result of doing too little to help Ukraine then. During a debate last year Ukrainian said it is possible to make the war shorter. Just don't send Ukraine support and let Russia win at the expense of Ukrainian lives. Thus there is the tricky issue of-while I'm not opposed to peace talks doing peace talks on Putin's terms or timeline may result in more lives lost rather than less if it gives him the impression he is winning. 1 of the things Putin may be hoping for is that other nations get tired of sending Ukraine support.
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  2607. @alexpervanoglu7420 The point of the EU is that more people live in it combined than do in Russia. Plus the EU economy is much bigger than Russia's. If the EU gets its act together it is likely to do better than Russia.
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  2608. Which is why it is a good thing he is not.
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  2609. @provokedfob You are correct. Notice how Dave Smith tried to side step that the State Department guy himself said that Ukraine was going to "chose". Putin doesn't like other nations making their own decisions. @jaredschmidt8013 "is precisely what America has been doing with non-NATO nations in Europe for 3 decades" I call bs. NATO has not invaded European nations. Putin has. And nations are choosing to join NATO-I noticed you used the word "expand" without mentioning what actually happened with regards to those nations wanting to be part of NATO.
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  2610. Except he isn't. He is probably just saying this to cover for Brexit's problems. Putin's Imperialism started this war, and it is probably a good idea not to support that.
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  2611.  @mcnultyssobercompanion6372  Sooner, 2026 can potentially get someone to check Trump in office. This can come from either Democratic candidates or Republican primaries.
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  2612. I've been blaming Trump voters and his propaganda machine for some time now. That said, I would not be able to vote for Jill Stein in good conscience since she is complicit in evil going on elsewhere in the world and despite what the Green Party is supposed to stand for gets help from a billionaire climate denier and warmonger-which makes me deeply question her actual goals. BTW I've voted Green Party before, but this election I'll probably vote for Harris just because Trump is worse and the damage he would do would be so hard to repair (years of him could mean decades later and many more deaths). But someone must have a third party option I'd probably say Cornel West is the best choice available.
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  2613.  @septone  If "puppets need to be removed from office" then they should not be put in office in the 1st place. Stein is too tied to someone who is both a warmonger and a climate denier. That means the odds of her being a puppet are actually too high.
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  2614. Far closer to the truth than much of the BS Oliver Stone pushed when he was speaking. Kotkin arguably held back considering how much Oliver Stone tried to distort things and come up with excuses for Putin.
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  2615. Does the Russian vaccine against it work as well as the Chinese vaccine against covid?
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  2616.  @natalias1212  If the US was involved or not doesn't matter to the question of if it works or not. That you felt the need to say it was better because the US was not involved tells me you are trying to substitute the 1 aspect for the other and that it actually does not work.
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  2617.  @natalias1212  I never said that America means proven vaccine. I just asked if the vaccine in Russia worked. You didn't say it did. Instead you said it was "better" because it wasn't made in the USA. I pointed out that not only does that not indicate if it works or not but that you tried to substitute if it was made in the USA or not for if it works or not means it probably doesn't work since if it did work you could've simply said that. borgenproject states "Tuberculosis (TB) is endemic, or regularly found, in Russia. In fact, Russia has the world's 11th highest burden of TB." That seems to disprove your claim. EDIT: You said "as there were no TB instances for many many years" yet the statement from the Borgen Project is from 2020. That is much more recent than "many many years".
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  2618.  @natalias1212  Did you leave Russia or Ukraine? I'm not sure from your responses. If discussing the USSR that was many years ago and efforts to vaccinate people for TB as well as TB are much more recent. Thank you for saying you will check. From what I've read there have been efforts in both nations that non-profits groups have helped with to try to vaccinate people for TB but Putin's recent (starting 2022) attacks on Ukraine may be disrupting efforts to vaccinate people in Ukraine.
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  2619.  @billvigus3719  I think he may be repeating some of the excuses made to try to argue state legislatures (especially those which have been gerrymandered thus rigged their own elections rather than represent the citizens of their states) should be able to pick/steal Presidential elections.
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  2620. Problem with that is we can call bs on calling Daenerys a liar. We saw her free slaves. We also saw Tyrion lie about that to Jon in the last episode. Or maybe I should say Dumb and Dumber lie through Tyrion's mouth.
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  2621. I call bs on the notion Biden is guilty. Not only do we now have a situation where the poorly done phrase "Believe the women" means assume the accused is guilty but the actual evidence that has come out indicates Tara Reade's claim is not true. So this means believe an accusation in spite of the evidence showing it is unlikely to be true.
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  2622.  @hailmaryrecordings8255  On "paid Biden troll" I call bs both because I'm not being paid and because you don't know me so there is zero chance you would know if I was. 2nd I don't have to read someone's lips to know if they are lying. I can look at if the evidence supports it. According to Tara Reade herself in April of 2019 no sexual assault took place. So if she is claiming different now-especially with some very interesting timing politically then something is probably is up. And this was the same Tara Reade that was praising Biden in 2017 so that is something of a double level of bs from her due to how frequently her story changes.
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  2623. Do you have a source? BTW I totally believe Trump would. The idea he is running as a supposed peace candidate when he wanted to fire missiles into Mexico and then had to be talked out of starting a war with Iran on the way out makes that supposed theme supporting him a laughable one. Still if you could point me in the direction of a source I'd appreciate it.
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  2624. Want to fight bias? Bring back the Fairness Doctrine.
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  2625. A more important question is how. Chamberlain proclaimed "Peace In Our Time" after handling part of Czechoslovakia over to Hitler and making the latter stronger and leading to WW2. Is Trump the new Chamberlain? Setting the stage for WW3. President Zeleknsky already said Russia could keep the land it is occupying if Ukraine could join NATO as a protection against Russia restarting the war. The Trump admin said no to his peace plan.
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  2626. When did Rand Paul become a fiscal conservative? Hasn't he routinely supported having a larger National Debt. I fully expect him to vote for most tax cuts even if deficits are growing.
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  2627. I take this comment as evidence you are not an American citizen then. Ukraine was the nation that was invaded thus Ukraine should determine what the peace treat looks like. Plus an easy way for there to be peace would simply be for the Russian army to return to Russia.
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  2628.  @Junkerjoerg1517  Thank you. I figure the point is worth mentioning whenever someone is complaining about the supposed cost of helping Ukraine.
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  2629. I know someone who had solar panels put on his house. His electric bill dropped by well over half (probably closer to 2/3rds) and the main thing he would change right now is he wants to add more panels on his roof. Combine things like that with EVs and I suspect the power grid will be able to handle it. Would provide a buffer most people in the USA don't have now.
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  2630. I'm all for that. I want to know how many times Trump pops up on Epstein's customer list. Isn't Trump's new pick for AG someone that has been accused of covering for Epstein already?
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  2631. "you wouldn't be asking this question if you were the one tragically affected by the hurricane" Are you affected? Seems you have power and internet access then. Are you making posts from Moscow?
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  2632.  @lisahughes6313  Easy. You were attacking someone else who asked the original thread maker a good question. What would he or she have done differently? So your desire to attack someone else (especially for asking a good question) led me to question your motives. If you actually have family there then my sympathy for them. However it would be good if you not to take out your unhappiness on people who are not deserving of it.
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  2633.  @joeshoe6184  Seems some are either being fed misinformation.. or are here specifically to spread it.
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  2634. If he comes back it may only to see the British pubic start blaming him for the failures related to Brexit.
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  2635. I suspect the "suit" question was planned as a way to falsely accuse President Zelensky of being disrespectful when he was not. It wasn't intended as a question but as a way to create an excuse to treat President Zelensky-and possibly Ukraine itself-badly. It was very dishonest and I suspect the supposed "journalist" (probably actually a propagandist) knew exactly what he was doing.
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  2636. And in case anyone forgets. Please check item 18 on Trump's agenda 47. It seems Trump may be trying to find excuses to deport American Muslims here.
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  2637. Funny, did a quick search on Kotkin and apartheid and didn't find much saying he supported it. Now maybe I missed something but even if I did that doesn't make him wrong to point out that Putin complaining about Ukraine wanting to join NATO is no more valid than a rapist trying to use the excuse a girl is wearing a short skirt-neither is.
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  2638. Something that I think is missing from many discussion about Mr. Sachs and I feel ought to be brought up is his own role in making Russia the corrupt and oligarchic nation it is today. Mr. Sachs was among those pushing for rapid privatization with little regard for corruption in the former Soviet turned Russian economy. Thus some of the long term problems of modern Russia are due to Mr. Sachs and his earlier efforts.
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  2639. Did you make that same misleading remark to about every major and minor news outlet that has covered any war?
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  2640. Well I see some of the deniers made it to this youtube video. Waiting to see if I see a repeat of the usual lies like there is no Global Warming or the Global Warming is supposedly all due to cycles (despite that such a claim was made back when Bush was a sitting US President and the related claim that cooler years would supposedly come soon never happened.)
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  2641.  @user-id8yo4zo8x  If the overall average is higher then no because that means despite some places being cooler more where warmer. The promise was made for cooler average years-thus more places cooler than warmer. That never happened.
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  2642.  @ThethomasJefferson  In many places in US history it was limited to people of those three types. People already know that black people couldn't vote while slavery was around. Women weren't allowed to vote for a long time as well. But initially there was also a limitation to property owners so if you were a white male without land you may not have been allowed to vote either. Now this was 200+ years ago. I think it has been a good thing the changes were made to remove these limitations.
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  2643.  @ThethomasJefferson  Did you delete a comment you made in this thread? I don't see a question from you right now.
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  2644. I didn't come to that conclusion. I pointed out that early on (not long after the revolution) some in the time of the Founding Fathers did and put that limitation into law. I think it was a mistake but I can see how it happened since it falls along the biases of the time.
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  2645. Did Trump see other people as "AMERICANS" when he was talking about rounding up people who disagreed with him or refused to go along with his illegal activities all of 2 weeks ago? How about when he tried to steal the 2020 Election?
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  2646.  @bil8647  You're welcome.
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  2647.  @SunnyDaysAOK  There may be overall profit for most people as they could get along and work better. There may be less profit for specific shortsighted or uncaring people that would stir division for their own personal gain. A former US President is trying to cash in on the latter this week with misleading claims about migrant crime.
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  2648.  @bigdaddy3621  Good point. Even now the State governments in some of them tries to make sure people either cannot vote or when it does things are so gerrymandered it won't matter.
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  2649. "Trump has been saying that for FORTY YEARS!!!" While doing the opposite? He was sued over trying to keep black people from moving into 1 of his buildings. He has also been demonizing immigrants pretty hard to attract the bigot vote-and no it isn't about legal vs non immigrants since he cut legal immigrants allowed in back when he was President. And then there is his support for undermining various people's voting rights-be it the ability to cast a vote or have a cast vote mean anything.
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  2650. Hi Ivan. Is this what you do in order to avoid being sent to the front?
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  2651. Name the treaty where NATO agreed to not allow any new nations to join NATO. I expect you cannot because there is no such treaty. This claim about NATO is 1 of many inaccuracies claimed by Russia. Also keep in mind it is nations asking to join NATO not just "expand". Those nations want to be in NATO because they don't want to be alone if Russia decides to attack them as well.
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  2652.  @silverfoxsmith8582  Or it is full on correct. The woman in the video said some falsehoods but they were falsehoods that people wanted to hear.
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  2653.  @kauboy9816  There is a good amount of wisdom in what you say. And improving our lives is something should work for. When it comes to politics we can still try to have calm conversations with each other to avoid falling for scaremongering. Thank you for mentioning that people-including we ourselves-have to try to live up to standards of how others are treated-including how we treat people.
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  2654. Considering Trump's ties to Russia and that the Russian ambassador praised his VP choice this week it is hardly uncalled for.
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  2655. Good luck to you. Dare I ask what kind of political campaigns are you involved in? I've heard politics can be a small world and that opens the door to internal groups of people being for or against each other without, sadly, trying to list to those who would be their allies. Some conspiracies are real but it is probably good for your mental health you put them on pause, we've gone from elites lying to people to random people on the internet lying to or sharing other people's lies with each other. All the dishonesty can make things hard to keep track of or eat up your time even if you can keep track of them. I have a brother who got into political conspiracies, funny thing is he is a combination of the most aggressive and most likely to drop out of a conversation if it doesn't go along with what he said. So rather than promoting an open mind many conspiracy theories these days rely on encouraging people to close their minds and not think about what information is available nor search independent info out.
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  2656. if your nation is attacked would you not want others to support your nation?
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  2657. These videos are excuse making. Feel free to hate the ending more. Nobles laughing at the idea of giving serfs a voice in their (the nobles') oligarchy while appointing someone king who can be the equivalent to the KGB (secret police to spy on and keep the population in line) is not a new "enlightened" government.
