Comments by "Tony Wilson" (@tonywilson4713) on "Secular Talk" channel.

  1. Your right and this is one of Kyles best takes on anything he's spoken about recently. When I first started watching this I expected Maher to be his usual self indulgent worst and instead he seemed thoughtful. When Kyle started I first thought WTF is he on about. The after the Chomsky interview it was an Ah Ha moment and I got what he was pointing out. Maher is quietly pushing the idea these people are irredeemable while Chomsky is pointing out that they are people with legitimate grievances and if you don't listen to them they'll turn to someone who does. This isn't the first time I have heard this argument either. Prof. Richard Wolff (one of David Pakman's old professors) had a similar explanation of Democratic failure. It was during one of the tributes to Michael Brooks. Take note Prof. Wolff teaches Marxism as an economic subject. There's a lot he says I don't agree with but his explanation of West Virginia is priceless and it totally highlights why Bill Maher is an idiot. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8g1aMsDYJCc&t=3165s Take note that Mark Blyth calls it "the politics of recognition." That's the point Bill Maher is totally idiotic about. Chomsky is saying you need to listen to these people and give them something to be hopeful about. Bill Maher is saying they're terrible people that we can't talk to and there is no hope for them.
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  2.  Doug Parker  Its been certified by all 50 states, the electoral college have voted and the Supreme court has thrown out the challenges. ITS OVER. ITS DONE. ITS FINISHED. Trump LOST - deal with it.
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  3.  @insightfulhistorian1861  He was a professor at Harvard the grand temple of neo-liberal philosophy. Nuff Said! 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  4. Australian here: Kyle is explaining exactly the same sorts of problems we have with our centrists. They stand for nothing except compromise and because BOTH the Far Left and Far Right KNOW with certainty that they can bluff the centrists then the centrists end up getting nothing done. Because our politics is dominated by a Centrist Left (Labor) and a Centrist Right (Liberal) parties the more conservative Nationals on the right and more radical Leftists can just play their interference games and NOTHING CHANGES. Even when the centrists do have good ideas (which they do have) they find ways to completely botch it up and if you want I can give examples. The only correction I'd give to your statement is that rather than SIDE with the Right I'd say they CAVE IN to the right because the Right now how to bluff better than the Left. I think it would be safe to say that at any political poker tournament the Right win all the time and its not because they cheat they just know how to bluff better.
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  5. All she has done since losing to Trump is prove she was never good enough in the first place. That's a sad, sad truth - she was never good enough in the first place.
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  6. This should be pinned to the top of the comments list. There's also the stupidity of what he says about the Crude out of Venezuela. Saudi Crude like most middle eastern crude is also what's called "heavy crude" and EVERYONE needs heavy crude because that's where we get things like grease and bitumen from. You actually can't have modern society without it. Trump relies on 2 things with his base - ignorance and more ignorance
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  7.  @IlluzionMe  They don't just watch her, 1,264,842 people voted for her. America might have dodged a bullet but I doubt this is over.
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  8. Obama could have said. Kings drink champagne they don't drink water - ask Flint.
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  9.  @makeamericagreatagain3401  Seriously just cut that stupidity, we've all had enough. Trump lied so he could suck money out of people to pay off his campaign debts. He even had disclosures on his web site that said money would go to the RNC as well as legal challenges. Sorry, but YOU GOT CONNED 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  10. Well pointed out this is a matter of definition. I'm an aerospace engineer who did post graduate research. What angers me so much with this argument is that we are NOT getting a clear picture of what the NIH was doing in Wuhan. I remember that May 11 confrontation, because it was just after the Wade Nichols article, and yes I know there's been some debunking of that article. -> https://thebulletin.org/2021/05/the-origin-of-covid-did-people-or-nature-open-pandoras-box-at-wuhan/ But following on from that article others posted links to these NIH project reports which clearly show NIH funding to Ecohealth Alliance and managed by Peter Daszak for Corona virus research in China. https://reporter.nih.gov/search/xQW6UJmWfUuOV01ntGvLwQ/project-details/9491676 https://reporter.nih.gov/search/xQW6UJmWfUuOV01ntGvLwQ/project-details/9819304 I'm not a virologist or epidemiologist (an most of us aren't). I do know what researchers can be like. At times very fine details and definitions are incredibly important because they can be doing work that is right at the balance point between 1 definition and another. For anyone who has never done research or development that's more common than you think. I did a water treatment plant a couple of years back where we had to be EXTREMELY careful about everything we said or wrote in emails and reports because there were 2 competing companies, both with patents pending that were very, very close in what they claimed as original work. Its quite possible that how researchers define Gain of Function and where they draw the line between it and other methods might not make sense to the rest of us but makes perfect sense to them. We DO NEED is clarity from an expert in the field as to why certain research is regarded as Gain of Function and some is NOT. I don't want to hear from any more commentators or politicians about this - I WANT TO HEAR FROM AN EXPERT.