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  2658. Cause 25 women accusing Trump makes him (including of rape) make him better than Biden who has 1 accuser with big holes and contradictions in her story. Really?
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  2659. Not really. Red States usually have worse crime rates than Blue States-and Blue States tend to have Blue Cities too. What Blue States often don't do is try to use gerrymandering to prevent cities from being honestly represented in the legislature.
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  2660. @ Probably because the claim is questionable. And the actual results-higher murder rates in Red States-seem to contradict it.
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  2661.  @ao-111  No it isn't. Just double checked on the murder rate. The US has over 4 times the murder rate of the UK. A higher % of people are murdered in the US than France or the UK. @Aaronjones8905 More like the Blue cities suffer from Red state laws. In many blue states the murder rate is lower than in red states. New York, Massachusetts, and Minnesota are safer than Texas, Tennessee, Arkansas, or Mississippi.
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  2662.  @DoubleBourbonBaconCheeseBurger  Humans.
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  2663. Humans have been doing remarkable things for years. We laid paths of concrete, steal, and asphalt across a continent (from 1 edge to the opposite), we caused fires to occur on the surface of rivers on accident, so changing what is in the air is easy for us-especially since we burn over 8 billion tons of coal in just 1 year, that is over 8,000,000,000 tons in 1 year.
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  2664. Seems like Project 2025 is actually trying to clear the field for creating an actual deep state.
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  2665. This is a CNN person trying to make excuses for Trump being anti-democracy. He already showed through his actions he will try to undermine democracy during and after the 2020 election!
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  2666. What?? Standing up to Russia and China is not something Trump has indicated he would do. How he threatens to treat Ukraine has appeasement written all over it if not outright betrayal in favor of Putin.
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  2667. Good to have a nice short video. There are a couple of things missing. Some Israel government officials seem to be getting a chance to way in. Ben-Gvir (an Israeli minister who wants this war to keep going complained back that "Instead of giving us his full backing, Biden is busy giving humanitarian aid and fuel" (he tried to claim this goes to Hamas) and that Trump "would be completely different". Meanwhile Trump in conman fashion has recently both been trying to get Palestinian immigrants who are citizens to vote for him recently over the death and destruction in Gaza while he promises to deport those same people to other followers of his. Trump is at the say anything to anyone to try to trick them into voting for him stage. But Trump's record is changing the US government standing to support letting Jewish settlers keep what lands and homes they push Palestinians out of when the prior US position was to no support that and say that land was still legally Palestinian.
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  2668. That inaccurately assumes Oliver Stone is authentic. I saw this discussion and wondered how much projection Mr. Stone was engaging in.
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  2669. No, and you probably show that which says something about you making the suggestion when you know better.
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  2670. So mighty most of their Black Sea fleet has been promoted to submarines?
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  2671. Sounds like you've discovered that GoT is a good series. It is just important to remember it only has 7 seasons.. possibly six.
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  2672.  @Drownedinblood  That China arguably controls Taiwan right now. The PRC never did.
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  2673.  @LiakScanth  In case you didn't realize Prager U tends to be in favor of the American model even if it is more corrupt, less efficient, and less effective. For example healthcare is something often done better for typical people in Canada than typical people in the USA. In the USA it is expensive and can be complex including paying bills to multiple organizations for 1 hospital visit. And, according to a Canadian I've spoken with, a hospital or dentist visit in cost him less than a third of what it does me when amounts paid were brought up.
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  2674. The US South started the US Civil War in an attempt to preserve slavery as Southern politicians feared at some point the Federal government being used to end slavery.
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  2675. He probably knowns Putin appreciates it more if he is willing to lie to people outside of Russia rather than inside. Putin already has people lying to Russians inside Russia.
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  2676. Yes and, unlike Trump's cult following, they are able to discuss him openly.
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  2677. Funny, she never said she wanted a war with China nor does she need to. All she has to do is make sure Europe can defend itself and support Ukraine now that Chamberlain is running things in the USA. Since Europe can do both of these things her goals are reachable.
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  2678.  @jmik7720  Hmm.. I don't see my earlier comment. Anyway the EU doesn't need to start a war with China. Somebody is just making that nonsense up. All it has to do is protect itself and it is big enough it can do that. Right now its economy is bigger than Russia's. It needs to build more weapons for the Ukraine and nations that are in the EU but if it does that (and it can) then it can hold out.
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  2679. Not just that but if you actually listen to what the guest on the Colbert show said rather than simply accept Dave Smith's distortion of him Ukrainians at the time were making their own decisions. His concern was preventing Putin from invading because Putin may want to stop Ukrainians from making their own decisions.
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  2680. Not just that but if you actually listen to what the guest on the Colbert show said rather than simply accept Dave Smith's distortion of him Ukrainians at the time were making their own decisions. His concern was preventing Putin from invading because Putin may want to stop Ukrainians from making their own decisions.
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  2681. Yes. Oddly Putin may have had a hand in both happen. There were Hamas officials reported in Russia around the time of the October terrorist attacks. He probably encouraged Hamas to do it knowing Netanyahu would kill a bunch of people in response and distracting from Putin's own war crimes.
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  2682. "Yugoslavia" So you are for ethnic cleansing then? That is what was stopped. Russia is not a superpower. And even if it was the actions it is taken deserve the opposite of respect. If Putin's Russia wanted respect then maybe it should've acted in a respectable way.
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  2683. So you would label someone being thoughtful and concerned about that other people's lives would be impacted a "sellout"? Especially after there is no indication he was paid to make this video but did simply because he is aware of what is going on.
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  2684. History is not done being made. It was a mistake for some to assume so.
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  2685. JOEJIPPBEAT Putin likely has wanted to invade Ukraine for a few years-it is part of the reason that large bridge was built from Russia to Crimea. Also land grabbing is not usually done to get other nations to back off, it is done when there are resources or wealth to grab and the actions by Putin's Russia sure seem to live down to that motivation.
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  2686. Glad Biden was elected. I know Trump wanted to steal the election and it didn't work out. Too bad for him and good thing for the USA.
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  2687. Not only that but I'm pretty sure Putin lied about the results. It came out that years ago Putin lied about the results of a referendum that supposedly took place in Crimea so I have no doubt Putin would lie again and did.
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  2688. Laffer bears some responsibity for screwing up the Kansas state budget. That anybody has him teaching anything related to economics or budgets is very questionable.
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  2689. I think you are a member of a small group of people. And-as someone who liked GoT-I'm not going to be a member of your group.
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  2690. An irony is these words are spoken while Republicans put forward Trump. Someone did a video partway through 2024 and treated the situation like when a family has to take the car keys away from a member that shouldn't be driving anymore. It may have taken too long but at least Democrats listened. In an election that would have been between the diminished and the demented it was Democrats that got someone better.
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  2691. Spoken yes, well no. Granted I may be judging by the honesty or lack thereof in his words.
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  2692. Putin's imperialistic invasion of Ukraine is not walking "into slaughter at America's behest". Do you victim blame often? Let the starter of wars off the hook often?
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  2693. Yeah, said reason to vote for someone. Yet ironically they are voting for the better candidate. 1 of Trump's own staff thinks Putin was blackmailing him (check with Bob Woodward)-that is a National Security problem. Trump promised to end the National Debt-he grew it instead. He had higher inflation (how much prices go up) than Obama yet is claiming he will control costs?? When people check on his and Harris's plans and find that Trump would make both prices and the National Debt go up more Trump's own record supports what they found.
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  2694. Except he lied multiple times during the interview. For example Ukraine's military has taken less casualties than Russia's.
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  2695. US Congress finally got to passing the aid to Ukraine. And the main holdup came from Putin's sympathizers.
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  2696.  @coreyfranco7060  It is possible there may be too many but without having a functional system we don't know what the limit is. Even though we may have a surge it could still be well below the limit.
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  2697.  @coreyfranco7060  Are you saying the USA has run out of room? Have you seen Montana recently?
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  2698.  @coreyfranco7060  Talking about spending resources on improving the lives and futures of current citizens seems not to be a priority whenever the party most known to oppose having a functional immigration system (the Republicans) have power anyway. So this seems like a false choice.
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  2699.  @coreyfranco7060  A good portion of the immigrants or would be immigrants are trying to follow laws. My impression is the capacity problem is not if we have enough land its because the immigration system is both inefficient, understaffed, and has a large backlog.
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  2700.  @coreyfranco7060  There are over 300 million people in the USA. What is the actual number of immigrants you've called "huge amounts of people"?
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  2701.  @coreyfranco7060  Are over 10% of the US population at the border hoping to come in? Yes or no. I asked you for an "actual number". I'm not sure I'm seeing an "actual number" in your reply.
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  2702.  @coreyfranco7060  Then increase judges to handle the case load.
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  2703.  @Gregory-kv8vj  Thank you for that point.
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  2704.  @polishtheday  Which China? Would that be mainland China or Taiwan? It is good of you to ask if rhetoric is dishonest or not. However real world China did try launching missiles near Taiwan some years ago as a method of trying to impact elections in Taiwan. Real world mainland China has also violated the 1 nation 2 systems promises it made for re-uniting Hong Kong with the mainland by doing things like arresting people in Hong Kong for expressing themselves or kicking elected officials out of office when it doesn't like something they do.
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  2705. People telling lies on youtube is sadly very common. This guy is not the 1st person to do it nor will he be the last.
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  2706. Question. Do you care what the facts are when it comes to Tara Reade and her current accusation? In April of 2019 there was no sexual assault according to none other than Tara Reade.
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  2707. Calling a popular revolt a coup both misrepresents what happened and is repeating pro-Putin propaganda. Additionally it is disrespectful to Ukrainians since they were the once who decided they needed oust a President after that President used force on people who dared protest him for breaking his campaign promises.
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  2708. Was that sarcasm about the Wagner guy?
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  2709.  @michealbleys2212  He probably knows it better than you.
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  2710.  @casteretpollux  "NATO putting nukes and biolabs along Russian border? What would the UK do if Russia put nukes on the Isle of Wight?" Wow, propaganda that was debunked a couple of years ago. Well excuse me, an incorrect version of the already debunked propaganda. The earlier version had the USA rather than NATO supposedly putting nukes and biolabs on Russia's border. Now the 1st part (nukes) was still a flat out lie and the 2nd part (biolabs) was a major misrepresentation. The "biolabs" were actually facilities created to contain the leftover bioweapons from Soviet times. Leftover Soviet bioweapons had caused problems before such an outbreak by the Aral Sea-even before the Soviet Union fell apart it did not do a good job containing bioweapons.
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  2711.  @yulgerulaitis3409  Please list off the number of nations the USA invaded in the last 70 years. Follow that with a list of the number that the USA annexed.
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  2712.  @yulgerulaitis3409  "tens of the countries" If it is then list them. Within the last 70 years invaded and again within the last 70 years annexed. After you are done with the list of nations the USA has annexed with the last 70 years please include an explanation of how it makes Russia trying to annex a nation this year an ok thing-especially as most of the people in Ukraine do not want to be annexed.
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  2713. "western powers seized power in Ukraine by way of a coup detat. This war is completely legal but totally unnecessary. All Ukraine had to do was remain neutral" This is Russian propaganda and a lie. 1st of all there was not a "coup" in Ukraine-let alone a coup where Western nations seized it. 2nd Ukraine was neutral when Russia attacked it. Ukraine was not part of NATO. The main reason NATO exists as a defensive alliance, many former Soviet nations want to join NATO because they want help defending themselves if Russia ever attacks them to try to become their overlords again. Back in 2014 a corrupt former President of Ukraine broke campaign promises he made. There were some Ukrainians who didn't like this and protested. The corrupt former President tried to use security forces to suppress them and many more Ukrainians didn't like this and there was a backlash against the corrupt former President. He fled the Ukraine of his own choice. The Parliament of Ukraine ruled he abandoned his office. If he disagreed with them he could've filed a court case with Ukraine's legal system. He didn't. Since then Ukraine has had multiple honest elections to determine who is the President of Ukraine. The people of Ukraine decided Zelenskyy is the current President of Ukraine, not "Western nations" like the USA and not Russia either. 1 of the things Putin is unhappy about is that elections in Russia are rigged but not in Ukraine. Since Ukraine's current President speaks Russian as his 1st language Putin is probably worried that Russians will see the example of an honestly elected President in Ukraine and want the President of Russia to be honestly elected rather than having the rigged elections Putin has now.
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  2714.  @yulgerulaitis3409  I see 7 names yet some of those were not invasions, some were wars that other nations started (North Korea invaded South Korea), and Yugoslavia was stopping ethnic cleansing-do you support ethnic cleansing? There are 0 annexations. You did not explain why Russia trying to annex a nation when most people in it do not want to be annexed is ok. You tried to say the USA cannot annex more lands yet much of Mexico still exists today and it even has oil. Did the USA loose its desires for oil 70 years ago? There is also a lot of land in Canada and Canada has a long border with the USA so the USA could try to annex it or part of it yet has not tried at any time within the last 70 years. To compare Russia has tried to annex Ukrainian land multiple times within the last 10 years.
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  2715.  @yulgerulaitis3409  "why invade Korea and Yugoslavia if those countries caused no threat for the US?" You are claiming invasions happened when there was no invasion or another nation started the war you are blaming the USA for. Russia wants to annex Ukraine as a nation. Putin has already said Ukraine does not exist as an actual nation.
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  2716. ​ @yulgerulaitis3409  I never said Korea or Vietnam were a threat to the US. I said "You are claiming invasions happened when there was no invasion or another nation started the war you are blaming the USA for". Perhaps you should stop saying things that are not true and calling others delusional for noticing what you are saying is not correct. For example, North Korea attacked South Korea. South Korea is an ally of the USA. North Korea started a war with both South Korea and the USA when it did that. And this is just 1 of multiple things you said that are not correct. Putin has claimed Ukraine is not a real nation more than once. He said "Ukraine is not a real country". This is a quote of him in "Putin claims Ukraine is not a country - history begs to differ" writings by Susan Bothmann on October 14 2022 for IndependentAustralia. More recently Putin said "Ukraine is an artificial state" in his interview with Tucker Carlson. The BBC includes this quote in its February 9 2024 writings on the interview called "Tucker Carlson Interview: Fact-checking Putin's 'nonsense' history".
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  2717. He is a liar doing PR rather than a "scientist" these days, For example, NASA had looked into those cycles he mentioned in minute 32 about a year before this interview and reported that they do not explain recent warming-thus he knows he is lying and figures most people won't double check so he can try to get away with it.
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  2718. Politicians put out and hear enough bs already without this guy adding to it-and what he added to it would be bs. Ditto for school kids.
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  2719. Easy example, in 2017 she tried to lie about Assad using chemical weapons.
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  2720. Imagine being a Palestinian kid and finding out you could have grown up in a nation of your own people where you aren't treated as a 2nd class citizen but instead a man (Netanyahu) who ordered an ethnic cleansing of your people was rewarded by a Trump Presidency instead.
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  2721. Other channels have already dealt with similar and discussed it. Funny you make that accusation. As for being lazy.. I wouldn't be surprised if he puts in longer hours than you do.
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  2722. French tried to start negotiations before this war got going. Putin wasn't interested. Putin would rather have imperialism than peace.
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  2723. Your take on history is not correct. By the time the US Civil War came around slavery had been ended in most Northern States. The "border states" with the South still had it but largely only them. And, importantly, the South started the US Civil War in an attempt to keep slavery around.
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  2724. techtutorvideos got a reply out before I did but he (or she) is correct. The South started the US Civil War. So the question is why did the South do it. Southern politicians themselves made clear they wanted to continue the practice of slavery.
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  2725. Trump tried to steal the last election and purposefully used immigrants on some of his building projects in order to cheat more people. I'm going to vote Harris.
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  2726. How many did we pay for? Likely zero. But since there is a good chance you're Russian you probably helped pay for Putin's palace as well as make him a billionaire. That he sends other Russians off to die by hundreds of thousands shouldn't worry you too much, after all lying for Putin is an important job.
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  2727. "Western Ukraine has been Russian since the Holodomor" Not just wrong but badly so. Also most people in Eastern Ukraine voted for independence and more there are more ethnically Russian.
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  2728. So committed he put more rules on Ukraine than Israel and to took months, sometimes years, to get him to approve giving some kinds of weapons to Ukraine. Mearsheimer is really trying to spin things. I think you may have noticed.
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  2729. Illinois has a lot of serious problems and is 1 of the 10 states most likely to take. a major hit if the economy goes into a recession according to Briggs. Thing is it is the only blue state in that situation. Most of the 10 worst states in the US are run by Republicans and moving to 1 of those would be going from bad to worse. Crime a problem? Neighboring Missouri is actually slightly worse, go further south to Arkansas or Mississippi and things get even more worse than that.
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  2730. The author is correct to point to the US ability to use mass production and economies of scale. He is wrong to say FDR's efforts to deal with the Great Depression failed. They created a long lasting positive impact on the USA (many works projects are still in used today) and unemployment dropped thanks to the New Deal.
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  2731. It would be a terrible blunder to stop US aid. To do so increases the risk of a war between Russia and NATO. The dictator running Belarus who let the Russian military travel through his territory since the start of this war actually showed off a map to a couple of people and said first they would take Ukraine and then Poland-which is NATO. Best Russia & Putin gets stopped in Ukraine.
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  2732. I'm not impressed. He straight up lied about Prager U (called it an educational organization when its primary purpose is to do political propaganda-something it has done for years).
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  2733. Man has gotten involved in fire season. It is called Global Warming. It can even make fire season start earlier and last longer.
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  2734. Defending your nation from Russian aggression is not "murdered most o his population". And this aid will help save Ukrainian lives.
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  2735.  @FredMeme-vq3kk  So proper poker indicates the method for Vietnam to regain is lost hinterlands is to invade China through Thailand?
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  2736. I call bs. Putin started the current war. Nobody else ordered the Russian military to move into Ukraine. Also I paid attention to 1 of the states Trump claimed he won and the court cases he filed in it. The court was correct to refuse Trump's requests. Perhaps my favorite was that Trump claimed since voters gave their mail in ballots to election workers-that the ballots supposedly should not count.
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  2737. I though I already provided a good link to a youtube video critical of Mersheimer. For some reason I don't see it now. I'll post it again. It is called "A Critique of Realism" by Kraut and it goes into the history of the ideology that calls itself realism (which Mersheimer follows).
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  2738. Here is the link. Since this is a valid youtube video I'm not sure why youtube would not allow the link to be shared. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXmwyyKcBLk
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  2739. So an increasing number of black voters are mirroring white voters by giving votes to a party that tries to hurt them?
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  2740. Yes, I guess he was making up excuses for Putin's activities even back then. Do appreciate how he managed to forget that the Cuban Missile Crisis was over missiles as he did so.
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  2741. Same people who opposed aid to Ukraine tend to oppose doing much to help them. The more defeats they face the better for people in both nations in general.
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  2742. Yeah, Germany does have certain past involving Jewish people. That said be aware in pro-free speech USA that people can lie in politics and it is up to others to figure out if they are lying or not. I think Misha is lying. No facts or numbers in a math class? Really?? The more I think about most of what she said the less I think it happened.
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  2743.  @Darrel-vm3lt  In other words you fell good that a President willing to sacrifice his own pride for the sake of a nation being attacked tried to make nice with someone who had no excuse for how he hand his VP treated him? That isn't a mark of who should apologize-many times-but who actually cares more about his country.
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  2744.  @seanmorgan8128  "Russia still wants to end the war" Nonsense. Putin never wanted to end this war. He just wants a pause to store up more artillery before starting it up again. The only President to put forwards a real suggestion for peace is President Zelensky-he said he would exchange occupied lands for joining NATO. Becoming part of NATO means Putin may think twice before attacking yet again. Putin is a warmonger.
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  2745.  @Youtubesucks15  "We are done! Threaten us all you want, it’s up to them now." No. Trump is setting the stage for WW3 since Putin doesn't want to stop just like Hitler didn't want to stop. The warning from President Zelensky was a warning and not a threat. Calling it a "threat" is misrepresenting the situation. The question is if Trump wants to be the next Chamberlain (proclaiming "Peace In Our Time while actually arranging WW2) or not.
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  2746.  @TheGeoCheese  " it’s time for Ukraine to come to the table" Ukraine put out a table earlier and invited many nations including Russia. Putin didn't want to come. Putin is a warmonger and figures he can get more of what he wants if he gets Trump to stab Ukraine in the back for him. Trump may even help Putin arrange WW3 since that is what it looks like Putin may intend.
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  2747.  @mvp019  The USA has been party to a ton of terrible things in South American. But how many of them occurred this century. Meanwhile how many current problems in South America are currently from internal groups or leaders creating corruption, pain, or suppression? How many current messes relate to current governments in each region (not the US) behaving badly? Also I noticed the geography of your remark. Outside bias favoring Israel and Iraq war 2 less so in the Middle East. And what exactly are you complaining about in South Asia? The war in Vietnam happened but was long over before many making comments here were adults-likely before some were even born.
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  2748.  @mvp019  Does it excuse US policy no. Is US policy being used to excuse inept and corrupt governments though? Yes. Also even if all interventions due to human rights aren't over human rights (which doesn't explain Yugoslavia) there are still human rights violations yes? Also I think you missed my point on Vietnam and also my question as to what do you mean by southern Asia. I didn't mean you supported what Israel does with the Palestinians-the opposite in fact. Now Syria is 1 thing I didn't think of. But I doubt the intention is "to starve their people". I would guess it is simply to grab oil if I was being cynical. Speaking of starvation isn't a shortage of food/higher priced food something that spurred part of the attempted revolt against Assad?
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  2749.  @mvp019  Going to number those to better address them. 1. Higher food prices happened before there were anti-Assad protests and before the recent (last several years) Syria Civil War exploded. Also some rebels were "moderate" otherwise there would've been less fights between rebel groups. While the US ended supporting both Islamist and moderate groups it isn't like Assad (and the Russians supporting him) didn't release Islamists early on to make sure a number of those group opposing him during the would be Islamist. A complicated mess but one where the local government (Assad's) has more blood on its hands than any other faction in that mess. 2. Saying they are "inept" is putting it mildly. Bolsonaro has been actively bad and deadly for many Brazilians and that is even if he doesn't attempt a coup upon losing the election. 3. There was ethnic cleansing going on. That started without the US being involved. Blaming the response that stopped it rather than those who were creating mass graves seems to miss who is the guilty party-(EDIT) in the former Yugoslavia.) 4. I see forces of corruption and ideology frequently combining in the USA to undermine the care it has for its citizens. That said if there was no care there wouldn't be such things as public hospitals (or laws relating to those which aren't), social services in general, EPA, and on. There are many nations that try to take better care of their citizens than the USA but that doesn't mean it has no care. 5. Speaking back to the 1950s would be understandable during a history class but less so when discussing current political events this century. As bad as the things the US was involved in (especially in South America) during the 2nd half of the 20th Century were that lends itself to letting off current political leaders and groups for their own actions much more recently. Feel free to remember the past, but don't ignore the present because of it.
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  2750. CF Yong. For starters Russia started this war. It has been a warmonger against multiple neighboring nations and tried to take all of Ukraine this time. Additionally it has been pretty brutal with many war crimes including torture and killing of civilians. So no, the USA didn't start this war-I don't know who told you that but they (or whomever told them that) lied. This war actually is Putin's Russia engaging in imperialism.
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  2751.  @abdillahijalalkhan2128  1st I've seen anyone claim that. And if anyone from the USA was involved they were probably allies of Trump-who tried to steal the election from Biden when most people in the USA chose Biden. Thus not an example of the USA staging an coup for or bringing Bolsanaro.
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  2752. ​ @mvp019  1. "US interventions in Latin America by pointing out how how inept their leaders are" this is misrepresenting the situation in 2 ways. 1st the US hasn't done much in the way of interventions in Latin America this century. 2nd you are dodging/downplaying that these leaders are worse than "inept"-such as Bolsonaro getting his own people killed and hinting he would hold a coup if the people of Brazil elected someone else (thankfully it looks like he lost and that a transition will happen even if he doesn't admit someone else was honestly elected). 2. 'The only reason human rights in China have become a "problem" is that China isn't dancing to our tune anymore' This is straight up false. Human rights have been a problem in China for decades. Ironically enough it sometimes took an unusually bad event like suppressing popular calls for reform in China back in 1989 that the US was embarrassed enough to limit US companies putting money into China for a little while. 3. "this whole Ukraine thing started in February of this year" Russia invaded Ukraine in February of this year. Trying to come up with excuses for that is trying to make excuses for imperialism and the current war. Additionally Russia was often the offender earlier. It wasn't Ukraine invading some part of Russia and seizing control but Russia doing so in Crimea which is Ukrainian territory. 4. "Stop pretending these CIA cutouts don't exist and aren't very active" I noticed you are now ignoring both the specific nation mentioned (Syria) and that people were protesting because they had problems. Strikes me as a typical blame outsiders routine politicians and dictators engage in. Place blame and accountability on anyone but them despite that they are in charge. Like I said before: "Pretty sure the crowds of Syrian protesters weren't out there over a pipeline deal." 5. "they are getting ready to have an election in Haiti. Our current puppet isn't very popular" So is it "they" or "Our". Are you Haitian or not? Also I noticed you have not supported the claim the US is supposedly messing with elections in Haiti. 6. "you to admit the US has done a long list of terrible things. Well, then, why are we continuing to do them?" Thus ignoring that I pointed out that US stopped doing many of them. The support for Ukraine is a good thing and doesn't belong on that list. Meanwhile you seem to be making excuses for a nation that is currently committing such a large range of war crimes that odds are good it is systematic thus planned (I don't say Putin planned individual Russian troops doing much of the individual level looting in Ukraine). "Are the leaves turning nice colors outside in Langley this week?" Don't know since I don't live around there. Does the color of the leaves wherever you are make you feel better about trying to excuse or willfully ignore Putin's war crimes as he continues to commit them?