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  11.  @laughingoctopus6550  Yep Kyle lets his emotions get ahead of his brain on occasions. I'd condemn him for it but then we all do it at times and I'd be no better than clowns like Ben Shapiro. Its what makes Kyle and some others what they are. Yes they make mistakes but they aren't trying to deliberately or maliciously project a narrative. Shapiro and others are always trying to twist some basic fact into a jumble mess of spaghetti lies and they know what they are doing.
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  12.  @logancarlile8895  Ok fine its a joke but its also a stupid idiotic joke. And considering Kyle's just done YET ANOTHER video slamming Ben Shapiro for projecting its a bit hypocritical to be projecting himself. And as I said it wouldn't matter who he's attaching Donald Trumps name to ITS WRONG. Nobody should be attaching anyone to Trump unless they have done it themselves.
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  13.  @jontomas2271  That relies on the concept of accountability and accountability is as rare in politics as reality is in Hollywood. We all like to think its there in abundance but it just isn't. The saddest fact from history is that political accountability when it has happened has most often required the use of an axe and a wooden block not any judicial or legal process.
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  14. Its what you have in democracies where there is NOT a clear mandate by one party having a clear majority OR you don't have strong leadership. When parties only have a slender majority they're always at risk having a small faction within them with the BALANCE OF POWER and those who hold it can often hold their nation to ransom. I'm Australian and we have had this problem here at times. Countries like Israel, Greece and Italy are notorious for having minor parties wield enormous power this way. The Tea Party were the last to do this in a big way in America, but more recently we saw it with Kirsten Sinema and Joe Manchin all through Joe Biden's first 2 years. The only way to get past it is with STRONG LEADERSHIP. Sorry but neither Joe Biden or Kevin McCarthy are strong leaders, they got where they are through sweetheart deals. Its grating to say it but Trump was and still is a person who's strong enough to bully and muscle his way in politics and get people to do what he wants. Think of how they all folded - Ted Cruz, Lindsey Graham,... etc. One of the few exceptions was when Mike Pence refused to delay the vote counting. I hate to say it but this is why people tend to vote for scum like Trump. YES they know he's scum but they don't care because all they know he can bully all the other spineless clowns and get stuff done. Tragic as it was a lot of people around the world predicted Trump would beat Hilary, but what it also did was motivate millions of American's to get off their asses for a change and vote against him. The next POTUS is going to decide the fate of the western world. Either they will be strong enough to drag clowns like Sinema and Manchin and just roll right over idiots like Gaetz and MTG or the next 2-3 decades are going to be very rough for ALL OF US.
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  15. Funny how he mentions the Tech Giants but then ignores the Big Oil and Big Pharma and others??????
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  16. For anyone who wants here is the full panel that Rutger Bergman was part of: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mG-r_3eRCw
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  17. What about Maddow? Apparently she is on money so big even Alex Jones and Sean Hannity are impressed?
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  18.  @mercesletifer47  Its actually rare to have a good thread when divisive people like Jordan Peterson are the subject.
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  19.  @falcoperegrinus82  That's a great comment, especially the part about people NOT realising they have more in common with people on the street than with billionaires. That's where the media (all of it) needs to be more accountable.