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  2753.  @teresafernandez9849  I am lucky. And yes it can take decades to rebuild-though much of what the USA did in Latin American was done decades ago-often before I could vote and much before I was born. How about for you as well? Additionally if you actually sympathize with people suffering who will have to rebuild then you should not be praising China and Russia today.
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  2754. Nope. She said the money was going to local governments to help them when Republican governors unexpectedly dump a bunch of refugees on them.
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  2755. Ok. Handing Putin-the guy who started this war-part of another nation as a bonus for starting this war is inviting more wars. Also ignoring Ukraine in making any "peace" deal (actually giving Putin to rearm for the next invasion he wants to do) would be a return to imperialism/great power politics where big powers get to decide things and smaller nations are ignored-even when their (the smaller nations) fate is in the balance.
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  2756. The was decades ago and Mearsheimer is actually okay with it-after all Spheres of Influence is kind of his thing. That's why it is supposedly a bad thing if Ukraine has an elected government and the elected government doesn't want to do whatever Putin tells it.
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  2757.  @karry299  Romania and Moldova both still have elected governments. There is currently a widespread belief by people in Georgia that the sitting political party rigged the last election and is currently illegitimate. What are you on about?
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  2758. Or most Europeans are smart enough to know Putin intends to make problems but if he loses in Ukraine his days may be numbered.
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  2759. Perhaps, but Russia is paying a heavy price for the attempt.
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  2760. For putting this guy in office? Not really. I've visited Louisiana. I have little desire to live there. High crime, high poverty, and with politicians like this guy plus the gerrymandering that goes on there I don't hold out much hope for its future in the near term.
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  2761. So is that why Putin has been supporting neo-nazis and bigots in several other nations for years now? Russia under him was losing power?
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  2762. Ah yes. The Green Party official who gets support from a famous warmonger and climate change denier-not a good sign for a party that supposedly stands on ideals. I've voted for Green Party candidates before. I'm not likely to again until after Jill Stein is no longer at the top of their ticket.
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  2763. The EU passed a law allowing purchases of oil from Russia-just at cheaper prices than other nations. Not a bad move for the EU.
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  2764. The same people who opposed sending help to Ukraine are often the same ones that oppose helping out US citizens. If you want for things to be better in the USA try to ensure they lose their elections this November and going forwards.
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  2765. I strongly suspect the woman in the video is lying to viewers. The notion that they talked about "feelings" in math class with no facts or numbers struck me as an outlandish claim. The more I thought about the rest of what she said the more I began to suspect most of it is not true as well. What would the younger generation think of the older generation if when they grow up they look at it and see it was easily manipulated by lies?
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  2766.  @seanoconnor5311  Sorry, I was referring to the policy plans both signed off on. The remark was a 1st order screwup by Biden. I don't know if he got too little sleep, was drugged, or his mind really is gone. I'm open to Biden stepping aside if need be. I figure he should be open about what happened. That said a Biden whose mind is failing him is still better for the US than a Trump who may be fully energized but would likely end up doing a lot a harm with that energy.
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  2767.  @SirJamieLannister  You said what should be said.
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  2768. The Counties with more people tend to vote blue. In this cases that means they are supporting the better candidate for President. Trump will grow the National Debt more than any other candidate, disrupt the economy, and be an ally to Putin. On the specific Counties in question that is the reason Trump tried to steal the election last time (2020) by suing to not have US citizens from those areas have their votes count.
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  2769.  @melodylucas257  Biden was elected by US citizens. That is not a dictatorship. Trump tried to steal the election a couple of different ways and if he get back in is threatening to abuse his power to go after the people with enough integrity that they stopped him last time.
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  2770. And yeah, the Counties with more people tend to vote blue. In this cases that means they are supporting the better candidate for President. Trump will grow the National Debt more than any other candidate, disrupt the economy, and be an ally to Putin. On the specific Counties in question that is the reason Trump tried to steal the election last time (2020) by suing to not have US citizens from those areas have their votes count. Also Madison-1 of the best cities in the Midwest to live in pays attention enough to know Trump is little to no good.
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  2771.  @jewelpeters294  True Wisconsinites are US citizens regardless of if they live in a rural area or a city. Denying that is undercutting true Wisconsinites.
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  2772.  @cherylbaby1956  Did you see my post pointing out Biden was elected? Meanwhile Trump tried to steal the election.
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  2773. Ahh its all about money laundering in a not the military of another nation invading his own that is driving things. Makes perfect sense.
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  2774. Didn't hear what you wanted to Ivan?
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  2775. Practically yes. And a much better place to live than mainland China-including with honest elections where citizens can vote. However legally the world never did the sane thing and simple recognize that the 2 governments are fragments of a civil war that never ended. Though part of the negotiations that involved giving the UN seat that Taiwan used to sit on to mainland China is support for peaceful reunification. But a mainland Chinese invasion is not peaceful reunification.
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  2776.  @sudo4598  If given a choice they probably want independence. Though many of them probably also want the status quo to avoid ruffling feathers. After all why have a war if it is not needed to defend oneself. The problem there is can democracy in Taiwan be continued without an invasion from mainland China someday or will Taiwan's democracy have to fight in order to continue existing?
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  2777.  @sudo4598  Agreed.
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  2778.  @johnmoore7360  But he is in a minority.
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  2779. Yes and no. The person missed the boat in a big way requiring politicians to have fiscal discipline-something the USA typically doesn't have. Democrats spend and Republicans tax cut-both combine to give us a massive debt. On top of that an aging population won't help.
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  2780. I've heard there are some connections between the 2-it and Project 2025.
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  2781. Oh look, its Propaganda not really a U putting out a video. It is such a good thing that while Propaganda not really a U criticizes colleges for not having diversity of thought (I remember being able to disagree with a prof while sitting a classroom when I was in college) that Propaganda not really a U has diversity of thought. For example talking about harm from Global Warming is something it is very open to and often does.. right? Thus it wouldn't at all be trying to create its own online "safe space" where ideas that may run counter to any narrative it prefers are left unmentioned or are criticized without having someone who supports them advocate for them so that something resembling an actual debate never comes close to occurring.. right?
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  2782. I listened to the Larry King call. The person who made it never mentioned sexual assault and the call itself actually disproves the likelihood sexual assault happened-I explained why just recently.
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  2783. She can win. But Pennsylvania switched to looking scary for the 1st time this month. That is important.
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  2784. I see a couple of PR people for Putin dropped by. Yes Russia started this war "for sure". Putin had Russian troops and tanks move into parts of Ukraine. That is called invading. Doing it generally starts a war.
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  2785. Sounds like both will be good investments then.
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  2786. If most of the stuff she said never happened then it probably is not a fact. It is telling something else though. Yes, I think she is lying. No facts or numbers in a math class? Really?? The more I think about most of what she said the less I think it happened.
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  2787. Not really. Cersei was more of a fan of killing people and putting their heads on display than Daenerys. Low bar but Daenerys only had 1 guy executed by beheading and that was after he murdered someone-yes someone who wanted him and his family returned to slavery and all the cruelty that included but the person was scheduled to have a trial.
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  2788. Around 2015 he bragged to an EU official he could conquer Ukraine in three weeks. So yes Putin has been dreaming of invading Ukraine for years.
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  2789. A change? Some of the people sending him money are doing it out of the hope he pulls votes from Biden and gives Trump a chance to get back into the White House.
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  2790. Joe McCarthy lied about other people to boost himself. The mans name is properly known for his disgrace and false accusations.
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  2791. Then you have been told very misleading things. Most of what Ukraine has be asking for is not money but weapons their army can use to protect their people and cities. Ukraine will be glad to receive money but it is not what has been asked for the most.
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  2792. Who got herself killed following a conman's lies while breaking and entering (which was also participating in the conman's attempt to steal an election for President).
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  2793. Or more likely she one more person that realized you can lie on youtube. Yes, I think she is lying. No facts or numbers in a math class? Really?? The more I think about most of what she said the less I think it happened. If you go back to whatever university you went to you'll probably find it is not that different from before.
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  2794. More likely the GOP AG is trying to remove US citizens from the voting rolls. The GOP has tried that trick before. And in 2020 many of them tried to stop US Citizen's votes from being counted. Maybe the GOP could just stop trying to rig or steal elections.
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  2795. "Why? He doesn't want peace". President Zelensky already said he would accept a peace deal that let Russia keep the land it occupies if it involved Ukraine joining NATO so Putin would think twice about restarting the war. What the false claim about President Zelensky and war (purposefully?) misses is that he wants a peace that will last-not just a pause to let Putin store up more artillery shells before restarting things. A good historical point to keep in mind is that Chamberlain (a British Prime Minister before WW2) declared "Peace In Our Time" after making a deal with Hitler that would allow Hitler to take part of Czechoslovakia (a part that happened to have many of that nation's defensive fortifications). Hitler promised he would never want to take more land again if he could have that land. Less than 1 year later (and less than 1 year after Chamberlain proclaimed "Peace In Our Time") Hitler invaded the rest of Czechoslovakia. WW2 followed not too long after. Chamberlain didn't even let representatives from Czechoslovakia in the room while he was cutting deals with Hitler. When dealing with someone who does want war-that is Putin as he started this war and has been starting wars since he first came to power in Russia-is that something is often required to make them think twice about continuing to start wars. That is why President Zelensky wanted security guarantees and was even willing to give up lands that are rightfully Ukrainian to get them-President Zelensky wants peace and knows the best way to get actual peace is to be sure it will be a peace that lasts.
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  2796. Or a voice for Putin, yes put the war on pause since Putin needs time to rearm and build up ammo stores for another invasion effort. Especially just before Ukraine pushes a Russian occupying army out of part of another part of its territory. Also if Ukraine had been part of NATO already then Russia may not have invaded in the 1st place. That is why Finland decided to join NATO in hurry.
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  2797. I would like to know which US Diplomats Jeffery Sachs was using a source when he started pushing claims (matching China's) that covid was made by the USA. Claims I still think are very likely bunk-and that he knows are bunk but pushes anyway.
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  2798. rebelmango2141 I think you are correct about not trusting J. Sachs here. Do have some minor disagreements with you but an flaw worth pointing out in J. Sach's lines here is that he never brings up how Putin claimed Ukraine isn't really a real nation. That has nothing to do with NATO much to do with Russian imperialism. Also his MI complex excuse that the USA pushed NATO and that is the supposed cause of all this is rather ridiculous when one considers that NATO is made of many nations and each have to approve of new members joining in order to for it to happen. And for the several years prior to this current war some members of NATO were blocking Ukraine from joining. That Russia attacked anyway shows that was not the real issue.
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  2799. Most plants don't grow well in a flood or a wildfire. Those both are happening more thanks to Global Warming. BTW a couple of decades ago the deniers were claiming there was no Global Warming. Now they are changing their lies to there is Global Warming but it isn't made by carbon. NASA already put out a statement the cycles he referred to around minute 31 don't explain current Global Warming. And they did it in 2020 so over a year before the guy did this interview. Thus he has had plenty to time to know he is lying when he claimed that.
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  2800. HeavySandvichGuy1 so you mean that Croatia is supporting Putin? The guy who recently (while talking with Tucker Carlson) tried to come up with excuses for Hitler invading Poland. Doesn't seem like it from the initial comment.
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  2801. Unimpressive Speaker. So far I've been hearing he is a go along with whatever not matter how bad or someone who has been involved in trying to steal elections. Doesn't help he comes from Louisiana-a state known for rigged elections and corruption.
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  2802. Is that why murder rates are higher in red states and elections less likely to be rigged in blue states? Funny way of looking at it.
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  2803. If so then why is there usually higher crime and poverty rates in red states than blue states?
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  2804. Expert? I just saw a guy repeat a dishonest Kremlin taking point and not get called on it when the video disproved part of the narrative Dave Smith was pushing-specifically that Ukraine was going to choose. FYI: My apologies if I missed sarcasm in your comment.