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  20. FROM AUSTRALIA: As I was watching this I clicked onto our news services and there was Marco Rubio (LIVE) going on about his family's experiences with the lead up to and the outcome of the Cuban Revolution. That was from one of the clowns who has supported and supported and supported Trump. He was one of those Senators who voted "innocent: at Trumps impeachment. *Does he not realise the whole world watched what he and others did to fuel this? * Trump might be embarrassing America everyday but so are all the people who MADE THIS DAY HAPPEN by enabling this lunacy. Here's an interview that was just shown here about the situation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYlimLgCuEI To all the sensible Americans - know and understand that you have friends in the world who want to see this end and America be what it can be. My one great fear is that Biden only wants to take America backwards in stead of forwards. The Oligarchy has to end and he has to re-engage and look after the other 99%. To all Take Care & Stay Safe. 👍👍🦘🦘🦘🦘🦘
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  21. You've hit that particular political nail on the head. And its NOT and American problem - its rampant across the entire Western Democratic world. We have it here in Australia its just not as obvious and blatant. I've spoken with people from other countries and its the same everywhere. There's one common policy ALL Western political parties have "What do the billionaires want?"
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  22. I'm Australian but went to college in America. Its incredibly sad to see what's happened and how a minority has made an entire nation look this stupid. The film Idiocracy is starting to look more and more like a documentary. I actually got a great education (aerospace engineering) but this crap makes it feel less than what it is.
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  23. I'm Australian and even from the other side of the planet we can see the truth of that. I find it kind of sad because I think that at the very least he'd have brought an interesting perspective to the clown show that is American politics.
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  24. WHY DID KYLE do a vid on Donald Trumps cognitive decline when the person showing clear signs of cognitive decline is Junior? Maybe the question to ask is: "Is there anyone in the Trump family capable of opening their mouth and NOT speaking complete SHlT?"
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  25. Didn't you just love the guy who interjected with "the rest of us are here too pal!" I wonder if he's one of those who DOES get his questions asked and just sees this as a "how dare you!" moment? As in "how dare you insist on having your fair go!"
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  26.  @mmafyasco  NO - you added balance to the discussion and more of that is needed in all these important public discussions. Way to often we all sit back and let the radical left, radical right or vested interests dominate the discussion with idiocy, screaming, screeching, yelling and ranting. We all do yell at times - mostly when we get frustrated. But unless people pull it back, whether its us pulling someone back or someone pulling us back all that happens is a shite shower. I don't know about you but I'm tired of being showered in shite.
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  27.  @conorhealy2763  On the left v right. I consider myself a true neutral. So I can can understand why I seem like a bit of both, but that's also got a lot to do with 2 particular people. My grandmother was a card carrying member of the Australian Liberal party (our centre right party). Her daughter (my mother) was a teacher and unionist, who fought and won a battle over "equal pay for equal experience" in the mid 1970s. Both were incredibly honest about the faults of their own sides. My grandmother hated that many on the right just wanted girls to stay home, cook, clean and make babies. My grandmother ran businesses and was one of the first women in the state of Victoria to have a drivers license and own her own car and she was a farm girl. She hated the clowns on the right because they used to tell her to go home, be a good girl and cook dinner. My mother was what many would call a socialist but she utterly hated most leftists and particularly feminists. She saw them as nothing but clowns who endlessly complained while she believed in getting things done. After the team she was on won that wage claim and got all the women teachers equal pay for equal experience, the feminists went crazy. It shouldn't make sense, BUT by winning that claim they took away one of the soap boxes the feminists loved to stand on and howl at the world. So I have this quite odd background where I got educated in BOTH sides including their negatives. It took me years to work it out but what my grandmother and mother hated most of all were career politicians.
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  28. Just when you think Americans can't get any crazier another one comes forward to go even deeper into the abyss.
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  29.  @nerag7459  I once heard a tiger rattlesnake the most venomous snake in North America bit John Bolton. Despite the best medical care available the snake didn't make it.
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  30. FOR EVERYONE - This documentary on Tax Evasion showed up in my recommendations last week. YES, the YT Algorithm had a day off or something because its brilliant. It highlights the real problem isn't Tax Evasion its what they call Tax Avoidance. As one person in the doco says these people can afford the lawyers and accountants and auditors to operate in the grey space between what's legal and what's illegal. Its long but worth the time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mt6O3US9IE4
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  31.  @kk-wh3hb  Its not just Americans. Those types are EVERYWHERE its just that America likes to celebrate them with fanfare.
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  32. Listen to what Prof Mark Blyth has to say on the requirements for office, its something Trump realised and others too often don't apply. This is time stamped to a question on Elizabeth Warren after a lecture about Global Trumpism. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGuaoARJYU0&t=4794s And Isaac Asimov put it this way. “There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.” ― Isaac Asimov, News Week, 1980.
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  33.  @SR-lh4rm  Your half right, particularly the point about Biden. Goldman Sachs might not have been responsible for the GFC but they were right there in the middle of it. They were notorious for handing out bonuses even when they lost money and had to be bailed out by the American tax payer. AND YET Steven Mnuchin formerly of Goldman Sachs became Trumps Secretary of the Treasury. Biden has followed that by hiring 2 more GS goons along with a Blackrock and a McKinsey. That should not scare people, that should not bother people, that should enrage people, because they just voted against that crap. edit - Rubin is a brainless mutt. If by chance he says something that's sensible its either extraordinary luck or he's repeating someone else.
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  34. Yeah every so often he proves that he knows what he's doing. Which also means that when he has those SHlTFESTS where people just scream at each other he KNOWS they are meant to be SHlTFESTS.
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  35.  @TimothyCHenderson  Yeah but what type of Republican was she? I'd bet on a Reagan type because that was her era. Trump Republicanism is something sort of new. Its not that it hasn't existed its just never had power before. Its further right and more Libertarian than Reaganism. Thom Hartman talks about this often. Charles Koch's brother actually ran against Reagan for a VP spot on the Libertarian ticket. He thought Reagan was too soft and wouldn't go far enough which says a lot about their view of the world.
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  36.  @robertjenkins6132  The problem you have with all of that is the basic meaning of the world communism which comes from the word communal as in the entity is owned by the community. Walmart is NOT owned by any community its a privately owned entity. I don't know what's happened to American education but there was a time when you guys knew this stuff.
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  37.  @robertjenkins6132  Do you actually understand the meaning of words and how they are derived. Socialism comes from the world social as in a society will do something together. Americans get way to confused with what the Russians, East Germans and others did. They used labels like "communism" "socialism" and "democratic republic" to hide what they were - totalitarian states. Go look at the actual name of North Korea. DPRK stands for Democratic People's Republic of Korea. In what way has North Korea ever been a democratic republic? If you want to go down a path of something really odd that American corporations have done look into where HR came from. Most people are unaware that the prototype for HR was the Soviet Political Officer that every factory had, that every office had and that every military unit had. Remember the guy Sean Connery killed in the first few minutes of "The Hunt for Red October" - yeah one of those. The purpose of those people was to keep everybody COMPLIANT with party doctrine. What's the purpose of HR - keep everyone compliant with management. Americans - you're always looking for the secret stuff when it right in front of you. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  38. Almost a brilliant idea. Its should have been ALL political leaders across the world NOT just American presidents.
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  39. That's a very similar argument that's been raging here in Australia for most of the last 30 years. Under the mantra (and its only a mantra) "ALL FOREIGN investment is good" because its CASH coming into the economy. The banks love it because they get the currency transfer fees. Where this has been a disaster for us is that we have become a great place for people to hide money in housing properties (both houses and apartments). That has jacked up the price of housing to insane levels. The banks love it (as said) BUT - so do the real estate agents because they get bigger fees. - so do the people who are selling especially retirees who are cashing out their investment properties. - so do the developers of large apartment complexes. For everyone else its a farking nightmare because BOTH rental prices are soaring and house prices are soaring. The catastrophe that' snow beginning to unwind is that people can NO LONGER take out loans because they just can't afford them. Then there's 1,000s of people who bought when interest rates were low but they bought at premium prices and now that interest rates are rising they many of them are under immense mortgage stress. PLUS we have between 5 and 25% increase in electricity due to 20+ years of stupidity (FYI - I'm an engineer) that's hammering every part of the economy because every house and every business (largest to smallest) need electricity. This stupid policy of "All foreign investment is good" is killing my country just like its killing other countries.