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  2805. @chadhaire1711 It came out years ago that Putin lied about the results of the referendum in Crimea. Also since many Ukrainians knew the outcome was rigged some probably figured why waste time voting in an election where the actual results will not be what is posted right after. Since it is already known that Russia lied about the referendum results in Crimea years ago any more recent supposed referendum in areas Russia occupied should also be taken with a large chunk of salt.
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  2806. Or Gaddafi did.
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  2807. Grr.. I had moved beyond a lot of Star Wars but now I may have to go buy something Star Wars or at Disney to help save society because Matt Walsh complained about it. Yes, I think the oldest trilogy is the best. And the criticisms by scifi fans are often correct. But what Matt Walsh is doing here is saying don't watch or buy Disney stuff/merchandise but do his.
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  2808.  @thereflection  Which of Mearsheimer's points would this be? 1 claim that Mearsheimer said during a debate is that Putin sees increased democracy in Ukraine with, as Kraut put it, a "politically enfranchised public" as US meddling that should be ended.
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  2809. Hi Ivan, war not going well for you? That victory Putin said would happen in three weeks not happened well over a year later? As for why Putin started this war why don't you repeat his claim that Ukraine is not really its own nation?
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  2810. @Soul-zl6bb "there are many more arguments for East- and South Ukraine and Russia" Do those arguments go along the lines of imperialistic invasions laden with war crimes are a good thing so lets try to reward Putin for getting many people killed and disrupting the lives of even more?
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  2811.  @DMC1982  He lived through peace. He may want it back. Sadly Putin does not and never did. That is why when Putin is in a mood to rearm since he didn't realize how much ammo he would go through it would be good to have a security guarantee in order to be sure Putin doesn't restart the war after feeling his has enough artillery shells or missiles. Also Zelensky had already said he would sign a peace deal if he could get a security guarantee that Putin would not start the war again-he even said he would let Russia keep the illegally occupied lands if Ukraine would be let into NATO. So the question is if you want WW3 and are supporting Trump's efforts to make it more likely..
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  2812. I have to thank someone for pointing out to me JD Vance was a FOBBIT-he largely stayed on base while others went out on patrol and took risks. Maybe he now has an inner resentment for people who take the real risks as opposed to him.
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  2813. Problem it is a false narrative-especially when it comes to recent history. Mr. Mearsheimer claimed the USA supposedly doubled down on Ukraine joining NATO after 2014. This is a lie. Former President Obama was in office at the time and he was coming up with excuses that Ukraine couldn't join NATO. Meanwhile Ukraine was officially Neutral at the start of 2014 and Putin occupied Crimea (part of Ukraine) anyway.
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  2814.  @jenniferbriggs3796  Elon is not searching for money so it would be surprising for him to find any.
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  2815. Yes and no. US aid to Ukraine would be there by now if a certain group of people weren't purposefully trying to hamper it. That isn't hesitation by our leaders. It is sabotage by a minority that lacks many morals.
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  2816. 2hills You leave out that Zelensky was elected honestly.. while Putin was not.
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  2817. "for them to provoke Russia into a war" Ah yes. Ukrainians dared Putin to send the Russian military in to Ukraine. Cannot credit Putin's warmongering to Putin's imperialism and wanting to rebuild the old Russian empire. And if Putin disregards the views of people living in nations that do not want to be part of a new Russian empire that is those peoples' fault and also not Putin's.. right?
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  2818.  @eugene7518  Because part of the reason Putin probably attacked Ukraine is to prevent its rise. Without Putin and his cronies keeping Ukraine down Ukraine has a lot of potential. Long term brighter future and better opportunities outside Russia than inside.
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  2819. I mentioned this earlier but I guess it is worth repeating.: Oblasts occupied by Russia voted to be independent of the Soviet Union. More recently a majority of each of them that was capable of voting in Ukrainian elections (not occupied by Russia) voted for current Ukrainian President Zelensky. Now Russia does like to fake holding referendums where the official results are lies made up in Moscow rather than people living in Crimea or Donbas. So right now Putin is trying to overturn the will of the local people by force in Donbas.
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  2820. diIbert "@SilortheBlade The choice is one guy who has been President while 4 borders have been massively invaded. US, Ukraine, lsrael, Gaza. And the other guy where it didnt happen." Thank you for revealing you are a misleading/deceptive Trump supporter. Immigrants kept coming during Trump's time in office-whose families do you think he was pulling apart? Until tanks start appearing at the US border instead of people who want to live here it is not an invasion. Now lets compare Trump and Biden on Ukraine, Biden supports sending help to Ukraine while Trump's preferred House Speaker has been sabotaging the effort and Trump himself has said that he will push Ukraine to submit to Putin's unjustified invasion.
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  2821.  @spongeintheshoe  Good question though I have a different question for you. Do you see any response from me to 1 of dilbert's comments? I'm very sure I said something in response to 1 of them yet don't see it now. I'm wondering if someone flagged my remark as a way to censor it.
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  2822. Stalin made an agreement with Hitler to invade Poland together. Russian leaders have no excuse to complain about others dealing with Nazis. Also Putin started a war with Ukraine. NATO isn't actually fighting because if it was the Russian army would be in even worse shape than it is already.
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  2823. No. Mehdi is correct on most if not all of his criticism of Harris, however he is correct to say she would be better than Biden for people in Gaza. Biden is much better than Trump. Bob Woodward's new book War details how Biden had to push Netanyahu just to get food into Gaza when Netanyahu didn't want to. Trump has been more willing to let Netanyahu annex land than any US President in modern history. Harris wants Palestinians to keep their land in order to have their own nation. Trump has made no promise to try to preserve Palestinian land-and his record shows he would likely do the opposite. Trying to say Trump and Harris are the same is is wrong. It is wrong on the facts and specifically wrong on how how much land (arguably the reason people are being killed and abused thus the ethnic cleansing) and how many lives would be saved. Additionally Trump would be a reward to Netanyahu for what he has done. If you don't want to reward genocide or ethnic cleaning the prevent the person doing it from getting what he wants.
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  2824. That can be a problem if China wants to move into the territory of India.
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  2825. This guy is less an expert and more a propagandist who has been taking payoffs from fossil fuel companies for the last several years-I noticed SkyNews left that detail about him unmentioned. How about policymakers listen to people who aren't bribed by various companies & organizations.. or even aren't part of political parties that are.
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  2826. These are called a lie by omission and commission. The US had labs there. to study and contain diseases leftover from the Soviet Union and its sloppy handling of bioweapons. Putin and his PR crew were looking for excuses to cover for the war he started with Ukraine and picked that to misrepresent the situation. Since the early 2000s the US cleaning up after the Soviets including by the Aral Sea. No the CIA didn't start the current war nor Putin occupying Crimea-that is on Putin. How about holding the guy responsible for his own decisions for a change.
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  2827.  @alanlewis9630  Seems angistamm7186 is trying to share a misrepresentation of the situation. Like I already mentioned in my reply the US has been cleaning up after the Soviet Union and the sloppy way it handled bioweapons for years.
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  2828. So far claims the US sabotaged Nordstream have had plenty of talking but little evidence. The USA may have done it but so could gave Russia or some other nation. Also don't forget while the USA can and has lied or broken agreements so has Russia-especially under Putin. About a year ago Putin said to both other nations and his own troops his military was just doing training and there would not be a new invasion or war. That was a lie by Putin both internationally and to some of his own people internally.
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  2829.  @cris7089  The problem with such a documentary is it would require ignoring some important aspects about Putin such as that he is corrupt (stolen and taking in bribes in billions), rigs elections, and murders people.
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  2830.  @marv6013  At multiple times Russia accepted or agreed to respect Ukraine's territorial integrity-including the agreement involving both the USA and Russia where Ukraine gave up it's nukes.
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  2831.  @alexgainsborough4921  "Russia and Ukraine, the borders have never been demarcated" So in all these decades Ukraine and Russia have existed nobody made a map with what regions were or were not in each? I do not believe his statement. Especially since the next, "no documents have been signed" is not true. Treaties have been signed by by both Russia and Ukraine-including at the UN.
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  2832.  @kkgauthier  That thought may be actually come closer to the truth than some of the things that were said here-including by Mr. Sachs.
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  2833.  @marv6013  Ukrainians love to bring it up because Putin broke it. Thus they have good reason. Please quote to me both where it says Ukraine must be neutral and explain to me what military alliance Ukraine was part of that supposedly broke the neutrality.
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  2834.  @marv6013  You are aware that crisis was over missiles and not if Cuba could form a military alliance with the Soviet Union.. correct? Cuba did form an alliance with the Soviet Union and it lasted most of the "Cold War" between the USA and USSR. The USA probably did not like that but the crisis was not over the alliance, just the missiles.
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  2835.  @alexgainsborough4921  Sounds like another example of Putin wanting to pick Ukraine's President for it and not being happy if he does not get his way.
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  2836.  @alexgainsborough4921  Pretty sure that isn't true. The President of Ukraine is currently the 1 who decides if Ukraine submits to whatever temporary terms Putin proposes or not. Apparently wisely he has not.
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  2837. Ukraine is the victim of NATO not expanding enough. Had NATO including Ukraine there would not be a war today. Also Russia did place nukes in Cuba (Cuban Missile Crisis), the USA did not place them in Ukraine. So your analogy is not only wrong but shows you know little about real world history.
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  2838. Not a challenging interview but at least I can judge Oliver Stone by his own words today and let my respect for him drop based on being informed (including on how low he is willing to sink to excuse Putin).
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  2839. McGregor is a Russia shill and has been for some time.
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  2840. If I have a daughter I may still use the name Daenerys
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  2841. Cool!! The old school lies about Global Warming aren't dead among deniers yet. I mean this lie was disproven years ago so many deniers have moved on to new lies about why Global Warming is happening rather than if but I see some people haven't forgotten the old & not so good distortions peddled in the past.
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  2842. When they say record breaking includes records of every other recorded summer. You are aware of this.. correct?
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  2843.  @Tomoyo0827  Factually wrong. Despite official recognition of "China" going to mainland China there are still many nations that work with Taiwan anyway. Additionally Taiwan generally sends athletes to the Olympic games. As a nation Taiwan is not that big so it doesn't send that many but it still does.
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  2844.  @nestser  As someone from and in the west I have knowledge of many of the mistakes my nation has made. Can you say the same of Chinese people and mainland China-which still fails to discuss what happened in Tiananmen Square. The USA seems to be facing its own history. China is hiding from its own history.
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  2845. Good call. And they even touched on Sansa becoming Sansafinger as her tutors were Cersei and Littlefinger. That she became an oathbreaker within a day of making one to Jon shows Sansafinger is leaving Stark honor and morality behind. Such as saying northmen shouldn't have to kneel anymore before self-servingly (and hypocritically) making them kneel to her.
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  2846. He has 1 and that he is trying to defend his nation shows he is doing it.
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  2847. I would love to see an interview with Gabbard where the interviewer is brave enough to ask Gabbard when exactly she decided to put Putin's interests ahead of anyone else's.
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  2848. Ah, yes.. blame the people in the nation that was attacked for the death and destruction not the ones who actually started the war like Putin and his henchmen. Makes perfect sense.
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  2849. Putin's cronies? I are they to replace the yachts seized when their boss started a war with Ukraine?
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  2850. 1 of the funny things about deniers (actually liars) is they supposedly don't want government interfering with thing but then maintain the bi-partisan block on lawsuits against fossil fuel companies over Global Warming damages. Isn't part of responsibility as well as the whole idea of Capitalism part of cleaning up your own mess and paying your own bills? Pretty hypocritical. Also notice how the deniers have changed lies over time-it went from there is no Global Warming to now the is Global Warming but the billions of tons of carbon that has been dumped into the air each year for decades supposedly cannot have anything to do with it. Trying to maintain the irresponsibility but changing the lies to do it with.
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  2851.  @AB-nu5we  Correct me I'm wrong but hasn't Orban's political party been making use of gerrymandering in order to rig elections in Hungary in its own favor. So while Orban does have some supporters it can be asked if he is really who the population of Hungary as a whole want.
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  2852. Did you catch that the woman in the video is probably lying to viewers. For example, that she supposedly talked about "feelings" but not facts or numbers in math class? Really?? So before assuming this is part of a trend it would probably be good to ask if such a trend exists and, even if it does, is it being massively overblown by political alarmists?
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  2853. I'm from Wisconsin. I've pretty sure I can mention find some Republicans that were let off easy after breaking the law while Democrats were not. One of which is former State Assembly peaker Scott Jensen who took judge shopping to an pretty unusual level in order to get let off. As for Gohmert.. I smell bs. EDIT: The next time liberals storm the US Capitol Building for the purpose of stealing a Presidential Election feel free to be has hard on them. However it seems they didn't January, but conservatives did.
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  2854.  @elysianfields1671  You can go on if you want but how much of that is really accurate and how much is Russian PR? For example "shelling civilians for 9 years" sounds a lot like Russian claims of genocide for which it does not provide evidence. Now there is a war with separatists in Donbas that Russia supports 1 side of but civilian deaths in that conflict have been way down for years. "accepting USA help to overthrow a democratically elected government" Which government? When a corrupt former Ukrainian President used force on people protesting against him breaking his campaign promises the USA didn't tell him to use force on the protesters and generate a backlash that scared him into leaving the nation. Moreover partway through that situation the USA's local ambassador was trying to work out an agreement between multiple figures and political parties including that former President's political party. "not implementing Minsk 1 and 2" Not sure of the exact details but I've heard Russia broke the Minsk agreements. Since I'm not sure of the details at this time I'll leave this one hang but because of what I've heard I'll point out that if Russia was breaking the Minsk agreements itself then that really does not make for a good excuse of provocation. "amassing a huge amount of troops in Donbas" Donbas is Ukrainian territory, there may be a low grade war with separatists there but it is Ukrainian territory. "prevented a massacre in Donbas" If Ukrainians were not massacring people before-and they were not-then there isn't a good reason to say they would suddenly start right before Russia invades. Meanwhile you left out little things like that Putin has said Ukraine is not really its own nation-meaning he decided what is or is not a nation and is putting himself in the aggressor's chair in an attempt to enforce those decisions of his. You also didn't mention that Russia had invaded Crimea because Putin felt like. There were not any massacres there and for awhile Russia even tried to officially pretend it wasn't behind the soldiers that suddenly started taking control of parts of Crimea. So not only was the particular current head of Russia the aggressor now but he has been in the recent past. So Putin has a history of invading Ukraine.
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  2855. Since Musk and his gang did this odds are good they never cared much about fraud nor being efficient. Instead they are just tossing people out the door without knowing what they do nor how well.
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  2856. Awesome point.
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  2857. Actually Global Warming can still be stopped. Don't get me wrong a lot of pain is already coming due to that some Global Warming is already going to happen because of what has already been done but that doesn't mean people cannot put a limit on the damage by changing now. An idea that is worth some thought is to have tariffs associated to Global Warming. Burn too many fossil fuels and get hit with one. Since China is the top CO2 emitter in the world right now that could have an impact.
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  2858.  @subsonic9854  They tried to encourage China to be more democratic (which would be a good thing) but at the moment the rulers of China are pushing the country away from that.
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  2859. LOL. The reason Russia's borders are where they are right now is because Russia repeatedly started wars and seized lands by military force. Now I don't blame Putin for that as it is the past. But him starting this war by moving Russia army past another nation's borders is his fault.
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  2860. Nobody should trust Putin.
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  2861. It is a nicer name than Bran the Backstabber or Bran the Mass Murderer. Though Bran, King of the Ashes, also works since in season 8 there are hints he uses his powers to manipulate others including causing the King's Landing massacre to happen.
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  2862. He overestimated Russia, what an idiot. Though at least he did get some things correct. That Putin cares little for how well his people live is showing.
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  2863. He is criticizing constructively. He sees things as failures that are preventable and, if addressed, capable of bringing success.
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  2864. Oh look, more Russian lies and propaganda online.
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  2865. He was not expecting Putin to start a war and start killing his people. Putin decided to do that. Since Ukraine was not in NATO those nations in NATO would not have responded by declaring war on Russia like they would if Russia attacked a NATO member. However many do see Ukraine as being attacked by an imperialistic nation and is trying to defend itself so many send help to Ukraine out of sympathy-though some feel that Putin's imperialism wouldn't stop with trying to invade Ukraine so helping Ukraine stop imperialism now may prevent them from having to face a war against Russian imperialism later if Putin decided to attack a nation that joined NATO.
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  2866. Like I said before. 1st thing a Carbon tax should send money to is to address damages caused by Global Warming. I like getting a check or 2. But that doesn't illustrate why there is a need for the tax. Paying for damages can help clear that up.
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  2867. Is it me or did black conservatives get given more time to speak and also showed they didn't know the facts. Such as the one guy claiming Obama was raised in privilege. Not to pick on Mitt Romney for being born into a family with money but between those 2 he, not Obama was raised in privilege. The black liberals went into broader themes-such as politicians only using people for votes. But when the conservatives went into specific things they were either wrong. Obama raised in privilege. And Democrats and Hillary supposedly being racist with "superpredators" when politicians of both parties-wrongly grabbed on to that at the time. But to take a step beyond that there was Trump paying for an ad against black victims who had been wrongly accused and jailed. Lets not forget Trumps good people on both sides when one of the sides is made up of racist groups. The Black conservatives here either didn't know the facts or didn't think about them. I guess that shows they can be like white conservatives in that regard. The "liberal" blames both parties while the conservative wrongly blames the liberal party. Not that deep. There could be more drawn out of it but there was no attempt to Factcheck or-beyond the welfare thing-discuss comparing myth to reality.
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  2868. So Kash Patel is a political crony that wants to fight against people with integrity. Got it.
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  2869. Problem is some of the newer politicians are also pushing this. Mike Johnson is not 80.
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  2870.  @Vin_San  Good that you put out the correction. Also I'm cynical enough to wonder if the National Debt is being used as an excuse to do other things by people who don't care about it-it is an issue however. Say, I left a comment pointing out that some of the young politicians are passing this budget proposal that adds to the debt. Do you see my earlier comment?
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  2871. Better understand or better be swallowed up by Putin propaganda? I watched the whole interview Oliver Stone did recently with a part of it focused on the current war in Ukraine. I don't think I'd ever had as low an amount of respect for Oliver Stone until after seeing him speak and just wrong.. or even how full of bs he can be.
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  2872. For calling out a grown man on his willful dishonesty? Sounds like someone who doesn't want to examine Moore's integrity.. or the lack thereof.
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  2873. There would be reason to criticize except Trump is much more corrupt and happens to be buddies with a warmonger that hangs out in Moscow.
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  2874. "Never poisoned btw." I see you were laying the propaganda thick that day.
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  2875. Probably never occurred. Yes, I think she is lying. No facts or numbers in a math class? Really?? The more I think about most of what she said the less I think it happened.
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  2876. No. Patriots care about what happens to their nation and people. Putin showed a long time ago that he doesn't care much about what Russian citizens have to endure.
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  2877.  @simkiankiong3599  Actually I'd argue that Putin is relying on legacy support for Russia back from when the Soviet Union supported certain groups in other parts of the world. Putin himself heads a Russia that is increasingly racist, class divided, corrupt (a lot of corrupt leaders like that), and happens to have taken advantage of work started decades before he was in power when pipelines were being built from Russia to Eastern Europe back when the USSR was still around. Putin was lucky that Russia inherited some infrastructure as well as natural resources. By choosing to invade his neighboring nations he has actually diminished the potential of Russia since Russia could have made itself into a bridge between Europe and Southeast Asia. Plus a new generation of Eastern Europeans will hate or be suspicious of Russia for what could be many years now and this builds on the distrust their parents had for the USSR when they didn't like the control Moscow had back then.
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  2878.  @simkiankiong3599  Which do you love about Putin the most? The corruption where he and cronies basically steal from the Russian people in order to live in palaces, the assassinations, or the rigged elections? It is funny that you may love him but nations that are his neighbors and know him best do not-perhaps that says a great deal about him.
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  2879. ​ @simkiankiong3599  You claim they are "10x worst" yet Trump didn't put Biden in jail to prevent him from running against him in an election nor has Biden put any Republican (including Trump) in jail to prevent them from running against him. Freedom House-an organization that focuses on honest elections and corruption-also rates nations across the world and found that Zelenksyy was honestly elected and that Ukraine has honest elections. Also yes, Western media did report positive things on Russia but that has tended to decrease in recent years as Putin has done things like attack neighboring nations and arrange assassinations and assassination attempts. Against Navalny stands out in recent years because Putin really did not want him to run for election but other assassinations are also noteworthy like some people killed in the UK a few years back. Lets look at some of Putin's claims for why he started this war and if they are honest. 1. Nazis supposedly run Ukraine-Nazis hated Jews yet a Russian speaking Jew is currently Ukraine's elected President. 2. Ukraine is not a real nation-Ukraine has existed not just as an independent nation for more than 30 years (something that the Russian government already acknowledged decades ago) but it was officially a "Republic" inside the USSR or Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. 3. He is coming to free Russian speakers-yet a Russian speaker is the current President so they don't need freeing, their votes honestly count so even if President Zelenskyy was not President they still have political freedoms, and in areas where Russian speakers are a majority and already had elected local officials Putin is having those elected officials removed from office and replaced by a list of people he picked-thus Putin is taking political freedoms away from towns he has already occupied in the current war even if those towns are of mostly Russian speakers. Plus there are many photos and videos of Russian troops abusing, stealing from, and sometimes murdering Ukrainian civilians. Bucha was the 1st location where this was found in a sizable way but not the last. Putin's own claims about why he started this war are lies. Western media doesn't have to say that. People can read a transcript of Russian claims made at the beginning of this war and see if that transcript matches the facts-it does not. But if Putin is so good then why do Estonians, Lithuanians, Latvians, Ukrainians, Finnish people, Polish people and more all dislike him. Their nations are geographically closer to Russia than many nations so if Western media was supposedly lying to people about how bad Putin was they would know better because they are close enough to Russia that they can easily travel there and would see or hear of the supposed good things. You complained about Western media but how much time have you spent listening to pro-Putin propaganda?
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  2880. Didn't vote for him in the primary. Probably will in November.
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  2881.  @СеменМарина  If you are Ukrainian best of luck to your people and my apologies for what appears to be the betrayal Trump is committing against your nation.
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  2882. Very. And this is partly a lesson of forgetting what happened pre-WW2. Trump is arranging WW3 by acting like a Chamberlain. Except with all the Russian money Trump got it may be fueled more by corruption than naivety (like Chamberlain had). We encouraged Ukraine to give up their nukes, they officially stayed neutral until after Putin did a mini-invasion in 2014 of Crimea. They know Putin will never stop so the only question is do others help them and stop Putin when it costs less in money and lives or more. Waiting makes the latter more likely.
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  2883.  @Youtubesucks15  The US encouraged Ukraine to give up its nukes. That increases the US's responsibility. Plus you'd have to be from the USA for it to be part of "our" responsibility. I've not seen much proof you are.
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  2884. The EU has 1 of the biggest economies in the world-so it will probably be ok. Also Climate Change/Global Warming is probably not good for its older infrastructure so it is long term financially in the EU's interest (and most other nation's interest as well) to move to something other than fossil fuels anyway for transportation and manufacturing. The switch in those 2 fields alone would have a large impact.
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  2885. Pretty sure democratic (as in real elections where people have rights and votes) socialism is not what North Korea does.
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  2886.  @jeffrey4181  Russia is trying that in Ukraine right now. It has not gone well for them. Maybe Russia should stop trying to install puppet governments.
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  2887. Which has a more recently created constitution with the intent that things be functional? On top of that which as more corrupt agents-arguably doing favors for Putin-trying to sabotage things from the inside?
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  2888. It is not just that he is missing facts, he is also repeating lies. Now the 2 do go hand in hand. 1 of the interesting things I noticed-I guess Joe Rogan didn't-is that the foreign affairs guy straight up said Ukraine is going to chose. Ukraine, not the USA, not the UK, and thankfully not Putin either. Dave Smith misrepresents what happened when the Ukrainian population backlashed against a corrupt former President of Ukraine who used force on people that protested his breaking of campaign promises. The backlash was big enough he ran from his own nation. The elected Ukrainian parliament declared he had abandoned his post and Ukrainians have had a couple of honest elections since then. Among the many things that Putin hates is that Ukrainians are getting to choose-including who their President is. That is 1 of the many things Putin would like to steal from them right now. Good for them that they disproved Putin's claim he would supposedly win his current invasion in three weeks.
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  2889. You are cheering Trump's corruption-not fighting corruption. The reason Trump got rid of Inspectors General that actually did fight Waste, Fraud, and Abuse (and saved more than $90 billion while doing so) is because Trump wants more Waste, Fraud, and Abuse rather than less.
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  2890.  @colowyowatchman4420  Don't know about the soldiers who died but I wouldn't be surprised since funding for a Veteran suicide hotline was cut. Cutting food aid to starving people is likely to get people killed too.
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  2891. Is this another bot spreading another lie. Global Warming not only caused a bunch of problems-including killing people-in Georgia, Florida, and North Carolina recently but more recently than that Spain just had a flood that killed over 100 people.