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  40. And the silence on this subject from the NRA is deafening. What happened to their: "the way to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun"?
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  41. Even scarier is that they are just handing the White House back to Trump. The Democrats are on the way to becoming the most inept party in Western politics. The GOP are ruthlessly cynical about things like tax cuts for the wealthy which they always spin as beneficial for the working class, but at least they do something. Every time the Dems are in power they just stumble along only 1/2 doing anything.
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  42. Interesting side story to this Marxian Professor Richard Wolff accepted the challenge when Jordan Peterson said "No Marxist would debate me?" After arrangements were made Peterson pulled out. The claim is he wouldn't debate Richard Wolff without getting paid. Richard Wolff made several videos regarding Peterson's claims and the outcome of the proposed debate and they are here on YT.
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  43.  @saxonderohan9723  No surprises there except that Bartiromo earns more than Tucker. I wonder how he feels about that 🤬😡🤢😨👺 or maybe💩 I have heard Alex Jones makes around $50M a year of his name brand products. Maybe the Russian had something when they said America was a decadent society.
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  44. In George Orwell's 1984 all of the Ministries (government departments) were abbreviated and the words "Ministry of" was shortened to "Mini." So the Ministry of Peace was referred to as Mini- Peace and it conducted War. The Ministry of Love was referred to as Mini-Love and was where they tortured people. That's the core of Orwellian logic and doublespeak is the language of opposite meaning. That's why he called it doublespeak - everything has 2 meanings and those meanings are the opposite of each other. That's Orwellian logic. Its when you CLAIM one thing but actually MEAN and or DO the complete opposite and yet you're still telling the truth because you are using the opposite meaning.
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  45. To Quote 6 time Superbowl winning head coach Bill Belichick - "Do Your Job"
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  46. Yeah and Kyle's forgetting what Jesse Ventura told them a few weeks ago. Remember what Vince McMahon told JV at the start of his commentating career "Reality is what you say it is!" Trump learned that and has exploited it for almost 7 years now. That's why his base behave as they do. Its likes an extreme version of mob psychology. Its not just getting a mob to respond to an event. He's getting the mob to respond to political spin. Everyone should go back and re-watch that interview. JV actually explained so much of how Trump operates. Trumps rallies are straight out of the Vince McMahon wrestling promotion playbook.
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  47. No, No, No. Goodfellas make a hit obvious. they do it to send a message. This was done with finesse. Sure we all know what it was but the evidence says it was probably suicide. My joke has always been. What did the MI6 assassin say to the CIA assassin? "You're tying the knot wrong." To which the CIA assassin said "Just shut up and hold him still. Remember no bruising or they might get suspicious." Then the Mossad assassin at the door told them both to be quiet because the guards were only paid to be gone for 1/2 and hour.
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  48. His channel has always been a reaction channel.
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  49.  @Jessica-gy6kr  I actually don't like it because it means that some average person who should just be getting on with their life and being with their friends and family isn't. This is what I truly hate about Tucker he is victimising people who don't deserve it. if you look at him, he's NOT the schoolyard bully. He's the cheap piece of garbage who hides behind the schoolyard bully and goes around starting trouble and then revels in the trouble they start. Think about the school bullies you remember and then consider the sneaky pieces of crap that hung around them. There was always at least one who was good at starting trouble and enjoyed the chaos they caused. Yeah that's what Tucker is.
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  50. I gave them a couple of chances. Both Ryan and Emily had sat in for Krystal & Saagar at times and not catastrophically crashed. Then they did couple of really lame efforts and it was bye bye. The one the broke it was a piece on Dr. Fauci claiming that 2 videos showed he absolutely lied and they just simply don't. I actually pointed out the flawed logic - the 2 points in the videos are NOT mutually exclusive. As such I basically said they hadn't proved anything. The result was that BOTH the pro-Fauci and anti-Fauci culture warriors screamed at me. These new clowns are playing culture war garbage. I watched K & S because the were AGAINST the culture war NOT stokers of it.
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