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  2892. Except those human beings that want better schools, better healthcare, and lower murder rates. If people want higher murder rates then several red states are available.
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  2893. I see you come to complain in support of a corrupt wannabe Czarist steals from his own people twice (and not as replies so something someone else mentioned) in 1 day. Couldn't let all your support for billionaire authoritarians out of your system with just 1 comment that day-could you?
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  2894. I'm not convinced Trump loves the USA. Some of the things he and his hench people are doing seem to be damaging to the USA rather than loving for it right now.
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  2895. If you weren't so willing to embrace Putin's lies and distortions perhaps you wouldn't be so unhappy when someone called him out on them.
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  2896. The warmonger in this situation is Putin, not out of office for years at this point Blair. Putin, not Blair, ordered Russia's military to invade another nation.
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  2897. Actually no. He lied about Prager U being educations (it is not, but it does deal in propaganda). And he pulled out some headlines to complain about without ever getting to the content and if decent reporting or not. That is the sign of someone who wants to pretend to talk about something without ever actually talking about it. Notice the guy he complained NPR reported on and he made a point of mentioning he was a crook. NPR reported on that-including sharing on his court case and conviction when they happened. Mr Kennedy was very selective in what he mentioned about NPR's reporting on that guy.
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  2898. Or the woman in the video is simply lying. The claim that they supposedly talked about "feelings" but not facts or numbers in math class convinced me of that. The more I thought about the rest of what she said beyond that the more likely it seemed to me that was probably made up too.
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  2899. Supposed "little guy" being execs of polluting companies?
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  2900. The Weimar Republic was not fascist. Fascists destroyed it and banned the political parties that ran it.
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  2901.  @cpuwrite  Yes it does sound familiar. That said as you admit they were not technically fascist themselves. And some stood up against the fear Nazis were putting on them. Much of the Weimar Republic's brief time went without Nazi control (Hitler's party did not do well in most elections). For historical accuracy I wouldn't call Weimar fascist when fascists killed it. Now politics do sound familiar to what you said. Sadly if stuck between a coward and fascist I would typically go with the coward. I support trying to push people not to be cowards or replacing those who are. Tactically this means a primary rather than general election.
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  2902. Sansa may marry, if she does will she take her husband's last name?
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  2903.  @DatCrazyNerf  It is worse. 1. They set up a coming civil war-no way the other kingdoms won't want independence if the North gets it. 2. Bran doesn't care about common people's lives and helped ruin Dany's life (adding stress when she came to help his homeland of all things). You notice he never warned her about Euron waiting in ambush and told Samwell to tell Jon about his ancestry when Samwell was in the most anti-Dany mood he will likely ever be in his whole life. He must of even seen that by driving Dany nuts he would be making a genocide in Kings Landing happen and putting Jon in a position where he would have to kill a lady he cared about. Bran did what he could to ruin 2 people's lives that had both helped other groups of people and put together alliances. And after that gets to sit on a throne. Not a good sign for the long run happiness in the kingdom.
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  2904.  @DatCrazyNerf  Thanks, I agree. They made little use of what he could do (maybe even would since I cannot say he would simply say nothing if he saw something-he both saw things and sometimes said so). What do you call a situation where multiple characters are treated badly?
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  2905.  @DatCrazyNerf  It could have. However since they ended it quickly they should have done a better job with what they had time for-why I think mad queen was a step too far both because of what she had already shown her character to be and it wasn't that plus they just didn't have the time to with what was already on their plate.
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  2906.  @WarningStrangerDanger  Or identity politics worked for Republicans. I don't see a lot of Democrats bringing up trans people but it is much more coming for Republicans.
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  2907.  @WinterXR7  That would run against Republicans running on identity politics and scare mongering. In addition at some point people may start asking why Republicans can act Christian when it comes to abortion but not people living in poverty (love your neighbor as yourself) nor Global Warming (shalt not bear false witness).
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  2908. Agreed.
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  2909. "there's alot of money and power at stake" Yes. Fossil fuel funded propaganda groups have been lying about Global Warming for years. If people use something else for energy that causes less harm they would lose out on some of their cash flow. There is some good research on fuel propagandists such as the book "Merchants of Doubt". Imagine what would happen if those companies causing Global Warming actually had to pay for the damages it does-an old notion known as "taking responsibility". But that may slow down the cash flow so do propaganda instead..
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  2910.  @kmoses582  And did recording breaking stop in 1936? Was the record set then and never to be reached or surpassed again? Was this particular argument pushed by the same propagandists fossil fuel companies often use?
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  2911. Is there a channel or newspaper article you can point to? I'd love to read about it or have a source. BTW I saw a Republican US Senate candidate say that very thing last Friday. It was from the US Senate Debate in Wisconsin and it can be found on C-Span.
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  2912. The kind that probably tells her lying to people is ok. Yeah, the woman in the video is probably lying. The claim that they supposedly talked about "feelings" but not facts or numbers in math class convinced me of that. The more I thought about the rest of what she said beyond that the more likely it seemed to me that was probably made up too.
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  2913. Seeming sincere and being sincere can be 2 different things. As for being reported by others the guy watching this video and likely falling for her act himself said he did not see what she claimed happening in his classes. So actually other people's experiences contradict her claims rather than support them.
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  2914.  @Philosophy-Forum  FYI I learned about this video from someone who didn't watch it with a critical or questioning eye like I did. RFL Jojo did a video of him watching it and routinely agreeing with her even though he admitted his teachers never did what she claimed. So that is who I referred to as falling for her act despite his own experiences contradicting her claims.
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  2915.  @Philosophy-Forum  Let me get this straight. Someone who likes her admits that he saw the opposite in person of what she claimed and recognizing that means I'm supposedly a "hypocrite"?? That is pretty rich. Sounds like you're unhappy I did "pay attention". Would that make you something of a "hypocrite"?
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  2916. @lvll138inrs No, I think that distortion has been put out by many conservatives but FDR actually said unions were something that were natural and logical for public workers to want and have. FDR opposed public workers going on strike. Different from no union at all-which is what conservative whisperers falsely claimed. So FDR approved of workers having unions that were able to negotiate on wages, working conditions, and so on. If you want I'll drop a link to FDR's letter saying so.
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  2917. Be careful about believing this video. They claimed to not be able to talk about something while talking about in public-thus lying while falsely claiming victimhood. Also they avoided talking about that Putin has supported many neo-nazi and bigoted groups in other nations. Mentioning that may make it harder for them to continue making excuses for him here.
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  2918.  @terryroberson2949  I did. One could call that trying to excuse lying to one's own voters.
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  2919. Someone does not have to work for the CIA to oppose Russian imperialism nor support a democracy where the people actually elect their leaders like Ukraine when it is invaded by a regime that rigs elections like Putin's is.
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  2920. Ukraine has something like $10 Trillion worth of minerals they can offer the EU in exchange for a half-way decent deal. Ukraine could be boost to the EU-especially if the EU manages to step up and ensure Ukraine is able to keep going.
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  2921.  @elizaveta_kataya  People from Ukraine tend to like the EU. Don't forget in 2014 the corrupt former President that ended up fleeing Ukraine got a few protests going by breaking his campaign promise to do a trade deal with the EU. Granted the protests grew very rapidly when he tried to force to disrupt the protests and that resulted in even more protests plus a backlash that scared him off but there is not dislike towards the EU by most Ukrainians.. very different from Russia and its history in Afghanistan. Or the US and its for that matter.
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  2922.  @robertoandreamadonna6025  Hardly. Putin started this war. Plus in 2014 Ukraine was officially Neutral and Putin did an invasion covertly then-he is a warmonger.
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  2923. That sounds like Russian underestimating other nations' capabilities.
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  2924. You are welcome. I hope it helps in a major way.
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  2925. People living in Europe whenever the EU elections occur. Try to look something up for once.
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  2926. I would lean towards cowardice since Oliver Stone has shown Putin sympathies for years and being honest about the horrible things Putin is doing now could probably involve admitting how wrong he was to promote Putin in the past.
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  2927. Or Putin is your leader already and your job is trying to trick other people into thinking Putin isn't as bad as he actually is.
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  2928. When are we going to get to the 200,000 US citizens from my state whose votes Trump didn't want counted in 1 of his attempts to steal the election in 2020? Also if the Virginia AG has 6,000 non-citizens on the voting rolls why hasn't he tried a case against any of them?
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  2929. Greenpeace says this guy was not one of its founders. Instead he worked for Greenpeace for about 5 years before realizing he could make more money doing propaganda for organizations Greenpeace may not get along with. His bio may be a fraud and even if it isn't that is still a sell out. He mentioned using the Milankovitch cycle excuse in minute 32 (using big words people may not know the details of thus not realize he could be trying to pull a fast 1 on them. NASA put out a statement Milankovitch cycles do not explain current Global Warming in 2020, over a year before this interview. So he knows he is lying. Also in minute 33 he falsely claimed humans brought "balance" to the Carbon Cycle. The carbon cycle has been functioning for thousands of years. What humans did is dig up carbon that has been buried for tens of thousands of years (if not longer) and add it to the air. Now there is more carbon in the air than has been present for over 400,000 years. That is not bringing balance, that is upsetting the balance that existed for more than years than known human civilization has existed. Also if Global Warming isn't killing everyone but just some people (and making life worse for others) then it is still a problem. He runs to abuse language to try to argue a crisis should not be dealt with. If you live in a neighborhood or town with 20 houses and 4 of them are burning down does that mean it is not a problem and that it would supposedly be alarmist to call a fire department? And yes, I called it "Global Warming", that is what is happening. Whatever you call it does not change if it is happening.
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  2930. Agreed. And if we look to those that were part of WW2 they are probably asking why we haven't seen more aid yet.. and asking why Mike Johnson was so willing to try to bring shame to the USA after they sacrificed to make it and the world better for people like him.
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  2931. Did someone flag my earlier comment? I don't see it here yet I'm pretty sure I made one.
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  2932. "With friends like the USA, there is no need for enemies" Funny, enemies decide to show up anyway. And if it wasn't for their agents trying to sabotage the US Congress when it comes to Ukraine defending itself additional supplies to Ukraine would have arrived from the US already.
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  2933. "Literally not a single bit of difference on Trump and Biden/Harris on Gaza." This is probably wrong on the facts as are most false equivalences. Woodward's book reveals Biden has been pushing to get Gazans food. Trump wouldn't care. Harris has been harsher then Biden on criticizing Netanyahu. Trump is ok with genocide. Netanyahu wants Trump, letting Trump back in would be rewarding genocide.
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  2934. How did Kansas's former Governor Sam Brownback following Mr. Laffer's tax ideas work out? Very badly if memory serves. But lets have freedom. Lets get the government out of the way for those who want to sue fossil fuel companies for Global Warming related property damages. You break something you pay for it-it is called responsibility.
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  2935. Yes and no. Trump has a plan to do it-let Netanyahu do what he wants. Harris isn't President but she was the among the 1st to push for a ceasefire. Netanyahu (who actually controls Israel's military) is arguably trying to keep the war going so that it hurts Harris and then Trump gives Netanyahu whatever he wants.
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  2936. I call bs. She was 1 of the better rulers. Please tell me how many other rulers freed slaves, established that commoners actually had some rights (few but some), and actually transitioned a place to a democracy? FYI the earlier plans for season 8 itself was wildfire wrecking the city so that was a change D and D made for character assassination and shock value reasons.
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  2937. Good for you for learning. I hope 1 day gerrymandering is broken/banned in your state (and all others) so people there can have elections that aren't rigged. You probably will find most Republicans from your state that love to vote against spending tax dollars are totally for giving Israel more bullets and bombs. At least Democrats think Palestinians should have their own nation but they are hampered/scared-possibly by AIPAC and possibly contradicting groups internally.
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  2938. Good catch on that he is a liar. NASA had looked into those cycles he mentioned in minute 32 about a year before this interview and reported that they do not explain recent warming-thus he knows he is lying and figures most people won't double check so he can try to get away with it.
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  2939.  @Untolddead  Russia knows about its obligation, do you think obligations matter much to Putin these days? Putin betraying them does not mean the US should. Of course it would be costly in the long term and foolish for the USA to so that is extra motivation not to but the obligation for the USA remains.
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  2940. Regardless of what his face is like he has been doing that pretty well for the last couple of years. And this is after Putin though that his imperialism would be easy and Ukraine would supposedly fall in 2 weeks.
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  2941. I saw Senator Kennedy refer to Prager U as an educational group when its primary purpose is doing political propaganda (he outright lied there). Someone who does that never has any excuse to complain about bias again.
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  2942. As I've been reading comments I figured I would look around and see title or phrase some others would use. One that struck me is Peter Thiel is part of the Oligarch Elite and they go against the Corporate (Establishment) Elite. I'm sure there are arguments about who belongs in which group but I thought that was an interesting way to phrase each group.
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  2943. Seems she did her homework and Robby didn't. Gabbard lied back in 2017 about Assad using chemical weapons. She seems to have noticed that and he didn't. Though neither of them noticed that Assad himself let terrorists out of prison back when the rebellion against him started.
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  2944. Or the events she was dishonest with her claims? The claim that a that math class supposedly focused on feelings and not facts or numbers struck me as outlandish. The more I though about that and much of the rest of the video the more I realized that there is a good chance most of it never happened.
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  2945.  @eronsentertainmentstore6487  And what classes and subjects are those? FYI I ended up finding her video by watching the video of another guy who claims to be in college now and has teachers that teach their subjects (contradicting her) but he believes her anyway. I graduated high school years ago but took some tech school classes within the past 2 years and found my teachers taught their subjects. Based on what I saw in person, what someone else saw in person (even if he fell for her act-and I do suspect it is an act), what is supposed to happen in general, and how ridiculous her claims got that odds are high she made up what she is claiming to have been through or somebody else made it up and she just went over the script well enough that she could remember it while talking into a camera.
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  2946. "MSNBC is no longer a news outlet, they are an anti-Trump propaganda" as opposed to the pro-Trump propaganda machines in the form of rightwing radio and tv? At least MSNBC can discuss both Trump and Biden.
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  2947. I liked much of this video including the groups I hadn't heard of before. That said, you missed out on explaining what the difference is between a cult and a religion. A better term than "cult" is "mind control organization". There are a list of things that are basically red flags a group is more mind control organization than religion-ideology doesn't really matter but practices do. The practices to look at are those that impact typical members-not members of the clergy like priests or ministers nor even people who are staff in some way. The practices include things like.. 1. Having 2 levels of honesty-one that is expected from members vs that of leaders in the group (meaning it is ok for leaders to lie to members but members are expected to be honest). 2. One of the other red flags is how many times per week are typical members using up their time with the group rather (is the group dominating typical members time and forming a mini-society so members aren't as likely to interact with other people outside of work). 3. A very notable one is if the organization actively tries to isolate people from friends or family. I understand some people may try to get someone they are concerned about or care about to leave a bad influence in their lives-this isn't that. This is asking if the organization tries to isolate people from friends and family that are not members of the group. Are you not allowed to talk to a friend that leaves the group? If no that is questionable. If a friend leaves the group or refuses to join are lies and badmouthing spread about that friend when the friend isn't there to defend him or herself? If yes that is very questionable. 4. Is the group big into believing they are the only worthy group of people? I know many religious groups think they believe only they follow or do things a proper way so this may not be as helpful a flag as you'd think. But a better way to look at is if the group actively badmouths other organizations. Thus if they have an internal propaganda effort aimed at other religions simply because they are different (this may be disguised behind false accusations at specific groups like the next church over) and, more importantly, could be a rival for people's time and attention. 5. Are there strange loyalty tests or pressure situations? This could be things like a college student being told no they shouldn't study for the exam they have within the next day or 2 but go over some religious readings or discussion that someone in the group decided. These situations are actually put together to pressure a person to get in the habit of putting the group first and in front of what their responsibilities may be. This isn't actual moralizing (for an extreme example actual moralizing would be something like a hitman being told he shouldn't murder people because it is wrong) but trying to get person to put their acceptable responsibilities aside so the group can get control over his or her time. Unless the people involved are normally awake overnight or the government in whatever nation they are in bans religious discussion (which means people have good reason to talk about it in the middle of the night to avoid laws that are unfair or unjust) then someone's religious study leader generally should not be waking them up at 2am or 4am in the morning to talk about religion when that member should actually be sleeping. 6. Are secrets used to manipulate members and privacy only goes 1 way? People should be able to talk to their priests and ministers. They can have problems and this is helpful or they may simply want to understand their religion better. Both of these are generally fine. But are a person's secrets used to manipulate him or her or keep the person in the organization and under the organization's control? This is different than trying to help someone deal with a problem-that is typical and usually a good thing. Not always such as if a minister doesn't know how to handle a situation or has even been taught a bad way, then that can be a bad thing. Thankfully I think or hope that is a minority of the time. Also if a minister contacts some civil authority or someone who is a professional because he or she thinks a member with a problem may do something bad or harmful to himself or others that is an understandable reason to break with the usual expectations of privacy. This is about if rather than dealing with problems a member has those problems are used to control him or her. This can go back to point 1 and asking if there are 2 levels of honesty. My apologies for not remembering the whole list but there is something like a dozen things that serve as red flags. Just 1 red flag doesn't make the group a mind control organization but many red flags are a sign of trouble. Some of the old cult watching groups may have a more full list of things to watch for. (Scientology sued CAN-the old Cult Awareness Network into bankruptcy and then bought the organization so it may or may not be helpful but there are other organizations that asked what is the difference between a mind control organization and religion.) Again, these are questions to ask about typical members. If someone decides to become a minister of some sort and that would increase the amount of time he or she spends with on the organization for good reason (thus issue 2 wouldn't apply as much). The point of a mind control organization is not to follow some ideology, its actions may even contradict the group's proclaimed ideology if someone thinks about various situations hard enough. The point of a mind control organization is to abuse members' time and money. I hope this is a useful distinction and I wanted to make it because while I liked the video I didn't think it went over the distinction between religions and mind control organizations well enough and may have been distracted by ideology and beliefs rather than the practices that are an important thing to watch for and what those practices are.
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  2948. Complain to McConnell. Biden said the Senate should release records related to him and sexual complaints. What do GOP leaders in the Senate have to hide related to Biden's record?
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  2949. Trump (political headache for Biden and now Harris), Netanyahu (using it as a method to escape being removed from his Prime Minister job), Putin (international distraction from the war he started with Ukraine). Those are a trio of Internationally known figures that each gain from this.
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  2950. I'm actually ok with that so long as the Republican ticket is not Trump or another authoritarian. This particular election the stakes are too high to mess with. BTW I have long hated the "most important election" line and do not use it with people myself.
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  2951.  @wesleymills2641  Keep sending those checks.
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  2952. Or were her claims largely lies? For example, the claim that a that math class supposedly focused on feelings and not facts or numbers struck me as outlandish. The more I though about that and much of the rest of the video the more I realized that there is a good chance most of it never happened.
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  2953. I want Ukraine to get the aid. I think corrupt buddies of Putin are arranging things to help him and without them Putin would be in for a much tougher time.
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  2954. Don't know who "whitney webb" is but if true your comment is a complement to both that person and blackrock.
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  2955.  @randomperson9187  Most Ukrainians I've seen that address the notion think the answer is an easy no.
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  2956.  @randomperson9187  Obviously I haven't met most Ukrainians. That said I think at least some of those I've spoken to (online and in person) would've noticed if Nazis had taken over their own nation.
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  2957.  @randomperson9187  While you are correct that knowing the truth is harder when not seeing it with your own eyes there are still some things I can pick out-including from your description. Were the Ukrainians fleeing Nazis or the latest Russian invasion? If the former then they would've been there for years since the current Ukrainian government has held power that long. If the latter then they only fled their home nation this year.
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  2958.  @geneva419  Which groups are these? I breezed through the prior comments and don't see what you are referring to. If you mean neo-nazi groups those were also rising in Russia-so that would hardly justify it attacking Ukraine.
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  2959.  @randomperson9187  You claim you met with "over 500 Ukrainians " while on vacation. How long a vacation was this? 2 weeks? 4? In order to meet with "over 500" you'd have to talk with over 17 Ukrainians a day for 4 weeks to do that. And while you were doing whatever else you wanted on a vacation. The claim invites some skepticism. Also I don't need to have all of Ukrainian society figured out to realize Russia is invading Ukraine plus that whatever excuses Putin is using may actually be lies.
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  2960.  @randomperson9187  Then you are quite a talker-that rate would require almost making a job out of it. Where do you work that you get 1.5 months worth of vacation?
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  2961.  @randomperson9187  So you are on permanent vacation essentially. Would that limit some of those who you end up speaking with-such as those who can afford to simply buy a new house when they feel like it.
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  2962. @IliyaOsnovikov Just saw a couple of former Generals who disagreed in youtube videos before this one. Does not making excuses for Putin mean they are supposedly not credible. Also Putin himself claimed there would be victory in three weeks.
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  2963.  @IliyaOsnovikov  Where and when is the quote from? Have a link? Also I said Generals plural. Even if you were correct he would only be 1 of them.
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  2964.  @IliyaOsnovikov  So you don't have a link? I don't blame you too much as they can be hard to come by. I thought I had a link to the lecture where Mearsheimer claimed Putin would not attack Ukraine-except it was removed from youtube (someone trying to cover for his reputation?). But I did find a clip of it. Minutes 31-32 show him saying it in this other video. Here is the link (just remove the spaces): h t t p s : // w w w . you tube . com / w a t c h ? v = FVmmASrAL-Q Now isn't Judge Napolitano on Fox? Wasn't Fox a media company that repeated many of Trump's lies about the 2020 election for President and ended up having to pay a sizable amount of money because some of those lies were about a voting machine company that then sued and had evidence that proved Fox hosts knew what they were saying on air was not true? Maybe Napolitano is an island of truth in an organization willing to deceive but my suspicions lean the other way. If he was willing to call others within Fox out on their dishonest please share links to him doing so at put my suspicions at ease.
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  2965. That "pawn" held his nation together when the "big boys" assumed Ukraine would be conquered in weeks.
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  2966. Hated it. Broke with and hurt some of their best or most amusing characters to give us nonsense plots that made us sad or numb.
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  2967. I suspect the above comment will age as well as Mr. Zihan's comment that Ukraine would supposedly fall within 6 months.
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  2968.  @jimlewis2395  1st President Zelensky is not a criminal-but Putin is a war criminal. 2nd If you're Russian (not sure which nation you are from) then you may be a war criminal as well depending on what you have done for Putin.
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  2969. Yeah, strongly suspect the woman in the video is lying to viewers. I at the moment I doubt it is satire, which would potentially be an improvement o what it is.
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  2970. Is Tulsi the only 1? I guess Putin really has had trouble finding friends in the Democratic party.
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  2971.  @giantslug6969  Tulsi Gabbard has been spreading pro-Putin propaganda. Some liberals and conservatives stoop low enough to do similar but, thankfully, not that many.
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  2972.  @davidcobble2050  I'd go for someone more honest and less corrupt than Trump. Despite Biden not being my choice in the primary he did and does fit those qualifications. So if you're worried about those issues there is still reason to vote for Biden rather than Trump.
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  2973.  @MS-ns2pj  Thank you for sharing your voting history. I shouldn't be surprised by your voting habits then.
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  2974. jaggmor is correct. The deficit went up more under Trump and Republicans and than it has under Biden and Democrats.
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  2975. "When you actually research the civil war, you learn that it was about economics more than slavery, mostly import taxes." No. Actual research including statements by Southern Politicians at the time shows slavery was a primary reason. I know there have been attempts to whitewash the Confederacy after the fact but that are still attempts at whitewashing.
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  2976. Such much bias that it has less bias than MSNBC, CNN, Foxnews, and the Wall Street Journal? Also if you don't like bias then start calling for the return of the Fairness Doctrine.
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  2977. Sachs lied about a supposed coup-actually a corrupt President fleeing because of the backlash against his own actions (breaking his own promises for transparency and a trade deal with the EU then using force against protestors). Sachs also left utterly unmentioned his own hand in promoting corruption and oligarchy inside Russia-Sachs was among the crew pushing rapid privatization there some years ago.
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  2978. Keep in mind PBS is 1 of the most trusted networks in the USA. So there are people that find value in it. Also Musks claims of finding fraud increasingly appear to be lies-the $50 million supposedly spent on condoms for example. So is most of the fraud done by people inside the government or complaining about it. Though the Senator here may count as someone who is an example of both-and yes, anyone who calls Prager U educational ought to get called out for promoting/taking part in a fraud.
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  2979. Like when he said Putin would not invade Ukraine?
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  2980. "economic decline during Harris-Biden term" This is the opposite of true. The economy has been done well under Harris-Biden. Many even claimed a recession would happen yet it did not.
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  2981. Yeah but Foxnews and Twitter aren't all of mainstream media. Just part of it. Though Twitter is arguably not part of mainstream media just a website overrun with bots.
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  2982.  @LRRPFco52  True but unless the moves we have seen him make already are to lure Putin into making a a deal that is better for Ukraine than we expect I don't hope for much good out of Trump.
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  2983. He is 1 of the better known actors in Russian speaking areas. Turns out he is also a better President than Russia has right now.
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  2984. She is rightwing-her political party is for lower taxes including a flat tax.
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